Keep up with what? You clearly are talking out your paper asshole and have no idea what the various terms you are throwing around with impunity even mean.

Your statement "An operating system has a API through which you communicate with it" broadcasted to the world that you had no idea what you were even saying.

Then this beauty: "Much like a protocol"The fact that you don't evidently know that protocols and APIs are virtually completely disparate is almost sad.

You wrap it up in a way that wouldn't make it more apparent how clueless you are if you launched a tour on the talk show circuit to announce it and ran for office as the candidate who is "Just as Clueless as the Little Guy!"

"both kernel and application are turing complete" ... Serioulsy ... you are kidding us and trying to make yourself out to be the biggest moron ever to post on Slashdot, right? If so, Bravo Sir.

OK. Maybe you'll understand it in simpler terms. How many people in the world are there that never get hungry?

" And they're the people saying GMOs will feed the hungry when GMOs are mainly targeted to countries where there are no hungry people."

Name just 1 country that doesn't have hungry people.

"An operating system has a API through which you communicate with it."

You are joking, right? Out of curiosity, as you are communicating with your OS, do you use Pascal or C calling conventions as you type?

"Much like a protocol."

Considering that "protocol" allows me to type 'sudo rm -rf /' Turing doesn't actually give an fsck at that point now, then, does he?

Do you not realize that you are running an Operating System, written in a Turing Complete language, and that it is only possible because the other problems can (and have) been addressed? Also:

" Now solve all the other problems without knowing what they are ."

Just because you don't know what they are doesn't mean that they aren't well known and understood.

"You cannot show the server will behave for all inputs."

Someone should invent input sanitization !

"Computer science is a bitch sometimes."

You are anthropomorphizing CompSci, and then actually blaming it for your inadequacies.

Multi-monitor support has been rock solid for at least 5 years. Nice troll though!

"Already said I understand the point of it. "

You state that you understand it, but show that you clearly don't understand it, or you wouldn't disable it.

"As what I'd consider a 'power user', one of the first things I do is turn that obnoxious thing off."

Ironically, the first thing you do as a 'power user' immediate exposes you as incompetent.

There have always been a pretty steady stream of trolls (at least since around 1999 when I got here), but what has changed is the quality of the trolling. In general the mean skill level has plummeted so you tend to get a lot of really clueless people trolling a bunch of other really clueless people. The difference is that in the old days you could read a whole flame war and actually learn something, possibly even being amused in the process. That kind of high level knowledge exchange is not just less common, but almost non-existent on Slashdot circa 2105.

"Hmm...okay, let's remove all security with respect to airplanes. Care to fly now?"

Or we could go back to the pre-TSA scenario, which was by no stretch of the imagination "no security", but nice attempt at trying to re-frame the conversation to make it sound like anyone who is anti-TSA is a zealot who wants to allow submachine guns in the Airport lobby.

What does that make the guy watching the retard, happily focusing on the retard, trying to determine if he is happy?

Seriously? You think it is cheaper and easier to produce a semi-perfect circle than it is to make a square?

I predict, you either will or will not someday learn about Occam's Razor. :-)

iNo! You are more iLikely to work at Apple! iCanTell!

Let's go over the Google candidate checklist. Can't log in? Check! Can't use the shift key? Check! Yep, Google is feeling the hurt not hiring you all right!