The prisons house people who were sloppy, stupid, and lazy.

script kiddies often fall into those categories, yes.

and prisons also house people who didn't quit while they were ahead.

which means very little in itself.

And yet he was brainwashed by the communist Federation despite that... that's the real "inspiration" here, whatever you're inspired to do with it.

The only characters with consistent ethics or integrity were the Ferengi, who expressed their logic rationally and improved utility on average through free trade rather than elitist self-indulgence.

RMS FIGHTS FOR THE USERS!!!!

uh, you're thinking of cryptographic/non-invertible/fast-mixing/whatever hashes specifically. it's not exactly defined what a hash is, but generally it means a possibly many-to-one (i.e. lossy) function of data, usually with outputs of fixed (or parametrizable) size.

for example, an OCR is a hash; it (ideally) hashes images of arbitrary dimension into an output space of characters according to which one it most resembles; similarly for any other image recognizer.

I prefer the online company of intelligent people who are purposefully offensive

uh, we're talking about Twitter here. emphasis on the "twit".

persistent idiocy is insulting.

Nonsense, this is just market efficiency. The real threat to gaming is the possibility of some woman blowing a guy to get a few $K in sales of a lousy game. Here, Ubisoft, take my money!

it's not ignoring it, per se. driving hard-working decent people to poverty and desperation is analogous to firebombing Dresden.

i.e., not really necessary for the primary objective (moving line X to ledger Y), but it's an impressive show of power and has some ancillary gains ("corrects" the cost of labor downward, far downward).

weird; i thought that your kind of gamer had moved on from video gaming to trolling feminists on the internet. it's a lot cheaper and more entertaining.

though, hey, if you're interested in applying that small amount of polish for me and accomplishing what Ubuntu cannot, i'd be very interested in ditching Apple's monopolistic business model.

saying "fuck you" to Apple would easily be worth, say, $500/year for me (for software alone); maybe even more if the UX is even close to as good as Mac OS. that's what i'd pay for an easy-to-use Linux. interested?

thanks for an actual answer, though nothing that would substantially improve my life (nor most people's lives, even on slashdot) the way that Mac OS X's "arguably" superior interface has.

i don't have time to apply a "comparatively small amount of polish" to every feature i might want to use (and compared to what exactly? building the OS from scratch?) i don't think the slivers of time i might gain from improved SSD caching would even come close to the time it would take to apply that small amount of polish.

if and when i do need one of these esoteric features i'll either rent time on a server or buy a box.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

retchdog:~$ time brew install gcc
==> Installing dependencies for gcc: gmp, mpfr, libmpc, isl, cloog
[blah blah blah]
==> Installing gcc
==> Downloading https://downloads.sf.net/proje...
==> Pouring gcc-4.9.2_1.yosemite.bottle.tar.gz
==> Summary /usr/local/Cellar/gcc/4.9.2_1: 1156 files, 203M

real 3m51.241s

4 minutes, and that was just because my wifi sucks.

O_o

why is a glorified build manager using kernel-specific features?