Possibly just you. I noticed the headline font changed after I loaded up the page - maybe it went bananas on you for some reason.

In other news, the LHC routinely almost breaks the fundamental speed limit of the universe!

These maniacs must be stopped.

It's a long time for 99.999% reliability.

PS You've already apologised more than enough for this. Sorry to compound it!

I don't, because 100,000 hours is 11.4 years.

273 (much closer to 274) years is 100,000 days.

You can sort of simulate one. Build a device that flashes a light when you press the button - but slowly increase the delay from 0 to... well, I'm not sure exactly, 0.25s? Something like that.

Anyway, if you do this right, your brain will "edit out" the delay (something it does all the time to reconcile differences between the senses).

Then at some point, the device resets the delay to 0. Next time you press the button, your brain will convince you that the light came on before you pressed.

Just because quantum mechanics doesn't make intuitive sense to you, doesn't mean you can come up with any old analogy and dismiss the work of people far more qualified in the field than you. Well, you can, obviously, but it doesn't make you right.

How is "jumping back" analogous to "interacting with the previous version of itself"?

How about, instead of being condescending, you perform some experiments - or even just provide more than a half-baked analogy - to disprove the last 100 years of quantum mechanics? Obviously all the devices we've been able to create based on this hard-won understanding must be figments of our imagination...

Isn't that completely incompatible with the photoelectric effect? You know, the very phenomenon which lead to the concept of the photon in the first place?

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Chip and PIN also protects you against having your card stolen and used in store, because the only verification is the signature - which is conveniently already on the back of the card for the thief to copy (and usually checked by a singularly uninterested human).

Secondly, how rare is "quite rare"?

Yes, that bit confuses me as well. The link that the Slashdot editors have added goes to a story about card data being hacked to allow unlimited withdrawals, and the like - not nicking someone's card and taking out their money.

Not sure whether you a word or not...

I'm not sure it's that ironic, since carlsbergite is named after the Carlsberg Foundation, which was set up by Carlsberg's founder.

Who are you, Mr Headline, to tell me I don't need an iPad? I think most Slashdot readers are more than capable of making up their own minds on this one.

Here is one Slashdotter who does need his iPad.

Less op-ed clickbait, more actual news, please.

Then don't present your opinions in such absolute terms!

What's uncertain about the fact that we don't see billion-year-old civilizations around us?

The Fermi Paradox - that we don't see billion-year-old civilizations around us and we're not sure why - is a fact.