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Comment Re:Location (Score 1) 167

Couldn't we have an ESSID and BSSID swap day when we all trade our router configuration details with someone else elsewhere on the planet. Then anyone trying to use their services near my house would be told they were in alaska.

Unfortunately I'm pretty sure its based on MAC address not ESSID/BSSID, but then you can just use a decent AP that lets you annually assign a MAC address instead. You can probably use it to make yourself the foursquare mayor of your (least?) favourite cafe by using the mac address of their hotspot on your home AP.

Comment Re:Why?? (Score 1) 753

well.. at least FF7 wouldn't so hard to get anymore.

If replicators did work like that in the real world, economies would collapse overnight. The second some jackass published the replication patterns for nuclear weapons we'd all go up in an inferno. That of course is after everyone replicated ten tons of gold for themselves and discovered it's now plentiful and worthless. No, no replicators please. I'm not ready for the end of the world.

I got the impression that ST stlye replicators only worked on the atomic/molecular level, ie they don't create new elements, just rearrange them into useful patterns. Therefore the above wouldn't work due to a lack of an ability to create weapons grade plutonium/uranium or gold for that matter. Creating plenty of conventional explosives, toxic substances or even some evil nanites probably wouldn't be too hard however...

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