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  1. The breaking of entanglement is FTL information tr on Researchers Demonstrate Teleportation Using On-Demand Photons From Quantum Dots (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    The breaking of entanglement is faster-than-light information transmission and thus breaks general relativity.

    Suppose Alice is on a space station around Jupiter, and holds one particle from an entangled pair.

    Suppose Bob, stationed in a space station around Deneb, holds the other particle.

    If the breaking of entanglement results in instant recognition of this breaking, then one can effectively send a signal to both Alice and Bob in faster-than-light speed!

    So something is wrong in all this. Either general relativity is wrong or, more probably, entanglement is not faster-than-light!!!

  2. A much better solution exists. on Tumblr Porn Vanishes Today · · Score: 2

    Content should have been labelled and users could have chosen through a particular set of filters that apply to their culture, or even define new personal filters and share them with others.

    Thus, people would only see posts they like, which of course means it would be safe for everyone.

    But they didn't do this because they want to provide better value to their customers, but to satisfy the current lefty social justice craze.

  3. Re:Capitalism bad. on Alaska's Universal Basic Income Doesn't Increase Unemployment (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    What a load of crap.

    If 100 bucks are spent for dinner by a single person, or 100 bucks are spent for dinner by two persons, it doesn't make any difference, it's exactly the same.

    It's not that splitting the 100 dollars into two dinners will magically buy bigger dinner for anyone.

  4. GTA5 has no server side validation? How lame on US Judge Blocks Programs Letting 'Grand Theft Auto' Players 'Cheat' (reuters.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Hacks shouldn't happen in online games. The server should do all the checks and take all the decisions. If a hacked client can ruin other clients' games, then the online game is severely ill-designed.

  5. There can be digital offline transactions, you kno on 'The Cashless Society is a Con -- and Big Finance is Behind It' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Between cash and online transactions, there is a third option: Digital offline transactions.

    How would it work? You have a card, you load it with money, and then each time you want to buy something you pay with this card...no online connection required, the money value on the card is decreased.

    For security, not only the communication protocol would be encrypted, but it can also be setup in such a way that it requires entering a pin number for each transaction, with the card's small numeric keyboard.

    The state machine of the card's software would be small enough to validate it mathematically 100%.

  6. Windows already has this feature. on Microsoft Removes 'Sets' Tabbed Windows Feature From Next Release (groovypost.com) · · Score: 1

    It's called the Task Bar.

  7. There is also the possibility of electronic 'cash' on Swedes Turn Against Cashlessness (theguardian.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Cash doesn't have to be paper. An electronic unit with a battery that can hold an electronic counter can function perfectly as an electronic version of cash, without involving banks and going through bank transactions each time.

    It seems this option is totally ignored by everyone though.

  8. Re: fuck the music industry on Spotify Hit With $1.6 Billion Copyright Lawsuit (spin.com) · · Score: 0

    Copyright should be permanent. No one should be entitled to use another man's work without the appropriate compesation.

  9. What paradox? Marx explained it well. on The Silicon Valley Paradox: One In Four People Are At Risk of Hunger (theguardian.com) · · Score: 0

    A few centuries ago, Marx explained exploitation of the workers by the owners of the means of production, but you Americans go "la la la I can't hear you" every time Marx is mentioned.

  10. Companies lowered wages on purpose. on Seattle's $15 Minimum Wage May Be Hurting Workers, Report Finds (usatoday.com) · · Score: 0

    It is not the increase of minimum wage that caused the decrease in income, it is the greedy companies that do not want to give more money to their employees.

    I.e. it is again Capitalism to blame.

  11. Re:misleading nonsense about fantasy matter on Scientists Capture First Image of Dark Matter Web (inhabitat.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Personally I think that the galaxy rotation problem, and consequently the bullet cluster problem, is a relativistic effect and no dark matter exists.

    I.e. the existing visible matter warps space in such a way that it increases the rotation speed of the galaxy.

    Any mass in space warps the space around it. It is proven again and again, with gravitational waves being the latest proof.

    So a very simple explanation is gravity from the mass of the galaxy warps space in such a way that mass around it seems sped up.

  12. Here is another one on Ask Slashdot: What Are Some Lies Programmers Tell Themselves? · · Score: 1

    "functional purity creates less buggy code".

  13. At the same percentage it was justified to change the law in Germany in 1930s to make Jews illegal.

  14. Also, lack of money on PC Industry Is Now On a Two-Year Downslide (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    Perhaps not valid for the US, but here in Southern Europe the economic situation is such that it makes it very difficult to buy new PCs. We do want to upgrade, we just do not have the money.

  15. Why not a scalable address space? on What Vint Cerf Would Do Differently (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Why hard code the size of addresses? for just a single bit of information, the ip headers could contain either the standard address or an extensible one.

    That would have been really clever from his part.

  16. They could simply have found a similar voice. on Star Trek's LCARS Could Become Your Virtual Assistant (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    But I guess going the emulation route is cooler.

  17. Email should be double-sent to avoid spoofing. on One of Europe's Biggest Companies Loses 40 Million Euros In Online Scam (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    For each email received, the receiving server shall send a request to the sending server to have the email resend. The request should be done via an email, as if the receiver answered the sender.

    Once the receiver receives the email back, intact, then it is confirmed that this is an original email. Otherwise the email shall be deleted.

    This is nothing more than the receiver calling the sender to ask "did you send this email?", automated.

  18. What comes after tricking this system by masking? on German Minister Wants Facial Recognition Software At Airports and Train Stations (www.rte.ie) · · Score: 1

    After a few years of terrorists tricking the system with their face alterations, what is it that will come? Can you guess?

    Can you say 'chip'?

    Chipping will be mandatory then, and everyone not accepting it will be labelled as a terrorist.

  19. Re: Inevitable on Has The NSF Automated Coding with ExCAPE? (adtmag.com) · · Score: 1

    Thank god people haven't understood yet this. As soon as they realize that what a computer lacks is a model of the world, i.e. information, we are almost done as programmers.

    The real reason I cannot give a command to my computer to "create me a site like slashdot" for example, is that the computer doesn't know what I am saying.

    As soon as deep knowledge AI systems are fully developed, and loaded with the appropriate knowledge, our days as programmers will be over.

  20. Why do you all accept that file sharing is illegal on From File-Sharing To Prison: The Story of a Jailed Megaupload Programmer (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I've read all comments, and it seems everyone here accepts that providing a file sharing service is an illegal activity.

    Did this man actually uploaded copyrighted material? He did not.

    Did he worked on it with the purpose of others uploading movies? He did not. He just provided a file sharing service, which I have used it myself to distribute family videos that were large enough to not be sharable by email.

    So why do you all accept this ludicrus position that file sharing is illegal?

  21. Ancient cultures depicted 12 planets. on Astronomers Say There Could Be At Least Two More Mystery Planets In Our Solar System (sciencealert.com) · · Score: 1

    Almost all ancient cultures depicted a solar system of 12 planets. Early civilizations like the Sumerians considered the planets to be Gods, which later transpired to the Greek Dodecatheon (12 gods) and the 12 disciples of Jesus.

    It is quite surprising to me that we can't detect these bodies. It is ok not to detect them on visible light, but what about the infrared? IRAS was supposed to have discovered a large planetary body at the border of our solar system in 1982. Shouldn't we have ten times better infrared telescopes today?

  22. And why isn't it detecting waves on a daily basis? The universe is supposed to contain billions of black holes.

  23. Re: Several serious logical flaws on Neil deGrasse Tyson Says It's 'Very Likely' The Universe Is A Simulation (extremetech.com) · · Score: 1

    Also, you don't need to simulate a universe in real time.

    Based on the knowlesdge we have, we can write a universe simulation that runs slower than our universe.

  24. BI will not work because it will create a new soci on VC, Entrepreneur Says Basic Income Would Work Even If 90% People 'Smoked Pot' and Didn't Work (techinsider.io) · · Score: 1

    Pretty soon the people that work and support the rest of the society will demand more rights for them or less rights for those that do not work.

    This will create huge social problems, and may even lead to civil war.

  25. The Islamic Sense Of Guilt on Why ISIS Is Winning The Online Propaganda War (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    Muslims all over the world think the West is corrupt and immoral and it must be set on the right path.

    2nd and 3rd generation Muslims that live in western countries fill ashamed of and guilty to help maintain these western immoral and corrupt societies. Some of those react by embracing terrorism.

    1st generation Muslim immigrants that have struggled to get a place in western societies don't choose terrorism because they are torn inside: from one side, they dislike the West, and from the other side, they feel obliged to the West.

    It has nothing to do with poorness or social outcasting. It has only to do with how Muslims see the western civilization. That is why terrorists are not poor or uneducated.