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Comment Re:Evil Web? (Score 1) 79

Dark Web has always been the 'secret' side of the 'net. It just used to be more interesting,

Not really; we just used to be younger and more impressionable.

Well "back in the day" as it were, a Dark Net used to require you to basically set up a whole separate network infrastructure inside the World Wide Web, which I think is kinda cooler than the "everybody join in"-way of TOR.

Those old school darknets also used to be *way* more exclusive.

Comment Re:Past Tense (Score 1) 53

I rather enjoyed kongbucks and simoleans (actually the fictional stories that they were featured in), the real life embodiment in bitcoins... not so much

Kongbucks were actual money, the official currency of Mr. Lee's Greater Hong Kong.

Comment Re:Attractive proposition (Score 1) 288

And as far as a universe with no beginning or end is concerned, what's the problem?

In a word: entropy.

As I understand it, this new equitation only deals with the nature of the universe, not any of the stuff in the universe. So, yeah entropy will always increase inside the universe and the universe will eventually become uniform and the same temperature and density in all directions.
But, the universe itself is infinite and will stay so.

Comment Re:The whole idea is crazy (Score 1) 288

You know, what I've often asked myself is, "What was there before the Big Bang?"

The question does not make any sense, I mean from a purely linguistic point of view it does, but the question itself does not make sense to ask.
Anything we know, have known and are able to know takes place after the big bang, thus asking what came before it is a question we cannot really answer.

Comment Re:No "unlimited" ammunition (Score 1) 517

Laser are line of sight only, they can't do indirect fire. A ship would also need rail guns to launch projectiles. Its an improvement, but there will still be ammunition limits.

Lasers probably wont be used for Ship-to-ship or even ship-to-shore engagements, they're much more suited as CIWS or Anti-air roles.

Comment Re:Lasers are easy to stop (Score 1) 517

And how do you propose to launch this EMP attack? EMP isn't a magical thing you can just conjure up and cast at someone like a wizard. Pretty much anything you could do to a hit a ship with an EMP would be no less difficult than just blowing up the ship with something explosive. EMP is only preferable if you then intend to send soldiers on bored the ship to seize it and retrieve if for yourself, but good fucking luck with that. I imagine the crew would scuttle it before you had chance.

I suppose you could hit them with a nuclear bomb. Those things produce pretty powerful EMP.

Comment Re:Vote against Ubisoft with your dollars (Score 1) 468

The only New Steam Version game I own is Company of Heroes... which repairs the multiplayer services that were lost due to server shutdowns. In other words, they're restoring the engine of my car, for free, that the original supporting company allowed to die.

Also took out lan support.

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