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[00:00:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fnord666 [652] (Score:2) 02Next Time - 06Lawyer Representing Whistleblowers Finds Malware on Drive Supplied by Cops - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:51] <exec> 08└─Maybe next time the lawyer can send the drive over with malware preinstalled!
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[00:56:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Covalent [43] (Score:2) 02This is astonishing - 06Evidence of Briny Liquid Water Found on Mars - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:56:58] <exec> 08└─This ups the odds of finding life on Mars by a significant amount. Ecosystems with damp soil are nearly always teeming with bacteria on Earth. I know that the perchlorates are not ideal, but extremophiles on Earth have eked out a living in some pretty evil conditions. OK, Congress, get serious about...
[00:57:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03sigma [1225] (Score:2) 02Re:I Heart Gyndroids - 06Geek Nirvana Approaches: Robots to Cook You Breakfast - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:57:18] <exec> 08└─The "Greek" scholars are all into androids.
[00:57:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02Re:So... - 06Geek Nirvana Approaches: Robots to Cook You Breakfast - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:57:21] <exec> 08└─No, this is how it begins! With robot food preparation, we can break the grip that the fast food industry has on us. Save a bunch of money, and eat healthier. I don't call being dependent upon fast food a social good, or giving orders to a poor slob stuck in a minimum wage burger flipping job the so...
[00:57:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So... - 06Geek Nirvana Approaches: Robots to Cook You Breakfast - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:57:23] <exec> 08└─1. $15 minimum wage movement succeeds [soylentnews.org] 2. Robots drop in price while increasing functionality 3. Mass layoffs 4. 3D printing get gud 5. More layoffs 6. Agitated underclass X. ??? 69. Utopia ∞. Euphoria
[00:57:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Murdoc [2518] (Score:1) 02Yet more evidence... - 06Geek Nirvana Approaches: Robots to Cook You Breakfast - 1171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:57:28] <exec> 08└─...that Technocracy [technocracy.ca] is possible today, and that the idea of linking income to labor is getting even more outdated and problematic. Actually I think of this as being not so much of a breakthrough as more of just another step in automation. I'm sure that things like frozen dinners ar...
[00:58:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:With great intelligence comes great responsibil - 06The Surprising Downsides of Being Clever - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:58:32] <exec> 08└─Play nice Eat a snack when you are cranky Share Take naps Dinosaurs are awesome Put stuff back where you found it Spend more time outside Go to bed at a decent hour Yep, everything needed to live a happy life right there.
[00:59:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Cognative Filter - 06The Surprising Downsides of Being Clever - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:59:01] <exec> 08└─By memory (sorry I do not have a citation), people have a hard time relating to others that are more than 1.5 standard deviations away from them in IQ. So an average person would have difficulty relating to someone roughly 23 points higher and vice versa. Funnily enough that explains why really smar...
[00:59:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:A bold theory - 06Universe's Rate of Expansion Called into Question - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:59:41] <exec> 08└─Wow... he lost me in lecture one when he started talking about 'curly O's', and monsters, sub-sets of a set, and etc. (http://www.gravity-and-light.org/lectures/) Will stick with it a bit longer, but it may be quite beyond me. :(
[01:00:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Will the Fort Smith PD be held accountable? => - 06Lawyer Representing Whistleblowers Finds Malware on Drive Supplied by Cops - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:00:28] <exec> 08└─I'm disappointed that the lawyers didn't load the trojans onto a honeypot system and then use it to access 'bait' privileged information on extensively logged servers. Then they'd have a devastating civil case, and the threat of state or federal criminal charges as leverage.
[01:00:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:OMG! Teh cops are the suxors! - 06Lawyer Representing Whistleblowers Finds Malware on Drive Supplied by Cops - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:00:39] <exec> 08└─It's clear that you don't know how to put forth an actual counterargument, rather than just saying that someone is wrong about something. And whether they looked something up on "Wiki" or not is utterly inconsequential to whether or not it is correct. There's also the fact that, being strangers on t...
[01:00:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:OMG! Teh cops are the suxors! - 06Lawyer Representing Whistleblowers Finds Malware on Drive Supplied by Cops - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:00:45] <exec> 08└─Do you have the source code to these trojans? Why would the police hand them out to begin with? As said above, either they are ridiculously negligent (and no evidence from them can be trusted since any evidence could be tainted) or they are malicious. Neither possibility is good for them, or good fo...
[01:00:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:In any justice system - 06Lawyer Representing Whistleblowers Finds Malware on Drive Supplied by Cops - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:01:00] <exec> 08└─I trust those they are in confrontation with more than the police, however. Especially since we have things such as unconstitutional mass surveillance, as it shows the government will gladly shred the constitution if it inconveniences them.
[01:02:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03juggs [63] (Score:2) 02Re:Sure I'll get right on that. - 06Mozilla Considers Phasing Out Unencrypted HTTP - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:02:30] <exec> 08└─Will be interesting to see how the EFF et al. efforts pan out with their Let's Encrypt initiative https://letsencrypt.org [letsencrypt.org] - certs for all for free. Provided they can jump through the hoops and set up their procedures suitably, I can't see why there root CA would not become commonp...
[01:04:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fauxlosopher [4804] (Score:1) 02Re:Fascism is Corporatism - 0615 Companies That Paid Zero Income Tax Last Year (Despite $23 Billion In Profits). - 1542 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:04:41] <exec> 08└─Freedomworks was a highly-visible latecomer that jumped in what they hoped was the front of the parade and started madly waving a baton around. While the term "tea party [wikipedia.org]" has been part of the American vernacular since shortly after 1773, the most current well-known political iteratio...
[01:08:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:gender-neutral pronouns - 06The Most Futuristic Predictions that Came True in 2014 - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:08:06] <exec> 08└─I don't understand. That's what this is.
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[01:56:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02The American Solution - 06A Singapore Math Problem Goes Viral: When Is Cheryl’s Birthday? - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:56:59] <exec> 08└─This is the Police. Cheryl, let's see some ID.
[01:57:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03sigma [1225] (Score:3, Funny) 02The Australian Solution - 06A Singapore Math Problem Goes Viral: When Is Cheryl’s Birthday? - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:57:00] <exec> 08└─Fuck off Cheryl, if you want to be a bitch, you're not getting a birthday present from me!
[01:57:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02The purpose.. - 06A Singapore Math Problem Goes Viral: When Is Cheryl’s Birthday? - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:57:02] <exec> 08└─Always ask, is this a problem worth to bother you neurons and time with?
[01:57:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The purpose.. - 06A Singapore Math Problem Goes Viral: When Is Cheryl’s Birthday? - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:57:04] <exec> 08└─These grapes are sour.
[01:57:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:The purpose.. - 06A Singapore Math Problem Goes Viral: When Is Cheryl’s Birthday? - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:57:06] <exec> 08└─You don't think exercising your deductive skills is worthwhile? We must work in very different professions.
[01:57:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The purpose.. - 06A Singapore Math Problem Goes Viral: When Is Cheryl’s Birthday? - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:57:09] <exec> 08└─He deduced, correctly so, that this dumbass problem is a waste of his time. His deductive skills far exceed yours, clearly.
[01:57:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I got it, I got it! - 06A Singapore Math Problem Goes Viral: When Is Cheryl’s Birthday? - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:57:11] <exec> 08└─And I'm not telling. :P
[01:57:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02June 18 - 06A Singapore Math Problem Goes Viral: When Is Cheryl’s Birthday? - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:57:12] <exec> 08└─The answer is June 18.
[01:57:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:June 18 - 06A Singapore Math Problem Goes Viral: When Is Cheryl’s Birthday? - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:57:14] <exec> 08└─No it isn't.
[01:57:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:June 18 - 06A Singapore Math Problem Goes Viral: When Is Cheryl’s Birthday? - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:57:17] <exec> 08└─No, it is June 18. I'm Cheryl, and it's my birthday. So you can fuck right off.
[01:57:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02July 16 - 06A Singapore Math Problem Goes Viral: When Is Cheryl’s Birthday? - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:57:19] <exec> 08└─July 16
[01:57:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03SubiculumHammer [5191] (Score:1) 02Re:This is astonishing - 06Evidence of Briny Liquid Water Found on Mars - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:57:21] <exec> 08└─The think the question is, "Can life first evolve in a extreme environment?"..which is different than the question, "Can existing life evolve to live in extreme environments?"
[01:57:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Covalent [43] (Score:2) 02Re:This is astonishing - 06Evidence of Briny Liquid Water Found on Mars - 523 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:57:23] <exec> 08└─This is a terrific question, though I would argue that life almost certainly did originate in a hostile environment (early Earth was no picnic). But your point is still valid. Early Earth may have been more conducive for the formation of life than Mars. But then early Mars was supposedly much nicer...
[01:57:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:This is astonishing - 06Evidence of Briny Liquid Water Found on Mars - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:57:25] <exec> 08└─Manned mission to Mars finds life. Life on Mars finds Earth on return and infects it to the detriment of any pre-existing lifeforms.
[01:57:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:This is astonishing - 06Evidence of Briny Liquid Water Found on Mars - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:57:26] <exec> 08└─We'll just pour crisp quality Earth water on them to kill them.
[01:57:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What the heck? - 06Geek Nirvana Approaches: Robots to Cook You Breakfast - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:57:33] <exec> 08└─It's the bisexual model.
[01:57:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03sigma [1225] (Score:2) 02Re:But I *like* cooking! - 06Geek Nirvana Approaches: Robots to Cook You Breakfast - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:57:50] <exec> 08└─Now a robot that did the dishes, that would be wonderful.
[01:57:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:But I *like* cooking! - 06Geek Nirvana Approaches: Robots to Cook You Breakfast - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:57:51] <exec> 08└─d..d..dishwasher-safe!
[01:57:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02"coding/WoW binge" - 06Geek Nirvana Approaches: Robots to Cook You Breakfast - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:57:55] <exec> 08└─Coding and gaming are opposites, right? One is work, the other is play, right? Like apples and oranges, right? No?! Well now, if "coders" really do put as little thought into their work as it takes to play games, that would certainly explain why software is of such low quality these days.
[01:58:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:Huh. - 06Dark Matter: Mapping, Massing, and Musing - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:58:12] <exec> 08└─Perhaps there's dark photons that one can catch?
[01:58:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:around and behind at the same time - 06Dark Matter: Mapping, Massing, and Musing - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:58:17] <exec> 08└─Gravity - which does not exist
[01:58:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:Embrace.. - 06Chinese Robotics Company Ninebot Buys Segway - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:58:27] <exec> 08└─Infringe, Decimate profit, Loot! ;-)
[01:58:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Globalization - 06Chinese Robotics Company Ninebot Buys Segway - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:58:29] <exec> 08└─This may have worked because it was Chinese. If an American company had stolen Segway's designs, Segway could have extracted money from it in the courts. Chinese companies can steal whatever they want with no consequences. Therefore Ninebot can earn enough profit off stolen designs to position itsel...
[01:59:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:With great intelligence comes great responsibil - 06The Surprising Downsides of Being Clever - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:59:10] <exec> 08└─How does todays schooling de-promote intelligence and knowingly hamper the gifted and free thinking?
[01:59:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03SubiculumHammer [5191] (Score:1) 02Re:Cognative Filter - 06The Surprising Downsides of Being Clever - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:59:30] <exec> 08└─Well you are right that JOb didn't converse with God through all the tribulations. I misunderstood some of the references...the old testament can be confusing. However, Job does get to hear and see God after the tribulations, which surely influenced his decision to repent.
[02:02:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fauxlosopher [4804] (Score:1) 02Re:Change the way you think - 06Taxpayers are Subsidizing Industries Which Don't Pay a Living Wage - 956 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:02:18] <exec> 08└─Part of the reason private charity doesn't seem to scale in the USA is because the governments within the USA have been unlawfully taking on the role as a dispenser of charity. If one of the local homeless shelters you chose to send funds to has turned into a crack house, you have the option to stop...
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[02:57:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The Australian Solution - 06A Singapore Math Problem Goes Viral: When Is Cheryl’s Birthday? - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:57:02] <exec> 08└─Go, go, go, go Go, go, go Cheryl It'z your birthday We gon' party like it'z yo Birthday We gon' sip Bacardi like it'z yo Birthday 'Cuz you know we don't give a fuck It'z not your Birthday!
[02:57:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:The purpose.. - 06A Singapore Math Problem Goes Viral: When Is Cheryl’s Birthday? - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:57:07] <exec> 08└─He deduced, correctly so...
[02:57:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The purpose.. - 06A Singapore Math Problem Goes Viral: When Is Cheryl’s Birthday? - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:57:08] <exec> 08└─Yes, he did.
[02:57:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The purpose.. - 06A Singapore Math Problem Goes Viral: When Is Cheryl’s Birthday? - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:57:10] <exec> 08└─"I intelligently deduced that I do not need a useful skill!!" Mmm hmm. Captain Correct they'll call him.
[02:57:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score:1) 02Re:The purpose.. - 06A Singapore Math Problem Goes Viral: When Is Cheryl’s Birthday? - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:57:12] <exec> 08└─You don't think exercising your deductive skills is worthwhile? We must work in very different professions.
[02:57:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The purpose.. - 06A Singapore Math Problem Goes Viral: When Is Cheryl’s Birthday? - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:57:14] <exec> 08└─Bad news. HR just decided to make a brain teaser part of your next performance evaluation. When you fail because you weren't taking the puzzles seriously enough, you will be fired and replaced with cheap obedient Singaporeans.
[02:57:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:The purpose.. - 06A Singapore Math Problem Goes Viral: When Is Cheryl’s Birthday? - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:57:16] <exec> 08└─Indeed, your profession has to be fairly unique if you solve puzzles like this for living.
[02:57:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Therefore - 06A Singapore Math Problem Goes Viral: When Is Cheryl’s Birthday? - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:57:18] <exec> 08└─You are dumb. Muahahahaha. No, not because you can't solve this puzzle, but for whining about it.
[02:57:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:The purpose.. - 06A Singapore Math Problem Goes Viral: When Is Cheryl’s Birthday? - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:57:20] <exec> 08└─Ask once: is bickering on the worthness of the problem really worth doing? In my case the answer is: if I like the problem, I'm going to do it. Bickering problem solved! Next? Ah, TFA problem? Well July 16, of course - resembles Sudoku, with some custom rules.
[02:57:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02May 19 - 06A Singapore Math Problem Goes Viral: When Is Cheryl’s Birthday? - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:57:22] <exec> 08└─May 19
[02:57:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score:2) 02Re:June 18 - 06A Singapore Math Problem Goes Viral: When Is Cheryl’s Birthday? - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:57:23] <exec> 08└─No, I'm Cheryl, and so's my wife.
[02:57:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:June 18 - 06A Singapore Math Problem Goes Viral: When Is Cheryl’s Birthday? - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:57:25] <exec> 08└─Dad? Is that you??
[02:57:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:June 18 - 06A Singapore Math Problem Goes Viral: When Is Cheryl’s Birthday? - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:57:27] <exec> 08└─Yes it is.
[02:57:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score:2) 02Re:June 18 - 06A Singapore Math Problem Goes Viral: When Is Cheryl’s Birthday? - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:57:29] <exec> 08└─Definitely not. Albert's first comment eliminates two months, Bernard's two more days, and then Albert's final comment eliminates two of the three remaining days.
[02:57:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03slinches [5049] (Score:1) 02Re:July 16 - 06A Singapore Math Problem Goes Viral: When Is Cheryl’s Birthday? - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:57:30] <exec> 08└─I think that's right, but the problem has a flaw. How do Albert and Bernard know what Cheryl whispered in the other's ear? It could have been anything since she didn't explicitly state that aloud. Also, the simpler solution would have been for Albert and Bernard to just tell each other what Cheryl t...
[02:57:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Touché) 02Re:July 16 - 06A Singapore Math Problem Goes Viral: When Is Cheryl’s Birthday? - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:57:32] <exec> 08└─Cheryl: "I'll tell Albert the month, and I'll tell Bernard the day and if you can figure it out without cheating, both of you get to fuck me."
[02:57:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:July 16 - 06A Singapore Math Problem Goes Viral: When Is Cheryl’s Birthday? - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:57:34] <exec> 08└─Little do Albert and Bernard know that Cheryl is actually a pre-op tranny who still posses a rather hairy cock and scrotum.
[02:57:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:July 16 - 06A Singapore Math Problem Goes Viral: When Is Cheryl’s Birthday? - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:57:36] <exec> 08└─"Albert and Bernard just met Cheryl in a gay bar." They know about the scrotum.
[02:57:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheB [1538] (Score:4, Informative) 02Re:July 16 - 06A Singapore Math Problem Goes Viral: When Is Cheryl’s Birthday? - 639 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:57:38] <exec> 08└─Correct. *** SPOILERS *** "Albert: I don’t know when your birthday is, but I know Bernard doesn’t know, either." Since there is only one 18th and 19th. This eliminates May and June from the possible months. This leaves Bernard with July 14 — July 16 August 14 —...
[02:57:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Dang - 06A Singapore Math Problem Goes Viral: When Is Cheryl’s Birthday? - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:57:39] <exec> 08└─It took me a good ten minutes to sort it out. Maybe I'm not all that much stupider than Singapore kids.
[02:57:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Dang - 06A Singapore Math Problem Goes Viral: When Is Cheryl’s Birthday? - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:57:41] <exec> 08└─Did you know there are more people with genius IQs living in China than there are people of any kind living in the United States?
[02:57:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03jcross [4009] (Score:2) 02Re:This is astonishing - 06Evidence of Briny Liquid Water Found on Mars - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:57:44] <exec> 08└─There's also the small possibility that life on Mars traveled there from Earth on ejecta from an asteroid impact, or even vice versa.
[02:58:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score:2) 02Cooking is the easy and fun part.. - 06Geek Nirvana Approaches: Robots to Cook You Breakfast - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:58:18] <exec> 08└─Prepping and washing is the tedious bits... I'd rather have a robot for that.
[02:58:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score:2) 02Re:The sensor's power supply - 06A Camera That Powers Itself - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:58:28] <exec> 08└─And when my PiJuice with a solar panel arrives, I'll be able to plug it into my Raspberry PI, and have the same thing, or better, for tiny fraction of the price, (that's an assumption, but I'll bet I'm right).
[03:00:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Re:Similarities and differences with MSFT in the ' - 06EU Files Anti-Competition Complaint Against Google - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:00:16] <exec> 08└─Man, I read your comment and remembered seeing links to DailyMotion et al in my search results a long time ago (I use DDG now). But, I just typed "animals as leaders" into Google, clicked "Videos" and all you get are youtube results for ten pages!
[03:00:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Re:Good - 06EU Files Anti-Competition Complaint Against Google - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:00:23] <exec> 08└─From what I understand, corporations are allowed to campaign for a particular ideology/political party? So Google could legally choose to redirect all searches for "Republican" to anti-republican websites? And filter out all negative feedback from "democrat" searches?
[03:02:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score:2) 02Re:It's fun! - 06Exploring the Creepiest, Craziest Abandoned Spaces of NYC - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:02:15] <exec> 08└─Of course; but back then "properly equipped" meant carrying a can of beer and a joint. LOL moderated +3 Informative. Excellent.
[03:03:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Re:much easier to fix - 06Taxpayers are Subsidizing Industries Which Don't Pay a Living Wage - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:03:12] <exec> 08└─Ditch the laws that make full-time workers and overtime cost more.
[03:03:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sure I'll get right on that. - 06Mozilla Considers Phasing Out Unencrypted HTTP - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:03:36] <exec> 08└─If you're in a democracy those voices often matter about as much your voice.
[03:04:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What's the point? - 06Mozilla Considers Phasing Out Unencrypted HTTP - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:04:30] <exec> 08└─The whole point of https everywhere in a post-Snowden world is so MitM can't snoop on your browsing habits. When was the last time you visited a news site that didn't have ads injected? Damn kids...
[03:06:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Try this response instead... - 0615 Companies That Paid Zero Income Tax Last Year (Despite $23 Billion In Profits). - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:06:55] <exec> 08└─This is my premise: the exclusive owner of a given human body is the human being that inhabits the body in question. Since the owner of property owns any additional property that the original property produces, it follows that a claim of ownership on a human body's labor is in fact a claim of owners...
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[03:56:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02College Laptop Refresh? - 06Interesting Usage Statistics for Desktop Linux in Malta - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:56:59] <exec> 08└─Did some university on the island start using Linux on their latest laptops? Wentworth in Boston does.
[03:57:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Retarded - 06Interesting Usage Statistics for Desktop Linux in Malta - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:57:00] <exec> 08└─This is the stupidest fucking thing I have ever seen. And I've seen Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.
[03:57:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Blogger and Linux advocate! - 06Interesting Usage Statistics for Desktop Linux in Malta - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:57:03] <exec> 08└─What a combination! You just know that guy's a bottom.
[03:57:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Trying to take Hairyfeet's job - 06Interesting Usage Statistics for Desktop Linux in Malta - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:57:05] <exec> 08└─You must be new here. Apparently, you haven't noticed that the 1st chance to go ad hominem on Pogson is generally taken by Hairyfeet. -- gewg_
[03:57:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The purpose.. - 06A Singapore Math Problem Goes Viral: When Is Cheryl’s Birthday? - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:57:20] <exec> 08└─He intelligently deduced that he needn't waste his time solving such useless problems when there are far more interesting, difficult, and useful problems to be solved.
[03:57:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The purpose.. - 06A Singapore Math Problem Goes Viral: When Is Cheryl’s Birthday? - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:57:22] <exec> 08└─And he used that newfound time to groan on Soylent News about how he's not being challenged enough. The Inspector is on the case!!!
[03:57:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The purpose.. - 06A Singapore Math Problem Goes Viral: When Is Cheryl’s Birthday? - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:57:25] <exec> 08└─Bad news. Blowjobs and the ability to draw a circle freehand just got on the list too.
[03:57:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score:1) 02Re:The purpose.. - 06A Singapore Math Problem Goes Viral: When Is Cheryl’s Birthday? - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:57:27] <exec> 08└─Sorry, I really don't get all the negativity with this one. Unless, of course, this isn't about the value of the puzzle at all and is instead just general begrudgery against anything mainstream.
[03:57:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The purpose.. - 06A Singapore Math Problem Goes Viral: When Is Cheryl’s Birthday? - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:57:28] <exec> 08└─Most people get angry when someone is toying with them.
[03:57:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The purpose.. - 06A Singapore Math Problem Goes Viral: When Is Cheryl’s Birthday? - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:57:30] <exec> 08└─Not liking to be toyed with was itself a lie.
[03:57:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The purpose.. - 06A Singapore Math Problem Goes Viral: When Is Cheryl’s Birthday? - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:57:32] <exec> 08└─Yes, it's more worthwhile to bicker about how fucking useless this goddamn question is than it is to try solving it.
[03:57:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:July 16 - 06A Singapore Math Problem Goes Viral: When Is Cheryl’s Birthday? - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:57:47] <exec> 08└─Yea, that is the fatal flaw. Each knows either the month or day and from the wording of the problem they are left to ASSume she told the other party the other clue and ASSuming she didn't give either a clue that would instantly give it away. So anyone who answers this one fails because they ASSumed...
[03:57:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:July 16 - 06A Singapore Math Problem Goes Viral: When Is Cheryl’s Birthday? - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:57:49] <exec> 08└─Regardless of how the question is stated, the guy who cheats will get the job.
[03:57:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:July 16 - 06A Singapore Math Problem Goes Viral: When Is Cheryl’s Birthday? - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:57:52] <exec> 08└─Unless, of course, he's too dumb to know how to cheat.
[03:57:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:July 16 - 06A Singapore Math Problem Goes Viral: When Is Cheryl’s Birthday? - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:57:53] <exec> 08└─Unless he's too naive to know to cheat.
[03:57:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:July 16 - 06A Singapore Math Problem Goes Viral: When Is Cheryl’s Birthday? - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:57:56] <exec> 08└─I agree with this. Years and years of "never assume, verify" pounded into my head has made me terrible at riddles but magnificent at getting actual shit done.
[03:57:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:July 16 - 06A Singapore Math Problem Goes Viral: When Is Cheryl’s Birthday? - 719 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:57:58] <exec> 08└─It's a premise of the format that all of the statements are taken as true. However, even though I'm good at this sort of thing and would like to say, that being good at these things makes you smart, really this is just a game based on a particular form of reasoning. You have a precise logical system...
[03:57:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TheB [1538] 02Re:July 16 - 06A Singapore Math Problem Goes Viral: When Is Cheryl’s Birthday? - 639 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:58:00] <exec> 08└─Correct. *** SPOILERS *** "Albert: I don’t know when your birthday is, but I know Bernard doesn’t know, either." Since there is only one 18th and 19th. This eliminates May and June from the possible months. This leaves Bernard with July 14 — July 16 August 14 —...
[03:58:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Dang - 06A Singapore Math Problem Goes Viral: When Is Cheryl’s Birthday? - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:58:02] <exec> 08└─Did you know there are more people with genius IQs living in China than there are people of any kind living in the United States?
[03:58:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Dang - 06A Singapore Math Problem Goes Viral: When Is Cheryl’s Birthday? - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:58:04] <exec> 08└─It's a quote from The Social Network (2010) and the very next line is, "That can't possibly be true."
[03:58:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Singaporean Names? - 06A Singapore Math Problem Goes Viral: When Is Cheryl’s Birthday? - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:58:06] <exec> 08└─I don't know much about Singapore but I don't think Albert, Bernard, or Cheryl are common names in the country. Anyone have any insight on why these names were used or who put together the questions?
[03:58:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Singaporean Names? - 06A Singapore Math Problem Goes Viral: When Is Cheryl’s Birthday? - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:58:09] <exec> 08└─They're phonetic spelling names. Albert-Bernard-Cheryl, A-B-C.
[03:58:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:Singaporean Names? - 06A Singapore Math Problem Goes Viral: When Is Cheryl’s Birthday? - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:58:10] <exec> 08└─No, English first names are quite common there, like in Hong Kong.
[03:59:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:With great intelligence comes great responsibil - 06The Surprising Downsides of Being Clever - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:59:58] <exec> 08└─Just imagine how hard it is to change anything in the world at large given we can not even change the minds of others.
[04:05:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What's the point? - 06Mozilla Considers Phasing Out Unencrypted HTTP - 789 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:05:01] <exec> 08└─Even worse, it breaks caching. A friend helped setup a squid farm for an entire nation's Internet traffic in Africa, since they only had a satellite link. If they are still on that setup, this breaks the Internet for all of Rawanda. And, even first world CDNs. So, you want to give a third party a va...
[04:07:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Try this response instead... - 0615 Companies That Paid Zero Income Tax Last Year (Despite $23 Billion In Profits). - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:07:18] <exec> 08└─Congratulations. You can construct an argument relying on a crazy edge case that makes up .1% of the population. If a hermit is the only counterargument you can come up with I guess we've won this debate. And as previously mentioned above, a better-educated population benefits everyone (except the r...
[04:07:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fauxlosopher [4804] (Score:1) 02Re:Try this response instead... - 0615 Companies That Paid Zero Income Tax Last Year (Despite $23 Billion In Profits). - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:07:26] <exec> 08└─As a rule, I'm generally uninterested in debating with someone who appears to be intentionally resorting to deception. Are you honestly claiming that payment of income taxes is considered to be voluntary [youtube.com] by the US fedgov? I expect you to have some impressive evidence to back up that cl...
[04:07:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Try this response instead... - 0615 Companies That Paid Zero Income Tax Last Year (Despite $23 Billion In Profits). - 460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:07:39] <exec> 08└─Hell, the population the U.S. couldn't agree to free blowjobs with a gun pointed at their heads and 3 weeks to argue about it. I'm sure there are lots of people who like the ACA. You know...that thing originally implemented by Mitt Romney in Boston or whatever? But now that Obama's doing it, it must...
[04:07:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fauxlosopher [4804] (Score:1) 02Re:Try this response instead... - 0615 Companies That Paid Zero Income Tax Last Year (Despite $23 Billion In Profits). - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:07:40] <exec> 08└─Please be clear about what it is I wrote that you see error in. As far as decisions forced on populations at gunpoint, I agree that there will always be people unhappy with the decision. The most considerate solution, and the only one allowed to US governments (regardless of who is sitting in the bi...
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[04:56:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:College Laptop Refresh? - 06Interesting Usage Statistics for Desktop Linux in Malta - 616 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:56:59] <exec> 08└─In a small town, all it takes is one interested instructor to get a lot of kids to try something like a new OS, but risking the family computer might not be too popular with the family. So it might be something line a corporate or government refresh sending a lot of older computers to surplus and ge...
[04:57:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Bored by statistics - 06Interesting Usage Statistics for Desktop Linux in Malta - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:57:01] <exec> 08└─There was a time when the anti-FOSS crowd would point to the numbers given by these aggregator services and scoff that Linux usage was 1 percent. Now, when the numbers show something different, the services and their statistics are suddenly of no consequence. -- gewg_
[04:57:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bored by statistics - 06Interesting Usage Statistics for Desktop Linux in Malta - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:57:03] <exec> 08└─100% of Maltese users using Linux would still be pretty much 0% globally. 1000% of Maltese users using Linux would yet still be pretty much 0% globally. Even 10000% of Maltese users using Linux would once more be pretty much 0% globally.
[04:57:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Re:Retarded - 06Interesting Usage Statistics for Desktop Linux in Malta - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:57:05] <exec> 08└─It is a gewg_ submission, after all. We should be thankful that we didn't get an eyeful of extreme left-wing wackiness.
[04:57:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The purpose.. - 06A Singapore Math Problem Goes Viral: When Is Cheryl’s Birthday? - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:57:26] <exec> 08└─Bitching about the stupidity of this idiotic problem is much more useful than trying to solve it.
[04:57:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The purpose.. - 06A Singapore Math Problem Goes Viral: When Is Cheryl’s Birthday? - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:57:27] <exec> 08└─Haha. That's just desperate, man.
[04:57:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03b [2121] (Score:2) 02Re:July 16 - 06A Singapore Math Problem Goes Viral: When Is Cheryl’s Birthday? - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:57:59] <exec> 08└─Nice answer! The last step foiled me. The riddle also reminds me of this "joke". Three logicians walk into a bar. The bartender asks "does everyone want beer?" The first says "I don't know", the second says "I don't know" and the third answers "Yes".
[04:58:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:July 16 - 06A Singapore Math Problem Goes Viral: When Is Cheryl’s Birthday? - 547 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:58:00] <exec> 08└─Your logic is lacking. Albert doesn't know anything other than what Cheryl told him ("To Bernard, she whispered the day, and only the day"). As far as Albert is concerned, Cheryl could have told Bernard the exact month, day, hour, and second. When he says "I don’t know when your birthday is, but I...
[04:58:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:July 16 - 06A Singapore Math Problem Goes Viral: When Is Cheryl’s Birthday? - 912 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:58:01] <exec> 08└─I don't follow it. I guess we have to assume several things. First, Albert and Bernard communicate with each other in some fashion. They don't pool their knowledge, because if they did they'd know immediately. Maybe Albert only sees that Bernard is still stumped? Or knows that Cheryl would not give...
[04:58:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:July 16 - 06A Singapore Math Problem Goes Viral: When Is Cheryl’s Birthday? - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:58:03] <exec> 08└─I don't follow it. I guess we have to assume several things.
[04:58:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03hoeferbe [4715] (Score:1) 02Re:July 16 - 06A Singapore Math Problem Goes Viral: When Is Cheryl’s Birthday? - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:58:05] <exec> 08└─TheB (1538) [soylentnews.org] wrote [soylentnews.org]: "Albert: I don’t know when your birthday is, but I know Bernard doesn’t know, either." Since there is only one 18th and 19th. This eliminates May and June from the possible months.
[04:59:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:around and behind at the same time - 06Dark Matter: Mapping, Massing, and Musing - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:59:13] <exec> 08└─They are still participating in gravitational interactions, but the self-interactions they have cause them to lag behind at times. These self-interactions are not caused by some "deep-woo-woo force": certain hypothesised forms of dark matter are supposed to exhibit such self-interactions: http://arx...
[05:03:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03albert [276] (Score:1) 02Re:much easier to fix - 06Taxpayers are Subsidizing Industries Which Don't Pay a Living Wage - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:03:41] <exec> 08└─Perhaps instead it would be better to ditch the laws that make part-time workers cost less.
[05:07:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score:1) 02Re:Try this response instead... - 0615 Companies That Paid Zero Income Tax Last Year (Despite $23 Billion In Profits). - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:07:11] <exec> 08└─Congratulations. You can construct an argument relying on a crazy edge case that makes up .1% of the population
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[05:57:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score:2) 02Fools! - 06Prosecutors Suspect Man Hacked Lottery Computers to Score Winning Ticket - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:57:01] <exec> 08└─This is why you're supposed to use ping pong balls for lotteries. Computers don't generate truly random numbers, and how easy it is to replace the random number function with something else more predictable.
[05:57:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Fools! - 06Prosecutors Suspect Man Hacked Lottery Computers to Score Winning Ticket - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:57:03] <exec> 08└─This is why you're supposed to use ping pong balls for lotteries.
[05:57:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02How was he even eligible in the first place? - 06Prosecutors Suspect Man Hacked Lottery Computers to Score Winning Ticket - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:57:05] <exec> 08└─Lottery officials are supposed to be ineligible to win, to prevent exactly this sort of cheating.
[05:57:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Bored by statistics - 06Interesting Usage Statistics for Desktop Linux in Malta - 1662 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:57:15] <exec> 08└─Yes and no. Not sure if Malta is quite big enough but if any notable political subdivision were to get anything like 100% penetration top to bottom it really would change everything. Suddenly every commercial entity doing business with it would have to take that fact into account. IE only webpages a...
[05:57:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bored by statistics - 06Interesting Usage Statistics for Desktop Linux in Malta - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:57:17] <exec> 08└─in a sample that has 15 billion page views per month, how many unique visitors do you think are coming from Malta? Take into consideration that preferential attachment means that highly populous countries are more likely to be overrepresented in the sample since there are more websites catering to t...
[05:57:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score:2) 02Good news - 06Interesting Usage Statistics for Desktop Linux in Malta - 762 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:57:20] <exec> 08└─Excellent news, even if the reason for the increase in installations is not yet known. If the cause for the spike is indeed the requirement that Linux be installed on student computers, this is even more good news. In all religious wars, whether it be YHWH, Allah, Spaghetti Monster or Windows, MacOS...
[05:57:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The purpose.. - 06A Singapore Math Problem Goes Viral: When Is Cheryl’s Birthday? - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:57:42] <exec> 08└─No one says you can't have free time.
[05:58:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:July 16 - 06A Singapore Math Problem Goes Viral: When Is Cheryl’s Birthday? - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:58:16] <exec> 08└─Yes, yes, I thought of that objection too, but it's also easy figure out what the people who designed the question wanted you to answer.
[05:58:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] (Score:2) 02Re:July 16 - 06A Singapore Math Problem Goes Viral: When Is Cheryl’s Birthday? - 2599 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:58:20] <exec> 08└─Well, if you ignore my comment above and assume that Bernard knows that Albert knows the month, and Albert knows that Bernard knows the day, then... Following TheB's analysis, "Albert: I don’t know when your birthday is, but I know Bernard doesn’t know, either" If Cheryl had told Bernard a uniqu...
[05:58:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ryuugami [2925] (Score:2) 02Re:July 16 - 06A Singapore Math Problem Goes Viral: When Is Cheryl’s Birthday? - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:58:23] <exec> 08└─If B was told "18th", he would know it was May 18th. If A was told "May", there would still be a possibility of the day being May 18th, so he wouldn't know B has insufficient information. In other words, as the first step you can strike all months that have any unique days.
[05:59:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score:2) 02Re:around and behind at the same time - 06Dark Matter: Mapping, Massing, and Musing - 1017 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:59:32] <exec> 08└─> So first it sits in an annulus around galaxies in order to keep the galaxy rotating at the right angular velocities. No. Under the dark matter model, dark matter is assumed to be more-or-less uniform in the majority of galaxies. This is because dark matter is pulled into the gravitational well of...
[05:59:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score:2) 02Re:around and behind at the same time - 06Dark Matter: Mapping, Massing, and Musing - 634 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:59:34] <exec> 08└─Just to add, the self-force mentioned in the article arises due to drag forces which have made some measurable, at 68% confidence, effect on the dynamics of the collision. Also, the paper authors write in the abstract > With such a small physical separation, it is difficult to definitively rule out...
[06:00:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Common Joe [33] (Score:2) 02Re:With great intelligence comes great responsibil - 06The Surprising Downsides of Being Clever - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:00:23] <exec> 08└─Just imagine how hard it is to change anything in the world
[06:03:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:Too many people, not enough jobs - 06Taxpayers are Subsidizing Industries Which Don't Pay a Living Wage - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:03:47] <exec> 08└─Good news then. The war on terror is a global thing, as terrorists are EVERYWHERE. So, everybody, grab your gun, go outside and start killing some terrorists.
[06:06:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mr Big in the Pants [4956] (Score:2) 02Re:Fascism is Corporatism - 0615 Companies That Paid Zero Income Tax Last Year (Despite $23 Billion In Profits). - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:06:44] <exec> 08└─meh. This conversation is pointless if you are going to intentionally miss my points. Can't be bothered talking further and in the end nothing on this board will change anything. byee
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[06:56:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fools! - 06Prosecutors Suspect Man Hacked Lottery Computers to Score Winning Ticket - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:57:00] <exec> 08└─Because you can't rig a ping pong ball machine? What about dice? I heard loaded dice are totally impossible, because reasons.
[06:57:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Allowed to participate? - 06Prosecutors Suspect Man Hacked Lottery Computers to Score Winning Ticket - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:57:02] <exec> 08└─I thought employees and their immediate families were banned from participation? Seems an obvious precaution...
[06:57:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Bored by statistics - 06Interesting Usage Statistics for Desktop Linux in Malta - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:57:16] <exec> 08└─100% of Maltese users using Linux would still be pretty much 0% globally.
[06:57:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Retarded - 06Interesting Usage Statistics for Desktop Linux in Malta - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:57:19] <exec> 08└─We should be thankful that we didn't get a google link
[06:59:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Globalization - 06Chinese Robotics Company Ninebot Buys Segway - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:59:48] <exec> 08└─It used to be "learn Russian" not long ago.
[06:59:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Those wacky British millionaires! - 06Chinese Robotics Company Ninebot Buys Segway - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:59:50] <exec> 08└─Died riding a segway down a cliff?! How eccentric! This is Monte Python quality stuff!
[07:01:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Devil's advocate time! - 06EU Files Anti-Competition Complaint Against Google - 609 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:01:23] <exec> 08└─If I ever walk into Walmart or Target, I expect their store-brand to be front and center everywhere. But while there are towns with only a Walmart, and PC tools with only Win support, Duckduckgo, website, and a few dozen others are just a click away (website search isn't even in Mint's Mozilla out o...
[07:03:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Individuals live on 1/8th of their production - 06Taxpayers are Subsidizing Industries Which Don't Pay a Living Wage - 658 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:03:59] <exec> 08└─Which is why flat taxes are totally retarded. If you have a flat rate, it has to be much higher than it needs to be in order to bring it enough just to fund the basics. Lets put that number at 50% just as a hypothetical; if you take 50% of $20,000/year, you're basically condemning that person and th...
[07:04:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:much easier to fix - 06Taxpayers are Subsidizing Industries Which Don't Pay a Living Wage - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:04:08] <exec> 08└─These aren't workers who have the luxury of stopping at 40 hours.
[07:04:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:should've seen that coming - 06Taxpayers are Subsidizing Industries Which Don't Pay a Living Wage - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:04:15] <exec> 08└─Doing your best to guarantee the survival of self and family, even at the expense of others, is not sociopathic.
[07:04:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03novak [4683] (Score:2) 02Re:Not enough hours on the job? - 06Taxpayers are Subsidizing Industries Which Don't Pay a Living Wage - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:04:18] <exec> 08└─Because you usually have to pay certain benefits to full time employees as well. So the businesses conveniently "can't afford" any full time employees.
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[07:57:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fools! - 06Prosecutors Suspect Man Hacked Lottery Computers to Score Winning Ticket - 1267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:57:07] <exec> 08└─Of course you can rig it. But you can easily test whether a machine is rigged before the actual drawing. First, you can weight the balls, verifying that they are indeed all of the same weight. You can do so with a simple pair of balances which you can separately test for bias in a very simple way. T...
[07:57:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:Allowed to participate? - 06Prosecutors Suspect Man Hacked Lottery Computers to Score Winning Ticket - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:57:11] <exec> 08└─That's why he tried (it is alleged) to claim the winnings through an offshore holding company. Of course, being videotaped buying the ticket in the first place was not the smartest move...
[07:57:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score:2) 02Re:Allowed to participate? - 06Prosecutors Suspect Man Hacked Lottery Computers to Score Winning Ticket - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:57:12] <exec> 08└─I thought employees and their immediate families were banned from participation? Seems an obvious precaution...
[07:57:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimshatt [978] (Score:2) 02Stupid - 06Prosecutors Suspect Man Hacked Lottery Computers to Score Winning Ticket - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:57:14] <exec> 08└─He shouldn't have bought the ticket himself, that was stupid. Otherwise, nice plan. If you're gonna play lotto then you'd better do it right.
[07:57:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Bored by statistics - 06Interesting Usage Statistics for Desktop Linux in Malta - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:57:28] <exec> 08└─The population of the U.S. isn't even 5% of the world's. Guess we don't matter either, then.
[07:57:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The purpose.. - 06A Singapore Math Problem Goes Viral: When Is Cheryl’s Birthday? - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:57:59] <exec> 08└─Self-defeating argument. Sorry.
[07:58:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The purpose.. - 06A Singapore Math Problem Goes Viral: When Is Cheryl’s Birthday? - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:58:10] <exec> 08└─Always ask, is a comment like yours worth to bother your neurons, finger muscles and time with?
[07:58:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:July 16 - 06A Singapore Math Problem Goes Viral: When Is Cheryl’s Birthday? - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:58:33] <exec> 08└─Because "everyone" is a logical AND. If the first one didn't want a beer, he would know the answer. No, not everyone wants a beer. Even if two of them would want a beer, that's not everyone. So, when he answers "I don't know", the other two can deduce that he wants a beer. The same thing goes for th...
[07:58:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheB [1538] (Score:2) 02Re:July 16 - 06A Singapore Math Problem Goes Viral: When Is Cheryl’s Birthday? - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:58:36] <exec> 08└─You are right that without an assumption this puzzle is unsolvable. It is a common error in puzzles and tests. I've seen similar "must read between the lines" questions on college entrance exams. According to one instructor, it was an intentional omission to test ability to make reasonable conclusio...
[07:58:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:July 16 - 06A Singapore Math Problem Goes Viral: When Is Cheryl’s Birthday? - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:58:41] <exec> 08└─The first assumption is that Cheryl was even born.
[07:58:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheB [1538] (Score:2) 02Re:July 16 - 06A Singapore Math Problem Goes Viral: When Is Cheryl’s Birthday? - 606 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:58:43] <exec> 08└─Without assuming that both Albert and Bernard are aware of Cheryl whispering the month to one and the day to the other this puzzle is unsolvable. Given that the reader is given this information it is reasonable to assume that both Albert and Bernard also know this. May 15th and 16th are out for the...
[07:58:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:July 16 - 06A Singapore Math Problem Goes Viral: When Is Cheryl’s Birthday? - 487 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:58:46] <exec> 08└─Yes, you have to assume they both know that Bernard was told the day and Albert was told the month. The only other communication between them is in what they explicitly said in this problem. Now if Albert can say he knows Bernard doesn't know when Cheryl was born, then as Both May and June have uniq...
[07:59:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:around and behind at the same time - 06Dark Matter: Mapping, Massing, and Musing - 931 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:59:58] <exec> 08└─> No. Under the dark matter model, dark matter is assumed to be more-or-less uniform in the majority of galaxies. Please update wikipedia, then. Because http://en.wikipedia.org disagrees with you in equations (with the wonderfully non-convergent ~r^-1.(1+r)^-2), and...
[08:00:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Very OT! - 06The Surprising Downsides of Being Clever - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:00:52] <exec> 08└─How did the test go? The bureaucracy varies from European country to country, in some places things can and do happen more or less as you expected them to.
[08:01:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Cognative Filter - 06The Surprising Downsides of Being Clever - 1001 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:01:20] <exec> 08└─WTF? Is this Soylent News Bible School? And we cannot even get the Book of Job correct? Job had no need to repent, ever. He was a completely righteous dude. All he did was ask for an explanation. "You know, God, I have been a good cookie my whole life, and suddenly you rain down affliction and pest...
[08:01:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Devil's advocate time! - 06EU Files Anti-Competition Complaint Against Google - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:01:49] <exec> 08└─Google have excellent quality search, that's undeniable, and no-one else even touches their search result relevance or index rate / breadth.
[08:01:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Devil's advocate time! - 06EU Files Anti-Competition Complaint Against Google - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:01:52] <exec> 08└─Windows was their grocery brand. IE was their car brand. What we didn't like was that every time we bought something to eat, we had to buy a new car also. This was made even worse by IE being less stable than a Reliant.
[08:02:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:A bold theory - 06Universe's Rate of Expansion Called into Question - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:02:10] <exec> 08└─I was lucky in that I'd done all of that stuff, even though it was 25 years ago and in a different order and with different connections (I had epsilon-balls and metrics before I had topologies, which made his approach seem at first quirky, but to be honest simpler - as he said, you want the theory b...
[08:02:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:A bold theory - 06Universe's Rate of Expansion Called into Question - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:02:12] <exec> 08└─Thank you, that's a much better word, more precise. I hovered over the submit button for a while thinking "is that the word I really want" as metaphysics has morphed way too much since its coining. "philosophy of science" was a blander term I thought of but deliberately avoided, as that newly-named...
[08:04:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03dr_barnowl [1568] (Score:1) 02Re:Individuals live on 1/8th of their production - 06Taxpayers are Subsidizing Industries Which Don't Pay a Living Wage - 482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:04:29] <exec> 08└─Just yesterday I was reading how the GOP is trying to push through a repeal to an inheritance tax law that will give ~ $270 B over the next decade to the top 0.2% of the US population. No taxation without representation? In this case, it's no taxation for those with representation in the nicest part...
[08:04:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:much easier to fix - 06Taxpayers are Subsidizing Industries Which Don't Pay a Living Wage - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:04:43] <exec> 08└─Another genius idea! Employees don't need benefits or health insurance or retirement funds! All that shit is just a meaningless drain on profits! Those uppity, entitled welfare queens need to just accept the fact that they're slaves and enjoy their slave labor jobs working 100+ hours per week and st...
[08:08:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Try this response instead... - 0615 Companies That Paid Zero Income Tax Last Year (Despite $23 Billion In Profits). - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:08:34] <exec> 08└─Are you honestly claiming that payment of income taxes is considered to be voluntary by the US fedgov?
[08:08:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fauxlosopher [4804] (Score:1) 02Re:Try this response instead... - 0615 Companies That Paid Zero Income Tax Last Year (Despite $23 Billion In Profits). - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:08:36] <exec> 08└─Are you honestly claiming that payment of income taxes is considered to be voluntary by the US fedgov? Yes. You can leave, as stated by 47 other people today.
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[09:42:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Proof by Repeatability - 06Getting to the Core of Dino Extinction - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:42:36] <exec> 08└─Repeat the conditions that extinguished the dinosaurs. Kill the humans. For science.
[09:42:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02¿Qué es un senor, señor? - 06Getting to the Core of Dino Extinction - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:42:37] <exec> 08└─¿Tienes Unicode?
[09:42:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fools! - 06Prosecutors Suspect Man Hacked Lottery Computers to Score Winning Ticket - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:42:49] <exec> 08└─Yes, there's no way to make absolutely certain that the lottery was not manipulated. But already with minimal security effort, manipulating the ball-based machine without being detected before the drawing is orders of magnitude harder than tampering with a computer program without being detected.
[09:42:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Stupid - 06Prosecutors Suspect Man Hacked Lottery Computers to Score Winning Ticket - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:42:55] <exec> 08└─He should have hired a bum to do it. Get a guy, buy him enough liquor so that his memory is fuzzy, then given him some fortune cookies with lottery numbers in them, send him into the store and tell him to get a ticket for each fortune cookie.
[09:42:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score:2) 02Re:Stupid - 06Prosecutors Suspect Man Hacked Lottery Computers to Score Winning Ticket - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:42:57] <exec> 08└─Downside is when the bum decides he can go without you.
[09:43:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Bored by statistics - 06Interesting Usage Statistics for Desktop Linux in Malta - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:43:14] <exec> 08└─But it is Malta. Do you know of what you speak? Malta, the base of the Knights Templar, and then the Knights of Malta (still extant). Home of a language unrelated to any on earth, almost. Possible site of Atlantis, or the Isle of Circe, or that other nymph Odysseus had after (Calypso?). So yes, you...
[09:43:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Retarded - 06Interesting Usage Statistics for Desktop Linux in Malta - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:43:18] <exec> 08└─It is a gewg_ submission, after all. We should be thankful that we didn't get an eyeful of extreme left-wing wackiness.
[09:43:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Retarded - 06Interesting Usage Statistics for Desktop Linux in Malta - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:43:19] <exec> 08└─I approve of this comment. (Yes, I did LOL.) -- gewg_
[09:43:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The purpose.. - 06A Singapore Math Problem Goes Viral: When Is Cheryl’s Birthday? - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:43:56] <exec> 08└─This sort of rationale applies to ... poor communication from a customer/client
[09:44:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] 02Re:July 16 - 06A Singapore Math Problem Goes Viral: When Is Cheryl’s Birthday? - 547 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:44:24] <exec> 08└─Your logic is lacking. Albert doesn't know anything other than what Cheryl told him ("To Bernard, she whispered the day, and only the day"). As far as Albert is concerned, Cheryl could have told Bernard the exact month, day, hour, and second. When he says "I don’t know when your birthday is, but I...
[09:44:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:July 16 - 06A Singapore Math Problem Goes Viral: When Is Cheryl’s Birthday? - 1060 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:44:27] <exec> 08└─Well, here's what actually happened: Albert and Bernard just met Cheryl. “When’s your birthday?” Albert asked Cheryl. Cheryl thought a second and said, “I’m not going to tell you, but I’ll give you some clues.” She wrote down a list of 10 dates: May 15 — May 16 — May 19 June 17 —...
[09:44:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:July 16 - 06A Singapore Math Problem Goes Viral: When Is Cheryl’s Birthday? - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:44:29] <exec> 08└─Err ... s/Alice/Cheryl/ of course …
[09:44:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:July 16 - 06A Singapore Math Problem Goes Viral: When Is Cheryl’s Birthday? - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:44:31] <exec> 08└─More like they looked it up on facebook etc even if cheryl doesn't list it on facebook, sometimes you can tell from the birthday greetings in her timeline ;).
[09:44:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:July 16 - 06A Singapore Math Problem Goes Viral: When Is Cheryl’s Birthday? - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:44:35] <exec> 08└─Albert and Bernard just met Cheryl. “When’s your birthday?” Albert asked Cheryl.
[09:44:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:2) 02Re:July 16 - 06A Singapore Math Problem Goes Viral: When Is Cheryl’s Birthday? - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:44:37] <exec> 08└─Singapore probably doesn't have room for the Forest of Dunsinane.
[09:44:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:2) 02unstated assumptions - 06A Singapore Math Problem Goes Viral: When Is Cheryl’s Birthday? - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:44:42] <exec> 08└─Cheryl also says aloud to both Albert and Bernard: "I have told Albert the month and I have told Bernard the day"
[09:44:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:July 16 - 06A Singapore Math Problem Goes Viral: When Is Cheryl’s Birthday? - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:44:44] <exec> 08└─"Albert: I don’t know when your birthday is, but I know Bernard doesn’t know, either."
[09:45:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What the heck? - 06Geek Nirvana Approaches: Robots to Cook You Breakfast - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:45:07] <exec> 08└─For self-stimulation when you're not available.
[09:45:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So... - 06Geek Nirvana Approaches: Robots to Cook You Breakfast - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:45:20] <exec> 08└─Still better than robots to cook you as breakfast, don't you think?
[09:45:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Cooking is the easy and fun part.. - 06Geek Nirvana Approaches: Robots to Cook You Breakfast - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:45:31] <exec> 08└─So what's wrong with the existing dishwashers?
[09:46:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:around and behind at the same time - 06Dark Matter: Mapping, Massing, and Musing - 1370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:46:01] <exec> 08└─> > ~r^-1.(1+r)^-2 > Oops, my mistake. Not uniform then, but centrally distributed and more dense in the middle. That's density, yup, but the middle is very small - effectively it's just a blip. Multiply by r^2 to get actual mass at each distance, and you'll see there's more mass at r=1 than anywher...
[09:46:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Globalization - 06Chinese Robotics Company Ninebot Buys Segway - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:46:16] <exec> 08└─Unless something is done quickly, the invasion is going to happen. Just like Communist Russia was stopped from taking over the world by actions, not passivity. Most nations were able to sell the threat to their citizens. Nothing is being done right now about the takeover threat because its happening...
[09:46:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's all relative - 06The Surprising Downsides of Being Clever - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:46:39] <exec> 08└─Things can be appallingly ugly. That's a matter of taste, unrelated to intelligence. Things can be appallingly stupid. That's absolutely related to intelligence.
[09:46:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Paradise Pete [1806] (Score:1) 02Re:It's all relative - 06The Surprising Downsides of Being Clever - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:46:42] <exec> 08└─you may want to think about what sorts of porn you and your 'intelligent' friends have stashed on your computers.
[09:46:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] 02Re:It's all relative - 06The Surprising Downsides of Being Clever - 130 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:46:45] <exec> 08└─There is nothing better than pussy, my man, except maybe cocaine -- and dealing with both still involves plenty of goddamn hassle.
[09:46:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03mmcmonster [401] 02Re:No achievement? - 06The Surprising Downsides of Being Clever - 717 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:46:52] <exec> 08└─Possibly. Some people seem to worship the almight dollar. But to others (and I consider myself one of them) money is a means to an end. Money is freedom. Free to do whatever I want to do and not care too much about the social consequences. As I save more money for my future, I've noticed that I've b...
[09:47:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:With great intelligence comes great responsibil - 06The Surprising Downsides of Being Clever - 621 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:47:02] <exec> 08└─The GP doesn't seem to be aware that there far better ways of changing and influencing minds than in direct discussion/debate (where people are more likely to be ready to be defensive and hold their ground). Advertising, media etc work. And how the heck does he think ISIS gets so many recruits. Not...
[09:47:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:With great intelligence comes great responsibil - 06The Surprising Downsides of Being Clever - 3576 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:47:04] <exec> 08└─I think there's two things to note here. First, because not everyone agrees 100% with you, then you greatly reduce your ability to persuade when you have a terrible mental model of the other party. If Daryl Davis had thought "OMG! It's the Klan!" that would have been it. He wouldn't have been able t...
[09:47:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:With great intelligence comes great responsibil - 06The Surprising Downsides of Being Clever - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:47:10] <exec> 08└─> Depopulation agendas One problem with the anti-depopulation loons is that their propaganda is even more full of deceitful lies than the depopulationists'. Of course, if you follow the money, you normally end up at the catholic church...
[09:47:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Cognative Filter - 06The Surprising Downsides of Being Clever - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:47:21] <exec> 08└─they were created to endlessly praise God and nothing else.
[09:47:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Cognative Filter - 06The Surprising Downsides of Being Clever - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:47:28] <exec> 08└─You cannot prove that anyone but you exists. All your perceptions and memories could be wrong. So by your logic, if someone ever talked to you, better assume you're already insane.
[09:48:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score:2) 02Re:A bold theory - 06Universe's Rate of Expansion Called into Question - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:48:32] <exec> 08└─> Note that "relies on assumption that general relativity is correct" implies "relies on Dark Matter", Yes, that is true at this scale. Of course, general relativity has been shown to be a nice model at scales of e.g. solar system without need for dark matter (e.g. explains orbital precession). Dark...
[09:49:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03wantkitteh [3362] (Score:2) 02Re:OMG! Teh cops are the suxors! - 06Lawyer Representing Whistleblowers Finds Malware on Drive Supplied by Cops - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:49:29] <exec> 08└─*nods* True, nothing about this situation is good.
[09:51:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score:2) 02Re:much easier to fix - 06Taxpayers are Subsidizing Industries Which Don't Pay a Living Wage - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:51:03] <exec> 08└─because the laws that add expenses are pretty messed up
[09:52:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score:2) 02Re:What's the point? - 06Mozilla Considers Phasing Out Unencrypted HTTP - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:52:08] <exec> 08└─Precisely. An example: if someone has a habit of reading articles about coming out of the closet, it's certainly not a crime, but it still might be something they'd rather want kept secret.
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[10:42:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02But, a single network is cheaper! - 06Airliners Could be Vulnerable to Hacking - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:42:37] <exec> 08└─You gonna pay for separate networks, are you? Forget about safety, think of the profits, man, the profits! Human lives are expendable, but money is forever.
[10:42:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Incredibly stupid - 06Airliners Could be Vulnerable to Hacking - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:42:38] <exec> 08└─> advanced cockpits that are wired into the same WiFi system used So, not only the avionics is sharing bandwidth with my 30 Rock stream, but it's also connected to the internet!
[10:43:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Allowed to participate? - 06Prosecutors Suspect Man Hacked Lottery Computers to Score Winning Ticket - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:43:04] <exec> 08└─What I want to know is how you can insert a USB thumbdrive into a "highly locked down computer". 2 plus 2 only reaching 2 here.
[10:43:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Stupid - 06Prosecutors Suspect Man Hacked Lottery Computers to Score Winning Ticket - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:43:08] <exec> 08└─huh?
[10:43:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Stupid - 06Prosecutors Suspect Man Hacked Lottery Computers to Score Winning Ticket - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:43:10] <exec> 08└─The lonely nights of anguish....
[10:43:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score:2) 02No surprise - 06Prosecutors Suspect Man Hacked Lottery Computers to Score Winning Ticket - 1357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:43:12] <exec> 08└─Frankly, I'm not the least bit surprised by this story. > inserted a thumbdrive into a highly locked-down computer If it had a USB slot it wasn't a "highly locked-down computer". For exactly this reason. I did an audit of a lottery style computer a few years ago. It had almost too many security hole...
[10:44:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The purpose.. - 06A Singapore Math Problem Goes Viral: When Is Cheryl’s Birthday? - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:44:02] <exec> 08└─Nicholas Cage's hair is a bird. Your argument is invalid.
[10:44:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:July 16 - 06A Singapore Math Problem Goes Viral: When Is Cheryl’s Birthday? - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:44:45] <exec> 08└─Any or all them could also have been lying at any point, since that's not explicitly stated. Cheryl's birthday could be August 15, May 16, or January 4. She might even be a fictional character, and this entire thing is just a tissue of lies, in which case she doesn't even have a birthday.
[10:45:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What the heck? - 06Geek Nirvana Approaches: Robots to Cook You Breakfast - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:45:23] <exec> 08└─"Sorry miss, I was giving myself an oil-job."
[10:45:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Cooking is the easy and fun part.. - 06Geek Nirvana Approaches: Robots to Cook You Breakfast - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:45:48] <exec> 08└─Those tend to mash the vegetables instead of producing neat little cubes...
[10:47:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:With great intelligence comes great responsibil - 06The Surprising Downsides of Being Clever - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:47:17] <exec> 08└─And then corporations take an interest in you(r money), and the message becomes: Watch sports Eat a snack whenever you have a hand free Sharing is piracy Napping means you're lazy and should be fired Okay, dinosaurs *are* awesome No refunds Spend more time at work Watch infomercials until you pass o...
[10:49:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] 02Will the Fort Smith PD be held accountable? => No - 06Lawyer Representing Whistleblowers Finds Malware on Drive Supplied by Cops - 124 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:49:29] <exec> 08└─but I bet they find something to charge the attorney with. Maybe cyber-civil disorder because he didn't install the viruses?
[10:49:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03tathra [3367] 02Re:Will the Fort Smith PD be held accountable? => - 06Lawyer Representing Whistleblowers Finds Malware on Drive Supplied by Cops - 170 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:49:33] <exec> 08└─Of course there is a tiny problem in this case - they targeted a lawyer, and they are not supposed to be able to "investigate" stuff that is attorney-client privileged...
[10:51:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:much easier to fix - 06Taxpayers are Subsidizing Industries Which Don't Pay a Living Wage - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:51:24] <exec> 08└─if employees can't earn enough at a "full-time job" to support a family, then they aren't being paid enough
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[11:42:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Caf or Decaf? - 06International Space Station Finally Gets Real Coffee - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:42:55] <exec> 08└─Caf would make them piss more, that must be inconvenient in space.
[11:42:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02and Heroin, and LSD - 06International Space Station Finally Gets Real Coffee - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:42:56] <exec> 08└─Because they deserve to get high in the 200-mile high club.
[11:42:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03WizardFusion [498] (Score:2) 02Down With Coffee - 06International Space Station Finally Gets Real Coffee - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:42:58] <exec> 08└─I hate coffee, I can't even stand the smell. It's a horrible fowl drink. I much prefer tea.
[11:42:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Down With Tea - 06International Space Station Finally Gets Real Coffee - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:43:00] <exec> 08└─Into the harbor, ya tea-drunkin limey!
[11:43:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:But, a single network is cheaper! - 06Airliners Could be Vulnerable to Hacking - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:43:09] <exec> 08└─Until the first terrorist attack uses this vulnerability. Then the demand for vulnerable airplanes will plummet.
[11:43:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ryuugami [2925] (Score:2) 02Re:But, a single network is cheaper! - 06Airliners Could be Vulnerable to Hacking - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:43:11] <exec> 08└─Then the demand for vulnerable airplanes will plummet.
[11:43:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03WizardFusion [498] (Score:2) 02Calculus of Negligence - 06Airliners Could be Vulnerable to Hacking - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:43:13] <exec> 08└─So, its something like... Burden < (Probability * Loss) http://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[11:43:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fight Club - 06Airliners Could be Vulnerable to Hacking - 685 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:43:14] <exec> 08└─My job was to apply the formula. The infant went through the windshield. A new car built by my company leaves somewhere traveling at 60mph. The rear differential locks up. The teenager's braces are stuck to the ashtray. Might make a good anti-smoking ad. The car crashes and burns with everyone trapp...
[11:43:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03yarp [2665] (Score:1) 02Please turn off all electronic devices - 06Airliners Could be Vulnerable to Hacking - 723 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:43:16] <exec> 08└─It doesn't seem all that long ago that operating anything more powerful than a pacemaker would allegedly interfere with an aircraft's control circuitry leading to fiery death for all aboard. Was that being pessimistically cautious in the same way we are warned against using a mobile phone at a petro...
[11:43:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03WizardFusion [498] (Score:2) 02Re:Please turn off all electronic devices - 06Airliners Could be Vulnerable to Hacking - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:43:18] <exec> 08└─The mobile phone and petrol stations was a completely american issue (as far as I remember), and the problem was that the pumps have a little catch that allows people to walk away when the petrol is still being delivered. The spark came from people with cheap clothes getting in and out of their cars...
[11:43:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score:2) 02Criminal stupidity - 06Airliners Could be Vulnerable to Hacking - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:43:20] <exec> 08└─When can we get a law that lets us take certain decision makers, tie them to a pole in the public square, and throw rotten eggs at them until they wake up and tune in to planet Earth? No the cockpit does not need to be running Windows XP over unencrypted wifi! I don't care if that's what your kid us...
[11:43:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Criminal stupidity - 06Airliners Could be Vulnerable to Hacking - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:43:21] <exec> 08└─Stupid people are the decision makers because they are the majority. You are the minority. You are the loser. You are the one who is out of tune with planet Earth. Get it straight.
[11:43:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Design spec - 06Airliners Could be Vulnerable to Hacking - 935 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:43:24] <exec> 08└─Did Al-Qaeda write the design spec? Otherwise, what kind of moron came up with ideas like sharing a time critical network with bandwidth-hungry passengers, and connecting the whole thing to the internet? Firewalls? Forget it, you use a firewall when you want to have connections between the two netwo...
[11:43:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Design spec - 06Airliners Could be Vulnerable to Hacking - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:43:26] <exec> 08└─Did Al-Qaeda write the design spec?
[11:43:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:Fools! - 06Prosecutors Suspect Man Hacked Lottery Computers to Score Winning Ticket - 580 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:43:42] <exec> 08└─In the UK, the national lottery has a number of different sets of balls and machines. Before each lottery, they ask a celebrity or a random member of the public to choose the one to use. That person (or someone in collusion with that person) could potentially (given physical access) tamper with eith...
[11:44:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Statistics of small samples - 06Interesting Usage Statistics for Desktop Linux in Malta - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:44:18] <exec> 08└─Malta is one of those places where the small size allows one to see significant migrations to GNU/Linux desktop in their full glory.
[11:44:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The purpose.. - 06A Singapore Math Problem Goes Viral: When Is Cheryl’s Birthday? - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:44:54] <exec> 08└─The very first post here approaches the solution in a far more practical manner. We do not deal in riddles.
[11:46:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:So... - 06Geek Nirvana Approaches: Robots to Cook You Breakfast - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:46:13] <exec> 08└─You mean using computers to replace face-to-face interactions with an impersonal broadcast ego-stroking mechanism primarily intended to funnel targeted adverts at consumers?
[11:46:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:All about presentation to make it "Robotic" - 06Geek Nirvana Approaches: Robots to Cook You Breakfast - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:46:26] <exec> 08└─Higher-end restaurants will probably pride themselves on having humans prepare the food and there are some hard problems there in selecting quality ingredients and adjusting to exactly what you have available that a skilled human can perform but getting a robot to perform the same task is both diffi...
[11:49:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:A bold theory - 06Universe's Rate of Expansion Called into Question - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:49:34] <exec> 08└─as that newly-named field is nothing more than what metaphysics was in the first place, and I object to its unnecessary renaming.
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[12:42:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Down With Coffee - 06International Space Station Finally Gets Real Coffee - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:42:32] <exec> 08└─I hate when people use a tie-wrap and don't cut off the extra unused part that sticks out. I hate a lot of other stuff too. I guess I am a hateful person deep inside.
[12:42:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Down With Coffee - 06International Space Station Finally Gets Real Coffee - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:42:33] <exec> 08└─What, you couldn't figure a way to bring politics into this thread and had to go lowball trolling with tea vs. coffee?
[12:42:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:3, Touché) 02Re:Down With Coffee - 06International Space Station Finally Gets Real Coffee - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:42:34] <exec> 08└─No a fowl drink would be chicken or turtle soup...
[12:42:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03aclarke [2049] (Score:2) 02Re:Down With Coffee - 06International Space Station Finally Gets Real Coffee - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:42:36] <exec> 08└─That's why coffee should be illegal. Get it? Ill eagle? Horrible fowl? Thank you for the opportunity to come here and make this pun.
[12:42:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03dublet [2994] (Score:4, Informative) 02Kick the addiction - 06International Space Station Finally Gets Real Coffee - 655 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:38] <exec> 08└─Why does anyone need coffee to start their day? I rarely drink coffee, nor tea in fact and am as productive as I need to be. The millions of people who depend on a shot of coffee to kickstart their day are no more alert than those who are not regular coffee drinkers, say researchers. A cup of coffe...
[12:42:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03draconx [4649] (Score:1) 02Re:Kick the addiction - 06International Space Station Finally Gets Real Coffee - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:42:40] <exec> 08└─Why does anyone need coffee to start their day?
[12:42:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Re:But, a single network is cheaper! - 06Airliners Could be Vulnerable to Hacking - 1374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:42:50] <exec> 08└─Nope. What will happen then is that the airport security will bring in some stupid, ineffective rule that all laptops and tablets must be opened at the airport and "scanned for terrorist software" (using some shitty Windows 8-only software scanner that only scans [1] for the one specific known threa...
[12:42:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:Criminal stupidity - 06Airliners Could be Vulnerable to Hacking - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:42:58] <exec> 08└─Decision makers are compatible with monkey language, thus they get their position by promotion by same monkeys ;)
[12:43:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Networking is one thing, complexity another - 06Airliners Could be Vulnerable to Hacking - 563 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:43:01] <exec> 08└─So sure, airgap your networks, firewall everything twice and lock everything down your OSI model... But about about the explosion of crapware in the embedded systems market? Everything thinks they're safe from System D ("Hey, it's just on my desktop machine or my web server, no big deal") but it won...
[12:43:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Networking is one thing, complexity another - 06Airliners Could be Vulnerable to Hacking - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:43:03] <exec> 08└─Lady Ada to the rescue! She'll save us.
[12:43:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:Networking is one thing, complexity another - 06Airliners Could be Vulnerable to Hacking - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:43:04] <exec> 08└─Classify systemD as not airworthy? and make any system manufacturer using it open to unlimited claims? Anyway your point is kind of spooky. Systems with systemd isn't reliable.
[12:43:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Shimitar [4208] (Score:2, Informative) 02Who is so ignorant to believe this? - 06Airliners Could be Vulnerable to Hacking - 1205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:43:06] <exec> 08└─This news smells of stupid people giving stupid announcements to prove their work is valuable. First of all, the AVIONICS does not share the same busses of the inflight entertainment... The avionics is usually connected over a CAN Aerospace bus or other dedicated busses, in a few cases an ethernet c...
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[12:43:08] <exec> 08└─How near is these entertainment systems in connection with critical systems?
[12:43:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No surprise - 06Prosecutors Suspect Man Hacked Lottery Computers to Score Winning Ticket - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:43:37] <exec> 08└─Well, I wasn't there, but I guess it was in part also your failure at communicating at a level they can understand. You probably used many technical terms that were pure Chinese to them. You probably failed to simplify the description enough that they could understand. But what if you can print a ti...
[12:43:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:College Laptop Refresh? - 06Interesting Usage Statistics for Desktop Linux in Malta - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:43:49] <exec> 08└─Did stat-counter simply find a new way of gathering stats such that ad/script/webbug-blocking linux users now get sniffed out whereas previously they were under the radar?
[12:44:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03sigma [1225] 02The Australian Solution - 06A Singapore Math Problem Goes Viral: When Is Cheryl’s Birthday? - 90 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:44:14] <exec> 08└─Fuck off Cheryl, if you want to be a bitch, you're not getting a birthday present from me!
[12:45:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:July 16 - 06A Singapore Math Problem Goes Viral: When Is Cheryl’s Birthday? - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:45:01] <exec> 08└─Unless he's too naive to know to cheat.
[12:47:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kromagv0 [1825] (Score:2) 02Re:It's all relative - 06The Surprising Downsides of Being Clever - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:47:31] <exec> 08└─Hey some of us have expensive hobbies. Do you have any idea how much it costs to restore and maintain an inexpensive British roadster from the 60s? Now that that is out of the way if I didn't have to worry about money I would probably spend my day either doing what a currently do, creating outdoo...
[12:49:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:A bold theory - 06Universe's Rate of Expansion Called into Question - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:49:17] <exec> 08└─In your understanding, the tomes from which I get my histories and definitions of terms are wrong. (Which is mostly some 1000-page dictionary of philosophy.) Which, given the wide disparity in philosophical texts, is not a huge surprise - it's a field that thrives off different interpretations of th...
[12:50:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03rondon [5167] (Score:1) 02Re:OMG! Teh cops are the suxors! - 06Lawyer Representing Whistleblowers Finds Malware on Drive Supplied by Cops - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:50:17] <exec> 08└─Is this performance art? Did you just use an ad hominem attack with the word ad hominem in it? I do not have the capacity to tell if this is high level satire or you don't have a clue wtf you are talking about. Either way, I applaud you good person. You are either incredibly clever or... something e...
[12:50:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:My take on this - 06Lawyer Representing Whistleblowers Finds Malware on Drive Supplied by Cops - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:50:36] <exec> 08└─Somebody will have marketed this software to the department implying that the most difficult thing about the software is keeping the donut crumbs off the keyboard whilst installing leet hacks.
[12:52:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:Holy cow - 06Mozilla Considers Phasing Out Unencrypted HTTP - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:52:32] <exec> 08└─A https only browser is as useful as a car which steers only to the left. Umm make it with no brakes, too. I agree that a correct summary should have been: mozilla troll posts april fool story with a bit of lag.
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[13:42:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03arashi no garou [2796] (Score:2) 02Visit the website - 06Downsides to Filing your IRS Tax Forms Electronically - 490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:25] <exec> 08└─If I file my taxes with X tax preparation house and I get an email that looks like it's from X, I will ignore the email, type their website's address into my browser, and log in from there to verify the information. I do the same when I get emails that appear to be from my bank, especially since man...
[13:42:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02More after the break - 06Downsides to Filing your IRS Tax Forms Electronically - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:28] <exec> 08└─[More after the break.]
[13:42:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Authentication, or th lack of it - 06Downsides to Filing your IRS Tax Forms Electronically - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:30] <exec> 08└─The problem is there's no authentication of important emails. For starters one can assign every contact a unique email address. To know where the contact came from. Another action that can be taken is to read emails on secure systems. But the most important is that the message itself is authenticate...
[13:42:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Authentication, or th lack of it - 06Downsides to Filing your IRS Tax Forms Electronically - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:42:31] <exec> 08└─The problem is there's no authentication of important emails.
[13:42:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:Authentication, or th lack of it - 06Downsides to Filing your IRS Tax Forms Electronically - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:42:33] <exec> 08└─One could at least require that the IRS sign their emails..
[13:42:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Down With Coffee - 06International Space Station Finally Gets Real Coffee - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:42:47] <exec> 08└─I agree: coffee is a vile habit, especially when abused! Now, where did I put my breakfast stout?
[13:42:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03goodie [1877] (Score:2) 02Re:Down With Coffee - 06International Space Station Finally Gets Real Coffee - 481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:42:48] <exec> 08└─I don't like its taste much as a drink (or I do but need lots of sugar to actually enjoy it and don't like the jitters and taste left in my mouth afterwards), but I absolutely love its smell! When I walk into a real bistrot (not a Startbucks where it just smells like burnt coffee to me) or opening a...
[13:42:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03M. Baranczak [1673] (Score:2) 02Re:Down With Coffee - 06International Space Station Finally Gets Real Coffee - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:42:49] <exec> 08└─Moderate coffee drinking is harmless, even in very large quantities.
[13:42:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03dublet [2994] 02Kick the addiction - 06International Space Station Finally Gets Real Coffee - 655 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:51] <exec> 08└─Why does anyone need coffee to start their day? I rarely drink coffee, nor tea in fact and am as productive as I need to be. The millions of people who depend on a shot of coffee to kickstart their day are no more alert than those who are not regular coffee drinkers, say researchers. A cup of coffe...
[13:42:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03yarp [2665] (Score:1) 02Re:Kick the addiction - 06International Space Station Finally Gets Real Coffee - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:42:53] <exec> 08└─I drink coffee more or less every morning but sometimes (not usually by choice) I'll go without for several days yet this doesn't leave me with withdrawal symptoms. Am I doing it wrong?
[13:42:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kilo110 [2853] (Score:2) 02Re:Kick the addiction - 06International Space Station Finally Gets Real Coffee - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:42:55] <exec> 08└─That was my thought as well. "Imagine starting your day without any coffee." I don't need to imagine since I've been doing that for the better part of 3 decades. I'm just as awake as my caffeine-addicted coworkers. And I don't need to waste time buying a morning pick-me-up.
[13:42:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Kick the addiction - 06International Space Station Finally Gets Real Coffee - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:42:57] <exec> 08└─You sound like one of those smug prats who loves to tell everyone within earshot that he doesn't own a television.
[13:42:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Kick the addiction - 06International Space Station Finally Gets Real Coffee - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:42:58] <exec> 08└─Why does anyone need coffee to start their day?
[13:42:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Important stuff - 06International Space Station Finally Gets Real Coffee - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:00] <exec> 08└─Do they get fresh vegetables?
[13:43:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03yarp [2665] (Score:1) 02Re:Please turn off all electronic devices - 06Airliners Could be Vulnerable to Hacking - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:43:13] <exec> 08└─I'd read the story of sparks being caused by clothing, but never twigged that it would have been exacerbated due to entry and exit of a vehicle while a pump was running automatically. Still, I wonder why we still have the signs up on forecourts. It's not helped that mobile phone manufacturers also g...
[13:43:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Stupid - 06Prosecutors Suspect Man Hacked Lottery Computers to Score Winning Ticket - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:43:55] <exec> 08└─The money spends even better, if the bum keeps it to himself rather than giving you a piece of the action.
[13:43:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03jcross [4009] (Score:2) 02Re:Stupid - 06Prosecutors Suspect Man Hacked Lottery Computers to Score Winning Ticket - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:43:58] <exec> 08└─Presumably the smart thing would be to get the lottery tickets back from the bum *before* the results were announced, when their expected value is outweighed by the value of the liquor.
[13:43:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Justin Case [4239] 02No surprise - 06Prosecutors Suspect Man Hacked Lottery Computers to Score Winning Ticket - 1357 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:59] <exec> 08└─Frankly, I'm not the least bit surprised by this story. > inserted a thumbdrive into a highly locked-down computer If it had a USB slot it wasn't a "highly locked-down computer". For exactly this reason. I did an audit of a lottery style computer a few years ago. It had almost too many security hole...
[13:44:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02communication error? - 06Prosecutors Suspect Man Hacked Lottery Computers to Score Winning Ticket - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:44:02] <exec> 08└─Well when it's brillig, of course slithy toves gyre and even gimble in the wabe. That's just what they do in the situation. We can just look at this a little bit here. Borogoves mimsy? Check. Mome raths outgrabe? Check. This is so obvious. Coherent we don't even
[13:44:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:College Laptop Refresh? - 06Interesting Usage Statistics for Desktop Linux in Malta - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:44:12] <exec> 08└─Well it is a technology institute, at least theoretically. Knew a girl who went there once....to see her boyfriend.
[13:44:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Tork [3914] 02Re:The purpose.. - 06A Singapore Math Problem Goes Viral: When Is Cheryl’s Birthday? - 107 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:44:41] <exec> 08└─You don't think exercising your deductive skills is worthwhile? We must work in very different professions.
[13:44:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Tork [3914] 02Re:The purpose.. - 06A Singapore Math Problem Goes Viral: When Is Cheryl’s Birthday? - 90 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:44:56] <exec> 08└─Indeed, your profession has to be fairly unique if you solve puzzles like this for living.
[13:45:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:July 16 - 06A Singapore Math Problem Goes Viral: When Is Cheryl’s Birthday? - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:45:49] <exec> 08└─It's a leaping test, to see if you can leap all the way to the conclusion that A and B both know what information the other received, even though that isn't stated anywhere in the question.
[13:46:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02So the moon is for mining... - 06Evidence of Briny Liquid Water Found on Mars - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:03] <exec> 08└─And Mars will become a giant Vlasic pickle processing plant. Works for me.
[13:46:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score:2) 02When thinking of mornings - 06Geek Nirvana Approaches: Robots to Cook You Breakfast - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:45] <exec> 08└─I only make breakfast for someone if I still like them after a long night of hard ... oh my.
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[20:16:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Down with the Alliance - 06US and China Working Together on Law Enforcement - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:40] <exec> 08└─Browncoats unite.
[20:16:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I am not a member of the Eastern Coalition! - 06US and China Working Together on Law Enforcement - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:41] <exec> 08└─No no no, cooperation is no good. Competition spurs progress! Come on, where's that war we were all hoping for? We need another world war before world peace. This future isn't happening at all the way it should. All right, which of you time traveling tourists screwed it up? Left some litter behind s...
[20:16:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:4, Funny) 02Re:HippsterRover - 06Bouncing Robots Could Replace Rovers on Future NASA Missions - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:16:51] <exec> 08└─Hipsters don't take selfies. They take surreptitious photos of cute girls/boys in glasses staring wistfully out of cafe windows with a black-and-white film DSLR, while they wait for the silver nitrate paper in their tin-can pinhole camera to finish exposing an image of a homeless man sleeping under...
[20:16:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score:2) 02Re:HippsterRover - 06Bouncing Robots Could Replace Rovers on Future NASA Missions - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:16:53] <exec> 08└─Nah, they just take selfies 'ironically'.
[20:17:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score:2) 02Freedom software - 06WINVote Voting Machines Used in Virginia Elections are Shockingly Insecure - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:17:05] <exec> 08└─Maybe we should start calling it that systematically. It might catch on. Start the meme. -- hendrik
[20:17:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mr Big in the Pants [4956] (Score:2) 02Re:Shockingly Insecure? - 06WINVote Voting Machines Used in Virginia Elections are Shockingly Insecure - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:17:07] <exec> 08└─To quite frank it would appear that this machine was willfully insecure. I mean it has so many easily available back doors it is like....ok not going to go there. I mean does anyone actually believe that such a machine was created that way by accident? No logs or records!? WinXP!? Seriously? So in o...
[20:17:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:[insecurity intensifies] - 06WINVote Voting Machines Used in Virginia Elections are Shockingly Insecure - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:17:09] <exec> 08└─Maybe shockingly insecure means that there are bare conductors or the metal case is tied to neutral instead of ground.
[20:17:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:national embarrassment - 06WINVote Voting Machines Used in Virginia Elections are Shockingly Insecure - 1592 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:17:12] <exec> 08└─The thing is even with 'free' you can *still* screw it up. Think about how many LG and Samsung TVs are out there. Now think about this. Many of them are 5-10 years old and have an equally old copy of linux running on them (for example my TV has not had an update in 4 years). What sort of security is...
[20:17:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03jcross [4009] (Score:2) 02The name! - 06WINVote Voting Machines Used in Virginia Elections are Shockingly Insecure - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:14] <exec> 08└─Does the name of this thing give anyone else the creeps? It's like "buy this machine to WIN votes!" Seems to me like in a better world voting machines would be branded to promote their fairness and accuracy, and would avoid suggesting any connection with who actually wins or loses.
[20:17:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03CirclesInSand [2899] (Score:2) 02Slot machines - 06WINVote Voting Machines Used in Virginia Elections are Shockingly Insecure - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:16] <exec> 08└─If you've never seen a comparison of regulations of voting machines to slot machines, check out this image: http://imgur.com [imgur.com]
[20:17:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Only One Way to Do E-voting - 06WINVote Voting Machines Used in Virginia Elections are Shockingly Insecure - 1303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:18] <exec> 08└─No system is immune to rigging, not even hand-counting of paper ballots. But there is a way to do e-voting that minimizes the risk while still maximizing the benefits of e-voting (primarily ease of voting, ease of counting and reduced error rates like hanging chads). Its a two part process: part 1:...
[20:17:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03cyberthanasis [5212] (Score:1) 02Too easy - 06Rocket Lab Unveils "Electric" Rocket Engine - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:30] <exec> 08└─The man in the promotion video talks about launching to orbit as something easy and the difficult part is the economics. I am very sceptical about this, but I hope that they succeed.
[20:17:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Mixing memes - 06Downsides to Filing your IRS Tax Forms Electronically - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:17:48] <exec> 08└─FYI, it appears that you squished together 2 memes: - get its shit together - get its ass in gear You should pick one and go with that. (Colloquial English can be confusing.) ...and a pronoun never needs an apostrophe to make it possessive. -- gewg_
[20:17:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Intuit - 06Downsides to Filing your IRS Tax Forms Electronically - 580 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:17:57] <exec> 08└─You should be able to do all of this stuff via Free(dom) Software provided gratis by the gov't and that should run on any of the common platforms. The fact that you can only do all of it via proprietary closed-source software which runs under a limited number of OSes is a result of politicians allow...
[20:18:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Tennessee Requires E-File - 06Downsides to Filing your IRS Tax Forms Electronically - 676 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:01] <exec> 08└─Tennessee has state income tax on investment income over $1000, but no taxes on wages. This year they fine you if you don't file electronically. Since most people don't have to file at all, they've been able to get away with it without enough people getting pissed off. On the flip-side, they've made...
[20:18:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score:2) 02what a waste - 06International Space Station Finally Gets Real Coffee - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:48] <exec> 08└─given the cost per kilo to put something into orbit this is such a waste of money. Think about how much really useful stuff they could send up. And then there is the volume of the device, what else could they fit into that area that could actually be useful? This feels like more of a PR stunt of som...
[20:20:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Stupid - 06Prosecutors Suspect Man Hacked Lottery Computers to Score Winning Ticket - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:20:02] <exec> 08└─lol there are some dumb ACs on here the first AC not smart enough to realize you would collect the ticket from the bum as soon as he walks out of the store and now this AC who thinks you were talking about making a sex tape I bet its the same dummy
[20:20:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:communication error? - 06Prosecutors Suspect Man Hacked Lottery Computers to Score Winning Ticket - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:20:07] <exec> 08└─have you ever thought about writing a sequel to lord of the rings or the wheel of time? you're definitely channeling one of the authors...
[20:20:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mr Big in the Pants [4956] (Score:2) 02Re:No surprise - 06Prosecutors Suspect Man Hacked Lottery Computers to Score Winning Ticket - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:20:08] <exec> 08└─You weren't there. That is the only thing you wrote that is factual. When spending money is involved, some managers tend to get blustery and willfully ignorant - especially when its coming out of their budget or to accept it would accept truisms to be false. If YOU haven't been there before I doubt...
[20:20:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Statistics of small samples - 06Interesting Usage Statistics for Desktop Linux in Malta - 645 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:20:39] <exec> 08└─Yeah, when plotted, the curve you get from the data these folks aggregate does often resemble a bowsaw blade. This point tends to come up each time this topic come up. [soylentnews.org] The actual numbers[1] are of questionable utility, but the trends are interesting. [1] Pogson once wrote a column...
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[20:21:08] <exec> 08└─Then: "I intelligently deduced that I do not need a useful skill!!"
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[20:24:26] <exec> 08└─Google Style Mapping with Vintage British Race Cars?
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[21:16:44] <exec> 08└─On issues where they have non-competitive interests, security being one of them, they share info. Especially during major international events, like the Olympics. For example, US and Russia have cooperated for a long time on matters that affect them both. If it benefits them both, why wouldn't they...
[21:16:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Countries have always cooperated - 06US and China Working Together on Law Enforcement - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:16:45] <exec> 08└─"first time meeting"
[21:16:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Countries have always cooperated - 06US and China Working Together on Law Enforcement - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:16:47] <exec> 08└─On issues where they have non-competitive interests, security being one of them, they share info. Especially during major international events, like the Olympics. For example, US and Russia have cooperated for a long time on matters that affect them both. If it benefits them both, why wouldn't they...
[21:16:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02"Sky Net" ?? - 06US and China Working Together on Law Enforcement - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:16:49] <exec> 08└─Now where have I heard that term before?
[21:16:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"Sky Net" ?? - 06US and China Working Together on Law Enforcement - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:16:51] <exec> 08└─"Star Wars" missile defense project? Why was that name so familiar?
[21:16:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:"Sky Net" ?? - 06US and China Working Together on Law Enforcement - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:16:52] <exec> 08└─Wasn't that the laser defense system from the 80's?
[21:16:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03SrLnclt [1473] (Score:2) 02Re:"Sky Net" ?? - 06US and China Working Together on Law Enforcement - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:16:54] <exec> 08└─Wasn't that the laser defense system from the 80's?
[21:17:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03mhajicek [51] 02Re:Criminal. - 06WINVote Voting Machines Used in Virginia Elections are Shockingly Insecure - 153 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:17:10] <exec> 08└─But they're so much more convenient! It used to be that voting officials would have to physically swap out boxes of ballets and dispose of the originals.
[21:17:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02Re:Criminal. - 06WINVote Voting Machines Used in Virginia Elections are Shockingly Insecure - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:17:11] <exec> 08└─Not to mention saving the the hassle of going into all those graveyards and copying down names to register.
[21:18:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why I don't e-file... - 06Downsides to Filing your IRS Tax Forms Electronically - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:18:06] <exec> 08└─Either that or a couple of Federal Marshals busting in your door.
[21:18:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:IRS FreeFile XML Errors - 06Downsides to Filing your IRS Tax Forms Electronically - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:18:09] <exec> 08└─Of course it's wonky. It's designed that way. That's what you get when teams of bureaucrats (both government and corporate) work with no oversight and with the explicit purpose to separate the underclasses from their money.
[21:18:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score:2) 02Re:and Heroin, and LSD - 06International Space Station Finally Gets Real Coffee - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:18:22] <exec> 08└─No laws in space! #yolo #nofilter #sohardcore #muchwow In other news: It's raining men, hallelujah!
[21:18:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02Re:Down With Coffee - 06International Space Station Finally Gets Real Coffee - 97 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:18:32] <exec> 08└─I agree: coffee is a vile habit, especially when abused! Now, where did I put my breakfast stout?
[21:18:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Kick the addiction - 06International Space Station Finally Gets Real Coffee - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:18:49] <exec> 08└─Revelation: SN is full of EXACTLY that sort of smug prat.
[21:19:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score:2) 02Re:Please turn off all electronic devices - 06Airliners Could be Vulnerable to Hacking - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:19:19] <exec> 08└─You can solve the problem of having to stand by your car by jamming our car's fuel cap under the handle of the dispenser. Ta-da! Auto Fill! When it's really cold and windy, I'll take my chances with fire over the certainty of freezing my ass off.
[21:21:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The purpose.. - 06A Singapore Math Problem Goes Viral: When Is Cheryl’s Birthday? - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:21:23] <exec> 08└─(as another commenter says, this really only tests a specific skill that will likely almost never come up in the real world outside of some artificial environment)
[21:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:July 16 - 06A Singapore Math Problem Goes Viral: When Is Cheryl’s Birthday? - 1174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:22:17] <exec> 08└─Incorrect. Albert knows the month. Albert knows that Bernard knows the date. Albert makes the statement "I don’t know when your birthday is, but I know Bernard doesn’t know, either" and passes critical information to Bernard. By saying that "Bernard doesn't know, either", Albert affirms that for...
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[22:16:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02note - 06 New Jersey Legislator Who Sponsored Anti-Swatting Bill Gets Swatted - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:16:40] <exec> 08└─The legislator in question has successfully fought [nj.com] an illegal DWI stop, and the officer who stopped him faced 14 criminal charges instead, before being acquitted [nj.com] in March. The case has made New Jersey headlines since July 2012.
[22:16:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Turnabout is Fair Play - 06 New Jersey Legislator Who Sponsored Anti-Swatting Bill Gets Swatted - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:16:41] <exec> 08└─The more the police state can be turned against itself, the better. The idiots passing these laws in their sleep ought feel the pointy end of the spear early, and often. Someday soon, the bankers who pull their strings will wake up to justice, too, and it will be a happy day for mankind.
[22:16:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03SubiculumHammer [5191] (Score:1) 02Re:Turnabout is Fair Play - 06 New Jersey Legislator Who Sponsored Anti-Swatting Bill Gets Swatted - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:16:43] <exec> 08└─This the type of thing that brings on calls to police the internet instead of the real problem: militarized police.
[22:16:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score:2) 02Re:Turnabout is Fair Play - 06 New Jersey Legislator Who Sponsored Anti-Swatting Bill Gets Swatted - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:16:45] <exec> 08└─I'm fairly certain that in this day and age any formal and recognized policing of the internet would just result in a internet protest, and no one in charge would care. When the internet can give you everything you want (except freedom), why bother fighting?
[22:16:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03CirclesInSand [2899] (Score:2) 02Can someone please explain - 06 New Jersey Legislator Who Sponsored Anti-Swatting Bill Gets Swatted - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:16:47] <exec> 08└─Why do we (they) need a bill against swatting? Isn't this already illegal? Is the bill addressing something like telecom accountability?
[22:16:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Countries have always cooperated - 06US and China Working Together on Law Enforcement - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:16:57] <exec> 08└─Meanwhile Chinese firms have been counterfeiting everything from shoes to routers without so much as a second look from the Chinese authorities.
[22:17:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score:2) 02Re:"Sky Net" ?? - 06US and China Working Together on Law Enforcement - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:17:02] <exec> 08└─I think I saw it in a documentary once... seriously though, where did you think all those terminators were made? Did you think it would be ANYWHERE else? :)
[22:17:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Freeman [732] 02Shockingly Insecure? - 06WINVote Voting Machines Used in Virginia Elections are Shockingly Insecure - 96 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:28] <exec> 08└─I would call it more shocking that someone found the issues and actually Did something about it.
[22:17:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nobuddy [1626] (Score:2) 02Re:[insecurity intensifies] - 06WINVote Voting Machines Used in Virginia Elections are Shockingly Insecure - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:17:32] <exec> 08└─Did you read the article? It is shocking. It would be bad on grandma's home computer. It is beyond belief that something as important as a voting machine has hardcoded 5 character passwords- much less easy to guess passwords - and all communicating via WEP to a home server that is equally insecure....
[22:17:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nobuddy [1626] (Score:2) 02Re:national embarrassment - 06WINVote Voting Machines Used in Virginia Elections are Shockingly Insecure - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:17:35] <exec> 08└─I am pretty sure your TV, if cracked, will not change the outcome of an election. you have to look at how much something should be secured when you want to compare them.
[22:17:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:national embarrassment - 06WINVote Voting Machines Used in Virginia Elections are Shockingly Insecure - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:17:37] <exec> 08└─My point is people are thinking of these things like appliances. You buy it and its done. When that is not even remotely true. These are the same people who buy things like a TV and figure its good for 10-15 years. Also personal security is just as important as some election. Most of the people that...
[22:17:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Only One Way to Do E-voting - 06WINVote Voting Machines Used in Virginia Elections are Shockingly Insecure - 2307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:17:42] <exec> 08└─I have come to a similar conclusion. My method is slightly different and only uses one machine. Each voting machine is un-networked standalone and any IO (apart from that required to vote) is inside a physical locked safe (which the returning officer has the key to). The device has a card reader and...
[22:17:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03subs [4485] (Score:2) 02Re:The important bits - 06Rocket Lab Unveils "Electric" Rocket Engine - 1206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:17:55] <exec> 08└─I tried to run some ballpark numbers for the electrical component's weight and it didn't look very pretty. I have turbopump power requirement numbers for the RD-170, 192MW for an engine providing ~7887kN of thrust using a very efficient staged combustion cycle (309s SL Isp on RP-1/LOX!). Scaling it...
[22:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03subs [4485] (Score:2) 02Re:The important bits - 06Rocket Lab Unveils "Electric" Rocket Engine - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:17:56] <exec> 08└─In fact, given the shitty performance and still requiring the complexity of liquid-fuel engines and 3 stages, why didn't they just go with a dumb-as-a-duck solid fuel design, like the Japanese Epsilon [wikipedia.org]. About similar payload-to-orbit performance and much, much simpler design. In fact,...
[22:18:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Attachments - 06Downsides to Filing your IRS Tax Forms Electronically - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:30] <exec> 08└─I don't care if it came from my best friend's verified gmail account, there is no damn way I am going to be opening an executable attachment from anyone in an email. How hard is it to get that through people's heads. Also, do these stats take into account email virus scanners opening attachments?
[22:18:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:Caf or Decaf? - 06International Space Station Finally Gets Real Coffee - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:18:41] <exec> 08└─That just means there will be plenty of recycled water to make more coffee.
[22:19:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:Kick the addiction - 06International Space Station Finally Gets Real Coffee - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:19:03] <exec> 08└─I've never met anyone who drinks coffee during the week but not on weekends. That seems pretty silly.
[22:19:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Easy way to kick the habit - 06International Space Station Finally Gets Real Coffee - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:19:24] <exec> 08└─True - didn't think you were implying that..... And I didn't mean to imply that a couple cups a day is harmful - I certainly had other issues that helped trigger the heart attack as well. But even though I miss it and still use decaf as a substitute, the surgery did indeed end my days of using caffe...
[22:19:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score:1) 02Re:what a waste - 06International Space Station Finally Gets Real Coffee - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:19:26] <exec> 08└─Think about how much really useful stuff they could send up.
[22:19:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:Please turn off all electronic devices - 06Airliners Could be Vulnerable to Hacking - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:19:45] <exec> 08└─A funny anecdote I heard from a friend is that the stickers placed on pumps in jurisdictions that forbid the catch (NY is one) reads: "It is illegal to place gas cap in handle." So people started using tennis balls since they were not forbidden by the sticker. Doubt it is a real practice or stand up...
[22:19:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03tibman [134] 02Not enough geeks designing these things - 06Airliners Could be Vulnerable to Hacking - 57 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:57] <exec> 08└─Don't they remember the Battlestar Galactica documentary?
[22:20:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zinho [759] (Score:2) 02Re:communication error? - 06Prosecutors Suspect Man Hacked Lottery Computers to Score Winning Ticket - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:20:48] <exec> 08└─Nope, (mis)quoting from Lewis Carroll. If you really want weapons-grade gibberish go to a mathematician, not a fantasy writer: generation of randomness is not something to be left to chance.
[22:21:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Places where Linux use is over 4 percent - 06Interesting Usage Statistics for Desktop Linux in Malta - 617 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:21:20] <exec> 08└─Last month, Pogson noted that there are 10 places where Linux usage is over 4 percent. [mrpogson.com] Uruguay, Venezuela, and Cuba (places trying to get away from USAian hegemony) are on that list. Reunion (an island nation, east of Madagascar) is another. Timor-Leste (formerly East Timor), another...
[22:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03EQ [1716] (Score:2) 02Re:July 16 - 06A Singapore Math Problem Goes Viral: When Is Cheryl’s Birthday? - 998 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:22:46] <exec> 08└─What most folks miss is this : By saying that "Bernard doesn't know, either", Albert affirms that for the month that was spoken by Cheryl, all the days in the month are replicated in other months. It doesn't necessary follow - its a matter of semantics to get that much inference (affirms) out of suc...
[22:23:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Re:"coding/WoW binge" - 06Geek Nirvana Approaches: Robots to Cook You Breakfast - 599 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:23:55] <exec> 08└─I'm no fan of WoW myself, but if you think games like WoW (or LoL, or EVE, or DotA) don't take a lot of thought, you are sorely mistaken. The players of those games put in more effort than, say, most government and managerial workers. Do programmers remember every quirk and API detail of every piece...
[22:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:"coding/WoW binge" - 06Geek Nirvana Approaches: Robots to Cook You Breakfast - 459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:23:56] <exec> 08└─That is true, and it is why I think gamification on some level could work to make the world a better place. For example, if you had to learn Chinese to complete your WoW quest, there'd probably be tens of millions more fluent, non-Chinese, speakers of Chinese pretty quickly. You could do the same fo...
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[23:16:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02As an ex-Nokian - 06Nokia Intends to Buy Alcatel-Lucent - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:16:40] <exec> 08└─I was expecting them to resort to Plan 9 eventually.
[23:16:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03snick [1408] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Turnabout is Fair Play - 06 New Jersey Legislator Who Sponsored Anti-Swatting Bill Gets Swatted - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:16:52] <exec> 08└─Seriously messed up dude. Swatting should be treated as attempted murder.
[23:16:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Turnabout is Fair Play - 06 New Jersey Legislator Who Sponsored Anti-Swatting Bill Gets Swatted - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:16:53] <exec> 08└─Swatting should be treated as attempted murder.
[23:16:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:Turnabout is Fair Play - 06 New Jersey Legislator Who Sponsored Anti-Swatting Bill Gets Swatted - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:16:55] <exec> 08└─Pragmatical: how is this to be enforced? By de-anonymising the emergency callers? Are you sure you want that?
[23:16:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Turnabout is Fair Play - 06 New Jersey Legislator Who Sponsored Anti-Swatting Bill Gets Swatted - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:16:56] <exec> 08└─Not attempted murder, just reckless endangerment. Because that's exactly what it is, to the letter.
[23:16:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Turnabout is Fair Play - 06 New Jersey Legislator Who Sponsored Anti-Swatting Bill Gets Swatted - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:16:58] <exec> 08└─You want to charge all the cops? Because they're the ones who go insane when they have no evidence of anything. Or do you think the cops should have no responsibility for their own actions (even if they're being required to go to the scene), and that we should just ignore the fact that we know peopl...
[23:16:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03snick [1408] (Score:4, Insightful) 02Re:Can someone please explain - 06 New Jersey Legislator Who Sponsored Anti-Swatting Bill Gets Swatted - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:17:00] <exec> 08└─Dunno about NJ, but in CA swatting is a misdemeanor. Totally out of synch with the seriousness of the action. SWAT teams kill people. Sending one to someone's house is like tossing a grenade through their window.
[23:17:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Can someone please explain - 06 New Jersey Legislator Who Sponsored Anti-Swatting Bill Gets Swatted - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:17:02] <exec> 08└─SWAT teams kill people. Sending one to someone's house is like tossing a grenade through their window.
[23:17:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03CirclesInSand [2899] (Score:2) 02Re:Can someone please explain - 06 New Jersey Legislator Who Sponsored Anti-Swatting Bill Gets Swatted - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:17:03] <exec> 08└─After doing some reading, I think you are right. According to http://www.njleg.state.nj.us [state.nj.us] : SYNOPSIS Upgrades crime of false public alarm under certain circumstances.
[23:17:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Can someone please explain - 06 New Jersey Legislator Who Sponsored Anti-Swatting Bill Gets Swatted - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:17:05] <exec> 08└─Yeah, except that SWAT teams are made up of human beings responsible for their own decisions, and the same applies to police departments. They're not merely a force of nature, or a tool.
[23:17:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Why are SWAT raids legal? - 06 New Jersey Legislator Who Sponsored Anti-Swatting Bill Gets Swatted - 687 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:07] <exec> 08└─If so many weren't hotheads, the SWAT cops could stop these raids in 5 seconds. Consider the tactical situation: Someone reported that something nasty is going on, and you are expected to breach into an unknown space, without confirming first where the alleged targets are and how they are armed, hop...
[23:17:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score:2) 02Re:Shockingly Insecure? - 06WINVote Voting Machines Used in Virginia Elections are Shockingly Insecure - 593 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:17:47] <exec> 08└─I believe the saying is "Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence." Patches cost money, updating your embedded OS costs money, and as long as you can get away with doing neither you increase your profits. Hell we have seen the same thing in pretty much every use of...
[23:18:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Only One Way to Do E-voting - 06WINVote Voting Machines Used in Virginia Elections are Shockingly Insecure - 1106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:18:01] <exec> 08└─Missing from you scheme: auditability. Is it necessary? Well, at multiple steps in your scheme an attack can be arranged (letting aside breaking the security of the computers). For instance, counting low confidence scans (phase 2, 3rd bullet), I can buy the sole human you put in charge as decider to...
[23:18:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03arashi no garou [2796] (Score:2) 02Re:Visit the website - 06Downsides to Filing your IRS Tax Forms Electronically - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:18:26] <exec> 08└─notsureifserious.jpg
[23:19:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02!Coffee4Me. This thing will prepare other liquids - 06International Space Station Finally Gets Real Coffee - 623 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:19:12] <exec> 08└─Daytime: oolong or orange spice is nice Night: chamomile+mint Coffee? I don't even like the smell. When I worked in Miami, the Cuban gals in the office prepared Cuban Coffee. That stuff is so strong that it's served in teeny-tiny cups. The smell traveled down the hall, pervading every adjoining nook...
[23:20:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:Fools! - 06Prosecutors Suspect Man Hacked Lottery Computers to Score Winning Ticket - 585 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:20:40] <exec> 08└─There can be different ways of rigging. I recall one Italian lotto scandal where some numbers to were warmed up before the extraction, and the blindfolded child was instructed to look for those (like it was a game) . It needed insiders of course, and it gave a new meaning to the "hot" number. But it...
[23:22:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Re:July 16 - 06A Singapore Math Problem Goes Viral: When Is Cheryl’s Birthday? - 142 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:22:39] <exec> 08└─Cheryl: "I'll tell Albert the month, and I'll tell Bernard the day and if you can figure it out without cheating, both of you get to fuck me."
[23:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03mr_mischief [4884] (Score:2) 02Re:July 16 - 06A Singapore Math Problem Goes Viral: When Is Cheryl’s Birthday? - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:22:53] <exec> 08└─Well, now, you're right that I missed the 19 being a unique number. The method still works. Albert and Bernard know the birthday but we don't. It's either May 19th or June 18th, but if Bernard was given either the 18th or the 19th, since the 19th is only in May and the 18th in June (and A knows the...
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