The Schizophrenic Programmer Who Built an OS To Talk To God

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The Schizophrenic Programmer Who Built an OS To Talk To God

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday November 25, 2014 @06:54AM from the there's-an-app-for-everything-these-days dept.

rossgneumann writes: Terry Davis, a schizophrenic programmer, has spent 10 years building an operating system to talk to God. He's done this work because God told him to. According to the TempleOS charter, it is "God's official temple. Just like Solomon's temple, this is a community focal point where offerings are made and God's oracle is consulted." [The TempleOS V2.17 welcome screen] greets the user with a riot of 16-color, scrolling, blinking text; depending on your frame of reference, it might recall DESQview, the Commodore 64, or a host of early DOS-based graphical user interfaces. In style if not in specifics, it evokes a particular era, a time when the then-new concept of "personal computing" necessarily meant programming and tinkering and breaking things.

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Hmmm ... by gstoddart · 2014-11-25 06:58 · Score: 4, Interesting

While this is creepy, and might be interesting in a clinical sense ... why have we started covering the crazy end of the tech spectrum?
I'm afraid this just reads like "batshit crazy guy writes gibberish OS, come look at our ads".

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Lost at C:>. Found at C.
1. Re:Hmmm ... by rahvin112 · 2014-11-25 07:05 · Score: 1
  
  clickbait.
2. Re:Hmmm ... by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 07:11 · Score: 0
  
  Slow news day. Filed in loony bin.
3. Re:Hmmm ... by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 07:14 · Score: 2, Insightful
  
  Yes, he's ill. But the OS he wrote is better than any I've written so far--how about you?
  Crazy doesn't mean stupid.
4. Re:Hmmm ... by fyngyrz · 2014-11-25 07:24 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  why have we started covering the crazy end of the tech spectrum?
  What do you mean? We've always covered the GPL.
  
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  I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.
5. Re:Hmmm ... by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 07:27 · Score: 1
  
  Crazy person makes useless, nonsensical thing. Alert the media!
6. Re:Hmmm ... by gstoddart · 2014-11-25 07:33 · Score: 4, Insightful
  
  Yes, he's ill. But the OS he wrote is better than any I've written so far--how about you?
  Not sure, it's been a while ... message-passing, multi-tasking microkernel in the early 90s. Hand-rolled bare-metal HD drive controller and interrupt stack, with full ability to read and write FAT filesystems from reading the specs from the technical manual.
  Haven't felt the need since OS class.
  I have no idea what his does, I had to block the image of the scrolling glimpse into the abyss which was the screenshot of the OS before it induced a seizure.
  
  Crazy doesn't mean stupid.
  Nor does it mean "newsworthy".
  I've known a couple of schizophrenics and various people with varying degrees mental illness. What I would not do is subject most of them to the interwebs without a buffer between them and what happens.
  Does pandering to showing the OS someone with schizophrenia wrote help them in any way? Is what he writes actually healthy for him? Or does it just let him wallow in some of his obsessions?
  So, sure, it's definitely blinking and flashing. Does it actually do anything other than embed his own rituals? I have no idea.
  
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  Lost at C:>. Found at C.
7. Re:Hmmm ... by __aaclcg7560 · 2014-11-25 07:37 · Score: 2
  
  Should be filed under GOD (God of Design).
8. Re:Hmmm ... by aglider · 2014-11-25 07:38 · Score: 4, Insightful
  
  Naaah! The media it's already full of such kind of people. But maybe this very one is the only to write an operating system ... Sorry, forget this. There was one in Redmond some time ago ...
  
  --
  Sent as ripples into the electromagnetic field. No single photon has been harmed in the process.
9. Re:Hmmm ... by omnichad · 2014-11-25 08:08 · Score: 4, Interesting
  
  Not just creepy and crazy - but also a regular commenter here on Slashdot.
  http://slashdot.org/~templeos
10. Re:Hmmm ... by amicusNYCL · 2014-11-25 08:16 · Score: 3, Interesting
  
  I have no idea what his does
  Here's a peek:
  
  God said 640x480 16 color graphics is a covenant like circumcision. Children
  will do offerings. Think of 16 colors like the Simpson's cartoons.
  I wonder if God suggested The Simpsons as a frame of reference.
  
  We do not put any hooks for future changes. "Perfect" means we always act as
  though it is final, for all time. Microsoft allowed the Windows BMP file format
  to adapt to the future and it became grotesque.
  
  There is a limit of 100,000 lines of code for all time, not including
  applications and demos. Code comments count, however. 3rd party libraries are
  banned because they circumvent the intent of this limit. The vision is a
  Commodore 64 ROM -- a fixed core API that is the only dependency of
  applications. Currently, there are 80,668 lines of code.
  
  One platform. x86_64 PC compatibles.
  
  One driver for each class of device. Limited exceptions are allowed. With
  divergent device capabilities, it is a nightmare for user applications and what
  is gained? A three button mouse is like a leg you cannot put weight on.
  
  No networking, so malware is not an issue.
  
  No encryption or passwords. Files are compressed, not encrypted.
  
  Documents are not for printing. They're dynamic, intended for the screen.
  
  Just one 8x8 fixed-width font. No Unicode, just Extended ASCII.
  
  No multimedia. Sounds and images will be primarily calculated in real-time,
  not fetched from storage.
  
  --
  "Our two-party system is like a bowl of shit looking at itself in a mirror." - Lewis Black
11. Re:Hmmm ... by ChipMonk · 2014-11-25 08:17 · Score: 0
  
  Right, no comments in over 8 months makes one a "regular commenter."
  
  But every comment on the first two pages shows -1 score. So the first two adjectives stand.
12. Re:Hmmm ... by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 08:26 · Score: 0
  
  So he's a frequent contributor.....
  Like someone else I keep hearing about on Slashdot.
13. Re:Hmmm ... by omnichad · 2014-11-25 08:30 · Score: 2
  
  But nearly every day before that. I guess he's really been working on his OS.
14. Re: Hmmm ... by funky_vibes · 2014-11-25 08:33 · Score: 1
  
  Come on, this is like a trillion times more interesting than "Ubuntu releases new version of the same thing they did last month" or "Security hole found in Windows!"
15. Re:Hmmm ... by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 08:47 · Score: 0
  
  So that the Bennet posts might seem somewhat sane.
16. Re:Hmmm ... by Lunix+Nutcase · 2014-11-25 08:50 · Score: 1
  
  Bennett Haselton is the alter-ego of Terry? It all makes sense now...
17. Re:Hmmm ... by MrBingoBoingo · 2014-11-25 09:02 · Score: 2
  
  TempleOS is actuall a fun thing to play with. It's not replacing anyone's everyday work space, but... sometimes it's fun to turn a modern computing machine into a Commodore64 like environment.
18. Re:Hmmm ... by s.petry · 2014-11-25 09:03 · Score: 0
  
  Not just creepy and crazy - but also a regular commenter here on Slashdot.
  Oh how I enjoy irony. In your world "regular" means something different from how the rest of us read a dictionary.
  Hint: last post was March of 2014 and from there you can do the math.
  
  --
  -The wise argue that there are few absolutes, the fool argues that there are no probabilities.
19. Re:Hmmm ... by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 09:06 · Score: 1
  
  My OS just displays a picture of Hitler.
  I'm willing to put it forward as superior to this (Also Windows 95).
20. Re:Hmmm ... by omnichad · 2014-11-25 09:08 · Score: 2
  
  Look before that - almost daily visits. I guess he took an 8-month trip down the rabbit hole.
21. Re:Hmmm ... by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 09:18 · Score: 0
  
  Oh look, a self-aggrandizing moron boasting about achievements he made twenty or thirty years ago. I bet you like to post in stories about children who do neat things about how you were doing way cooler things at that age. Some 12 year old made a fusion reactor? Well YOU made a spaceship out of legos, which was way better, of course. Do the world a favor and go lay face down in a tub of water. If you don't drown, you'll have earned your right to live, but I suspect you won't have the sense to turn your head and you'll fucking die. Then the world will reap the enormous benefit of not having you in it.
22. Re:Hmmm ... by Dragonslicer · 2014-11-25 09:21 · Score: 1
  
  Here's a peek:
  
  We do not put any hooks for future changes. "Perfect" means we always act as though it is final, for all time.
  
  Documents are not for printing. They're dynamic, intended for the screen.
  Documents are dynamic? But it's already perfect right from the start! Nothing can be changed! Heretic!
23. Re:Hmmm ... by SQLGuru · 2014-11-25 09:23 · Score: 1
  
  After Egypt might be a fun game.......sort of an RPG that reminds me of Wasteland......
24. Re:Hmmm ... by s.petry · 2014-11-25 09:28 · Score: 0
  
  You are not helping your case for sanity. Get the irony, chuckle, and move on down the road... It was not "regular" even before March, unless again you are trying to redefine the word
  
  --
  -The wise argue that there are few absolutes, the fool argues that there are no probabilities.
25. Re:Hmmm ... by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 09:35 · Score: 0
  
  Contributor? Given the quality of the postings he's made on the first page of his profile, commenter yes. Contributor? Hell no.
26. Re:Hmmm ... by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 09:43 · Score: 0
  
  Nice one! You read one line and formed an idea that is fundamentally wrong and misunderstands the author's intend, then you criticize the work on the basis that it wasn't simplistic enough for your very tiny and immature brain to comprehend. This is an amazingly accurate parody of the thought process of the typical /. poster. From the kneejerk forming of an opinion to refusing to look further into things that might change your opinion, this is ab excellent piece of performance art. Bravo!
27. Re:Hmmm ... by Zynder · 2014-11-25 10:00 · Score: 0
  
  BAZINGA
28. Re:Hmmm ... by chud67 · 2014-11-25 10:00 · Score: 1
  
  I think it's pretty cool myself.
  There are a lot worse things you could do with your time than creating your own OS.
  At least he's learning something and doing what he loves.
29. Re:Hmmm ... by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 10:09 · Score: 1
  
  This is why some mentally ill people such as myself prefer to post as AC. The comments we make when manic or having a major depressive episode aren't used as kludges to beat us with when we're of clear mind.
30. Re:Hmmm ... by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 10:12 · Score: 0
  
  Slashdot doesn't run articles on APK though...
31. Re:Hmmm ... by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 10:13 · Score: 0
  
  Holy fuckin' wow. That guy really is off his meds when he's posting. Maybe the fact that he's been inactive is a GOOD sign (or maybe he escaped that CIA prison ;)). It also seems that he's using his PRNG to pick out words and display them in his "oracle" (I watched the video; I know, I know, it's verboten, but I did!) and then he's attempting to interpret those results, as well as posting them as rants on his website and other places (like /.).
  One thing that strikes me is that he says at one point that there should be no pre-stored data, and everything should be generated, yet I see lots of things that are clearly pre-stored image data and text, as well as discussion of his filesystem and image format. Guy is so far off his rocker he can't see the contradictions in his own though processes.
  CAPTCHA: houses
  Das nicht zu Hause sein?
32. Re:Hmmm ... by ZankerH · 2014-11-25 10:14 · Score: 1
  
  ZIMBABWE
33. Re:Hmmm ... by JoeMerchant · 2014-11-25 10:14 · Score: 1
  
  Restores my faith in the Mod system.
34. Re:Hmmm ... by omnichad · 2014-11-25 10:15 · Score: 1
  
  When you say "regular", are you thinking of "normal"? That's not what regular means.
  regular
  reylr/
  adjective
  1. arranged in or constituting a constant or definite pattern, especially with the same space between individual instances.
  2. done or happening frequently.
35. Re:Hmmm ... by asliarun · 2014-11-25 10:31 · Score: 2
  
  And if you dig deeper into the code and get down to the electrical level, you start hearing the sound of the universe.
  Ohmmmm.
36. Re:Hmmm ... by denzacar · 2014-11-25 10:36 · Score: 1
  
  MADAGASCAR!
  
  --
  Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
37. Re:Hmmm ... by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 10:43 · Score: 2, Insightful
  
  I have schizoaffective disorder which is basically bipolar disorder mixed with a bit of schizophrenia. I can relate with a lot of the experiences Terry has had, particularly the delusions and grandiousity. For most of my life I have been a strident atheist, and I still am. However, during both of my most profound manic episodes I came to believe that God had revealed himself to me and that I was destined to do his work and ultimately save the world from itself. These beliefs came about from the same sort of delusions of association that Terry describes. My ability to recognize patterns ran amok and I saw the divine in everything. The most innocous events and observations became messages from God.
  I ended up in the mental health system on both occassions and was treated for acute mania (I am still followed by a psychiatrist). It took some time, but eventually the delusions faded and I became myself again. Unfortunately, however, even with the best treatment, not everyone has the same success. I've met people who have struggled with the same delusions for decades. What I've noticed is that the most well-adjusted people with chronic delusions typically have some sort of harmless outlet for their fantasies. A friend of mine, for example, has the persistent delusion (among others) that he is bastard son of Arnold Schwarzenegger which has motivated him to pursue body-building with great vigor. It has given him structure and purpose in his life, physical health, and opportunities to socialize.
  My take on what Terry is doing is that its basically harmless, and probably a good thing in that it gives him something to do (thus keeping him out of trouble). It is quite true that publicity will only reinforce the delusion, but at this stage it appears that his delusions are so ingrained that the attention probably won't make a substantial difference in the trajectory of his illness.
38. Re:Hmmm ... by s.petry · 2014-11-25 10:51 · Score: 0
  
  Keep on digging that hole deeper. A "regular commenter" as you originally claimed would have a consistent pattern in contributing (see the first part of 1.). A few posts 8 months ago, then a month prior, then a few months prior, does not indicate any 'regularity' or especially with the same space between individual instances.
  
  --
  -The wise argue that there are few absolutes, the fool argues that there are no probabilities.
39. Re:Hmmm ... by Kevin+Fishburne · 2014-11-25 10:53 · Score: 1
  
  I looked through all his comments and there was only one modded greater than zero.
  
  http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
  
  If you think spam is crazy sounding, read some of his comments. It's a real experience.
  
  --
  Buy your next Linux PC at eightvirtues.com
40. Re:Hmmm ... by Lunix+Nutcase · 2014-11-25 11:35 · Score: 1
  
  Don't give them any more ideas!
41. Re:Hmmm ... by omnichad · 2014-11-25 11:39 · Score: 1
  
  Oh I have - and I believe he consults his OS for his posts. It's randomly strung together bits of Bible verses based his travel patterns on a 16-color (The Lord's number of colors, according to him) "game" where he walks through the desert.
  Yes, I went down the rabbit hole on another story about him and it's just crazy.
42. Re:Hmmm ... by omnichad · 2014-11-25 11:40 · Score: 1
  
  I'm not talking an OCD level of regularity. Just that he uses the site and is known by others here for his comments.
43. Re:Hmmm ... by MrKaos · 2014-11-25 11:42 · Score: 1
  
  TempleOS is actuall a fun thing to play with. It's not replacing anyone's everyday work space, but... sometimes it's fun to turn a modern computing machine into a Commodore64 like environment.
  Yeah, I installed it on a VM to have a look out of curiosity. I tried the programs and its odd syntax which was kind of entertaining. The author is a poster on /. and it was one of his posts that led me to the OS.
  It's like programming in brainfuck, an interesting diversion but nothing you would commit any time to because you realize there is no practical use for it.
  Except for talking to God, for which it is exceptional.
  
  --
  My ism, it's full of beliefs.
44. Re:Hmmm ... by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 12:01 · Score: 0
  
  This crazy hatemonger has been covered here a number of times. Nothing to see, here. Move along. The guy is about the same as that nutjob who has been making that classic style RPG for the last twenty years or whatever.
45. Re:Hmmm ... by s.petry · 2014-11-25 12:11 · Score: 0
  
  "Regular" posters would be daily, or at least weekly. This has nothing to do with OCD, but rather an interest in the process of dialogue on the site and ability to find interesting subjects to join in dialogue.
  
  --
  -The wise argue that there are few absolutes, the fool argues that there are no probabilities.
46. Re:Hmmm ... by UnknownSoldier · 2014-11-25 12:19 · Score: 1
  
  /Oblg.George Shaw quote ...
  "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world:
  the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
  Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
47. Re:Hmmm ... by MrKaos · 2014-11-25 12:34 · Score: 1
  
  I will point out though that it illustrates the suffering of brilliant, schizophrenic people, which he is. In essence TempleOS is like a living sculpture in code, if it relieves Terrance's suffering then I'm all for it.
  
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  My ism, it's full of beliefs.
48. Re:Hmmm ... by clintp · 2014-11-25 13:00 · Score: 1
  
  Does anyone else remember Jesux? It didn't claim to talk to God, but <rabbi_voice>it couldn't hurt<rabbi_voice>.
  
  --
  Get off my lawn.
49. Re:Hmmm ... by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 13:22 · Score: 0
  
  All I can say is, big deal. After all, someone has already built an operating system to talk to the devil. It's called Windows.
50. Re:Hmmm ... by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 14:42 · Score: 0
  
  Right, no comments in over 8 months makes one a "regular commenter."
  But every comment on the first two pages shows -1 score. So the first two adjectives stand.
  He just didn't like slashdot beta....
51. Re: Hmmm ... by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 14:43 · Score: 0
  
  SUCK COCKS YOU HORSE C...
  Did I just write that? Shit sorry, Alfred was in control.
52. Re:Hmmm ... by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 14:50 · Score: 0
  
  I think you mean "cudgels", not "kludges".
53. Re:Hmmm ... by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 15:09 · Score: 0
  
  KAWA BONGA!
54. Re:Hmmm ... by BarbaraHudson · 2014-11-25 15:52 · Score: 0
  
  More likely he's been hospitalized again. Or God told him that he shouldn't post to slashdot any more because they didn't accept his submission about TempleOS.
  Everyone should be thankful they're not in his shoes. Judging from the comments, there are still many who have wrong ideas about mental illness.
  The NIMH has some interesting information about prevalence, etc. For example:
  
  In 2012, there were an estimated 9.6 million adults aged 18 or older in the U.S. with SMI (Serious Mental Illness) in the past year. This represented 4.1 percent of all U.S. adults.
  Any mental Illness:
  
  In 2012, there were an estimated 43.7 million adults aged 18 or older in the U.S. with AMI (any mental illness) in the past year. This represented 18.6 percent of all U.S. adults.
  The site gives breakdowns on the different types of disorders and the rates per year and over the average lifetime.
  
  --
  "Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
55. Re:Hmmm ... by rtb61 · 2014-11-25 16:46 · Score: 1
  
  A lot of the comments have the look of being computer generated. Likely it is those same computer generated responses that the individual in question is 'communicating' with, inferring patterns in words as a result of mental disturbances and also incorporating that output in comments so that God in the individuals mind is responding through the individual to all others.
  Just like with many other slashdot feeds, the story should be understood, interpreted, shared and likely conclusions drawn as an exercise in thought, rather than empty knee jerk responses.
  Care should still be taken because interpreting computer generated word salad as God's responses could lead to some very undesirable interpretations for the individual and of course for those associated with that individual.
  
  --
  Chaos - everything, everywhere, everywhen
56. Re:Hmmm ... by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 17:33 · Score: 0
  
  There's that, also, I've met/known a few schizophrenics and I'm amazed at this fellow. Is it the programming that made him worse?
  I have found one coherent sentence: "I got an A in nonlinear differential equations. That's as high as math gets."
  The rest, at best, is poetry.
57. Re:Hmmm ... by strikethree · 2014-11-25 18:07 · Score: 1
  
  Nor does it mean "newsworthy".
  For an article that you are not interested in, you sure are getting lot of highly rated comments. Which implies that you are interested in it; otherwise, why would you be commenting in an article that NOBODY FORCED YOU TO READ?
  Damn dude. Lay off the negativity. The operating system actually works (which implies coherency). Would you bitch about an article on MenuetOS http://www.menuetos.net/ as well? Why does this particular article deserve your whining and moaning about irrelevancy? The angle on a MenuetOS article would be that it is written in assembly language. The angle on this one is that someone with a mental illness was able to create something complex and coherent. If you don't get it, I understand, but stop filling the comment section with your bullshit. Be positive or go home.
  Kind regards,
  Dave
  
  --
  "Someone needs to talk to the tree of liberty about its ghoulish drinking problem." by ohnocitizen
58. Re:Hmmm ... by ihtoit · 2014-11-25 18:42 · Score: 1
  
  I see what you did there.
  
  --
  Political debates have me rolling my eyes so much I think I got optical whiplash. I should sue. - Foamy The Squirrel
59. Re: Hmmm ... by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 18:48 · Score: 0
  
  They know already, they have Fox News.
60. Re:Hmmm ... by MrBingoBoingo · 2014-11-25 18:54 · Score: 1
  
  It's better than Brainfuck by far in that it gives you an opportunity to write for X86-64 as such. What else offers that?
61. Re:Hmmm ... by MrBingoBoingo · 2014-11-25 18:57 · Score: 1
  
  This too. It's just... this fills a niche most "working programmers" won't or can't fill. The dude made a thing. It is fun, it is good. I wish more people would give it ago and see what they missed.
62. Re: Hmmm ... by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 19:40 · Score: 0
  
  That's called Saturday night...
63. Re:Hmmm ... by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 20:00 · Score: 0
  
  Everyone that's studied CS has done it, so that's basically tens of millions of people. This is only a story because he simply is crazy and suffers from multiple personality disorders. Throw in "hearing voices" and you've a candidate for crazy. At least he's doing something rather than murdering people.
64. Re:Hmmm ... by Neil+Boekend · 2014-11-25 20:42 · Score: 1
  
  Nah, it's more of a squishy splat, like you always get if you hit well sauced spaghetti with a spoon.
  
  --
  Well, I might have a way, but it only works on a semi spherical planet in a vacuum.
65. Re:Hmmm ... by TapeCutter · 2014-11-25 20:47 · Score: 1
  
  AC but still a brave post. The fear of the "mentally ill" that "normal" people have is a major problem. I have also had auditory and visual hallucinations on numerous occasions, however it doesn't make me doubt my own sanity since it always happened after working a 73+hr shift on a fishing trawler. The visual ones always happened in a moving car, they were interesting not scary, they would go away if I shifted my visual focus. Auditory ones happened when it was quite and I was alone. They would go way completely after get a good sleep.
  
  Perception is everything. Perhaps if all "normal" people were given a mild acid trip after xmas dinner there would be less fear of the "mentally ill".
  
  --
  And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage? - Pink Floyd.
66. Re:Hmmm ... by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 20:52 · Score: 0
  
  You just brought a fresh wave of invective in tomhudson's direction. lol.
67. Re:Hmmm ... by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 20:55 · Score: 0
  
  Nor does it mean "newsworthy".
  Scroll past next time instead of posting whinging comments.
68. Re:Hmmm ... by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 21:02 · Score: 0
  
  LOL, damn it no mod points
69. Re:Hmmm ... by TapeCutter · 2014-11-25 21:08 · Score: 1
  
  He does have a point, I'm a regular contributor in your sense of the word. I recognised TempleOS as being connected to a slashdot user, so he is a "regular" in the sense that another regular recognises him. I'm also guessing that omnichad is of british descent since his use of the word mimics the way the word would be understood in a british pub.
  
  --
  And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage? - Pink Floyd.
70. Re:Hmmm ... by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 21:19 · Score: 0
  
  The guy has written an entire operating system completely from scratch. That's worthy of Slashdot coverage, despite your prejudices against mental illness.
71. Re:Hmmm ... by Maritz · 2014-11-25 21:32 · Score: 1
  
  Yep. If you don't find it interesting scroll past and don't post. Pretty simple eh. ;)
  
  --
  I do not want your cheap brainburning drugs. They are useless for work. And I am a working man today.
72. Re:Hmmm ... by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 21:46 · Score: 0
  
  I have looked at his comment history and I think he might enter Guinness world records for most comments modded -1 in a row.
  He makes my grandma, that still randomly screams about the war, seem almost normal. What a loon!
73. Re:Hmmm ... by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 22:46 · Score: 0
  
  Cowabunga, dumbass.
74. Re:Hmmm ... by gl4ss · 2014-11-26 00:08 · Score: 1
  
  the hosts file method of filtering though actually works and has a practical application.
  and this is more like a gui on top of linux than an operating system of it's own though? the downloads page doesn't link to sources? why was it made as it's own "operating system" rather than simply an application? because god said so?
  
  --
  world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
75. Re: Hmmm ... by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-26 00:59 · Score: 0
  
  Gesundheit!
76. Re: Hmmm ... by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-26 01:13 · Score: 0
  
  You're on Slashdot. The only part of that you really needed to take home was "come look at our ads."
  Really, the explanation for this shit you actually provided in your own comment, yet you site regulars still seem surprised every time another bit of click bait gets posted here. Then you're off to the comments to complain because that's certainly accomplished SO FUCKING MUCH on Slashdot. I'm pretty sure Malta was trolling people intentionally with half of what he posted and despite having no knowledge whatsoever of computers or IT, they had Jon "Euthanized His Dog for Behaviour Problems" Katz posting here for YEARS. Like the one where he completely made up a story about a kid from Afghanistan downloading porn and MP3s...on a Commodore 64 he "dug up..." All thanks to the wonderful American invasion on 2001, of course. The man was so inept that he couldn't come up with a convincing lie on Slashdot. Didn't matter, you were probably there to complain too, doubt anyone listened then either. Once they've got that bit of ad revenue from you they don't give a fuck about anything else.
77. Re: Hmmm ... by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-26 01:23 · Score: 0
  
  Reading his writing I had this strange fantasy that the long strings of nonsensical words were a cool form of encryption.
  Like each word was an anagram for another.
  And / or perhaps only the 3rd letter of every word was intended to be kept, tossing all others.
  Don't have time now but would be fun to run his strings through 'an' to see. Or an anagram website.
78. Re:Hmmm ... by tehcyder · 2014-11-26 01:24 · Score: 1
  
  Slashdot's slacking: a feeble anti-M$ joke wasn't frosty piss.
  
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  To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it
79. Re:Hmmm ... by tehcyder · 2014-11-26 01:40 · Score: 1
  
  I'm sure Bennett Haselton, a regular contributor, would be happy to oblige.
  
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  To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it
80. Re:Hmmm ... by tehcyder · 2014-11-26 01:49 · Score: 1
  
  And if you dig deeper into the code and get down to the electrical level, you start hearing the sound of the universe.
  Ohmmmm.
  "A smell of petroleum prevails throughout."
  
  --
  To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it
81. Re:Hmmm ... by tehcyder · 2014-11-26 01:57 · Score: 1
  
  This would be a good argument on most forums, but on slashdot there will in fact be a lot of people who have written operating systems, and it is unlikely that many of them were worse than this.
  
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  To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it
82. Re:Hmmm ... by tehcyder · 2014-11-26 02:13 · Score: 1
  
  Be positive or go home
  So no one is allowed to say anything negative about any article?
  I'm fairly sure if I posted a "story" that linked to some Microsoft employee claiming that Linus Torvalds was funding ISIS a lot of people would want to express their non-positive opinion of it.
  
  --
  To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it
83. Re:Hmmm ... by tehcyder · 2014-11-26 02:24 · Score: 1
  
  /Oblg.George Shaw quote ...
  "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world:
  the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
  Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
  That doesn't mean that just because you're unreasonable you are making progress.
  
  --
  To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it
84. Re:Hmmm ... by BarbaraHudson · 2014-11-26 02:29 · Score: 1
  
  Right, no comments in over 8 months makes one a "regular commenter."
  But every comment on the first two pages shows -1 score. So the first two adjectives stand.
  He just didn't like slashdot beta....
  So he's not THAT crazy ...
  
  --
  "Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
85. Re:Hmmm ... by tehcyder · 2014-11-26 02:50 · Score: 1
  
  His posts are largely unintelligible lists of unrelated words, and the bits that do make sense use religious and racist language mixed up with the Computer Science/Engineering stuff.
  Makes a change from self-diagnosed autistics on slashdot I suppose.
  
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  To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it
86. Re:Hmmm ... by tehcyder · 2014-11-26 03:04 · Score: 1
  
  Why would you waste your time posting on slashdot (or anywhere on the internet) if you were having a manic or depressive episode?
  Wouldn't you have more pressing things to concern yourself with?
  
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  To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it
87. Re:Hmmm ... by omnichad · 2014-11-26 03:11 · Score: 1
  
  Those unintelligible lists of words come from his "oracle." He uses his RNG program to grab random words from the Bible and string them together and says this is God talking to him.
88. Re:Hmmm ... by omnichad · 2014-11-26 03:12 · Score: 1
  
  I'll add that the fact that he sees meaning in the "noise" of those messages is very clearly a part of his schizophrenia.
89. Re: Hmmm ... by tehcyder · 2014-11-26 03:28 · Score: 1
  
  I think the concern is that it is all just reinforcing his own delusions and therefore not helping him lead a more balanced life, and potentially giving people some cheap laughs at the expense of the mentally ill.
  
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  To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it
90. Re:Hmmm ... by Actually,+I+do+RTFA · 2014-11-26 04:08 · Score: 1
  
  Hmmm... that's interesting. I wonder how much better life would be if we simply accepted, on face, people on the internet who said "yeah, ignore that post, I regret having written it". I'm not even sure, if upheld, that would solve your issue.
  Do you know whether you're having a manic or depressive episode? Maybe you could have three accounts?
  
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91. Re:Hmmm ... by BarbaraHudson · 2014-11-26 04:56 · Score: 2
  
  Why would you waste your time posting on slashdot (or anywhere on the internet) if you were having a manic or depressive episode?
  Wouldn't you have more pressing things to concern yourself with?
  I can't speak for manic episodes, but going through a major depressive episode doesn't mean that I'm totally incapable of doing anything at all. The last few months was my latest "down time", I couldn't even stay awake more than a few hours at a time, continuous invasive thoughts of suicide when I was awake, nothing seemed worth it, etc. It happens when you have PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) and MDD (major depressive disorder).
  Maintaining at least some semblance of routine, of interest in something other than what I was going through, was a "Good Thing." And I must have been doing something right judging by all the +5 mods. I knew that I was withdrawing from everyone around me, so I would force myself to, as much as possible, get out and talk to my neighbors, surf slashdot, etc. It's not easy when you're so depressed that you're sleeping 16 hours a day ...
  There are so many wrong ideas about people with mental illnesses that it's not funny, but the worst is the stigma that prevents the people who are affected from engaging others in a rational conversation. My sisters still tell me I "should just pull myself out of it." That I shouldn't trust my doctors. In my book THAT is crazy talk.
  tl;dr: Mental illness != crazy.
  
  --
  "Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
92. Re: Hmmm ... by BarbaraHudson · 2014-11-26 05:08 · Score: 1
  
  I think the concern is that it is all just reinforcing his own delusions and therefore not helping him lead a more balanced life, and potentially giving people some cheap laughs at the expense of the mentally ill.
  I've been going through the comments and, while there are some ignorant posters (hey, this IS the Innert00bs, right?), there are also many who "get it". He's not hurting anyone, he's found something to keep his mind occupied, and if you read the article, that's a LOT better than how he was doing before - jail, repeated stays in mental institutions, homelessness ...
  After many tries, he's found something that works for him. Wish we could all say that :-)
  
  --
  "Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
93. Re:Hmmm ... by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-26 06:00 · Score: 0
  
  Wow, that link should be the top google result when searching for "batshit crazy".
94. Re: Hmmm ... by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-26 06:00 · Score: 0
  
  LOL take a fuxking chill pill. Jesus Christ the guy was just poking fun. I hope he didn't form any opinions of this pile of shit no one will end up using. if it heals the dude, then he can code til he reaches his 100k limit. we all know god hates numbers higher then 100,000.
95. Re: Hmmm ... by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-26 06:16 · Score: 0
  
  it is not from scratch. he is calling libraries from all over the place.
96. Re:Hmmm ... by Dahamma · 2014-11-26 18:31 · Score: 1
  
  No, but it doesn't mean it's noteworthy, either. If you or I wanted to spend 10 years to create a crappy, useless OS, we probably could. But why?
97. Re:Hmmm ... by Zynder · 2014-11-27 03:11 · Score: 1
  
  I see we got some TBBT haters up in here. Go ahead and mod this down too. I'm sorry you hate your nerd blackface.
98. Re:Hmmm ... by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-27 04:02 · Score: 0
  
  GOD Of Design.
  it's turtles all the way down. tail recursive turtles
99. Re:Hmmm ... by relisher · 2014-11-27 04:41 · Score: 1
  
  My friends and I actually found this OS to be hilarious. We even created a fan club at my high school for the One True OS
100. Re: Hmmm ... by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-27 13:00 · Score: 0
  
  I thought win8/later ignored the hosts file?
101. Re:Hmmm ... by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-27 13:06 · Score: 0
  
  His hosts file nonsense was thoroughly debunked on 4chan, of all places. See http://dis.4chan.org/read/prog/1235936964, post #74 onwards.
102. Re:Hmmm ... by cthulhu11 · 2014-12-03 08:14 · Score: 1
  
  Contrast with this classic: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S....
FTA by schneidafunk · 2014-11-25 06:59 · Score: 1

Huh, check out this little tidbit from the charter:
" There is a limit of 100,000 lines of code for all time, not including
applications and demos. Code comments count, however. 3rd party libraries are
banned because they circumvent the intent of this limit. The vision is a
Commodore 64 ROM -- a fixed core API that is the only dependency of
applications. Currently, there are 80,668 lines of code."

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1. Re:FTA by BarbaraHudson · 2014-11-25 07:18 · Score: 1
  
  Some of it isn't so crazy.
  
  Low line count is the highest good, so it is easy to learn the whole thing.
  Minimal abstraction is a goal. Sheep are fools. They always respect a design
  that is more complicated than another. Any genius can make it complicated.
  Free and public domain.
  100% open source with all source included.
  Now I wouldn't subscribe to his newsletter (and not just because I'm an atheist), but ...
  
  --
  "Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
2. Re:FTA by DRMShill · 2014-11-25 07:35 · Score: 1
  
  100,000? Humbug!
  We need to adhere to Biblical software standards. 10 commandments, that's all you need.
3. Re:FTA by Immerman · 2014-11-25 08:12 · Score: 2
  
  Clearly comments are a sin against functionality, wasting valuable working room with pointless explanations.
  Personally I liked
  > No networking, so malware is not an issue.
  Obviously they aren't familiar with the thriving disk-born malware environment that existed when sneakernet was the only "network" in existence. Or maybe they mean that it will only be capable of running software written from the ground up on that machine - it wont even let you hand-copy code listings from another machine. Which might actually be pretty cool as a technical challenge, but render it pretty useless as an OS.
  
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  --- Most topics have many sides worth arguing, allow me to take one opposite you.
4. Re:FTA by Minwee · 2014-11-25 08:19 · Score: 1
  
  Currently, there are 80,668 lines of code.
  Which is interesting, since the OS has nine billion names.
5. Re:FTA by Krishnoid · 2014-11-25 08:41 · Score: 1
  
  What *is* 100,000 in cubits, anyway?
6. Re:FTA by Hognoxious · 2014-11-25 09:02 · Score: 1
  
  A type mismatch, that's what; pure number vs. length.
  
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  Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
7. Re:FTA by operagost · 2014-11-25 09:03 · Score: 2
  
  Already more usable than the GNU Hurd.
  
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8. Re:FTA by s.petry · 2014-11-25 09:05 · Score: 1
  
  RISC vs. CISC! Bring it on!!
  
  --
  -The wise argue that there are few absolutes, the fool argues that there are no probabilities.
9. Re:FTA by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 09:38 · Score: 0
  
  The same thing as 7 in miles.
10. Re:FTA by TangoMargarine · 2014-11-25 09:56 · Score: 1
  
  Who would bother writing malware for this?
  
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11. Re:FTA by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 10:09 · Score: 2, Informative
  
  Satan?
12. Re:FTA by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 10:46 · Score: 0
  
  The devil, that's who.
13. Re:FTA by Barsteward · 2014-11-25 20:28 · Score: 1
  
  there's over 600 commandments in the bible so he's heading in the right direction
  
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  "The hands that help are better far than lips that pray." - Robert Ingersoll (1833-1899)
Ob by Hognoxious · 2014-11-25 06:59 · Score: 4, Insightful

At least he didn't create systemd, gnome3, or the Windows 8 UI.

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1. Re:Ob by MouseR · 2014-11-25 07:02 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Or any kind of demons.
2. Re: Ob by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 07:12 · Score: 0
  
  Did you mean deamons ... or did I hear a whooosh over my head?
3. Re: Ob by MouseR · 2014-11-25 07:15 · Score: 1
  
  Whoosh.
  Either way, the pun is over the biblical unilateral pro-god nature of the OS.
  No de[a]mons there.
4. Re:Ob by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 07:27 · Score: 0
  
  In this OS, all of them are renamed angels (fallen or not).
5. Re:Ob by Opportunist · 2014-11-25 08:03 · Score: 1
  
  He is schizophrenic. Not sadistic.
  
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  We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
6. Re:Ob by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 08:59 · Score: 0
  
  Are you honestly trying to suggest that his UI is better? After watching the video on his OS, I have absolutely nothing bad to say about Gnome or the Windows 8 start screen.
7. Re: Ob by s.petry · 2014-11-25 09:10 · Score: 0
  
  Good grief! Quite shocking that someone with a 4 digit UID can make mistake "daemon" for "demon" and then "deamon". Were you were the guy programming all of those pesky TSR programs while the rest of us wrote daemons?
  
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  -The wise argue that there are few absolutes, the fool argues that there are no probabilities.
8. Re:Ob by gtall · 2014-11-25 10:51 · Score: 1
  
  "Windows 8 UI"??? I don't think we need to bring Satan into this.
9. Re:Ob by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 12:00 · Score: 0
  
  Don't worry, Sam and Dean know kill -9
10. Re:Ob by hydrodog · 2014-11-25 16:36 · Score: 1
  
  At least he didn't create systemd, gnome3, or the Windows 8 UI.
  Actually, systemd, gnome3 and the Windows 8 UI all have something in common -- they have all made lots of people want to introduce the authors to god, personally.
11. Re: Ob by Blaskowicz · 2014-11-25 20:39 · Score: 1
  
  Isn't that obvious that daemon is an older spelling of the same word? (though the a and e should be jointed).
  Let me rant about how fetus should be spelled "foetus". It follows that all US people should have been aborted.
12. Re: Ob by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 20:57 · Score: 0
  
  Or d[a]emons :-P
13. Re: Ob by dave420 · 2014-11-25 21:22 · Score: 1
  
  The irony. The delicious irony. Get a grip, senior pedant.
14. Re: Ob by s.petry · 2014-11-26 03:17 · Score: 1
  
  "Older"? How about "only" spelling, when dealing with a computer program (primarily in Unix systems) as was referenced. The word has a meaning going pretty far back, but has never changed. https://kb.iu.edu/d/aiau>Daemon stands for Disk and Execution Monitor.
  
  A daemon is a long-running background process that answers requests for services. The term originated with Unix, but most operating systems use daemons in some form or another. In Unix, the names of daemons conventionally end in "d". Some examples include inetd, httpd, nfsd, sshd, named, and lpd.
  
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  -The wise argue that there are few absolutes, the fool argues that there are no probabilities.
15. Re: Ob by BarbaraHudson · 2014-11-26 05:12 · Score: 1
  
  The term originated with Unix
  Actually, the term was adopted by unix, probably from Maxwell's Daemon, a useful daemon.
  
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  "Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
16. Re: Ob by s.petry · 2014-11-26 06:40 · Score: 1
  
  this one explains that portion of the etymology as well, but thanks for the info! Funny how this comment, which I thought was obviously poking fun at a mistake due to the TSR reference, has turned into being stalked and trolled by what appears to be GPs sock puppets.
  
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  -The wise argue that there are few absolutes, the fool argues that there are no probabilities.
17. Re: Ob by BarbaraHudson · 2014-11-26 07:32 · Score: 1
  
  Funny how this comment, which I thought was obviously poking fun at a mistake due to the TSR reference, has turned into being stalked and trolled by what appears to be GPs sock puppets.
  Good thing you didn't make fun of APK's HOST file :-) Welcome to the club.
  
  --
  "Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
18. Re: Ob by MouseR · 2014-11-26 08:06 · Score: 1
  
  I'm still in the 2nd edition of TSR though.
19. Re: Ob by Hognoxious · 2014-11-28 05:56 · Score: 1
  
  Isn't that obvious that daemon is an older spelling of the same word?
  Yaes, wae all knaew thaet, thaenks aell thae samae.
  
  --
  Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
FIRST by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 07:01 · Score: 0

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1. Re:FIRST by aglider · 2014-11-25 07:39 · Score: 1
  
  Nope. Just the 1st idiot.
  
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2. Re:FIRST by fibonacci8 · 2014-11-25 11:48 · Score: 1
  
  Matthew 20:16
  
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  Inheritance is the sincerest form of nepotism.
3. Re:FIRST by TapeCutter · 2014-11-25 21:21 · Score: 1
  
  All caps, nice touch!
  
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  And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage? - Pink Floyd.
Old, but still cool. by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 07:02 · Score: 0

I first saw of this maybe half a year ago. I encourage everyone to watch the demo 'cause it's hilarious! The guy is most certainly obsessive and a bit nuts, but there are some very interesting ideas in the OS - especially for people looking for different ways to do things. It takes optimization to the extreme at the expense of a safe and well-checked and scalable execution environment.
All Glory to the HypnoToad by CosaNostra+Pizza+Inc · 2014-11-25 07:03 · Score: 4, Funny

"[The TempleOS V2.17 welcome screen] greets the user with a riot of 16-color, scrolling, blinking text; depending on your frame of reference"
Does talking to "God" involve having an epileptic seizure?
1. Re:All Glory to the HypnoToad by Flavianoep · 2014-11-25 07:27 · Score: 1
  
  Does talking to "God" involve having an epileptic seizure?
  I must've heard some thing to that effect. I will consult my pineal gland and come straight back.
  
  --
  Linux is for people who don't mind RTFM.
2. Re:All Glory to the HypnoToad by Pope · 2014-11-25 07:34 · Score: 2
  
  Does talking to "God" involve having an epileptic seizure?
  No, usually it involves stealing a spaceship.
  
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  It doesn't mean much now, it's built for the future.
3. Re:All Glory to the HypnoToad by ArcadeMan · 2014-11-25 07:53 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Excuse me, what does God need with a starship?
  
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4. Re:All Glory to the HypnoToad by omnichad · 2014-11-25 08:15 · Score: 1
  
  No - it mostly involves having a random number generator spit out Bible verses out of context:
  http://slashdot.org/~templeos
5. Re:All Glory to the HypnoToad by angel'o'sphere · 2014-11-25 08:24 · Score: 1
  
  All gods need starships.
  How else would they come from A to B?
  Oh, you mean that mythical god, nevermind ...
  
  --
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6. Re:All Glory to the HypnoToad by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 08:45 · Score: 0
  
  Actually, it's an unweighted markov chain, but yourprobably don't know what that is.
7. Re:All Glory to the HypnoToad by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 08:47 · Score: 0
  
  Yeah, that's how the TempleOS does its "talking to God" bit: there's a screen that presents Moses walking to the burning bush, then a random number generator starts spinning, pumping out verses. Looks like he did something similar with individual words and piped the output to Slashdot for a while -- that's not a joke, but rather what I suspect he did. Some of the streams of random words on his Slashdot posting history are prefixed with "God says," which I think means, "The random number generator hooked up to a lexicon has produced the following output stream."
  There's something a tad deep in that idea: God is purely random, meaning that he doesn't really exist. That would fit in with his atheist statements; maybe the whole project is satire.
8. Re:All Glory to the HypnoToad by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 10:00 · Score: 0
  
  5-digit UID whoosh?
9. Re:All Glory to the HypnoToad by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 10:09 · Score: 0
  
  like yor probably doont no grammer
10. Re:All Glory to the HypnoToad by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 18:28 · Score: 0
  
  From PR news in Washington I'm stricken with the deadly Ebola virus while working in Ferguson Missouri. Defense secretary Chuck Hegel reports that progress is being made "And uh, um, the uh" - PR news Washington.
11. Re:All Glory to the HypnoToad by TapeCutter · 2014-11-25 21:30 · Score: 1
  
  Does talking to "God" involve having an epileptic seizure?"
  No, but it does involve pattern recognition behaviour that is suppressed in "normal" people.
  
  --
  And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage? - Pink Floyd.
12. Re:All Glory to the HypnoToad by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-26 12:07 · Score: 0
  
  Excuse me, what does God need with a starship?
  God was a Goa'uld.
Be Gentle With Him by JerkyBoy · 2014-11-25 07:03 · Score: 5, Insightful

I remember that this individual caught a lot of flack for his OS in the past - he really does have a significant behavioral disorder, so if you provide feedback, do so in the gentlest of terms. He's a good guy with a difficult problem and a fun project.

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Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest. -- Mark Twain
1. Re:Be Gentle With Him by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 07:19 · Score: 0
  
  your "good guy" is a racist.
2. Re:Be Gentle With Him by halivar · 2014-11-25 07:21 · Score: 2, Insightful
  
  Many good men are. Others are liars, or thieves, or adulterers. All men have their sins. Yours is self-righteousness.
3. Re:Be Gentle With Him by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 07:26 · Score: 0
  
  Perhaps that's part of the "disorder" GP refers to.
4. Re:Be Gentle With Him by Flavianoep · 2014-11-25 07:28 · Score: 1
  
  He must be virgin yet, that's why.
  
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  Linux is for people who don't mind RTFM.
5. Re:Be Gentle With Him by zethreal · 2014-11-25 07:32 · Score: 2
  
  To show that you're a decent human being. If you know someone has a problem, "poking the bear" can cause that person to get worse or even snap. Someone with a behavioral problem has found an outlet that doesn't involve injuring themselves or other people (either intentionally or unintentionally). If you think this is a cool idea ( I think it's actually pretty awesome ), good for you. If you think it's stupid, just leave him alone.
6. Re:Be Gentle With Him by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 07:32 · Score: 0
  
  Because "don't be a jackass douchebag that makes fun of the handicapped" is a general rule of life that all too many people ignore these days.
7. Re:Be Gentle With Him by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 07:47 · Score: 0
  
  I hear that "Ass Hunter" has been renamed to "Jackass Douche-bag Hunter" - it's already sold millions of copies.
  "Hunt the asshole douche-bags that make fun of people, you too can end bullying..."
8. Re:Be Gentle With Him by Half-pint+HAL · 2014-11-25 07:52 · Score: 2
  
  Indeed. Schizophrenia is a paranoid disorder and often involves the identification of an "other" as an enemy.
  
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9. Re:Be Gentle With Him by FatdogHaiku · 2014-11-25 07:56 · Score: 1
  
  Why?
  Does the word "smitten" ring a bell?
  Mock those less fortunate and be smitten with the same issue...
  Talk to God and it is protected as a human right, God talks back and they medicate you or lock you up...
  
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10. Re:Be Gentle With Him by geekmux · 2014-11-25 08:04 · Score: 1
  
  To show that you're a decent human being. If you know someone has a problem, "poking the bear" can cause that person to get worse or even snap. Someone with a behavioral problem has found an outlet that doesn't involve injuring themselves or other people (either intentionally or unintentionally). If you think this is a cool idea ( I think it's actually pretty awesome ), good for you. If you think it's stupid, just leave him alone.
  Not that I disagree with you, but it is horribly ironic that we should find compassion here when organized religion has been at the root of man killing each other for thousands of years now.
  Talk about poking the bear..
11. Re:Be Gentle With Him by WaffleMonster · 2014-11-25 08:06 · Score: 4, Insightful
  
  your "good guy" is a racist.
  Continually find myself entertained by self appointed judges... many of whom claim to worship at the church of tolerance.
12. Re:Be Gentle With Him by Minwee · 2014-11-25 08:14 · Score: 1
  
  Not that I disagree with you, but it is horribly ironic that we should find compassion here when organized religion has been at the root of man killing each other for thousands of years now.
  And I find it equally ironic that you have used italics when the luminescence of anglerfish is caused by symbiotic bacteria which dwell around the esca.
13. Re:Be Gentle With Him by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 08:22 · Score: 0
  
  I remember that this individual caught a lot of flack for his OS in the past - he really does have a significant behavioral disorder, so if you provide feedback, do so in the gentlest of terms. He's a good guy with a difficult problem and a fun project.
  So... don't do a fork?
14. Re:Be Gentle With Him by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 08:24 · Score: 0
  
  ISIS are also misunderstood good guys, you self appointed judge!
  Up is down! War is Peace!
15. Re:Be Gentle With Him by angel'o'sphere · 2014-11-25 08:30 · Score: 1
  
  A facist is not a good man. (Oh, ent to type racist, but facist is just as good)
  Actually, I'm free of sins, no idea anout you, though.
  But good luck with your life if you 'believe' 1500 year old 'wrong' christian 'stereotypes' make any sense ...
  
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16. Re:Be Gentle With Him by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 08:33 · Score: 0
  
  That's not irony. That's hypocrisy, and also incorrect. Control of power has been at the root of man killing each other for longer than religion has existed.
17. Re:Be Gentle With Him by halivar · 2014-11-25 08:40 · Score: 2
  
  Actually, I'm free of sins, no idea anout you, though.
  Spelling, typing, and egregious usage of single quotes count.
18. Re:Be Gentle With Him by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 08:41 · Score: 0
  
  Shut up, niggerkike.
19. Re:Be Gentle With Him by Required+Snark · 2014-11-25 08:46 · Score: 1
  
  You've got it backwards. For the most part those with serious schizophrenia (and other mental disorders) are not so much of a threat because they are so mentally disorganized.
  The people who are the real problems are "normal", but use religion as an excuse for their bad behavior, or those who follow religion so blindly that they do bad things because of group pressure.
  
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20. Re:Be Gentle With Him by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 08:57 · Score: 0
  
  >Talk to God and it is protected as a human right,
  Don't you mean "imagining talking to god."
  
  >God talks back and they medicate you or lock you up...
  and this is imagining that your imaginary friend is responding to you.
  Both of these are totally irrational, but the first is a simple delusion, and the second is a symptom of schizophrenia and other severe mental disorders. We should probably treat both, but we're up to our asses in people with religious delusions in America, so it's not yet considered a mental illness like hearing voices is.
21. Re:Be Gentle With Him by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 08:58 · Score: 0
  
  I like the isis comment it shouldnt be hidden if we can talk about everybody's imaginary god
  We should be able to talk about reallity , why would you guys downvote him just because he mentions isis?
  wel ISIS ISIS ISIS ISIS ISIS , FUCK YOU ALL
  oh and the crazy guys OS is pretty cool too
22. Re:Be Gentle With Him by JasonGoatcher · 2014-11-25 08:58 · Score: 1
  
  I've got paranoid schizophrenia, but I believe my "other" is against everyone, not just me. It's a multi-faceted "other," in the US it's things like the IRS and most judges.
  Even with my medication, I tend to think differently then other people. I'll get offended by things that other people don't care about, and sometimes I don't understand how certain social conventions work. I was well into my 20s before I got a handle on the "don't talk to women about their weight" thing. The exceptions to that rule are extremely subtle, and people aren't capable of explaining them to me in a way that makes sense to me.
  I also consider "brutal honesty" to be the mark of what makes a true friendship. A lot of times I'll grin when someone I know insults me because I see it as an opportunity to maybe break through all the social crap that keeps people from truly relating to each other. There is so much about concepts like being nice and political correctness that offends me deeply. If you truly care about someone, you will say what you think they need to hear, rather than simply saying what you think they want to hear. Love isn't supposed to have a buffer attached to it.
23. Re:Be Gentle With Him by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 08:59 · Score: 0
  
  Atheists Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot combined were responsible for more deaths than all religious people of all time.
24. Re:Be Gentle With Him by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 09:04 · Score: 0
  
  If he can't handle criticisms of his mental hallucinations, maybe he should be forcibly committed.
25. Re:Be Gentle With Him by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 09:05 · Score: 0
  
  You've got it backwards. For the most part those with serious schizophrenia (and other mental disorders) are not so much of a threat because they are so mentally disorganized.
  The people who are the real problems are "normal", but use religion as an excuse for their bad behavior, or those who follow religion so blindly that they do bad things because of group pressure.
  Wow.
  I've never seem someone actually document the excuses behind that whole Confession thing so succinctly.
  Those bullshit excuses for Catholics to act like ignorant assholes 6 days a week totally makes sense now.
26. Re:Be Gentle With Him by LightningBolt! · 2014-11-25 09:07 · Score: 0
  
  I suppose you tolerate rape and murder.
  
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27. Re:Be Gentle With Him by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 09:16 · Score: 0
  
  Yes, and those that think that humans wouldn't find another excuse than religion to go to war over resources are ignorant fools.
28. Re:Be Gentle With Him by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 09:22 · Score: 0
  
  Religious apologist morons like you need to be gassed. Hitler wasn't wrong in concept, just in the target.
29. Re:Be Gentle With Him by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 09:30 · Score: 0
  
  You sound like you need to be locked up in a nuhouse.
30. Re:Be Gentle With Him by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 09:37 · Score: 0
  
  Actually, I'm free of sins
  Well then, by all means, cast your stones at us filthy sinners. If you really believe this, your grip on reality is more tenuous then our schizophrenic friend from the article.
31. Re:Be Gentle With Him by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 09:44 · Score: 0
  
  it is horribly ironic that we should find compassion here when organized religion has been at the root of man killing each other for thousands of years now.
  What a shallow interpretation of the history of human affairs. Take your ignorant-atheism back to reddit or whatever echo chamber you came from.
32. Re:Be Gentle With Him by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 09:48 · Score: 0
  
  ALL christards need to be forcefully commited... to ovens! God is a delusion and religion is a scam. Anyone who falls for it deserves what they get.
33. Re:Be Gentle With Him by TangoMargarine · 2014-11-25 10:01 · Score: 1
  
  I love how "racist" is up there with "terrorist" and "pedophile" on the list of words that we're supposed to instantly fly into a rage about.
  Except one of those 3 doesn't get heckled on Slashdot. Hmm...
  
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34. Re:Be Gentle With Him by Zynder · 2014-11-25 10:12 · Score: 1
  
  I find your ideas intriguing and wish to subscribe to your newsletter. Also, I, too, welcome our bioluminescent symbiotic anglerfish bacteria overlords!
35. Re:Be Gentle With Him by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 10:14 · Score: 0
  
  Not even close to true, bruh
36. Re:Be Gentle With Him by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 10:15 · Score: 0
  
  Communism is a religion - they were atheists, not agnostics.
37. Re:Be Gentle With Him by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 10:17 · Score: 0
  
  No, he had it right. They ARE talking to god. They believe it. Hang out with some good ol Southern Baptist Convention folks and tell me otherwise.
38. Re:Be Gentle With Him by Zynder · 2014-11-25 10:23 · Score: 1
  
  Trolls really are the dumbest creatures known to man. You think he's a black Jew? He just implied he doesn't believe in 1500 year old mythologies. Jews do. God (that doesn't exist), you're fucking stoooooopid.
39. Re:Be Gentle With Him by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 10:25 · Score: 0
  
  u sond lyk u neez sum grammarz
40. Re:Be Gentle With Him by MrTester · 2014-11-25 10:35 · Score: 1
  
  I am not religious myself, but I really wish people would get off the blame-religion bandwagon.
  
  Every form of organizing people has been at the root of man killing each other for thousands of years now. Yes, religion is one. But so is race, ideology, nationality, you name it.
  At the end of the day they allow a bunch of individuals to get together and say "I can improve my life or my family's life by killing some people and taking their stuff" but have a clear conscience because its for "the greater good".
  
  Excuses. Nothing more.
41. Re:Be Gentle With Him by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 10:53 · Score: 0
  
  tips fedora
  how's that euphoric neckbeard growing out for you?
42. Re:Be Gentle With Him by Archangel+Michael · 2014-11-25 11:07 · Score: 1
  
  I know plenty of people who use the "N" word, and yet, you wouldn't call any of them racist. Using a word doesn't make you racist, what makes you racist is believing that Melatonin levels matters. And there is no shortage of people who believe that.
  
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43. Re:Be Gentle With Him by Archangel+Michael · 2014-11-25 11:13 · Score: 1
  
  The root of men killing men isn't religion, it is control. Religion is just a tool, as was atheism that killed millions in Communist countries (purging the evil of religion, no doubt).
  The problem you have, is that you're blaming the tool (Religion) and not those killing (man wanting control). And this has blinded many people to the real issue.
  I am a libertarian, and freedom is scary.
  
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  Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.
44. Re:Be Gentle With Him by Archangel+Michael · 2014-11-25 11:15 · Score: 1
  
  The people who are the real problems are "normal", but use religion as an excuse for their bad behavior, or those who follow religion so blindly that they do bad things because of group pressure.
  Religion isn't the problem. The problem is that other thing you used. Nazi's killed plenty of people in the name of the state, using peer pressure. The problem is man, not religion.
  
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45. Re:Be Gentle With Him by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 11:27 · Score: 0
  
  Nah freedom isn't scary. Tyrone shoving his 12-inches of black man meat up your unwilling poop shoot is what is really scary.
46. Re:Be Gentle With Him by kuzb · 2014-11-25 12:02 · Score: 1
  
  Anyone who sits down and decides to write his own OS from scratch deserves a lot of credit - regardless of the motivation. People really underestimate how much work it is.
  
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47. Re:Be Gentle With Him by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 12:27 · Score: 0
  
  Now that's irony.
48. Re:Be Gentle With Him by Half-pint+HAL · 2014-11-25 13:13 · Score: 1
  
  You sound like an arsehole. I mean, seriously... a guy opens up about his mental problems in a thread where people are already making jokes about another schizophrenic - that's courage. Slagging him off as an AC - that's the opposite of courage.
  
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49. Re:Be Gentle With Him by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 14:25 · Score: 0
  
  "Continually find myself entertained by self appointed judges... many of whom claim to worship at the church of tolerance."
  Pot, kettle, black!
50. Re:Be Gentle With Him by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 15:20 · Score: 0
  
  No, he's a druggie. I have no doubt the guy is a tweaker and became schizophrenic only after abusing drugs. Most cases of schizophrenia are self inflicted in this manner.
51. Re:Be Gentle With Him by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 15:48 · Score: 0
  
  what makes you racist is believing that Melatonin levels matters
  Damn right it matters. That's why some people can't get any sleep :P
52. Re:Be Gentle With Him by Rujiel · 2014-11-25 16:04 · Score: 2
  
  "I hate organized religion, so i'm going to take it out on a schizophreinic man with a hobby." There, i just summarized that whole stupid paragraph in one sentencd.
53. Re:Be Gentle With Him by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 18:01 · Score: 0
  
  You are correct. I have been trolling for so long that I don't even think about what was posted anymore, just how to mkae a shitty post to get a rise out of someone. Before I lost my job and started spending 8 hours a day one the computer, I didn't hate blacks, whites, jews, gay, transexuals.... but now all I do is hate everything and take stances that I know are unpopular. I mean, I've spent the last couple of months posting social justice things to conservative places, but then go to liberal news sites and say "kill all niggers". Sometimes I wonder who I even am. This cannot be healthy. What am I doing with- Haha, got you fucker. Did you think I was going to repe t and change my ways? Fuck you faggot, you are not the god damn boss of me.
54. Re:Be Gentle With Him by Half-pint+HAL · 2014-11-25 21:05 · Score: 1
  
  Did you think I was going to repe t and change my ways?
  Did you think I wrote that post for your benefit? A hint: I didn't.
  
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55. Re: Be Gentle With Him by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 21:45 · Score: 0, Offtopic
  
  Sin is a null word
56. Re: Be Gentle With Him by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 21:48 · Score: 0
  
  Godwin thanks you for coming, hopes you enjoyed your stay, and recommends the fish.
57. Re:Be Gentle With Him by tehcyder · 2014-11-26 03:56 · Score: 1
  
  Many good men are. Others are liars, or thieves, or adulterers. All men have their sins. Yours is self-righteousness.
  Racists and schizophrenics have one this in common: they cannot perceive reality as it is.
  This guy can't help it, whereas most racists have no excuse other than stupidity and ignorance.
  
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58. Re:Be Gentle With Him by tehcyder · 2014-11-26 04:24 · Score: 1
  
  I've got paranoid schizophrenia, but I believe my "other" is against everyone, not just me. It's a multi-faceted "other," in the US it's things like the IRS and most judges.
  Sounds like most slashdotters, except they just call it "the government".
  
  Even with my medication, I tend to think differently then other people. I'll get offended by things that other people don't care about, and sometimes I don't understand how certain social conventions work. I was well into my 20s before I got a handle on the "don't talk to women about their weight" thing. The exceptions to that rule are extremely subtle, and people aren't capable of explaining them to me in a way that makes sense to me.
  The "don't talk to women about their weight" thing just means that you don't talk to women about their weight. Ever. If they introduce it into a conversation, just stay out of it if possible, apart from saying "no" if you're asked "do you think I look fat in this dress" or something.
  
  I also consider "brutal honesty" to be the mark of what makes a true friendship. A lot of times I'll grin when someone I know insults me because I see it as an opportunity to maybe break through all the social crap that keeps people from truly relating to each other. There is so much about concepts like being nice and political correctness that offends me deeply. If you truly care about someone, you will say what you think they need to hear, rather than simply saying what you think they want to hear. Love isn't supposed to have a buffer attached to it.
  Most social interactions and relationships are not deep or meaningful, and do not involve love or true friendship. In these cases, conversation is largely about avoiding the truth. As with women and their weight, lying is necessary.
  
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59. Re:Be Gentle With Him by tehcyder · 2014-11-26 04:42 · Score: 2
  
  your "good guy" is a racist.
  Continually find myself entertained by self appointed judges... many of whom claim to worship at the church of tolerance.
  Describing someone who uses multiple offensive epithets like "nigger" as racist is not being intolerant, it is pointing out the truth.
  You can debate whether he means it (because of his mental illness) and even whether being racist is right or wrong, but that doesn't change the meaning of what he wrote.
  None is saying that racists should not be permitted to speak, merely that they should expect a lot of negative consequences, just as if they were defending Nazism or child abuse.
  
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60. Re:Be Gentle With Him by tehcyder · 2014-11-26 04:48 · Score: 1
  
  I know plenty of people who use the "N" word, and yet, you wouldn't call any of them racist.
  Is this the "black rappers say nigger so it's OK if white teenagers do too" argument, or the "Tarantino says nigger in Pulp Fiction so it's ok if I do regardless of the circumstances" argument?
  
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61. Re:Be Gentle With Him by tehcyder · 2014-11-26 04:57 · Score: 1
  
  I love how "racist" is up there with "terrorist" and "pedophile" on the list of words that we're supposed to instantly fly into a rage about.
  Except one of those 3 doesn't get heckled on Slashdot. Hmm...
  I would argue that you can be a morally good terrorist (e.g. the French Resistance in WW2 were terrorists by any normal definition), but not a morally good racist or paedophile. The French Resistance in WW2 were terrorists
  
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62. Re:Be Gentle With Him by tehcyder · 2014-11-26 05:00 · Score: 1
  
  And I find it equally ironic that you have used italics when the luminescence of anglerfish is caused by symbiotic bacteria which dwell around the esca.
  In the immortal words of Viz magazine, that is totally hatstand.
  
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63. Re:Be Gentle With Him by tehcyder · 2014-11-26 05:04 · Score: 1
  
  That's one of the few sensible libertarian comments I have ever seen here.
  But you'll probably spoil it by saying that true freedom lies only in unfettered capitalism.
  
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64. Re:Be Gentle With Him by TangoMargarine · 2014-11-26 05:14 · Score: 1
  
  "One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter."
  And I'd think the argument could be made for pederasty being a "moral" (or at least, socially accepted) form of pedophilia.
  And segregation was not inherently bad, it was just that people are assholes and refused to make separate and equal things.
  
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65. Re:Be Gentle With Him by ToddInSF · 2014-11-26 05:39 · Score: 1
  
  He must be white; nobody ever calls anybody else out for their racism, and insists that they should "expect negative consequences", and compares them to nazis.
66. Re: Be Gentle With Him by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-26 06:28 · Score: 0
  
  just because they believe it, it doesn't make it true.
67. Re:Be Gentle With Him by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-26 11:00 · Score: 0
  
  http://coloradorecovery.com/no...
68. Re:Be Gentle With Him by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-26 20:53 · Score: 0
  
  Thanks. That link corroborates my statement.
  
  ...drug abuse can trigger the onset of schizophrenia...
  
  ...a Swedish study found that army conscripts who used marijuana heavily were six times more likely to develop schizophrenia later in life...
69. Re:Be Gentle With Him by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-27 00:40 · Score: 0
  
  Sing with me now: "Don't listen to the voices in your head."
70. Re:Be Gentle With Him by Archangel+Michael · 2014-12-01 08:48 · Score: 1
  
  Capitalism yes, Corporatism no.
  Once you realize that corporations are creations of the state, the problems we have today all start to make sense. ;-)
  
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71. Re:Be Gentle With Him by Archangel+Michael · 2014-12-01 08:57 · Score: 1
  
  No, This is the "If you find the word offensive enough to demand I don't use it, then it should be offensive enough for you to not use it either" argument.
  Subtle difference.
  
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Noah of the computing age by Qzukk · 2014-11-25 07:04 · Score: 2

You'll be sorry! Just wait for the flood of viruses to come and we'll see who's laughing then!

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1. Re:Noah of the computing age by theshowmecanuck · 2014-11-25 07:26 · Score: 1
  
  ...monkey boy!
  
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Are You Sure by FurtiveGlancer · 2014-11-25 07:04 · Score: 1

Are you sure he's not also Dyslexic?

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1. Re:Are You Sure by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 07:11 · Score: 0
  
  Lysdexic*
2. Re:Are You Sure by halivar · 2014-11-25 07:22 · Score: 1
  
  Would have been easier if they'd named it with a palindrome.
3. Re:Are You Sure by BarbaraHudson · 2014-11-25 07:33 · Score: 1
  
  Are you sure he's not also Dyslexic?
  Oh, I get it - he made an OS to talk to DOG. I talk to mine all the time.
  
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4. Re:Are You Sure by Opportunist · 2014-11-25 08:04 · Score: 1
  
  Nope. Else his question would be "Sit here a dog?"
  
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5. Re:Are You Sure by Cro+Magnon · 2014-11-25 08:40 · Score: 1
  
  Or, his SO talks to the DOG.
  
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6. Re:Are You Sure by dissy · 2014-11-25 10:49 · Score: 1
  
  Oh, I get it - he made an OS to talk to DOG. I talk to mine all the time.
  * RoboPuppy commencing two hour yipping session *
  yip yip yip yip yip ... KICK
  * RoboPuppy mistreatment alert! RoboPuppy mistreatment alert! *
7. Re:Are You Sure by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 18:09 · Score: 0
  
  Like "niggin" as in "Look at that yard ape niggin over there!"
Consolation prize by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 07:06 · Score: 0

If he's willing to settle, if he spent 10 years building a 200 foot yacht there's a good chance he could talk to Larry Ellison.
Hmmm ... by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 07:06 · Score: 3, Funny

I heard the kernel now supports some advanced calling conventions, such as the one where you scream while all the registers crab-walk pieces of your dismembered mind across the room and shove them onto the stack.
Beware before adopting God's OS by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 07:06 · Score: 0

First he embraces with his love. Then he extends with his proprietary new testament api. And then he extinguishes with mortality. And he doesn't even promise to fix it with a perfect version until after you're dead.
You have been warned.
Babels tower by funky_vibes · 2014-11-25 07:09 · Score: 1

This is so cool, a modern day Babels tower!
1. Re:Babels tower by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 07:28 · Score: 0
  
  Fuck, I barely speak English, I don't want to learn a new language.
2. Re:Babels tower by mysidia · 2014-11-25 07:58 · Score: 1
  
  Fuck, I barely speak English, I don't want to learn a new language.
  English is fine. PHP on the other hand, is not.
/. title adds inherent bias by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 07:10 · Score: 0

Just another interpretation is this mans work --- how is he any less than the pope just another human that speaks to your fucking god for you. this liaison actually built something substantial. the pope just gets off his rotting ass sometimes and declares its ok for dudes to bone each other and waves and let some doves go. Queue all the faggots and niggers who will derail from this reality.
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1. Re:/. title adds inherent bias by TangoMargarine · 2014-11-25 10:13 · Score: 1
  
  He's schizophrenic.
  He's a programmer.
  He wrote an OS that he says is for talking to God.
  Which one of these is nonfactual or biased?
  
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2. Re:/. title adds inherent bias by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 12:56 · Score: 0
  
  You know, I read through some of his old slashdot posts. It's highly likely that you just replied to the author himself. It's been months since that account posted anything, if I had to guess, he has lost track of his account and is posting AC.
  Posting as AC because I lost track of my slashdot account. Seriously it's easier to have a kinja account.
3. Re:/. title adds inherent bias by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 18:48 · Score: 0
  
  Well, when you compare production effort and reward, the pope really is one lazy bastard.
IEC 61508-3 anyone? by Biff+Stu · 2014-11-25 07:11 · Score: 1

If it talks to God, it should be ideal for safety critical systems.
1. Re:IEC 61508-3 anyone? by MouseR · 2014-11-25 07:17 · Score: 1
  
  It'll kill people by the millions. Spontaneously conjuring plagues and first-born viruses.
2. Re:IEC 61508-3 anyone? by gman003 · 2014-11-25 07:24 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Have you tried version 2.0 yet? It replaced those with loaves and fishes. Has a recurring 3-day downtime though.
3. Re:IEC 61508-3 anyone? by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 07:42 · Score: 0
  
  Still far less than murdered by AthieOSt ever did.
4. Re:IEC 61508-3 anyone? by Pope · 2014-11-25 07:44 · Score: 1
  
  Yes, but we can schedule a work stoppage around that time.
  
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5. Re:IEC 61508-3 anyone? by Zynder · 2014-11-25 10:29 · Score: 1
  
  It is HILARIOUS the Pope suggests this!
No Different. by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 07:12 · Score: 0

Come on, is he really any crazier than most programmers?
1. Re:No Different. by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 07:17 · Score: 0
  
  Ever met a normal person?
2. Re:No Different. by theshowmecanuck · 2014-11-25 07:20 · Score: 1
  
  Relatively speaking? Yes.
  
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3. Re:No Different. by Nyder · 2014-11-25 07:37 · Score: 0
  
  Come on, is he really any crazier than most programmers?
  He's not much crazier then most religious peeps I've known.
  
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4. Re:No Different. by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 07:50 · Score: 1
  
  Come on, is he really any crazier than most programmers?
  It's not the programmers who are a bit nutty.
  It's those attempting to design or sell the impossible who then hand it off to a programmer with a deadline that would take a miracle who have lost their damn marbles.
5. Re:No Different. by geekmux · 2014-11-25 07:54 · Score: 1
  
  Come on, is he really any crazier than most programmers?
  He's not much crazier then most religious peeps I've known.
  Ah, just a brief reminder, you are talking about the same person in this particular case.
  I'm not saying the nutjob level scales perfectly with the combination of the two, but hey if the bible thumps...
6. Re:No Different. by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 07:57 · Score: 0
  
  They're not nutty. They're greedy, ambitious and immoral. These are highly valued traits in modern society.
  If YOU fail to deliver what they promised, it's no skin off their back. They'll have another job lined up in no time, because they're skilled in the art of bullshitting people.
7. Re:No Different. by __aaclcg7560 · 2014-11-25 08:21 · Score: 1
  
  Only on Halloween.
8. Re:No Different. by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 09:11 · Score: 0
  
  I'd rebutt your argument (a simple matter), but you strike me as a possible female, so I'm going to need proof otherwise or I need.the permission slip from your husband that allows you to post online.
9. Re:No Different. by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 10:01 · Score: 0
  
  This is the Internet. Everyone knows there are no females on the Internet unless they're naked, or drunk and naked. Anyone claiming to be female is Chris Hansen. Thus, the GP is a male. QED.
10. Re:No Different. by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 16:57 · Score: 0
  
  I do not get what you are saying. What does the existence of a normal person from the set of all people, have to do with the claim that a subset of people (called programmers) only consists of crazy people?
11. Re:No Different. by reboot246 · 2014-11-25 23:40 · Score: 1
  
  A psychiatrist told me one time that I was the most normal, sane person he'd ever met, but considering his usual clientele that's probably not as much of a compliment as it may seem.
12. Re:No Different. by gl4ss · 2014-11-26 00:13 · Score: 1
  
  yes, since most programmers would recognize that they actually should know how an oracle program they coded works so they wouldn't think of it as way of talking to/with god.
  
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13. Re:No Different. by tehcyder · 2014-11-26 01:53 · Score: 1
  
  A psychiatrist told me one time that I was the most normal, sane person he'd ever met, but considering his usual clientele that's probably not as much of a compliment as it may seem.
  I wonder if he was including himself in people he'd met?
  
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14. Re:No Different. by BarbaraHudson · 2014-11-26 02:23 · Score: 1
  
  A psychiatrist told me one time that I was the most normal, sane person he'd ever met, but considering his usual clientele that's probably not as much of a compliment as it may seem.
  Nah, he says that to ALL his patients :-)
  But seriously, there are so many of the "walking wounded" out there who deny they need help, and it interferes with their day-to-day living, sometimes seriously. People who beat their spouses and kids. People who have phobias they won't address. People who think that because they so order, even if it's impossible, it makes it the One True Way (most programmers have had one or more of those as bosses). People who keep doing the same thing over and over and complaining that they keep getting the same results. I'm sure you can add to the list.
  So maybe he was telling the truth?
  
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The title is misleading by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 07:14 · Score: 0

The title is misleading, it should probably be: "The Slowpoke Slashdot User Who Posted A 5 Year Old Non-News."
1. Re:The title is misleading by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 07:19 · Score: 0
  
  His theory is more sound than all the church. The pope is a rich lazy joke along with all that elite crew. And it's pretty humiliating for Slashdot to post this it's been on hacker news and elsewhere forever. But hey lets just continue farming up old news Slashdot. It's a true sign of the times this site's soul sucked dry by Dice overlords.
2. Re:The title is misleading by Half-pint+HAL · 2014-11-25 21:39 · Score: 1
  
  The pope is a rich lazy joke along with all that elite crew..
  That would be more "5 Year Old Non-News". The current pope is the first one in centuries who actually lives the sort of life the catholic church preaches.
  
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16 colors by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 07:14 · Score: 0

* God said 640x480 16 color graphics is a covenant like circumcision. Children
will do offerings. Think of 16 colors like the Simpson's cartoons.
I guess that explains Windows 8?
1. Re:16 colors by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 07:28 · Score: 0
  
  Was it God who said 640k ought to be enough for anyone???
  (* We know that the other person purported to have said this has denied doing so. )
2. Re:16 colors by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 08:35 · Score: 0
  
  HAHA OMG, DAE window$ sugs, amirire guys? there is nowhare this cant be shoehorned in amirite?
3. Re:16 colors by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 10:26 · Score: 0
  
  Jobs said 64K and he had a cult follow him.
assumption by micahraleigh · 2014-11-25 07:16 · Score: 1

Is this post equating talking with God as schezophrenia or does the guy really have schizophrenia?

Trying to steer clear of pre-masticated/cynical news.
1. Re:assumption by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 07:28 · Score: 0
  
  He has been diagnosed with schizophrenia. He's been suffering from the symptoms for about two decades.
2. Re:assumption by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 07:37 · Score: 1
  
  I think it's an excellent assumption that he's schizophrenic. Have you known or spent time with schizophrenics?
  Interestingly, American schizophrenics have a tendency toward dark and violent fantasy worlds, including malevolent paranoia. In most of the rest of the world schizophrenics don't have this tendency, and more often the voices are good ghosts, departed family members giving gentle advice, a benevolent god, etc. It's really quite fascinating the way culture shapes the disorder.
  I think it's great that this is this guy's fantasy world. For many American schizophrenics, theirs is a terrifying reality.
  And, yes, if there's regularly a disassociated voice in your head, including one that claims to be god, I think from a clinical standpoint schizophrenia should be the first thing that pops in your head. But we shouldn't stigmatize schizophrenia so much. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy from the standpoint of society--the more we stigmatize it, the worse and more dangerous the illness becomes.
3. Re:assumption by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 07:48 · Score: 0
  
  Is this post equating talking with God as schezophrenia or does the guy really have schizophrenia?
  For non-believers talking with God may be just stupidity if you are the only one doing the talking as a monologue or schizophrenia if God answers as a dialogue...
  This guy really has schizophrenia i think, but for me, a believer in God, this has nothing to do with him talking (as in a monologue or even a dialogue) with God - but you must be warned that i talk with God... as in a dialogue!
4. Re:assumption by Immerman · 2014-11-25 08:36 · Score: 1
  
  Or perhaps American ghosts are simply darker and more violent than most places. We did build the nation atop a giant Indian graveyard after all. :D
  
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5. Re:assumption by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 09:04 · Score: 0
  
  He really has schizophrenia.
  Talking to god just means you have a delusion that's extremely common in America and other backward countries, so isn't even considered mental illness yet. It's not schizophrenia unless you believe that your imaginary friend is actually replying to you, because you're hearing voices that are not there.
6. Re:assumption by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 11:15 · Score: 0
  
  In which country is this delusion not pervasive? It's still quite pervasive in European countries. Heck, many Western European nations still have official church representation at the legislative and administrative levels.
  I also don't think it's a delusion, at least in the clinical sense. It appears to be a natural tendency of the human psyche.
7. Re:assumption by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-27 04:03 · Score: 0
  
  Many European countries have representatives who claim that women earn 80% of what a man does and despite this nobody has a problem with them. Why do some delusions outrank others?
8. Re:assumption by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-27 06:30 · Score: 0
  
  Room 237 is about The Shining and the interpretations it gives to people including the one that it is about relations with the Indians.
  John Forbes Nash Jr is an American Schizophrenic whose works " in game theory, differential geometry, and partial differential equations have provided insight into the factors that govern chance and events inside complex systems in daily life."
  Philip K Dick is one whose works had been criminally overlooked by Hollywood.
  Clara Bow I did not know about until wandering around wikipedia.
  Mark Vonnegut son of Kurt wrote the excellent The Eden Express.
I used to talk to god... by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 07:17 · Score: 0

then I realized that in reciting my prayers I was only talking to myself, and that's when I realized that I was god. LOL
1. Re:I used to talk to god... by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 08:32 · Score: 0
  
  Did you start to bask in awe of your own intellegence too? I mean, with so many other supposed human adults with imaginary friends, how could you not look down at the ignorant peons and not feel pride?
Do all programmers eventually end up like this? by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 07:21 · Score: 0

This seems like the end-game...
1. Re:Do all programmers eventually end up like this? by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 14:31 · Score: 0
  
  Not all programmers are insane.
  My dog told me all programmers don't talk to God while coding.
assumption by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 07:22 · Score: 0

I believe the guy really has been diagnosed with schizophrenia.
Old News by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 07:22 · Score: 0

This story is nothing but an ad for vice.
As a psycho-sociological artifact, I am interested by astro · 2014-11-25 07:23 · Score: 1

I haven't had professional need recently to install Virtualbox, but this spurs me to it. I actually want to see this and find it interesting.
Poor guy... by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 07:24 · Score: 0

That's a lot of blinking, scrolling text to have on-screen all at once. :/
1. Re:Poor guy... by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 07:57 · Score: 0
  
  It's enough to drive a person crazy.
2. Re:Poor guy... by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 12:04 · Score: 0
  
  but enough about Slashdot Beta...
Perfect OS... for x86 by noidentity · 2014-11-25 07:28 · Score: 1

* God said His temple must be perfect. We don't think twice about breaking compatibility.
* One platform. x86_64 PC compatibles.
These two are at opposite ends of the spectrum.

* Ring-0-only. Everything runs in kernel mode, including user applications.
Mac OS Classic must have been more holy than Mac OS X. Makes sense, though, since everything is perfect. No need for protection.

* No networking, so malware is not an issue.
God must not want anyone sharing documents. Oh, right, the OS is perfect, so no exploits possible.
1. Re:Perfect OS... for x86 by Opportunist · 2014-11-25 08:08 · Score: 2
  
  Well, God ain't really known for working well with colleagues.
  
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already been done... by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 07:29 · Score: 0

god's name is ELIZA
1. Re:already been done... by Half-pint+HAL · 2014-11-25 21:41 · Score: 1
  
  Does it upset you that god's name is ELIZA [wikipedia.org]?
  
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it has no networking by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 07:37 · Score: 0

Look we all know the internet IS god so without networking how does he hope to achieve his goal
the F7 feature is hilarious
fork it by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 07:38 · Score: 0

Since it is open source, it would be possible (and hilarious) if someone forked the code and made it into HellOS, an operating system for Talking to Satan
1. Re:fork it by Opportunist · 2014-11-25 08:09 · Score: 1
  
  Oh great. Exactly what we need, a schism.
  
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Bat$hit Crazy? by MagickalMyst · 2014-11-25 07:38 · Score: 2

Well, he IS a programmer, after all.

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No thanks by Dunbal · 2014-11-25 07:40 · Score: 1

I'm not going to try this. What if "god" suddenly decides to erase all my data?

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1. Re:No thanks by Opportunist · 2014-11-25 08:10 · Score: 2
  
  Don't worry. Jesus SAVES!
  
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  We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
2. Re:No thanks by Lunix+Nutcase · 2014-11-25 08:11 · Score: 2
  
  ... after every level.
3. Re:No thanks by drafalski · 2014-11-25 08:14 · Score: 1
  
  Can God create a disk wipe so secure even He could not recover the data?
4. Re:No thanks by Opportunist · 2014-11-25 08:26 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Nah. Just at the endgame. You're thinking of Buddha.
  
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5. Re:No thanks by gstoddart · 2014-11-25 08:34 · Score: 0
  
  Can God create a disk wipe so secure even He could not recover the data?
  Dude, pass whatever you're smoking down the left hand side. ;-)
  
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OS? Here's a small shellscript by GameboyRMH · 2014-11-25 07:41 · Score: 1

#! /bin/bash
read prayers
echo "Meh."
exit

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Oh, please by fyngyrz · 2014-11-25 07:42 · Score: 1

Many good men are [racist]
No, they aren't. If you're racist, it's more than a "sin", it's an abject failure of humanity. Just the kind of thing that gets people hurt badly, often in large numbers. Your sin here is failing to recognize evil when it's right in your face.

Others are liars, or thieves, or adulterers.
There's no worthy point in this. None of these actions can serve to exonerate racism, or racists. The only cure for racism is to abandon it as a failed mode of thought. Every thinking being is an individual. When someone loses (or never gains) sight of that and lumps them into classes, regardless of what you call the process, it's a very, very bad thing.

All men have their sins.
No, they don't. Some people are intrinsically good; and some issues are not sins, for many varied reasons, not the least of which is an overly simplistic viewpoint of the person making the judgment. The idea that all are born with/into sin is a superstitious notion with absolutely no root in reality.

Yours is self-righteousness.
Pot, meet kettle.

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1. Re:Oh, please by BarbaraHudson · 2014-11-25 07:56 · Score: 3, Interesting
  
  He's a schizophrenic, after first being diagnosed as bipolar. The world he sees is not, in many ways, the world we live in. His use of the "n" word when attacked on-line crossed the bounds of our social conventions, but I wouldn't rule out some form of aphasia as well - some words don't seem to mean the same to him as to you or I.
  After all, he calls himself an atheist, but God has commanded him to build an OS, and this doesn't engender any cognitive dissonance - to the contrary, it "proves" that God is speaking to him. And he's only taking one of his medications ...
  Mental health issues are not cut-and-dried. Try living with a serious mental illness for a while and then get back to us, mkay? It's not as easy as you think.
  
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2. Re:Oh, please by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 07:57 · Score: 0
  
  > When someone loses (or never gains) sight of that and lumps them into classes, regardless of what you call the process, it's a very, very bad thing.
  Thinking that the use of one racial slur constitutes this is a complete logical fallacy.
3. Re:Oh, please by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 08:23 · Score: 0
  
  Based on his post there is a good chance he is already living with a serious mental illness.
4. Re:Oh, please by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 08:46 · Score: 0
  
  If a person has any human failings, they are a terrible human being
  How about you go fuck yourself with that ridiculous ideology? I can tell a lot about your humanity because you see one, practically-universal flaw in a person and write them off as completely unsalvageable. Gandhi was extremely racist toward American blacks. Should we ignore everything he actually DID when forging a path to peace simply to spite him for his thoughts? I'd rather deal with a racist than with a spiteful, hypocritical sack of shit like you. At least I might get honesty, integrity, and character out of a racist.
  Besides, you're operating on a shitty excuse for "Racism" if you think using a racial slur as a go-to insult is "racist" -- for example: am I against procreation or digestion when I call you a "fucking piece of shit"? I guarantee you that I am a big fan of fucking and having a functional digestive tract. Philosophy is simply not the basis for expletives -- what will cause an emotional, attentive response in the other person makes the foundation of a good expletive.
5. Re:Oh, please by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 08:59 · Score: 0
  
  Mental health issues are not cut-and-dried. Try living with a serious mental illness for a while and then get back to us, mkay? It's not as easy as you think.
  I hate to point out the painfully obvious here, but if someone is living with a serious mental illness, chances are they're not getting "back" to anyone at any time with anything resembling a sane argument.
6. Re:Oh, please by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 09:03 · Score: 0
  
  I've read his forum posts before he was banned everywhere. He would go off on rants about black people & hispanics. _THAT_ is why he was banned from so many places.
7. Re:Oh, please by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 09:07 · Score: 0
  
  So, what, we should just let him run roughshod through the valleys of mental illness? This dude needs professional help, professional help that he's not getting. He needs to be forcibly committed before he decides that his best plan for talking to God is shooting up the next talk from RMS.
8. Re:Oh, please by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 09:17 · Score: 0
  
  > If you're racist, it's more than a "sin", it's an abject failure of humanity.
  We all have some amount of bigotry in us, it is human nature. Bigotry on its own is nothing more than a character flaw. It is only when bigotry is combined with the power to effect others that it becomes a problem for anyone but the bigot.
  > Some people are intrinsically good
  Since "good" is a matter of perspective, I'm confident in telling you that you are wrong. It is impossible to lead a remotely normal life and still be "intrinsically good." Of course as a human with your own set of biases you are certainly able to come up with a concrete definition of good that matches your own biases, but that would just be another manifestation of your bigotry. In my experience people with such absolute beliefs in "good" tend to be some of the ones most willing to harm others in the name of "good."
9. Re:Oh, please by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 09:21 · Score: 0
  
  ^^^^THIS. Well put.
10. Re:Oh, please by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 09:25 · Score: 0
  
  If you defend racist you are just as bad as they are and need to be removed from the Earth, violently if need be. It is not Tolerance to tolerate intolerance, it is the height of stupidity. When the Race Wars happen, racists and racists allies like you will be the first against the wall to be shot.
11. Re:Oh, please by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 09:34 · Score: 0
  
  Oh Dear God, some please kill that disgusting fatass already. Stinking neckbeards in positions of influence is the number one reason why no new demographics, particularly women, want to enter STEM.
12. Re:Oh, please by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 09:38 · Score: 0
  
  All racists need to be killed horribly. That includes you, who defends them. There cannot be true racial harmony so long as whites hold power.
13. Re:Oh, please by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 09:42 · Score: 0
  
  When someone loses (or never gains) sight of that and lumps them into classes, regardless of what you call the process, it's a very, very bad thing.
  Racism is simply over generalization, with respect to race. Other examples of not racism, but over generalization: fat people are lazy, tall men are womanizers, blondes have more fun. Making it out to be so different from every other aspect of humanity is simply a personal bias.
14. Re:Oh, please by TangoMargarine · 2014-11-25 10:04 · Score: 1
  
  Some people are intrinsically good; and some issues are not sins [...] The idea that all are born with/into sin is a superstitious notion with absolutely no root in reality.
  You believe in sin but original sin is a superstition? I would think those would kind of be in the same belief space.
  I'm also under the impression that if you don't believe in salvation, you don't call it sin.
  
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15. Re:Oh, please by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 10:22 · Score: 0
  
  Holder and Obama are abject failures at being human.
16. Re:Oh, please by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 10:28 · Score: 0
  
  whatsamatter, you mad bra?
17. Re:Oh, please by drinkypoo · 2014-11-25 10:35 · Score: 1
  
  Try living with a serious mental illness for a while and then get back to us, mkay? It's not as easy as you think.
  You're saying that to a slashdotter? YMBNH
  
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18. Re:Oh, please by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 11:28 · Score: 0
  
  Nah, it's a new account. That's actually Tom Hudson, who has apparently decided he's actually a woman, which would explain why he knows so much about mental illness.
19. Re:Oh, please by BarbaraHudson · 2014-11-25 11:45 · Score: 1
  
  Mental health issues are not cut-and-dried. Try living with a serious mental illness for a while and then get back to us, mkay? It's not as easy as you think.
  I hate to point out the painfully obvious here, but if someone is living with a serious mental illness, chances are they're not getting "back" to anyone at any time with anything resembling a sane argument.
  Mental illness != insanity.
  Or are you going to say that people with PTSD can't make sane arguments? Or those with major depressive disorder?
  
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20. Re:Oh, please by Guest316 · 2014-11-25 11:51 · Score: 1
  
  "n" word
  It's ok, you're allowed to say "nikto" here.
21. Re:Oh, please by BarbaraHudson · 2014-11-25 11:53 · Score: 1
  
  So, what, we should just let him run roughshod through the valleys of mental illness? This dude needs professional help, professional help that he's not getting. He needs to be forcibly committed before he decides that his best plan for talking to God is shooting up the next talk from RMS.
  Maybe you should actually RTFA:
  
  "From 1996 to 2003, about every six months I would have what they call a manic episode and I would end up in a mental hospital," he says. He hasn’t been to a hospital since; once diagnosed as bipolar, he’s since been declared schizophrenic. He now only takes a single medication, and shrugs off the diagnosis. The label doesn’t concern him. "For those first few years, I was genuinely pretty crazy in a way. Now I'm not. I'm crazy in a different way maybe," he says. He says he’s learned not to freak out.
  
  In other words, he is receiving treatment. He has no issues taking his medication now, unlike many people who figure "Oh, I feel okay. Guess I can stop taking my meds." or "I hate the side effects. I'm going off my meds" and end up back in hospital.
  
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22. Re:Oh, please by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 12:24 · Score: 0
  
  ^posted by a privileged white person pretending to care about people of color
23. Re:Oh, please by BarbaraHudson · 2014-11-25 13:31 · Score: 1
  
  Since my personal troll never bothers to log in, he obviously hasn't seen my signature. He believes I'm ashamed. So here it is:
  
  this post brought to you by the letter ' t ' in LGBTt (Lesbian, Gay, Bi, Transgender, transsexual)
  BTW, the APA (American Psychiatric Association) no longer considers being transsexual a mental disorder. It took them "only" 40 years more to figure that out than it did with lesbians and gays. Maybe you should realize that your current social construct is as last-century as your HOSTS file.
  And yes, I know a bit about mental illness, at least wrt PTSD and MDD, since I have been dealing with PTSD most of my life, as well as MDD and other co-morbid conditions. Again, nothing to be ashamed of. The problem is that society stigmatizes any mental illness as a sign of both weakness and "other-ness." So people hide it, don't seek treatment, and end up either in the E.R. or the morgue.
  I tried coping on my own for the longest time - my dogs helped a lot as a buffer for depression. But I know from experience that it doesn't help when those around you are always telling you to "just pull yourself out of it" rather than "maybe you need to get some help." They wouldn't be saying that for a physical illness, such as a broken leg.
  But the only way to remove the stigma of mental illness is for more people to talk about it realistically, and remove the knee-jerk stereotypes.
  
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24. Re:Oh, please by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 14:07 · Score: 0
  
  Wow, you're paranoid. You should see a doctor about that. Like, an actual one, and not whatever one you've been seeing.
  
  BTW, the APA (American Psychiatric Association) no longer considers being transsexual a mental disorder. It took them "only" 40 years more to figure that out than it did with lesbians and gays.
  I can't wait until we learn more about the brain and someone comes up with a cure for homosexuality. It's going to be fucking hilarious, like watching deaf people get upset about cochlear ear implants.
  
  Maybe you should realize that your current social construct is as last-century as your HOSTS file.
  What the fuck are you even talking about?
  
  And yes, I know a bit about mental illness, at least wrt PTSD and MDD, since I have been dealing with PTSD most of my life, as well as MDD and other co-morbid conditions.
  Expand your goddamned acronyms.
25. Re: Oh, please by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 14:50 · Score: 0
  
  Jesus, this guy sounds like a lot is known about him here.
  Are there any other interesting Slashdot characters with closets full of a million skeletons?
26. Re:Oh, please by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 15:04 · Score: 0
  
  But trannies are diseased. They are no different than those people who think that their leg belongs to someone else and wasn't to have it cut off. Also, even if they get the surgery, the still will not have changed gender, they will just have mutilated their genitals and fucked up their bodies with hormones.
27. Re:Oh, please by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 23:00 · Score: 0
  
  So you're a faggot, so what? Many people are.
28. Re:Oh, please by fyngyrz · 2014-11-26 05:43 · Score: 1
  
  Mental health issues are not cut-and-dried.
  Agreed. But racism is. When an animal is rabid, you put it down. It's not the animal's fault, but it's dangerous. With racism, you don't make excuses for the perpetrator -- you call it what it is and you don't encourage or make up reasons why it's ok -- it bloody well isn't ok, and it makes absolutely no difference as to why it's being put forth. Racism deserves zero social support, direct or indirect. Zero.
  When mental illness foments, supports or creates hate and divisiveness, the situation has escalated beyond any reasonable level of tolerance. "Living with it" transforms abruptly from a kindness to abject stupidity. Even the very weakest grasp of history tells us that racism never, ever leads anywhere worthy, and that's the upside. The downside is absolutely horrific.
  
  Try living with a serious mental illness for a while and then get back to us, mkay
  Don't make baseless assumptions, m'kay? You'll spend less time savoring the taste of your own shoes, deluded into thinking that is the flavor of rhetorical success.
  
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29. Re:Oh, please by fyngyrz · 2014-11-26 06:11 · Score: 1
  
  Sin is a perfectly reasonable social construct. The dictionary defines it as "Any reprehensible or regrettable action, behavior, lapse, etc.; great fault or offense." It is often used in the context of morals (another perfectly reasonable social construct), but not always.
  Original sin is superstitious claptrap. The offspring of a heinous murderer is not, in any way, responsible or culpable for the acts of the parent via inheritance. Japanese and German nationals born after the end of WWII (and in many cases earlier) cannot be held responsible for the atrocities perpetrated by their ancestors -- the idea is fundamentally unsound.
  Likewise, "Sinning before God" is utter nonsense. It carries all the significance and weight that "Sinning before the Easter Bunny" does. Both ideas gain only the weight that their communities, through delusion or disingenuity, care to arbitrarily assign to them. A good example is the assignment of sin to a person for wearing mixed fibers as a matter of theist dogma; it is purest meaningless claptrap. Delusion or disingenuity.
  
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30. Re:Oh, please by fyngyrz · 2014-11-26 06:15 · Score: 1
  
  Yes, gas is under $3.00 here as well, joblessness is back to pre-Bush levels, and people with pre-existing conditions can now obtain insurance.
  Damn you, OBummer!
  
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31. Re:Oh, please by TangoMargarine · 2014-11-26 06:55 · Score: 1
  
  I just don't think I've ever met anyone who was non-religious who used the word before.
  
  Original sin is superstitious claptrap. The offspring of a heinous murderer is not, in any way, responsible or culpable for the acts of the parent via inheritance. Japanese and German nationals born after the end of WWII (and in many cases earlier) cannot be held responsible for the atrocities perpetrated by their ancestors -- the idea is fundamentally unsound.
  Inasmuch as all religion can be labeled "superstitious claptrap," sure.
  This isn't the definition of "original sin" that I'm familiar with. The Christian definition of original sin is that humans are born with a nature that, if not kept in check, will do evil things. The only way "inheritance" is involved is inheriting that nature down the generations of people who've lived before them.
  
  Likewise, "Sinning before God" is utter nonsense. It carries all the significance and weight that "Sinning before the Easter Bunny" does. Both ideas gain only the weight that their communities, through delusion or disingenuity, care to arbitrarily assign to them.
  Well yeah, that's the fundamental question--do you draw your system of morals from an outside authority, or construct them yourself? The view of most of the western religions is that God is an oracle (to abuse computing terminology) that tells you what's right and wrong. Then the RCC and others decided to layer up a bunch of extra rules.
  
  Both ideas gain only the weight that their communities, through delusion or disingenuity, care to arbitrarily assign to them.
  But how many steps removed is that from society telling us what's right and wrong, really? If you try hard enough you can justify almost anything using logic.
  
  A good example is the assignment of sin to a person for wearing mixed fibers as a matter of theist dogma; it is purest meaningless claptrap. Delusion or disingenuity.
  Yeah, conservative Judaism does seem to have a lot of funny rules. No argument there.
  (sorry if this came off as a point-by-point picking apart of your post; I was just trying to separate out the relevant ideas)
  
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32. Re:Oh, please by BarbaraHudson · 2014-11-26 07:11 · Score: 1
  
  Mental health issues are not cut-and-dried.
  Agreed. But racism is. When an animal is rabid, you put it down. It's not the animal's fault, but it's dangerous.
  The guy doesn't have rabies. He's also non-violent.
  
  With racism, you don't make excuses for the perpetrator -- you call it what it is and you don't encourage or make up reasons why it's ok
  Neither I, nor most of the other posters, have said it's okay. We don't encourage it. Nevertheless, we recognize that, in this particular instance, the man is quite possibly not responsible for everything that comes out of his mouth. Or do you support executing killers who are found to be not criminally responsible due to insanity?
  
  When mental illness foments, supports or creates hate and divisiveness, the situation has escalated beyond any reasonable level of tolerance.
  As opposed to when someone who is NOT mentally ill "foments, supports or creates hate and divisiveness"? Because there's a LOT of hate and divisiveness out there, and very little of it has to do with skin color.
  
  Try living with a serious mental illness for a while and then get back to us, mkay
  Don't make baseless assumptions, m'kay? You'll spend less time savoring the taste of your own shoes, deluded into thinking that is the flavor of rhetorical success.
  Blah blah blah. Big talk from someone with zero empathy or compassion who wants to send the mentally ill to the gas chamber (because that's often how unwanted and dangerous dogs are "put down") - or do you have a better "final solution"?
  I've lived with PTSD and MDD all my adult life. As I originally posted, I know that the issues are not cut and dried. For a long time, I had a serious prejudice against schizophrenics due to the actions of one who was also homicidal. With therapy I came to realize that (1) there's no rationalizing that person's actions because, as the jury concluded, they were NOT in a rational state of mind at the time, and (2) be grateful it wasn't me that ended up dead. We don't "put down" (your words, not mine) people for having physical illnesses, so why should we "put down" people with mental illnesses?
  Most of the schizophrenics I've encountered since are non-violent, and very lonely because nobody else will talk to them like a human being. Yes, they can say some pretty objectionable things, but between their illness and the way society treats them, I'm not surprised that some of them express their anger and frustration in ways that you or I would not approve of, or just say some really stupid things because they have been denied a chance to see and experience the world as we see and experience it. Their racist speech is more likely a symptom of a deeply disturbed individual than anything else - same as any other racist who is NOT mentally ill.
  
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33. Re:Oh, please by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-26 10:42 · Score: 0
  
  Yeah man, fuck whitey.
34. Re:Oh, please by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-27 03:56 · Score: 0
  
  But what does that have to do with them being racists?
OK then. by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 07:45 · Score: 0

* God said 640x480 16 color graphics is a covenant like circumcision.
In that case, we need a better god.
1. Re:OK then. by BarbaraHudson · 2014-11-25 08:12 · Score: 1
  
  * God said 640x480 16 color graphics is a covenant like circumcision.
  In that case, we need a better god.
  Nonsense. A monochrome monitor on an old hercules card (720x350x8 pages video ram for text, 720x348x2 pages graphics) is much simpler - and simplicity is what his god wants, right? Ergo, he is serving a false god.
  (oh, those were the days ... early dual monitor setups that could show the code on one screen, the output on another, when everyone else was stuck with video page-flpping).
  
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2. Re:OK then. by baka_toroi · 2014-11-26 05:41 · Score: 1
  
  A single dimension (or 0th?) is the simplest one. It doesn't mean it's the most sensible or useful one. It's very hard to find the balance between simplicity and utility, and 640x480x16 seems to be the sweet spot according to God.
Hahahaha, good ol' TempleOS by Tyrannicsupremacy · 2014-11-25 07:46 · Score: 1

I've been claiming to use this as my operating system for years. People in tech IRC rooms get pretty frustrated when they think anyone would actually use it. Another of my favorite things to do is to ask people to stop spamming the chat because it's wasting my ink ribbon. People get annoyed when I tell them i use a Teletype 33 for irc.

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Sure, why not? by RyoShin · 2014-11-25 07:48 · Score: 1

If a bunch of dudes 2000+ years ago could talk directly to the Abrahamic God, and one in particular through a burning bush, why not some dude in the modern days through a computer?
If Terry Davis isn't a real prophet today, then why can't we call the prophets in the Bible schizophrenic?
1. Re:Sure, why not? by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 07:52 · Score: 0
  
  If Terry Davis isn't a real prophet today, then why can't we call the prophets in the Bible schizophrenic?
  Who specifically said you couldn't?
2. Re:Sure, why not? by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 07:57 · Score: 0
  
  And Lo, the Lord God appeared in a Halt and Catch Fire screen.
  captcha: blinding
3. Re:Sure, why not? by kamapuaa · 2014-11-25 08:11 · Score: 2
  
  Holy shit! It was all a lie! Thank you, Internet atheist who posts to a technology website!
  
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4. Re:Sure, why not? by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 08:46 · Score: 0
  
  "So... anything else you don't believe in?"
  --Robert Downey Jr., "The Soloist"
5. Re:Sure, why not? by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 09:10 · Score: 0
  
  If a bunch of dudes 2000+ years ago could talk directly to the Abrahamic God, and one in particular through a burning bush, why not some dude in the modern days through a computer?
  They couldn't really, they lived in a very primitive time when most people were superstitious. People still can't talk to imaginary beings even with a computer which may seem to be magic to the less knowledgeable. By 2014 we should be less superstitious than our undereducated ancestors.
  
  If Terry Davis isn't a real prophet today, then why can't we call the prophets in the Bible schizophrenic?
  We can. Anyone who thinks a god, spirit, demon, leprechaun, etc is talking to them has lost touch with reality and needs to seek professional help and proper medication and therapy.
6. Re:Sure, why not? by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 09:21 · Score: 0
  
  If you define atheists as a outgroup, it indicates that you're so young or fantasy prone that you don't understand that the supernatural is imaginary. Still...In the 21st century!
  
  I have some magic beans available if you'd like to buy some. They're $1000 each, but they'll allow you to have a high-ranking position in the afterlife, which is not at all an absurd hoax, and is totally a real place. Trust me. The more beans you buy and eat, the higher-ranking you'll be.
7. Re:Sure, why not? by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 09:35 · Score: 0
  
  http://xkcd.com/386/
8. Re:Sure, why not? by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 10:05 · Score: 0
  
  Anyone who thinks a god, spirit, demon, leprechaun, etc is talking to them has lost touch with reality and needs to seek professional help and proper medication and therapy.
  That's one way to look at it. On the other hand, that leprechaun states his case very well. He's also sweetened the pot with gold, so I'm going with his interpretation.
9. Re:Sure, why not? by drinkypoo · 2014-11-25 10:38 · Score: 1
  
  If a bunch of dudes 2000+ years ago could talk directly to the Abrahamic God, and one in particular through a burning bush, why not some dude in the modern days through a computer?
  Because his OS doesn't have networking?
  
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Wesley Willis writes an OS by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 07:49 · Score: 0

So Wesley Willis finally writes an os...
1. Re:Wesley Willis writes an OS by sabbede · 2014-11-26 00:14 · Score: 1
  
  Don't try to use it on the bus!
  Rock on Redmond, rock on Palo Alto. Hanes: America’s First Name in Comfort Since 1901
Who the hell wrote this article? by Tyrannicsupremacy · 2014-11-25 07:51 · Score: 2

(He can be aggressive and confrontational, sometimes denouncing critics with profanity and call them "nigger.") No editors at vice?

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1. Re:Who the hell wrote this article? by JasonGoatcher · 2014-11-25 09:07 · Score: 1
  
  (He can be aggressive and confrontational, sometimes denouncing critics with profanity and call them "nigger.")
  No editors at vice?
  They were referring to the word itself, referencing a slur doesn't equate to agreeing with the slurs meaning.
2. Re:Who the hell wrote this article? by Lunix+Nutcase · 2014-11-25 10:18 · Score: 1
  
  They were pointing out the grammatical mistake in the sentence. Verb tenses not agreeing.
Genesis 1:6 by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 07:52 · Score: 0

"On the second day, God created the desktop resolution as 640x480x16, and saw that it was good....enough."
i can do uh...time travel by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 07:54 · Score: 0

actually it's God planning centuries ahead... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VhOj5btiVY#t=93
futhermore... by FatdogHaiku · 2014-11-25 07:59 · Score: 1

deals.slashdot.org uses an invalid security certificate. The certificate is only valid for the following names: stacksocial.com, www.stacksocial.com, deals.droid-life.com, deals.macwareinc.com, deals.thenextweb.com, deals.inetinteractive.com, store.efactor.com, deals.androidguys.com, store.bgr.com, deals.androidauthority.com, deals.androidpit.com, deals.fansided.com, deals.indiegamebundles.com
(Error code: ssl_error_bad_cert_domain)

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WHAT THE FFFFF by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 08:01 · Score: 0

TDavis made it to Slashdot? Holy shit! This guy's a favorite on my underground NEET forums. Go Terry!
1. Re:WHAT THE FFFFF by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 08:19 · Score: 0
  
  I can't believe you made me evade the Slashdot pink page to see this stupid fucking heap of garbage dressed up as an article. Everyone here is a know-nothing twat and Soulskill should kill himself. I'm going back to chill with Terry and Mentifex.
Very nice, get him help by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 08:01 · Score: 0

Yes it's all very nice he's built an operating system to talk to a mythical being while being insane in the correct usage of the term...now let's get him some help, ideally a few rolls of rubber wallpaper and lots of pills.
A schizophrenic who communes with god? Sounds like he's a few 'visions' away from doing something that could hurt a lot of people. Pick any one of your favourite religion-based atrocities from the last decade or so as a prime example.
There's a reason it's called 'mental illness'; because illnesses should be treated.
1. Re:Very nice, get him help by BarbaraHudson · 2014-11-25 08:22 · Score: 2
  
  He's been a schizophrenic for almost 2 decades. He lives with his parents because he couldn't make it in the outside world. What he's doing is harmless.
  
  There's a reason it's called 'mental illness'; because illnesses should be treated.
  And if you had read the article you'd know he's taking medication.
  And while I agree with your statement that mental illnesses should be treated, there's such a stigma attached to mental illness that people actively resist seeking help, and others, the illness prevents them from seeking help. And unless you're in a crisis situation, for most people it's hard to get timely help, which is why the mentally ill end up having to use the emergency ward as their first contact with a psychiatrist.
  
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2. Re:Very nice, get him help by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 08:25 · Score: 0
  
  What if I told you that you were a dumb fuck with no understanding of mental illness other than what you've seen in movies? Do you have a medical license? No, you don't. It boggles the mind as to why you would be so arrogant as to open your mouth and talk about somethibg that you know nothing about. But I'm sure the equally retarded subhumans that get modpoints on this increasingly irrelevant backwater blog will reward your pseudo-intellectual drivel with upvotes. What a pity that one of the first tech sites has now been reduced to a level of discourse barely above that of fucking Reddit.
3. Re:Very nice, get him help by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 10:38 · Score: 0
  
  You sound...psychotic. Perhaps you should seek help for your illness. There are treatments for Assburgers, bipolar disorder, tourettes, or whatever it is you might have. Don't wait until it is too late!
Still.... by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 08:09 · Score: 0

... my preferred way of showing religious devotion!
CHMOD 666 by Jaegs · 2014-11-25 08:11 · Score: 1

I wonder if this causes a kernel panic.
1. Re:CHMOD 666 by Zynder · 2014-11-25 10:39 · Score: 1
  
  It probably does if it invokes a system daemon...
"Sheep are fools." by nowsharing · 2014-11-25 08:13 · Score: 1

"Minimal abstraction is a goal. Sheep are fools." A very christian concept I'm sure.
1. Re:"Sheep are fools." by JasonGoatcher · 2014-11-25 09:15 · Score: 1
  
  "Minimal abstraction is a goal. Sheep are fools." A very christian concept I'm sure.
  I think minimal abstraction is an awesome goal. The US has 10s of thousands of pages of laws and all it does is fuck us up more. I know you might not be an American. But filing a tax return in the US is horrendous, people do their best, but you never know when the IRS is going to pounce on you for some random reason.
  Having tons and tons of laws is a recipe for disaster. We need a small amount of laws and just use juries and courts for edge cases. And abolish stupid shit like claiming companies are people.
2. Re:"Sheep are fools." by JasonGoatcher · 2014-11-25 10:04 · Score: 1
  
  Sorry, ADD and free association made me post that, forgot we were talking about an operating system.
talking isn't the problem by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 08:22 · Score: 0

talking isn't the problem.
The imaginary friend answering back, now that's a problem.
The Lord has spoken. by ITRambo · 2014-11-25 08:27 · Score: 1

I am Davis. Look at what the Lord has given me. Here are fifteen (accidentally hits backspace key), er, ten commandments.
Not as crazy as it seems by greywire · 2014-11-25 08:27 · Score: 1

I read the charter.
And as crazy it seems, I kinda love it.
I mean, its not like I'd ever use such a machine for day to day work.
But, it could actually be pretty awesome as a learning machine or "toy" for young programmers. Kinda like the C64 it pays homage to.

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1. Re:Not as crazy as it seems by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 11:39 · Score: 0
  
  This has been out there for a while. I always thought it was kind of a cute toy project/machine -- and the whole temple-of-God OS thing was just some weird techno-wienie humor. Shows what I know, I guess.
Brilliant by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 08:34 · Score: 0

It's brilliant in a way the programmer did not intend.
He believes god told him to do this, and it's a way of talking directly with god. But his own coding will reveal he can't really do that, or at least he gets no genuine response, and so he will self prove his own belief as wrong.
1. Re:Brilliant by BarbaraHudson · 2014-11-26 05:43 · Score: 1
  
  He believes god told him to do this, and it's a way of talking directly with god. But his own coding will reveal he can't really do that, or at least he gets no genuine response, and so he will self prove his own belief as wrong.
  ... but a True Believer (TM) will claim that God is all-powerful, and that the random number generator is therefore not truly random when you use it to call God,
  The preacher had been heckling the town drunk from the pulpit every week, but the drunk continued to booze it up.
  The preacher went to a conference, and when he got back, the first person he ran into was the drunk.
  "Preacher, a bolt of lightning hit my house and it burned to the ground" said the drunk.
  "Well, I warned you that if you didn't change your reprobate ways God would punish you. It is a sign of what God has in store for sinners like you!"
  Then the drunk said "Oh, my bad - it was YOUR house that was struck by lightning and burned down."
  "The Lord moves in mysterious ways."
  People will continue to believe what they want to believe.
  
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Wolfenstein? by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 08:35 · Score: 0

Isn't that first person shooter he has the OS wolfenstein with potted plants? I'm also wondering how long he worked on this project.
1. Re:Wolfenstein? by Lunix+Nutcase · 2014-11-25 08:43 · Score: 1
  
  It says in the first sentence of the summary how long he worked on it. Do you have the attention span of a gnat?
Oracle? by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 08:38 · Score: 0

When you say Gods Oracle, your talking about Larry... right?
1. Re:Oracle? by Lunix+Nutcase · 2014-11-25 08:43 · Score: 1
  
  He didn't say asshole so probably not.
yeah ummm cya by JustNiz · 2014-11-25 08:49 · Score: 0

>> There are no C++ public/private protections and all
functions, even secondary ones in the kernel, can be called. ...so literally everything has global scope? ..No defined interfaces anywhere and changing the implementation of _anything_ has a high probability of breaking _everything_?
Good luck with ever getting a robust system, or even finding anyone with an actual clue that would want to contribute (a.k.a. waste) their time trying.
1. Re:yeah ummm cya by Lunix+Nutcase · 2014-11-25 09:02 · Score: 1
  
  It's a toy OS not a production system.
2. Re:yeah ummm cya by Blaskowicz · 2014-11-25 20:58 · Score: 1
  
  Is it a bit like object-oriented C code? :-)
3. Re:yeah ummm cya by JustNiz · 2014-11-26 01:56 · Score: 1
  
  No, even in (well-written) C, you don't just use globals everywhere.
I like it. by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 08:55 · Score: 0

Seriously, not many people do OS coding these days. It's no Windows or Android but still the guy is forging his own way. I'd put him up there with Torvolds honestly myself.
1. Re: I like it. by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-26 07:08 · Score: 0
  
  LOL you are as delusional as Terry is if you believe that.
  Linus created something useful that still chugs along today.
  What Terry is creating serves no purpose at all. Its only purpose is ensuring that Terry doesn't go postal because he's to busy programming.
  Be careful, because once Terry reaches that 100k limit and realizes it needs more lines of code, we are fucked.
  oh no god lied, death to everyone. ;)
Church of Pong by JustNiz · 2014-11-25 08:59 · Score: 1

For some reason this reminded me of the "Church of Pong" in Neuromancer.
Read his diary by goosesensor · 2014-11-25 09:00 · Score: 1

I've been checking this guy's diary out here and there for a while [http://www.templeos.org/Wb/Accts/TS/Wb2/Rants/TAD/TADRants.html]. To me this seems more like an NSA-created fictional character designed to discredit the Open Source community. Yes, they actually do that [https://firstlook.org/theintercept/] Go read the diary, search for three-letter organizations, and observe the context. Pretty interesting.
I only care about one thing. by Narcocide · 2014-11-25 09:00 · Score: 1

If I use this operating system, can I use it to talk to God too?
1. Re:I only care about one thing. by ysth · 2014-11-25 11:01 · Score: 1
  
  No, but you can host your own copy of http://timecube.com/
I guess god doesn't want to talk to me. by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 09:03 · Score: 0

I have a copy of this and all that happens once turned on is a blank screen...
If linux is the bazaar, by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 09:37 · Score: 0

here is the cathedral.
Hurtful... by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 09:38 · Score: 0

while I realize the internet's full of trolls and hurtful comments... I find a lot of comments here out of place.
While the idea of an OS to communicate with god may not be very well perceived (and as an atheist it's hard to relate)
Building an OS is no simple task, and even if design may be off, he did build something few of you will attempt to do.
As for considering him a nutcase, John Nash was considered a nutcase and won the nobel prize...
I am a schizophrenic developer, altough it's usually trough psychosis episodes rather than a permanent state of mind and I give this guy a thumbs up for thinking outside the box.
GOD and the 10 commands by Ronin+Developer · 2014-11-25 09:42 · Score: 1

GOD said to split it into two pages. Then GOD saidth, Upon each, thou shalt place five, not three and not four, but five commands. And, he saw it was good.
Citation Needed by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 09:55 · Score: 0

While APK is a pox, I don't recall him peddling CP or admitting to be a child molester....
1. Re:Citation Needed by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 13:49 · Score: 0
  
  pft...evidence is overrated.
By God you mean "The Machine" by greggman · 2014-11-25 09:55 · Score: 1

If you don't get reference you're missing out ;)
http://personofinterest.wikia.com/wiki/The_Machine
Although I wish they'd focus 100% on the bigger story and stop with the crime of the week crap.
And God responds back... by grep+-v+'.*'+* · 2014-11-25 09:57 · Score: 2

Eliza says: "So you say you feel the need to worship me. Tell me more."

GLaDOS says: "Well it's about bloomin' time. Go reattach that part that fell off me already."

Clippy says: "You appear to be writing a holy book. Would you like to change my appearance to one of my 666 skins before I begin to hel...p? "

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Oh there's a story here? by Mysticalfruit · 2014-11-25 10:03 · Score: 1

I got distracted by the crazy link bait crap at the bottom of the page. Come on slashdot... I've been a member for nearly 15 years but you're about to lose me. I don't mind a banner ad here or there but I see one more "10 foods that'll make you old" I'm going to scream.

Oh yeah, so the intersection of a crazy and computer science brought this to life... oh great.

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1. Re:Oh there's a story here? by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-26 02:08 · Score: 0
  
  I've been mostly reading Ars Technica lately, to be honest.
Petry FAIL! by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 10:07 · Score: 0

Were you were the guy programming

Is there a testicle term for this? Ya know, where the grammar Nazi spooges all over himself before he's even gotten started? Kind of like a Godwin or something...
1. Re:Petry FAIL! by TapeCutter · 2014-11-25 21:18 · Score: 1
  
  Nelson laugh is the best I can come up with.
  
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640x480 is not just enough for everyone... by denzacar · 2014-11-25 10:29 · Score: 2

It's a COVENANT. Like circumcision.
You know... for kids.

God also told Davis that 640x480, 16-color graphics "is a covenant like circumcision," making it easier for children to make drawings for God.

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1. Re: 640x480 is not just enough for everyone... by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 12:10 · Score: 0
  
  As long as your OS makes it simple to draw Muhammed, you'll have Muslim support... Oh wait.
2. Re:640x480 is not just enough for everyone... by Dahamma · 2014-11-26 18:28 · Score: 1
  
  This is my favorite sentence from the article.
  Apparently MCGA = My Circumcised Godlike Appendage.
A peaceful man by barbariccow · 2014-11-25 10:40 · Score: 1

A very peaceful man, as seen from his writtings, http://www.templeos.org/Wb/Acc... And I quote: " Fucken niggers! It's fucken God. Ken and Ira and the rest of you God-deniers are the stoopitest tin-foil hat niggers... " Love thy neighbor....
So ... what did God answer? by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 10:43 · Score: 0

'Crazy' is just viewing the world a bit differently from everyone else. He just may be right (ie: everyone thought the world was flat, until one person said otherwise). Is God giving any good advice?
Well at least it's not a suicide cult by davidwr · 2014-11-25 10:47 · Score: 1

There once was a cult which was into flashy colors.
To be fair, a lot of relatively sane people were into flashy-colored web sites at the time.

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Sad by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 11:06 · Score: 0

It is a bit sad that he has been caught up for a decade building this, but at least it is a harmless use of his time.
Don't knock that schizophrenic programmer! by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 11:10 · Score: 0

With one part of him to write the OS, and the other to do validation and verification, he just might pull off something big!
1. Re:Don't knock that schizophrenic programmer! by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-26 11:03 · Score: 0
  
  Schizophrenia is not dissociative identity disorder.
This is the perfect blend of OS and Religion! by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 11:12 · Score: 0

The old way:
1. Build an OS
2. Attract rabid users that turn loving your OS into a religion
3. Commence holy flame wars on the internets proclaiming the validity of your religion
4. ... Profit?
The New Way:
1. Be the messenger of God, delivering His Holy OS unto the masses.
2. ... Prophet!
Religion by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 11:15 · Score: 0

If it's about God, it's not schizophrenia. Then it's called religion. :)
interesting listening to him code by Cito · 2014-11-25 11:19 · Score: 1

Knowing he's schizophrenic , its interesting listening to him code and try to explain. You can definitely tell and hear the interruptions he has possibly as he may be hearing internal voices or whatnot.
He pushes through the mental interruptions as he tries to explain his code and write code
TempleOS: 5-Minute Random Code Walk-Thru #83: http://youtu.be/mILn4H-UehQ
His channel has over 80 5 minute coding sessions, and its wild hearing him speak as his brain internal voice constantly interrupts him.
There's a Fine Line.. by enter+to+exit · 2014-11-25 11:37 · Score: 1

This is a small interview he did (regarding his setup): http://terry.davis.usesthis.co...

He's been banned over at hackernews, reddit and a few places for posting the messages of God which he divines from an index of phrases and a PRNG. His revelations are often liberally intertwined with racist comments and violent swearing.

He's posed a slight dilemma for a few communities, as no one seems to know how exactly to react to his situation.

Here are a list of his demands in order to make god happy: http://www.templeos.org/Wb/Doc... . These include MS killing SecureBoot and VMware implementing PC speaker beeps.
1. Re:There's a Fine Line.. by Actually,+I+do+RTFA · 2014-11-25 14:42 · Score: 2
  
  Here are a list of his demands in order to make god happy: http://www.templeos.org/Wb/Doc... . These include MS ... VMware implementing PC speaker beeps.
  And on that we can all agree.
  
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Sorry, it was done a LONG time ago... by LynnwoodRooster · 2014-11-25 11:55 · Score: 0

It's known as OSX and allows one to "talk" with Steve Jobs...

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Motherboard. by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 12:04 · Score: 0

Why are we linking to motherboard and vice and polygon all of a sudden? Fuck those sites.
King Solomons temple huh? by gabrieltss · 2014-11-25 12:16 · Score: 1

This sounds like it's a Computer OS for Freemasons. LOL!

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Another whackjob by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 12:39 · Score: 0

Just wait till they release AllahOs 6.66.... Infidels...
reminds me of... by Ahnahmoley · 2014-11-25 12:47 · Score: 1

Cowboy Bebop episode "Brain Scratch." Not exactly the same but close enough for me.
This will not end well by RogueWarrior65 · 2014-11-25 13:19 · Score: 1

Anyone remember what happened to the last people who tried to use a radio transmitter to speak to God? They all melted.
Trademarks? by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 15:17 · Score: 0

What does god care of trademarks that they are spelled out at the bottom of the page?
And people thought... by rhewt · 2014-11-25 16:22 · Score: 1

the US government wrote Stuxnet.
God doesn't need a Computer by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 16:31 · Score: 0

This guy's trouble is sadly laughable.
In multiples of 6 ascribe a numerical value to the English alphabet so that A=6 all the way up to Z=156
Now calculate the number of the beast.
Add up the numerical sum of C-o-m-p-u-t-e-r
This world is in BIG trouble, right Henry?
Loveshack by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-25 19:03 · Score: 0

Anyone remembers the guy who made Worm+ and the Loveshack OS?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
'A' for effort. by TapeCutter · 2014-11-25 20:14 · Score: 1

Indeed! Vincent Van Gogh did his best work while suffering schizophrenia, Starry Night and Sunflowers are now considered the work of one of the greatest artistic geniuses to ever walk the earth. This guy is (unknowingly?) attempting to put the "art" back into the "art and science of programming", he's unlikely to succeed but he deserves credit for his effort.

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And no-one cites Jeremy Leven? by whimdot · 2014-11-25 21:26 · Score: 1

"Satan: His Psychotherapy and Cure by the Unfortunate Dr. Kassler"
Static by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-26 00:03 · Score: 0

This makes me recall a beautiful 80s movie called Static, where the protagonist, a nice but lonely guy, invents a TV set that allows him to see broadcast pictures of heaven. Only, all anybody else sees when they look at it is static.
Is anybody else by sabbede · 2014-11-26 00:09 · Score: 1

feeling a strange desire to nail him to a big piece of wood? I wonder if that will increase adoption...
Real headline by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-26 00:57 · Score: 0

Mentally insane programmer wastes 10 years writing an OS; says its god talking to him.
string theory mod pull request by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-26 05:34 · Score: 0

Please commit.
who's crazier by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-26 07:08 · Score: 0

I don't know who's crazier: zealots of the Marxist Materialist religion who believe themselves to be scientists, or someone who writes code as a spiritual practice.
I'm glad he's done this by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-26 07:17 · Score: 0

One more thing that I don't have to do today.
Auto didatctic by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-26 09:40 · Score: 0

Since he is god in his true self he could just skip the OS and talk to himself. Kind of like what you do when schizoing along, you schizos. Or renounce the duality of speaker and listener and achieve true self hood.
reminds me somehow of this here ... by dschinn1001 · 2014-11-26 11:07 · Score: 0

when I once had one of the first versions of smartphones (java-handy with internet) - I typed into it for fun: "satan=false" and what happened next ?! - internet in this device was switched off and nothing except sms did work with this device ... ?! - this way you can learn to talk to god with some bit hacking (that was around 2002) -
Anyone who uses the "god" grunt as reserved.... by Ruralhack · 2014-11-27 07:38 · Score: 0

....is a terrorist. It's only fair.