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Good, because to be honest it sounds weird and creepy, but feels awkward to refuse.

Think of it like scritching, with less chance of a reach-around by a guy in a panda suit.

You decide if that's better or worse. ;-)

It's true. Taps is where it's at!

Well, in fairness it is also run by the former publisher of Softpaw Magazine, one of the mods runs Secretmoon on Taps, most others are cubs, etc. You're right, though, that the objective is to host all genres of furry art, not just that. The tag blocking feature helps a lot - alas, as a moderator, I can't use it. :-)

Well, in fairness it is also run by the former publisher of Softpaw Magazine, one of the mods runs Secretmoon on Taps, most others are cubs, etc. You're right, though, that the objective is to host all genres of furry art, not just that. The tag blocking feature helps a lot - alas, as a moderator, I can't use it. :-)

Furries have also raised over one million dollars for charity since the start of the century.

People touching the source code of ANYTHING are rarer than unicorns.

Does that include furry unicorns? They're everywhere!

Seriously, I read code all the time. A good coder will do a lot more reading than writing, which is especially true of C and other non-obvious lower-level programming... OpenBSD code is a great epic read (skip the perl).

The majority of computer end-users are illiterates regarding anything related to computer stuff.

They still benefit from using open source components in various ways.

Even if only 0.1% of users will review the code, in most cases that's enough people to blow the whistle if there's a backdoor, etc. Of course proprietary software can be disassembled / virtualized / memory-dumped / and analyzed in a variety of ways, and I'm sure that most Microsoft software has had more eyeballs on it than most FLOSS software, but with equal popularity open source has the advantage.

Non-devs also benefit from being able to rent a coder from a freelancer site (usually in Outsourcistan, India) to conduct a security audit or make a change for them. Again, modding proprietary software is possible, and in many cases is easier than most people think (and even than its developers would have wanted), but still a bit more ugly and expensive.

With a "time-limited hybrid source" arrangement, you get the best of both worlds. The proprietary developer would hand over the code to a reputable third party, which would build the binaries for distribution while keeping the code safe till its due date. The dev would be able to sell it like any other piece of proprietary software and possibly profit from his innovations while they're fresh, but with the added advantage that the users would eventually get the code. The dev wouldn't be able to hide any surprises (excluding in BLOBs or brilliant feats of obfuscation), and the users would know that they would eventually be unencumbered in making any modifications they wanted.

Perhaps this is how intellectual monopolies should be phased out...

--libman

Foster has single-handedly committed all the cardinal sins that Serious SF Authors(tm) must never do:

Movie/TV spin-off novels? Check (See: Splinter of the Mind's Eye).
Crossing over into Fantasy? Check (See: Spellsinger).
Dabbling with humor? Check (Spellsinger, Glory Lane, etc.).
Indulging a disrespected fringe group? Check. (Furries man. See Spellsinger (again!), Quozl, the Icerigger trilogy).

If there is a scale that measures prolific hackery, with Peirs Anthony on the bottom and Stephen King on the top, I would put Foster far, far closer to King. Glory Lane, To the Vanishing Point, and Into the Out Of are all truly excellent reads. They're not life changers, they're just damn good. He's got a fine roster of clever and poigniant short stories. For old school geeks, the most notable of which is "Why Johnny Can't Speed" which has been cited as direct inspiration for the classic Steve Jackson game Car Wars.

And hey, without Car Wars, SJ Games might never have been successful enough to launch GURPS. Without GURPS, there would be no GURPS Cyberpunk, no Secret Service raid on SJ Games in 1991, and maybe no Electronic Frontier Foundation either. How's that for underrated?

So, your a furry huh?

http://en.wikifur.com/wiki/Remus_Shepherd

Oh, and a zoophile i see from what that says.

god the internet is great.

See, that person can be different from you, but now, since i suggested you were the same, people are going to think your a furry & a zoophile.

Not unlike how Netcom said Kevin Mitnick was responsible for the credit card stealing, though that is something he never did before or after and never even admitted to it later. But hell, the damage is done. You've carried a grudge against him for decades, even though the info you were told is most likely false.

Do you see how that works?

Anyways, have fun getting knotted or whatever weird shit you like to do with animals. Hey, it's cool. Your an adult, if you want to dress up like an animal and fuck animals, more power to you.

I know of a furry porn site that did this once for April Fools day. Good times.

I was editing on the Creatures Wiki in late 2004, and launched WikiFur in July 2005 - in part, because Wikipedia didn't want detailed articles on that particular topic. You're a little late to the party, but welcome. :-)

The key is to have fetishes weird enough that people don't know it's porn.

Most furs are straight or bi, after all, so there's a market for plenty of other types of porn.

. . . huh, perhaps you have a point there. ;-)

Seriously, though, this is good-intentioned but it makes for bad law. Think how it'll be for the people running chats - suddenly, asking people their age will not only be a good idea, but mandatory to avoid the risk of a jail sentence for yourself or others in chat. Oh, and everyone else in chat needs to know how old (or rather, how young) everyone is, too.

The average webmaster doesn't need this book; they need tools like Page Speed that highlight very simple issues that webmasters can fix, usually without any code changes. And they need clear instructions on how to do it, and why it will benefit their users. I recently ran a project to cut the fluff on large furry websites. Most failed to even gzip their HTML, CSS or JS, or were resizing images into thumbnails. It's not hard, people just don't think to do it, or don't know how.

Technically, it's ten wikis, but the non-English-speaking versions have a long way go to catch up.

Skunk included a short comic exploring the result of getting a catgirl in your bed. It wasn't pretty!

This is as my Master told it to me and now I tell it thee.

There are a billion names of furfaggotry! A billion kinds of furries that slither and slime and defile the land and sea and wind. Each furry is a kind of sin spawned by the internet's evil. And that internets is very sinful there are many of these damned furfags and their power is great.

As the purpose of all things in nature is to increase so it is with the furry. They would we joined them and so they seek to overcome us. In alien forms they assault us. In sleep they come to spread doubt and fear among us. They would corrupt our hearts and see us yiff too. Trust them not nor suffer them to live.

For each furfag destroyed is a soul freed from eternal bondage. Each mortal furry life extinguished is an /i/nsurgent soul raised to glory. Thus our eternal destiny is written in the blood of the furfag.

With box and tampon destroy the furfag. With pizza and koran smash the furfag. With credit card hacks and searing mormons scatter the furfag to the stars. With gore and dataforce and bandwidth raep, with hax and AIDS and jehovas, with yellow vans and steroids!

Kill them! Kill them! Kill them all!

As my Master told it me I now tell it thee that thou shalt tell others in thy turn.

In an internet of a million sites, what is the death of one site in the cause of purity? Some may question your right to destroy ten billion furfags. Those who understand realize that you have no right to let them live.

Skunk included a short comic exploring the result of getting a catgirl in your bed. It wasn't pretty!

Real furry conventions are much more fun than PafCon. As for furry cartoons, Softpaw Magazine springs to mind, but they take pains to avoid a resemblance to humans.

I lead WikiFur, which was recently lent hosting by a fan. I didn't want to hog the server, so I scoured the web for tips on reducing the impact of websites. There turned out to be a lot of improvements that could be made which significantly increased our performance while drastically cutting the load. The biggest difference is not in reduced bandwidth or increased maintainability but in the user experience. Simply put, people love being on a fast site. No site will reach its potential if you have to wait ten seconds for pages to load. If you can cut that to mere tenths of a second, you're more likely to have a winner on your hands.

Actually, the furries all went over to WikiFur - well, perhaps not . . .

Klingons vs. Furries. They have a bigger wiki than ours, but we're working on it.