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  1. Re:I think... on First Experimental Evidence That Time Is an Emergent Quantum Phenomenon · · Score: 1

    Yes entropy, but time is perceiving a measure between different states of it (but I doubt animals do anyway, I mean, does a pigeon know how old it is?). Time is just like a tape measure - just a way to measure different states between events. i.e. supposedly before the big bang, there was no time, as effectively there was no events.

  2. Re:I think... on First Experimental Evidence That Time Is an Emergent Quantum Phenomenon · · Score: 1

    I don't think so.... the main point is 'over the passage of time...' - but time is only a human concept. Plus I wouldn't trust wikipedia anyway with all the nonsense on there.

  3. I think... on First Experimental Evidence That Time Is an Emergent Quantum Phenomenon · · Score: 0

    After reading a lot on this is that sometimes an issue becomes a problem without reason.

    Now, time is ONLY a man made measure - a measure between events. Nature/the universe doesn't know what time is nor cares about it. It is only us humans that need to try to explain time dilation and various other 'time issues' to make the maths work. Remove time, and I bet it will balance these equations.

    Time cannot run backwards,as there is no such thing as time except in the human brain and the human concept of measuring changes.

  4. 3 pound $500? on How You Too Can Be Shut Down By the Feds For Flying Drones · · Score: 0

    £3.00=$500 - Let me know where I can get them exchange rates please!

  5. Wireless drivers? on Dick Cheney Had Implanted Defibrillator Altered To Prevent Terrorist Attack · · Score: 1

    I wonder if the wireless thing ever turned on properly after he woke up?

  6. I don't think it's specific to cockney, just generic rhyming slang in England. It's all gone 'Pete Tong', I'm going for a 'Ruby {Murray}' type thing.

  7. Re: Terrorist? on Dick Cheney Had Implanted Defibrillator Altered To Prevent Terrorist Attack · · Score: 2

    Did you know Mugabe spelt backwards is: 'E, Ba Gum' frequently heard in the North of England

  8. Re:Terrorist? on Dick Cheney Had Implanted Defibrillator Altered To Prevent Terrorist Attack · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Stalingrad cost more Soviet dead than the US lost in all its wars, but they refused to lose. Commies or not, they had balls.

    Well, in essence, it was Hitler's fault. The original plan was to take the Ural oil fields and the German machine was unstoppable it doing it - until Hitler decided on a detour to take Stalingrad on the way (he thought it would destroy the Russian hearts and resistance) ~ bad move.

    If he didn't do the detour, I think the outcome of WWII would have been different.

    Mind you, that doesn't take away what the people of Stalingrad did to resist and destroy the German eastern front.

  9. APOD on Shutdown Cost the US Economy $24 Billion · · Score: 1

    I missed that. Good to see it up again.

  10. Re:Not much improvement; drawbacks continue on Windows 8.1 Rolls Out Today · · Score: 1

    3. Still not immune from viruses and worms

    You say that like it should be easy to fix.

    It is - install a GNU/Linux distro.

  11. Re:Correction on MAVEN Mission To Mars Will Proceed, Despite Shutdown · · Score: 0

    Ummm. I bet they have not stopped working, either.

  12. Re:How crazy does this sound today? on Engineers Invent Programming Language To Build Synthetic DNA · · Score: 1

    If you can remember the 60's you wasn't there.

  13. Re:exception handling on Engineers Invent Programming Language To Build Synthetic DNA · · Score: 1
  14. Re:Who will write the first virus? on Engineers Invent Programming Language To Build Synthetic DNA · · Score: 1

    It's called flu

  15. Load of bollocks on Automatic Translation Without Dictionaries · · Score: 1

    OK, I am just having a fag. I bet that will bugger it up.

  16. Re:Megalomanic on New Unix Implementation Turns 30 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    AS I said on here before - if it wasn't for GCC (or the Gnu C compiler as it was then) written by RMS, then Linus couldn't have even started doing his stuff with linux.

    RMS is the seed of *all* the free open source code/projects available now (and in the future). He is GOD and well done to him and his principles.

  17. Re:THEN GO TO THE MATE THREADS on GNOME 3.10 Released · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    You sound like Linus. Take up a flute a blow a f*** few tunes. Gnome is crap now, so don't pipe up, please.

  18. Re:MATE RULES! on GNOME 3.10 Released · · Score: 2

    ~$ locate 1990's

    ~$which 1990's
    1990's is found in Atari ST an old Spectrum48k that somehow kept going

  19. Re:Redundant keys on Bill Gates Acknowledges Ctrl+Alt+Del Was a Mistake · · Score: 1

    What you forget - or do not know - is the reason. MS code crashed a lot, so they needed a way to do a 'user' restart.

    I think the only thing MS has done for Joe Public was that computers crash a lot, and it is normal. And it is still apparent today, as sheeple don't shrug an eyelid when things do not work.

  20. I agree on Ask Slashdot: Are We Witnessing the Decline of Ubuntu? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I used to use on my laptop (4 years ago?) as everything used to work out of the box, but gradually they changed things and Gnome bloat got worse, and the file system layout got more confusing and basically it is now non-standard in the *nix way of things. I moved back to Slackware which I use on my desktops. 10 times better.

  21. Of course... on Turning a Smart Phone Into a Microscope · · Score: 3, Funny

    [allowing the doctors to easily monitor disease progression and determine the best course of treatment.]

    They could use the phone to call for expert help.

  22. Users on Another British Bank Hit By KVM Crooks · · Score: 4, Interesting

    When I was syadmin a few years ago, I really used to get SO bloody angry with the maintenance guys, as they used to call in photocopy machine engineers when the things went wrong. Of course, they never informed the IT department (ME!), so all of a sudden, when I was going somewhere, I saw an 'unknown' guy hooked up with a laptop on the companies network *.

    No matter WHAT I told them about security, it didn't matter - a working photocopier was more important than security.

    This is obviously a similar situation - some 'official looking' technical guy turns up, tells a few porkies, and the staff just let him get on with it without any checks.

    * I later coded a short perl script to send me a mail when an unknown MAC connected to the LAN.

  23. Re:I'm a fanboi and I agree on Linux 3.12 Merge Window Closes With Release of Linux 3.12-rc1 · · Score: 1

    Haha - that made me laugh out loud, indeed :)

  24. I learnt this at school pre-1976 on Flies See the World In Slo-Mo, Say Researchers · · Score: 2

    I always remember a science teacher telling us about this at school (what year, I can't remember, but I left school in 1976), and his statement was; "If a fly watched a film, it would see a still frame for a few seconds, then the next frame etc., as time moves more slowly the smaller the animal".

  25. surely the government wouldn't backdoor itself... on Ask Slashdot: Can We Still Trust FIPS? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Depends who runs the Government. Which is always the same people no matter who gets voted in, so the answer is YES.