Greywolf

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Yahoo Search Answers results have non-standard layout and dates in Russian letters. Screenshot below

In Hindi, if you say "wallah", does that mean it is a man? What do you say if it is a woman?

After Search Answers, the Search results sequence buttons (Newest etc) do not work. This has been reported several days ago. When will it be fixed? Committed date please.

I mean, have you ever had an appeal upheld and your answer reinstated, and your points restored?

Censoring the Bible, that'ssurely blasphemous, isn't it?

Look at this:

Tell ye the daughter of Sion, Behold, thy King cometh unto thee, meek, and sitting upon an ***, and a colt the foal of an ***. And the disciples went, and did as Jesus commanded them And brought the ***, and the colt, and put on them their clothes, and they set him thereon. Matthew 21:5-7

DBA= Data Base Analyst.

Maybe YA has one, but isn't listening to his/her advice.

Because the performance problems are getting worse and worse. When I click in a link to see a question or a set of questions, I only get to see what I asked for about 30% of the time. Time and time again, I get either "Question has been deleted or is under review" or "Something has interrupted the question stream". I know it's a phony response, because clicking again once or twice retrieves the item.

So here's professional advice from someone who has been in software development for nearly 50 years:

1. Hire a DBA or start listening to the one you've got.

2. Pay attention to performance testing before releasing software.

2. Test your software in a realistic environment before releasing it. Do NOT use us as your testers.

So my question is: when will YA stay doing professional-quality software, instead of this amateur bumbling?

Air crash on takeoff at Birmingham UK (BHX) today, a Challenger, tail no N90AG, 5 dead. Twelve years ago (4 Jan 2002), another air crash, also at Birmingham, also a Challenger, also tail no N90AG, also 5 dead.

But when I look at the FAA Registry, N90AG is a Maule. How can there be multiple aircraft with the same tail no at the same time?

And why aren't tail nos also unique over time? Surely you don't re-issue the tail no of an aircraft that was in a fatal accident?

When I have answered a question, and press the browser Back button, to return to the question list, I do not get the correct list - all recent questions are missing from the top.

This is completely reproducible - it is not my mistake.

What is the scheduled date for fixing this bug please?

I'm logged in, looking at the list of questions (in any category, including Recommended and Recent), I click to select a new list, or new category - and the list does not change.. Then when I press F5 (reload), the change that I requested occurs. This happens on almost all clicks. (Occasionally it does change - I have not found a consistent pattern).

What could be causing this? I have tried removing the YA cookies - no change in behaviour.

OS is Win XP, browser is SeaMonkey (same as Firefox, but without the stupid new interface).

Someone has changed the answerer's name on this question http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=201... from "GreyWolf" to "Answerer No. 1".

Yahoo, this ought to be impossible. Anyone who can do this has access to be able to completely mess with the whole of YA.

When you rewrote YA, you clearly introduced at least one security hole (and probably many more than one).

What YA are you going to do about this?

What date is the oldest file you own, on your PC/laptop/phone/tablet?

I'll bet no-one can beat mine - 30 July 1984, a list of valuables in my home, for the insurance company.

Are you marking the day? Remembering and studying what happened? Tell us.

For myself, I found the Education Scotland page http://www.educationscotland.gov.uk/resources/h/hi... and read as much as I could stand to read.

that 200 years ago today, off Boston, a Royal Navy frigate, the "Shannon", defeated a larger and more powerful US frigate, the "Chesapeake"? The fight lasted only 15 minutes. I believe this was the most recent time that a British vs US naval battle occurred - am I right?

I have just fired cannons in my back garden to commemorate the victory.

Lot of spam today, on almost every question. (all promoting Amazon - how odd - I can't imagine them getting involved in this kind of criminality).

Is it worth reporting these answers?

Does YA! have any kind of bot for deleting these answers?

I (male) vote for Laura Trott, so elegant...

When you name someone, say why you fancy that person..

I'm English, but I speak and write Swedish. I would like to read Stieg Larsson and Jens Lapidus books in Swedish, but I live in England - those books are impossible to find in the bookshops (except translated, which I don't want). So where can I buy them and have them sent to me?