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  1. Re:Uh, simple on The Strangeness of the Mars One Project · · Score: 1

    "spreading out the species" Is the key point we have worked on for nearly 2 million years, no why stop. As our planet is sufficiently populated and more or less under our control (ok it isn't, but at least we can survive for now), we have now to set out for other possible zones to live. Perhaps we have to change how we live and what we are. We've however already been there and done that. Multiple times. One example of recent times is that grown-ups can digest milk -- a result of us having settled down. Not a large change, but one that was a result of us being so smart ;). Also clothing is the low-tech analogon of the martian suits, it makes vast parts of the earth habitable. One day we can create nano-robots and engineer our DNA, so that we can live on less friendly planets, too. Evolution has tailored our bodies to earth. There is nothing keeping us from tailoring ourselfes to other planets, through a mixture of technology and biology. The only difference is that there will be no gradual evolution, we either make the step, or don't do it. And our first attempts to make the step will fail, but we shouldn't be upset about that.

  2. Re:Uh, simple on The Strangeness of the Mars One Project · · Score: 4, Interesting

    We have to think of everything -- and more. We should have solved the problems the people on mars will face before we send them there. There should be at least three well-tested working backups for everything thats needed: water, food, housing, etc... Medicine needs to be advanced far much further, so that possible cancer from the radiation can be healed or prevented.

    If these conditions are provided, we can try to get to mars without a large risk. We will need unmanned testing missions before. We will need a shitload of money.

    Its far more likely that we will send people that die early. We will have to realize that that will be a send-and-die mission. We don't have the patience to build, test and plan for a mission this complex and large.

    Our long term goal should be on how to bootstrap an industrialized system from some rockets we sent there. Things you can manufacture on mars will be cheap, but things you need to send there will be expensive. When you've reached the point where you can build a rocket (or at least the heaviest parts of it) you can get back. This can be as simple as the fuel, and dumb parts of the lower stages.

  3. Do you know on Interviews: Ask Executive Director Andrew Lewman About Tor and Privacy · · Score: 1

    why slashdot doesn't allow visitors from tor?

  4. Re:Will there ever be a choice of number of hops? on Interviews: Ask Executive Director Andrew Lewman About Tor and Privacy · · Score: 1

    See this one.

  5. Re:The NSA TrueCrypt Ploy Again? on Interviews: Ask Executive Director Andrew Lewman About Tor and Privacy · · Score: 1

    The problem is also that TOR still has value if it is monitored by the NSA, as it enables people in China and other countries to access censorship-poor (some might call it -free) internet.

  6. Designers again on Mozilla Launches Browser Built For Developers · · Score: 1

    Instead of developers fixing websocket traceability, they focus on making a new theme. Firefox has clearly too much designers. It's enough that every two or three versions the color of the developer console changes (and its design), and now an extra browser? I hope they don't transport the developer features into that browser, leaving firefox as a "customer only" product. When I was at places where I couldn't install software (libraries etc) I have been always happy to debug websites with the standard browser.

  7. ...fixes things that aren't broken? on Computer Scientists Ask Supreme Court To Rule APIs Can't Be Copyrighted · · Score: 1

    I hope they fix this one. Otherwise its pretty damn broken.

  8. Re:Next please on fMRI Data Reveals How Many Parallel Processes Run In the Brain · · Score: 4, Funny

    No the brain runs a very efficient version of systemd that has replaced ascii bash through a binary remote code execution system which is much more efficient and simple.

  9. Re:Walled gardens on Computer Scientists Ask Supreme Court To Rule APIs Can't Be Copyrighted · · Score: 1

    This is the internet. Telling an AC to shut up makes as much sense as removing a grain of sand in order to make the desert smaller.

  10. Re:Why not use Verizon as your ISP as well on More Tor .Onion Sites May Get Digital Certificates Soon · · Score: 2

    For hidden services, the address is also a public key, which is used to encrypt the connection one layer down. You don't need TLS in TLS, its bullshit. Tor should ship with a list of frequent hidden services (perhaps they can ask apk on how to make a host file engine ;) ? ).

  11. Re:No it isn't on The Largest Kuiper Belt Object Isn't Pluto Or Eris, But Triton · · Score: 1

    As the EU has less money than italy, it has given Triton the mission to drag illegal immigrants out of mediterranean using its gravity.

  12. Re:No. on Zuckerberg: Most of Facebook Will Be Video Within Five Years · · Score: 1

    At least kuzb can write their username, unlike you! You can use a video facebook to hide your illiteracy, i kan reed!

  13. Re:Don't we already do that? on Study Shows Direct Brain Interface Between Humans · · Score: 1

    My position too. Telepathy is a nice thing to have, but we already have a thought transport mechanism. Speech is one of the things that make us human, and it helped us to write thoughts down, conserve it for the past in form of written text, and enabled us to build a system that transports thoughts in light speed: the internet.

  14. Its a python tool which you run outside your android. If you ran it on your android, you needed superuser, and google wouldn't endorse that, would they?

  15. Its interesting that companies that have competing products to github (codeplex, google code) release stuff on github.

  16. Re:And they're basically useless except to the own on Study: There's a Wi-Fi Hotspot For Every 150 People In the World · · Score: 1

    Hotspots just enable hackers to do stuff that previously only NSA and friends could and did. We should design the internet in a way that its irrelevant for security from where you are using it, and who sits in the middle.

  17. its terrible on Pianist Asks Washington Post To Remove Review Under "Right To Be Forgotten" · · Score: 5, Informative

    when the pianist succeeds. This is clearly a case where the "right to be forgotten" conflicts public interest.

  18. Re:Time To Change That Windows Icon on Windows 8 and 8.1 Pass 15% Market Share, Windows XP Drops Below 20% Mark · · Score: 1

    Its slashdot not backslash .

  19. Even more news on Denuvo DRM Challenges Game Crackers · · Score: 3, Funny

    A title hasn't been cracked for 3 days and made it to slashdot in that time.

  20. Make it separate on Is Public Debate of Trade Agreements Against the Public Interest? · · Score: 2

    make separate agreements about internet freedom and trade agreements, and let public debate happen about each of them. And find another mechanism than ISDS that retains freedom of the state to release regulations.
    And when you claim people to be ill-informed, either inform them yourself, or explain why you think they are ill-informed. This is the way a democracy works. In representative democracies, lots of un-important stuff may not come to the public, this is not bad, but important stuff still should to be debated by a large number of people.

  21. It has always been this problem on Real Net Neutrality Problem: 'Edge Provider' vs 'End User' · · Score: 1

    The provides always have created an assymetric internet, in which there are users and servers. While I welcome dynamic ip addresses for privacy reasons, static ip addresses have the advantage of being... static. And with ipv6, you could create static global ip addresses with ipv6, and still have a dynamic ip address for privacy. Does one provider support this? No, because they want to separate between "end users" and "internet services".

    If the internet would be fully symmetric (upload speed == download speed), the net neutrality problem wouldn't be this severe. As then p2p cdns could achieve more, and providers couldn't throttle at least popular content without throttling in their own network.

  22. Re:Answer: No. on Will HP's $200 Stream 11 Make People Forget About Chromebooks? · · Score: 2

    I'm still missing codesearch. Luckily Github has improved its search since then.

  23. Re:Words. I can't even. on Facebook Sets Up Shop On Tor · · Score: 2

    If you browse it with TBB (Tor browser bundle), you still have that "identify yourself" part, but the cookie gets deleted the moment you close tor browser. Browsing tor with your normal browser is something very stupid, not just because of cookies, but also because of fingerprinting. Tor browser for example deactivates canvas tracking, or webrtc, and spoofs the useragent. Try this site with your favourite browser and with tor browser, and compare the results.

  24. Re:They wanted to release this years ago... on Facebook Sets Up Shop On Tor · · Score: 5, Informative

    On how they got the address: https://lists.torproject.org/p...

    This is how .onion addresses are made: https://gitweb.torproject.org/...

    Then they hash the key (using SHA-1), and base32-encode the first 80 bits (first half of the hash).

  25. Re:Anonymity? on Facebook Sets Up Shop On Tor · · Score: 2

    It has some advantages. Location data is very important data, and facebook loses it. They still know where your friends are, but its better than before.