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[00:00:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Rejecting the premise - 06F.E.C. Can’t Curb 2016 Election Abuse, Commission Chief Says - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:00:04] <exec> 08└─> or abridging the freedom of speech, > I used to be a 100% disclosure absolutist but after seeing what the GayKK did to people's lives and the prospect So your belief is that money is speech and you are OK with there being positive consequences for speech (getting your candidate elected) but not OK...
[00:00:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Daiv [3940] (Score:3, Interesting) 02What I would like to see - 06F.E.C. Can’t Curb 2016 Election Abuse, Commission Chief Says - 1370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:05] <exec> 08└─I would love it if candidates could not announce or advertise for more than 6 months (I would love 3 months, but I'll be generous) before the election day of whatever they're running for. As it is now, any elected candidate in a 4 year position spends a third of their elected time raising funds for...
[00:00:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"audit by Equifax" - 06The Medical Bill Mystery - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:00:30] <exec> 08└─> Like I'm gonna believe an audit by a company that routinely effs up my credit report? Follow the money. Whomever pays the auditor is the one who decides what sorts of results matter.
[00:01:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] 02The effect comes and goes - 06'Fuzzy Thinking' in Depression, Bipolar Disorder: New Research Finds Effect is Real - 705 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:17] <exec> 08└─I have Bipolar-Type Schizoaffective Disorder [warplife.com]. It is somewhat like being schizophrenic and manic depressive at the same time. Much of the time I do just fine, other times I am completely out to lunch. First term of junior year Quantum Mechanics at UC Santa Cruz, I got the second highes...
[00:03:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Kell [292] 02Re:The (currently independent)working class candid - 06Former HP CEO Carly Fiorina Seeks Republican Nomination for US President - 32 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:03:37] <exec> 08└─He isn't a she. No man will win.
[00:03:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03M. Baranczak [1673] 02Re:Can do for USA what she did for HP! - 06Former HP CEO Carly Fiorina Seeks Republican Nomination for US President - 33 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:03:55] <exec> 08└─If Canada secedes, it's all over.
[00:04:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Re:Can do for USA what she did for HP! - 06Former HP CEO Carly Fiorina Seeks Republican Nomination for US President - 514 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:04:07] <exec> 08└─> But I don't know if it would've been worse if she hadn't been HP CEO. They might have lost 60,000 jobs or gone out of business altogether. I was an HP employee long before she showed up and a sub to them managing technical stuff on-site with one of their larger customers during her reign. One thin...
[00:08:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02you need to move - 06 Childhood bullying: Worse Long-Term Mental Health than Maltreatment by Adult - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:08:18] <exec> 08└─There are states where spanking is allowed. There are even a few where the schools are allowed to spank.
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[00:59:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Declining Market Share - 06Mozilla: HTTPS is Coming. Get Out of the Way! - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:17] <exec> 08└─Firefox is really trying to kill off that last 12% of users they have, aren't they? Does a third-place browser really have the ability to force this change, or will lusers simply dump it because it "doesn't work" with their favorite Kardashian 'news' site? If Mozilla was headed by adults, they'd sto...
[00:59:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mr Big in the Pants [4956] (Score:2) 02Re:Declining Market Share - 06Mozilla: HTTPS is Coming. Get Out of the Way! - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:59:18] <exec> 08└─I wonder this also. While I appreciate their bravery, without a consensus or majority this will kill them off for sure which I doubt they will be able to justify. It brings to mind that scene in movies where the geeky person turns to his friends and shouts "who's with me!?" and no one follows...so t...
[00:59:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Declining Market Share - 06Mozilla: HTTPS is Coming. Get Out of the Way! - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:59:19] <exec> 08└─person turns to his friends and shouts "who's with me!?" and no one follows
[00:59:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score:2) 02Re:Declining Market Share - 06Mozilla: HTTPS is Coming. Get Out of the Way! - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:59:21] <exec> 08└─I'm sure all your Facebook- and Twitter friends will like and retweet it ... That is almost as good isn't it?
[00:59:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03tchuladdiass [1692] (Score:1) 02Does _Everything_ need encryption? - 06Mozilla: HTTPS is Coming. Get Out of the Way! - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:23] <exec> 08└─Lets say I put up a flyer on a cork board hanging on the wall in the local community center. Would it make sense to encode the message on the flyer, and then hand out Dick Tracy decoder rings to anyone who wants to read it? No? Then why would I want to do the same thing on an electronic version of t...
[00:59:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Does _Everything_ need encryption? - 06Mozilla: HTTPS is Coming. Get Out of the Way! - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:59:24] <exec> 08└─Because the browsers and servers and CAs handle it all automatically, and the user doesn't even notice the little padlock icon?
[00:59:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Does _Everything_ need encryption? - 06Mozilla: HTTPS is Coming. Get Out of the Way! - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:59:26] <exec> 08└─"Because we can", is seldom a good justification for anything. You might just as well demand papers from anyone making a political statement from a soap box on a street corner, on pontificating on a blog site. Its a strange position to take for a website that can't even agree to banish ACs.
[00:59:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Does _Everything_ need encryption? - 06Mozilla: HTTPS is Coming. Get Out of the Way! - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:59:27] <exec> 08└─Anti-Hilary Rally! All sexists welcome! Don't vote for that bitch! No Clit-on for Prez-dent! Not in my America!
[00:59:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02There goes Firefox for business - 06Mozilla: HTTPS is Coming. Get Out of the Way! - 516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:29] <exec> 08└─HTTP is good business based internal standard. With WAAS compressing the data stream of redundant information, Firefox will be dropped like a hot potato. OR... Does SSL have hole? So that traffic just looks encrypted from users point of view, but is fully readable? Otherwise how will business filt...
[00:59:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02You're finished, Mozilla. - 06Mozilla: HTTPS is Coming. Get Out of the Way! - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:31] <exec> 08└─Get the fuck off the Internet!
[00:59:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0, Disagree) 02Re:The incident took place, so wrong cure? - 06NSA's "Google for Voice," And More - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:59:36] <exec> 08└─If they had the right tools (or power) they could have found out sooner and renditioned / given them a vacation at Gitmo instead of having the trigger-happy-Texans plug them.
[00:59:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:People have short memory - 06NSA's "Google for Voice," And More - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:59:45] <exec> 08└─These criminals do not just gather and sort data, they also conduct espionage at all levels. They happily send all "our" data to their friends in the middle east, who now know more about us than we do ourselves. Stop helping them.
[00:59:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Re:People have short memory - 06NSA's "Google for Voice," And More - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:59:47] <exec> 08└─The real enemy is human ignorance. That and organized religion, or was that what you where talking about?
[00:59:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:People have short memory - 06NSA's "Google for Voice," And More - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:59:48] <exec> 08└─So in a way, yes he was.
[00:59:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03goodie [1877] (Score:2) 02What a coincidence... - 06NSA's "Google for Voice," And More - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:50] <exec> 08└─I just heard this on the radio this morning: http://www.cbc.ca [www.cbc.ca] The guy was actually interesting and able to talk in laymen's terms pretty well.
[00:59:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:What a coincidence... - 06NSA's "Google for Voice," And More - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:59:51] <exec> 08└─It's coming [soylentnews.org]
[01:00:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02Re:Progress of a kind - 06F.E.C. Can’t Curb 2016 Election Abuse, Commission Chief Says - 45 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:00:02] <exec> 08└─So Koch Brothers bad but Soros brothers good?
[01:00:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:Interesting differences - 06F.E.C. Can’t Curb 2016 Election Abuse, Commission Chief Says - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:00:08] <exec> 08└─Soros family was destroyed by the Nazi occupation of Hungary.
[01:00:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02During good behavior - 06F.E.C. Can’t Curb 2016 Election Abuse, Commission Chief Says - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:00:19] <exec> 08└─The Judiciary? They're not exactly non-political They can't (won't) even get rid of the slimy judges. The Constitution says The judges, both of the supreme and inferior courts, shall hold their Offices during good behavior
[01:00:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:Rejecting the premise - 06F.E.C. Can’t Curb 2016 Election Abuse, Commission Chief Says - 507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:00:25] <exec> 08└─Yes, that is exactly what I am saying. Politics should be limited to the political arena. People's private lives should not be destroyed for daring to voice an unpopular opinion, losing the election should be the extent of it. And if you weren't convinced that you are safely in the majority you woul...
[01:00:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bob The Cowboy [2019] (Score:1) 02Re:Rejecting the premise - 06F.E.C. Can’t Curb 2016 Election Abuse, Commission Chief Says - 585 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:00:26] <exec> 08└─You're *completely* missing the point. Campaign finance reform is absolutely about "allowing like-minded people to come together", we're just calling them Americans. It is in every American's best interest that campaign spending is curbed. If campaigns were 100% tax-payer funded, we could limit the...
[01:00:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:Rejecting the premise - 06F.E.C. Can’t Curb 2016 Election Abuse, Commission Chief Says - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:00:28] <exec> 08└─And if they run out of publicly financed money, well, that's a pretty good flag to raise.
[01:01:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03el_oscuro [1711] (Score:2) 02Happened to me too - 06The Medical Bill Mystery - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:21] <exec> 08└─Back when I had an individual policy, I got a similar bill for some tests from a random lab in a hospital in Atlanta. I wasn't particularly interested in paying since I had no idea what it was, and I don't live anywhere near Atlanta. So instead of paying the bill, I mailed the with a request for dat...
[01:01:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score:2) 02Re:No shit, Sherlock! [going meta] - 06'Fuzzy Thinking' in Depression, Bipolar Disorder: New Research Finds Effect is Real - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:01:34] <exec> 08└─You know, it's this kind of in-depth scientific analysis that keeps me coming back to this site! First post: personal anecdote from a self-confessed crazy person. Second Post: It's fake because of a paywall.
[01:04:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Re:Can do for USA what she did for HP! - 06Former HP CEO Carly Fiorina Seeks Republican Nomination for US President - 418 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:04:37] <exec> 08└─Do you know any long time HP employees who were there when she took over? She destroyed something beautiful. She stomped on a corporate butterfly. Why? Stupidity. The stupidity of a child who rips the legs off a newt to see what will happen. There are many great entrepreneurs and managers in this co...
[01:07:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03boltronics [580] (Score:1) 02Re:Not sure about the speeding - 06Hungry Australians can Track their Pizzas’ Journey to their Doors - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:07:25] <exec> 08└─Sure, but you do lean in more than the bike does. Just look at somebody's knees as they turn - they aren't sticking out because of gravity.
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[01:59:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:0, Troll) 02Re:Bet they regret legalizing encryption, eh? - 06Lawmakers in France Move to Vastly Expand Surveillance - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:59:17] <exec> 08└─Hey, everybody can see what I say on Facebook! Hey, everybody can see what I say on Facebook! NIGGERS. And we're allowed to say it as long as it doesn't make fun of the KIKES.
[01:59:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02Re:Bet they regret legalizing encryption, eh? - 06Lawmakers in France Move to Vastly Expand Surveillance - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:59:18] <exec> 08└─French Niggers have the thickest dicks. You like that when they're stretching your shitter wide open.
[01:59:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Invasion of Immigrants - 06Lawmakers in France Move to Vastly Expand Surveillance - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:19] <exec> 08└─These attacks are a clear consequence of the massive invasion of immigrants. They come in such numbers that assimilation is impossible, doubly so due to the difference in religion. Western Europe learned nothing from the last century; That countries are at peace when they are monolithic, and powderk...
[01:59:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:[ANN] Stupid Sockets Layer - 06Mozilla: HTTPS is Coming. Get Out of the Way! - 838 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:59:29] <exec> 08└─This. Also, think of the energy waste. I'm not particularly green but we are probably taking gigawatts on the server end and for what? Somebody explain that. But the client side is mostly battery powered and battery life is the number one problem today, we are going to make that problem worse for wh...
[01:59:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:[ANN] Stupid Sockets Layer - 06Mozilla: HTTPS is Coming. Get Out of the Way! - 944 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:59:31] <exec> 08└─Personally, I doubt there is THAT Much difference imposed by encryption, either in power consumption or time. I could be wrong, but the last time I checked into this the usual practice was to use some relatively robust block cipher (slow) to exchange keys and the session then switched to a fast stre...
[01:59:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Declining Market Share - 06Mozilla: HTTPS is Coming. Get Out of the Way! - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:59:35] <exec> 08└─I predict either this happening unless one of other the major players joining them.
[01:59:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Does _Everything_ need encryption? - 06Mozilla: HTTPS is Coming. Get Out of the Way! - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:59:39] <exec> 08└─Just try making a political statement on a street corner, and see how quickly you're arrested and jailed. God Bless America!
[01:59:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Does _Everything_ need encryption? - 06Mozilla: HTTPS is Coming. Get Out of the Way! - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:59:41] <exec> 08└─Just try making a political statement on a street corner, and see how quickly you're arrested and jailed. God Bless America!
[01:59:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score:2) 02Ok... - 06Mozilla: HTTPS is Coming. Get Out of the Way! - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:44] <exec> 08└─So does this mean that they'll finally stop treating sites with self-signed certificates as less trusty-worthy than plain HTTP sites? And if we're going to do proper cryptography, can we get a solution to the broken hierarchical trust of SSL/TLS certs?
[01:59:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Ok... - 06Mozilla: HTTPS is Coming. Get Out of the Way! - 1252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:59:46] <exec> 08└─Well, the last shaded quote in TFA certainly seems to suggest that. Self Signed Certs do work for encryption, but, since the browser has nothing to compare the certificate to, it can't tell if you are really connected to who you thing you are, or if some scammer/TLA set up a fake website. The hierar...
[01:59:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03twistedcubic [929] (Score:1) 02Re:Ok... - 06Mozilla: HTTPS is Coming. Get Out of the Way! - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:59:47] <exec> 08└─Furtherr since the issuing "authorities" will hand over the private keys for your certificate to authorities... The issuer doesn't need your private key to sign your certificate, does it?
[01:59:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score:2) 02Re:Ok... - 06Mozilla: HTTPS is Coming. Get Out of the Way! - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:59:49] <exec> 08└─Hey, Mozilla, this was your idea, so how bout you give me a Free Cert.
[02:00:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03hash14 [1102] (Score:2) 02Re:What I would like to see - 06F.E.C. Can’t Curb 2016 Election Abuse, Commission Chief Says - 1501 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:00:49] <exec> 08└─If you would like a system like that, then you might want to consider arguing against fixed-term elections [wikipedia.org]. An example would be the UK prior to passage of the Fixed-term Parliaments Act [wikipedia.org]. One of the effects of its passage is that now, candidates spend much longer campa...
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[02:59:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score:2) 02She's is dead, Jim! - 06Grace Lee Whitney, Yeoman Janice Rand of the Original Star Trek Series, Has Died - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:15] <exec> 08└─She's is dead, Jim! Kirk is going to outlive them all it seems.
[02:59:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Wake me when the last Trek actor dies............. - 06Grace Lee Whitney, Yeoman Janice Rand of the Original Star Trek Series, Has Died - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:15] <exec> 08└─That will be news! You fools and your old hippie TV show. Everybody dies eventually.
[02:59:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Bet they regret legalizing encryption, eh? - 06Lawmakers in France Move to Vastly Expand Surveillance - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:59:26] <exec> 08└─Why the French have the largest penis sizes in Europe [alphadesigner.com] has not yet been scientifically determined, but you may be correct in that France now contains more Africans* than Sweden or even Britain. * Large penises
[02:59:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score:2) 02Re:Bet they regret legalizing encryption, eh? - 06Lawmakers in France Move to Vastly Expand Surveillance - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:59:27] <exec> 08└─They might not have the largest penises, but they are the biggest dicks, it has been scientifically proven.
[02:59:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:Invasion of Immigrants - 06Lawmakers in France Move to Vastly Expand Surveillance - 493 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:59:30] <exec> 08└─Agree with this comment absolutely. Too much of anything is bad. That includes too many: Chinese, Russians, Italians, Lithuanians, xxxx... etc. Other races and religions are nice in small quantities, but problems begin when there are too many outsiders and you can't escape them. Eventually they star...
[02:59:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score:2) 02Re:Invasion of Immigrants - 06Lawmakers in France Move to Vastly Expand Surveillance - 971 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:59:31] <exec> 08└─As you note Liberté, égalité, fraternité doesn't really apply here, even tho the submitter thinks so -- or well at least that liberte would be under attack (I doubt that it is). France is home to a fairly large muslim immigrant population, previously it used to come from the old colonies but thi...
[02:59:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score:2) 02Re:Invasion of Immigrants - 06Lawmakers in France Move to Vastly Expand Surveillance - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:59:33] <exec> 08└─These attacks are a clear consequence of the massive invasion of immigrants. They come in such numbers that assimilation is impossible, doubly so due to the difference in religion.
[02:59:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:[ANN] Stupid Sockets Layer - 06Mozilla: HTTPS is Coming. Get Out of the Way! - 1512 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:59:43] <exec> 08└─You can't be serious. Static content can be transmitted zero copy and in most cases without even hitting the disk or even going through the cpu cache. Just send the header and point the socket at the memory with the content or an open fd. Adding my idea for signing just pulls in the signature, which...
[02:59:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:[ANN] Stupid Sockets Layer - 06Mozilla: HTTPS is Coming. Get Out of the Way! - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:59:45] <exec> 08└─Also, think of the energy waste. I'm not particularly green but we are probably taking gigawatts on the server end
[02:59:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mr Big in the Pants [4956] (Score:2) 02Re:Declining Market Share - 06Mozilla: HTTPS is Coming. Get Out of the Way! - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:59:49] <exec> 08└─Oh they follow, it is just meaningless. I mean how many people read all the tweets on their feeds? If you follow someone on twitter but never bother to read the tweets what exactly does that mean apart from a number on a webpage?
[02:59:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03juggs [63] (Score:2) 02Re:Declining Market Share - 06Mozilla: HTTPS is Coming. Get Out of the Way! - 869 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:59:51] <exec> 08└─I think the EFF has the cost aspect covered with their Let's Encrypt effort https://letsencrypt.org [letsencrypt.org] - hopefully they can get their root CA included in OS and browser cert hives. It's not live yet, but theoretically it seems no less valid than the current "basic" certs we see pushe...
[02:59:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03meisterister [949] (Score:2) 02Re:Declining Market Share - 06Mozilla: HTTPS is Coming. Get Out of the Way! - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:59:53] <exec> 08└─one bloated, laggy, slow POS and one that actually works. It's not that hard, but coding it is too lame to be bothered with, apparently.
[02:59:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02Re:Does _Everything_ need encryption? - 06Mozilla: HTTPS is Coming. Get Out of the Way! - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:00:00] <exec> 08└─you want everything encrypted to decrease the chance of a MITM attack which right now are trivial. this is how china is doing their attack on github.
[03:00:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Ok... - 06Mozilla: HTTPS is Coming. Get Out of the Way! - 508 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:00:06] <exec> 08└─This isn't like PGP/GPG... The certificate is issued by a Cert Authority, like Thawte, or GoDaddy, or some such. They send you one part, to put on your web server. They keep part to validate your certificate when necessary. The feds want to get the part you put on your server. That way they can set...
[03:00:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ok... - 06Mozilla: HTTPS is Coming. Get Out of the Way! - 548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:00:08] <exec> 08└─CAs do not have access to your private keys. But, any CA can sign a cert claiming to be for your domain, and that is how hackers corrupt governments and corporations can MiM your traffic. If this ssl everywhere silliness takes off, then CDNs will HAVE to impersonate their customers-- f'ing crazy. DN...
[03:05:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Can do for USA what she did for HP! - 06Former HP CEO Carly Fiorina Seeks Republican Nomination for US President - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:05:25] <exec> 08└─I work for the current incarnation of the electronic measurement company. There's not much love for Carly, at least among the rank and file.
[03:08:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Not sure about the speeding - 06Hungry Australians can Track their Pizzas’ Journey to their Doors - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:08:10] <exec> 08└─Maybe, don't know enough to say otherwise, however how likely is that for the case of a delivery boy riding a scooter on a smooth road? I'm rather inclined to bet on having the pizza sliding due to sudden acceleration/brake than it is to taking motorcycle Grand Prix-style turns.
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[03:59:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score:2) 02Re:She's is dead, Jim! - 06Grace Lee Whitney, Yeoman Janice Rand of the Original Star Trek Series, Has Died - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:59:16] <exec> 08└─"She's is dead, Jim!" Is that a quote from Dr. Jar Jar "Bones" Binks? Geez, these May the Fourth be with you Trek/Star Wars crossovers have gone way to far.
[03:59:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Memory Alpha newsfeed is mostly obituaries - 06Grace Lee Whitney, Yeoman Janice Rand of the Original Star Trek Series, Has Died - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:18] <exec> 08└─Star Trek is dying, literally.
[03:59:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score:2) 02why fired? - 06Grace Lee Whitney, Yeoman Janice Rand of the Original Star Trek Series, Has Died - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:19] <exec> 08└─anyone know the back story?
[03:59:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:[ANN] Stupid Sockets Layer - 06Mozilla: HTTPS is Coming. Get Out of the Way! - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:59:47] <exec> 08└─Then feel free to browse the internet without encryption to save the planet : )
[04:00:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Does _Everything_ need encryption? - 06Mozilla: HTTPS is Coming. Get Out of the Way! - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:00:03] <exec> 08└─This is more like if someone kept editing your flyer and causing harm to you and your audience. Maybe you'd want to put the flyer behind a locked plexiglass window, in that case. Nobody can MITM your flyers anymore. Encryption isn't just about keeping things a secret. It's to prevent others from mod...
[04:00:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03vux984 [5045] 02Re:Ok... - 06Mozilla: HTTPS is Coming. Get Out of the Way! - 70 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:00:10] <exec> 08└─Hey, Mozilla, this was your idea, so how bout you give me a Free Cert.
[04:00:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Ok... - 06Mozilla: HTTPS is Coming. Get Out of the Way! - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:00:13] <exec> 08└─You can use an HTTPS CDN. It just adds an S to the end. But that isn't what FireFox is doing. CDNs serve up static old content, not new features.
[04:00:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03rickatech [4150] (Score:1) 02Mozilla, until Letsencrypt is online, STFU - 06Mozilla: HTTPS is Coming. Get Out of the Way! - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:16] <exec> 08└─https://letsencrypt.org/ [letsencrypt.org] nuff said.
[04:00:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score:2) 02Re:Progress of a kind - 06F.E.C. Can’t Curb 2016 Election Abuse, Commission Chief Says - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:00:50] <exec> 08└─The US doesn't really have a left/right divide like other western democracies do. Both of your political parties are extremely right wing (economically anyway) compared to the civilized world.
[04:00:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Interesting differences - 06F.E.C. Can’t Curb 2016 Election Abuse, Commission Chief Says - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:00:58] <exec> 08└─In the first 24 hours after Bernie's announcement, donations to his campaign topped $1.5M. The average donation was $43.54.
[04:01:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Fire Them All - 06F.E.C. Can’t Curb 2016 Election Abuse, Commission Chief Says - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:01:07] <exec> 08└─I'm not against pastarians serving,
[04:01:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Fire Them All - 06F.E.C. Can’t Curb 2016 Election Abuse, Commission Chief Says - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:01:13] <exec> 08└─Putting the parties in a position of power over the activities of the parties seems ridiculous.
[04:01:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Fire Them All - 06F.E.C. Can’t Curb 2016 Election Abuse, Commission Chief Says - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:01:15] <exec> 08└─Fire each and every one of them.
[04:01:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03kadal [4731] (Score:2) 02Re:Confuseopoly - 06The Medical Bill Mystery - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:01:44] <exec> 08└─WTF?
[04:02:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score:2) 02Re:No shit, Sherlock! - 06'Fuzzy Thinking' in Depression, Bipolar Disorder: New Research Finds Effect is Real - 547 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:02:36] <exec> 08└─I am close to a person with Bi-polar II and she has gone from being a quite clever person, to having very fuzzy thinking indeed, over about 10 years. When she's manic she's the smartest person in the room and she gets very short with the rest of the world who just don't understand and can't keep up....
[04:03:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score:2) 02Do not be Zuckered!! - 06Facebook's Internet.org "Platform" Launches - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:03:15] <exec> 08└─Just like the devil at his doorsteps saying, "Welcome to this tropical paradise, come in, its free!"
[04:03:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Jake Edge is an idiot. - 06The Programming Talent Myth - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:03:43] <exec> 08└─To call someone an idiot repeatedly for writing down what *someone else* said in a presentation, might not be a sign of flawless excellence either.
[04:05:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Can do for USA what she did for HP! - 06Former HP CEO Carly Fiorina Seeks Republican Nomination for US President - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:05:17] <exec> 08└─A pity... would have been great fun.
[04:06:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score:2) 02Re:Only partly true: - 06Train Control Centre Passwords Revealed on BBC TV - 872 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:06:23] <exec> 08└─China is the real competition for the US in this. China has recently exceeded the US for ton-miles of revenue producing freight. (Thanks for prodding me to look it up. China is really improving at a much faster rate than I'd realized. Shows what happens when you look away from a subject for a few ye...
[04:06:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score:2) 02Re:A very common situation: - 06Train Control Centre Passwords Revealed on BBC TV - 1490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:06:51] <exec> 08└─It depends on the situation. One of the reasons I said I didn't know the answer is it's going to vary depending on what you're trying to protect. Examples: If a particular password gets exposed, someone could authorize about $500 worth of purchases at my job. This is probably a pretty good one to ke...
[04:08:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03boltronics [580] (Score:1) 02Re:Not sure about the speeding - 06Hungry Australians can Track their Pizzas’ Journey to their Doors - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:08:30] <exec> 08└─Hmm... maybe I should set up a camera on the corner next time I place an order. :)
[04:08:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Not sure about the speeding - 06Hungry Australians can Track their Pizzas’ Journey to their Doors - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:08:31] <exec> 08└─( :) using Linux to snoop? Not a very ethical proposition :) )
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[04:59:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Vote Hilary! - 06FCC Commissioner: Feds May Regulate Websites Based on Political Content - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:59:14] <exec> 08└─The second Clinton Era will be even more prosperous than the first!
[04:59:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03albert [276] (Score:1) 02payback time - 06FCC Commissioner: Feds May Regulate Websites Based on Political Content - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:59:15] <exec> 08└─She wants interns.
[04:59:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:3, Informative) 02Context - 06FCC Commissioner: Feds May Regulate Websites Based on Political Content - 556 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:59:16] <exec> 08└─Do other utilities cut off the Drudge Report's power, water, and so on? No. The DOD quote is out of context. He said that the military should report all things, good AND bad. You shouldn't hear about the bad stuff only on the Drudge Report. That means the military failed to report it through its' ow...
[04:59:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Bait and Switch 101 - 06FCC Commissioner: Feds May Regulate Websites Based on Political Content - 643 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:59:18] <exec> 08└─I have been saying this for quite some time. Read the "new" net neutrality legislation. There are all kinds of provisions for "lawful content". This does not mean "legal" content. "Lawful Content" means that which is expressly permitted by law. Unlawful content does not mean illegal content, it als...
[04:59:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Why is this a difficult question? - 06FCC Commissioner: Feds May Regulate Websites Based on Political Content - 1035 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:59:20] <exec> 08└─Why is anyone even asking this question? 1. Every other agency of the government is now corrupted by politics. Tricky Dick resigned before he could be impeached (item number one on the articles) for trying (and failing) to politicize the IRS. Both Clinton and Obama succeeded and have not suffered fo...
[04:59:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02FCC ? - 06FCC Commissioner: Feds May Regulate Websites Based on Political Content - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:59:21] <exec> 08└─Oh good... does this mean that the FCC is going to crack down on Fox, Clear Channel and Cumulus Media? Oops... he said "web sites", not broadcast media. For a second there I thought the FCC was going to shut off the political spam.
[04:59:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:FCC ? - 06FCC Commissioner: Feds May Regulate Websites Based on Political Content - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:59:23] <exec> 08└─Go read what Mark Cuban thinks the end game of net neutrality is. It is even worse that you snark. No more cable channels as such, at all. In a converged digital world, CNN on a dedicated bandwidth allocation vs cat videos on YouTube is just one lawsuit away from being illegal.
[04:59:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:why fired? - 06Grace Lee Whitney, Yeoman Janice Rand of the Original Star Trek Series, Has Died - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:59:33] <exec> 08└─The show's creator Gene Roddenberry was in love with another girl, and cast her instead: The doctor's nurse in TOS, and also the Computer's voice for all ST episodes, I believe. She also did the role of Deanna Troy's mother in TNG: Lwaxana Troi. Real name: Majel Barrett-Roddenberry.
[04:59:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score:2) 02Uh oh. - 06Grace Lee Whitney, Yeoman Janice Rand of the Original Star Trek Series, Has Died - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:59:35] <exec> 08└─I feel sorry for anyone around Charlie when he hears the news.
[04:59:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I can - 06Lawmakers in France Move to Vastly Expand Surveillance - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:59:50] <exec> 08└─Why this is I cannot tell you but Americans do.
[05:00:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:There goes Firefox for business - 06Mozilla: HTTPS is Coming. Get Out of the Way! - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:00:21] <exec> 08└─Does SSL have hole?
[05:01:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03K_benzoate [5036] (Score:2) 02Re:Progress of a kind - 06F.E.C. Can’t Curb 2016 Election Abuse, Commission Chief Says - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:01:08] <exec> 08└─I absolutely agree, and nothing I said contradicts that. The Democratic Party is (largely) a centre-right party. The Republican Party is a far-right party. Most Americans are so warped in their understanding of politics that they think the minute differences between the D's and the R's constitute th...
[05:02:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03mrcoolbp [68] (Score:2) 02Re:Confuseopoly - 06The Medical Bill Mystery - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:02:04] <exec> 08└─I think it was /sarc making light of how ridiculous the situation is.
[05:02:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03nethead [4970] (Score:1) 02Re:It's quite common - 06The Medical Bill Mystery - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:02:22] <exec> 08└─Of course it's going to be BAS DB KNOW AND SKLS. You have to take ENG1231 ADV DB KNOW AND SKLS to get the computer to output "Basic Database Knowledge and Skills."
[05:02:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03turgid [4318] 02Relocate to Pinko-Commie Europe - 06The Medical Bill Mystery - 526 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:02:37] <exec> 08└─Seriously, why not relocate to Europe where we have much better and fairer public health systems? The only problem is, here in Blighty at the moment, it looks like were about to elect two bunches of evil [theguardian.com] cretins [independent.co.uk] who want the NHS to be effectively privatised [ind...
[05:04:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:show us the secret sauce! - 06The Programming Talent Myth - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:04:29] <exec> 08└─Who the fuck didn't see that she has a brilliant scientific and analytical mind and decided to push her into an English major?
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[05:59:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03sigma [1225] (Score:1, Offtopic) 02Re:Context - 06FCC Commissioner: Feds May Regulate Websites Based on Political Content - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:59:17] <exec> 08└─Do other utilities cut off the Drudge Report's power, water, and so on? No.
[05:59:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why is this a difficult question? - 06FCC Commissioner: Feds May Regulate Websites Based on Political Content - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:59:19] <exec> 08└─Could you please give references for (2) and (3)? If those are statements made openly as you say, then there should be sources. Also, I would hesitate to call anyone in federal government a progressive except maybe Elizabeth Warren.
[05:59:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why is this a difficult question? - 06FCC Commissioner: Feds May Regulate Websites Based on Political Content - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:59:21] <exec> 08└─Before the progressive era, American men could marry girl children. Which was a wonderful thing for men. Democracy is a rachet, it only goes one way. The only way to get rid of the progressives and they edicts is force.
[05:59:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score:2) 02plain old FUD - 06FCC Commissioner: Feds May Regulate Websites Based on Political Content - 764 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:59:25] <exec> 08└─Not only is this baseless speculation, from a man who is probably butthurt about the Title II decision, it is also a threat that makes no sense. Let's think about this for a second. What could the big, bad FCC possibly have to gain by trying to censor websites, a move which would be obviously uncons...
[05:59:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Not to overstate the obvious, - 06FCC Commissioner: Feds May Regulate Websites Based on Political Content - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:59:26] <exec> 08└─Does someone really have to say this? Pai is an idiot. There is not reason to pay attention to what he "thinks" (we are using this term very loosely) might happen.
[05:59:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Just to make sure everyone understands... - 06FCC Commissioner: Feds May Regulate Websites Based on Political Content - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:59:28] <exec> 08└─I repeat. Pai is an idiot. And ugly.
[05:59:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03sigma [1225] (Score:2) 02Re:She's is dead, Jim! - 06Grace Lee Whitney, Yeoman Janice Rand of the Original Star Trek Series, Has Died - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:59:36] <exec> 08└─Is that a quote from Dr. Jar Jar "Bones" Binks?
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[06:59:40] <exec> 08└─Better to stay in the basement and eat Cheetos. I can already feel my ass expanding.
[06:59:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Exercise is too dangerous, see - 06Officials: SurveyMonkey CEO Died In Treadmill Accident - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:59:41] <exec> 08└─Ass, or cushion and safety device?
[06:59:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Exercise is too dangerous, see - 06Officials: SurveyMonkey CEO Died In Treadmill Accident - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:59:42] <exec> 08└─It's safer to be bottom-heavy. Less chance of dying from falling over.
[06:59:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Four Seasons Resort Puto Mia is a death trap! - 06Officials: SurveyMonkey CEO Died In Treadmill Accident - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:59:44] <exec> 08└─Boycott, boycott! Muaahahaha.
[06:59:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03M. Baranczak [1673] (Score:2) 02Re:Why is this a difficult question? - 06FCC Commissioner: Feds May Regulate Websites Based on Political Content - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:00:00] <exec> 08└─Trying to reason with you would obviously be a waste of time. So I'll just play some modern jazz. [youtube.com]
[07:00:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I can - 06Lawmakers in France Move to Vastly Expand Surveillance - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:00:40] <exec> 08└─Really? [theguardian.com]
[07:01:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:There goes Firefox for business - 06Mozilla: HTTPS is Coming. Get Out of the Way! - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:01:16] <exec> 08└─my version is that google somehow uses SSL keys to track sessions. No evidence, but the push to "encrypt" everything with keys someone else has is suspicious to say the least.
[07:01:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Two words: quantum insert - 06Mozilla: HTTPS is Coming. Get Out of the Way! - 541 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:01:27] <exec> 08└─To those of you who think that plain old static pages generally don't need cryptography, well, the NSA or some other purveyor of malware could use packet injection (quantum insert) to make you see what you think is a legit site, while also making you download the payload they want as well. If all th...
[07:03:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Confuseopoly - 06The Medical Bill Mystery - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:03:03] <exec> 08└─Recently, I spent three days calling and visiting hospitals trying to find out how much an x-ray was going to cost. Nobody could tell me.
[07:03:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Paradise Pete [1806] (Score:1) 02Re:More statistics? - 06The Medical Bill Mystery - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:03:34] <exec> 08└─it would be illuminating to see the distribution of these errors: are they random or not?
[07:03:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Mr Big in the Pants [4956] 02Re:What's the problem? - 06The Medical Bill Mystery - 610 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:03:36] <exec> 08└─The above is the only explanation you need. Confusing billing IS part of the system designed to increase prices. More importantly to make it impossible to compare one organisation to another in terms of value for money. In my countries the CEO of the (recently) ex-monopoly Teleco admitted as much (a...
[07:04:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Tramii [920] 02Re:The whishful thinking that it's all a myth - 06The Programming Talent Myth - 138 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:04:56] <exec> 08└─The responsibility to transfer knowledge always rests with the person who has the knowledge and not with the person who needs to learn it.
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[07:59:21] <exec> 08└─Was he milled or was he threaded?
[07:59:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Four Seasons Resort Puto Mia is a death trap! - 06Officials: SurveyMonkey CEO Died In Treadmill Accident - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:59:23] <exec> 08└─Four Seasons Resort Puta Mía is a death trap!
[07:59:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03tibman [134] 02Context - 06FCC Commissioner: Feds May Regulate Websites Based on Political Content - 556 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:59:33] <exec> 08└─Do other utilities cut off the Drudge Report's power, water, and so on? No. The DOD quote is out of context. He said that the military should report all things, good AND bad. You shouldn't hear about the bad stuff only on the Drudge Report. That means the military failed to report it through its' ow...
[07:59:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:Why is this a difficult question? - 06FCC Commissioner: Feds May Regulate Websites Based on Political Content - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:59:38] <exec> 08└─I normally ignore AC posts but what the heck, I'm a giver tonite. Could you please give references for (2) and (3)? If those are statements made openly as you say, then there should be sources.
[07:59:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Which side is he on? - 06FCC Commissioner: Feds May Regulate Websites Based on Political Content - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:59:47] <exec> 08└─Wait, which side is he on? Somehow I get the feeling that he wants to abolish net neutrality because he's worried that it will lead to political censorship. But if you view net neutrality as a bit like freedom of speech, it really sounds like he thinks it's a bad idea because he wants to censor the...
[07:59:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Which side is he on? - 06FCC Commissioner: Feds May Regulate Websites Based on Political Content - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:59:49] <exec> 08└─But if you view net neutrality as a bit like freedom of speech, it really sounds like he thinks it's a bad idea because he wants to censor the net, and net neutrality would prevent him from doing that.
[08:00:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:[ANN] Stupid Sockets Layer - 06Mozilla: HTTPS is Coming. Get Out of the Way! - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:00:35] <exec> 08└─Not to mention killing off legitimate caches. Just imagine a hotel that caters to business travel. I'll bet they save a lot of bandwidth just by the various news sites being cached in the morning. The browser is supposed to do what I say. I don't want a browser that nags or goes passive-aggressive o...
[08:00:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:Does _Everything_ need encryption? - 06Mozilla: HTTPS is Coming. Get Out of the Way! - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:00:49] <exec> 08└─One of my favorite moments commuting to work was watching two street preachers get into an argument and then fighting in the street. There was no police intervention until the fists started flying.
[08:00:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Does _Everything_ need encryption? - 06Mozilla: HTTPS is Coming. Get Out of the Way! - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:00:50] <exec> 08└─Which CA does anything automatically? The large ones do absolutely nothing without sending a bill, and nobody pay that for me "automatically" either.
[08:00:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Does _Everything_ need encryption? - 06Mozilla: HTTPS is Coming. Get Out of the Way! - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:00:54] <exec> 08└─HTTPS is going to do absolutely nothing to stop the kind of man of the middle attacks you are worrying about. You see, the people who want to control you, be they NSA, GCHQ, or the Russian or Chinese equivalents - they can all create their own certificates for any domain they want to. The whole CA s...
[08:01:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score:2) 02Re:Ok... - 06Mozilla: HTTPS is Coming. Get Out of the Way! - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:01:04] <exec> 08└─The issuer doesn't need your private key to sign your certificate, does it?
[08:01:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Ok... - 06Mozilla: HTTPS is Coming. Get Out of the Way! - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:01:08] <exec> 08└─and that is how hackers corrupt governments and corporations can MiM your traffic. Ah, I didn't know it is hackers who corrupt governments. I always thought it's power and money.
[08:04:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Do not be Zuckered!! - 06Facebook's Internet.org "Platform" Launches - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:04:18] <exec> 08└─I guess we need to sprinkle these badges around more https://fsf.org [fsf.org]
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[08:59:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Death trap - 06Officials: SurveyMonkey CEO Died In Treadmill Accident - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:59:30] <exec> 08└─I knew there was a reason I never responded to any of my colleagues who tried to set up some kind of Sociology Experiment with Surveying Monkeys. I always knew it was and Elephant, standing on the back of an enormous tortoise, and that it was turtles all the way down. No need to pole (misspelling in...
[08:59:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Re:Why is this a difficult question? - 06FCC Commissioner: Feds May Regulate Websites Based on Political Content - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:59:47] <exec> 08└─MikeeUSA - you are busy this week.
[09:01:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Ok... - 06Mozilla: HTTPS is Coming. Get Out of the Way! - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:01:15] <exec> 08└─The real issue is MITM, or fake sites getting established. What percent of that goes away with Secure DNS? I don't know.
[09:01:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Ok... - 06Mozilla: HTTPS is Coming. Get Out of the Way! - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:01:16] <exec> 08└─MITM can be resolved by having the browser remember the fingerprint of the key and warning if that signature changes. I'll bet the NSA would have a much harder time getting around that than they have forcing a CA to sign a bogus cert for them.
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[09:59:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Good thing Obama is a Constitutional scholar! - 06Homeland Security Chief: Fourth Amendment is 'Beyond My Competence' - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:59:55] <exec> 08└─When the President violates the Constitution, it's not unconstitutional. All hail the Imperial President! Sieg, Heil!
[09:59:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Change We Need - 06Homeland Security Chief: Fourth Amendment is 'Beyond My Competence' - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:59:56] <exec> 08└─Why hasn't Obama abolished Homeland Security yet? Oh right. Obama is a traitor.
[10:00:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Four Seasons Resort Puto Mia is a death trap! - 06Officials: SurveyMonkey CEO Died In Treadmill Accident - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:00:10] <exec> 08└─You must be humor-impaired, clod-hopper.
[10:00:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02freak accident, or unsafe device? - 06Officials: SurveyMonkey CEO Died In Treadmill Accident - 658 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:00:12] <exec> 08└─Or something else? This story is full of weird and bad vibes. I suppose a treadmill could cause death through some design element that seems innocent enough but is actually quite dangerous. Farm machinery used to be extremely hazardous. In many cases, the dangers were not recognized. The power takeo...
[10:00:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Obligatory Bond. James Bond. - 06FCC Commissioner: Feds May Regulate Websites Based on Political Content - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:00:39] <exec> 08└─"When bad things happen, the American people should hear it from us, not as a scoop on the Drudge Report."
[10:00:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Pics or it didn't happen - 06Grace Lee Whitney, Yeoman Janice Rand of the Original Star Trek Series, Has Died - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:00:56] <exec> 08└─https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Grace_Lee_Whitney_Star_Trek_1966.JPG [wikimedia.org] I would've been willing to do some exploring with her!
[10:01:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02https kills broadcasting - 06Mozilla: HTTPS is Coming. Get Out of the Way! - 1116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:01:28] <exec> 08└─One of the biggest problems with going all https is that multicasting becomes impractical. Instead of sending one data stream to hundreds of recipients, the server now has to encrypt it for each recipient, and send all that data separately. That's the real expense of encryption. No buffering, cachin...
[10:02:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ok... - 06Mozilla: HTTPS is Coming. Get Out of the Way! - 623 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:02:06] <exec> 08└─And that's in fact one of the solutions Mozilla discusses using. Specifically, the linked blog post has an edit linking to this FAQ (PDF warning) [mozilla.org] which references certificate transparency [certificate-transparency.org] as a technology to make HTTPS stronger, which is a way to have diff...
[10:02:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Mozilla, until Letsencrypt is online, STFU - 06Mozilla: HTTPS is Coming. Get Out of the Way! - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:02:09] <exec> 08└─They are pretty open about the fact that none of this will be phased in until after Let's Encrypt is launched. The initiative isn't "let's only support HTTPS", it's "let's look into fixing all of the technological and social issues causing people to not use HTTPS".
[10:03:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02Re:Confuseopoly - 06The Medical Bill Mystery - 354 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:03:40] <exec> 08└─One important non-standard aspect of the health care industry: The customer is frequently getting an offer they can't refuse. If you need, for example, an appendectomy, you will lack the time and ability to shop around for the best price and quality of care. That's why I think the US obsession with...
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[11:00:22] <exec> 08└─It isn't his job to make the rules. Answering the question as worded on belief is not appropriate either. At some point in your life you have to realize that, when in a position of power, it is inappropriate to say things publicly that are contrary to whatever your boss says. Even more so when that...
[11:00:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:freak accident, or unsafe device? - 06Officials: SurveyMonkey CEO Died In Treadmill Accident - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:00:40] <exec> 08└─> I suppose a treadmill could cause death through some design element that seems innocent enough but is actually quite dangerous. Youtube is full of vidoes labeled "treadmill fail." All treadmills have a fail-safe that you are supposed to clip to yourself that will immediately halt all movement if y...
[11:01:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Invasion of Immigrants - 06Lawmakers in France Move to Vastly Expand Surveillance - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:01:44] <exec> 08└─Infringing upon fundamental liberties in exchange for safety is the mark of a coward.
[11:02:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:Does _Everything_ need encryption? - 06Mozilla: HTTPS is Coming. Get Out of the Way! - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:02:17] <exec> 08└─I thought God was supposed to settle something like this. One of 'em for sure was bound to become burnt offering.
[11:02:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Preachers duking it out - 06Mozilla: HTTPS is Coming. Get Out of the Way! - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:02:18] <exec> 08└─I appreciate your insight on theological matters. -- gewg_
[11:02:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Two words: quantum insert - 06Mozilla: HTTPS is Coming. Get Out of the Way! - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:02:44] <exec> 08└─To prevent MITM, all you need is signing, not encryption.
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[11:04:58] <exec> 08└─You know why they are doing it - because the NHS is a political bugbear that haunts the sleep of every politician. If it is privatised then it becomes someone else's problem. Take away the socialist opposition, add a bit of pork and it becomes a "no-brainer"...
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[12:47:32] <exec> 08└─is somewhat like comparing a nuclear powered ice breaker to a kick scooter. A few caveats indeed!
[12:47:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Change We Need - 06Homeland Security Chief: Fourth Amendment is 'Beyond My Competence' - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:47:41] <exec> 08└─And so it happened: SN is falling lower than /. witn these uninformative, flamebaitting comments upmodded "+1 Informative".
[12:47:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Meh - 06Homeland Security Chief: Fourth Amendment is 'Beyond My Competence' - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:47:44] <exec> 08└─But it is his job to follow the rules! I think we have a powerful and recent affirmation that just following orders is not enough: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[12:47:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03deathlyslow [2818] (Score:1) 02Re:Meh - 06Homeland Security Chief: Fourth Amendment is 'Beyond My Competence' - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:47:45] <exec> 08└─It isn't his job to make the rules. Answering the question as worded on belief is not appropriate either. At some point in your life you have to realize that, when in a position of power, it is inappropriate to say things publicly that are contrary to whatever your boss says. Even more so when that...
[12:47:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Meh - 06Homeland Security Chief: Fourth Amendment is 'Beyond My Competence' - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:47:47] <exec> 08└─If you took your oath so seriously, why haven't you upheld it? Go and do something to stop people from violating the constitution. Of course you will be immediately labeled a domestic terrorist, probably killed, and if in the unlikely event you do survive will spend the rest of your life in solitary...
[12:47:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03deathlyslow [2818] (Score:1) 02Re:Meh - 06Homeland Security Chief: Fourth Amendment is 'Beyond My Competence' - 1071 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:47:49] <exec> 08└─I know don't feed the trolls but I can't let this sit idle. Did you ever serve or even attempt to serve in the military? I did, I also got a medical discharge due to blowing out my knee after fighting to getting waivers to even go to basic training. I vote, do you? I've written to my congress critte...
[12:47:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Circling the Drain - 06Homeland Security Chief: Fourth Amendment is 'Beyond My Competence' - 879 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:47:50] <exec> 08└─So, we have a government that isn't even pretending to work on behalf of the American people anymore, even rubbing their noses in it with the Trans-Pacific Partnership ultra-secret trade deal and voting to repeal the rather meaningless Volcker Rule (among many, many other examples). Now we have the...
[12:48:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:freak accident, or unsafe device? - 06Officials: SurveyMonkey CEO Died In Treadmill Accident - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:48:05] <exec> 08└─Most people never bother to clip it on because it is kind of a pita.
[12:48:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03zafiro17 [234] (Score:2) 02Re:freak accident, or unsafe device? - 06Officials: SurveyMonkey CEO Died In Treadmill Accident - 1007 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:48:06] <exec> 08└─It could have been something as simple as: guy on treadmill has a heart attack and dies instantly. His body falls over onto the ground and the treadmill continues to run, scraping a gash into his head, allowing blood to pour out (lots of blood comes out when it's a head wound). That's the thing abou...
[12:48:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score:2) 02Re:freak accident, or unsafe device? - 06Officials: SurveyMonkey CEO Died In Treadmill Accident - 671 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:48:07] <exec> 08└─That's why they say to consult a doctor before starting any new exercise regimen. :-p A sudden heart attack killing the guy didn't surprise me much, though, as that's what killed Douglas Adams when he was only in his late 40s. That his also took place at a gym has always seemed fittingly ironic enou...
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[12:48:09] <exec> 08└─Might have been dead before he fell off. My grandfather-in-law or however its phrased had a heart attack while raking leaves in the yard, doesn't necessarily imply a faulty lawn rake. Could have also been kinda-in-between a direct cause and coincidental. You get a minor low level recoverable stroke...
[12:48:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:payback time - 06FCC Commissioner: Feds May Regulate Websites Based on Political Content - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:48:19] <exec> 08└─She has Huma, a step up from going down on Janet Reno.
[12:48:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Re:Why is this a difficult question? - 06FCC Commissioner: Feds May Regulate Websites Based on Political Content - 232 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:48:24] <exec> 08└─Could you please give references for (2) and (3)? If those are statements made openly as you say, then there should be sources. Also, I would hesitate to call anyone in federal government a progressive except maybe Elizabeth Warren.
[12:48:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03captain normal [2205] 02FCC ? - 06FCC Commissioner: Feds May Regulate Websites Based on Political Content - 231 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:48:29] <exec> 08└─Oh good... does this mean that the FCC is going to crack down on Fox, Clear Channel and Cumulus Media? Oops... he said "web sites", not broadcast media. For a second there I thought the FCC was going to shut off the political spam.
[12:48:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03shortscreen [2252] 02plain old FUD - 06FCC Commissioner: Feds May Regulate Websites Based on Political Content - 764 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:48:31] <exec> 08└─Not only is this baseless speculation, from a man who is probably butthurt about the Title II decision, it is also a threat that makes no sense. Let's think about this for a second. What could the big, bad FCC possibly have to gain by trying to censor websites, a move which would be obviously uncons...
[12:48:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03aristarchus [2645] 02Not to overstate the obvious, - 06FCC Commissioner: Feds May Regulate Websites Based on Political Content - 164 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:48:33] <exec> 08└─Does someone really have to say this? Pai is an idiot. There is not reason to pay attention to what he "thinks" (we are using this term very loosely) might happen.
[12:48:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geezer [511] (Score:2) 02Re:Not to overstate the obvious, - 06FCC Commissioner: Feds May Regulate Websites Based on Political Content - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:48:35] <exec> 08└─Bingo. Everybody likes pie. Engineers and scientists like pi. Nobody likes Pai.
[12:48:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Awesome - 06FCC Commissioner: Feds May Regulate Websites Based on Political Content - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:48:38] <exec> 08└─So, let's censor websites for political content but do absolutely nothing about the ramifications of the Citizens United decision, which is driving a stake through the heart of democracy. This idiot quite represents the top echelons of federal government, doesn't he?
[12:48:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jasassin [3566] 02Uh oh. - 06Grace Lee Whitney, Yeoman Janice Rand of the Original Star Trek Series, Has Died - 62 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:48:51] <exec> 08└─I feel sorry for anyone around Charlie when he hears the news.
[12:48:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Pics or it didn't happen - 06Grace Lee Whitney, Yeoman Janice Rand of the Original Star Trek Series, Has Died - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:48:53] <exec> 08└─She was 36 in that pix. The original MILF?
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[12:49:36] <exec> 08└─In fact it appears that firefox is the expendable browser to help deprecating old style websites in favor of the big inner platforms, facebook, twitter, blogspot... It's not the business of the browser topick what part of the protocols to implement, because it's a matter of definition. A web browser...
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[12:49:45] <exec> 08└─I guess it was a lame attempt at humor, gewg. If God delivered lightning bolts to the devil, there is one TV preacher out of North Carolina that I am sure would have been blasted so many times.... Every time I am flipping through the channels and see him, my blood begins boiling with indignation. H...
[12:49:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03radu [1919] (Score:1) 02Re:Does _Everything_ need encryption? - 06Mozilla: HTTPS is Coming. Get Out of the Way! - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:49:52] <exec> 08└─Then why would I want to do the same thing on an electronic version of the same flyer?
[12:50:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:If authoritarians "split the baby", it dies - 06NSA's "Google for Voice," And More - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:50:26] <exec> 08└─"The Founders didn't create the Constitution; they won the Revolutionary War. The Framers created the Constitution" That piqued some interest, an opportunity for a non-USian to learn something, so I ran off to the internet to find out more, and swiftly found http://en.wikipedia.org Whic...
[12:50:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score:2) 02Re:Progress of a kind - 06F.E.C. Can’t Curb 2016 Election Abuse, Commission Chief Says - 2487 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:50:59] <exec> 08└─If merely being female magically got all kinds of other women to vote for the candidate, one of the female national third party candidates (like the Greens' Jill Stein) would've won by now. Conservative or libertarian Blacks largely didn't vote for Obama in 2008; likewise, conservative women won't v...
[12:51:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Fire Them All - 06F.E.C. Can’t Curb 2016 Election Abuse, Commission Chief Says - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:51:10] <exec> 08└─Hard core blind party supporters? probably statistically unlikely.
[12:51:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:During good behavior - 06F.E.C. Can’t Curb 2016 Election Abuse, Commission Chief Says - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:51:12] <exec> 08└─Well, if he only beat his wife outside office hours, then there should be no conflict with constitution, right? :-)
[12:51:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Eliminate 501c4 - 06F.E.C. Can’t Curb 2016 Election Abuse, Commission Chief Says - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:51:25] <exec> 08└─Transparency is one of the ways to reform election spending. Remove the "anonymous" from the donations and things become a lot clearer. It would clean up some of the "citizens for ????" ads, too.
[12:51:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Algorithmic Authoritarianism - 06The Medical Bill Mystery - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:51:52] <exec> 08└─Most likely, someone from the hospital didn't care one iota what their customer got to see, as long as the hospital administration had effective software to deal with their end of the problem. I've seen it many times, where developers need to fill in gaps because there are no requirements, even when...
[12:56:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score:2) 02Re:A very common situation: - 06Train Control Centre Passwords Revealed on BBC TV - 918 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:56:47] <exec> 08└─Right, I mean you can't do it for something like Facebook or Gmail...I was talking more about the internal corporate network. I'd assume the password taped to the monitor in this story wasn't for someone's Gmail account. But at my office all our Unix and Linux systems, all the databases, all the loc...
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[13:47:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02What's in it for Google? - 06Google's Android Update Problem - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:28] <exec> 08└─What would Google get out of this? They already spend enough time and money pursuing projects without any plan to make money. Are they loosing marketshare due to this problem?
[13:47:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What's in it for Google? - 06Google's Android Update Problem - 782 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:47:29] <exec> 08└─The same thing MS got out of it when they started to take it serious. The phone market is even more fickle than the computer market. In 2-3 years the whole stats could upside down to a different platform. Because people go thru phones that quickly. They will have to be careful though. Apple can pull...
[13:47:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02One comparison - 06Bitcoin's Predecessors, Online Game Currencies, and What We Can Learn From Them - 639 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:38] <exec> 08└─Online currencies rely on the people who control the server to play nice. The MMORPG companies have a motivation to play nice, since screwing over their players too much will cause their revenue stream to dry up. By comparison, Bitcoin has had multiple instances of those that control the server just...
[13:47:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Covalent [43] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Change We Need - 06Homeland Security Chief: Fourth Amendment is 'Beyond My Competence' - 1390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:47:49] <exec> 08└─I voted for Obama (proudly). I admired what he had to say. I believed him when he said he would close Gitmo, would get rid of the ridiculous standardized testing monstrosity, would take steps to protect privacy, net neutrality, and 4th amendment rights. Disillusionment is too weak a word. The net ne...
[13:47:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Change We Need - 06Homeland Security Chief: Fourth Amendment is 'Beyond My Competence' - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:47:51] <exec> 08└─> History will long remember the president who halted our slide into fascism Not it won't. Stopping things from getting worse is not a recipe for fame.
[13:47:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Meh - 06Homeland Security Chief: Fourth Amendment is 'Beyond My Competence' - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:47:56] <exec> 08└─If you can't be bothered to even put your pseudonym on here I seriously doubt that you have the guts to take a stand for anything.
[13:47:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Meh - 06Homeland Security Chief: Fourth Amendment is 'Beyond My Competence' - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:47:58] <exec> 08└─If you can't be bothered to even put your pseudonym on here I seriously doubt that you have the guts to take a stand for anything.
[13:47:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Circling the Drain - 06Homeland Security Chief: Fourth Amendment is 'Beyond My Competence' - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:47:59] <exec> 08└─Well, what would surprise me is an actual populist like Bernie Sanders both winning the presidency and being able to implement his policies (e.g. he opposed the Patriot Act from the beginning).
[13:48:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:Why is this a difficult question? - 06FCC Commissioner: Feds May Regulate Websites Based on Political Content - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:48:39] <exec> 08└─BS. Citation needed on #2. And the only "progressives" I can think of who hold office currently are Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders.
[13:49:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Re:Invasion of Immigrants - 06Lawmakers in France Move to Vastly Expand Surveillance - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:49:20] <exec> 08└─> Too much of anything is bad. That includes too many: Chinese, Russians, Italians, Lithuanians, xxxx... etc. So you are saying that the problem in europe is too many europeans? Ooops. Stupid rationalization for racism backfires!
[13:49:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Invasion of Immigrants - 06Lawmakers in France Move to Vastly Expand Surveillance - 665 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:49:25] <exec> 08└─> Why this is I cannot tell you but Americans do. I would like to think it is because we have freedom of speech - which means the bigots get to air their ugliness for everyone to see and then be ridiculed and shamed for it. Much of europe has laws forbidding that - France in particular has tons of r...
[13:49:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Invasion of Immigrants - 06Lawmakers in France Move to Vastly Expand Surveillance - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:49:27] <exec> 08└─These attacks are a clear consequence of the massive invasion of immigrants. They come in such numbers that assimilation is impossible, doubly so due to the difference in religion.
[13:49:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:https kills broadcasting - 06Mozilla: HTTPS is Coming. Get Out of the Way! - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:49:41] <exec> 08└─Multicasting at the IP level is made impossible by TCP. If you're talking about large-scale streaming servers, then you might want to read the AsiaBSDCon paper about how Netflix enabled HTTPS for all of their video traffic. If they can do it for 1/3 of US Internet traffic then I don't see other peop...
[13:49:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:[ANN] Stupid Sockets Layer - 06Mozilla: HTTPS is Coming. Get Out of the Way! - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:49:45] <exec> 08└─Not to mention killing off legitimate caches. Just imagine a hotel that caters to business travel. I'll bet they save a lot of bandwidth just by the various news sites being cached in the morning.
[13:50:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:Ok... - 06Mozilla: HTTPS is Coming. Get Out of the Way! - 872 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:50:18] <exec> 08└─That's not how it works. You keep your private key, which is what's needed to encrypt the contents. You generate a certificate signing request and send it to the issuer. They use this to generate a signed version of your public key so that people who download the public key can validate that it's re...
[13:50:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Ok... - 06Mozilla: HTTPS is Coming. Get Out of the Way! - 583 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:50:20] <exec> 08└─> Wasn't it just last month that one of the larger Chinese CAs got caught out? Yes. At the time, I was thinking "wasn't it only recently that it happened to ... too?" and did a little bit of hunting. To my shock, there had been about half a dozen incidents between the one I remembered and the curren...
[13:50:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:If authoritarians "split the baby", it dies - 06NSA's "Google for Voice," And More - 2404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:50:42] <exec> 08└─Therein lies the rub with relying solely on an encyclopedia. Here's some rough, basic history of the USA and its founding, each major piece of which can easily be independently verified. The people who signed the Declaration of Independence [ushistory.org] are not all the same people who created the...
[13:51:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Interesting differences - 06F.E.C. Can’t Curb 2016 Election Abuse, Commission Chief Says - 2167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:51:14] <exec> 08└─gewg money has permeated all levels, to pretend 'your guy' is better than the other guy is ignoring facts at best and being outright dishonest at worst. You are a good example of a 'cheerleader'. Someone who does not have a lot of power but will vote party line. Because they have somehow* convinced...
[13:54:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02Warning signs - 06The Programming Talent Myth - 58 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:54:09] <exec> 08└─... you can only program if you are a rock star or a ninja
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[14:47:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03snick [1408] (Score:2) 02Re:What's in it for Google? - 06Google's Android Update Problem - 516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:47:43] <exec> 08└─Not everyone has $600 to drop on a phone. You can get a no-contract Android phone for $10 [amazon.com] And yeah, the phone sucks, and is back level on the OS, and we can all sneer at it, and the carrier associated with it. But it is still just $10. The cheapest no-contract iPhone on Amazon is over 1...
[14:47:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Leebert [3511] (Score:2) 02Re:What's in it for Google? - 06Google's Android Update Problem - 613 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:47:44] <exec> 08└─Shoot, even for those of us who ARE willing and interested in dumping the money on such a phone, it's not just as simple as firing up an Amazon window and one-click ordering a phone. You have to do some research into non-intuitive things like whether or not the particular version of the phone you ar...
[14:47:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:What's in it for Google? - 06Google's Android Update Problem - 891 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:47:45] <exec> 08└─LOL I googled around for fun and the LG phone you linked to isn't even an android phone, its just a skinned feature phone. No apps, no nothing, just some trademark/copyright violation graphics. Its my old 1990s StarTac with a touch screen instead of buttons. As a happy customer of republic wireless...
[14:47:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:What's in it for Google? - 06Google's Android Update Problem - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:47:47] <exec> 08└─If both Google and Apple squirt out a new version every year or less to keep up with the Joneses, and the average age of an iPhone is 6 months, and the average age of an android phone is 2 years, then google is going to be at a competitive disadvantage because they have to maintain 4 times as many o...
[14:47:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:What's in it for Google? - 06Google's Android Update Problem - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:47:49] <exec> 08└─Right, so it's in google's interest to stop letting OEMs fuck up the core design. All they do with it is put in crapware anyways.
[14:47:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:What's in it for Google? - 06Google's Android Update Problem - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:47:50] <exec> 08└─And just like desktops someone is paying the OEM to put the crapware on. So crapware author says "Heres a pile of money now put my crapware on each phone" vs google (and the customers) say "I'd prefer you not do that, and no I don't have any money", so not hard to guess which side wins.
[14:47:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Agoobee - 06Google's Android Update Problem - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:47:52] <exec> 08└─Not having an Adobe-like reputation for security is important since all their stuff is online.
[14:47:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Apt-get - 06Google's Android Update Problem - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:53] <exec> 08└─Couldn't they implement updates for the core OS stuff in a similar manner to how they update apps, by using something the the Linux repository based model? As always, the ability to point to alternative repositories would be required for those that want to switch to alternative kernels, etc, but I d...
[14:47:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Apt-get - 06Google's Android Update Problem - 1414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:47:55] <exec> 08└─I know for a fact that network operators make android upgrades a living hell for MVNOs probably to make their own overpriced overadvertised offerings look better. Sprint would be pretty angry with Google if they couldn't make RW phones always behind the times. There is a rather practical concern tha...
[14:47:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03SDRefugee [4477] (Score:1) 02Re:Apt-get - 06Google's Android Update Problem - 639 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:47:57] <exec> 08└─I'm a retired network admin, and I refuse to tie myself down to a 2yr cellphone contract, so I buy my own phones from either eBay or Glyde, and use Ting as my carrier. Ting runs on Sprints network (for CDMA) and T-mobile (for GSM), and you only pay for what you use each month, post-paid..Once I have...
[14:47:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Apt-get - 06Google's Android Update Problem - 484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:47:58] <exec> 08└─I'll rephrase my own post to its a push vs pull problem. The devs and marketing people are pushing as hard as they can for obvious financial reasons (Keep doing exactly the same thing you've always done, but send us money!) but the man in the street has no pull interest at all. Is there anything, an...
[14:47:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03PizzaRollPlinkett [4512] (Score:2) 02Re:Apt-get - 06Google's Android Update Problem - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:48:00] <exec> 08└─Google is sort of already doing this by moving a lot of core functionality out of the open-source Android code into Google Play, which they can update. Whether that's a good thing or not is another matter.
[14:48:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03WizardFusion [498] (Score:2) 02Don't want to upgrade - 06Google's Android Update Problem - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:01] <exec> 08└─There is another side to this too. I have an LG G3 phone that I am really happy with. There is a 5.0 update available (maybe 5.1), but I am sticking with 4.4.2. Why? Because I have so many tweaks and "hacks" that may not work as I want on the latest version. I am happy with my phone as it is.
[14:48:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03mtrycz [60] (Score:2) 02Re:Don't want to upgrade - 06Google's Android Update Problem - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:48:03] <exec> 08└─Also, the new Material UI.
[14:48:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Solution? - 06Google's Android Update Problem - 952 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:05] <exec> 08└─Couldn't Google make it a requirement that for every phone it must be possible to install the original Google version of Android (possibly at the cost of losing carrier-specific features, but not at the cost of features supported by Android by default)? Then a carrier has two options: They can conti...
[14:48:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03PizzaRollPlinkett [4512] (Score:2) 02Re:Solution? - 06Google's Android Update Problem - 576 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:48:06] <exec> 08└─The reality is, Google wants device manufacturers who support Android to pay for the stuff in Google Play. So if Google made a stock Android with Google Play available, they'd be shooting themselves in the foot. If they made an Android without Google Play, no one would want it. So Google is sort of...
[14:48:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03PizzaRollPlinkett [4512] (Score:2) 02As an Android developer... - 06Google's Android Update Problem - 2042 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:08] <exec> 08└─Android is a dumpster fire. Google is too busy messing up the Android user interface for them to care about anything practical. Google has always left Android in a permanent beta state, sloppy and buggy, as they've rushed on to new features without making the current stuff all that stable. Google do...
[14:48:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Re:Good thing Obama is a Constitutional scholar! - 06Homeland Security Chief: Fourth Amendment is 'Beyond My Competence' - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:48:17] <exec> 08└─You Godwined on the first post? You never go full Godwin, especially on the first post.
[14:48:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Re:Change We Need - 06Homeland Security Chief: Fourth Amendment is 'Beyond My Competence' - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:48:23] <exec> 08└─> Disillusionment is too weak a word. Yeah, been there, felt that. Obama is America's Blair.
[14:48:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Change We Need - 06Homeland Security Chief: Fourth Amendment is 'Beyond My Competence' - 952 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:48:24] <exec> 08└─You do know that departments are created by law, and any question already answered in law cannot be overridden by executive order, right? The presidency does indeed have too much power, being essentially allowed to decide anything that hasn't been set down in extraordinary detail by congress or a ju...
[14:48:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03deathlyslow [2818] (Score:2, Touché) 02Re:Meh - 06Homeland Security Chief: Fourth Amendment is 'Beyond My Competence' - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:48:31] <exec> 08└─It's not about an account. I mean come on even Gewg puts his "name" to his posts. If your going to make statements about standing up for something I find it hard to take it seriously when you can't be bothered to at least take some ownership of your comments. It's a respect thing. Maybe I'm old fash...
[14:48:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Meh - 06Homeland Security Chief: Fourth Amendment is 'Beyond My Competence' - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:48:32] <exec> 08└─It was you that made statements [wikipedia.org] about standing up for something. I merely pointed out that you did not uphold your word as there are violators of the constitution that you have done nothing to stop. Why respect that?
[14:48:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Meh - 06Homeland Security Chief: Fourth Amendment is 'Beyond My Competence' - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:48:34] <exec> 08└─Using some arbitrary name online or choosing not to has absolutely nothing to do with whether or not you are an activist in real life. If your going to make statements about standing up for something I find it hard to take it seriously when you can't be bothered to at least take some ownership of y...
[14:48:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03deathlyslow [2818] (Score:1) 02Re:Meh - 06Homeland Security Chief: Fourth Amendment is 'Beyond My Competence' - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:48:36] <exec> 08└─Having an account does not mean anything unless you are Michael David Crawford.
[14:48:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Meh - 06Homeland Security Chief: Fourth Amendment is 'Beyond My Competence' - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:48:37] <exec> 08└─So you have done absolutely nothing to protect the constitution. Voting does not protect it. Writing letters does not protect it. Blowing a knee in basic is not at all a service to the country. An average mailman does orders of magnitude more. If you have "guts" put your name and address out. I alre...
[14:48:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03mtrycz [60] (Score:2) 02If it doesn't work - 06Homeland Security Chief: Fourth Amendment is 'Beyond My Competence' - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:39] <exec> 08└─Yeah, so if this Secretary doesn't work right, just switch him with a new, better, Secretary. No?
[14:48:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03zugedneb [4556] (Score:2) 02Ur Bill of Rights is Our Dream - 06Homeland Security Chief: Fourth Amendment is 'Beyond My Competence' - 552 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:41] <exec> 08└─We (as in "the rest") are looking forward to the day our US brothers will rise up against the mockery, and pull some weapons on the dudes in the suits... Sale of popcorn are skyrocketing... Joke aside, the Bill of Rights you have are the best in the world... Many people in europe would like to have...
[14:48:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] (Score:2) 02Re:Exercise is too dangerous, see - 06Officials: SurveyMonkey CEO Died In Treadmill Accident - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:48:50] <exec> 08└─For maximum safety, get so large you become a Weeble.
[14:48:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Re:freak accident, or unsafe device? - 06Officials: SurveyMonkey CEO Died In Treadmill Accident - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:49:00] <exec> 08└─Never used a threadmill myself...
[14:49:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Re:freak accident, or unsafe device? - 06Officials: SurveyMonkey CEO Died In Treadmill Accident - 451 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:49:01] <exec> 08└─Most people who use the clips are running faster than they think they can sustain, not just jogging or walking at a typical-to-them pace. It does seem likely from looking at the man's physique (a little heavy) and descriptions of his overwork (restarted each night after his kids were in bed) that he...
[14:49:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:freak accident, or unsafe device? - 06Officials: SurveyMonkey CEO Died In Treadmill Accident - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:49:03] <exec> 08└─> Most people who use the clips are running faster than they think they can sustain, not just jogging or walking at a typical-to-them pace. Maybe that is true in practice, but that is not the intended use for the clips. As proof I submit walking treadmills, none of which can go faster than 4mph and...
[14:49:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02WTF is this guy in the news? - 06Officials: SurveyMonkey CEO Died In Treadmill Accident - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:49:06] <exec> 08└─Was he a celebrity because his wife was in the FB nimbus?
[14:49:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03cafebabe [894] (Score:2) 02A Quick Survey... - 06Officials: SurveyMonkey CEO Died In Treadmill Accident - 818 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:49:07] <exec> 08└─Did you die:- [ ] In your sleep. [ ] In a violent incident. [ ] In a traffic accident. [ ] Exerting yourself in an unnecessary manner. [ ] Due to an attack of wild animals. [ ] On the toilet. [ ] Other. Please explain: ________________ What when through your head when you died?:- [ ] Nothing. [ ] Oh...
[14:49:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anne Nonymous [712] (Score:1) 02Went to Mexico - 06Officials: SurveyMonkey CEO Died In Treadmill Accident - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:49:09] <exec> 08└─And he did not have a nice trip.
[14:49:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Re:Went to Mexico - 06Officials: SurveyMonkey CEO Died In Treadmill Accident - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:49:10] <exec> 08└─And he did not have a nice trip.
[14:49:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03JeanCroix [573] (Score:2) 02Miniskirt uniforms - 06Grace Lee Whitney, Yeoman Janice Rand of the Original Star Trek Series, Has Died - 939 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:50:00] <exec> 08└─An interesting bit of trivia - it was she who originated the women's miniskirt-style uniforms in the original series. From memory-alpha.org: In spite of feminist objections, it was actually a woman who was responsible for the introduction of the Starfleet mini skirts and not Roddenberry, as Star Tre...
[14:50:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Invasion of Immigrants - 06Lawmakers in France Move to Vastly Expand Surveillance - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:50:29] <exec> 08└─I would like to think it is because we have freedom of speech - which means the bigots get to air their ugliness for everyone to see and then be ridiculed and shamed for it.
[14:50:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03ncc74656 [4917] (Score:1) 02Re:Declining Market Share - 06Mozilla: HTTPS is Coming. Get Out of the Way! - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:50:57] <exec> 08└─Maybe Mozilla and/or the Domain Registrars should be forced to hand them out certificates for free.
[14:51:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Ok... - 06Mozilla: HTTPS is Coming. Get Out of the Way! - 1252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:51:24] <exec> 08└─> The certificate is issued by a Cert Authority The certificate isn't your private key. The certificate can be used to validate your public key, which it contains. > They send you one part, to put on your web server. No, they send you *the* certificate, that contains the public key you've given them...
[14:57:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Only partly true: - 06Train Control Centre Passwords Revealed on BBC TV - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:57:57] <exec> 08└─While those are, of course, important measures, they give far from the complete pictures. There are other important figures, such as reliability, speed of delivery, network coverage, flexibility, cost.
[14:58:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03cafebabe [894] (Score:2) 02Re:A very common situation: - 06Train Control Centre Passwords Revealed on BBC TV - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:58:24] <exec> 08└─I use password safe myself, which is pretty good, and I can use the passwords most of the time without ever having to see them... double click the entry and its copied to the clipboard. Although some systems and websites that for whatever reason have prevented pasting from the clipboard to the passw...
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[15:47:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02magnetic gel - 06Synthetic Gel With Self Powered Movement May Lead to Squishier Robot - 1145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:54] <exec> 08└─About a quarter century ago I was subject to too many engineering presentations about magnetic gels that were basically powdered iron suspended in a dense fluid that would solidify (ish) under strong magnetic fields or if the electromagnet were off it would be a fluid suspension, more or less. So yo...
[15:47:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03M. Baranczak [1673] (Score:3, Insightful) 02T-1000? I think not. - 06Synthetic Gel With Self Powered Movement May Lead to Squishier Robot - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:55] <exec> 08└─The dexterity of today's robots is limited by software, not hardware. Making a jointed arm that has the same range of motion as a human arm? Easy, and doesn't require any exotic materials. The hard part is writing the software that processes sensor input and makes the arm do something useful.
[15:48:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Covalent [43] 02Re:Change We Need - 06Homeland Security Chief: Fourth Amendment is 'Beyond My Competence' - 1390 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:48:43] <exec> 08└─I voted for Obama (proudly). I admired what he had to say. I believed him when he said he would close Gitmo, would get rid of the ridiculous standardized testing monstrosity, would take steps to protect privacy, net neutrality, and 4th amendment rights. Disillusionment is too weak a word. The net ne...
[15:48:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Meh - 06Homeland Security Chief: Fourth Amendment is 'Beyond My Competence' - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:48:58] <exec> 08└─Serving means a lot to many people but in recent years it is questionable if the use of the US military has been as noble as the intentions of those who join. The country would be a better place if those who call the shots were as patriotic as new recruits. It is good that you are in the militia and...
[15:49:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02Re:freak accident, or unsafe device? - 06Officials: SurveyMonkey CEO Died In Treadmill Accident - 68 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:49:27] <exec> 08└─Most people never bother to clip it on because it is kind of a pita.
[15:49:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:freak accident, or unsafe device? - 06Officials: SurveyMonkey CEO Died In Treadmill Accident - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:49:29] <exec> 08└─No, silly, that's a thread spinner.
[15:49:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03WillR [2012] (Score:1) 02Re:freak accident, or unsafe device? - 06Officials: SurveyMonkey CEO Died In Treadmill Accident - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:49:32] <exec> 08└─That's a pretty unfair application of hindsight. Spend your vacation sitting in the bar eating chips and drinking beer, drop dead of a heart attack at your desk the next week? "Failed to protect your health!" Spend it running on the treadmill trying to get in shape, die anyway? "Failed to protect y...
[15:49:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Mexico and getting gashes in your head - 06Officials: SurveyMonkey CEO Died In Treadmill Accident - 588 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:41] <exec> 08└─There is a number of stories over the last couple of years where people end up with head injuries as means of extortion scams. You go somewhere alone, someone bashes your head, you wake up in hospital that then charges you thousands and send you on your way. Some of these end up worse than others, a...
[15:50:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Re:Why is this a difficult question? - 06FCC Commissioner: Feds May Regulate Websites Based on Political Content - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:50:00] <exec> 08└─Oh crap, its stuck in my heaaaaad!
[15:50:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:why fired? - 06Grace Lee Whitney, Yeoman Janice Rand of the Original Star Trek Series, Has Died - 5177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:50:26] <exec> 08└─In TFA "appearances", there is this: Following a day's filming midway through production on "Miri" (on 26 August 1966), Grace Lee Whitney became intrigued when an executive on the Desilu lot told her, "I think Yeoman Janice Rand has been under-utilized. The character has been developing some interes...
[15:50:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Invasion of Immigrants - 06Lawmakers in France Move to Vastly Expand Surveillance - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:50:53] <exec> 08└─And speaking for all true Americans, I fully agree. Living in the home of the spy[NSA Redact] consumer And the land of the *not in the face*, *not in the face* sigh
[15:51:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03gnuman [5013] (Score:2) 02Re:[ANN] Stupid Sockets Layer - 06Mozilla: HTTPS is Coming. Get Out of the Way! - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:51:09] <exec> 08└─relatively robust block cipher (slow) to exchange keys
[15:51:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] 02Declining Market Share - 06Mozilla: HTTPS is Coming. Get Out of the Way! - 488 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:51:14] <exec> 08└─Firefox is really trying to kill off that last 12% of users they have, aren't they? Does a third-place browser really have the ability to force this change, or will lusers simply dump it because it "doesn't work" with their favorite Kardashian 'news' site? If Mozilla was headed by adults, they'd sto...
[15:52:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Interesting differences - 06F.E.C. Can’t Curb 2016 Election Abuse, Commission Chief Says - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:52:44] <exec> 08└─Oh no you didn't. You DO NOT get to play the victim card for George Soros without including that he was a goddamned NAZI collaborator. Google it, 60 Minutes even did a piece on it.
[15:53:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Rejecting the premise - 06F.E.C. Can’t Curb 2016 Election Abuse, Commission Chief Says - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:53:11] <exec> 08└─> People's private lives should not be destroyed So when politics are used to destroy people's private lives, that's OK. But the private lives of people using politics for those ends are off limits. Goose and gander seems to be something you have difficulty with.
[15:56:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score:2) 02I'm not sure about that... - 06The Programming Talent Myth - 2048 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:56:09] <exec> 08└─Seems to me that there's two kinds of people in my office. Those who really know what they're doing, and those who can barely type. Yesterday one of my coworkers told me he had never really used a computer at all until he was in college. Meanwhile I started teaching myself C++ in grade school. I thi...
[15:58:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:A very common situation: - 06Train Control Centre Passwords Revealed on BBC TV - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:58:41] <exec> 08└─Far too easy to DOS an entire company.
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[16:47:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score:2) 02Re:T-1000? I think not. - 06Synthetic Gel With Self Powered Movement May Lead to Squishier Robot - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:47:37] <exec> 08└─Less T-1000, more Cherry 2000, I'd say, if it's squishy. But seriously, the physical properties would be of interest, because this "artificial muscle" topic seems to have quite lot space for innovations. I once read up that the human efficency is around 25% from food calories (*) to work Joules with...
[16:47:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Squishier robot? - 06Synthetic Gel With Self Powered Movement May Lead to Squishier Robot - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:38] <exec> 08└─...and I shall call him squishy, and he shall be mine...
[16:47:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:What's in it for Google? - 06Google's Android Update Problem - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:47:52] <exec> 08└─"immediately EOLs the thing" Sounds familiar. I find it funny that Microsoft is "bashing" Google for this given their history in mobile OS support.
[16:48:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:Apt-get - 06Google's Android Update Problem - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:48:01] <exec> 08└─You're correct in the updates not really offering a lot, certainly very little that can't be implemented by apps. It's partly a marketing problem (iOS gets updates out to everybody, but they *need* them to do core changes, not that Android users should have to implement newer core features with apps...
[16:48:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedGreen [888] (Score:2) 02Re:Apt-get - 06Google's Android Update Problem - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:48:05] <exec> 08└─Apparently have not heard of the systemd cluster fuck that has brought the windows monolithic method of doing things to Linux. Coming to a distro near you whether you want it or not.
[16:48:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Dear geeks - 06Google's Android Update Problem - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:48:08] <exec> 08└─I would love to not spend a week dealing with the consequences of my mom's phone upgrading. Guess what? The carriers think the same way, and they have a few million "moms" to deal with.
[16:48:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03SuperCharlie [2939] (Score:2) 02Re:Don't want to upgrade - 06Google's Android Update Problem - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:48:10] <exec> 08└─I have the same phone and did the upgrade. It didn't really straighten out till I did a hard reset after the OS update. I'm about a week or so in now on 5.0 and after all the reinstall, etc.. I like it marginally better.
[16:48:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03WizardFusion [498] (Score:2) 02Re:Don't want to upgrade - 06Google's Android Update Problem - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:48:12] <exec> 08└─Is yours rooted with the screen DPI set to the correct value (534). It makes everything look much better
[16:48:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Bitcoin isn't a game currency? - 06Bitcoin's Predecessors, Online Game Currencies, and What We Can Learn From Them - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:23] <exec> 08└─I can't really tell the difference between BTC, L$, and ISK.
[16:48:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03JeanCroix [573] (Score:2) 02Re:Good thing Obama is a Constitutional scholar! - 06Homeland Security Chief: Fourth Amendment is 'Beyond My Competence' - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:48:33] <exec> 08└─"If the president does it, that means it’s not illegal." So I guess you're saying Obama is simply following Nixon's dictum?
[16:48:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Ur Bill of Rights is Our Dream - 06Homeland Security Chief: Fourth Amendment is 'Beyond My Competence' - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:48:56] <exec> 08└─Many people in europe would like to have them.
[16:48:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03zugedneb [4556] (Score:2) 02Re:Ur Bill of Rights is Our Dream - 06Homeland Security Chief: Fourth Amendment is 'Beyond My Competence' - 1510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:48:57] <exec> 08└─Well, EU is EU... I give some examples: - in certain countries, like germany and france, questioning aspects and numbers of the "holocaust" is forbidden by law, the mere questioning is criminal, and no newly declassified documents hold value on the topic there... - britain goes much your way nowdays...
[16:48:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02And Rand Paul jumps off the deep end again... - 06Homeland Security Chief: Fourth Amendment is 'Beyond My Competence' - 587 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:58] <exec> 08└─From TFA: "“I would propose that there is no person named Verizon, so you do not have an individualized warrant under the Fourth Amendment when to say to Mr. Verizon we want hundreds of millions of records...." Really reads like his intention was to say a company cannot be the subject of a warrant...
[16:48:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Non Sequor [1005] (Score:2) 02I'll play devil's advocate - 06Homeland Security Chief: Fourth Amendment is 'Beyond My Competence' - 577 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:00] <exec> 08└─In legal contexts, the word competence can mean the designated authority to decide a matter. http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com [thefreedictionary.com] He's essentially saying that he's advocating for something he believes in while saying that he isn't the one who draws the line...
[16:49:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03zafiro17 [234] 02Re:freak accident, or unsafe device? - 06Officials: SurveyMonkey CEO Died In Treadmill Accident - 1007 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:49:24] <exec> 08└─It could have been something as simple as: guy on treadmill has a heart attack and dies instantly. His body falls over onto the ground and the treadmill continues to run, scraping a gash into his head, allowing blood to pour out (lots of blood comes out when it's a head wound). That's the thing abou...
[16:49:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03JeanCroix [573] (Score:2) 02Re:Mexico and getting gashes in your head - 06Officials: SurveyMonkey CEO Died In Treadmill Accident - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:49:32] <exec> 08└─That's a nice looking head you got there. Sure would be a shame if anything were to happen to it...
[16:50:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Obligatory Bond. James Bond. - 06FCC Commissioner: Feds May Regulate Websites Based on Political Content - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:50:03] <exec> 08└─Additionally: > "When bad things happen, the American people should hear it from us, not as a scoop on the Drudge Report." Well, not quite. If something happens, good or bad, the People should hear it both from the government and the media. That's the job of the media, in theory: independently repor...
[16:50:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Pics or it didn't happen - 06Grace Lee Whitney, Yeoman Janice Rand of the Original Star Trek Series, Has Died - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:50:23] <exec> 08└─Apparently you're not the only one. Check out the post above where she was sexually assaulted, in-character it would appear.
[16:50:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03gnuman [5013] (Score:2) 02Re:Invasion of Immigrants - 06Lawmakers in France Move to Vastly Expand Surveillance - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:50:41] <exec> 08└─France is home to a fairly large muslim immigrant population, previously it used to come from the old colonies but this new wave just have nothing in common with them and they seem to have very little love over for France. ... Without a shared culture or some kind of brotherhood like feeling integra...
[16:56:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03cafebabe [894] (Score:2) 02Re:show us the secret sauce! - 06The Programming Talent Myth - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:56:01] <exec> 08└─You remind my of a formerly active member here. In fact, I'm fairly certain you had a different UID.
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[17:47:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart9h [767] (Score:3, Informative) 02commas - 06Near-Earth Asteroid Telescope Being Constructed - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:31] <exec> 08└─You can't spread them around text, like grated cheese on food. "As major disasters go, asteroid impacts are one of the few which are theoretically preventable, provided we had enough advance notice." "Step zero is to see the asteroid first, so I was thrilled to see some recent progress on this front...
[17:47:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:commas - 06Near-Earth Asteroid Telescope Being Constructed - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:47:32] <exec> 08└─Dear asteroid, Welcome, we need a priority reset. Most of earth.
[17:47:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03WillAdams [1424] (Score:1) 02Not just avoiding disaster, potential resource - 06Near-Earth Asteroid Telescope Being Constructed - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:34] <exec> 08└─Things which are likely to impact earth are also potentially in orbits which could be redirected and put into earth (maybe we should try for lunar instead) orbit. Mine as needed and use for building things.
[17:47:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Not just avoiding disaster, potential resource - 06Near-Earth Asteroid Telescope Being Constructed - 763 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:47:35] <exec> 08└─Not nearly as easy. You can easily deflect an asteroid's course such that it no longer collides with Earth's course. That difference can be measured in centimeters per day per year. But getting something into earth's orbit? That requires not only aligning it's path, but also adjusting it's total kin...
[17:47:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Not just avoiding disaster, potential resource - 06Near-Earth Asteroid Telescope Being Constructed - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:47:37] <exec> 08└─Changing orbits on a car-sized space probe is hard, and we already launch them as optimally as possible. Trying to capture a passerby the size of Central Park (or is it Rhode Island? need to check El Reg's units chart) would literally require an astronomical amount of energy, which we'd have better...
[17:47:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:magnetic gel - 06Synthetic Gel With Self Powered Movement May Lead to Squishier Robot - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:47:45] <exec> 08└─Two words: biomechanoid replicants.
[17:47:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03e_armadillo [3695] (Score:2) 02Meh, gimme Flubber - 06Synthetic Gel With Self Powered Movement May Lead to Squishier Robot - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:49] <exec> 08└─the Robin Williams Flubber, not the Fred McMurray version :-)
[17:48:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What's in it for Google? - 06Google's Android Update Problem - 627 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:48:02] <exec> 08└─The only reason we have the phones today is because of Steve Jobs. He basically walked in and said 'take it or leave it' none of this 2 years to qualify it on the network crap. AT&T took the bait and profited handsomely from it. Companies were using qualification to make their networks look good. If...
[17:48:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:What's in it for Google? - 06Google's Android Update Problem - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:48:06] <exec> 08└─Our marketplaces are so perverse. Not that I'm a free market fundamentalist in the first place, but this is the difference between capitalism and consumerism. In the former, people are agents making choices, in the latter, they're a resource to extract money from.
[17:48:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Solution? - 06Google's Android Update Problem - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:48:23] <exec> 08└─They could simply make the update support Google Play only if the previously installed version supported Google Play. Have the Google Play access information/code stored separately from the actual OS, so an OS update neither installs nor destroys it. The original OS doesn't contain enough informatio...
[17:48:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03pmontra [1175] (Score:1) 02Re:Solution? - 06Google's Android Update Problem - 984 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:48:24] <exec> 08└─Why carriers? Carriers won't do updates themselves. They must ask manufacturers to do it. If a Samsung says it won't update an S3 anymore then what? No more Samsung? I don't believe so. Then there are many phones not bought on a contract with a carrier but directly from manufacturers. My phone is on...
[17:48:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Re:One comparison - 06Bitcoin's Predecessors, Online Game Currencies, and What We Can Learn From Them - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:48:34] <exec> 08└─Note that no one actually controls Bitcoin distribution, unless someone manages to obtain enough Bitcoins to take control of the blockchain. The problem with your analogy is that you are equating government=company=mt. gox whereas the proper analogy is government=company=bitcoin majority owner/math...
[17:48:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Bitcoin isn't a game currency? - 06Bitcoin's Predecessors, Online Game Currencies, and What We Can Learn From Them - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:48:36] <exec> 08└─The exchange rates are different?
[17:48:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score:1) 02Re:Change We Need - 06Homeland Security Chief: Fourth Amendment is 'Beyond My Competence' - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:48:52] <exec> 08└─> or who did nothing while we slid Neither, history will just be adapted. According to the manual: 1984.
[17:48:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Change We Need - 06Homeland Security Chief: Fourth Amendment is 'Beyond My Competence' - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:48:54] <exec> 08└─"president who halted our slide into fascism...or who did nothing while we slid..." Our leaders are not innocent bystanders in the move to racism, they are the cause. We have a name for a racist leader, that name is dictator.
[17:48:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Change We Need - 06Homeland Security Chief: Fourth Amendment is 'Beyond My Competence' - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:48:55] <exec> 08└─Darn autocorrect. That was supposed to say facism not racism.
[17:49:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03deathlyslow [2818] 02Re:Meh - 06Homeland Security Chief: Fourth Amendment is 'Beyond My Competence' - 1071 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:49:02] <exec> 08└─I know don't feed the trolls but I can't let this sit idle. Did you ever serve or even attempt to serve in the military? I did, I also got a medical discharge due to blowing out my knee after fighting to getting waivers to even go to basic training. I vote, do you? I've written to my congress critte...
[17:49:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Meh - 06Homeland Security Chief: Fourth Amendment is 'Beyond My Competence' - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:49:10] <exec> 08└─You DO realize that the militia and the military are the same thing, right? Half of the US military is made up of reservists and national guardsmen, ie, the militia. The only difference between "the militia" and "the military" is whether or not you're getting paid by the federal government.
[17:49:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ur Bill of Rights is Our Dream - 06Homeland Security Chief: Fourth Amendment is 'Beyond My Competence' - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:49:18] <exec> 08└─We (as in "the rest") are looking forward to the day our US brothers will rise up against the mockery, and pull some weapons on the dudes in the suits...
[17:49:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I'll play devil's advocate - 06Homeland Security Chief: Fourth Amendment is 'Beyond My Competence' - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:49:21] <exec> 08└─The pro-freedom side seeks to maximize freedom, so we can only gain from that. The other side, however, seeks to impose mass unconstitutional surveillance upon us and infringe upon our liberties in many other ways. I think it's clear which has the moral high ground here, between the two.
[17:49:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Death trap - 06Officials: SurveyMonkey CEO Died In Treadmill Accident - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:49:37] <exec> 08└─There needs to be a -0/-1 Bad Attempt At Humor mod...
[17:49:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03CoolHand [438] (Score:2) 02Re:freak accident, or unsafe device? - 06Officials: SurveyMonkey CEO Died In Treadmill Accident - 451 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:49:49] <exec> 08└─Have they ruled out foul play? I was thinking also that he could have been messed up in business with Mexican cartels. A cartel hitman could have come in and whacked his head on the front of the treadmill and let him fall to look like an accident. Of course, on 2nd thought, thinking about Mexican ca...
[17:49:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:freak accident, or unsafe device? - 06Officials: SurveyMonkey CEO Died In Treadmill Accident - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:49:50] <exec> 08└─Yeah, the GM denies that he was a guest, so why was he in the gym?
[17:49:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03cafebabe [894] 02A Quick Survey... - 06Officials: SurveyMonkey CEO Died In Treadmill Accident - 818 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:52] <exec> 08└─Did you die:- [ ] In your sleep. [ ] In a violent incident. [ ] In a traffic accident. [ ] Exerting yourself in an unnecessary manner. [ ] Due to an attack of wild animals. [ ] On the toilet. [ ] Other. Please explain: ________________ What when through your head when you died?:- [ ] Nothing. [ ] Oh...
[17:50:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Eristone [4775] (Score:1) 02Re:Why is this a difficult question? - 06FCC Commissioner: Feds May Regulate Websites Based on Political Content - 1330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:50:13] <exec> 08└─Okay - not an Anonymous Coward posting. Can you post a reference where the current president and the current democratic candidate have said they want to modify the 1st amendment? (and you do realize how hard it is to modify amendments, right?) Campaign Finance Law currently is "He who has the most...
[17:50:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03goody [2135] (Score:2) 02Re:Not to overstate the obvious, - 06FCC Commissioner: Feds May Regulate Websites Based on Political Content - 631 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:50:25] <exec> 08└─Pai is not an idiot, he's just one of this new breed of Republicans, the tea party graduates. He has mastered conservative dog whistle political rhetoric. I question whether he believes all the garbage he spews because it's way there, stuff that goes well with Fox News. He's undoubtedly gunning for...
[17:51:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Does _Everything_ need encryption? - 06Mozilla: HTTPS is Coming. Get Out of the Way! - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:51:54] <exec> 08└─If you are going to let god sort it out, I refer you to the first step which you may have overlooked. Jk, of course.
[17:52:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Ok... - 06Mozilla: HTTPS is Coming. Get Out of the Way! - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:52:22] <exec> 08└─The way pgp handles this is the wide publishing of your public key to key-servers. I haven't done a careful study of that and its resistance to tampering, and how quickly that could be detected or prevented.
[17:52:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheB [1538] (Score:2) 02Re:Probably worthless - 06NSA's "Google for Voice," And More - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:52:33] <exec> 08└─+1 on Google voicemail speech recognition quality. It is the best I've ever seen. YouTube's CC and Android voice recognition are total crap compared to it. Haven't seen it make any mistakes this year. Even handles parts numbers well.
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[18:47:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Online is bad. - 06Online Courses Not Working Well at Community Colleges - 713 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:31] <exec> 08└─"Flipped" is good. Going to class to be lectured to is passive. Unengaging. But it's more engaging than doing the same thing through online. Because you can ask questions. Have discussions. Be pushed. Flipped classrooms, where the most passive part of the class, listening to the lecture, is done on...
[18:47:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Online is bad. - 06Online Courses Not Working Well at Community Colleges - 1160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:47:32] <exec> 08└─I've done a fuckton of online classes, and I always assumed that they were for people who were more interested in jumping through the hoop and ticking off another requirement rather than actually giving a damn about retaining the material "learned." I actually took calc I online, and while I learned...
[18:47:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Online is bad. - 06Online Courses Not Working Well at Community Colleges - 1373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:47:34] <exec> 08└─In the old days, cause I'm old, believe it or not they used to assign readings and assume we actually read the book when they lectured. Like in the 80s and 90s. The lectures were pretty much demonstrations. I remember not paying much attention in calculus because if you understood the chapter and di...
[18:47:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03BananaPhone [2488] (Score:1) 02The winners in this are the course providers - 06Online Courses Not Working Well at Community Colleges - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:36] <exec> 08└─They have a vested interest in keeping this gravy train going. You can learn through online courses but YOU are the driving force. It's not for everyone. If you can't be bothered to learn through a book, don't waste your time on online courses.
[18:47:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02cause/effect? - 06Online Courses Not Working Well at Community Colleges - 1516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:37] <exec> 08└─I wonder how, or if, they corrected for cause and effect. Surely the same pressures that drive one out of the classroom and onto online could increase over time and lead to dropping out of the online class? Illness or family member illness or the generic demands of young children or workplace schedu...
[18:47:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:commas - 06Near-Earth Asteroid Telescope Being Constructed - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:47:46] <exec> 08└─It's a beat poem.
[18:47:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Not just avoiding disaster, potential resource - 06Near-Earth Asteroid Telescope Being Constructed - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:47:50] <exec> 08└─No, but just think of the amount of unobtainium that otherwise we've have to mine here on earth!??! From asteroids - it's FREE!
[18:48:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03rts008 [3001] (Score:3, Interesting) 02An industry changing development... - 06Synthetic Gel With Self Powered Movement May Lead to Squishier Robot - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:02] <exec> 08└─Look for major advancements in 'special effects' featured in Japanese tentacle porn. ;-)
[18:48:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03everdred [110] (Score:2) 02Re:Don't want to upgrade - 06Google's Android Update Problem - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:48:37] <exec> 08└─I'm in the same boat as you. I have a modern Nexus phone that's had the Lollipop upgrade available for a good while, but I have no interest in upgrading from 4.4.4 anytime in the foreseeable future. I have Lollipop on another Nexus device and the UI, in my mind, is an incredible step backwards.
[18:48:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Don't want to upgrade - 06Google's Android Update Problem - 1483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:48:38] <exec> 08└─Yes, exactly. I had a perfectly functional 3-yr old Nexus 7 tablet that I trustingly, stupidly "upgraded" to Lollipop, which instantly near bricked the damn thing. The performance went into the shitter, with me having to wait 1+ minute for a response to any tap on the screen. And for what? Turned ou...
[18:49:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:Good thing Obama is a Constitutional scholar! - 06Homeland Security Chief: Fourth Amendment is 'Beyond My Competence' - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:49:06] <exec> 08└─Nixon wasn't the first. He only got caught. I believe they do it under the "But I'm doing it for for the good of the people" doctrine.
[18:49:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03JeanCroix [573] (Score:2) 02Re:Good thing Obama is a Constitutional scholar! - 06Homeland Security Chief: Fourth Amendment is 'Beyond My Competence' - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:49:07] <exec> 08└─Well, I meant that the quote I used was straight from Nixon's mouth. From the Frost interviews.
[18:49:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Meh - 06Homeland Security Chief: Fourth Amendment is 'Beyond My Competence' - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:49:30] <exec> 08└─People in the military are pawns that are controlled by those with power. People in the militia are volunteers and are not under ordered around by politicians.
[18:49:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02Circling the Drain - 06Homeland Security Chief: Fourth Amendment is 'Beyond My Competence' - 879 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:32] <exec> 08└─So, we have a government that isn't even pretending to work on behalf of the American people anymore, even rubbing their noses in it with the Trans-Pacific Partnership ultra-secret trade deal and voting to repeal the rather meaningless Volcker Rule (among many, many other examples). Now we have the...
[18:50:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:freak accident, or unsafe device? - 06Officials: SurveyMonkey CEO Died In Treadmill Accident - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:50:10] <exec> 08└─I like your world view and would like to subscribe to your newsletter!
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[19:47:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Online is bad. - 06Online Courses Not Working Well at Community Colleges - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:47:37] <exec> 08└─If the texts were written well enough, then we wouldn't need professors to explain their contents to us. And there are plenty of texts that are written poorly and cryptically with inadequate demonstrations of how to solve problems, or they problems that are so radically different that what was demon...
[19:47:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:Online is bad. - 06Online Courses Not Working Well at Community Colleges - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:47:39] <exec> 08└─Trying to imagine learning as a resource to be consumed, as these legislators are doing, suggests they've never really learned anything.
[19:47:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:cause/effect? - 06Online Courses Not Working Well at Community Colleges - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:47:41] <exec> 08└─That part about the discussions always pissed me off as well -- it's a fucking online class, I don't give a fuck about what anybody other than the professor has to say, and what my hobbies are and what I do in my spare time are none of your fucking business. It's a fucking online class -- let's not...
[19:47:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:cause/effect? - 06Online Courses Not Working Well at Community Colleges - 1758 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:47:43] <exec> 08└─A lot of it is aspirational. So we're JUST like Yale. Other than not being named Yale, and not having nearly as strict admissions. In fact all you need is money and a pulse. In fact, scrap that, all you need is money. But we do use the same books and curriculum and you can be damn sure we cost about...
[19:47:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Trade off - 06Online Courses Not Working Well at Community Colleges - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:46] <exec> 08└─Online courses may not be as effective, but they are cheaper and more accessible to more students.
[19:47:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Trade off - 06Online Courses Not Working Well at Community Colleges - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:47:48] <exec> 08└─but they are cheaper
[19:47:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Only 11 percent lower pass rate? - 06Online Courses Not Working Well at Community Colleges - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:49] <exec> 08└─Considering the potentially greater outreach and cost savings, 11 percent lower doesn't seem that bad. You might grow the college population by 50 percent or more.
[19:47:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02But will the Hawaiians let us? - 06Near-Earth Asteroid Telescope Being Constructed - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:58] <exec> 08└─Ok, just kidding folks.... Running and ducking.
[19:48:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Soon your robots can have breast implants - 06Synthetic Gel With Self Powered Movement May Lead to Squishier Robot - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:12] <exec> 08└─44DD
[19:49:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Change We Need - 06Homeland Security Chief: Fourth Amendment is 'Beyond My Competence' - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:49:24] <exec> 08└─It's fascism.
[19:49:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Change We Need - 06Homeland Security Chief: Fourth Amendment is 'Beyond My Competence' - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:49:26] <exec> 08└─I would sincerely appreciate it if you replied and modded me down, because this "bluh bluh you corrected my incorrect point I hate you" is what I get out of it. Which just tells me that some people are shitty. I love disagreeing. I hate petty shitheads who mark score 2 posts "overrated" because they...
[19:49:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03curunir_wolf [4772] (Score:2) 02Re:Meh - 06Homeland Security Chief: Fourth Amendment is 'Beyond My Competence' - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:49:41] <exec> 08└─reservists and national guardsmen, ie, the militia.
[19:49:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Circling the Drain - 06Homeland Security Chief: Fourth Amendment is 'Beyond My Competence' - 727 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:49:45] <exec> 08└─I like Bernie but he has a slightly lower chance of becoming President than Dennis Kucinich. Elizabeth Warren could do it, though she would have both the Republicans and Republican Democra...I mean, Hillary Clinton's surrogates, baying from now until election day that electing her would be the End....
[19:50:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Exercise is too dangerous, see - 06Officials: SurveyMonkey CEO Died In Treadmill Accident - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:50:08] <exec> 08└─I can already feel my ass expanding. Keep expanding and eventually the treadmill will come to you!
[19:50:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:A Quick Survey... - 06Officials: SurveyMonkey CEO Died In Treadmill Accident - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:50:30] <exec> 08└─How would you rate your satisfaction with the afterlife?:- All I get is a 501 error, am I holding it wrong?
[19:50:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Mexico and getting gashes in your head - 06Officials: SurveyMonkey CEO Died In Treadmill Accident - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:50:35] <exec> 08└─you think my head's nice looking? most people say it's like a unholy mix of predator and alien...
[19:50:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Bait and Switch 101 - 06FCC Commissioner: Feds May Regulate Websites Based on Political Content - 885 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:50:49] <exec> 08└─I have been saying this for quite some time. Read the "new" net neutrality legislation. There are all kinds of provisions for "lawful content". This does not mean "legal" content. "Lawful Content" means that which is expressly permitted by law. Unlawful content does not mean illegal content, it also...
[19:50:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03curunir_wolf [4772] (Score:2) 02Re:Why is this a difficult question? - 06FCC Commissioner: Feds May Regulate Websites Based on Political Content - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:50:54] <exec> 08└─For number 2 it is probably sufficient to say two phrases: Hate Speech Legislation and Campaign Finance Law. Both the current and probable next POTUS openly declare their support for 'modifying' the 1st Amendment if required to achieve their goals.
[19:51:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03VIPERsssss [3959] (Score:1) 02Re:FCC ? - 06FCC Commissioner: Feds May Regulate Websites Based on Political Content - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:51:02] <exec> 08└─Are you kidding? Those so-called conservative outlets are nowhere near unhinged enough for the Useless Contrarian Party.
[19:53:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geotti [1146] (Score:2) 02Voice Recognition - 06NSA's "Google for Voice," And More - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:29] <exec> 08└─Can anyone recommend a good, Free voice recognition library or software with an API that can effectively turn it into a library? It's ok if you have to train it, but the recognition rate should be somewhere in the 4th quartile.
[19:53:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Progress of a kind - 06F.E.C. Can’t Curb 2016 Election Abuse, Commission Chief Says - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:53:46] <exec> 08└─Well if he is dead then I don't think we need to worry about him contributing too much money now do we.
[19:55:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Empyrean [5241] (Score:1) 02Re:The effect comes and goes - 06'Fuzzy Thinking' in Depression, Bipolar Disorder: New Research Finds Effect is Real - 678 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:55:45] <exec> 08└─I also have bipolar-type schizoaffective disorder, and I can definitely relate to your experiences (especially the fuzzy thinking). While my depressive episodes have been dangerous (due to the risk of suicide), my manic/delusional episodes have pretty much destroyed my career. Most of the jobs withi...
[19:58:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Re:Can do for USA what she did for HP! - 06Former HP CEO Carly Fiorina Seeks Republican Nomination for US President - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:58:45] <exec> 08└─Then the next president can blame the former one and so on..
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[20:47:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02We've known this for ages - 06When Bosses 'Serve' Their Employees, Everything Improves - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:31] <exec> 08└─But authoritarian structures are easier to implement and psychopaths are great at getting into positions of power, and they don't mind knocking down the company to get ahead within it.
[20:47:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02What do the restaurants serve? - 06When Bosses 'Serve' Their Employees, Everything Improves - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:32] <exec> 08└─The restaurants serve their employees? I guess they've read "How to serve man"!
[20:47:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Online is bad. - 06Online Courses Not Working Well at Community Colleges - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:47:45] <exec> 08└─Imaginary learning is completely orthogonal to real learning.
[20:47:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Online is bad. - 06Online Courses Not Working Well at Community Colleges - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:47:46] <exec> 08└─But if you combine real and imaginary learning, things get really complex!
[20:47:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:The winners in this are the course providers - 06Online Courses Not Working Well at Community Colleges - 742 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:47:49] <exec> 08└─Whilst I almost entirely agree with you, there can be something about the delivery, even things as simple as the intonation, of a spoken lecture which can help the understanding of academic material. You get to hear which is the handle-turning and which is the important and interesting shit. I know...
[20:47:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Only 11 percent lower pass rate? - 06Online Courses Not Working Well at Community Colleges - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:47:56] <exec> 08└─Considering there is nothing in a college student's life that demands discipline and self-motivation like taking online classes, the fact that 89% of those Californian students get through is impressive.
[20:47:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Not for All Learning Styles - 06Online Courses Not Working Well at Community Colleges - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:58] <exec> 08└─There are various learning styles, from the common readers, writers, lecture fans, to hands-on learners. I imagine these online courses are similarly only for certain learning styles that may not match up with the classic matrix. My own experience was that the classes are as unforgiving as in-person...
[20:47:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Not for All Learning Styles - 06Online Courses Not Working Well at Community Colleges - 726 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:47:59] <exec> 08└─One of my complaints about them is the opposite of yours - Plenty of situations where I finished that week's material early, but they refuse to release the next week's material until the beginning of that week. So I spend all that free time scratching my ass waiting for something to do, and then som...
[20:48:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Re:commas - 06Near-Earth Asteroid Telescope Being Constructed - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:48:09] <exec> 08└─I read this in William Shatners voice.
[20:48:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:commas - 06Near-Earth Asteroid Telescope Being Constructed - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:48:11] <exec> 08└─But it did't say "As, major disasters, go, asteroid impacts, are, one of the, few, which are, theoretically, preventable, provided we had, enough, advance notice."
[20:48:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03deadstick [5110] (Score:1) 02Re:commas - 06Near-Earth Asteroid Telescope Being Constructed - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:48:12] <exec> 08└─I feel a semicolon coming on, myself;
[20:48:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Re:Not just avoiding disaster, potential resource - 06Near-Earth Asteroid Telescope Being Constructed - 563 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:48:14] <exec> 08└─Assuming you could deflect it by a small amount, but you could do it with precision, and also assuming you're willing to play cosmic billiards with the entire population of earth quivering in a corner pocket, would it be theoretically possible to nudge the asteroid onto some kind of sling shot traje...
[20:48:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Not just avoiding disaster, potential resource - 06Near-Earth Asteroid Telescope Being Constructed - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:48:16] <exec> 08└─I agree that that is hypothetically possible, but not at all pragmatic.
[20:48:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Re:Not just avoiding disaster, potential resource - 06Near-Earth Asteroid Telescope Being Constructed - 493 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:48:17] <exec> 08└─What you describe is already happening. Each time an asteroid buzzes by any planet, it gains or loses some kinetic energy. However, to get something decently big into a stable enough orbit would take an absurdly long time. Easier to send a robot mining mission and let it ride around for a few orbits...
[20:48:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Re:Not just avoiding disaster, potential resource - 06Near-Earth Asteroid Telescope Being Constructed - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:48:19] <exec> 08└─Also, you don't need to shove asteroids into orbit of Earth, just into a nearby orbit. Currently there is only one known asteroid [wikipedia.org] like this.
[20:48:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Not just avoiding disaster, potential resource - 06Near-Earth Asteroid Telescope Being Constructed - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:48:21] <exec> 08└─Slight adjustments using ion engines, or dare I mention emdrive? You can also paint them white: http://www.space.com [space.com]
[20:48:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03J053 [3532] (Score:1) 02Re:But will the Hawaiians let us? - 06Near-Earth Asteroid Telescope Being Constructed - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:48:22] <exec> 08└─Probably not, if it would involve touching the sacred land.
[20:48:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:magnetic gel - 06Synthetic Gel With Self Powered Movement May Lead to Squishier Robot - 696 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:48:32] <exec> 08└─Lord Corporation (or someone else?) figured out the magnetic fluid thing and it's been used in dampers (shock absorbers) in a number of high end cars, Corvette, Cadillac/Buick and I think licensed to Ferrari in one case. Marketed by Delphi (former Delco) as "MagneRide" http://en.wikipedia.org
[20:48:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03curunir_wolf [4772] (Score:2) 02Re:What's in it for Google? - 06Google's Android Update Problem - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:48:52] <exec> 08└─The same thing MS got out of it when they started to take it serious.
[20:48:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Mangled Economics terms (again) - 06Google's Android Update Problem - 941 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:48:57] <exec> 08└─It appears that your 1st category was meant to be "Competitive market" and your 2nd "Non-competitive market". If there was proper competition, buyers could find what they wanted. Megacorporations, "intellectual property", litigation, etc. really kill it for the little guy who actually wants to compe...
[20:49:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03curunir_wolf [4772] (Score:2) 02Re:Apt-get - 06Google's Android Update Problem - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:49:04] <exec> 08└─Well, there's the apps. If you want to use Instagram, for instance, you won't be able to use it on your Ice Cream Sandwich phone. It will install and run, it just won't work. They targeted Jelly Bean for Instagram version 5 and later, and it can't access the camera on anything earlier. There are oth...
[20:49:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:Don't want to upgrade - 06Google's Android Update Problem - 678 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:49:15] <exec> 08└─I have an old Nexus 7 too, which since the latest update, has been sitting around unused. The battery is probably dead now. The delay in response after touching just causes problems because you figure you need to press the button again. And my favored use for it -- watching poker videos on pokertube...
[20:49:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score:2) 02Re:As an Android developer... - 06Google's Android Update Problem - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:49:21] <exec> 08└─Android is #2 to iOS completely by default. It's not going away simply because no corporation would spend the money to develop a replacement when they could just take Android and fork it (like the original Nook and Kindle).
[20:50:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:freak accident, or unsafe device? - 06Officials: SurveyMonkey CEO Died In Treadmill Accident - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:50:57] <exec> 08└─It's easier to kill a meatbag than you think: http://www.bbc.com [bbc.com] http://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[20:51:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03curunir_wolf [4772] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Why is this a difficult question? - 06FCC Commissioner: Feds May Regulate Websites Based on Political Content - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:51:26] <exec> 08└─Can you post a reference where the current president and the current democratic candidate have said they want to modify the 1st amendment?
[20:52:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Invasion of Immigrants - 06Lawmakers in France Move to Vastly Expand Surveillance - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:52:26] <exec> 08└─don't think these are radical feminists calling for all men to die: https://twitter.com [twitter.com] https://twitter.com [twitter.com] Also, feminists can troll too
[20:52:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:[ANN] Stupid Sockets Layer - 06Mozilla: HTTPS is Coming. Get Out of the Way! - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:52:47] <exec> 08└─I'm not particularly green but we are probably taking gigawatts on the server end and for what? It's got an "S" now, duh! A lifetime of consumer training ensures me that anything with extra letters after it is automatically better! What are you, some kind of socialist?
[20:54:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Voice Recognition - 06NSA's "Google for Voice," And More - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:54:03] <exec> 08└─Perhaps here http://voxforge.org [voxforge.org]
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[21:47:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:3, Insightful) 02managers are for removing obstacles - 06When Bosses 'Serve' Their Employees, Everything Improves - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:34] <exec> 08└─they're not for scheduling meetings for the workers.
[21:47:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimbrooking [3465] (Score:3, Interesting) 02As a Manager... - 06When Bosses 'Serve' Their Employees, Everything Improves - 889 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:35] <exec> 08└─I was a successful manager in an IT job for the last few years before I retired - peak employee count was about 150. My statement, in an all-hands meeting when I assumed leadership, went like this: I'm your new manager. My job is to help you do your jobs as well as you can. If you need resources, in...
[21:47:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02+1, BRAVO! - 06When Bosses 'Serve' Their Employees, Everything Improves - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:47:36] <exec> 08└─BRAVISSIMO! MY CAPS LOCK KEY JUST GOT STUCK!
[21:47:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Online is bad. - 06Online Courses Not Working Well at Community Colleges - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:47:51] <exec> 08└─You want an argument? Of what magnitude?
[21:49:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:2) 02Re:One comparison - 06Bitcoin's Predecessors, Online Game Currencies, and What We Can Learn From Them - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:49:40] <exec> 08└─Note that no one actually controls Bitcoin distribution, unless someone manages to obtain enough Bitcoins to take control of the blockchain.
[21:50:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Death trap - 06Officials: SurveyMonkey CEO Died In Treadmill Accident - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:50:53] <exec> 08└─Sorry. You are right. Commencing self-down-mod, , , now!
[21:51:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Mexico and getting gashes in your head - 06Officials: SurveyMonkey CEO Died In Treadmill Accident - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:51:17] <exec> 08└─That's not the only Mexican gash scam -- take that cute senorita back to your room for a fuck and her friend will steal your wallet and take blackmail pictures.
[21:51:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Eristone [4775] (Score:1) 02Re:Why is this a difficult question? - 06FCC Commissioner: Feds May Regulate Websites Based on Political Content - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:51:38] <exec> 08└─Laughing - touche curunir_wolf. Well done, sir. Under the circumstances, though, I would support that particular amendment with regards to corporations and campaign finance - companies aren't people who can vote, so limiting their speech by constitutionally reversing the Citizens United ruling seem...
[21:54:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:If authoritarians "split the baby", it dies - 06NSA's "Google for Voice," And More - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:54:10] <exec> 08└─> specifically ... (and perhaps ...) Thanks for specifying that so specifically!
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[22:47:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:We've known this for ages - 06When Bosses 'Serve' Their Employees, Everything Improves - 746 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:47:32] <exec> 08└─Agree completely! Our store has a good manager and the good rolls down-hill. Unfortunately, we also have a head office and 'shit rolls down-hill'. The person at the top starts shitting and everyone underneath gets hit: once it went on the stock market, all we ever heard was 'not good enough' and 'cu...
[22:47:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:managers are for removing obstacles - 06When Bosses 'Serve' Their Employees, Everything Improves - 1022 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:47:35] <exec> 08└─Yup, formal meetings are about the most expensive thing a company can do. - Have an announcement to make? Nearly all the time, an email will suffice. - Need to design something? Give employees a space to do that, certainly, but don't specify an end time, or who's involved, because none of that will...
[22:47:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03snick [1408] (Score:2) 02Re:As a Manager... - 06When Bosses 'Serve' Their Employees, Everything Improves - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:47:39] <exec> 08└─I had a manger like that for over 10 years. Then he retired. Adjusting to a "normal" manager has been a bitch. Once you've worked that way, dealing with a moron whose only work output seems to be justifying his own existence just seems pointless.
[22:47:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Flamebait) 02Cos you know, paying just isn't enough nowadays... - 06When Bosses 'Serve' Their Employees, Everything Improves - 1392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:41] <exec> 08└─Not directed at any particular person... It used to be a privilege to have a job (well, it still is for those with a clue), but in this new socialist utopia where companies are mysteriously moving offshore and small business owners will (after taking the huge risk of establishing their business in t...
[22:47:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02You must be in the midwest - 06When Bosses 'Serve' Their Employees, Everything Improves - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:47:42] <exec> 08└─"start your own fucking business you stupid socialist douchebags" It was working for pricks like you that made me leave the cesspool that is the midwest today.
[22:48:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:Not just avoiding disaster, potential resource - 06Near-Earth Asteroid Telescope Being Constructed - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:48:27] <exec> 08└─We'll get there. (starting up KSP)
[22:48:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Soon... - 06Synthetic Gel With Self Powered Movement May Lead to Squishier Robot - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:48:49] <exec> 08└─...I'll be able to retire my blow up doll.
[22:49:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:What's in it for Google? - 06Google's Android Update Problem - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:49:10] <exec> 08└─Right, so it's in google's interest to stop letting OEMs fuck up the core design. All they do with it is put in crapware anyways.
[22:49:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Don't want to upgrade - 06Google's Android Update Problem - 521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:49:29] <exec> 08└─> Why? Because I have so many tweaks and "hacks" that may not work as I want on the latest version. My wife has an iphone. She won't let it upgrade because one previous upgrade took away some functionality she cared about a lot, turned the upgrade into an ugg-parade. Apple makes it worse because the...
[22:49:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02$500 phones - 06Google's Android Update Problem - 537 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:49:36] <exec> 08└─Screw needing the latest $500 phone just to use the latest Android User Observation And Tracking Platform. Palm Pre 2, here. WEB OS 2.0 on Page Plus for dirt cheap. It makes and receives calls and I can web browse and email, albeit in a limited way. I spend less that $150 per year for cell phone ser...
[22:50:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Meh - 06Homeland Security Chief: Fourth Amendment is 'Beyond My Competence' - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:50:28] <exec> 08└─You want posters to use names instead of ACing, and then you do this: See my last response to Anal Pumpkin.
[22:52:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03number6 [1831] (Score:2) 02Forbidden Planet (1956) - Anne Francis - 06Grace Lee Whitney, Yeoman Janice Rand of the Original Star Trek Series, Has Died - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:24] <exec> 08└─IMHO, Anne Francis cast as "Altaira Morbius" in the 1956 Sci-Fi film "Forbidden Planet" was the prototype which influenced all others, including the "Star Trek" girls. Forbidden Planet Anne Francis - Google Images [google.com]
[22:54:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Clueless AC - 06F.E.C. Can’t Curb 2016 Election Abuse, Commission Chief Says - 532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:54:50] <exec> 08└─you take a very narrow view of the world Nope. My view is the majority view. The supermajority view, in fact. [googleusercontent.com] (orig) [firedoglake.com] (The latest numbers in these are from the Summer of 2011 but USAians have continued their embrace of and shift toward of those supermajority...
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[23:47:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02final "nail in the coffin" - 06Massive New Study Reaffirms That Vaccines Don't Cause Autism - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:34] <exec> 08└─conspiracy theorists don't place much credence in peer-reviewed studies.
[23:47:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score:1) 02Re:final "nail in the coffin" - 06Massive New Study Reaffirms That Vaccines Don't Cause Autism - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:47:35] <exec> 08└─Of course, any study will receive enthusiastic approval from a well bribed panel of peers.
[23:47:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03cafebabe [894] (Score:2) 02Paywall - 06Massive New Study Reaffirms That Vaccines Don't Cause Autism - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:37] <exec> 08└─"Trust us, we're doctors" doesn't work with this audience. Indeed, reviewing 100,000 cases and putting the result behind a paywall may inflame the situation.
[23:47:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02There was no need for any more nails - 06Massive New Study Reaffirms That Vaccines Don't Cause Autism - 639 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:39] <exec> 08└─There will never be a final "nail in the coffin" that will destroy the conspiracy theory. You can't reason someone out a position that they didn't reason themselves into. I also don't blame Jenny McCarthy (spelling is wrong in the summary). She is ignorant and lacks the education to understand her s...
[23:47:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score:2) 02Re:There was no need for any more nails - 06Massive New Study Reaffirms That Vaccines Don't Cause Autism - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:47:40] <exec> 08└─The real problem is that so many people follow her advice in preference to impartially researching her claims.
[23:47:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:We've known this for ages - 06When Bosses 'Serve' Their Employees, Everything Improves - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:47:50] <exec> 08└─My second motto, almost as important as the first: You can't properly evaluate an employee if you don't understand what they do.
[23:47:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02Re:We've known this for ages - 06When Bosses 'Serve' Their Employees, Everything Improves - 2870 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:47:51] <exec> 08└─Terms matter too. "Boss" is much too authoritarian. Gives some people the idea that they are absolute dictators. I've seen projects destroyed in part because the "boss" couldn't handle being in what he saw as a superior position, with underlings who were smarter than him. The guy wasn't a psychopath...
[23:47:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tramii [920] (Score:2) 02Re:Cos you know, paying just isn't enough nowadays - 06When Bosses 'Serve' Their Employees, Everything Improves - 616 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:48:00] <exec> 08└─Business owners have every right to run their companies into the ground. And this is often what they do. Even many of the "successful" companies you see today only keep afloat because their competition is even more idiotic than they are. When you treat your employees like fools, they tend to act lik...
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[23:48:47] <exec> 08└─We have some of those things already, and perhaps the missing parts are not far off. - Rio Tinto's robot trains and robot trucks. Just trains and trucks perhaps, but that's here on earth where humans are relatively cheap. The mars rovers prove you can do more sophisticated things and that a human as...
[23:48:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score:2) 02Re:Not just avoiding disaster, potential resource - 06Near-Earth Asteroid Telescope Being Constructed - 667 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:48:48] <exec> 08└─Well, the asteroids most likely to hit Earth are probably those that are already in co-orbit, such as those migrating back and fourth between our L4 and L5 points. So capturing it would probably mostly be a case of adjusting it's path so that it gets caught by a gravitational slingshot with the moon...
[23:48:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03CoolHand [438] (Score:2) 02Re:Not just avoiding disaster, potential resource - 06Near-Earth Asteroid Telescope Being Constructed - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:48:52] <exec> 08└─Yeah, and if we get enough of them orbiting earth, it will be like a giant sun shade and counter-act global warming as well! I jest, I jest. (although I did kind of dig ideas I've heard putting giant solar sails into orbit to do that)
[23:49:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03meisterister [949] (Score:2) 02Re:Don't want to upgrade - 06Google's Android Update Problem - 1005 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:49:52] <exec> 08└─+1 to this. You know that Google has run out of ideas when they start ripping off features from Windows Oh, that new app view when you hit the... one button with the shape. You know, the shape that has absolutely nothing to do with its function? Yeah, that one. So, when you hit that and get a 3d vie...
[23:53:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:Bet they regret legalizing encryption, eh? - 06Lawmakers in France Move to Vastly Expand Surveillance - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:53:01] <exec> 08└─Because the womb finds the owners of native penises so repulsive when i comes to social manners so it hides longer and longer away from the point of entry. And then the native penises must adapt by natural selection ;)
[23:53:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Invasion of Immigrants - 06Lawmakers in France Move to Vastly Expand Surveillance - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:53:07] <exec> 08└─Usually culture and manners doesn't help integration either. (besides, why risk hiring a person that has significantly higher risk for joining dangerous cults?)
[23:53:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Invasion of Immigrants - 06Lawmakers in France Move to Vastly Expand Surveillance - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:53:15] <exec> 08└─No they just want to marginalize men and make their life bad. It's about turning tables not equality.
[23:54:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:The incident took place, so wrong cure? - 06NSA's "Google for Voice," And More - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:54:34] <exec> 08└─They seem to miss the right data for all the chaff data that comes in. Besides, the real purpose is not preventing terrorism.
[23:58:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:The whishful thinking that it's all a myth - 06The Programming Talent Myth - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:58:05] <exec> 08└─So if I fail to teach the house cat about differential equations its my fault? ;-) Some people just won't get some stuff.
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