Whumpsnatz - Slashdot User

Comment Dinosaurs (Score 1) 269

by Whumpsnatz on Wednesday January 19, 2011 @07:24PM (#34934006) Attached to: New Sunlight Reactor Produces Fuel

A high oxygen level would make it more feasible for land animals to once again become gigantic. I look forward (in a future incarnation), to hiding from a 50-foot-tall housecat.

It seems like sci-fi, but it's really just simple physics. (Although I don't know if the calculations work out). And it would probably happen a lot faster than millions of years.

Comment Not me. I'm cheerfully paranoid. (Score 1) 277

by Whumpsnatz on Wednesday December 22, 2010 @11:04AM (#34641142) Attached to: Passwords Are the Weakest Link In Online Security

Every time I need a password, I either beat out a spastic smattering of letters and numbers, or dream up a weird phrase, and use the first letters, with a few of them converted to numbers.

I'm fine, as long as no one gets to my written log of all those passwords. If that happens, I'm screwed.

I refuse to create any password that has the vaguest connection to anything. Which seems apt for today's disjointed world.

The Race To Beer With 50% Alcohol By Volume 297

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday June 02, 2010 @09:18AM from the good-stiff-12-pack dept.

ElectricSteve writes "Most of the world's beer has between 4% and 6% alcohol by volume (ABV). The strength of beer achieved by traditional fermentation brewing methods has limits, but a well-crafted beer that is repeatedly 'freeze distilled' can achieve exquisite qualities and much higher alcohol concentrations. An escalation in the use of this relatively new methodology over the last 12 months has seen man's favorite beverage suddenly move into the 40+% ABV realm of spirits such as gin, rum, brandy, whiskey, and vodka, creating a new category of extreme beer. The world's strongest beer was 27% ABV, but amidst an informal contest to claim the title of the world's strongest beer, the top beer has jumped in strength dramatically. This week Gizmag spoke to the brewers at the center of the escalating competition. New contestants are gathering, and the race is now on to break 50% alcohol by volume."

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