If this was "Star Trek", which it obviously isn't, I am sure they would simply coin the term "singularities" and everyone would understand exactly what was meant.
Unfortunately, we're not there just yet, so that's not obvious to the parent poster... but it is to me, and it is to the Romulans, who use artificial singularities to power their warp engines.
You aren't even the same poster who claimed that I'd failed the test... however I'd like to see a computer troll like this. Start reading from the parent of the poster. Or is it the GP? Never mind. I even got modded up (but then the bragging got modded down, negating the overall effect!)
Since you haven't even attempted to perform the Turing test on me, I fail to see how you can assert that I don't pass the test. Hand in your geek card for lack of knowledge about your own trendy references.
Thank you, that's what it was meant to mean when I made it up. However, the post I replied to implied the dominatrix interpretation, so I answered him with a proper explanation of the origin of my username.
I would reply to this comment, but I only bite one troll per discussion, and I already did so (and pointed out this fact in the post). Sorry, try again soon.
Thanks, I'm a bit lost for words other than, thanks, my troll already came and left! One replier got modded flamebait, and several of my replies and the OP got modded up... and if you read my other replies, especially the Update post, you'll see that my troll had already fulfilled it's intended purpose - to draw attention to the parent, who was VERY underrated... mods were already taking place much farther down the page. Who says trolling doesn't work? I GAINED Karma for it, too, shocking!
My number is 999. Or in the US, 911. Good luck. Am I biting now? I think I'm biting a counter-troll here. All that about not feeding the trolls, and here I am biting at a counter-troll, who is trolling my original troll. What's next? Bridges?
Honeypot efforts?? Isn't that something to do with trapping wasps? (gosh I hate those things!) I am intrigued and would like to.... no, only kidding, what did you mean, seriously?
Update: When I first started this troll, the TFA had 98 replies and moderation was in full swing. The troll was intended to help the parent, which was at 1. I am pleased to announce that the post is now at +5 Insightful, and that the troll has served it's purpose very well. I hope that all my flame-baity repliers learned something from all this.. thanks, come again! Rachel
ps I continue to notice that despite my trolling over the years, everyone still likes you or is too afraid to say otherwise... cue flames and Freaks...
While this may be true, my troll will draw attention to the parent, which is insightful, and will be modded up far more that I could on my own. That's worth a -2 hit to my Karma.
True, but hopefully my troll will draw attention to the parent, which is insightful, and will be modded up far more that I could alone. That's worth -2 to my Karma.
Although, as comments go, mine was almost worthless, gender was not the only reason for posting. I had noticed that the extremely insightful comment I replied to had not been modded at all, and played the gender card to encourage mods to re-read it, and possibly take flak for the greater good (the parent being modded up) in the form of Troll mods.
It is sadly true that had a man done this to his ex, the press would've screamed blue murder. The reason I drew attention to my gender was to say look, I'm a woman, I know all about harassment from men, I get plenty of it, but I agree with the point. We're going crazy with political correctness, it's becoming illegal to tell the truth about some things without being "racist" or "sexist".
As for my somewhat silly username, I chose it when I was 17 when webmistress was my "trendy" way of saying "female webmaster" - which was rare and somewhat mystic at the time! So for the millionth time, I'd like to point out that my username does not have (or wasn't intended to) have the connotations you are likely thinking of (and which I, myself, have since noticed) but that I want to keep my (relatively) low UID.
Nope, but was. Good observation. And then around Red Hat 7 or so I finally managed to get a distribution with ALL FOUR of networking (bloody Linux hardware drivers!!!), Apache, PHP and MySQL working, and quickly applied the skills I'd been learning offline, with WAMP and distros with no networking drivers, online.
And now I am glad I can cut M$ out of the server room, and run servers for months without a restart. I was determined to do so on the client side, too, but video codecs and hardware hassles delayed me until after 7 came out, and M$ redeemed themselves on the client side.
Aero is beautiful, and that's that. Compiz is ugly by comparison, what with it's bouncing Mac-style "wait" cursor, and Microsoft's strong hardware racket business at least ensures my continued gaming fix. So, in summary, WAS an ASPie, prefer PHP. Can use both.:-)
Much faster?? To install, or to play games? My suggestion was an old aphorism from IT-Admin lore - when your NT4-Pentium II-NVidia TNT2-powered "server" kicks the bucket, and you still have to get some work done, you install whatever is in the top drawer and get down to brass tacks. It was a joke. I can't believe somebody actually offered a better-in-the-same-class "mine is faster" reply to my inane comment. YHBT, and I wasn't even trying.:P
My first guess would be that this is specially crafted flamebait, primed and loaded especially for the user "commodore64love", who is now expected to "bite"? Am I right? Oooh... trolling is fun! x
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If this was "Star Trek", which it obviously isn't, I am sure they would simply coin the term "singularities" and everyone would understand exactly what was meant.
Unfortunately, we're not there just yet, so that's not obvious to the parent poster... but it is to me, and it is to the Romulans, who use artificial singularities to power their warp engines.
You aren't even the same poster who claimed that I'd failed the test... however I'd like to see a computer troll like this. Start reading from the parent of the poster. Or is it the GP? Never mind. I even got modded up (but then the bragging got modded down, negating the overall effect!)
Since you haven't even attempted to perform the Turing test on me, I fail to see how you can assert that I don't pass the test. Hand in your geek card for lack of knowledge about your own trendy references.
Thank you, that's what it was meant to mean when I made it up. However, the post I replied to implied the dominatrix interpretation, so I answered him with a proper explanation of the origin of my username.
I would reply to this comment, but I only bite one troll per discussion, and I already did so (and pointed out this fact in the post). Sorry, try again soon.
|| What's next, bridges?
| Obligitory xkcd
Didn't see that coming. I liked it, though. Thank you.
Thanks, I'm a bit lost for words other than, thanks, my troll already came and left! One replier got modded flamebait, and several of my replies and the OP got modded up... and if you read my other replies, especially the Update post, you'll see that my troll had already fulfilled it's intended purpose - to draw attention to the parent, who was VERY underrated... mods were already taking place much farther down the page. Who says trolling doesn't work? I GAINED Karma for it, too, shocking!
My number is 999. Or in the US, 911. Good luck. Am I biting now? I think I'm biting a counter-troll here. All that about not feeding the trolls, and here I am biting at a counter-troll, who is trolling my original troll. What's next? Bridges?
Honeypot efforts?? Isn't that something to do with trapping wasps? (gosh I hate those things!) I am intrigued and would like to.... no, only kidding, what did you mean, seriously?
Update: When I first started this troll, the TFA had 98 replies and moderation was in full swing. The troll was intended to help the parent, which was at 1. I am pleased to announce that the post is now at +5 Insightful, and that the troll has served it's purpose very well. I hope that all my flame-baity repliers learned something from all this.. thanks, come again! Rachel
ps I continue to notice that despite my trolling over the years, everyone still likes you or is too afraid to say otherwise... cue flames and Freaks...
While this may be true, my troll will draw attention to the parent, which is insightful, and will be modded up far more that I could on my own. That's worth a -2 hit to my Karma.
True, but hopefully my troll will draw attention to the parent, which is insightful, and will be modded up far more that I could alone. That's worth -2 to my Karma.
Although, as comments go, mine was almost worthless, gender was not the only reason for posting. I had noticed that the extremely insightful comment I replied to had not been modded at all, and played the gender card to encourage mods to re-read it, and possibly take flak for the greater good (the parent being modded up) in the form of Troll mods.
It is sadly true that had a man done this to his ex, the press would've screamed blue murder. The reason I drew attention to my gender was to say look, I'm a woman, I know all about harassment from men, I get plenty of it, but I agree with the point. We're going crazy with political correctness, it's becoming illegal to tell the truth about some things without being "racist" or "sexist".
As for my somewhat silly username, I chose it when I was 17 when webmistress was my "trendy" way of saying "female webmaster" - which was rare and somewhat mystic at the time! So for the millionth time, I'd like to point out that my username does not have (or wasn't intended to) have the connotations you are likely thinking of (and which I, myself, have since noticed) but that I want to keep my (relatively) low UID.
+10,000 Insightful. But I don't have mod points, and I never had that many anyways even when I did. And, yes, I'm a girl. A real one.
Love the Elton reference, friend.
Best AC I've seen all week. +1000 lmao.
Nope, but was. Good observation. And then around Red Hat 7 or so I finally managed to get a distribution with ALL FOUR of networking (bloody Linux hardware drivers!!!), Apache, PHP and MySQL working, and quickly applied the skills I'd been learning offline, with WAMP and distros with no networking drivers, online.
And now I am glad I can cut M$ out of the server room, and run servers for months without a restart. I was determined to do so on the client side, too, but video codecs and hardware hassles delayed me until after 7 came out, and M$ redeemed themselves on the client side.
Aero is beautiful, and that's that. Compiz is ugly by comparison, what with it's bouncing Mac-style "wait" cursor, and Microsoft's strong hardware racket business at least ensures my continued gaming fix. So, in summary, WAS an ASPie, prefer PHP. Can use both. :-)
Much faster?? To install, or to play games? My suggestion was an old aphorism from IT-Admin lore - when your NT4-Pentium II-NVidia TNT2-powered "server" kicks the bucket, and you still have to get some work done, you install whatever is in the top drawer and get down to brass tacks. It was a joke. I can't believe somebody actually offered a better-in-the-same-class "mine is faster" reply to my inane comment. YHBT, and I wasn't even trying. :P
What is this "targeting C64love"?
My first guess would be that this is specially crafted flamebait, primed and loaded especially for the user "commodore64love", who is now expected to "bite"? Am I right? Oooh... trolling is fun! x
I hope you have an old Cirrus Logic or Winbond tucked away in a drawer somewhere, after all, an hour without a computer might as well be a year!
It would seem that any chimp with decent grammar skills could teach you a thing or two...
Would you stop biting random trolls on slashdot?
No, really. Thanks. Yeah.
Wow. How sarcastic of you. Thanks for the snide sniggers.
No, really. Thanks. Yeah.
A paywall isn't censorship. It is a rip-off, it does widen the knowledge gap between the rich and the poor, it is "shady", but it is not censorship.
+100 brilliant. I am liking your ideas and would like to subscribe to your journal.