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  1. Presence of the ring should not be unexpected. The particles were probably launched into space from the surface because of planetoid's low gravity and fast rotation. Of course I'm assuming that the ring is perpendicular to the rotation axis.

  2. No suprise but... on China Blocks WhatsApp (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    No surprise when something like this comes from China, but here in Croatia our traffic minister wanted to ban the Uber app (because just banning the Uber service isn't enough when you're a clueless luddite moron). He didn't gave any info how he's going to enforce the ban - even if local ISPs were forced to block the app everyone would be able to download it through VPNs.

  3. Re: Post hoc, ergo propter hoc. on Degenerative Brain Disease Found In Nearly All Donated NFL Player Brains, Says Study (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Most of those plays are learned in high school, after that it's muscle memory. Sure, you can't play in NFL if you're retarded, but, like with most sports, the ability to stay focused is much more important than intelligence.

  4. Re:Exception to butterage on Should You Leave Google Chrome For the Opera Browser? (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Would you care enough to point me to the guide on how to use tampermonkey to browse sites like forbes.com?

  5. Re:It's hyped and will shift to something else soo on Sleep Is the New Status Symbol (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Good luck finding that. I believe that not forcing them to get up everyday at the same time is a necessary condition for happy and creative employees.

  6. Interesting on Ransomware Asks For High Score Instead of Money (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Just pay someone who plays games a lot to reach the score for you. Basement nerds, this is your five minutes of fortune!

  7. I wonder, how long it will take for the star to fall into the black hole? Or it will completely evaporate sooner? And how the orbit looks like?

  8. It's incredibly smooth and uncratered because it's constantly accumulating fine-grained ring material. Think of it like a sand dune in space..

    So, whenever a meteor hits it, it makes the moon lose a good part of its mass because of all the dust that's being sent into space.

  9. Interesting on Stunning Close-up of Saturn's Moon, Pan, Reveals a Space Empanada (sciencemag.org) · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Looks like a Mexican's head. This is probably where Trump wants to send illegal aliens - so they can be just aliens.

  10. Re:Nothing to do with tor on FBI Dismisses Child Porn Case Rather Than Reveal Their Tor Browser Exploit (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Not every OS could be vulnerable. If you use Tor, make a Linux VM for it. Even before the spyware knows as Windows 10 has been released, it has been known that using Tor on any version of Windows isn't the best idea as Tor cannot be more secure than the OS its running on.

  11. In a recent job interview I had this question among others:
    What data type in SQL Server I would use for a data column that would be filled with numbers between 1 and 100?
    After looking in the SQL Server documentation, I've seen it's tinyint, but seriously, who actually tries to remember stuff like that? The point of the article is probably applicable in this case, they want to hire people who recently graduated or finished their courses as they are more likely to know stuff that everyone else thinks it's pointless to learn since it only takes a quick Google search to find out the answer.
    Not all questions were like that but I still failed the interview.

  12. Re:Interesting story on Software Engineer Detained At JFK, Given Test To Prove He's An Engineer (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    Or better yet:
    if ((bool)story == true)
    {
    story.Flags.Add("interesting");
    }

  13. Re:Interesting story on Software Engineer Detained At JFK, Given Test To Prove He's An Engineer (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    Nope, it should be:
    if (story.IsInteresting == true)

  14. Re:Cheating at Tournaments on 'Counter-Strike' Gets Invaded By An Unblockable Chat-Bot (kotaku.com) · · Score: 2

    Chess can be played in 500 years same as we play it today. So can football, baseball, any sport you can think of.

    Except car racing, which is constantly evolving, just like computer games (and has a lot more common with e-sports than chess or football). It, however, isn't an olympic sport, and I think it shouldn't be (even though I'm a big fan of it) since that would force the car racing to submit into certain cliches, removing the charm that comes from every track and car being different.

    Racing cars get replaced my more modern version and so do competitive video games, but the main premise won't change much for as long as it has clear and attractive goals. Even CS:GO has the same basic rules as the original CounterStrike that got released 20 years ago.

  15. Re: sucks but as of now someones gotta do it on Microsoft Anti-Porn Workers Sue Over PTSD (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It was just a lie spread by some leftist fanatics. Interestingly, many of the same fanatics mourned over Castro who actually imprisoned gay people.

  16. Re:Wow... on Morgan Freeman To Voice Mark Zuckerberg's Jarvis (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Slashdot turned into a mess ever since CmdrTaco left it.

  17. Re:Trivial??? on Italy Quake Rescuers Ask Locals To Unlock Their Wi-Fi (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    ... it's a disaster area... get real. I'm sure hey couldn't care less about your illegal downloads at such moments.

    They won't care right now, but things might change once everything settles. Even war crimes rarely get processed during wars, usually after them.
    Will I be held responsible if someone uses my open WiFi network to download child porn? Weirder stuff could've happened.

  18. Re: Surely a fundamental human rights breach? on Child Porn Suspect Jailed Indefinitely For Refusing To Decrypt Hard Drives (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    That's why I think The Government should ban all encryption, it will make us feel much more secure /s

  19. Re: Surely a fundamental human rights breach? on Child Porn Suspect Jailed Indefinitely For Refusing To Decrypt Hard Drives (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    He would have complied if there hadn't been anything incriminating on those drives.

    Just like people wouldn't complain against The Patriot Act if they weren't supporting terrorism.
    But I hope you're just trolling.

  20. Re:my password from now on is... on CNBC Just Collected Your Password and Shared It With Marketers (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe it does, but maybe also you don't know where the reference comes from.

  21. my password from now on is... on CNBC Just Collected Your Password and Shared It With Marketers (pcworld.com) · · Score: 2

    CNBC is pants.

  22. Re:Why would anyone want this? on Meet UbuntuBSD, UNIX For Human Beings · · Score: 1

    It's how gamers think too. If it works for him then the fault must lie with the other person's system. No one wants to admit that it worked for them because they were lucky.

    Confirming. I once complained that a certain game isn't compatibile with my graphics card on Steam forums and most replies consisted of rude and immature trolling.

  23. When I read the first sentence, I thought to myself that reasoning behind this was some corporate/copyright bullshit. But looks like Mozilla did a good job on this!

  24. Re:Great! on Firefox 44 Arrives With Push Notifications (mozilla.org) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Firefox, the only software that comes with a warranty.

  25. Re:Good thing no one buys security from Intel on Serious Flaw Patched In Intel Driver Update Utility (csoonline.com) · · Score: 1

    Now, if they only would fix the "Intel RST service is not running" bug that I've been experiencing for months...