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  • (Score: 2) by Alfred on Monday November 02 2015, @10:54PM

    by Alfred (4006) on Monday November 02 2015, @10:54PM (#257727) Journal
    I use Time Machine so you know I'm good.
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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by maxwell demon on Tuesday November 03 2015, @12:15AM

    by maxwell demon (1608) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday November 03 2015, @12:15AM (#257754) Journal

    Yeah, a time machine is a great way to recover information; just go back into the past, copy the data and try not to change anything while in the past so you don't run into a time paradox. However you should always have a second time machine as backup, in case the first one fails. And of course, you should regularly test that backup.

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    The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.

    • (Score: 2) by mhajicek on Tuesday November 03 2015, @05:18AM

      by mhajicek (51) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday November 03 2015, @05:18AM (#257822)

      That which is measured is changed...

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      The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek

    • (Score: 2) by fliptop on Friday November 13 2015, @04:16PM

      by fliptop (1666) on Friday November 13 2015, @04:16PM (#262713) Journal

      However you should always have a second time machine as backup, in case the first one fails. And of course, you should regularly test that backup.

      By taking the second back with you in the first? [imdb.com]

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      To be oneself, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 03 2015, @07:45PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 03 2015, @07:45PM (#258081)

    Wouldn't going to the past to retrieve the data create a paradox because now you'll have the data and no longer have an incentive to go back to the past in the first place?

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 06 2015, @04:30PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 06 2015, @04:30PM (#259519)

      Not if you take the copy of the data with you when going back to the future.