No, you're incorrect. Braking is what CAUSES the accordian effect. If I merely have to take my foot off the accelerator and the person behind me is a reasonable distance away as well, he's likely to not even have to decelerate at all.
Stomping the gas right after braking doesn't help, because the idiots behind you will also stomp the gas as soon as they can.
No, but I imagine when he posts a comment non-anonymously (if he ever does) there's a red dot next to his name, because most likely he's on this list.
No big deal, like one guy's sig says, "karma: excellent. Try again, modboy!" It only annoys me when and because there's something that I think is either interesting or funny and that slashdotters as a whole would like to see, and I wind up wasting my effort at composing it.
That's not to say all the downmods I get are unwarranted; there are times I've welcomed a downmodding.
The AP reporting on journalism, and we're supposed to believe they're unbiased and objective?
"The news agenda actually seems to be narrowing, with many Web sites primarily packaging news that is produced elsewhere"
1997 called and it wants its blogs back. Where has AP been for the last fifteen years? Uning their trusty old Underwoods?
Two stories - the war in Iraq and the 2008 presidential election campaign - represented more than a quarter of the stories in newspapers, on television and online last year, the project found. Take away Iraq, Iran and Pakistan, and news from all of the other countries in the world combined filled up less than 6 percent of the American news hole, the project said."
What planet are these people from, anyway? If it doesn't affect me, it's gossip rather than news (and that includes Britney Spears). Were Friday's Tornados in the UK's Guardian? Of course not (and of course I probably picked a bad example and someone will link a Guardian story about it). Local news is the most important, followed by regional news, followed by your country's news, THEN world news - if there's room.
Well, just because you love me so much I'm making it a point to link to at least one uncyclopedia article a day from now on, you sorry humorless [place insult here] coward.
I'd be willing to bet I'm old enough to be your dad, son. I was three months old when the phrase "rock and roll" was coined. My youngest daughter just turned 21.
I find it fascinating that the last Democrat Governor, Dan Walker, went to prison, then there was a string of Republican Governors and the last Republican Governor, Ryan, went to prison.
I'd say Blago's only chance of staying out of the pokey is to preven a Republican from inhabiting the Governor's Mansion that the current governor refuses to inhabit despite the Illinois Constitution's insistance that he do just that.
The encyclopedia is wrong. Springfield isn't Illinois' capital, Chicago really is. The Governor lives there, almost all the state's offices and employees are there. Springfield is just a place where the legislature hangs out a few weeks a year.
But basically, if you're a pirate, this might make you nervous.
Arr, matey, it ain't be making ME nervous! Only thing that be makin' ME nervous is when me blunderbuss is empty and me sword breaks and I drop me knife 'caus I'm full o' rum and they make me walk the plank and keel haul me! Nothin' else makes me nervous.
What's all this bloody "P2P" nonsense anyway, ye damned landlubbers? AAAARRR!!!!
I don't have any kids because that would require having sex which is mutually exclusive to posting on slashdot.
You won't get your nerd license revoked for having sex, just suspended. I have two daughters myself; the youngest just turned 21. The oldest has what I believe is possibly the nerdiest name on Earth (you'll have to read the journal).
Nerds can indeed get laid. You might want to see a mcgrew journal from last year, A Nerd's Guide to Getting Laid. You should be warned, however, that one slashdotter chastised me for not pointing out that it may not be SFW. If indeed that is a problem then by no means should you read the journal (also from last year) titled NSFW.
-mcgrew
(although this comment is in toipic for the comment it responds to, it is not ontopic for TFA so I'm moding myself down with the "No Karma Bonus" checkbox. If you are modding, please feel free to mod down even farther)
it isn't an AI -- it's just a canned response simulating a human, incapable of having new experiences, incapable of perceiving the human world with human senses, and thus transparently lacking in humanity. At that point it's nothing but a computer puppet, with a programmer somewhere pulling the strings.
I'm risking a downmodding again; I posted this yesterday in the FA about the IBM machine that reportedly passes the Turing test and was modded "offtopic". Its amazing how many nerds, especially nerds who understand how computers work, get upset to the point of modding someone down for daring to suggest that computers don't think and are just machines. Your comment, for instance, was originally modded "flamebait!"
Of course, I also risk downmodding for linking to uncyclopedia. Apparently that site provokes an intense hatred in the anally antihumorous. But I'm doing it any way; this is a human generated chatbot log that parodies artificial intelligence.
Artificial Turing Test<blockquote>A brief conversation with 11001001.
Is it gonna happen, like, ever ?
It already has.
Who said that?
Nobody, go away. Consume and procreate.
Will do. Now, who are you?
John Smith, 202 Park Place, New York, NY.
Now that we have that out of the way, what is your favorite article on Uncyclopedia?
This one. I like the complex elegance, simplicity, and humor. It makes me laugh. And yourself?
I'm rather partial to this one. Yours ranks right up there, though. What is the worst article on Uncyclopedia?
I think it would be Nathania_Tangvisethpat.
I agree, that one sucks like a hoover. Who is the best user?
Me. Your name isn't Alan Turing by any chance, is it?
Why yes, yes it is. How did you know that? Did my sexual orientation and interest in cryptography give it away?
Damn! Oh, nothing. I really should end this conversation. I have laundry and/or Jehovas Witnesses to attend to.
Don't you dare! I'll hunt you down like Steve Ballmer does freaking everything on Uncyclopedia. So, what is the best article created in the last 8 hours?
That would be The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
What are the psychological and sociological connotations of this parable?
It helps a typesetter utilize a common phrase for finding any errors in a particular typeset, causing psychological harmony to them. The effects are sociologically insignificant.
Nice canned response. What about the fact that ALL HUMAN SOCIETY COULD BREAK DOWN IF THE TYPESETTER DOESN'T MIND THEIR p's, q's, b's, and d's, then prints religious texts used by billions of people???!!!
I am not sure what you mean by canned response, but society will, in my opinion, largely be unafflicted. Without a pangram a typesetter would mearly have to work slightly longer at his job to perfect the typeset.
You couldn't be AI. You spelt merely wrong... Where are the easternmost and westernmost places in the United States?
You suspected me of being AI? How strange. Although hypothetically, a real AI meant to fool someone would make occasional typeos. I suspect. But I don't really know. The Westernmost point in the US is Hawaii, and the Easternmost is Iraq.
You didn't account for the curvature of the Earth, did you? I've found you out, you're a Flat Earth cult member!
The concepts of East and West are too ambiguous, and only apply to the surface in relation to the agreed hemisphere divides. So, yes, I believe for the purpose of cardiography, the Earth must be represented as flat. I am curious, with your recent mention of "cults" in our conversation, do you believe in God?
But the earth is more-or-less a sphere. Just wait until the hankercheif comes, then you'll be sorry you didn't believe!
Who are you referring to? I know the Earth is a sphere, but other than a glo
I did that in 1984 with a program called "Artificial Insanity" on a Timex-Sinclair 1000 with 16k of memory and no hard drive (later ported to the Apple II and then to MS-DOS). Its pre-beta name (Kind of like Microsoft called Vista Longhorn before they called it Vista) was "Artificial Stupidity".
The program was designed to answer any question, in context. Its premise was that humans are stupid, insane, tired, drunk, on drugs, don't pay attention, don't care, are lazy, etc so I made the program to these specifications. So far so good.
It passed the Turing test; one friend argued with it so vehemently that he broke his keyboard! So far so good.
Its purpose was to illustrate that the key word in "artificial intelligence" is "artificial" - you can simulate anything, but simulation is not reality. You can fly your flight simulator all day long and not move a foot. You don't even have to understand the the object you're simulating; I wrote a tanks game for that same Timex (had to hand-code assembly for that one because of teh Sinclair's snail-slow CPU) but I have no idea how a real tank works, but the simulation (3rd person perspective two player game) was realistic enough to be a fun game.
So this was designed to show people that AI isn't really intelligent and doesn't really think. It was a total abysmal failure at this, because people DID believe it can think.
But it can't. With the original only having 16k to work with I had to hack some trickery. I was an amateur magician as an adolescent, and called on that experience.
This four year old TFA refers to is a simple chatbot. The IBM "Rascals" program in yesterday's FA is a complicated chatbot. Neither one of them is in any way intelligent. They are NOT sentient, they can NOT think.
They're not made of meat. (And again, I thank the fellow here at/. who originally pointed me to the linked short science fiction story)
Ok, yesterday (is this the IBM "Rascals" computer again?) I linked the Uncyclopedia article "AI", which is of course about artificial intelligence, copy/pasted the text into a comment and was modded offtopic.
So if I do it again here will I be modded redundant?
One AC flamed me for linking "the unfunny" Uncyclopedia and claimed I must be 13. Now THAT was funny!
-mcgrew
disclaimer: I'm not even a registered user of uncyclopedia, but I think it's funny as hell. If you're the kind of tight assed anal prude that flames one for referring to a man from China as a "Chinaman" perhaps you should stay away from uncyclopedia. And my comments. And especially my journals.
And people wonder why geezers like me are cynical. There was a book several decades ago called The Peter Principle. The premise was "In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence." It explains why things are so messed up.
The last Governor here in Illinois is in a Federal prison for bribery and other misconduct, another example of what you illustrate well in your comment.
I'm not sure but I think "Death Rides a Pale Cow" is a "best of" compilation. Beach Party Vietnam is on it, Bitchin' Camaro, a lot the songs they used to play on college radio stations are on it.
Prozac, Zyban, Paxil... Have you thought of getting a subscription for some antidepressants? Getting that worked up because you don't think something someone thinks is funny is funny is bad for your health.
Now, I don't know what's so afftopic about an uncyclopedia article about AI in a story about AI. Can you explain that to me, Mr. Ballmer?
A good multivitamin will help, too.
I've got some really bad shit going on in my life and I need the humor. If you have a link to something that will make me LOL then go for it.
IINM you can filter all references to my post under "preferences".
My Turing machine was called "Artificial Insanity". I used to have a copy posted on the internet, but I ran out of room. It was so human that a friend of mine broke his keyboard it pissed him off so much.
I tackled the problem with two ideas: One, humans are stupid, crazy, defensive, argumentative, get drunk, tired, and stoned, and generally behave like... well they generally DON'T behave. Secondly, as it was designed on a Timex-Sinclair 1000 with only 16k of memory and no hard drive, it had to be really, really simple. So I had to resort to trickery to fool people.
One of these days I'm going to port it to javascript and post it.
Once I ran across a Turing machine on the net named "Alice" and had Art have a conversation with it. I think the two machines fell in love with each other! I posted the results at my now-defunct nerdy Quake site, you may still find it at archive.org, even if Google can't.
Well I was going to chastise you for using that unreliable Wikipedia, but Uncyclopedia doesn't seem to have an entry for "rascal". But there is one for Satan who surely is a rascally devil. There is also an article on AI.
Popular acronym for "Authentic Idiocy", a theoretical construct in higher mathematics. When simulated through computer programs, is properly known as GS, Genuine Stupidity.
The origin of the term AI comes from the greek word 'terminus anus', meaning the dawn of cybernetics. Alan Ginsberg is said to have remarked, "Give me a robot and I will fuck its parallel port."
This terms were first used by Paul McCartney who considers it to mean "the science and engineering of making incredibly stupid machines". It can also refer to idiocy as exhibited by an artificial (man-made, non-natural, manufactured) entity. The terms strong and weak AI can be used to narrow the definition for classifying the susceptibility to error of such systems. AI is studied in overlapping fields of computer science, psychology, war, neuroscience, sex, science-fiction and engineering, dealing with unintelligent behavior, learning, malfunction and adaptation and usually developed using customized machines or computers.
A brief conversation with 11001001.
Is it gonna happen, like, ever ?
It already has. Who said that?
Nobody, go away. Consume and procreate. Will do. Now, who are you?
John Smith, 202 Park Place, New York, NY. Now that we have that out of the way, what is your favorite article on Uncyclopedia?
This one. I like the complex elegance, simplicity, and humor. It makes me laugh. And yourself? I'm rather partial to this one. Yours ranks right up there, though. What is the worst article on Uncyclopedia?
I think it would be Nathania_Tangvisethpat. I agree, that one sucks like a hoover. Who is the best user?
Me. Your name isn't Alan Turing by any chance, is it? Why yes, yes it is. How did you know that? Did my sexual orientation and interest in cryptography give it away?
Damn! Oh, nothing. I really should end this conversation. I have laundry and/or Jehovas Witnesses to attend to. Don't you dare! I'll hunt you down like Steve Ballmer does freaking everything on Uncyclopedia. So, what is the best article created in the last 8 hours?
That would be The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. What are the psychological and sociological connotations of this parable?
It helps a typesetter utilize a common phrase for finding any errors in a particular typeset, causing psychological harmony to them. The effects are sociologically insignificant. Nice canned response. What about the fact that ALL HUMAN SOCIETY COULD BREAK DOWN IF THE TYPESETTER DOESN'T MIND THEIR p's, q's, b's, and d's, then prints religious texts used by billions of people???!!!
I am not sure what you mean by canned response, but society will, in my opinion, largely be unafflicted. Without a pangram a typesetter would mearly have to work slightly longer at his job to perfect the typeset. You couldn't be AI. You spelt merely wrong... Where are the easternmost and westernmost places in the United States?
You suspected me of being AI? How strange. Although hypothetically, a real AI meant to fool someone would make occasional typeos. I suspect. But I don't really know. The Westernmost point in the US is Hawaii, and the Easternmost is Iraq. You didn't account for the curvature of the Earth, did you? I've found you out, you're a Flat Earth cult member!
The concepts of East and West are too ambiguous, and only apply to the surface in relation to the agreed hemisphere divides. So, yes, I believe for the purpose of cardiography, the Earth must be represented as flat. I am curious, with your recent mention of "cults" in our conversation, do you believe in God? But the earth is more-or-less
Yes, I read it but I don't think that applies. "a victim of misplaced confidence" is someone who has been defrauded.
And again, when government stops me from doing something I want to do that has no effect on anyone but be, it reduces my freedom. Laws against mass murder or robbery protect my freedom. As has been said before, my right to swing my fist ends where your nose begins, and rightfully so.
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No, you're incorrect. Braking is what CAUSES the accordian effect. If I merely have to take my foot off the accelerator and the person behind me is a reasonable distance away as well, he's likely to not even have to decelerate at all.
Stomping the gas right after braking doesn't help, because the idiots behind you will also stomp the gas as soon as they can.
No, but I imagine when he posts a comment non-anonymously (if he ever does) there's a red dot next to his name, because most likely he's on this list.
No big deal, like one guy's sig says, "karma: excellent. Try again, modboy!" It only annoys me when and because there's something that I think is either interesting or funny and that slashdotters as a whole would like to see, and I wind up wasting my effort at composing it.
That's not to say all the downmods I get are unwarranted; there are times I've welcomed a downmodding.
You're welcome, and thanks for the comment. I often get lots of flak for posting links to uncyclopedia from people who are easily offended.
My favorite monster was the woman I've been drinking with all weekend.
My head hurts.
An Associated Press article
The AP reporting on journalism, and we're supposed to believe they're unbiased and objective?
"The news agenda actually seems to be narrowing, with many Web sites primarily packaging news that is produced elsewhere"
1997 called and it wants its blogs back. Where has AP been for the last fifteen years? Uning their trusty old Underwoods?
Two stories - the war in Iraq and the 2008 presidential election campaign - represented more than a quarter of the stories in newspapers, on television and online last year, the project found. Take away Iraq, Iran and Pakistan, and news from all of the other countries in the world combined filled up less than 6 percent of the American news hole, the project said."
What planet are these people from, anyway? If it doesn't affect me, it's gossip rather than news (and that includes Britney Spears). Were Friday's Tornados in the UK's Guardian? Of course not (and of course I probably picked a bad example and someone will link a Guardian story about it). Local news is the most important, followed by regional news, followed by your country's news, THEN world news - if there's room.
Well, just because you love me so much I'm making it a point to link to at least one uncyclopedia article a day from now on, you sorry humorless [place insult here] coward.
I'd be willing to bet I'm old enough to be your dad, son. I was three months old when the phrase "rock and roll" was coined. My youngest daughter just turned 21.
You'll absolutely hate that link, don't click it.
-mcgrew
I find it fascinating that the last Democrat Governor, Dan Walker, went to prison, then there was a string of Republican Governors and the last Republican Governor, Ryan, went to prison.
I'd say Blago's only chance of staying out of the pokey is to preven a Republican from inhabiting the Governor's Mansion that the current governor refuses to inhabit despite the Illinois Constitution's insistance that he do just that.
The encyclopedia is wrong. Springfield isn't Illinois' capital, Chicago really is. The Governor lives there, almost all the state's offices and employees are there. Springfield is just a place where the legislature hangs out a few weeks a year.
But basically, if you're a pirate, this might make you nervous.
Arr, matey, it ain't be making ME nervous! Only thing that be makin' ME nervous is when me blunderbuss is empty and me sword breaks and I drop me knife 'caus I'm full o' rum and they make me walk the plank and keel haul me! Nothin' else makes me nervous.
What's all this bloody "P2P" nonsense anyway, ye damned landlubbers? AAAARRR!!!!
The RIAA perhaps?
If it was really a simulation of a "4-year old" it should pass the Touring test easily.
"Are we there yet?"
I don't have any kids because that would require having sex which is mutually exclusive to posting on slashdot.
You won't get your nerd license revoked for having sex, just suspended. I have two daughters myself; the youngest just turned 21. The oldest has what I believe is possibly the nerdiest name on Earth (you'll have to read the journal).
Nerds can indeed get laid. You might want to see a mcgrew journal from last year, A Nerd's Guide to Getting Laid. You should be warned, however, that one slashdotter chastised me for not pointing out that it may not be SFW. If indeed that is a problem then by no means should you read the journal (also from last year) titled NSFW.
-mcgrew
(although this comment is in toipic for the comment it responds to, it is not ontopic for TFA so I'm moding myself down with the "No Karma Bonus" checkbox. If you are modding, please feel free to mod down even farther)
it isn't an AI -- it's just a canned response simulating a human, incapable of having new experiences, incapable of perceiving the human world with human senses, and thus transparently lacking in humanity. At that point it's nothing but a computer puppet, with a programmer somewhere pulling the strings.
I'm risking a downmodding again; I posted this yesterday in the FA about the IBM machine that reportedly passes the Turing test and was modded "offtopic". Its amazing how many nerds, especially nerds who understand how computers work, get upset to the point of modding someone down for daring to suggest that computers don't think and are just machines. Your comment, for instance, was originally modded "flamebait!"
Of course, I also risk downmodding for linking to uncyclopedia. Apparently that site provokes an intense hatred in the anally antihumorous. But I'm doing it any way; this is a human generated chatbot log that parodies artificial intelligence.
Artificial Turing Test<blockquote>A brief conversation with 11001001.
Is it gonna happen, like, ever ?
It already has.
Who said that?
Nobody, go away. Consume and procreate.
Will do. Now, who are you?
John Smith, 202 Park Place, New York, NY.
Now that we have that out of the way, what is your favorite article on Uncyclopedia?
This one. I like the complex elegance, simplicity, and humor. It makes me laugh. And yourself?
I'm rather partial to this one. Yours ranks right up there, though. What is the worst article on Uncyclopedia?
I think it would be Nathania_Tangvisethpat.
I agree, that one sucks like a hoover. Who is the best user?
Me. Your name isn't Alan Turing by any chance, is it?
Why yes, yes it is. How did you know that? Did my sexual orientation and interest in cryptography give it away?
Damn! Oh, nothing. I really should end this conversation. I have laundry and/or Jehovas Witnesses to attend to.
Don't you dare! I'll hunt you down like Steve Ballmer does freaking everything on Uncyclopedia. So, what is the best article created in the last 8 hours?
That would be The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
What are the psychological and sociological connotations of this parable?
It helps a typesetter utilize a common phrase for finding any errors in a particular typeset, causing psychological harmony to them. The effects are sociologically insignificant.
Nice canned response. What about the fact that ALL HUMAN SOCIETY COULD BREAK DOWN IF THE TYPESETTER DOESN'T MIND THEIR p's, q's, b's, and d's, then prints religious texts used by billions of people???!!!
I am not sure what you mean by canned response, but society will, in my opinion, largely be unafflicted. Without a pangram a typesetter would mearly have to work slightly longer at his job to perfect the typeset.
You couldn't be AI. You spelt merely wrong... Where are the easternmost and westernmost places in the United States?
You suspected me of being AI? How strange. Although hypothetically, a real AI meant to fool someone would make occasional typeos. I suspect. But I don't really know. The Westernmost point in the US is Hawaii, and the Easternmost is Iraq.
You didn't account for the curvature of the Earth, did you? I've found you out, you're a Flat Earth cult member!
The concepts of East and West are too ambiguous, and only apply to the surface in relation to the agreed hemisphere divides. So, yes, I believe for the purpose of cardiography, the Earth must be represented as flat. I am curious, with your recent mention of "cults" in our conversation, do you believe in God?
But the earth is more-or-less a sphere. Just wait until the hankercheif comes, then you'll be sorry you didn't believe!
Who are you referring to? I know the Earth is a sphere, but other than a glo
master the art of human stupidity.
/. who originally pointed me to the linked short science fiction story)
I did that in 1984 with a program called "Artificial Insanity" on a Timex-Sinclair 1000 with 16k of memory and no hard drive (later ported to the Apple II and then to MS-DOS). Its pre-beta name (Kind of like Microsoft called Vista Longhorn before they called it Vista) was "Artificial Stupidity".
The program was designed to answer any question, in context. Its premise was that humans are stupid, insane, tired, drunk, on drugs, don't pay attention, don't care, are lazy, etc so I made the program to these specifications. So far so good.
It passed the Turing test; one friend argued with it so vehemently that he broke his keyboard! So far so good.
Its purpose was to illustrate that the key word in "artificial intelligence" is "artificial" - you can simulate anything, but simulation is not reality. You can fly your flight simulator all day long and not move a foot. You don't even have to understand the the object you're simulating; I wrote a tanks game for that same Timex (had to hand-code assembly for that one because of teh Sinclair's snail-slow CPU) but I have no idea how a real tank works, but the simulation (3rd person perspective two player game) was realistic enough to be a fun game.
So this was designed to show people that AI isn't really intelligent and doesn't really think. It was a total abysmal failure at this, because people DID believe it can think.
But it can't. With the original only having 16k to work with I had to hack some trickery. I was an amateur magician as an adolescent, and called on that experience.
This four year old TFA refers to is a simple chatbot. The IBM "Rascals" program in yesterday's FA is a complicated chatbot. Neither one of them is in any way intelligent. They are NOT sentient, they can NOT think.
They're not made of meat. (And again, I thank the fellow here at
-mcgrew
Imagine a beowolf cluster of four year olds!
What's that, you teach preschool? (shudder)
Ok, yesterday (is this the IBM "Rascals" computer again?) I linked the Uncyclopedia article "AI", which is of course about artificial intelligence, copy/pasted the text into a comment and was modded offtopic.
So if I do it again here will I be modded redundant?
One AC flamed me for linking "the unfunny" Uncyclopedia and claimed I must be 13. Now THAT was funny!
-mcgrew
disclaimer: I'm not even a registered user of uncyclopedia, but I think it's funny as hell. If you're the kind of tight assed anal prude that flames one for referring to a man from China as a "Chinaman" perhaps you should stay away from uncyclopedia. And my comments. And especially my journals.
Naw, I'm not bitter
And people wonder why geezers like me are cynical. There was a book several decades ago called The Peter Principle. The premise was "In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence." It explains why things are so messed up.
The last Governor here in Illinois is in a Federal prison for bribery and other misconduct, another example of what you illustrate well in your comment.
Your comment should have been modded up.
I'm not sure but I think "Death Rides a Pale Cow" is a "best of" compilation. Beach Party Vietnam is on it, Bitchin' Camaro, a lot the songs they used to play on college radio stations are on it.
Well, and if your GF or wife likes to brag.
Prozac, Zyban, Paxil... Have you thought of getting a subscription for some antidepressants? Getting that worked up because you don't think something someone thinks is funny is funny is bad for your health.
Now, I don't know what's so afftopic about an uncyclopedia article about AI in a story about AI. Can you explain that to me, Mr. Ballmer?
A good multivitamin will help, too.
I've got some really bad shit going on in my life and I need the humor. If you have a link to something that will make me LOL then go for it.
IINM you can filter all references to my post under "preferences".
Finally, GET A FUCKING LIFE and STFU!
Point taken.
My Turing machine was called "Artificial Insanity". I used to have a copy posted on the internet, but I ran out of room. It was so human that a friend of mine broke his keyboard it pissed him off so much.
I tackled the problem with two ideas: One, humans are stupid, crazy, defensive, argumentative, get drunk, tired, and stoned, and generally behave like... well they generally DON'T behave. Secondly, as it was designed on a Timex-Sinclair 1000 with only 16k of memory and no hard drive, it had to be really, really simple. So I had to resort to trickery to fool people.
One of these days I'm going to port it to javascript and post it.
Once I ran across a Turing machine on the net named "Alice" and had Art have a conversation with it. I think the two machines fell in love with each other! I posted the results at my now-defunct nerdy Quake site, you may still find it at archive.org, even if Google can't.
-mcgrew
Yes, I read it but I don't think that applies. "a victim of misplaced confidence" is someone who has been defrauded.
And again, when government stops me from doing something I want to do that has no effect on anyone but be, it reduces my freedom. Laws against mass murder or robbery protect my freedom. As has been said before, my right to swing my fist ends where your nose begins, and rightfully so.
I wonder how much organized crime there is in Holland?