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  1. Re:Quantum Computing Baffles Me on Hybrid Technology Could Bring 'Quantum Information Systems' · · Score: 3, Informative

    The whole point in quantum computing is that it is not random but completely deterministic through the wavefunction. Only the measurements of quantum states are "random" and this is because you are forcing the system to take one of a few discrete values. Through multiple measurements, we can pin down the expectation (average) value of the observable which should be constant for constant inputs on a certain calculation.

  2. Re:Yawn. A few billionths... on CERN Experiment Indicates Faster-Than-Light Neutrinos · · Score: 1

    If only physicists were used to using a language that often did implicit casts...

  3. Re:Yay BBC News! on CERN Experiment Indicates Faster-Than-Light Neutrinos · · Score: 1

    Perhaps you could pay the licence fee you damned foreigner!

  4. Re:Next step.. on Magnetic Nanoparticles Fry Tumors · · Score: 1

    Perhaps the reason they don't want you rubbing your hands through them before they go through patients is to avoid your(and any other accidental) contamination

  5. Re:Dear Anonymous: A question... apk on Anonymous Takes Down Turkish Government Site · · Score: 1

    Yeah, triple isn't really what most people call "MANY orders of magnitude".....

  6. Re:Friggin' timezones on MIT-Designed Game Used To Train an AI System · · Score: 1

    Perhaps this is the most important thing we could teach it.

  7. Re:Anyone should be able to estimate speed... on Guess My Speed and Give Me a Ticket, In Ohio · · Score: 1

    The uncertainty is in most cases not an exact value as you suggest. In scientific studies, it is the standard deviation, which implies something like 60% of the measured values would fall within this mark.

  8. Re:GPS on Guess My Speed and Give Me a Ticket, In Ohio · · Score: 1

    What if you were running more than 60mph?

  9. Re:The Cold Equations on Was Flight Ban Over Ash an Overreaction? · · Score: 1

    The failure of a single engine is usually due to a fault in that engine. The failure of multiple enginges tends to be linked with extraneous factors, and when the engines fail due to volcanic ash, they tend to all fail...

  10. Re:advertisers can suck it! on Website Mass-Bans Users Who Mention AdBlock · · Score: 1

    It's more like being banned from talking about how you don't look at billboards :p

  11. Re:Bad things to say about chiropractors? on In the UK, a Victory For Free Speech · · Score: 1

    This is the pdf for todays judgement if you want to read it. It says about 2/3 of the way through that the BCA had "understandably not sought to make a major issue of the word bogus." In the context of what you're saying I guess they may have realised they had a less than favourable judge.

  12. Re:Bad things to say about chiropractors? on In the UK, a Victory For Free Speech · · Score: 1

    In the judgement pdf (see above post by by BeardedChimp) they mention that the issue was the "not a jot of evidence" and "happily" rather than the word bogus. It goes on to say that the BCA didn't "make a major issue of the word bogus. "

    The question that the judge decided was whether the "not a jot of evidence" was fact or a value-judgement. Singh argued that it was meaning there was no worthwhile or reliable evidence, rather than no evidence at all, and the judge in this case agreed.

  13. Re:Could have done it for real... on YouTube, Now In Text Mode! · · Score: 1

    or this one and still nothing. (ignoring how annoying the people in the video are)

  14. Re:Could have done it for real... on YouTube, Now In Text Mode! · · Score: 1

    Except that it doesn't work for any videos that they haven't uploaded an ascii version of...... try it on an actual random video and it does nothing.

  15. Re:Where's the security protocol? on Former TSA Analyst Charged With Computer Tampering · · Score: 5, Funny

    Because you'd be really small?

  16. Re:25 years and only 7 versions? on The Secret Origin of Windows · · Score: 1

    I think you'll find it's actualy only 6 versions over 25 years so more like 1 release every 4.2 years as you're only measuring the gap between 1 and 7 not 0 and 7.

  17. Re:WAT is Voluntary and Doesn't Impact OS Usage on Anti-Piracy Windows 7 Update Phones Home Quarterly · · Score: 1

    4. The goal is reduce the number of Windows installations using pirated copies many of which include malicious code.

    Yes, obviously the problem is the sheer volume of pirated copies that have been added to botnets. Certainly 3 strikes deals must be approved as they are the only way to stop this! Inexperienced users could never be the problem.

  18. Re:Failure of thought on SourceForge Clarifies Denial of Site Access · · Score: 1

    How ironic that to be free to the world they'd have to move away from the free world.

  19. Re:Price is expected to be on A Widescreen Laser Projector In Your Pocket · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Two waves of different frequency will not interact in the same way as in say Young's double slit experiment. When two waves of nearly equal frequency are added, "beats" appear in the waveform that would appear as a brightening and darkening of the light in different places over time... beats

  20. Re:Reminds me... on Shuttle and Hubble Passing In Front of the Sun · · Score: 5, Funny

    I just accidentally my eyes.

  21. Re:I honestly don't get it on Quake Live Dev Says Mac and Linux Are "Top Priority" · · Score: 1

    swing and a miss... the parent obviously meant with the real quake client

  22. Re:unbelievable. uk is practically a fascist count on UK Government Wants To Bypass Data Protection Act · · Score: 1

    That's gonna become the new godwin's law about the uk....

  23. Re:Well of course on Wind and Sun Beat Other Energy Alternatives · · Score: 1

    After the sun roasts the earth in 4b years... An interesting end you hope of, heat death....

  24. Re:Vodafone Blackberry Storm on What The Banned iPhone Ad Should Really Look Like · · Score: 2, Funny

    and I'd thought transformers was a documentary!

  25. Re:Sea Boundaries on Has HavenCo's Data Haven Shut Down? · · Score: 1

    "In 1968, the Royal Navy entered what Bates claimed to be his territorial waters in order to service a navigational buoy near the platform. Michael Bates (son of Paddy Roy Bates) tried to scare the workmen off by firing warning shots from the former fort."

    Hardly an attempt to take Sealand by force...