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The logic is:
1. If you're logged in, get your preferences based on your member ID
2. If not, get your preferences based on a cookie.
If you have a cookie and then log in, and you already have preferences associated with your membership, replace your cookie'd preferences with your member preferences. The algorithm to work out which preferences to use in a tie-breaker scenario are known only to two people on the planet who are not allowed to fly on the same plane at the same time.
If you then log on using another machine you'll get your merged preferences. If you have cookie settings on that second machine then they too will get merged.
So: if you've been changing your settings on lots of different machines while not logged in, eventually, when you log in on those machines, your preferences will get combined.
If you're seeing our Random Preference Generator™ in action while logged on on two different machines then send me an email (chris@...) and I'll dig in.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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It's always the same computer, from which I never ever logged in. Nor have I ever changed my preferences on this computer here at home. Still, I get a random combination of the four options every time at work.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
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I get the same type of thing on my work "net nanny" machine. Pretty annoying, but figured since I wasn't logged in, it was normal but unfortunate behavior. Especially since their proxies make everything about 10* slower, turning a decent machine into a f'ing POS.
Ken
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Would be awesome if true 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Reminds me of a few years back, when a mate of mine asked if it was possible to use a program to calculate daily lucky numbers (I know some weird people).
For a laugh, I rattled off a proggy that went through numerous pages of stupid personal questions that I said were used in the calculation (my fave being "What size shoes do you wear?" and "How do your shoes feel, today? Tight | Loose | Just Right").
When they finished entering all the information, I printed a "lucky number" from a random number generator.
I got loads of feedback from him and his pals saying how accurate and useful it was, and how it was amazing that it worked so well and helped them so much.
Oh, and the most fun thing was that, although I saved all the details to profile .ini files (it was in the Win 3.1 days), I never read them in, so they had to fill out every page every time they used it.
I've never done any other coding during which I laughed so much.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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So...you're laughing and they're going to the bank? 
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Hey, if someone gets a windfall and gives me (or, rather, a random number that I generated for them) credit for their gain, I'm OK with that.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Pure gold.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I have always being fascinated with this. Coming from India, we are presumed to hate people from Pakistan. However, every single time I have met a Pakistani, it has been a pleasure.
I do not want to go into politics or anything else. A simple question:
As a normal Indian citizen, I have no hatred against any normal Pakistani citizen. Have you ever felt severe hatred against an entire nationality? If yes, why? And if not, what is the most ridiculous stereotypical hatred you are expected to show?
No politics and religions please. Straight up answers. If you want a discussion, we can always go to Backroom.
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I'm pretty sure this will need to go to the 'other place'. 
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I know. But I guess, straight up answers posing opinions shouldn't hurt lounge.
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You should do this research in /int/
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How exactly can I research about your opinion?
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Prejudice[^]
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Klingons, I hate Klingons. Other than that I get along with everyone else.
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0 Beta
Have you ever just looked at someone and knew the wheel was turning but the hamster was dead?
Trying to understand the behavior of some people is like trying to smell the color 9.
I'm not crazy, my reality is just different than yours!
Not my circus not my monkey's!
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Me too! Me too! Got a nuclear warhead?
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Nah I hear they like brownies so we just ship them magic brownies and when they mellow out we go in and inner breed. That'll learn em?
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0 Beta
Have you ever just looked at someone and knew the wheel was turning but the hamster was dead?
Trying to understand the behavior of some people is like trying to smell the color 9.
I'm not crazy, my reality is just different than yours!
Not my circus not my monkey's!
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Mike Hankey wrote: we go in and inner breed
I'm not much of a trekky, but something tells me that, the experience of, inter breeding with Klingons may be similar to what a male Mantis experiences after mating.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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GuyThiebaut wrote: I'm not much of a trekky, but something tells me that, the experience of, inter breeding with Klingons may be similar to what a male Mantis experiences after mating.
That's what the magic brownies are for to chill them out!
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0 Beta
Have you ever just looked at someone and knew the wheel was turning but the hamster was dead?
Trying to understand the behavior of some people is like trying to smell the color 9.
I'm not crazy, my reality is just different than yours!
Not my circus not my monkey's!
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If you wipe once in a while with those lotion soaked tissues, you can loosen the Klingons before they get too tight around Uranus.
Will Rogers never met me.
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 Now that's funny!
Damn looks like I'll have to make a trip to the store, fresh outta wipes.
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0 Beta
Have you ever just looked at someone and knew the wheel was turning but the hamster was dead?
Trying to understand the behavior of some people is like trying to smell the color 9.
I'm not crazy, my reality is just different than yours!
Not my circus not my monkey's!
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I just spit water, out my nose, all over my keyboard and monitor.
God damn, that was funny.
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