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  1. Re: Maybe it's as simple on A New Take On the Fermi Paradox · · Score: 1

    However, that presumes that the members of the colonizing species would be willing to live their whole lives just to accomplish someone's Grand Plan.

    No it doesn't. It merely assumes that a majority of them would eventually become wealthy enough to afford to create a colony or two and would do so just as their parent did. You can give each colony a thousand years to mature and still fill the galaxy pretty damn quickly.

  2. Please make up your minds... on Open Sarcasm Fighting Copyrighted Punctuation · · Score: 1

    ...as to whether this thing claims to be protected by patent (not patentable) or copyright (only the exact image would be protected, if that).

    Actually, it appears that they are claiming that it is a registered trademark. In that case you are completely free to use it as punctuation.

  3. Re:idea of time travel on The Possibility of Paradox-Free Time Travel · · Score: 2, Informative

    > Special relativity is known to be wrong.

    [Citation needed]

  4. Re:Huh ? on The Possibility of Paradox-Free Time Travel · · Score: 1

    Unless destiny says that specific important events can and will happen without fail. Those who shape the future will always exist, and those who don't ... well ... don't really matter.

    The notion of an important event is anthropocentric and meaningless.

  5. Re:Dress it up! on The Possibility of Paradox-Free Time Travel · · Score: 1

    I'm not an expert...

    This is very, very clear.

    I realize science is a process, but spending valuable time "researching" time travel, before we can even explain what time or even gravity is, seems like skipping over the hard work to spend time on "fun stuff".

    Well, then. If you catch any of the physicists that work for you wasting time on "fun stuff", you just go right ahead and fire them.

  6. Re:Not that big a deal... on Wi-Fi WPA2 Vulnerability Found · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It's "Wired Equivalent Privacy" only if your idea of "wired privacy" involves dangling a cable out the window down into the alley behind the building.

  7. Re:Not that big a deal... on Wi-Fi WPA2 Vulnerability Found · · Score: 1

    > Isn't the idea to always expect the worst? I'd tend to assume that if I give
    > anyone any access at all, that they will find a way to break it.

    The worst would be to assume that they will find a way to break it no matter what you do even with no access at all and so it is all hopeless.

  8. Re:I don't understand how it could be possible... on Wi-Fi WPA2 Vulnerability Found · · Score: 1

    Ok. I was thinking of "personal" mode (I don't use wireless at all, myself).

  9. Re:so, not a hole on Wi-Fi WPA2 Vulnerability Found · · Score: 1, Troll

    > Understand the protocol before commenting, or at least RTFA.

    What, and break with Slashdot tradition? Don't be silly.

  10. Re:so, not a hole on Wi-Fi WPA2 Vulnerability Found · · Score: 0, Redundant

    > This would be a person with the password to your Wi-Fi network.

    Individual sessions are supposedly secure from each other. I don't see how that's possible without some sort of out-of-band key exchange (i.e., a different password for each user).

  11. I don't understand how it could be possible... on Wi-Fi WPA2 Vulnerability Found · · Score: 1

    ...even in principle to create a secure over-the-air encryption system with no out-of-band key exchange. Does there exist a proof of this?

  12. Re:so, not a hole on Wi-Fi WPA2 Vulnerability Found · · Score: 0, Redundant

    > ...if this user has your password...

    Where does it say that?

  13. Re:The cost of bandwidth on Rogers Shrinks Download Limits As Netflix Arrives · · Score: 1

    > Aren't such services available in .ca or .us ?

    They are in some places. THe US and Canada are about as large and diverse as the EU. What kind of service is available in rural Romania?

  14. Re:Why is overflow so expensive? on Rogers Shrinks Download Limits As Netflix Arrives · · Score: 1

    > There sure seem to be a lot of unhealthy markets around!

    Yes, government regulation sees to that.

  15. Re:Take off and nuke Marshall, TX from orbit ... on Company Claims Patent On Spam Filtering, Sues World · · Score: 4, Informative

    Unfortunately, the court is the only body that is able to determine if a Judge is in "good behavior"...

    No. The Congress is.

    ...which is why they effectively have lifetime guaranteed jobs...

    They have lifetime guaranteed jobs (barring impeachment and conviction) because the Constitution says so.

  16. Re:So you want to subvert democracy because... on Cell Phone Group Sues San Francisco Over Radiation Law · · Score: 1

    Could you also link a study showing that RF like that from a cell phone at cell phone type levels causes harm? peer reviewed and collaborated would be preferred.

    No. He couldn't. There is none. There is, however, peer reviewed, collaborated, research disproving the hypothesis that radiation from cellphones causes cancer.

  17. Backwards. on Cell Phone Group Sues San Francisco Over Radiation Law · · Score: 1

    > ...will mislead consumers into thinking one phone is safer than another.

    No, it will mislead consumers into thinking one phone is more dangerous than another when there is, in fact, no danger at all from any of them.

  18. Re:There is not, and cannot be... on The World's Strongest, Most Expensive Beer Served Inside a Squirrel · · Score: 1

    > I wonder what the BATF thinks about freeze-distillation?

    That it is legal.

  19. Re:Hilarious PETA response in 3... 2... 1... on The World's Strongest, Most Expensive Beer Served Inside a Squirrel · · Score: 1

    > Pretty similar reasons why I don't eat other creatures.

    In other words, they've got their religion, you've got yours.

  20. Re:Interesting Spin in the Summary on Forced iAds Coming To OS X? · · Score: 1

    > Cable was supposed to be ad-free.

    Supposed by who? Certainly not by the people who invented it in the 1950s. It was merely supposed to bring you lots of stations, including ones you couldn't get decent signals from even with a tower and large antenna.

  21. Re:Interesting Spin in the Summary on Forced iAds Coming To OS X? · · Score: 1

    > I have stopped watching TV, even though I pay for the service, instead
    > deciding to watch videos via hulu or companies website.

    In other words, you still watch tv.

  22. Re:Flavourful? on The World's Strongest, Most Expensive Beer Served Inside a Squirrel · · Score: 1

    > While I'm sure the beer is very flavourful...

    I'm not.

    > ...the presentation is tasteless.

    So is calling anything with that much alcohol beer (but then tastelessness seems to be the point of the whole excercise).

  23. Re:There is not, and cannot be... on The World's Strongest, Most Expensive Beer Served Inside a Squirrel · · Score: 1

    There is another way to raise alcohol levels though. It's done to make ice wine (and a few beers, including the one in question, although not usually to the degree for the squirrel monstrosity). It's called freeze distillation generally, but it's not at all like distillation in the conventional sense.

    It's still distillation and the result, though perhaps tasty, is not beer.

  24. Re:There is not, and cannot be... on The World's Strongest, Most Expensive Beer Served Inside a Squirrel · · Score: 1

    The finished product is still considered beer.

    Only by the marketing types trying to sell it.

  25. Re:There is not, and cannot be... on The World's Strongest, Most Expensive Beer Served Inside a Squirrel · · Score: 1

    As someone unfamiliar with this topic, why? I'm wondering what your definition of beer is, and if it has an arbitrary limit for alcohol content. Does the process for making beer necessarily limit the alcohol to around 10% max?

    Yes.