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And it's not like it's illegal but folk do it anyway -- I have never, ever seen someone do that in my state.

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.

And what is a virtual mirror, I ask?

I don't see that Yahoo called it that.

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.

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. :(

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!

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.

To be blunt, you have no idea what you're talking about here.

That would be a great game to port to the web.

> "[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!

I think Ubuntu's monospace font has true italic? (I'm not a font expert, though.)

http://font.ubuntu.com/#charset-mono-regular-italic

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.

I'd be completely comfortable with calling that malware.

It has to request it on install if it is ever going to use it at all.

>Doubtful. Not unless they're a STEM or Finance major.

You're just wrong about this. Introductory calc classes are some of the larger classes offered at a lot of universities.

I had this pop up today, the wording was pretty misleading.

In my case not activating Secure By Visa let me proceed with the transaction normally, but they certainly tried to imply it was necessary.

That's odd, 2.8 was clearly available when I viewed that page. Maybe you just had an old version cached?

They only seem to offer links to 2.8 for Snow Leopard and Lion, so that could also be an issue.

They've discussed this from the very beginning of the project -- third party hosting.

The goal of diaspora is to make it so that you can run it on your own server, but they assume most folk won't want to do that.

It is extremely meaningful if you, you know, actually consider the context of this thread -- which is not someone telling an artist to use GIMP, but a discussion of "fixing up" the program.

You should check that statement again!

http://gimp.lisanet.de/Website/Download.html

The official 2.8 release was what, a week ago? I don't think it's a big deal if it comes out on one platform a few days late. :)

Of course Mozilla doesn't like how Apple behaves on iOS devices!

Do you honestly think they do, or were you just trying to be provocative?

Anna Anthropy has an older blog article about exactly that:

http://www.auntiepixelante.com/?p=465

And of course the designers of Portals did extensive testing to get feedback on what worked! Those brilliant designs weren't plucked out of thin air, but came from watching how real players interacted with them.

How specific of you...

I honestly can't think of a single way HN's software is superior to reddit's from my standpoint (as a user), so I'm curious -- what is it you like better about it?

HN lets you sign in with an OpenID...

Right, and I said if you could create such a test there wouldn't be objections to it being used. But it is hardly a solved problem! The especial sticking point is actually showing that some general test really correlates with how well you do the specific job.

(Go and read the wikipedia article about the relevent court case: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griggs_v._Duke_Power_Co.)

I was just using that book as an example of how complicated the topic was!

The reason it is immoral to pay taxes is that you are still benefiting from the existence of the government but putting the burden of supporting it on others.

You personally may agree or disagree with this, but that's what someone probably means when they say it is immoral to avoid paying taxes, even if it is perfectly legal. Taxes are part of the general social contract of our society, and aggressively finding ways to avoid paying them tends to a tragedy of the commons type situation.