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Archive for August, 2006

Loaded Language

Posted by Jordan on August 22nd, 2006

Well, piracy and stealing of copywrighted works continues to get thrown out there by folks as appropriate terms when talking about copyright infringement. I guess it goes to show if you have enough money, you really can frame the debate in your own terms. At least in the media. The ironic part [...]

Things that will never do any good

Posted by Jordan on August 10th, 2006

Example number 1.
It’s pretty much impossible for any good to come of this.  It’s going to be really, really expensive (it’s already expensive to dispose of all the collected cigarette lighters), and the bad guys will simply do something different.  It’s really frustrating to see a terrorist threat cause so much panic and overreaction.  Imagine [...]

1@stplace not last place

Posted by Jordan on August 7th, 2006

Well, we intentionally made our team name ambiguous so we’d double our chances of it being an appropriate name. In hacker speak, it’d be pronounced just like lastplace, but if you literally read it as 1 @ st place, it might be read as first place — to further the layers of meaning, our [...]