on behalf of a math student (myself), i will mention that there are literally an infinity of statements that are not "incorrect". some very basic software can enumerate millions of "theorems" within a few hours given appropriate axioms.
this list of facts will not, however, have any point; it will just be a list of correct statements.
simply because something is correct, doesn't mean that it is worth reading. this is the problem people have with you. your slashdot articles are vapid and narcissistic, and you doggedly persist in ignoring (or pretending to ignore) this. that is the point and it's been made ad nauseam.
whether all trolls are psychopaths is another issue. pop psychology isn't that impressive to me.
i'm not trolling, i honestly don't understand. you seem heavily invested in this issue, and since you've already spent a lot of time on this topic (judging from your posts here), i thought you could explain it to me briefly. i can only conclude that you just don't like systemd, and are upset because something you don't like has become popular. maybe i've already read those articles and simply disagree with them. i just wanted your opinion. disagreement isn't trolling.
"sadism"? really? it's just some asshole on the internet.
what's with you, anyway? i know barely anything about this issue, but can you explain how systemd is being forced onto linux in general? if other apps are building it in as a dependency, maybe that's because it offers useful functionality despite the drawbacks. no one's even made a very clear list of the drawbacks, though i get the general idea of sprawling monolithic monstrosity. but then maybe that's just a side effect of the same development process offering useful functionality.
can you explain how it's being forced onto people?
nah, most slashdot comments are really just versions of what the AC said, especially when they have anything to do with politics, where nerds are especially unclueful.
i thought it was a pretty solid troll. it has nothing to do with systemd in particular. that you thought it did is just more evidence of the troll's success.
What is your point? If your hyper-intelligent, single-minded adversary asks to borrow your phone, just don't let him.
If some poor schmo needs to borrow your phone to call the hospital because his friend just had a heart attack, well, just tell him to get fucked, there isn't anyone who's going to trick you out of your slashdot password.
You can use one on your smartphone. For android, you can even get an open source one and build it yourself if you want. (i forget the name of the one i used.)
Or just print out the ones you might need and put them in your wallet. (waits for shocked disbelief to pass) Seriously, why not? You're not being hunted by the NSA here; if your wallet gets stolen, it'll be by some street thug, not a master haxx0r. They're going to take your money and maybe your credit cards, then throw out the rest of the crap. If you're really worried, print out the first (N-3) characters of your passwords, and then just memorize the three characters. This way, you get high entropy against skilled attackers (good), and low entropy against street trash (good enough) who won't bother more than a few attempts at most.
It's all about having good enough security for the circumstance at hand, and compromising against convenience for you.
how is that "not as bad"? it's just differently bad. they want to intimidate (though not quite as overtly as the USSR did), while the US wants to secretly disappear people. it's not a diversion. it's reality, and neither 'side' is that great, even though i'd much, much rather be in the US.
anyway, China has always clamped down on unlicensed cartography, and it is theoretically possible to use data mining to squeeze some location information out of the iPhone data. this really seems like a non-story to me, or anyone else who's been paying attention.
the reason D-wave not performing as they (used to) claim is that they were hucksters and charlatans all along.
now they've admitted that they're doing adiabatic annealing (a huge step down from what they were coyly hinting at) and, guess what?, it's not really that great at that either. it's not the "talking to classical reality" part of their machine that sucks; it's just not doing very much inside either.
don't bother trying to discuss this here, you won't get anywhere. read Nielsen and Chuang's "Quantum Computation and Quantum Information" if you can handle it. suffice it to say, non-locality is an accepted part of quantum theory. i know it seems really exotic and impressive to lay-people, but it's just a part of quantum theory. part of what you need to keep in mind is that, roughly speaking, the entanglement is determined at read-time. you can't simultaneously write to a nearby and far-away qubit at the same time. they need to be together at some point, close enough to be entangled by the write.
would you be impressed by a CPU that was a mile across? well, maybe. but would it be a fundamentally different thing than a CPU than was an inch across? not really, though there would be some engineering impracticalities. it's the same with QC; non-locality is just a feature of the system. it's there, we've shown it's there. it doesn't, in principle, matter if the two qubits are an inch apart, or 17 miles apart.
non-locality is interesting, but for QC you just need to accept that it's there.
the concept of auteur was developed in the context of film, but the idea extends obviously to games if you have half a brain and aren't totally ignorant.
see, with books and plays, it's pretty obvious that the author or playwright is the person who deserves the credit. with music, it was the composer. and so on. films were different. by analogy with plays, maybe the screenwriter should deserve the credit; but the script doesn't really determine the movie, does it? the big name actor matters more than the screenwriter, for better or worse. so who deserves the credit? after a lot of to and fro, the French determined that the director is the person who matters. this is, pretentiously, called 'auteur theory'.
it's exactly analogous with games. if anything, the persons described in the summary are even more auteurs than directors are, since the division of labor is even less distinct. they are the movers and shakers; the ones with vision (or, perhaps in the case of Romero, the charlatans who have masqueraded as such).
in short, you're an overly literal fuckwit with no real insight.
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i never said that your statements were correct. i was being rhetorically generous.
as for the rest, i don't see why i should give advice on a business plan, for free, to a self-described "entrepreneur."
huh? your point got lost somewhere, if there ever was one.
on behalf of a math student (myself), i will mention that there are literally an infinity of statements that are not "incorrect". some very basic software can enumerate millions of "theorems" within a few hours given appropriate axioms.
this list of facts will not, however, have any point; it will just be a list of correct statements.
simply because something is correct, doesn't mean that it is worth reading. this is the problem people have with you. your slashdot articles are vapid and narcissistic, and you doggedly persist in ignoring (or pretending to ignore) this. that is the point and it's been made ad nauseam.
I think he has... ahem... balls to assert such a contrarian viewpoint on slashdot.
But, yeah, he's a loony reactionary. Just ignore him or laugh at him. "Collaborator" is a bit too generous.
since i like to use sarcasm to drive home a point.
you don't have a point.
as opposed to bitcoin itself.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
whether all trolls are psychopaths is another issue. pop psychology isn't that impressive to me.
i'm not trolling, i honestly don't understand. you seem heavily invested in this issue, and since you've already spent a lot of time on this topic (judging from your posts here), i thought you could explain it to me briefly. i can only conclude that you just don't like systemd, and are upset because something you don't like has become popular. maybe i've already read those articles and simply disagree with them. i just wanted your opinion. disagreement isn't trolling.
"sadism"? really? it's just some asshole on the internet.
what's with you, anyway? i know barely anything about this issue, but can you explain how systemd is being forced onto linux in general? if other apps are building it in as a dependency, maybe that's because it offers useful functionality despite the drawbacks. no one's even made a very clear list of the drawbacks, though i get the general idea of sprawling monolithic monstrosity. but then maybe that's just a side effect of the same development process offering useful functionality.
can you explain how it's being forced onto people?
nah, most slashdot comments are really just versions of what the AC said, especially when they have anything to do with politics, where nerds are especially unclueful.
i thought it was a pretty solid troll. it has nothing to do with systemd in particular. that you thought it did is just more evidence of the troll's success.
I agree; Apple sucks.
The best (and maybe only) competition so far, though, is Ubuntu and its derivatives. Fucking christ, that's depressing.
What is your point? If your hyper-intelligent, single-minded adversary asks to borrow your phone, just don't let him.
If some poor schmo needs to borrow your phone to call the hospital because his friend just had a heart attack, well, just tell him to get fucked, there isn't anyone who's going to trick you out of your slashdot password.
"you probably deserved it. also, it helps me avoid working for easily-offended faggots. later."
You can use one on your smartphone. For android, you can even get an open source one and build it yourself if you want. (i forget the name of the one i used.)
Or just print out the ones you might need and put them in your wallet. (waits for shocked disbelief to pass) Seriously, why not? You're not being hunted by the NSA here; if your wallet gets stolen, it'll be by some street thug, not a master haxx0r. They're going to take your money and maybe your credit cards, then throw out the rest of the crap. If you're really worried, print out the first (N-3) characters of your passwords, and then just memorize the three characters. This way, you get high entropy against skilled attackers (good), and low entropy against street trash (good enough) who won't bother more than a few attempts at most.
It's all about having good enough security for the circumstance at hand, and compromising against convenience for you.
Never before have I seen the use of partial differential equations to justify unequivocal bullshit.
Haven't read many research papers, have you? ;-)
this kind of thing probably does help, but, yeah, not because of the magical linear time bank.
rather, something that keeps the user's attention often means less coffee breaks and chit-chat. waiting sucks.
it all sounds familiar.
i was waiting for "what are your crimes?"
i agree that the NSA's activities are unconstitutional, but what's the point in this context?
and, going on your ridiculous tangent, would you be perfectly fine with what the NSA were doing if the constitution were amended to allow it?
how is that "not as bad"? it's just differently bad. they want to intimidate (though not quite as overtly as the USSR did), while the US wants to secretly disappear people. it's not a diversion. it's reality, and neither 'side' is that great, even though i'd much, much rather be in the US.
anyway, China has always clamped down on unlicensed cartography, and it is theoretically possible to use data mining to squeeze some location information out of the iPhone data. this really seems like a non-story to me, or anyone else who's been paying attention.
the reason D-wave not performing as they (used to) claim is that they were hucksters and charlatans all along.
now they've admitted that they're doing adiabatic annealing (a huge step down from what they were coyly hinting at) and, guess what?, it's not really that great at that either. it's not the "talking to classical reality" part of their machine that sucks; it's just not doing very much inside either.
don't bother trying to discuss this here, you won't get anywhere. read Nielsen and Chuang's "Quantum Computation and Quantum Information" if you can handle it. suffice it to say, non-locality is an accepted part of quantum theory. i know it seems really exotic and impressive to lay-people, but it's just a part of quantum theory. part of what you need to keep in mind is that, roughly speaking, the entanglement is determined at read-time. you can't simultaneously write to a nearby and far-away qubit at the same time. they need to be together at some point, close enough to be entangled by the write.
would you be impressed by a CPU that was a mile across? well, maybe. but would it be a fundamentally different thing than a CPU than was an inch across? not really, though there would be some engineering impracticalities. it's the same with QC; non-locality is just a feature of the system. it's there, we've shown it's there. it doesn't, in principle, matter if the two qubits are an inch apart, or 17 miles apart.
non-locality is interesting, but for QC you just need to accept that it's there.
the d-wave quantum "computer" isn't nearly identical to modern CPUs. it is, in fact, far inferior.
diodes are quantum you fucking moron.
the concept of auteur was developed in the context of film, but the idea extends obviously to games if you have half a brain and aren't totally ignorant.
see, with books and plays, it's pretty obvious that the author or playwright is the person who deserves the credit. with music, it was the composer. and so on. films were different. by analogy with plays, maybe the screenwriter should deserve the credit; but the script doesn't really determine the movie, does it? the big name actor matters more than the screenwriter, for better or worse. so who deserves the credit? after a lot of to and fro, the French determined that the director is the person who matters. this is, pretentiously, called 'auteur theory'.
it's exactly analogous with games. if anything, the persons described in the summary are even more auteurs than directors are, since the division of labor is even less distinct. they are the movers and shakers; the ones with vision (or, perhaps in the case of Romero, the charlatans who have masqueraded as such).
in short, you're an overly literal fuckwit with no real insight.
uh, what's wrong with it?
Yeah, as opposed to all those functional anarchies in the world.
Go work on seasteading or the NH Free State Project; make it work and give us positive examples if you don't like Somalia.