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  1. Re:Found a bigger one on Largest Prime Number Discovered – With More Than 23m Digits (mersenne.org) · · Score: 1

    That's not how prime numbers work.

  2. How can it be the "biggest news"? on Linux Mint 19 Named 'Tara' (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Today, we get some information about the upcoming version 19 of Mint. The biggest news is that it will be called 'Tara.'

    If that's the biggest news, then there can't be much of note to Mint 19.

  3. The eclipse will take place during the middle of the night

    They always do, for somewhere.

  4. Who is this "you" you're talking to? on Math Says You're Driving Wrong and It's Slowing Us All Down (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Math Says You're Driving Wrong and It's Slowing Us All Down

    Fuck you and your condescending clickbait headlines. You don't know what I'm doing.

    if you and everyone else on the road kept an equal distance between the cars ahead and behind, traffic would move twice as quickly. Now sure, you're probably not going to convince everyone on the road to do that.

    Damn right you're not, because it's a fucking stupid idea. You want drivers to monitor the distance to the car behind them? There are enough problems getting drivers to concentrate on the direction they're travelling in.

  5. Some editing, please on Mozilla Patches Critical Bug in Thunderbird (threatpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Mozilla said Thunderbird, which is also serves as a news, RSS and chat client, the latest Thunderbird 52.5.2 version released last week fixes the vulnerabilities.

    Editors, please at least read what you allow to be posted.

  6. Re: Ghostery and Privacy Badger on Firefox 57's Speed Secret? Delaying Requests from Tracking Domains (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    It is, however, reasonable to permit extension devs to update their extensions to fix breakage. However, for many extensions, Mozilla are not permitting them to do that.

    How so?

  7. Re:Corollary: on Ban Sale of Mini Mobiles, Says Justice Minister (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Because they're illegal and indiscriminate. If you could jam perfectly to within the prison walls (specifically the prisoner areas), while still allowing radios to work without issue, (oh, and also do this cheaply), then the problem might be solved.

  8. Re:The Universe is Massive and Diverse on The US Military Admits It Spent $22 Million Investigating UFOs (boston.com) · · Score: 1

    That was a lot of words to use to say nothing of any consequence.

  9. Frisbee-shaped disc

    As opposed to... what? A non-Frisbee-shaped disc?

  10. Re: money well spent on The US Military Admits It Spent $22 Million Investigating UFOs (boston.com) · · Score: 1

    There's no bounce or jiggle to the clouds in the background, either.

  11. Re: money well spent on The US Military Admits It Spent $22 Million Investigating UFOs (boston.com) · · Score: 1

    That fact that it stayed on in the center and rotated around the center

    Is that not just because the camera is tracking the object?

  12. Re:DAB sucks on Norway Becomes First Country To Switch Off FM Radio (thelocal.no) · · Score: 1

    Even versus analog it sounds worse, it's crappy 128Kbit MPEG-1 Layer 2

    If you're lucky... but that's not intrinsically a DAB issue.

  13. Re:Brain scan? on Why Some People Can Hear Silent GIF (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    If it were real. There's just over a second between landings, so at 400m or so the sound from the previous jump would coincide with the light from the latest jump.

  14. Re: Brain scan? on Why Some People Can Hear Silent GIF (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I Wikipedia'd it, but it doesn't say anything about being triggered by vision, only sound. It does suggest it can be triggered in anticipation of speaking, though, so maybe.

  15. Re:hearing muscles on Why Some People Can Hear Silent GIF (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    The acoustic reflex (also known as the stapedius reflex, middle-ear-muscles (MEM) reflex, attenuation reflex, or auditory reflex) is an involuntary muscle contraction that occurs in the middle ear in response to high-intensity sound stimuli or when the person starts to vocalize.

    So, nope.

  16. Re:Brain scan? on Why Some People Can Hear Silent GIF (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Ever notice how they make sure to add in the time delay when the big monster comes crashing over the hills?

    Nope, because they usually don't.

    On most everyday scales, that delay is never noticeable. We don't normally see huge things bouncing up and down in the distance, so our brains won't expect a delay.

    So based on previous experience, your brain - if it fills in the noise at all - is doing the best it can.

    (And anyway, if those towers are an integer multiple of, rough guess, 400m away, then you would hear a sound at the same time as seeing the landing)

  17. That doesn't make PHP more secure on PHP Now Supports Argon2 Next-Generation Password Hashing Algorithm (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    PHP got a whole lot more secure this week with the release of the 7.2 branch, a version that improves and modernizes the language's support for cryptography and password hashing algorithms.

    Adding new cryptography and hashing methods doesn't make the language itself more secure.

  18. Why is this a surprise? on Your Brain 'Blinks' When Your Attention Shifts, Researchers Discover (vanderbilt.edu) · · Score: 1, Informative

    I thought this was well known. It stops you getting dizzy when you move your eyes, and is responsible for the stopped clock illusion:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  19. Humans do this too, and it's been known about for years. I don't know why it's such a surprise.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  20. Twelve second videos?

  21. Re:They need to start prosecuting these fuckers on 'Bomb on Board' Wi-Fi Network Causes Turkish Airlines Flight To Be Diverted (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Pfft, you and your "facts."

  22. Re:Parabolic... on Bitcoin Hits $10,000 Because Ceilings Are Just a Construct, Man (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    And the Flanian Pobble Bead can only be exchanged for other Flanian Pobble Beads.

  23. Re:Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency on Tom Baker Returns To Finish Shelved Doctor Who Episodes Penned By Douglas Adams (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    What point?

  24. Yeah. That's why he was so gracious about showing up to do the 25th anniversary episode. (What, me carry a grudge?)

    20th.

  25. C++? What a coincidence! on Did Elon Musk Create Bitcoin? (cryptocoinsnews.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Bitcoin was written by someone with mastery of C++, a language Musk has utilized heavily at SpaceX.

    a) Musk personally, or the people Musk employs at SpaceX?
    b) It's C++. It's not exactly esoteric. You know I heard that DB Cooper spoke English, and so does Clint Eastwood... coincideeeence?