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  1. Re:Metropolis was distributed with a piano score on Lost Footage of "Metropolis" Found · · Score: 1

    I read somewhere that Adolf Hitler was really into Metropolis, and that he held it up as an example that all filmmakers should strive for. Food for thought.

    I read somewhere that Joseph Stalin thought sunrises were beautiful. Food for thought.

  2. Re:Without prejudice... on RIAA Wants To Throw In the Towel On 3-Year-Old Case · · Score: 1

    Hey, prejudice is baaaad, mmm'kay?

  3. Re:Attorney's fees are all well and fine..... on RIAA Wants To Throw In the Towel On 3-Year-Old Case · · Score: 1

    Well there's the fact that if she loses she won't get her the lawyer's fee for the countersuit. And you can bet that RIAA will do everything in their power to get that countersuit dismissed with prejudice.....

  4. Re:No, not quite on In Iran, Blogging May Be Punishable By Death · · Score: 1

    Ah Ajax, is there anything you can't do?

  5. And why only the Free version? on AVG Backs Down From Flooding the Internet · · Score: 1

    Another question, why does this only mention AVG Free? Will the AVG Pro users keep DOSing google search Top 10?

  6. Re:Awwww, so sorry for all the webmasters on AVG Fakes User Agent, Floods the Internet · · Score: 1

    Just wait till the next patch, when it starts scanning ALL search results, not just the 10 on the current page.

  7. Re:You'd have to fake the user agent on AVG Fakes User Agent, Floods the Internet · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Or you could, you know, just probe the site after the user clicks on the link and not before.

  8. Re:Nagware alert! on AVG Fakes User Agent, Floods the Internet · · Score: 1

    Or disable the voice.

  9. Re:I discovered this the hard way on AVG Fakes User Agent, Floods the Internet · · Score: 1

    I think they deserve everything they will inevitably get as a result of this.

    What could they possibly get as a result of this when all they're doing is protecting your children from malware?

  10. Re:law of unintended consequences... on Researchers Modify T-Cells, Make Them HIV Resistant · · Score: 1

    Rincewind: I'm not going to ride on a magic carpet! I'm afraid of grounds.
    Conina: You mean heights. And stop being silly.
    Rincewind: I know what I mean! It's the grounds that kill you!

  11. Re:Images of invisible stuff, neat! on First Images of Solar System's Invisible Frontier · · Score: 1

    Look for a Pink Unicorn of course.

  12. Re:Math Quiz on First Images of Solar System's Invisible Frontier · · Score: 1

    Wait a second, so the speed of sound in space is the same as the speed of sound in our air?

  13. Re:Woooooosh on First Images of Solar System's Invisible Frontier · · Score: 1

    Wait a second, if within the solar system the solar winds are more powerful than the galactic winds, wouldn't they also be more damaging?

  14. Re:North Korea on Firefox Breaks 8 Million, Gets Into Guinness · · Score: 5, Funny

    Minesweeper.

  15. Re:The article is exiting gibberish on Discovery of a "Flat" Atom Hailed as Quantum Computing Breakthrough · · Score: 1

    Well a University of Washington physicist certainly thinks it's worth an experiment.

  16. Re:The article is exiting gibberish on Discovery of a "Flat" Atom Hailed as Quantum Computing Breakthrough · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Yes, I read The Fabric of Cosmos. And that's what actually gave me the idea before I ever heard of John Cramer's planned experiment. Remember Greene's example of an experimental setup which specifically stated that if you measure the entangled stream, it would cause the interference pattern to disappear in the original stream. It seems obvious that this can be used for communication. As you said, measuring a single photon would not be enough - a pattern needs many "dots". But if you switch the device on long enough to measure 1000 photons, the pattern, or lack thereof, would be clear as day. If it takes you 1 second to analyze the pattern, but the device is on the stream more than 1 light second away: there's your FTL travel. And if the device measures the photons after you have seen their entangled partners hit the screen and analyzed the pattern, that's communication back in time.

    More info on that experiment (or at least links to articles about it) can be found here.

    Basically, as I see it, this experiment will either prove FTL communication to be possible, or it will disprove the uncertainty principle.

  17. Re:The article is exiting gibberish on Discovery of a "Flat" Atom Hailed as Quantum Computing Breakthrough · · Score: 1

    I assume you mean "wave" instead of "element". If so, your statement is incorrect. It is impossible to pass any information (including whether the other guy looked at his half of the pair) via quantum entanglement.

    Yes, I did mean "wave". I really should start previewing my posts :)

    And see my other post for a way that might just work.

  18. Re:The article is exiting gibberish on Discovery of a "Flat" Atom Hailed as Quantum Computing Breakthrough · · Score: 1
  19. Re:The article is exiting gibberish on Discovery of a "Flat" Atom Hailed as Quantum Computing Breakthrough · · Score: 1

    Consider a stream of entangled particles is shot in different direction, with each particle in one stream having an entangled partner in the other. At both ends there's one of those double-slit setups. If setup correctly, and the particles aren't interfered with, they will form diffusion patterns. If a measurement device is switched at the end of one stream (before the slits), the interference pattern will disappear at both ends. At least that's the theory. There was a slashdot article about an experiment in planning that was meant to test something like this.

  20. Re:The mighty MUD on Dungeons and Desktops · · Score: 1

    I've never heard this definition used to define a role-playing game. I don't think too many would agree with it, because it effectively eliminates all single-player games from the genre.

    There are plenty of games that let you make moral decisions regarding how you want to proceed in the plot. True, there's not the level of freedom that you could get in a pen and paper game. But check Morrowind or Temple of Elemental Evil out sometime.

  21. Re:Had to be said... on Dungeons and Desktops · · Score: 1

    I didn't see any mention of the Wheel of Time....

  22. Re:The article is exiting gibberish on Discovery of a "Flat" Atom Hailed as Quantum Computing Breakthrough · · Score: 1

    I thought that collapsing entanglement does appear to happen faster than light, but that no information transfer happens.

    You can't find out what the state was before the collapse, but you could conceivably find out that the collapse happened (the behavior becomes that of a particle instead of an element).

  23. Re:more irony on What Happens When You Reply To ALL of Your Spam · · Score: 1

    Many firewall default settings wouldn't prevent a spyware installed through a user clicking "OK", or through a browser vulnerability, from dialing out.

  24. Re:Long story short on What Happens When You Reply To ALL of Your Spam · · Score: 2, Funny

    Kill me now.

    We will, as soon as you confirm your social security number and mother's maiden name.

  25. Re:WTF IS A TV? on TV Viewers' Average Age Hits 50 · · Score: 1

    Controller? Why, when I was your grandmother's age, I had to walk 50 miles through 12 feet of snow, to the nearest TV station to tell them to switch the channel. And there were only three channels, and one of them was Fox News. Your kid grandparents these days have it good.....