See yourself back in. There's not enough room outside for both of us, and I wanted to mention that it's such a bad headache he feels like he's being beaten with a rod.

All the times I've wanted to toss my phone when it doesn't work, I can truly understand how cathartic a competition like this could be. I usually toss mine as hard as I can into the couch cushions so it doesn't break.

Yeah...the pain to be felt is to the back and front of his head. Massive headache.

I was always intrigued by the disinhibition it caused him. I'm sure Mr. Leite won't have the same problems, since it seems a different area of his brain was damaged, but I'd be fascinated to find out what effect the injury has on him, if any.

...not sure if I should slow clap or be disgusted by your lame puns...

I know. I'm just saying that it doesn't have to be encoded perfectly because we have error correction to make up for it.

I would absolutely LOVE to see a supervillain try this, hypnotizing every human on Earth, only to find out that it does nothing xD . And once he gives everyone their minds back and destroys his HypnoRay in frustration, someone points out: "Hey, you already hypnotized everyone. Why didn't you just make us pay and serve…

That's why he first collected everyone in Las Angeles. That and also I hear they make faux science movies there, too.

Yep. Everyone keeps pushing for the breakthrough, though...hopefully it will come in my lifetime...

I agree, but what has this got to do with my comment that you replied to?

*Linguisti-bump*

Pretty much...although upgrading quantum computers isn't as easy as uploading classical ones. With a classical computer, you just cram more transistors or magnets or capacitors in. With a quantum computer, trying to cram more qubits in is extremely hard, because you have to worry about decoherence.

They could outperform current ones if we could stabilize enough data at once. The ones we have now aren't slow at all, they just can't process much data at once. I think the current record for most working qubits at a time is 3. That's right, the equivalent of 3 bits. Compare that to modern computers that have…

Ah, okay. I didn't know it translated differently. That's kind of cool, actually (but I'm a bit of a language geek, so maybe it's just me :P ). Although there's some senseless DNA that's a complete mystery, most of it is simply evolutionary leftovers and random mutations that no longer function, so they truly are…

Virginity level? What an odd, incorrect assumption to make based upon not finding a girl on an anonymous Internet chat site. In fact, if you're honing your skills to find a girl in such a place, I'd guess you're more likely to remain a virgin since you're not as much into real-life girls.

Let's see you encode 700TB in ANY medium without any errors. That's not necessary; that's why error correction exists.

I like my DNA's telomeric tail, thank you. It's what keeps me looking young :) .

Probably not, since those aren't retroviruses. However, retroviruses could, indeed, corrupt the data, so watch out for HIV. Here's a table of just a fraction of the retroviruses that could screw up a DNA computer: http://www.unc.edu/~wrobel/retro/

I don't think it's quite so linear, though. It takes hours (not an hour) to read the data completely, but I don't think that means after half the time you've read half the data. It may even be read in chunks and then recomposed, like a torrent download.

So? I'm thinking when it's read, it's done on one strand.