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  1. Re:Will it be tidally locked? on Astronomers Find An Earth-Size World Just 11 Light Years Away (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0

    Mercury is tidally locked to the sun, and has no wind.

  2. Re:May as well be a billion miles away on Astronomers Find An Earth-Size World Just 11 Light Years Away (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    If there was technologically advanced civilization there you could send them a message and get a response in your lifetime

    But if they're really advanced, they might never reply to our message.

  3. Just 11 light years away on Astronomers Find An Earth-Size World Just 11 Light Years Away (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    We might reach this new world in just 200,000 years, great!

  4. According to Stephen King on What Did 17th Century Food Taste Like? (blogspot.com) · · Score: 1
    In 11-22-63, he said

    This fifty-years-gone world smelled worse than I ever would have expected, but it tasted a whole hell of a lot better

    (that was 1960 compared to 2010, taste wise 350 years was also probably more tasty)

  5. Re:Depends your Location. on What Did 17th Century Food Taste Like? (blogspot.com) · · Score: 1

    At the time, most of you were living in England. Don't forget that.

  6. Re:Useless metric spotted on Boeing 757 Testing Shows Airplanes Vulnerable To Hacking, DHS Says (aviationtoday.com) · · Score: 1

    This. OTOH Would be certainly expensive to implement some more security, but that's likely much less than if a plane is actually terro-hacked .

  7. Depends upon the contract. Adding some code to secure the plane could be seen, contractually, as a request from the airline (and not as a flaw from the manufacturer).

  8. Re:Yeah. And? on All 500 of the World's Top 500 Supercomputers Are Running Linux (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    What'd you expect it to run? Windows?

    Some people would expect that. But the Linux kernel is certainly more customizable than a Windows black box (that would require the help of Microsoft engineers).

  9. Re:On the other hand... on All 500 of the World's Top 500 Supercomputers Are Running Linux (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Haven't had, neither other Linuxers I know, any graphics card problem for a long time.

  10. Re:Complexity on All Major Browsers Now Support WebAssembly (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 2

    Of course this

    console.log("Hello world");

    once obfuscated

    var _0xa9ff=['log','Hello\x20world'];(function(_0x50318f,_0x347f74){var _0x4aa6cf=function(_0x1a665d){while(--_0x1a665d){_0x50318f['push'](_0x50318f['shift']());}};_0x4aa6cf(++_0x347f74);}(_0xa9ff,0xaa));var _0xfa9f=function(_0x276a74,_0x406450){_0x276a74=_0x276a74-0x0;var _0x534cc5=_0xa9ff[_0x276a74];return _0x534cc5;};console[_0xfa9f('0x0')](_0xfa9f('0x1'));

    is much more readable.

  11. Re:Doesn't this continutally come up for Munich? on Munich Council: To Hell With Linux, We're Going Full Windows in 2020 (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I give it 10 days for another article to come out saying "No, we're staying with Linux."

    Unfortunately, not this time. And Microsoft will ensure there is a clear winner in this Windows vs Linux war.

  12. Re:So much for Apple's [incredible] design... on The iPhone X Becomes Unresponsive When It Gets Cold (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    As long as Apple is profitable, no one from the board of directors is gonna say a word.

  13. Re:The fix on The iPhone X Becomes Unresponsive When It Gets Cold (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    There was a < "less than" in there somewhere.

    You could do it the second time, well done!

  14. Re:TV Guide on Star Trek: Discovery Will Return On January 7th, 2018 (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Something with Chuck Norris then?

  15. Re:TV Guide on Star Trek: Discovery Will Return On January 7th, 2018 (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Slashdot is apparently now the TV guide

    Great! Was wondering what we'll have this week-end.

  16. Re:TV Guide on Star Trek: Discovery Will Return On January 7th, 2018 (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, they could talk more about Game of Thrones, for starters

  17. 4) remove IE, install chrome

    Isn't that the wrong order?

    That's the wrong year, now it's Edge.

  18. Re:132,000 suckers on Nearly All of Wikipedia Is Written By Just 1 Percent of Its Editors (vice.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    What more amazing about that is that these 1% people do have a broad range of knowledge!

  19. Re:Not adopted on iOS 11 Passes 50 Percent Adoption In Under 2 Months (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh yeah, Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence, forgot this one!

  20. Re:Meanwhile... on iOS 11 Passes 50 Percent Adoption In Under 2 Months (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Similar idea with Edge vs Chrome. Chrome is preferred while Edge is 1) installed along with the system 2) is the default browser 3) when you try to change the default the OS says "Don't you want to try it [edge] first, instead?"

  21. Controls much less than MS and windows 10. People choose to update whenever they feel to do so. This small red "1" tells you an update is pending, but you can just ignore it.

  22. Re:Queuing for food is for fools on Google To Add Restaurant Wait Times To Google Search, Maps (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Queuing is common in Japan too. If a restaurant has a good reputation people are willing to wait.

    In Japan, often it's more because some people are queuing that other people are tempted to queue as well.

  23. Not adopted on iOS 11 Passes 50 Percent Adoption In Under 2 Months (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 0

    Following iOS 11/11.1 install, 3 years old iPhones have camera and GPS problems (iPhone 6/6+) ; not saying Apple intentionally crippled a 3 yo perfectly working hardware to force users to upgrade, but that's quite suspicious...

  24. Re:Spectacularly confused summary on 'Quark Fusion' Produces Eight Times More Energy Than Nuclear Fusion (futurism.com) · · Score: 2

    I could just wait about 10^-12 seconds until they decay of their own accord

    What do you plan to do during all that time?

  25. he became Director (...) by sitting on his ass all day long, literally.

    This is also a potential problem. By being stuck in a chair "all day long", unable to move even an arm, he probably tends to get a bit paranoid - and this could be an example of that.