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  1. Is this a surprise? This is probably exactly what the companies behind the game knew was going to happen.

    In other news, fewer people will go and watch Suicide Squad this weekend compared to last.

  2. The Moz://a one is the only one that's remotely clever and interesting, and yet... the protocol prefix, including the ://, was one of the things they got rid of (by default) in an earlier update.

    So, irony.

  3. in its attempt to install (and fail) web ransomware

    It attempted to "fail" web ransomware? What does that mean?

    That trojan, named Rex, has evolved

    No, it's been reprogrammed.

  4. Re:Ignorant fools on Can Cow Backpacks Reduce Global Methane Emissions? (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Maybe you should learn not to jump to conclusions lest you show yourself to be the moron.

    The backpack manages to capture and collect the gases emitted through the cow’s mouth or intestinal tract via a tube inserted through the cow’s skin (which the researchers claim is painless).

  5. Re:Driver or Autopilot? on Tesla Owner in Autopilot Crash Won't Sue, But Car Insurer May (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    He's not going to sue. I find that highly suspicious. In America, everybody sues over things like spilled hot coffee, poodles in microwaves and confusing the gas and break pedal. So if he is not going to sue, he has something to hide.

    Or maybe, just maybe, he's an honest person who's already admitted that he wasn't paying attention which Tesla tells you to do while using auto-pilot.

    If the accident was his fault, he can't afford that to happen.

    It was his fault. He's practically admitted as much.

  6. Re: Why isn't this configurable? on Google Restores Backspace Functionality To Chrome With an Add-on (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    It's possible that the remote state was made invalid when the page was left.

  7. Re:More like 11 reasons to be depressed about tech on Eleven Reasons To Be Excited About The Future of Technology (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    A study by UC Davis says it takes 441 gallons per pound of beef. That's apparently the figure the beef industry likes to promote, so you can probably whack a bit extra on. 1799 seems a bit high compared to that, but not outrageously so.

  8. Better than doing it when depressed, surely on When We're Happy, We Actively Sabotage Our Good Moods With Grim Tasks (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Isn't this just a case of it being better to do shitty things when you're happy than when you're depressed? If you're depressed, it'll just make feel even lower. If you're going to do something that'll lower your mood, don't do it when you're already low.

  9. Re:Nintendo are only keeping up appearances. on Nintendo Shuts Down 'Pokemon Uranium' Fan Game After 1.5 Million Downloads (thewrap.com) · · Score: 1

    Hey, that's my novelty flying disc!

  10. We think a lot about sharing, linking and saving information on the web.

    You mean... you think about the three things the web was explicitly designed to do, and has been doing since its inception?

  11. As opposed to all the relativity pleasant 7.6 earthquakes.

  12. Too slow on Linux Kernel 4.6 Has Reached End of Life, Users Urged To Move To Linux 4.7.1 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Firefox is already on version 47 or something. You guys are going way to slow.

    Hmm, I'm still only on 2.6. I need to get a wiggle on too!

  13. Re:only works if everyone play by the same rule on Tesla Removes 'Self-driving' From China Website After Beijing Crash (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    The soundwaves expand the air in front and make it easier to drive through. Totally legit.

  14. Well YOU can just fuck off, Mr Click-bait headline on Your Political Facebook Posts Aren't Changing How Your Friends Think (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Your Political Facebook Posts Aren't Changing How Your Friends Think

    Who are you talking to? I don't make political Facebook posts. I don't make Facebooks at all. And I certainly don't have any friends!

    Honestly.

  15. Lucky you. Way to miss the point, though.

  16. What? Please post stories in English on Hackers Claim To Be Selling NSA Cyberweapons In Online Auction (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    The the hackers' asking price for what they claim is a cache of NSA-built cyberweapons.

    "The the"? And it appears to be a sentence fragment.

  17. ...there are worse reasons for having an abuse problem.

    But is it really because they truly believe in free speech, or is that just a PR-useful side-effect of not wanting to be bothered with piddly shit like chasing down trolls?

  18. Where was the pre-pre-announcement announcement? on Astronomers To Announce Discovery of a Nearby 'Earth-Like' Planet (seeker.com) · · Score: 1

    Astronomers To Announce Discovery of a Nearby 'Earth-Like' Planet

    Would've been nice to have some warning of this pre-announcement. Cuh.

  19. Re:Popular Science is a joke on NASA Publishes a Thousand Photos of Mars (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Correction! Subruled! Overstained!

  20. Re:Popular Science is a joke on NASA Publishes a Thousand Photos of Mars (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Re: my earlier reply - oops, no you're not.

  21. Re:Popular Science is a joke on NASA Publishes a Thousand Photos of Mars (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    You're reading it wrong:

    allowing MRO to transmit a massive amount of ( photos from the planet's surface ).

  22. Re:Popular Science is a joke on NASA Publishes a Thousand Photos of Mars (engadget.com) · · Score: 2

    Does director of the Planetary Image Research Laboratory Alfred McEwen know what he's talking about? Because he's the one who actually said it.

  23. Well, is it or not? on Myths Persist About Running Public Wi-Fi in the UK (arstechnica.co.uk) · · Score: 4, Funny

    If you run a public Wi-Fi service, can you be held responsible if someone uses it to infringe copyright, defame someone or commit a crime?

    According to Ars, much publicised "guidance" for would-be Wi-Fi operators indicates that an operator would be liable, but the legal experts who spoke to Ars are far less convinced.

    Oh, well, that's cleared that up then.

  24. Re:Value of CERN on CERN Confirms Hints of Hypothetical Particle Have Disappeared (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    The one they call the Higgs.

    They call it Mister Higgs!

  25. Re:And yet there's already been a shootout on 1,000+ US Spies Are Protecting Rio Olympics, Says Report (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    The 2016 Summer Olympics are scheduled to begin today, but for some it has already began with a bang.

    Good grief. That's rather bad taste considering six people died.