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  1. Re:Inspiration..Star Wars robot C3-PO? on Inventor Builds Robot Wife · · Score: 1

    I still can't figure out why you're still replying.

  2. Re:Inspiration..Star Wars robot C3-PO? on Inventor Builds Robot Wife · · Score: 1

    Sweetheart are you *still* typing at me? You want to win really badly, huh.

    Well, you can't. It was impossible from the start, dear. It is impossible now, it will always be impossible. You have *no chance* of winning. None. Not against me, anyway.

    And by this point if you haven't figured out why, then you really are an idiot.

  3. Re:Nothing in the EULA on Realtek's Wireless Driver Drives Thoughts of an Apple Netbook · · Score: 3, Insightful

    And not only that, but this is one of the reasons that Darwin was open sourced in the first place. My company has done the odd bit of consulting here and there with other entities that provide all sorts of weird hardware drivers for OS X, and they don't call Apple and ask them for one first.

    Because they don't have to. That's part of what Darwin is for. This is FUD, and should be treated as such.

  4. Re:Inspiration..Star Wars robot C3-PO? on Inventor Builds Robot Wife · · Score: 1

    No matter how many times you claim that your blatant lies are "simply facts", they still won't be "simply facts". Now you're behaving like Cheney. I wonder what sort of mental illnesses that guy has.

    If I wanted your comments modded down, I would have done it directly myself and not argued with you. It was not my intent to mod your comments down or have them modded down or affect people in such a way that they were modded down. That you seem to believe here that you can read my motivations (and therefore my thoughts) from sheer ascii alone at least implies a pretty serious sinus tumor, if not full blown schizophrenia.

    And you don't read for comprehension, do you. Here, let me let you in on the funniest part:

    I never thought you were modding down my posts. That was me lying, and as far as I know its the only one I told. How could I have known for sure? I don't have psychic powers. Do you honestly believe that I could have believed even for a second that I knew definitively who it was who was following me around modding me down? I still don't know who it is.

    That's not the funniest part. Here's the funniest part:

    I never modded down any of your posts. I don't mod people down or up. I've always thought it was a stupid, broken system.

    So, at this point you're just trolling yourself. Have at it though, you seem to enjoy it.

  5. Re:Never use password managers on Safari and Chrome: Tied For the Worst Password Manager · · Score: 4, Interesting

    First place a local black hat looks? Under keyboards. One of the things its fun to do with new clients is to walk around their offices and grab every password-slip you can find. All the usual places -- under keyboards, in the desk drawer next to the pens, on the back of a monitor facing a cube wall.. And this one is my favorite:

    In a desk drawer but fastened to the underside of the desk surface. Very clever.

  6. Re:Inspiration..Star Wars robot C3-PO? on Inventor Builds Robot Wife · · Score: 1

    "I don't play your games"

    Evidently you do:

      wc -w mindkata-post
              968 mindkata-post

    968 words in this, your "last" response. And I was finished trolling you yesterday. Truly, this has gone beyond entertaining into just kinda weird.

    You certainly show no interest in actually reading what I write for comprehension, so my attempts to steer my own trolling back into something that might have resembled a conversation didn't work at all. I'm not sure it would have been interesting if it had, come to think of it, but either way the point is moot.

    You've taken the position in which you believe that you have something to "teach" me. Truthfully, almost nothing in the universe annoys me as much as that. Who was it who said, "beware those who call themselves 'teacher', for they're the very worst students"?

    Answer that question and... well hell, I'll give you a cookie or something. It is something of a trick question; not so much in its answer, but rather for why I'm asking it. If you can answer it AND tell me why I asked it...

    Actually I have no reward for that. But I would be satisfied.

  7. Re:wha? on Nobel Winner Says Internet Might Have Stopped Hitler · · Score: 1

    Goddamnit. Well, it was over with mindkata anyhow; he's been going in little myopic circles for days now. I suspect I might have done some real psychological damage there, so I'm pulling out. Sorry, MK, gotta truncate it. I know you were having fun.

  8. Re:Inspiration..Star Wars robot C3-PO? on Inventor Builds Robot Wife · · Score: 1

    Alright alright Mindkata, look. You got successfully trolled, and now you're all cranky about it. I've been doing this kinda thing since hmm...well damn. I'm not really sure; but I remember starting on a brand new Amiga 2000 if that gives you any kind of perspective.

    I mean trolling specifically for very, very lengthy responses, tone unimportant. As far as I know this is a pretty old troll-goal; probably second or third generation. I like to think it takes a little more savvy than rushing into a thread, unleashing a stream of profanity and then leaving. It's just more personal this way.

    But don't get me wrong. I'm sure diagnosis by slashdot post is something upon which any qualified psychologist would most definitely look with great admiration. "How could he have done it!" they would whisper to eachother, suspecting a great, once in a generation brilliance had again infiltrated their craft.

    And I'm still not sure why you think I'm trying to silence you. Again, silencing you wouldn't exactly be rocket science, and would only require about as much energy as I've put into trolling you to date. If it was in my head to do it, I would have done it. It's not in my head to do it. Here's why I'm becoming a little offended that you keep up with that reasoning:

    One of the very basic cornerstones of my personal ontological lattice is that one must never infringe on another person's right to express themselves. If one does not like what one is seeing or hearing, one should simply relocate their sensory array such that that input is at least no longer relevant, if not no longer detectable all together.

    Thus, and do read carefully here, I never had any intention of shutting you (or anyone else) up. If you still believe I do after all of this, then perhaps you have some sort of real problem.

    By the way, you really are entirely incorrect with your diagnosis. If you truly have any interest in the real topology of my instrument, you may email xdraygul@gmail.com with your (civil) query.

  9. Re:Inspiration..Star Wars robot C3-PO? on Inventor Builds Robot Wife · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    http://vampirefreaks.com/mindkata

    omg I knew it. :(

  10. Re:Inspiration..Star Wars robot C3-PO? on Inventor Builds Robot Wife · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Whoops, apologies, I did forget to address one thing specifically. I can show you that I am not out to silence you, with the following reasoning:

    If I was trying to silence you, really, I would be finding out exactly who you are and whether or not you have a license wherever you are to practice any type of counseling or psychological therapy. Then I would make sure that you lost said license, and were not able to practice again.

    But I wouldn't even begin that procedure. I have no interest in who you really are, or what you may (or may not) do for a living (if anything).

    In your own terms, what has happened here is that you've fallen prey to a classic internet troll.

    How very, very perceptive of you.

  11. Re:Inspiration..Star Wars robot C3-PO? on Inventor Builds Robot Wife · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    From your exasperatingly, irrelevantly long journal post:

    "Yttrstein has taken it upon himself to troll most of my posts, (after I started to discuss personality disorders). (He wants to silence any discussion about any kind of personality disorders in the world"

    I don't want to silence you at all actually, so you're wrong there. Also, though I have a huge problem with your incredibly inane theories about personality disorders (which you are in no way qualified to spout, by the way), the fact is that I *like* when you post them.

    Think of it a little bit like watching a horror movie. I love them -- precisely because they make me feel so revolted.

    My main problem with you though, as I've said repeatedly and which you have yet to address in thread, is that you're the one who's been modding me down for no reason at all other than you're a pissy little bitch about me revealing to the world that you're not actually an expert at anything, and that your posts are in reality almost entirely hot air.

    Again, my problem is with you being a passive aggressive, down modding asshole. It has nothing to do with any of your idiotic theories.

    Hope this helps!

  12. Re:Cyberwar? on Is There a Cyberwar, and Is the US Losing It? · · Score: 1

    "Unfortunately the word "Cyberwar", when used by non-technical news companies, is often used to (wrongly) imply organized big scale attacks, as if its a military style war/attack. Its far more likely just mostly isolated young (and/or misguided older) hackers on all sides, having a go at hacking/annoying the opposing sides. Not much different from kids throwing stones at the other side, just the 21st century version of it."

    True ten years ago, from whence your expertise (what little there is) comes, but not now. Now things are very different, and there are very large, very well funded organizations (and governments) on all sides of this. How do I know?

    I deal with them and what they do every day professionally. Evidently you don't and again you're pretending to an expertise that you simply do not have.

    On behalf of everyone who's actually qualified to speak on technical subjects, please stop.

  13. Re:Cyberwar? on Is There a Cyberwar, and Is the US Losing It? · · Score: 1

    Hahaha oh it wasnt? I thought it was. Which is why I did it. Salud, darling.

  14. Re:Inspiration..Star Wars robot C3-PO? on Inventor Builds Robot Wife · · Score: 0, Troll

    Indeed. It takes so not-long that Isaac Asimov came up with the exact joke in 1955. So nice of you to give him credit.

    Again mindkata, you are a parrot, and the sad thing is that very few people around these parts understand that---which says something nearly as horrifying about the experience and education of the average slashdot modder (which has changed tremendously in ten years) than it does about your own fake expertise.

  15. Re:wha? on Nobel Winner Says Internet Might Have Stopped Hitler · · Score: 1

    Hi Mindkata, I cant help but see that you've been chasing me all over slashdot again, modding down as much as possible because you have a vendetta against me. I think that's so sweet I put you on my friends list.

    But it might be for nothing, since from the start of my newest slashdot persona has been doing 4s and 5s for the last three weeks, almost exclusively. I've been modding you down with that one, and will continue to forever.

    By the way, I see that you're still an armchair theorist who can't manage to get anything right. Your posts are generally very long and entirely without meaningful content. It's still painfully clear that you're not really qualified to comment on anything.

  16. Re:Great! on Nobel Prize Winning Physicist As Energy Secretary · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No, in fact the trolls have consistently posted the most interesting things on slashdot in the last five years. There should be a positive troll mod as well as a negative one.

    In fact, there should be negative versions of all the positive ones too. -5 NOT INSIGHTFUL

  17. Re:Terrorism? on NSA Is Building a New Datacenter In San Antonio · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    A friend of mine worked in the "egg crate", which I suppose is what they called the "analog crackers" in the 80s. I'm not going to go into all the paranoid crap that everyone keeps spewing all about how the NSA is out to smother the rights of every man, woman and child in the US.

    Because that's actually the job of the executive branch, it seems.

    But I will say this, in reference to Haeleth's passage above..

    Sure, the NSA isnt out to scan the brainwaves of everyone reading this. But your wish to bury any and all concern under an ocean of what you seem to think is "rationality" is also wrong-- and actually very harmful. We know that government agencies who arent supposed to spy on domestic citizens already are, and have been for at least decades. That's a fact. We don't know that the NSA has been doing it though; that's conjecture. But it's not insane or psychotic conjecture, or even remotely paranoid. It's rational conjecture based on the avalanche of facts about our government that have been coming to light since the McCarthy era, including the last 8 years.

  18. Re:Multiple CPUs? on IEEE Says Multicore is Bad News For Supercomputers · · Score: 0

    I would actually get a machine that was filled with Cray Threadstorm Processors (128 threads per processor core) and tell Intel (2 threads per core on a good day, and then kinda not really) to suck it.

  19. Re:Time for vector processing again on IEEE Says Multicore is Bad News For Supercomputers · · Score: 3, Informative

    We still have different processors for desktops and supercomputers.

    http://www.cray.com/products/XMT.aspx

    Rest assured, there are still people who know how to build them. They're just not quite as popular as they used to be, now that a middle manager who has no idea what the hell they're talking about can go to an upper manager with a spec sheet that's got 8 thousand processors on it and say "look! This ones got a whole ton more processors than that dumb Cray thing!"

  20. Re:God, please let this be true. on Prescription Handguns For the Elderly and Disabled · · Score: 0

    "Also: people in general don't have babies because they are too stupid to avoid them. They have them because they need or want them."

    Right, which is why I put things in terms of memetics. Changing that "need" or "want" is a huge job and very complicated. Lots of ins and outs, man. You can't just go running down the street saying "EVERYONE HAVE ABORTIONS ITS SO MUCH FUN YAY!", but one can subtly change the "memetic stream" in a culture to highlight certain "needs" over others.

    A great example of this is the change in the middle and upper middle class memetic lattice in the US during the Reagan administration. I'm not convinced that anyone involved actually meant to do it, but in those 8 years we generated a very, very potent subculture (yuppies) who really honestly cared little for anything except money, and (and this is the important shift) its *immediate* acquisition. Yadda yadda yadda, credit crisis, banks fail, recession bigger than anything since 1929.

    Memetic engineering really does work I believe, and it's more than worth attempting. As all of the great leaders (and fascists, and national socialists) have known since the beginning of relevant time, it is far, far easier to change how a person thinks rather than merely attempting to change how they behave. The seat of behavior is in the mechanism of the mind, and while behavior itself is about as malleable as an iron stick, the mechanism of the mind is much more like soft putty.

    So, while everyone else is pounding away at the soft putty in our heads (marketing agencies, governments, schools, religions, etc), I can't think of any good reason to not pound it in the direction of a functional population trend modifier. I'm not speaking in terms of ethics here mind you, I'm speaking in terms of the survival of the species. They are unfortunately very often mutually exclusive quantities.

    I apologize if I come off contrived on this subject; I certainly don't mean to. But it is something I've given a lot of thought to and have some very strong opinions about, which only very rarely dovetail with the opinions of anyone on either side of this debate.

  21. Re:God, please let this be true. on Prescription Handguns For the Elderly and Disabled · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I don't run around trying to convince anyone of anything, because I like to think I have better things to do than mistake my perception for some sort of "correct" one.

    But have no doubt, I really am pro-abortion in the same sense that I am pro-science and pro-education. It is (and please don't mistake this for an argument) my position that everyone who can have one should have at least one. How could I possibly think this? Am I deranged?

    Maybe. But here's my reasoning:

    Given #1: whether or not life begins in the uterus of a woman is irrelevant, since it depends directly on the definition of "life", which is itself strongly prone to interpretation.

    Given #2: irony is a strong motivator

    So, if every woman who is physically capable of having an abortion has at least one, then the ivory-tower arguments offered by the pro-orphan people are disarmed, which will make it ultimately much easier for women to get abortions in general.

    If every woman can get a cheap and easy abortion without all of that messy "ethical" business, certain memetic structures become easier to introduce across cultures, such as "abortion is cool!". Once the memetic structures guaranteeing avalanches of abortions all over the world are in place, we may finally be able to dilute our species' population trends enough to reverse some (but not all) of the horrific things we've done to our environment and food supplies.

    What I'm saying, in so many words, is that if you're pro-orphan (and therefore anti abortion), you don't care about feeding the hungry and eliminating pollution. Don't believe me if you don't want to; Thomas Paine said it much more articulately in a number of his pamphlets.

  22. Re:Hypocritic Oath? on Prescription Handguns For the Elderly and Disabled · · Score: 1

    Sorry! You're right nicobigsby. Upon further consideration, there's no way anyone with possibly weeks left on their clock (and being very highly aware of it) being prescribed a handgun by their doctor is a bad thing.

    I'll tell you something though, if some doctor prescribes me a gun when I'm in my 90s, I'm takin' out banks. Believe it.

  23. Re:Unethical on Technical Specs Released For Aussie Net Filtering · · Score: 1

    Why is it always insightful to pull an ironic quote from Mein Kampf?

  24. Re:History on Look What's Cooking At Microsoft Labs · · Score: 1

    Oh I'm sorry Mindkata, was I doing too well? You're pretty obsessed with modding me down, aren't you? Is it because I exposed you as a fake expert?

    By the way, you not posting anything at all because you're afraid of me modding you down and you losing karma is much, much better than me having to actually do it.

  25. Re:God, please let this be true. on Prescription Handguns For the Elderly and Disabled · · Score: 1

    "Nobody is pro-abortion."

    Oh really now? I am. And I'm not just saying that to create an argument. I'm saying it because I know for a fact that I'm not alone, and in greater fact our numbers appear to be vast in the same way that the number of Dawkins style atheists appears to be vast.