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[00:51:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Silly Researchers - 06Financial Rewards Effective in Smoking Cessation - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:51:42] <exec> 08└─1. Sign up for program. 2. Do nothing. 3. Claim to have quit. 4. Get money. Works whether you are a smoker or not. Works in the deposit program even more, as deception has a monetary incentive.
[00:51:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Reagan: "Trust but verify" - 06Financial Rewards Effective in Smoking Cessation - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:51:43] <exec> 08└─Half-life of nicotine [google.com] The hair and clothing of smokers also stinks. How long can a nicotine addict go without? -- gewg_
[00:51:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02For those cautious about cookies... - 06Financial Rewards Effective in Smoking Cessation - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:51:45] <exec> 08└─The editor graciously removed my note [soylentnews.org] that the medical journal's site wants to set SEVEN cookies and won't let you view their page without allowing those. -- gewg_
[00:51:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:For those cautious about cookies... - 06Financial Rewards Effective in Smoking Cessation - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:51:47] <exec> 08└─Look at the link in the new version of the summary a little more closely.
[00:51:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Do-gooders - 06Financial Rewards Effective in Smoking Cessation - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:51:48] <exec> 08└─So where's my cash to quit drinking? To quit playing "misogynist" video games? To quit eating red meat? To stop smoking one cigar per year? To quit driving around a 60-year-old car that spews out lead and carbon like nobody's business? To turn over all my guns to the "proper" authorities? To listen...
[00:51:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03physicsmajor [1471] (Score:2) 02Re:Do-gooders - 06Financial Rewards Effective in Smoking Cessation - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:51:50] <exec> 08└─Smoking kills more people than anything you listed by a wide margin. Alcohol is second. It's not a welfare program. Your insurance would love to pay you to quit, because it's nearly guaranteed to be an actuarial win - they just don't think you'll follow through. If these findings bear up, every insu...
[00:51:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03CRCulver [4390] (Score:2) 02Re:Do-gooders - 06Financial Rewards Effective in Smoking Cessation - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:51:52] <exec> 08└─So where's my cash ... to quit eating red meat?
[00:51:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:Do-gooders - 06Financial Rewards Effective in Smoking Cessation - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:51:54] <exec> 08└─Because smoking directly affects others. Especially kids to smoker parents. Drinking, "misogynist" video games, red meat, smoking one cigar per year, driving a 60-year-old car, turn over guns doesn't have that direct impact on others and isn't necessarily bad all the way. To listen to and watch unap...
[00:51:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Determination is the key? - 06Financial Rewards Effective in Smoking Cessation - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:51:56] <exec> 08└─They missed to create a test group that would had to deposit $150 upfront and get no reward. Regardless this study seems to point out that it's about determination. Perhaps the most important point is that methods that has been taken for granted isn't as good as thought and that a throughly scientif...
[00:51:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Self Control and Smoking - 06Financial Rewards Effective in Smoking Cessation - 668 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:51:58] <exec> 08└─As someone who recently had to attend one of those braindead driver reeducation classes, I couldn't help but notice about 1/3 of the class smoked. As a former smoker myself, I wonder if there is some correlation between self-control on the road, in smoking, and other parts of life. Could health insu...
[00:52:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What does Rust give me that C++ doesn't? - 06Rust 1.0 Finally Released! - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:52:06] <exec> 08└─It would have been far more succinct to just write "Get off my lawn, dammit!!!"
[00:52:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:More then 1 impl needed - 06Rust 1.0 Finally Released! - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:52:22] <exec> 08└─Woah, slow down there. Let's start with more than one project written in rust.
[00:52:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03rts008 [3001] (Score:2) 02Re:Baby Steps Toward Fascism - 06It's Not Secret, It's Controlled Unclassified Information - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:52:35] <exec> 08└─Some of were alive in the 1950's. The 1960's and 1970's were interesting times to be young. By the 1980's things had calmed down quite a bit. If someone would have told me about how things would actually be this millenia back in the 70's, I would have ROFL, and when I finally caught my breath, asked...
[00:52:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02March 8, 1971 - Media, Pennsylvania - 06It's Not Secret, It's Controlled Unclassified Information - 553 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:52:37] <exec> 08└─On that date, a brash group of anti-war activists broke into an FBI office[1] [popularresistance.org] in a suburb of Philadelphia and found paperwork that revealed the existence of the Counter-Intelligence Program (COINTELPRO). The word went out that, since 1956, FBI had been doing warrantless snoop...
[00:52:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score:1) 02Re:Baby Steps Toward Fascism - 06It's Not Secret, It's Controlled Unclassified Information - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:52:40] <exec> 08└─Still, it's nothing new - There's always been shit like "Unclassified/For Official use Only" or "Law-Enforcement Sensitive" etc.
[00:52:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03JeanCroix [573] (Score:2) 02Re:Baby Steps Toward Fascism - 06It's Not Secret, It's Controlled Unclassified Information - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:52:51] <exec> 08└─TMI, man. TMI.
[00:53:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Put your tinfoil hat back in the closet - 06It's Not Secret, It's Controlled Unclassified Information - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:53:04] <exec> 08└─Relax, pinheads! There is a whole lot less here than meets the eye. CUI has already existed as a classification for quite some time. I know; I work for the DoD. It looks to me like this is merely a step at standardization of the process for classifying CUI information as well as rules for when such...
[00:53:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:News that does matter: RUST 1.0 RELEASED! - 06Jet Powered Go-Kart is Finished - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:53:53] <exec> 08└─You're right, I was just making that up. I'm sorry! I'm off to beat-off to Slave Leia porn.
[00:53:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anne Nonymous [712] 02Improper Clothing - 06Jet Powered Go-Kart is Finished - 86 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:53:57] <exec> 08└─Not only is he lacking a helmet, he doesn't even bother with a Wile E. Coyote costume.
[00:54:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Flawed concept - 06The Right to be Forgotten: One Year Later - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:54:40] <exec> 08└─Okay. You have convinced me that it is acceptable to invent meanings for words and use them in arguments while expecting other people to agree with the makeshift usage. Just like how your use of dumbfuck was describing a friendly pat on the back and smile in a lighthearted attempt to sway me to your...
[00:55:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Put these in your hosts file - 06YouTuber Sues Google, Viacom, and Lionsgate over ContentID - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:55:32] <exec> 08└─127.0.0.1 www.google-analytics.com 127.0.0.1 ssl.google-analytics.com
[00:55:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02Riiight... - 06UK: Guarantee Profits for Developing Antibiotics - 997 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:55:51] <exec> 08└─"...developers are tempted to keep the prices very high. Unfortunately, this discourages use and doctors refuse to prescribe the drug" Sounds like marketing stupidity to me... This is a plea for government subsidies for an industry that is already (a) highly profitable and (b) already gets governmen...
[00:58:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:1) 02Re:good movie, bad review. - 06Movie Review of Mad Max: Fury Road - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:58:00] <exec> 08└─Crap. s/Draco/Darphus/g Decided to rewatch the Xena trilogy in Hercules: The Legendary Journeys. I always get Draco and Draphus mixed up for some reason.
[00:58:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03physicsmajor [1471] (Score:2) 02Re:Consultant? - 06Movie Review of Mad Max: Fury Road - 856 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:58:13] <exec> 08└─1. Cute misdirection with a logical fallacy. I'm well and fully aware of the limitations and issues with the DSM. This doesn't in any way undermine my point, which stands: Psychiatry is very broad, and those who practice it see the full range of human experience. 2. More logical fallacies, which act...
[00:58:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03cafebabe [894] (Score:2) 02Re:I can't trust movie reviews on the internet - 06Movie Review of Mad Max: Fury Road - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:58:25] <exec> 08└─I'm gonna do a marathon of the real MM trilogy this weekend, and then decide whether I want to do the new one.
[00:58:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:1) 02Re:Feminist piece, because echo chamber? - 06Movie Review of Mad Max: Fury Road - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:58:35] <exec> 08└─Violence is never acceptable.
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[02:20:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Aphorism Contest - 06Mobile Spy Software Maker mSpy Hacked, Customer Data Leaked - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:20:59] <exec> 08└─Let the aphorism contest begin: Hoist by their own petard! What's good for the goose is good for the gander! Turnabout is fair play! Your turn my fellow beaners.
[02:20:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Let's Play Spy's Demise - 06Mobile Spy Software Maker mSpy Hacked, Customer Data Leaked - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:00] <exec> 08└─Spy's Demise [youtube.com]
[02:21:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Techwolf [87] (Score:2) 02mixed - 06Mobile Spy Software Maker mSpy Hacked, Customer Data Leaked - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:01] <exec> 08└─Mixed feelings about this. One the one paw, private data was exposed, on the other paw, exposing this will bring into the spotlight the total lack of security at many places and just how much data they have on you.
[02:21:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Reagan: "Trust but verify" - 06Financial Rewards Effective in Smoking Cessation - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:21:12] <exec> 08└─Actually, it's cotinine [wikipedia.org], not nicotine, that's tested. Much longer half-life (20 hours vs 2) and it's detectable for up to a week after nicotine use. Our insurance company wanted to do free "employee health screenings" including checking cotinine levels (without explaining what those...
[02:21:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Reagan: "Trust but verify" - 06Financial Rewards Effective in Smoking Cessation - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:21:13] <exec> 08└─How long can a nicotine addict go without?
[02:21:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:For those cautious about cookies... - 06Financial Rewards Effective in Smoking Cessation - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:21:16] <exec> 08└─So, you exchanged a link to an HTML page that irritatingly requires cookies to a PDF page--a choice which I find even more irritating. -- gewg_
[02:21:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:For those cautious about cookies... - 06Financial Rewards Effective in Smoking Cessation - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:21:17] <exec> 08└─I think readers can handle a 307 KB static PDF.
[02:21:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:For those cautious about cookies... - 06Financial Rewards Effective in Smoking Cessation - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:21:19] <exec> 08└─At least the editor did something about the problem you identified. Now you have a new problem that you didn't tell anyone until your first problem was fixed. Seems like there is no pleasing you.
[02:21:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03CortoMaltese [5244] (Score:1) 02Re:Do-gooders - 06Financial Rewards Effective in Smoking Cessation - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:21:23] <exec> 08└─Except driving a 60 year old car, has an impact on c02 emissions and contamination of various kind, I have nothing against people who drive classic cars but if you view it from a totally utilitarian viewpoint they are very inefficient and you could save a lot of gas money if you buy a newer car and...
[02:21:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:Do-gooders - 06Financial Rewards Effective in Smoking Cessation - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:21:24] <exec> 08└─It lacks direct impact. And they will break eventually and thus are too few to have serious impact. There are other sources of CO2 that are way more effective to deal with. (but I think we are far off-topic now)
[02:21:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Determination is the key? - 06Financial Rewards Effective in Smoking Cessation - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:21:26] <exec> 08└─> Regardless this study seems to point out that it's about determination. I think you are making up your own explanation, probably to fit your biases. The actual linked article's hypothesis is that this is about loss aversion (which is a well known phenomenon), and even mentions that the experimente...
[02:21:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02e-cig seems about 80% effective - 06Financial Rewards Effective in Smoking Cessation - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:28] <exec> 08└─Most smokers who care to manage to transition to e-cigs with comparatively little difficulty. Most of the ill effects of smoking can be eliminated that way so it's a win even if they stop right there. However, at least some, even long time former smokers, either just lose interest and either give up...
[02:21:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What does Rust give me that C++ doesn't? - 06Rust 1.0 Finally Released! - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:21:39] <exec> 08└─I guess only us geezers would get the reference [youtube.com].
[02:21:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How fast is Rust really? - 06Rust 1.0 Finally Released! - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:21:44] <exec> 08└─I haven't used Rust but I gather that it has much more complicated semantics than C, so compilation would probably would slow even if Rust were written in C or C++. But expect that to improve as optimizations are discovered and/or implemented.
[02:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Baby Steps Toward Fascism - 06It's Not Secret, It's Controlled Unclassified Information - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:22:20] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I’m sure you want the details of your Social Security Account to be public, despite their not being classified material. Time was, one had to stamp materials Confidential RUUR before sending them — Regrade Unclassified Upon Receipt. This was replaced w/ EFTO, Encrypt for Transmission Only....
[02:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:We've had "Sensitive" for decades - 06It's Not Secret, It's Controlled Unclassified Information - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:22:41] <exec> 08└─I think an "insensitive" classification would be more appropriate.
[02:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score:2) 02Re:Just don't bring your guitar - 06United Airlines Offering Miles for Bug Bounty Rewards - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:22:53] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the link! Made my day, and my mom got a kick out of it too!
[02:24:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Well done, Soylent - 06The Right to be Forgotten: One Year Later - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:38] <exec> 08└─This is the most complete coverage of the Right to be forgoten first year I've seen. Well done, takyon and CoolHand.-Ignacio Agulló
[02:25:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Riiight... - 06UK: Guarantee Profits for Developing Antibiotics - 1224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:25:36] <exec> 08└─Yes, handouts to the for-profit drug companies is the wrong way to go. We need to stop giving away our university research to these parasitic companies, and manufacture the drugs (we've already paid to develop at our universities) without their involvement. Profit and medicine don't mix. When I went...
[02:25:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Riiight... - 06UK: Guarantee Profits for Developing Antibiotics - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:25:37] <exec> 08└─we've already paid to develop at our universities
[02:26:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Always thought about keeping bees - 06US Beekeepers Lost 40% of Bees in 2014-15 - 812 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:26:23] <exec> 08└─We used to raise bees when I was a kid-- I'm not an expert (I was a kid at the time), but have enough experience to say, I would be willing to bet that device will stop functioning very quickly. Bees are really good at patching things i.e., gumming that thing up. Besides, honey is crazy viscous....
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[03:21:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02I finally realized why 3-D printers are cool - 06General Electric 3D-Prints a Working Jet Engine - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:01] <exec> 08└─As an amateur telescope maker, I know how to use a lathe and milling machine. I've always been puzzled as to what the advantage of 3-D printing is. Just this morning I remembered that shortly after Tsutomu Shimomura started working at Los Alamos National Laboratory, he submitted a drawing to the mac...
[03:21:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Confused . . . - 06Mobile Spy Software Maker mSpy Hacked, Customer Data Leaked - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:12] <exec> 08└─Wait, the spy-ers data was compromised, or the spy-ees data? The first case would be comeuppance while the second would be the victim getting doubly-screwed.
[03:21:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Confused . . . - 06Mobile Spy Software Maker mSpy Hacked, Customer Data Leaked - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:21:13] <exec> 08└─"[T]heir entire database of spying data" including "complete contents of phones" would be victims' data. They're so screwed.
[03:21:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Confused . . . - 06Mobile Spy Software Maker mSpy Hacked, Customer Data Leaked - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:21:14] <exec> 08└─I think that both the spy-ers and the spy-ees have been compromised. And, that should give the spy-ees some rights in court to burn the spy-ees.
[03:21:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Flamebait) 02Information Wants to be FREE - 06Mobile Spy Software Maker mSpy Hacked, Customer Data Leaked - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:16] <exec> 08└─Isn't that right, hippie hacker dope smokers?
[03:21:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Some hackers got hacked? - 06Mobile Spy Software Maker mSpy Hacked, Customer Data Leaked - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:18] <exec> 08└─Face it - these people built a business model on hacking people. And, they in turn got hacked. But - because the first group of hackers paid taxes, and the second group of hackers do not, it's going to be painted as a crime by the "justice" system.
[03:21:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Some hackers got hacked? - 06Mobile Spy Software Maker mSpy Hacked, Customer Data Leaked - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:21:19] <exec> 08└─And yet TFA spends a lot of time discussing the case of StealthGenie, a similar company who's CEO plead guilty to advertising and selling a spyware app.
[03:21:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:Some hackers got hacked? - 06Mobile Spy Software Maker mSpy Hacked, Customer Data Leaked - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:21:21] <exec> 08└─Isn't all "apps" spying and ripping the phonebook, sms and all other goodies? ;-)
[03:21:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Someone didn't notice... - 06Mobile Spy Software Maker mSpy Hacked, Customer Data Leaked - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:23] <exec> 08└─...that several hundred gigabytes of data were going out of their network?
[03:21:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02My first retail product was a keylogger - 06Mobile Spy Software Maker mSpy Hacked, Customer Data Leaked - 944 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:24] <exec> 08└─Last Resort, $9.95 from Working Software of Santa Cruz, California. I met a well-known member of the trade press at the MacWorld Expo, who was overjoyed to inform me that he used Last Resort to catch his girlfriend having an affair. I was appalled and felt really bad for him, but he was pleased. I'v...
[03:21:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:For those cautious about cookies... - 06Financial Rewards Effective in Smoking Cessation - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:21:38] <exec> 08└─Your link *appears* to be a page where a link to the PDF file can be found. That is not the case. Auto-redirection bullshit really grinds my gears. Everything about the New England Journal of Medicine's site is irritating and what you did didn't improve anything. Had you put up an *additional* direc...
[03:21:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:For those cautious about cookies... - 06Financial Rewards Effective in Smoking Cessation - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:21:40] <exec> 08└─YMBNH. -- gewg_
[03:21:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:e-cig seems about 80% effective - 06Financial Rewards Effective in Smoking Cessation - 2744 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:21:50] <exec> 08└─Big Tobacco’s War on Vaping [nationalreview.com] When Reynolds and Altria decided belatedly to enter the e-cigarette market last year, the two companies chose to develop and manufacture only e-cigs that are known as “cigalikes.” Cigalike e-cigs are designed to look, feel, and taste like tradi...
[03:21:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03GeminiDomino [661] (Score:2) 02Not sure the Headline is particularly good - 06Financial Rewards Effective in Smoking Cessation - 504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:52] <exec> 08└─The headline says "Financial Rewards Effective in Smoking Cessation " but TFS says "More than 80 percent of smokers in the largest rewards-based group had not given up cigarettes by the end of the study" and "However, the people who did agree to pay out the $150 deposit upfront were much more succes...
[03:22:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What does Rust give me that C++ doesn't? - 06Rust 1.0 Finally Released! - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:22:02] <exec> 08└─Actually, it goes to 14 [wikipedia.org]. Soon it will go to 17! Take that Rust! You'll need to pull off a Firefox if you want to catch up.
[03:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03GeminiDomino [661] (Score:2) 02Re:Yehuda Katz and Steve Klabnik? - 06Rust 1.0 Finally Released! - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:22:16] <exec> 08└─The in-game currency in "Heretic Kingdoms: Inquisition" (a quite good, if short, ARPG)
[03:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Any SNers using Rust? - 06Rust 1.0 Finally Released! - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:22:19] <exec> 08└─> Compiler crashed, I don't use buggy software. But you do use buggy anecdotes. It was a beta, it was supposed to be buggy.
[03:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02These timesharing blues are melting away - 06Rust 1.0 Finally Released! - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:27] <exec> 08└─I'll make a brand new start of it, with Rust 1.0 I want to hack code in the language that never sleeps [ultimateclassicrock.com]. Then I'll have synchronized threads; uncorruptible heaps. (after Frank Sinatra)
[03:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02when will Rust be required for my resume? - 06Rust 1.0 Finally Released! - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:28] <exec> 08└─back in the day, to hire a Python programmer, one had to train them on the job. That was the case for Smalltalk too. Now you can't get Python work unless you have years of experience. No one does Smalltalk anymore. I actively avoided Javascript for many years, now I'm studying it but quite unenthusi...
[03:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03rts008 [3001] (Score:2) 02Re:March 8, 1971 - Media, Pennsylvania - 06It's Not Secret, It's Controlled Unclassified Information - 989 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:22:41] <exec> 08└─The FBI under J. Edgar Hoover was as bad as the DHS is now.(if not worse) It cannot be a direct comparison no matter how you twist it though, IMO. At least it has not broken out in political assasinations like we saw in the 1960's. It was a different world back then, with different problems, differe...
[03:28:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03spamdog [4335] 02I can't trust movie reviews on the internet - 06Movie Review of Mad Max: Fury Road - 590 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:27] <exec> 08└─The fact that all these reviews seem to misdirect onto this bullshit feminist angle tells me everything I need to know. I've heard a few criticisms of the movie and they seem to be formidable criticisms indeed - poor/very little dialogue, Tom Hardy being a poor choice of actor. Of course they are al...
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[04:21:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I finally realized why 3-D printers are cool - 06General Electric 3D-Prints a Working Jet Engine - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:21:41] <exec> 08└─People have been casting hollow metal shapes for thousands of years, but when all you have is a 3-D printer, all your projects look like 3-D printing projects! History never happened. Reinvent everything.
[04:21:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02interior tolerances - 06General Electric 3D-Prints a Working Jet Engine - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:21:42] <exec> 08└─yeah I know how to cast a hollow sphere but can you do it with a close tolerance?
[04:21:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:interior tolerances - 06General Electric 3D-Prints a Working Jet Engine - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:21:43] <exec> 08└─Nope, simply not possible using any human technology. Contact the aliens who built Stonehenge and ask if they want to do some contract work.
[04:21:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Forget the jet engine - 06General Electric 3D-Prints a Working Jet Engine - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:21:45] <exec> 08└─3D print me a casino with blackjack and hookers. And I want those hookers to be made entirely from metal.
[04:21:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Forget the jet engine - 06General Electric 3D-Prints a Working Jet Engine - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:21:46] <exec> 08└─I'll take a 3D flesh printer with my Ex Machina.
[04:21:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:4, Insightful) 02Re:mixed - 06Mobile Spy Software Maker mSpy Hacked, Customer Data Leaked - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:21:57] <exec> 08└─Well on the hind paw... I'm equally interested in why they have some of that data: and the complete contents of phones including photos and emails, etc.
[04:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:For those cautious about cookies... - 06Financial Rewards Effective in Smoking Cessation - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:22:23] <exec> 08└─You'll get through this terrible century full of cookies and server redirects, Anonymous Coward.
[04:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What does Rust give me that C++ doesn't? - 06Rust 1.0 Finally Released! - 601 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:22:56] <exec> 08└─You gain modules and their related compile time improvements, better option/union type support with pattern matching, compiler enforced thread safety/no data races, more robust templates with better errors, not needing header files, simpler syntax etc. Personally I like the more expression oriented...
[04:23:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:when will Rust be required for my resume? - 06Rust 1.0 Finally Released! - 800 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:23:19] <exec> 08└─That's the wrong way to think about learning. Instead, ask yourself, what can this language (or tool, or API) do for me, or for someone else (a software business or project)? A fair amount of what distinguishes it from other languages will be preferences of the language's creator, but if the languag...
[04:23:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Granted, but my time on Earth is limited - 06Rust 1.0 Finally Released! - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:23:20] <exec> 08└─I'm cool with someone else writing JS, I can see there are many advantages to doing so. My concern is, what code could I write, that few if any other engineers could write? I'm into tweaky assembly code.
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[05:21:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02From the TV Show "Cheaters" - 06Mobile Spy Software Maker mSpy Hacked, Customer Data Leaked - 567 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:50] <exec> 08└─There is a TV show that runs in my area, centering on catching cheating spouses and filming the resultant fiasco when the other is caught in the act. They use a variety of gadgets to catch loose goose and philandering gander. http://www.cheatersspyshop.com [cheatersspyshop.com] In today's high tec...
[05:22:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02Re:For those cautious about cookies... - 06Financial Rewards Effective in Smoking Cessation - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:22:10] <exec> 08└─gewg, What browser are you using? Chrome allows cookies (both direct and third party) just like IE with no extensions. Try one like Comodo Dragon with AdBlock plus. That should kill tracking cookies and third party cookies.
[05:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02Re:Do-gooders - 06Financial Rewards Effective in Smoking Cessation - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:22:17] <exec> 08└─If you smoke a pack a day, I'd say you will put at least $1500 a year into your pocket.
[05:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What does Rust give me that C++ doesn't? - 06Rust 1.0 Finally Released! - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:22:41] <exec> 08└─You gain modules and their related compile time improvements
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[07:06:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Don't like it? there is only one recourse - 06Arizona City Using Fake Cacti to Hide License Plate Cameras - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:06:16] <exec> 08└─Violent revolution. Do or dare.
[07:06:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Mass Surveillance - 06Arizona City Using Fake Cacti to Hide License Plate Cameras - 772 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:06:17] <exec> 08└─License plate readers simply should not be allowed. It's important to differentiate between someone spotting you (people have faulty memories and don't care much about strangers) or some random person recording you by chance (it doesn't all go to a central source like the government for a specific p...
[07:06:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0, Troll) 02For our foreign readers. - 06Arizona City Using Fake Cacti to Hide License Plate Cameras - 481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:06:19] <exec> 08└─In America, "prick" is slang for "penis". It's also slang for somebody who is a jerk. Cacti also have prickly spines on them. So one can say, "Ethanol-fueled has a prick that's too big for the Internet.", referring to his penis. One can also say, "Ethanol-fueled is sometimes a prick to social justic...
[07:06:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02This is why I don't drive a motorcycle - 06Arizona City Using Fake Cacti to Hide License Plate Cameras - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:06:20] <exec> 08└─... nor a car. At least bicycles aren't required to have license plates.
[07:06:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03redneckmother [3597] (Score:2, Insightful) 02Re:This is why I don't drive a motorcycle - 06Arizona City Using Fake Cacti to Hide License Plate Cameras - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:06:22] <exec> 08└─At least bicycles aren't required to have license plates.
[07:06:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Re:This is why I don't drive a motorcycle - 06Arizona City Using Fake Cacti to Hide License Plate Cameras - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:06:24] <exec> 08└─Does that mean police will start to look for stolen ones?
[07:06:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Its not all that unusual in AZ - 06Arizona City Using Fake Cacti to Hide License Plate Cameras - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:06:25] <exec> 08└─Phoenix, and surrounding cities [ecofriend.com] seem to have a habit of disguising cell towers and such. I guess the disguise worked well in this case. After all, the discussion isn't about WHY they need plate readers at all, but rather the whole discussion is sidetracked about why did they hide the...
[07:06:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Its not all that unusual in AZ - 06Arizona City Using Fake Cacti to Hide License Plate Cameras - 538 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:06:27] <exec> 08└─Here are a couple of pages that explain Distributed Antenna Systems used in Paradise Valley and surrounds. The idea is you build lots of small towers all interconnected. It provides better coverage than large tall towers. The technique is something of a local specialty in that area. I'd be willing t...
[07:06:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Live Free or Die, Bitches - 06Arizona City Using Fake Cacti to Hide License Plate Cameras - 694 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:06:29] <exec> 08└─New Hampshire is the only state with a ban on law enforcement use of these automagic readers. [eff.org] The excuses of stolen cars or vehicles involved in an Amber Alert is to distract from the revenue-generating use of these foul contraptions. The databases used have everything: late inspection sti...
[07:06:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:My first retail product was a keylogger - 06Mobile Spy Software Maker mSpy Hacked, Customer Data Leaked - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:06:57] <exec> 08└─Good ol' Pascal. What would we programmers have done without it?
[07:07:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Downloading non-text "content" - 06Financial Rewards Effective in Smoking Cessation - 498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:07:20] <exec> 08└─Chrome allows cookies Doesn't matter; I don't. I typically download only readable text and block everything else by default. It is incredibly rare that a site I visit demands that I accept their cookies to view their content. The only one I can think of that is worth it is Netcraft (a somewhat recen...
[07:07:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score:2) 02Re:What does Rust give me that C++ doesn't? - 06Rust 1.0 Finally Released! - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:07:48] <exec> 08└─A name that evokes decay instead of something positive?
[07:07:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What does Rust give me that C++ doesn't? - 06Rust 1.0 Finally Released! - 1065 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:07:53] <exec> 08└─Regarding your comment on thread safety: the threading/sync stuff is actually a library feature (they rewrote it to be such recently). Rust's owner ship semantics are enough to make that possible. Fixing the few remaining holes in the compiler soundness checks should be easier than fixing even one l...
[07:08:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Any SNers using Rust? - 06Rust 1.0 Finally Released! - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:08:08] <exec> 08└─No, pre-alpha and alpha software is allowed to be buggy. Beta software should be release-grade software (that is, without bugs), but just not yet proven to be without problems. Once this release-grade software is proven during the beta testing period, it can be released. In fact, when done properly,...
[07:08:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Achieving success by lowering expectations - 06Rust 1.0 Finally Released! - 1001 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:08:19] <exec> 08└─It would be interesting to get a list of people who are actively supporting this abortion of a language. This can tell us what they are really up to. They must be trying to get everyone into programming, saying "its not difficult, anybody could do it" etc. And thus get the dumbest drooling people in...
[07:08:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03physicsmajor [1471] 02Re:Baby Steps Toward Fascism - 06It's Not Secret, It's Controlled Unclassified Information - 646 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:08:39] <exec> 08└─Not baby steps. This is the big one. Information is classified, or it isn't. The Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA) is there for a reason, because the .gov has gotten worse and worse about this even without bullshit like CUI. If CUI actually gets implemented, I guarantee that immediately 99% of .gov...
[07:09:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03DaTrueDave [3144] (Score:2, Interesting) 02Re:Put your tinfoil hat back in the closet - 06It's Not Secret, It's Controlled Unclassified Information - 1177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:09:06] <exec> 08└─I represent employees at one of the largest federal law enforcement agencies, and I'll state that you're wrong. This is a massive change from the current situation. This could make it illegal for a federal agent to email an unclassified intel report to another law enforcement officer. That's ignorin...
[07:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:News that does matter: RUST 1.0 RELEASED! - 06Jet Powered Go-Kart is Finished - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:09:58] <exec> 08└─What the heck is wrong with you?
[07:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:News that does matter: RUST 1.0 RELEASED! - 06Jet Powered Go-Kart is Finished - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:09:59] <exec> 08└─I felt bad for trolling, now I'm apologizing for it. Move on!
[07:14:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score:2) 02Re:good movie, bad review. - 06Movie Review of Mad Max: Fury Road - 1270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:14:12] <exec> 08└─And obviously YOU sir didn't bother to read whom I was responding to, who was defending the movie by throwing a shitload of SJW "empowerment" crap and saying that was realistic for an end of society scenario...bullshit, we have 10,000 years of recorded history that shows, without a single doubt to b...
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[08:05:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03tonyPick [1237] (Score:2) 02Microsoft don't think they did - 06Microsoft Remotely Bricks Game Leaker's Xbox One Console - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:05:57] <exec> 08└─There's at least some dispute over this. According to Kotaku [kotaku.com]: Microsoft have sent Kotaku a statement saying they haven't bricked it: To be clear, if a console is suspended from Xbox Live for a violation of the Terms of Use, it can still be used offline. Microsoft enforcement action does...
[08:06:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Genocide the Cactus - 06Arizona City Using Fake Cacti to Hide License Plate Cameras - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:06:14] <exec> 08└─Smash them all, every one. To hell with biodiversity. Kill every cactus.
[08:06:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02It was written in C, actually - 06Mobile Spy Software Maker mSpy Hacked, Customer Data Leaked - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:06:49] <exec> 08└─but yes it used Pascal calling conventions for toolbox and system calls. There are some advantages to the Pascal calling conventions, I wish it were possible - or at least easier - to use them.
[08:07:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:e-cig seems about 80% effective - 06Financial Rewards Effective in Smoking Cessation - 1328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:07:24] <exec> 08└─Excellent links, thank you! Interestingly, a lot of vapers are already preparing for regulatory issues either specifically, or as a side effect of DIY. My current PV includes a rebuildable atomizer. That is, the heating element is user replacable part and is nothing more than a coil of heating wire...
[08:07:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Lets cut to the chase. - 06Financial Rewards Effective in Smoking Cessation - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:07:26] <exec> 08└─Smokers are searchers. They recognize something is fucked up with our little world here. So they seek an outlet to relieve the stress. Since our world won't be fixed anytime soon, neither will smokers kick their habit anytime soon. Just saying.
[08:07:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:What does Rust give me that C++ doesn't? - 06Rust 1.0 Finally Released! - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:07:42] <exec> 08└─A name that evokes decay instead of something positive?
[08:07:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:What does Rust give me that C++ doesn't? - 06Rust 1.0 Finally Released! - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:07:48] <exec> 08└─C++'s syntax is generally quite straightforward.
[08:07:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03tonyPick [1237] (Score:2) 02Re:What does Rust give me that C++ doesn't? - 06Rust 1.0 Finally Released! - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:07:49] <exec> 08└─Templates can lead to some really odd cases: See also this blog post [reverberate.org]. Responding to the GP point: C++ syntax can be straightforward provided you only use a subset of the features; however nobody can agree on what that subset is, and as soon as you use someone else's code/library th...
[08:07:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03TGV [2838] (Score:2) 02Re:How fast is Rust really? - 06Rust 1.0 Finally Released! - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:07:53] <exec> 08└─I just read this (http://www.viva64.com/en/b/0324/), which has a benchmark and some other criticism. Rust seems to be 2 to 3 times slower than C, on par with Java, Go and Haskell.
[08:08:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02"Rust is now poised to become a serious competitor - 06Rust 1.0 Finally Released! - 571 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:08:17] <exec> 08└─Ya, ok, so we are competeing for developers. How about we stop doing that and look at languages like colors on a pallete? Want to paint a red sky? Maybe rust is the color of choice for your particular project. It is getting real annoying how these "Dice" type stories intended to probe and spread pro...
[08:10:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Kromagv0 [1825] 02Re:impractical and useless - 06Jet Powered Go-Kart is Finished - 108 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:10:12] <exec> 08└─It's widely available thru out Europe. They seem to work fine. The drawback is that high-pitch whining noise
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[09:07:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pseudonymous Coward [4624] (Score:2, Insightful) 02Re:Microsoft don't think they did - 06Microsoft Remotely Bricks Game Leaker's Xbox One Console - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:07:10] <exec> 08└─Oh yes, Kotaku! A highly reliable source of information with amazing journalistic integrity! /s
[09:07:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Shouldn't this be consider a felony? - 06Microsoft Remotely Bricks Game Leaker's Xbox One Console - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:07:11] <exec> 08└─Granted that the first post claims the bricking didn't really happen. Suppose it did. Were I to brick Bill Gate's Ubuntu box, wouldn't I be doing time behind bars as a result?
[09:07:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Touché) 02Re:Shouldn't this be consider a felony? - 06Microsoft Remotely Bricks Game Leaker's Xbox One Console - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:07:13] <exec> 08└─Bill Gate would direct one of his flunkies to install him another buntu box. Flunky would get pissed at you and send you some death threats. NSA would read threats and laugh their asses off.
[09:07:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Perhaps There's An App For That. - 06Arizona City Using Fake Cacti to Hide License Plate Cameras - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:07:30] <exec> 08└─Fake Cacti should be easy to spot; if you're in doubt, poke it with a pencil.
[09:07:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02target practice! - 06Arizona City Using Fake Cacti to Hide License Plate Cameras - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:07:31] <exec> 08└─No law against shooting cacti, is there? Just be sure to use FMJ, to minimize damage to legitimate cacti.
[09:07:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:target practice! - 06Arizona City Using Fake Cacti to Hide License Plate Cameras - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:07:33] <exec> 08└─Reckless discharge of a firearm. Your stray bullets could hit children. Won't you think of the children.
[09:09:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Re:What does Rust give me that C++ doesn't? - 06Rust 1.0 Finally Released! - 683 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:09:13] <exec> 08└─What does Rust give me that modern C++ doesn't already give me? I can already get memory safety using modern C++. With great difficulty and the help of three policemen. I can already get thread safety using modern C++. Again, with great difficulty, the help of three policemen and an awful lot of...
[09:09:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score:2) 02Re:How fast is Rust really? - 06Rust 1.0 Finally Released! - 986 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:09:17] <exec> 08└─There's also Debian's benchmark game [debian.org], for whatever it's worth. Definitely slower than C/C++, but like you said it's somewhere in the Go/Haskell/Java (and other JVM languages) area. The trade-off might be worth it for the safety if it proves itself to actually be safer, though in that sp...
[09:13:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The characteristics of Socialism - 06UK: Guarantee Profits for Developing Antibiotics - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:13:28] <exec> 08└─tfa is talking about a socialist idea in that the cost is socialized, while the corporations keep the profits and taxpayers pay again as consumers a global organisation has the authority and resources to commit lump-sum payments to successful drug developers, irrespective of current sales
[09:13:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Re:A gov't operation - 06UK: Guarantee Profits for Developing Antibiotics - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:13:36] <exec> 08└─The UK is more Thatcherite nowadays than Thatcher's wildest dreams. Can't I please be allowed to dream in the other direction, in my own little head?
[09:14:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02End game of the Universe - 06Galaxies Die by Slow 'Strangulation' - 1062 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:09] <exec> 08└─Makes you wonder, does it not, what it is all about? Now the "big whimper" theory has something going for it: the initial state of the universe is based on differences in, well, in stuff, and as those diffferences are all ironed out, we end up in a entropic soup where there are no differences of ene...
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[10:06:29] <exec> 08└─$ sudo echo 127.0.0.1 www.google-analytics.com >> /etc/hosts
[10:06:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Oopsy-Doodle. - 06Microsoft Remotely Bricks Game Leaker's Xbox One Console - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:06:30] <exec> 08└─Fortunately I have so far only told one person to do that. You wouldn't know how to use the "time" command in sudo? $ sudo time rm -rf / for example.
[10:06:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:Oopsy-Doodle. - 06Microsoft Remotely Bricks Game Leaker's Xbox One Console - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:06:31] <exec> 08└─$ time sudo sleep 1 real 0m1.030s user 0m0.000s sys 0m0.000s
[10:06:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02What's your take on prickly pears? - 06Arizona City Using Fake Cacti to Hide License Plate Cameras - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:06:44] <exec> 08└─I like them.
[10:07:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03mtrycz [60] (Score:2) 02Re:Some hackers got hacked? - 06Mobile Spy Software Maker mSpy Hacked, Customer Data Leaked - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:07:27] <exec> 08└─Not if you use Open Source apps, of the likes found on F-droid. My phone doesn't even have Play installed.
[10:07:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03mtrycz [60] (Score:2) 02Re:My first retail product was a keylogger - 06Mobile Spy Software Maker mSpy Hacked, Customer Data Leaked - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:07:32] <exec> 08└─I had a keylogger on my machine for the same purpose: lost code and emails. It was also great for these buggy websites that, when you post a comment and there's an error, the whole comment is lost. I kept it also to have fun with people that wanted to log in to their social accounts from my machine....
[10:08:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Do-gooders - 06Financial Rewards Effective in Smoking Cessation - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:08:04] <exec> 08└─If you smoke a pack a day, I'd say you will put at least $1500 a year into your pocket.
[10:08:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:e-cig seems about 80% effective - 06Financial Rewards Effective in Smoking Cessation - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:08:11] <exec> 08└─If you mix yourself, just be careful you don't run out of flavor with the pure nicotine left over. I much preferred vaping until I discovered that and the strength got out of control.
[10:08:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not sure the Headline is particularly good - 06Financial Rewards Effective in Smoking Cessation - 984 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:08:13] <exec> 08└─There is a disease amongst many researchers these days that makes them think if one group is different than another you can conclude something. An even worse habit is found by looking at the paper, we see it is filled with "adjusted percentages", etc based on whatever stats model they used. While I'...
[10:08:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03TGV [2838] (Score:2) 02Re:How fast is Rust really? - 06Rust 1.0 Finally Released! - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:08:44] <exec> 08└─Declaration syntax is sure ugly, but I sort of get it: it's pretty much C++/Java but with colons. The passing of &mut everywhere. I don't understand why it can't get that information from the function declaration. Is it also legal to call the same function without &mut, and with a different effect?...
[10:08:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:11,500 issues sounds like a lot - 06Rust 1.0 Finally Released! - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:08:48] <exec> 08└─I thought that Rust was supposed to make buggy code hard to write. So why have the Rust compiler and the Rust stdlib suffered from so many bugs?
[10:09:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:What's next, Perl 6 1.0 will be released?! - 06Rust 1.0 Finally Released! - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:09:00] <exec> 08└─It will run on GNU/Hurd 1.0.
[10:09:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Jeremiah Cornelius [2785] 02Baby Steps Toward Fascism - 06It's Not Secret, It's Controlled Unclassified Information - 447 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:23] <exec> 08└─Everybody "sensible" gets to call it an over-reaction when this is identified as totalitarian in nature. Immediate comparisons to drama clowns like Alex Jones, and snide references to "tin-foil" discourage accurate assessments. But if you were alive and cognizant of the culture and climate of societ...
[10:10:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Common Joe [33] (Score:2) 02Re:If I was finding airline bugs... - 06United Airlines Offering Miles for Bug Bounty Rewards - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:10:14] <exec> 08└─If I was finding airline bugs... I may know enough to not want to fly with them :-)
[10:10:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Forum on Risks to the Public in Computers and - 06United Airlines Offering Miles for Bug Bounty Rewards - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:10:29] <exec> 08└─... Related Systems: Link [ncl.ac.uk] The reason I don't fly is not because I don't understand how wings generate lift. It's because I'm afraid of computer programmers.
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[11:06:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03mtrycz [60] (Score:2) 02How I read it. - 06Candy Crush Saga to Come Pre-Installed on Windows 10 - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:06:42] <exec> 08└─SpyOS preinstalled with spyware, move along, nothing to see here.
[11:07:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:target practice! - 06Arizona City Using Fake Cacti to Hide License Plate Cameras - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:07:27] <exec> 08└─But it's Arizona! Them's anchor children! Or if not, ones not being edjucated proper anyhoo. Didn't you seen the movie, "Raising Arizona"? Never leave a man behind.
[11:07:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score:2) 02Re:target practice! - 06Arizona City Using Fake Cacti to Hide License Plate Cameras - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:07:28] <exec> 08└─Shooting would leave ugly holes in them. You don't want them to look ugly do you? What you need is some cactus colored spray paint so you can go around and make sure they are all nice and evenly coated.
[11:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Long live the King - 06Rust 1.0 Finally Released! - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:09:42] <exec> 08└─So Linus does not like C++. So what? Linus is not god, nor his prophet, he's not even the pope. He's not infallible. Everything he says is just his own personal opinion, which probably is often right, but for sure not always. If Linus says something about OS kernel development, I tend to believe him...
[11:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03PizzaRollPlinkett [4512] (Score:2) 02Too many similar-but-different languages - 06Rust 1.0 Finally Released! - 1958 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:51] <exec> 08└─I'd almost rather use C, LISP, and FORTH because they're different from each other. I have to switch among Java, C#, Python, JavaScript, etc. All of these modern languages are basically the same, but they do everything differently. They have the same basic syntax, but every little thing about them i...
[11:11:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score:2) 02Re:Testing on in-flight systems disqualifies - 06United Airlines Offering Miles for Bug Bounty Rewards - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:11:03] <exec> 08└─If the plane's code is such that it can crash because someone is doing passive capture of stuff they were broadcasting out anyway it would be a wonder it got off the ground in the first place.
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[12:06:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02nobody? - 06Candy Crush Saga to Come Pre-Installed on Windows 10 - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:06:05] <exec> 08└─Doesn't anybody else remember that king ripped-off a small indie developer who made a game (the original game) that was dedicated to his dead mother? Anyone??
[12:06:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Mcse - 06Candy Crush Saga to Come Pre-Installed on Windows 10 - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:06:06] <exec> 08└─Minesweeper Consultant and Solitaire Expert. What next, Candy Crush Navigation Authority?
[12:06:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03ticho [89] (Score:2) 02Re:Microsoft don't think they did - 06Microsoft Remotely Bricks Game Leaker's Xbox One Console - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:06:17] <exec> 08└─Oh yes, Kotaku. One of the sites designed so badly that the CSS does not even load without javascript.
[12:06:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03ticho [89] (Score:2) 02Re:Microsoft don't think they did - 06Microsoft Remotely Bricks Game Leaker's Xbox One Console - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:06:18] <exec> 08└─Wait, wasn't one of the main marketing points of Xbox One that it needs the Internet (and therefore, I'm assuming, your Live account) to function? The argument at that time which provoked lot of rage (and laughter) was that if you want to play offline, stay with Xbox 360.
[12:06:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:Shouldn't this be consider a felony? - 06Microsoft Remotely Bricks Game Leaker's Xbox One Console - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:06:24] <exec> 08└─And if Bill Gates walked up to Obama and shot him he'd also be doing time. Hypothetical arguments are sometimes interesting, sometimes not. However in the UK at least, if you buy an Xbox, there's a reasonable assumption t will work for the next year or two. If it stops working, you take t back to th...
[12:06:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Shouldn't this be consider a felony? - 06Microsoft Remotely Bricks Game Leaker's Xbox One Console - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:06:26] <exec> 08└─And if Bill Gates walked up to Obama and shot him he'd also be doing time.
[12:06:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:This is why I don't drive a motorcycle - 06Arizona City Using Fake Cacti to Hide License Plate Cameras - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:06:39] <exec> 08└─Sure, Just after they start looking for stolen cars.
[12:06:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:target practice! - 06Arizona City Using Fake Cacti to Hide License Plate Cameras - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:06:49] <exec> 08└─Jeez, for a geek site that's a really lame idea. I would think a HERF gun or EMP cannon would be much more apropos. Of course, it might raise some suspicion if the last picture on all the dead ALPRs is your license plate (I'm assuming the camera uploads remotely and the range of the camera exceeds t...
[12:08:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Stopping IS the financial incentive - 06Financial Rewards Effective in Smoking Cessation - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:08:07] <exec> 08└─1. Stop smoking. 2. Have money previously spent on smoking. Depending on how much you smoke & how much packs costs where you live, this can easily come to $2000 a year. 3. Profit.
[12:08:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:What does Rust give me that C++ doesn't? - 06Rust 1.0 Finally Released! - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:08:32] <exec> 08└─I can already get memory safety using modern C++. With great difficulty and the help of three policemen.
[12:08:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Re:What does Rust give me that C++ doesn't? - 06Rust 1.0 Finally Released! - 1204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:08:33] <exec> 08└─You demonstrate that you have no clue about C++. C++ code runs just as fast as C code, unless it got programmed by a complete moron. I've seen an awful lot of C++ code over the years, and the more I see of it, the more I realise that 99.9% is written by complete morons. C++ code tends to be complex...
[12:12:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Thinks he understands Economics terms - 06UK: Guarantee Profits for Developing Antibiotics - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:12:50] <exec> 08└─the strength of capitalism is that if something is too expensive You're describing A MARKET (not Capitalism). If every Capitalist had died yesterday, markets would still exist. Thanks for playing. -- gewg_
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[13:06:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey - 06Stunning Light-Themed Photography Exhibition - 1002 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:51] <exec> 08└─Half the library is open to the public. The other half is classified; the students have to show their ID at a certain window, then the staff fetches the book they need. The students are easy to spot, the all have regulation haircuts, and wear suits rather than uniforms so they don't have to salute e...
[13:07:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Ontario Society of Engineers - 06Candy Crush Saga to Come Pre-Installed on Windows 10 - 1049 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:07:05] <exec> 08└─In Canada, you cannot advertise yourself as an "Engineer" of any sort unless you're the Canadian equivalent of an American Professional Engineer. That goes for Software Engineers; a CS degree does not count, you need a Software Engineering degree, which is quite a different thing. You have to serve...
[13:07:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03VortexCortex [4067] (Score:2) 02The Corrupt enjoy Company. - 06Candy Crush Saga to Come Pre-Installed on Windows 10 - 4801 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:07:06] <exec> 08└─Candy Crush Saga? The game by King that trademarked "Saga" then went after indie gamedevs, even though their game is a ripoff of Candy Swipe? [forbes.com] (both are clones of Bejeweled, but come on look how similar Candy Crush is to Candy Swipe, it's uncanny). The shitty thing about the King dispute...
[13:07:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03VortexCortex [4067] (Score:2) 02Re:The Corrupt enjoy Company. - 06Candy Crush Saga to Come Pre-Installed on Windows 10 - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:07:07] <exec> 08└─Ah, here's the link I forgot questioning the strangeness of Flappy Birds stats. [bluecloudsolutions.com]
[13:07:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03iwoloschin [3863] (Score:2) 02U2? - 06Candy Crush Saga to Come Pre-Installed on Windows 10 - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:07:09] <exec> 08└─Didn't Apple try this with U2? Give away free shit...well...more cram it down our throats while saying, "Look what awesome things we do for you!" If I remember correctly, the backlash there really didn't work out in their favor. Maybe they should stop giving away free shit.
[13:07:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score:2) 02Re:Shouldn't this be consider a felony? - 06Microsoft Remotely Bricks Game Leaker's Xbox One Console - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:07:27] <exec> 08└─Were I to brick Bill Gate's Ubuntu box, wouldn't I be doing time behind bars as a result?
[13:08:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03mtrycz [60] (Score:2) 02The site - 06Mobile Spy Software Maker mSpy Hacked, Customer Data Leaked - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:08:32] <exec> 08└─If anybody wanted to get a copy of the dataset to check if their/thier loved ones data is included, the onion site is still up, but the dataset is not (publicly?) downloadable.
[13:09:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What does Rust give me that C++ doesn't? - 06Rust 1.0 Finally Released! - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:09:35] <exec> 08└─Rust's owner ship semantics are enough to make that possible.
[13:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:What does Rust give me that C++ doesn't? - 06Rust 1.0 Finally Released! - 1586 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:09:41] <exec> 08└─So you think the people who don't write unit tests for C++ would write them for C? And what is wrong with using the standard library? Do you also reimplement printf to avoid using the C standard library? The standard library is there to be used, and should consist of decent code; if not, use another...
[13:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart9h [767] (Score:2) 02Re:What does Rust give me that C++ doesn't? - 06Rust 1.0 Finally Released! - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:09:43] <exec> 08└─C++ could run just as fast as C code, *IF* you mostly use C-style coding. I once rewrote a routine to read a file huge text file with 3D coordinates and values, from using standard C++ streams to C's fscanf(). It was EIGHT times faster. And no, it was not badly written in C++. I had already optimize...
[13:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart9h [767] (Score:2) 02Re:What does Rust give me that C++ doesn't? - 06Rust 1.0 Finally Released! - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:09:45] <exec> 08└─A better question would be, What does Rust give me that D doesn't?
[13:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How fast is Rust really? - 06Rust 1.0 Finally Released! - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:09:51] <exec> 08└─Why did they use the keyword "mut"? It makes me think of a dirty dog pissing all over the place because its penis is broken from having spent years on the street.
[13:10:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03hemocyanin [186] 02Re:Baby Steps Toward Fascism - 06It's Not Secret, It's Controlled Unclassified Information - 396 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:10:32] <exec> 08└─Your comment is almost a non-sequitur. Fascism requires by definition, an authoritarian political structure. Communism, like capitalism, is an economic structure. You can have fascism with communism or with capitalism -- you can have democracy with either economic system too. Anyway, keeping the pub...
[13:10:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snotnose [1623] 02When everything is secret, nothing is - 06It's Not Secret, It's Controlled Unclassified Information - 463 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:57] <exec> 08└─I remember some 20 years ago we had a department-wide meeting on keeping company secrets secret. Problem was, every document we got was stamped "Company confidential". I raised my hand and pointed out that the weekly cafeteria menus we all got was stamped "Company confidential", and that made it har...
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[14:05:50] <exec> 08└─This is just speculation, but those other students were probably stunned by the big tear in your jeans, right where your cock and balls just happen to be. Your lack of underwear, as is common in the case of most hippie types, prevented your jewels from being restrained. They descended through the ho...
[14:05:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey - 06Stunning Light-Themed Photography Exhibition - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:05:51] <exec> 08└─Did this actually happen, or is this another story you've made up?
[14:05:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Late Summer of 1986 - 06Stunning Light-Themed Photography Exhibition - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:05:53] <exec> 08└─I'd just quit my job at an artificial intelligence startup because they wrote me a hot paycheck. Back then it actually worked to look up "holography" in the yellow pages. The investor balked at purchasing the computer I needed to write the code. Oddly he had a lot of money, and our idea was that we'...
[14:05:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Grind your own telescope mirror - 06Stunning Light-Themed Photography Exhibition - 977 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:05:55] <exec> 08└─you could spend your entire life making telescope optics and never run out of interesting problems to solve. There is a very good amateur telescope making mailing list. Here and there there are clubs. A convention is held once a year on Starry Hill near Springfield, Vermont, where Russell Porter int...
[14:06:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02What the fuck is a Candy Crush? - 06Candy Crush Saga to Come Pre-Installed on Windows 10 - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:06:03] <exec> 08└─What the fuck is a Candy Crush? Why the fuck doesn't the goddamn useless summary tell us what the fuck a Candy Crush is. Come on. Fix the fucking summary.
[14:06:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03cafebabe [894] (Score:2) 02Re:The Corrupt enjoy Company. - 06Candy Crush Saga to Come Pre-Installed on Windows 10 - 507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:06:09] <exec> 08└─I've watched people play Candy Crush obsessively and I've noticed that it seems to operate like a state machine [wikipedia.org] in a convolution [wikipedia.org]. This is very similar to the operation of Boulder Dash [wikipedia.org] which itself has many clones including one which is humorously calle...
[14:06:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Pre-installed Crapware? - 06Candy Crush Saga to Come Pre-Installed on Windows 10 - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:11] <exec> 08└─Why is this news? PCs have come with a wide variety of pre-installed crapware for decades. Some branded by the PC company, others independent titles. What's next, "Windows comes with 1's and 0's pre-installed! When will the madness end?!?!"
[14:06:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score:1) 02Re:Live Free or Die, Bitches - 06Arizona City Using Fake Cacti to Hide License Plate Cameras - 704 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:06:48] <exec> 08└─Just wait until these things are used to permanently harass DUI offenders, recreational drug users, probation and restraining order types, etc. They'll combine this with the new instant reporting banks do of any cash withdrawal of significance. Then using this tech, and taps in cells phones and car...
[14:06:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:target practice! - 06Arizona City Using Fake Cacti to Hide License Plate Cameras - 514 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:06:56] <exec> 08└─I've been using Waze to commute from Brooklyn to Long Island lately and it's a pretty good app and use of crowdsourcing. It even tells me when there are potholes, red light cameras, cars left on the shoulder, and cops. If license plate scanners are included then you could set your EMP gun to nerf th...
[14:07:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geezer [511] (Score:2) 02Re:mixed - 06Mobile Spy Software Maker mSpy Hacked, Customer Data Leaked - 636 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:07:20] <exec> 08└─Why? For sale, of course. I haven't parsed their EULA legalese, but betcha a beer it says they can store whatever they can get their filthy little claws on, and regard all data as "customer" data, regardless of where said customer got it. Once in corporate hands, data becomes sellable product. It pl...
[14:08:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:1) 02Re:e-cig seems about 80% effective - 06Financial Rewards Effective in Smoking Cessation - 937 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:08:13] <exec> 08└─I tried switching to a 0 nicotine ejuice recently, and it was a disaster. I started at 18 mg and reduced it each time I went to the vapor shop. At 18 mg, I'd pick up my vaporizer infrequently, about as often as I'd take smoke breaks with cigarettes. At 12 mg, I found myself vaping about twice as muc...
[14:08:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:11,500 issues sounds like a lot - 06Rust 1.0 Finally Released! - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:08:57] <exec> 08└─But the compiler and standard library are mostly written in Rust, so the same promises should apply equally well to them. They're Rust code like any other.
[14:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Why not just "Classified" - 06It's Not Secret, It's Controlled Unclassified Information - 735 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:09:56] <exec> 08└─It still signals a significant move toward making the entirety of the government a black box to its citizens. Perhaps they feel the rising tide of citizen ire and this is a reflexive defensive measure. It certainly fits the description of the "action, response" dynamic preceding political upheaval t...
[14:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Put your tinfoil hat back in the closet - 06It's Not Secret, It's Controlled Unclassified Information - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:10:05] <exec> 08└─Even if you were right, the fact that such "classifications" have existed is exactly what's wrong with the system in the first place. The "Rule" should be that IF IT AIN'T REQUIRED TO BE CLASSIFIED, THE PUBLIC GETS TO SEE IT.
[14:11:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:impractical and useless - 06Jet Powered Go-Kart is Finished - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:11:21] <exec> 08└─How much money? I'm truly curious.
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[15:05:50] <exec> 08└─Standin' on the investor's porch You told me that you'd pay forever Oh and when you held my hand I knew that it was now or never Those were the best days of my life Oh yeah Back in the summer of '86 Ohhhhhhh
[15:06:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03mtrycz [60] (Score:1, Offtopic) 02Re:What the fuck is a Candy Crush? - 06Candy Crush Saga to Come Pre-Installed on Windows 10 - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:06:02] <exec> 08└─I would generally agree with a short introduction to the domain of the article, but c'mon, it's like asking what an iPhone is. There's reasonable expectation that everybody knows.
[15:06:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Ship Windows with DeathCamp Tycoon - 06Candy Crush Saga to Come Pre-Installed on Windows 10 - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:11] <exec> 08└─It kinda fits with Microsoft's mentality of Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein OS.
[15:06:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score:2) 02The future of Freemium? - 06Candy Crush Saga to Come Pre-Installed on Windows 10 - 875 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:12] <exec> 08└─So Microsoft is pre-installing what is possibly the most freemium of all freemium products with their new operating system. Are they getting some kind of kickback from KING (or whatever the maker is called these days) for this? I can already predict the sob articles about how little Timmy bought upg...
[15:06:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02Re:Shouldn't this be consider a felony? - 06Microsoft Remotely Bricks Game Leaker's Xbox One Console - 1994 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:06:31] <exec> 08└─Whether this story is true or not, people find it very believable that Microsoft can brick your device, and wants to brick your device if they get the idea you're a pirate. And everyone realizes it's all too easy to be accused of piracy and hit with punishments, without any proof or evidence. Then m...
[15:06:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:Shouldn't this be consider a felony? - 06Microsoft Remotely Bricks Game Leaker's Xbox One Console - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:06:32] <exec> 08└─Felony? Microsoft got away with the crime of releasing Windows, multiple times. I think they made more damage than a world war with that. And you wonder about one teeny weeny console bricked?
[15:06:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02It won't stop there... - 06Microsoft Remotely Bricks Game Leaker's Xbox One Console - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:34] <exec> 08└─I've long suspected that this happens with Windows too. They already brick peripherals with driver hell.
[15:07:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:target practice! - 06Arizona City Using Fake Cacti to Hide License Plate Cameras - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:07:01] <exec> 08└─If it is a Saguaro, in Arizona oh yes there is a law preventing shooting it. http://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[15:09:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:11,500 issues sounds like a lot - 06Rust 1.0 Finally Released! - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:09:03] <exec> 08└─Logic 101: If Rust makes buggy code hard to write, and the compiler and library are buggy code written in Rust, then what follows? Or in short: Whoosh!
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[16:05:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Offtopic) 02fuck walmart - 06The Store That Competes With Walmart Prices and Is Beloved By Employees - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:05:49] <exec> 08└─Fuck those greedy bastards walmart! Fuck monsanto! Fuck microsoft! Fuck dow chemical! Fuck the IMF and world bank! We need multiculturalism and socialism! Social justice! Fagging it up In each others' asses!
[16:05:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Sounds Like Market Basket - 06The Store That Competes With Walmart Prices and Is Beloved By Employees - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:05:50] <exec> 08└─That description sounds a lot like the New England supermarket chain Market Basket which recently went through a big fight between the forces of corporate greed and everybody else. [pbs.org] Corporate greed lost that round.
[16:05:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02So, doing the numbers... - 06The Store That Competes With Walmart Prices and Is Beloved By Employees - 1042 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:05:51] <exec> 08└─... If it takes 20% of a worker's salary to replace the employee, and the person is making $25,000 or less per year, then the tack-on replacement cost is $5,000 or less. (And in the case of WalMart, that doesn't ring true - it would surprise the daylights out of me if the checkout clerk or deli cler...
[16:06:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey - 06Stunning Light-Themed Photography Exhibition - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:06:01] <exec> 08└─Or the big shitstain on the back of his pants, right where the buttcrack is.
[16:06:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Shouldn't this be consider a felony? - 06Microsoft Remotely Bricks Game Leaker's Xbox One Console - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:06:45] <exec> 08└─Whether this story is true or not, people find it very believable that Microsoft can brick your device, and wants to brick your device if they get the idea you're a pirate. And everyone realizes it's all too easy to be accused of piracy and hit with punishments, without any proof or evidence. Then m...
[16:11:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score:2) 02Re:impractical and useless - 06Jet Powered Go-Kart is Finished - 579 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:11:38] <exec> 08└─Well I've heard a YouTuber with popular content can makes thousands a month, I know that its reported that Jim Sterling (he makes vids about video gaming, focusing on stupid and shitty Steam games) is making around 60k a year JUST on his YouTube vids and he is by no means the top of the heap. Since...
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[17:05:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Re:fuck walmart - 06The Store That Competes With Walmart Prices and Is Beloved By Employees - 641 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:05:49] <exec> 08└─It's easy to blame Wal Mart, but capitalism is a race to the bottom. Whoever can provide something for less while making the most profit wins. And capitalism is driven by YOU the consumer. Why does Wal Mart get away with what it does? Because YOU flock to Wal Mart, attracted to the sales and rock bo...
[17:05:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:fuck walmart - 06The Store That Competes With Walmart Prices and Is Beloved By Employees - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:05:50] <exec> 08└─Some pretty good points, but I think the OP was being sarcastic. Actually, he was kinda off the rails, and probably in the closet (Mark Foley, Larry Craig, Ted Haggard, etc), so you did him a favor by responding.
[17:05:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So, doing the numbers... - 06The Store That Competes With Walmart Prices and Is Beloved By Employees - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:05:54] <exec> 08└─Wal-Mart is my employer, you insensitive clod! Hello folks, Welcome to Wal-Mart...
[17:05:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Appalbarry [66] (Score:2) 02Re:So, doing the numbers... - 06The Store That Competes With Walmart Prices and Is Beloved By Employees - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:05:56] <exec> 08└─Sadly, that probably means a couple of local concerns - just barely hanging on against WalMeier anyway, will end up folding because they'll no longer be able to compete. A business that can only survive by paying employees poverty wages has bigger problems than having people hired away. If a couple...
[17:06:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Microsoft don't think they did - 06Microsoft Remotely Bricks Game Leaker's Xbox One Console - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:06:40] <exec> 08└─So technically they are correct. The offline capabilities are unaltered.
[17:06:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03fnj [1654] (Score:2) 02Re:Shouldn't this be consider a felony? - 06Microsoft Remotely Bricks Game Leaker's Xbox One Console - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:06:46] <exec> 08└─sudo sh -c "echo 127.0.0.1 www.google-analytics.com >> /etc/hosts" works too, but it's two more keystrokes.
[17:06:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Re:Shouldn't this be consider a felony? - 06Microsoft Remotely Bricks Game Leaker's Xbox One Console - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:06:52] <exec> 08└─Yeah everyone should write their own OS and games.
[17:07:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:For our foreign readers. - 06Arizona City Using Fake Cacti to Hide License Plate Cameras - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:07:06] <exec> 08└─I would add that some kinds of cactus are colloquially called "dildo cacti."
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[18:05:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Re:Sounds Like Market Basket - 06The Store That Competes With Walmart Prices and Is Beloved By Employees - 517 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:06:00] <exec> 08└─That's true. The two stores compete for different market segments though. Market Basket is the no-frills, no website, newsprint-only advertisement company. They're known for their low prices. Wegmans' does the typical advertising, including a website and social media presence, and is upmarket. They...
[18:06:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sounds Like Market Basket - 06The Store That Competes With Walmart Prices and Is Beloved By Employees - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:06:01] <exec> 08└─Market basket has full bakeries and the best supermarket sushi I've ever had. Better than whole foods (which actually has kind of gone in the crapper the last couple of years).
[18:07:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Mass Surveillance - 06Arizona City Using Fake Cacti to Hide License Plate Cameras - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:07:13] <exec> 08└─> the government putting surveillance devices everywhere in public places. I think we might get more traction if we called it was it really is: stalking. If there was a person following you around in public recording your movements and your purchases, etc, you would have a case for getting a restrai...
[18:07:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This is why I don't drive a motorcycle - 06Arizona City Using Fake Cacti to Hide License Plate Cameras - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:07:21] <exec> 08└─> This is why I don't drive a motorcycle ... nor a car. Oh really? The man who uses his fullname on every post and for months insisted on also including his social security number chooses not to own a car or motorbike because he does not want to be tracked. You are so full of shit.
[18:07:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Bicycles: Not plates, but registration - 06Arizona City Using Fake Cacti to Hide License Plate Cameras - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:07:22] <exec> 08└─The largest city in Orange County, CA requires bicycles to be registered. The hours you can do that are NORMAL PEOPLE'S WORKING HOURS. [googleusercontent.com] (orig) [newsantaana.com] -- gewg_
[18:07:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I like your idea better than mine - 06Arizona City Using Fake Cacti to Hide License Plate Cameras - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:07:33] <exec> 08└─My spray-paint idea was to alert others to the ruse by painting letters on the fakes ^ | | C A M E R A such that the tip of the arrow is painted over the lens. -- gewg_
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[19:05:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score:2) 02Hallelujah!! - 06Biologists Create Self-Healing Concrete - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:05:47] <exec> 08└─Maybe Michigan roads won't be so shitty once this gets rolled out. I really hope it works.
[19:05:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03PizzaRollPlinkett [4512] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:fuck walmart - 06The Store That Competes With Walmart Prices and Is Beloved By Employees - 4351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:05:58] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately, I never chose to shop at Wal-Mart. I watched one store after another close down. Then Wal-Mart was about the only store left. Wal-Mart first put the older chains out of business. These were mostly regional chains. They were so inefficient with their inventory and logistics that Bugs B...
[19:06:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03M. Baranczak [1673] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Sounds Like Market Basket - 06The Store That Competes With Walmart Prices and Is Beloved By Employees - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:06:02] <exec> 08└─They do have house-brand goods that compete with Market Basket on price, but most of their brand name stuff is more expensive by 25% or so.
[19:06:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Re:So, doing the numbers... - 06The Store That Competes With Walmart Prices and Is Beloved By Employees - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:06:07] <exec> 08└─If a couple of bucks an hour will shut you down your business is either very poorly managed, or more likely wasn't really viable to begin with.
[19:06:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So, doing the numbers... - 06The Store That Competes With Walmart Prices and Is Beloved By Employees - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:06:08] <exec> 08└─daylights out of me if the checkout clerk or deli clerk - oh, excuse me, associate - takes $5,000 to recruit/hire/train by any measure
[19:06:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02A true example... - 06The Store That Competes With Walmart Prices and Is Beloved By Employees - 459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:10] <exec> 08└─A well known retail shop run by an asshole was in last place in sales for years, and at risk of being closed. District management kept getting the same excuse from the asshole running it, workers are idiots and lazy. They replaced only one person, the asshole, and the shop shot up to first place in...
[19:06:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:A true example... - 06The Store That Competes With Walmart Prices and Is Beloved By Employees - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:06:12] <exec> 08└─Also, the entire crew ended up quitting or transferring, and the original asshole was fired after taking another shop to shit, and now runs his own get rich quick scheme. The kind that preys on others for his own benefit.
[19:07:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Shouldn't this be consider a felony? - 06Microsoft Remotely Bricks Game Leaker's Xbox One Console - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:07:08] <exec> 08└─Or use free (as in freedom) software.
[19:07:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02"home delivery" - 06Microsoft Remotely Bricks Game Leaker's Xbox One Console - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:11] <exec> 08└─Remember the "arcade"? the place where they had all the cool boxes with all the cool games and you had to put in coins to play? and the dread of mom and dad finishing the shopping around the corner and it was time to go home just after you got the "full screen wipeout power-up sidekick thingy" after...
[19:07:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Mass Surveillance - 06Arizona City Using Fake Cacti to Hide License Plate Cameras - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:07:22] <exec> 08└─I've seen idiots argue that violating people's privacy is fine as long as it isn't a person doing it. They were talking about the NSA's mass surveillance and tried to use that angle to argue that it wasn't spying at all.
[19:07:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] 02Live Free or Die, Bitches - 06Arizona City Using Fake Cacti to Hide License Plate Cameras - 694 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:34] <exec> 08└─New Hampshire is the only state with a ban on law enforcement use of these automagic readers. [eff.org] The excuses of stolen cars or vehicles involved in an Amber Alert is to distract from the revenue-generating use of these foul contraptions. The databases used have everything: late inspection sti...
[19:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What does Rust give me that C++ doesn't? - 06Rust 1.0 Finally Released! - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:09:34] <exec> 08└─People who write bad C++ code aren't going to magically write good Rust code!
[19:13:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Put these in your hosts file - 06YouTuber Sues Google, Viacom, and Lionsgate over ContentID - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:28] <exec> 08└─Stop mapping shit to 127.0.0.1, map it to 0.0.0.0.
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[20:05:46] <exec> 08└─I believe that this is how Greyscale was introduced to Westeros.
[20:05:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Some science fiction. - 06Biologists Create Self-Healing Concrete - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:05:47] <exec> 08└─Anyone into science fiction might have read some Allistar Reynolds http://www.alastairreynolds.com [alastairreynolds.com] In his novels, the plague, a rouge disease twists and contorts his concrete jungles. Here we go.
[20:05:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PizzaRollPlinkett [4512] 02Re:fuck walmart - 06The Store That Competes With Walmart Prices and Is Beloved By Employees - 4351 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:05:58] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately, I never chose to shop at Wal-Mart. I watched one store after another close down. Then Wal-Mart was about the only store left. Wal-Mart first put the older chains out of business. These were mostly regional chains. They were so inefficient with their inventory and logistics that Bugs B...
[20:05:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:fuck walmart - 06The Store That Competes With Walmart Prices and Is Beloved By Employees - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:05:59] <exec> 08└─It's easy to blame Wal Mart, but capitalism is a race to the bottom. Whoever can provide something for less while making the most profit wins.
[20:06:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:Microsoft don't think they did - 06Microsoft Remotely Bricks Game Leaker's Xbox One Console - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:06:57] <exec> 08└─Like "stop breathing then you won't run out of oxygen!" ;-)
[20:09:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:e-cig seems about 80% effective - 06Financial Rewards Effective in Smoking Cessation - 964 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:09:05] <exec> 08└─Yes, there are pitfalls when you try to reduce nic levels to 0. It looks like you tried to get to 0 too quickly and perhaps didn't keep any nic on hand to avoid real cigarettes if it didn't work out. You really weren't reducing your intake, you were just vaping more carrier to get the same nic. At o...
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[21:05:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Techwolf [87] (Score:4, Insightful) 02Facebook - 06Oculus Rift Hardware Requirements Revealed, Linux and OS X Development Halted - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:05:48] <exec> 08└─This is what happens when one is sold to facebook. The slamming of the door to close everything off.
[21:05:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Facebook - 06Oculus Rift Hardware Requirements Revealed, Linux and OS X Development Halted - 1047 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:05:49] <exec> 08└─In reality, it's an economically-sound decision. Linux is a very minor player. Linux is at most 2% of the desktop market, and that's being generous. Keep in mind that the systemd debacle is still playing out. Experienced Linux users are fleeing it left and right for FreeBSD and OS X. We can expect t...
[21:05:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score:2) 02Re:Facebook - 06Oculus Rift Hardware Requirements Revealed, Linux and OS X Development Halted - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:05:50] <exec> 08└─I modded you up , but I feel compelled to comment. Fuck Oculus. They sold out. By limiting the deployment to Windoze shows cowardice and greed for the "safe" option. Or perhaps straightforward bribery? A great disappointment....
[21:05:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Facebook - 06Oculus Rift Hardware Requirements Revealed, Linux and OS X Development Halted - 655 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:05:52] <exec> 08└─"Windoze"? Seriously? Are you stuck in 1998 Slashdot? Face it, Windows XP and later are highly successful, widely used operating systems. People like to use Windows 7, and it works really well for them. Linux and OS X and every other non-Windows desktop OS is nothing but an irrelevant, minor player....
[21:05:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:Facebook - 06Oculus Rift Hardware Requirements Revealed, Linux and OS X Development Halted - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:05:54] <exec> 08└─Seems more like the common factor is Big Corporation Inc (tm). Like when Cyrix got swallowed by National Semiconductor.
[21:05:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02pps - 06Oculus Rift Hardware Requirements Revealed, Linux and OS X Development Halted - 1441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:05:55] <exec> 08└─2160*1200*90 is about 233 million, but what is "eye-target scale"? Surely not 2160*1200 at 150 Hz? Maybe 120 Hz at a greater resolution? "Shaded pixels per second" is a metric I hadn't heard of before this announcement, but it makes sense. 4K @ 60 Hz draws 4 times as many pixels as 1080p, almost 498...
[21:06:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hallelujah!! - 06Biologists Create Self-Healing Concrete - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:06:04] <exec> 08└─Nah. There are just way too many freeze-thaw cycles. What would happen is a crack would form with contraction, the crack would be filled in, then expansion would cause the whole are to buckle. Instead of potholes you would get ridges. We already see that when they decide it is a good idea to run roa...
[21:06:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:fuck walmart - 06The Store That Competes With Walmart Prices and Is Beloved By Employees - 886 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:06:16] <exec> 08└─It's easy to blame Walmart when we see other operations that treat their employees better making a fair profit. Its the same pool of consumers. It's true that people should avoid the Walmarts of the world if they can afford to, but that's not the whole story. For example, quality. It does make sense...
[21:06:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02I live in Western New York ... - 06The Store That Competes With Walmart Prices and Is Beloved By Employees - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:28] <exec> 08└─Wegman's is a tourist attraction out here; always friendly staff, and Walmart struggles to complete with them.
[21:06:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What the fuck is a Candy Crush? - 06Candy Crush Saga to Come Pre-Installed on Windows 10 - 686 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:06:53] <exec> 08└─No, it's totally different. An iPhone is widely known because it's a product that's widely used by people of all ages, widely advertised, and has been available for almost a decade now. This Candy Crush crap is just a relatively obscure game that's been out for maybe two or three years, and is playe...
[21:06:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score:1) 02Re:What the fuck is a Candy Crush? - 06Candy Crush Saga to Come Pre-Installed on Windows 10 - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:06:54] <exec> 08└─Its when you have a crush on a girl called Candy (Like I did when I was in school).
[21:07:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:U2? - 06Candy Crush Saga to Come Pre-Installed on Windows 10 - 555 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:07:02] <exec> 08└─The issue wasn't 'giving away free shit' or about anything being pre-installed. The issue was that there are cases where those songs would start playing even though you showed no interest in having them. For example, I hit 'play' and started hearing a song I had never heard of before instead of th...
[21:07:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ship Windows with DeathCamp Tycoon - 06Candy Crush Saga to Come Pre-Installed on Windows 10 - 759 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:07:06] <exec> 08└─I had that idea years ago. But I called it SimDeathDamp. Had some good ideas for game mechanics and layout. Building guard towers, V2 rocket facilities, garment facilities, barracks, gas chambers etc. Then you had to deal with conditions in the camp and how productive you were. Surprise inspections...
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[22:05:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0, Flamebait) 02Re:Facebook - 06Oculus Rift Hardware Requirements Revealed, Linux and OS X Development Halted - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:05:48] <exec> 08└─So some thin-skinned Linux neckbeard or OS X hipster can't accept the fact that his preferred OS isn't really used at all, and must resort to using abusive moderation against those who point out this fact. It's pathetic, but typical. Fanatics like that often do have severe trouble facing up to reali...
[22:05:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Facebook - 06Oculus Rift Hardware Requirements Revealed, Linux and OS X Development Halted - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:05:49] <exec> 08└─I modded you and your comment's parent up. Even if the numbers your comment's parent listed aren't exactly factual (I don't know whether or not that's the case) or even deliberately misleading, the sad fact is that it is a prudent business decision regarding the Occulus Rift and Linux/OSX.
[22:05:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Facebook - 06Oculus Rift Hardware Requirements Revealed, Linux and OS X Development Halted - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:05:51] <exec> 08└─Those numbers are comparable to those of the many website usage stat data sets that are out there. Mac OS X is typically at most 8%. Linux is typically 2%.
[22:05:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:Facebook - 06Oculus Rift Hardware Requirements Revealed, Linux and OS X Development Halted - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:05:53] <exec> 08└─It's just that Oculus contributes to a worse world.
[22:05:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Facebook - 06Oculus Rift Hardware Requirements Revealed, Linux and OS X Development Halted - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:05:54] <exec> 08└─Gaming on a Linux or OS X system is much worse than gaming on a Windows system. They're doing everyone a favor by targeting the best gaming OS.
[22:05:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Facebook - 06Oculus Rift Hardware Requirements Revealed, Linux and OS X Development Halted - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:05:57] <exec> 08└─What's wrong with selling out to the evil Facebook? Did they fail to deliver on any of their Kickstarter promises? Kickstarter is crowdfunding, not crowd investing. Once the device is released, someone will make it work on Linux. It was the same way with the... MICROSOFT Kinect.
[22:05:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Facebook - 06Oculus Rift Hardware Requirements Revealed, Linux and OS X Development Halted - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:05:58] <exec> 08└─Read the article. Binary blob is corporate speak for "fuck off innovation".
[22:05:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Facebook - 06Oculus Rift Hardware Requirements Revealed, Linux and OS X Development Halted - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:06:00] <exec> 08└─None of the articles contain the words "binary" or "blob". What I do is that "Several titles are playable on the Rift via the free and open source Vireio Perception VR drivers" [wikipedia.org] and "Oculus's Nirav Patel announced that the original Oculus Rift developer kit (DK1) is now fully open-sou...
[22:06:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Facebook - 06Oculus Rift Hardware Requirements Revealed, Linux and OS X Development Halted - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:06:01] <exec> 08└─What does it mean to "check" something? Like what does "check your paranoia" mean? What does "check your privilege" mean? Is it like checking the oil in your car? Is it like checking your coat at the opera? Is it like writing a check to pay for the damage you did at a restaurant when you shat in the...
[22:06:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score:2) 02Re:Facebook - 06Oculus Rift Hardware Requirements Revealed, Linux and OS X Development Halted - 561 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:06:03] <exec> 08└─Are you are a troll? It has been contained in the numerous comments by active developers that there has been increasing "blobing". Nvidia is guilty enough with their drivers, but at least they *try* and provide parity between linux, mac and M$. AMD has lost the plot, but are trying to get some FOSS...
[22:06:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02Re:Facebook - 06Oculus Rift Hardware Requirements Revealed, Linux and OS X Development Halted - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:06:05] <exec> 08└─No, he's obviously not a "troll", you freak. Are you the one who has been abusing the "Troll" mod lately? You're really coming off as some sort of a kook. All of these false accusations you keep on leveling make us question your mental abilities and stability.
[22:06:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0, Disagree) 02Re:Facebook - 06Oculus Rift Hardware Requirements Revealed, Linux and OS X Development Halted - 642 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:06:06] <exec> 08└─Why the fuck was that shit modded "Informative"? Binary blobs are innovation. They're used because companies want to keep their advanced, cutting edge technology secret for the time being, as a commercial competitive advantage. Open source software is typically the opposite of innovation. It's typic...
[22:06:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Facebook - 06Oculus Rift Hardware Requirements Revealed, Linux and OS X Development Halted - 835 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:06:08] <exec> 08└─Please do not mix up kernel with OS. o GNU is the OS - that matches up more with unix: AIX, HP-UX, BSD, ... o Linux is the kernel - it is what "owns" the base hardware and the timing that the rest of software needs to talk to /with o systemd, now owns the drivers and other functions... logs, driv...
[22:06:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Re:Facebook - 06Oculus Rift Hardware Requirements Revealed, Linux and OS X Development Halted - 498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:06:10] <exec> 08└─I think that you're the one who is mixed up. A modern Linux distro consists of 3 parts: 1) Systemd: this is the kernel of the Linux distribution. It does pretty much everything. 2) Linux: this is the bootloader that is used to start systemd when the computer is first turned on. This will eventually...
[22:06:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Facebook - 06Oculus Rift Hardware Requirements Revealed, Linux and OS X Development Halted - 537 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:06:11] <exec> 08└─It would have happened this way even if Facebook wasn't in charge. Internally, I'm sure they have nearly the entirety of the device's features working on Linux and use it on Linux every day. They just aren't guaranteeing Linux and OS X compatibility at launch, since those OSes represent a small frac...
[22:06:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:Facebook - 06Oculus Rift Hardware Requirements Revealed, Linux and OS X Development Halted - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:06:13] <exec> 08└─Yeah, this is totally FaceBook's fault. Literally hundreds of Linux and Mac gamers would have bought this thing.
[22:06:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Facebook - 06Oculus Rift Hardware Requirements Revealed, Linux and OS X Development Halted - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:06:14] <exec> 08└─Hundreds? Really? Based on the commercial success of past Linux and OS X gaming initiatives, they'd be lucky to sell ten units, globally.
[22:06:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:pps - 06Oculus Rift Hardware Requirements Revealed, Linux and OS X Development Halted - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:06:16] <exec> 08└─Your comment reminds me of a famous song: Four three two one We are We are VR We are We are VR We are We are VR We are We are VR Troopers Virtual Reality Troopers Three Virtual Reality Troopers Three Virtual Reality Troopers Three
[22:06:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:pps - 06Oculus Rift Hardware Requirements Revealed, Linux and OS X Development Halted - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:06:18] <exec> 08└─cool story bro
[22:06:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:pps - 06Oculus Rift Hardware Requirements Revealed, Linux and OS X Development Halted - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:06:19] <exec> 08└─Please don't use the word "bro". It has sexist connotations.
[22:06:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Re:fuck walmart - 06The Store That Competes With Walmart Prices and Is Beloved By Employees - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:06:34] <exec> 08└─The "fuck you" reaction is basically saying change is bad and we should all be shopping at A&P and Roses like we did in the 1970s, paying higher prices because of extreme logistics and operational inefficiency. Why don't we go back to using a 286, too?
[22:06:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score:2) 02Re:fuck walmart - 06The Store That Competes With Walmart Prices and Is Beloved By Employees - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:06:35] <exec> 08└─They stagnated as 1970s retailers well into the 1990s, until they went kaput. (These are stores young people have never heard of, like Kings, Roses, and so on.)
[22:07:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Grind your own telescope mirror - 06Stunning Light-Themed Photography Exhibition - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:07:04] <exec> 08└─MichaelDavidCrawford: The only guy in this whole damn community who I can't tell if trolling or just super-autist.
[22:10:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What does Rust give me that C++ doesn't? - 06Rust 1.0 Finally Released! - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:10:23] <exec> 08└─I've seen an awful lot of C++ code over the years, and the more I see of it, the more I realise that 99.9% is written by complete morons.
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[23:05:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02much greater - 06Chinese Baidu's Supercomputer Beats Google At Image Recognition - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:05:45] <exec> 08└─“Our company is now leading the race in computer intelligence,” said Ren Wu, a Baidu scientist working on the project. “I think this is the fastest supercomputer dedicated to deep learning,” he said. “We have great power in our hands—much greater than our competitors."
[23:05:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Baidu has to be better - 06Chinese Baidu's Supercomputer Beats Google At Image Recognition - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:05:46] <exec> 08└─Because all Asian faces look the same, Baidu has to work extra hard to tell them apart.
[23:06:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Facebook - 06Oculus Rift Hardware Requirements Revealed, Linux and OS X Development Halted - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:06:02] <exec> 08└─it might be the ideal solution to the overpopulation problem when eventually everyone will just fuck in virtual reality when the world is full of fat lazy welfare bums, nobody will wanna fuck in real life cos it requires physical effort
[23:06:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Facebook - 06Oculus Rift Hardware Requirements Revealed, Linux and OS X Development Halted - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:06:05] <exec> 08└─How can somebody disagree with the fact that Windows is the most successful OS out there by a huge margin? Is 98% of the market really not enough to indicate success?
[23:06:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:2) 02binary blobs are alchemy - 06Oculus Rift Hardware Requirements Revealed, Linux and OS X Development Halted - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:06:15] <exec> 08└─Binary blobs are innovation.
[23:06:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:binary blobs are alchemy - 06Oculus Rift Hardware Requirements Revealed, Linux and OS X Development Halted - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:06:17] <exec> 08└─Binary blobs are only a mystery to outsiders who lack the knowledge to understand them. They make perfect sense to the engineers who designed and built them. Binary blobs are innovation at its finest. They are cutting edge science and engineering at their finest. They embody knowledge that the masse...
[23:06:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Facebook - 06Oculus Rift Hardware Requirements Revealed, Linux and OS X Development Halted - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:06:19] <exec> 08└─How would your theory explain what has happened to Rust? How did it go from being the most promising new programming language in decades to becoming a hellish monstrosity ruled by hipsters?
[23:06:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Some science fiction. - 06Biologists Create Self-Healing Concrete - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:06:37] <exec> 08└─It would be interesting to see how biological roads could be turned into biological weapons. The sandpeople in Dirkadirkastan already turned roads into weapons... to the point where American soldiers are scared shitless of stepping on or driving over an IED.
[23:07:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score:2) 02Re:I live in Western New York ... - 06The Store That Competes With Walmart Prices and Is Beloved By Employees - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:07:05] <exec> 08└─Wegman's is a tourist attraction out here; always friendly staff, and Walmart struggles to complete with them.
[23:07:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Microsoft don't think they did - 06Microsoft Remotely Bricks Game Leaker's Xbox One Console - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:07:58] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure they backpedaled on that after how major the negative reaction was online.
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