IANAP (I Am Not A Physicist), but as I understand it, the information is sent instantaneously (teleported), but can only be "read" via the use of a measurement taken at the source location & sent (via classical channels) to the target.

i.e.:
2 entangled particles exist. One at A and one at B
Measurement is take an A. This results in a change of state to both particles
Unfortunately, due to quantum funkiness, the state at B cannot be determined without the measurement from A.
Measurement is sent from A to B (via classical channels)
B can then determine the state of their particle (which matches the state at A)

Please excuse any butchering of the science that may of occurred due to my ignorance :-)

Ha, I'm Canadian! We in the North laugh at your petty squabbles and selfish greed!

I wonder if it'll stop snowing soon?

Call my cynical, but I don't trust any studies from the University of Eastern...refrigerator!

Amazon's monopolistic stranglehold on distribution forces the price down which puts publishers out of business. This results in Amazon being the dominant publisher, working directly with authors. But it also allows Amazon to dictate to authors what they will pay, just as they did with the traditional publishers. This is not "free market", it is a monopoly no less than Microsoft was, and it's not good for consumer choice.

There significant problems with this comparison:

1) There is almost no barrier to entry to becoming an author. There is a huge barrier to entry to building an operating system.
2) Microsoft's evil was not in existing as a monopoly, it was in abusing that monopoly (operating systems) to gain control over new markets (browsers/internet). There are regulations which monopolies must follow. Microsoft didn't.
3) Amazon is not a monopoly. See Apple / Google Books.
4) "But it also allows Amazon to dictate to authors what they will pay". Suppliers cannot dictate prices. Producers and consumers dictate prices. If books are too cheap, nobody will write them. If books are too expensive, nobody will buy them. Amazon is trying to find the sweet spot that is the lowest price at which people will still write books people are willing to read. I don't find that malignant or evil.

when I buy a technical book in electronic form, I immediately print it out and put it in a three-ring binder, much easier to locate what I'm interested and flip back and forth between sections.... I print them out single-sided with wide margins.

Ha! I scribe mine onto the skins of dead panda bears. In Dodo bird blood! Take that, environment!

Let's do some math:

300GB * 8bits/byte * 1000Mb/Gb = 2,400,000 Mb total of data per month

Netflix HD streaming = 5 Mb/s

So....2,400,000Mb / 5Mb/s = 480,000s = 133.3 hours = 4.4 hours per day of TV minimum

You may want to consider going outside once in a while.

Of course there are entirely legitimate reasons for exceeding the cap. The last time I replaced my PC, my steam library install alone was almost 300GB (drive had died, couldn't transfer). Of course, I should probably consider that outside option as well....

Parent seems unable to distinguish between his own non-expert opinion and the opinion (true or not) of an expert with long history in the study of this subject matter.

Parent seems unable to distinguish between logical reasoning and an "argument from authority" fallacy.

The GP has pointed out valid concerns with the article.

"But Bob said so!" is not a valid counter-argument.

there is no way to stop criminals from committing crimes.

Exactly. There is no way to stop criminals from committing crimes.

The point of gun control is to reduce the number of (violent) crimes committed.

That being said, there is ample evidence that the most effective method to combat crime is to dump money into social programs: education, child-care, drug rehab, welfare, etc. Unfortunately, it seems that this solution is also an anathema for most Americans....which may somewhat explain the rates of violent crime & incarceration in the USA.

Wow, that one data point you have for one year is certainly damning!

After all, everyone knows that climate is a simple system where if you feed more energy in, then you see output increase linearly.

Good thing you read the actual report and ensured that the summary was only speaking of Atlantic hurricanes in 2013.

You'd look like quite the idiot if you found out (just picking a random example), that the measurement was a study of hurricanes since 1980.

But if we extend this argument to other things, then you need to model the entire world.

I'm much happier seeing a door that never opens (i.e. you don't have the key, and never come across it), than arbitrary "oh, you can't get past those three piled up cars, even though they look easily climbable by anyone over the age of 6", or "no, chain link completely stops your 2000-pound vehicle"

Of the arbitrary boundaries I have seen, unopenable doors are the least annoying. Can you give a few examples of games (particularly first-person games) with boundary limits that are more natural than unopenable doors?

Hey Netflix, that's some awfully nice bandwidth ya got there....be a shame if anything happened to it....

And in all of the examples you gave, that would make the Programmer a needlessly cruel and sadistic bastard.

Anyone creating such a simulation would know full well the "simulated" suffering he would inflict upon his "simulated beings" by running the simulation.

Let them eat code.

I'll take a steaming cup of Java please....ba dum dum...

I'm here all week! Try the fish!

Hurrah! You've discovered philosophical skepticism!

The ancient Greeks would be proud.

I'm not certain I understand your point (or perhaps I failed to describe mine sufficiently).

I see very little difference between the following things:
- boycotting a corporation due to disliking the stance of the corporation on certain issues (e.g. oil companies & the environment, tech companies & Chinese factories, etc)
- boycotting a corporation due the the particular stance of their CEO on certain issues.

For me to treat these differently requires me to treat a corporation like a person, which is something I adamantly refuse to do. Corporations are made of and lead by people. If they want to have personal opinions, fine...they should just be aware that publicizing an opinion may have consequences.

Yes, there were a few nutjobs on Twitter who were harassing Eich personally, which I do not agree with, but it appears that the major reason that Eich resigned was due to OKCupid's actions against Mozilla.

This is not a political discussion, it is an ethical one. I have no issue with "calling out" people who support a callous disregard for basic human equality.

Seriously? It's 8 names in order....just memorize them.

Look, I'm all for mnemonics (although there are better methods) when needing to memorize multiple-dozens of pieces of information, but for a list of 8, I can't believe people use a mnemonic.

Do you also use a mnemonic to remember the days of the week in order? Months of the year?