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  1. You should really have attended these sex education classes ; there is actually a difference.

  2. Re:In unrelated news... on Obesity Is Three Times As Deadly For Men Than Women, Says Study (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    and women care 3 times less about their husband obesity than the opposite.

  3. What does the malware targets? on Windows Malware Poses As Ransomware, Just Deletes Victims' Files (slashgear.com) · · Score: 1

    How that malware works, and how does it infect those (poor) Windows machines?

  4. Re:This is actually a good thing in the big pictur on Windows Malware Poses As Ransomware, Just Deletes Victims' Files (slashgear.com) · · Score: 1

    The way ransomware works is it builds trust with the victims that they will get their stuff back if they pay. This kind of slimyness by ransomware will make people even more reluctant to pay.

    Maybe this is not a bad thing after all, as the ransomware business may become less lucrative if people don't pay anymore thinking their data may actually be deleted for good anyway.

  5. Re:this malware is less evil on Windows Malware Poses As Ransomware, Just Deletes Victims' Files (slashgear.com) · · Score: 1

    Even less evil, since if you pay the ransom the malware guys send you a doc on how to recover your files.

  6. Re:this malware is less evil on Windows Malware Poses As Ransomware, Just Deletes Victims' Files (slashgear.com) · · Score: 1

    It depends if the deletion allows the OS to recover the files (ie like the old Windows FATs just wrote a single char at first position in name to indicate the file can be overwritten - but until then, the file blocks are untouched).

  7. Re:Ok but my Windows Mint editions on Microsoft: Only Microsoft Edge Will Play Netflix Content At 1080p On Your PC (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    The package exists, it's called VirtualBox

  8. That's ok, Juno is not British

  9. Re:New Skype App For Linux on Microsoft Finally Releases New Skype App For Linux (skype.com) · · Score: 1

    Technically it's correct

    "Application" is technically correct.

  10. Re:Now With Advertising! on Microsoft Finally Releases New Skype App For Linux (skype.com) · · Score: 1

    It's possible, maybe likely, that MS will not support anymore the old Linux versions (has been 4.3 for ages), i.e. the Skype servers will not allow a connection from that old prog, i.e. you'll have to upgrade.

  11. Re:And I guess... on Microsoft Finally Releases New Skype App For Linux (skype.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    The popup will ask "Do you want to downgrade from Linux to win 10?"

  12. New Skype App For Linux on Microsoft Finally Releases New Skype App For Linux (skype.com) · · Score: 1

    App sounds mobile application. Maybe "package" or even "program" would fit better for a non-mobile Linux OS.

  13. Indeed! Have a look at the pics of J taken by the Hubble telescope - they're way better! October has to bring some good stuff, otherwise some people may think NASA has an hidden camera for HD images, and a public crappy camera for us.

  14. Re:Jim Blinn's corner on NASA's Juno Spacecraft Sends First Images From Jupiter (sciencedaily.com) · · Score: 1

    If so, where are we?

  15. Re:Google needs to be responsible on YouTube Says Content Owners Made $1B Last Year -- So Music Labels Should Stop Complaining (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Google just trained 2 millions Indians.

  16. Re:labels on NASA's Juno Spacecraft Sends First Images From Jupiter (sciencedaily.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Depends the time of the year, you may well read as well oi, aporue and edemynag..

  17. That far? on NASA's Juno Spacecraft Sends First Images From Jupiter (sciencedaily.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I was expecting Juno to be closer than that to Jupiter. Even though the two missions are very different, and Juno does other things, but the Voyagers sent amazing pics, compared to that one... in 1977!

  18. Re:Um, they sell prebuilt gaming PCs on PC Gaming Is Still Way Too Hard (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Are they overpriced?.

    No, they're expensive - there's a difference. The good news is that spending a bit more today brings you a powerful PC still very usable 5 years from now.

  19. Re:OMFG - what a whiny entitled hipster... on PC Gaming Is Still Way Too Hard (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Indeed. The "journalist" should better buy Macbooks instead.

  20. Re:Don't RTFA this time; it's 100% bullshit. on PC Gaming Is Still Way Too Hard (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    All told, it cost about $700

    Sounds pretty low. You had already power supply, pc case or other things, right?

  21. Re:What? on PC Gaming Is Still Way Too Hard (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    That water is wet?

    Oh btw, water is not wet.

  22. Re:Whether he's overall crazy or not... on Linus Torvalds In Sweary Rant About Punctuation In Kernel Comments (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 5, Funny

    /* no comment */

  23. Re:Arguing over the subjective on Linus Torvalds In Sweary Rant About Punctuation In Kernel Comments (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Exactly. The syntax has two kinds of comments and that's for a reason.

  24. Re:A radical idea on Google To Train 2 Million Indian Android Developers (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Why do you purchase stuff made in China?

  25. Re:Nibiru? on New Dwarf Planet Discovered In Outer Solar System (seeker.com) · · Score: 1

    Probably not. Nibiru is closer than that. The new dwarf planet is exactly where the UK will be in a few months.