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[00:13:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02pro coders update your résumé - 06 They Grow Up Fast: Apple Quietly Bulks Up Swift and Xcode in Year Two - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:16] <exec> 08└─+ 20 years experience with coding apps in Swift and Xcode
[00:13:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02That... - 06 They Grow Up Fast: Apple Quietly Bulks Up Swift and Xcode in Year Two - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:17] <exec> 08└─...still seems pretty incomplete as a programming language.
[00:13:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How much does the artist get from my CD purchas - 06Smoking Gun: MPAA Emails Reveal Plan To Run Anti-Google Smear Campaign - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:13:27] <exec> 08└─Even if it did go to actual musicians and such, it's still insane to have the government charge a tax on something like blank CDs for absolutely everyone just because some people may 'abuse' it.
[00:13:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Re:How much does the artist get from my CD purchas - 06Smoking Gun: MPAA Emails Reveal Plan To Run Anti-Google Smear Campaign - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:13:29] <exec> 08└─My son has been a few bands, cut some CDs, opened for some very popular bands, toured the states, has award winning music videos, etc. Has not received a cent from the record labels. I say torrent what you want and donate directly to the artist, like I do.
[00:13:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02Re:How much does the artist get from my CD purchas - 06Smoking Gun: MPAA Emails Reveal Plan To Run Anti-Google Smear Campaign - 708 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:13:31] <exec> 08└─I've wanted a system to only reward the artists since the 80s. Back in the day I used to buy an album and make a cassette tape of it. Sometimes I'd make mixtapes for my friends. Not to try to hook up with them (I had cocaine for that :), but because I thought the music was good, never got played on...
[00:13:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How much does the artist get from my CD purchas - 06Smoking Gun: MPAA Emails Reveal Plan To Run Anti-Google Smear Campaign - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:13:32] <exec> 08└─Join the union to collect what they have negotiated?? http://www.ascap.com [ascap.com] There are others too, but ASCAP is the big one -- formed in the early days of radio, http://www.ascap.com [ascap.com]
[00:13:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03pogostix [1696] (Score:2) 02calm down, it's all cool - 06Gamers Steaming Over Dumb Valve Password Vulnerability - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:40] <exec> 08└─don't worry guys. I just tested SN and we seem to be secure. Sorry about the password reset EF ;)
[00:13:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02You could have tried for the alliteration. - 06Gamers Steaming Over Dumb Valve Password Vulnerability - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:41] <exec> 08└─Surrounding Stupid Service Shenanigans, Shitheads Steam.
[00:13:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03tempest [3050] (Score:2) 02Re:It's two words not one - 06Alternative Browser Pale Moon Releases Version 25.6.0 With Privacy, Security Fixes - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:13:52] <exec> 08└─I think it's technically accurate, as Pale Moon was intended as an "optimized" version of Firefox until the Australis interface was introduced, THEN it became a fork.
[00:14:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Spin it right - 06Xinuos Announces OpenServer X and the Xinuos Business One Developer Program - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:14:25] <exec> 08└─"fetid pool" Still too poetic for the likes of SCO. More along the lines of the juice that comes out of a meat market trash truck mixed with raw sewage from a 3rd world country and topped off with a spritz of the wrung out, unwashed panties off a crack whore on her period after a marathon fuck fest...
[00:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:2) 02w007 for Motif - 06Xinuos Announces OpenServer X and the Xinuos Business One Developer Program - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:30] <exec> 08└─nVidia offers native drivers for their high-performance graphics hardware, and the industry standard Motif® and OpenGL® libraries are supported.
[00:15:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:2) 02Re:Don't think this is a reliable guide - 06Using Algorithms to Determine Character - 4008 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:15:12] <exec> 08└─A few things. First, I'm in total agreement that GP should feel ashamed about what they've done. GP received an education in exchange for a loan that must be repaid. Those were the terms and conditions; they must be honored unless GP can point out if they were lied to or coerced. I don't think eithe...
[00:15:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Don't think this is a reliable guide - 06Using Algorithms to Determine Character - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:15:13] <exec> 08└─First, I'm in total agreement that GP should feel ashamed about what they've done.
[00:15:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Don't think this is a reliable guide - 06Using Algorithms to Determine Character - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:15:15] <exec> 08└─You are a good example of the challenges of trying to capture intangibles such as good character, honor, self-respect in an algorithm. Society will always have that element of selfish deadweight who feel entitled to take and never give back; those who feel justified in eschewing responsibility and h...
[00:15:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:Hole, hole everywhere a hole! - 06Crazy Chrysler Security Hole: USB Stick Fix Incoming for 1.4 Million Cars - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:15:28] <exec> 08└─What do you think?
[00:15:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Curious about others... - 06Crazy Chrysler Security Hole: USB Stick Fix Incoming for 1.4 Million Cars - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:15:51] <exec> 08└─> I'm just going to keep my old, unconnected car for as long as I can. I didn't think my Versa could go up in resale value... 100% manual, come fight for it.
[00:16:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Re:It's one of them quasiparticle things - 06Weyl Fermion: Faster Electronics, Cheaper Power? - 2183 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:16:02] <exec> 08└─Because while it may be a quasiparticle it behaves exactly as would a "physical" particle. It's the same concept as a phonon, which is a quasiparticle of acoustic oscillation. It acts within the medium in very many ways as does a photon in vacuum (and given the situation acts *exactly* as does a pho...
[00:16:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Pepperidge Farm remembers electronics - 06Weyl Fermion: Faster Electronics, Cheaper Power? - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:16:15] <exec> 08└─I think that's a hint that you shouldn't be using such a sub-par browser as FireFox in the first place.
[00:16:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Pepperidge Farm remembers electronics - 06Weyl Fermion: Faster Electronics, Cheaper Power? - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:16:16] <exec> 08└─Suddenly you have chips that are 5+ orders of magnitude better. Are you ready for the 1 exaflops Weyltronic desktop?
[00:17:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03J053 [3532] (Score:1) 02Re:How about all fifty states? - 06US State of Georgia Sues Man for Publishing its Own Laws... on the Internet - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:17:19] <exec> 08└─Hawaii, at least, have the full content of the Hawaii Revised Statutes on a searchable page at http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov [hawaii.gov] - along with all bills before the legislature, hearing schedules, etc. I'd actually be surprised if most states don't do the same somewhere.
[00:18:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Agree and disagree - 06Anti-Fur Activists Cover Tracks By Avoiding Technology - 501 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:18:24] <exec> 08└─Bestiality isn't necessarily abuse. Dogs often just starting humping people; are the dogs being raped? The notion that animals cannot ever consent is merely a legal fiction; if that were true, every instance of non-human animals engaging in sexual intercourse would be rape. But it isn't. It's often...
[00:18:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Agree and disagree - 06Anti-Fur Activists Cover Tracks By Avoiding Technology - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:18:38] <exec> 08└─So many things are political, and so many criminal acts are violence. Even the standard definition of terrorism is subjective and ridiculously overbroad. It's just a term fearmongers like to use.
[00:19:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Self defense - 06Internet Escort Slays Alleged Serial Killer - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:19:59] <exec> 08└─Well, considering that its what the 9th and 10th amendments say...
[00:20:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Self defense - 06Internet Escort Slays Alleged Serial Killer - 1286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:20:29] <exec> 08└─> Prostitution is legal in Las Vegas, Nevada, too, No it isn't. It's only legal in a couple of rural counties so far out in the boonies that the population is practically nil and then its only in highly regulated brothels that are pretty expensive. You can't draw much of any conclusion from such a t...
[00:21:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Self defense - 06Internet Escort Slays Alleged Serial Killer - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:21:11] <exec> 08└─A bigot is a person that refuses to change beliefs, prejudices, and hatred when evidence to the contrary is provided. Person A makes a claim. Person B refutes them. Person A ignores evidence and continues their claim. Person A is a bigot.
[00:21:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Self defense - 06Internet Escort Slays Alleged Serial Killer - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:21:15] <exec> 08└─No real American would ever speak like that, right [yourlogicalfallacyis.com]?
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[01:13:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02No. - 06Musk, Wozniak and Hawking Warn Over AI Warfare and Autonomous Weapons - 508 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:20] <exec> 08└─I do not think anyone could ban such a thing any more than they can ban alcohol, weed, or music sharing. This is one of those things that come in the mixed bag of rewards resulting from advancement of technology. If we do not use it, the "bad guy" will. No use deliberately being a sheep and trusting...
[01:13:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:pro coders update your résumé - 06 They Grow Up Fast: Apple Quietly Bulks Up Swift and Xcode in Year Two - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:13:30] <exec> 08└─I'm already claiming a PhD and 6 patents on Swift optimizations for cloud-based mobile IoT low-latency social-network synergies compliant with BS3704
[01:13:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:That... - 06 They Grow Up Fast: Apple Quietly Bulks Up Swift and Xcode in Year Two - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:13:33] <exec> 08└─... and still closed?
[01:13:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:How much does the artist get from my CD purchas - 06Smoking Gun: MPAA Emails Reveal Plan To Run Anti-Google Smear Campaign - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:13:43] <exec> 08└─Not at all. I've paid my fees and therefore get to download all available recorded music.
[01:13:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:You could have tried for the alliteration. - 06Gamers Steaming Over Dumb Valve Password Vulnerability - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:13:55] <exec> 08└─How is this for a headline Steam Suffers Senseless Stability Shortcoming letting Someone Stealthily Switch Secrete passwords to Snatch and Steal Some Sucker's Stupid [Cyber] Stuff.
[01:13:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:You could have tried for the alliteration. - 06Gamers Steaming Over Dumb Valve Password Vulnerability - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:13:56] <exec> 08└─"anyone trying the hijack would be risking a permanent ban." Steam sets stealing sociopaths straight.
[01:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03forkazoo [2561] (Score:2) 02Re:OpenServer X - 06Xinuos Announces OpenServer X and the Xinuos Business One Developer Program - 646 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:14:30] <exec> 08└─There's also no way that Open Server X would be confused with an X Server or X/Open. But yeah, I can't imagine anything that it does appreciably better than Linux at this point. 20 years ago, it may have had a reputation for being "rock solid" but today it's something most industry professionals hav...
[01:15:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02An average of an average methodology - 06Using Algorithms to Determine Character - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:35] <exec> 08└─Wow, 135million for a company that is using flawed metrics to come to firm conclusions. I guess this is a symptom of AGW. Why did we stop teaching logic in schools???
[01:16:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Pepperidge Farm remembers electronics - 06Weyl Fermion: Faster Electronics, Cheaper Power? - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:16:35] <exec> 08└─You need a Weyltronic SSD.
[01:17:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:How about all fifty states? - 06US State of Georgia Sues Man for Publishing its Own Laws... on the Internet - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:17:41] <exec> 08└─What an interesting antidote to the "don't talk to cops" idiocy that crops up from time to time.
[01:17:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:Edicts of government are not copyright eligible - 06US State of Georgia Sues Man for Publishing its Own Laws... on the Internet - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:17:48] <exec> 08└─Well that adds a wrinkle. I agree that if the summaries were commissioned by the state, then they should be in the public domain because the public paid for them.
[01:17:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:Edicts of government are not copyright eligible - 06US State of Georgia Sues Man for Publishing its Own Laws... on the Internet - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:17:51] <exec> 08└─The summaries are written by lawyers in the employ of Westlaw/Lexis. There are two levels of creativity involved, 1) deciding that a case applies to a particular law (this can be very easy to very hard depending on the case) and 2) condensing a 10-30 page decision into a two or three sentence summar...
[01:19:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score:2) 02Re:Agree and disagree - 06Anti-Fur Activists Cover Tracks By Avoiding Technology - 1197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:19:00] <exec> 08└─Sigh...it is NOT random, its is targeting a specific group and by your argument if a neo nazi says "We'll go kill Rabbi Goldfarb, scare the fuck out of them kikes" it wouldn't count because he didn't say "lets kill a random person". Terrorism ALWAYS has a target, if you say it has to be "random" the...
[01:20:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Self defense - 06Internet Escort Slays Alleged Serial Killer - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:20:31] <exec> 08└─That you think it has anything to do with being "gamed" suggests you suffer from the poor analytical ability as runaway.
[01:20:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Self defense - 06Internet Escort Slays Alleged Serial Killer - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:20:48] <exec> 08└─You cite an example proving the guy's point
[01:20:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Self defense - 06Internet Escort Slays Alleged Serial Killer - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:20:49] <exec> 08└─>> You cite an example proving the guy's point > > Note that it doesn't actually prove the guy's point. Yes it does. The NL legalized prostitution in 2000 and yet sex trafficking still continues. Or are you doing that minutiae thing again where since it doesn't exactly match the hyperbole it actuall...
[01:20:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Self defense - 06Internet Escort Slays Alleged Serial Killer - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:20:53] <exec> 08└─No it isn't. It's only legal in a couple of rural counties so far out in the boonies that the population is practically nil and then its only in highly regulated brothels that are pretty expensive. You can't draw much of any conclusion from such a tiny sample size with such high barriers to entry.
[01:20:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Self defense - 06Internet Escort Slays Alleged Serial Killer - 1088 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:20:54] <exec> 08└─> Wikipedia says 12 of 17 Nevada counties allow for it. You seem to be trying to refute my point with minutiae rather than meaning. That doesn't change he fact that they are "rural counties so far out in the boonies that the population is practically nil." Nevada only has a couple of population cen...
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[02:13:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02AI will be our creation, our legacy. - 06Musk, Wozniak and Hawking Warn Over AI Warfare and Autonomous Weapons - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:22] <exec> 08└─For many thousands of years human frailty and mortality have kept short the collective intelligence and conscious. Now we have a way to create our successors which would be free of these limitations and true-to-form we are fearful for our small, pathetic, contemporary existence. Marvel at the hypocr...
[02:13:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03bziman [3577] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Follow the money - 06Musk, Wozniak and Hawking Warn Over AI Warfare and Autonomous Weapons - 830 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:24] <exec> 08└─There are definitely going to be autonomous killing machines. You know why? Because it will mean big profits for Lockheed, Raytheon, CACI, etc. It will be positioned as a "cost saving" measure, so that the military doesn't have to pay real soldiers. But it's just the next phase of extracting more mo...
[02:13:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Follow the money - 06Musk, Wozniak and Hawking Warn Over AI Warfare and Autonomous Weapons - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:13:25] <exec> 08└─Think of the children! 10000 lives were obliterated is a few seconds because of this https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Now we've got robots, cruise missiles, all perfectly clean. Your boys can grow up safely knowing they'll never PTSDed or injur...
[02:13:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02War is not about being 'nice' - 06Musk, Wozniak and Hawking Warn Over AI Warfare and Autonomous Weapons - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:27] <exec> 08└─War is not about being 'nice' it is about "Crush your enemies. See them driven before you. Hear the lamentations of their women. " To enter into the act of war is about winning. Do not enter lighthearted. Be prepared to be defeated. For your enemy is also playing to win. They are not going to 'play...
[02:13:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score:2) 02we still love to kill - 06Musk, Wozniak and Hawking Warn Over AI Warfare and Autonomous Weapons - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:30] <exec> 08└─The sheep's in the meadow, the cow's in the corn Now is the time for a child to be born He'll cry for the moon and laugh at the sun If he's a boy, he'll carry a gun Sang the crow on the cradle If it should happen that our baby's a girl Never you mind if her hair doesn't curl Rings on her fingers and...
[02:13:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02A good start... - 06Musk, Wozniak and Hawking Warn Over AI Warfare and Autonomous Weapons - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:31] <exec> 08└─Would be for companies to refuse to provide services and tech to the military. I do it with my services, it's not that hard to make an ethical decision not to participate in the military machine.
[02:13:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02We can't even keep the NSA honest - 06Musk, Wozniak and Hawking Warn Over AI Warfare and Autonomous Weapons - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:34] <exec> 08└─Various 3 letter agencies are trouncing the constitution spying on us, and somehow we think a strongly worded letter will keep them from deploying robots who will kill us based on fuzzy logic? I feel a Walt Kelly quote is in order here, but I can't decide which one is best.
[02:13:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:That... - 06 They Grow Up Fast: Apple Quietly Bulks Up Swift and Xcode in Year Two - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:13:40] <exec> 08└─If it can't compile on Linux, then its garbage.
[02:13:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Re:How much does the artist get from my CD purchas - 06Smoking Gun: MPAA Emails Reveal Plan To Run Anti-Google Smear Campaign - 819 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:13:49] <exec> 08└─Silly person - you thought that CD tax was to help musicians. That's not the way governments work. That money is for their rich friends - in this case, the big shots who run the record labels. When these sociopaths get the money, they kick some of it back to the politicians so they get re-elected so...
[02:14:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How would they know? - 06Gamers Steaming Over Dumb Valve Password Vulnerability - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:14:03] <exec> 08└─They are a gaming company. All they know is threats of temporary or permanent bans as that is the only power they hold.
[02:14:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Welcome to cloud city - 06Gamers Steaming Over Dumb Valve Password Vulnerability - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:08] <exec> 08└─Expect to get fucked.
[02:14:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:OpenServer X - 06Xinuos Announces OpenServer X and the Xinuos Business One Developer Program - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:14:43] <exec> 08└─I though the name smacks of typical M$ fudding tactics to choose names to muddle the waters around famous existing products, like "office open xml" etc. Disgusting.
[02:16:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03jcross [4009] (Score:2) 02Re:*Public* IP address? - 06Crazy Chrysler Security Hole: USB Stick Fix Incoming for 1.4 Million Cars - 1208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:16:04] <exec> 08└─The Wired article clearly described them sniffing vulnerable systems from all over the country, which I don't think would be possible with the method you describe. Uconnect computers are linked to the Internet by Sprint’s cellular network, and only other Sprint devices can talk to them. So Miller...
[02:16:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] (Score:2) 02Re:Curious about others... - 06Crazy Chrysler Security Hole: USB Stick Fix Incoming for 1.4 Million Cars - 745 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:16:23] <exec> 08└─You're absolutely correct, but they got lazy and got bit. In our $3 peripheral, the OTA signed blobs are also encrypted. Admittedly, the AES-128 encryption key is global to all parts, and could be exposed; but it provides an excellent level of obfuscation. Imagine trying to determine what CPU our pe...
[02:19:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Agree and disagree - 06Anti-Fur Activists Cover Tracks By Avoiding Technology - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:19:10] <exec> 08└─So - each and every victim was selected intentionally on 9/11/01.
[02:19:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Agree and disagree - 06Anti-Fur Activists Cover Tracks By Avoiding Technology - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:19:19] <exec> 08└─This fur activism doesn't even vaguely fit the profile of terrorism.
[02:21:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Self defense - 06Internet Escort Slays Alleged Serial Killer - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:21:04] <exec> 08└─The NL legalized prostitution in 2000 and yet sex trafficking still continues.
[02:21:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Self defense - 06Internet Escort Slays Alleged Serial Killer - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:21:09] <exec> 08└─You seem to be trying to refute my point with minutiae rather than meaning. That doesn't change he fact that they are "rural counties so far out in the boonies that the population is practically nil." Nevada only has a couple of population centers and none of them have legalized sex work.
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[03:13:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02It's Digital - 06NSA Ordered to Destroy Phone Records It Collected Illegally - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:20] <exec> 08└─It's digital data. There are so many copies, and backups of backups, that you can't just make it go away. There's probably even a copy in the Library of Congress. Data: once it's out there, it's out there.
[03:13:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score:3, Informative) 02now, get off my bad, you stupid citizens - 06NSA Ordered to Destroy Phone Records It Collected Illegally - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:21] <exec> 08└─there! and we promise we are not lying this time. we double pinky swear! years ago, people may have actually believed a 3 letter agency when it said something. now, it does not matter if they say things that please me or cause me to be angry. no matter what, we'll never know since they are liars to...
[03:13:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:now, get off my bad, you stupid citizens - 06NSA Ordered to Destroy Phone Records It Collected Illegally - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:23] <exec> 08└─> there! and we promise we are not lying this time. we double pinky swear! They won't be lying this time. They will just use another still-secret program to collect it from the databases of the now illegal program. Then they can delete the original databases and still keep the data in the new databa...
[03:13:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Sure, they will... - 06NSA Ordered to Destroy Phone Records It Collected Illegally - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:25] <exec> 08└─The courts have also ordered us to stop sharing music as well. Think either of these will be honored?
[03:13:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03tathra [3367] (Score:2) 02Re:Sure, they will... - 06NSA Ordered to Destroy Phone Records It Collected Illegally - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:26] <exec> 08└─exactly my thoughts, kinda. the NSA is well-known for complying with the laws and the constitution, i'm sure they'll get right on complying with the order to delete all their illegally-obtained 4th amendment violations. even if they do, they're just the de-facto intel wing for the DEA anwyay, so its...
[03:13:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Sure, they will... - 06NSA Ordered to Destroy Phone Records It Collected Illegally - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:28] <exec> 08└─Ordered to destroy, but they are keeping all of it until people stop suing them. So never. going. to. happen.
[03:13:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The catch phrase - 06NSA Ordered to Destroy Phone Records It Collected Illegally - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:30] <exec> 08└─This article falls apart as it hinges upon one ridiculous phrase: "will effectively be out of reach from agency employees" If I had a glass of milk, I would have shot most of it out my nose.
[03:13:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03K_benzoate [5036] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Throw them a bone - 06NSA Ordered to Destroy Phone Records It Collected Illegally - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:31] <exec> 08└─The phone data is probably the least valuable stuff they have, and I don't believe they will (or even can, reasonably) delete the data.
[03:13:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:No. - 06Musk, Wozniak and Hawking Warn Over AI Warfare and Autonomous Weapons - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:13:37] <exec> 08└─Won't work, fellas. Strength is one's ability to defend himself.
[03:13:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Worthwhile somewhat related - 06Musk, Wozniak and Hawking Warn Over AI Warfare and Autonomous Weapons - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:13:42] <exec> 08└─That quote from Conan was a shortened version of something Ghengis Kahn supposedly said: “The greatest happiness is to vanquish your enemies, to chase them before you, to rob them of their wealth, to see those dear to them bathed in tears, to clasp to your bosom their wives and daughters.” --Ghe...
[03:13:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score:2) 02Re:A good start... - 06Musk, Wozniak and Hawking Warn Over AI Warfare and Autonomous Weapons - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:13:45] <exec> 08└─#include "notsureifserious.jpg" the number of companies that would refuse the Sugar Daddy could be counted on one blown-off hand with no fingers...
[03:13:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Soe bans work. - 06Musk, Wozniak and Hawking Warn Over AI Warfare and Autonomous Weapons - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:13:48] <exec> 08└─Any tool powerful enough can be used as a weapon. So if they asks for banning AI autonomous weapons, I think they should include the self-driving cars.
[03:13:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:3, Funny) 02A poem - 06Musk, Wozniak and Hawking Warn Over AI Warfare and Autonomous Weapons - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:50] <exec> 08└─There is a drone Far from home Feeling lonely It spies a terrorist With with a suspicious wrist Dude in Las Vegas gets the gist Terrorist is groomed Vegas dude fumed Checking the time, it is assumed Drone is aroused In the wrist a bomb is housed Weapons inventory was browsed Vegas dude was shocked W...
[03:14:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How much does the artist get from my CD purchas - 06Smoking Gun: MPAA Emails Reveal Plan To Run Anti-Google Smear Campaign - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:14:12] <exec> 08└─That's not the way governments work.
[03:14:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Cool! - 06Alternative Browser Pale Moon Releases Version 25.6.0 With Privacy, Security Fixes - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:14:48] <exec> 08└─It's not an automatic updater, but you can use it to update semi-manually (it pulls down the newest version when you update).
[03:15:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:A strange game - 06Using Algorithms to Determine Character - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:15:45] <exec> 08└─There's no watering down, that's exactly what it means. Using a credit card is taking out a short-term loan, which you agree to pay off under a certain interest rate. Even if you pay it off right away, the entire point of credit cards, the sole reason they exist is for short-term loans - taking on d...
[03:16:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Don't think this is a reliable guide - 06Using Algorithms to Determine Character - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:16:09] <exec> 08└─Of course its not sustainable, but who fucking cares? We'll be as rich as can be, and we'll have a nation full of slaves. Its not our problem if those poor saps are so irresponsible that take out loans they can't pay. Maybe if they'd learn how to save money, put some backbone into it, and stop suckl...
[03:16:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:An average of an average methodology - 06Using Algorithms to Determine Character - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:16:14] <exec> 08└─I don't get enough mod points every day to counteract all this constant flamebait and trolling.
[03:18:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How about all fifty states? - 06US State of Georgia Sues Man for Publishing its Own Laws... on the Internet - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:18:22] <exec> 08└─Washington http://apps.leg.wa.gov [wa.gov]
[03:19:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Agree and disagree - 06Anti-Fur Activists Cover Tracks By Avoiding Technology - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:19:04] <exec> 08└─People don't have to eat meat either.
[03:19:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Agree and disagree - 06Anti-Fur Activists Cover Tracks By Avoiding Technology - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:19:08] <exec> 08└─And what is it, specifically, that makes drug use unethical? What's really unethical there is the government literally owning its' citizens' bodies, to the point of even dictating what they can and cannot put in their bodies.
[03:19:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03tathra [3367] (Score:2) 02Re:Agree and disagree - 06Anti-Fur Activists Cover Tracks By Avoiding Technology - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:19:14] <exec> 08└─Then the word "terrorist" is overbroad.
[03:19:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score:2) 02Re:Agree and disagree - 06Anti-Fur Activists Cover Tracks By Avoiding Technology - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:19:28] <exec> 08└─The problem isn't the filming. It's that those doing the filming are not above staging incidents, and are not above abusing the animals (and in ways no actual farmer/rancher would tolerate) to stage those incidents. If animal rightists need to torture animals in order to horrify the public into bann...
[03:19:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Agree and disagree - 06Anti-Fur Activists Cover Tracks By Avoiding Technology - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:19:49] <exec> 08└─Vandalizing someone's home is not violence.
[03:20:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Non Sequor [1005] (Score:2) 02Warhammer - 06What Do We Want From the Next Librarian of Congress? - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:21] <exec> 08└─http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Librarians [wikia.com] 'Nuff said.
[03:21:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Self defense - 06Internet Escort Slays Alleged Serial Killer - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:21:39] <exec> 08└─> The solution is imperfect so it doesn't count? Where is there proof that it was a solution at all? > Hyperbole such as: Yes. That is the exact phrase I was referring to. > The minutiae argument wins yet again. It is so weird that you can say that and actually mean it. Its like you are a computer o...
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[04:13:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Emails - 06NSA Ordered to Destroy Phone Records It Collected Illegally - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:13:44] <exec> 08└─What about the email data? There appears to be far more talk about the phone data and almost none about other issues.
[04:13:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Emails - 06NSA Ordered to Destroy Phone Records It Collected Illegally - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:13:45] <exec> 08└─"Lol." - Commander of the U.S. Cyber Command, Director of the National Security Agency, and Chief of the Central Security Service [wikimedia.org]
[04:13:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:No. - 06Musk, Wozniak and Hawking Warn Over AI Warfare and Autonomous Weapons - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:13:55] <exec> 08└─Most countries have completely banned the use of landmines.
[04:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Many musicians are not in ASCAP - 06Smoking Gun: MPAA Emails Reveal Plan To Run Anti-Google Smear Campaign - 531 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:14:35] <exec> 08└─I know about ASCAP, and I support them. But if that tax only goes towards ascap members and not to ALL canadian musicians then the tax itself is in clear violation of the law. I dont know which one but I will find out; I know a canadian public interest solicitor while this isnt his kind of law he co...
[04:14:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03VortexCortex [4067] (Score:2) 02Re:Welcome to cloud city - 06Gamers Steaming Over Dumb Valve Password Vulnerability - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:14:48] <exec> 08└─Welcome to cloud city:
[04:15:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:One annoying issue I have with Pale Moon... - 06Alternative Browser Pale Moon Releases Version 25.6.0 With Privacy, Security Fixes - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:15:14] <exec> 08└─Does this file exist: "IconFile=C:\PortableApps\Pale Moon\User\Palemoon\Profiles\Default\shortcutCache\hwcg2bDSYtfi8kcUJhOizA==.ico" ?
[04:17:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Pepperidge Farm remembers electronics - 06Weyl Fermion: Faster Electronics, Cheaper Power? - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:17:40] <exec> 08└─Don't know how much faster you can make your photons
[04:20:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Agree and disagree - 06Anti-Fur Activists Cover Tracks By Avoiding Technology - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:20:11] <exec> 08└─What is overbroad about "using violence to achieve political aims"?
[04:20:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Sorry, I should have said LoC outlawed jailbreakin - 06What Do We Want From the Next Librarian of Congress? - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:20:29] <exec> 08└─-g. I simply assumed every here would know that. Again I dont know the current rule. But employing technical measure to defeat undocumented invasions of privacy is clearly legal.
[04:22:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Self defense - 06Internet Escort Slays Alleged Serial Killer - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:22:05] <exec> 08└─Where is there proof that it was a solution at all?
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[05:13:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02I would like to delete my Google search history - 06NSA Ordered to Destroy Phone Records It Collected Illegally - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:13:37] <exec> 08└─Can you supply the street addresses where each of Google's backup and backup of backups are stored? While I would prefer to nuke them from orbit it would suffice were one of google's people to pass a magnetized seqing needle over each bit of my own personal records on each item of storage media - an...
[05:13:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02CIA, NSA, FBI do many good things - 06NSA Ordered to Destroy Phone Records It Collected Illegally - 1195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:13:40] <exec> 08└─Security Enhanced Linux. James Bamford discusses the NSA's unclassified comouter security work in The Puzzle Palace. The CIA translates foreign academic journals then distributes the translations to publishers. Not just spy stuff but astronomy for example. It also has a large library of unclassified...
[05:13:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03gman003 [4155] (Score:2) 02Scrub the premise, leave the conclusion? - 06NSA Ordered to Destroy Phone Records It Collected Illegally - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:13:49] <exec> 08└─Will they keep everyone on a watchlist who was put on there purely because of some Kevin Bacon-like chain of phone calls? If they can keep the inferences they drew from this data, purging it doesn't really accomplish anything.
[05:17:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's one of them quasiparticle things - 06Weyl Fermion: Faster Electronics, Cheaper Power? - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:17:34] <exec> 08└─SG-1 wasn't too far off with all of the crystalline based circuitry. "So why do you think humans are attracted to gem stones? They were more elegant circuits, for a more civilized age! I'm not saying it was aliens, but ... it was ALIENS!"
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[06:13:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nollij [4559] (Score:2, Interesting) 02Remotely alterred? - 06Sydney's World-First "E-Paper" Street Signs - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:13:23] <exec> 08└─Perfect! It was just too hard to manually change road signs [jalopnik.com] to warn drivers about Zombies [blogspot.com], Nazi Zombies [kinja-img.com], and Raptors [kinja-img.com]
[06:13:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nollij [4559] (Score:1) 02Accountability - 06Sydney's World-First "E-Paper" Street Signs - 454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:13:24] <exec> 08└─If these signs can be updated quickly and easily, this could create serious legal issues. What's to keep them from changing a speed limit sign at a moment's notice? Aside from corruption and ex post factor concerns, this could be used to set different speed limits, lane restrictions, etc under diffe...
[06:13:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Accountability - 06Sydney's World-First "E-Paper" Street Signs - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:13:27] <exec> 08└─I don't think the signs have any pretense of being static. Click TFA and see the picture. The mere presence of one of these signs puts you on notice that stuff might change. Still, parking hour changes could generate a lot of revenue in tickets.
[06:13:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03VortexCortex [4067] (Score:2) 02Re:Accountability - 06Sydney's World-First "E-Paper" Street Signs - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:13:28] <exec> 08└─So, the cat and mouse chase continues. You'll install a dash cam, I suppose. I personally don't think most street signs need a very expensive upgrade, but a few decades from now there will likely be a damned CPU in almost everything... a hacker's paradise. The geek shall inherit the Earth.
[06:13:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02another failure to consider malicious actors - 06Sydney's World-First "E-Paper" Street Signs - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:13:31] <exec> 08└─the signs are solar powered but that power can easily be drained if the radio is constantly receiving bad information. so DoS attacks aside, how secure do you think these signs are?
[06:13:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03hankwang [100] (Score:2) 02Visibility at night - 06Sydney's World-First "E-Paper" Street Signs - 533 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:13:32] <exec> 08└─From TFA: "easily readable in bright light, and a light in the new road signs is automatically switched on when it gets dark. The signs are solar-powered, but only require electricity for brief windows, when the signs are wirelessly updated by RMS staff." The first and the second sentence seem to co...
[06:14:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Re:How much does the artist get from my CD purchas - 06Smoking Gun: MPAA Emails Reveal Plan To Run Anti-Google Smear Campaign - 256 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:14:43] <exec> 08└─My son has been a few bands, cut some CDs, opened for some very popular bands, toured the states, has award winning music videos, etc. Has not received a cent from the record labels. I say torrent what you want and donate directly to the artist, like I do.
[06:14:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:Many musicians are not in ASCAP - 06Smoking Gun: MPAA Emails Reveal Plan To Run Anti-Google Smear Campaign - 719 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:14:47] <exec> 08└─The auto makers sure made out like a bandit on California's "Cash for Clunkers" program where politicians used taxpayer money to take used automobiles and SUV's off the market. Having spent California's money for things like this, we exhaust our treasury, then we have Governor Brown approaching the...
[06:14:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02I have met Governor Brown several times. - 06Smoking Gun: MPAA Emails Reveal Plan To Run Anti-Google Smear Campaign - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:14:49] <exec> 08└─He is a close friend of one of my close friends. I readily agree that Jerry doesnt make a whole lot of sense. But even so he is a deeply insightful political thinker. Reaaly, he should have been a journalist.
[06:14:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Re:How much does the artist get from my CD purchas - 06Smoking Gun: MPAA Emails Reveal Plan To Run Anti-Google Smear Campaign - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:14:50] <exec> 08└─Ah, the media tax. Some places also tax memory in MP3 players and the like. I recall seeing an article some years ago, in which the author traced the money. What little was paid out did mostly go to the big companies. IIRC most of the money went to fund the bureaucracy in charge of collecting the mo...
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[06:15:30] <exec> 08└─Funny. Never in a million years would I have even thought to try dragging a URL to the desktop (not to mention that my browser window fills the screen, leaving nowhere to drag it to). You say Opera doesn't have it, but when I just tried it in Opera 9 it did in fact create a shortcut on the desktop....
[06:15:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:There are probably legacy SCO customers out the - 06Xinuos Announces OpenServer X and the Xinuos Business One Developer Program - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:15:39] <exec> 08└─The SCO ashes should have been re-cremated seven times, half buried in the Mariana Trench and the other half shot off into space. I used to work a lot on SCO in the mid 90's .. learned a lot of UNIX then that helps me even today with Linux. But the whole legal drama that dragged on - never want to h...
[06:15:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03khedoros [2921] (Score:2) 02Re:Abandonware - 06Xinuos Announces OpenServer X and the Xinuos Business One Developer Program - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:15:42] <exec> 08└─I think my employer still provides a UnixWare 7 port of their software, and I think they stopped building for OpenServer just a couple years ago. Apparently, some of our customers still run it.
[06:16:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03goose [3266] (Score:1) 02Re:Don't think this is a reliable guide - 06Using Algorithms to Determine Character - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:16:40] <exec> 08└─There's also little or no oversight on the loans and once you've got them they can't be discharged in bankruptcy procedings.
[06:18:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Roger Murdock [4897] (Score:1) 02Re:How about all fifty states? - 06US State of Georgia Sues Man for Publishing its Own Laws... on the Internet - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:18:58] <exec> 08└─You probably just need multiple lamps functioning, not necessarily all lamps functioning.
[06:20:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:Agree and disagree - 06Anti-Fur Activists Cover Tracks By Avoiding Technology - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:20:15] <exec> 08└─I intentionally skipped the bestiality thing, and skipped the rest of your post as soon as you mentioned it. verbal goatse.
[06:20:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:Agree and disagree - 06Anti-Fur Activists Cover Tracks By Avoiding Technology - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:20:17] <exec> 08└─Would you like some shrooms with your acid?
[06:21:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02I have a secret plan, but dont have the cash - 06What Do We Want From the Next Librarian of Congress? - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:21:04] <exec> 08└─Soon though, thanks for the reminder it had slipped my mind.
[06:21:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02I know some prostitutes who pay their mortgages - 06Internet Escort Slays Alleged Serial Killer - 1481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:22:00] <exec> 08└─by selling their bodies. A particularly well known one in Naples put both her children through university that way. I know three different strippers who are very devoted mothers to their children. Two have four, the other just one, still an infant. I met a graduate student when she offered me a Priv...
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[07:13:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Nuclear reactors. - 06Combating Scarcity With Abundance: New Impact Challenge to Tackle California's Drought - 889 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:13:21] <exec> 08└─Using a saltwater secondary cooling loop which is doubling as both a steam generator and 'purified exhaust water collection system'. Instead of leaving the cooling towers open as is currently done, have them vent into a secondary chamber surrounding the inner tower to condense and use gravity to wic...
[07:13:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02Re:Nuclear reactors. - 06Combating Scarcity With Abundance: New Impact Challenge to Tackle California's Drought - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:13:22] <exec> 08└─As nuclear power plants are complex construction projects, their construction periods are longer than other large power plants. It is typically expected to take 5 to 7 years to build a large nuclear unit (not including the time required for planning and licensing).
[07:13:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:3, Insightful) 02not an actual problem - 06Combating Scarcity With Abundance: New Impact Challenge to Tackle California's Drought - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:13:25] <exec> 08└─the drought in California is not the actual problem. the actual problem is greed. you can move agriculture to areas with sustainable water supplies but they dont because there is more profit in staying in that climate and pumping in water that heavily subsidized by the state. take away the water sub...
[07:13:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Step 1 ... - 06Combating Scarcity With Abundance: New Impact Challenge to Tackle California's Drought - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:13:26] <exec> 08└─Step 1: listen to windbags talk about levers. Step 2: shove lever where the sun don't shine (in windbags) Step 3: laugh. There was so much BS in that blurb that if I could scrape it off my computer screen, I could fertilize my garden for next three years. Anyway, if they're interested. Solution to c...
[07:13:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Well, we've tried everything else - 06Combating Scarcity With Abundance: New Impact Challenge to Tackle California's Drought - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:13:28] <exec> 08└─Combating Scarcity With Abundance
[07:13:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score:1) 02Re:Accountability - 06Sydney's World-First "E-Paper" Street Signs - 826 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:13:39] <exec> 08└─If it came to court, they'd have to provide some proof or log of what was showing at what times. If they don't, it would get thrown out very quickly. The question is, would anyone go to the extent to falsify such logs - with the kickback and the consequences from that - just to sting you for parking...
[07:13:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03hankwang [100] (Score:2) 02Re:Visibility at night - 06Sydney's World-First "E-Paper" Street Signs - 738 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:13:42] <exec> 08└─Reply to self: it seems that retroreflective sheeting is not a transparent film that you stick onto a painted surface to make it retroreflective. Rather, the film has its own color; either the traffic sign consists of different layers of sheeting cut to shape, transparent ink is printed on top, or b...
[07:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheSuperFriend [5663] (Score:1) 02AI - 06Musk, Wozniak and Hawking Warn Over AI Warfare and Autonomous Weapons - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:31] <exec> 08└─Stephen Hawking voiced questions over whether artificial intelligence could be controlled in the long-term.
[07:15:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So refreshing - 06Alternative Browser Pale Moon Releases Version 25.6.0 With Privacy, Security Fixes - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:15:39] <exec> 08└─The "changeUiOften==good" disease has infested FireFox. Maybe some competition will wake them up. Maybe I'm a fogey, but I hate shit shifting around for no rhyme or reason.
[07:20:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Agree and disagree - 06Anti-Fur Activists Cover Tracks By Avoiding Technology - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:20:31] <exec> 08└─It's funny how the original poster of the article has such an eloquent response. Typically, I could almost say
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[08:13:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Well, we've tried everything else - 06Combating Scarcity With Abundance: New Impact Challenge to Tackle California's Drought - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:13:55] <exec> 08└─Next up, combating poverty with wealth. After that we might try to tackle hunger with food followed by bullshit fatigue with a nap.
[08:13:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Technological magic bullet? - 06Combating Scarcity With Abundance: New Impact Challenge to Tackle California's Drought - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:13:58] <exec> 08└─The bullet is purely technological, it isn't magic. It's just a plain old 7.62×51mm NATO, put into the heads of the right people who are causing the problem, namely the politicians who refuse to remove agricultural subsidies for water, making water-wasteful agriculture profitable in an arid land.
[08:14:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:Accountability - 06Sydney's World-First "E-Paper" Street Signs - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:14:11] <exec> 08└─Sorry, for traffic tickets, you get to prove you are innocent. You have to show the automated system decoded the wrong license plate, or somehow prove you weren't speeding, or whatever. Judges for these tickets assume you are guilty.
[08:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score:2) 02Re:The catch phrase - 06NSA Ordered to Destroy Phone Records It Collected Illegally - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:14:38] <exec> 08└─Hahaha, good one. They don't expect employees to listen to these phone records anyway. They feed it to an artificial neuron network and that's not an employee. So their main use-case remains.
[08:15:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:pro coders update your résumé - 06 They Grow Up Fast: Apple Quietly Bulks Up Swift and Xcode in Year Two - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:15:14] <exec> 08└─BS3704 stopped being relevant last week. This week it's BS56023 and I have on good authority that next week, being compliant with NQ233452 will be in required for all code.
[08:15:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:How much does the artist get from my CD purchas - 06Smoking Gun: MPAA Emails Reveal Plan To Run Anti-Google Smear Campaign - 1114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:15:34] <exec> 08└─The world will be a more enlightened place when it accepts that "distributors" are dead, and need to be excised like the rotting flesh that they are. We're doing distribution perfectly happily ourselves nowadays. Publicity? Pretty much dead too - we have instantanious communication mechanisms, and f...
[08:15:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:How much does the artist get from my CD purchas - 06Smoking Gun: MPAA Emails Reveal Plan To Run Anti-Google Smear Campaign - 538 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:15:41] <exec> 08└─For years, the Canadian Private Copying Collective just took in the money and kept it [and of course, paid themselves quite handsomely for doing so]. Eventually somebody noticed, and now they actually do distribute some of the funds they receive. For you to receive money for your work [either as a p...
[08:15:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02"General Hood" - 06Smoking Gun: MPAA Emails Reveal Plan To Run Anti-Google Smear Campaign - 592 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:15:42] <exec> 08└─Did anyone else notice that in the emails they refer to Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood as "General Hood"? I think that tells you we're looking at some very messed up people. Then again, the fact that they are using illogic like "you can buy drugs in parks, therefore parks should be made illeg...
[08:15:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:How would they know? - 06Gamers Steaming Over Dumb Valve Password Vulnerability - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:15:51] <exec> 08└─Everybody knows that an IPv4 address uniquely an individual. How else could the RIAA and MPAA go around suing people for downloading content?
[08:20:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03physicsmajor [1471] 02Re:Edicts of government are not copyright eligible - 06US State of Georgia Sues Man for Publishing its Own Laws... on the Internet - 154 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:20:07] <exec> 08└─The annotations ceased being copyright eligible when the State called them Official. This is very clear in both case law and the official policy I quoted.
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[09:13:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Tards' rE_Tards___Tardis? - 06Porn Studio Asks Judge to Ban Talk About "Copyleft" Blogs at Trial - 647 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:13:41] <exec> 08└─OK, let me just say this: porn is not a legitimate product. At all. It is only a handicap for the sexually handicapped. And as that it is a medical prothesis, it ought to be free, and covered by Medicare. Or else it is just a bunch of tittilation and ought to be mercilessly copied and posted all ov...
[09:13:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:1, Redundant) 02Re:Tards' rE_Tards___Tardis? - 06Porn Studio Asks Judge to Ban Talk About "Copyleft" Blogs at Trial - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:13:42] <exec> 08└─Rarely do we have such insightful commentary here on SoylentNews in regards to the naughty bits. Just saying.
[09:13:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:1, Redundant) 02Re:Tards' rE_Tards___Tardis? - 06Porn Studio Asks Judge to Ban Talk About "Copyleft" Blogs at Trial - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:13:44] <exec> 08└─Rarely do we have such insightful commentary here on SoylentNews in regards to the naughty bits.
[09:13:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Tards' rE_Tards___Tardis? - 06Porn Studio Asks Judge to Ban Talk About "Copyleft" Blogs at Trial - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:13:45] <exec> 08└─I think you're getting your medical advice from the wrong type of doctor! Anyway, are you saying that I can just nick the Rubens paintings from the Rijksmuseum, as to someone like me those BBWs are good old-fashined wrist-exercise, and therefore covered by my social security contributions?
[09:13:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02People still use BitTorrent?! - 06Porn Studio Asks Judge to Ban Talk About "Copyleft" Blogs at Trial - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:13:47] <exec> 08└─Don't you understand your alleged counterculture has become mainstream already?? Why aren't you exploring another frontier by now?! You're all a bunch of conformist morons!!
[09:13:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Step 1 ... - 06Combating Scarcity With Abundance: New Impact Challenge to Tackle California's Drought - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:13:59] <exec> 08└─But you're overlooking the exponential technology that they can leverage!
[09:14:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Step 1 ... - 06Combating Scarcity With Abundance: New Impact Challenge to Tackle California's Drought - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:14:01] <exec> 08└─Fuck. I missed "chief impact officer at Singularity University". Holy jesus, these people are so outragiously deluded it's actually funny.
[09:14:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Well, we've tried everything else - 06Combating Scarcity With Abundance: New Impact Challenge to Tackle California's Drought - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:14:03] <exec> 08└─Wait, there's more... Not any Abundance, but the one created by "leveraging exponential technology". Maaan, we'll be so cracking under the load of Abundance that soon we'll need to combat Abundance with Scarcity... "exponential technology" to the rescue again, eh? "The greatest shortcoming of the hu...
[09:14:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Well, we've tried everything else - 06Combating Scarcity With Abundance: New Impact Challenge to Tackle California's Drought - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:14:06] <exec> 08└─The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.
[09:14:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02For those wondering - 06Combating Scarcity With Abundance: New Impact Challenge to Tackle California's Drought - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:07] <exec> 08└─What is Singularity University? Our mission is to educate, inspire and empower leaders to apply exponential technologies to address humanity’s grand challenges.
[09:14:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re: What's your technological magic bullet - 06Combating Scarcity With Abundance: New Impact Challenge to Tackle California's Drought - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:10] <exec> 08└─here's mine: http://www.snagabargain.co.uk [snagabargain.co.uk] it even blends
[09:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Accountability - 06Sydney's World-First "E-Paper" Street Signs - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:14:22] <exec> 08└─If these signs can be updated quickly and easily, this could create serious legal issues.
[09:14:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02What's new? - 06Sydney's World-First "E-Paper" Street Signs - 839 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:26] <exec> 08└─Really, what's new about this, other than the e-paper buzzword? We have road signs that change already in the UK, just look at the motorways and main trunk roads especially around the London area. Sure it's not e-paper, but the signs can change to give warnings about planned works or any accidents i...
[09:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Conductivity claim is dubious - 06Stretchable Conducting Fiber Provides "Super Hero Capabilities" - 1334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:34] <exec> 08└─Does a sheathed compressible spring increase in conductivity as you stretch it? Nope, but its resistance remains the same. But its length increased (notice I specified sheathed - you don't get to run a tape measure around the coils themselves) and its cross sectional area has fractionally decreased....
[09:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I would like to delete my Google search history - 06NSA Ordered to Destroy Phone Records It Collected Illegally - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:14:44] <exec> 08└─They are in "the Cloud". You should start by nuking every cloud you can find.
[09:14:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score:2) 02Re:Emails - 06NSA Ordered to Destroy Phone Records It Collected Illegally - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:14:55] <exec> 08└─Ohhhh! Can we meme this one? please?! I don't care if only a few people ever get the joke...
[09:15:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:No. - 06Musk, Wozniak and Hawking Warn Over AI Warfare and Autonomous Weapons - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:15:08] <exec> 08└─There is an international convention against "victim initiated" weapons, what otherwise are called "booby-traps" . Things like land mines do not know what they are attacking, and so fail the test of "discrimination" required under the laws of armed conflict.
[09:15:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Worthwhile somewhat related - 06Musk, Wozniak and Hawking Warn Over AI Warfare and Autonomous Weapons - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:15:14] <exec> 08└─And this is why the Mongols today are short of sheep. I recommend a movie, called "URGa", circa 1991. Nice flashbacks of Ghengis, and John Rambo.
[09:15:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03ThePhilips [5677] (Score:1) 02Re:How much does the artist get from my CD purchas - 06Smoking Gun: MPAA Emails Reveal Plan To Run Anti-Google Smear Campaign - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:15:52] <exec> 08└─I say torrent what you want and donate directly to the artist, like I do.
[09:16:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrNemesis [1582] (Score:2) 02Canvas fingerprinting - 06Alternative Browser Pale Moon Releases Version 25.6.0 With Privacy, Security Fixes - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:16:45] <exec> 08└─Just upgraded my portable instance to test the new privacy features; canvas.poisondata set to true. Same addons as usual; ghostery, adblock latitude, requestpolicy, self-destructing cookies, flashblock, betterprivacy. Panopticlick [eff.org] Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 5,...
[09:19:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:Even worse... - 06US State of Georgia Sues Man for Publishing its Own Laws... on the Internet - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:19:49] <exec> 08└─They totally are acts of terrorism. You can tell, because the person has a foreign-sounding name. Or knows someone who does. Seriously, I've had enough of the stupid reports like "we've definitely established the guy did a lone-wolf attack, not telling anyone about what he was going to do. we are st...
[09:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:I have some arguments for jailbreaking smartpho - 06What Do We Want From the Next Librarian of Congress? - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:22:15] <exec> 08└─Yeah, every three years.
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[10:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02always Obey Emperor RAHM without question - 06Hologram Performance Shut Down by Police at Hip-Hop Festival - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:31] <exec> 08└─If you're really lucky he won't send armed thugs to shoot you in the back and bill your family for the bullets.
[10:14:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Tards' rE_Tards___Tardis? - 06Porn Studio Asks Judge to Ban Talk About "Copyleft" Blogs at Trial - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:14:43] <exec> 08└─Remember, something, long ago? Missing the Brit slang, eh, amigo? Viva la Libre Porno!
[10:14:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Problem? - 06Porn Studio Asks Judge to Ban Talk About "Copyleft" Blogs at Trial - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:14:46] <exec> 08└─You can get your thirty pieces of silver now.
[10:14:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Nuclear reactors. - 06Combating Scarcity With Abundance: New Impact Challenge to Tackle California's Drought - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:14:58] <exec> 08└─pfft. just throw a boat load of old smoke alarms in a big bonfire and park a few firetrucks full of water close to it and BAM! INSTANT NUCULAR STEAM SHIZ! *trundles off to file patent*
[10:15:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score:2, Informative) 02Re:Accountability - 06Sydney's World-First "E-Paper" Street Signs - 1873 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:15:26] <exec> 08└─Not in my country. You are sent a photo of your car parked in a place, with a timestamp. That's proof enough to ticket you. Your avenues are then to prove you didn't do that (i.e. the photo is somehow incorrect) or that you had a good excuse for doing so that excuses you within the law. The days of...
[10:15:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] 02now, get off my bad, you stupid citizens - 06NSA Ordered to Destroy Phone Records It Collected Illegally - 390 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:15:51] <exec> 08└─there! and we promise we are not lying this time. we double pinky swear! years ago, people may have actually believed a 3 letter agency when it said something. now, it does not matter if they say things that please me or cause me to be angry. no matter what, we'll never know since they are liars to...
[10:16:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02smoke screen? - 06Musk, Wozniak and Hawking Warn Over AI Warfare and Autonomous Weapons - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:16:31] <exec> 08└─tbh, i'm more afraid of humans then machines and even A.I. the rich and powerful WILL gen-modify their kids, whatever the cost, whatever the place. TODAY, people are kidnapped for their organs for the rich and powerful. TOMORROW they will grow their own and more ... I hope this whole A.I. debate isn...
[10:16:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03bootsy [3440] (Score:2) 02Re:That... - 06 They Grow Up Fast: Apple Quietly Bulks Up Swift and Xcode in Year Two - 561 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:16:48] <exec> 08└─As long as it is Turing complete..... If you get a chance read "the Design and Evolution of C++" by Bjarne Stroustrup. Adding in multiple inheritence so early into C++ was basically because Brad Cox of Obj C fame told Bjarne that adding it into C++ would be too difficult. The two of them were in com...
[10:18:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03mmcmonster [401] (Score:2) 02Installation issues... - 06Alternative Browser Pale Moon Releases Version 25.6.0 With Privacy, Security Fixes - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:03] <exec> 08└─Is there a repository for Debian derivative OSs? Downloading an installer is so 1990s.
[10:18:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02MITM code injection - 06Alternative Browser Pale Moon Releases Version 25.6.0 With Privacy, Security Fixes - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:04] <exec> 08└─the download link: https://linux.palemoon.org [palemoon.org] gives cloud flare error. i'd like to download via httpSSSS pls ..
[10:18:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:MITM code injection - 06Alternative Browser Pale Moon Releases Version 25.6.0 With Privacy, Security Fixes - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:18:06] <exec> 08└─idiot! that's why the SHA is there. nevermind that the dns look-up resolves to a nsa server that looks and feels exactly like the pale moon website, and has its own pale moon version with the (for-it) correct SHA number : )
[10:20:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03bd [2773] (Score:2) 02Re:It's one of them quasiparticle things - 06Weyl Fermion: Faster Electronics, Cheaper Power? - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:20:30] <exec> 08└─Well, considering that materials such as metals and semiconductors are crystals (metals are crystals up to the grain boundary), I would guess crystalline based circuitry is not too strange a thing. Of course, transparent crystals such as gem stones have a large band gap and are therefore insulators,...
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[11:14:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03WizardFusion [498] (Score:2) 02Cat Pictures - 06The Plan to Beam the Web to 3 Billion Unconnected Humans - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:29] <exec> 08└─So to distract them from their starving, diseased ridden lives, they want to give them the internet and cat pictures. The money would be better spent on getting food and aid to them instead. Yes, I know education is important too, and Wikipedia may help with this, but Wikipedia has offline DVDs that...
[11:15:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re: What's your technological magic bullet - 06Combating Scarcity With Abundance: New Impact Challenge to Tackle California's Drought - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:15:17] <exec> 08└─Here's mine https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] (as is who needs water, ethanol's got electrolytes...) Of course if we actually want to solve this issue, we need to stop looking for a technical fix.
[11:15:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Bullshit fest - 06Combating Scarcity With Abundance: New Impact Challenge to Tackle California's Drought - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:15:18] <exec> 08└─Chief Impact Officer - Gavin Newsom - Singularity - leveraging ... - exponential ... - Grand Global Challenge ... what a load of...
[11:16:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score:2) 02Re:No. - 06Musk, Wozniak and Hawking Warn Over AI Warfare and Autonomous Weapons - 498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:16:25] <exec> 08└─> Can you really imagine anyone other than the U.S. being the first to roll out this technology? Well, most of the mechanical stuff is done - they have tanks and planes and stuff already. Coding is cheap to implement on the scale of military expenditure. High-end servers and supercomputers are avail...
[11:16:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02A misunderstood source of danger - 06Musk, Wozniak and Hawking Warn Over AI Warfare and Autonomous Weapons - 1923 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:16:43] <exec> 08└─The danger of autonomous weapons is not, at least at present, that they will achieve sentience and "go Terminator" on us - If that is possible (which I doubt), a lot of technological water needs to pass under the bridge first. A much more immediate risk is that they will make it seem safer to go to...
[11:17:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Collusion - 06Smoking Gun: MPAA Emails Reveal Plan To Run Anti-Google Smear Campaign - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:25] <exec> 08└─People have always suspected the fix was in, but with all these kinds of revelations of proof the fix is in I wonder how long before a threshhold is reached and the whole thing collapses.
[11:17:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03WizardFusion [498] (Score:2) 02Steam Guard - 06Gamers Steaming Over Dumb Valve Password Vulnerability - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:45] <exec> 08└─You are all missing the important bit... It claimed its Steam Guard option, if used, would protect users against the bug.
[11:18:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03number6 [1831] (Score:2) 02Yes - 06Alternative Browser Pale Moon Releases Version 25.6.0 With Privacy, Security Fixes - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:18:13] <exec> 08└─Yes the file is created at that location at the moment the URL file is created at the desktop (looking at the 'Date Created' attribute).
[11:18:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03number6 [1831] (Score:2) 02My setup, and test Opera v9 (again) - 06Alternative Browser Pale Moon Releases Version 25.6.0 With Privacy, Security Fixes - 1220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:18:17] <exec> 08└─I use two side-by-side monitors, left is the primary and is wide screen 1920x1080, right is 1600x1200. The browser displays on the left monitor and fills the screen dimensions EXCEPT its left margin is narrowed to the right by 150pixels leaving a strip of desktop exposed at all times. The right moni...
[11:19:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Don't think this is a reliable guide - 06Using Algorithms to Determine Character - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:19:41] <exec> 08└─A few things. First, I'm in total agreement that GP should feel ashamed about what they've done. GP received an education in exchange for a loan that must be repaid. Those were the terms and conditions; they must be honored unless GP can point out if they were lied to or coerced. I don't think eithe...
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[12:14:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score:2) 02Re:Cat Pictures - 06The Plan to Beam the Web to 3 Billion Unconnected Humans - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:14:23] <exec> 08└─And pr0n. The Internet is for pr0n.
[12:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03AnonTechie [2275] (Score:2) 02Here We Go Again ... - 06The Plan to Beam the Web to 3 Billion Unconnected Humans - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:25] <exec> 08└─I have submitted this story twice before. I do hope that this company finally does something other than Press Releases. Outernet - Information from Outer Space https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] Startup Beams the Web’s Most Important Content from Space, Free h...
[12:14:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02No upload? - 06The Plan to Beam the Web to 3 Billion Unconnected Humans - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:27] <exec> 08└─I'd be somewhat interested to know how this system will get around the issue that most web downloads involve additional parameters in the request, and therefore provide a method by which a determined person could create a (possibly very slow) two-way communication system, something like the followin...
[12:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No upload? - 06The Plan to Beam the Web to 3 Billion Unconnected Humans - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:14:28] <exec> 08└─I believe it's much more low level. Like you have a standard FM radio receiver. You just take what they give you. And even if you built a transmitter, they don't have a receiver... On the other hand if there is a no upload, you can't spy people using this.
[12:14:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:always Obey Emperor RAHM without question - 06Hologram Performance Shut Down by Police at Hip-Hop Festival - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:14:36] <exec> 08└─Yeah, how is it that the *mayor* of Chicago is able to command the police in *Indiana*? It's absurd. I look forward to the day when Rahm Emmanuel is indicted for corruption.
[12:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Land of the [censored], home of the [censored] - 06Hologram Performance Shut Down by Police at Hip-Hop Festival - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:38] <exec> 08└─Looking good! Keep on keeping on...
[12:14:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Tards' rE_Tards___Tardis? - 06Porn Studio Asks Judge to Ban Talk About "Copyleft" Blogs at Trial - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:14:50] <exec> 08└─Naughty bits are the tingly parts found in your no-no square.
[12:14:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Copyleft is something different - 06Porn Studio Asks Judge to Ban Talk About "Copyleft" Blogs at Trial - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:54] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyleft [wikipedia.org]
[12:16:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03K_benzoate [5036] 02Throw them a bone - 06NSA Ordered to Destroy Phone Records It Collected Illegally - 135 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:16:08] <exec> 08└─The phone data is probably the least valuable stuff they have, and I don't believe they will (or even can, reasonably) delete the data.
[12:16:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Scrub the premise, leave the conclusion? - 06NSA Ordered to Destroy Phone Records It Collected Illegally - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:16:13] <exec> 08└─To the NSA, everyone is on the watch list.
[12:16:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score:2) 02Re:That... - 06 They Grow Up Fast: Apple Quietly Bulks Up Swift and Xcode in Year Two - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:16:58] <exec> 08└─... and still closed?
[12:17:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How much does the artist get from my CD purchas - 06Smoking Gun: MPAA Emails Reveal Plan To Run Anti-Google Smear Campaign - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:17:24] <exec> 08└─Here's one story "Warner Music's Royalty Statements: Works Of Fiction" https://www.techdirt.com [techdirt.com]
[12:17:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03zafiro17 [234] (Score:2) 02Looks like shit soup - 06Smoking Gun: MPAA Emails Reveal Plan To Run Anti-Google Smear Campaign - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:17:28] <exec> 08└─So: take one big pot. Add crooked politicians, avaricious monopolist industry heads, and greedy lawyers. Add pornographers and /their/ lawyers, and stir. What do you get? Shit soup.
[12:18:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Xinuos? - 06Xinuos Announces OpenServer X and the Xinuos Business One Developer Program - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:18:46] <exec> 08└─Xinuos Is Not Unix, Or SCO
[12:20:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Curious about others... - 06Crazy Chrysler Security Hole: USB Stick Fix Incoming for 1.4 Million Cars - 508 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:20:29] <exec> 08└─Remember that Elon Musk started with software, PayPal. It's where he made the money he started Tesla with. He might not himself be a programmer, but he certainly has software and connectivity in mind more than any other automobile executive. To wit, he's already pushed out semi-autonomous driving up...
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[13:13:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Let's Add WiFi! - 06Daimler Seeks License for Road Testing Autonomous Trucks in Germany - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:13:27] <exec> 08└─To ensure that all possible attack vectors are available, please add WiFi access from random individuals.
[13:13:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kromagv0 [1825] (Score:2) 02Good thing they dumped Chrysler - 06Daimler Seeks License for Road Testing Autonomous Trucks in Germany - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:13:29] <exec> 08└─Good thing Daimler dumped Chrysler.
[13:13:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Cat Pictures - 06The Plan to Beam the Web to 3 Billion Unconnected Humans - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:13:39] <exec> 08└─Won't they need some sort of internet enabled device first?
[13:13:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03M. Baranczak [1673] (Score:2) 02Re:No upload? - 06The Plan to Beam the Web to 3 Billion Unconnected Humans - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:13:43] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertext_Transfer_Protocol#InputDataGoesHere
[13:13:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02no upload means no spending - 06The Plan to Beam the Web to 3 Billion Unconnected Humans - 538 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:13:46] <exec> 08└─I assume takyon made the comment about the spending power. in any case, I wanted to point out that if their computers literally cannot upload anything, it means they can't order anything off the internet. at most, you could force them to watch commercials for something, but I doubt anyone would be i...
[13:13:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03fnj [1654] (Score:2) 02Busted link - 06The Plan to Beam the Web to 3 Billion Unconnected Humans - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:13:48] <exec> 08└─WTF? The link is busted.
[13:13:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03fnj [1654] (Score:2) 02Baffling - 06The Plan to Beam the Web to 3 Billion Unconnected Humans - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:13:49] <exec> 08└─If the link is only one-way, what the hell good is it? How do you select what page you want to see?
[13:13:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Land of the [censored], home of the [censored] - 06Hologram Performance Shut Down by Police at Hip-Hop Festival - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:13:57] <exec> 08└─Yup, something tells me the festival organizers would have grounds for a very very expensive lawsuit based on the obvious First Amendment problems with what happened. Paging the ACLU!
[13:14:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Copyleft is something different - 06Porn Studio Asks Judge to Ban Talk About "Copyleft" Blogs at Trial - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:14:14] <exec> 08└─Perhaps the FSF could sue Malibu Media for libel.
[13:14:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Nothing to see here - 06Porn Studio Asks Judge to Ban Talk About "Copyleft" Blogs at Trial - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:16] <exec> 08└─These types of motions in limited are filed as a matter of course. The blogs have no bearing on the case. Being a troll, or not, has no relevance on whether there was an infringement. Mind you, I don't agree with the trolls or the copyright laws by any stretch, but in court, those blogs have no sign...
[13:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Well, we've tried everything else - 06Combating Scarcity With Abundance: New Impact Challenge to Tackle California's Drought - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:14:34] <exec> 08└─> The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function. An exponentially bad shortcoming? I enjoyed correcting a colleague when he said "it grows exponentially" with regards to some combinatorial problem. Of course, it grows factorally... oh to be so h...
[13:15:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sure, they will... - 06NSA Ordered to Destroy Phone Records It Collected Illegally - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:15:24] <exec> 08└─"If we could possibly be sued then we can't get rid of it. It could be evidence!"
[13:16:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lemming [1053] (Score:2) 02Re:That... - 06 They Grow Up Fast: Apple Quietly Bulks Up Swift and Xcode in Year Two - 535 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:16:16] <exec> 08└─No, in the WWDC keynote it was announced Swift will be open sourced (both compiler and standard library), and Apple will also provide a Linux port. From the official blog [apple.com]: Swift source code will be released under an OSI-approved permissive license.Contributions from the community will be...
[13:17:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Canvas fingerprinting - 06Alternative Browser Pale Moon Releases Version 25.6.0 With Privacy, Security Fixes - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:17:34] <exec> 08└─can anyone explain the Canvas fingerprinting thing? (When you set about:config canvas.poisondata true any data read back from canvas surfaces will have "humanly-imperceptible" data changes. default off because performance impact on routines reading this data) But I suppose I have to read up about ca...
[13:17:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrNemesis [1582] (Score:2) 02Re:Canvas fingerprinting - 06Alternative Browser Pale Moon Releases Version 25.6.0 With Privacy, Security Fixes - 1953 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:17:35] <exec> 08└─Was just reading up on canvas myself - I'd read about fingerpriting some years back but never really figured out how it worked. This is all just from half an hours worth of reading bits so if there are any people with better knowledge please feel free to correct. https://en.wikipedia.org
[13:17:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02and for linux mint/ubuntu? - 06Alternative Browser Pale Moon Releases Version 25.6.0 With Privacy, Security Fixes - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:17:37] <exec> 08└─there is a ppa https://launchpad.net [launchpad.net] but it only have version 25.3.1 should I wait until it gets 25.6 or try find another one?
[13:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score:2) 02Re:Agree and disagree - 06Anti-Fur Activists Cover Tracks By Avoiding Technology - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:22:53] <exec> 08└─Are you saying that whether or not "scaring and threatening people with violence because of their job/religion/skin color/sexual preference/whatever else someone didn't agree with" should be labelled "terrorism" depends on the number of people involved? I could disagree with that on semantic grounds...
[13:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score:2) 02Undo mod? - 06Anti-Fur Activists Cover Tracks By Avoiding Technology - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:22:56] <exec> 08└─Sorry, I tried to mod you and then scrolled. Apparently in the mod box. No clue how to undo it.
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[14:13:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Razer sucks. - 06Razer Acquires Ouya Software Assets, Ditches Hardware - 807 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:32] <exec> 08└─I have used Razer hardware in the past and from my experience, they arent all that great. I had one of their optical mice, forget the model, and the buttons failed after only a year. Their biggest strike is the ruination of the Nostromo gaming pad that was originally made by Belkin. They released a...
[14:13:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Good thing they dumped Chrysler - 06Daimler Seeks License for Road Testing Autonomous Trucks in Germany - 773 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:42] <exec> 08└─The whole Chrysler purchase and sale was a big loss for Daimler and wasn't very good for Chrysler either...and look at all the trouble they are in now with Fiat management that is trying to ignore the Feds demands for recall & buybacks. Here's a comment from Detroit, http://www.autoextremis...
[14:13:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:Here We Go Again ... - 06The Plan to Beam the Web to 3 Billion Unconnected Humans - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:55] <exec> 08└─I will ask the Editor to write out 100 times ' I must check for dupes' - but, to be honest, the automatic checker is not up to much at the moment and with over 7000 stories published so far the task is not an easy one.
[14:13:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03jcross [4009] (Score:2) 02Re:No upload? - 06The Plan to Beam the Web to 3 Billion Unconnected Humans - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:59] <exec> 08└─I imagine this is more like the software the BBC would broadcast via the TV signal back in the day. Essentially the lighthouse receives a spidered version of Wikipedia or whatever on the radio, sends it to its local storage and then serves that to local clients. Sure you won't be able to edit the ar...
[14:14:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Re:no upload means no spending - 06The Plan to Beam the Web to 3 Billion Unconnected Humans - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:14:01] <exec> 08└─And you would be wrong - that comment is attributable to the original submitter. You can always look at the 'Original Submission' link to check.
[14:14:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Re:Busted link - 06The Plan to Beam the Web to 3 Billion Unconnected Humans - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:14:04] <exec> 08└─All links in the story are good as at 13:26 UTC - which link are you having problems with?
[14:14:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Baffling - 06The Plan to Beam the Web to 3 Billion Unconnected Humans - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:14:06] <exec> 08└─If I have to feature a guess, it probably means they will not allow running P2P or server hosting
[14:14:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Baffling - 06The Plan to Beam the Web to 3 Billion Unconnected Humans - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:14:08] <exec> 08└─Think of it like like radio except for wikipedia.
[14:14:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Land of the [censored], home of the [censored] - 06Hologram Performance Shut Down by Police at Hip-Hop Festival - 1185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:14:19] <exec> 08└─The first amendment has little to do with public performances. There's nothing unconstitutional about demanding a licence for a venue, satisfying health and safety laws, passing electrical and pyrotechnic safety tests, etc.. All of those things can cause an intended performance to be a non-performan...
[14:14:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Tards' rE_Tards___Tardis? - 06Porn Studio Asks Judge to Ban Talk About "Copyleft" Blogs at Trial - 647 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:27] <exec> 08└─OK, let me just say this: porn is not a legitimate product. At all. It is only a handicap for the sexually handicapped. And as that it is a medical prothesis, it ought to be free, and covered by Medicare. Or else it is just a bunch of tittilation and ought to be mercilessly copied and posted all ov...
[14:14:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:For those wondering - 06Combating Scarcity With Abundance: New Impact Challenge to Tackle California's Drought - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:14:59] <exec> 08└─> I guess they just think being super extroverted and having lots of positive feelings is how engineering gets done. FYI, Singularity University is a project from Peter Diamandis. [wikipedia.org] You might recognize one of his other projects - the X-Prize Foundation. Full disclosure, my wife is frie...
[14:17:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03redneckmother [3597] (Score:1) 02Re:Looks like shit soup - 06Smoking Gun: MPAA Emails Reveal Plan To Run Anti-Google Smear Campaign - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:17:08] <exec> 08└─Excellent - may I quote you?
[14:17:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03tempest [3050] 02Re:It's two words not one - 06Alternative Browser Pale Moon Releases Version 25.6.0 With Privacy, Security Fixes - 166 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:17:38] <exec> 08└─I think it's technically accurate, as Pale Moon was intended as an "optimized" version of Firefox until the Australis interface was introduced, THEN it became a fork.
[14:18:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:w007 for Motif - 06Xinuos Announces OpenServer X and the Xinuos Business One Developer Program - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:18:38] <exec> 08└─The other benefit of CDE is to piss off the UX-tards of the world.
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[15:13:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Hopefully a good move - 06Dice Selling Slashdot and Sourceforge - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:31] <exec> 08└─I hope that the new buyers, whenever they are found, know how to treat both sites properly.
[15:13:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03WizardFusion [498] (Score:2) 02Re:Hopefully a good move - 06Dice Selling Slashdot and Sourceforge - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:32] <exec> 08└─I think it's too late for that, particularly for Sourceforge.
[15:13:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03FrogBlast [21] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Hopefully a good move - 06Dice Selling Slashdot and Sourceforge - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:34] <exec> 08└─Too late to save them maybe, but not to late to stop actively doing harm to the people who do show up there.
[15:13:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Hopefully a good move - 06Dice Selling Slashdot and Sourceforge - 1057 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:36] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but I don't think they will. Who would buy it who did not intend to extract maximum value from it? I don't really see any philanthropic tech billionaire coming along to hand the scumbags at Dice a payday, since the Slashdot community has already been destroyed and the Slashdot diaspora begun....
[15:13:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The green site is dead! - 06Dice Selling Slashdot and Sourceforge - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:38] <exec> 08└─Long live the red site!
[15:13:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Re:The green site is dead! - 06Dice Selling Slashdot and Sourceforge - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:40] <exec> 08└─The green site is dead!
[15:13:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:The green site is dead! - 06Dice Selling Slashdot and Sourceforge - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:42] <exec> 08└─Remarkable forum, the Green Site, idn'it, eh? Beautiful plumage!
[15:13:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Full List Of Potential Buyers... - 06Dice Selling Slashdot and Sourceforge - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:44] <exec> 08└─1: M$
[15:13:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Full List Of Potential Buyers... - 06Dice Selling Slashdot and Sourceforge - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:45] <exec> 08└─Oh, the irony. That would be like when Scientology bankrupted and bought the Cult Awareness Network. Slashdot could become part of Microsoft's campaign to re-introduce itself to the computing public by trumpeting their commitment to "Open Source." Watch it happen.
[15:13:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Re:Full List Of Potential Buyers... - 06Dice Selling Slashdot and Sourceforge - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:47] <exec> 08└─Just in time to shill how successful and awesome Win-10 is.
[15:13:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrNemesis [1582] (Score:2) 02Synchronicity! - 06Dice Selling Slashdot and Sourceforge - 608 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:49] <exec> 08└─To think that I was just this minute looking to see if the wonderful absurd.org existed anywhere... this seems just as relevant now as when I first read it back before I'd even heard of slashdot: Web Is Dead - A Play In Two Acts [archive.org]. Well hey, it's a change from the usual "XYZ is dying" th...
[15:13:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Do slashdot know? - 06Dice Selling Slashdot and Sourceforge - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:50] <exec> 08└─At the time of this comment, Slashdot are not covering the story. I wonder if anyone has told them?
[15:13:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03zugedneb [4556] (Score:2) 02Re:Do slashdot know? - 06Dice Selling Slashdot and Sourceforge - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:52] <exec> 08└─1: read ur sig 2: own up 3: profit =)
[15:13:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrNemesis [1582] (Score:2) 02Re:Do slashdot know? - 06Dice Selling Slashdot and Sourceforge - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:53] <exec> 08└─There's at least four stories about it in the firehose... hopefully we won't see them fall victim to, er, editorial fluctuations like when the sourceforge project hijacking/malware story broke...
[15:13:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02In the cards for Dice's next investment... - 06Dice Selling Slashdot and Sourceforge - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:55] <exec> 08└─.. herding cats!
[15:13:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snospar [5366] (Score:1) 02Carriers must fix this - 06Silent MMS Exploit Affecting All Android Phones Since 2.2 - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:57] <exec> 08└─The vulnerability works at such a low level that even though Google has issued a fix the code won't make its way to most handsets because it would require an update issued by the carrier and/or phone manufacturer and we all know how often that happens once phones are more than 3 months old!
[15:13:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03physicsmajor [1471] (Score:2) 02Workaround - 06Silent MMS Exploit Affecting All Android Phones Since 2.2 - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:59] <exec> 08└─Here is how to prevent automatic background downloading of MMS messages. Doesn't fix the problem but you'd have to click first, instead of having them silently execute. https://www.twilio.com [twilio.com]
[15:14:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Let's Add WiFi! - 06Daimler Seeks License for Road Testing Autonomous Trucks in Germany - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:14:11] <exec> 08└─Well, I'm sure the trucks will be internet connected so that the operating company can at all times check where the trucks are, and give them new orders if necessary. And surely that connection will come with industry-standard (read: poor) security. Given that currently truck drivers not only drive...
[15:14:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Good thing they dumped Chrysler - 06Daimler Seeks License for Road Testing Autonomous Trucks in Germany - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:14:14] <exec> 08└─Wasn't Fiat the cheapest thing on the road, until Hyundai came along? I know that Datsun was a contender for the title for a little while. What are those career Mickey D employees buying today, when they move up from skateboards?
[15:14:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Numbers pulled out of asses - 06Daimler Seeks License for Road Testing Autonomous Trucks in Germany - 1205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:16] <exec> 08└─"Ninety-percent of commercial truck accidents are due to driver error and 1 in 8 of those are due to driver fatigue," That statement is less wrong than I thought it was, on first reading it. I found a couple sets of statistics to support it, and a clarification. "Nearly 90 percent of commercial truc...
[15:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Numbers pulled out of asses - 06Daimler Seeks License for Road Testing Autonomous Trucks in Germany - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:14:17] <exec> 08└─I agree that phrase seems to imply the commercial driver is at fault most the time. Commercial drivers spend a lot of time on the road, so actually have more experience than the average driver. I have had several instances where commercial drivers have accommodated my mistakes on the road. In one in...
[15:14:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03WillAdams [1424] (Score:1) 02Automated trucking has employment implications - 06Daimler Seeks License for Road Testing Autonomous Trucks in Germany - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:19] <exec> 08└─Take a look at this chart: http://blogcnccookbookcom.c.presscdn.com [presscdn.com] (from: http://blog.cnccookbook.com [cnccookbook.com] ) Things are not going to go well unless we can work out s...
[15:14:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Cat Pictures - 06The Plan to Beam the Web to 3 Billion Unconnected Humans - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:14:29] <exec> 08└─And since in so many parts of the developing world pr0n is illegal, even punishable by flogging or worse, it has ironically made people in those places more conversant with proxies and other security/anonymity measures than in the developed world.
[15:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Cat Pictures - 06The Plan to Beam the Web to 3 Billion Unconnected Humans - 902 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:14:31] <exec> 08└─I've been following this blog [whiteafrican.com] for years, which covers the tech scene in Africa. There it's all about mobile Internet, because people can't afford computers but a great many people have cell phones. Originally it was about getting news and crop prices and the like via SMS; now as s...
[15:14:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:no upload means no spending - 06The Plan to Beam the Web to 3 Billion Unconnected Humans - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:14:40] <exec> 08└─The spending power comment was mine. I doubt anyone would be interested in advertising anything to them anyway.
[15:14:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Land of the [censored], home of the [censored] - 06Hologram Performance Shut Down by Police at Hip-Hop Festival - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:14:57] <exec> 08└─The first amendment has little to do with public performances.
[15:14:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Land of the [censored], home of the [censored] - 06Hologram Performance Shut Down by Police at Hip-Hop Festival - 1295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:14:58] <exec> 08└─Yes but that's the crazy part about it. How can they sue Rahm Emmanuel since it was the cops in Hammond, Indiana who shut down the performance? Rahm can say, "What? I had nothing to do with this. I fully support First Amendment rights!!!" Unless they subpoena his email records and phone records and...
[15:14:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Land of the [censored], home of the [censored] - 06Hologram Performance Shut Down by Police at Hip-Hop Festival - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:15:00] <exec> 08└─The police are still searching for Chief Keef after he vanished when someone cut the power.
[15:15:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Tards' rE_Tards___Tardis? - 06Porn Studio Asks Judge to Ban Talk About "Copyleft" Blogs at Trial - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:15:15] <exec> 08└─Isn't it obvious? Naught is an alternative name for zero. Therefore a naughty bit is a zero bit. For example, ASCII sex has eleven naughty bits. :-)
[15:15:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Tards' rE_Tards___Tardis? - 06Porn Studio Asks Judge to Ban Talk About "Copyleft" Blogs at Trial - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:15:17] <exec> 08└─And as that it is a medical prothesis, it ought to be free, and covered by Medicare.
[15:15:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Nuclear reactors. - 06Combating Scarcity With Abundance: New Impact Challenge to Tackle California's Drought - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:15:33] <exec> 08└─Precisely what bit of the quoted material are you objecting to? The last big unit I'm familiar with budgeted 5 years for construction (after 5 years of planning and licensing).
[15:15:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03WillR [2012] (Score:2) 02Re:Well, we've tried everything else - 06Combating Scarcity With Abundance: New Impact Challenge to Tackle California's Drought - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:15:43] <exec> 08└─The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.
[15:16:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kromagv0 [1825] (Score:2) 02Re:Emails - 06NSA Ordered to Destroy Phone Records It Collected Illegally - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:16:39] <exec> 08└─Personally I like this General Buck Turgidson [guim.co.uk] style image of him. Personally I think Buck was more sane.
[15:16:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Scrub the premise, leave the conclusion? - 06NSA Ordered to Destroy Phone Records It Collected Illegally - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:16:42] <exec> 08└─And if anything, the inferences without knowledge of the raw data that caused them is even worse than them keeping everything, as at least if they keep everythign they can at a later stage say "but that's rather tenuous". Without evidence of how tenuous the links are, they all suddenly become first...
[15:17:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Twenty-ish Years Too Late - 06Musk, Wozniak and Hawking Warn Over AI Warfare and Autonomous Weapons - 1261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:13] <exec> 08└─It is already too late for this debate. Autonomous weapons of various degrees have been in production and use for decades. Consider first the Soviet anti-tank dogs [wikipedia.org], or perhaps even the United States' attempt to make pigeon-guided ship-seeking missiles [wikipedia.org]. The former demo...
[15:17:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snotnose [1623] 02Re:How much does the artist get from my CD purchas - 06Smoking Gun: MPAA Emails Reveal Plan To Run Anti-Google Smear Campaign - 708 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:17:44] <exec> 08└─I've wanted a system to only reward the artists since the 80s. Back in the day I used to buy an album and make a cassette tape of it. Sometimes I'd make mixtapes for my friends. Not to try to hook up with them (I had cocaine for that :), but because I thought the music was good, never got played on...
[15:18:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02what version to get? - 06Alternative Browser Pale Moon Releases Version 25.6.0 With Privacy, Security Fixes - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:51] <exec> 08└─For an older computer with AMD Athlon/800MHz and winXP sp2 would this one http://www.romanstefko.com [romanstefko.com] be the version to get?
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[16:13:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02I wondered... - 06NASA Hosts 'Quest for Quakes' Data Challenge - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:31] <exec> 08└─that electromagnetic pulses (EMP) may precede an earthquake, potentially offering a warning to those in the quake's path.
[16:13:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kell [292] (Score:4, Funny) 02Re:Hopefully a good move - 06Dice Selling Slashdot and Sourceforge - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:43] <exec> 08└─When our green brethren and sestren walk into the wilderness in search of succor, we will greet them with open arms and lower UIDs.
[16:13:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:Hopefully a good move - 06Dice Selling Slashdot and Sourceforge - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:46] <exec> 08└─and then they will curse our sudden but inevitable betrayal!!
[16:13:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:1) 02Re:Hopefully a good move - 06Dice Selling Slashdot and Sourceforge - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:48] <exec> 08└─No place else I'm aware of has managed to achieve that success in community building from such a diverse array of people.
[16:13:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:2) 02Re:Hopefully a good move - 06Dice Selling Slashdot and Sourceforge - 635 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:49] <exec> 08└─The group-think is what got me as much as anything. Posting anything even remotely interesting risked having it buried because it wasn't ideologically pure and it got to the point where people wouldn't even read the summary before posting. I don't agree that Dice caused that, the site was already di...
[16:13:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Hopefully a good move - 06Dice Selling Slashdot and Sourceforge - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:51] <exec> 08└─I don't agree that Dice caused that, the site was already dieing when they took it over.
[16:13:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:4, Interesting) 02Re:Hopefully a good move - 06Dice Selling Slashdot and Sourceforge - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:52] <exec> 08└─Frequently there was much to find fault with, but on the whole their story selection, editing, and guidance of the site kept us coming back over and over again for years.
[16:13:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:Hopefully a good move - 06Dice Selling Slashdot and Sourceforge - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:54] <exec> 08└─may HairyFeet never lay down the standard of Microsoft
[16:13:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02Re:The green site is dead! - 06Dice Selling Slashdot and Sourceforge - 64 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:56] <exec> 08└─Remarkable forum, the Green Site, idn'it, eh? Beautiful plumage!
[16:13:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score:2) 02Re:The green site is dead! - 06Dice Selling Slashdot and Sourceforge - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:57] <exec> 08└─Does that mean /. is now full of zombies?
[16:13:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Full List Of Potential Buyers... - 06Dice Selling Slashdot and Sourceforge - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:00] <exec> 08└─2. oracle
[16:14:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:Full List Of Potential Buyers... - 06Dice Selling Slashdot and Sourceforge - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:01] <exec> 08└─If 1 is "M$" and 3 is "Profit", then there's no way that 2 can possibly be "Oracle". Well, not unless we're talking about Oracle making the profit...
[16:14:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03bryan [29] (Score:2) 02Re:Full List Of Potential Buyers... - 06Dice Selling Slashdot and Sourceforge - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:03] <exec> 08└─3. Facebook How many billions did they pay for WhatsApp again - just to get the user base? Slashdot only being in the "M's" instead of the "B's" would be a drop in the bucket in comparison.
[16:14:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Synchronicity! - 06Dice Selling Slashdot and Sourceforge - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:05] <exec> 08└─From the linked page: and invests money in now legal marijuana market.
[16:14:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03janrinok [52] 02Do slashdot know? - 06Dice Selling Slashdot and Sourceforge - 99 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:06] <exec> 08└─At the time of this comment, Slashdot are not covering the story. I wonder if anyone has told them?
[16:14:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:4, Informative) 02Re:Do slashdot know? - 06Dice Selling Slashdot and Sourceforge - 802 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:08] <exec> 08└─I feel a little bad for them. When CmdrTaco left Slashdot, it was like a death in the family and a real wake-up call. I wound up putting his new venture, Trove, in my go-to links because I thought he had really done something good at Slashdot. And even after he was gone I cut Slashdot a lot of slack...
[16:14:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Do slashdot know? - 06Dice Selling Slashdot and Sourceforge - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:10] <exec> 08└─Well, now the dirtbags are walking away. So maybe sticking around was not the wrong thing to do.
[16:14:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:In the cards for Dice's next investment... - 06Dice Selling Slashdot and Sourceforge - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:11] <exec> 08└─I see you've never owned a cat and a laser pointer at the same time.
[16:14:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03tathra [3367] (Score:2) 02Re:In the cards for Dice's next investment... - 06Dice Selling Slashdot and Sourceforge - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:13] <exec> 08└─i can't get my cat to chase the laser pointer. he knows its not real, so he just ignores it.
[16:14:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Dice Value Proposition - 06Dice Selling Slashdot and Sourceforge - 850 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:15] <exec> 08└─While we're at it, can anyone explain why Dice even remains in business at all? They really suck at their core business, which is tech recruiting. When I was a hiring manager in consulting, I placed an ad on their site for Java programmers and 99% of the people they sent us had no idea what programm...
[16:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03gallondr00nk [392] (Score:2) 02Fingers crossed. - 06Dice Selling Slashdot and Sourceforge - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:18] <exec> 08└─That the new owner at least has some idea of what makes a site like Slashdot tick. Perhaps they'll all come here ;) It says everything about rise and decline on the web. 10 years ago Sourceforge and Slashdot were big fucking hitters. I wonder in an alternate universe what would have happened if /. h...
[16:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03PizzaRollPlinkett [4512] (Score:2) 02not successfully leveraged the Slashdot user base - 06Dice Selling Slashdot and Sourceforge - 1067 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:19] <exec> 08└─So they have "not successfully leveraged the Slashdot user base" and are flipping the property before it becomes worthless. I wondered all along what Dice was trying to do. They bought a site where the audience was a watering hole the kind of technical professionals that are in demand, but ... Dice...
[16:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:not successfully leveraged the Slashdot user ba - 06Dice Selling Slashdot and Sourceforge - 878 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:21] <exec> 08└─It did seem like they had no idea what they were doing. They could have started by expanding the user features by including an optional resume. Next would be a checkbox for "i am looking for a new job in x that pays y". There are fucking millions of engineers (still) on slashdot, i'm sure they could...
[16:14:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:not successfully leveraged the Slashdot user ba - 06Dice Selling Slashdot and Sourceforge - 655 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:23] <exec> 08└─Yeah, see? They should have hired you to advise them, not some MBA flunky from Thunderbird. The integration of hiring in Slashdot could have been very good for everyone, but Dice sucked at it. I want to put down a marker here, on your comment. Soylent should do this, the way you have described. Bein...
[16:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:not successfully leveraged the Slashdot user ba - 06Dice Selling Slashdot and Sourceforge - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:24] <exec> 08└─So they have "not successfully leveraged the Slashdot user base" and are flipping the property before it becomes worthless.
[16:14:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03chewbacon [1032] (Score:2) 02Irony - 06Dice Selling Slashdot and Sourceforge - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:26] <exec> 08└─they couldn't mod down enough "fuck beta" comments fast enough to cover that mess up.
[16:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03GlennC [3656] (Score:2) 02Translation - 06Dice Selling Slashdot and Sourceforge - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:28] <exec> 08└─...not successfully leveraged the Slashdot user base to further Dice's digital recruitment business.
[16:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03bootsy [3440] (Score:2) 02Soylent would love to have those revenues - 06Dice Selling Slashdot and Sourceforge - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:29] <exec> 08└─I'm actually surprised at how much money Slashdot and SourceForge were making. It would be interesting to see the breakdown of how much Slashdot made on it's own. If Soylent turned over less than 10 percent of that we'd be doing well. Does it all come from Ad Revenues or does that include the sale o...
[16:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02warp engine? - 06Dice Selling Slashdot and Sourceforge - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:31] <exec> 08└─good god! soylentnews.org loads really really fast for me!!!
[16:14:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Carriers must fix this - 06Silent MMS Exploit Affecting All Android Phones Since 2.2 - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:14:33] <exec> 08└─Yes this is the crux of the issue(NSA feature?). I may dump the eco-system after this. At very least I would move to google branded phones... which is still not ideal solution as I do not trust them at all. I have a fairly new headset (Galaxy S5) and I don't expect this to be patched in under 6 mont...
[16:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Carriers must fix this - 06Silent MMS Exploit Affecting All Android Phones Since 2.2 - 583 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:14:34] <exec> 08└─This shows that the process of going through the carriers must stop. It makes no sense to have the carriers as an impediment to software updates. I don't have to get my ISP to provide updates to Windows or Linux, I shouldn't have to have my carrier provide updates to Android or Windows (phone). We n...
[16:14:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Workaround - 06Silent MMS Exploit Affecting All Android Phones Since 2.2 - 697 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:14:36] <exec> 08└─the instructions are provided as a video or animated gif? The world is ending. It may have ended. To witness that simple instructions now require a video tutorial to ensure that people can follow along. Maybe instead of eternal september, we now have a frozen turkey november. Because the same people...
[16:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Workaround - 06Silent MMS Exploit Affecting All Android Phones Since 2.2 - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:14:38] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=toothpick+how+to [youtube.com]
[16:14:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02listening in since ...forever - 06Silent MMS Exploit Affecting All Android Phones Since 2.2 - 481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:39] <exec> 08└─i don't get it. wifi or GSM .. it's the same. the difference is the "capture portal/billing" function and the wattage output power ... why can i not just go to a website "updatemyandroid.com" with my wifi-phone (via free wifi or paid GSM) click a link, select my candy version and get an update? anyw...
[16:14:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03tathra [3367] (Score:2) 02Re:listening in since ...forever - 06Silent MMS Exploit Affecting All Android Phones Since 2.2 - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:14:41] <exec> 08└─why can i not just go to a website "updatemyandroid.com" with my wifi-phone (via free wifi or paid GSM) click a link, select my candy version and get an update?
[16:14:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score:2) 02Re:Razer sucks. - 06Razer Acquires Ouya Software Assets, Ditches Hardware - 696 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:14:46] <exec> 08└─I have a Nostromo too, and can't imagine playing games without it. In fact, the only games I play without the Nostromo are ones that support the 360 controller. I've played years of WoW, hot-key-mashing, and a few other MMOs and RPGs where the keypad gets quite a mashing. It is still as responsive a...
[16:14:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02which game is cool?! - 06Razer Acquires Ouya Software Assets, Ditches Hardware - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:48] <exec> 08└─preeeetty sure there are soem really good (non-angry bird) android games. problem is .. where do i go to KNOW ABOUT THEM? - the hardware today is like a desert tower to awesome-fun 80's 10 cents arcade BOX mud-hut ...
[16:15:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score:2) 02Re:Cat Pictures - 06The Plan to Beam the Web to 3 Billion Unconnected Humans - 2068 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:15:15] <exec> 08└─That's great for the developing world "upwardly mobile" class, but there are also a LOT of rural people, especially in Asia and Africa, that don't have access to cellular networks, simply because it's not cost effective to build the infrastructure in the middle of nowhere, when population density *...
[16:15:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Here We Go Again ... - 06The Plan to Beam the Web to 3 Billion Unconnected Humans - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:15:18] <exec> 08└─I don't consider it a dupe... maybe a non-update update.
[16:15:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02nothing new - 06The Plan to Beam the Web to 3 Billion Unconnected Humans - 1289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:32] <exec> 08└─There's never really anything new in technology, I can think of teletext on TVs in the 80s/90s and at least one place was distributing a one way usenet feed over satellite in the early 90s and the public high school around 1990 had a literal news feed over satellite service in the library that you c...
[16:15:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Crucial quote from TFA - 06Hologram Performance Shut Down by Police at Hip-Hop Festival - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:47] <exec> 08└─Hammond Mayor Thomas M. McDermott, talking to the New York Times: I know nothing about Chief Keef. All I’d heard was he has a lot of songs about gangs and shooting people—a history that’s anti-cop, pro-gang, and pro-drug use. He’s been basically outlawed in Chicago, and we’re not going to...
[16:15:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Crucial quote from TFA - 06Hologram Performance Shut Down by Police at Hip-Hop Festival - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:15:49] <exec> 08└─But the second half is an interesting admission. Of course, one of the things conventionally distinguishing mayors from, say, kings, was that you could circumvent a mayor by going "next door" -- each mayor's power was constrained to the city he was mayor of. Mayor McDermott seems to be openly admitt...
[16:16:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Well, we've tried everything else - 06Combating Scarcity With Abundance: New Impact Challenge to Tackle California's Drought - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:16:31] <exec> 08└─It's a cognitive limitation that served...
[16:19:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:You could have tried for the alliteration. - 06Gamers Steaming Over Dumb Valve Password Vulnerability - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:19:03] <exec> 08└─He could. Thankfully, he didn't.
[16:19:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03iWantToKeepAnon [686] (Score:2) 02Re:CPU hog ... anybody find same? - 06Alternative Browser Pale Moon Releases Version 25.6.0 With Privacy, Security Fixes - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:19:32] <exec> 08└─Thanks, I'll give the new version a go and see what happens.
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[17:13:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02fracturing rock in the Earth's crust - 06NASA Hosts 'Quest for Quakes' Data Challenge - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:23] <exec> 08└─Is this thought to be a piezoelectric effect?
[17:13:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Kell [292] 02Re:Hopefully a good move - 06Dice Selling Slashdot and Sourceforge - 131 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:36] <exec> 08└─When our green brethren and sestren walk into the wilderness in search of succor, we will greet them with open arms and lower UIDs.
[17:13:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02Re:Hopefully a good move - 06Dice Selling Slashdot and Sourceforge - 1057 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:39] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but I don't think they will. Who would buy it who did not intend to extract maximum value from it? I don't really see any philanthropic tech billionaire coming along to hand the scumbags at Dice a payday, since the Slashdot community has already been destroyed and the Slashdot diaspora begun....
[17:13:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:Hopefully a good move - 06Dice Selling Slashdot and Sourceforge - 1226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:43] <exec> 08└─That was actually caused by the moderation system. It doesn't work by raising the signal to noise ratio, it works by turning mod points into a game. Sharks with laser-beams? Lots of people with mod-points thought that was worth a funny-mod. So what's the difference? Yesterday Slashdot posted a st...
[17:13:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03jpkunst [2310] (Score:1) 02Re:Hopefully a good move - 06Dice Selling Slashdot and Sourceforge - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:45] <exec> 08└─Pro tip: give "Funny" moderated posts automatically a -6 in your preferences. Works great on both Slashdot and Soylentnews, everything is much more readable. Posts moderated "Funny" almost never are, keeping them out of sight is best.
[17:13:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Hopefully a good move - 06Dice Selling Slashdot and Sourceforge - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:48] <exec> 08└─May Soylent make editorial mistakes forever.
[17:13:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:1) 02Re:Hopefully a good move - 06Dice Selling Slashdot and Sourceforge - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:49] <exec> 08└─The proofreading mistakes, the basic editing missteps, those all signaled authenticity to me.
[17:14:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Do slashdot know? - 06Dice Selling Slashdot and Sourceforge - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:03] <exec> 08└─Exactly. Reminds me of this writing by Raymond Chen: "Don't just stand around saying somebody should do something: Be someone [msdn.com]".
[17:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrNemesis [1582] (Score:2) 02Re:not successfully leveraged the Slashdot user ba - 06Dice Selling Slashdot and Sourceforge - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:16] <exec> 08└─Whenever anyone, especially Dice, uses the word "leverage" in that context I always unwittingly transplant the speaker into Battlefield Earth [youtube.com]. Given their seeming nature as planet-trotting uber-capitalists behaving like always-crooked bad actors it's perhaps a fitting metaphor for Dice...
[17:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0, Disagree) 02Readership has a strong sense of entitlement - 06Dice Selling Slashdot and Sourceforge - 663 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:21] <exec> 08└─Beta was a fiasco, but Slashdot's young readership hasn't been willing to work with the new owners in the usual way audiences negotiate with media providers - you give us this, and in turn we'll consume (or ignore) some ads, occasional puff stories that tie in with Dice's other businesses, etc. Slas...
[17:14:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Michelle [4097] (Score:2, Insightful) 02And don't let the door hit you - 06Dice Selling Slashdot and Sourceforge - 474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:23] <exec> 08└─I cannot for the life of me believe that Dice is still around. I've had experiences with them in the past; only calls I ever got through them were from headhunters (mostly overseas). "Jobs" that don't exist when you follow up on it. I'm not quite clear how they thought strangling /. and driving away...
[17:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Michelle [4097] (Score:1) 02Re:And don't let the door hit you - 06Dice Selling Slashdot and Sourceforge - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:25] <exec> 08└─Oh, and this little gem is just plain insulting: "not successfully leveraged the Slashdot user base". Sorry Dice, but I'm not here for you (and your capitalist cronies) to "leverage". But then, the /. beta policies and site design were insulting too... If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
[17:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Carriers must fix this - 06Silent MMS Exploit Affecting All Android Phones Since 2.2 - 662 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:14:35] <exec> 08└─If someone exploits this because your carrier didn't provide an update after Google issued the code fix, couldn't you sue the carrier for damages? I hope someone will do so and win. Carriers will only act responsibly if there's a cost involved for not doing so. Not that they are any special in this....
[17:14:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Workaround - 06Silent MMS Exploit Affecting All Android Phones Since 2.2 - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:14:39] <exec> 08└─oh man, now you've done it, I never even thought to search the cesspool. At least someone is reading my anonymous posting... well I will log in eventually, but if I own up to these comments, then people will know what I think about such things! It could ruin my political aspirations... but knowing p...
[17:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02You think you own your phone? - 06Silent MMS Exploit Affecting All Android Phones Since 2.2 - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:42] <exec> 08└─In this crazy world they make the slaves buy their shackles.
[17:15:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score:2) 02Re:no upload means no spending - 06The Plan to Beam the Web to 3 Billion Unconnected Humans - 474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:15:31] <exec> 08└─If we assume advertising is incorporated, then the question would still essentially become: does the benefit of having a local branch of the globe-spanning super-library outweigh the cost of letting the sponsors put up billboards? Having worn out several library cards in youth, I would tend to belie...
[17:15:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Busted link - 06The Plan to Beam the Web to 3 Billion Unconnected Humans - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:15:34] <exec> 08└─All 3 seem to work nicely for me atm.
[17:15:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Land of the [censored], home of the [censored] - 06Hologram Performance Shut Down by Police at Hip-Hop Festival - 769 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:15:53] <exec> 08└─> > The first amendment has little to do with public performances. > Oh yes it does Oh no it doesn't, for the reasons I stated above. > The reason that this was shut down was due to the content of the performance Nope, that is not what's being claimed. What is being claimed is that it is due to immi...
[17:15:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03tathra [3367] (Score:2) 02Re:Land of the [censored], home of the [censored] - 06Hologram Performance Shut Down by Police at Hip-Hop Festival - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:15:55] <exec> 08└─Nope, that is not what's being claimed. What is being claimed is that it is due to imminent harm which would stem from the crowd's reaction to the performance.
[17:15:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Land of the [censored], home of the [censored] - 06Hologram Performance Shut Down by Police at Hip-Hop Festival - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:15:56] <exec> 08└─The reason in the summary disagrees with the reason in the article: City officials said rapper's digital appearance "posed a significant public safety risk." Public safety trumps 1st amendment every time.
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[18:13:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Isn't it perjury to submit a fraudulent takedown? - 06 So Far, Wordpress Denied 43% of DMCA Takedown Requests in 2015 - 627 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:23] <exec> 08└─Song titles cannot be copyrighted. Suppose I recorded my own gaseous emissions in warmly-distorted Hi Fidelity then posted "Jesus Christ Superstar.mp3" on my site. Were web sheriff and friends to send my hosting service a takedown, would the FBI arrest them? Some titles are trademarked, such as the...
[18:13:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Is that why my car stalled? - 06NASA Hosts 'Quest for Quakes' Data Challenge - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:32] <exec> 08└─Filter error: Joke too obvious
[18:13:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I can't ignore - 06NASA Hosts 'Quest for Quakes' Data Challenge - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:34] <exec> 08└─I just can't get over a NASA scientist using the phrase "a myriad of". Is this how we've ended up? Wait, I mean, "Is this how up to which we've ended?"
[18:13:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03purpleland [5193] (Score:2, Interesting) 02Some thoughts... - 06NASA Hosts 'Quest for Quakes' Data Challenge - 775 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:35] <exec> 08└─While EMP could precede an earthquake, it seems it'll be helpful to also have a local seismometer work in conjunction with it to show if there is indeed a correlation. Expectation: oh look EMP pulse, then a few hours (?) later, a corresponding seismometer spike. Seismometer/graphs are expensive to b...
[18:13:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:Hopefully a good move - 06Dice Selling Slashdot and Sourceforge - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:54] <exec> 08└─The humour on SlashDot was one of the things I liked the best. Yes, there were the ongoing meme jokes (which were still funny on rare occasions), but some of the other humour was some of the best around. I think tech people are some of the funniest around, especially with puns, which I must admit I'...
[18:13:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Hopefully a good move - 06Dice Selling Slashdot and Sourceforge - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:56] <exec> 08└─Do you think we should run the update on EMDrive? The gist is that a new group independently verified a small amount of thrust, although the article is paywalled.
[18:13:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Hopefully a good move - 06Dice Selling Slashdot and Sourceforge - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:57] <exec> 08└─Posting anything even remotely interesting risked having it buried because it wasn't ideologically pure
[18:13:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02Re:Hopefully a good move - 06Dice Selling Slashdot and Sourceforge - 170 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:59] <exec> 08└─Frequently there was much to find fault with, but on the whole their story selection, editing, and guidance of the site kept us coming back over and over again for years.
[18:14:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03tadas [3635] (Score:2) 02Re:Hopefully a good move - 06Dice Selling Slashdot and Sourceforge - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:03] <exec> 08└─Yes, exactly! I couldn't put it into words, but you have done so perfectly. And I think a lot of us have an affectionate spot in our hearts for some of those guys because we saw them in the Real rather than in the Polished modes.
[18:14:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Hopefully a good move - 06Dice Selling Slashdot and Sourceforge - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:04] <exec> 08└─" Absolutely. The Slashdot community changed my mind and built my thoughts on a lot of things. "
[18:14:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03NullPtr [3786] (Score:1) 02Re:Hopefully a good move - 06Dice Selling Slashdot and Sourceforge - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:06] <exec> 08└─Don't kid yourself, noone is leaving Slashdot.
[18:14:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score:2) 02Re:In the cards for Dice's next investment... - 06Dice Selling Slashdot and Sourceforge - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:26] <exec> 08└─You must have my evil cat's clone. Well, wait... my evil cat is black.... and female. Nevermind. But she is too smart for the laser pointer.
[18:14:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Dice Value Proposition - 06Dice Selling Slashdot and Sourceforge - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:29] <exec> 08└─Maybe they monetize job seekers better than the job offer side. Numerically there are probably always more job seekers than offers, anyway.
[18:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Dice Value Proposition - 06Dice Selling Slashdot and Sourceforge - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:31] <exec> 08└─> Numerically there are probably always more job seekers than offers, anyway. Not according to the H1B apologists.
[18:14:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03tibman [134] 02Re:not successfully leveraged the Slashdot user ba - 06Dice Selling Slashdot and Sourceforge - 878 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:33] <exec> 08└─It did seem like they had no idea what they were doing. They could have started by expanding the user features by including an optional resume. Next would be a checkbox for "i am looking for a new job in x that pays y". There are fucking millions of engineers (still) on slashdot, i'm sure they could...
[18:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Re:not successfully leveraged the Slashdot user ba - 06Dice Selling Slashdot and Sourceforge - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:35] <exec> 08└─Only if we could all do it as AC :)
[18:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:not successfully leveraged the Slashdot user ba - 06Dice Selling Slashdot and Sourceforge - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:38] <exec> 08└─Pure speculation is they had no idea that /. was all about the comments, and thought it was a clickbait/tabloid kind of site like gawker or whatever. So hey we can't buy gawker but we can put job ads on this site thats also an internet "infotainment" site, eh whats the difference?
[18:14:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03physicsmajor [1471] 02Workaround - 06Silent MMS Exploit Affecting All Android Phones Since 2.2 - 282 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:50] <exec> 08└─Here is how to prevent automatic background downloading of MMS messages. Doesn't fix the problem but you'd have to click first, instead of having them silently execute. https://www.twilio.com [twilio.com]
[18:14:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Workaround - 06Silent MMS Exploit Affecting All Android Phones Since 2.2 - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:14:54] <exec> 08└─Pseudonyms: the anons with "class".
[18:15:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:Let's Add WiFi! - 06Daimler Seeks License for Road Testing Autonomous Trucks in Germany - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:15:15] <exec> 08└─Given that currently truck drivers not only drive the trucks, but also often put the stuff onto/off the truck, I wonder what their solution for the latter will be. Truck loading robots?
[18:15:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Cat Pictures - 06The Plan to Beam the Web to 3 Billion Unconnected Humans - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:15:36] <exec> 08└─If all you can think to do with the vast repository of information that is the internet is look at cat pictures, well then, I feel sorry for you. If I was starving and disease ridden then information about farming and disease prevention might be useful.
[18:16:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Land of the [censored], home of the [censored] - 06Hologram Performance Shut Down by Police at Hip-Hop Festival - 721 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:16:12] <exec> 08└─> City officials said rapper's digital appearance "posed a significant public safety risk." What they say and what they mean are two different things. That's just a transparent ruse because they know they can't directly go up against the 1st amendment. The article also says, "he has a lot of songs a...
[18:16:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Crucial quote from TFA - 06Hologram Performance Shut Down by Police at Hip-Hop Festival - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:16:16] <exec> 08└─> Yes, but why? Occam's razor says because McDermott is just an uptight asshole trying to justify himself and pandering to similar uptight assholes in the electorate. But if there is some kind of quid pro quo it's probably political, the democratic party isn't constrained by state lines. Dude's prob...
[18:16:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Tards' rE_Tards___Tardis? - 06Porn Studio Asks Judge to Ban Talk About "Copyleft" Blogs at Trial - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:16:34] <exec> 08└─I'm as much for copyright reform as the next guy but I don't recall the "except if they are naked" provision in the Copyright Act.
[18:17:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Well, we've tried everything else - 06Combating Scarcity With Abundance: New Impact Challenge to Tackle California's Drought - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:17:01] <exec> 08└─> oh to be so hated by one's colleagues, is there anything finer in life? To crush your enemies. See them driven before you. Hear the lamentations of their women.
[18:17:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bullshit fest - 06Combating Scarcity With Abundance: New Impact Challenge to Tackle California's Drought - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:17:10] <exec> 08└─Yeah, have you ever seen the shitfest at Singularity meetups? It's a pyramid scheme for selling diet foods, vitamin regimens, colonics, and etc. to try and live long enough to be in "the singularity". TFA can shove it up their... oh, wait, "Chief Impact Officer". Hmm.
[18:17:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02One only needs thirteen pocket nukes - 06NSA Ordered to Destroy Phone Records It Collected Illegally - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:17:46] <exec> 08└─Google has thirteen data centers. A close friend once toted a pocket nuke around in his jeep, for use in discouraging the Soviets from crossing a bridge without paying its toll. mPerhaps he could set me up.
[18:17:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02No, sorry, you are completely correct. - 06NSA Ordered to Destroy Phone Records It Collected Illegally - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:17:48] <exec> 08└─The reason there is no bike path from Santa Cruz to San Jose is that Lockheed uses an abandoned railroad tunnel for document storage. Only assured destruction of the mutual kind will suffice. Offsite backup, see.
[18:18:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No. - 06Musk, Wozniak and Hawking Warn Over AI Warfare and Autonomous Weapons - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:18:16] <exec> 08└─Why would US be the first?
[18:19:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02I could cost them money by registering - 06Smoking Gun: MPAA Emails Reveal Plan To Run Anti-Google Smear Campaign - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:19:17] <exec> 08└─I would not do so if the money really goes to the artists. But after receiving my first check - or lack thereof - I would have standing to haul them into court soma forensic accountant could uncook their books.
[18:19:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03maliqua [5681] (Score:1) 02Re:Looks like shit soup - 06Smoking Gun: MPAA Emails Reveal Plan To Run Anti-Google Smear Campaign - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:19:22] <exec> 08└─That would even make Mr Lahey proud. https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
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[19:13:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Calling all Hackers - 06New York Magazine Goes Dark After Posting Cosby Article - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:24] <exec> 08└─So...any of you hackers out there hate Los Angeles or San Francisco?
[19:13:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02haha - 06New York Magazine Goes Dark After Posting Cosby Article - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:25] <exec> 08└─From the "how to write a misleading headline that you yourself contradict in the very next sentence" department
[19:13:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Isn't it perjury to submit a fraudulent takedow - 06 So Far, Wordpress Denied 43% of DMCA Takedown Requests in 2015 - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:33] <exec> 08└─I'd have taken your word for it but your are not a lawyer, so your opinion does not matter.
[19:13:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Re:Some thoughts... - 06NASA Hosts 'Quest for Quakes' Data Challenge - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:46] <exec> 08└─While EMP could precede an earthquake, it seems it'll be helpful to also have a local seismometer work in conjunction with it to show if there is indeed a correlation. Expectation: oh look EMP pulse, then a few hours (?) later, a corresponding seismometer spike. Seismometer/graphs are expensive to b...
[19:13:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03purpleland [5193] (Score:1) 02Re:Some thoughts... - 06NASA Hosts 'Quest for Quakes' Data Challenge - 489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:48] <exec> 08└─Good point. But I wonder if there might still be other useful studies to be made from a network of many seismometers in a region over time. This should allow us to visualize and animate seismic activity in a region. In theory the more meters available, the more accurate the animation sequence. I bet...
[19:14:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jdavidb [5690] 02Re:Hopefully a good move - 06Dice Selling Slashdot and Sourceforge - 121 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:02] <exec> 08└─No place else I'm aware of has managed to achieve that success in community building from such a diverse array of people.
[19:14:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Hopefully a good move - 06Dice Selling Slashdot and Sourceforge - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:08] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I like clever (typically subtle) puns, and a sarcastic barb. I try to deliver the occasional few myself, and I'm never disappointed to receive a +1 Funny moderation. I'd like to flatter myself by thinking that people who view Funny at -6 would be missing out. Maybe we should keep Funny for sil...
[19:14:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:Hopefully a good move - 06Dice Selling Slashdot and Sourceforge - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:11] <exec> 08└─Yes, mainly because I never read the articles anyway. :D
[19:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03tadas [3635] (Score:2) 02Re:Hopefully a good move - 06Dice Selling Slashdot and Sourceforge - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:19] <exec> 08└─I *do* miss OOG, THE OPEN-SOURCE CAVEMAN. He was the only guy I ever wanted to moderate as +5 Troll.
[19:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Hopefully a good move - 06Dice Selling Slashdot and Sourceforge - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:21] <exec> 08└─No place else I'm aware of has managed to achieve that success in community building from such a diverse array of people. Absolutely. The Slashdot community changed my mind and built my thoughts on a lot of things. Sometimes I did feel like I was seeing groupthink, but there was still enough variety...
[19:14:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Hopefully a good move - 06Dice Selling Slashdot and Sourceforge - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:24] <exec> 08└─Do we care? If Slashdot is dominated by trolls now, why should we want them to come to this fair corner of the world?
[19:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Full List Of Potential Buyers... - 06Dice Selling Slashdot and Sourceforge - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:33] <exec> 08└─> Slashdot only being in the "M's" instead of the "B's" Is that some extrapolative reference to Aldous Huxley's /Brave New World/?
[19:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03meisterister [949] (Score:2) 02Re:Full List Of Potential Buyers... - 06Dice Selling Slashdot and Sourceforge - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:35] <exec> 08└─4. Google While I don't expect this to happen, Google would buy it, integrate it into their existing services, and completely destroy the site.
[19:14:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02Re:Do slashdot know? - 06Dice Selling Slashdot and Sourceforge - 802 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:42] <exec> 08└─I feel a little bad for them. When CmdrTaco left Slashdot, it was like a death in the family and a real wake-up call. I wound up putting his new venture, Trove, in my go-to links because I thought he had really done something good at Slashdot. And even after he was gone I cut Slashdot a lot of slack...
[19:14:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03danaris [3853] (Score:1) 02Re:Do slashdot know? - 06Dice Selling Slashdot and Sourceforge - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:44] <exec> 08└─You know Beta died months ago, right? It was clear that Slashdot wasn't totally lost to Dice's greed for some time. Dan Aris
[19:14:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Carriers must fix this - 06Silent MMS Exploit Affecting All Android Phones Since 2.2 - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:15:00] <exec> 08└─couldn't you sue the carrier for damages?
[19:15:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03WillR [2012] (Score:2) 02Re:listening in since ...forever - 06Silent MMS Exploit Affecting All Android Phones Since 2.2 - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:15:08] <exec> 08└─because every phone manufacturer has their own customized, proprietary version of android.
[19:16:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03tathra [3367] (Score:2) 02Re:Land of the [censored], home of the [censored] - 06Hologram Performance Shut Down by Police at Hip-Hop Festival - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:16:26] <exec> 08└─What they say and what they mean are two different things. That's just a transparent ruse because they know they can't directly go up against the 1st amendment.
[19:16:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:2) 02Re:Land of the [censored], home of the [censored] - 06Hologram Performance Shut Down by Police at Hip-Hop Festival - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:16:28] <exec> 08└─What is being claimed is that it is due to imminent harm which would stem from the crowd's reaction to the performance. That's fire in a crowded theatre territory, which is long-established non-protected speech.
[19:16:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Newspeak - 06Hologram Performance Shut Down by Police at Hip-Hop Festival - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:16:33] <exec> 08└─Fans who gathered Saturday left the grounds in an orderly fashion, though disappointed.
[19:17:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:For those wondering - 06Combating Scarcity With Abundance: New Impact Challenge to Tackle California's Drought - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:17:21] <exec> 08└─A person can have both successes and failures. Be a fool and a philanthropist, no?
[19:17:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Remotely alterred? - 06Sydney's World-First "E-Paper" Street Signs - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:17:34] <exec> 08└─Actually, the manufacturers of those signs in your first link seem to have planned for hackers to use it. From the linked text: You can now either throw it up on the sign by selecting "Run w/out save"
[19:18:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Sure, they will... - 06NSA Ordered to Destroy Phone Records It Collected Illegally - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:18:13] <exec> 08└─Oh, I'm sure the NSA will destroy the phone records — after secretly copying them to a new, top secret location. Oh, and they will of course not destroy the copy. They weren't ordered to do so, were they? :-)
[19:18:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03unzombied [4572] (Score:1) 02definitions - 06NSA Ordered to Destroy Phone Records It Collected Illegally - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:24] <exec> 08└─effectively be out of reach from agency employees ad infinitum, effectively making it unusable
[19:19:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Re:How much does the artist get from my CD purchas - 06Smoking Gun: MPAA Emails Reveal Plan To Run Anti-Google Smear Campaign - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:19:25] <exec> 08└─Not at all. I've paid my fees and therefore get to download all available recorded music.
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[20:13:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Techwolf [87] (Score:2) 02How the mighty has fallen... - 06New York Magazine Goes Dark After Posting Cosby Article - 598 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:26] <exec> 08└─I've grew up listing to Bill Cosby comedy. It was always clean and he came across as a wholesome person that would never cuss. When I first heard this story months ago, I still find it hard to believe they are talking about the same person here. My take is either Bill Cosby really did dark things of...
[20:13:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Techwolf [87] (Score:2) 02Re:How the mighty has fallen... - 06New York Magazine Goes Dark After Posting Cosby Article - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:28] <exec> 08└─Read the web-archived articial.....holy ${DIETY}. There is just way too much details and similarities to just be made up. Defentely not golddigging here.
[20:13:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03dime [1163] (Score:1) 02Re:How the mighty has fallen... - 06New York Magazine Goes Dark After Posting Cosby Article - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:29] <exec> 08└─The lesson to learn here is that you should kill your idols. Behind every idol that's propped up as infalliable is a human being, especially if they're the ones propping themselves up as Cosby did his whole life, waving his moral superiority over his own race.
[20:13:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How the mighty has fallen... - 06New York Magazine Goes Dark After Posting Cosby Article - 536 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:32] <exec> 08└─> The lesson to learn here is that you should kill your idols. The broader lesson is that power without accountability magnifies human failings. We see it all the time in all arenas, catholic church pedo cover-ups, jerry sandusky, Donald Sterling's housing discrimination [go.com] while buying multi...
[20:13:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:How the mighty has fallen... - 06New York Magazine Goes Dark After Posting Cosby Article - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:34] <exec> 08└─That kind of thing is apparently very common [go.com] in the entertainment industry, especially when child actors submit to abuse "willingly" because the abusers dangle fame and fortune over their heads in exchange for the abuse. Fame, money, and connections will have that kind of perceived invincib...
[20:13:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score:2) 02Re:How the mighty has fallen... - 06New York Magazine Goes Dark After Posting Cosby Article - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:36] <exec> 08└─I recall some article I read a while back where Corey Feldman tells a story about how his friend Corey Haim told him about how was raped by some Hollywood pervert on a studio lot when he was 11. Very disturbing to read about this happening to a child.
[20:13:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03slash2phar [623] (Score:2) 02Re:How the mighty has fallen... - 06New York Magazine Goes Dark After Posting Cosby Article - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:39] <exec> 08└─The guy you're thinking of is probably Jimmy Savile, OBE [youtube.com]. Cosby look mild compared to his history [theguardian.com].
[20:13:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How the mighty has fallen... - 06New York Magazine Goes Dark After Posting Cosby Article - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:40] <exec> 08└─> I've grew up listing to Bill Cosby comedy. It was always clean and he came across as a wholesome person that would never cuss. As a kid I remember listening to his spanish fly [youtube.com] bit on one of his comedy albums (actually I think he had more than one bit about spanish fly). In retrospect...
[20:13:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score:2) 02DOS attacks - 06New York Magazine Goes Dark After Posting Cosby Article - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:42] <exec> 08└─A user called Vikingdom2016 claimed responsibility for a DOS attack on the site
[20:13:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:3, Funny) 02Come on - 06New York Magazine Goes Dark After Posting Cosby Article - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:44] <exec> 08└─There is no proof that the act of publishing Cosby's stuff has any relation to the DoS, besides, we are discussing Cosby's stuff right here, so this site should also go und§ç %) ..5!)$ [NO CARRIER]
[20:13:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Read any DMCA notice that actually worked. - 06 So Far, Wordpress Denied 43% of DMCA Takedown Requests in 2015 - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:46] <exec> 08└─One does not require law school to learn how to read. Google files all its successful takedowns at http://www.chillingeffects.org [chillingeffects.org] http://www.powells.com [powells.com] has an excellent selection of legal textbooks - not self-help such as Nolo Press publishes, but the ones real...
[20:14:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Gaaark [41] 02Re:Hopefully a good move - 06Dice Selling Slashdot and Sourceforge - 61 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:11] <exec> 08└─and then they will curse our sudden but inevitable betrayal!!
[20:14:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hopefully a good move - 06Dice Selling Slashdot and Sourceforge - 861 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:14] <exec> 08└─Indeed, they've damaged the reputation of both sites, probably beyond repair. ie: Even if Dice is removed from the picture, the staff at both sites have proven that they have no problem acting against the best intentions of the community it has (or had.) Essentially, they'll basically do whatever th...
[20:14:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03ghost [4467] (Score:1) 02Re:Hopefully a good move - 06Dice Selling Slashdot and Sourceforge - 3680 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:23] <exec> 08└─Most slashdot jokes were stale and predictable. There were some really great trolls, though. ---- C: A Dead Language? Gentlemen, the time has come for a serious discussion on whether or not to continue using C for serious programming projects. As I will explain, I feel that C needs to be retired, mu...
[20:14:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Do slashdot know? - 06Dice Selling Slashdot and Sourceforge - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:56] <exec> 08└─But the near similar barf that is m.slashdot.org has yet to die.
[20:15:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Good thing they dumped Chrysler - 06Daimler Seeks License for Road Testing Autonomous Trucks in Germany - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:15:42] <exec> 08└─Runaway, did you just say "Datsun"? Wow. What about Studebaker? Nash? The lowly Buppmobile or the snooty Duesenberg? Time to put the teeth in and change the adult undergarment!
[20:16:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score:2) 02Re:Land of the [censored], home of the [censored] - 06Hologram Performance Shut Down by Police at Hip-Hop Festival - 1092 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:16:39] <exec> 08└─CLAIMING it was due to 'public safety' is weak-sauce. how can you say that a performer being on tv screen (etc) is going to cause social unrest and rioting? and even if true, the government is NOT there to PREVENT things that MIGHT happen due to personal opinions. how would this scale? if allowed, t...
[20:17:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03meisterister [949] (Score:2) 02Re:For those wondering - 06Combating Scarcity With Abundance: New Impact Challenge to Tackle California's Drought - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:17:34] <exec> 08└─So about as coherent as timecube but far less entertaining. 0/10 would not read again.
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[21:13:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:TEMPEST - 06Researchers Hack Air-Gapped Computer With Simple Cell Phone - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:24] <exec> 08└─TEMPEST is about stopping passive spying like reading a monitor based on em emissions. TEMPEST might help with active exfil attacks like this, or it might not given they start with different sets of assumptions that overlap but are not identical.
[21:13:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Van Eck - 06Researchers Hack Air-Gapped Computer With Simple Cell Phone - 568 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:25] <exec> 08└─Reminds me a lot of Van Eck phreaking. When I was in a hotel in the Philippines as part of a business venture, a couple of my friends demonstrated how to do it. I later went on to include it in a chapter of Cryptonomicon, which I was ghost-writing for Stephenson. Nice guy, but can't really write too...
[21:13:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Van Eck - 06Researchers Hack Air-Gapped Computer With Simple Cell Phone - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:27] <exec> 08└─Internet Hate Machine!
[21:13:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Gee Whiz Mr Wizard... - 06Researchers Hack Air-Gapped Computer With Simple Cell Phone - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:28] <exec> 08└─Both devices have to have the software. Lets see, vnc for android and vnc server on any flavor PC would be enough to screw someone up. Easy enough.
[21:13:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:Gee Whiz Mr Wizard... - 06Researchers Hack Air-Gapped Computer With Simple Cell Phone - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:30] <exec> 08└─Yeah, totally. Gotta love that "TCP over magic pixie dust to access AIRGAPPED servers" option that's been in VNC for the last 10 years, after all.
[21:13:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03slinches [5049] (Score:2) 02Malware on the machine? - 06Researchers Hack Air-Gapped Computer With Simple Cell Phone - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:32] <exec> 08└─If you already have malware on the target computer, why do you need the cell phone? It was probably infected by using a compromised flash drive, so you can just use that to get the data out. The only way I can think of where this sort of thing would be useful is if it's common practice to not allow...
[21:13:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03mechanicjay [7] (Score:1) 02Re:Malware on the machine? - 06Researchers Hack Air-Gapped Computer With Simple Cell Phone - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:33] <exec> 08└─Exactly what my reaction was. You already have access to the machine, WTF? The only way this make sense is if you use the infected machine/phone pair as a keylogger, I guess. Regardless, much like the last bit of "I can't believe this actually works" research that came out of Israel https://soylentn...
[21:13:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03mechanicjay [7] (Score:1) 02Re:Malware on the machine? - 06Researchers Hack Air-Gapped Computer With Simple Cell Phone - 657 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:35] <exec> 08└─On second thought, perhaps the skepticism as the real-world application of security cracking coming out of Israel isn't the point. Conspiracy Theorist Mode: on Perhaps the point is that they're really going for it....these are the artifacts of research that are getting published -- what's just get...
[21:13:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:Malware on the machine? - 06Researchers Hack Air-Gapped Computer With Simple Cell Phone - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:37] <exec> 08└─If you already have malware on the target computer, why do you need the cell phone?
[21:13:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score:2) 02Software on the machine - 06Researchers Hack Air-Gapped Computer With Simple Cell Phone - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:39] <exec> 08└─The attack requires both the targeted computer and the mobile phone to have malware installed on them
[21:13:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:haha - 06New York Magazine Goes Dark After Posting Cosby Article - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:44] <exec> 08└─New York Magazine Goes Dark After Posting Cosby Article
[21:13:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How the mighty has fallen... - 06New York Magazine Goes Dark After Posting Cosby Article - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:47] <exec> 08└─People have said that exact same thing about alien abductions. Too many similarities between accounts of the lights, the ship, the grey skinned little dudes, the medical experiments and so on.
[21:13:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03jcm [4110] (Score:1) 02Re:How the mighty has fallen... - 06New York Magazine Goes Dark After Posting Cosby Article - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:52] <exec> 08└─Hollywood is a paradise for paedophiles. Producers can easily exert their influence on young actors. http://whatculture.com [whatculture.com]
[21:13:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How the mighty has fallen... - 06New York Magazine Goes Dark After Posting Cosby Article - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:54] <exec> 08└─Savile was a monster, but he was part of something even bigger. [washingtonpost.com] Also Gary Glitter. [bbc.com]
[21:13:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:DOS attacks - 06New York Magazine Goes Dark After Posting Cosby Article - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:57] <exec> 08└─Just how far do you have to be on the spectrum to make a capitalization flame?
[21:13:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02wayback machine delay - 06New York Magazine Goes Dark After Posting Cosby Article - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:59] <exec> 08└─Interesting that the Internet Archive is displaying a "nearly current" page (dated yesterday). My memory was that they only displayed pages that had been archived some months earlier (maybe 6 months?) Poked around on their site and couldn't find any page that addressed this question, maybe someone e...
[21:14:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03CirclesInSand [2899] (Score:2) 02For any Cosby fans - 06New York Magazine Goes Dark After Posting Cosby Article - 451 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:01] <exec> 08└─For any Bill Cosby fans, I recommend "The truth about Bill Cosby", a 2 hour lecture/monologue that goes over the childhood, life, and career of Bill Cosby. The proctor is a fan of Cosby, but he relentlessly exposes the good and the bad (human) side of Bill Cosby, and even the duality between Cosby's...
[21:14:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:For any Cosby fans - 06New York Magazine Goes Dark After Posting Cosby Article - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:14:03] <exec> 08└─I like how it had an Obama quote with the qualifier that rape happens when a person is given drugs WITHOUT THEIR KNOWLEDGE.
[21:14:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Isn't it perjury to submit a fraudulent takedow - 06 So Far, Wordpress Denied 43% of DMCA Takedown Requests in 2015 - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:14:12] <exec> 08└─Perjury can only happen in a courtroom.
[21:15:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Full List Of Potential Buyers... - 06Dice Selling Slashdot and Sourceforge - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:16] <exec> 08└─Google would buy it, not touch it at all, and then cancel it after a few years of general success.
[21:15:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Workaround - 06Silent MMS Exploit Affecting All Android Phones Since 2.2 - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:15:44] <exec> 08└─Object oriented anons?
[21:15:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:which game is cool?! - 06Razer Acquires Ouya Software Assets, Ditches Hardware - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:15:58] <exec> 08└─http://jayisgames.com/tag/android [jayisgames.com]
[21:16:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03penguinoid [5331] (Score:2) 02Re:Cat Pictures - 06The Plan to Beam the Web to 3 Billion Unconnected Humans - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:16:30] <exec> 08└─So to distract them from their starving, diseased ridden lives, they want to give them the internet and cat pictures. The money would be better spent on getting food and aid to them instead. Yes, I know education is important too, and Wikipedia may help with this, but Wikipedia has offline DVDs that...
[21:16:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03penguinoid [5331] (Score:2) 02Re:Here We Go Again ... - 06The Plan to Beam the Web to 3 Billion Unconnected Humans - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:16:34] <exec> 08└─I will ask the Editor to write out 100 times ' I must check for dupes'
[21:17:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Land of the [censored], home of the [censored] - 06Hologram Performance Shut Down by Police at Hip-Hop Festival - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:17:13] <exec> 08└─Public safety trumps 1st amendment every time.
[21:17:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Land of the [censored], home of the [censored] - 06Hologram Performance Shut Down by Police at Hip-Hop Festival - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:17:14] <exec> 08└─Public safety trumps 1st amendment every time.
[21:17:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Land of the [censored], home of the [censored] - 06Hologram Performance Shut Down by Police at Hip-Hop Festival - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:17:17] <exec> 08└─If other people react to your speech in harmful ways, that's their doing and no one else's. It's insane to suggest that it's okay to limit speech just because someone might respond to it in a way that is harmful. Not only is the logic nonsensical, but it's completely unconstitutional (According to t...
[21:17:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Land of the [censored], home of the [censored] - 06Hologram Performance Shut Down by Police at Hip-Hop Festival - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:17:19] <exec> 08└─There's nothing unconstitutional about demanding a licence for a venue, satisfying health and safety laws, passing electrical and pyrotechnic safety tests, etc.
[21:17:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Land of the [censored], home of the [censored] - 06Hologram Performance Shut Down by Police at Hip-Hop Festival - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:17:20] <exec> 08└─haha, yeah, does it mean Chief Keef fled the scene when they cut the power? Will they charge him with resisting arrest? Will they assert 'hot pursuit' to cross state lines to California and arrest him there? There are so many questions like this that follow from this travesty.
[21:17:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Tards' rE_Tards___Tardis? - 06Porn Studio Asks Judge to Ban Talk About "Copyleft" Blogs at Trial - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:17:39] <exec> 08└─Copyright was made to be ignored. Besides, you don't think suing thousands of people for thousands of dollars each and demanding settlements when they have almost no actual evidence is scummy behavior?
[21:17:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Tards' rE_Tards___Tardis? - 06Porn Studio Asks Judge to Ban Talk About "Copyleft" Blogs at Trial - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:17:40] <exec> 08└─Of course porn is a legitimate product. Don't blame others because YOU paid for it, suckah.
[21:19:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:AI will be our creation, our legacy. - 06Musk, Wozniak and Hawking Warn Over AI Warfare and Autonomous Weapons - 705 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:19:33] <exec> 08└─I'd like to point out that your equivalent around year 1800 were wasting ink proclaiming that technology would have freed humanity from work. Could it? sure! does it? nope! Around 1990 Internet would have made information flow without barriers. Could it? sure! does it? nope! The capabilities of AI t...
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[22:13:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Palliative or effective? - 06What Amateurs Can Learn From Security Pros About Staying Safe Online - 947 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:22] <exec> 08└─All of these suggestions seem so superficial and ineffectual in the face of the constant stream of exploits, many of which require no interaction of foolish decisions: the whole new android mms revelation for example -- none of the good or bad methods of security have any meaning. Really, I wonder h...
[22:13:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:Malware on the machine? - 06Researchers Hack Air-Gapped Computer With Simple Cell Phone - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:13:40] <exec> 08└─Great, you infected the PC via a USB stick? Now how do you get data out of it? You missed the part about the infected system being air gapped. Meaning no connection to the outside world whatsoever. Imagine a PC without any connectivity save for a power cable. No wifi, no modem, no serial, no etherne...
[22:13:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03jcross [4009] (Score:2) 02Re:Malware on the machine? - 06Researchers Hack Air-Gapped Computer With Simple Cell Phone - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:13:42] <exec> 08└─What if the required malware were compact enough to memorize or write down and type in on the target machine? I mean, that was the only way to get software onto a hobbyist computer back in the day.
[22:13:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03slinches [5049] (Score:2) 02Re:Malware on the machine? - 06Researchers Hack Air-Gapped Computer With Simple Cell Phone - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:13:44] <exec> 08└─How about by writing the data to the USB stick and waiting until someone plugs it into a computer with internet access? If you can get a file one way across the air gap, the same method should work on the way out.
[22:13:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Software on the machine - 06Researchers Hack Air-Gapped Computer With Simple Cell Phone - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:13:46] <exec> 08└─I once saw an x86 .com written for dos that used only 80 columns of ANSI characters. It generated pretty colors on screen but I can't find it anymore.
[22:14:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:How the mighty has fallen... - 06New York Magazine Goes Dark After Posting Cosby Article - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:14:08] <exec> 08└─People can have secrets. People can lead dual lives. Fun story: My ex girlfriend was cleaning out her parents closet with her mother. She came across a box buried in the back that contained all sorts of S&M paraphernalia; hand cuffs, ropes, whips, bondage masks, dildos, leather clothing items, ball...
[22:14:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score:2) 02Re:DOS attacks - 06New York Magazine Goes Dark After Posting Cosby Article - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:14:11] <exec> 08└─Just how far do you have to be on the spectrum to make a capitalization flame?
[22:14:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03seeprime [5580] (Score:1) 02Re:For any Cosby fans - 06New York Magazine Goes Dark After Posting Cosby Article - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:14:16] <exec> 08└─My family enjoyed the Cosby Show and his stand up gigs. He was genuinely funny. He turned out to be human after all. Pictures of when he made the Stupid Jello pudding face just aren't funny anymore. Sad.
[22:14:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hopefully a good move - 06Dice Selling Slashdot and Sourceforge - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:56] <exec> 08└─Yes, it is awful when the staff of a company has to do what the owner of the company wants. They should be able to do whatever they want!!
[22:15:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Full List Of Potential Buyers... - 06Dice Selling Slashdot and Sourceforge - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:31] <exec> 08└─5. Donald Trump Hey, he's got a lot of money and is looking for bully pulpits...and I'm sure he wants the tech vote along with the Fox News vote.
[22:15:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Full List Of Potential Buyers... - 06Dice Selling Slashdot and Sourceforge - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:33] <exec> 08└─6. Warren Buffet - to use to post the results of his bridge abd poker games with Bill Gates 7. Intel & IBM and use it as a pressroom for comming tech/research
[22:17:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:Land of the [censored], home of the [censored] - 06Hologram Performance Shut Down by Police at Hip-Hop Festival - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:17:31] <exec> 08└─Public safety trumps 1st amendment every time.
[22:20:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Soe bans work. - 06Musk, Wozniak and Hawking Warn Over AI Warfare and Autonomous Weapons - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:20:05] <exec> 08└─And any AI with internet access.
[22:20:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:A misunderstood source of danger - 06Musk, Wozniak and Hawking Warn Over AI Warfare and Autonomous Weapons - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:20:10] <exec> 08└─For the latter scenario, it doesn't need an AI. Indeed, a "dumb drone" is probably easier to hack and take over than an intelligent one.
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[23:13:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score:2) 02Science Fiction - 06Love of Learning is the Key to Success in the Jobless Future - 542 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:25] <exec> 08└─Now I love Science Fiction as much as the next guy, but I don't pretend that the Culture type future the author of this article is predicting is actually going to happen. As I read I kept thinking "Citation Needed" after nearly every paragraph. Why would renewable energy sources be free? The infrast...
[23:13:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Palliative or effective? - 06What Amateurs Can Learn From Security Pros About Staying Safe Online - 788 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:13:35] <exec> 08└─> none of the good or bad methods of security have any meaning. Secure is not a binary state. For every new uber exploit of the day, there are hundreds of former uber exploits for which countermeasures have been developed and deployed but are still in widespread use. If you run a public facing webse...
[23:13:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02don't do what they do - 06What Amateurs Can Learn From Security Pros About Staying Safe Online - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:37] <exec> 08└─if the world was already secure, security experts would be out of work it's not in their interest for everything to be secure
[23:13:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score:2) 02Internet Kiosk - 06What Amateurs Can Learn From Security Pros About Staying Safe Online - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:39] <exec> 08└─I hacked together an internet Kiosk based on Puppy Linux. The first thing you need to do is secure the hardware, so people don't have access to the USB ports, etc. Then, you can do what you can to secure the Browser / OS. Without securing the hardware first, securing the software is pointless.
[23:13:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Internet Kiosk - 06What Amateurs Can Learn From Security Pros About Staying Safe Online - 877 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:13:40] <exec> 08└─> I hacked together an internet Kiosk based on Puppy Linux. The first thing you need to do is secure the hardware, so people don't have access to the USB ports The only way to do that with 100% certainty is via epoxy in the port. You can't fully disable a USB port because the microcontroller that h...
[23:13:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Lacks the single most important step - 06What Amateurs Can Learn From Security Pros About Staying Safe Online - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:42] <exec> 08└─Reduce attack surface.
[23:13:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Lacks the single most important step - 06What Amateurs Can Learn From Security Pros About Staying Safe Online - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:13:44] <exec> 08└─SN is the only website I visit.
[23:13:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Gee Whiz Mr Wizard... - 06Researchers Hack Air-Gapped Computer With Simple Cell Phone - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:13:54] <exec> 08└─You must not know what "airgap" means. Perhaps http://slashdot.com [slashdot.com] would be more your speed for a while.
[23:14:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ezber Bozmak [764] (Score:2) 02Re:Malware on the machine? - 06Researchers Hack Air-Gapped Computer With Simple Cell Phone - 483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:14:02] <exec> 08└─> How about by writing the data to the USB stick and waiting Because waiting is unreliable and takes time if it even works at all. For example, with classified systems r/w media becomes classified as soon as it is connected to a classified system, regardless of whether you deliberately wrote any dat...
[23:14:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:Malware on the machine? - 06Researchers Hack Air-Gapped Computer With Simple Cell Phone - 584 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:14:04] <exec> 08└─That also means someone has to screw up a second time. This could also be audited through various different ways, and unless you did something sneaky, increases the odds of being noticed (what's this pwn3d.txt on my usb stick with 1 other file?!) This is wizardry enough that it's likely it wouldn't...
[23:14:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ezber Bozmak [764] (Score:2) 02Re:Software on the machine - 06Researchers Hack Air-Gapped Computer With Simple Cell Phone - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:14:07] <exec> 08└─how feasible it would be for someone to hand craft an executable file without any development environment on the machine. I don't think it's possible to enter every binary value via Windows Notepad for example by using ASCII or Unicode equivalents.
[23:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:How the mighty has fallen... - 06New York Magazine Goes Dark After Posting Cosby Article - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:14:21] <exec> 08└─So, you're saying that was Cosby as well?
[23:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:DOS attacks - 06New York Magazine Goes Dark After Posting Cosby Article - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:14:34] <exec> 08└─It's not really a good joke if you need to explain it just after telling it.
[23:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:wayback machine delay - 06New York Magazine Goes Dark After Posting Cosby Article - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:14:37] <exec> 08└─You can save a page immediately. Load a URL that isn't previously known to Internet Archive into the Wayback Machine, and it will say the following: This page is available on the web! Help make the Wayback Machine more complete! Save this url in the Wayback Machine
[23:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02New York Magazine Goes Dark - 06New York Magazine Goes Dark After Posting Cosby Article - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:41] <exec> 08└─They're all being sleep raped.
[23:15:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:2) 02Re:fracturing rock in the Earth's crust - 06NASA Hosts 'Quest for Quakes' Data Challenge - 1021 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:15:02] <exec> 08└─Possibly. I went poking around, and the best info I could find was at the USGS National Geomagnetism and Earthquake Prediction website [usgs.gov]. Going through the abstracts of the four papers available there, it appears that while there have been claims of this effect, those may be dubious. It see...
[23:15:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hopefully a good move - 06Dice Selling Slashdot and Sourceforge - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:25] <exec> 08└─socialism ftw!
[23:15:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hopefully a good move - 06Dice Selling Slashdot and Sourceforge - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:37] <exec> 08└─The group-think is what got me as much as anything.
[23:15:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03fadrian [3194] (Score:2) 02Re:Hopefully a good move - 06Dice Selling Slashdot and Sourceforge - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:43] <exec> 08└─Oh come on... There's authenticity and then there's not giving a crap about doing a decent job. Fuck, I can see a few typos - that's authenticity; what the Slashdot editors were doing was closer to malfeasance. But yeah, long live Soylent, typos and all - at least folks will respond and correct rela...
[23:15:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Full List Of Potential Buyers... - 06Dice Selling Slashdot and Sourceforge - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:57] <exec> 08└─clearly this is the perfect acquisition for SCO...
[23:16:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03tangomargarine [667] 02Re:Full List Of Potential Buyers... - 06Dice Selling Slashdot and Sourceforge - 98 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:16:01] <exec> 08└─Google would buy it, not touch it at all, and then cancel it after a few years of general success.
[23:16:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Automated trucking has employment implications - 06Daimler Seeks License for Road Testing Autonomous Trucks in Germany - 2067 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:16:56] <exec> 08└─Perhaps the original NPR link for that employment map? http://www.npr.org [npr.org] Includes history going back to 1978 (when Secretary was quite popular). What's with all the truck drivers? Truck drivers dominate t...
[23:19:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Military men directing "civilian" agencies - 06NSA Ordered to Destroy Phone Records It Collected Illegally - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:19:58] <exec> 08└─On this front, the USA has looked like Nazi Germany for quite some time now. The Gestapo (and even the Stasi) would drool over what the snoops are doing in "The land of the free". -- gewg_
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