Unless the entire production chain involved to create the product you want to buy with bitcoins has also been paid with bitcoins, it will be virtually impossible to buy the product you want using the same 200 bitcoins for a long time. That is why I consider the bitcoin useless, its value in real currency varies way too much.

A Brazilian like me will have to do a good effort to make sense from what you wrote if you do not know brazilian portuguese and try to use Google translate.

I agree with the case of animes. They have a freedom of subjects and stories that American filmmakers can only dream of doing the same.

I must admit I also build my computers largely for the fun of doing it and doing hardware experiments like any good mad scientist. And being able to build your own computer in my country in particular is very important, otherwise you become hostage to crooks who loves to sell shit as if it was a luxury item.

You have a pretty low ID to have forgotten already how is an proper created MSI package or installer. These rogue installers are a recent thing, few years ago I only saw these installers with "irresistible deals" on really questionable applications with very shitty vendors.

Full stop. Really.

A proper Windows installer is way, way better than the amateurish Linux "installers". But, real serious, pay attention to the subtle detail that the problem is not the installer idea, is who is making the installer. An installer works perfectly well when they have no one wanting to use it as "trojan horse" to fill your computer with trash, and if the developer of this installer decided to go rogue changing the way of installation will not magically solve the problem.

And more, the "click, click, click" have a good reason to be: Options. If your application has several installation options is perfectly normal to have several buttons "next", what the criminals who make these rogue bundles do is abuse this option to purposely try to trick you. It is not a failure of the idea itself, is a character flaw of who uses the idea.

Well, the idea is transmitting a message. If I understand correctly what you wrote, then the problem is that scientists do not have a method to assign a specific polarization to the entangled photon, I am correct? And if they can "read" the photon but still can not "write" on it, but someone finds the method of "writing" without interrupting the entlangment, then sending messages would be possible right?

Sorry but the no-communication theorem seems BS. If you are able to obtain the polarization of the photon and you are also able to force this photon in a given polarization, and the photon is in an entangled state (existing in two places at once), so I do not see what would prevent the transmission of information using this effect and the theorem fails to explain what would be a good reason for this communication be impossible.

"They didn't publish a retort from a respected scientist after publishing a some complete woo by a charlatan."

In Brazil this is the norm. And believe me, the "newspapers" here still make a huge effort to make you believe that they are "neutral" and "unbiased".

Why nowadays these useless sites require javascript to to display even the most basic content?

My experience on actual movie theaters, ignoring the question of the film itself be good or not:

- The picture quality is ridiculously bad , I have seen only one movie theater years ago where the image was reasonably good;
- Popcorn is ridiculously expensive and bad;
- The sound is always too high and always exaggerates in the bass (ohhh explosions!);


These days I can buy a big quality TV at an affordable price, a home theater and so I can watch the movie I want whenever I want and with hot, quality popcorn. Why in hell I would go to the theather?

How this guy writes to Forbes? He is either incredibly naive or stupid to think that Google shound have to stop having ideas just because some of them are not paying off instantly as the new generation of investors demands.

Pegatron = Megatron?

Perhaps this explains.

Knowing that you work on Skype, could you please ask the folks responsible for the instant text messaging code to remove that stupid idea of converting *text* in text? Or at least make this feature can be disabled permanently by the user (the actual hack is lost when Skype is closed)?

Punny details... Working on this, do not worry :-D