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Comment · 14 years ago
And it's not like it's illegal but folk do it anyway -- I have never, ever seen someone do that in my state.
Comment · 14 years ago
To whomever changed the title to eliminate the phrase "new physics": that wasn't in any way sensational or editorial. This is a common phrase within the physics community. From the conclusions part of the paper:

>The results presented here disagree with the SM at the 3.4σ level. Together with the measurements by the Belle Collaboration, and the sizable difference between the measured and predicted branching fraction of B− → τ−ντ [35–39], this could be an indication of new physics processes affecting decays with a τ lepton in the final state.

Comment · 14 years ago
And what is a virtual mirror, I ask?
Comment · 14 years ago
I don't see that Yahoo called it that.
Comment · 14 years ago
Ok, but why are you replying to me about this?

I was trying to address kondro's obvious confusion about mikeknoop's point, not pass judgement on anyone in the article.

Comment · 14 years ago
At this point you are so deliberately ignoring what the conversation is even about that I think you must be a troll.

Well, I hope you're a troll. The alternative is too depressing. :(

Comment · 14 years ago
The point of a patent is that you must disclose the method in return for a limited monopoly.

It's to encourage the sharing of techniques!

Comment · 14 years ago
What the fuck have people in this thread been drinking? It could be harassment if they'd had sex a hundred times, or no times, if they'd been married, or if they'd never met before. The sex isn't the issue here! Pause for a second, and think critically about the issue, rather than spewing crap onto the internet.

If you ask someone to stop such a pattern of behavior and they don't, that's harassment regardless of your personal history.

Comment · 14 years ago
To be blunt, you have no idea what you're talking about here.
Comment · 14 years ago
That would be a great game to port to the web.
Comment · 14 years ago
> "[We are] flattening surfaces, removing reflections, and scaling back distracting gradients."

That sounds nice. I think the Mac OS is a little bit too shiny as well. And I never liked the fat+rounded style Ubuntu has. I don't use Windows, but if the theming is any good, hopefully other systems will take cues from it.

>"There is no evidence that people want to use [mice]" (John C. Dvorak, San Francisco Examiner, February 19, 1984).

I didn't realise this guy had been making terrible predictions for so long!

Comment · 14 years ago
Comment · 14 years ago
The phrase "real-time" means something very different to most people. When you try to "correct" them by invoking a narrow definition only used within a particular domain, it just comes across as pointless pedantry.
Comment · 14 years ago
I'd be completely comfortable with calling that malware.

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