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  1. Never trust torrent sites on Torrent Sites Earned $70M After Dropping Malware On Visitors (softpedia.com) · · Score: 2

    Now, there is a reason not to download pirated media. If only most of malware on internet were on illegal torrent sites!

  2. Re:"it will make it open source earlier this year" on Microsoft Open Sources and Forks Windows Live Writer Into Open Live Writer · · Score: 1

    Your suggestion is for something that would make the text easier to read. Not all /. readers are native speakers and we have a hard time trying to make sense of badly constructed sentences. Thank you.

  3. Triple Helix on MIT Researchers Develop Triple Helix MicroRNA Cancer Treatment (mit.edu) · · Score: 1

    I wonder what does "twisting RNA strands into a triple helix" looks like without use of contraptions that grab it from both ends and then twist it like a peace of cloth.

  4. That's a good answer, thank you!

  5. Re:Talk to Bill Gates? on Donald Trump: America Should Consider "Closing the Internet Up In Some Way" (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    Must be either because Bill Gates is a CEO or because he's a billionaire. Looks like those are the only people Trump wants to talk to.

  6. "Flee and live..." on B-52s: The Plane That Refuses To Die · · Score: 1

    "flee and live, or stay and die,"

    I hope they are not doing it the Conquistador's way.

  7. Re: deBeers will buy them out. on A New Technique For Creating Diamonds Discovered · · Score: 1

    Also, gold melts, but never burns.

    Diamonds, however, are flammable.

  8. Can anyone explain me what is the point of Japan agreeing to a international regulation, then not respecting it? I mean, they can leave the International Whaling Commission any time, who would impede?

  9. No one owns the oceans. It's ridiculous to say the oceans belong a country. This whole proposition is pointless.

    Owning seas (not oceans) is not more ridiculous than owning land in any way, yet land ownership has been one of the pillars of most civilizations. In fact, you own land inasmuch as you can guard it. Sea "ownership" used to suffer this deterrent as seas are not settle-able, so no one would be there to guard the frontiers of it. Now, as countries can guard a sea, they can own it. Maritime territories are regulated by international treaties and may be subject to disputes, somewhat as land territories do.

    However, if you were talking about owning the very oceans, that is really ridiculous, but no one has proposed it, and I didn't understand why you would bring such a subject.

  10. Re:Why do cats live longer than dogs? That's easy on Scientists Working To Extend Lifespan of Pets (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    Can you run Emacs on top of Windows(r)?

  11. Re:If you want your dogs to live longer on Scientists Working To Extend Lifespan of Pets (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    The problem lie in inbreeding.

  12. Re:Why do cats live longer than dogs? That's easy on Scientists Working To Extend Lifespan of Pets (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1
    FTFY:

    No. You can't bring that up without bringing up the superiority and sleek design of a proper Linux desktop. This is the year of the Linux desktop, and all Macs and PCs will be thrown to the dogs to chew on.

  13. Toot late! I will be already old in five years.

  14. Re:Tin hat on Mother Blames Wi-Fi Allergy For Daughter's Suicide (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1
  15. Re:I have the opposite problem on Mother Blames Wi-Fi Allergy For Daughter's Suicide (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I guess there is more scientific basis to support a causation in that!

  16. Re:What is Yahoo ? on Yahoo Discussing Sale of Internet Business (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    What did you use in the three years before Google?

  17. Re:Hmmm ... non-gold gold on Scientists Turn Gold Into Foam That's Nearly As Light As Air (www.ethz.ch) · · Score: 1

    There are other colors of gold already, see Colored gold. However, any color of gold has been inevitably goldish.

  18. Not all commenters are subscribers. I've visited their site and the only restriction to create an account is catcha (unreadable by most robots).

  19. Re:unpossible software hack? on Montana Newspaper Plans To Out Anonymous Commenters Retroactively (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    In software nothing is simply impossible. It's only impossible under the given constraints: time, money, hardware, knowledge, intelligence...
    One may even doubt if his experts said just "impossible", instead of "impossible on given deadline, or budget or whatever".

  20. Re:What is the food value? on Japanese Company Makes Low-Calorie Noodles Out of Wood · · Score: 1

    So, those noodles are from the same matter as cardboard?

  21. Re:smart tvs are not smart on Even the Dumbest Ransomware Is Almost Unremovable On Smart TVs (symantec.com) · · Score: 1

    SmartTVs are so vulnerable right now that crackers can infect them in bulk and profit from small payments.

  22. Re:smart tvs are not smart on Even the Dumbest Ransomware Is Almost Unremovable On Smart TVs (symantec.com) · · Score: 2

    That's because the "lay people" some commenter mentioned earlier (#51001373) don't understand that a SmartTV is just a fancy name for an all-in-one computer with a specific purpose.

  23. Re:What is this, click bait? on How Anonymous' War With Isis Is Actually Harming Counter-Terrorism (metro.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    You must be new here. This site never had real editors...

    Some of the old folks tell a legend of CmdrTaco and a time when there where real editors.

  24. Re:Rape in America versus India. on The War On Campus Sexual Assault Goes Digital · · Score: 1

    Sorry for the confusion: spelling is not one of my strengths. I should have written outcaste, i.e., one not belonging to a caste, usually by birth, instead of outcast, one expelled from a society. "Dalit" would have served me better.

  25. Re:If you don't like the textbooks, on Texas Narrowly Rejects Allowing Academics To Fact-Check Public School Textbooks (csmonitor.com) · · Score: 2

    Stupidity knows no limits.