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  1. Re:If I recall..... on Quantum Teleportation Sends Information 143 Kilometers · · Score: 1

    No. you know the particles were entangled because you prepared them to be so
    Then, it doesn't matter when you measure them (simultaneity being a problem in itself BTW)
    What you do know at any time is that both measurements wil be opposite.
    But you can do one of them now and the other one 10000 years after, it doesn't change anything
    What you don't know is which one will be up, which one will be down. you just know they will be opposite

  2. Re:I propose... on The UK's New Minister For Magic · · Score: 1

    I propose we promote his ministry to ministry of silly medicines.
    We're getting there, we're getting there...

  3. Re:So is apple... on Anonymous Leaks 1M Apple Device UDIDs · · Score: 1

    Do you have any proof on which you could sustain this belief of yours that Apple does not use children to build with enormous margins those desirable appliances that are designed to steal people's privacy and to sell it to the FBI ?

    ' was just trying to guess what was going to be the next AC's weird 'I put less and less related words in your mouth and question you about it' :)

    You seem to be a very patient person, congrats ;)

  4. Re:Doesn't Matter on Google Extends Patent Search To Prior Art · · Score: 1
  5. Re:Cue the young earth creationists on Radioactive Decay Apparently Influenced By the Sun · · Score: 1

    Que idiota eres
    How stupid of you
    Hmm, well those two sentences are not saying contradictory things, they are both saying that you are an idiot
    Now imagine both of those sentences are coming from the original french "Mais quelle andouille tu fais"
    Which can certainly be translated into any of those forms, and however could just mean if the context is clear about it "you are making great sausages !" (something like that)
    Furthermore, imagine that those written words accepted as the almighty truth everywhere on the planet are filling allegedly technical spanish and english blogs
    The spanish blogs would debate over the fact that idiota can be a synonym of ignorante, and there would be the school of those interpreting the whole situation of you being certainly smart but uneducated blablabla
    The english blogs would have people wishing each others death or cumbersome sexual 'happenings' because to some it would be obvious that the 'how stupid of you' is not to be taken as an absolute state of your 'being stupid'ness but instead revealing something very specific that you just did right at this moment
    (no doubt other parts of the scriptures must reveal which one of your posts / creations was wrong, therefore evil, and the schools keep dividing)
    ..
    Well, this is what people above are arguing about exactly: ways to interpret words in certain conditions which are most certainly way more off by the simple virtue of their being translations than by the margin of interpretation they have in their final language, and that was your parent's point

    Now, to add some more room to 'interpretations', and just in case I am offending you, I am actually not meaning that you are an idiot (I don't know you), I just meant that you are wrong in your answer to your parent's post and that you have to see just how silly it is to argue over sensible interpretations over the meaning of words which are not even the original words to begin with.
    ...
    ...
    The saddest thing is that it was probably about sausages anyway

  6. Re:Besides... on Facebook Faces High-Level Staff Exodus · · Score: 2

    My former job's title in one of the coolest startups ever was CJT
    Where CJT stands for "CJT is my Job's Title" which by virtue of its recursivity propelled me at the highest possible rank of finite and infinite job's ranks of the universe
    But I just left the company last year and am now in a new even cooler startup with transfinite job titles, I am slowly working my way to the top, it's a long way but it's worth it

  7. Re:uhh... on Lies, Damned Lies, and Quantum Statistics · · Score: 1

    Out of mod points, offtopic for this particular thread
    Anyway, I don't understand why you are being so badly trolled against, but before you leave completely disgusted I wanted to let you know that your submission was welcome and apreciated, it was a nice article, and as someone before me pointed out, stuff that matters is not an AND relation to news for nerds, plus, there is the new translation so it is news anyway.
    So thanks quax and post again ;)

  8. Re:Bite back on Study Finds Human Teeth are as Tough as Shark Teeth · · Score: 1

    First thing I thought was "people are paying to do such studies ?"
    And to think I was complaining about the olympics...

  9. Re:"at this time" on Nintendo 3DS XL Is Out Now · · Score: 4, Funny

    I do believe that this is not actually completely shown as currently being a proven fact
    On one hand, and it is your privilege as the reader of my thesis to decide if it should be the left or the right one, there is some concern about essays overusing proven formulas like the beloved "intro-for-against-conclusion" artificialy lengthened by space eating expressions that will typically generate way too long and difficult to read sentences.
    On the other hand, so far, and as far as this thread is presently being concerned, it has mostly been a concern for anonymous cowards which are at the moment known to not be currently a reliable source for now.
    Therefore, I don't think we can conclude that college kids are the only ones filling their essays with space wasters at this time

  10. Re:It's ugly on The Rise of the Junkweb and Why It's So Awesome · · Score: 1

    WOW ! amazing :)
    Can I buy you a beer some time ?
    I am going to abuse this new found website until my coworkers stop sending me screenshots of the error messages they see in the web application I support :D
    Of course, for those of them who send said screenshot embedded in an MS Word document, it probably won't be enough to convey the message, but it's a start ;)

  11. Re:Flying Cars not Frying Cats on Wireless Car Charger Test Starts In London · · Score: 1

    (undoing wrong click)

  12. Re:When "you're doing it wrong" is fun. on Khan Academy: the Teachers Strike Back · · Score: 2

    No, he will follow the successful trend and brag about being unprepared and consider "foreplay" and "having your partner also satisfied" concepts to be mere "nitpicking"

  13. Re:Just to clarify on Man Physically Assaulted At McDonald's For Wearing Digital Eye Glasses · · Score: 1

    No zenophobic from Zenon's paradox.
    Your parent is clearly uncontrollably afraid of logical fallacies, or maybe of infinity, or maybe of tortoises

  14. Re:when these genius people are 100% on CERN Announcing New LHC Results July 4th · · Score: 1

    For the love of all that is sacred and holly, silent coder, please, keep silent and stop coding
    Unless you are making fun of the previous similarly stupid posts in which case, well done, but please try to syntax-color those sarcasm tags :)

  15. Re:Hasn't this been done before? on Researchers Spray-Paint Batteries Onto Almost Any Surface · · Score: 1

    Please check your math again, you got the wrong sign when evaluating the divergence
    Anyway, just physical/parental intuition will let you know that this is an energy sink, not source :)

  16. Re:Microsoft and music on Raunchy Dance Routine a PR Nightmare For Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Hmm,
    No no no, you have the lyrics wrong, listen again :)

  17. Re:Betteridge's law of headlines wins again on Will IBM's Watson Kill Your Career? · · Score: 1

    Good one, too bad you messed it up, but unfortunately, the answer to your headline would actually be 'no' as you expected
    But then, Watson's cognitive powers would put your headline together with the others always being answered with 'no' so as to confirm the law, never seeing the joke, and further making your parent's point, which wasn't (I assume) so much about the law itself but to imply that the answer was obviously no

  18. Re:Elephant metric system on New Analysis Shows Dinosaurs Not As Heavy As Previously Believed. · · Score: 1

    Yes this looks right, the accuracy nonsense probably comes from the tranlator instead of the study :)

  19. Re:Elephant metric system on New Analysis Shows Dinosaurs Not As Heavy As Previously Believed. · · Score: 1

    176,370 pounds
    50,706 pounds
    Not only is this not a discovery but an estimation, but this truly has little to do with science, and the unit is not the problem
    What about an estimation of 64,623.34712 Kg ?
    Those figures are ridiculous by themselves, and put togther they are pathetic, how do you make an estimation down to pound-level accuracy when the second guess is about a third the first one ?

  20. Re:Algorithms on MIT Professor Pushes the Envelope of 3D Art and Manufacturing · · Score: 1

    Here is one
    It's a bit involved though

  21. Re:Steve WHO? on World Cup Memo Written By Steve Jobs Going Up For Auction · · Score: 1

    There is a very common french expression that goes exactly the same way:
    "Better off hearing this than being deaf"
    This works on exactly the same angle, if you said "i'd preffer to be deaf than to hear that" of course it is "stronger" in you pretending that piece of music or whatever is the worst thing you have ever heard, but it is also a silly cheap absolute, while the other way to say it conveys the idea that you had to think about it and had to go very low in your qualifications standards if you see what I mean
    I assumed this expression/equivalent would exist in english too, but apparently (I just looked up) this is not the case, so maybe this 'style' which I was explaining actually doesn't exist in english which would be why some people seem so convinced this is a sort of logical mistake. Might be, migh not be :)

  22. Re:Dumb on Sergey Brin Demos Google Glasses Prototype · · Score: 1

    Well, as a french speaker, this is what that would bring to mind...
    Blue touffe :)

    *sigh* and here go my future possible claim as any sort of respectability as a member of this community...

  23. Re:Steve WHO? on World Cup Memo Written By Steve Jobs Going Up For Auction · · Score: 1

    No, this is wrong, but you are answering to a post that was also a wrong explanation
    This is a second/third degree thing, and because of that, it does not go well in written form
    The idea is to say "well, I could care less" ("now that I think about it" heavily implied by a breathing pause and a funny 'I am really thinking about it" stance)
    If you just say "this is so stupid, so irrelevant, there is absoluteley no way I could care less about it"
    Well, you made your point, but it was a cheap one, because it is always easy, and therefore ignored/unnoticed when you use absolutes ("this is the greatest thing I have ever seen in my life", "the expression [could care less] is the least interesting thing I have ever had to argue about", ... (you get the point))
    Now, when you say "I could care less", you are supposed to imply that you actually thought about it, not just giving a robotic meaningless answer, and it makes the point stronger, beacuse, of course, there are things you can, and do care less about, the fact that you are talking about it is the first proof that you actually can care less, otherwise, you wouldn't bother posting/replying at all, now would you ?
    It's a matter of style
    I usually use this kind of formula/pattern which is based on the same idea/effect:
    "I think I saw something ugglier than this once or twice... (pretend to think hard...) hmmm.. yes, err.. hmmm no.. no in fact no, this is actually ugglier"
    I just said this is the uggliest thing I have ever seen, but actually giving the feeling I was really thinking about it instead of using a cheap superlative, it makes the point stronger, and at the same time it is funny enough that it is not supposed to offend anyone.

  24. Re:Industrial designer on World Cup Memo Written By Steve Jobs Going Up For Auction · · Score: 1

    Have course ! defiantly !

  25. Re:Twenty Seconds? on DVDs, Blu-Rays To Show 20-Second Unskippable Govt. Warnings · · Score: 1

    SO is significant other, and the hand seems like a poor choice of significant other, though it does seem reasonable as a special other