< 1208477002 0 :pikhq!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :2 more days until Shadowmoor prerelease. w00ts. < 1208478511 0 :Nickless-59D128!n=Vampire_@ANantes-252-1-48-115.w82-126.abo.wanadoo.fr JOIN :#esoteric < 1208478516 0 :Nickless-59D128!unknown@unknown.invalid NICK :Slereah < 1208478518 0 :Slereah!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :Hello people < 1208478828 0 :timotiis!unknown@unknown.invalid QUIT :Client Quit < 1208480013 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid QUIT :Remote closed the connection < 1208480669 0 :Sgeo!n=Sgeo@ool-18bf68ca.dyn.optonline.net JOIN :#esoteric < 1208480696 0 :wildhalcyon!n=chatzill@c-69-243-94-185.hsd1.md.comcast.net JOIN :#esoteric < 1208483210 0 :UnrelatedToQaz!n=chatzill@host86-151-107-241.range86-151.btcentralplus.com JOIN :#esoteric < 1208483226 0 :UnrelatedToQaz!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :hey < 1208483454 0 :Slereah!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :Hello. < 1208483987 0 :UnrelatedToQaz!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :Was there anything interesting happening here? < 1208484024 0 :pikhq!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :On occasion. < 1208484046 0 :lament!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :no. Never. < 1208484431 0 :UnrelatedToQaz!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :I meant when I came in. < 1208484453 0 :UnrelatedToQaz!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :Have I missed half of a conversation < 1208484469 0 :UnrelatedToQaz!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :on the merits of the Church-Turing thesis, < 1208484473 0 :UnrelatedToQaz!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :that sort of thing. < 1208484515 0 :lament!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :yes < 1208484519 0 :lament!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :you missed the Church half < 1208484564 0 :UnrelatedToQaz!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :well < 1208484569 0 :UnrelatedToQaz!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :as you were < 1208484573 0 :UnrelatedToQaz!unknown@unknown.invalid PART #esoteric :? < 1208485299 0 :lament!unknown@unknown.invalid QUIT :brown.freenode.net irc.freenode.net < 1208485299 0 :pikhq!unknown@unknown.invalid QUIT :brown.freenode.net irc.freenode.net < 1208485307 0 :mental!n=lament@S010600110999ad06.vc.shawcable.net JOIN :#esoteric < 1208485310 0 :pikhq!n=pikhq@209.248.125.70 JOIN :#esoteric < 1208485420 0 :atsampson!unknown@unknown.invalid QUIT :brown.freenode.net irc.freenode.net < 1208485420 0 :Overand!unknown@unknown.invalid QUIT :brown.freenode.net irc.freenode.net < 1208485420 0 :mtve!unknown@unknown.invalid QUIT :brown.freenode.net irc.freenode.net < 1208485423 0 :Overand!i=overand@dissociative.net JOIN :#esoteric < 1208485431 0 :atsampson!n=ats@7hw.poik.net JOIN :#esoteric < 1208485436 0 :mtve!i=mtve@mtve.vm.jvds.com JOIN :#esoteric < 1208486755 0 :wildhalcyon!unknown@unknown.invalid QUIT :"ChatZilla 0.9.81 [Firefox 2.0.0.14/2008040413]" < 1208492383 0 :calamari!n=calamari@ip24-255-58-177.tc.ph.cox.net JOIN :#esoteric < 1208492705 0 :EsoBot!n=EsoBot@ip24-255-58-177.tc.ph.cox.net JOIN :#esoteric < 1208492706 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid QUIT :Read error: 104 (Connection reset by peer) < 1208492904 0 :mental!unknown@unknown.invalid NICK :lament < 1208492966 0 :EsoBot!n=EsoBot@ip24-255-58-177.tc.ph.cox.net JOIN :#esoteric < 1208493005 0 :calamari!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :EsoBot: sit there doing nothing useful < 1208493005 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid QUIT :Remote closed the connection < 1208493010 0 :calamari!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :bad bot < 1208493113 0 :EsoBot!n=EsoBot@ip24-255-58-177.tc.ph.cox.net JOIN :#esoteric < 1208493115 0 :calamari!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :EsoBot: sit there doing nothing useful < 1208493115 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid QUIT :Remote closed the connection < 1208493905 0 :fizzie!unknown@unknown.invalid QUIT :brown.freenode.net irc.freenode.net < 1208493905 0 :pikhq!unknown@unknown.invalid QUIT :brown.freenode.net irc.freenode.net < 1208493906 0 :sebbu!unknown@unknown.invalid QUIT :brown.freenode.net irc.freenode.net < 1208493907 0 :EgoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid QUIT :brown.freenode.net irc.freenode.net < 1208493912 0 :EgoBot!n=EgoBot@71.237.179.105 JOIN :#esoteric < 1208493913 0 :pikhq!n=pikhq@209.248.125.70 JOIN :#esoteric < 1208493923 0 :sebbu!n=sebbu@ADijon-152-1-7-6.w83-194.abo.wanadoo.fr JOIN :#esoteric < 1208493945 0 :fizzie!n=fis@sesefras.zem.fi JOIN :#esoteric < 1208494099 0 :EsoBot!n=EsoBot@ip24-255-58-177.tc.ph.cox.net JOIN :#esoteric < 1208494109 0 :calamari!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :EsoBot: abc < 1208494183 0 :calamari!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :EsoBot: def < 1208494197 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid QUIT :Remote closed the connection < 1208494209 0 :fizzie!unknown@unknown.invalid QUIT :brown.freenode.net irc.freenode.net < 1208494285 0 :EsoBot!n=EsoBot@ip24-255-58-177.tc.ph.cox.net JOIN :#esoteric < 1208494289 0 :calamari!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :EsoBot: def < 1208494298 0 :calamari!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :EsoBot: def < 1208494313 0 :lament!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :EsoBot: beef < 1208494329 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid QUIT :Remote closed the connection < 1208494511 0 :fizzie!n=fis@sesefras.zem.fi JOIN :#esoteric < 1208494526 0 :EsoBot!n=EsoBot@ip24-255-58-177.tc.ph.cox.net JOIN :#esoteric < 1208494531 0 :calamari!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :EsoBot: beef < 1208494575 0 :calamari!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :I guess I'm not doing the thread right.. I should try fork instead < 1208494677 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid QUIT :Remote closed the connection < 1208494908 0 :EsoBot!n=EsoBot@ip24-255-58-177.tc.ph.cox.net JOIN :#esoteric < 1208494914 0 :calamari!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :EsoBot: beef < 1208494916 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :sh-3.2# beef < 1208494917 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :sh: beef: command not found < 1208494927 0 :calamari!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :EsoBot: ls < 1208494929 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :sh-3.2# ls < 1208494930 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :[1;34mbin[0m [1;34mdev[0m [1;34metc[0m [1;34mhome[0m [1;34mlib[0m [1;34mproc[0m [1;34msbin[0m [1;34msys[0m [1;34mtmp[0m [1;34musr[0m < 1208495161 0 :calamari!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :EsoBot:export PS1="\s-\v\$\n" < 1208495174 0 :calamari!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :oops < 1208495294 0 :calamari!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :guess I need to wait on it to time out < 1208495426 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid QUIT :Read error: 104 (Connection reset by peer) < 1208495473 0 :EsoBot!n=EsoBot@ip24-255-58-177.tc.ph.cox.net JOIN :#esoteric < 1208495484 0 :calamari!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :EsoBot: export PS1="\s-\v\$\n" < 1208495486 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :sh-3.2# export PS1="\s-\v\$\n" < 1208495487 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :sh-3.2$ < 1208495556 0 :calamari!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :EsoBot: ls --color=never < 1208495567 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :ls --color=never < 1208495567 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :bin dev etc home lib proc sbin sys tmp usr < 1208495567 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :sh-3.2$ < 1208495587 0 :calamari!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :I think it was better before.. hehe < 1208495603 0 :calamari!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :EsoBot: export PS1="\s-\v\$" < 1208495605 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :export PS1="\s-\v\$" < 1208495623 0 :calamari!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :EsoBot: python < 1208495625 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :sh-3.2$python < 1208495626 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :Python 2.4.2 (#3, Apr 13 2008, 20:46:27) < 1208495627 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :[GCC 4.2.1] on linux2 < 1208495628 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. < 1208495660 0 :calamari!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :EsoBot: help < 1208495662 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :>>> help < 1208495663 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :Type help() for interactive help, or help(object) for help about object. < 1208495681 0 :calamari!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :EsoBot: import sys < 1208495683 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :>>> import sys < 1208495689 0 :calamari!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :EsoBot: sys.exit(0) < 1208495691 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :>>> sys.exit(0) < 1208495702 0 :calamari!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :EsoBot: export PS1="\s-\v\$ " < 1208495704 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :sh-3.2$export PS1="\s-\v\$ " < 1208495780 0 :calamari!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :EsoBot: ls -lF --color=never /etc < 1208495782 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :sh-3.2$ ls -lF --color=never /etc < 1208495783 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10 Apr 15 05:15 group < 1208495784 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7 Apr 15 04:29 hostname < 1208495785 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Apr 15 04:45 init.d/ < 1208495786 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 22 Apr 15 04:29 issue < 1208495787 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1412 Apr 15 04:29 ld.so.cache < 1208495788 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 330 Apr 15 04:29 mke2fs.conf < 1208495789 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :drwxrwxrwx 6 root root 1024 Apr 15 04:29 network/ < 1208495790 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 44 Apr 15 05:15 passwd < 1208495806 0 :calamari!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :EsoBot: df -h < 1208495808 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :sh-3.2$ df -h < 1208495809 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on < 1208495810 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :rootfs 60.7M 11.1M 49.7M 18% / < 1208495811 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :/dev/root 60.7M 11.1M 49.7M 18% / < 1208495812 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :devshm 14.8M 0 14.8M 0% /dev/shm < 1208495841 0 :calamari!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :I need to convince it that my terminal is crap.. I wonder how I do that < 1208495862 0 :calamari!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :EsoBot: export TERM=dumb < 1208495865 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :sh-3.2$ export TERM=dumb < 1208495871 0 :calamari!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :EsoBot: ls < 1208495873 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :sh-3.2$ ls < 1208495874 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :[1;34mbin[0m [1;34mdev[0m [1;34metc[0m [1;34mhome[0m [1;34mlib[0m [1;34mproc[0m [1;34msbin[0m [1;34msys[0m [1;34mtmp[0m [1;34musr[0m < 1208496103 0 :calamari!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :time to try something stupid < 1208496109 0 :calamari!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :EsoBot: vi < 1208496110 0 :Sgeo!unknown@unknown.invalid QUIT :"Ex-Chat" < 1208496111 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :sh-3.2$ vi < 1208496134 0 :calamari!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :EsoBot: :q < 1208496236 0 :calamari!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :EsoBot: export PS1='\s-\v\$ ' < 1208496254 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :[1;1H[0J < 1208496303 0 :Sgeo!n=Sgeo@ool-18bf68ca.dyn.optonline.net JOIN :#esoteric < 1208496306 0 :calamari!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :hi Sgeo < 1208496315 0 :Sgeo!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :Hi < 1208496320 0 :calamari!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :EsoBot: :q < 1208496322 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :sh-3.2# :q < 1208496323 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :sh: :q: command not found < 1208496332 0 :calamari!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :ahh I guess it did work then.. hehe < 1208496348 0 :calamari!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :EsoBot: cd /home/root < 1208496350 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :sh-3.2# cd /home/root < 1208496443 0 :calamari!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :EsoBot: export PS1='[\s-\v] \w\$ ' < 1208496445 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :sh-3.2# export PS1='[\s-\v] \w\$ ' < 1208496454 0 :calamari!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :EsoBot: ls -a < 1208496456 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :[sh-3.2] /home/root# ls -a < 1208496457 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :[1;34m.[0m [1;34m..[0m < 1208496472 0 :calamari!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :EsoBot: pwd < 1208496474 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :[sh-3.2] /home/root# pwd < 1208496475 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :/home/root < 1208496594 0 :calamari!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :btw, is this annoying the crap out of anyone? < 1208496615 0 :calamari!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :if it is, I can stop anytime :) < 1208496716 0 :calamari!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :if not, feel free to mess around with it < 1208496736 0 :calamari!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :there isn't a c compiler yet, unfortunately.. still working on that.. but you have python < 1208496750 0 :Sgeo!unknown@unknown.invalid QUIT :"Ex-Chat" < 1208497516 0 :calamari!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :I'm impressed by your self-restraint.. figured someone would have been rm -rf /'ing by now < 1208497774 0 :pikhq!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :EsoBot: echo ~ < 1208497776 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :[sh-3.2] /home/root# echo ~ < 1208497777 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :/ < 1208497784 0 :pikhq!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :Hrm. < 1208497796 0 :calamari!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :ls -a --color=never / < 1208497804 0 :calamari!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :oops < 1208497809 0 :calamari!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :EsoBot: ls -a --color=never / < 1208497811 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :[sh-3.2] /home/root# ls -a --color=never / < 1208497812 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :. bin home sbin usr < 1208497813 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :.. dev lib sys < 1208497814 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :.bash_history etc proc tmp < 1208497817 0 :pikhq!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :EsoBot: :(){ :|:& };: < 1208497819 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :[sh-3.2] /home/root# :(){ :|:& };: < 1208497820 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :sh: `:': not a valid identifier < 1208497824 0 :pikhq!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric ::( < 1208497835 0 :pikhq!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :Your shell is not a valid Bourne shell. < 1208497847 0 :calamari!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :pikhq: it's bash < 1208497859 0 :pikhq!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :Lies. < 1208497867 0 :pikhq!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :Can't be; that'd work if it were Bourne. < 1208497884 0 :pikhq!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :EsoBot: fork(){ fork|fork& };fork < 1208497886 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :[sh-3.2] /home/root# fork(){ fork|fork& };fork < 1208497887 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :230 < 1208497894 0 :calamari!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :EsoBot: ls -lF /bin/sh < 1208497904 0 :pikhq!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :Can't you see it's forkbombed? < 1208497908 0 :calamari!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :yes < 1208497932 0 :pikhq!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :And with that, I'm done fucking it over. < 1208497955 0 :calamari!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :lol.. it's fighting valiantly < 1208497979 0 :calamari!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :killing processes like crazy < 1208498046 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :[sh-3.2] /home/root# sh: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable < 1208498047 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :sh: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable < 1208498048 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :sh: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable < 1208498049 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :sh: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable < 1208498050 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :sh: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable < 1208498051 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :sh: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable < 1208498052 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :sh: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable < 1208498053 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :sh: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable < 1208498053 0 :calamari!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :uhoh < 1208498054 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :sh: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable < 1208498055 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :sh: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable < 1208498057 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :sh: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable < 1208498059 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :sh: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable < 1208498061 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :sh: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable < 1208498063 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :sh: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable < 1208498065 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :sh: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable < 1208498067 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :sh: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable < 1208498069 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :sh: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable < 1208498071 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :sh: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable < 1208498073 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :sh: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable < 1208498075 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :sh: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable < 1208498077 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :sh: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable < 1208498079 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :sh: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable < 1208498080 0 :calamari!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :wow, it won < 1208498081 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :sh: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable < 1208498083 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :sh: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable < 1208498085 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :sh: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable < 1208498087 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :sh: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable < 1208498089 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :sh: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable < 1208498109 0 :pikhq!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :EsoBot: halt < 1208498140 0 :calamari!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :it looks like the bot lost its shell < 1208498173 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid QUIT :Remote closed the connection < 1208498190 0 :EsoBot!n=EsoBot@ip24-255-58-177.tc.ph.cox.net JOIN :#esoteric < 1208498209 0 :calamari!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :EsoBot: cat /proc/meminfo < 1208498211 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :sh-3.2# cat /proc/meminfo < 1208498212 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :MemTotal: 30216 kB < 1208498213 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :MemFree: 26108 kB < 1208498214 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :Buffers: 84 kB < 1208498215 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :Cached: 1368 kB < 1208498216 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :SwapCached: 0 kB < 1208498217 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG 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:NFS_Unstable: 0 kB < 1208498240 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :Bounce: 0 kB < 1208498242 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :CommitLimit: 15108 kB < 1208498244 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :Committed_AS: 1884 kB < 1208498246 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :VmallocTotal: 1007584 kB < 1208498248 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :VmallocUsed: 0 kB < 1208498250 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :VmallocChunk: 1007584 kB < 1208498255 0 :calamari!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :I'm impressed tho.. usually a fork bomb like that locks the system hard.. guess they've been working on it < 1208498296 0 :calamari!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :EsoBot: ls -lF /bin/sh < 1208498298 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :sh-3.2# ls -lF /bin/sh < 1208498299 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Apr 15 04:29 [1;36m/bin/sh[0m -> [1;32mbash[0m* < 1208498326 0 :calamari!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :EsoBot: ls -lF --color=never /bin/sh < 1208498328 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :sh-3.2# ls -lF --color=never /bin/sh < 1208498329 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Apr 15 04:29 /bin/sh -> bash* < 1208498369 0 :calamari!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :now maybe bash is just not bourne compatible enough :) < 1208498453 0 :GregorR!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :calamari: I added a site map ... JUST FOR YOU < 1208498456 0 :GregorR!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric ::P < 1208498463 0 :calamari!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :GregorR: excellent! < 1208498466 0 :pikhq!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :Modern capabilities allow for users to only use so many processes. < 1208498469 0 :GregorR!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :(Even though what you were looking for at the time wasn't actually on my site :p ) < 1208498509 0 :calamari!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :GregorR: turns out I didn't rip off your code.. sorry :( < 1208498538 0 :GregorR!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :You're ... apologizing for this. God I hate common politeness. < 1208498591 0 :calamari!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :lol.. maybe on the surface I was being polite < 1208498636 0 :calamari!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :but the sorry meant "sorry that your code was so bad it was easier just to write what I needed from scratch" .. that better? :) < 1208498649 0 :GregorR!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :MUCH! 8-P < 1208498699 0 :calamari!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :so now I need to learn how to use ed < 1208498723 0 :calamari!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :EsoBot: cd /home/root < 1208498725 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :sh-3.2# cd /home/root < 1208498753 0 :calamari!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :EsoBot: ed hello.py < 1208498755 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :sh-3.2# ed hello.py < 1208498756 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :hello.py: No such file or directory < 1208498764 0 :calamari!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :EsoBot: ed < 1208498766 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :sh-3.2# ed < 1208498788 0 :calamari!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :a < 1208498792 0 :calamari!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :EsoBot: a < 1208498794 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :: a < 1208498824 0 :calamari!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :EsoBot: #!/usr/bin/env python < 1208498826 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :#!/usr/bin/env python < 1208498839 0 :calamari!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :EsoBot: print "Hello, World!" < 1208498841 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :print "Hello, World!" < 1208498845 0 :calamari!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :EsoBot: . < 1208498847 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :. < 1208498895 0 :calamari!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :EsoBot: f hello.py < 1208498897 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :: f hello.py < 1208498925 0 :calamari!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :EsoBot: w < 1208498928 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :: w < 1208498929 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :"hello.py", 2 lines, 44 chars < 1208498933 0 :calamari!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :EsoBot: q < 1208498935 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :: q < 1208498947 0 :calamari!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :EsoBot: chmod +x hello.py < 1208498949 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :Really quit? chmod +x hello < 1208498977 0 :calamari!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :argh.. .. linux is just not designed with a line printer in mind < 1208499019 0 :calamari!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :EsoBot: q < 1208499021 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :: q < 1208499026 0 :calamari!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :EsoBot: y < 1208499029 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :Really quit? y < 1208499045 0 :calamari!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :EsoBot: chmod +x hello.py < 1208499047 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :sh-3.2# chmod +x hello.py < 1208499065 0 :calamari!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :EsoBot: ./hello.py < 1208499067 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :sh-3.2# ./hello.py < 1208499069 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :Hello, World! < 1208499135 0 :calamari!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :maybe there is a stty command I need < 1208499343 0 :calamari!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :EsoBot: du -hs / < 1208499345 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :sh-3.2# du -hs / < 1208499346 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :11.1M < 1208499410 0 :calamari!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :EsoBot: halt < 1208499412 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :sh-3.2# halt < 1208499434 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid QUIT :Remote closed the connection < 1208499480 0 :calamari!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :GregorR: did you write a program for your sitemap? < 1208499825 0 :calamari!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :http://choosemyhat.com/ that's pretty funny < 1208500046 0 :calamari!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :GregorR: you need a baseball cap < 1208500098 0 :oklopol!n=nnscript@spark.turku.fi JOIN :#esoteric < 1208501187 0 :oklohot!unknown@unknown.invalid QUIT :Read error: 110 (Connection timed out) < 1208501394 0 :EsoBot!n=EsoBot@ip24-255-58-177.tc.ph.cox.net JOIN :#esoteric < 1208501466 0 :calamari!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :EsoBot: ls < 1208501600 0 :calamari!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :EsoBot: ps < 1208501736 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid QUIT :Remote closed the connection < 1208501826 0 :EsoBot!n=EsoBot@ip24-255-58-177.tc.ph.cox.net JOIN :#esoteric < 1208501946 0 :calamari!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :EsoBot: ls < 1208501948 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :sh-3.2# ls < 1208501949 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :[1;34mbin[0m [1;34mdev[0m [1;34metc[0m [1;34mhome[0m [1;34mlib[0m [1;34mproc[0m [1;34msbin[0m [1;34msys[0m [1;34mtmp[0m [1;34musr[0m < 1208501965 0 :calamari!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :cool, private message is working < 1208501973 0 :calamari!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :opens a new shell < 1208502041 0 :calamari!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :still needs to check for nick changes and such so be gentle :) < 1208502096 0 :calamari!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :EsoBot: poweroff < 1208502098 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :sh-3.2# poweroff < 1208502309 0 :EsoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid QUIT :Remote closed the connection < 1208502405 0 :calamari!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :GregorR: you around? < 1208502713 0 :GreaseMonkey!n=saru@122-57-226-168.jetstream.xtra.co.nz JOIN :#esoteric < 1208503493 0 :calamari!unknown@unknown.invalid QUIT :"Leaving" < 1208504457 0 :kwertii!unknown@unknown.invalid QUIT :Remote closed the connection < 1208504497 0 :kwertii!n=kwertii@c-71-202-121-102.hsd1.ca.comcast.net JOIN :#esoteric < 1208505599 0 :clog!unknown@unknown.invalid QUIT :ended < 1208505600 0 :clog!unknown@unknown.invalid JOIN :#esoteric < 1208506175 0 :Iskr!n=i@host115-63-dynamic.32-79-r.retail.telecomitalia.it JOIN :#esoteric < 1208509217 0 :atsampson!unknown@unknown.invalid QUIT :"back in a minute" < 1208509322 0 :atsampson!n=ats@7hw.poik.net JOIN :#esoteric < 1208510235 0 :olsner!unknown@unknown.invalid QUIT :"Leaving" < 1208512457 0 :oklohot!n=nnscript@oklopol.yok.utu.fi JOIN :#esoteric < 1208512651 0 :oklohot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :http://content.cafepress.com/products/additional_photos/152_c6_1.jpg <<< i only use these (yes, yes, i use smiling dudes for my sick sex games) < 1208512655 0 :oklohot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :i have like 7 of them < 1208512658 0 :oklohot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :perhaps more like 20 < 1208512698 0 :oklopol!unknown@unknown.invalid QUIT :Read error: 113 (No route to host) < 1208512924 0 :oklohot!unknown@unknown.invalid NICK :oklopol < 1208512929 0 :oklopol!unknown@unknown.invalid NICK :oklofok < 1208514162 0 :kwertii!unknown@unknown.invalid QUIT :"bye" < 1208516357 0 :GreaseMonkey!unknown@unknown.invalid QUIT :"Unisex." < 1208523230 0 :oklofok!unknown@unknown.invalid NICK :oklopol < 1208523435 0 :jix!n=jix@dyndsl-085-016-179-050.ewe-ip-backbone.de JOIN :#esoteric < 1208530885 0 :timotiis!n=timotiis@jfkew.plus.com JOIN :#esoteric < 1208531032 0 :RodgerTheGreat!n=Rodger@wads-5-233-27.resnet.mtu.edu JOIN :#esoteric < 1208531034 0 :RodgerTheGreat!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :hi < 1208531116 0 :oklopol!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :hi < 1208531142 0 :RodgerTheGreat!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :hey, oklopol- what's up? < 1208531164 0 :oklopol!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :esoteric-wise, oklotalk-- and nopol < 1208531184 0 :oklopol!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :coding-wise, those + seedfest again, if you remember that, gotten some of the evolution stuff to work < 1208531196 0 :oklopol!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :life-wise, those, plus some girl stuff < 1208531202 0 :oklopol!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :and ya? < 1208531289 0 :RodgerTheGreat!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :Hm. An extremely stressful week is drawing to a close, and all I have to worry about is an Algorithms exam. I am looking forward to the weekend and sleep, and I've started drawing the tileset for a new game idea < 1208531304 0 :RodgerTheGreat!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :Also, I lost my sketchbook last week, which really sucks. :( < 1208531332 0 :oklopol!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :was it a *the* scetchbook? < 1208531337 0 :oklopol!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :(sic) < 1208531374 0 :oklopol!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :what i mean is, was it like the scetchbook you've using your whole life, or jsut one of them < 1208531382 0 :oklopol!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :*just < 1208531391 0 :oklopol!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :algorithms exam sounds easy < 1208531399 0 :oklopol!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :how advanced? < 1208531409 0 :RodgerTheGreat!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :moderately difficult stuff < 1208531416 0 :RodgerTheGreat!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :and the sketchbook is about a year old < 1208531418 0 :oklopol!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :example? < 1208531449 0 :oklopol!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :how many pieces of art are we talking? hundreds < 1208531451 0 :oklopol!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :`? < 1208531465 0 :oklopol!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :wow, i need to leave in like 5 minutes :\ < 1208531478 0 :oklopol!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :but answer both if you can' < 1208531511 0 :RodgerTheGreat!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :well, let me describe the professor- that'll give you a better idea. Three times this semester (so far), he's included homework problems that are in fact impossible. "Sorry about that, guys!" < 1208531521 0 :RodgerTheGreat!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :and yes, many many pages of drawings < 1208531540 0 :oklopol!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :lol :D < 1208531548 0 :oklopol!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :would be awesome to do that on purpose < 1208531616 0 :oklopol!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :i would prolly be the kind of professor who always gives an on-topic question the humanity has yet to answer, and says "if you solve this, or make a good attempt to, you get an A" < 1208531624 0 :oklopol!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :well perhaps not the good attempt to < 1208531628 0 :RodgerTheGreat!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :well, I guess we learned from them but it tends to make homework less fun < 1208531631 0 :oklopol!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :but would be so awesome to do stuff like that < 1208531639 0 :oklopol!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :yeah, well < 1208531650 0 :RodgerTheGreat!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :you can never be sure if you're stuck because you're missing something or because it cannot be done < 1208531654 0 :oklopol!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :making people do impossible stuff without telling them it's impossible is cool in a different way < 1208531660 0 :oklopol!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :i would prolly not do that. < 1208531678 0 :oklopol!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :it's cool as in "lol what a freak you have as a professor" < 1208531702 0 :oklopol!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :but < 1208531711 0 :oklopol!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :what kind of algos < 1208531722 0 :oklopol!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :one vague example is sufficient < 1208531785 0 :RodgerTheGreat!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :I think this exam covers brute force algorithms, divide-and-conquer and reduce-and-conquer < 1208531800 0 :RodgerTheGreat!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :there's potential for some pretty nasty stuff involving 2-4 trees as well < 1208531813 0 :oklopol!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :2-4 tree is just a special case of b? < 1208531822 0 :oklopol!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :hmm < 1208531827 0 :oklopol!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :or not... < 1208531833 0 :oklopol!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :i don't remember now < 1208531834 0 :RodgerTheGreat!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :an isomorphism of red-black < 1208531839 0 :oklopol!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :perhaps i don't even know < 1208531847 0 :oklopol!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :hmm < 1208531850 0 :oklopol!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :avl? < 1208531873 0 :oklopol!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :okay, perhaps i don't know it, avl isn't isomorphic < 1208531875 0 :oklopol!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :just almost < 1208531890 0 :oklopol!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :anyway, good luck, i'll leave for a while now! < 1208531890 0 :oklopol!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :-> < 1208531956 0 :oklohot!n=nnscript@spark.turku.fi JOIN :#esoteric < 1208531987 0 :ehird!n=ehird@91.105.122.127 JOIN :#esoteric < 1208532010 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :oklohot, are you still dead < 1208532013 0 :oklohot!unknown@unknown.invalid QUIT :Client Quit < 1208532110 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :HAHA < 1208532655 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric : EsoBot: sit there doing nothing useful 04:30:05 < 1208532655 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :EsoBot Quit with message (Remote closed the connection). < 1208532824 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric : http://content.cafepress.com/products/additional_photos/152_c6_1.jpg <<< i only use these (yes, yes, i use smiling dudes for my sick sex games) < 1208532826 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :http://content.cafepress.com/products/additional_photos/152_c6_1.jpg < 1208532826 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :http://content.cafepress.com/products/additional_photos/152_c6_1.jpg < 1208532826 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :http://content.cafepress.com/products/additional_photos/152_c6_1.jpg < 1208532827 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :http://content.cafepress.com/products/additional_photos/152_c6_1.jpg < 1208532827 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :http://content.cafepress.com/products/additional_photos/152_c6_1.jpg < 1208532830 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :http://content.cafepress.com/products/additional_photos/152_c6_1.jpg < 1208532832 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :http://content.cafepress.com/products/additional_photos/152_c6_1.jpg < 1208532835 0 :pikhq!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :We *get it*. < 1208532837 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :linking to anything which can lead to that picture is a trap < 1208532839 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :don't do it! < 1208532843 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :i can't restrain myself < 1208533026 0 :oklopol!unknown@unknown.invalid QUIT :No route to host < 1208533259 0 :Slereah!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :Is it a cockmongler? < 1208534155 0 :oktabot!unknown@unknown.invalid QUIT :Connection timed out < 1208534375 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :Slereah, Perhaps. < 1208535423 0 :ais523!n=ais523@ce01-fap05.bham.ac.uk JOIN :#esoteric < 1208535452 0 :Sgeo!n=Sgeo@ool-18bf68ca.dyn.optonline.net JOIN :#esoteric < 1208535694 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :hello, ais523 < 1208535697 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :hello, Sgeo < 1208535701 0 :ais523!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :hello, ehird < 1208535720 0 :Sgeo!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :Hi ehird < 1208535867 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :hello, ais523 < 1208535869 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :Hi Sgeo < 1208535876 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :(uh oh, our regexp handlers are broken) < 1208535882 0 :ais523!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :
ACTION has an urge to say hello to someone else at random
< 1208535886 0 :ais523!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :hello, EgoBot! < 1208535896 0 :ais523!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :that wasn't very randomly chosen, by the way < 1208535905 0 :ais523!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :maybe I should say hello to clog and cmeme too < 1208535909 0 :ais523!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :Hello, clog and cmeme! < 1208535918 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :what is the diff. between clog and cmeme < 1208535923 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :clog = ~ned < 1208535924 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :nef < 1208535926 0 :ais523!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :any other bots in here I've missed? < 1208535926 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :cmeme = ircbrowse.com < 1208535934 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :but doesn't ircbrowse.com read from ~ned?? < 1208535943 0 :ais523!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :no, they log themselves, I think < 1208535946 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :hm, seems not < 1208535960 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :ais523, the reason I said was: < 1208535979 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :These logs are purposely "raw" and are intended to be parsed/reformated/wrapped before viewing. < 1208535979 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :Annoyances such as horizontal window scrolling are due to the poor choice of viewer. < 1208535979 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :For a so-called "pretty" view of these logs, go to http://tunes.org/~coreyr/. < 1208535979 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :For even "prettier" (css'd, searchable, customizable, etc) logs, go to http://meme.b9.com. < 1208535980 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :ahh < 1208535983 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :meme must have used to do it < 1208536008 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid TOPIC #esoteric :http://tunes.org/~nef/logs/ --> .pr UPPER .pr STRING p=".pr UPPER .pr STRING p=?;print(p[:22]+REPR 34+p+REPR 34+p[24:])";print(p[:22]+REPR 34+p+REPR 34+p[24:]) --> this_is_an_oklotalk_quine < 1208536011 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid TOPIC #esoteric :http://tunes.org/~nef/logs/esoteric --> .pr UPPER .pr STRING p=".pr UPPER .pr STRING p=?;print(p[:22]+REPR 34+p+REPR 34+p[24:])";print(p[:22]+REPR 34+p+REPR 34+p[24:]) --> this_is_an_oklotalk_quine < 1208536014 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid TOPIC #esoteric :http://tunes.org/~nef/logs/esoteric/ --> .pr UPPER .pr STRING p=".pr UPPER .pr STRING p=?;print(p[:22]+REPR 34+p+REPR 34+p[24:])";print(p[:22]+REPR 34+p+REPR 34+p[24:]) --> this_is_an_oklotalk_quine < 1208536018 0 :ais523!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :ehird: the "prettier" line doesn't say "of these logs", whereas the line above does < 1208536029 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :ais523, well, yes < 1208536033 0 :ais523!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :so I reckon that they knew they were different logs all along < 1208536169 0 :ais523!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :incidentally, the topic is also a Kimian quine in INTERCAL-72 < 1208536194 0 :ais523!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :but C-INTERCAL and CLC-INTERCAL will print out an error message, and line number, etc., too, as did at least the Princeton version of INTERCAl-72 < 1208536200 0 :ais523!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :s/Al/AL/ < 1208536252 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :kimian quines are fun < 1208536270 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :ais523, do you know gnome? my taskbar just moved to the side of the screen and it won't go bac < 1208536272 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :k < 1208536288 0 :ais523!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :ehird: I don't know it very well < 1208536304 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric ::(( < 1208536307 0 :ais523!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :you can remove all your customisations by deleting the appropriate dot file, and I've had to do that before < 1208536345 0 :ais523!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :(when I accidentally renamed all the files in my home directory to lowercase, it hit Desktop too, and it changed the settings automatically in an attempt to work around this, leading to ~ becoming my desktop, which was really confusing) < 1208536382 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :ais523, oh jeez, i had to grab the few pixels between the top of the window buttons and the top of the taskbar.. < 1208536384 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :and drag it down < 1208536397 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :Gnome: GUIs for genius retards < 1208536397 0 :ais523!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :you have the toolbar at the bottom? < 1208536405 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :ais523, taskbar < 1208536407 0 :ais523!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :ah < 1208536413 0 :ais523!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :yes, bottom is good for a taskbar < 1208536416 0 :ais523!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :top is good for menus < 1208536423 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :ais523, I prefer no taskbar < 1208536425 0 :ais523!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :that way you don't get them mixed up < 1208536437 0 :ais523!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :
ACTION is used to using a taskbar
< 1208536437 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :I like the OS X way of almost entirely forgetting that 'app' and 'app instance' are seperate < 1208536458 0 :ais523!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :ehird: that's not very useful when you have three terminal windows open < 1208536462 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :ais523, Hmm. I was too, but I adjusted to the Dock in a matter of days. < 1208536470 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :And it's suprisingly useful! Click terminal, and they all appear. < 1208536473 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :Or: < 1208536478 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :Right click Terminal, and choose the window. < 1208536494 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :Also, Expose is win when you want a specific window. < 1208536585 0 :ais523!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :ehird: but that takes multiple clicks/keystrokes < 1208536593 0 :ais523!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :I have terminal windows I'm using, and ones I want to forget about < 1208536599 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :ais523, I've always found it faster than hutning around the taskbar. < 1208536603 0 :ais523!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :sometimes I'll push the ones I want to forget about onto a second desktop < 1208536612 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :Anyway, Expose is the best one for finding a specific window. < 1208536619 0 :ais523!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :my taskbar is rarely cluttered, normally there are no more than 4 there at once < 1208536631 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :F9, you immediately or near-immediately recognize the window you need, and shoot over and click it. < 1208536634 0 :ais523!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :and I can use Compiz to do much the same thing if I find the need to do that < 1208536642 0 :ais523!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :it's alt-shift-up here < 1208536646 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :ais523, You can also F9-tab to select specific applications. < 1208536650 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :Also, Compiz stole it from OS X. < 1208536654 0 :ais523!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :ehird: I know < 1208536673 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :On a side node, the PHP docs are gems. < 1208536679 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :People posting functions to sort objects by key! < 1208536702 0 :ais523!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :alt-shift-up then use arrow keys sounds easier than the keystrokes you mention, though < 1208536726 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :ais523, F9-arrows works < 1208536747 0 :ais523!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :that sounds better, but I actually have to reach up to F9 < 1208536764 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :ais523, you can rebind it < 1208536765 0 :ais523!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :and being an Emacs user I can find Alt and Shift pretty quickly with my left hand, but F9 with my left hand is just painful < 1208536767 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :also < 1208536772 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :you can bind it to a screen corner < 1208536774 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :I don't do that. < 1208536780 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :But swerve-swerve-click is damn fast. < 1208536795 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :Obviously if you use OS X you have to be fast with the mouse. It's not hard. < 1208536798 0 :ais523!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :rebindability is the best way to solve flame wars about keyboard layout :) < 1208536811 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :Totally! < 1208536811 0 :ais523!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :ehird: I don't use a mouse most of the time, except for browsing the Internet < 1208536827 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :ais523, Well then duhhh. Of course you don't think OS X is fast. < 1208536837 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :Not rocket science. < 1208536848 0 :ais523!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :although I bought a new one today (I wanted a wired one so I wouldn't need batteries) and I have it connected to test that it works < 1208536860 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :http://wearables.unisa.edu.au/arquake/ augmented reality quake < 1208536866 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :i MUST have this < 1208536867 0 :ais523!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :I admire many things about OS X, but have no reason to spend the money to buy it < 1208537853 0 :ais523!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :
ACTION has just thought of a new sort of CAPTCHA, which would manage to simultaneously be useless and annoying
< 1208537862 0 :ais523!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :the website puts out a word in plaintext < 1208537875 0 :ais523!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :and the user has to make an image containing that word and upload it, which the server then has to be able to OCR < 1208537886 0 :ais523!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :easy to automate, painful for a human to do < 1208538092 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :ais523, HAHA < 1208538095 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :that's actually useful < 1208538100 0 :ais523!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :how? < 1208538100 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :although.. no < 1208538102 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :i was thinking, < 1208538105 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :you could invert the result < 1208538109 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :if they failed, then they're a human < 1208538113 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :but ... a bot could just automatically fail < 1208538145 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :ais523, I actually think good captchas can be fun < 1208538168 0 :ais523!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :the idea was prompted by the one on thedailywtf < 1208538173 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :Like, solving a maths problem is irritating. < 1208538175 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :But.. < 1208538177 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :What about in reverse? < 1208538183 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :Show a regular CAPTCHA image of a number. < 1208538185 0 :ais523!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :they put one which is obviously unsolvable in Error'd < 1208538189 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :And require a sum that rseults in that number. < 1208538197 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :I guess, though, if you can crack the test that doesn't help. < 1208538204 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :Something javascript-based with a fallback could be fun. < 1208538206 0 :ais523!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :ehird: the CAPTCHA on intercal.freeshell.org is interesting < 1208538207 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :Like, a Simon Says. < 1208538212 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :ais523, But irritating < 1208538240 0 :ais523!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :ehird: no, if you click the link to the explanation of mingle, then the CAPTCHA sum is used as the example in the documentation < 1208538343 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :ais523, it's still irritating < 1208538445 0 :ais523!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :what, even with tabbed browsing? < 1208538603 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :ais523, yes < 1208539394 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :ais523, actually, a good captcha would be < 1208539398 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :'which of these jokes is funny?' < 1208539407 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :because you could select exactly the kind of people who could view your website < 1208539409 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :based on their sense of humour < 1208539413 0 :ais523!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :that would be a bad captcha simply because it would be too guessable < 1208539420 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :for example: < 1208539425 0 :ais523!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :it could be brute-forced pretty quickly unless there were too many jokes < 1208539428 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :1. < 1208539431 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :2. < 1208539433 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :3. < 1208539437 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :4. < 1208539442 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :5. Watermelon!! hahaha < 1208539447 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :only '4' is accepted < 1208539458 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :or if you're garfield.com 1. i guess < 1208539473 0 :ais523!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :I did laugh out loud when you wrote 5, although i'd probably choose 3 if those are the only options you gave < 1208539490 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :ais523, 3 would be instant admin status < 1208539494 0 :ais523!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :most likely I'd decide not to look at your website anyway, though, which is probably what you wanted < 1208539495 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :I love non-jokes < 1208539508 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :There are only 2 kinds of people in this world, those who understand binary and those who don't. < 1208539514 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :^^ the reason for our sentience < 1208539542 0 :ais523!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :ehird: that is a joke really, because of the way it alludes to a well-known joke < 1208539566 0 :ais523!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :sort of like "Why did the chicken cross the road?" is clearly not a joke out of context < 1208539584 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :ais523, it's an anti-joke < 1208539600 0 :ais523!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :I thought it was a joke based on all the spinoffs that came up < 1208539612 0 :ais523!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :e.g. "Why did the turkey cross the road? Because it was the chicken's day off." < 1208539643 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :ais523, I mean -- my joke is < 1208539652 0 :ais523!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :yes, I like antijokes < 1208539675 0 :Judofyr!n=Judofyr@c0F9CBF51.dhcp.bluecom.no JOIN :#esoteric < 1208539698 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :ais523, The officially sanctioned answer to any silly joke is 'lampposts' < 1208539744 0 :Judofyr!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :ehird: Can I have a look at your URL-routing thing you made? (What happened to Magic?) < 1208539765 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :Judofyr, 1. If I can find the code 2. I started coding even less useful things < 1208539773 0 :Judofyr!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric ::) < 1208539808 0 :ais523!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :[Sat Apr 5 2008] [16:09:22] ais523: I have the best knock knock joke ever- say "knock knock" < 1208539816 0 :ais523!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :that's a great example of an antijoke < 1208539835 0 :RodgerTheGreat!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :indeed < 1208539874 0 :ais523!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :although it seems to be a different sort of antijoke from ehird's < 1208539885 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :ais523, Knock knock < 1208539888 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :knock knock knock < 1208539890 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :'Who's there?' < 1208539894 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK < 1208539897 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :ding-dong < 1208539902 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :'Who's there?' < 1208539903 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :KNOCK KNOCK < 1208540071 0 :Slereah!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :Hey. < 1208540075 0 :Slereah!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :Knock knock. < 1208540090 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK < 1208540094 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :'Who's there?' < 1208540096 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :... silence ... < 1208540134 0 :ais523!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :we're not in right now, try coming back later < 1208540154 0 :Slereah!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :9/11. < 1208540261 0 :ais523!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :
ACTION looked up "Why did the chicken cross the road?" on Wikipedia, and found that there's a city with a law prohibiting chickens from crossing roads
< 1208540286 0 :Slereah!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :What's the penalty? < 1208540308 0 :ais523!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :it doesn't say, and the reference given is to a paper book so I can't check < 1208540325 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :ais523, there should be a city with laws mirroring mathematical laws < 1208540326 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :like < 1208540349 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :i don't know < 1208540350 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :but < 1208540357 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :'An object must be equal to itself. < 1208540360 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :with appropriate penalties < 1208540360 0 :Slereah!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :The mechanical nirvana of Mechanus? < 1208540376 0 :Slereah!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :Old school Modrons were mostly geometrical shapes. < 1208540414 0 :ais523!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :most modrons are geometrical shapes < 1208540420 0 :ais523!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :because the ones which aren't are really rare < 1208540524 0 :ais523!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :OTOH, I've never met a modron, so this is from second-hand knowledge < 1208540642 0 :Slereah!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :Heh. < 1208540660 0 :Slereah!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :But well, now they aren't shapes anymore. < 1208540665 0 :Slereah!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :They're clocks with legs. < 1208540780 0 :ais523!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :did they used to be more abstract, then? < 1208540792 0 :ais523!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :the only version of the modron I'm used to is the one updated to 3.5 < 1208540815 0 :ais523!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :hmm... modrons are one of the few species which could sensibly have a beta < 1208540907 0 :Slereah!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :Well, the second ed were literaly shapes. < 1208540914 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :ais523, Monkeys, humans? < 1208540919 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :Joking, of course. < 1208540931 0 :Slereah!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :Like tetraedrons with hands and an eye < 1208540935 0 :ais523!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :I meant a beta for the individual animals < 1208540947 0 :ais523!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :I can imagine modrons being upgraded over time < 1208540958 0 :Slereah!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c1/Modron-Dungeons%2BDragons.png < 1208540960 0 :Slereah!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :Fear < 1208541002 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :ais523, aren't all animals upgraded over time? < 1208541003 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :.. essentially < 1208541019 0 :ais523!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :you don't download new firmware into individual people < 1208541039 0 :ais523!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :animals don't evolve whilst alive from a physical point of view, usually, evolution happens from one generation to the next < 1208541053 0 :ais523!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :it is possible to make a decent argument for people evolving psychologically, though < 1208541177 0 :timotiis!unknown@unknown.invalid QUIT :Read error: 110 (Connection timed out) < 1208541344 0 :pikhq!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :There is some form of 'evolution' that occurs while animals are alive (though it's not evolution in the strictest sense). < 1208541365 0 :pikhq!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :Behavior changes readily during an animals' life, assuming a sufficiently complex nervous system. < 1208541655 0 :ais523!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :what about the case of asexual bacteria? It's hard to tell when one bacterium dies, because they reproduce by splitting and you can't tell which bacterium is 'new' and which one's the 'original' < 1208541737 0 :pikhq!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :A fair point. < 1208541751 0 :pikhq!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :Arguably, that involves evolution whilst alive. < 1208541769 0 :pikhq!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :(because mutations *do* occur during mitosis) < 1208541873 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :bacon < 1208541884 0 :Slereah!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :Hell, if they're unicellular, even a mutation without reproduction might have effects :o < 1208541928 0 :lament!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :evolution is just a theory < 1208541949 0 :Slereah!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :Oh you. < 1208541996 0 :Slereah!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :Damn your creationism. When I was answering, a gobling bashed my skull in D: < 1208542012 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :lament, ditto with gravity < 1208542014 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :this is very useful < 1208542092 0 :lament!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :sure, gravity is just a theory < 1208542156 0 :lament!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :pretty silly one, too < 1208542165 0 :lament!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :all it does is simplify some astronomical calculations < 1208542200 0 :Slereah!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :Well, it actually was checked at ground level < 1208542211 0 :Slereah!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :That's how the gravitational constant is known, too. < 1208542367 0 :lament!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :well, that things fall down is obvious < 1208542371 0 :lament!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :that's what "down" means < 1208542395 0 :lament!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :to claim that instead of "down", things fall to where gravity attracts them is just a silly theory < 1208542422 0 :lament!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :and to claim that this applies to planets is even sillier, because planets could well be just painted on their respective celestial spheres < 1208542486 0 :Slereah!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :The gravity experiments aren't down, actually. < 1208542497 0 :Slereah!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :Because when they were done, the mass of the earth wasn't known. < 1208542509 0 :Slereah!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :It's done with two balls (lulz). < 1208542854 0 :lament!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :there's so much room for experimental error there < 1208542867 0 :lament!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :perhaps the attraction between the two balls was actually due to strong force! < 1208542981 0 :Slereah!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :Only if the balls were touching. And it would be gay. < 1208543054 0 :lament!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :that's... touching < 1208543228 0 :Slereah_!n=Vampire_@ANantes-252-1-48-115.w82-126.abo.wanadoo.fr JOIN :#esoteric < 1208543228 0 :Slereah!unknown@unknown.invalid QUIT :Read error: 104 (Connection reset by peer) < 1208543247 0 :Slereah_!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :http://www.superdeluxe.com/sd/contentDetail.do?id=D81F2344BF5AC7BB1226B76293E824B4B47D9B9CAC09B7A0 < 1208544319 0 :ais523!unknown@unknown.invalid QUIT :"(1) DO COME FROM ".2~.2"~#1 WHILE :1 <- "'?.1$.2'~'"':1/.1$.2'~#0"$#65535'"$"'"'&.1$.2'~'#0$#65535'"$#0'~#32767$#1"" < 1208544393 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :oklopol is not here. < 1208544635 0 :JudoBot!n=Judofyr@c0F9CBF51.dhcp.bluecom.no JOIN :#esoteric < 1208544635 0 :Slereah!n=Vampire_@ANantes-252-1-48-115.w82-126.abo.wanadoo.fr JOIN :#esoteric < 1208544635 0 :Slereah_!unknown@unknown.invalid QUIT :Read error: 104 (Connection reset by peer) < 1208544639 0 :JudoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid QUIT :Remote closed the connection < 1208544640 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :JudoBot, eval 2+2 < 1208544642 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :D'aww < 1208544649 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :I was going to rm -rf / < 1208544776 0 :Judofyr!unknown@unknown.invalid QUIT :brown.freenode.net irc.freenode.net < 1208544776 0 :EgoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid QUIT :brown.freenode.net irc.freenode.net < 1208544776 0 :pikhq!unknown@unknown.invalid QUIT :brown.freenode.net irc.freenode.net < 1208544810 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid NICK :EgoBot < 1208544813 0 :EgoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :MWAHAhahAHA < 1208544825 0 :EgoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid NICK :ehird < 1208544829 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :can't guess the pw < 1208544830 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :phooey < 1208544921 0 :pikhq!n=pikhq@209.248.125.70 JOIN :#esoteric < 1208545438 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :pikhqello < 1208545630 0 :Judofyr!n=Judofyr@c0F9CBF51.dhcp.bluecom.no JOIN :#esoteric < 1208545630 0 :EgoBot!n=EgoBot@71.237.179.105 JOIN :#esoteric < 1208545733 0 :jix!unknown@unknown.invalid QUIT :Nick collision from services. < 1208545743 0 :jix!n=jix@dyndsl-091-096-050-190.ewe-ip-backbone.de JOIN :#esoteric < 1208545904 0 :EgoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid QUIT :brown.freenode.net irc.freenode.net < 1208545904 0 :Judofyr!unknown@unknown.invalid QUIT :brown.freenode.net irc.freenode.net < 1208545915 0 :EgoBot!n=EgoBot@71.237.179.105 JOIN :#esoteric < 1208547007 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :!ls < 1208547009 0 :EgoBot!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :bf/, glass/, linguine/ < 1208549395 0 :oerjan!n=oerjan@hagbart.nvg.ntnu.no JOIN :#esoteric < 1208553684 0 :kwertii!n=kwertii@c-71-202-121-102.hsd1.ca.comcast.net JOIN :#esoteric < 1208553718 0 :kwertii!unknown@unknown.invalid QUIT :Remote closed the connection < 1208553732 0 :kwertii!n=kwertii@c-71-202-121-102.hsd1.ca.comcast.net JOIN :#esoteric < 1208554253 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :kwertii, < 1208554355 0 :kwertii!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :hi < 1208554972 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :hi, < 1208555029 0 :oerjan!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :speed of light seems slow today < 1208555037 0 :kwertii!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :indeed it is < 1208555047 0 :oerjan!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :ah picking up < 1208555128 0 :oerjan!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :
ACTION wonders what will happen to the internet(s) if we colonize Mars etc. with no FTL communication found
< 1208555160 0 :kwertii!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :it'll be just like 1986 all over again :) < 1208555174 0 :kwertii!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :daily Usenet drops.. relay mail packets < 1208555300 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :mars eternal september < 1208555303 0 :oerjan!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :might even have to send information by spaceship... < 1208555310 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :it's not as annoying < 1208555314 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :because it's incredibly slow < 1208555334 0 :oerjan!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :if there isn't enough EM bandwidth < 1208555337 0 :kwertii!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :we'll also have amazing data compression by then < 1208555347 0 :oerjan!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :hardly < 1208555359 0 :kwertii!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :you expect a Mars colony in the next 10 years? < 1208555378 0 :oerjan!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :i mean there _is_ a definite bound to compression < 1208555383 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :'Magical Reduce One Byte Compression' algorithm: < 1208555386 0 :lament!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :mars is at 1.5 AU < 1208555404 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :Delete the last byte of the file. Recompile the decoder with a line for that byte. < 1208555412 0 :lament!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :so we can expect up to 20min lag one-way but only when the planets are in opposition < 1208555424 0 :lament!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :and only 4 minutes in the best case < 1208555432 0 :kwertii!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :it seems to me there's an excellent chance of some kind of information theoretical breakthrough between now and the Mars colony which will shift paradigms, etc. and allow for far greater compression < 1208555437 0 :lament!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :8 min two-way < 1208555468 0 :lament!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :even 20-minute one-way lag would be quite acceptable, say, in #esoteric < 1208555469 0 :kwertii!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :quantum compression! "This is probably what your file looked like before..." < 1208555472 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :kwertii, extm txt spk < 1208555529 0 :oerjan!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :kwertii: well true AI could compress anything that isn't _actually_ random i guess - but there would be some information that _is_ truly random < 1208555565 0 :kwertii!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :I read something interesting the other day, that "random" is always a negative definition.. .i.e. it doesn't mean there is no pattern, just that nobody has yet found a pattern < 1208555574 0 :oerjan!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :census data, say, hard to imagine that not having a large random component < 1208555637 0 :oerjan!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :although by then an entire census of humanity would probably be considered a tiny amount of information < 1208555662 0 :kwertii!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :and there's a strong chance of FTL communications too. quantum entanglement looks promising < 1208555672 0 :lament!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :no it doesn't < 1208555684 0 :kwertii!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :(* on the timeframe we're talking about) < 1208555719 0 :oerjan!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :in the current theoretical setup, quantum entanglement _very_ carefully disallows FTL communication < 1208555734 0 :kwertii!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :no doubt some brilliant young PhD student will find a way around it in 50 years or so < 1208555749 0 :kwertii!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :it always happens, sooner or later.. paradigms crumble bit by bit < 1208555761 0 :lament!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-communication_theorem < 1208555784 0 :oerjan!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :probably, but only assuming the universe actually _does_ support FTL communication somehow < 1208555806 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :
ACTION personally is skeptical
< 1208555811 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :i mean, FTL stuff would just be TOO good < 1208555819 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :when has the universe ever been good and convenient for us? < 1208555820 0 :kwertii!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :and that is only assuming that 1) the universe is real, and 2) there is an objective reality, that 3) doesn't ever change its laws.. none of which have any compelling evidence IMO :) < 1208555837 0 :lament!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :sounds like arts bullshit < 1208555849 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :kwertii, 1) the universe is actually a pea, 2) my arse 3) potato < 1208555881 0 :kwertii!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :ehird: best keep that theory to yourself, or they'll lock you up < 1208555890 0 :Slereah!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :There's plenty of FTL thingamabob < 1208555898 0 :Slereah!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :But they are kinda hard to implement < 1208555901 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :kwertii, boo hoo < 1208555931 0 :kwertii!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :ehird: not saying you're necessarily wrong now... < 1208556075 0 :kwertii!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :lament: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_teleportation is already trying to find a way around that theorem. Given the generally poorly understood nature of the overall state of quantum mechanics, i'm sure that by the time the Mars colony is ready, they'll have found something (if not that specifically) < 1208556093 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :kwertii, you're far too optimistic < 1208556111 0 :kwertii!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :maybe you just think the Mars colony will be ready long before I do :) < 1208556120 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :kwertii, well, when do you think < 1208556175 0 :kwertii!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :200 years, minimum, assuming we don't all kill ourselves in a nuclear war or fry ourselves by depleting the atmosphere before then < 1208556251 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :200 years isn't enough to change the laws of the universe < 1208556294 0 :Slereah!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :OR IS IT? < 1208556299 0 :Slereah!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :To the time machine! < 1208556316 0 :kwertii!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :I'm not suggesting that the laws of the universe will be changed; just that the current understanding of those laws is imperfect and will be refined < 1208556323 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :Slereah, http://qntm.org/?f16 < 1208556357 0 :Slereah!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :kwertii : What you're saying is that you know that the laws will allow it < 1208556359 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :best non-narrative joke fiction that fits on a screen. ever. < 1208556405 0 :kwertii!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :Slereah: no; if I knew that I would patent a FTL communications system tomorrow and become a zillionaire < 1208556422 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :kwertii, that has some problems < 1208556426 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :though the system is fucked enough < 1208556452 0 :kwertii!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :Slereah: Just saying it seems probable, given the history of science periodically doing "impossible" things by figuring out that the current view of the "laws" of the universe was actually incorrect in some way < 1208556455 0 :Slereah!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :kwertii : You could know, but not know how! < 1208556470 0 :Slereah!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :There's plenty of impossible things that are still impossible < 1208556484 0 :Slereah!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :Plus, it's no guarantee. < 1208556488 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric : There's plenty of impossible things that are still impossible < 1208556491 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :best line ever < 1208556492 0 :Slereah!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :Not even on a statistical point of view. < 1208556497 0 :kwertii!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :right, no guarantee. I just said that it's "probable" < 1208556511 0 :Slereah!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :On what did you construct that probability? < 1208556518 0 :Slereah!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :What is the set of success and failure? < 1208556524 0 :kwertii!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :the history of paradigm shifts in science and physics in particular < 1208556528 0 :oerjan!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :hm actually patenting an FTL communications system _now_ might be a bad idea - it will be many years until it becomes very useful, and the patent might expire < 1208556546 0 :pikhq!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :Unless you're in the NSA. < 1208556547 0 :oerjan!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :except for space probes maybe < 1208556551 0 :Slereah!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :That can't change the laws of physics, kwertii < 1208556567 0 :oerjan!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :um how does FTL communications help the NSA? < 1208556581 0 :pikhq!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :(NSA patents are filed under gag order; they only take effect the moment someone *else* tries patenting the same thing) < 1208556591 0 :oerjan!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :oh < 1208556595 0 :kwertii!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :Slereah: I'm saying rather that our current idea of the laws of physics is actually incorrect in some unknown way < 1208556613 0 :kwertii!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :Slereah: just as Newton's idea of the laws of physics was subtly incorrect, as later demonstrated by Einstein and QM < 1208556653 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric : (NSA patents are filed under gag order; they only take effect the moment someone *else* tries patenting the same thing) < 1208556656 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :LAND OF THE FREE < 1208556684 0 :Slereah!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :It does not matter if it is correct or not. < 1208556688 0 :pikhq!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :Land of the free, and the home of the military effected superior to the civil power. < 1208556698 0 :Slereah!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :If you do not know the correct version and its applications, you can't predict the results. < 1208556710 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :pikhq, AMERICA WOOO < 1208556822 0 :oerjan!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :ehird: but once they take effect, is the expiry time from when they were originally filed or from when they take effect? < 1208556826 0 :kwertii!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :Slereah: I'm not personally going to find whatever the flaw is, but it seems likely that SOMEbody will in the next few hundred years. < 1208556830 0 :pikhq!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :From when they take effect. < 1208556834 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :oerjan, No idea -- but it's retarded. < 1208556843 0 :pikhq!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :Very retarded. < 1208556845 0 :oerjan!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :er, pikhq < 1208556859 0 :Slereah!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :kwertii : Still. You don't know if it can be done :o < 1208556870 0 :pikhq!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :FTL communications? < 1208556877 0 :oerjan!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :ok if it had been the other way it would have been more reasonable < 1208556877 0 :pikhq!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :
ACTION grabs a couple of wormholes
< 1208556888 0 :pikhq!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :I call it the 'Stargate'. < 1208556890 0 :kwertii!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :Slereah: No. I don't. I said only that it seems "probable" :) < 1208556892 0 :Slereah!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :Wormholes are so not FTL. < 1208556898 0 :Slereah!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :Probable implies probability. < 1208556920 0 :Slereah!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :People remember impossible thing becoming possible < 1208556920 0 :pikhq!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :How aren't they? < 1208556930 0 :Slereah!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :Not impossible thing remaining impossible < 1208556948 0 :Slereah!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :That's why they have such a sunny optimism. < 1208556978 0 :oerjan!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :sometimes possible things become impossible though < 1208556986 0 :Slereah!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :YeS. < 1208556993 0 :Slereah!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :Like Faster than light travel :o < 1208556998 0 :kwertii!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :Slereah: look at the history of physics.. a succession of paradigms overtaking one another.. the religious/mythological paradigm, the Aristotelian paradigm, the Newtonian paradigm, the "modern" relativity/QM paradigm.. they don't last forever, and each time previously impossible things become possible. Also, the rate at which new paradigms emerge is accelerating. < 1208557015 0 :Slereah!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :kwertii : Actually, it works both ways < 1208557020 0 :Slereah!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :Or 4 ways. < 1208557020 0 :oerjan!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :
ACTION recently saw a link about something called 'laserwort'
< 1208557027 0 :Slereah!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :Impossible->possible < 1208557034 0 :Slereah!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :Possible->impossible < 1208557037 0 :Slereah!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :Possible->possible < 1208557038 0 :pikhq!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :
ACTION prefers gloomy optimism and sunny pessimism. :p
< 1208557041 0 :Slereah!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :Impossible->impossible < 1208557053 0 :oerjan!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :um not quite the modern version < 1208557091 0 :oerjan!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :anyway it was a near-perfect contraceptive known to the ancient greeks and romans, and they were stupid enough to let it go _extinct_ < 1208557116 0 :oerjan!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :out of greed, probably < 1208557216 0 :oerjan!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :ah it's on wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silphium < 1208557240 0 :Slereah!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :Well, lasers as contraceptive seems a little bit over the top! < 1208557252 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :oerjan, ABORTION IS WRONG < 1208557265 0 :pikhq!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :EVERY SPERM IS SACRED! < 1208557281 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :TOTALLY < 1208557284 0 :kwertii!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :Slereah: did anything previously possible become impossible during previous physics paradigm shifts? interesting question. Perhaps stories of "magic" are vague cultural memories of previously-possible things that became impossible when Aristotelian physics was imposed... < 1208557285 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :WHERE'S MY BIBLE < 1208557288 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :I WANT TO MISQUOTE A VERSE < 1208557299 0 :oerjan!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :it died out before christianity got very important though < 1208557302 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :kwertii, HAHAHA < 1208557305 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :that's great < 1208557311 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :We used to be able to do magic! < 1208557315 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :Then they came and oppressed us. < 1208557316 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :Fuckers. < 1208557337 0 :Slereah!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :kwertii : Well, FTL travel for one thing. < 1208557362 0 :Slereah!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :The speed of light meant nothing before the 20th century. < 1208557367 0 :Slereah!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :And late 19th. < 1208557373 0 :kwertii!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :sure < 1208557465 0 :Slereah!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :Well, it was the speed *of light* < 1208557475 0 :Slereah!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :But other than that, of no physical importance. < 1208557740 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :. < 1208557756 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :exec -o fortune -a < 1208557757 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :hmm < 1208557758 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :sh: fortune: command not found < 1208557761 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :XDD < 1208557844 0 :kwertii!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :ehird: yep. Damn Greeks with their damn "logic"... < 1208557852 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :Destiny is a good thing to accept when it's going your way. When it isn't, < 1208557852 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :don't call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck. < 1208557852 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric : -- Joseph Heller, "God Knows" < 1208557859 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :well, /exec works < 1208557868 0 :Slereah!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :Don't diss the greeks. < 1208557871 0 :Slereah!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :They invented buttsex. < 1208557929 0 :kwertii!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :and Aristotle teaches us how magnets and fire have souls < 1208557931 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :One must have a heart of stone to read the death of Little Nell by Dickens < 1208557931 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :without laughing. < 1208557931 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric : -- Oscar Wilde < 1208558025 0 :Slereah!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :"I have to agree. I've always been an anarcho-socialist. There should be no government, and it should pay for everything." < 1208558076 0 :oerjan!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric ::D < 1208558104 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :Going into politics is as fatal to a gentleman as going into a bordello < 1208558104 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :is fatal to a virgin. < 1208558104 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric : -- H. L. Mencken, "A Carnival of Buncombe" < 1208558220 0 :Slereah!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :By "recursive" I mean "defined by recursion." < 1208558220 0 :Slereah!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :--Harvard's Prof. Sacks < 1208558295 0 :Slereah!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :You can't use tact with a Congressman! A Congressman is a hog! You must take a stick and hit him on the snout! < 1208558295 0 :Slereah!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :--Cabinet member, 1906 < 1208558320 0 :Slereah!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :My ancestors were Puritans from England. They arrived here in 1648 in the hope of finding greater restrictions than were permissible under English law at that time. < 1208558320 0 :Slereah!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :--Garrison Keillor < 1208558617 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :Slereah, If those aren't in the fortune databases in Debian, they should be < 1208558643 0 :pikhq!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :There's a few. One needs to install them. < 1208558653 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :pikhq, I have them all installed, I think, sans language packs < 1208558653 0 :pikhq!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :Oh. < 1208558655 0 :pikhq!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :Misread. < 1208558667 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric : fortunes-mario fortunes-bofh-excuses fortunes fortune-off < 1208558675 0 :Slereah!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :ehird : I dunno < 1208558676 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :everything but debian-hints and language ones i think < 1208558730 0 :Slereah!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :If you are a good economist, a virtuous economist, you are reborn as a physicist. But if you are an evil, wicked economist, you are reborn as a sociologist. < 1208558730 0 :Slereah!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :--An Indian economist, quoted by Paul Krugman < 1208559988 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :A. < 1208560016 0 :oerjan!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :Digamma. < 1208560055 0 :Slereah!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :F < 1208560337 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :http://pyside.blogspot.com/2008/03/interesting-facts-about-linux-file.html < 1208560342 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :linux refcounts files < 1208560348 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :we need a cheney gc for files < 1208560354 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :copies all live files over.. < 1208562399 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :Channel is dead, here is a fortune: < 1208562399 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :"If religion cannot restrain evil, it cannot claim effective power for good." < 1208562399 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric : [Morris Cohen] < 1208562529 0 :GregorR!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :"I'm pro-choice, because fetuses are delicious." < 1208562532 0 :GregorR!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric : - Gregor Richards < 1208562623 0 :lament!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :i'd give my arguments for pro-life but the FBI might start worrying < 1208562681 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :pro-life, pro-choice < 1208562683 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :such great terms < 1208562709 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :lament, come on... < 1208562764 0 :oerjan!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :lament: i'm sure you have a modest proposal < 1208562801 0 :lament!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :modest and wholly virtuous < 1208562838 0 :olsner!n=salparot@h-60-96.A163.cust.bahnhof.se JOIN :#esoteric < 1208562918 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :wait -- am i missing something here < 1208562944 0 :oerjan!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :ehird: we shall swiftly remedy that < 1208562953 0 :lament!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :oerjan: ugh. < 1208562960 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :oerjan, I think everyone in here is part of a hugh in-joke and I am totally dumb. < 1208562975 0 :oerjan!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Modest_Proposal < 1208562983 0 :pikhq!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric ::D < 1208562991 0 :GregorR!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :I suppose a baby taken to term can feed more than a fetus, but fetuses are SO TASTY. < 1208562992 0 :pikhq!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :I love that essay. < 1208563018 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :oerjan, Yes -- but the original message does not seem to tie in. < 1208563036 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :Was it satirical as well? < 1208563041 0 :pikhq!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :Very. < 1208563046 0 :pikhq!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric ::p < 1208563049 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :GregorR, Do not put the fetus in the mouth < 1208563050 0 :Iskr!unknown@unknown.invalid QUIT :"Leaving" < 1208563053 0 :lament!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :GregorR: but there's other things you can do with a baby! < 1208563058 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :pikhq, Oh duh. < 1208563061 0 :pikhq!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :ehird: Do not put the baby in the essay. < 1208563061 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :I am totally retarded. < 1208563066 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :But my brain has been offline for all of today! < 1208563074 0 :GregorR!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :http://www.donotputthebaby.com/index.php?s=Mouth < 1208563082 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :GregorR, that was my joke < 1208563127 0 :pikhq!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :I'm afraid he beat you to it. < 1208563136 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :pikhq, I meant -- my joke was based on that he owns that site. < 1208563152 0 :GregorR!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :Incidentally, I haven't had any new submissions in a while >_> < 1208563165 0 :ehird!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :GregorR, Do not put the baby in the cron job < 1208563172 0 :pikhq!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :DO NOT PUT THE BABY IN THE DO NOT PUT THE BABY SITE.