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[2002-08-08 14:27:03] - http://www.ncpa.org/iss/tax/2002/pd080702a.html Increased tobacco taxes help fund terrorism? -Paul
[2002-08-08 14:16:55] - http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20020808-99729576.htm Federal appeals court rules that a state can limit how much political candidates can spend, even if they are not receiving public funding. -Paul
[2002-08-08 10:43:56] - http://slate.msn.com/?id=2069132 Do men have any rights when it comes to making decisions about abortion? -Paul
[2002-08-08 09:28:44] - http://www.askmen.com/dating/doclove_100/141_relationship_expert.html Remember kids, treat women like crap and they will like you. -Paul
[2002-08-07 19:35:03] - why so much java?
[2002-08-07 17:40:51] - "11 Democrats voted 'present'" hahaha. ~a
[2002-08-07 11:40:40] - $ ps wx |grep java |wc -l
[2002-08-07 11:40:32] - 69
[2002-08-07 11:40:22] - $
[2002-08-07 10:50:24] - http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2002/06/27/pledge-hold.htm one poll, under god - boing
[2002-08-07 10:36:35] - http://www.knoxnews.com/kns/national/article/0,1406,KNS_350_1310082,00.html Government accounting practices worse than businesses -Paul
[2002-08-06 18:10:39] - mig: sweet! ~a
[2002-08-06 16:39:37] - http://security.tombom.co.uk/shatter.html holy fuck. - mig
[2002-08-06 15:02:43] - http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2120395,00.html info on ps3 cpu. - mig
[2002-08-06 14:34:05] - http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=4932821&BRD=2185&PAG=461&dept_id=415898&rfi=6 Woman gets injunction preventing her from having an abortion -Paul
[2002-08-06 13:37:58] - http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=569&ncid=738&e=1&u=/nm/20020806/tc_nm/telecoms_japan_scam_dc_1 some people apparently like fucking with the japanese. - mig
[2002-08-05 22:53:42] - *** boing wonders what the other 8.010000010010000000010000100001 kinds of people are... mostly the people after the decimal point
[2002-08-05 22:19:54] - is anyone going to the warped tour on thursday? - mig
[2002-08-05 13:24:02] - http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&ncid=716&e=5&u=/usatoday/20020805/ts_usatoday/4333065 fun fun fun with statistics. - mig
[2002-08-05 10:27:57] - there are 10.010000010010000000010000100001 kinds of people in the world: those who understand base square-root-of-2 and those who do not. ~a
[2002-08-05 09:46:57] - *** a wonders what the other 8 kinds of people are
[2002-08-05 09:46:24] - lol. that took me a while. ~a
[2002-08-05 09:45:07] -
- dewey[2002-08-05 09:44:56] - There are 10 kinds of people in the world: those who understand binary and those who do not. - dewey
[2002-08-05 09:30:57] - boing: my point is comming up with a short and witty domain name is very difficult. i also don't really think it can be done for someone else. ~a
[2002-08-05 09:29:18] - hey! they probably got that idea from clerks. remember the guy selling gum at the beginning of the movie?? ~a
[2002-08-05 09:26:30] - a: that's akin to "quit breathing" - boing
[2002-08-05 07:51:51] - http://online.wsj.com/article_email/0,,SB1028069195715597440,00.html?mod=todays_us_marketplace_hs Guerrilla marketing -Paul
[2002-08-05 05:24:28] - boing: quit being lazy ~a
[2002-08-04 08:04:04] - http://graphics.theonion.com/pics_3827/court_summons.jpg : AOL strikes again. This time teaming up with the Justice department to proved 1250 hours free with every summons. (The Onion) - dewey
[2002-08-04 00:29:09] - if anybody's interested, I'm still looking for a domain to register... http://dweand.campus.vt.edu/~boing/journals/archives/80.html - boing
[2002-08-03 01:01:46] - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23728-2002Jul30.html - Zimbabwe refuses biotech corn for fear of genetic contamination and intellectual property lawsuits! - vinnie
[2002-08-03 00:56:57] - I just realized how much rhyming there is in that sentence - vinnie
[2002-08-03 00:56:35] - nice choice of URL, miguel. it fits you very well
- vinnie[2002-08-02 21:12:21] - another way of putting it would be "natural rights". - mig
[2002-08-02 20:11:35] - a: there is no god. how can a non-existant being give you rights? - dewey
[2002-08-02 18:48:39] - so is president bush violating my god given right to peace? ~a
[2002-08-02 17:47:41] - a: peace, love, happiness and taxes. - dewey
[2002-08-02 14:52:59] - what are my god given rights? ~a
[2002-08-02 13:05:24] -
- dewey[2002-08-02 11:37:39] - http://www.wepledge.com/ sign the online petition. it doesn't matter. it won't ratify. ~a
[2002-08-02 11:27:54] - hah, now when you register for onemillionmoms.com, it asks if you're a member of the afa. i really don't know why they're trying to get rid of all these cool advertisements. ~a
[2002-08-02 10:31:51] - lies make baby jesus cry
[2002-08-02 10:15:32] - i don't see how jesus can weep, he's been dead for thosands of years ~a
[2002-08-02 08:32:20] - ha! thanks. - mig
[2002-08-02 06:58:12] - mig: ok, I have a page set up on my computer so when the DNS gets updated, you should see a page specific to your webiste. - dewey
[2002-08-02 00:42:40] - and jesus wept
[2002-08-01 23:46:09] - angrypeons.com has just been registered by me, so that'll be up as soon as we get the net connection in the apt set up (it's pointing to dewey's page right now just for testing purposes.) - mig
[2002-08-01 21:36:36] - you're dead but the world keeps spinning; take a spin through the world you left ~a
[2002-08-01 16:06:00] - http://aporter.org:81/me/ricky.txt
[2002-08-01 15:57:07] - christianity is satanic
[2002-08-01 14:38:39] - http://www.salon.com/people/wire/2002/08/01/head/index.html man lets his head be used as advertising space for $100,000 - mig
[2002-08-01 13:59:37] - http://members.aol.com/MarkJYoung/confess.html christian says d+d is not satanic. - mig
[2002-08-01 10:19:43] - and the damaged economy would make people take notice of the restrictive behavior of their government, and (hopefully) initiate change - boing
[2002-08-01 10:18:55] - if people cease to go to other countries because they would be arrested there for something they legally did in their own country, it would damage the economy of the restrictive country (tourism, among other business models) - boing
[2002-08-01 10:17:38] - assuming we could find a way to keep that situation from arising, then this would actually be good for free speech across the world - boing
[2002-08-01 10:16:41] - my only qualm would be that you might go to france not realizing that you are wanted there for what you posted on the internet - boing
[2002-08-01 10:15:53] - I want there to be free speech in france too, but if that's not the way their government is set up, then there's nothing we can validly do to stop it - boing
[2002-08-01 10:15:02] - if you went to france and tried to sell nazi memorabilia, then you could expect to get arrested, so if you go to france, after having done something illegal for that country, the same rule should apply - boing
[2002-08-01 10:13:52] - regarding the article paul posted about other countries' attempts to censor the internet, I don't necessarily see a conflict of interest, as long as the decision stands that they cannot be carried over into the author's country - boing
[2002-08-01 08:27:31] - http://www.livejournal.com/users/tjpeople Mr. Slade died - dewey
[2002-08-01 08:22:38] - dewey: Where is our list? -Paul
[2002-07-31 16:40:51] - let me know if I forgot something. - dewey
[2002-07-31 16:40:35] - http://dweand.org/apartment.html - dewey
[2002-07-31 16:27:10] - http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/internet/07/31/thai.bugbuster/index.html get rid of pests with your sound card. - mig
[2002-07-31 14:54:36] - ###/pics/download/149.gif
[2002-07-31 13:29:37] - but then again maybe the people will fight back and decide to encrypt everything ~a
[2002-07-31 13:28:52] - and let's hope it never happens. ~a
[2002-07-31 13:24:57] - Yes, I suppose blocking and destroying the source are different things. I guess I was trying to point out that it could get easier for governments to shut down parts of the internet they don't like -Paul
[2002-07-31 13:18:35] - blocking something and destroying something are completely different. yes yes, i know they result in the same effect. ~a
[2002-07-31 13:16:32] - that is true but it doesn't conflict with the fact you can't block it. ~a
[2002-07-31 13:12:37] - well, you can stop something on the internet by killing the source of it. - mig
[2002-07-31 13:05:09] - i still claim it is not possible ~a
[2002-07-31 13:04:55] - i don't see where they say that blocking part of the internet is possible. it seems like they're saying countries have tried and failed to bring legal charges against individual websites. ~a
[2002-07-31 12:57:09] - http://www.cato.org/tech/tk/020726-tk.html It may be more possible then you think, Adrian. -Paul
[2002-07-31 12:40:54] - "we should ask [the portals] to pay if they want traffic on their sites from india," stupid indians; it should be the other way around. anywho, it's impossible to block only part of the internet; when will governments realize that? ~a
[2002-07-31 11:44:13] - http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/26450.html pay up or your site gets blocked. - mig
[2002-07-30 22:46:34] - http://www.feralgoat.com/bgok.jpg = ?????? - wolf
[2002-07-30 19:51:46] - that is SO COOL ~a
[2002-07-30 19:10:38] - i bought a wacom on ebay. here is the first thing i drew with it: http://www.feralgoat.com/magical.jpg - wolf
[2002-07-30 14:19:48] - lisa, ask aparna. she uses comments on filebox. ~a
[2002-07-30 14:16:26] - and i'm sure you care. ~a
[2002-07-30 14:16:19] - there was a problem with the message board that i fixed. a road runner name server died so i changed to a different name server but i didn't restart apache so it didn't know about the change so it was waiting for timeout on people's host names every time they viewed the message board but now i restarted apache so it knows about the new name server
[2002-07-30 13:34:43] - I don't know - Lisa
[2002-07-30 13:32:32] - Lisa: What do you want to do to celebrate your birthday? -Paul
[2002-07-30 13:30:38] - Does anyone want to do anything for my birthday?!?! I want to celebrate more
I was yesterday, but I can still pretend...hehehe- Lisa[2002-07-30 13:29:36] - wow this is like one of the first times I have looked at this all summer and there is something about me
Adrian, being the technical genious I am, I have no idea how to do comments, you are lucky I even know how you use frontpage If you figure something out for me that I can use on filebox and it looks cute I will add comments - Lisa[2002-07-30 13:00:10] - i eat old people's medicine for fuel
[2002-07-29 16:12:19] - http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/07/28/IN244190.DTL
[2002-07-27 15:04:35] - ahhh. good to be home. sorry my web page was gone so long. it wasn't my fault
~a[2002-07-27 15:03:48] - without me? you loser. ~a
[2002-07-21 02:05:03] - a: yes - you fucking cock (drunk)
[2002-07-20 14:52:51] - should i try to do topcoder from cape cod? ~a
[2002-07-20 14:51:29] - dewey, i advertised aporter.org:81 for a long time before dhs died. and how would you forwarding help people get to my page? if they dont' know about aporter.org:81, then they won't know about aporter.org:80 ~a
[2002-07-20 13:49:01] - a: oh, whoops. didn't see he already posted that.
- dewey[2002-07-20 13:47:58] - a: but Pierce's temporary solution is http://dweand.org/~boing - dewey
[2002-07-20 13:47:34] - a: not sure if everyone knows how to get to your new page... I can still forward you if you want... - dewey
[2002-07-20 00:22:16] - And when they grab you with those metal claws, you can't break free.. because they're made of metal, and robots are strong.
[2002-07-19 22:00:49] - http://userpages.umbc.edu/~nbecke1/movieposters/ ... some of us on irc are bored and are photoshopping movie posters like they did at sa. - wolf
[2002-07-19 16:00:56] - a: because wireless stuff is still to fucking expensive. - mig
[2002-07-19 15:58:58] - http://www.time.com/time/asia/magazine/printout/0,13675,501020603-250060,00.html note to self: don't try population control. - mig
[2002-07-19 09:37:27] - http://www.majcher.com/nytview.html - wolf
[2002-07-19 08:46:45] - a: not yet. i'm still deciding what to register. - mig
[2002-07-19 07:01:02] - http://dweand.campus.vt.edu/~boing/journals/
[2002-07-19 01:49:38] - lisa, i really really want to comment on your journal. make it commentable. wow i can hear the ocean if it's really quiet. ~a
[2002-07-19 01:38:35] - aolsuckswhyisn'ttheworldwirelessyet? ~a
[2002-07-19 01:30:39] - pierce, miguel, or aaron. any new urls? ~a
[2002-07-19 00:53:32] - i'm still in cape cod. still have another week. this is my first time online in seven days though. ~a
[2002-07-18 19:45:03] - a: did you enjoy cape cod? - mig
[2002-07-18 17:28:24] - hi everybody! ~a
[2002-07-18 14:46:31] - http://www.thisislondon.com/dynamic/news/story.html?in_review_id=643393&in_review_text_id=614173 britain official wants to axe double jepordy protection. - mig
[2002-07-18 11:59:03] - http://www.turnto10.com/news/1560522/detail.html pretty please, with a sugar on top, don't say the n-word. - mig
[2002-07-18 08:32:06] - http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/TheTuxedo-10000744/preview.php
[2002-07-18 07:38:41] - how tacky -kris
[2002-07-17 23:54:10] - http://www.guardian.co.uk/computergames/story/0,11500,667942,00.html your gravestone might be used for advertisement. - mig
[2002-07-17 08:35:36] - http://www.antimusic.com/news/2002/july/item15.shtml hitler apparently went to heaven. - mig
[2002-07-17 07:21:18] - i won't comment on the illogic of trying to compare a weapon to a toy, - wolf
[2002-07-17 07:19:27] - i don't see that implied at all. - wolf
[2002-07-16 21:04:24] - it's implied in the quote. it's not very much different from the "video games make kids go on shooting sprees" argument- mig
[2002-07-16 17:20:42] - some college students are trigger happy. where did the author say "all"? - wolf
[2002-07-16 16:41:33] - http://www.mises.org/fullstory.asp?control=999
[2002-07-16 16:36:20] - deter the free exchange of ideas. And that is critical to the academic mission of this university." so all college students are trigger happy? - mig
[2002-07-16 16:35:14] - "There is a fundamental inconsistency between creating an environment necessary to provide free and robust dialogue, and having people armed on campus," said John Morris, the university's general counsel. "People do get very involved emotionally in arguments, and that's good. But if you put guns in the mix, their very presence will completely deter
[2002-07-16 15:33:13] - http://news.com.com/2100-1023-941272.html you've got to be kidding me. - mig
[2002-07-16 15:08:14] - Utah attorney general calls colleges' gun bans illegal http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20020714-5292162.htm
[2002-07-16 13:37:52] - or does it?
[2002-07-16 13:13:25] - 500 lbs of meat. this does not include bones, guts, etc.
[2002-07-16 08:54:50] - that's like 500 pounds!
[2002-07-16 08:53:02] - one cow makes 2,000 quarter-pounders.
[2002-07-15 23:55:36] - what's so evil about being in favor of gun rights?
[2002-07-15 15:29:12] - http://www.extremeashcroft.com/
[2002-07-14 10:48:09] - the only real affect the bnet community ever had on blizzard was the time the infamous patch 1.08 came out. people cancelled their expansion pack preorders. that made blizzard listen. - wolf
[2002-07-14 03:45:01] - My bad. That article is about a Virginia Tech basketball player. The woman who had meningitis. - dewey
[2002-07-14 03:44:25] - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52333-2002Jul10.html - dewey
[2002-07-13 17:28:29] - wolf: or whenever their hardcore character dies... - mig
[2002-07-13 10:09:10] - the bnet community (mostly kids under the age of 15) always start screaming "class action lawsuit!" whenever the realms go down. - wolf
[2002-07-12 15:55:21] - chris ouk is a DORK like vihao
[2002-07-12 15:05:08] - i'm on a roll for typos today. - mig
[2002-07-12 15:04:57] - s/corrupt/corporate/
[2002-07-12 15:04:25] - http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=68&ncid=716&e=15&u=/nyt/20020712/ts_nyt/some_in_g_o_p__moving_past_bush_on_business_fraud the phrase of the day is corruput corruption. - mig
[2002-07-12 14:18:30] - http://www.comingsoon.net/movies/b/batmanvssuperman.php woah - mig
[2002-07-12 14:14:47] - i remember also some guy suing ultima online for not being "reliable". - mig
[2002-07-12 14:06:06] - s/not/now
[2002-07-12 14:05:56] - why do newer games now save screen shots in weird formats.... first it was pcx and not it's targa. - mig
[2002-07-12 13:36:25] - the "battle.net is free" debate is as old as diablo 1 - wolf
[2002-07-12 13:04:05] - a: Because you live in the Time-Out at Springfield Mall
-Paul[2002-07-12 13:02:01] - ddr is broken? - mig
[2002-07-12 12:44:18] - paul: how am i supposed to know if the ddr is fixed yet? ~a
[2002-07-12 12:43:55] - which is to say getting on the internet will be difficult, remotely administering (sp?) my machine will not. ~a
[2002-07-12 12:43:04] - aaron: if you get any errors, then message me and i'll try to contact you but i'll be in cape cod. ~a
[2002-07-12 12:42:25] - aaron: i never see you online and i forgot to tell you yesterday so i'll put this here. i updated your journal to a newer version, like you asked. you need to edit your templates (located in web/journal) so you can do comments. and dewey added two new templates for your templating pleasure. ask him / read readmes to find out how ~a
[2002-07-12 12:39:47] - a: How am I suppose to know if the DDR is fixed yet? -Paul
[2002-07-12 12:33:32] - yesterday seemed like a week ago. who would have guessed it was like 12 hours ago. ~a
[2002-07-12 12:30:07] - paul: is the ddr fixed yet? ~a
[2002-07-12 12:22:39] - mig: Some people just love to complain
-Paul[2002-07-12 11:52:56] - ha. the game's only been out for a week and there's already an "unbalanced unit of the month" on the bnet forums. - mig
[2002-07-12 11:50:45] - You can play multiplayer without Battle.net. It allows for LAN games. And if I remember correctly, GameSpy will hook you up with anyone by pretending to be a LAN. - dewey
[2002-07-12 11:23:31] - a: yeah i probably shouldn't have. but i'm sure warforge will be working with wc3 soon. either way it's not that big of a deal to me to not buy the game, but enough for me to at least complain about it. - mig
[2002-07-12 11:04:14] - paul: oh nm, i see what you're saying now. - mig
[2002-07-12 11:01:35] - s/server/service/ - mig
[2002-07-12 11:01:06] - paul: i dunno why it's so murky. it's pretty clear they're talking about the battle.net server (which is free). - mig
[2002-07-12 11:00:31] - paul: that's pretty funny. any lawsuits happen because of it? - mig
[2002-07-12 10:54:35] - It was a pretty massive debate on there for awhile, and I know a lot of Blizzard employees started posting for a little bit -Paul
[2002-07-12 10:53:29] - mig: A lot of people were trying to demand refunds from Blizzard because they said they couldn't play on battle.net and they said they wanted their money back that they "paid" for multiplayer (saying it was part of the cost of the game) -Paul
[2002-07-12 10:52:20] - mig: It's like that debate on the battle.net forums about the phrase "Play free on battle.net" on the box of Blizzard games. -Paul
[2002-07-12 10:46:47] - and by "shouldn't" i'm talking about from blizzards perspective. i actually don't care. ~a
[2002-07-12 10:44:16] - well if you bought the game to play multyplayer and you can't legally play multiplayer (because the health of battle.net) then you shouldn't buy the games. ~a
[2002-07-12 09:51:03] - not to mention that the ability to play mutliplayer is completely dependant on the health of battle.net - mig
[2002-07-12 09:14:11] - it didn't stop them from including direct ip support in diablo2. - mig
[2002-07-12 08:46:04] - same thing with direct ip support ~a
[2002-07-12 08:40:39] - it's harder to crack down on piracy with private bnet servers ~a
[2002-07-12 07:18:50] - hell, i'd even settle if someone just added direct ip support. - mig
[2002-07-12 07:18:13] - while blizz has a nice editor, it'd been nice if they made it easy to have a private bnet server for war3. - mig
[2002-07-12 07:10:52] - dungeon siege is closed source, but has a rich scripting language that last you basically redesign the game from the bottom up without ever having access to code of the game itself. - wolf
[2002-07-12 05:46:53] - work is fun
[2002-07-12 03:50:36] - Or add features you find useful, especially when such features may only be useful to very few people. -logan
[2002-07-12 03:50:03] - It's also obnoxious when you have to rely on the vendor (and only the vendor) to fix bugs. -logan
[2002-07-12 03:49:24] - I consider closed-source games useless from a software engineering standpoint, yes.
-logan[2002-07-12 00:48:11] - http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&ncid=716&e=4&u=/ap/20020712/ap_on_re_us/police_video_25 yes sir, people are certainly dangerous when they're in handcuffs. - mig
[2002-07-11 18:47:36] - *easily impressed*
[2002-07-11 18:47:25] - cool
-kris[2002-07-11 18:41:16] - http://www.vt.edu/images/rawimages/ ~a
[2002-07-11 17:46:21] - heh. Disallow: /
[2002-07-11 16:52:44] - search.aol.com is ignoring my robots.txt file. bah. - wolf
[2002-07-11 16:42:37] - it's more of a publicity stunt than anything else. a pretty good one though. - mig
[2002-07-11 16:24:38] - "message board ... the message board isn't very compliant with current gif standards. ... I can't imagine the women of enron would be that good-looking, but perhaps playboy is ... aporter.dhs.org/?a=2&d=0 - 50k - Cached - Similar pages" lol. ~a
[2002-07-11 16:23:41] - outbound5.enron.com - - [11/Jul/2002:16:20:35 -0400] "GET /msg/?a=2&d=0 HTTP/1.1" 200 50711 "http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=%22women+of+enron%22+%22message+board%22" ~a
[2002-07-11 16:21:55] - omg. someone from enron is visiting my web page
~a[2002-07-11 16:16:55] - can we see the logos?
[2002-07-11 16:12:22] - chip = chimp
[2002-07-11 16:11:50] - (on an unrelated note.) - wolf
[2002-07-11 16:11:41] - i.e. the shapes were intuitive and we both had the same understanding of what they meant. - wolf
[2002-07-11 16:10:12] - i thought it was interesting to be able to communicate an idea to people so far away without the need to find a common spoken language. - wolf
[2002-07-11 16:07:40] - she just got back today and showed us videos of the trip... she showed some of the locals (who didn't speak english) learning to use the program. they liked the icons and really got a kick out of the opening logo (a chip eating a plant). - wolf
[2002-07-11 16:06:00] - at the last minute, they called me in to make a small logo and some icons for the program. - wolf
[2002-07-11 16:05:35] - one of our clients here was a lady from the vet-med dept. who was going to rwanda to study chimps. she needed us to write a program for her palm that would let her record and track the chimps. - wolf
[2002-07-11 14:59:23] - http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/07/11/1026185089510.html
[2002-07-11 14:57:43] - http://dewey.aporter.org/Journal/index.html
[2002-07-11 14:54:01] - http://slate.msn.com/?id=2067854 a lesson in how to exagerate racism. - mig
[2002-07-11 14:22:10] - oh. heh. never mind.
[2002-07-11 14:20:39] -
[2002-07-11 14:19:02] - hey mr. chronicle. do you work for the rdp?
[2002-07-11 14:18:02] - who are you?
[2002-07-11 14:14:02] - Stacking the Deck for Minority Candidates?: Virginia Tech has diversified its faculty, but many professors there doubt the efforts are fair -- or even legal http://chronicle.com/free/v48/i44/44a01001.htm
[2002-07-11 14:01:47] - "Microsoft has a history of poor security, so I protect myself the only way I know how; using Linux. I will continue to advocate the use of GNU/Linux in the server arena. This is where its strength lies at the moment." ~a
[2002-07-11 14:01:40] - paul: "In conclusion, I'd just like to make it known that I haven't completely abandoned the Linux community. My home server still runs Mandrake, and IPCop on my gateway/firewall. There is no way I'd ever put any form of Windows on my server, nor would I ever connect a Windows PC directly to the internet without a *NIX gateway in between."
[2002-07-11 13:56:52] - paul: linux sucks. ~a
[2002-07-11 13:52:39] - a little birdy sez "big things are going down in blacksburg (and not getting any publicity)"
[2002-07-11 13:49:11] - chronicle chat "Is Virginia Tech's approach to diversifying its faculty one that other colleges should consider? Is it legal? "
[2002-07-11 13:40:58] - http://chronicle.com/colloquylive/2002/07/diversity/
[2002-07-11 10:48:17] - http://members.optusnet.com.au/~knigits/articles/switched_back.html A Windows to Linux convert switches back -Paul
[2002-07-11 10:10:31] - "linux is only free if your time is worthless"
[2002-07-11 08:38:53] - http://espn.go.com/mlb/allstar02/s/2002/0710/1403880.html "there are no ties in baseball!!" - mig
[2002-07-11 00:23:29] - unless playing them != using them -cryptic
[2002-07-11 00:23:11] - last time I checked... they are closed source... and thus "useless" -cryptic
[2002-07-11 00:22:53] - so you don't play any blizzard games? (stolen or not) -cryptic
[2002-07-10 23:25:54] - I'm a software engineer. That means I take existing software and modify it to achieve things I want done, or else I create new software from scratch. So to me, open source is very very valuable, while closed source is very very useless.
-logan[2002-07-10 23:14:04] - http://www.drunkgamers.com/images/muppet.jpg
[2002-07-10 22:34:35] - wolf: Not surprising
-Paul[2002-07-10 21:49:54] - i'm a registered independent. - wolf
[2002-07-10 20:43:54] - wolf: I have no idea what you are talking about actually
If I was referring to anything, it was way back when you were talking about not being a part of a political party. -Paul[2002-07-10 20:28:10] - whether microsoft or some cs majors coded something is of no importance to me. it's the quality i care about. - wolf
[2002-07-10 20:26:50] - yes, and i can see where you're trying to go with this. i care about my elected officials but i don't care about code. it doesn't interest me. - wolf
[2002-07-10 18:29:59] - wolf: Do you vote? -Paul
[2002-07-10 18:08:32] - i understand. ~a
[2002-07-10 18:07:07] - a: what wolf means is that it matters little to her if she can see the source code or not. - mig
[2002-07-10 17:52:22] - then i wrote "not that open source means free software", referencing the exchange of coin, paper, etc. currency for a product. - wolf
[2002-07-10 17:50:51] - look closely. first i said "i'd pay for it if it wasn't". this means that i would exchange local currency for the mentioned goods, regardless of whether i was able to look at the goods' implementation.
[2002-07-10 17:48:56] - http://www.debian.org/intro/free ~a
[2002-07-10 17:48:18] - so, when you said, open source doesn't mean free software, then they'd say . . . well duh, nothing is free. ~a
[2002-07-10 17:48:07] - to determine, dammit
[2002-07-10 17:47:41] - for example, many people think, without any exception, nothing is free. ~a
[2002-07-10 17:47:11] - what if your personal definition of free is undeterminable from your context? ~a
[2002-07-10 17:45:29] - i will leave it as an exercise to the reader determine what it means by looking at the context within which i used it. - wolf
[2002-07-10 17:43:26] - i mean: free. - wolf
[2002-07-10 17:39:22] - depends on what you mean by free . . . ~a
[2002-07-10 17:38:43] - free -- able to act at will; not hampered; not under compulsion or restraint; "free enterprise"; "a free port"; "a free country"; "I have an hour free"; "free will"; "free of racism"; "feel free to stay as long as you wish"; "a free choice" ~a
[2002-07-10 17:32:58] - not that open source means free software. - wolf
[2002-07-10 17:32:04] - it's not the money i care about. ~a
[2002-07-10 17:31:14] - who cares if it's open source? i'd pay for it if it wasn't. - wolf
[2002-07-10 17:22:43] - heh. i take that back. the code i'm developing at work is open source to me, but most people would call that closed source.
~a[2002-07-10 17:21:11] - all i was saying was there's only one "most amazing thing in the world, ever" considering it could be anything, like the cure to cancer, or proof that there is a god, or something, it's pretty cool that it happened to be an open source development project. ~a
[2002-07-10 17:19:11] - i don't think there is anything on my computer at home or at work that's not open source. i could be wrong. ~a
[2002-07-10 17:17:56] - you've never looked at the images at the bottom of this page? all four of them link to major open source sites. ~a
[2002-07-10 17:16:41] - you're telling me? ~a
[2002-07-10 17:14:36] - there's nothing wrong with open source -cryptic
[2002-07-10 17:13:02] - who would have guessed that the most amazing thing in the world, ever also happened to be open source. ~a
[2002-07-10 17:08:31] - http://www.privoxy.org/ is the most amazing thing in the world, ever. - wolf
[2002-07-10 16:59:28] - i want to know whos idea that was ~a
[2002-07-10 16:08:32] - http://www.lvrj.com/lvrj_home/2002/Jul-08-Mon-2002/opinion/19097224.html
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