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[00:26:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bill Evans [1094] (Score:2) 02how it reacts to older browsers - 06New Search Engine Encourages Information Exploration - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:50] <exec> 08└─When I went to atlasify with an older browser, the message it gave me included: [BLOCKQUOTE]You're browser don't support Atlasify.[/BLOCKQUOTE] Did they do that on purpose?
[00:26:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bill Evans [1094] (Score:2) 02Re:how it reacts to older browsers - 06New Search Engine Encourages Information Exploration - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:26:51] <exec> 08└─To be clear, what I intended to be blockquote HTML tags didn't turn out the way I wanted. I intended to point out their (mis?)use of English.
[00:26:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anne Nonymous [712] (Score:2) 02Re:how it reacts to older browsers - 06New Search Engine Encourages Information Exploration - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:26:53] <exec> 08└─I think it was intended as two separate thoughts: 1. You are a browser 2. Don't support Atlasify
[00:26:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02I'd like one that finds what I search for - 06New Search Engine Encourages Information Exploration - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:55] <exec> 08└─The UI of Xcode 6 is quite a lot different than that of Xcode 4. But when I search for "Xcode 6 guard malloc" I get pages about using guard malloc in Xcode 4. It doesn't help to use quotes.
[00:26:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:I'd like one that finds what I search for - 06New Search Engine Encourages Information Exploration - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:26:56] <exec> 08└─Hmmm, I was going to suggest trying -"Xcode 4", but when I did a search for "Xcode 6" guard malloc -"Xcode 4" all I got was your post above. Nothing else. That strikes me as hardly ideal, especially since you had "Xcode 4" in your post and it should have been excluded.
[00:26:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Specific browser required? - 06New Search Engine Encourages Information Exploration - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:58] <exec> 08└─"You're browser don't support Atlasify. We recommend using Google Chrome." I have SRWare Iron installed, so I fired it up. https://www.srware.net [srware.net] I get the same message with Iron as I got with Pale Moon browser. So, I switched user agent string to report that...
[00:26:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03mechanicjay [7] (Score:1) 02Re:Specific browser required? - 06New Search Engine Encourages Information Exploration - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:27:00] <exec> 08└─Using the "User Agent Overrider" plug-in on Palemoon, I set it to Chrome 30/Linux and was able to access the site. Remember to hit the root of the site again as otherwise you're just reloading the "We suck Chrome-cock" page.
[00:27:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:all the time? - 06Robots to 3D-print a Steel Bridge Mid-Air over an Amsterdam Canal - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:27:06] <exec> 08└─Our governments are aware of the massive progress in the secret research on jetpacks, and therefore know that there is no point in maintaining bridges and roads that will be obsoleted overnight.
[00:27:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:all the time? - 06Robots to 3D-print a Steel Bridge Mid-Air over an Amsterdam Canal - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:27:08] <exec> 08└─the problems the US has with faltering infrastructure is
[00:27:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:all the time? - 06Robots to 3D-print a Steel Bridge Mid-Air over an Amsterdam Canal - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:27:10] <exec> 08└─In general the problem is one of entropy accumulation over time due to existence in an environment above absolute zero. Perhaps a cure for the laws of thermodynamics is the answer to the self-printing & self-healing infrastructure repairing bots accumulating wear over any given interval $TIME?
[00:27:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What if they were deployed closer to the action - 06Life is Tough Being a Drone Pilot - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:27:23] <exec> 08└─What if they were deployed closer to the action? In theory being able to drive home after a shift is less stressful. This article makes it sound like it might be more stressful.
[00:27:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ignoring an important part! - 06Life is Tough Being a Drone Pilot - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:27:29] <exec> 08└─I guess the upside for my job is that I don't have to kill random people just to get one target.
[00:28:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Correcter Strategy: Tax Lobyists - 06White House Returning to Big Investments in Clean Tech - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:28:08] <exec> 08└─Being the armchair politician I am, the strategy should be to tax carbon sources. If the goal is to reduce carbon output, then tax carbon. Don't try to promote alternatives.
[00:28:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Use Patterns - 06White House Returning to Big Investments in Clean Tech - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:28:12] <exec> 08└─save up electricity all day through the peak hours in home batteries, and recharge your EV overnight
[00:28:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03darnkitten [1912] (Score:1) 02Re:In other news - 06More Projects are Fleeing from SourceForge - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:28:42] <exec> 08└─That's too bad--I've had no problems with install (except when the main branch stopped supporting xp), and I have it running on 10, no, 11 Win setups, from xp(x86) to win7(x64). Are you using the installer, or the stand-alone file? ...and have you tried the portable version? OTOH, I've never been ab...
[00:29:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03darnkitten [1912] (Score:1) 02Re:Github benefits - 06More Projects are Fleeing from SourceForge - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:29:04] <exec> 08└─...And if they were using Hollywood accounting principles, it wouldn't matter how much it was worth, it would show $0 on paper, so they wouldn't have to pay back their investors.
[00:29:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Hurry Pale Moon! - 06More Projects are Fleeing from SourceForge - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:29:05] <exec> 08└─I don't want crapware on my PC. That is why I dropped Firefox and Debian.
[00:30:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03paulej72 [58] (Score:2) 02Re:Genesis 1:16 - 06Pope Affirms Anthropogenic Global Warming - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:30:24] <exec> 08└─Fixed, thanks for letting me know.
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[01:26:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Specific browser required? - 06New Search Engine Encourages Information Exploration - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:26:58] <exec> 08└─That works perfectly. On Firefox, I have several addons that I love - but I ran into problems with a couple addons, so stripped down to the bare essentials. User Agent Overrrider seems to be working just fine though, despite the fact that the addons page told me it was unsupported. Thank you, Sir!
[01:26:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score:2) 02Re:Specific browser required? - 06New Search Engine Encourages Information Exploration - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:26:59] <exec> 08└─You can spoof your OS and Browser. I use the add-on "User Agent Overrider" as it's simple to use and has various options for Linux, Windows, MAC, Android, and iOS user agents. I ran into this issue when trying to get pipelight to work. Here's a how to link from the pipelight people. http://pipelight...
[01:27:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score:2) 02Re:Specific browser required? - 06New Search Engine Encourages Information Exploration - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:27:00] <exec> 08└─'heh, I looked at the pipelight page again and saw something that might make the difference. Some things like Unity3D skip over the User Agent stuff and can actually tell what OS you are using anyway. They fixed that by adding a general.platform.override string Win32 to Firefox.
[01:27:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Specific browser required? - 06New Search Engine Encourages Information Exploration - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:27:02] <exec> 08└─MechanicJay said much the same thing, and specifically stated that the addon works with Pale Moon - thanks to both of you, I'm browsing the site now!
[01:27:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03mechanicjay [7] (Score:1) 02We're not supported - 06New Search Engine Encourages Information Exploration - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:04] <exec> 08└─Atlasify doesn’t yet support your query: SoylentNews. Please make sure it was spelled correctly, or try one of the following related queries:
[01:27:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03slinches [5049] (Score:2) 02Re:We're not supported - 06New Search Engine Encourages Information Exploration - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:27:05] <exec> 08└─What does not supporting a query even mean? If it's really a search platform it should return something for any query, even if it's just "no results found".
[01:27:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score:2) 02A Falsity - 06New Search Engine Encourages Information Exploration - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:07] <exec> 08└─Not as good as "I am lord voldemort", but "A Falsity" is kinda funny.
[01:27:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score:2) 02Re:all the time? - 06Robots to 3D-print a Steel Bridge Mid-Air over an Amsterdam Canal - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:27:15] <exec> 08└─We've had the ability to build jetpacks for quite some time. The problem is the inherent danger associated with flying around with rockets attached to your back. "It's not the fall that kills you, it's the sudden stop at the end." Kinda hard to get around those natural laws and the stupidity of the...
[01:27:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02A joke - 06Life is Tough Being a Drone Pilot - 119 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:26] <exec> 08└─What's the difference between a Taliban stronghold and an elementary school? How should I know? I only pilot the drone.
[01:27:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Ignoring an important part! - 06Life is Tough Being a Drone Pilot - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:27:40] <exec> 08└─Especially since mil-spec screens and cameras don't usually have the display quality of your living room console... They grew up dreaming of flying anywhere, making aerial tricks while watching the world below from a bubble canopy with huge bombs under each wing. They now sit in a chair flying a rhe...
[01:27:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re: - 06Life is Tough Being a Drone Pilot - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:27:50] <exec> 08└─Fear of being the one who pulls the trigger on friendly fire, Fear that the intelligence-flagged enemy base in the reticle is really a school
[01:27:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Can't date the - 06Life is Tough Being a Drone Pilot - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:27:57] <exec> 08└─In terms of sheer embarrassment I set off the flooding alarms at a mainframe dinosaur pen
[01:28:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:National Security - 06White House Returning to Big Investments in Clean Tech - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:28:17] <exec> 08└─Wah! Jack-rabbit starts are fun as hell. Sorry you are so boring.
[01:29:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I just don't understand Dice Holdings. - 06More Projects are Fleeing from SourceForge - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:29:10] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately, "investors" have become a dirty word to information aggregators. Donation supported hosting or bust. It's the only way to ensure the information consumers and contributors are served instead of some 3rd party agenda.
[01:29:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03tonyPick [1237] 02More constraints - 06ECHR: Websites can be Accountable for User Comments - 209 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:29:30] <exec> 08└─In this case, the news site published an article which was intended to stir up public sentiment, and subsequently took no action when the user comments became so extreme as to fall under the 'Hate Speech' law.
[01:30:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:Another perspective - 06ECHR: Websites can be Accountable for User Comments - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:30:01] <exec> 08└─But an action that cannot bring about actual physical harm
[01:31:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:A virtual students is worth - 06Virginia Adopting Fulltime Online Option For Public Schools - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:31:31] <exec> 08└─Understanding is a skill. Deep understanding is found through repetition of analysis, or "rote memorization" as you amusingly repeat over and over while using it to describe different things. You are defending your position with a paradox. Perhaps your education did fail your desire for critical tho...
[01:34:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02Re:Translation - 06Amazing Photos of Abandoned Space Projects - 113 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:34:29] <exec> 08└─I'd like to know why that sort of technology is not more widespread. I'm guessing they're not very fuel efficient
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[02:26:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02Niggers - 06TPB Founder Gottfrid Svartholm Guilty Verdict on Hacking Charges Upheld - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:50] <exec> 08└─Stupid fuck probably social engineered a fucking nigger at CSC. PROTIP: DON'T HIRE NIGGERS AND IGNORE THE UNCONSTITUTIONAL LAW!
[02:27:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score:2) 02Re:how it reacts to older browsers - 06New Search Engine Encourages Information Exploration - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:27:01] <exec> 08└─When it FINALLY loaded, I got "You're browser don't support Atlasify. We recommend using Google Chrome." To which I said "FOAD" and left, never to return.
[02:28:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:4, Insightful) 02Serving the masters - 06Life is Tough Being a Drone Pilot - 867 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:28:07] <exec> 08└─Real soldiers out in the field routinely make life and death decisions, using their training and judgement. A drone pilot probably doesn't get to make decisions at all. He hears, "Hover over this target" he answers "Yes, Sir!" He hears, "Destroy that building." He answers "Yes Sir!" No decision maki...
[02:28:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Use Patterns - 06White House Returning to Big Investments in Clean Tech - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:28:36] <exec> 08└─dreamer When I drive into the garage with my salt encrusted car (winter in the NE USA) the last thing I want to do is try to swap hundreds of pounds of batteries, and get salt/slush/brine all over everything.
[02:28:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score:2) 02Re:This is all well and good - 06More Projects are Fleeing from SourceForge - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:28:52] <exec> 08└─On that note, is there an existing mirror? If not, methinks it behooves someone with the know-how and resources to make one. (Which, sad to say, is not me.)
[02:28:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Balderdash [693] (Score:2) 02Re:This is all well and good - 06More Projects are Fleeing from SourceForge - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:28:59] <exec> 08└─Dice Holdings sucks so much cock that other cocksuckres call Dice a dickface and Dice can't even argue.
[02:29:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:Github benefits - 06More Projects are Fleeing from SourceForge - 858 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:29:32] <exec> 08└─Yea, SourceForge made so much money giving away hosting that investors are going to throw money at GitHub forever. Oh wait. Anybody see the problem here? As soon as the economy turns (and it will) or investors just get tired of throwing Sagans of cash into the suckhole, GitHub is going be be forced...
[02:30:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Another perspective - 06ECHR: Websites can be Accountable for User Comments - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:30:14] <exec> 08└─If saying things can do things
[02:30:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Another perspective - 06ECHR: Websites can be Accountable for User Comments - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:30:16] <exec> 08└─Need I go on?
[02:30:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score:3, Informative) 02Galileo wasn't excommunicated - 06Pope Affirms Anthropogenic Global Warming - 1192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:30:38] <exec> 08└─It seems though that the Church has learned its lesson about mixing science and religious doctrine from the Galileo affair, most clearly in recent Popes' declarations about the matter. Even then, do remember that while the Church back in his day did give Galileo a hard time, they never actually exco...
[02:30:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score:2) 02Re:Galileo wasn't excommunicated - 06Pope Affirms Anthropogenic Global Warming - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:30:39] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure how relevant it is to the conversation, but Nicolaus Copernicus was a monk. I don't think the church had any problem with his work.
[02:31:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03gnuman [5013] (Score:2) 02Re:What kind of stunt are you trying to pull? - 06Pope Affirms Anthropogenic Global Warming - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:31:06] <exec> 08└─Everyone knows that God prefers non-shes!
[02:31:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:A virtual students is worth - 06Virginia Adopting Fulltime Online Option For Public Schools - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:31:50] <exec> 08└─Understanding is a skill.
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[03:26:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Toshiba? - 06Cortana Threatens to Blow-away your "Esc" Key - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:49] <exec> 08└─They still make computers?
[03:26:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score:3, Funny) 02My bunker full of clicky keyboards - 06Cortana Threatens to Blow-away your "Esc" Key - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:50] <exec> 08└─They said I was nuts. Who's laughing now MUUAHAHAHA!
[03:26:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03VortexCortex [4067] (Score:3, Funny) 02This iteration didn't take long to go rampant. - 06Cortana Threatens to Blow-away your "Esc" Key - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:52] <exec> 08└─When it comes to Cortana, there will be no Escape.
[03:26:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Funny) 02Hell no - 06Cortana Threatens to Blow-away your "Esc" Key - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:53] <exec> 08└─Cortana can go fuck itself. You will pry vi off my cold dead fingers.
[03:27:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02Re:how it reacts to older browsers - 06New Search Engine Encourages Information Exploration - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:27:11] <exec> 08└─should have used [b]bold[/b] tags. ;)
[03:27:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03dusty monkey [5492] (Score:1) 02Re:Specific browser required? - 06New Search Engine Encourages Information Exploration - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:27:18] <exec> 08└─Not sure why this is modded flamebait. I am running a chrome-based browser that isnt specifically chrome, and the site still demands chrome. If thats not sucking chrome cock, I don't know what is.
[03:27:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Refugee from beyond [2699] (Score:2) 02Re:all the time? - 06Robots to 3D-print a Steel Bridge Mid-Air over an Amsterdam Canal - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:27:37] <exec> 08└─Perhaps a cure for the laws of thermodynamics is the answer
[03:28:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mr Big in the Pants [4956] (Score:2) 02Re:Ignoring an important part! - 06Life is Tough Being a Drone Pilot - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:28:03] <exec> 08└─My heart Bleeds for them. Like a mother mourning over her dead child in the smoking ruins of her house...
[03:29:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score:2) 02Re:I just don't understand Dice Holdings. - 06More Projects are Fleeing from SourceForge - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:29:37] <exec> 08└─Tho one has to wonder if there's a little money laundering in the back corners...
[03:30:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Tangent: how muslim-hate came to sweden - 06ECHR: Websites can be Accountable for User Comments - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:30:19] <exec> 08└─The reason for the low honor is this: east europe does not believe in anything but violence. They know that any religion can be beaten into anyone, so religion is mostly wieved as a psychological feature you can't get rid of. They reason like this "you were beaten, you converted, now shut the fuck u...
[03:30:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Another perspective - 06ECHR: Websites can be Accountable for User Comments - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:30:34] <exec> 08└─It's a sensible distinction. Firing a gun is not illegal, but firing it at other people is. Lighting a fire is not illegal, but setting your neighbor's house on fire is. What matters is intent and outcome, ideological extremism is for fools.
[03:30:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Another perspective - 06ECHR: Websites can be Accountable for User Comments - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:30:35] <exec> 08└─It's a sensible distinction. Firing a gun is not illegal, but firing it at other people is. Lighting a fire is not illegal, but setting your neighbor's house on fire is.
[03:33:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03carguy [568] (Score:2) 02Re:What the Red Cross is Missing - 06Black Eye for the Red Cross - Continued - 1488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:33:30] <exec> 08└─Earlier sentiments on the Red Cross... Highly recommended: Mississippi Fred McDowell: Red Cross Store https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] Lyrics http://lyrics.wikia.com [wikia.com] (somewhat different from recording above) Well I...
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[04:26:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:This iteration didn't take long to go rampant. - 06Cortana Threatens to Blow-away your "Esc" Key - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:26:56] <exec> 08└─When it comes to Cortana, there will be no Escape.
[04:26:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Eight Megs And Constantly Swapping - 06Cortana Threatens to Blow-away your "Esc" Key - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:26:58] <exec> 08└─Emacs Makes A Computer Slow
[04:26:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score:2) 02Re:Hell no - 06Cortana Threatens to Blow-away your "Esc" Key - 741 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:27:00] <exec> 08└─Workaround: "Hey Cortana, vim command mode." <clickety click> "Hey Cortana, vim command mode." <click-click> "Hey Cortana, vim command mode." <click> "Hey Cortana, vim command mode." <clickety-clack-click> "Hey Cortana, vim command mode." <tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap> "Hey Cortana, vim command mode....
[04:27:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02no worries - 06Cortana Threatens to Blow-away your "Esc" Key - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:27:01] <exec> 08└─we still have the Coke Bottle key.
[04:27:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03darnkitten [1912] (Score:1) 02Gotta say, I'm not surprised... - 06TPB Founder Gottfrid Svartholm Guilty Verdict on Hacking Charges Upheld - 552 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:27:10] <exec> 08└─...Every time I've seen him in media, even in court, he's come off as a bit of an ass. In a trial like this, where (FTA) "even...an IT journalist...had difficulty in following the evidence," the jury and judges will have been influenced by his appearance, personality, likeability, and such. His lawy...
[04:27:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Gotta say, I'm not surprised... - 06TPB Founder Gottfrid Svartholm Guilty Verdict on Hacking Charges Upheld - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:27:11] <exec> 08└─the lack of technical knowledge and understanding in judicial systems worldwide.
[04:27:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Gotta say, I'm not surprised... - 06TPB Founder Gottfrid Svartholm Guilty Verdict on Hacking Charges Upheld - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:27:13] <exec> 08└─...Every time I've seen him in media, even in court, he's come off as a bit of an ass.
[04:27:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Gotta say, I'm not surprised... - 06TPB Founder Gottfrid Svartholm Guilty Verdict on Hacking Charges Upheld - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:27:15] <exec> 08└─Sounds to me she's missing a bit of ass.
[04:27:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Specific browser required? - 06New Search Engine Encourages Information Exploration - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:27:31] <exec> 08└─If thats not sucking chrome cock, I don't know what is.
[04:27:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02Re:all the time? - 06Robots to 3D-print a Steel Bridge Mid-Air over an Amsterdam Canal - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:27:48] <exec> 08└─Just like the the old skydiver saying, "The sky's not the limit, the ground is."
[04:28:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02Re:What if they were deployed closer to the action - 06Life is Tough Being a Drone Pilot - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:28:08] <exec> 08└─Still at apx .2 sec return time, that's just a shade more than the reaction time a trained sniper has before he pulls the trigger. And the odds of anyone lobbing a mortar or returning fire from 35K clicks away is nil.
[04:28:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03linuxrocks123 [2557] (Score:2) 02Re:can't talk at home - 06Life is Tough Being a Drone Pilot - 523 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:28:35] <exec> 08└─Dude. Start looking for another job. Now. You'll find a better job. It might take several months, but eventually you will. Why are you putting up with that shit? You don't have to take that shit. Don't take that shit. The job market in the US is good right now. And even if it's not, you won't know i...
[04:29:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03fleg [128] (Score:2) 02Re:I just don't understand Dice Holdings. - 06More Projects are Fleeing from SourceForge - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:29:51] <exec> 08└─which country?
[04:30:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Another perspective - 06ECHR: Websites can be Accountable for User Comments - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:30:50] <exec> 08└─Anal, once again are you being purposely obtuse? A simple yes or no will suffice. Well, it can't, and saying "I do" isn't an example of an action being performed in reality.
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[05:26:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03VortexCortex [4067] 02This iteration didn't take long to go rampant. - 06Cortana Threatens to Blow-away your "Esc" Key - 50 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:26:51] <exec> 08└─When it comes to Cortana, there will be no Escape.
[05:26:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wierd0n3 [1033] (Score:1) 02Re:This iteration didn't take long to go rampant. - 06Cortana Threatens to Blow-away your "Esc" Key - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:26:53] <exec> 08└─if you look at the shift key, there is a decal ring around the text. on the "Cortana" return key, there is not. someone is having fun in Photoshop. personally, I'm of the opinion that if it doesn't end up like a media key, they are going to get some backlash.
[05:26:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:3, Funny) 02"Why do we have to hide from the police, Daddy?" - 06Cortana Threatens to Blow-away your "Esc" Key - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:26:57] <exec> 08└─"We use vi son. They use emacs."
[05:27:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score:2) 02Re:no worries - 06Cortana Threatens to Blow-away your "Esc" Key - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:27:01] <exec> 08└─we still have the Coke Bottle key.
[05:27:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score:1) 02Re:no worries - 06Cortana Threatens to Blow-away your "Esc" Key - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:27:02] <exec> 08└─The cortana integration... couldn't care less. don't want it on my desktop at all. I'm not sure who really does.
[05:27:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02Re:no worries - 06Cortana Threatens to Blow-away your "Esc" Key - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:27:04] <exec> 08└─he he... so how long has it been since "esc" would return you to command line. For the last 10 years or so about all it does is "escape" from "full screen".
[05:27:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02This is going to be interesting. - 06Robots to 3D-print a Steel Bridge Mid-Air over an Amsterdam Canal - 1557 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:27:53] <exec> 08└─I look forward to seeing how this plays out. I feel its just a matter of time before we see tract homes built this way. I have already seen some of the precursors but at that time, there was not enough prior art to ignite the concept. What I saw resulted in excellent workmanship of a home that would...
[05:28:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02Re: - 06Life is Tough Being a Drone Pilot - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:28:31] <exec> 08└─oh really...so if you had a chance to actually take out someone who just might blow up a mall where your wife and kids were, or maybe the church where they were worshiping on a Sunday morn...You'd be worrying about whither or not you'd killed an innocent jihadist.
[05:29:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] 02Re:This is all well and good - 06More Projects are Fleeing from SourceForge - 70 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:29:24] <exec> 08└─Jesus, it's sad. It's like watching a good friend die of brain cancer.
[05:29:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:This is all well and good - 06More Projects are Fleeing from SourceForge - 887 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:29:29] <exec> 08└─Blind trust. I visited SourceForge earlier today to see about a DS-30 loader for PIC microcontrollers. Google pointed me to the SourceForge page, so I went, but the files simply were not available without me taking them as part of an installer. I flat do not want to enable scripting and take anythi...
[05:29:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] 02Re:I just don't understand Dice Holdings. - 06More Projects are Fleeing from SourceForge - 600 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:29:56] <exec> 08└─I think you have it backwards, they are entirely competent. They just have no ethical standards and have traded real brand value for cold hard cash. Its the sellout strategy made so popular in the 80's! It takes time for awareness of these things to really propagate, and usually takes extreme exampl...
[05:30:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:I just don't understand Dice Holdings. - 06More Projects are Fleeing from SourceForge - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:30:04] <exec> 08└─From what I can tell, the cream of the crop - you know, the real techies - the ones who actually *do* this kind of stuff - were the ones who were so pissed off at what was going on, that they established and populated another hangout... here.
[05:30:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I just don't understand Dice Holdings. - 06More Projects are Fleeing from SourceForge - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:30:06] <exec> 08└─I think that's wishful thinking. I think the actual techies left slashdot long ago because they were too busy with real jobs.
[05:30:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hold still, I've got an opinion - 06ECHR: Websites can be Accountable for User Comments - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:30:30] <exec> 08└─welcome to the modern world where government tries to regulate everything by creating mountains of laws. infinite insanity.
[05:31:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Another perspective - 06ECHR: Websites can be Accountable for User Comments - 1063 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:31:02] <exec> 08└─In America, we have the doctrine of "punishing assholes." You can be a member of the KKK and scream "The niggers are raping America" at the top of your lungs, and you won't get into trouble for it with the law, but you also won't have any friends. You'll be fucked over by society, because you are an...
[05:31:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Another perspective - 06ECHR: Websites can be Accountable for User Comments - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:31:03] <exec> 08└─Oh, wait, I meant Reynolds v. United States [wikipedia.org]. US v. Reyonlds is *totally* different.
[05:35:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03juggs [63] (Score:2) 02Re:Thanks! - 06Site Update to rehash 15_05.4 - 818 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:59] <exec> 08└─Indeed so. Any volunteers with QA/Test experience would be most welcome, don't sit on the sidelines, get involved. To be fair, rehash deployment was a major^2 step. Given our skeleton crew there were bound to be gotchas, we simply do not have the resources to iron everything out in dev / staging rig...
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[06:27:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Eight Megs And Constantly Swapping - 06Cortana Threatens to Blow-away your "Esc" Key - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:27:10] <exec> 08└─We have always been at war with EMACS.
[06:27:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02backdoors - 06TPB Founder Gottfrid Svartholm Guilty Verdict on Hacking Charges Upheld - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:27:28] <exec> 08└─my firefox gets flakey after visiting chinese websites and a reinstall fixes this. ofc this is not some nsa backdoor making visits to alternative cultures look bad ...
[06:27:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:backdoors - 06TPB Founder Gottfrid Svartholm Guilty Verdict on Hacking Charges Upheld - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:27:30] <exec> 08└─My Firefox gets flaky if I have at least one tab open.
[06:29:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Use Patterns - 06White House Returning to Big Investments in Clean Tech - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:29:27] <exec> 08└─i think we have a thing called the grid so the home solar can recharge the evehicule at work and power the lift, coffee machine and computer at work too?
[06:29:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Freeman [732] 02Re:In other news - 06More Projects are Fleeing from SourceForge - 710 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:29:55] <exec> 08└─It's not too surprising as the issues with SourceForge were news to me. I had been using it off and on for a long time. It's kind of sad to see it being destroyed. Even, if they backtrack. What's stopping them from doing the same thing again? Nothing. I could deal with the advertisements, so long as...
[06:30:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score:1) 02Re:In other news - 06More Projects are Fleeing from SourceForge - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:30:03] <exec> 08└─What are the alternatives to Firefox these days? I haven't been keeping up. And, no, google chrome is not an answer.
[06:30:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Re:I just don't understand Dice Holdings. - 06More Projects are Fleeing from SourceForge - 159 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:30:07] <exec> 08└─That is because the people who built the product and understand it got replaced by an MBA who does not look further than a spreadsheet to make their decisions.
[06:31:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] 02Thank you editor - 06ECHR: Websites can be Accountable for User Comments - 187 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:31:26] <exec> 08└─I really appreciated that editor's note that tries to clear up misunderstandings before they happen. Much more useful than adding personal opinion / slant to the summary. Please continue!
[06:32:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score:2) 02Re:What kind of stunt are you trying to pull? - 06Pope Affirms Anthropogenic Global Warming - 1035 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:32:34] <exec> 08└─"Alas, it seems to be the curse of atheists to know more of a religion than the majority of its believers." (Speaking anecdotally, as I have no hard facts to back this up.) The majority of people I know who self-describe as atheist or agnostic, did not start out so. Nearly everyone I know in this ca...
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[07:27:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Missing the point of the Body of Christ - 06Two Stories about Facial Recognition - 951 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:27:03] <exec> 08└─The Church is supposedly the Body of Christ: https://www.biblegateway.com [biblegateway.com] Followers of Jesus are also called to love one another as Jesus loved us. And we are supposed to be like a family- aka brothers and sisters in Christ. The Body should k...
[07:27:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02From a danish website - 06TPB Founder Gottfrid Svartholm Guilty Verdict on Hacking Charges Upheld - 483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:27:39] <exec> 08└─From the danish website Version2: The court said he's technically competent, so it is improbable that he would not know if someone was using his system remotely without permission. Unlike the company he supposedly attacked, which didn't realize for months, even after the Swedish police told them abo...
[07:28:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What if they were deployed closer to the action - 06Life is Tough Being a Drone Pilot - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:28:38] <exec> 08└─How about outsourcing it to India? It's closer and I'm sure you'll get a large pool of applicants for cheaper. They might even be better at recognizing the people, what they're doing and blow up fewer wedding parties by mistake. But of course it does depend on what metrics you're using. Use the wron...
[07:29:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score:2) 02Re:can't talk at home - 06Life is Tough Being a Drone Pilot - 576 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:29:06] <exec> 08└─Steve, is that you? I told you to quit complaining, there isn't money in the budget to give you a raise. Reporters bring in revenue, you just, uh, fix things I think. Be in my office at 9 a.m. Monday morning. No, not tomorrow, I'm leaving on my Lear-Jet for Acapulco tonight for a jaunt with the othe...
[07:30:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:More constraints - 06ECHR: Websites can be Accountable for User Comments - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:30:57] <exec> 08└─As far as I know, neither SN nor /. is operating in Europe, so I don't think they are affected. IANAL however, and cannot exclude that some laws apply in situations where I wouldn't expect them to.
[07:31:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Another perspective - 06ECHR: Websites can be Accountable for User Comments - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:31:31] <exec> 08└─So you should not blame congress for bad laws. After all, the laws are just text, that is speech. The harm is not done by the laws but by the people following the laws, right?
[07:31:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Another perspective - 06ECHR: Websites can be Accountable for User Comments - 1455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:31:32] <exec> 08└─Speaking is also an action. If I type a comment on SN, it's clearly speech, right? But what if I type a launch command at a nuclear missile control computer? It's the exact same type of action, pressing keys on the keyboard. Therefore it should also be speech, and therefore protected, right? What if...
[07:31:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Re:Another perspective - 06ECHR: Websites can be Accountable for User Comments - 699 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:31:37] <exec> 08└─Which is precisely the case being discussed in TFA. Some of the comments were inciting attacks against individuals and property, both of which, under certain circumstances, are illegal under European Law. So the judge ruled that, although the news site has the right of freedom of expression, they ar...
[07:31:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The First - 06ECHR: Websites can be Accountable for User Comments - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:31:41] <exec> 08└─We make no exception for "hate speech" in the USA and our society is better for it.
[07:34:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Don't be too quick to judge. - 06Black Eye for the Red Cross - Continued - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:34:30] <exec> 08└─I think you missed the part where Red Cross got half a billion and built 6. Whereas other organizations built 5,700 (or more?): http://www.nytimes.com [nytimes.com] Perhaps Red Cross built most of the 125,000...
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[08:27:00] <exec> 08└─Which leads so many to say "I get along with God just fine, its just His fan clubs that I have a problem with." If my church implemented something like this system , I'd be out the door in seconds, and not be back...
[08:27:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03VortexCortex [4067] (Score:2) 02Missing the Cybernetic nature of Church Organisms - 06Two Stories about Facial Recognition - 3885 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:27:01] <exec> 08└─A body is a cybernetic system. When it grows beyond the limitations of its ability to satisfy the transport needs of an essential quanta, be it nutrients, information, waste, socialization, etc., the body experiences cybernetic breakdown, AKA, death. Which is to say, much like any cybernetic system...
[08:27:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Appalbarry [66] (Score:2) 02Lost cause - 06Two Stories about Facial Recognition - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:27:02] <exec> 08└─In related news, the cops at the UK "Download" music festival scanned the faces [engadget.com] of all 90,000 customers last week! The battle has been lost Winston.
[08:27:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03sudo rm -rf [2357] (Score:2) 02Re:Lost cause - 06Two Stories about Facial Recognition - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:27:04] <exec> 08└─That brings very unpleasantly Pink Floyd to my mind: Are there any queers in the theater tonight? Get them up against the wall! There's one in the spotlight, he don't look right to me, Get him up against the wall! That one looks Jewish! And that one's a coon! Who let all of this riff-raff into the...
[08:27:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03RobotMonster [130] (Score:2) 02Re:no worries - 06Cortana Threatens to Blow-away your "Esc" Key - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:27:24] <exec> 08└─we still have the Coke Bottle key.
[08:27:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03mbo42 [5378] (Score:1) 02Re:no worries - 06Cortana Threatens to Blow-away your "Esc" Key - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:27:26] <exec> 08└─he he... so how long has it been since "esc" would return you to command line. For the last 10 years or so about all it does is "escape" from "full screen".
[08:27:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02remap, loadkeys xkeycaps - 06Cortana Threatens to Blow-away your "Esc" Key - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:27:28] <exec> 08└─Since the first thing a vi coder does is remap the esc key nearer to the home keys, putting esc on ctrl and putting ctrl on caps lock and then moving caps lock on the esc key. Loosing the esc key is no big loss, now if they could relabel the other keys to match my individual choice that would be nic...
[08:27:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Re:remap, loadkeys xkeycaps - 06Cortana Threatens to Blow-away your "Esc" Key - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:27:30] <exec> 08└─Loosing the esc key is no big loss,
[08:28:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score:2) 02Rust magnet - 06Robots to 3D-print a Steel Bridge Mid-Air over an Amsterdam Canal - 2149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:28:25] <exec> 08└─Self-healng is something this would definitely need to be. It's a cute idea, but this welding-in-midair technique seems to create rods and variably-shaped hollow structures (branes?) with extremely rough surfaces. Even if they're welding with stainless steel rod, a rough surface like that is a recip...
[08:29:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score:2) 02Re:National Security - 06White House Returning to Big Investments in Clean Tech - 719 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:29:35] <exec> 08└─"without the obnoxious roar of an ICE. " I love the 'obnoxious ROAR' my 'vette makes. Not to mention its 0-60 time is 5.1 seconds, whereas the BMW (Break My Wallet) i3 EV's time is 6.8 seconds. Sure, the top end Teslas will do sub 5 seconds as will the top tier Beemers, (as will any top tier ICE spo...
[08:29:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nesh [269] (Score:1) 02Re:Correct Strategy: Tax Carbon - 06White House Returning to Big Investments in Clean Tech - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:29:41] <exec> 08└─That's why fuel prices in europe are so much higher than in us, and that has been the case for decades. While individual ICE are cleaner and leaner, this hasn't led to decreases in total emissions, on the contrary. Traffic volumes just go up and up and up .. Switches to alternative energy sources fo...
[08:31:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Re:Another perspective - 06ECHR: Websites can be Accountable for User Comments - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:31:27] <exec> 08└─According to the US constitution
[08:36:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Thanks! - 06Site Update to rehash 15_05.4 - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:36:42] <exec> 08└─But please, refrain from making separate URLs for a mobile version. Such separate URLs are a PITA because you can bet that the URL you get is typically not the one appropriate for the system you're on. It sucks to view a mobile-only-optimized page on a big 1920x1080 screen.
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[09:26:49] <exec> 08└─...
[09:26:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02The end of Uber, at least in CA - 06California: Uber Driver is an Employee - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:26:56] <exec> 08└─A business blog that I read has a take on this. It's his opinion that this is potentially a death blow to Uber. [coyoteblog.com]
[09:27:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Missing the Cybernetic nature of Church Organis - 06Two Stories about Facial Recognition - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:27:07] <exec> 08└─What if the church's cybernetic parts make it to heaven but most of the rest of the church doesn't... ;) e.g. "Well done good and faithful church computer system for I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, I was naked and you clot...
[09:27:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Late to the party again? - 06Cortana Threatens to Blow-away your "Esc" Key - 813 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:27:36] <exec> 08└─So I keep seeing these adverts on TV for Cortana, and it looks to me like Microsoft are proudly announcing that they just invented Siri, about 3 years after Siri went out of fashion. Is that about it, or is Cortana somehow different to / better than Siri? Also, does anyone actually use these voice-r...
[09:29:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Re: - 06Life is Tough Being a Drone Pilot - 698 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:29:13] <exec> 08└─You want to kill someone who "just might blow up a mall" or a church? Your best bet is to get your gun, step out of your front door and start taking out random members of the public. Any one of them is far more likely to commit an atrocity in your country [bbc.co.uk] than some pre-school kid in Iraq...
[09:29:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Questioning orders... - 06Life is Tough Being a Drone Pilot - 934 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:29:17] <exec> 08└─This is a problem. Officers take an oath to uphold the Constitution. Part of officer training emphasizes the responsibility to disobey illegal orders. One might suppose that attacking and killing people on a regular basis, in a foreign country, would require something like a declaration of war. Loos...
[09:29:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02Serving the masters - 06Life is Tough Being a Drone Pilot - 867 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:29:25] <exec> 08└─Real soldiers out in the field routinely make life and death decisions, using their training and judgement. A drone pilot probably doesn't get to make decisions at all. He hears, "Hover over this target" he answers "Yes, Sir!" He hears, "Destroy that building." He answers "Yes Sir!" No decision maki...
[09:31:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Is GitHub already walking dead? - 06More Projects are Fleeing from SourceForge - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:31:00] <exec> 08└─When I hear that GitHub is seeking $200 million in external investment, I think it is already dead - it just hasn't bled out yet. Anyone who gives it that kind of money will be looking for the same short-term profits that drove SourceForge to package crapware with its downloads. Time to start lookin...
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[11:20:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02For so many reasons: YES! - 06"Let's Encrypt" gets a Launch Schedule - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:20:02] <exec> 08└─More encryption - good. Dead simple installation procedure - excellent. No more paying ridiculous fees to CAs who do nothing to earn them - icing on the cake.
[11:20:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03CRCulver [4390] (Score:2) 02Last book destroyed the series - 06SyFy Adapting Dan Simmons's Hyperion to the Small Screen - 995 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:20:11] <exec> 08└─The problem with an adaptation of the first book is that it may spur some amount of viewers to read that book. And then some of those people are going to read the whole series. I wouldn't wish that on anyone. Hyperion might have been a decent read, but Simmons really went downhill with the later vol...
[11:20:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Last book destroyed the series - 06SyFy Adapting Dan Simmons's Hyperion to the Small Screen - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:20:14] <exec> 08└─Had no real problem with Foundation, but Arthur C Clarke's 3001 is such a terrible book the best route is to pretend it was never written and the saga ended with the excellent 2061
[11:20:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Last book destroyed the series - 06SyFy Adapting Dan Simmons's Hyperion to the Small Screen - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:20:15] <exec> 08└─are you talking about "prelude" and "forward", or "edge" and "earth"?
[11:20:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:Last book destroyed the series - 06SyFy Adapting Dan Simmons's Hyperion to the Small Screen - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:20:17] <exec> 08└─I have no desire to ever read Asimov's Foundation again after hating the last two books in the series it sparked, and I'm sure a lot of you out there can think of similar disappointments.
[11:20:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:The end of Uber, at least in CA - 06California: Uber Driver is an Employee - 1322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:20:24] <exec> 08└─I got a normal taxi yesterday, as I was out-of-uber area. Had to wait 15 minutes for it to turn up, but I had no idea when it would, it was always "just round the corner"). I had to pay cash. I had to beg for a receipt, which was just an empty piece of paper. The driver spent the whole trip blowing...
[11:20:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03wantkitteh [3362] (Score:2) 02Re:Lost cause - 06Two Stories about Facial Recognition - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:20:38] <exec> 08└─Do we know what they did when they got a hit against their database of criminals?
[11:20:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:This iteration didn't take long to go rampant. - 06Cortana Threatens to Blow-away your "Esc" Key - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:20:52] <exec> 08└─If they want to get rid of a key (or rather, replace it with a more 'OS dependent' key), do what Google did with the ChromeBooks and get rid of that annoying CAPS LOCK key. On machines I work on that I can't disable or remap it in the OS, I'm not above physically removing it if required. The problem...
[11:21:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:2) 02Re:no worries - 06Cortana Threatens to Blow-away your "Esc" Key - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:21:02] <exec> 08└─"ok, I give up. What is that?" http://knowledgeweighsnothing.com
[11:21:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:no worries - 06Cortana Threatens to Blow-away your "Esc" Key - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:21:04] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure who really does.
[11:21:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:Late to the party again? - 06Cortana Threatens to Blow-away your "Esc" Key - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:21:11] <exec> 08└─I use Android's voice control for a few actions like setting a quick alarm to wake me up from a nap, and a few other things. On occasion I've used it recently to do a quick response using my smart watch when I don't feel like pulling my phone out. In general, I find that when doing something by voic...
[11:21:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Worked fine on the Firefox in the TBB. - 06New Search Engine Encourages Information Exploration - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:21:47] <exec> 08└─It made none of the complaints you guys mentioned, even with javascript off. Selectively unblocked 3-5 domains of the sites providing scripts and it worked just fine. It provided adequate results for my search terms, but had some pinpoints that were VERY marginally related. If you get those, provide...
[11:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03wantkitteh [3362] (Score:2) 02Re:Ignoring an important part! - 06Life is Tough Being a Drone Pilot - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:22:37] <exec> 08└─"meanwhile they're stuck playing video games, which means after they get out they're qualified to ... um ..." Work for Amazon? I was also under the impression that airline pilots are being paid diddly these days and having to take multiple jobs? Or is that just a subset?
[11:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03wantkitteh [3362] (Score:2) 02Re: - 06Life is Tough Being a Drone Pilot - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:22:51] <exec> 08└─While the action itself can't be argued to less stressful, the unrelenting nature of the action faced by drone pilots certainly is. Plus no-one's recording your every single tiny move for assessment and criticism afterwards when you're a grunt with a heavy loadout.
[11:24:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score:2) 02Re:I just don't understand Dice Holdings. - 06More Projects are Fleeing from SourceForge - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:24:38] <exec> 08└─let's face it - we're not a big dent in their userbase
[11:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hate laws = thoughtcrime - 06ECHR: Websites can be Accountable for User Comments - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:25:41] <exec> 08└─Given the number of nutcase hate groups in America who can tout their vilification of the innocent in public without recourse, I don't think it's at all unreasonable to criminalise some speech.
[11:26:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:What kind of stunt are you trying to pull? - 06Pope Affirms Anthropogenic Global Warming - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:26:36] <exec> 08└─I thought that this "Gabriel" person did Mary, and she was stoned (in the fun way) hence believed his story.
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[12:19:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02What’s on the Surface of a Black Hole? - 06What’s on the Surface of a Black Hole? - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:19:45] <exec> 08└─Two hands spreading it huge for the camera, that's what.
[12:19:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:What’s on the Surface of a Black Hole? - 06What’s on the Surface of a Black Hole? - 1244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:19:46] <exec> 08└─I just read the abstract. I don't know now which of the two I hate the most: the abstract or goatsie. You be the judge: We construct a model which illustrates the conjecture of fuzzball complementarity. In the fuzzball paradigm, the black hole microstates have no interior, and radiate unitarily from...
[12:19:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Which surface are we talking about? - 06What’s on the Surface of a Black Hole? - 980 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:19:48] <exec> 08└─> In fact, he says the world could be captured by a black hole, and we wouldn’t even notice. This doesn't seem like news. Aren't we all just part of a black hole accretion disc anyway? As I understood it, outside of the black hole, there's nothing particularly special going on, just a gravity fiel...
[12:19:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03mtrycz [60] (Score:2) 02Re:For so many reasons: YES! - 06"Let's Encrypt" gets a Launch Schedule - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:19:57] <exec> 08└─Love it.
[12:19:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:4, Insightful) 02Re:For so many reasons: YES! - 06"Let's Encrypt" gets a Launch Schedule - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:19:59] <exec> 08└─Still a centralized authority to govern your use of encryption? (authority governed by the laws of US and subject to FISA courts?) A style of encryption which doesn't protect your anonymity (even if it protects your messages)? Not saying this is not a progress, but surely we should be able to do bet...
[12:20:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Lost Me at - 06SyFy Adapting Dan Simmons's Hyperion to the Small Screen - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:20:08] <exec> 08└─Alzheimer is a terrible thing. My condolences.
[12:20:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03WizardFusion [498] (Score:2) 02Re:Last book destroyed the series - 06SyFy Adapting Dan Simmons's Hyperion to the Small Screen - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:20:13] <exec> 08└─The "Enders" series was also very poor after the first two books: Enders Game and Enders Shadow.
[12:20:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:Lost cause - 06Two Stories about Facial Recognition - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:20:35] <exec> 08└─I think I just had an instant Zentai fetish! ;-) Perhaps makeup also will be popular now?
[12:20:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03WizardFusion [498] (Score:2) 02Re:This iteration didn't take long to go rampant. - 06Cortana Threatens to Blow-away your "Esc" Key - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:20:50] <exec> 08└─WAIT, THERE IS A CAPS LOCK KEY. GREAT, NOW I CAN STOP HOLDING DOWN THE SHIFT KEY ALL THE TIME.
[12:21:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02How to change the print ontop of keys? - 06Cortana Threatens to Blow-away your "Esc" Key - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:21:08] <exec> 08└─Any good tip for means to change the text on keyboard buttons? First Microsoft mangled the keyboard with that shitty "Windows key", then they made them listening friendly with Bluetooth, to top it of they now will remove the Esc key? And Google will make evil by doing away with the Caps Lock [forchr...
[12:21:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:From a danish website - 06TPB Founder Gottfrid Svartholm Guilty Verdict on Hacking Charges Upheld - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:21:25] <exec> 08└─Being competent doesn't equates to knowing everything. Anyway got to have an excuse for that company to leak personal data on every citizen. Court - incompetent (and biased?) Company - certified morons?
[12:25:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Another perspective - 06ECHR: Websites can be Accountable for User Comments - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:25:26] <exec> 08└─You seem to think that only proximal cause is cause, but distal cause isn't. I find such a stance nothing but sophistry.
[12:25:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:The First - 06ECHR: Websites can be Accountable for User Comments - 815 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:25:36] <exec> 08└─> They'll simply choose to shut down comment sections. And nothing of value would be lost. I was watching France24 in a hotel room a few nights back, and basically they were saying this: http://www.youtube.com I don't read Delfi, the news site in question, I read ERR (the nationa...
[12:28:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Re:Don't be too quick to judge. - 06Black Eye for the Red Cross - Continued - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:28:27] <exec> 08└─No, I think you missed the part where I specifically referenced those numbers in the post you replied to.
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[13:19:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Which surface are we talking about? - 06What’s on the Surface of a Black Hole? - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:19:42] <exec> 08└─I think they meant "captured" as in "drawn across the Event Horizon," not as in "captured into orbit." It's at the event horizon that things are supposed to get interesting. Spaghettification and all that [...] I can expect anything to be shredded by gravitational forces long before it got the chan...
[13:19:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02Re:For so many reasons: YES! - 06"Let's Encrypt" gets a Launch Schedule - 304 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:19:52] <exec> 08└─Still a centralized authority to govern your use of encryption? (authority governed by the laws of US and subject to FISA courts?) A style of encryption which doesn't protect your anonymity (even if it protects your messages)? Not saying this is not a progress, but surely we should be able to do bet...
[13:19:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Re:For so many reasons: YES! - 06"Let's Encrypt" gets a Launch Schedule - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:19:54] <exec> 08└─Yes, certainly, the whole system needs overhauled. A CA should only have the authority to issue a limited set of certificates. Self-signed certs should not be treated like they have leprosy. Etc, etc. Certificate pinning should be semi-automatic, so that you get a warning if a cert changes unexpecte...
[13:19:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03ticho [89] (Score:2) 02Re:For so many reasons: YES! - 06"Let's Encrypt" gets a Launch Schedule - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:19:56] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure they will. From what I read around the Internet, too many people are looking forward to this service as to an ultimate panacea that will make unicorns and rainbows. My guess is that people will get placated by it for a while, and maybe only after a while, something more starts happening...
[13:20:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Last book destroyed the series - 06SyFy Adapting Dan Simmons's Hyperion to the Small Screen - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:20:09] <exec> 08└─You took the words right out of my mouth.
[13:20:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nesh [269] (Score:2, Insightful) 02Re:The end of Uber, at least in CA - 06California: Uber Driver is an Employee - 646 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:20:19] <exec> 08└─> I talked to one driver in the UK a couple of weeks ago -- where Uber is set up as a local minicab firm. Well, yes, that's the solution: provide a good service without trying to sidestep all the regulation. That regulation mostly came about for protection of the drivers and customers (local excepti...
[13:20:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03GlennC [3656] (Score:2) 02Re:The end of Uber, at least in CA - 06California: Uber Driver is an Employee - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:20:21] <exec> 08└─And if the drivers that Uber contracts with had the correct livery license, there would be no problem. If the cars that were used by the Uber drivers had the correct commercial insurance and were properly registered as commercial vehicles. Of course, that would involve Uber recognizing the differenc...
[13:20:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03ghost [4467] (Score:1) 02reality hurts - 06California: Uber Driver is an Employee - 637 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:20:23] <exec> 08└─They better start spending whatever VC capital they have left on lawyers and lobbyists because this will cripple them and pop their valuation bubble. They can ignore taxi regulations in podunk towns (and marshal up uber users to complain to regulators and lawmakers) but they can't ignore this. And t...
[13:20:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Lost cause - 06Two Stories about Facial Recognition - 577 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:20:39] <exec> 08└─The authorities claim nothing was recorded/stored and taken away from the event. There's one way to test that out - ask for a copy of the captured footage, which by law they have to give you. They can compound their press-statement lie with a lie in an official response, in which case heads really o...
[13:20:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I am Jesus. - 06Two Stories about Facial Recognition - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:20:40] <exec> 08└─Whoever put these scanners in my house should be nailed to a cross...wait..err *never mind*
[13:20:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Church Facial Recognition - 06Two Stories about Facial Recognition - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:20:42] <exec> 08└─Why would a church need to take attendance when God already does and punishes us for skipping?
[13:21:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:no worries - 06Cortana Threatens to Blow-away your "Esc" Key - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:21:05] <exec> 08└─Mine only dispenses Nuka Quantum.
[13:21:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:remap, loadkeys xkeycaps - 06Cortana Threatens to Blow-away your "Esc" Key - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:21:12] <exec> 08└─Mine is square, is seated in a square hole, and stubbornly resists rotation to the left. Can't loose it at all. How do we loose it?
[13:21:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:How to change the print ontop of keys? - 06Cortana Threatens to Blow-away your "Esc" Key - 1248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:21:17] <exec> 08└─There's a difference in classes of users. There are regular users, who primarily do passive, entertainment activities that require few interactions, and people who need computers to get work done. So far that the first camp has had lots of options with smartphones and tablets and now smartwatches an...
[13:21:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:2) 02Re:how it reacts to older browsers - 06New Search Engine Encourages Information Exploration - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:21:45] <exec> 08└─Same here. You're browser don't support Atlasify.
[13:22:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Great, now I can use yet another search instead of - 06New Search Engine Encourages Information Exploration - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:02] <exec> 08└─the big bad g! ...and this sucker uses google's web counter.... and perhaps more... ewww
[13:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Beijing West Railway Station - 06Robots to 3D-print a Steel Bridge Mid-Air over an Amsterdam Canal - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:22:15] <exec> 08└─the problem China has with faltering infrastructure is that it's not designed or built to last (they have serious issues over there)
[13:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score:2) 02Re:Rust magnet - 06Robots to 3D-print a Steel Bridge Mid-Air over an Amsterdam Canal - 756 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:22:18] <exec> 08└─If it's cheap enough, it doesn't have to last so long. Just have a robot that melts the whole damn thing down and rebuilds it every year. Virtually no labor costs, virtually no materials costs after you build the first iteration...the rebuilds would require nothing but energy. A hell of a lot of ene...
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[14:19:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Social engineering - 06Encryption Would Not have Protected Secret Federal Data Says DHS - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:34] <exec> 08└─*riiinnngg* "Hello, I forgot my password" "That's horrible! Tell me the username and your birthday." "Keyboard Stapler, January 32nd 1901" "Ok, your new username is k-s-t-a-p-l-e-r-1-3-2-19-0-1" Probably something like that. You can't even blame the person most proximal to the cause, they were tryin...
[14:19:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03schad [2398] (Score:4, Insightful) 02The answer changes the subject - 06Encryption Would Not have Protected Secret Federal Data Says DHS - 2231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:36] <exec> 08└─The answer makes sense on its face, but if you think about it then it all falls apart. OK, so the access was gained by way of social engineering. Why on Earth would any user have the ability to download the entire database? There is exactly one user whose job responsibility might require that level...
[14:19:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02So they don't know shit - 06Encryption Would Not have Protected Secret Federal Data Says DHS - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:38] <exec> 08└─Who dunnit or even how. All they know their pants are down and their arse is hurting. It's always a good guess to blame social engineering, like asking But Does It Scale? Yet, it's not like here arent defences, mostly simple common sense stuff, after all sociel engineering is much older than compute...
[14:19:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Which surface are we talking about? - 06What’s on the Surface of a Black Hole? - 1720 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:19:48] <exec> 08└─The event horizon is the surface around a black hole defined by the property that at any point on that surface, the escape velocity exceeds the speed of light. However, for a sufficiently large black hole, you will not notice transitioning the event horizon, blood will still flow from your feet back...
[14:20:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] (Score:2) 02Re:Last book destroyed the series - 06SyFy Adapting Dan Simmons's Hyperion to the Small Screen - 768 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:20:15] <exec> 08└─Which is funny since they weren't written in that order at all, so one can't even blame the author changing over time. But yeah, I read Speaker for the Dead after someone was telling me it was as good as Ender's Game and I had to fight to get through it. (In retrospect, when the foreword needed to i...
[14:20:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03JeanCroix [573] (Score:2) 02Re:Church Facial Recognition - 06Two Stories about Facial Recognition - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:20:47] <exec> 08└─I'm thinking you might be inferring this answer, but I'll state the obvious - because God doesn't send out email reminders to those who've been lax on the collection plate.
[14:20:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02interview - 06Two Stories about Facial Recognition - 514 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:49] <exec> 08└─http://churchm.ag/facial-recognition-software/ [churchm.ag] Operating in a high-end security market for several years, what brings you to the church market? The truth is we were unaware of any church market, let alone had any plans to hit this market, until product orders started piling up. Within...
[14:21:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03coolgopher [1157] 02Re:Hell no - 06Cortana Threatens to Blow-away your "Esc" Key - 741 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:21:08] <exec> 08└─Workaround: "Hey Cortana, vim command mode." <clickety click> "Hey Cortana, vim command mode." <click-click> "Hey Cortana, vim command mode." <click> "Hey Cortana, vim command mode." <clickety-clack-click> "Hey Cortana, vim command mode." <tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap> "Hey Cortana, vim command mode....
[14:21:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03CoolHand [438] (Score:2) 02Re:Hell no - 06Cortana Threatens to Blow-away your "Esc" Key - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:21:09] <exec> 08└─For those of us really cool with vim (or neovim), we already map [wikia.com] jj or jk to put us in command mode, so I won't even notice ESC missing..
[14:21:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02Re:remap, loadkeys xkeycaps - 06Cortana Threatens to Blow-away your "Esc" Key - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:21:22] <exec> 08└─I've been using vi/vim for 30 years and not only have I ever remapped my keyboard like this, I've never heard of anyone doing it.
[14:21:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Late to the party again? - 06Cortana Threatens to Blow-away your "Esc" Key - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:21:25] <exec> 08└─Never underestimate how contrived and convoluted GUIs can be for performing the simplest of actions. That voice control has become a superior interface surprises me little. Of course, I'm a luddite who does most things using a CLI because I find it faster, and more reliable. (And that even includes...
[14:21:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Late to the party again? - 06Cortana Threatens to Blow-away your "Esc" Key - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:21:26] <exec> 08└─My phone has an app which detects when I'm driving. If I am driving and I receive a text, it offers to text-to-speech the message for me. When it does, it asks if I want to respond. This feature is pretty damn useful.
[14:21:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03quacking duck [1395] (Score:2) 02Re:Late to the party again? - 06Cortana Threatens to Blow-away your "Esc" Key - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:21:28] <exec> 08└─Siri went out of fashion only because it has more utility than novelty now. You know, function over form. Voice will never replace typing or other manual interface, just as smartphones are not meant to replace a full computer, and the mouse/trackpad was not meant to replace the keyboard. What it is,...
[14:23:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] 02Re: - 06Life is Tough Being a Drone Pilot - 698 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:23:13] <exec> 08└─You want to kill someone who "just might blow up a mall" or a church? Your best bet is to get your gun, step out of your front door and start taking out random members of the public. Any one of them is far more likely to commit an atrocity in your country [bbc.co.uk] than some pre-school kid in Iraq...
[14:23:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Re:Questioning orders... - 06Life is Tough Being a Drone Pilot - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:23:20] <exec> 08└─You know, that ought to be far bigger news: A military court finds that it is unable to determine the legality of the war it's engaged in, and the same military just shrugs it off and continues fighting the war anyway..? Surely something is amiss here.
[14:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03JeanCroix [573] (Score:2) 02Re:Video killed the ... - 06Life is Tough Being a Drone Pilot - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:23:28] <exec> 08└─They (have to) see EVERYTHING on an almost industrial scale as they stare at the screen and witness carnage over and over again day after day. I'm sure there might be "boring" off-days where they mostly see sand our buildings where nothing happens. But I'm not certain that makes up for the other day...
[14:24:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score:2) 02Re:++This - 06More Projects are Fleeing from SourceForge - 1036 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:24:16] <exec> 08└─This is a plague that affects not just SF but the Internet in general...know how many times I have looked for a fix to a specific issue with an older piece of hardware to only find out every. single. link. goes back to something like MegaUpload or Rapidshit? Sadly all those "5Mb here, 10Mb there" fi...
[14:24:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score:2) 02Re:In other news - 06More Projects are Fleeing from SourceForge - 1372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:24:37] <exec> 08└─IMHO the best of the alternatives are, in no particular order is Pale Moon [palemoon.org] (personally use, great browser based on FF without the BS) Comodo Chromodo [cnet.com] (also use, based on Chromium with some nice extra security features) Comodo IceDragon [comodo.com] (give this one to custome...
[14:25:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score:2) 02Re:Tangent: how muslim-hate came to sweden - 06ECHR: Websites can be Accountable for User Comments - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:25:27] <exec> 08└─Gun owners being shot by their kids after leaving loaded guns lying around are never told they had it coming because of a lack of personal responsibility, but rape victims and the poor always are.
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[15:19:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03WillAdams [1424] (Score:1) 02Felt the same way about Blackwing pencils - 06Why Mathematicians Are Hoarding This Special Type of Japanese Chalk - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:40] <exec> 08└─I felt the same way about Blackwing pencils --- fortunately they came back. They just need to work out what the demand / usage is, and how much it would cost to sustainably produce at that level.
[15:19:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anne Nonymous [712] (Score:2) 02Re:Felt the same way about Blackwing pencils - 06Why Mathematicians Are Hoarding This Special Type of Japanese Chalk - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:19:42] <exec> 08└─Have you tried the Blackwang pencils? They're similar to the Blackwings, but say "Welcome to Jamaica, Have A Nice Day" on them.
[15:19:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score:2) 02Whither TFA? - 06Why Mathematicians Are Hoarding This Special Type of Japanese Chalk - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:44] <exec> 08└─Um....is there a source anywhere for any of this?
[15:19:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Translation Error [718] (Score:2, Funny) 02Re:Whither TFA? - 06Why Mathematicians Are Hoarding This Special Type of Japanese Chalk - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:19:45] <exec> 08└─Yes, but it was written in chalk, and it rained.
[15:19:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Whither TFA? - 06Why Mathematicians Are Hoarding This Special Type of Japanese Chalk - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:19:47] <exec> 08└─A web search for the first sentence came up with this page [gizmodo.com] which I guess is the article the summary was intended to link to.
[15:19:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The - 06Why Mathematicians Are Hoarding This Special Type of Japanese Chalk - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:48] <exec> 08└─Sounds legit. Now if it were "The Facebook of Chalk", then I'd be suspicious.
[15:19:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The - 06Why Mathematicians Are Hoarding This Special Type of Japanese Chalk - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:19:50] <exec> 08└─oops, headline should be "The Rolls Royce of Chalk"
[15:19:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Why? - 06Why Mathematicians Are Hoarding This Special Type of Japanese Chalk - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:52] <exec> 08└─Why Mathematicians Are Hoarding This Special Type of Japanese Chalk
[15:19:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03donkeyhotay [2540] (Score:1) 02Polaroid film? - 06Why Mathematicians Are Hoarding This Special Type of Japanese Chalk - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:53] <exec> 08└─Photographers are missing Polaroid film? Kodak Kodachrome film, yes, but Polaroid film? I don't think so.
[15:19:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score:2) 02Re:Social engineering - 06Encryption Would Not have Protected Secret Federal Data Says DHS - 460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:19:58] <exec> 08└─No, it most absolutely IS their fault. In your scenario they should have required some proof that the person who "forgot their password" actually was who they claimed to be. And the required proof should be at least as reliable as what was required to create the account in the first place. Any other...
[15:19:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03schad [2398] 02The answer changes the subject - 06Encryption Would Not have Protected Secret Federal Data Says DHS - 2231 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:00] <exec> 08└─The answer makes sense on its face, but if you think about it then it all falls apart. OK, so the access was gained by way of social engineering. Why on Earth would any user have the ability to download the entire database? There is exactly one user whose job responsibility might require that level...
[15:20:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score:2) 02Your security is bad and you should feel bad. - 06Encryption Would Not have Protected Secret Federal Data Says DHS - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:01] <exec> 08└─If the adversary has the credentials of a user on the network, they can access data even if it's encrypted just as the users on the network have to access data," said Ozment. "That did occur in this case. Encryption in this instance would not have protected this data."
[15:20:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Witness Protection Program - 06Encryption Would Not have Protected Secret Federal Data Says DHS - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:03] <exec> 08└─And for all of these employees who have their data thrown out on the street, what do they get: "here, have 18 months 'worth' of completely worthless 'credit monitoring'" As if that is going to do anything. Since this is the federal government, I'm surprised that they can't give any one of these peop...
[15:20:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03sudo rm -rf [2357] (Score:2) 02Re:What’s on the Surface of a Black Hole? - 06What’s on the Surface of a Black Hole? - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:20:12] <exec> 08└─the abstract or goatsie
[15:20:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Which surface are we talking about? - 06What’s on the Surface of a Black Hole? - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:20:16] <exec> 08└─However, for a sufficiently large black hole, you will not notice transitioning the event horizon, blood will still flow from your feet back to your heart; nerve impulses will still reach your brain from the 'other side' of the event horizon.
[15:20:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Wrong - 06What’s on the Surface of a Black Hole? - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:17] <exec> 08└─More than a decade ago, Mathur used the principles of string theory to show that black holes are actually tangled-up balls of cosmic strings.
[15:20:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Black hole? - 06What’s on the Surface of a Black Hole? - 888 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:19] <exec> 08└─Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand...... physicists, etc, aren't even sure black holes exist! Or just not as we traditionally think of them. Or maybe. Or maybe not. Or.... "A wise guy, huh?" "Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk!" IANAPhysicist, but i still believe Einstein got something wrong (and it belongs in the area of Time bein...
[15:20:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Black hole? - 06What’s on the Surface of a Black Hole? - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:20:21] <exec> 08└─IANAPhysicist, but i still believe Einstein got something wrong
[15:20:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03mrchew1982 [3565] (Score:2) 02Re:Last book destroyed the series - 06SyFy Adapting Dan Simmons's Hyperion to the Small Screen - 586 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:20:47] <exec> 08└─Enders shadow was far from the second book I'm afraid, although I can understand mentally blocking the miscarriages called "Speaker for the Dead" and "Xenocide"... Oh, and the outright abortion "Children of the Mind". Enders shadow was refreshing after those, and shadow puppets was passable, but I h...
[15:21:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Lost cause - 06Two Stories about Facial Recognition - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:21:14] <exec> 08└─That person was never seen again.
[15:21:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Church Facial Recognition - 06Two Stories about Facial Recognition - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:21:20] <exec> 08└─If God wanted them to be reminded, he'd certainly know how to do it.
[15:21:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02It's all in the pitch - 06Two Stories about Facial Recognition - 510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:22] <exec> 08└─They pitch this as if it is something to be used to make sure "our flock is safe and secure" after all people who don't show up may be in need of help. Maybe they've "taken a bit of a fall and can't get up"... In reality though this is to make sure you know who the good attenders are so you can sque...
[15:21:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This iteration didn't take long to go rampant. - 06Cortana Threatens to Blow-away your "Esc" Key - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:21:38] <exec> 08└─WOW, THIS IS LIKE A SHORTCUT FOR COOL!
[15:21:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This iteration didn't take long to go rampant. - 06Cortana Threatens to Blow-away your "Esc" Key - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:21:39] <exec> 08└─do what Google did with the ChromeBooks and get rid of that annoying CAPS LOCK key.
[15:21:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] 02Eight Megs And Constantly Swapping - 06Cortana Threatens to Blow-away your "Esc" Key - 27 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:21:42] <exec> 08└─Emacs Makes A Computer Slow
[15:22:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03sparky [5496] (Score:1) 02Re:Late to the party again? - 06Cortana Threatens to Blow-away your "Esc" Key - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:22:05] <exec> 08└─I would love to use the voice rec more often but don't because it only seems accurate about 1 out of 3 times. It seems like the technology should be a little more refined by now.
[15:22:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score:2) 02Could we make a larger esc key instead? - 06Cortana Threatens to Blow-away your "Esc" Key - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:08] <exec> 08└─With esc being "cancel" for a number of operations, I find myself mashing it on a regular basis. To the point where I will pry off the F1 key to make a larger target. The particular use case where I do this is CAD software, but I've encountered it elsewhere too.
[15:22:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03useless [426] (Score:2) 02*Additional* key - 06Cortana Threatens to Blow-away your "Esc" Key - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:09] <exec> 08└─Sounds more like something I have with my Asus U31 laptop. They have a dedicated key above the esc key, same position, opposite side of the power button. Silver button in the corner [notebookitalia.it] On mineI think it's for toggling power/performance in Windows, but I got it remapped to bring up...
[15:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Objectives - 06New Search Engine Encourages Information Exploration - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:54] <exec> 08└─Their objectives, however, have remained mostly the same.
[15:24:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score:2) 02Re:Correct Strategy: Tax Carbon - 06White House Returning to Big Investments in Clean Tech - 903 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:24:36] <exec> 08└─I would argue that it is working; technology is catching up. The major distinction is that Europe heavily taxes transportation fuel. This encourages more fuel efficient vehicles, or alternate energy vehicles. Both of these attributes are relatively popular in Europe compared to the USA. There is add...
[15:26:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score:2) 02Re:Tangent: how muslim-hate came to sweden - 06ECHR: Websites can be Accountable for User Comments - 1119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:26:08] <exec> 08└─What is insane about "you can't fix bigotry with bigotry"? Because that is EXACTLY what those "hate speech" and "affirmative action" laws try to do, they try to fix past wrongs by continuing those wrongs and merely changing who is the one who loses and gains from said wrong. this is why classical 70...
[15:26:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Tangent: how muslim-hate came to sweden - 06ECHR: Websites can be Accountable for User Comments - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:26:18] <exec> 08└─But the people working for the TSA weren't forced to do so, right? So how can you blame the politicians? They just wrote a text, a specific type of text known as "law" but still just a text. If everyone ignored that text, that text would have exactly no effect. So it's not the fault of the politicia...
[15:26:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Another perspective - 06ECHR: Websites can be Accountable for User Comments - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:26:41] <exec> 08└─Imagine a gun with voice control.
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[16:19:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:0, Offtopic) 02Re:Felt the same way about Blackwing pencils - 06Why Mathematicians Are Hoarding This Special Type of Japanese Chalk - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:19:40] <exec> 08└─They also get any white women in your home pregnant.
[16:19:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Whither TFA? - 06Why Mathematicians Are Hoarding This Special Type of Japanese Chalk - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:19:45] <exec> 08└─Yeah, that's it. Sorry.
[16:19:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The - 06Why Mathematicians Are Hoarding This Special Type of Japanese Chalk - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:19:48] <exec> 08└─Balsa is the coward of wood
[16:19:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The - 06Why Mathematicians Are Hoarding This Special Type of Japanese Chalk - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:19:50] <exec> 08└─It's like the calcium carbonate of chalk.
[16:19:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Polaroid film? - 06Why Mathematicians Are Hoarding This Special Type of Japanese Chalk - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:19:52] <exec> 08└─Well, you would think so, but there are enough crazy fans of the stuff that they crowdsourced restarting production [telegraph.co.uk]. I don't know what label you'd attach to them. I chose "photographer." Suggest another.
[16:19:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03mechanicjay [7] (Score:2) 02Pentel - 06Why Mathematicians Are Hoarding This Special Type of Japanese Chalk - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:54] <exec> 08└─I feel this way about the Pentel p205. If they ever go out of production, I will stock pile them. Thankfully, they tend to last a hella long time, so 10 of them should be an adequate lifetime supply, assuming the consumables are still available. http://www.pentel.com
[16:19:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Chalk dust is bad for your lungs - 06Why Mathematicians Are Hoarding This Special Type of Japanese Chalk - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:55] <exec> 08└─Nostalgia for chalk is one thing, but the dust it produces is rather bad for your health. I remember being tasked at primary school to give the blackboard dry sponges a good whacking to get the dust out of them. Lots of fun with those big butts you'd make. But really bad for you. Tip for future: Als...
[16:20:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Re:Social engineering - 06Encryption Would Not have Protected Secret Federal Data Says DHS - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:20:04] <exec> 08└─Not only that but designing a system where someone with "valid credentials" can obtain an unencrypted copy of every single entry in the database without raising any flags is pretty shoddy design. Or do they just hand out root powers to everyone?
[16:20:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score:2) 02Re:Social engineering - 06Encryption Would Not have Protected Secret Federal Data Says DHS - 509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:20:06] <exec> 08└─Not being a database engineer - I wonder how you would restrict it? If you have any access to the database then it seems to me that presumably you have a potential need to access any single record within it, which would in theory allow access to *every* record. Sure, there could be red flags raised...
[16:20:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03iamjacksusername [1479] (Score:2) 02Re:The answer changes the subject - 06Encryption Would Not have Protected Secret Federal Data Says DHS - 1434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:20:08] <exec> 08└─You are right - security is hard. I think the problem is that we are getting the article filtered through the PR department. Unless we are looking at the audit report, it is impossible to say one way or the other. It could mean anything- maybe they compromised the admin's personal equipment so they...
[16:20:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03iamjacksusername [1479] (Score:2) 02Breaches are inevitable - 06Encryption Would Not have Protected Secret Federal Data Says DHS - 2672 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:11] <exec> 08└─It is long past the time that we started treating security breaches as the rule rather than the exception. I found this analogy helpful (sorry, it is not the form of a car analogy). Imagine that you and all your friends have $100 in a box in your respective houses. Now, a burglar walking down the st...
[16:20:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score:1) 02Re:Which surface are we talking about? - 06What’s on the Surface of a Black Hole? - 626 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:20:25] <exec> 08└─I don't know if you are right, but having discussed this with a wandering astrophysicist, my simple explanation above is wrong, starting with my overly simplistic definition of the event horizon. I am sorry for having mislead people. Please moderate my previous posting down, so people are not misinf...
[16:20:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Well - 06What’s on the Surface of a Black Hole? - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:29] <exec> 08└─Apparently it's the back part of a bookshelf. Oh. Spoiler alert.
[16:20:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03JeanCroix [573] (Score:2) 02Recursion - 06What’s on the Surface of a Black Hole? - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:31] <exec> 08└─I honestly wonder what this new theory would mean if two black holes were to mutually capture one another. Would they both be reproduced infinitely?
[16:20:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:For so many reasons: YES! - 06"Let's Encrypt" gets a Launch Schedule - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:20:44] <exec> 08└─No more paying ridiculous fees to CAs who do nothing to earn them - icing on the cake.
[16:21:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Last book destroyed the series - 06SyFy Adapting Dan Simmons's Hyperion to the Small Screen - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:21:01] <exec> 08└─His quasi-religious stance in real life quite honestly put me off, and I haven't bought any of his work in a long time.
[16:21:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03caseih [2744] (Score:2) 02Re:Last book destroyed the series - 06SyFy Adapting Dan Simmons's Hyperion to the Small Screen - 926 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:21:02] <exec> 08└─Happens to a lot of good Sci Fi works. Even Star Wars. The prequels really changed things in the original trilogy, and now with the new Abrams movie, things are going to be changed again. It's a bit jarring. And Abrams' Star Trek is equally jarring. The Rama books are another example. The first book...
[16:21:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03caseih [2744] (Score:2) 02Re:Last book destroyed the series - 06SyFy Adapting Dan Simmons's Hyperion to the Small Screen - 563 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:21:04] <exec> 08└─Oh and I shouldn't have forgotten to mention Ringworld. The first book was pretty good. The second was okay. After that things decline rapidly. The last book I picked up (book 4 I think) was so bad I just couldn't finish it. Shudder. Like Rendezvous with Rama, the environment and concept of the sett...
[16:21:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:The end of Uber, at least in CA - 06California: Uber Driver is an Employee - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:21:16] <exec> 08└─If that is the case, than the sole competitive advantage of Uber over taxi services is simply their ignoring all labor and taxi / livery regulations. Which to me does not qualify as fair business competition.
[16:21:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Church Facial Recognition - 06Two Stories about Facial Recognition - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:21:39] <exec> 08└─Pfah! Like I'd be taking advice from someone with a #573 ID number. :-) God reminds you by causing you to bump your knee on the coffee table. I'd say that's a more effective enforcement mechanism than an email.
[16:21:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03dj245 [1530] (Score:1) 02Re:Toshiba? - 06Cortana Threatens to Blow-away your "Esc" Key - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:21:51] <exec> 08└─They still make computers?
[16:22:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Eight Megs And Constantly Swapping - 06Cortana Threatens to Blow-away your "Esc" Key - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:22:04] <exec> 08└─Emacs Makes A Computer Slow But it's still better than an OS like Windows....
[16:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score:2) 02Re:how it reacts to older browsers - 06New Search Engine Encourages Information Exploration - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:23:01] <exec> 08└─Yeah. I can forgive bad English-as-a-second-language, or even as an educational fail. But only supporting one browser?? Who the hell do they think they are??
[16:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score:2) 02Re:how it reacts to older browsers - 06New Search Engine Encourages Information Exploration - 547 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:23:02] <exec> 08└─It gets better. Let's try this again... changed my User Agent to Chrome, and then the searchbox page came up just fine. So I typed in a test string, and got back... Error Unable to connect to the server. Make sure you have an active internet connection and try refreshing the page in a few minutes. Y...
[16:23:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03dj245 [1530] (Score:1) 02Re:Rust magnet - 06Robots to 3D-print a Steel Bridge Mid-Air over an Amsterdam Canal - 668 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:23:37] <exec> 08└─Now, maybe what I'm seeing in the video is just welding slag and surface oxidation that hasn't been ground off yet, but there really shouldn't be too much slag and oxidation with MIG welding, that's kind of the whole point of the "inert gas" part of "Metal Inert Gas" welding. It displaces oxygen to...
[16:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ignoring an important part! - 06Life is Tough Being a Drone Pilot - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:24:02] <exec> 08└─that's jobs!
[16:26:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Another perspective - 06ECHR: Websites can be Accountable for User Comments - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:26:50] <exec> 08└─This is a pointless argument. Not all US laws have to have been stated in the Constitution.
[16:27:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Another perspective - 06ECHR: Websites can be Accountable for User Comments - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:27:02] <exec> 08└─Really, you smarmy bastard! When I said "I Do", it was "until death do us part", so if you were not serious about doing this in reality, you're dead, bro! Or at least you are seriously liable for alimony, palimony, and all sorts of mony! Not real? Just wait until you have to go Bruce Jenner to pay t...
[16:27:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Another perspective - 06ECHR: Websites can be Accountable for User Comments - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:27:07] <exec> 08└─So you should not blame congress for bad laws.
[16:27:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Another perspective - 06ECHR: Websites can be Accountable for User Comments - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:27:09] <exec> 08└─Great.
[16:27:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Another perspective - 06ECHR: Websites can be Accountable for User Comments - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:27:10] <exec> 08└─Speaking is also an action.
[16:27:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Another perspective - 06ECHR: Websites can be Accountable for User Comments - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:27:16] <exec> 08└─The only thing I'm concerned about here is government intervention, not reputations being ruined. On the other hand, if you scream, "Kill all the niggers," and someone starts killing black people, you will get punished by the law and by society both, because you are an asshole.
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[17:19:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Firefox! - 06New Type of Gecko-like Gripper Created - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:38] <exec> 08└─My browser has never slipped off of my screen! I stick it, and it stays! Unless, of course, the electricity goes off. Then the gekho disappears. ;^(
[17:20:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score:2) 02Re:Polaroid film? - 06Why Mathematicians Are Hoarding This Special Type of Japanese Chalk - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:20:00] <exec> 08└─But Polaroid is still a somewhat unique experience. You take a photo and soon after you are holding an actual physical artifact in your hand. Not just an image on a screen. That could be kind of powerful in a world that is going mostly digital and should not be underestimated.
[17:20:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Pentel - 06Why Mathematicians Are Hoarding This Special Type of Japanese Chalk - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:20:03] <exec> 08└─You should try the GraphGear 500 http://www.pentel.com [pentel.com] . You may take back that statement. 8-D
[17:20:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Pentel - 06Why Mathematicians Are Hoarding This Special Type of Japanese Chalk - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:20:04] <exec> 08└─This is a question that will arise more as waves of innovation compress. How do you work such that it will make you more productive?
[17:20:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score:2) 02For old geezers and math-hipsters. - 06Why Mathematicians Are Hoarding This Special Type of Japanese Chalk - 789 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:07] <exec> 08└─This must be some very niche mathematicians and math-departments that horde chalk. Hoarding chalk seems like something really old geezer or math-hipster would do. I don't think there has been a chalkboard in use here for over a decade. Last time I saw and used one was in the mid 90s. It's all whiteb...
[17:20:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03timbim [907] (Score:2) 02Whats so special about this chalk? - 06Why Mathematicians Are Hoarding This Special Type of Japanese Chalk - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:08] <exec> 08└─Can someone tell me about the mechanical properties and why someone like a mathematician would prefer this chalk over another chalk?
[17:20:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Re:Social engineering - 06Encryption Would Not have Protected Secret Federal Data Says DHS - 544 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:20:19] <exec> 08└─We're talking millions of records. It is simply not possible for someone to access them one single record at a time, nor is it possible for someone to somehow copy a record at a time. This is someone who must have had the ability to dump, unencrypted, the whole database. That's different from having...
[17:20:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03darthservo [2423] (Score:2, Insightful) 02Re:The answer changes the subject - 06Encryption Would Not have Protected Secret Federal Data Says DHS - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:20:22] <exec> 08└─It needs to be baked in from the beginning, not tacked on after the fact.
[17:20:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:The answer changes the subject - 06Encryption Would Not have Protected Secret Federal Data Says DHS - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:20:24] <exec> 08└─OK, so the access was gained by way of social engineering. Why on Earth would any user have the ability to download the entire database? There is exactly one user whose job responsibility might require that level of access... They must have been valid credentials to the NSA's backdoor.
[17:20:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MrGuy [1007] 02Your security is bad and you should feel bad. - 06Encryption Would Not have Protected Secret Federal Data Says DHS - 269 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:26] <exec> 08└─If the adversary has the credentials of a user on the network, they can access data even if it's encrypted just as the users on the network have to access data," said Ozment. "That did occur in this case. Encryption in this instance would not have protected this data."
[17:20:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02maybe - 06Encryption Would Not have Protected Secret Federal Data Says DHS - 885 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:29] <exec> 08└─in a galaxy far far away ... prolly just crazy paranoid, but maybe this government-personal department didn't want to "hand over" responsibility to the NSA hackers because maybe they didn't have time to play "war" but the NSA desperately needed all that information to feret out any peace-loving patr...
[17:20:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02For so many reasons: YES! - 06"Let's Encrypt" gets a Launch Schedule - 158 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:56] <exec> 08└─More encryption - good. Dead simple installation procedure - excellent. No more paying ridiculous fees to CAs who do nothing to earn them - icing on the cake.
[17:21:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03gnuman [5013] (Score:2) 02Re:For so many reasons: YES! - 06"Let's Encrypt" gets a Launch Schedule - 749 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:21:01] <exec> 08└─Did IT embrace IPSec? No. Then they have problems with internal security. Did IT embrace DNSSEC? No again! Then they complain that "CA" model is too centralized, but they completely ignored TLS-DANE, which 100% depends on DNSSEC. What IT embraces is lazy, and then bitching that something is not perf...
[17:21:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03bryan [29] (Score:2) 02Still dont get it - 06"Let's Encrypt" gets a Launch Schedule - 506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:05] <exec> 08└─I still don't understand why they couldn't allocate certificates like every other CA. Their model apparently involves an always-running background daemon that constantly phones home and rewrites your webserver configuration file as it pleases. What was so wrong about generating a certificate signing...
[17:22:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03JeanCroix [573] (Score:2) 02Re:Church Facial Recognition - 06Two Stories about Facial Recognition - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:22:00] <exec> 08└─Or maybe he reminds you by inspiring your church to invest in facial recognition technology. Mysterious ways... :-)
[17:22:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02non member outreach - 06Two Stories about Facial Recognition - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:03] <exec> 08└─Nobody covering the non-member outreach idea? Lots of churches around here offer something cool + a bit of preaching = outreach Optimistically to gain members. So say they sponsor a vaguely interesting book author, put their usual 60 second "ya don't have to join but we sure are fun!" speech at the...
[17:22:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03istartedi [123] 02My bunker full of clicky keyboards - 06Cortana Threatens to Blow-away your "Esc" Key - 52 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:16] <exec> 08└─They said I was nuts. Who's laughing now MUUAHAHAHA!
[17:22:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03WizardFusion [498] 02Re:This iteration didn't take long to go rampant. - 06Cortana Threatens to Blow-away your "Esc" Key - 94 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:22:21] <exec> 08└─WAIT, THERE IS A CAPS LOCK KEY. GREAT, NOW I CAN STOP HOLDING DOWN THE SHIFT KEY ALL THE TIME.
[17:22:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] 02"Why do we have to hide from the police, Daddy?" - 06Cortana Threatens to Blow-away your "Esc" Key - 32 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:22:26] <exec> 08└─"We use vi son. They use emacs."
[17:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score:2) 02Re:Eight Megs And Constantly Swapping - 06Cortana Threatens to Blow-away your "Esc" Key - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:22:29] <exec> 08└─Emacs *is* and OS. It's ideal for old-fashioned text-only computer screens. I still use one of its apps -- the text editor. -- hendrik
[17:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score:2) 02Re:Hell no - 06Cortana Threatens to Blow-away your "Esc" Key - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:22:32] <exec> 08└─How do you type hajj?
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[18:19:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Haha Android ... defragmented ... bla bla - 06Serious OS X and iOS Flaws let Hackers Steal Keychain, 1Password Contents - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:27] <exec> 08└─Wait what?? o_O (In reality it's hard to say which one is even more dangerous to your health, apple or google... best to stay away from both)
[18:19:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03CoolHand [438] (Score:2) 02Re:Whither TFA? - 06Why Mathematicians Are Hoarding This Special Type of Japanese Chalk - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:19:58] <exec> 08└─I just independently found it and added it into the story...
[18:20:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Polaroid film? - 06Why Mathematicians Are Hoarding This Special Type of Japanese Chalk - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:20:07] <exec> 08└─Well, yes. I'm not a photographer. I have never fetishized photographs. I truly do not get the idolization of Cindy Sherman. I just don't get it. But when people who do obsess about Polaroids, I know enough to know that it's a thing. Especially when you learn that fans have gone so far as to restart...
[18:20:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Chalk dust is bad for your lungs - 06Why Mathematicians Are Hoarding This Special Type of Japanese Chalk - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:20:12] <exec> 08└─Lots of fun with those big butts you'd make.
[18:20:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03BananaPhone [2488] (Score:2, Informative) 02Re:Whats so special about this chalk? - 06Why Mathematicians Are Hoarding This Special Type of Japanese Chalk - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:20:16] <exec> 08└─According to this: Picture of the box! http://www.cbc.ca [www.cbc.ca] -the chalk has a thin wax coating to keep your fingers clean. -It's thicker than regular chalk. (e...
[18:20:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03KBentley57 [645] (Score:1) 02Re:Whats so special about this chalk? - 06Why Mathematicians Are Hoarding This Special Type of Japanese Chalk - 1005 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:20:17] <exec> 08└─I still prefer a GOOD chalkboard over a whiteboard. However, a good smooth chalkboard and smooth writing chalk are becoming more hard to find. Here is the difference. The crayola chalk (or whatever it is from the big box stores) may as well be a stick of nothing. It literally has no mass to it, and...
[18:20:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Obscure...? Pfff - 06Why Mathematicians Are Hoarding This Special Type of Japanese Chalk - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:19] <exec> 08└─But it is true that mathematicians are fanatics for this obscure Japanese chalk
[18:20:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Your security is bad and you should feel bad. - 06Encryption Would Not have Protected Secret Federal Data Says DHS - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:20:36] <exec> 08└─This is both technically true and illustrative of having no idea what you're talking about. AKA, their core competency.
[18:20:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Black hole? - 06What’s on the Surface of a Black Hole? - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:20:59] <exec> 08└─I guess that is a big reason i support the work of those like Julian Barbour... they are thinking outside the box and shaking up the establishment somewhat, what?
[18:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:My bunker full of clicky keyboards - 06Cortana Threatens to Blow-away your "Esc" Key - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:22:29] <exec> 08└─With or without the windows key between the left control and alt?
[18:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03CoolHand [438] (Score:2) 02Re:Hell no - 06Cortana Threatens to Blow-away your "Esc" Key - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:22:45] <exec> 08└─if you delay a certain amount of time after the first "j" it will quit waiting for the second to go to command mode and you can type the second "j". I personally switched to "jk" as a sequence after trying out "jj" for a while, as it seems even less used. Both are good though. Never leaving the home...
[18:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03jcross [4009] (Score:2) 02Re:Hell no - 06Cortana Threatens to Blow-away your "Esc" Key - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:22:46] <exec> 08└─Why would you want to type that word? The NSA is watching!
[18:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:Late to the party again? - 06Cortana Threatens to Blow-away your "Esc" Key - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:23:04] <exec> 08└─A command line does not even remotely make you a Luddite. It's by far the fasted way of doing many (not all) operations. Just the ability to use regular expression gives a huge boost, and when you throw command history, variables, etc in, it can't be beat.
[18:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Could we make a larger esc key instead? - 06Cortana Threatens to Blow-away your "Esc" Key - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:23:12] <exec> 08└─If you have a mechanical keyboard then there should be some great options available to you. Checkout 3d printed keycaps online, there is a huge variety.
[18:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03jcm [4110] (Score:1) 02Re:Objectives - 06New Search Engine Encourages Information Exploration - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:24:00] <exec> 08└─In this case, their goal is not to index the web, but to be hired/bought by Google. This also explains why the site works only with Chrome.
[18:25:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score:2) 02Re:Video killed the ... - 06Life is Tough Being a Drone Pilot - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:25:18] <exec> 08└─Yes. I think you might be right. There is probably a lot more down time then killing time. Which makes it even more depressing. You get PTSD from blowing shit up and just staring at the sand and water as your drone is going on its GPS-rails.
[18:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Keep it local - 06White House Returning to Big Investments in Clean Tech - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:25:41] <exec> 08└─The transfer networks suck power like there's no tomorrow, you need several nuke plants just to warm the wires... it's crazy.
[18:28:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:Another perspective - 06ECHR: Websites can be Accountable for User Comments - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:28:01] <exec> 08└─That is the part I have to disagree with. They are trying to turn every website owner into some sort of arbiter of bad speech under penalty of law if they get it wrong when even the courts can't decide exactly what is and is not unacceptable speech.
[18:28:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Re:Another perspective - 06ECHR: Websites can be Accountable for User Comments - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:28:02] <exec> 08└─That is the part I have to disagree with.
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[19:19:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Funny) 02Re:Haha Android ... defragmented ... bla bla - 06Serious OS X and iOS Flaws let Hackers Steal Keychain, 1Password Contents - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:19:33] <exec> 08└─Are you advocating for Windows phones?
[19:19:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Haha Android ... defragmented ... bla bla - 06Serious OS X and iOS Flaws let Hackers Steal Keychain, 1Password Contents - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:19:34] <exec> 08└─Advocate for a dumb phone (or no phone even) and keep a notebook on hand for things to remember in the short term. Much more secure, can be completely destroyed with absolute certainty and fraudulant copies are going to be obvious.
[19:19:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02bubbel-gum - 06Serious OS X and iOS Flaws let Hackers Steal Keychain, 1Password Contents - 549 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:35] <exec> 08└─also it seems the "keyboard" in samsung galaxy devices phones-home to get "updates" and if a foreign wifi AP is used it could possibility impersonate the "update keyboard server" thus leading the galaxy to download a fake keyboard ... - at least i can blame the soft-keyboard for all my typos now. al...
[19:19:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:bubbel-gum - 06Serious OS X and iOS Flaws let Hackers Steal Keychain, 1Password Contents - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:19:37] <exec> 08└─also it seems the "keyboard" in samsung galaxy devices phones-home to get "updates" and if a foreign wifi AP is used it could possibility impersonate the "update keyboard server" thus leading the galaxy to download a fake keyboard ...
[19:19:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Somewhere in the world, - 06Serious OS X and iOS Flaws let Hackers Steal Keychain, 1Password Contents - 567 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:39] <exec> 08└─Somewhere in the world, a faceless NSA official is facepalming at the loss of yet another powerful tool they had to "keep America safe from The Terrorists (tm)." Their digital munitions are - slowly but surely, one by one - being found out and becoming completely ineffective. At least with physical...
[19:19:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score:2) 02Obnoxious CPUs coming to a store near you - 06World's Thinnest Light Bulb - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:46] <exec> 08└─Great, just what I needed another glowing bit in my Computer Case.
[19:19:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Obnoxious CPUs coming to a store near you - 06World's Thinnest Light Bulb - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:19:47] <exec> 08└─I hope they can make it cheap enough to cover my entire ceiling so I can light my rooms in a way that simulates indirect lighting. Even better if they can figure out how to vary the color temperature so mid-day is blue like the real sky and evening is yellow and orange like a sunset. I seem to recal...
[19:19:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Obnoxious CPUs coming to a store near you - 06World's Thinnest Light Bulb - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:19:49] <exec> 08└─Even better if they can figure out how to vary the color temperature so mid-day is blue like the real sky and evening is yellow and orange like a sunset.
[19:20:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03mtrycz [60] (Score:2) 02Feeding the answer - 06Why Mathematicians Are Hoarding This Special Type of Japanese Chalk - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:20:20] <exec> 08└─As an amateur photographer: the answer is hipster.
[19:20:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03zafiro17 [234] (Score:2) 02Why all the grief? - 06Why Mathematicians Are Hoarding This Special Type of Japanese Chalk - 1036 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:31] <exec> 08└─I'm amazed by the amount of grief folks are giving here, given this is probably the crowd that (like me) won't even use a computer that doesn't have that perfect, niche text editor or whatever. Hey, scientists and the rest of us usually wind up feeling pretty strongly about the tools that make us pr...
[19:20:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why all the grief? - 06Why Mathematicians Are Hoarding This Special Type of Japanese Chalk - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:20:32] <exec> 08└─I agree - I hate whiteboards and, having spent many late nights ruminating over stuff with chalk and blackboard, I feel something a lot more than nostalgia over the demise of the technology. BTW - chalk isn't chalk, it's gypsum. Chalk hasn't been used for the manufacture of chalk for a long time.
[19:20:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Why all the grief? - 06Why Mathematicians Are Hoarding This Special Type of Japanese Chalk - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:20:34] <exec> 08└─didn't it always seem like whichever marker you grabbed off the tray had little or no color left?
[19:20:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score:2) 02Re:Social engineering - 06Encryption Would Not have Protected Secret Federal Data Says DHS - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:20:48] <exec> 08└─SELECT * FROM records. Save results to disk. Done.
[19:21:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03dak664 [2433] (Score:1) 02Re:Which surface are we talking about? - 06What’s on the Surface of a Black Hole? - 498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:21:13] <exec> 08└─My take is, as light and matter is sucked in, the interior of a so called black hole is going to get progressively hotter, until plasma boils through the so called event horizon and emits enough radiation to balance the incoming energy. You could make a similarly silly argument about photons never b...
[19:21:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Black hole? - 06What’s on the Surface of a Black Hole? - 667 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:21:18] <exec> 08└─Well, something is still weird. I mean, look: a black hole is supposed to have a singularity at it centre, right? Like a point of infinite gravity, isn't it? Then how come two different singularities can have a different attributes, like mass, size, momentum etc?everybody* looks for gravitational wa...
[19:21:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score:2) 02Re:Recursion - 06What’s on the Surface of a Black Hole? - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:21:23] <exec> 08└─It's like crossing the beams in Ghostbusters. It must mean that the universe as we know it will end. Unless we need to cross the beams and then it's ok.
[19:21:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03No Respect [991] (Score:2) 02Re:Still dont get it - 06"Let's Encrypt" gets a Launch Schedule - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:21:39] <exec> 08└─I'm unclear on this point as well. Get me a certificate I can put in a local store on a local machine and get out of the way, please. Run some background process forever for :reasons:? No thanks. I will decline for that reason alone.
[19:21:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03tempest [3050] (Score:2) 02Re:Still dont get it - 06"Let's Encrypt" gets a Launch Schedule - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:21:40] <exec> 08└─You don't have to run a daemon to interact with ACME. Provided your certificate is still valid for the period, at any given time you can periodically do a refresh yourself. Personally I'm planning on using a shell script with wget to do it. I may possibly make a more sturdy perl script in the future...
[19:22:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score:2) 02Syfy + Cable/Satellite - 06SyFy Adapting Dan Simmons's Hyperion to the Small Screen - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:01] <exec> 08└─I had Sci-Fi back in the day and it had a lot of great stuff to watch. Then I grew up, got Satellite and it was all just a bunch of Ghost Hunter crap. I cancelled my Satellite connection as soon as I could and haven't looked back.
[19:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Church Facial Recognition - 06Two Stories about Facial Recognition - 1127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:22:38] <exec> 08└─Well, not my knee, but I stubbed my toe so fucking bad last week I was hopping around crying, "Oh God!" for a few minutes. He didn't listen again, and my toe looks like I need to take it off with a steak knife. I think the other poster had it right myself, those churches have jumped the shark so to...
[19:23:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score:2) 02Dumb Move, if they actually remove it - 06Cortana Threatens to Blow-away your "Esc" Key - 501 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:38] <exec> 08└─Removing the Escape key would be a dumb move. It's a useful key that comes in quite handy depending on the program you are using. I would be avoiding any keyboard that replaces my escape key like the plague. It would be more likely to skip buying a Toshiba, if they made such a dumb move. Not that To...
[19:28:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Re:Another perspective - 06ECHR: Websites can be Accountable for User Comments - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:28:02] <exec> 08└─According to your own logic, they [North Koreans] certainly do. Your logic was that you are free to speak, but you must accept the consequences of your speech
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[20:19:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Good - 06Reda Report Adopted: A Turning Point in the EU Copyright Debate - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:28] <exec> 08└─About time someone admits the copyright isn't something immutable, designed just to create artificial scarcity in a time big data is installed comfortable in our life.
[20:19:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02FN Objections? - 06Reda Report Adopted: A Turning Point in the EU Copyright Debate - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:30] <exec> 08└─Anyone know what the FN's objections were, besides the fact that the FN just enjoy being assholes?
[20:19:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02copyright reform is urgently needed - 06Reda Report Adopted: A Turning Point in the EU Copyright Debate - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:32] <exec> 08└─copyrightDuration += 100 years;
[20:19:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:bubbel-gum - 06Serious OS X and iOS Flaws let Hackers Steal Keychain, 1Password Contents - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:19:43] <exec> 08└─Yeah, the bright implementers used unencrypted HTTP with no package signing apparently. I did see another article that said it's completely blown out of proportion, but I didn't really read why ... I don't buy from Samsung any more. Security is difficult to do properly, but the number of outright si...
[20:19:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Somewhere in the world, - 06Serious OS X and iOS Flaws let Hackers Steal Keychain, 1Password Contents - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:19:45] <exec> 08└─To get this exploit to work, the user had to click through two different alerts about permissions, plus the app had to be able to modify its own plist, which can't happen in the real world. This is a lot of muck about nothing.
[20:19:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:2) 02iOS keychains not at (known) risk - 06Serious OS X and iOS Flaws let Hackers Steal Keychain, 1Password Contents - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:46] <exec> 08└─The abstract of the paper makes it clear that they found exploits in "the keychain and WebSocket on OS X and URL Scheme on OS X and iOS." When they're talking about keychains specifically, they say Actually, iOS does not have this issue, because its keychain does not support the ACL at all: every a...
[20:19:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Obnoxious CPUs coming to a store near you - 06World's Thinnest Light Bulb - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:19:58] <exec> 08└─If the wa to make it light is to bring it to 2500C, you're potentially better off with LED room lighting. I didn't see an indication of current draw...
[20:20:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03DutchUncle [5370] (Score:1) 02Re:Polaroid film? - 06Why Mathematicians Are Hoarding This Special Type of Japanese Chalk - 1071 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:20:32] <exec> 08└─Why ought it to be well and truly dead? I come to the question from the other side; when I was a kid, there was no instant photography and no consumer video. You took your pictures through a viewfinder, and hoped that the film had captured what you saw, and that the film didn't get damaged before yo...
[20:20:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03KGIII [5261] (Score:2) 02Re:For old geezers and math-hipsters. - 06Why Mathematicians Are Hoarding This Special Type of Japanese Chalk - 659 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:20:40] <exec> 08└─I have my PhD in Applied Mathematics so, I suppose, you could call me a mathematician. I can confirm that I have absolutely no preference for any brand of chalk, I have no love of chalk, and I am allergic to chalk dust (though it is not too terrible). On the other hand, you will pry my slipstick fro...
[20:20:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score:2) 02Re:For old geezers and math-hipsters. - 06Why Mathematicians Are Hoarding This Special Type of Japanese Chalk - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:20:41] <exec> 08└─Where is "here"? When I was at school at the University of Michigan everything outside of the new Computer Science building was chalkboards. I graduated from there in 2010 and went to Oakland University, where the Engineering department was still all chalkboards. One nice thing about chalk is you kn...
[20:20:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Obscure...? Pfff - 06Why Mathematicians Are Hoarding This Special Type of Japanese Chalk - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:20:46] <exec> 08└─Pshh, these new chalk trend followers. Last night I was listening to Sidewalk Chalk [youtube.com] while actually being underground in Chełmskie podziemia kredowe. [ ‭wikipedia.org (Warning: Unicode in URL)⁩ ]
[20:21:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03WillR [2012] (Score:2) 02Re:Social engineering - 06Encryption Would Not have Protected Secret Federal Data Says DHS - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:21:03] <exec> 08└─iptables -P INPUT drop iptables -A INPUT -s (front-end app servers) -j accept iptables -A INPUT -s (DBA workstations) -j accept
[20:21:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:The answer changes the subject - 06Encryption Would Not have Protected Secret Federal Data Says DHS - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:21:07] <exec> 08└─Sigh. Someone is on my lawn and they should definitely get off of it.
[20:21:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:So they don't know shit - 06Encryption Would Not have Protected Secret Federal Data Says DHS - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:21:10] <exec> 08└─So they don't know shit Who dunnit or even how.
[20:21:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Wrong - 06What’s on the Surface of a Black Hole? - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:21:34] <exec> 08└─Assuming we will eventually find an experiment to empirically prove the existence of actual black holes instead of just the existence of signs of black hoes. It is like "proving" someone has a cat because there is fur on their jacket.
[20:21:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Black hole? - 06What’s on the Surface of a Black Hole? - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:21:38] <exec> 08└─a black hole is supposed to have a singularity at it centre, right?
[20:21:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Black hole? - 06What’s on the Surface of a Black Hole? - 500 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:21:40] <exec> 08└─Looks, sounds, and walks like theoretical speculation no better nor worse than philosophy. Why is physics considered harder than philosophy when they do the same theoretical musings to make these bad fit interpretations and all their special use cases? And a more honest question about this: Anyway,...
[20:21:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Black hole? - 06What’s on the Surface of a Black Hole? - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:21:41] <exec> 08└─The mass is not a property of the singularity, but of the vacuum around it (yes, vacuum can have mass if it is curved).
[20:22:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormreaver [5101] (Score:2) 02Re:Still dont get it - 06"Let's Encrypt" gets a Launch Schedule - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:22:01] <exec> 08└─I still don't understand why they couldn't allocate certificates like every other CA.
[20:22:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03CRCulver [4390] 02Last book destroyed the series - 06SyFy Adapting Dan Simmons's Hyperion to the Small Screen - 995 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:12] <exec> 08└─The problem with an adaptation of the first book is that it may spur some amount of viewers to read that book. And then some of those people are going to read the whole series. I wouldn't wish that on anyone. Hyperion might have been a decent read, but Simmons really went downhill with the later vol...
[20:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score:2) 02Re:Last book destroyed the series - 06SyFy Adapting Dan Simmons's Hyperion to the Small Screen - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:22:22] <exec> 08└─I never read the others, but Ender's Game was horrible. IDGAF what you have to say, that shit sucked when I first read it more than a decade ago, and it still sucks now.
[20:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score:2) 02Re:Last book destroyed the series - 06SyFy Adapting Dan Simmons's Hyperion to the Small Screen - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:22:26] <exec> 08└─My thoughts exactly. Hyperion was excellent, everything else was such a letdown.
[20:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:This iteration didn't take long to go rampant. - 06Cortana Threatens to Blow-away your "Esc" Key - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:23:28] <exec> 08└─I hate you all.
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[21:19:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02No bullshit and medling please? - 06Aussie Comms Minister says VPNs are Fine to Access International Sites Over AU Versions - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:36] <exec> 08└─How about the native network in Australia just works without any bullshit?
[21:19:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Good - 06Reda Report Adopted: A Turning Point in the EU Copyright Debate - 565 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:19:45] <exec> 08└─Copyright does create artificial scarcity. This is an objective indisputable fact. Without copyright, data can be copied as many times as our technology allows, which needless to say is a lot. As to what it was designed to do, it was designed to allow the parasitic wealthy to exploit the bright mind...
[21:19:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03physicsmajor [1471] (Score:2) 02Re:Good - 06Reda Report Adopted: A Turning Point in the EU Copyright Debate - 686 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:19:46] <exec> 08└─Yes. We desperately need a return to rational copyright, which would have an absolute upper bound of 14 years (the original length granted, and that which has now been proven optimal to society). [rufuspollock.org] Anyone who claims otherwise must bring a preponderance of evidence to the contrary. A...
[21:19:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:FN Objections? - 06Reda Report Adopted: A Turning Point in the EU Copyright Debate - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:19:48] <exec> 08└─besides the fact that the FN just enjoy being assholes?
[21:19:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:copyright reform is urgently needed - 06Reda Report Adopted: A Turning Point in the EU Copyright Debate - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:19:51] <exec> 08└─setProtectedFlag(ID_MICKEY_MOUSE, true);
[21:20:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score:2) 02Re:Haha Android ... defragmented ... bla bla - 06Serious OS X and iOS Flaws let Hackers Steal Keychain, 1Password Contents - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:20:01] <exec> 08└─I would switch to a landline, if that was my only choice.
[21:20:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:bubbel-gum - 06Serious OS X and iOS Flaws let Hackers Steal Keychain, 1Password Contents - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:20:04] <exec> 08└─Update has been given to the carriers, the carriers of course have not implemented it. But continue with your baseless bashing.
[21:20:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:bubbel-gum - 06Serious OS X and iOS Flaws let Hackers Steal Keychain, 1Password Contents - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:20:06] <exec> 08└─Basically all you really said was: "They used lube."
[21:20:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anne Nonymous [712] (Score:2) 02Re:Obnoxious CPUs coming to a store near you - 06World's Thinnest Light Bulb - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:20:21] <exec> 08└─You might be able to do that now with a translucent drop ceiling and some color adjustable LED bulbs.
[21:21:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03unzombied [4572] (Score:1) 02Re:The answer changes the subject - 06Encryption Would Not have Protected Secret Federal Data Says DHS - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:21:32] <exec> 08└─A comment from Ars also appropriately addressed the problem: Congress: "it's all your fault for not replacing those archaic and insecure computer systems with the funding we refuse to give you!"
[21:21:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mr Big in the Pants [4956] (Score:2) 02Re:What’s on the Surface of a Black Hole? - 06What’s on the Surface of a Black Hole? - 734 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:21:51] <exec> 08└─That's no black hole, that's a moon... Also the theorists might as well be doing that. Summary for non-physicists (with subtext in brackets): They built (i.e. played around with formulae) on their earlier (completely unproven) string theory to postulate another theory (also completely without eviden...
[21:22:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Absolutely.Geek [5328] (Score:1) 02Re:Black hole? - 06What’s on the Surface of a Black Hole? - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:22:08] <exec> 08└─a black hole is supposed to have a singularity at it centre, right? Like a point of infinite gravity, isn't it? Then how come two different singularities can have a different attributes, like mass, size, momentum etc?
[21:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Last book destroyed the series - 06SyFy Adapting Dan Simmons's Hyperion to the Small Screen - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:22:49] <exec> 08└─His quasi-religious stance in real life quite honestly put me off, and I haven't bought any of his work in a long time.
[21:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Living Wage & Taxes - 06California: Uber Driver is an Employee - 3210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:08] <exec> 08└─Why does California even care about the distinction between an employee and an independent contractor again? How can they justify getting involved in contracts, interfering in the negotiating of contracts, etc.? Forcing the employee status creates all new methods of taxation (or exploitation), altho...
[21:23:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Toshiba? - 06Cortana Threatens to Blow-away your "Esc" Key - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:23:47] <exec> 08└─Can confirm for their consumer laptops as well. Bought at least 4 of them around 10 years ago or so. One of them is still running and operating today with a relative. I had more problems with my HP equipment then I did Toshiba. They made good stuff when I was buying them.
[21:23:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:My bunker full of clicky keyboards - 06Cortana Threatens to Blow-away your "Esc" Key - 588 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:23:52] <exec> 08└─You know.... I don't actually object to that key :) I find it functional and useful on Windows machines. My Logitech K750 has a Windows key there, and a function key on the between the right ctrl and alt. All of the 'special' keys are accessible off the the F1-F12 with the function key pressed. All...
[21:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Eight Megs And Constantly Swapping - 06Cortana Threatens to Blow-away your "Esc" Key - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:24:07] <exec> 08└─um, woosh.
[21:27:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03arulatas [3600] (Score:2) 02Re:In other news - 06More Projects are Fleeing from SourceForge - 745 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:27:55] <exec> 08└─It's not too surprising as the issues with SourceForge were news to me. I had been using it off and on for a long time. It's kind of sad to see it being destroyed. Even, if they backtrack. What's stopping them from doing the same thing again? Nothing. I could deal with the advertisements, so long as...
[21:28:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Tangent: how muslim-hate came to sweden - 06ECHR: Websites can be Accountable for User Comments - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:28:47] <exec> 08└─I mean they don't always say the phrase "personal responsibility"
[21:28:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Tangent: how muslim-hate came to sweden - 06ECHR: Websites can be Accountable for User Comments - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:28:56] <exec> 08└─But the people working for the TSA weren't forced to do so, right?
[21:29:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03tathra [3367] (Score:2) 02Re:Another perspective - 06ECHR: Websites can be Accountable for User Comments - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:29:05] <exec> 08└─Furthermore, the first amendment explicitly guarantees that congress (later applied to other levels of government via the 14th amendment) will not violate people's freedom of speech, and lists no exceptions.
[21:29:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Another perspective - 06ECHR: Websites can be Accountable for User Comments - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:29:27] <exec> 08└─None of which relates to speech even slightly. Try again.
[21:29:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Another perspective - 06ECHR: Websites can be Accountable for User Comments - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:29:29] <exec> 08└─Bullying and psychological abuse exist, but if it's speech-related, then neither causes direct harm. What is and is not offensive/hurtful is completely subjective. Regardless, I'm a bit puzzled about how you responded to that particular part of my post as if you disagreed with it. Do you believe tha...
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[22:19:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:No bullshit and medling please? - 06Aussie Comms Minister says VPNs are Fine to Access International Sites Over AU Versions - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:19:35] <exec> 08└─How about the native network in Australia just works without any bullshit?
[22:19:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:No bullshit and medling please? - 06Aussie Comms Minister says VPNs are Fine to Access International Sites Over AU Versions - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:19:36] <exec> 08└─Perhaps it takes some Australians that lay their own optical cable to get plain IP without big brother? ;-)
[22:19:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:No bullshit and medling please? - 06Aussie Comms Minister says VPNs are Fine to Access International Sites Over AU Versions - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:19:37] <exec> 08└─Based upon what I hear about the price of goods imported to Australia, I shudder to think what that much fiber must cost.
[22:19:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Absolutely.Geek [5328] (Score:1) 02Sane politician - 06Aussie Comms Minister says VPNs are Fine to Access International Sites Over AU Versions - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:39] <exec> 08└─The big boys can sort it out between themselves and leave the consumers out of it.
[22:19:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03physicsmajor [1471] (Score:2) 02Re:Good - 06Reda Report Adopted: A Turning Point in the EU Copyright Debate - 490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:19:49] <exec> 08└─Copyright creates no scarcity whatsoever, because in an age of costless copying information is, for all intents and purposes, not scarce. Copyright attempts to impose scarcity, by force of law, upon an inherently non-scarce quantity. This is an important distinction! If it actually did create scarci...
[22:19:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:copyright reform is urgently needed - 06Reda Report Adopted: A Turning Point in the EU Copyright Debate - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:19:56] <exec> 08└─for(year=1990;;year+=5) { if( my_copyright_expire year+10 ) /* then.. */ { copyrightDuration += 70 years; fiat_donate(ANY_SENATOR | BRIBEABLE); } sleep( 5 years ); }
[22:19:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:2) 02Re:copyright reform is urgently needed - 06Reda Report Adopted: A Turning Point in the EU Copyright Debate - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:19:58] <exec> 08└─Wait, I thought that ANY_SENATOR already had the BRIBEABLE bit set.
[22:20:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Materials science laborations? - 06New Type of Gecko-like Gripper Created - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:36] <exec> 08└─Seems like the perfect tool to handle ultra thin sheets of very special materials?
[22:21:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:Whats so special about this chalk? - 06Why Mathematicians Are Hoarding This Special Type of Japanese Chalk - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:21:13] <exec> 08└─So how hard is it to manufacture this by oneself? I assume the department of chemistry etc might also be somewhat interested.
[22:21:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why all the grief? - 06Why Mathematicians Are Hoarding This Special Type of Japanese Chalk - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:21:20] <exec> 08└─According to the manufacturer, this chalk IS chalk, or possibly synthetic CaCO3
[22:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Black hole? - 06What’s on the Surface of a Black Hole? - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:22:16] <exec> 08└─Is this a technical semantic point or is it a factual one? If it is a factual one, then there can be a singularity without a horizon and an associated vacuum with mass.
[22:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03budgenator [1529] (Score:1) 02Re:Black hole? - 06What’s on the Surface of a Black Hole? - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:22:18] <exec> 08└─I always assumed that anything inside the event horizon, was undefined from the outside, well anything other than mass, charge and angular momentum. What interesting to me is when two blackholes approach each other and the event horizons distort from the other's gravity, possibly enough for a larger...
[22:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:The end of Uber, at least in CA - 06California: Uber Driver is an Employee - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:23:16] <exec> 08└─So why is the model in the UK different to the rest of the world?
[22:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:The end of Uber, at least in CA - 06California: Uber Driver is an Employee - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:23:18] <exec> 08└─That's exactly how it runs in the uk, driver owned cars, licensed, enhanced mot, criminal background checks. The taxi drivers still hate it though.
[22:24:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03TWX [5124] (Score:1) 02Re:My bunker full of clicky keyboards - 06Cortana Threatens to Blow-away your "Esc" Key - 629 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:24:06] <exec> 08└─You never played first-person shooters in the era when the Window and Menu keys first appeared; the games would play under Windows but would get very, very angry when those keys were hit by mistake. It often wasn't possible to return to the game, and even if one could return it usually meant one was...
[22:29:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Tangent: how muslim-hate came to sweden - 06ECHR: Websites can be Accountable for User Comments - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:29:11] <exec> 08└─But the people working for the TSA weren't forced to do so, right?
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[23:19:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Nope. We won't let you die. - 06Torvalds Says Linux Could Continue Without Him Now - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:31] <exec> 08└─Your brain is going to be donated to science. Kind of like we did to Einstein's brain...diced up into a jar for speculation and driven around the country. You know you can check out anytime you like, but you can never leave? *que in Hotel California.
[23:19:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Ballmer compatible? - 06Torvalds Says Linux Could Continue Without Him Now - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:33] <exec> 08└─That Greg Kroah-Hartman looks a bit like Ballmer. Does he have compatible chair throwing capabilities? otherwise he'll be unfit.. :D
[23:19:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score:2) 02Re:No bullshit and medling please? - 06Aussie Comms Minister says VPNs are Fine to Access International Sites Over AU Versions - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:19:45] <exec> 08└─They have a vast desert, shouldn't they be able to make fiber there?
[23:19:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:No bullshit and medling please? - 06Aussie Comms Minister says VPNs are Fine to Access International Sites Over AU Versions - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:19:47] <exec> 08└─Direct import? share cost between people that want no fuss high speed connection? Or it could just somehow show up and no asked anything?.. "dude I found 1000 km of fiber cable in my garage this morning. No idea what to do with it. Perhaps we should lay some network?" :D
[23:19:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:No bullshit and medling please? - 06Aussie Comms Minister says VPNs are Fine to Access International Sites Over AU Versions - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:19:49] <exec> 08└─For VPNs, it doesn't matter how well the native network in Australia works. Online content sellers still see which IP block you're coming from and charge you differently just because you're in a different country, or refuse you access altogether. The only way around that is VPNs, so that an Australi...
[23:19:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Sane politician - 06Aussie Comms Minister says VPNs are Fine to Access International Sites Over AU Versions - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:19:51] <exec> 08└─Will be overridden by the upcoming TPP [wikipedia.org]
[23:20:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Good - 06Reda Report Adopted: A Turning Point in the EU Copyright Debate - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:20:00] <exec> 08└─But DRM, and the DMCA backing it up, has been designed to do precisely that. And what does the "C" in "DMCA" stand for?
[23:20:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''allow the parasitic wealthy to exploit...'' - 06Reda Report Adopted: A Turning Point in the EU Copyright Debate - 1096 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:20:02] <exec> 08└─It must suck to be a band that signed a contract with a recording company before most people were aware that audio files could be delivered via the 'Net. Years ago, Nine Inch Nails, Courtney Love, et al were saying to do it yourself via your own domain. Middlemen are absolutely NOT necessary. ...and...
[23:20:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Good - 06Reda Report Adopted: A Turning Point in the EU Copyright Debate - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:20:04] <exec> 08└─The author of that paper seems to be unaware that it costs half a billion to get tent-poles like Iron Man 3 onto people's screens. Costs to produce movies that large numbers of people want to see most ceratinly are not dropping. So his conclusion ought to be that copyright terms on movies needs to i...
[23:20:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:copyright reform is urgently needed - 06Reda Report Adopted: A Turning Point in the EU Copyright Debate - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:20:11] <exec> 08└─Sorry. It will be fixed in copyright extension watchdog v2.0 ;)
[23:20:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Operating system found to be crappy again (TM) - 06Serious OS X and iOS Flaws let Hackers Steal Keychain, 1Password Contents - 898 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:31] <exec> 08└─So iOS security is once again proven to be worthless. Once again the computer powered mobile phones aka smartphones is proven to be an insecure environment. Both from sloppy programming and how the radio interface(es?) can interact with the main CPU. On top of this you-don't-have-the-source-code to...
[23:20:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:Obnoxious CPUs coming to a store near you - 06World's Thinnest Light Bulb - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:20:43] <exec> 08└─I know there's a company that manufacture light emitters for ceilings that produce light that is just like daytime sky. But it costs a lot. It was presented either here or at that green beta site. I think the company was located in Italy perhaps. I think it was based on some material research where...
[23:20:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Obnoxious CPUs coming to a store near you - 06World's Thinnest Light Bulb - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:20:45] <exec> 08└─That was a fake skylight with a 'moving' sun and more of a prototype than a shipping product. I don't need something that fancy. Just non-directional lighting with variable color temps.
[23:20:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Optical phenomena and interference possibilities? - 06World's Thinnest Light Bulb - 704 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:47] <exec> 08└─There must be some special optical phenomena at play if it's like 1.42 x 10^-10 meter thick and one can actually discern the emitter directly with the eye from the side? (thinking of some kind of scattering phenomena) Perhaps as this is graphene and not a carbon nanotube. It may be possible try out...
[23:21:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score:2) 02Re:Pentel - 06Why Mathematicians Are Hoarding This Special Type of Japanese Chalk - 506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:21:25] <exec> 08└─I share your feelings, but for the Pentel Quick Clicker [pentel.com]--the 0.5mm transparent black version. I have one that's at least 15 years old that still works fine. Having replaceable erasers is a bonus too. Though losing the eraser cap is why I generally replace this pencil, aside from when a...
[23:21:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Chalk dust is bad for your lungs - 06Why Mathematicians Are Hoarding This Special Type of Japanese Chalk - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:21:28] <exec> 08└─I like big clouds and I can not lie.
[23:21:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03KBentley57 [645] 02Re:Whats so special about this chalk? - 06Why Mathematicians Are Hoarding This Special Type of Japanese Chalk - 1005 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:21:36] <exec> 08└─I still prefer a GOOD chalkboard over a whiteboard. However, a good smooth chalkboard and smooth writing chalk are becoming more hard to find. Here is the difference. The crayola chalk (or whatever it is from the big box stores) may as well be a stick of nothing. It literally has no mass to it, and...
[23:22:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Witness Protection Program - 06Encryption Would Not have Protected Secret Federal Data Says DHS - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:22:09] <exec> 08└─What they will get is more computer security training and PII training instead of any meaningful measure to improve security. Been there and done that.
[23:22:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02What’s on the Surface of a Black Hole? - 06What’s on the Surface of a Black Hole? - 56 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:20] <exec> 08└─Two hands spreading it huge for the camera, that's what.
[23:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score:2) 02Re:What’s on the Surface of a Black Hole? - 06What’s on the Surface of a Black Hole? - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:22:24] <exec> 08└─LOL! Oh dear... in the ASCII world this is definitely NSFW..
[23:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Black hole? - 06What’s on the Surface of a Black Hole? - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:22:39] <exec> 08└─Why is physics considered harder than philosophy when they do the same theoretical musings to make these bad fit interpretations and all their special use cases?
[23:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Black hole? - 06What’s on the Surface of a Black Hole? - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:22:43] <exec> 08└─possibly enough for a larger singularity to cause a small singularity to become naked.
[23:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re:Still dont get it - 06"Let's Encrypt" gets a Launch Schedule - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:23:06] <exec> 08└─StartSSL certificates specifically prohibit use by commercial entities, and have other limitations on what their certificates can be used for. Else we would be using them here on SN.
[23:25:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score:2) 02Re:remap, loadkeys xkeycaps - 06Cortana Threatens to Blow-away your "Esc" Key - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:25:03] <exec> 08└─Mine is square, is seated in a square hole, and stubbornly resists rotation to the left. Can't loose it at all. How do we loose it?
[23:28:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score:2) 02Re:In other news - 06More Projects are Fleeing from SourceForge - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:28:35] <exec> 08└─That would work too, if the next word was on instead of to.
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