You're going to see a post from an unexpected new slashdot mod... his/her post will be something like:
I couldn't take it anymore. I've killed them all. Slashdot will now be closed because I had to save the world from them. I'm going to turn myself in now, you're all welcome.
To which I suggest we all respond with donations to their legal fund.
If you just want to trick people, I've found adding a:
CCd To: (addresses here)
in the message body accomplishes it well enough, it only fails if they actually think about it, which generally only happens if they already suspect you of being full of shit:) Most people however (at least outside the geek world) are too oblivious to realize its just text in the message.
You can essentially 'overclock' everything in existence to some extent.
It generally doesn't happen outside of PCs because most people realize that you're trading off something else.
In the case of overclocking you're giving up reliability and data integrity in exchange for a marginal speed boost because you were too cheap to buy the better chip or you're just going nuts trying to see just how far you can push it.
Overall though, unless you're 15 and still inschool with no job, Overclocking is always a waste of money long term. The chip may be cheaper, but any gains you made are lost almost immediately with all the fucking around you have to do to get it to work. Your time has to be worth less than minimum wage for it to make sense to overclock for anything more than a 'I made my chip run at 6ghz' factor.
There is a reason the chips are slowed down and cores are disabled, they don't pass the required tests for better performance. I guess the other reason legitimate reason for doing it would be gather entropy for a PRNG, using the psuedo random errors introduced by the chip itself to add entropy, but its far easier to just wire up a Geiger counter or a microphone and use background radiation.
To whomever decided to add the 'dontruinitwithtags' tag...
IT WAS RUINED ALREADY WITH THE OTHER 9 GOD DAMN APRIL FOOLS POSTS. ENOUGH ALREADY.
I get excited at a glimmer of hope of something to read while I sit here and wait for this batch to run... only to find out another moronic April Fools post was made... because 10 in one day just isn't enough.
No, you, fuckoff. There are currently 7 april fools related posts on the front page. Not any one of them is even marginally funny.
If they were funny, I'd lighten up. The video chat was annoying as hell till I disabled flash for/.
I handled the first one, I handled the second one... even the third and forth.
At this point its well into retarded. If this is what you consider one of the only good things left in the world you live a truely sad and depressing life.
This isn't one day out of the year (which is more than 365.25, if you're going to try and be cute and throw in fractional days, you should extended it out to include the rest of the fractional portion don't you?) that everyone tells silly jokes. Thats easy enough to deal with.
Its one day out of the year that slashdot does nothing but post retarded unfunny stories under the guise of April Fools jokes. If they were funny it might be different, but I don't find them funny 'just because they did it' which seems to be the point of your argument.
I don't give credit for trying, I give credit for accomplishing, so the credit here is for making slashdot pointless for the day.
I figure its the very least I can do, let you get the ad impressions and maybe I'll see something I like. I leave the ads displayed even with the option to hide them.
Until today.
Now I don't allow flash on slashdot because of this retarded bullcrap.
Way to go there dumbasses, perhaps next time you should think about how utterly fucking annoying you are being before you end up costing yourself income.
Whats better is that this thread is filled with 99.9% bitching and wanting it turned off and you still haven't made it optional or FUCKING TURNED IT OFF.
Are you trying to piss people off, or just that stupid?
Seriously... WTF made you think the video was going to be funny?
Thanks for making slashdot annoying as shit. Perhaps I'm overreacting, but as a general rule when someone does something this amazingly fucking retarded, joke or not, I tend to take it as a hint of things to come.
So should I assume you let kdawson and timothy run with thier ideas and that slashdot is going to continue getting more and more retarded or do you actually plan on stopping this douchebaggery at some point in the near future?
Seriously, retarded idea. Please get a sense of humor, at least one capable of determine the difference between extremely annoying and slightly funny.
If you had half a clue you won't ride your bike on the road. You go ahead and get all vigilante on the women in a car... you and your bike, go fight her... I'll wait to see how you look as a red splotch on the road.
Its funny how cyclists are always smug assholes... well funny in that, not funny but amazingly annoying kind of way. People like you make me want to make it legal to play roadkill bingo with any asshole over 18 riding his bike on a road, bike lane or not.
How do I know? Because you know someone else with ADHD, which translates into you don't really have it, you're just in that group of people that was raised by parents who never made you actually sit down and focus for more than ten minutes.
Contrary to popular belief, THE ENTIRE FUCKING WORLD DOES NOT HAVE ADHD.
Ahhh... its happening already... someone who thinks he's the 1 in 40 rather than realizing he's just not a statistic/blood splatter.
I guess you were the special one and that the 40 or so other people you worked with weren't supertaskers... how did they do pretty much the same thing you do without being a supertasker?
Let's face it: nobody is willing to say "no phone use at all" while driving. So we have an entirely ineffective compromise which requires hands-free devices. This is a great way to pretend to do something while not actually doing any of it.
Because 'no phone use at all' is retarded. If you're going to allow passengers to talk in the car, hands free is pretty much the same thing. The driver can ignore both if they are capable doing so, but most aren't. If you're not going to allow using a phone because its unsafe, fine, but passengers can't talk either. Seriously, go look at the states about accidents and number of passengers in the car, you'll find FAR more correlation there than you will regarding cell phones.
Really, has anyone here not had the experience of driving somewhere, getting there, and realizing that there is a chunk of time missing in your memory for part of the drive?
This is a well known phenomena and happens with pretty much everything. You don't remember large sections of that particular drive because your brain throws them out as irrelevant daily events that are of no value to it. It has nothing to do with driving or the highway and is simply one of the methods our minds use to cope with the massive amounts of data it processes continually.
In fact, insofar as it prevents more dangerous hypnotic states from developing, it might be a net safety win to talk on the phone.
There is no hypnotic state, just your misinterpreting of whats actually happening in your mind.
You can't fix shitty drivers by making more laws for them to obey while driving, they are already incapable of dealing with the existing requirements of driving, adding more complexity won't fix it. The solution is to require drivers actually have the ability to drive, rather than allowing anyone who can make it to the DMV to get a license.
Drunks tend to survive because the state of their body at the time of impact, i.e. not tensed up. Its not random luck, or irony, or any other mysterious factors...
Drivers texting while driving aren't going to have the effect of a drug in their system, they'll be as ridged as a board as their body gets destroyed in the accident just like everyone else.
Good job though, you almost managed to inject an irrelevant and unrelated statement into the conversation.
Hahahaha... and this is typical of ignorant drivers such as yourself.
While she broke the law for running the red light, you are still screwed up by not noticing she was coming.
'one hand on the wheel' is more than enough to drive. You know how I know? Been driving a stick for 20 years, I spend 95% of my time when driving in the city without my hand on the wheel. The reason you're taught to keep both hands on the wheel is to keep you focused on whats outside the car and not fucking around with stuff inside the law.
Just a suggestion though, you might want to wait 20 or 30 years before you start spreading your insight on driving, you don't actually have any yet. All you have now is misunderstandings of misinformation fed to you by a drivers ed instructor that could give a shit what happens to you.
You are actually FAR more dangers than most people texting. You're more likely to be fucking around with other people in the car and carrying on conversations with them, not paying attention while you're driving. You're more likely to not drive defensively. You're more likely to overrun your abilities as a driver due to misjudging the situation.
In short, you don't get to comment on other peoples driving as you are most certainly among the group of 'the worst drivers on the road'. The second place group is old people, and the third place group is drunks.
The danger from texting while driving is about 1 to 2 million times less for me to do it than it is for you to just be behind the wheel of a moving vehicle.
Now, I can mess with the AI's mind by feeding it false information, instead of messing with my child's mind. I was worried that I wouldn't be able to stop myself (because it's so fun), despite the negative consequences for the kid. But now I have an AI to screw with, my child can grow up healthy and well adjusted!
Get a dog, you can fuck with them and they'll love you for it.
or
Get a cat, you can fuck with them and they deserve it, especially being thrown in a full bathtub.
The problem is that our computational ability to do pattern matching is pathetic when not being done in an organic brain.
It really is nothing more than pattern matching.
Your brain isn't even really particularly fast, it however is MASSIVELY parallel on an unimaginable scale.
Look we've got supercomputers with what, 5k nodes or so? I don't know, whatever the big ones are now... think about how they compare to the billions of 'cores' in a brain. Sure the cores in an organic brain aren't nearly as impressive on their own, but they don't need to be, theres billions of them working in perfect harmony.
This is why people are better at so many things than computers, we simply have a lot more cores that don't run into the locking issues that a computer does.
We can already simulate very basic animal intelligence, but the computing power to do so with todays computers is ridiculous to even mimic simple bugs.
The instant you show you're only concerned with your political party being 'right'... thats the instant everyone with a clue just stops bothering with what you said and moves on.
No one really gives a shit what political fanboys think, you included. Its not about democrat or republic, its not about left or right, its about doing the right thing, which apparently to you means whatever democrats are ranting for this month.
You are just as retarded as the republican ranters.
Both groups are ignorant fucks who don't deserve the right to vote.
Its not a fucking football game. Stop fucking ranting and cheering for your political party, open your fucking eyes and vote for the right person for the job, not because they are wearing red or blue this week.
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Just wait ...
You're going to see a post from an unexpected new slashdot mod ... his/her post will be something like:
I couldn't take it anymore. I've killed them all. Slashdot will now be closed because I had to save the world from them. I'm going to turn myself in now, you're all welcome.
To which I suggest we all respond with donations to their legal fund.
If you just want to trick people, I've found adding a:
CCd To: (addresses here)
in the message body accomplishes it well enough, it only fails if they actually think about it, which generally only happens if they already suspect you of being full of shit :) Most people however (at least outside the geek world) are too oblivious to realize its just text in the message.
You know, the 'AnotherRetardedUnfunnyAprilFoolsMoron' tag?
This is in no way unique.
You can essentially 'overclock' everything in existence to some extent.
It generally doesn't happen outside of PCs because most people realize that you're trading off something else.
In the case of overclocking you're giving up reliability and data integrity in exchange for a marginal speed boost because you were too cheap to buy the better chip or you're just going nuts trying to see just how far you can push it.
Overall though, unless you're 15 and still inschool with no job, Overclocking is always a waste of money long term. The chip may be cheaper, but any gains you made are lost almost immediately with all the fucking around you have to do to get it to work. Your time has to be worth less than minimum wage for it to make sense to overclock for anything more than a 'I made my chip run at 6ghz' factor.
There is a reason the chips are slowed down and cores are disabled, they don't pass the required tests for better performance. I guess the other reason legitimate reason for doing it would be gather entropy for a PRNG, using the psuedo random errors introduced by the chip itself to add entropy, but its far easier to just wire up a Geiger counter or a microphone and use background radiation.
To whomever decided to add the 'dontruinitwithtags' tag ...
IT WAS RUINED ALREADY WITH THE OTHER 9 GOD DAMN APRIL FOOLS POSTS. ENOUGH ALREADY.
I get excited at a glimmer of hope of something to read while I sit here and wait for this batch to run ... only to find out another moronic April Fools post was made ... because 10 in one day just isn't enough.
Its not funny anymore you twits.
No, you, fuckoff. There are currently 7 april fools related posts on the front page. Not any one of them is even marginally funny.
If they were funny, I'd lighten up. The video chat was annoying as hell till I disabled flash for /.
I handled the first one, I handled the second one ... even the third and forth.
At this point its well into retarded. If this is what you consider one of the only good things left in the world you live a truely sad and depressing life.
This isn't one day out of the year (which is more than 365.25, if you're going to try and be cute and throw in fractional days, you should extended it out to include the rest of the fractional portion don't you?) that everyone tells silly jokes. Thats easy enough to deal with.
Its one day out of the year that slashdot does nothing but post retarded unfunny stories under the guise of April Fools jokes. If they were funny it might be different, but I don't find them funny 'just because they did it' which seems to be the point of your argument.
I don't give credit for trying, I give credit for accomplishing, so the credit here is for making slashdot pointless for the day.
This is #7 by my count ... are you going to finish anytime soon or should we all just come back tomorrow when you've pulled your head out of your ass?
I figure its the very least I can do, let you get the ad impressions and maybe I'll see something I like. I leave the ads displayed even with the option to hide them.
Until today.
Now I don't allow flash on slashdot because of this retarded bullcrap.
Way to go there dumbasses, perhaps next time you should think about how utterly fucking annoying you are being before you end up costing yourself income.
Whats better is that this thread is filled with 99.9% bitching and wanting it turned off and you still haven't made it optional or FUCKING TURNED IT OFF.
Are you trying to piss people off, or just that stupid?
Once again, proof that Apple knows best and by removing flash from the iPad has saved you from the evil it brings.
They were never funny, just fucking annoying.
Dear srsly@slashdot.org ...
Seriously ... WTF made you think the video was going to be funny?
Thanks for making slashdot annoying as shit. Perhaps I'm overreacting, but as a general rule when someone does something this amazingly fucking retarded, joke or not, I tend to take it as a hint of things to come.
So should I assume you let kdawson and timothy run with thier ideas and that slashdot is going to continue getting more and more retarded or do you actually plan on stopping this douchebaggery at some point in the near future?
Seriously, retarded idea. Please get a sense of humor, at least one capable of determine the difference between extremely annoying and slightly funny.
If you had half a clue you won't ride your bike on the road. You go ahead and get all vigilante on the women in a car... you and your bike, go fight her ... I'll wait to see how you look as a red splotch on the road.
Its funny how cyclists are always smug assholes ... well funny in that, not funny but amazingly annoying kind of way. People like you make me want to make it legal to play roadkill bingo with any asshole over 18 riding his bike on a road, bike lane or not.
No you aren't.
How do I know? Because you know someone else with ADHD, which translates into you don't really have it, you're just in that group of people that was raised by parents who never made you actually sit down and focus for more than ten minutes.
Contrary to popular belief, THE ENTIRE FUCKING WORLD DOES NOT HAVE ADHD.
You're just an idiot, nothing more, nothing less.
ADHD is a myth. Much like the 1 in 40 are supertaskers.
Ahhh ... its happening already ... someone who thinks he's the 1 in 40 rather than realizing he's just not a statistic/blood splatter.
I guess you were the special one and that the 40 or so other people you worked with weren't supertaskers ... how did they do pretty much the same thing you do without being a supertasker?
Its easy when you're young. The older you get, the harder it gets.
Because 'no phone use at all' is retarded. If you're going to allow passengers to talk in the car, hands free is pretty much the same thing. The driver can ignore both if they are capable doing so, but most aren't. If you're not going to allow using a phone because its unsafe, fine, but passengers can't talk either. Seriously, go look at the states about accidents and number of passengers in the car, you'll find FAR more correlation there than you will regarding cell phones.
This is a well known phenomena and happens with pretty much everything. You don't remember large sections of that particular drive because your brain throws them out as irrelevant daily events that are of no value to it. It has nothing to do with driving or the highway and is simply one of the methods our minds use to cope with the massive amounts of data it processes continually.
There is no hypnotic state, just your misinterpreting of whats actually happening in your mind.
You can't fix shitty drivers by making more laws for them to obey while driving, they are already incapable of dealing with the existing requirements of driving, adding more complexity won't fix it. The solution is to require drivers actually have the ability to drive, rather than allowing anyone who can make it to the DMV to get a license.
Drunks tend to survive because the state of their body at the time of impact, i.e. not tensed up. Its not random luck, or irony, or any other mysterious factors ...
Drivers texting while driving aren't going to have the effect of a drug in their system, they'll be as ridged as a board as their body gets destroyed in the accident just like everyone else.
Good job though, you almost managed to inject an irrelevant and unrelated statement into the conversation.
Hahahaha ... and this is typical of ignorant drivers such as yourself.
While she broke the law for running the red light, you are still screwed up by not noticing she was coming.
'one hand on the wheel' is more than enough to drive. You know how I know? Been driving a stick for 20 years, I spend 95% of my time when driving in the city without my hand on the wheel. The reason you're taught to keep both hands on the wheel is to keep you focused on whats outside the car and not fucking around with stuff inside the law.
Just a suggestion though, you might want to wait 20 or 30 years before you start spreading your insight on driving, you don't actually have any yet. All you have now is misunderstandings of misinformation fed to you by a drivers ed instructor that could give a shit what happens to you.
You are actually FAR more dangers than most people texting. You're more likely to be fucking around with other people in the car and carrying on conversations with them, not paying attention while you're driving. You're more likely to not drive defensively. You're more likely to overrun your abilities as a driver due to misjudging the situation.
In short, you don't get to comment on other peoples driving as you are most certainly among the group of 'the worst drivers on the road'. The second place group is old people, and the third place group is drunks.
The danger from texting while driving is about 1 to 2 million times less for me to do it than it is for you to just be behind the wheel of a moving vehicle.
The problem is, they really are one and the same, until they start being treated as such, problems will abound.
The brain is a REALLY REALLY simple device that is MASSIVELY interconnected and parallel.
Its really not hard to simulate a neuron and we've been doing it for years.
Now emulating billions of them working in parallel at any sort of useful speed ... well thats something that only gets accomplished in organic brains.
Get a dog, you can fuck with them and they'll love you for it.
or
Get a cat, you can fuck with them and they deserve it, especially being thrown in a full bathtub.
It is that simple.
The problem is that our computational ability to do pattern matching is pathetic when not being done in an organic brain.
It really is nothing more than pattern matching.
Your brain isn't even really particularly fast, it however is MASSIVELY parallel on an unimaginable scale.
Look we've got supercomputers with what, 5k nodes or so? I don't know, whatever the big ones are now ... think about how they compare to the billions of 'cores' in a brain. Sure the cores in an organic brain aren't nearly as impressive on their own, but they don't need to be, theres billions of them working in perfect harmony.
This is why people are better at so many things than computers, we simply have a lot more cores that don't run into the locking issues that a computer does.
We can already simulate very basic animal intelligence, but the computing power to do so with todays computers is ridiculous to even mimic simple bugs.
Best ... sig ... ever.
Let me give you a hint.
The instant you show you're only concerned with your political party being 'right' ... thats the instant everyone with a clue just stops bothering with what you said and moves on.
No one really gives a shit what political fanboys think, you included. Its not about democrat or republic, its not about left or right, its about doing the right thing, which apparently to you means whatever democrats are ranting for this month.
You are just as retarded as the republican ranters.
Both groups are ignorant fucks who don't deserve the right to vote.
Its not a fucking football game. Stop fucking ranting and cheering for your political party, open your fucking eyes and vote for the right person for the job, not because they are wearing red or blue this week.