Fast enough sublight travel makes #4 a bit unnecesary... What may be impossible to do in a lifespan at 99% the speed of light is very much more possible at 99.999999% the speed of light.
Amen.
The article says their population is in the hundreds. I am not sure they can afford human sacrifices.
Yeah I'm sure everyone runs firefox with root privileges...
'Mesh' looks like some to-be MS bloat-filled service site trying to keep up with Web 2.0 trends (Digg, YouTube, Google, et al) because it has no choice but to.
Or are they?
Same thing that always has people running back. They expect it to function just like Windows and they get frustrated that it doesn't and they don't give the time to learn how to get around it.
Correction it should be Bluetack blocks anti-virus update. Peerguardian and it's programming staff have little to do with what Bluetack does to their lists since Peerguardian runs their own Black List. I think it would have been better if the NOD32 people contacted Peerguardian also and had them add their IP range to the safe list like most wrongly accused company's do.
If that were true you'd buy a ***** Macintosh.