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  1. Re:Equivalent of peeking without killing it ?! on Quantum Measurements Leave Schrödinger's Cat Alive · · Score: 1

    It follows from the formulation of Quantum Theory. The state of any system can be described by a superposition of, one of more, state vectors. The cat's initial state can be described as a superposition of the vectors associated with its final states: Alive and Dead.

  2. Re:What did I tell you? on Warp Drive Might Be Less Impossible Than Previously Thought · · Score: 1

    If you mean instantly from your frame of reference, then you'd arrive at the same time as the light. There's no such thing as absolute time: Two different places get two different times. It would be two years later. The year you took to get there (instantly from your point of view), and the year it took to see you. If you instantly travel back (according to you), you'll arrive at the same time A sees you arrive at B. There is no absolute time. You left A, arrived at B, departed and came back to A, at the same time in your frame of reference. But to A and B you've not violated the speed of light, and it's taken you two years.

  3. Re:Is this the real one? on Black Mesa Released · · Score: 1

    Anyone have cryptographic hash codes for those two files?

  4. Re:SCORPION STARE on UK License Plate Cameras Have "Gaps In Coverage" · · Score: 1

    Swerving from side to side so the pictures come out blurry!

  5. Re:useless aspect ratio on Sources Say ITU Has Approved Ultra-High Definition TV Standard · · Score: 1

    The problem is only the lack of vertical resolution. The horizontal resolution is almost certainly adequate on a wide-screen monitor. The complaint about aspect ratio is more a complaint about unused screen space. Something that is easily fixed on a wide-screen by displaying two pages side-by-side. Like in an opened book.

  6. Re:Don't on Ask Slashdot: How To Best Setup a School Internet Filter? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Best way to stop them looking at inappropriate content is don't set up a filter, but keep a record of every website they visit and who visited it. Tell the students you are doing this.

  7. Re:BT is crap on ISPs Throttling BitTorrent Traffic, Study Finds · · Score: 1

    I'm with BT. AFAIK they only throttle BitTorrent. I've not noticed Steam being throttled. It's impossible to avoid using BT where I am. Even if I pick a different ISP, I'd still be using their infrastructure.

  8. Re:Can we get our rights back, please? on Kindle E-Book Sales Surpass Print Sales In UK · · Score: 1
    I don't think he meant physical in that sense, more like the hardware sense.

    Hardware: the part of the computer that you can kick.

  9. Re:So... on Physicists Demonstrate Quantum Router · · Score: 1

    Never or yesterday.

  10. Re:Does the game allow the buyer to edit the keys? on CowboyNeal Reviews Orcs Must Die! 2 · · Score: 3, Funny

    A member of the Touchtypist's Inner Circle. Blind Seeker of the Mystical Keybump. Unflinching Gazer of the Prismatic Array.

  11. Good on US Viewers Using Proxies To Watch BBC Olympic Coverage · · Score: 2
  12. Re:Infected? on Ubisoft Uplay DRM Found To Include a Rootkit · · Score: 1

    Presumably you'll need to enable JavaScript if it isn't already. I picked up Assassin's Creed II in the Steam summer sale. I enjoyed the game, although it suffers consolitis: "Press (icon of leg on green background) to move legs" isn't good enough. However, the principle thing I took from uplay is that I don't want to buy another Ubisoft game. I couldn't find any sign of the addon under IE9, but I did run uplay for the latest update. This is supposed to fix it.

  13. Re:And 2+2=4 on The Web Is Not the Internet · · Score: 1

    2+2=4 is obviously using Integers, and there is no 2.x in the set of Integers.

    But 2.99999[...] is an integer!

  14. Re:and on The PHP Singularity · · Score: 1

    I'm reminded of this recent video.

  15. My theory on Why Smart People Are Stupid · · Score: 5, Insightful

    My theory is that smart people are mostly stupid, and that stupid people are fully stupid.

  16. Re:Only in Britain... on House of Commons Could Force Social Networks To Identify Trolls · · Score: 1

    It's only a defence if he can prove what's factually true, is, in fact, true. If it is factually true, but you're unable to prove it, it's not a defense. So you have the, in my opinion, unsavoury situation where you can libel someone by writing the truth.

  17. Re:Lowball estimate? on Carmageddon: Reincarnation Linux Version Confirmed · · Score: 4, Informative

    They released a video of a recent work-in-progress version of Carmageddon cut with some video from the original Carmageddon. This gives some idea of where they are at the moment, and how much there is to do.

  18. Re:Behind the Sun?! on What Struck Earth in 775? · · Score: 1

    And it still does, about once every 24 hours.

  19. Re:Until you can prove them wrong on In America, 46% of People Hold a Creationist View of Human Origins · · Score: 1

    Would you like to explain how the first 3 links to a description of vacuum forces show how matter can spontaneously come into existence? Have I missed the news that scientists can create matter (and energy) at will now?

    The wiki explains it. Perhaps this article about virtual particles will help.

    As for the 2nd 3 links, none of those suggest that the universe pops itself into existence. The universe expanding is proof towards a "Big Bang" that starts off the universe. It's evidence that supports the claim the universe has a beginning, but does not tell you if the beginning was "self-started" or otherwise.

    It's evidence that supports the universe has a beginning. The common definition of the universe implies that its beginning has no cause.

  20. Re:Until you can prove them wrong on In America, 46% of People Hold a Creationist View of Human Origins · · Score: 1

    After all, nothing creating something has not ever been observed; we have no evidence to think the universe pops itself into existence.

    Yes it has; Yes we do

  21. Re:Until you can prove them wrong on In America, 46% of People Hold a Creationist View of Human Origins · · Score: 1

    While you're talking about things being illogical, explain to me how (there is matter) and at the same time (matter can not be created or destroyed).

    People are still exploring the inbalance between matter and anti-matter. You might want to read about CP-Violation.

  22. Re:Until you can prove them wrong on In America, 46% of People Hold a Creationist View of Human Origins · · Score: 1

    It's prime-movers all the way up!

  23. Re:Until you can prove them wrong on In America, 46% of People Hold a Creationist View of Human Origins · · Score: 1

    When I can love a woman and be rewarded with tiny new humans that grow... something beyond what we as humans can create.

    Beyond what we can create? I'm glad that god hands them out as rewards then, otherwise the human species would have died out.

  24. Re:Until you can prove them wrong on In America, 46% of People Hold a Creationist View of Human Origins · · Score: 1

    Ah, but what about the entropy? That's always increasing, where's all that coming from?

  25. Re:Really? on In America, 46% of People Hold a Creationist View of Human Origins · · Score: 2

    That's just experimentation.