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Comment Re:Dihydrogen Monoxide *is* a serious threat (Score 2) 296

Not really..

In it's gaseous phase, it's fairly harmless, and can be found in minute quantities in the air you breathe

Furthermore, even if one is to inhale and fill it's lung with the foul substance, one may eventually be saved by allowing one to breathe again normally - assuming it is within a reasonable amount of time, then it is not fatal.

So no : Not 100% lethal !

(I must be new here!)

--Ivan

Comment Re:BLOGGING? Who the fuck BLOGS any more? (Score 1) 145

Oh.. And Blog!=Facebook!=Twitter!= THE INTERNET (which is nothing but a loosely set of protocole routing rules by IANA - the self appointed Inernet Keeper, that delegated said routing to RIRs then to LIRs)..

(I don't know how this fares - probably going to get modded off-topic.. Oh well - had to get this off my chest).

--Ivan

Comment There WAS some DNS issues too ! (Score 3, Informative) 96

The confusion might have come from the fact that when I looked, there seemed to also be some DNS problem.

Basically, when asking directly, the servers that are authoritative for the zone were giving me a CNAME for the 'ANY' query, but not the associated A records, which it should, since the CNAME was pointing to a host name within the same authority. At this point, any sensible resolver stops asking !

This only lasted for a little while though - so it might have been a glitch or possibly a deliberate action related to how they were trying to fix the underlying issue itself - possibly averting traffic until they actually solved the actual problem.

--Ivan

Comment Re:Corruption threatens "soul and fabric" of U.S. (Score 1) 171

I was under the impression that for a correct application of common law and/or civil law, you were innocent until proven guilty..

So to me, "innocent" is true unless a "guilty" status is achieved. Therefore "Not Guilty" is a sufficient condition to name the defendant "innocent".

Of course, "not guilty" doesn't mean acquitted, so a retrial is possible without risking double jeopardy. (but he still has an "Innocent" status).

But IANAL of course.

--Ivan

Comment Re:I am terrible at math..but (Score 1) 1268

It's cognitively not that obvious.

Parsing "4+3+2=()+2" is actually not a trivial process. It may become trivial after some time, but it's not intuitive.

This could easily be parsed as (4+3+2=x)+2 and therefore, as ((4+3+2=9)+2)=11 because () is usually meant to change the precedence of a statement.

Now this could easily be read as :

"There are four red apples, three green apples and two yellow apples in a (nice little red basket) and two brown apples".. How many apples ?

Comment Re:So they plan... (Score 1) 160

Except theory says that once you've measured one, the wave function collapses and the 2 particles are no longer entangled.

Because this seems to indicate that information has traveled at a velocity greater than the speed of light, Einstein (and others) weren't too happy with it.. Hence the EPR paradox.

Einstein believed there was a locally hidden variable. However that was dismissed by Bell's inequality theorem.

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