I geek, therefore I am.

"I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted."
-Alan Turing


[18:18] Andrew: It bothers me how many of these programs try to access the internet without letting me know first...
[18:19] Rachel: Huh?
[18:21] Andrew: Well, case in point, I just went to uninstall Musicmatch Jukebox (a music-playing program) and it tried to access the internet. I have another program that I put on here to tell me when things want to get Online, so I can say 'no' when I don't need them to, or else i'm not sure I would have ever known.
[18:21] Andrew: And it happens more than I would expect.
[18:21] Rachel: But why does it matter that it accesses the internet?
[18:23] Andrew: Accessing the internet means it's talking to someone. Firstly, if I get a program to play my music, it really shouldn't ever need to talk to anyone, excepting maybe to look for updates, though it would be polite to ask. Secondly, if I'm removing it, it really has no business talking to anyone at all.
[18:24] Andrew: It probably isn't doing anything malicious, so you needn't worry, really, but I like to have an iron fist on my system; it just bothers me when they try to go behind my back. As if they knew better.
[18:26] Rachel: You talking as if its people....
[18:26] Andrew: -smiles- I was just about to say "I probably anthropomorphize these things more than 'regular' people would..."

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Damn it. This is an easy project. It's not that difficult, and I could have it done in a few hours, no trouble.

But all my tools and codes were on my laptop which, if not unsalvageable, is utterly inaccessible at the moment.

And I'm having the same incomprehensible errors when I try loading the tools on Unicron as when I loaded them on Azrogs (OK, not the same messages, or I'd know how to fix it, and there are a little more understandable, but still useless to me).

And it's due on Thursday. And I have no time tomorrow. And a test to study for.