IRC log of swhack on 2002-06-17

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00:06:58 [gac]
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00:14:57 [AaronSw]
yo yo yo
00:15:53 [AaronSw]
what's up w/ community colo this time, wmf?
00:18:24 [AaronSw]
<kherr_> How do you think the transatlantic cables got laid?
00:18:25 [AaronSw]
<sdh^> by going to a cable nightclub?
00:19:52 [AaronSw]
DW was wondering if RSS and OPML were like all accessibley
00:20:04 [AaronSw]
i wonder if i should point him to TEH XAG
00:24:16 [Ash]
AaronSw: <dwiner> TEH OPMAL SI VREY ACCESSIBAL!@! JUTS UES GRABS MY-LAME-WEBLOG.OPMAL!!!2 AND TYPE 'PRINT GOTO 10 PASCAL!!! OUTLINAR!' SEE ACCESSABAL!@%!!1112@
00:24:31 [AaronSw]
lol!
00:24:53 [AaronSw]
Being inside Ash's mind is the stuff of horror films.
00:25:00 [AaronSw]
* AaronSw imagines this world where everyone is blocky and talks like jeffk
00:25:03 [Ash]
heh heh
00:25:31 [Ash]
I really should write a jeffk script, that would make it a lot easier.
00:27:29 [AaronSw]
whoo! Gurky at the MCA downtown
00:27:40 [AaronSw]
The MCA has the best stuff
00:28:05 [Ash]
MCA?
00:28:14 [AaronSw]
Museum of Contemporary Art
00:29:08 [AaronSw]
i need to tweak lisa more about xml
00:35:07 [AaronSw]
wow, did Pistorum come in here with cwm running all by himself?
00:35:15 [AaronSw]
oops, wrong chan
00:38:32 [wmf]
AaronSw: CCCP is getting flamed by their colo provider
00:38:41 [AaronSw]
whatfor?
00:39:00 [wmf]
and the company that was building servers for them disappeared off the face of the earth
00:39:18 [AaronSw]
ouch
00:39:27 [AaronSw]
@ http://not.invisible.net/signals/bin/000034.shtml
00:39:39 [chumpy]
A: IMS Signals: Certified Notice of Intent to Donate from AaronSw
00:40:02 [AaronSw]
(as long as they don't donate my kidney)
00:43:06 [AaronSw]
this sounds interesting: http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2002/view/e_sess/2528
00:44:31 [wmf]
yeah, I heard about that somewhere else
00:44:39 [AaronSw]
aha: http://not.invisible.net/project/net.topbox.net.html
00:44:44 [AaronSw]
real info
00:45:17 [AaronSw]
hee hee: http://not.invisible.net/audio/logos/itr-same-day-service.MP3
00:46:58 [AaronSw]
heh, a BEEP service is called ANTACID
00:48:19 [AaronSw]
i love the source code for the hacker tax credit
00:48:22 [AaronSw]
"If the U.S. Congress could compile this simple subroutine into the U.S. Code, this simple step would have a greater effect than any cuts in capital gain taxes."
00:48:29 [wmf]
it looks like several of these could be used in NetTopBox: http://not.invisible.net/project/blocks.html
00:49:09 [AaronSw]
hm, this img looks familiar ;) http://not.invisible.net/images/opencookie_med.gif
00:49:37 [AaronSw]
Carl Malamud is such a hacker
00:50:35 [AaronSw]
heh! he even works on top of a chinese restaurant
00:50:54 [AaronSw]
cool name: RT-FM
00:52:52 [AaronSw]
"Carl Malamud interviews Tim Berners-Lee, developer of the World Wide Web, one of the most innovative and exciting applications to be deployed on the Internet. Berners-Lee discusses how WWW makes use of SGML and hypertext to form a web of information that spans the globe. "
00:53:39 [deltab]
oops, I misread that
00:54:04 [deltab]
I thought it was saying that Tim was one of the most innovative etc.
00:54:55 [AaronSw]
I'd like to see Tim deployed on the Internet.
00:55:03 [AaronSw]
heh! Cliff before he discovered decaf
00:55:10 [AaronSw]
Cliff is almost as animated as timbl
00:55:13 [AaronSw]
Cliff Stoll, that is
00:55:45 [deltab]
ah, the author of the Cuckoo's Egg
00:55:51 [AaronSw]
yep
00:56:02 [AaronSw]
he has a book on education too, but it sucks
00:58:00 [AaronSw]
* AaronSw listens to Malamud struggle to describe the Web
00:58:20 [deltab]
where?
00:58:23 [AaronSw]
"it's a hypertext... um, um...way of navigating the network"
00:58:28 [AaronSw]
http://town.hall.org/radio/Geek/102793_geek_ITR.html
00:58:31 [thelsdj]
* thelsdj wonders whats going on at http://www.schockwellenreiter.de/ thats getting it 8k hits a day, going quickly to the top of the RCS top weblogs list: http://subhonker6.userland.com/rcsPublic/ranking
00:58:48 [wmf]
Clifford Stoll is a weird guy
01:06:22 [Ash]
RCS, please don't use that term in this manner
01:06:37 [Ash]
don't encourage dave to hijack acronyms K PLZ THX
01:06:52 [Ash]
wmf: yeah, cliff is really weird. Have you seen the bizarre flasks he makes?
01:07:52 [AaronSw]
hey, the flasks are awesome!
01:07:55 [AaronSw]
klein bottles, baby!
01:08:24 [Ash]
AaronSw: Yeah, they do kickass
01:08:28 [Ash]
kick ass that is
01:08:42 [Ash]
But you have to admit, they are bizarre. :)
01:09:26 [AaronSw]
* AaronSw adds eikeon to his cool-CSS-designers list
01:10:55 [Ash]
hum de dumm
01:11:37 [thelsdj]
Ash, hmmm arn't by any chance the one who put dave in the hospital?
01:11:56 [AaronSw]
dave in the hospital?!
01:12:07 [Ash]
theldsj: Yeah, I tried to have his committed
01:12:10 [thelsdj]
http://ipwebdev.com/radio/2002/06/16.php#a205
01:12:15 [Ash]
No luck yet though, california is being stupid
01:12:21 [Ash]
you have to have them diagnosed as insane or something
01:12:42 [thelsdj]
AaronSw: you think he would go 48 hours without posting to scripting news voluntarily?
01:13:05 [AaronSw]
well, i looked at history for something to judge by... see aaronsw.com/weblog/
01:13:37 [Ash]
back in a few
01:13:57 [Ash]
gotta avoid having my machine shut down by evil circuit breakers
01:14:02 [AaronSw]
hahah
01:14:10 [AaronSw]
Ash vs. circuit breakers
01:14:25 [Ash]
AaronSw: I'm installing a ceiling fan in my bedroom.. this should be fun
01:14:26 [Ash]
bbiaf
01:14:28 [Ash]
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01:17:39 [AaronSw]
whoa, Huitema was chair of the IAB?
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01:25:14 [Ash]
well that was fun
01:25:16 [Ash]
i hope I didn't trash my server hard drives too badly.
01:32:55 [AaronSw]
Heh! xoot (remember xoot) is using my site to generate his rss feed)
01:36:29 [Ash]
LOL
01:36:30 [Ash]
xoot
01:38:42 [AaronSw]
odd format: http://developer.netscape.com/evangelism/index.xml
01:56:56 [AaronSw]
what happened to invisible worlds?
01:59:27 [AaronSw]
heh, malamud has so many good domain names
01:59:32 [AaronSw]
hahaha Santa Claus DoS
02:00:05 [AaronSw]
'On behalf of Mr. Claus and the Elves, I'd like to say that mailbombs
02:00:06 [AaronSw]
to Santa will result in immediate removal of your name from the
02:00:06 [AaronSw]
"good" list and a transfer to the "bad" list. Sending lots of
02:00:06 [AaronSw]
messages (one person sent 4205) is bad behavior, no matter how good
02:00:06 [AaronSw]
the reason may sound at first. Please help us squash this nasty
02:00:06 [AaronSw]
rumor and allow us to get back to planning for Christmas.
02:00:08 [AaronSw]
'
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02:36:55 [AaronSw]
heh heh: http://nate.malamud.com/chatter/
02:37:04 [AaronSw]
the baby has already learned to do eliza imitations
02:38:12 [sbp]
heh, this is a good one: http://nate.malamud.com/chatter/transcripts/alejandro.html
02:40:43 [AaronSw]
heh, that's great.
02:44:17 [AaronSw]
aww, isn't that animation cute: http://www.malamud.com/
02:58:38 [AaronSw]
ugh, i think i caught a cold. i keep sneezing
03:06:01 [sbp]
Gotta run
03:20:14 [thelsdj]
i shoudl be going to sleep but you guys keep feeding me urls
03:29:23 [thelsdj]
theres various pages that say netscape 6 (ie mozilla) can do xslt transformations directly in the browser tho i can't seem to find any source of information on HOW to do it. ggrrrr
03:30:12 [AaronSw]
um...
03:30:28 [AaronSw]
ala http://www.mozilla.org/projects/xslt/test.xml
03:30:36 [AaronSw]
you just need a processing instruction, i think
03:31:26 [AaronSw]
see http://www.mozilla.org/projects/xslt/
03:31:46 [AaronSw]
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="test.xsl"?>
03:32:08 [thelsdj]
hrm *goes to test*
03:36:17 [thelsdj]
hehe, with that it downloads page, does something, and doesn't change the display, its like its 'done loading' but still shows the previous page
03:36:35 [AaronSw]
works in IE :) <duck />
03:36:47 [thelsdj]
heh crashed galeon
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14:12:36 [sbp]
* sbp waves
14:13:51 [AaronSw]
g'morning starshine
14:13:58 [Ash-w]
hey sbp
14:14:00 [AaronSw]
swhackers say hello
14:14:25 [AaronSw]
dircproxy twinkles above you
14:14:31 [AaronSw]
your phone line twinkles below
14:14:47 [sbp]
heh, he's doing a Lisa :-)
14:15:05 [AaronSw]
oh man
14:15:51 [Ash-w]
lol
14:15:58 [sbp]
I still think that it should be the Swhack anthem, though
14:16:28 [sbp]
sbp has changed the topic to: <AaronSw> g'morning starshine / swhackers say hello / dircproxy twinkles above you / your phone line twinkles below
14:17:00 [sbp]
* sbp [off] has exam spin-out
14:18:35 [sbp]
[off] heh, one of the questions was "give an example of two knowledge representation formalisms"
14:19:41 [sbp]
Hmm... I was thinking about changing my (physical) signature, last night
14:20:03 [sbp]
the problem is, I'd have to keep tabs on what I'm using the new one for, because I wouldn't want to sign the wrong one
14:24:14 [AaronSw]
[off] and you gave...?
14:24:42 [AaronSw]
Yeah, my Dad changed his signature when he began having to sign pay checks.
14:24:51 [AaronSw]
Now it looks like : |\_ksd90sikfsdi90fu8dfj
14:25:14 [AaronSw]
(translate ksd90sikfsdi90fu8dfj into the equivalent scribble)
14:25:24 [sbp]
heh, heh
14:26:10 [sbp]
[off] it's a blur to me already :-) I think they were asking for examples like games, but I gave them some transitive closure crap like ganaeology or something
14:26:38 [sbp]
[off] which is silly, because I think they were abusing the term "formalism"
14:27:25 [sbp]
cool list: http://signature.topcities.com/writers.htm
14:27:39 [sbp]
Tolkien's signature is rather interesting
14:30:14 [sbp]
[off] they were also doing stuff like confusing subclass and type relationships, and saying stuff like "Cats eat Canaries" which is vague: they mean "instances of this class eat instances of that class"
14:30:21 [sbp]
[off] I've not seen a class eat another one
14:31:12 [Morbus]
another wonderful Morbus Idea on the toilet:
14:31:21 [sbp]
you put your ideas on the toilet?
14:31:25 [Morbus]
create an IM called "Crest". It would be a playonwords of AIM.
14:31:43 [Morbus]
the logo would be a "you are here" sorta thing - with the arrow pointing to the top of a giant wave.
14:31:53 [Morbus]
whilst all the other IM icons are drowning in the froth.
14:32:00 [Morbus]
yup. that's it.
14:32:21 [Ash-w]
lol
14:33:22 [Ash-w]
That's a gorgeous signature.
14:33:34 [Ash-w]
I wish my signature was that cool.
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14:38:15 [AaronSw]
AaronSw has changed the topic to: <AaronSw> g'morning Sean B. / swhackers say hello / dircproxy twinkles above you / your phone line twinkles below
14:39:19 [AaronSw]
heh, that is a cool signature
14:39:30 [AaronSw]
this site will be great for solving... EAGLE EYE MYSTERIES!
14:40:08 [Ash-w]
g'morning mistah b
14:47:44 [sbp]
* sbp has a big list of alternatives with various devices... some take a while to write, though
14:48:29 [sbp]
my current sig is good, though
14:51:10 [sbp]
* sbp re-writes a bit of a song, and it ends up sounding like the bridge in QJA. Whoops
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15:22:10 [sbp]
woohoo!
15:22:11 [sbp]
[[[
15:22:12 [sbp]
Since the advent of the printing press in the 15th century, typesetters have never inserted two spaces after punctuation. As far as I can tell, the practice of inserting two spaces between sentences originated with high school typing teachers.
15:22:17 [sbp]
]]] - http://www.fontsite.com/Pages/RulesOfType/ROT0997.html
15:22:40 [sbp]
which is under the rule "1. Insert only a single space after all punctuation."
15:30:44 [AaronSw]
Hm, who was it that required two spaces.... oh, emacs!
15:30:46 [AaronSw]
bleh
15:34:48 [Ash-w]
Emacs required two spaces?
15:34:49 [Ash-w]
What?!?
15:36:58 [AaronSw]
see http://www.cs.cmu.edu/cgi-bin/info2www?(emacs)Fill%20Commands
15:37:24 [AaronSw]
"Emacs commands normally consider a period followed by two spaces orby a newline as the end of a sentence; a period followed by just onespace indicates an abbreviation and not the end of a sentence."
15:37:37 [deltab]
zgv has a section in its Texinfo manual discussing that
15:38:01 [AaronSw]
zgv the thumbnail viewer?
15:38:11 [deltab]
yes
15:38:33 [Ash-w]
AaronSw: Yikes.
15:38:36 [Ash-w]
That's interesting.
15:38:38 [sbp]
can lower-case be used as a verb? decapitalize?
15:38:44 [Ash-w]
I've never noticed that in XEmacs.
15:38:54 [Ash-w]
But then, FSFmacs sucks ass
15:39:30 [AaronSw]
sbp, Java uses decapitalize
15:39:38 [AaronSw]
(i.e. it's the wrong answer)
15:39:52 [deltab]
"lower-case" is fine by me
15:40:15 [sbp]
lol!
15:40:23 [sbp]
heh, "lower-case" it is, then
15:40:36 [deltab]
should you care what I think :-)
15:40:44 [sbp]
Java says "decapitalize", deltab says "lower-case". that's not an opinion, it's a fecking proof
15:42:20 [deltab]
http://www.yorku.ca/ycom/style/sg15.html - even style guides use it
15:43:03 [Acapnotic]
yeah. I don't know where two-space rule came from, but it's pretty well entrenched.
15:44:24 [sbp]
aha, "lower case it"
15:48:51 [AaronSw]
I wonder if the i18n squad is going to internationalize IP addresses next
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15:58:19 [sbp]
heh. IRIs are borderline, but justified by the fact that the Web is not perfect: has a day gone by for like the past 5 years where you have not seen a URI?
15:58:56 [sbp]
Gotta run
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16:17:17 [AaronSw]
Librarians Join Fight Against Copyright Terrorism [aaronsw.com]
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16:28:19 [sbp]
it's brilliant to watch the information misers writhe as they lose the battle
16:36:34 [Acapnotic]
I tried to use my county library's e-book service once.
16:37:01 [Acapnotic]
Problem is that the selection sucks so much that I couldn't find anything worth clicking on to read.
16:37:39 [GabeW]
the royalty propsal for used cd's is funny because its sooo obviously in contradiction to the first sale doctrine
16:57:12 [lilo]
[GlobalNotice] Hi all. If you haven't had a chance, please take a look at http://somegeek.org/status.html (updated today). The site may be overloaded at first but please give it a try. Thanks.
17:04:12 [AaronSw]
Improving Google Images | http://google.blogspace.com/archives/000350
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* AaronSw reboots for ram
17:10:29 [AaronSw]
funny questions for Google Answers: what is the source code to a machine that can pass the Turing Test? ($500,000,000)
17:12:35 [sbp]
heh!
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* AaronSw reboots
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17:17:31 [walloper]
<lilo> The site is carrying this, but if you've helped already you may not see this. My spouse, Deb, wanted me to be sure to let everybody know how much you guys are helping. Thank you.
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17:33:33 [AaronSw]
ooh, new version of IE/OSX
17:37:57 [AaronSw]
argh, reboot for ie 5.2
17:51:08 [AaronSw]
the problem with turning off text smoothing is that lucida sans looks wretched
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18:14:35 [AaronSw]
lol! i was on the phone w/ wolfram asking where my copy of mathematica was, and while i was on the phone the ups guy dropped it off
18:15:14 [eikeon]
You where chatting with Wolfram ;)
18:15:29 [AaronSw]
well, Wolfram Research Inc
18:15:39 [AaronSw]
heh, yeah, me and Stevey are good friends
18:15:54 [AaronSw]
actually, he does live just downtown
18:16:06 [AaronSw]
i was thinking of stopping by, but apparently he has super high security
18:16:13 [AaronSw]
cellular automata bodyguards and such
18:16:23 [eikeon]
:)
18:44:00 [Ash-w]
AaronSw: Watch out, they might divide and come get you
18:44:19 [AaronSw]
aah
19:04:19 [AaronSw]
Anyone need any differential equations solved?
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Gotta run
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* eikeon waves
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20:03:05 [AaronSw]
AaronSw has changed the topic to: today's random prime: 2301704435682210707826777077828937610049212760198012706416747251109968661692325500849725074969274781
20:06:20 [GabeW]
today's random prime: 1
20:06:41 [deltab]
that's not a prime
20:07:03 [GabeW]
3
20:07:38 [Acapnotic]
1 isn't prime?
20:07:52 [Acapnotic]
it's only evenly divisible by 1 and itself, doesn't that make it prime?
20:07:55 [deltab]
nope, it'd have bad implications if it were
20:09:09 [deltab]
consider the effect on the Sieve of Eratosthenes
20:10:11 [AaronSw]
heh
20:10:32 [AaronSw]
otoh, it'd make the sieve very fast!
20:10:44 [deltab]
heh
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20:14:08 [Morbus]
Morbus has changed the topic to: Friday: AmphetaDesk v0.93 release. Same Day: Winer stops updating. Muahaha.
20:16:03 [thelsdj]
hah
20:16:05 [thelsdj]
hey Morbus!
20:16:07 [Morbus]
Dave is in the hospital. Like most people out there, I assumed that when he installed AmphetaDesk and got a good look at it, he had a heart attack. Ok, I'm just kidding. I wish Dave the best. He helps make the web a more interesting place...
20:16:12 [Morbus]
- http://www.zymm.com/raster/
20:16:13 [Morbus]
muhahah.
20:17:32 [AaronSw]
that's not very nice
20:17:42 [Morbus]
hey, don't look at me.
20:17:42 [AaronSw]
AaronSw has changed the topic to: join GIMPS!
20:18:03 [Morbus]
i care about the big lug as much as the next guy.
20:21:22 [AaronSw]
new version of IE/OSX out
20:21:29 [Morbus]
supdate?
20:21:46 [AaronSw]
no, microsoft.com/mac/
20:21:46 [Morbus]
release notes?
20:21:49 [Morbus]
ah. thanks.
20:22:19 [Morbus]
i really wish everyone had a changelog
20:26:41 [AaronSw]
yeah, that's why i like apt-listchanges in debain
20:26:50 [AaronSw]
err debian
20:27:19 [thelsdj]
* thelsdj sits and reloads his kuro5hin ad page to see if anyone clicked through (http://www.kuro5hin.org/user/billyjoeray/ads) heh
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20:32:21 [eikeon]
Looked like swhack could use one more bot ;)
20:36:09 [thelsdj]
i'd bring my infobot with 139,000 factoids but you guys would have too much fun
20:36:37 [eikeon]
:)
20:37:29 [thelsdj]
i just stick her in teen chatrooms, you'd be suprised how many new words she's learned :)
20:37:40 [eikeon]
lol
20:39:17 [deltab]
Cyc learned some rude words while working for Lycos :-)
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and had to be taught not to repeat them
20:40:00 [eikeon]
Does #swhack get publicly logged? Where to?
20:40:36 [deltab]
Amusingly, the Lycos stint provided Cyc with an adolescence, because it
20:40:36 [deltab]
learned about sex-related terms users typed into the search engine. Cyc's
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programmers taught it that certain things in the world are salacious and
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shouldn't be mentioned in everyday applications.
20:40:48 [deltab]
-- http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/ptech/06/09/common.sense.computer.ap/
20:41:14 [sbp]
eikeon: http://blogspace.com/swhack/chatlogs/ or http://notabug.com/swhack/chatlogs/
20:41:16 [sbp]
take your pick
20:41:38 [deltab]
The researchers also told Cyc to ask questions if it decides it needs more
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clarity about a concept.
20:41:39 [deltab]
In 1986 Cyc asked whether it was human. That same year it asked whether
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any other computers were engaged in such a project.
20:41:52 [eikeon]
sbp, tx
20:50:51 [sbp]
care to chump that article, deltab?
20:51:00 [AaronSw]
Ooh, TMBG on NPR
20:52:23 [AaronSw]
heh, that's awesome, deltab
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20:52:42 [AaronSw]
TMBG is promoting their new album for kids
20:52:56 [deltab]
@ http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/ptech/06/09/common.sense.computer.ap/
20:53:03 [chumpy]
B: CNN.com - Can a PC think for itself? - June 9, 2002 from deltab
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AaronSw has changed the topic to: can a swhacker think for itself?
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20:56:21 [AaronSw]
Heh, the Department of Transportation owns the copyright to one of the songs.
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B:"Amusingly, the Lycos stint provided Cyc with an adolescence, because it learned about sex-related terms users typed into the search engine. Cyc's programmers taught it that certain things in the world are salacious and shouldn't be mentioned in everyday applications."
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20:58:51 [AaronSw]
B::"Amusingly, the Lycos stint provided Cyc with an adolescence, because it learned about sex-related terms users typed into the search engine. Cyc's programmers taught it that certain things in the world are salacious and shouldn't be mentioned in everyday applications."
20:58:54 [chumpy]
commented item B
20:58:55 [AaronSw]
B::"The researchers also told Cyc to ask questions if it decides it needs more clarity about a concept. In 1986 Cyc asked whether it was human. That same year it asked whether any other computers were engaged in such a project."
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commented item B
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!eikco is logging the topics of this channel to http://eikco.com/chat/
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!It also logs any lines starting with !
21:42:33 [Morbus]
crap.
21:42:39 [Morbus]
my interview email is already 22k. Bwahah
21:42:59 [AaronSw]
interview email?
21:43:24 [Morbus]
yeah, with john rhodes.
21:43:24 [Morbus]
i told you about this, right?
21:43:33 [AaronSw]
oh, i sorta remember
21:43:37 [Morbus]
i'm getting interviewed by the guy who does webword.com
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it's getting rather long.
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and i still got like ten flipping questions to answer.
21:45:22 [Morbus]
heh, heh.
21:46:32 [AaronSw]
IRC keeps you nice and short
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i know.
21:47:59 [AaronSw]
MySQL in Movable Type? uh oh
21:48:18 [Morbus]
yah, i saw that.
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i won't ever use it.
21:48:32 [AaronSw]
i hope it's optional
21:48:59 [sbp]
heh, that sucked. I assigned a Unicode character to each word over 5/6 characters long in a dictionary, and then replaced all words in a file with those unicode characters, and UTF-8 encoded it, expecting a not-sizable reduction in file size, but at least *some*
21:49:05 [Morbus]
i do too.
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turned out that the dictionary sucks-ass, so it didn't work
21:49:10 [Morbus]
the only reason I chose MT was becuase it wasn't heavy
21:49:42 [sbp]
it's missing words like "including", "effective", and "available"
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and yet it includes "abampere". ugh
21:50:36 [AaronSw]
teh!
21:55:50 [AaronSw]
* AaronSw updates the style of his weblog
21:56:01 [Morbus]
AaronSw: is 2.2 actually out?
21:56:10 [AaronSw]
doesn't look like it
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k
22:01:35 [Ash-w]
MovableType with MySQL for extra data-losing goodness
22:05:51 [AaronSw]
AudioGalaxy is dead: http://www.riaa.com/PR_story.cfm?id=522
22:07:33 [Morbus]
sigh
22:08:39 [sbp]
they should have gone decentralized
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what a PITA
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argh/
22:09:04 [Morbus]
[off] now i'm getting sick of this interview.
22:09:30 [sbp]
[off] just end it with you "fuck you, K PLZ THX BYE"
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[off] heh, heh
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[off] he'll think that Ash came in and took over your computer
22:16:41 [Morbus]
five more questions, whoo.
22:27:24 [Morbus]
AaronSw, do you know of any RSS v0.9x validators?
22:27:44 [AaronSw]
userland had one for a while
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k
22:28:11 [AaronSw]
http://aggregator.userland.com/validator
22:34:43 [Morbus]
[off] I've made $75 bucks on amphetadesk since the 93 release.
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[off] You ought to buy 7500 penny sweets, and make an Amphetadesk pyramid
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[off] a big giant AmphetaDesk Lego pill!
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[off] heh! that's what you want
22:37:29 [Morbus]
i'm #121 on SF, deltab. almost there :)
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and still on their main page.
22:40:06 [sbp]
Aaron: you've probably seen it, but: http://www.fastcompany.com/online/60/google.html
22:40:26 [sbp]
ah, yes: http://google.blogspace.com/archives/000347
22:41:51 [sbp]
heh, I'm only a day off of the Google pace. If only I had used google.blogspace.com! [music starts] yes, *you* too can become a Google expert with Aaron Swartz's patented Google Weblog. And that's not all! for your money, you will also recieve numerous other news stories about Google related topics, plus a translation into Japanese!
22:42:17 [Morbus]
i want a hello kitty vibrator!
22:47:50 [Morbus]
interview is done!
22:47:50 [Morbus]
whooO.
22:48:08 [Morbus]
only 71 more email to go.
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sigh
22:49:04 [AaronSw]
* AaronSw -> dinner
22:51:39 [Morbus]
dinner? what a novel idea.
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"Little Dinner Meats Arab and Moby"
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119 at SF. whoo.
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<swhack!>
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<wmf!>
23:42:22 [wmf]
turns out I need 114 machines for my latest project at work :-(
23:46:58 [AaronSw]
why is that a bad thing? can you take them home when the project is done?
23:47:13 [wmf]
it's bad because they're not there
23:48:07 [AaronSw]
and they're not coming?
23:48:14 [wmf]
nope
23:48:30 [AaronSw]
this must be some project
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23:56:31 [AaronSw]
ooh: http://www.rhumba.pair.com/ben/
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heh
23:58:03 [AaronSw]
heh, it's so funny when they fight and then blog it
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lol: http://www.dollarshort.org/archives/000356.shtml#000356