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[00:41:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheB [1538] (Score:2) 02Re:not a kernel module - 06Binary Blob Banished By Berated Browser's Better Build (Chromium) - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:41:55] <exec> 08└─It's a quote from the El Reg article. Reporter probably didn't know what binary code was then cut and past the first search result. Quality reporting.
[00:41:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03DarkMorph [674] (Score:2) 02Chromium on Gentoo Linux - 06Binary Blob Banished By Berated Browser's Better Build (Chromium) - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:56] <exec> 08└─As of Chromium 43.0.2357.130, the ebuild has a USE flag for "hotwording", disabled by default, which determines whether the browser will compile with this contraversial feature added into it.
[00:41:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03zeigerpuppy [1298] (Score:2) 02Accountability - 06Binary Blob Banished By Berated Browser's Better Build (Chromium) - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:58] <exec> 08└─Has there been any statement as to why it was added and by whom? Was this just an innocent build mistake or a deliberate attempt to insert spyware into chromium. After all, this particular blob may not have had that purpose but once it's in, it could have been easily modified.
[00:42:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:homelessness isn't caused by a lack of housing - 06Hadrian the Robot Bricklayer Can Build a Whole House in Two Days - 1090 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:42:46] <exec> 08└─In much of the US a dishwasher job won't pay minimal food and housing needs for even a single individual, much less clothes, transportation, health care, etc. Often the social support systems are so structured that you are better off not holding a minimum income job. Your expenses are lower and your...
[00:42:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Dumb idea - 06Hadrian the Robot Bricklayer Can Build a Whole House in Two Days - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:42:57] <exec> 08└─Florida. No earthquakes. Ever. Most of the very recent construction seems to be timber framed, but there are a lot of CMU block houses. I'm living in one now. With the blocks, insulation, smart windows that guarantee sunlight never gets funneled into the house, and trees overhead, I only use air con...
[00:43:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:Right solution - wrong material - 06Hadrian the Robot Bricklayer Can Build a Whole House in Two Days - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:43:02] <exec> 08└─Most of of us do not live in areas where we get hit by earthquakes or tornados.
[00:44:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03CirclesInSand [2899] (Score:2) 02Re:Perspective - 06Congress May Lower Beer Taxes, Sam Adams Could Cease to be "Craft Beer" - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:44:01] <exec> 08└─Sure. You get your own page the 9000 pages of tax legislation. Everyone has some special thing that they want to tax or exempt, and it results in the horrible mess of broken and corrupt tax code we have. Next time you think "I'm ok with a different tax rule for..." , try multiplying that by 300milli...
[00:46:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Warm Waters - 06Corals are Already Adapting to Global Warming, Scientists Say - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:46:32] <exec> 08└─Yes, I had trouble thinking of the correct term for this. It is meddling. Which is easier when it comes to complex, poorly-understood systems? A) Breaking it B) Fixing it They apparently think that "humans being humans and disregarding nature" will break the system, but "humans being humans and purp...
[00:48:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:WHAT!! - 06Psychosurgeons Use Lasers to Burn Away Mental Illness - 1726 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:48:25] <exec> 08└─I've learned you have to be careful with what these biologists/medical researchers claim. Often the evidence can be interpreted differently but they do not investigate these alternatives. It is also common for there to be blatant conflicting aspects of the data that go ignored or get hidden by avera...
[00:48:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:WHAT!! - 06Psychosurgeons Use Lasers to Burn Away Mental Illness - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:48:26] <exec> 08└─I forgot to mention one other thing. Isn't it odd how the paper identifying a serotonin transporter does not show ligand binding curve of serotonin to the transporter? They clearly did this experiment because they report the Km value. This is primary information you'd expect to find. I bet that curv...
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[01:41:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Offtopic) 02VOTE OBAMA 2016 - 06Bitmap All the Things - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:41:39] <exec> 08└─Once you go ALL BLACK BITS, you never go back to white bitmap.
[01:41:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Idiots - 06Bitmap All the Things - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:41:40] <exec> 08└─"International headlines" my ass. Nobody heard of the Google PR, and only idiots would rely on a hack on an ephemeral Google service to preserve your data, much less a large amount of it.
[01:41:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Idiots - 06Bitmap All the Things - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:41:42] <exec> 08└─Clearly you never used usenet.
[01:41:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Idiots - 06Bitmap All the Things - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:41:44] <exec> 08└─STFU, Tyler.
[01:41:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Streaming movie Archive, ho! - 06Bitmap All the Things - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:41:45] <exec> 08└─999999999999 movies in the Cloud Take one Down, stream it around 999999999999 movies in the Cloud DMCA, DMCA, DMCA all day still 999999999999 movies in the Cloud
[01:41:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02My calculations show - 06Bitmap All the Things - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:41:47] <exec> 08└─takes about 3 tar files renamed to jpg or whatever and I've backed up all the stuff I care about. / don't take many pictures // nor videos /// those 3 tar files have some 30 years of computing in them //// minus MP3s, pictures, and video of course.
[01:41:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03khchung [457] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Unlimited? Just like - 06Bitmap All the Things - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:41:48] <exec> 08└─Obviously, it is physically impossible for Google to offer real unlimited storage for any fixed price, much less free. So, it is just like the "unlimited internet" plans from ISPs. The real question is, when would Google throttle your upload? Or tell you that you have violated their TOS by storing "...
[01:41:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Scummy Asshole Hack by a Scummy Asshole - 06Bitmap All the Things - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:41:50] <exec> 08└─Only scummy assholes pull hacks like this. Got tired of shoving random shit into URL shorteners, did you, you motherfucking asshole cunt?
[01:42:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:2) 02Re:bbbbb - 06Binary Blob Banished By Berated Browser's Better Build (Chromium) - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:42:03] <exec> 08└─Here's a ridiculously on-topic (if annoying) alliterative song about binary blobs. [openbsd.org] With lyrics. [openbsd.org]
[01:42:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:If no one is looking, all bugs are deep. - 06Binary Blob Banished By Berated Browser's Better Build (Chromium) - 757 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:42:07] <exec> 08└─Pretty much describes the chromium code I've had an occasion to look at. Very few comments in sight (it seems that comments have universally been deprecated in C code and derivatives). Lots of opaque code that any rogue contributor submit some obfuscated fix for and have a good chance of it being ac...
[01:42:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:If no one is looking, all bugs are deep. - 06Binary Blob Banished By Berated Browser's Better Build (Chromium) - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:42:09] <exec> 08└─You're right that "There is just too much source code." BUT - when there is a problem, even a semi-literate like myself can step through the code, and look for problems. When I think I've maybe spotted one, I can discuss it with more literate people on the forums, or send a bug report, or something.
[01:42:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:If no one is looking, all bugs are deep. - 06Binary Blob Banished By Berated Browser's Better Build (Chromium) - 695 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:42:11] <exec> 08└─Really? I call bullshit. If you happen to see some glitch in a chromium browser, you might spend the next two months narrowing it down to precisely which module caused the problem. Chances are the problem wouldn't even exhibit itself under the debugger (you'd be astounded how often this happens). In...
[01:42:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:No shock - 06Binary Blob Banished By Berated Browser's Better Build (Chromium) - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:42:14] <exec> 08└─Alt binary sites? Like this? https://www.srware.net [srware.net] Chrome and Chromium already do stuff that some people don't like.
[01:42:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score:2) 02Sounds like the editors have a speech impediment - 06Binary Blob Banished By Berated Browser's Better Build (Chromium) - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:19] <exec> 08└─Blue-penciling bit bucket booking booby bastards. (And you can imagine how difficult it was to find these words in a thesaurus.)
[01:42:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Wow, 75 employees! - 06Why is Google Opening a New Data Center in a Former Coal-Fired Power Plant? - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:39] <exec> 08└─And how many full-time? 1 manager paid $500,000 while interchangeable monkey workers do shit work for $1? Thanks Google.
[01:43:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Type44Q [4347] (Score:0) 02Huh?! - 06Hadrian the Robot Bricklayer Can Build a Whole House in Two Days - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:25] <exec> 08└─Homelessness would become a thing of the past.
[01:44:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score:1) 02Income tax? - 06How to Start a Time Bank - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:44:11] <exec> 08└─Not wanting to rain on anybody's barbeque, but what happens if the government decides that bartering time is taxable [ato.gov.au]?
[01:45:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03McD [540] (Score:1) 02Re:'Sustainable?' - 06Lego Plans to Make Their Iconic Plastic Blocks … Without Plastic - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:45:01] <exec> 08└─The eighties space guy from the Lego Movie has a partly broken helmet. So recognizable, epic win.
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[02:41:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Idiots - 06Bitmap All the Things - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:41:43] <exec> 08└─You do not remember other past storage hacks Audio cassettes. Storing as tunes Video cassettes. Storing as pictures Encryption. Storing in the background "noise" in a picture Just one more in in great hacks.
[02:41:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Unlimited? Just like - 06Bitmap All the Things - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:41:47] <exec> 08└─They'll just transcode your "images"
[02:41:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Why we can't have nice things - 06Bitmap All the Things - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:50] <exec> 08└─I'm sure Google won't mind this at all.
[02:41:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Won't work... - 06Bitmap All the Things - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:52] <exec> 08└─I forgot where I saw this, but hiding a file in a photo is detectable, unless it's encrypted. I think it was something about using google drive to hide files.
[02:41:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Question - 06 This Japanese Billionaire Plans to Invest $20 Billion in Indian Solar Power - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:59] <exec> 08└─The question isnt necessarily about shorting coal stocks, but if this could actually happen without dirty energy fucking it up by leaning on politicians.
[02:42:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:If no one is looking, all bugs are deep. - 06Binary Blob Banished By Berated Browser's Better Build (Chromium) - 1025 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:42:17] <exec> 08└─Again, you're right and wrong. You missed the part about posting to forums, submitting bug reports, etc. I DID specifically say that I am semi-literate. I don't imagine that I am going to solve a problem all by myself. What I can do, is to identify a problem, dabble at trying to find it, then discus...
[02:42:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:No shock - 06Binary Blob Banished By Berated Browser's Better Build (Chromium) - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:42:21] <exec> 08└─Aren't there like 6 or 8 chromium based browsers [techgyd.com] all claiming to do pretty much the same sort of privacy cleanup? I have a friend in the office next floor above that swears by Epic browser. But its main trick is a proxy.
[02:42:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02SRWare Iron a lot better privacy wise than Chrome - 06Binary Blob Banished By Berated Browser's Better Build (Chromium) - 773 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:42:23] <exec> 08└─Like [srware.net]: * Generated installation number which will be sent to Google after the installation. * Information is sent to Google to provide suggestions. * Typed wrong in the adress bar, this is sent to Google and you get an error message from Google's servers. * Details about cras...
[02:42:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:Accountability - 06Binary Blob Banished By Berated Browser's Better Build (Chromium) - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:42:28] <exec> 08└─I guess Google run out of the benefit of doubt? "Don't miss any opportunity to collect data other than that we won't do anything bad, because NSA pays the bills" ;-)
[02:42:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sounds like the editors have a speech impedimen - 06Binary Blob Banished By Berated Browser's Better Build (Chromium) - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:42:30] <exec> 08└─Blue-penciling
[02:43:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:Huh?! - 06Hadrian the Robot Bricklayer Can Build a Whole House in Two Days - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:43:37] <exec> 08└─Hint: you live in a country where corporations has been allowed to co-opt the government.
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[03:41:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] (Score:2) 02Things can make experiences - 06 Study Shows That Experiences, Not Things, Will Make You Happier - 517 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:47] <exec> 08└─It's not an either/or. I bought a boat for our family - not so they'll remember the boat, but so that they'll remember the days on the boat, the experiences of getting up on waterski's the first time, getting caught in a thunderstorm on the lake, screaming like banshees as the jump into the lake wit...
[03:41:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score:2) 02Money can't buy ... - 06 Study Shows That Experiences, Not Things, Will Make You Happier - 886 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:48] <exec> 08└─There must be a difference tho. Having "things" usually mean you have money (or is heavily in debt). With money comes the option of having "nicer" experiences. Nobody really enjoys the experience of crushing debt or a life of poverty. Sure those experiences might be what you hang on to but still it'...
[03:41:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02I once knew a very wealthy man - 06 Study Shows That Experiences, Not Things, Will Make You Happier - 551 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:50] <exec> 08└─owner of a hedge fund I one consulted for. He was bitterly unhappy despite being the richest person I am ever likely to meet. His objective was to make five times as much money as he possessed when we first met. I dint see what good it could possibly do him. For me my happiest moment was when a wild...
[03:42:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Idiots - 06Bitmap All the Things - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:42:03] <exec> 08└─Great hack my ass. You are comparing this bullshit to those?
[03:42:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:Won't work... - 06Bitmap All the Things - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:42:11] <exec> 08└─The real problem isn't that a steganographically hidden file might be detectable, but rather that online services often take it upon themselves to downsample or compress the image. Upload a glorious photograph to Facegooginstatwit and come back a day later to find a shabby, artifact-laden, compresse...
[03:42:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score:2) 02Nihil nove sub sole - 06Bitmap All the Things - 1047 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:12] <exec> 08└─About 15 years ago, when e-mail providers were providing accounts to anyone who'd bother to ask, with more storage space than your average hard drive, I remember a friend of mine setting up what amounted to a file-system front-end backed by e-mail accounts. He'd just break a file up into chunks smal...
[03:42:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score:2) 02Specifically regarding the video size limit... - 06Bitmap All the Things - 795 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:14] <exec> 08└─It seems like a relatively straightforward thing to losslessly decompose a 4k (2160p) video into 4 1080p videos, simply by dividing the original image up into 2x2 pixel blocks, and then taking the upper right pixel of all the blocks as video A, upper left of each block as video B, etc. Similar appro...
[03:42:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score:2) 02What could possibly go wrong. - 06Bitmap All the Things - 1120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:16] <exec> 08└─Shouldn't this really be filed under "what could possibly go wrong". Yes give all your images and videos to kindly uncle Google. They will never ever use them for anything but store them for you, for free! I assume just renaming the files .jpeg won't work, or? Alternatively I guess one could just cr...
[03:42:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:If no one is looking, all bugs are deep. - 06Binary Blob Banished By Berated Browser's Better Build (Chromium) - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:42:37] <exec> 08└─Yes, and billions of dollars of annual business rely on this stuff. To be a doctor you need a medical degree and admittance into a medical professional organization. To be a lawyer, you need a law degree and admittance to the local bar. To be an engineer, you need an engineering degree and admittanc...
[03:42:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02Re:If no one is looking, all bugs are deep. - 06Binary Blob Banished By Berated Browser's Better Build (Chromium) - 1777 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:42:38] <exec> 08└─It's basically a matter of trust. True, there isn't that much auditing of open-source code, but the organizations who create it are usually seen as more trustworthy than commercial companies. Most such software isn't created by any companies at all, but rather non-profit groups. Inkscape might be a...
[03:42:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Accountability - 06Binary Blob Banished By Berated Browser's Better Build (Chromium) - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:42:52] <exec> 08└─It was an attempt to add "OK Google" support to any machine that has a microphone. Contrary to popular paranoia, the binary does not constantly listen and send all sounds to Google, but it does listen (locally) for those words. If it hears them, It then collects the next sentence and sends it to goo...
[03:43:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03VortexCortex [4067] (Score:2) 02Fool me twice, shame on me. Too little, too late. - 06NIST Revises Key Computer Security Publication on Random Number Generation - 3529 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:43:04] <exec> 08└─Most interesting to me is how RSA was apparently given US$10mil to make this deprecated Dual_EC_DRBG algorithm (and its constants) the default [reuters.com] for the widely used BSAFE crypto software suite. Thus leading to its most probably NSA backdoored Pseudo Random Number Generator implementation...
[03:43:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score:2) 02Re:Worst Youtube ever.. - 06Hadrian the Robot Bricklayer Can Build a Whole House in Two Days - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:43:29] <exec> 08└─What makes you think that brick houses are becoming obsolete? They're cheap and simple to create and make good houses unless in earthquake country. Of course this robot should work just as well with any rectangular building block, even Styrofoam, just use glue instead of mortar.
[03:43:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Worst Youtube ever.. - 06Hadrian the Robot Bricklayer Can Build a Whole House in Two Days - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:43:30] <exec> 08└─Pretty much the earthquake issue. (Same as the tsunami issue, floods, etc). Some places are outlawing brick only houses, brick buildings over one story, etc. Other building codes are being tightened to require more re-rod. The bricks shown have no holes for re-rod.
[03:44:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Re:Dumb idea - 06Hadrian the Robot Bricklayer Can Build a Whole House in Two Days - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:44:00] <exec> 08└─Florida. No earthquakes. Ever.
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[04:41:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03nyder [4525] (Score:2) 02Not all experience are great - 06 Study Shows That Experiences, Not Things, Will Make You Happier - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:40] <exec> 08└─So this article makes it sounds like homeless people have the greatest experiences.
[04:41:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score:3, Touché) 02My only request - 06 Study Shows That Experiences, Not Things, Will Make You Happier - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:41] <exec> 08└─I ask all of you to help me to prove that having anything I want won't make me happy.
[04:41:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Never as happy - 06 Study Shows That Experiences, Not Things, Will Make You Happier - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:43] <exec> 08└─And yet, people are never as happy in the long run after spending money on material items than they are after forking out for adventures, travel, and experiences.
[04:42:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Popeidol [35] (Score:2) 02Re:Nihil nove sub sole - 06Bitmap All the Things - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:42:06] <exec> 08└─A closely related example is when gmail launched with a whopping 1gb of storage space. At the time hotmail offered about 6mb (from memory), and the most generous free hosting you could find was around 100mb. It did not take long before somebody wrote a program to Mount your gmail account as a drive...
[04:42:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geotti [1146] (Score:2) 02Re:Nihil nove sub sole - 06Bitmap All the Things - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:42:07] <exec> 08└─but it was effectively a cloud-hosted backup of all his important files, before cloud hosting became a "thing."
[04:42:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geotti [1146] (Score:2) 02Re:Nihil nove sub sole - 06Bitmap All the Things - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:42:09] <exec> 08└─Pardon me please, I should have pressed preview. There was supposed to be a link to explain Elasticity [wikipedia.org] in cloud computing.
[04:42:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03dingus [5224] (Score:1) 02pranks galore - 06Bitmap All the Things - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:42:12] <exec> 08└─Someone should set up their botnet to send in randomly generated 16-megapixel photos until they run out of space. Not encouraging a crime here, but I mean if you're a criminal with a botnet hanging around... go for it.
[04:42:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03tripstah [4913] (Score:1) 02From the author - 06Bitmap All the Things - 1829 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:42:13] <exec> 08└─Having read through the comments I thought I'd post a quick response to a few things. First, this was written as a joke over a few nights and weekends to tease one of my friends over at Google and, frankly, because it made me laugh -- nothing more. I was poking around the service one day and noticed...
[04:43:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Rich [945] 02Re:Dumb idea - 06Hadrian the Robot Bricklayer Can Build a Whole House in Two Days - 49 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:43:55] <exec> 08└─That's why you put brick in front of the framing.
[04:45:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03CaTfiSh [5221] (Score:1) 02Re:Where did they go? - 06Lego Plans to Make Their Iconic Plastic Blocks … Without Plastic - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:45:43] <exec> 08└─Mom just doesn't want to admit she made a mint selling them on ebay.
[04:48:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Nope - 06France Could Offer Asylum to Assange, Snowden - 496 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:48:06] <exec> 08└─> There is no error in logic for wanting countries to act ethically, The error in your logic is to assume that what is ethical for interactions between people is also ethical for interactions between nations. Hence anthropomorphization. That is as reasonable as saying that the same ethical framework...
[04:48:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What a poor memory you have - 06France Could Offer Asylum to Assange, Snowden - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:48:13] <exec> 08└─> Frojack - you have a poor knowledge When it comes to any sociological topic you could have just stopped right there. Frojack is the ultimate contrary indicator for any topic not narrowly technical.
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[05:41:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Megalomaniac Detected - 06NSA Chief Wants to Watch, as Well as Listen and Read - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:41:38] <exec> 08└─I see all that I need to see in my domain, and it's still not enough! Give me more! More! MOAR!!
[05:41:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03zeigerpuppy [1298] (Score:2) 02Suck my aperture - 06NSA Chief Wants to Watch, as Well as Listen and Read - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:41:39] <exec> 08└─Really, these guys don't even see how ridiculous they are. Seriously they should open their apertures for a donkey in the star trek like office. I just hope that after absurdity comes reason.
[05:41:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Suck my aperture - 06NSA Chief Wants to Watch, as Well as Listen and Read - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:41:41] <exec> 08└─Really, these guys don't even see how ridiculous they are.
[05:41:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02They Hate U.S. because, we're Evil? - 06NSA Chief Wants to Watch, as Well as Listen and Read - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:41:42] <exec> 08└─No, that can't be right. Continue violating civil rights throughout the entire world, until we find the Real Terrorists, because U.S. can't possibly be The Real Terrorists.
[05:41:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:Things can make experiences - 06 Study Shows That Experiences, Not Things, Will Make You Happier - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:41:51] <exec> 08└─When I first got Siri on my phone I showed it to a few of my coworkers, we sat around talking to it trying to cook up amusing results. I told it to call me a hooker and I had to hurriedly hang it up because it tried to place a call to one of my female coworkers.
[05:41:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03toygeek [28] (Score:2) 02In the words of the wise Weird Al - 06 Study Shows That Experiences, Not Things, Will Make You Happier - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:41:57] <exec> 08└─"If money can't buy happiness, well, I guess I'll have to rent it!"
[05:42:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03tripstah [4913] (Score:1) 02Re:Idiots - 06Bitmap All the Things - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:42:08] <exec> 08└─Hi, actually I'm Tyler; nice to meet you. And you are (something other than a coward perhaps)?
[05:42:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Flamebait) 02Re:From the author - 06Bitmap All the Things - 712 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:42:27] <exec> 08└─Do you enjoy seeing your jizz all over the front page of Soylent, you attention-whoring asshole? Oh look at you, now the whole fucking world knows you have friends at Google. How very nice for you! Do your friends have anal privileges? Do you just love it when a dude reams your asshole until his man...
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[05:43:09] <exec> 08└─fucking quitting the stupid alliterative headlines.
[05:44:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03webhiker [497] (Score:1) 02Re:Dumb idea - 06Hadrian the Robot Bricklayer Can Build a Whole House in Two Days - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:44:17] <exec> 08└─and bricks are better during tornados...
[05:44:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Chinese Gov were right - 06Cisco Security Appliances Found to have Default SSH Keys - 666 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:44:30] <exec> 08└─Looks like they were right to be suspicious: http://www.ibtimes.com [ibtimes.com] Xenophobia or not, this is a backdoor. Anyone dealing with SSH who's not an idiot would know what having those keys in there mean....
[05:48:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03janrinok [52] 02Re:What a poor memory you have - 06France Could Offer Asylum to Assange, Snowden - 3201 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:48:30] <exec> 08└─Frojack - you have a poor knowledge of both the world wars, and of the Gulf wars. During the first world war, the late arrivals were the Americans. The French were fighting from the beginning to the end, alongside the UK, Belgians, commonwealth countries (including elements of the Caribbean countrie...
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[06:41:44] <exec> 08└─+1 The land of the free and home of the brave is a construct that no only exists in fairy tales. Its more of a festering cesspool of evil and mammal blubber now
[06:41:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:They Hate U.S. because, we're Evil? - 06NSA Chief Wants to Watch, as Well as Listen and Read - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:41:45] <exec> 08└─This is why kids have to recite the Pledge of Allegiance every day, at the start of school: indoctrination starts early.
[06:41:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03VortexCortex [4067] (Score:2) 02Too fucking bad, that's not your job. - 06NSA Chief Wants to Watch, as Well as Listen and Read - 1546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:41:46] <exec> 08└─While data analytics might fall within purview of the NSA, it is the scope of the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) [nro.gov] to watch and listen over this planet for the USA. We really could defund the NSA and give it all to the NRO, and I'd be happy -- Despite NASA's shuttle decommission the US...
[06:41:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03VortexCortex [4067] (Score:2) 02You don't get to define greatness. - 06 Study Shows That Experiences, Not Things, Will Make You Happier - 3299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:41:59] <exec> 08└─Having been homeless myself, I can attest that your assumption is correct though misleading. Once, while alone for half of what would become three months of stranded in the harsh Canadian winter I sat upon a stone in the clearing and watched man made satellites march across the heavenly dome with my...
[06:42:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03tripstah [4913] 02From the author - 06Bitmap All the Things - 1829 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:42:32] <exec> 08└─Having read through the comments I thought I'd post a quick response to a few things. First, this was written as a joke over a few nights and weekends to tease one of my friends over at Google and, frankly, because it made me laugh -- nothing more. I was poking around the service one day and noticed...
[06:43:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:Please to be ... - 06Binary Blob Banished By Berated Browser's Better Build (Chromium) - 810 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:43:16] <exec> 08└─fucking quitting the stupid alliterative headlines. Alliteration articulates an artistic and alacritous approach aimed at annotating and arranging alphabetic accoutrements as alarmingly affective alignments. Alliteration allows aspiring authors abilities above average approaches. Alliterative adroit...
[06:43:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03riT-k0MA [88] (Score:1) 02Re:Worst Youtube ever.. - 06Hadrian the Robot Bricklayer Can Build a Whole House in Two Days - 1216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:43:52] <exec> 08└─My father is a builder/construction project manager. He's currently building a polystyrene house for a client. After chatting to him I can confirm that the construction costs of the house are much higher than a traditional brick house and construction time is much, much longer. Just plastering the w...
[06:44:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03gnuman [5013] (Score:2) 02Re:Are bricks common in Australia? - 06Hadrian the Robot Bricklayer Can Build a Whole House in Two Days - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:44:15] <exec> 08└─Wood is renewable resource, and more carbon neutral than making bricks + mortar. Secondly, wood is now cheaper in North America than it was 15 years ago. Might have something to do with rampaging Mountain Pine Beetle (thank you global warming! - yes, sarcastic)
[06:48:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Nope - 06France Could Offer Asylum to Assange, Snowden - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:48:34] <exec> 08└─The error in your logic is to assume that what is ethical for interactions between people is also ethical for interactions between nations. Hence anthropomorphization.
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[07:41:51] <exec> 08└─This is why kids have to recite the Pledge of Allegiance every day, at the start of school: indoctrination starts early.
[07:41:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Too fucking bad, that's not your job. - 06NSA Chief Wants to Watch, as Well as Listen and Read - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:41:53] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but distinction without a difference..... The Director of the NRO reports to both the Director of National Intelligence and the Secretary of Defense. Here are a list of other agencies that report to the DNI: http://www.dni.gov [dni.gov]
[07:41:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score:2) 02National intelligence voyeurs - 06NSA Chief Wants to Watch, as Well as Listen and Read - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:41:55] <exec> 08└─Did it occur to anyone that the NSA has a streak of voyeurism here? The analysts must run into a lot of porn and other video showing naughty bits as part of their work.
[07:41:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02concrete - 06NSA Chief Wants to Watch, as Well as Listen and Read - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:41:56] <exec> 08└─Most people do not care.about spying enough to do anything because the risk iis high and as of yet the harm is not yet concrete. Only after an opposition power in government discovers political use of these spying powers to attack their candidates, or people they know begin to be disappeared, will t...
[07:42:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03VortexCortex [4067] (Score:2) 02Re:Question - 06 This Japanese Billionaire Plans to Invest $20 Billion in Indian Solar Power - 905 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:42:52] <exec> 08└─All current energy is dirty. Even solar has production and battery pollution. Hydro-electricity, considered one of the most "clean" vastly messes with environmental ecologies. No one really gives a fuck about the environmental harms -- Virtually everyone that says otherwise still buys dirty energy r...
[07:45:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03NoMaster [3543] (Score:2) 02Re:Sam Adams - 06Congress May Lower Beer Taxes, Sam Adams Could Cease to be "Craft Beer" - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:45:47] <exec> 08└─Was wondering that myself seeing as not 30 minutes ago I saw some Sam Adams Boston Lager in a bottle-o in northern Tasmania, jammed in between all the local Boags... How about this definition for a craft brewer: "If it's available in a drive-through of a normal local pub half-way around the word, it...
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[08:41:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02Github or not Open Source - 06Open Source Project Grows and Prunes Trees into Furniture - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:41:43] <exec> 08└─All open source projects are on Github, the summary does not mention Github anywhere, therefore not Open Source.
[08:41:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:Github or not Open Source - 06Open Source Project Grows and Prunes Trees into Furniture - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:41:44] <exec> 08└─open-field...you just wander around looking at how he did this.
[08:41:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03kanweg [4737] (Score:1) 02Funny - 06Open Source Project Grows and Prunes Trees into Furniture - 1010 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:41:45] <exec> 08└─I like the idea; it is very creative and charming. Do I see it as a way of solving a current environmental problem? No. The method is faster in the sense that you don't have to wait for a tree to fully grow. But we don't do that now either. You harvest trees that someone else planted before. You pla...
[08:41:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:Megalomaniac Detected - 06NSA Chief Wants to Watch, as Well as Listen and Read - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:41:55] <exec> 08└─Will everyone please form a line to the left, and then proceed to receive your camera, which you must immediately affix to your person. It is mandatory to report back each day for the camera to be replaced with a new one. Failure to receive and affix the camera, or not reporting back, or reporting b...
[08:42:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:They Hate U.S. because, we're Evil? - 06NSA Chief Wants to Watch, as Well as Listen and Read - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:42:02] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I always thought the pledge was pretty Soviet in nature. It never meant a thing to me, its just something you did without thinking about it. Obviously it bothered you more than me. The Flag and the National Anthem meant a great deal to my dad, who was Navy in WWII. But not so much me, even tho...
[08:42:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:Things can make experiences - 06 Study Shows That Experiences, Not Things, Will Make You Happier - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:42:15] <exec> 08└─Yes, it is. Owning a sex slave doesn't make you happy. Having sex every night does.
[08:42:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Unlimited? Just like - 06Bitmap All the Things - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:42:42] <exec> 08└─Good point. Applying some mild lossy compression may not visibly alter most images, but it will completely destroy data "images". Indeed, with so many images, they may also find ways to use efficient "cross-image" compression, by finding similar images and storing only the difference to them, using...
[08:43:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Terrible headline - 06 This Japanese Billionaire Plans to Invest $20 Billion in Indian Solar Power - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:43:05] <exec> 08└─What are we, outbrain?
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[09:41:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03DNied [3409] (Score:2) 02Efficient but... - 06Open Source Project Grows and Prunes Trees into Furniture - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:41:49] <exec> 08└─...not much room for mistakes, I think. Break a branch, you must start over. It's wood-efficient, but probably not time-efficient. That said, cool stuff.
[09:42:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:Nihil nove sub sole - 06Bitmap All the Things - 583 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:42:55] <exec> 08└─15 years ago? On April 1 2004, only 11 years and 3 months ago, gmail launched. At the time, yahoo, hotmail etc offered 10 or 20MB. That wasn't exactly a lot in 1994, let alone 2004. Google announced they would give everyone 1GB for free. It was on the front page of the Evening Standard, and I rememb...
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[09:43:46] <exec> 08└─arranging alphabetic accoutrements as alarmingly affective alignments.
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[10:41:49] <exec> 08└─Teh only peeps who ever think to do this bad think is terrists! Put em all in prison, and problems solved. Send troops find these terrist resorchers, beats the fukken shht outa them, and thow they asses in prision. For Freeeeeeeeedoms! Aw yea. Im so glad I support Our Troops. Thank a Verteran for ke...
[10:41:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02!Open Source - 06Open Source Project Grows and Prunes Trees into Furniture - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:41:59] <exec> 08└─Yet another someone trying to glom on to a buzzword he's heard but doesn't understand. As the parent noted, there is no source code involved. The correct term is Open Knowledge. [google.com] -- gewg_
[10:42:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Let's apply this to people - 06Open Source Project Grows and Prunes Trees into Furniture - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:42:02] <exec> 08└─Grow them so they can use regular trees as furniture... there are millions of trees out there, think how effective this would be!
[10:42:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Money can't buy ... - 06 Study Shows That Experiences, Not Things, Will Make You Happier - 465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:42:35] <exec> 08└─In my experience there's considerable value in having fewer things that are nicer. There's definitely value in being able to pack everything up at a moment's notice even if you aren't into travel. It means less time spent working, managing the items and worrying about securing them. Living with a co...
[10:45:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Whoever [4524] 02Re:Dumb idea - 06Hadrian the Robot Bricklayer Can Build a Whole House in Two Days - 243 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:45:12] <exec> 08└─Why on earth would anyone build a house out of brick? It's a terrible building material: one small earthquake and your house collapses. No one builds houses out of brick any more (at least not in the US): brick is used as a facade element only
[10:45:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:This article is horrible. - 06Cisco Security Appliances Found to have Default SSH Keys - 550 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:45:36] <exec> 08└─> but the article says that an attacker can obtain the private key from the firmware Citation please - which sentence says that? Sentences not containing the adjective "private", or a synonymous adjectival phrase, in the context of key material will not be considered as supporting your assertion. Li...
[10:45:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03linuxrocks123 [2557] (Score:2) 02Re:Not going to do it - 06How to Start a Time Bank - 614 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:45:48] <exec> 08└─Anyone who might be tempted to read the link: it's a short story version of Atlas Shrugged without the Ubermensch parts. It's a good example how even the most ridiculous of ideas can seem superficially plausible in the context of a fictional story where the author controls the setting, the character...
[10:45:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:all hours do not have equal value - 06How to Start a Time Bank - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:45:59] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but this system avoids taxes. Evades, even.
[10:46:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Sam Adams - 06Congress May Lower Beer Taxes, Sam Adams Could Cease to be "Craft Beer" - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:46:28] <exec> 08└─Have you seen Brewdog Punk near you recently? Please say yes.
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[11:42:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Alternatives - 06Capture Google Login on Desktop to Break Into Android - 1297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:42:06] <exec> 08└─I've found alternatives for pretty much every service Google offers that I care about (read: search from DuckDuckGo and e-mail from Yandex, a Russian company whom I for some reason trust more than Google idkwhy). Now I'm just waiting for a good replacement for Android! I'm hoping to buy a Jolla tabl...
[11:42:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:National intelligence voyeurs - 06NSA Chief Wants to Watch, as Well as Listen and Read - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:42:39] <exec> 08└─The analysts must run into a lot of porn and other video showing naughty bits as part of their work.
[11:42:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:concrete - 06NSA Chief Wants to Watch, as Well as Listen and Read - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:42:41] <exec> 08└─people they know begin to be disappeared, will the public care.
[11:42:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Visualization - 06NSA Chief Wants to Watch, as Well as Listen and Read - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:42:43] <exec> 08└─We need "the ability to visualize," he explained
[11:42:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02open the aperture - 06NSA Chief Wants to Watch, as Well as Listen and Read - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:42:45] <exec> 08└─The larger the aperture [wikipedia.org], the larger the aberrations, the lower the depth of field.
[11:43:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Terrible headline - 06 This Japanese Billionaire Plans to Invest $20 Billion in Indian Solar Power - 718 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:43:46] <exec> 08└─Or any of the other clickbait sites. Thanks for raising the issue - it annoys me too. It's funny how one unnecessary word ("this") can make such a difference. If I see an "X does Y" link, then I expect the target of the link to be a story about that X, and the Y being done. So what was the "this" fo...
[11:44:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Closed source binary blob - 06Binary Blob Banished By Berated Browser's Better Build (Chromium) - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:44:08] <exec> 08└─But how did it slip by at the computer level - how can a browser install a kernel module? Browsers should run as unprivileged users, and kernel modules should be installable only by the superuser. If that maxim's not followed - you're doing operating system wrong.
[11:45:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Dumb idea - 06Hadrian the Robot Bricklayer Can Build a Whole House in Two Days - 644 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:45:28] <exec> 08└─Your statement may be right, but because it's simplified things to a binary it's wrong too. I don't want insulation outside my thermal mass when I'm trying to store heat in my walls before the long winter. And because I want as much heat in my walls as possible, I want them to start absorbing heat f...
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[12:41:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02what browser exploit did they use - 06Capture Google Login on Desktop to Break Into Android - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:41:53] <exec> 08└─What browser exploit did they use and how can it be secured against?
[12:41:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:what browser exploit did they use - 06Capture Google Login on Desktop to Break Into Android - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:41:54] <exec> 08└─More importantly, how does a desktop browser exploit result in a malicious app being installed on your mobile?
[12:42:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Elder race - 06Open Source Project Grows and Prunes Trees into Furniture - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:08] <exec> 08└─Haven't the Elves and Fairies been doing this for millennia? And, isn't that why it's so hard to find their homes? https://www.pinterest.com [pinterest.com]
[12:42:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Whoever [4524] 02Re:Suck my aperture - 06NSA Chief Wants to Watch, as Well as Listen and Read - 58 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:42:20] <exec> 08└─Really, these guys don't even see how ridiculous they are.
[12:42:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:concrete - 06NSA Chief Wants to Watch, as Well as Listen and Read - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:42:32] <exec> 08└─What country was that?
[12:42:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:You don't get to define greatness. - 06 Study Shows That Experiences, Not Things, Will Make You Happier - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:42:51] <exec> 08└─Little did I know that being a survivalists was also a red flags among government databases...
[12:43:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:VOTE OBAMA 2016 - 06Bitmap All the Things - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:43:04] <exec> 08└─We will go back to boob bitmaps, they are so much better than black bitmaps :p
[12:43:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:My calculations show - 06Bitmap All the Things - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:43:13] <exec> 08└─How many bytes are those .tar files on?
[12:43:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Specifically regarding the video size limit... - 06Bitmap All the Things - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:43:27] <exec> 08└─I don't believe the round-trip is lossless. Compressing the decimated components would introduce new lossy artefacts that could never be undone.
[12:43:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Question - 06 This Japanese Billionaire Plans to Invest $20 Billion in Indian Solar Power - 1016 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:43:41] <exec> 08└─> No one really gives a fuck about the environmental harms -- Virtually everyone that says otherwise still buys dirty energy rather than doing without "unclean" power. I voluntarily pay an extra high "Green" tarriff for my electricity (which is my only possible source of energy) purely voluntarily....
[12:43:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:Terrible headline - 06 This Japanese Billionaire Plans to Invest $20 Billion in Indian Solar Power - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:43:44] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately, Soylent copied the article text verbatim as well as the headline. I prefer a Soylent written summary and Title. If the article is click bait nonsense, give us warning.
[12:44:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:Please to be ... - 06Binary Blob Banished By Berated Browser's Better Build (Chromium) - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:44:22] <exec> 08└─effective, not affective? But that would spoil the illiteration. The mood disturbance is what's so alarming
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[13:41:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:what browser exploit did they use - 06Capture Google Login on Desktop to Break Into Android - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:50] <exec> 08└─If you browse Google play with a logged in chrome, you can select apps to be automatically installed on any associated Android phone.
[13:42:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Marand [1081] 02Re:They Hate U.S. because, we're Evil? - 06NSA Chief Wants to Watch, as Well as Listen and Read - 120 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:42:19] <exec> 08└─This is why kids have to recite the Pledge of Allegiance every day, at the start of school: indoctrination starts early.
[13:42:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02SETI@home - 06NSA Chief Wants to Watch, as Well as Listen and Read - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:30] <exec> 08└─I wonder how many seti@home tapes they intercept and analyse/edit before the get to Berkeley. Global/Universe security.
[13:42:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score:2) 02Re:Money can't buy ... - 06 Study Shows That Experiences, Not Things, Will Make You Happier - 692 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:42:43] <exec> 08└─I would agree. It's a few years ago now but I once realized that I had an apartment filled with various things that I just never used or did anything with. They just sat or stood there like artifacts of the past collecting dust. There was a purge of items. I just have not taken it to the extreme of...
[13:42:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Sanity - 06 Study Shows That Experiences, Not Things, Will Make You Happier - 521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:51] <exec> 08└─I find that when people stress me, my best option is to escape to my computer room... So I guess things make me happier than stupid people, lol. My wife can stress me, especially at those certain times, but she is very smart, though illogical at times, so she stresses me far less than stupid people...
[13:43:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:My calculations show - 06Bitmap All the Things - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:43:12] <exec> 08└─I imagine they will validate the images by decoding them in memory before accepting them.
[13:44:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03isostatic [365] 02Re:Please to be ... - 06Binary Blob Banished By Berated Browser's Better Build (Chromium) - 810 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:44:19] <exec> 08└─fucking quitting the stupid alliterative headlines. Alliteration articulates an artistic and alacritous approach aimed at annotating and arranging alphabetic accoutrements as alarmingly affective alignments. Alliteration allows aspiring authors abilities above average approaches. Alliterative adroit...
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[14:41:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02No. - 06Is the Universe Ringing Like a Crystal Glass? - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:37] <exec> 08└─Is the Universe Ringing
[14:41:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03hankwang [100] (Score:2) 02The real problem is the rogue browser extension - 06Capture Google Login on Desktop to Break Into Android - 788 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:57] <exec> 08└─While logged in to the Play Store, you can only install apps that are available on the Play Store. I believe that Google has some automatic checks for potentially malicious software. That's at least a first line of defense. Moreover, the user of the phone will see notifications about installed apps....
[14:42:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03arcz [4501] (Score:1) 02Study is awful - 06 Study Shows That Experiences, Not Things, Will Make You Happier - 813 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:59] <exec> 08└─I think that to each his own. Some people are going to be made happy by things, and others wont. It's far too complicated to simplify like that. Some people may be very unhappy when driving and they smell funny smells in their car. An air freshener or carpet cleaning device might provide them happin...
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[14:44:14] <exec> 08└─$> ./configure $> make $> sudo make install there, that was easy... what part of sudo do you not get?
[14:44:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Accountability - 06Binary Blob Banished By Berated Browser's Better Build (Chromium) - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:44:25] <exec> 08└─At least that is what Google said.
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[15:41:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03krommers [5599] (Score:1) 02Air Guard changes probably fueled this - 06North Dakota: The New "Silicon Valley" of Drones - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:48] <exec> 08└─The ND Air National Guard transitioned from traditional fighter jets to drones, and that has probably fueled an increased awareness of the drone-trend in that area.
[15:42:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:what browser exploit did they use - 06Capture Google Login on Desktop to Break Into Android - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:01] <exec> 08└─What should be added to this is that I would guess that the app must be available in the Google Play store. There really shouldn't be malware available there in the first place. There may be apps that are not 'malware' according to the rules of the store though, such as ones that send SMS messages t...
[15:42:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:The real problem is the rogue browser extension - 06Capture Google Login on Desktop to Break Into Android - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:03] <exec> 08└─People really should have two factor authentication enabled on their Google accounts as well. It 's been available for years, it's open source, and it works with other services like DropBox and can be used for SSH as well.
[15:42:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Other Services - 06Capture Google Login on Desktop to Break Into Android - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:05] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't this also expose other services like GMail, Google Drive, Photos, etc as well? I would think those are just as worthy of mentioning as the mobile device install possibility, perhaps more so.
[15:42:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:They Hate U.S. because, we're Evil? - 06NSA Chief Wants to Watch, as Well as Listen and Read - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:42:35] <exec> 08└─Great that it didn't work on you. But what about everyone else? Do you recall if your classmates felt the same way or just kinda zoned out and went along...
[15:45:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score:2) 02Re:homelessness isn't caused by a lack of housing - 06Hadrian the Robot Bricklayer Can Build a Whole House in Two Days - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:45:32] <exec> 08└─Up until relatively recently in history there were no homeless.
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[16:41:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No. - 06Is the Universe Ringing Like a Crystal Glass? - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:41:38] <exec> 08└─Oh Betteridge, you so cray
[16:41:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:Alternatives - 06Capture Google Login on Desktop to Break Into Android - 892 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:56] <exec> 08└─DuckDuckGo is a good alternative for privacy from what I can tell. For the rest of the services, it's hard to beat Google's security though. They've got a pretty good track record for a company that size. Same for privacy (private from others, not Google themselves obviously). I think there's some e...
[16:42:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03hankwang [100] (Score:2) 02Re:The real problem is the rogue browser extension - 06Capture Google Login on Desktop to Break Into Android - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:03] <exec> 08└─People really should have two factor authentication enabled on their Google accounts as well.
[16:42:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheLink [332] (Score:2) 02Not faster and not the first - 06Open Source Project Grows and Prunes Trees into Furniture - 778 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:19] <exec> 08└─If you keep growing trees there's always wood around to make into what you want immediately. And even if you're starting from scratch, his method takes 8 years which is slower than making furniture out of bamboo (which grows rather fast - 3-6 years to be suitable for harvesting). People have been gr...
[16:42:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Americans stop acting like its not your fault - 06NSA Chief Wants to Watch, as Well as Listen and Read - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:48] <exec> 08└─Every fucking one of you is the reason this is happening, the NSA is a construct of your xenophobia and apathy. This fake internet outrage whenever its brought up by people contributing to the problem disgusts me. Every single one of you is the god damn cause of it.
[16:42:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03theronb [2596] (Score:1) 02Re:Things can make experiences - 06 Study Shows That Experiences, Not Things, Will Make You Happier - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:42:59] <exec> 08└─I bought a really nice musical instrument and I use it to play in jam sessions with other people. I get to a) have a really nice "thing", b) use it in enjoyable creative experiences, and c) meet new people as a result. Can't beat that!
[16:44:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:Terrible headline - 06 This Japanese Billionaire Plans to Invest $20 Billion in Indian Solar Power - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:44:02] <exec> 08└─It's just one word. Compared with the usual gewg or Hugh Pickens crap it seems a fairly good article - summary's a bit long but nonetheless. But the first 40 bits let it down and file it in the "junk" part of my brain :( Actually concentrate on the summary and it's a really good story, far better th...
[16:45:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Re:homelessness isn't caused by a lack of housing - 06Hadrian the Robot Bricklayer Can Build a Whole House in Two Days - 533 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:45:35] <exec> 08└─You are missing historical and geographic context entirely. Up until relatively recently in history there were no homeless. Don't have a house? Build one wherever there is spare land and trees. This is how it still works in many developing nations. Here every square inch is owned by someone even if...
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[17:41:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Phew! - 06Is the Universe Ringing Like a Crystal Glass? - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:42] <exec> 08└─I though I had tinnitus!
[17:41:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Breaking the universe? - 06Is the Universe Ringing Like a Crystal Glass? - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:43] <exec> 08└─So if the universe rings like a crystal glass, does that mean you can break it by singing the right tone?
[17:42:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Alternatives - 06Capture Google Login on Desktop to Break Into Android - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:02] <exec> 08└─Search from Yandex is better than google's for CIS language stuff.
[17:42:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:They Hate U.S. because, we're Evil? - 06NSA Chief Wants to Watch, as Well as Listen and Read - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:42:43] <exec> 08└─This is why kids have to recite the Pledge of Allegiance every day, at the start of school: indoctrination starts early. In my case, at least, all that ever did was make me hate hearing it
[17:43:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Study is awful - 06 Study Shows That Experiences, Not Things, Will Make You Happier - 706 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:43:19] <exec> 08└─Study may be flawed, but its conclusion matches my own experience. I know lots of people who claw their way to more and more income to buy more / bigger crap. And, if they are happy, it is an odd sort of happiness that often leads to stress related illness and death. I know a few free spirits who ge...
[17:43:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Study is awful - 06 Study Shows That Experiences, Not Things, Will Make You Happier - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:43:20] <exec> 08└─The real problem is that they're trying to measure something subjective like happiness and then compare it to other people's happiness. Such excellent science.
[17:43:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02VR rooms? - 06 Study Shows That Experiences, Not Things, Will Make You Happier - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:21] <exec> 08└─I wonder if there be climate controlled VR rooms in major cities? No need to go on an expensive cruise ship. Let the VR do its work in a cheap suburb.
[17:44:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score:2) 02The lead developer of that browser? - 06Binary Blob Banished By Berated Browser's Better Build (Chromium) - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:54] <exec> 08└─The lead developer of that browser? Betty Botter [wikipedia.org].
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[18:41:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:Breaking the universe? - 06Is the Universe Ringing Like a Crystal Glass? - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:41:43] <exec> 08└─Look around. Why do you think everything is all over the place now?
[18:42:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:what browser exploit did they use - 06Capture Google Login on Desktop to Break Into Android - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:07] <exec> 08└─I believe the critical part of your post is "There really shouldn't be malware available there". Except there is. Just running the apps through a virus checker doesn't really get the job done.
[18:42:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Americans stop acting like its not your fault - 06NSA Chief Wants to Watch, as Well as Listen and Read - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:42:57] <exec> 08└─Every fucking one of you is the reason this is happening, the NSA is a construct of your xenophobia and apathy. This fake internet outrage whenever its brought up by people contributing to the problem disgusts me. Every single one of you is the god damn cause of it.
[18:44:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DarkMorph [674] 02Chromium on Gentoo Linux - 06Binary Blob Banished By Berated Browser's Better Build (Chromium) - 191 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:45] <exec> 08└─As of Chromium 43.0.2357.130, the ebuild has a USE flag for "hotwording", disabled by default, which determines whether the browser will compile with this contraversial feature added into it.
[18:46:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03allsorts46 [574] (Score:1) 02Re:Dumb idea - 06Hadrian the Robot Bricklayer Can Build a Whole House in Two Days - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:46:10] <exec> 08└─I actually found this discussion interesting, because living in the UK, I had no idea people built houses out of anything except brick (except mud huts and stuff).
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[19:42:03] <exec> 08└─I'm hard pressed to think of anyone I want to be secure against more than Google. Well, Facebook. But honestly, I'm wondering what information I'd rather Google had about me than some hacker in Russia./p
[19:42:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Americans stop acting like its not your fault - 06NSA Chief Wants to Watch, as Well as Listen and Read - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:43:00] <exec> 08└─Yeah but you got marriage equality and marijuana right? Hurrah! Voters are getting what they want. Democracy at work. Meanwhile the rest are getting what they want too. TPP, more spying on everyone, more monopolies.
[19:43:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Americans stop acting like its not your fault - 06NSA Chief Wants to Watch, as Well as Listen and Read - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:43:01] <exec> 08└─Every fucking one of you is the reason this is happening, the NSA is a construct of your xenophobia and apathy.
[19:43:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Things can make experiences - 06 Study Shows That Experiences, Not Things, Will Make You Happier - 562 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:43:13] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure some advanced medical technology/treatment in the future would be able to induce the feeling of happiness too. Of course that sort of technology would probably advance the field of torture too ;). Imagine being able to "play" someone like an instrument - pain, pleasure, sadness, happ...
[19:43:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] 02I once knew a very wealthy man - 06 Study Shows That Experiences, Not Things, Will Make You Happier - 551 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:17] <exec> 08└─owner of a hedge fund I one consulted for. He was bitterly unhappy despite being the richest person I am ever likely to meet. His objective was to make five times as much money as he possessed when we first met. I dint see what good it could possibly do him. For me my happiest moment was when a wild...
[19:43:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03VortexCortex [4067] 02You don't get to define greatness. - 06 Study Shows That Experiences, Not Things, Will Make You Happier - 3299 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:43:20] <exec> 08└─Having been homeless myself, I can attest that your assumption is correct though misleading. Once, while alone for half of what would become three months of stranded in the harsh Canadian winter I sat upon a stone in the clearing and watched man made satellites march across the heavenly dome with my...
[19:43:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03toygeek [28] (Score:2) 02Re:You don't get to define greatness. - 06 Study Shows That Experiences, Not Things, Will Make You Happier - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:43:23] <exec> 08└─You need to write a book.
[19:43:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:Study is awful - 06 Study Shows That Experiences, Not Things, Will Make You Happier - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:43:30] <exec> 08└─I recall seeing an arrival that stated that increased income did increase happiness up to around $70k/yr. After that more money did not increase happiness.
[19:44:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02You can't afford your own storage? - 06Bitmap All the Things - 776 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:09] <exec> 08└─How many of you are actually creating terabytes of actual original data to be stored? Average internet speed in the USA = 10Mbps. Time it takes to transfer 1TB at 10Mbps = 9 days. So if you were actually creating more than 1TB per day, you wouldn't be storing it with Google especially if you're usin...
[19:45:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03joshuajon [807] (Score:2) 02Re:Worst Youtube ever.. - 06Hadrian the Robot Bricklayer Can Build a Whole House in Two Days - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:45:43] <exec> 08└─You make it sound like an utterly terrible material. Did you try to talk your dad out of building it?!
[19:46:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score:2) 02Re:Dumb idea - 06Hadrian the Robot Bricklayer Can Build a Whole House in Two Days - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:46:21] <exec> 08└─I actually found this discussion interesting, because living in the UK, I had no idea people built houses out of anything except brick (except mud huts and stuff).
[19:46:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03joshuajon [807] (Score:2) 02Re:Huh?! - 06Hadrian the Robot Bricklayer Can Build a Whole House in Two Days - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:46:27] <exec> 08└─Is there a place where this isn't true? Outside of Cuba, Korea, etc?
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[20:42:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score:2) 02Re:They Hate U.S. because, we're Evil? - 06NSA Chief Wants to Watch, as Well as Listen and Read - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:42:45] <exec> 08└─When I was a kid in Vancouver, the odd other kid would spend a year or so south of the border and then return with horrifying stories about being forced to recite the pledge. The whole idea seemed something right out of the most authoritarian dictatorship and was one of the things that proved the li...
[20:46:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:Huh?! - 06Hadrian the Robot Bricklayer Can Build a Whole House in Two Days - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:46:26] <exec> 08└─It seems Europe is not as badly corpocratized.
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[21:42:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03DarkMorph [674] (Score:2) 02Re:Alternatives - 06Capture Google Login on Desktop to Break Into Android - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:05] <exec> 08└─Now I'm just waiting for a good replacement for Android
[21:42:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Farkus888 [5159] (Score:2) 02Um, yeah. - 06Capture Google Login on Desktop to Break Into Android - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:16] <exec> 08└─I don't think I see the point of this article. This is a feature that was built in on purpose. It is a tautology, once you are hacked you are hacked. We already knew that after an account is compromised every piece of data in it and every device it was logged in on must be carefully checked for ever...
[21:42:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:concrete - 06NSA Chief Wants to Watch, as Well as Listen and Read - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:42:59] <exec> 08└─One in the East European block, prior to '90-ies. I've seen it for 25y+.
[21:43:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Bigotry tarnishing soylentnews - 06NSA Chief Wants to Watch, as Well as Listen and Read - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:43:07] <exec> 08└─Every single one of you is the god damn cause of it.
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[22:41:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Phew! - 06Is the Universe Ringing Like a Crystal Glass? - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:41:44] <exec> 08└─Thank you for that!
[22:43:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:concrete - 06NSA Chief Wants to Watch, as Well as Listen and Read - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:43:01] <exec> 08└─What would you say was the key aspect to survive and thrive in a east European country in the 80s?
[22:43:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:concrete - 06NSA Chief Wants to Watch, as Well as Listen and Read - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:43:02] <exec> 08└─What would you say was the key aspect to survive and thrive in a east European country in the 80s?
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[23:41:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02Re:Breaking the universe? - 06Is the Universe Ringing Like a Crystal Glass? - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:41:46] <exec> 08└─Ohmmmmm....mmm....mmm...mmm
[23:42:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03davester666 [155] 02Re:what browser exploit did they use - 06Capture Google Login on Desktop to Break Into Android - 192 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:12] <exec> 08└─I believe the critical part of your post is "There really shouldn't be malware available there". Except there is. Just running the apps through a virus checker doesn't really get the job done.
[23:43:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:concrete - 06NSA Chief Wants to Watch, as Well as Listen and Read - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:43:03] <exec> 08└─Seems only psychologically self mutilating people would manage that kind of environment for long. Or one better enjoy ones own company really good. I guess people not mingling with others were viewed as suspicious too? That thing with metaphors based on a shared experience seems like challenge-respo...
[23:43:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Bigotry tarnishing soylentnews - 06NSA Chief Wants to Watch, as Well as Listen and Read - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:43:12] <exec> 08└─This is really one of the reasons why people come here from other news aggregators, get one look then back away to never return.
[23:43:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Money can't buy ... - 06 Study Shows That Experiences, Not Things, Will Make You Happier - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:43:29] <exec> 08└─I would rather save my money and be financially independent in around 7 years. There are plenty of things you can do without paying, but our consumerist society makes people think they have to spend, spend, spend.
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