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Good story, but in Russian. Most of the audience might want to read the original, from the Daily Mail, which is in English: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worl

• helwr 17y ago
  in Chrome there is a nice translate option at the top, the comments of russian readers are pretty interesting
  • Torn 17y ago
    Neat feature, I didn't know Chrome could do that. One of the more amusing auto-translated russian comments: say, lives on a pension mom. In place of my mother I would beat his frying pan. But not on the head. http://www.gazeta.ru/science/2010/03/23_a_3341933.shtml?comment_id=353378&refresh=1269360729&lj2#comments http://www.gazeta.ru/science/2010/03/23_a_3341933.shtml?comm... I'm going to guess at 'what if his mother lives on a pension? If I were his mother I'd beat him with a frying pan, but not on the head'.
    • dlgtho 17y ago
      it actually says that he lives on his mother's pension.
    • migpwr 17y ago
      That's actually not that bad. Google voice does a number on translations when the message is in another language: "My telephone number on the most gorgeous of and ideas. Fits in."
  • sketerpot 17y ago
    The problem with Chrome's translate feature is that it keeps claiming that random pages are in some language that they aren't in, like Afrikaans, and offering to "translate" them. It's a bit annoying.
    • TeHCrAzY 17y ago
      I had some broken (junk, seemingly random bytes rendered to screen as text) responses coming from IIS yesterday, and ended up with some very confused users asking me "why is the page in arabic?". Turns out, Chrome was telling them it was in arabic, and offering to translate it.
• dschobel 17y ago
  Said to be the world's cleverest man, Dr Grigory Perelman, 44, lives as a recluse... Leave it to the daily mail to add an extra layer of hyperbolic bullshit. As if it weren't a fascinating story already, he now has to be "the world's cleverest man".
  • bruceboughton 17y ago
    "The topological conundrum essentially states that any three-dimensional space without holes in it is equivalent to a stretched sphere." I love how they throw that in as if any of their readers will understand it* * FYI, the Daily Mail is one of our tabloids, famous for claiming that just about anything causes cancer: http://thedailymailoncologicalontologyproject.wordpress.com/ http://thedailymailoncologicalontologyproject.wordpress.com/
    • netcan 17y ago
      Possibly moving to the UK in a year. Tabloids are the thing I'm most looking forward to.
      • pierrefar 17y ago
        I give you 1 week before you change your mind. I initially found them very amusing but now I cringe every time I pass a news stand or otherwise catch sight of the tabloid front pages.
        • netcan 17y ago
          I've lived in Ireland before and I would get the British tabloids an armload at a time. Something about being able to point to one over coffee and say 'look at this.'
      • eru 17y ago
        From where?
        • 17y ago