Re: Can you find anything wrong with this solution to the Halting Problem?

From: Alex Hunsley (lard_at_tardis.ed.ac.molar.uk)
Date: 07/13/04 

Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 16:18:31 +0100

Marc Goodman wrote:

> Peter Olcott wrote:
>
>> http://home.att.net/~olcott/halts.html
>> Maybe because you quit looking, and assumed that it
>> was fruitless. In any case since this does not address any
>> of the points that I made it is not any form of valid refutation.
>
>
> I've now wasted far more time on this post than it was
> worth, thus proving that Kent was 100% right about invincible
> ignorance and timewasting morons, since the odds that you will accept
> the above as true are virtually 0%.
>

Yup!
It just occurred to me, if Olcott was right (not in this universe) then perhaps
  we could run a few of the reply posts through his magical machine and find
out if replying would ever cause him to halt posting. Or something similar.
Or maybe the realisation of his machine would result in a program which takes
the bits of his post, randomly assigns them values of 0 or 1, then sends them
to /dev/null.....