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[00:27:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02poor guy - 06Pilot of "Radioactive Drone" Arrested - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:08] <exec> 08└─if i wasn't lazy i might go find out a bit more about him. makes me wonder whether he lost everything after fuckershima.
[00:27:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:poor guy - 06Pilot of "Radioactive Drone" Arrested - 2130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:27:09] <exec> 08└─http://ajw.asahi.com/article/behind_news/social_affairs/AJ201504250021 [asahi.com] Yasuo Yamamoto, 40 and unemployed, turned himself in to the police and was promptly arrested, even though operating the device over Abe's office was not illegal. Yamamoto, a resident of Obama, Fukui Prefecture, said...
[00:27:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The problem is right at the top. - 06Coding the Equivalent of NSA's QUANTUM as a Homework Assignment - 621 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:27:19] <exec> 08└─Read about the history of the NSA for your answers. I recommend the book "The Puzzle Palace" for a very thorough history. The short version is every branch of the military demands a piece of the intelligence pie but all the good crypto guys aren't inclined to be military types. Thus a compromise was...
[00:27:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:They worked to ensure others could too?? - 06Coding the Equivalent of NSA's QUANTUM as a Homework Assignment - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:27:23] <exec> 08└─The first time I heard (and used) packet injection was in the '90s. Up until 2006 the NSA did actively try to help secure things. Then they went silent and stopped updating some of the best hardening guides available at the time. Now we have this. I don't even have a speculative idea why, but someth...
[00:27:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02sigh - 06How Much of the Amazon Rainforest Would it Take to Print the Internet? - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:27:35] <exec> 08└─also... parents and teachers need to stop telling kids that google is "the internet"
[00:27:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Poor analysis - 06How Much of the Amazon Rainforest Would it Take to Print the Internet? - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:27:38] <exec> 08└─One should also ask if those Wikipedia dumps are compressed and consider the compression ratio.
[00:27:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Rainforest? - 06How Much of the Amazon Rainforest Would it Take to Print the Internet? - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:27:40] <exec> 08└─It will make a great paragraph in the World Almanac for Kids.
[00:27:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Finance - 06The EU Should Finance Key Open Source Tools - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:27:59] <exec> 08└─You are making me depressed, frojack! Now I see why Reagan went on to prove that government is the problem. I guess there is no way that a people could ever come together to solve problems in common for the benefit of all, so it is just better to leave ourselves to the tender mercies of reliable sel...
[00:30:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anne Nonymous [712] 02Terrorists - 06The Apple Watch has Landed - 182 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:30:48] <exec> 08└─> Unless you've been hiding in a cave in Afghanistan you know about the Apple Watch. So either you care about the Apple watch, or you are a terrorist on the order of Osama Bin Laden?
[00:35:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:the much anticipated ? - 06Jolla Tablet Ship Date Slips - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:35:46] <exec> 08└─> Much anticipated? By who? by people wanting a smartphone. You know, that mobile + computer combination that basically is unattainable since the nokia n900.
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[01:27:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Yay Trains. - 06Japanese Maglev Train Sets New Speed Records - 912 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:01] <exec> 08└─Ignoring, for the moment the argument about fast trains being something only needed by growing populations, (an argument I can't really fathom), I have to say I'd be perfectly fine with Japan's trains, or Germany's coming to North America. Its a tragedy the extent to which we allowed train travel wi...
[01:27:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Yay Trains. - 06Japanese Maglev Train Sets New Speed Records - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:27:02] <exec> 08└─If Hyperloop Technologies [wikipedia.org] pans out, maglev trains may not be able to compete on cost. Here's an estimate of $191 million per kilometer [pbs.org] of maglev track compared to $24 million per kilometer for traditional high-speed rail. Since U.S. high speed rail always seems to be 2-3 de...
[01:27:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Re:poor guy - 06Pilot of "Radioactive Drone" Arrested - 3975 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:27:12] <exec> 08└─Plausible analysis from a poster on ars technica: [arstechnica.com] I realize your question is rhetorical, and I do not intend to be snarky with this response, but he's basically proposing the use of non-nuclear energy. I only say this because I've been following the case on a daily basis, and the...
[01:27:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02So its official: Placards are out, Drones in - 06Pilot of "Radioactive Drone" Arrested - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:14] <exec> 08└─This is the new protest then? Wait till the executive is away, to avoid attempted assassination charges, then fly drones or ultra-lite aircraft toward government offices or official residences. Deliver letters or harmless sand, get arrested, get publicity, rinse, repeat. Can't see this ending well.
[01:27:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:So its official: Placards are out, Drones in - 06Pilot of "Radioactive Drone" Arrested - 1304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:27:16] <exec> 08└─drone ban imminent: On Friday, police and ministry officials held their first meeting at the prime minister’s office on drone regulation and began exploring legislation to regulate flights above sensitive facilities. Plans under consideration include obliging drone buyers to register their name an...
[01:28:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score:2) 02Pronunciation - 06Woolly Mammoth Genome Sequenced - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:28:32] <exec> 08└─Just in case anyone was wondering, his name isn't pronounced "love", it's more like "loo ve".
[01:29:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Reality vs Sci Fi and Fantasy - 06Could the Planets in Star Wars Actually Support Life? - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:29:29] <exec> 08└─What is next? Sauron wasn't hugged enough as a child so he turned to necromancy and became evil? The people that write and "study" this clearly have to much time and grant money on their hands.
[01:29:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Subsentient [1111] 02Re:systemd invades another - 06Ubuntu 15.04 Released - 149 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:29:59] <exec> 08└─OpenSUSE already did fall. From https://en.opensuse.org [opensuse.org] : Systemd is the default and only init system since openSUSE 12.3
[01:30:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score:2) 02Re:systemd invades another - 06Ubuntu 15.04 Released - 3771 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:30:05] <exec> 08└─It seems obvious to me that you're just trolling, but I'll bite anyway, since a couple people seem to think your trolling is "insightful". • Systemd does work well enough for a majority of users and use-cases, especially desktop ones. For most people it will just work. There will be niche cases wh...
[01:31:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Mr Big in the Pants [4956] 02Re:Some people are really annoyed for no reason - 06Steam Now Offering Paid Workshop Mods - 1028 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:31:53] <exec> 08└─This is not what I have seen elsewhere. Things change drastically once the scent of money is in the water - and often not for the better: - Modders move from being incentivised based purely on passion to the other thing. - Contributors are now "the paid" and "the unpaid". Expect the latter to...
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[02:27:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Yay Trains. - 06Japanese Maglev Train Sets New Speed Records - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:27:03] <exec> 08└─But if Hyperloop goes freight, it will never serve any passengers. Freight never complains. Freight is what killed passenger trains. Also, people probably won't want to be spam-in-a-can(/a>. [wikipedia.org] They want to look out a window, and at least see where they are, and have an opportunity to t...
[02:27:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yay Trains. - 06Japanese Maglev Train Sets New Speed Records - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:27:04] <exec> 08└─... the argument about fast trains being something only needed by growing populations, ...
[02:27:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Less Michael Brown. More fast trains. - 06Japanese Maglev Train Sets New Speed Records - 644 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:27:06] <exec> 08└─The reason America doesn't have trains like this is because too much goddamn time and effort is wasted on situations like the Michael Brown incident. Let's face it, he was a criminal who robbed a grocery store, attacked the cashier, disrupted traffic by walking down the middle of a goddamn street, a...
[02:27:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Why can't Obama bring us this? - 06Japanese Maglev Train Sets New Speed Records - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:07] <exec> 08└─Why can't Obama bring us fast trains like this?
[02:27:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Why can't Obama bring us this? - 06Japanese Maglev Train Sets New Speed Records - 1362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:27:09] <exec> 08└─http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/07/us/delays-persist-for-us-high-speed-rail.html?_r=0 [nytimes.com] While Republican opposition and community protests have slowed the projects here, transportation policy experts and members of both parties also place blame for the failures on missteps by the Obama a...
[02:27:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:poor guy - 06Pilot of "Radioactive Drone" Arrested - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:27:18] <exec> 08└─Geez, sounds like this guy is trying to get arrested. Also, that's a pretty low bar for terrorism. Flying an unarmed and basically harmless drone to somebody's house while they're not even there? Better call the SWAT to catch this guy!
[02:27:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:poor guy - 06Pilot of "Radioactive Drone" Arrested - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:27:20] <exec> 08└─Lost in translation?
[02:27:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03CoolHand [438] (Score:2) 02Re:Not to be a hypocrite - 06How Much of the Amazon Rainforest Would it Take to Print the Internet? - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:27:45] <exec> 08└─If you want stories like that published on the site, you should write things like that up as submissions, instead of posting them as off-topic comments...
[02:28:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How do they compare to elephants? - 06Woolly Mammoth Genome Sequenced - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:28:24] <exec> 08└─The word "troll" has lost all meaning these days, because people like you just don't know when to use it. Asking if woolly mammoths have large penises is a reasonable question. Elephants do have very long penises, although they lack girth.
[02:28:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Re:see you later - 06Woolly Mammoth Genome Sequenced - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:28:41] <exec> 08└─Ranchers scream bloody murder about a few bison leaving parks and wandering near their cattle. We might explode their heads if we let mammoths loose.
[02:29:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Now put the shoe on the other foot. - 06Bypassing OS X Security Tools is Trivial - 500 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:29:01] <exec> 08└─You're right, it's impossible to talk about American automobiles without having an understanding of Detroit, its culture, and how it defined Americana for several decades. The American automobile was a cultural reflection of Detroit; a city of immense industrial capability. Ford's vehicles, for exam...
[02:30:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:systemd invades another - 06Ubuntu 15.04 Released - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:30:18] <exec> 08└─Wrong.
[02:30:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why not? - 06Ubuntu 15.04 Released - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:30:36] <exec> 08└─Windows does the right thing. Files shouldn't be pulled out from under running applications without warning.
[02:30:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"Windows is getting much better than Linux" - 06Ubuntu 15.04 Released - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:30:38] <exec> 08└─What the fuck are you talking about?
[02:30:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Who cares? - 06Ubuntu 15.04 Released - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:30:43] <exec> 08└─A Chromebook? Really? A computer that boots but can't actually do anything once booted is just as useless as a computer that doesn't boot at all.
[02:30:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Who cares? - 06Ubuntu 15.04 Released - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:30:46] <exec> 08└─Let me get this straight. It's systemd that's failing to work properly, yet somehow it's a problem with the distro? Well, I know you're full of shit, because people are reporting problems with systemd not booting properly on pretty much every distro that uses it. This has been a particularly bad pro...
[02:31:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mr Big in the Pants [4956] (Score:2) 02Re:Dictatorship - 06Statistician Sues Election Official over Voting Machine Anomalies - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:31:45] <exec> 08└─It is not hair splitting. I am right and you are so very wrong. Simple as that. You do a disservice to all those millions of people who have suffered under those forms of government by comparing the *relatively* (i.e. compared to the most evil) benevolent government you have to the fascist states th...
[02:32:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mr Big in the Pants [4956] (Score:2) 02Re:Some people are really annoyed for no reason - 06Steam Now Offering Paid Workshop Mods - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:32:18] <exec> 08└─Well then I predict this has the halflife highly radioactive substance. See what I did there?
[02:32:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Steam Bucks, similar to Feces Dollars - 06Steam Now Offering Paid Workshop Mods - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:32:31] <exec> 08└─Well, at least we know for you money === success.
[02:33:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Whoever [4524] 02"Low dilution" homeopathic remdies - 06Homeopathy: Fraud, or Purveyors of Placebos - 455 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:39] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately, the problem with homeopathic remedies is not limited to their lack of any active substance. Some drug sellers have been selling so-called homeopathic remedies with "low-dilution" strengths. In other words, they have measurable amounts of active ingredients, sometimes dangerous quantit...
[02:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:An old joke - 06What If One Country Achieves the Singularity First? - 2386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:34:08] <exec> 08└─Nobody was certain it was useless until they tried it. AI is hard, but nobody really knows just how hard, or whether the problem is just that we aren't looking at things the right way. To me it seemed obvious that Prolog was the wrong thing to try, but there were a very large number of people who di...
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[03:27:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Why doesn't Linux have functionality like this? - 06Windows 10 Device Guard: Microsoft's Effort to Keep Malware off PCs - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:06] <exec> 08└─Why doesn't Linux have advanced security functionality like this?
[03:27:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why doesn't Linux have functionality like this? - 06Windows 10 Device Guard: Microsoft's Effort to Keep Malware off PCs - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:27:07] <exec> 08└─Why doesn't Linux have advanced security functionality like this?
[03:27:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02UEFI Redux! - 06Windows 10 Device Guard: Microsoft's Effort to Keep Malware off PCs - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:09] <exec> 08└─If the Windows 10 kernel, which has control over the PC, is compromised, Device Guard will remain fire-walled off, and cannot be subverted into allowing unauthorized code to run.
[03:27:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:UEFI Redux! - 06Windows 10 Device Guard: Microsoft's Effort to Keep Malware off PCs - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:27:11] <exec> 08└─What are you talking about?
[03:27:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:UEFI Redux! - 06Windows 10 Device Guard: Microsoft's Effort to Keep Malware off PCs - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:27:12] <exec> 08└─I think GP is claiming the 11-ness of Windows 10's "OMG Ponies!"-ness will lead to the assimilation of one and all. Resistance will be futile.
[03:27:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:UEFI Redux! - 06Windows 10 Device Guard: Microsoft's Effort to Keep Malware off PCs - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:27:14] <exec> 08└─Do you find that you having difficulty following conversations? Do the things that other people say sometimes not make sense? Do you have to ask for explanations constantly? Maybe you need a hearing aid!!! Except that, this is reading. Oh. Sorry. You need education! Look up "redux", it's French, a...
[03:27:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02"The details are a little vague" - 06Windows 10 Device Guard: Microsoft's Effort to Keep Malware off PCs - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:16] <exec> 08└─so is the source code.
[03:27:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"The details are a little vague" - 06Windows 10 Device Guard: Microsoft's Effort to Keep Malware off PCs - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:27:17] <exec> 08└─Just because it's vague to you it does not mean that it's vague to Microsoft.
[03:27:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"The details are a little vague" - 06Windows 10 Device Guard: Microsoft's Effort to Keep Malware off PCs - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:27:19] <exec> 08└─...And the NSA.
[03:27:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Insightful) 02Cryptographically Signed by MS? - 06Windows 10 Device Guard: Microsoft's Effort to Keep Malware off PCs - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:21] <exec> 08└─checks to see if each and every application is cryptographically signed by Microsoft as a trusted binary
[03:27:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03TrumpetPower! [590] (Score:2) 02Re:Yay Trains. - 06Japanese Maglev Train Sets New Speed Records - 841 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:27:28] <exec> 08└─"Spam in a can" is already an excellent description of today's air travel experience. Unless you've got a window seat, you're not going to see diddlysquat outside the plane -- and lots of those with window seats pull the blinds anyway. Turbulence and loud noise are par for the course -- and, dependi...
[03:27:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Yay Trains. - 06Japanese Maglev Train Sets New Speed Records - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:27:30] <exec> 08└─Agreed, fast rail would win over air, at least for short-to-medium distance. Never having seen a bullet train, I don't know if they have food service, or if you have to remain seated. The Spam in a can reference was about the infinite loop (pneumatic tube> idea.
[03:27:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yay Trains. - 06Japanese Maglev Train Sets New Speed Records - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:27:31] <exec> 08└─How will that fix the problem of Japanese men preferring to have sexual intercourse with pillows and dolls, rather than real women?
[03:27:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yay Trains. - 06Japanese Maglev Train Sets New Speed Records - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:27:33] <exec> 08└─It's the women that control the childbirth. If they aren't getting knocked up or turkey bastered, they aren't trying to have kids.
[03:27:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why can't Obama bring us this? - 06Japanese Maglev Train Sets New Speed Records - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:27:36] <exec> 08└─Instead of blaming the Republicans, maybe you should just admit that Obama failed in this case.
[03:27:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Why can't Obama bring us this? - 06Japanese Maglev Train Sets New Speed Records - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:27:38] <exec> 08└─What is Obama supposed to do, claim the land in the name of D.C. and lay down the tracks himself? The Republicans decided to snub the cash. Maybe that was a good decision. But it doesn't get new trains deployed.
[03:28:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Finance - 06The EU Should Finance Key Open Source Tools - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:28:41] <exec> 08└─Open source has mostly been avoided by for-profit corporations. It should probably stay that way, don't you think?
[03:29:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Re:No... - 06Could the Planets in Star Wars Actually Support Life? - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:29:55] <exec> 08└─Whereas Earth hosts a wide diversity of biomes, the planets of Star Wars boast far fewer climates and topographies.
[03:30:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score:2) 02Re:Coruscant - 06Could the Planets in Star Wars Actually Support Life? - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:30:02] <exec> 08└─Issac Asimov didn't think it was too outlandish of an idea....remember Trantor from the Foundation Trilogy? Trantor is depicted as the capital of the first Galactic Empire. Its land surface of 194,000,000 km² (75,000,000 miles², 130% of Earth land area)[2] was, with the exception of the Imperial P...
[03:30:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It really isn't impossible - 06Could the Planets in Star Wars Actually Support Life? - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:30:10] <exec> 08└─As I read in a book (I think it was called "The Science of Star Wars", to presume that Tantooine was the native home of giants slugs is just silly, a desert is the wrong environment for such a creature. On the other hand, a remote desert planet that is outside republic/empire rule, might just be a g...
[03:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Re:Placebo Effect - 06Homeopathy: Fraud, or Purveyors of Placebos - 725 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:34:10] <exec> 08└─I have always questioned this about the double blind test. If the tester knows which, but tells a convincing enough lie that the testee does not know which is which, does it make a difference? It seems to me that double-blind says it isn't; but is that just because the test conditions are trying to...
[03:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Re:Placebo Effect - 06Homeopathy: Fraud, or Purveyors of Placebos - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:34:11] <exec> 08└─I would also love to know why someone modded this "Disagree". Disagree with what? As far as I can tell this is how double blind and placebo are supposed to work. (I always tell myself I am "too smart for the placebo affect to work". Now excuse me while I go pop an ibuprofen for my gout, even though...
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[04:27:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Insightful) 02Re:UEFI Redux! - 06Windows 10 Device Guard: Microsoft's Effort to Keep Malware off PCs - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:27:08] <exec> 08└─No, I don't have difficulty following conversations when the people involved aren't babbling like a fucking moron, as you seem to have a tendency to do. You need to think before you type. Write words and sentences that flow together into the expression of coherent ideas. When you do that, people wil...
[04:27:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"The details are a little vague" - 06Windows 10 Device Guard: Microsoft's Effort to Keep Malware off PCs - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:27:12] <exec> 08└─... and Lennart Poettering.
[04:27:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Cryptographically Signed by MS? - 06Windows 10 Device Guard: Microsoft's Effort to Keep Malware off PCs - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:27:15] <exec> 08└─Do you have anything to back up your claims? Or are you just speculating?
[04:27:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03nethead [4970] (Score:2, Informative) 02Re:Cryptographically Signed by MS? - 06Windows 10 Device Guard: Microsoft's Effort to Keep Malware off PCs - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:27:17] <exec> 08└─This is for sysadmins in enterprise situations to keep the users from infecting the whole network. This isn't a feature for geeks like us to use on our own computers. Remember that almost all business runs on Windows and keeping the crap out of a network is a full time nightmare.
[04:27:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02How much will I have to pay MS to sign my app? - 06Windows 10 Device Guard: Microsoft's Effort to Keep Malware off PCs - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:27:19] <exec> 08└─If I provide software for download from my own website, will it be signed by microsoft?
[04:27:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:So its official: Placards are out, Drones in - 06Pilot of "Radioactive Drone" Arrested - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:27:51] <exec> 08└─There's some fairly good strategy to it though. The more the authorities freak out, the more they prove his point. At the same time, the Prime Minister ivery badly wants to freak out because there's scary radiation in it (yes, minuscule, but freaking a=out about small amounts of radiation seems to b...
[04:28:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:How do they compare to elephants? - 06Woolly Mammoth Genome Sequenced - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:28:56] <exec> 08└─You weren't asking for educational reasons.
[04:31:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03PapayaSF [1183] (Score:2) 02Re:Eh? - 06The Apple Watch has Landed - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:31:48] <exec> 08└─Really, you'd be hard pressed to find anything that Apple has done first for quite a few years.
[04:33:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Some people are really annoyed for no reason - 06Steam Now Offering Paid Workshop Mods - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:33:02] <exec> 08└─What thieves? What stealing?
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[05:27:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03ls671 [891] (Score:2) 02Re:Why doesn't Linux have functionality like this? - 06Windows 10 Device Guard: Microsoft's Effort to Keep Malware off PCs - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:27:03] <exec> 08└─Changes in Minix 3 mentioned in TFS will be backported to Linux.
[05:27:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:0, Troll) 02Re:UEFI Redux! - 06Windows 10 Device Guard: Microsoft's Effort to Keep Malware off PCs - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:27:09] <exec> 08└─Sorry, I couldn't make out what you were saying? Are you a Micro$oft shill? I cannot conceive of any other reason some one would be complaining about their own lack of comprehension. And since YOU are the AC, I claim no backs.
[05:27:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Cryptographically Signed by MS? - 06Windows 10 Device Guard: Microsoft's Effort to Keep Malware off PCs - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:27:17] <exec> 08└─The disruption of communication and requiring cryptographically signed code can only mean one thing: invasion. The Trade Federation is making their move. Sometimes speculation is strategically necessary.
[05:27:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03gnuman [5013] (Score:2) 02Re:How much will I have to pay MS to sign my app? - 06Windows 10 Device Guard: Microsoft's Effort to Keep Malware off PCs - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:27:20] <exec> 08└─It probably means signed, not signed by Microsoft. Compromised keys could be revoked by Microsoft.
[05:27:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Good on him - 06Pilot of "Radioactive Drone" Arrested - 549 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:27:55] <exec> 08└─Its about time that Shinzo Abe had a bit of radioactive water (or at least the illusion of it) on his doorstep. Fukushima continues to dump 100 tonnes of radioactive water per day into the pacific and te coverups and meager attempt to clean up the site point to the usual problem with nuclear power;...
[05:28:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Finance - 06The EU Should Finance Key Open Source Tools - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:28:47] <exec> 08└─Agreed. Your point?
[05:30:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03M. Baranczak [1673] (Score:2) 02Re:No... - 06Could the Planets in Star Wars Actually Support Life? - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:30:03] <exec> 08└─You'd say the same about Earth if you watched... well, 90% of films, probably.
[05:36:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Like the party, but can't vote for their candid - 06UK Green Party Proposes 14-year Copyright Term - Artists are not Amused - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:36:03] <exec> 08└─People vote too much on a candidate though
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[06:27:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03meisterister [949] (Score:2) 02Yet another "Feature"... - 06Windows 10 Device Guard: Microsoft's Effort to Keep Malware off PCs - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:27:33] <exec> 08└─...to disable if I ever decide to install this POS.
[06:27:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Pile of shit security philosophy again - 06Windows 10 Device Guard: Microsoft's Effort to Keep Malware off PCs - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:27:35] <exec> 08└─Device Guard wraps an extra layer of defense around the operating system to prevent malware from permanently compromising a PC.
[06:27:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03K_benzoate [5036] (Score:2) 02Re:Yay Trains. - 06Japanese Maglev Train Sets New Speed Records - 726 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:27:48] <exec> 08└─Hyperloop is a security nightmare. If someone gets a destructive device onboard you can imagine the chaos. You're in a partial vacuum, so an explosion would be especially destabilizing for the entire infrastructure. So you'd have to get security right, which we can't even do for airplanes in the rea...
[06:28:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03gnuman [5013] (Score:2) 02Re:poor guy - 06Pilot of "Radioactive Drone" Arrested - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:28:08] <exec> 08└─“I am sad because the security at the prime minister’s office is incompetent.”
[06:28:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Wrong person arrested - 06Pilot of "Radioactive Drone" Arrested - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:28:14] <exec> 08└─It's the top executives in the nuclear industry that ought to be arrested. They fucked the management up and took bad decisions regarding safety actions.
[06:28:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The Japs sure have a pretty bad enviro record - 06Pilot of "Radioactive Drone" Arrested - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:28:15] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Big_Pollution_Diseases_of_Japan [wikipedia.org] It's disgusting to see the government side with the polluters instead of the people, fucking fascist!
[06:28:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03gnuman [5013] (Score:2) 02Re:Rainforest? - 06How Much of the Amazon Rainforest Would it Take to Print the Internet? - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:28:48] <exec> 08└─I don't know how much of the rainforest is hardwood
[06:31:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:Go away - 06Ubuntu 15.04 Released - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:31:54] <exec> 08└─SystemD will drive away people that contributes too. Which can be suspected to be a reason behind this Psyops called systemd because RedHat is deeply involved in the famous industrial complex.
[06:32:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sir Finkus [192] (Score:2) 02Re:Open-source election software - 06Statistician Sues Election Official over Voting Machine Anomalies - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:32:56] <exec> 08└─Well, that would be pretty easy to fix. Just make any modifications to the blockchain after election day invalid. They could issue the "votes" as early as they'd like.
[06:36:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03hash14 [1102] (Score:2) 02Re:Nah - 06UK Green Party Proposes 14-year Copyright Term - Artists are not Amused - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:36:13] <exec> 08└─If you think art, music, and literature have no value I feel sorry for you.
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[07:27:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Cryptographically Signed by MS? - 06Windows 10 Device Guard: Microsoft's Effort to Keep Malware off PCs - 1203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:27:27] <exec> 08└─The summary says: Only code signed by Microsoft will be allowed to run. Obviously only Microsoft will be able to sign code (well, and anyone managing to get Microsoft's private key; so the NSA probably will be able, too, but certainly not normal programmers). Therefore Microsoft has full control abo...
[07:27:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Yay Trains. - 06Japanese Maglev Train Sets New Speed Records - 505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:27:45] <exec> 08└─In my experience, you can run around the whole train at 200mph and buy no-so-good food. In Europe, anything below 600 miles has proven to be a sweet spot for HS rail, especially if the stations are downtown. Going to an airport, through security, then back into town at the end, usually requires the...
[07:28:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So its official: Placards are out, Drones in - 06Pilot of "Radioactive Drone" Arrested - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:28:11] <exec> 08└─Will work only first time, then big B will just sweep it under the rug. Graffiti bot on the other hand.
[07:28:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02WAAaaaaT!? - 06Pilot of "Radioactive Drone" Arrested - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:28:15] <exec> 08└─the sand is radioactive now? WTF? how is this going to affect the solar panels manufacturing industry? they use copious amounts of the stuff to make the panels. you think anyone is going to buy solar panels if they are radioactive? holy crap! sue 'em! sue 'em! damnit even the money from the settleme...
[07:28:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03mtrycz [60] 02Excercises rooted in reality are better - 06Coding the Equivalent of NSA's QUANTUM as a Homework Assignment - 273 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:28:24] <exec> 08└─It's good to always keep your assignments rooted in reality, with real-world examples. People are more motivated than with the usual proof-of-concept assignments. And as a cool bonus, you get to quintify just how much work would go into (a basic version of) the hack. Cool!
[07:29:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Finance - 06The EU Should Finance Key Open Source Tools - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:29:05] <exec> 08└─But all those eyes failed on the Elliptical Curve random number generator fiasco.
[07:29:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Finance - 06The EU Should Finance Key Open Source Tools - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:29:07] <exec> 08└─What part of "better chance" did you not understand?
[07:30:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Look at our own solar system. - 06Could the Planets in Star Wars Actually Support Life? - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:30:50] <exec> 08└─Lack of gas/liquid to react to solar input makes for a dull climate.
[07:31:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Why not? - 06Ubuntu 15.04 Released - 683 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:31:47] <exec> 08└─A less privileged executable has no say on what i do to its files (or itself). One time, while ssh'd into a box, i created a directory with some basic stuff and chroot'd into it and then deleted the entire host OS (redhat). Ssh continued to function and kept my connection alive even though its own e...
[07:31:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Who cares? - 06Ubuntu 15.04 Released - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:31:54] <exec> 08└─Can't do anything other than everything on the internet. It also has a guest account that makes sense. You could hand the laptop to anyone and they could install anything they wanted and have 35 toolbars in their browser. You just log them out and its all gone. Would you ever let strangers have acce...
[07:36:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03hash14 [1102] (Score:2) 02Re:Nah - 06UK Green Party Proposes 14-year Copyright Term - Artists are not Amused - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:36:26] <exec> 08└─Not just infinitely replicable, but infinitely replicable at zero cost. That's what has changed. Producing and stamping an LP was an expensive proposition. Printing a book still is.
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[08:27:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:Pile of shit security philosophy again - 06Windows 10 Device Guard: Microsoft's Effort to Keep Malware off PCs - 3165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:27:44] <exec> 08└─What I propose might be full of holes... but I sure liked the old way of doing things where I had EPROM bios ROM and it took physical removal of the chip, an ultraviolet lamp, and a dedicated EPROM burner to change the BIOS code. Memory was small and expensive back then. I remember a lot of the "la...
[08:28:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:They worked to ensure others could too?? - 06Coding the Equivalent of NSA's QUANTUM as a Homework Assignment - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:28:41] <exec> 08└─Imagine two findings: Finding 1: A Mafia boss shot someone. Finding 2: The American president shot someone. Which one would you think give the greater outrage? Can you tell why?
[08:29:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03AnonTechie [2275] (Score:2) 02Re:Finance - 06The EU Should Finance Key Open Source Tools - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:29:26] <exec> 08└─The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem. - Milton Friedman
[08:33:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Re:Different? - 06Statistician Sues Election Official over Voting Machine Anomalies - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:33:05] <exec> 08└─whoosh. Had he been educated properly, perhaps he would not have made that mistake?
[08:33:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score:2) 02Re:Open-source election software - 06Statistician Sues Election Official over Voting Machine Anomalies - 616 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:33:28] <exec> 08└─Alright smart guy lets here EXACTLY how source code is gonna keep an attacker that controls the hardware and has unfettered access from doing any damned thing they want. While you are at it explain 1.- How EXACTLY you are gonna prove that the source YOU have was the source that was running at the ti...
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[09:27:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Obsession - 06Giant Ball Will Help Explorer Survive a Year on an Iceberg - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:27:17] <exec> 08└─Humans, why don't you stop doing silly things like ending up as a human burger between two slabs of ice? even systemd in debian stable looks more sensible than that. Well, at first glance it does. Well, at a very brief first glance it does. Well, at very very brief first glance while on tequila pepp...
[09:27:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03AnonTechie [2275] (Score:2) 0215 Minutes of Fame - 06Giant Ball Will Help Explorer Survive a Year on an Iceberg - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:27:18] <exec> 08└─The lure of 15 minutes of fame seems irresistible to humans.
[09:27:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02I would like to build a computer out of water - 06Lego Flip Dot Display - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:27:27] <exec> 08└─or rather water pipes, with water-operated valves where transistors would otherwise be. Perhaps it's already been done. I think it would be instructive for people who don't understand electronics.
[09:27:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:Pile of shit security philosophy again - 06Windows 10 Device Guard: Microsoft's Effort to Keep Malware off PCs - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:27:58] <exec> 08└─You can implement what you describe by using a write-once disc (CD, DVD, BD) and push the WR pin of the flash memory hard to high or such. But the problem isn't the flash memory in principle it's the design of the operating system. Especially how things are compartmentalized.
[09:30:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03wantkitteh [3362] (Score:2) 02tl;dr Version - 06Bypassing OS X Security Tools is Trivial - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:30:44] <exec> 08└─"Mac OS X has crap security because individual programs can be exploited." No shit, Sherlock!
[09:32:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Marand [1081] 02Re:systemd invades another - 06Ubuntu 15.04 Released - 1038 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:32:04] <exec> 08└─As I understand it, Canonical wanted a sysvinit replacement and created upstart for that purpose years ago (2006 according to wikipedia). Systemd came later (2010) with the same goal, but developed by RedHat employees because redhat loves its NIH. Canonical only decided to abandon upstart because De...
[09:34:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Steam Bucks, similar to Feces Dollars - 06Steam Now Offering Paid Workshop Mods - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:34:30] <exec> 08└─"Guessing" that someone you have an irrational dislike for will do something you don't like... bitter about something, loser?
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[10:27:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:3, Funny) 02Giant balls - 06Giant Ball Will Help Explorer Survive a Year on an Iceberg - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:27:34] <exec> 08└─So - some explorer who claims to have giant balls intends to camp out on an iceberg all alone. Got it.
[10:27:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ryuugami [2925] (Score:2) 02Paging Dr. Freud... - 06Giant Ball Will Help Explorer Survive a Year on an Iceberg - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:27:35] <exec> 08└─Giant balls made out of a "continuous monocoque structure", even. Not to mention the "aircraft-grade aluminum", which almost makes it a cockpit.
[10:27:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Attention seeking...for what, exactly? - 06Giant Ball Will Help Explorer Survive a Year on an Iceberg - 1387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:27:37] <exec> 08└─Whenever some idiot goes off on a year-long, clearly pointless stunt, I always want to know what they're really after. Pointless, why? Because: - This has nothing to do with icebergs. If he's going to live in his little ball for a year, he could do that anywhere. Though I suppose it wouldn't be so s...
[10:27:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score:2) 02personal - 06Lego Flip Dot Display - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:27:47] <exec> 08└─Legos are retarded expensive, they make the Mac people look frugal. Props to the spoiled brats that got to play with Legos. Every time I see these Lego commercials on /. and soylent I think, fuck you... you Ri¢hie Ri¢h ass maf.
[10:28:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Cryptographically Signed by MS? - 06Windows 10 Device Guard: Microsoft's Effort to Keep Malware off PCs - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:28:12] <exec> 08└─Do you have anything to back up your claims? Or are you just speculating?
[10:28:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Cryptographically Signed by MS? - 06Windows 10 Device Guard: Microsoft's Effort to Keep Malware off PCs - 626 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:28:14] <exec> 08└─I agree that this will be beneficial to sys admins (and their sanity), but I'm betting the new system setup process will ask the user/consumer if they want their system to be protected from/against unknown software. The phrasing of the question might (and probably will) result in many opting in. And...
[10:28:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03PizzaRollPlinkett [4512] (Score:2) 02cryptographically signed by Microsoft - 06Windows 10 Device Guard: Microsoft's Effort to Keep Malware off PCs - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:28:22] <exec> 08└─Stuxnet was spread by a valid, signed cryptographic key, so this trust-until-revoked thing doesn't seem to have worked in the past. Oh, and the SecureID thing from RSA used the same model, and it was compromised. Has trust-until-revoked ever worked?
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[11:27:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Clueless - 06Microsoft's PlayReady will Play for Sure - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:27:34] <exec> 08└─Clueless Calvin, and about 280 million Americans will eat this shit, and tell us all how good it is. If Clueless and his cousins would just tell Microsoft and Hollywood to pack it up their orifices, the world would be a much better place. Maybe I need to watch that stupid movie again - Wag the Dog.
[11:27:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03archshade [3664] (Score:1) 02Re:15 Minutes of Fame - 06Giant Ball Will Help Explorer Survive a Year on an Iceberg - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:27:44] <exec> 08└─The lure of 15 minutes of fame seems irresistible to some humans.
[11:27:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Attention seeking...for what, exactly? - 06Giant Ball Will Help Explorer Survive a Year on an Iceberg - 994 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:27:49] <exec> 08└─"Does he have nothing better to do with his life?" Solitude does have it's allure. I'm not sure - if I had the means and opportunity, would I go off on a sailing adventure around the world? Nahh, no way would I go bobbing around in the ocean in this guy's little ball, but a sailing vessel? Maybe. I'...
[11:28:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:UEFI Redux! - 06Windows 10 Device Guard: Microsoft's Effort to Keep Malware off PCs - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:28:17] <exec> 08└─Parent post is flamebait? Come on children, I laughed out loud - literally - when I read that.
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[12:27:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Monopoly abuse? - 06Microsoft's PlayReady will Play for Sure - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:05] <exec> 08└─If the HD content can only be viewed on Windows 10, it will especially not be viewable with any non-Microsoft operating system. Wouldn't that qualify as monopoly abuse?
[12:27:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score:2) 02Re:Monopoly abuse? - 06Microsoft's PlayReady will Play for Sure - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:27:06] <exec> 08└─Only for as long until the "pirates" crack the system wide open. Then we will be sued into oblivion for watching what we actually paid for. The right to read (see appropriate link through a search engine) is also extendible to the right to watch. When you squeeze harder and harder, at some point we...
[12:27:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Microsoft have fresh fish to sell - 06Microsoft's PlayReady will Play for Sure - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:07] <exec> 08└─Microsoft are not stupid; they know the truth of the matter; they know that DRM in the computer domain is a technical joke. All this is just a business game they are playing with the corporate world; Microsoft are a clever fisherman selling fresh fish to the corporate world. The end user is not the...
[12:27:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score:1) 02Re:I would like to build a computer out of water - 06Lego Flip Dot Display - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:27:29] <exec> 08└─I've seen some "water gates" like AND, OR and flip flop made with water. It was about 35 years ago at a "world science fair", can't remember the exact name right now.
[12:27:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03archshade [3664] (Score:1) 02Re:personal - 06Lego Flip Dot Display - 1994 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:27:31] <exec> 08└─I have heard the "Lego(s) is expensive" thing quite alot. It always seemed weird to me, When I was growing up Lego was pricey but not unaffordable. I got a large box for my 4th b'day and think it was the present that I have used most throughout my life. Today I have younger brothers who still like t...
[12:27:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:UEFI Redux! - 06Windows 10 Device Guard: Microsoft's Effort to Keep Malware off PCs - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:27:49] <exec> 08└─You are a lost cause. You wrote an incomprehensible comment that basically just listed different versions of Windows, and now everybody else is to blame for your comment being incomprehensible? Son, please think before you write. Submit comments that make sense, and people won't laugh at you.
[12:27:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:UEFI Redux! - 06Windows 10 Device Guard: Microsoft's Effort to Keep Malware off PCs - 1031 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:27:51] <exec> 08└─Runaway!! Is that you? (cough, cough!) You are the last one I expected to come to my aid! Sorry about the disagreements we had! (Hack, brrachhh!) They hit me with a spam mod, Runaway! I never even saw it coming. Most likely from orbit, they thought it was the only way to be sure. Looks like it cur...
[12:27:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] 02Re:Cryptographically Signed by MS? - 06Windows 10 Device Guard: Microsoft's Effort to Keep Malware off PCs - 1203 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:27:59] <exec> 08└─The summary says: Only code signed by Microsoft will be allowed to run. Obviously only Microsoft will be able to sign code (well, and anyone managing to get Microsoft's private key; so the NSA probably will be able, too, but certainly not normal programmers). Therefore Microsoft has full control abo...
[12:28:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:Cryptographically Signed by MS? - 06Windows 10 Device Guard: Microsoft's Effort to Keep Malware off PCs - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:28:04] <exec> 08└─MS pushed a mobile OS on desktop users, it can surely push an enterprise feature on desktop users as well. In other news, Steam business decision to expand to Linux seems now a good move, possibly the next desktops with MS stuff on it should not be labeled PC but XBOX.
[12:29:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Finance - 06The EU Should Finance Key Open Source Tools - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:29:52] <exec> 08└─1) That Milton Friedman said it doesn't prove it right. 2) The sentence as quoted says "usually", thus even Milton Friedman accepted that sometimes the government solution is an improvement.
[12:29:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:2) 02Re:Finance - 06The EU Should Finance Key Open Source Tools - 529 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:29:53] <exec> 08└─That's why the Dutch government decided to accept the new metric system that its enemy, the French revolutionary government, had devised, in 1820. The government rammed through this newfangled metrification idea, whereas everyone was used to weighing their cheeses with the Dutch pound (~ 480 g) or t...
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[13:27:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Informative) 02Where's the fucking monopoly? - 06Microsoft's PlayReady will Play for Sure - 590 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:27:07] <exec> 08└─What you're saying is asinine. First of all, Windows 10 has pretty much no market penetration yet, SINCE IT HASN'T BEEN RELEASED! Second of all, even when it is released, it will have only a comparatively small fraction of the market for some time, possibly forever. Third of all, there's nothing to...
[13:27:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Where's the fucking monopoly? - 06Microsoft's PlayReady will Play for Sure - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:27:08] <exec> 08└─Mod the parent comment up. It's not a troll, obviously. There is no evidence of monopoly here. So it's wrong to claim that there is.
[13:27:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Where's the fucking monopoly? - 06Microsoft's PlayReady will Play for Sure - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:27:09] <exec> 08└─It's time for SN to show to modded a comment. We should get to know which dumbass here incorrectly marked down that perfectly good comment to -1, Troll.
[13:27:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Why watch shitty American movies? - 06Microsoft's PlayReady will Play for Sure - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:12] <exec> 08└─The quote from the kid should be Dad?! What’s going on? Why do we have to watch this shitty American movie?
[13:27:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Re:Why watch shitty American movies? - 06Microsoft's PlayReady will Play for Sure - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:27:14] <exec> 08└─Absolutely. Been watching non-American movies lately, and I absolutely have to agree. Language might be a problem for some, but there are lots of people providing free subtitles in many languages. Movies are wonderful outside America. Hollywood rips off foreign movies without even mentioning the ori...
[13:27:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nollij [4559] (Score:1) 02Won't really matter - 06Microsoft's PlayReady will Play for Sure - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:16] <exec> 08└─A shrinking percentage view this type of content through their PCs. Most use some sort of STB (e.g. Roku) or smart TV. 4K is still rare, and the vast majority of it is marketed as a TV, not a monitor. This is Microsoft attempting to seem relevant in a brave new world, nothing more.
[13:27:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03mtrycz [60] (Score:2) 02Re:Won't really matter - 06Microsoft's PlayReady will Play for Sure - 775 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:27:17] <exec> 08└─You forgot to mention that 4k itself doesn't really matter. It's just a marketing gimmick, and device and content producers would be far better off improving other aspects of their devices/content (framerates, contrast, color fidelity, durability... security maybe?). But they need to keep on selling...
[13:27:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:UEFI Redux! - 06Windows 10 Device Guard: Microsoft's Effort to Keep Malware off PCs - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:27:59] <exec> 08└─"Pathetic" would be a better mod. Or possibly "Retarded".
[13:28:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How much will I have to pay MS to sign my app? - 06Windows 10 Device Guard: Microsoft's Effort to Keep Malware off PCs - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:28:14] <exec> 08└─In a similar vein, if I develop specialized software (perhaps for just one customer), how much extra will I be forced to charge my customer to have it signed so that the customer can run it?
[13:28:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Cryptographically Signed by MS? - 06Windows 10 Device Guard: Microsoft's Effort to Keep Malware off PCs - 609 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:28:15] <exec> 08└─They probably want to get rid of independent software developers and small companies and instead have corporations take their place. Let all code be written by MS or one of its "affiliates". This way if anyone wants to make money writing code for MS Windows will either be working for MS directly or...
[13:28:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score:1) 02Why not any signature trusted by the PC's owner? - 06Windows 10 Device Guard: Microsoft's Effort to Keep Malware off PCs - 687 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:28:22] <exec> 08└─"Device Guard, when enabled by an administrator, checks to see if each and every application is cryptographically signed by Microsoft as a trusted binary before it is allowed to run." It would not be difficult for Microsoft to code this to allow a PC's owner to trust a set of signing keys - Microsof...
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[14:27:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fauxlosopher [4804] (Score:2, Disagree) 02Flak heaviest when over target - 06University Offering Free Online Course to Demolish Climate Denial - 640 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:01] <exec> 08└─Between the proven-broken climate models, exposed literal conspiracies to manipulate study outcomes, intentional deletion of raw data, and omission of naturally occurring CO2 output from volcanic eruptions that if included violently skews the desired outcomes away from the mankind-is-evil viewpoint,...
[14:27:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Flak heaviest when over target - 06University Offering Free Online Course to Demolish Climate Denial - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:27:02] <exec> 08└─UofQ - I guess that's shorthand for Front Office of the Ministry of Propaganda. FOMP for short. Or, would that be UNFOMP - United Nations Front Office of the Ministry of Propaganda? I guess I could sign up for the course, just to see how stupid it is. It doesn't promise to teach anything about clima...
[14:27:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score:2) 02Master Debaters... - 06University Offering Free Online Course to Demolish Climate Denial - 602 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:04] <exec> 08└─In my experience, cliamate "acceptors" are as ignorant of science as the deniers. They just happen to blindly accept the word of the "right" authority. I turn into a skeptic / denier in most discussions, not because I believe AGW is not happening, but rather that the evidence and explanations offer...
[14:27:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03mrcoolbp [68] (Score:2) 02Re:Won't really matter - 06Microsoft's PlayReady will Play for Sure - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:27:22] <exec> 08└─4k itself doesn't really matter. It's just a marketing gimmick, and device and content producers would be far better off improving other aspects of their devices/content (framerates, contrast, color fidelity, durability... security maybe?).
[14:29:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fauxlosopher [4804] (Score:1) 02Re:They worked to ensure others could too?? - 06Coding the Equivalent of NSA's QUANTUM as a Homework Assignment - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:29:25] <exec> 08└─Up until 2006 the NSA did actively try to help secure things
[14:31:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score:2) 02Re:Look at our own solar system. - 06Could the Planets in Star Wars Actually Support Life? - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:31:51] <exec> 08└─Exactly my point. :)
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[15:27:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Flak heaviest when over target - 06University Offering Free Online Course to Demolish Climate Denial - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:27:02] <exec> 08└─good goy
[15:27:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Flak heaviest when over target - 06University Offering Free Online Course to Demolish Climate Denial - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:27:03] <exec> 08└─"goy"? What is this garbage?
[15:27:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score:4, Informative) 02Re:Master Debaters... - 06University Offering Free Online Course to Demolish Climate Denial - 651 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:27:06] <exec> 08└─Most people know very little about any paticular topic and have only an appeal to authority to fall back on if challenged. Not that that will stop them from stringing together half-remembered arguments into ridiculous monstrosities. But, accepting that, I think much higher of those who accept the au...
[15:27:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] 02Monopoly abuse? - 06Microsoft's PlayReady will Play for Sure - 168 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:15] <exec> 08└─If the HD content can only be viewed on Windows 10, it will especially not be viewable with any non-Microsoft operating system. Wouldn't that qualify as monopoly abuse?
[15:27:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03sigma [1225] (Score:2) 02Re:Where's the fucking monopoly? - 06Microsoft's PlayReady will Play for Sure - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:27:19] <exec> 08└─Very obviously posted by the same AC as above and below.
[15:27:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Won't really matter - 06Microsoft's PlayReady will Play for Sure - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:27:28] <exec> 08└─I'd love to see how far display technologies will be pushed. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] For example, HEVC 6.2: 3,840 × 2,160 @ 300.0 FPS and 8,192 × 4,320 @ 120.0 FPS.
[15:27:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03rts008 [3001] (Score:4, Informative) 02Tech support nightmare of epic proportions... - 06Microsoft's PlayReady will Play for Sure - 1061 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:29] <exec> 08└─I worked at Creative Labs doing tech support when MS shoved out that 'Plays for Sure' crap on the world. It was a nightmare. It was difficult to explain to them that they did not 'own' what they perceived as having been bought. With phonograph records, tapes of various types, CD's(and other discs),...
[15:29:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:They worked to ensure others could too?? - 06Coding the Equivalent of NSA's QUANTUM as a Homework Assignment - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:29:31] <exec> 08└─The American presidnet kills far more people than all the Mafia bosses combined, so the difference in outrage is clear, and not in the way you describe.
[15:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:Eh? - 06The Apple Watch has Landed - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:33:31] <exec> 08└─I agree. I'm saying that there have been better, cheaper, and more attractive smart watches for some time now. Of course, they have lacked the free advertising Apple gets from every news organization in the world and a captive clientèle that has few options because of platform restrictions.
[15:34:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Re:Some people are really annoyed for no reason - 06Steam Now Offering Paid Workshop Mods - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:34:48] <exec> 08└─Someone makes a mod for free. Someone else uploads that mod to steam for pay. This is theft.
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[16:27:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02More mods needed? - 06Magnitude 7.8 Quake in Nepal Kills At Least 1800, Aftershocks Continue - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:01] <exec> 08└─Do you guys need more mods because this was ~2 days ago... Sounds like you need more people to help you go through the submissions. I for one volunteer!
[16:27:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:More mods needed? - 06Magnitude 7.8 Quake in Nepal Kills At Least 1800, Aftershocks Continue - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:27:03] <exec> 08└─It didn't stop being a story, and the aftershocks are a new story. What's the point of having a SoylentNews release the moment an earthquake hits? Do you plan to use SoylentNews to avoid tsunamis?
[16:27:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score:2) 02The "last" big one? - 06Magnitude 7.8 Quake in Nepal Kills At Least 1800, Aftershocks Continue - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:04] <exec> 08└─I suspect the last "big one" was not the Fort Tejon quake but rather the 1906 San Francisco quake, which has been estimated to be larger and caused substantially more damage due to the epicenter's proximity to San Francisco and San Jose.
[16:27:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Flak heaviest when over target - 06University Offering Free Online Course to Demolish Climate Denial - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:27:16] <exec> 08└─It's the thin blue line!
[16:27:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score:2) 02Re:Master Debaters... - 06University Offering Free Online Course to Demolish Climate Denial - 494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:27:19] <exec> 08└─Let's see... You're saying that knowing whose dogma to accept is really the best thing and that those that disagree are extremists, or worse, flacks. You add no one, or almost no one can really know the truth and so misunderstanding and faith are good... presumably again so long as they agree with y...
[16:27:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:4, Informative) 02I thought America has freedom of speech? - 06University Offering Free Online Course to Demolish Climate Denial - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:20] <exec> 08└─Note, even mentioning such courses could be illegal in Florida
[16:27:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02They're starting to panic. - 06University Offering Free Online Course to Demolish Climate Denial - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:22] <exec> 08└─Their models are based on false data and they are about to be exposed as the frauds that they are. http://www.telegraph.co.uk [telegraph.co.uk]
[16:27:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02wait what? - 06University Offering Free Online Course to Demolish Climate Denial - 980 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:24] <exec> 08└─You mean they have a course on how to be a specific kind of dick? What a waste of money. "but it is free". No it is not. There are servers and peoples time involved. Time is money. Taking a debating class is good. Taking one just so you know how to specifically argue 1 point, not good, and a waste o...
[16:27:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02Clueless - 06Microsoft's PlayReady will Play for Sure - 299 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:31] <exec> 08└─Clueless Calvin, and about 280 million Americans will eat this shit, and tell us all how good it is. If Clueless and his cousins would just tell Microsoft and Hollywood to pack it up their orifices, the world would be a much better place. Maybe I need to watch that stupid movie again - Wag the Dog.
[16:27:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03redneckmother [3597] (Score:1) 02Re:Why watch shitty American movies? - 06Microsoft's PlayReady will Play for Sure - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:27:41] <exec> 08└─"There is nothing new under the Sun."
[16:27:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why watch shitty American movies? - 06Microsoft's PlayReady will Play for Sure - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:27:43] <exec> 08└─There's more "good" content from America and the world than you could possibly watch.
[16:27:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03rts008 [3001] 02Tech support nightmare of epic proportions... - 06Microsoft's PlayReady will Play for Sure - 1061 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:47] <exec> 08└─I worked at Creative Labs doing tech support when MS shoved out that 'Plays for Sure' crap on the world. It was a nightmare. It was difficult to explain to them that they did not 'own' what they perceived as having been bought. With phonograph records, tapes of various types, CD's(and other discs),...
[16:28:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I'm sure we haven't heard the last of this - 06Giant Ball Will Help Explorer Survive a Year on an Iceberg - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:00] <exec> 08└─This one has Darwin Award written all over it.
[16:28:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03meisterister [949] 02Yet another "Feature"... - 06Windows 10 Device Guard: Microsoft's Effort to Keep Malware off PCs - 51 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:49] <exec> 08└─...to disable if I ever decide to install this POS.
[16:28:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PizzaRollPlinkett [4512] 02cryptographically signed by Microsoft - 06Windows 10 Device Guard: Microsoft's Effort to Keep Malware off PCs - 249 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:52] <exec> 08└─Stuxnet was spread by a valid, signed cryptographic key, so this trust-until-revoked thing doesn't seem to have worked in the past. Oh, and the SecureID thing from RSA used the same model, and it was compromised. Has trust-until-revoked ever worked?
[16:30:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Adamsjas [4507] 02Silly study, silly results. - 06How Much of the Amazon Rainforest Would it Take to Print the Internet? - 80 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:30:05] <exec> 08└─Wikipedia, which provided an average of 15 pages required to print each article.
[16:33:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Re:Go away - 06Ubuntu 15.04 Released - 451 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:33:27] <exec> 08└─Sysadmins like myself never needed to write our own "inits and services managers". We made any desired changes to the init scripts right after the base OS install, then never had to mess with (or suffer a failed boot from) them again. We have no need of "service managers", since the proper fix for a...
[16:35:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Some people are really annoyed for no reason - 06Steam Now Offering Paid Workshop Mods - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:35:11] <exec> 08└─The original is gone?
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[17:27:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:More mods needed? - 06Magnitude 7.8 Quake in Nepal Kills At Least 1800, Aftershocks Continue - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:27:10] <exec> 08└─My phone alerted me that a 6+ struck the area about an hour ago. It's ongoing. :/
[17:27:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:More mods needed? - 06Magnitude 7.8 Quake in Nepal Kills At Least 1800, Aftershocks Continue - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:27:11] <exec> 08└─Sounds like you need more people to help you go through the submissions. I for one volunteer!
[17:27:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:More mods needed? - 06Magnitude 7.8 Quake in Nepal Kills At Least 1800, Aftershocks Continue - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:27:12] <exec> 08└─Lack of submissions, rather than editors.
[17:27:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anne Nonymous [712] (Score:1) 02Send the a few bucks - 06Magnitude 7.8 Quake in Nepal Kills At Least 1800, Aftershocks Continue - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:15] <exec> 08└─Red Cross here [redcross.org]. Choose Nepal Earthquake Relief from the pulldown.
[17:27:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Send the a few bucks - 06Magnitude 7.8 Quake in Nepal Kills At Least 1800, Aftershocks Continue - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:27:17] <exec> 08└─Last time I made such donation was about five years ago. Don't even remember what the disaster was. It just feels like I'm being conned.
[17:27:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Techwolf [87] (Score:2) 02Re:Send the a few bucks - 06Magnitude 7.8 Quake in Nepal Kills At Least 1800, Aftershocks Continue - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:27:19] <exec> 08└─I knew someone that worked at the redcross and left in discust due to the outright corruption that was going on. Due to redcross has folks in key position in gov and media, it rarly gets exposed.
[17:27:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anne Nonymous [712] (Score:1) 02Re:Send the a few bucks - 06Magnitude 7.8 Quake in Nepal Kills At Least 1800, Aftershocks Continue - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:27:20] <exec> 08└─The Red Cross is not without problems, however, it's better than giving money to a charity scam.
[17:27:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Earthquake statistics - 06Magnitude 7.8 Quake in Nepal Kills At Least 1800, Aftershocks Continue - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:22] <exec> 08└─Nothing to do with this specific event, and also not recently updated, but nonetheless: This page provides an interesting overview of earthquake frequency by magnitude [usgs.gov]. Certainly I didn't realize that quakes of 7.x magnitude occur around 15 times per year. Obviously not always in a locati...
[17:27:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ryuugami [2925] (Score:3, Touché) 02Re:Master Debaters... - 06University Offering Free Online Course to Demolish Climate Denial - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:27:34] <exec> 08└─Yeah, it's really unbelievable that some people accept scientific consensus from the so-called "climate scientists", when it's obvious that those who study a field for a lifetime are the ones least qualified to talk about it. What's next? Accepting medical advice from "doctors"? Legal advice from "l...
[17:27:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score:2) 02Re:Master Debaters... - 06University Offering Free Online Course to Demolish Climate Denial - 454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:27:35] <exec> 08└─Yeah, it's really unbelievable that some people accept ecclesiastical consensus from the so-called "priests", when it's obvious that those who study a field for a lifetime are the ones least qualified to talk about it. It's like taking advice on the stars' effects from astrologers! What's next? Acce...
[17:27:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Master Debaters... - 06University Offering Free Online Course to Demolish Climate Denial - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:27:37] <exec> 08└─recognize which authorities can be most trusted on any particular topic
[17:27:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:I thought America has freedom of speech? - 06University Offering Free Online Course to Demolish Climate Denial - 996 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:27:39] <exec> 08└─http://www.miamiherald.com/news/state/florida/article12983720.html [miamiherald.com] Its the usual doublespeak stuff being enforced by management of their own environmental protection agency. Its sloppy to claim its illegal, just you'll get fired from your job if you work for the florida environment...
[17:27:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:2) 02Re:wait what? - 06University Offering Free Online Course to Demolish Climate Denial - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:27:43] <exec> 08└─You mean they have a course on how to be a specific kind of dick?
[17:28:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02payoff? - 06Microsoft's PlayReady will Play for Sure - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:06] <exec> 08└─Not mentioned: why do the hardware manufacturers cooperate with MS on this stuff? My 5yo system will be upgraded/repaired repeatedly before I buy a box with these hardware encumbrances. And I'm not the only one who feels this way, apparently, as shown by sagging PC sales figures. They are playing th...
[17:28:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geotti [1146] (Score:2) 02Re:Obsession - 06Giant Ball Will Help Explorer Survive a Year on an Iceberg - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:28:15] <exec> 08└─Well, at very very brief first glance while on tequila peppered with LSD, it does...
[17:28:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Attention seeking...for what, exactly? - 06Giant Ball Will Help Explorer Survive a Year on an Iceberg - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:28:22] <exec> 08└─it's hardly indestructible, as claimed in TFA. "strong enough to survive a storm at sea or getting crushed between two icebergs
[17:29:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:Yay Trains. - 06Japanese Maglev Train Sets New Speed Records - 820 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:29:30] <exec> 08└─But in LA the same applies to LAX. However I take issue with your sweet spot. There's high speed rail from London to Paris and Brussels. Many of my collegues still fly because it's easier to taxi 30 minutes to heathrow than 60 to St Pancras, and there's a ridiculous secirity check on eurostar anyway...
[17:29:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:Yay Trains. - 06Japanese Maglev Train Sets New Speed Records - 1173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:29:31] <exec> 08└─I flew back from Sydney last week, I had a nice quiet suite for the first leg, brief glass of champagne before take off, snoozed a couple of times, played some cities: skyline, and the 8 hours were over pretty quick. Then had a window/aisle bed for the overnight leg, then a window seat with more leg...
[17:31:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Now put the shoe on the other foot. - 06Bypassing OS X Security Tools is Trivial - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:31:53] <exec> 08└─That clueless and uneducated in logic eh?
[17:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Who cares? - 06Ubuntu 15.04 Released - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:33:49] <exec> 08└─[citation needed] care to link to bug submissions asserting your claim ?
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[18:27:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Downer - 06"Embryologic Twin" Removed from Woman's Brain - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:00] <exec> 08└─It's sobering to be a surviving twin. It would really be a downer to know that you just "absorbed" your twin. A little bit like cannibalism? "Oh yeah, I was a twin, but I absorbed him/her before we were even born. He/she was taking to much nutrition, so I did away with my twin." Yeah, I know, crazy...
[18:27:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:4, Informative) 02Re:Downer - 06"Embryologic Twin" Removed from Woman's Brain - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:27:01] <exec> 08└─It's sobering to be a surviving twin. It would really be a downer to know that you just "absorbed" your twin.
[18:27:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Downer - 06"Embryologic Twin" Removed from Woman's Brain - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:27:03] <exec> 08└─Fun fact: Not everyone reacts the same to similar situations. My brother didn't survive infancy, and I can't even say that I knew him. But, I miss him all the same. Just think - there could have been TWO assholes like me for you to vent on! I suppose that a person who didn't even know that there WAS...
[18:27:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score:2) 02Re:Master Debaters... - 06University Offering Free Online Course to Demolish Climate Denial - 811 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:27:38] <exec> 08└─The whole value of science is in repeatable experiments that work the same way regardless of initial belief. When the advocates of science abandon this for appeals to authority... "Trust us... It's too complicated for you. We're scientists" ...then something is wrong. In the absence of actual sci...
[18:27:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Master Debaters... - 06University Offering Free Online Course to Demolish Climate Denial - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:27:40] <exec> 08└─But, accepting that, I think much higher of those who accept the authority of scientific consensus on a scientific topic rather than Rush Limbaugh or other extremists, much less the fossil-fuel industry's PR flaks.
[18:27:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:4, Insightful) 02A course in propaganda? - 06University Offering Free Online Course to Demolish Climate Denial - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:47] <exec> 08└─Whatever your position on climate change, this course is surely a crock. A course in how to argue about climate science, with only one viewpoint considered? That's propaganda, even if you agree with the viewpoint being supported. Make it a course in climate science. Present the science and the evide...
[18:27:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Mr Smith.. won't agree - 06University Offering Free Online Course to Demolish Climate Denial - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:49] <exec> 08└─Mr Smith of Australia might perhaps find global warming a beneficial cure to cook the earthlings. Then he won't put up with that minister post and can instead enjoy the mainframe once again. In order to accomplish this he may just undefine their ability to talk. He has already shown Mr Andersson how...
[18:28:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:4, Insightful) 02Re:Where's the fucking monopoly? - 06Microsoft's PlayReady will Play for Sure - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:28:03] <exec> 08└─there's nothing to say that this technology won't be ported to other platforms
[18:28:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:Where's the fucking monopoly? - 06Microsoft's PlayReady will Play for Sure - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:28:03] <exec> 08└─If only PCs running Microsoft programs will be able to show movies then it certainly qualify as a monopolized market and can be punished.
[18:28:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:Won't really matter - 06Microsoft's PlayReady will Play for Sure - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:28:14] <exec> 08└─Content distribution is a problem even for just 4k @ 30 fps. Only satellite links with PVR or content cache with fiber links will perhaps do it. But that requires some business rethinking and users to change behavior and expectations. Not happing really.
[18:28:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Won't really matter - 06Microsoft's PlayReady will Play for Sure - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:28:16] <exec> 08└─We keep hearing that 15-20 Mbps is sufficient for 4K streaming [dailytech.com], and VP10, NETVC, Perseus, etc. [soylentnews.org] could cut down on the bandwidth needed vs. H.265. 7-12 Mbps may be possible. Plus the major application for 4K @90 FPS or better won't be prerendered movies, it will be VR...
[18:28:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:payoff? - 06Microsoft's PlayReady will Play for Sure - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:28:19] <exec> 08└─You must assume that corporate leadership is acting rationally ;)
[18:28:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score:2) 02rip-off of the Survivaball - 06Giant Ball Will Help Explorer Survive a Year on an Iceberg - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:35] <exec> 08└─this was demo'd in 2009 at the East River ;) http://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[18:28:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:personal - 06Lego Flip Dot Display - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:28:47] <exec> 08└─A pack of 1000 bricks is about 49$/45€ tax included. That doesn't sound retarded expensive to me. And if you buy them second hand, it's even cheaper. Now if you go stupidly buy the retarded expensive stupid Star Wars models then you're even more stupid than your retarded post makes it look like.
[18:29:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:Yay Trains. - 06Japanese Maglev Train Sets New Speed Records - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:29:44] <exec> 08└─There's high speed rail from London to Paris and Brussels. Many of my collegues still fly because it's easier to taxi 30 minutes to heathrow than 60 to St Pancras, and there's a ridiculous secirity check on eurostar anyway.
[18:31:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:Finance - 06The EU Should Finance Key Open Source Tools - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:31:15] <exec> 08└─Open source has mostly been avoided by for-profit corporations
[18:32:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:Coruscant - 06Could the Planets in Star Wars Actually Support Life? - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:32:44] <exec> 08└─It was quite a silly idea - it needed a huge amount of off-planet infrastructure. Trantor imported all of its food and had several farm planet dedicated to growing the food that they consumed (apparently hyperspace travel was cheap enough to ship food between planets), and suffered mass starvation w...
[18:32:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:It really isn't impossible - 06Could the Planets in Star Wars Actually Support Life? - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:32:52] <exec> 08└─He's the only one that you see on that planet, so it's probably a safe assumption that he's from elsewhere. Various extended universe books make this explicit.
[18:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why not? - 06Ubuntu 15.04 Released - 547 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:33:55] <exec> 08└─And they are not. What happens is that their entry in the FS is removed, but as long as the program keeps the file open they have a entry to it. Flash tries to use this to hide their streaming caches on Linux. Fire up any video steam, then head for /proc/"flash pid"/fd, if you do a ls -l you will se...
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[19:27:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Troll) 02Debian Systemd SJWs - 06Follow the Debian 8 "Jessie" Release Activity in Realtime - 1456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:00] <exec> 08└─"...but only 394 votes ultimately decided Pluto's fate: 237 in favor of demoting the planet and 157 against." 1 vote decided for the systemd takeover in debian. There was a split 4-4 vote in the debian technical comittie. Which was then tie-broken by the chair who just happened to be a rabid force-i...
[19:27:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Debian Systemd SJWs - 06Follow the Debian 8 "Jessie" Release Activity in Realtime - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:27:01] <exec> 08└─Went from Score 1 informative to Score 0 troll. Saying the truth is "Trolling" SJWs and feminists should really be killed. One was killed in pakistan today (Thanks :D) One was killed in Russia some years ago.
[19:27:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Debian Systemd SJWs - 06Follow the Debian 8 "Jessie" Release Activity in Realtime - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:27:02] <exec> 08└─As a Linux noob, what's wrong with forking Debian or using other (non-systemd) distros?
[19:27:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03danmars [3662] (Score:2) 02The sparrows are flying again - 06"Embryologic Twin" Removed from Woman's Brain - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:14] <exec> 08└─Will her twin now come back and kill a bunch of people?
[19:27:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The "last" big one? - 06Magnitude 7.8 Quake in Nepal Kills At Least 1800, Aftershocks Continue - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:27:26] <exec> 08└─True. (I'm very SoCal-centric. The last time I lived in the northern part of the state was when Daddy was stationed at Travis AFB when I was 2.) The Big One tends to alternate ends: south, then north, then south again. The Fort Tejon quake was the last Big One on the end of the San Andeas fault near...
[19:27:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheLink [332] (Score:2) 02On a related note - 06Magnitude 7.8 Quake in Nepal Kills At Least 1800, Aftershocks Continue - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:32] <exec> 08└─https://google.org/personfinder/2015-nepal-earthquake/ [google.org] Dunno how useful it would be - anyone have any experience with such stuff?
[19:27:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Master Debaters... - 06University Offering Free Online Course to Demolish Climate Denial - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:27:53] <exec> 08└─It must be an unusual topic for you.
[19:27:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02A course in propaganda? - 06University Offering Free Online Course to Demolish Climate Denial - 466 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:59] <exec> 08└─Whatever your position on climate change, this course is surely a crock. A course in how to argue about climate science, with only one viewpoint considered? That's propaganda, even if you agree with the viewpoint being supported. Make it a course in climate science. Present the science and the evide...
[19:28:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:A course in propaganda? - 06University Offering Free Online Course to Demolish Climate Denial - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:28:01] <exec> 08└─Seriously, universities now conduct market surveys and offer propaganda courses on AGW. AGW industry is scrapping the bottom.
[19:28:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:A course in propaganda? - 06University Offering Free Online Course to Demolish Climate Denial - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:28:03] <exec> 08└─The problem with presenting neutrality is that one side has numbers, models, observational experimentation, and the other side only has a claim and lots of money backing it. So sure, the class can show the whole picture. It is just that the opposing side can be explained in one phrase: "They believe...
[19:28:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Re:A course in propaganda? - 06University Offering Free Online Course to Demolish Climate Denial - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:28:04] <exec> 08└─Make it a course in climate science. Present the science and the evidence, as neutrally as possible. Of course, the professor will have an opinion, that's par for the course, but present both sides and invite analysis from the students.
[19:28:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02Total waste of time - 06University Offering Free Online Course to Demolish Climate Denial - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:06] <exec> 08└─Everyone knows you can't argue with a stump (head). This should be obvious from the posts on this story.
[19:28:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jeremiah Cornelius [2785] (Score:2) 02Re:Clueless - 06Microsoft's PlayReady will Play for Sure - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:28:15] <exec> 08└─If the story telling is good enough? I'll watch SD - sometimes even 240. If I want a f*cking light show, I'll go see the Floyd... ;-)
[19:28:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:Won't really matter - 06Microsoft's PlayReady will Play for Sure - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:28:34] <exec> 08└─15-20 Mbit/s seems alright. Provided it works when millions of people starts to watch that stream too ;-)
[19:28:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jeremiah Cornelius [2785] (Score:2) 024K is fo Pr0n - 06Microsoft's PlayReady will Play for Sure - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:28:35] <exec> 08└─Beads of dripping sweat and all...
[19:29:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score:2) 02Re:I would like to build a computer out of water - 06Lego Flip Dot Display - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:29:05] <exec> 08└─I would imagine this would just be a modified water clock, most likely would look totally awesome and probably fetch a nice price if you made it aesthetically pleasing and marketed it as alternative art with some appropriately vague symbolic meaning.
[19:29:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheLink [332] (Score:2) 02Re:Cryptographically Signed by MS? - 06Windows 10 Device Guard: Microsoft's Effort to Keep Malware off PCs - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:29:42] <exec> 08└─I would prefer something like this: https://bugs.launchpad.net [launchpad.net] See also: https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] So it's like trust an app but enforce the limits of the trust.
[19:29:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Cryptographically Signed by MS? - 06Windows 10 Device Guard: Microsoft's Effort to Keep Malware off PCs - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:29:43] <exec> 08└─OK it's me again- forgot to mention see in particular Scenario C - that's useful for Enterprise stuff. Smart phones do something like it, but the granularity seems rather poor. Should have stuff like "can see my public/private/work info". I think Apple has done something like it? https://developer.a...
[19:29:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03pmontra [1175] (Score:1) 02My suggestion - 06Windows 10 Device Guard: Microsoft's Effort to Keep Malware off PCs - 787 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:29:54] <exec> 08└─I suggested this to a friend today, after removing a ton of malware for the nth time (lately he had a PC that randomly opened web pages on dubious sites). Wipe the machine, install a random Linux distro and forget about it. Install VirtualBox, install Windows inside it, install everything you need a...
[19:32:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:see you later - 06Woolly Mammoth Genome Sequenced - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:32:15] <exec> 08└─With an area of 13.1 million square kilometres, Siberia accounts for 77% of Russia's land area, but it is home to just 40 million people – 27% of the country's population. This is equivalent to an average population density of about 3 inhabitants per square kilometre (approximately equal to that o...
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[20:27:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Debian Systemd SJWs - 06Follow the Debian 8 "Jessie" Release Activity in Realtime - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:27:03] <exec> 08└─What's wrong with writing your own kernel from scratch? I've forked various projects. Xonotic and before then Crossfire RPG. It isn't impossible, and when it's a game it's alot of fun. What I don't do is allow people to destroy the building I'm existing in and then not complain when I am forced to r...
[20:27:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:Debian Systemd SJWs - 06Follow the Debian 8 "Jessie" Release Activity in Realtime - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:27:04] <exec> 08└─The difference is that you can keep the original building provided you put it in a new location. And all builders can be poached to develop at your new location. Seems only inertia and emotional attachment keeps people at the original site.
[20:27:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Debian Systemd SJWs - 06Follow the Debian 8 "Jessie" Release Activity in Realtime - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:27:06] <exec> 08└─The original site has a sound foundation. A mob comes and blows it up. Then has those who resided in the building banned from the town. The building residents should kill the mob, but they don't or cant. They lost what they had. The mob won.
[20:27:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:Debian Systemd SJWs - 06Follow the Debian 8 "Jessie" Release Activity in Realtime - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:27:08] <exec> 08└─So drop the rule book and exterminate the mob rough style?
[20:27:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Debian Systemd SJWs - 06Follow the Debian 8 "Jessie" Release Activity in Realtime - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:27:09] <exec> 08└─Of course Debian should have been forked. In this fork they could have gone with systemd. Then they would have gotten the Debian-based, systemd-using distro they want, while everybody else who has been using Debian for the past two decades wouldn't have had our systems trashed by systemd.
[20:27:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Keep focus - 06Follow the Debian 8 "Jessie" Release Activity in Realtime - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:27:11] <exec> 08└─People better focus on technical matters and occasionally bash corporations or people for withholding data on hardware or APIs etc. Anything else opens up for a social sphere with bullshit that distract from the main objective.
[20:27:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Keep focus - 06Follow the Debian 8 "Jessie" Release Activity in Realtime - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:27:13] <exec> 08└─Opensource was killing the software biz. Thus opensource needed to be killed by injecting what you say into it. Hence the *-women groups starting around 2009 or so. To fracture and split the movement. It is working.
[20:27:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:Keep focus - 06Follow the Debian 8 "Jessie" Release Activity in Realtime - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:27:15] <exec> 08└─Eject all cruft asap? Perhaps it's not corporate evil. But a desire to normalize the open source movement. But the problem perhaps is that open source movement works because its abnormal..! ;-) People that desire normal environment should perhaps enter the corporate cubicle environment. I read it's...
[20:27:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Keep focus - 06Follow the Debian 8 "Jessie" Release Activity in Realtime - 761 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:27:16] <exec> 08└─Only the abnormals are ejected. There is no way for you to get rid of SJWs, feminists, etc who do nothing but call for the censorship and ejectment (which they obtain) of those whom oppose their ideals. Opensource ideals are now feminist ideals. They control the gates. You cannot publish your softwa...
[20:27:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Debian Systemd SJWs - 06Follow the Debian 8 "Jessie" Release Activity in Realtime - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:27:18] <exec> 08└─"Last but not least, we have a list of people who take credit for making this release happen." https://www.debian.org [debian.org] A self published list of the systemd forcers who took linux away from us.
[20:27:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Debian Systemd SJWs - 06Follow the Debian 8 "Jessie" Release Activity in Realtime - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:27:20] <exec> 08└─I'd be ashamed to appear on that list. Debian 8 has already done massive damage to the Debian community. It has driven the most valuable Debian users over to FreeBSD, and they aren't coming back. It's already obvious now that Debian 8 will be known as the mistake that destroyed what was perhaps the...
[20:27:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Debian Systemd SJWs - 06Follow the Debian 8 "Jessie" Release Activity in Realtime - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:27:22] <exec> 08└─>Whereas a person who invests significant amounts of time What matters is a person's politics, not their contributions. No matter what a person has contributed to opensource (code, media, etc), their contributions do not exist if they are a mysogninst and must be taken down, censored, and banned. Fe...
[20:27:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:Debian Systemd SJWs - 06Follow the Debian 8 "Jessie" Release Activity in Realtime - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:27:23] <exec> 08└─So re-apply meritocracy and make no excuses or exceptions to that scheme? And in particular don't participate in a community that don't subscribe to those values.
[20:27:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Debian Systemd SJWs - 06Follow the Debian 8 "Jessie" Release Activity in Realtime - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:27:25] <exec> 08└─That is easy to say. It's not going to happen. They will go after your finances, job, and try to have you imprisoned. They currently do this to all "racists" and mysoginists they can "Dox".
[20:27:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02That's not the summary I submitted. - 06Follow the Debian 8 "Jessie" Release Activity in Realtime - 1621 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:27] <exec> 08└─I am not impressed with the hatchet job that was done to what was my original submission, although my name (Aroused For Debian 8 "Jessie") is still attached to it. The first problem is that while I submitted it early on while the release was still being prepared, and it would make sense to follow it...
[20:27:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Flamebait) 02Re:Downer - 06"Embryologic Twin" Removed from Woman's Brain - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:27:30] <exec> 08└─What do you expect? Women gleefully kill their own babies, castrate men, have men imprisoned, divorce and steal men's life worth. They are scum often.
[20:27:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02Re:More mods needed? - 06Magnitude 7.8 Quake in Nepal Kills At Least 1800, Aftershocks Continue - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:27:43] <exec> 08└─Get an ID. it doesn't have to reflect your true id on the surface. Then if you have the time, offer to be an editor. If you are signed in the modding part will happen.
[20:27:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jeremiah Cornelius [2785] (Score:2) 02Re:The "last" big one? - 06Magnitude 7.8 Quake in Nepal Kills At Least 1800, Aftershocks Continue - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:27:46] <exec> 08└─'89 wasn't a small one... ;-) Of course, we didn't know how big, until the Guinness ran out, 'bout 5:30 PM.
[20:27:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03moondrake [2658] (Score:2) 02Re:Earthquake statistics - 06Magnitude 7.8 Quake in Nepal Kills At Least 1800, Aftershocks Continue - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:27:52] <exec> 08└─Its not only the location. The problem is that the magnitude of a quake (a measure of energy released) does not have a clear relation to what is called the intensity [carleton.edu] (a measurement of damage, or amount of ground shaking occurring locally). I lived for a couple of years in Japan an...
[20:27:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02the tech angle - 06Magnitude 7.8 Quake in Nepal Kills At Least 1800, Aftershocks Continue - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:55] <exec> 08└─http://www.marketwatch.com/story/google-executive-fredinburg-dies-in-everest-avalanche-2015-04-26 [marketwatch.com]
[20:28:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Master Debaters... - 06University Offering Free Online Course to Demolish Climate Denial - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:28:12] <exec> 08└─Priests don't rely on science or reason, and science does not rely on consensus. However, people who aren't experts in a scientific field will often rely on people who are experts in a scientific field because they see that, although actual evidence is required, when there is scientific consensus, t...
[20:28:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why watch shitty American movies? - 06Microsoft's PlayReady will Play for Sure - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:28:49] <exec> 08└─There is nothing new under the Sun
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[21:27:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Debian Systemd SJWs - 06Follow the Debian 8 "Jessie" Release Activity in Realtime - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:27:09] <exec> 08└─That would be the only option other than defeat.
[21:27:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:Debian Systemd SJWs - 06Follow the Debian 8 "Jessie" Release Activity in Realtime - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:27:11] <exec> 08└─So the systemd network has coup d'étated the board of the original distribution. The question to ask is, how did they accomplish this under the radar?
[21:27:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Debian Systemd SJWs - 06Follow the Debian 8 "Jessie" Release Activity in Realtime - 886 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:27:13] <exec> 08└─They didn't do anything "under the radar". The political shenanigans were out in the public's view. The intelligent members of the Debian community saw the problems with systemd, they saw the problems with how it was being adopted for political rather than technological reasons, and they objected to...
[21:27:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:Keep focus - 06Follow the Debian 8 "Jessie" Release Activity in Realtime - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:27:19] <exec> 08└─Apply strict show of merit and contribution before joining. And eject anyone starting irrelevant issues? Of course that requires the community to apply these rules. So how do they (SJW) get on board to begin with? Another approach is to continuously fork the community ;-)
[21:27:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Keep focus - 06Follow the Debian 8 "Jessie" Release Activity in Realtime - 515 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:27:20] <exec> 08└─They always turn these rules against those doing the work so as to eject them. What would happen is the SJWs would join, do nothing or something easy like packaging software into .ar archive (called .deb s these days), then when these rules are added, they would point out the men doing the programin...
[21:27:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Debian Systemd SJWs - 06Follow the Debian 8 "Jessie" Release Activity in Realtime - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:27:23] <exec> 08└─So it worked as planned. OSS was easy to defeat. The seeds of this were planted around 2009 with the XYZ-women groups. Now they have done their work.
[21:27:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:Debian Systemd SJWs - 06Follow the Debian 8 "Jessie" Release Activity in Realtime - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:27:27] <exec> 08└─Become anonymous and do all business with discretion?
[21:27:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Debian Systemd SJWs - 06Follow the Debian 8 "Jessie" Release Activity in Realtime - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:27:28] <exec> 08└─Then you're just a quiet slave doing work for free, and can't even say what you will.
[21:27:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:That's not the summary I submitted. - 06Follow the Debian 8 "Jessie" Release Activity in Realtime - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:27:30] <exec> 08└─I will get a response for you.
[21:27:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03SubiculumHammer [5191] (Score:2) 02Re:That's not the summary I submitted. - 06Follow the Debian 8 "Jessie" Release Activity in Realtime - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:27:32] <exec> 08└─You know, while I agree with your position, I'm not sure why you do not present your complaint without a civil tongue.
[21:27:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:That's not the summary I submitted. - 06Follow the Debian 8 "Jessie" Release Activity in Realtime - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:27:33] <exec> 08└─I want an edit button, so I an remove my double negative.
[21:27:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:That's not the summary I submitted. - 06Follow the Debian 8 "Jessie" Release Activity in Realtime - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:27:35] <exec> 08└─This isn't Reddit or Hacker News. You're playing in the big leagues now, son. We don't do edits here. As legendary white rapper Eminem wisely stated You only get one shot. Do not miss your chance to blow! This opportunity comes once in a lifetime, yo!
[21:27:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:3, Informative) 02Useful by default - 06Follow the Debian 8 "Jessie" Release Activity in Realtime - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:37] <exec> 08└─Distributions that aren't botched by default by psyops: * Slackware * Devuan * Gentoo Linux * Linux Mint * NetBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Dragonfly BSD Know anymore? (useful for desktop and server usage)
[21:27:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Re:Useful by default - 06Follow the Debian 8 "Jessie" Release Activity in Realtime - 1361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:27:39] <exec> 08└─Have you considered why those haven't been affected? Slackware is prehistoric. It has very few users because it's damn inconvenient to use. It's just not an option in any business setting. We don't have days to waste with configuring each Slackware installation. So only a tiny handful of hobbyists c...
[21:27:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:Useful by default - 06Follow the Debian 8 "Jessie" Release Activity in Realtime - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:27:40] <exec> 08└─First they pumped us full with Microsoft because I didn't know better. Then they fucked up Linux because thats where the users had escaped. When there was no other place to escape they came for BSDs to force you back into the corporate monolith.
[21:27:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Useful by default - 06Follow the Debian 8 "Jessie" Release Activity in Realtime - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:27:42] <exec> 08└─Are you comparing Windows to using a penis pump?
[21:27:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:Useful by default - 06Follow the Debian 8 "Jessie" Release Activity in Realtime - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:27:44] <exec> 08└─Such tool actually has a use case :P I'm not so sure about that software .. ;-)
[21:27:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Useful by default - 06Follow the Debian 8 "Jessie" Release Activity in Realtime - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:27:46] <exec> 08└─"Linux is dead. It's a simple as that." Why doesn't anyone go and murder the people that killed linux? An eye for an eye.
[21:27:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Useful by default - 06Follow the Debian 8 "Jessie" Release Activity in Realtime - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:27:48] <exec> 08└─Sensible people, me included, are not going to kill anyone over software. It's fucking disturbing that you'd even consider murder to be an option. It's much saner and easier for us just to use one of the BSDs. We get a better kernel, we get a better userland, and we still can compile and run pretty...
[21:27:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Useful by default - 06Follow the Debian 8 "Jessie" Release Activity in Realtime - 714 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:27:49] <exec> 08└─I bet you wouldn't kill someone for getting you fired because of your social beliefs. I bet you wouldn't kill someone who was prosecuting you, trying to put you in prison. I bet you wouldn't kill someone who was campaigning to ban child marriage of girls in your country. I bet you wouldn't kill some...
[21:27:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Useful by default - 06Follow the Debian 8 "Jessie" Release Activity in Realtime - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:27:51] <exec> 08└─Why won't Devuan get their act together and fucking DO something. I've forked 2 opensource projects and created various others from scratch. I have no problem making releases. Their job is simply to compile programs! I offered to help, they banned me (no anti-feminists allowed in Devuan either). Fuc...
[21:27:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Useful by default - 06Follow the Debian 8 "Jessie" Release Activity in Realtime - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:27:53] <exec> 08└─It was obvious from the beginning that Devuan was going to be a failure. The name alone was dumb. I followed the discussion in one of their IRC channels at times, and it was inane. It was clear that it wasn't going to go anywhere.
[21:27:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The sparrows are flying again - 06"Embryologic Twin" Removed from Woman's Brain - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:27:57] <exec> 08└─Now she can attribute all those crazy thoughts to that "alien" in her who gave her ideas to act on. The authorities should check to see if she may be responsible for crimes in the area. There was an episode on X-Files, where a parasite twin leaves the host to kill people and then re-attaches itself...
[21:28:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Disaster modeling - 06Magnitude 7.8 Quake in Nepal Kills At Least 1800, Aftershocks Continue - 666 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:21] <exec> 08└─Check to see what the military strategists have been doing the last few days. Where they were. What equipment they requested, etc. Have they been busy lately to cause this disaster? Are they watching what happens when a disaster of this magnitude happens, fixing and training their computer models of...
[21:29:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:Clueless - 06Microsoft's PlayReady will Play for Sure - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:29:04] <exec> 08└─Hear, hear! If you don't like the delivery method, don't consume the content. Besides, is it so important for you to watch the latest Hollywood blockbuster that you need to break the law? It really isn't. "Oh, but it's a form of protest against DRM" They don't give a shit. They just want money.
[21:29:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02What's past is prologue - 06Microsoft's PlayReady will Play for Sure - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:29:12] <exec> 08└─Another point: The title of this story is very witty. It recognizes a previous effort by M$ to have its own DRM/format. PlaysForSure figures prominently in the Obsolescence section of the article on DRM. [wikipedia.org] Microsoft Zune - When Microsoft introduced their Zune media player in 2006, it...
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