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[00:37:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:didn't see that coming - 06Google Becomes Alphabet, Spins Off Google - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:21] <exec> 08└─Don't mean diddly to me cuz I don't work there.
[00:37:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Non Sequor [1005] (Score:2) 02Re:didn't see that coming - 06Google Becomes Alphabet, Spins Off Google - 1230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:23] <exec> 08└─The way blue sky labs end up working is that 10-30 years before something becomes successful, one of these labs does extensive conceptual development on it. A few people in the know get excited by the developments, but it never reaches mass market deployment for a variety of reasons. Then it sits in...
[00:37:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:don't be evil? - 06Google Becomes Alphabet, Spins Off Google - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:26] <exec> 08└─Google has the new CEO, not Alphabet. Probably doesn't change your point, although I guess Larry and Sergei still have veto powers over all decisions if they felt like it.
[00:37:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Alphabet - 06Google Becomes Alphabet, Spins Off Google - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:28] <exec> 08└─Yeap, a slightly extended meaning of the "concept" of alphabet agencies. Good they admit it, but we should be careful with trademark issues.
[00:37:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Insightful) 02Name 'Google' has become synonymous with spying - 06Google Becomes Alphabet, Spins Off Google - 1168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:30] <exec> 08└─People are getting more and more suspicious of google and avoiding anything with their name on it. This is a trick by google to do the same thing under different names, but it really is the same old google. This time they are serious about getting ALL of your data (past, present and future). They ca...
[00:37:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Name 'Google' has become synonymous with spying - 06Google Becomes Alphabet, Spins Off Google - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:31] <exec> 08└─At first I thought that was a nutty hypothesis. But after pondering it, I think there might be some truth to it. For example, look at how many people started using instagram because they distrusted facebook.
[00:37:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Name 'Google' has become synonymous with spying - 06Google Becomes Alphabet, Spins Off Google - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:33] <exec> 08└─I don't think this name change is going to confuse many users, unless they roll out another service under the Alphabet umbrella that they want to be free of the Google taint. Look at Calico. There are privacy concerns with the business of health care/genome analysis/life extension, and those are goi...
[00:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Name 'Google' has become synonymous with spying - 06Google Becomes Alphabet, Spins Off Google - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:35] <exec> 08└─I don't think this name change is going to confuse many users, unless they roll out another service under the Alphabet umbrella that they want to be free of the Google taint.
[00:37:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Name 'Google' has become synonymous with spying - 06Google Becomes Alphabet, Spins Off Google - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:36] <exec> 08└─I was thinking that this frees Google to remain good (as far as a patriotic good can be), and the new company can do as much evil as it likes. They have made no promises.
[00:37:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03LowSpeedHighDrag [5592] (Score:1) 02Taxes - 06Google Becomes Alphabet, Spins Off Google - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:38] <exec> 08└─So now they're going to find a way to pay negative taxes?
[00:37:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Non Sequor [1005] (Score:2) 02Future sight activating - 06Google Becomes Alphabet, Spins Off Google - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:39] <exec> 08└─[News broadcast two years from now] In business news, Google is Google again. After two years of attempting to build non-web products under the Alphabet umbrella brand, and failing to find traction outside of its existing niches, Alphabet has merged back with its Google "subsidiary" and will resume...
[00:37:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03halcyon1234 [1082] (Score:2) 02Re:Future sight activating - 06Google Becomes Alphabet, Spins Off Google - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:41] <exec> 08└─Unfortunate the damage had been done. The phrase "catch the Alphabet" is forever burned into the culture's consciousness. Literacy rates plummet. The Idiocracy commences, under full control of the consumer corporations. :/
[00:37:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03DarkMorph [674] (Score:2) 02Trademark protection - 06Google Becomes Alphabet, Spins Off Google - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:43] <exec> 08└─I wonder if protecting the trademark is, at least in part, a factor in this decision. Allegedly if a word that begins as a trademark becomes a widely accepted term in the language the benefits of trademark are diminished. Perhaps too many people used "google" as a verb and put the trademark in jeopa...
[00:37:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:If you didn't pay for the product, you are QA. - 06Windows 10 Cumulative Update Causes 'Reboot Loop' Havoc for Some Users - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:37:59] <exec> 08└─Well, they did appoint someone to CEO that looks like a hipster that's impersonating Steve Jobs. So no surprises there at all.
[00:38:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03tftp [806] 02Re:Genetic modification itself is not the problem. - 06Scotland to Ban Genetically Modified Crops - 643 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:38:11] <exec> 08└─I don't know too many people who are honestly afraid that GM corn will suddenly become sentient and hostile to non-plant life. As you point out, the real problems are in business practices of GMO megacorporations. They force farmers to buy their seeds; they attack farmers who do not use their GMO pr...
[00:38:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Genetic modification itself is not the problem. - 06Scotland to Ban Genetically Modified Crops - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:38:22] <exec> 08└─Genetic modification is a problem because the people who are in charge of developing GM crops cannot be trusted with what I put in my mouth.
[00:38:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03LowSpeedHighDrag [5592] (Score:2, Insightful) 02Re:Who controls the list? - 06Google, Facebook and Twitter to Block Hash Lists of Child Abuse - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:38:46] <exec> 08└─Exactly this. Who watches the watchers?
[00:39:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So Helpful . . . - 06Peaceful Rallies in Ferguson Give Way to Violence, Gunfire - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:39:33] <exec> 08└─> Unless you actually like the old barbaric ways..... That seems to be a pretty good working definition of conservatism. Not that everyone who self-identifies as conservative likes all of the old barbaric ways, but whenever you find someone arguing for the preservation of an old barbarism, its someo...
[00:39:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So Helpful . . . - 06Peaceful Rallies in Ferguson Give Way to Violence, Gunfire - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:39:34] <exec> 08└─Ah, the cold calculus of authoritarianism. So seductive to the empathy impaired.
[00:39:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So Helpful . . . - 06Peaceful Rallies in Ferguson Give Way to Violence, Gunfire - 561 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:39:38] <exec> 08└─> I had a couple million hits, and the articles I cited came up on the first page. Because all of the other hits that were even relevant were bloggers citing the breitbart pages. That's how google's pagerank algorithm works. I get it, reading breitbart gives you a hard-on and posting links to their...
[00:40:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So Helpful . . . - 06Peaceful Rallies in Ferguson Give Way to Violence, Gunfire - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:40:14] <exec> 08└─The point there is that we do have a problem with the police, but the community itself would be better served to police their own as that's a much larger problem that the cops can't solve.
[00:41:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03drgibbon [74] (Score:1) 02Re:0 A.D. - 06Ask Soylent: Gaming - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:29] <exec> 08└─Yeah, you can safely ignore the "alpha" status. The thing has been in development for years, it's pretty impressive.
[00:43:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TheRaven [270] 02Me to FDA - 06FDA to Hospitals: Ditch Remotely Hackable IV Pumps - 437 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:49] <exec> 08└─Vulnerabilities, including UIs so bad that they have caused thousands of deaths, have been highlighted by researchers for around 15 years. Your entire job is ensuring that things like this are safe before allowing their deployment in hospitals. How about requiring some usability and security review...
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[01:37:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Grasping at Privacy Straws - 06UK Retail Hack Hits 2.4M Consumers - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:17] <exec> 08└─Shocking news that a company was technically exploited to get at customers' personally identifiable information! Shocking. Just shocking. Other than serving as a pro-privacy red meat story for our echo chamber, what is the point of this article?
[01:37:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02customers or consumers, which are they? - 06UK Retail Hack Hits 2.4M Consumers - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:18] <exec> 08└─Customers have money and spend money. Consumers have nothing and spend debt.
[01:37:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score:2) 02Re:don't be evil? - 06Google Becomes Alphabet, Spins Off Google - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:33] <exec> 08└─But, we no longer refer to it as being "evil". We just refer to it as being true to the ideals of our guiding philosphers Genghis Khan and Niccolo Machiavelli.
[01:37:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Trademark protection - 06Google Becomes Alphabet, Spins Off Google - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:46] <exec> 08└─So they're switching to "Alphabet" as a clearly trademarkable brand name?
[01:37:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score:2) 02Sounds like an April Fools joke - 06Google Becomes Alphabet, Spins Off Google - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:47] <exec> 08└─But I guess the joke is on us, or will be on the Google founders when their enterprise is folded back into Google and their new CEO gets the golden parachute.
[01:37:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02The whole summary seems suspect - 06Google Becomes Alphabet, Spins Off Google - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:49] <exec> 08└─The methods of doing what is alleged to have been done in this corporate re-shuffle isn't something you can do on a whim. Google is a publicly traded company. 64% of google stock [yahoo.com] is held by mutual funds and institutions. Don't those guys get a say?
[01:37:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The whole summary seems suspect - 06Google Becomes Alphabet, Spins Off Google - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:51] <exec> 08└─> 64% of google stock is held by mutual funds and institutions. Don't those guys get a say? When google did their IPO they structured it in such a way that common shares didn't get as much vote as privileged shares and privileged shares are not traded publicly.
[01:37:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03CortoMaltese [5244] (Score:2) 02an evil corp by any other name... - 06Google Becomes Alphabet, Spins Off Google - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:53] <exec> 08└─They are obviously distancing their google brand from their other ventures, its not the same "Google building death robots for American government" than "Alphabet subsidiary who also owns Google is building death robots for the American government"
[01:37:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02While a step in the right direction... - 06Google Becomes Alphabet, Spins Off Google - 519 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:55] <exec> 08└─... Google should have spun off lots of companies by now, each with a very few of Google's products or services, maybe just one of them, with Google holding a minority stake in most of them. It's not like Ann Winblad wouldn't picj up were Larry or Sergey to drop her a dime. I have interviewed with G...
[01:37:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score:2) 02Their Shares Get Converted to Alphabet Stock? - 06Google Becomes Alphabet, Spins Off Google - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:57] <exec> 08└─That sounds distressingly similar to being converted to Alphabet Soup. (My favorite corporate name is a local metalworking company that was named Consolidated Diversified.)
[01:37:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Spin? No. - 06Google Becomes Alphabet, Spins Off Google - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:58] <exec> 08└─They are not spinning off anything. All subsidiary operations will remain owned by the parent company.
[01:37:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Founders lowering their sights - 06Google Becomes Alphabet, Spins Off Google - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:00] <exec> 08└─By my calculation 26 < 10**100
[01:38:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Umbrella Corp - 06Google Becomes Alphabet, Spins Off Google - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:02] <exec> 08└─I suppose that means they'll spin off their driverless car R&D efforts to another Alphabet subsidiary as well. Wasn't explicitly mentioned but I imagine that would make sense.
[01:38:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02I don't even use VMs anymore. - 06Windows 10 Cumulative Update Causes 'Reboot Loop' Havoc for Some Users - 652 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:38:04] <exec> 08└─If I positively absolutely have to use Wndows because Wine doesn't support an app, I install it on a VM, run that app then shitcan the VM images. To the extent I do install Windows in a VM I don't configure its networking because Windows 2000 works better for the work I actually do thany any other r...
[01:38:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Win2k SP...what? - 06Windows 10 Cumulative Update Causes 'Reboot Loop' Havoc for Some Users - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:38:06] <exec> 08└─SP3 or SP6? The last Win2k release was SP6, SP3 was the Win2k point release updating the EULA after XP came out (Been to long to remember anything else about it except that it fucked up what packages you could uninstall and made the 2k license more like the XP one.)
[01:38:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03mbo42 [5378] (Score:1) 02Re:Genetic modification itself is not the problem. - 06Scotland to Ban Genetically Modified Crops - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:38:41] <exec> 08└─...except amongst Luddites and other classes of ignorant people. We've been modifying food genes ever since the last hunter-gatherers started planting seeds and herding prey, and the whole point of agriculture is ever-better methods of modifying those genes.
[01:38:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03TrumpetPower! [590] (Score:2) 02Re:Genetic modification itself is not the problem. - 06Scotland to Ban Genetically Modified Crops - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:38:42] <exec> 08└─We have not been modifying food genes forever, we have been selecting the naturally occurring modifications that we found beneficial and then breeding from them to artificially increase their abundance.
[01:38:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Genetic modification itself is not the problem. - 06Scotland to Ban Genetically Modified Crops - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:38:44] <exec> 08└─Don't forget the whole patent problem too. For example, if you are farming next to a farmer who uses GMO crops, you can't save seed for next year's planting because of cross pollination caused by the wind or insects, unless of course you want to face bankrupting litigation. Not being able to save se...
[01:39:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02When will Microsoft stop caching dead CP servers? - 06Google, Facebook and Twitter to Block Hash Lists of Child Abuse - 480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:13] <exec> 08└─If Bing gets a DMCA takedown they replace its search hit with a page that explains the DMCA then alleges that they also remove URLs when notified by Internet Watch or the ITU's Child Online Protection Initiative. I cry bullshit on the, if you want to surf paedophilia its all right there in Redmond's...
[01:40:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03albert [276] (Score:2) 02It sounds like you need more Breitbart - 06Peaceful Rallies in Ferguson Give Way to Violence, Gunfire - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:40:02] <exec> 08└─You're living in your own little echo chamber, isolated from opinions that might challenge your own opinions. Are you opinions really so fragile? If they are so fragile, might that imply something about correctness?
[01:40:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:So Helpful . . . - 06Peaceful Rallies in Ferguson Give Way to Violence, Gunfire - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:40:19] <exec> 08└─It's not stupid
[01:40:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03albert [276] (Score:2) 02seriously, Christian Taylor??? - 06Peaceful Rallies in Ferguson Give Way to Violence, Gunfire - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:40:28] <exec> 08└─Christian Taylor, 19 - shot LAST WEEK by police while browsing auto dealer. 1.8 seconds out of car, to pulling trigger? FUCK YOU. Christian was a volunteer for church and homeless outreach. Didn't have even even 2 seconds to follow your fascist compliance. DEAD.
[01:40:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:So Helpful . . . - 06Peaceful Rallies in Ferguson Give Way to Violence, Gunfire - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:40:44] <exec> 08└─Really? Where did I use the word "all" or say anything similar? And even in cases where a specific cop does not violate people's rights themselves, they will often stick up for and lie for cops that do.
[01:40:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So Helpful . . . - 06Peaceful Rallies in Ferguson Give Way to Violence, Gunfire - 474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:40:46] <exec> 08└─> And even in cases where a specific cop does not violate people's rights themselves, they will often stick up for and lie for cops that do. Don't you know, when one muslim does something terrible, any muslim who does nothing is actually condoning it. But when one cop does something terrible, other...
[01:47:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Legal grasping at straws - 06Police Claim Recording of Marijuana Dispensary Raid is Illegal - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:47:30] <exec> 08└─and voting for a third option that everybody knows won't win
[01:47:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Legal grasping at straws - 06Police Claim Recording of Marijuana Dispensary Raid is Illegal - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:47:31] <exec> 08└─Not to mention, if you keep voting for 'lesser' evils, the candidates can get ever more evil; it's just that one has to be less evil than the other. I do agree that our voting system is complete garbage and needs to change. But guess who benefits from it? That's right: The same evil candidates that...
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[02:37:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02cue the "I use AdBlock" comments - 06Major Firefox Vulnerability Lets Hackers Steal Your Files Using Dodgy Web Ads - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:13] <exec> 08└─But but I use the AdBlock. Haw-haw!
[02:37:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:cue the "I use AdBlock" comments - 06Major Firefox Vulnerability Lets Hackers Steal Your Files Using Dodgy Web Ads - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:37:14] <exec> 08└─But I use the Adblock and the Noscript
[02:37:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:cue the "I use AdBlock" comments - 06Major Firefox Vulnerability Lets Hackers Steal Your Files Using Dodgy Web Ads - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:37:16] <exec> 08└─But but but I use the Adblock and the Noscript and the Linux.
[02:37:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:cue the "I use AdBlock" comments - 06Major Firefox Vulnerability Lets Hackers Steal Your Files Using Dodgy Web Ads - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:37:17] <exec> 08└─But but but but I use the Adblock and the Noscript and the Linux and the Chromium.
[02:37:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:cue the "I use AdBlock" comments - 06Major Firefox Vulnerability Lets Hackers Steal Your Files Using Dodgy Web Ads - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:37:19] <exec> 08└─"you "may have been protected" from the malicious exploit depending on the type of software you use and the level of filtering," Your point would be - what exactly? The TFS seems to suggest that adblockers are capable of preventing this exploit. Maybe not all adblockers, but soem of them, at least.
[02:37:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03nyder [4525] (Score:2) 02It's not stealing, it's copying. - 06Major Firefox Vulnerability Lets Hackers Steal Your Files Using Dodgy Web Ads - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:21] <exec> 08└─They aren't stealing my files, they are just making copies of my files. I'm not missing any files this way, it's just the contents of the files they have also. So please stop using stealing, as no one is being deprived of any property.
[02:37:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Grasping at Privacy Straws - 06UK Retail Hack Hits 2.4M Consumers - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:37:28] <exec> 08└─This isn't the first time you've made an "echo chamber" comment, is it? News is news, even if it's not surprising to you.
[02:37:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Grasping at Privacy Straws - 06UK Retail Hack Hits 2.4M Consumers - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:37:30] <exec> 08└─Echo Alpha Tango Break Alpha Break Delta India Charlie Kilo Stop
[02:37:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Grasping at Privacy Straws - 06UK Retail Hack Hits 2.4M Consumers - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:37:31] <exec> 08└─Transmission error.
[02:37:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:didn't see that coming - 06Google Becomes Alphabet, Spins Off Google - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:42] <exec> 08└─You read it wrong.
[02:37:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:didn't see that coming - 06Google Becomes Alphabet, Spins Off Google - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:44] <exec> 08└─Neither did I see it coming - despite the fact that now and then, various people have mentioned the possibility over the past years. Oh - wait. When such a possibility has been mentioned, it has most often involved Microsoft. Hmmm . . . What does this all have to say about MS?
[02:37:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:don't be evil? - 06Google Becomes Alphabet, Spins Off Google - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:51] <exec> 08└─Maybe they chose "Alphabet" b/c this name [amazon.com] was already taken.
[02:37:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Name 'Google' has become synonymous with spying - 06Google Becomes Alphabet, Spins Off Google - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:56] <exec> 08└─He will be dead when Google closes its doors, because he won't have bought into Calico's revolutionary life extension technologies.
[02:38:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Umbrella Corp - 06Google Becomes Alphabet, Spins Off Google - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:12] <exec> 08└─Umbrella corporation with a car subsidiary? Now they must buy Detroit and change the name to Raccoon City.
[02:38:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02TNX! While I download and archive releases... - 06Windows 10 Cumulative Update Causes 'Reboot Loop' Havoc for Some Users - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:38:23] <exec> 08└─Im not always on the ball as to what updates have been released.
[02:38:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyper [1525] (Score:2) 02Re:That's what VMs are for - 06Windows 10 Cumulative Update Causes 'Reboot Loop' Havoc for Some Users - 563 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:38:24] <exec> 08└─So, you plan to always run Windows 10 in a VM? Good choice. Not an option for everyone though... This type of update crash loop is not new. Microsoft still releaze toxic updates. One last year was quite bad, and that was for windows server. It prevented core ms system components like .NET from being...
[02:38:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Re:Can't really complain - 06Windows 10 Cumulative Update Causes 'Reboot Loop' Havoc for Some Users - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:38:33] <exec> 08└─The only thing I notice now is while the computer is sleeping (keyboard closed), it is warmer. Which means its doing something that it didn't use to do while sleeping.
[02:38:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Can't really complain - 06Windows 10 Cumulative Update Causes 'Reboot Loop' Havoc for Some Users - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:38:35] <exec> 08└─That was the first thing I killed off. Netstat shows no such connections. Checking on my firewall, I see no unexplained connections. Still, its not sleeping as deeply as it used to. So it must be doing something. I'm going to leave it sleeping on battery to see if it behaves differently.
[02:38:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Lousy support from hardware vendors - 06Windows 10 Cumulative Update Causes 'Reboot Loop' Havoc for Some Users - 642 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:38:38] <exec> 08└─due to software and hardware problems in Linux It doesn't sound at all like the problem is "in Linux". The problem appears to be in your hardware supply chain--specifically *YOUR* choice of vendors. Clearly, *YOUR* RFQ did not specify the OS compatibility required. ...and have you contacted The Linu...
[02:38:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Upgrade to Linux - 06Windows 10 Cumulative Update Causes 'Reboot Loop' Havoc for Some Users - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:38:39] <exec> 08└─Linux is not the universal solution.
[02:38:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Upgrade to Linux - 06Windows 10 Cumulative Update Causes 'Reboot Loop' Havoc for Some Users - 504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:38:41] <exec> 08└─Yes, we realize that. In fact, that is part of the reason we like Linux - virus writers mostly fail to support Linux. The sane and rational thing to do, is to abandon those softwares and hardwares that don't support Linux. On Linux, you, your company, even your dog, can search for, and install softw...
[02:39:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Francis [5544] 02Re:Genetic modification itself is not the problem. - 06Scotland to Ban Genetically Modified Crops - 1250 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:39:04] <exec> 08└─First off, hybridization does not GMO make. I'm not sure where you got that idea, but it's ridiculous and completely misses the point. Hybridization techniques can speed up evolution and help us to direct it a bit, but we can't do anything that might not have happened anyways. GMOs are what you get...
[02:39:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Re:Genetic modification itself is not the problem. - 06Scotland to Ban Genetically Modified Crops - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:39:10] <exec> 08└─Things that could go wrong: Rampant invasiveness, toxic disruption of natural food chains, human toxicology/cancer/allergy. Think of past problems with introduced species, Thalidomide or dioxins. And obviously, don't place any faith in Monsanto et. al. , use public bodies with no vested interest to...
[02:39:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Genetic modification itself is not the problem. - 06Scotland to Ban Genetically Modified Crops - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:39:13] <exec> 08└─Don't forget the whole patent problem too.
[02:39:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Genetic modification itself is not the problem. - 06Scotland to Ban Genetically Modified Crops - 654 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:39:15] <exec> 08└─Call me a fan of Ned Ludd, but I want nothing to do with BT corn, BT potatoes, BT egg plant (aubergine), etc. Yes, I know BT toxin is neutralized in acid, as in the human stomach, but there are a lot of mucus membranes that this poison is in contact with on the way down. I predict an increase in mou...
[02:40:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03albert [276] (Score:2) 02Re:So Helpful . . . - 06Peaceful Rallies in Ferguson Give Way to Violence, Gunfire - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:40:41] <exec> 08└─The judicial game is rigged against justice for victims of police violence, doubly so for black ones.
[02:41:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Buy Indian. - 06Foxconn to Invest $5 Billion in India - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:33] <exec> 08└─I'm not talking software. That mostly benefits Indians who are already wealthy. If you purchase Indian consumer products such as clothing, toothpaste &c. then the tide whose rise your purchase contributes to really will lift all boats.
[02:42:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03el_oscuro [1711] (Score:2) 02Re:ideas - 06Ask Soylent: Gaming - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:42:14] <exec> 08└─I have been wanting a chess game like that for awhile. At freechess.org, every game is like 1 minute. Chess with friends is like what I want but comes with a bunch of facebook crap. I'm going to try to install it on my site but don't know if it will work on my crappy host provider. It would be total...
[02:43:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:God, a begathon - 06Looking for Some More Editors (and Submissions) - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:14] <exec> 08└─...go to a web site and it plays god damned video ads automatically.
[02:44:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:initial thrill over... - 06FDA to Hospitals: Ditch Remotely Hackable IV Pumps - 478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:44:44] <exec> 08└─Having real software engineers would go far to mitigate this problem. Licensed professionals who must sign off on every project, and carry professional liability if there are issues. Just like every other _real_ engineer. Today's "software engineers" and "sanitation engineers" (trash men) don't coun...
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[03:37:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:cue the "I use AdBlock" comments - 06Major Firefox Vulnerability Lets Hackers Steal Your Files Using Dodgy Web Ads - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:37:22] <exec> 08└─But but but but but, I don't use that new-fangled internet thing. (note: someone is posting this for me)
[03:37:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:cue the "I use AdBlock" comments - 06Major Firefox Vulnerability Lets Hackers Steal Your Files Using Dodgy Web Ads - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:37:23] <exec> 08└─I'm not even using a computer. I sent this comment through the Quantum Consciousness Network (TM).
[03:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart9h [767] (Score:2) 02Re:cue the "I use AdBlock" comments - 06Major Firefox Vulnerability Lets Hackers Steal Your Files Using Dodgy Web Ads - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:37:26] <exec> 08└─An adblocker does not prevent it. It's just that it may be served as an ad, that can be blocked. But it can be served by other ways, too, as regular part of a page you are led to visit.
[03:37:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03nyder [4525] 02It's not stealing, it's copying. - 06Major Firefox Vulnerability Lets Hackers Steal Your Files Using Dodgy Web Ads - 236 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:28] <exec> 08└─They aren't stealing my files, they are just making copies of my files. I'm not missing any files this way, it's just the contents of the files they have also. So please stop using stealing, as no one is being deprived of any property.
[03:37:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Flamebait) 02Re:It's not stealing, it's copying. - 06Major Firefox Vulnerability Lets Hackers Steal Your Files Using Dodgy Web Ads - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:37:29] <exec> 08└─That steamy erotic novel you've been writing looks valuable. I think I'll publish it before you do.
[03:37:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Flamebait) 02Re:It's not stealing, it's copying. - 06Major Firefox Vulnerability Lets Hackers Steal Your Files Using Dodgy Web Ads - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:37:31] <exec> 08└─If somebody obtains a file from my computer without my permission, it's stealing. I don't care if it's just a copy, it's stealing.
[03:37:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's not stealing, it's copying. - 06Major Firefox Vulnerability Lets Hackers Steal Your Files Using Dodgy Web Ads - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:37:33] <exec> 08└─/me wonders why parent is modded +5 Funny I don't detect the sarcasm or humor... It seems completely sincere to me? Maybe I'm broken.
[03:37:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Pale Moon - 06Major Firefox Vulnerability Lets Hackers Steal Your Files Using Dodgy Web Ads - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:34] <exec> 08└─I did some reverse engineering of the patches involved, since it's claimed to be exploited in the wild and I can't really keep waiting until someone gets to giving me bug access, and it looks like we were never vulnerable to this, as it relies on something that Mozilla introduced that we don't use (...
[03:37:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Pale Moon - 06Major Firefox Vulnerability Lets Hackers Steal Your Files Using Dodgy Web Ads - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:37:36] <exec> 08└─Read the remainder of the thread after the post you quoted. Mozilla had the brilliant idea to run the built in pdf viewer at browser-privilege level (the equivalent of running it as 'root'), which pale moon apparently never did.
[03:37:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03multixrulz [5608] (Score:1) 02I never liked the internal PDF viewer anyway - 06Major Firefox Vulnerability Lets Hackers Steal Your Files Using Dodgy Web Ads - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:37] <exec> 08└─Perhaps it's because of the lame, buggy way it always worked in IE (with the acrobat plugin) years ago, but I've always turned the stupid thing off. Looks like it might have been a good idea from a security standpoint too - just a bit less browser code to be attacked.
[03:37:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Refugee from beyond [2699] (Score:2) 02Hidden configuration - 06Major Firefox Vulnerability Lets Hackers Steal Your Files Using Dodgy Web Ads - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:39] <exec> 08└─Firefox has way too many hidden options you need to turn off in about:config. A new "Dangerous" tab in preferences would've been nice.
[03:37:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Informative) 02Editors Were Duped! - 06Major Firefox Vulnerability Lets Hackers Steal Your Files Using Dodgy Web Ads - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:42] <exec> 08└─This is the same vulnerability [mozilla.org] we talked about three days ago. [soylentnews.org]
[03:37:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:3, Informative) 02Dupe Duppity Dupe - 06Major Firefox Vulnerability Lets Hackers Steal Your Files Using Dodgy Web Ads - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:43] <exec> 08└─Mozilla Firefox's PDF Reader Exploit Can Steal Files [soylentnews.org] was posted on this very site just a few days ago. Both stories ultimately link back to the same Mozilla Security Blog post. [mozilla.org]
[03:38:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Name 'Google' has become synonymous with spying - 06Google Becomes Alphabet, Spins Off Google - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:13] <exec> 08└─Dead and loving it.
[03:38:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:That's what VMs are for - 06Windows 10 Cumulative Update Causes 'Reboot Loop' Havoc for Some Users - 734 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:38:43] <exec> 08└─Yep. Yes, you are right that it's not an option for everybody, but with a modern computer it's mostly gamers and people who have need of the full capacity of their computer that can't. I wound u My cheapo desktop from last summer has 8 cores and 8 gigs of RAM which is more than enough to run all my...
[03:39:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:More business coming our way - 06Windows 10 Cumulative Update Causes 'Reboot Loop' Havoc for Some Users - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:39:01] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure it's overconfidence so much as a lack of faith in the endusers to actually install the updates. The thing I don't get is why they're doing it for more than just security updates. Adding new features like this is just asking for trouble.
[03:39:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Genetic modification itself is not the problem. - 06Scotland to Ban Genetically Modified Crops - 583 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:39:29] <exec> 08└─> May I suggest? Jerry Coyne wrote a superlative popular introduction to the topic. You can suggest it. But after reading that 'rebuttal' I'm more inclined to believe mbo42 since the only proof you offered up that he was wrong was circular reasoning capped with a self-important reference to somethin...
[03:46:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart9h [767] (Score:2) 02Re: fresh, organic produce - 06No water? No soil? No problem: Aquaponics Provides Fresh, Organic Produce - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:46:04] <exec> 08└─So you don't agree with the new use of this word. But it's being used like that, like you or not. It's too late to change that. Accept it and move on.
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[04:37:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Fixing the blame - 06How Yuppies Hacked the Original Hacker Ethos - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:19] <exec> 08└─this guy [wikipedia.org] Seriously, this is the "hipsters" complaining how they had a beautiful thing in (name just about any cultural or social activity imaginable) until the philistines came along and ruined it.
[04:37:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Fixing the blame - 06How Yuppies Hacked the Original Hacker Ethos - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:37:22] <exec> 08└─Exactly, couched in racially charged terms just to act as clickbait. (For which mijlo seems to have fallen hook line and sinker). We are currently witnessing the gentrification of hacker culture.
[04:37:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Yup. - 06How Yuppies Hacked the Original Hacker Ethos - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:24] <exec> 08└─It's called culture appropriation.
[04:37:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Yup. - 06How Yuppies Hacked the Original Hacker Ethos - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:37:25] <exec> 08└─No its simply called cultural drift. Revolutionaries get old, sit around and drink beer, while wanna-bees and whipersnappers wrap them selves in the flag and pretend. The originals move on, the vacuum is filled by lesser enthusiasts. But is isn't appropriation, or even usurpation, because the origi...
[04:37:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02today's hacker = $$$ - 06How Yuppies Hacked the Original Hacker Ethos - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:27] <exec> 08└─Black hats are businessmen now.
[04:37:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Refugee from beyond [2699] (Score:2) 02Re:cue the "I use AdBlock" comments - 06Major Firefox Vulnerability Lets Hackers Steal Your Files Using Dodgy Web Ads - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:37:37] <exec> 08└─You should've used GNU/Quantum instead, it's safer that way.
[04:37:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Splains it - 06Major Firefox Vulnerability Lets Hackers Steal Your Files Using Dodgy Web Ads - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:51] <exec> 08└─I must have shitty porn, they put it all back.
[04:37:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Dodgy? - 06Major Firefox Vulnerability Lets Hackers Steal Your Files Using Dodgy Web Ads - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:53] <exec> 08└─Hackers Steal Your Files Using Dodgy Web Ads
[04:38:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03pixeldyne [2637] (Score:2) 02Action Fraud - 06UK Retail Hack Hits 2.4M Consumers - 568 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:04] <exec> 08└─In related news, Action Fraud, the official body responsible for dealing with issues like these went bankrupt - http://www.out-law.com [out-law.com] (apparently, they were allegedly rather unh...
[04:38:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03zafiro17 [234] (Score:2) 02Financial move, not technical - 06Google Becomes Alphabet, Spins Off Google - 950 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:48] <exec> 08└─I'll go out on a limb here and posit we probably don't have a huge number of investment bankers, stock brokers, or project finance people wandering the lovely halls of SoylentNews. If we did, they would be quick to point out that whatever is happening, its impact and consequences will have more to d...
[04:39:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Can't really complain - 06Windows 10 Cumulative Update Causes 'Reboot Loop' Havoc for Some Users - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:39:12] <exec> 08└─The killer app is watching you :). It is part of Skynet and it will come online in 2017...
[04:39:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03mbo42 [5378] 02Re:Genetic modification itself is not the problem. - 06Scotland to Ban Genetically Modified Crops - 258 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:39:47] <exec> 08└─...except amongst Luddites and other classes of ignorant people. We've been modifying food genes ever since the last hunter-gatherers started planting seeds and herding prey, and the whole point of agriculture is ever-better methods of modifying those genes.
[04:40:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03tibman [134] 02Technical details - 06Google, Facebook and Twitter to Block Hash Lists of Child Abuse - 524 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:40:18] <exec> 08└─For those wondering what kind of hash, it appears to be both MD5 and SHA1: https://www.iwf.org.uk [iwf.org.uk] For those saying that changing one pixel or cropping or rating will defe...
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[05:37:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:today's hacker = $$$ - 06How Yuppies Hacked the Original Hacker Ethos - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:37:21] <exec> 08└─Yep. You don't see pranksters spreading viruses for free anymore. Now it's all malware for profit.
[05:37:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02I like to solve unprofitable problems. - 06How Yuppies Hacked the Original Hacker Ethos - 848 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:22] <exec> 08└─My new antiseizure medicine at first made me quite nauseous. I took Maalox with limited success. Eventually I suggested to the med nurse that the Maalox would work better were I to take it with my Trileptol rather than waiting until I was praying to the porcelain god. That worked real well; had my s...
[05:37:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Touché) 02Re:I like to solve unprofitable problems. - 06How Yuppies Hacked the Original Hacker Ethos - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:37:25] <exec> 08└─For a fun suicide, swallow a block of lithium metal and drink a glass of water.
[05:37:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Suggest us of Bozo Filters. - 06How Yuppies Hacked the Original Hacker Ethos - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:26] <exec> 08└─If a jobboard post mentions "beer" I don't apply. If a job board post mentions Agile, Scrum or if that same shop has an opening for a Scrum Master I don't apply. If so much as just one fire exit is blocked I call the fire marshalla few hours later. If there is dead silence throughout the office I do...
[05:37:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Suggest us of Bozo Filters. - 06How Yuppies Hacked the Original Hacker Ethos - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:37:28] <exec> 08└─Selling coffee is honest work, or is it? You're not that guy upselling the expensive coffee even if the customer doesn't want it, are you?
[05:37:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02No, I am doing web app coding. - 06How Yuppies Hacked the Original Hacker Ethos - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:37:30] <exec> 08└─Kids These Days.
[05:37:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Pale Moon - 06Major Firefox Vulnerability Lets Hackers Steal Your Files Using Dodgy Web Ads - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:37:50] <exec> 08└─That is what was said...
[05:37:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Then write a Dangerous Add-On. - 06Major Firefox Vulnerability Lets Hackers Steal Your Files Using Dodgy Web Ads - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:37:53] <exec> 08└─I'll send you my bill in the mail.
[05:37:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Yog-Yogguth [1862] (Score:2) 02Re:Editors Were Duped! - 06Major Firefox Vulnerability Lets Hackers Steal Your Files Using Dodgy Web Ads - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:37:56] <exec> 08└─It sure brings back the memories!
[05:38:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02favicon.ico is in reality javascript. - 06Major Firefox Vulnerability Lets Hackers Steal Your Files Using Dodgy Web Ads - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:38:00] <exec> 08└─I lolled. Doubtlessly lots of Favicons install m4lw4r35 n yr uzragnts.
[05:38:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03zafiro17 [234] (Score:2) 02Re:Grasping at Privacy Straws - 06UK Retail Hack Hits 2.4M Consumers - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:38:11] <exec> 08└─Maybe that's the big conclusion here after all: this now happens so frequently it's a non-issue. It's barely news. In fact ... it's the new normal! Gasp. Echo chamber, yes, but it's still important.
[05:39:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Upgrade to Linux - 06Windows 10 Cumulative Update Causes 'Reboot Loop' Havoc for Some Users - 564 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:39:27] <exec> 08└─You over state the case. Most people can NOT make their linux software better. Step outside of your own provincial little world and you find that not everyone is a programmer. Most proprietary software does exactly what it says it does. Those that don't cease to be purchased, and that pretty well ki...
[05:39:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Upgrade to Linux - 06Windows 10 Cumulative Update Causes 'Reboot Loop' Havoc for Some Users - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:39:29] <exec> 08└─Crossing my fingers that the company IT department does not force us to upgrade to Win10.
[05:40:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TrumpetPower! [590] 02Re:Should be 4 hashes - 06Google, Facebook and Twitter to Block Hash Lists of Child Abuse - 2024 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:40:19] <exec> 08└─No, it should be four hashes total. One that blocks everything on each of the four Web sites mentioned: Google, Facebook, Twitter, and the IWF. Censorship is intolerable. It'd be trivial for Google to "accidentally" "hash" something from one of their business or political opponents...at which point...
[05:40:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Permissive Society? - 06Google, Facebook and Twitter to Block Hash Lists of Child Abuse - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:40:32] <exec> 08└─Would there be as much real CP if the drawn and animated stuff was allowed?
[05:41:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03albert [276] (Score:2) 02Tamir - 06Peaceful Rallies in Ferguson Give Way to Violence, Gunfire - 1833 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:41:47] <exec> 08└─The "friend" who loaned the gun to Tamir did evil. That might be a crime. Certainly there should be some civil liability for the death. This could apply to the friend's parents, as the friend was a minor AFAIK. Tamir is said to have been mentally deficient. That, and the fact that he was a minor, me...
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[06:37:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Re:No, I am doing web app coding. - 06How Yuppies Hacked the Original Hacker Ethos - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:37:38] <exec> 08└─Web app coding?! But the world wide advertising web is one big scam! You should sell coffee instead. That's honest work.
[06:37:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03m2o2r2g2 [3673] (Score:1) 02language is fluid - 06How Yuppies Hacked the Original Hacker Ethos - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:37:39] <exec> 08└─News just in... meanings of words can change. If we have a concept that is no longer represented by a word, then trying to "take back the word" will be a losing battle. Easiest solution: find a new word, or use more specific sub classifications (like black hat and white hat do for indicating testing...
[06:37:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:language is fluid - 06How Yuppies Hacked the Original Hacker Ethos - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:37:41] <exec> 08└─The time has come to take back the word "loser" and show the world that everybody is worth something even if they have no job and have no income and do work on unpaid projects for the love of learning. Losers unite!
[06:37:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Yog-Yogguth [1862] (Score:2) 02Re:cue the "I use AdBlock" comments - 06Major Firefox Vulnerability Lets Hackers Steal Your Files Using Dodgy Web Ads - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:37:56] <exec> 08└─I use the GNU/Quantum with the MOLE: GNU/QuaMOLE!
[06:37:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Roger Murdock [4897] (Score:1) 02Re:cue the "I use AdBlock" comments - 06Major Firefox Vulnerability Lets Hackers Steal Your Files Using Dodgy Web Ads - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:37:57] <exec> 08└─I can't even read Russian!
[06:38:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Yog-Yogguth [1862] (Score:2) 02Re:Dupe Duppity Dupe - 06Major Firefox Vulnerability Lets Hackers Steal Your Files Using Dodgy Web Ads - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:38:13] <exec> 08└─It took about three days for the copies to circumnavigate the globe and become a dupe :)
[06:38:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Where is all the uproar from advertisers? - 06Major Firefox Vulnerability Lets Hackers Steal Your Files Using Dodgy Web Ads - 1584 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:38:17] <exec> 08└─We all have seen the uproar from the MAFIAA's over filesharing. Lots of legislative lobbying and buying law. Stuff like this just encourages everyone to run ad-blockers, nipping a lot of advertising revenue, yet I do not see the suit-people running all amok over this. If people started getting "mes...
[06:39:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score:2) 02And next time - 06Google Becomes Alphabet, Spins Off Google - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:39:15] <exec> 08└─They will change the name to "Umbrella Corporation"
[06:39:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02If you didn't pay for the product, you are QA. - 06Windows 10 Cumulative Update Causes 'Reboot Loop' Havoc for Some Users - 2557 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:39:51] <exec> 08└─Remember back in July 2014 when Microsoft laid off about 12,500 employees? http://www.zdnet.com [zdnet.com] Among those were "dedicated testers" in the Windows group. You're welcome. Also, consider the previous release dat...
[06:40:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02Re:Genetic modification itself is not the problem. - 06Scotland to Ban Genetically Modified Crops - 86 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:40:07] <exec> 08└─The first hunter/gatherers didn't splice a gene into the plant which produces poisons.
[06:40:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Who controls the list? - 06Google, Facebook and Twitter to Block Hash Lists of Child Abuse - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:40:46] <exec> 08└─On the contrary; see the links in the post above yours. This is guaranteed to be abused. Indeed, the only reasonable conclusion is that the whole intention of the list is to be abusive.
[06:40:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score:2) 02Re:Will likely be circumvented - 06Google, Facebook and Twitter to Block Hash Lists of Child Abuse - 813 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:40:55] <exec> 08└─another simple option to defeat something like this would be to just encrypt the images you upload using a key known only to those who you want to view the images. A simple little upload manager that encrypts any image you upload would not be hard to create, there could even be a plug in that decry...
[06:41:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It sounds like you need more Breitbart - 06Peaceful Rallies in Ferguson Give Way to Violence, Gunfire - 644 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:41:46] <exec> 08└─The problem with breitbart is that it is entertainment, not journalism. They don't do fact checking, they don't do background research. They have a POV and they are happy to only report the half of the story that promotes their POV. I wouldn't cite them any more than I'd cite something from huffpo....
[06:42:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So Helpful . . . - 06Peaceful Rallies in Ferguson Give Way to Violence, Gunfire - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:42:11] <exec> 08└─> “Why do we try to save suicides?” Because 99% of suicides are impulse decisions made at the height of depression when the person is not of sound mind. As a society it is our duty to protect people who can't protect themselves. The question of whatever some people use that duty as cover to abus...
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[07:37:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Does estoppel apply in the UK? - 06Starwars.Co.Uk Owner Strikes Back Against Disney - 640 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:37:18] <exec> 08└─IN THE US if you do not defend your trademark upon infringement, you will lose it; escalator for example. That's why Capitola, California's "Sacks 41st Avenue" got a C&D letter from an attorney; that same attorney was quite apologetic when interviewed by the Santa Cruz Sentinel, but he pointed out t...
[07:37:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fixing the blame - 06How Yuppies Hacked the Original Hacker Ethos - 754 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:37:29] <exec> 08└─> Nobody realistically claims google employees are hackers, yet the clown sets up the straw man and masterfully destroys it. (golf clap). That's a no true scotsman fallacy if I've ever seen one. Here's Inc singing praises of the hacking skills [inc.com] of the team managed by google's "security prin...
[07:37:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Yup. - 06How Yuppies Hacked the Original Hacker Ethos - 537 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:37:32] <exec> 08└─I always think of genres of music when this topic comes up. Once upon a time, "Alternative" music really was an alternative. "Indie" really was music recorded by small record labels independent of the big studios and wasn't a reference to style. Both were co-opted by the big studios, and now the wor...
[07:37:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02One of our clients sells paint. - 06How Yuppies Hacked the Original Hacker Ethos - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:37:41] <exec> 08└─I expect we'll have a client that sells coffee someday.
[07:37:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No, I am doing web app coding. - 06How Yuppies Hacked the Original Hacker Ethos - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:37:43] <exec> 08└─The farmer who grows the coffee is doing the honest work.
[07:37:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:language is fluid - 06How Yuppies Hacked the Original Hacker Ethos - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:37:46] <exec> 08└─News just in... meanings of words can change. If we have a concept that is no longer represented by a word, then trying to "take back the word" will be a losing battle. Easiest solution: find a new word, or use more specific sub classifications (like black hat and white hat do for indicating testing...
[07:37:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02OK children, settle down... - 06How Yuppies Hacked the Original Hacker Ethos - 441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:37:48] <exec> 08└─Once upon a time (the '70s) hacker meant someone who was good at putting together some code quickly and, in particular, cleverly, to solve a problem. (more generally, it was not just coders - even tinkers in gadgets were considered hackers - like hackaday.) Then in the '80s, the term came to mean so...
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[07:39:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Future sight activating - 06Google Becomes Alphabet, Spins Off Google - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:39:09] <exec> 08└─Or in simple terms: the third millennium just continues normally.
[07:39:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Trademark protection - 06Google Becomes Alphabet, Spins Off Google - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:39:12] <exec> 08└─One big trademark lawsuit, and we'll have to say bye-bye to shaped spaghetti pieces. And reading will be patented.
[07:39:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02Re:Win2k SP...what? - 06Windows 10 Cumulative Update Causes 'Reboot Loop' Havoc for Some Users - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:39:36] <exec> 08└─Wow! Where have you been for the last 15 years? Welcome back to Earth.
[07:39:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02WTF - 06Windows 10 Cumulative Update Causes 'Reboot Loop' Havoc for Some Users - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:39:41] <exec> 08└─"Fuck you M$. I live Free. On Win7" Win7 is open source now? Did I miss something?
[07:39:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:WTF - 06Windows 10 Cumulative Update Causes 'Reboot Loop' Havoc for Some Users - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:39:42] <exec> 08└─Yes. You missed "the joke."
[07:39:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Lousy support from hardware vendors - 06Windows 10 Cumulative Update Causes 'Reboot Loop' Havoc for Some Users - 831 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:39:56] <exec> 08└─You're making the silly assumption that the hardware is new. IFF you get to spec out the hardware first - yes you can do that. If the hardware's already in place, replacing Windows with Linux solves nothing. But you also assume that all hardware is available in some Linux form. Not so - there are re...
[07:40:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03hankwang [100] (Score:2) 02Re:Genetic modification itself is not the problem. - 06Scotland to Ban Genetically Modified Crops - 510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:40:34] <exec> 08└─"if you are farming next to a farmer who uses GMO crops, you can't save seed for next year's planting because of cross pollination caused by the wind or insects" Monsanto actually denies this explicitly: "it has never been, nor will it be, Monsanto’s policy to exercise its patent rights where trac...
[07:40:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Should be 4 hashes - 06Google, Facebook and Twitter to Block Hash Lists of Child Abuse - 555 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:40:55] <exec> 08└─THat's looks like spammy publicity material, not encyclopedic material. E.g. "PhotoDNA is primarily used in the prevention of child pornography" - citation needed - name one case where the software has *prevented* child pornography. Nothing that only detects can prevent. And one must also remember i...
[07:41:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jeremiah Cornelius [2785] (Score:2) 02Re:So Helpful . . . - 06Peaceful Rallies in Ferguson Give Way to Violence, Gunfire - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:41:48] <exec> 08└─Right. But I showed you how to get REAL TIME LIVE on Twitter and Periscope, but you go to the mediated corporate outlet, which quotes police as authoritative.
[07:41:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jeremiah Cornelius [2785] (Score:2) 02Re:So Helpful . . . - 06Peaceful Rallies in Ferguson Give Way to Violence, Gunfire - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:41:57] <exec> 08└─This is an inflammatory hypothetical race-baiting lie. Protesters are overwhelmingly peaceful, and surrounded by cops with ARs and Tanks. If they were Ukrainians i the same situation, you'd be BEGGING for intervention on the part of the activists. We know you for what you are. Meanwhile? The real pr...
[07:41:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jeremiah Cornelius [2785] (Score:2) 02Re:So Helpful . . . - 06Peaceful Rallies in Ferguson Give Way to Violence, Gunfire - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:41:58] <exec> 08└─This is how disinfo works: THERE IS NO RIOTING IN FERGUSON.
[07:42:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jeremiah Cornelius [2785] (Score:2) 02Re:So Helpful . . . - 06Peaceful Rallies in Ferguson Give Way to Violence, Gunfire - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:42:26] <exec> 08└─Will they make the "right call" tonight in Ferguson, withe cocked and loaded oathkeepers? I thought so. You and a Klansman differ largely in social class, no more than that.
[07:42:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So Helpful . . . - 06Peaceful Rallies in Ferguson Give Way to Violence, Gunfire - 646 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:42:39] <exec> 08└─Hairy's post had nothing to do with the two shooters at Ferguson. It is a cut-n-paste of his previous post [soylentnews.org] in response to outsourced electronic monitoring of prominent non-violent blacklivesmatter protest organizers and their classification as "physical threats." That this story in...
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[08:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02ask The Doctor - 06British Museum Asks for Help Deciphering a Medieval Sword - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:37:25] <exec> 08└─Chances are he's playing a prank on you.
[08:37:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimshatt [978] (Score:2) 02Re:ask The Doctor - 06British Museum Asks for Help Deciphering a Medieval Sword - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:37:27] <exec> 08└─If I were a tourist from the future, that would certainly be one of the ages I'd be visiting. And this one, obviously :)
[08:37:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:Suggest us of Bozo Filters. - 06How Yuppies Hacked the Original Hacker Ethos - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:37:58] <exec> 08└─I have a job now; we all work at Starbucks about a half mile walk from my house.
[08:38:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:language is fluid - 06How Yuppies Hacked the Original Hacker Ethos - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:38:02] <exec> 08└─News just in... meanings of words can change.
[08:38:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Mad Hacker meant Axe Crazy - 06How Yuppies Hacked the Original Hacker Ethos - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:38:05] <exec> 08└─hacker: n. [originally, someone who makes furniture with an axe]
[08:38:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's not stealing, it's copying. - 06Major Firefox Vulnerability Lets Hackers Steal Your Files Using Dodgy Web Ads - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:38:28] <exec> 08└─I just stole your kernel32.dll Do you still not care whether or not it was just a copy and you still have the original?
[08:38:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's not stealing, it's copying. - 06Major Firefox Vulnerability Lets Hackers Steal Your Files Using Dodgy Web Ads - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:38:30] <exec> 08└─Big difference. Most people probably don't have anything worth copying anyway (what's a savegame with two achievements worth nowadays?) But they also don't have backups, so losing a file, that would be bad.
[08:38:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Pale Moon - 06Major Firefox Vulnerability Lets Hackers Steal Your Files Using Dodgy Web Ads - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:38:35] <exec> 08└─Wait, they made a PDF viewer in Javascript because it would be much more safe than Adobe Reader, and Adobe has shown that even with billions of dollars, it is impossible to implement a secure PDF viewer without running it in a sandbox. Then they went ahead and let it run outside the sandbox. FFS, Mo...
[08:38:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Is there a single list of such about:config option - 06Major Firefox Vulnerability Lets Hackers Steal Your Files Using Dodgy Web Ads - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:38:39] <exec> 08└─-s? It's not like I cannot google but I have grown weary of all the dodgy web ads.
[08:38:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Update checker - 06Major Firefox Vulnerability Lets Hackers Steal Your Files Using Dodgy Web Ads - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:38:48] <exec> 08└─Firefox 24.0 Firefox is up to date. So, either old versions are not vulnerable, or they still haven't fixed the update checker on Linux.
[08:38:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Update checker - 06Major Firefox Vulnerability Lets Hackers Steal Your Files Using Dodgy Web Ads - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:38:50] <exec> 08└─"Update checker on Linux" is called your distribution's package manager.
[08:39:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Probably just a new tax evasion scheme - 06Google Becomes Alphabet, Spins Off Google - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:39:18] <exec> 08└─More likely an anti-regulatory move to avoid some specific rulings in the broadband sector.
[08:40:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Lousy support from hardware vendors - 06Windows 10 Cumulative Update Causes 'Reboot Loop' Havoc for Some Users - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:40:23] <exec> 08└─I know of one factory with assembly equipment running on an IBM 704 - which dates back to the '50s. If it works, don't mess with it. The cost of replacing all the equipment just so they could run a Linux PC would make no sense.
[08:40:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Has never heard of Blackboard - 06Windows 10 Cumulative Update Causes 'Reboot Loop' Havoc for Some Users - 750 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:40:27] <exec> 08└─Blackboard is a proprietary educational software system. Getting the vendor to patch bugs or add features is like pulling teeth. Moodle, OTOH, is FOSS. There are Moodle developers for hire across the landscape, ready to modify the software to your specifications. not everyone is a programmer As the...
[08:40:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Upgrade to Linux - 06Windows 10 Cumulative Update Causes 'Reboot Loop' Havoc for Some Users - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:40:29] <exec> 08└─Most proprietary software does exactly what it says it does. Those that don't cease to be purchased, and that pretty well kills them off. People can actually tell that [...] their email never goes through
[08:40:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Upgrade to Linux - 06Windows 10 Cumulative Update Causes 'Reboot Loop' Havoc for Some Users - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:40:31] <exec> 08└─You do realize that there are hardware and software products that just do not run on Linux of any stripe? Wine is not always an option.
[08:40:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Upgrade to Linux - 06Windows 10 Cumulative Update Causes 'Reboot Loop' Havoc for Some Users - 1497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:40:33] <exec> 08└─Good on you. Mint isn't for me, but if there are comfortable and convenient distros for people not like me, then that's good for linux generally (similarly, mopeds on the roads are good for harley-riding hells angels, as the more two-wheelers there are the better it is for all of them). I had a funn...
[08:41:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TrumpetPower! [590] 02Re:Who controls the list? - 06Google, Facebook and Twitter to Block Hash Lists of Child Abuse - 82 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:41:31] <exec> 08└─Despite that, you can probably trust that this particular list will not be abused.
[08:43:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score:2) 02Re:So Helpful . . . - 06Peaceful Rallies in Ferguson Give Way to Violence, Gunfire - 515 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:43:26] <exec> 08└─Here ya go friend, do the math [bjs.gov]. The last year we have reliable statistics as after 2005 Hispanics became white we have 8000 black homicides of which 93% were black on black, or 7440. Divide that by 12 and what do ya get? 620 per month. Now you could try to argue that there is less black on...
[08:44:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Quake deathmatch - 06Ask Soylent: Gaming - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:44:29] <exec> 08└─QuakeWorld, the successor to Quake which was released in 1997 (a year after original Quake) with better net code for multiplayer, lives on! http://quakeworld.nu [quakeworld.nu] I'm top5 in the USA come at me
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[09:38:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Working theory - 06British Museum Asks for Help Deciphering a Medieval Sword - 860 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:38:19] <exec> 08└─One amusing working theory that immediately springs to mind is that if inscribed blades were "all the rage" at the time then perhaps it doesn't mean much of anything. Kind of like that awesome Chinese character tattoo you paid good money for that was supposed to say, "Harmony," but actually translat...
[09:38:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03KritonK [465] (Score:2) 02Looks like abbreviated text - 06British Museum Asks for Help Deciphering a Medieval Sword - 819 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:38:20] <exec> 08└─It looks like abbreviated text, which is more or less hinted at by both the summary and TFA. My guess is that the "X", which is rather unlikely to appear three times in the same phrase, is used as a delimiter. To decipher the text, one would need some context, not to mention a bit of guesswork. E.g,...
[09:38:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yup. - 06How Yuppies Hacked the Original Hacker Ethos - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:38:47] <exec> 08└─while wanna-bees and whipersnappers wrap them selves in the flag and pretend. The originals move on, the vacuum is filled by lesser enthusiasts. But is isn't appropriation, or even usurpation, because the originals just wandered off
[09:39:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:cue the "I use AdBlock" comments - 06Major Firefox Vulnerability Lets Hackers Steal Your Files Using Dodgy Web Ads - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:39:24] <exec> 08└─I use AdBlock, NoScript, and have disabled the internal PDF viewer. So I'm triple protected!
[09:39:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Dupe Duppity Dupe - 06Major Firefox Vulnerability Lets Hackers Steal Your Files Using Dodgy Web Ads - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:39:45] <exec> 08└─you should be an editor and show em how its done
[09:39:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Update checker - 06Major Firefox Vulnerability Lets Hackers Steal Your Files Using Dodgy Web Ads - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:39:52] <exec> 08└─you! check for poop! aw why am i the poop-checker?
[09:40:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Trademark protection - 06Google Becomes Alphabet, Spins Off Google - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:40:45] <exec> 08└─Domain name: abc.xyz. I wonder what the American Broadcasting Company has to say about this.
[09:40:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Founders lowering their sights - 06Google Becomes Alphabet, Spins Off Google - 509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:40:55] <exec> 08└─The alphabet is: abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz Assuming the usual way of number system extension, where digits with values of 10 upwards are names with letters, this can only be a valid number for base 36 (or above). Taking base 36, the alphabet therefore is 10×3625 + 11×3624 + … + 33×362 + 34×36...
[09:40:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Financial move, not technical - 06Google Becomes Alphabet, Spins Off Google - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:40:59] <exec> 08└─Today in Deutschlandfunk (a German news radio station) they said that the main effect is that thanks to the reorganization, every division will have to show their profits/deficits separately, instead of lumping it all together, and thus masking losses in one part with profits in another. Also, it's...
[09:41:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Upgrade to Linux - 06Windows 10 Cumulative Update Causes 'Reboot Loop' Havoc for Some Users - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:41:40] <exec> 08└─Most people can NOT make their linux software better. Step outside of your own provincial little world and you find that not everyone is a programmer.
[09:42:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03penguinoid [5331] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Genetic modification itself is not the problem. - 06Scotland to Ban Genetically Modified Crops - 563 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:42:13] <exec> 08└─Genetic engineering does nothing that couldn't have happened on its own, just like selective breeding does nothing that couldn't have happened on its own. In fact, the tools used for genetic engineering are mostly taken from the same sort of critter that would naturally cause lateral gene transfer....
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[10:39:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02So... - 06Some Honeybee Colonies Adapt in Wake of Deadly Mites - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:39:01] <exec> 08└─We now know the mites are the culprit for colony collapse?
[10:39:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Re:Working theory - 06British Museum Asks for Help Deciphering a Medieval Sword - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:39:14] <exec> 08└─people took their religion very seriously back then
[10:39:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02+NDXOXCHWDRGHDXORVI+ - 06British Museum Asks for Help Deciphering a Medieval Sword - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:39:16] <exec> 08└─is the mystery string. I'd liked it in the summary.
[10:39:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re: +NDXOXCHWDRGHDXORVI+ - 06British Museum Asks for Help Deciphering a Medieval Sword - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:39:17] <exec> 08└─Also relevant are the two equally mysterious inscriptions on another sword, also given in the article: +BENEDOXOFTISSCSDRRISCDICECMTINIUSCSDNI+ +DIOXMTINIUSESDIOMTINIUSCSDICCCMTDICIIZISI+
[10:39:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02It says... - 06British Museum Asks for Help Deciphering a Medieval Sword - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:39:19] <exec> 08└─"Hello Sweetie."
[10:39:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02English 101 - 06British Museum Asks for Help Deciphering a Medieval Sword - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:39:20] <exec> 08└─But the sword, on loan to the library from the British Museum, does have ...
[10:40:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 021337 H4kZ0r5 4r3 d34d - 06How Yuppies Hacked the Original Hacker Ethos - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:40:04] <exec> 08└─If you can read that, your not a yuppie hipster poser. If you can, I respect your uber leetness.
[10:41:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Grasping at Privacy Straws - 06UK Retail Hack Hits 2.4M Consumers - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:41:07] <exec> 08└─Yes it is shocking and people should care. That's alone enough reason to post it. There should be laws protecting people's privacy and violators should be hanged, drawn and quartered.
[10:42:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Alphabet has new domain - 06Google Becomes Alphabet, Spins Off Google - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:42:05] <exec> 08└─And also Google's alphabet website url has xyz domain not having .com domain. If anybody noticed the Easter Egg in Alphabet website? else see here [rtoz.org]
[10:44:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sniffy - 06Cancer-Detecting Dogs Approved for NHS Trial - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:44:18] <exec> 08└─Depends what he finds. Still better than a cat scan ;).
[10:44:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:peer reviews? - 06Cancer-Detecting Dogs Approved for NHS Trial - 505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:44:22] <exec> 08└─It's not really a bug or "false positive" if the dogs detect other cancers in the process. But yes perhaps they should have tested those with bladder cancer to see whether the next stage should only a biopsy of the prostate. e.g. if you have kidney/bladder/etc cancer instead of prostate cancer I thi...
[10:48:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03mrcoolbp [68] (Score:2) 02Re:Using emails for feedback - 06Looking for Some More Editors (and Submissions) - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:48:19] <exec> 08└─Would throw off the acceptance tools we have now though (all stories would show as accepted)
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[11:38:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03cosurgi [272] (Score:2) 02For the record - 06Rosetta Mission Progress Report - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:38:29] <exec> 08└─Artur Chmielewski is the son of "Papcio Chmiel [wikipedia.org]", I have grown up reading his comic books. Papcio Chmiel was pretty famous in Poland 20 to 15 years ago.
[11:38:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Working theory - 06British Museum Asks for Help Deciphering a Medieval Sword - 536 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:38:52] <exec> 08└─Also see http://hanzismatter.blogspot.com [blogspot.com] It might be purely artistic. Another thing to complicate matters is there was world trade in that era, just not much, and mostly only for the rich, which kind of fits the noblemans sword theme,...
[11:38:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Looks like abbreviated text - 06British Museum Asks for Help Deciphering a Medieval Sword - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:38:54] <exec> 08└─I came to similar conclusions, but started with the premise that "X" stands for "Christ" as it often did and still does today in "X-mas". "D" could either be "Dominus" or "Deus". That would make the beginning "Our Lord Christ, we pray that Christ ...", which would make a lot of sense for the beginni...
[11:38:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03FlyingSock [4339] (Score:1) 02Re:English 101 - 06British Museum Asks for Help Deciphering a Medieval Sword - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:39:00] <exec> 08└─The British Library, named at the beginning of the summary, the second link.
[11:39:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02It translates to.. - 06British Museum Asks for Help Deciphering a Medieval Sword - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:39:01] <exec> 08└─"they don't like it up 'em"
[11:39:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:language is fluid - 06How Yuppies Hacked the Original Hacker Ethos - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:39:40] <exec> 08└─...take back the word "loser"
[11:39:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03PizzaRollPlinkett [4512] (Score:2) 02Huh? - 06How Yuppies Hacked the Original Hacker Ethos - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:39:46] <exec> 08└─"...gentrification...countercultural trickster... ever less disaffected individuals...solutionism...otherwise conventional aspirations..." and so on - I guess this made sense to whoever wrote it.
[11:40:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Splains it - 06Major Firefox Vulnerability Lets Hackers Steal Your Files Using Dodgy Web Ads - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:40:29] <exec> 08└─We call it scat.
[11:41:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03PizzaRollPlinkett [4512] (Score:2) 02Another CEO - 06Google Becomes Alphabet, Spins Off Google - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:41:47] <exec> 08└─What jumps out at me is how they turned one CEO into two CEOs. How much top-heavy management does a corporation need? Sounds like a way to increase executive pay. Do they get bonuses for this reorg, too? Eventually, everyone in corporate America will either be a CEO or outsourced.
[11:46:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03CoolHand [438] (Score:2) 02Re:ideas - 06Ask Soylent: Gaming - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:39] <exec> 08└─OCC [sourceforge.net] is actually what I used to run.. It was perfect for our small elementary club. I'm not sure if it would scale up to soylent size though, which is why I mentioned the phpchess..
[11:46:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03wantkitteh [3362] (Score:2) 02Re:which? - 06Ask Soylent: Gaming - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:51] <exec> 08└─I'd be happy to help GM. My last spawn site design was based on the provincial gladiatorial arena Maximus solo'd before his "Are you not entertained?!" rant in Gladiator. I'm thinking something along the lines of The Glade / The Maze from the Maze Runner film next...
[11:47:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03wantkitteh [3362] (Score:2) 02Re:Minecraft - 06Ask Soylent: Gaming - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:47:16] <exec> 08└─True Vanilla gets old very quickly these days, while the mod-heavy packs can take quite a lot of work to admin. FTB do a Vanilla+ which looks pretty good, and Lite 3 is actually pretty sophisticated now.
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[12:37:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Uh oh - 06Some Honeybee Colonies Adapt in Wake of Deadly Mites - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:26] <exec> 08└─Yet more proof that this evolution thing works and something else for the rabid bible-bashers to deny.
[12:37:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rickter [842] (Score:1) 02Re:Looks like abbreviated text - 06British Museum Asks for Help Deciphering a Medieval Sword - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:37:42] <exec> 08└─That would make sense as the first character of the word Christ in Greek is 'X' which only became spelled with a Ch when translated to English centuries later. On the other hand, the translation you have ('Our Lord Christ, we pray that Christ') sounds very awkward to me, but perhaps the declension o...
[12:37:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:English 101 - 06British Museum Asks for Help Deciphering a Medieval Sword - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:37:48] <exec> 08└─My bad. Carry on then. :)
[12:37:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right B A Start - 06British Museum Asks for Help Deciphering a Medieval Sword - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:50] <exec> 08└─Isn't it obvious? It was a cheat code. Unfortunately those cheat codes were disabled in an update after too many players misused them.
[12:38:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yup. - 06How Yuppies Hacked the Original Hacker Ethos - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:38:15] <exec> 08└─I want to repeatedly poke your raw anus until absolutely nothing is left of it.
[12:38:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02necessity - 06How Yuppies Hacked the Original Hacker Ethos - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:38:35] <exec> 08└─Necessity (GREED) is the mother of all invention.
[12:40:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:Name 'Google' has become synonymous with spying - 06Google Becomes Alphabet, Spins Off Google - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:40:07] <exec> 08└─Google hasn't made any "promises" either. "Don't be Evil" is their unofficial corporate motto. That said, they've been *relatively* good, especially based on the size of the company.
[12:40:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:an evil corp by any other name... - 06Google Becomes Alphabet, Spins Off Google - 1508 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:40:20] <exec> 08└─Its a conversion from an acquisition only company to a company that at least occasionally sells. Remember when google bought that stupid $300 hipster thermostat? Say they finally give up and want to sell the remains of "Google Thermostat" to Honeywell or WTF. Its "easier" to sell if they remain an o...
[12:40:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03zafiro17 [234] (Score:2) 02Re:Financial move, not technical - 06Google Becomes Alphabet, Spins Off Google - 481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:40:32] <exec> 08└─The Register gets it right, I think. Not only is what you've written probably true, but also: maybe the bosses were getting bored with the day-to-day business stuff of Google. So they put the next in charge in the hot seat, responsible for running the company. Then the big two elevate themselves to...
[12:40:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03CyberB0B39 [492] (Score:1) 02Nothing new - just a corporate reorg - 06Google Becomes Alphabet, Spins Off Google - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:40:35] <exec> 08└─This is nothing new to corporate America. Each division will have a CEO and the parent holding corporation will have a CEO. As others have mentioned, this isolates risk and would allow divisions to be more easily spun off or purchased in the future. I would expect to see other large divisions within...
[12:40:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:That's what VMs are for - 06Windows 10 Cumulative Update Causes 'Reboot Loop' Havoc for Some Users - 2835 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:40:51] <exec> 08└─I've had hardware trouble because some of the few things I still use windows for is stuff like USB eprom/flash burners and semi-exotic radio hardware (freq synthesizers and programming radios and stuff). That's not a printer port or a serial port, not as simple as telling WINE to talk to /dev/ttyUSB...
[12:41:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score:2) 02Re:Upgrade to Linux - 06Windows 10 Cumulative Update Causes 'Reboot Loop' Havoc for Some Users - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:41:15] <exec> 08└─Most proprietary software does exactly what it says it does. Those that don't cease to be purchased
[12:41:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Genetic modification itself is not the problem. - 06Scotland to Ban Genetically Modified Crops - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:41:57] <exec> 08└─That's a nice prediction. How did you come up with it? Do you have a potential mechanism in mind or did you just make it up? Let me guess. You don't have any data on the topic, you haven't read any scientific literature on the topic, and you don't have much of an understanding of cancer neogenesis....
[12:42:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score:2) 02Re:Should be 4 hashes - 06Google, Facebook and Twitter to Block Hash Lists of Child Abuse - 1230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:42:11] <exec> 08└─I've played with creating an unique identifier for images and found it to be surprisingly effective. This article [linux-mag.com] describes the strategy well. Basically one scales each image to a four-by-four pixel image which produces 48 bytes of "hash". (Being three bytes per pixel for Red/Green/...
[12:42:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Who controls the list? - 06Google, Facebook and Twitter to Block Hash Lists of Child Abuse - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:42:25] <exec> 08└─Blocking entire websites is a lot more useful to censors than blocking specific images.
[12:43:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:So Helpful . . . - 06Peaceful Rallies in Ferguson Give Way to Violence, Gunfire - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:43:14] <exec> 08└─Just because you *don't* see it on Twitter, etc, does not mean it didn't happen.
[12:47:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:initial thrill over... - 06FDA to Hospitals: Ditch Remotely Hackable IV Pumps - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:47:55] <exec> 08└─Well, good job making software development much more expensive and failing to support freedom.
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[13:37:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I like to wiggle my body around - 06The Drone That Can Hack You - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:19] <exec> 08└─and twist and shout with my pee pee out!
[13:37:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02So. - 06The Drone That Can Hack You - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:20] <exec> 08└─I can buy a wifi pineapple and duck tape it to a dji phantom too. Look yall I'm a hackur!
[13:37:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So... - 06Some Honeybee Colonies Adapt in Wake of Deadly Mites - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:37:37] <exec> 08└─It would seem they are one major contributor but in fact the collapse itself was overreported and overblown. The latest stories have seemed almost unanimous in that the populations are already at completely normal levels again and doing quite well.
[13:37:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So... - 06Some Honeybee Colonies Adapt in Wake of Deadly Mites - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:37:39] <exec> 08└─[citation needed]
[13:37:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Pollinator niche - 06Some Honeybee Colonies Adapt in Wake of Deadly Mites - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:40] <exec> 08└─How conceivable is it that other species will step in to fill the void as pollinators? I haven't seen many bees in my garden this year, but I'm seeing lots of strange varieties of flies and other no-see-ums, and stuff is getting pollinated.
[13:37:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03jb [338] (Score:3, Informative) 02Merchants throw plates, or prophet predicts vi? - 06British Museum Asks for Help Deciphering a Medieval Sword - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:37:59] <exec> 08└─The wonderful thing about these sorts of puzzles are that there are an infinite number of correct solutions. Ranging from the whimsical, such as: NDXOX
[13:38:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03NickFortune [3267] (Score:1) 02"Whosoever pulleth the sword from the stone..." - 06British Museum Asks for Help Deciphering a Medieval Sword - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:06] <exec> 08└─I mean they found it in a river. Probably the Lady of the Lake has been rehoused or something...
[13:38:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Cleaved not cloven - 06British Museum Asks for Help Deciphering a Medieval Sword - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:07] <exec> 08└─Cloven is split in its nature, cloven hooved, cleaved - to have been separated.
[13:38:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Did not renew - 06Starwars.Co.Uk Owner Strikes Back Against Disney - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:15] <exec> 08└─Lucasfilm owned the domain then did not renew it. They better have to compensate the current owners for the fair market value of the domain if they win.
[13:39:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03drgibbon [74] (Score:1) 02Re:It's not stealing, it's copying. - 06Major Firefox Vulnerability Lets Hackers Steal Your Files Using Dodgy Web Ads - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:39:18] <exec> 08└─I didn't think it was intended to be funny either.
[13:39:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03drgibbon [74] (Score:1) 02Dupe - Firejail - 06Major Firefox Vulnerability Lets Hackers Steal Your Files Using Dodgy Web Ads - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:41] <exec> 08└─Applications that connect out to the Internet should really be sandboxed: Firejail [wordpress.com] does the trick relatively pain-free. Check out the Firejail Firefox tutorials part 1 [wordpress.com] and part 2 [wordpress.com]. I don't think Firefox needs to see anything from ~ except for ~/download...
[13:40:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:didn't see that coming - 06Google Becomes Alphabet, Spins Off Google - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:40:10] <exec> 08└─Google has been pretty aggressive with killing off services that didn't become popular enough. Not saying you are wrong. But google doesn't let things die off naturally.
[13:42:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Will likely be circumvented - 06Google, Facebook and Twitter to Block Hash Lists of Child Abuse - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:42:55] <exec> 08└─And who would end up paying for it?
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[14:37:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So. - 06The Drone That Can Hack You - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:37:22] <exec> 08└─yea, my thoughts totally. This should be in toys'r'us shops. The target audience is 14y old haxxors :)
[14:37:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Re:So. - 06The Drone That Can Hack You - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:37:24] <exec> 08└─There are only 1 or 2 "hackers", the rest are all script kiddies who have no idea what they are doing outside running a script.
[14:37:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:3, Touché) 02Re:So. - 06The Drone That Can Hack You - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:37:25] <exec> 08└─I can buy a wifi pineapple and duck tape it to a dji phantom too. Look yall I'm a hackur! ??? profit
[14:37:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Pollinator niche - 06Some Honeybee Colonies Adapt in Wake of Deadly Mites - 1162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:37:44] <exec> 08└─I don't place the likelihood extremely high. Next to bees, the best pollinators are butterflies. Flies have never been noted as reliable pollinators. A couple of wasp species frequent some of the plants, primarily because they expect to find prey there. Wasps are kinda hairy, so they manage to do a...
[14:37:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Working theory - 06British Museum Asks for Help Deciphering a Medieval Sword - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:37:58] <exec> 08└─This reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Notice the surrounding plusses. But I'd expect the British Museum to be familiar with this. :)
[14:38:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03GDX [1950] (Score:1) 02Re: +NDXOXCHWDRGHDXORVI+ - 06British Museum Asks for Help Deciphering a Medieval Sword - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:38:04] <exec> 08└─I'm sure that is medieval SMS language, well the true is that the same principles applies to it and is sure that even in those times only a handful of people know their meaning. Other think is that there is a possible relation between those swords and if there is, it can put to clear some things.
[14:38:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jb [338] 02Merchants throw plates, or prophet predicts vi? - 06British Museum Asks for Help Deciphering a Medieval Sword - 151 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:38:06] <exec> 08└─The wonderful thing about these sorts of puzzles are that there are an infinite number of correct solutions. Ranging from the whimsical, such as: NDXOX
[14:38:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anne Nonymous [712] (Score:2) 02Re:Merchants throw plates, or prophet predicts vi? - 06British Museum Asks for Help Deciphering a Medieval Sword - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:38:07] <exec> 08└─Be Sure To Eat Your Ovaltine
[14:38:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anne Nonymous [712] (Score:2) 02Re:Merchants throw plates, or prophet predicts vi? - 06British Museum Asks for Help Deciphering a Medieval Sword - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:38:10] <exec> 08└─Drink (I haven't had mine yet this morning)
[14:38:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02My guess - 06British Museum Asks for Help Deciphering a Medieval Sword - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:17] <exec> 08└─"Gertrude is a slut"
[14:38:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Easy! - 06British Museum Asks for Help Deciphering a Medieval Sword - 1307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:19] <exec> 08└─My latin is a bit rusty, but clearly this is the sword of a knight, king or other person tasked with roles that would require good judgement. The inscription is +NDXOXCHWDRGHDXORVI+ It's obviously a prayer and a Christian prayer at that, judging by the crosses and etc that adorn the message. X is us...
[14:38:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Easy! - 06British Museum Asks for Help Deciphering a Medieval Sword - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:38:22] <exec> 08└─That last bit Vivum Invictus could easily be Eternal Life
[14:38:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Did not renew - 06Starwars.Co.Uk Owner Strikes Back Against Disney - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:38:29] <exec> 08└─Doesn't matter if Lucasfilm or Disney had the opportunity to purchase the domain name or not. It's still misuse of their trademark, pretty open and shut b/c the site sold Star Wars-themed gears and can't claim it was about some unrelated space battles.
[14:38:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Suggest us of Bozo Filters. - 06How Yuppies Hacked the Original Hacker Ethos - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:38:56] <exec> 08└─It is decent coffee, unless the specific locations your going to have QA problems. I've yet to notice a real difference between Starbucks and most of the other places I've gone in terms of the coffee. The real difference is in the atmosphere of the place in most cases. I do agree about the cost thou...
[14:38:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Suggest us of Bozo Filters. - 06How Yuppies Hacked the Original Hacker Ethos - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:38:57] <exec> 08└─I actually like agile. My team makes a production push every two weeks. I'm not a fan of building something for months without real feedback. Just getting the client into a feedback position pretty much makes any project an agile one.
[14:39:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:1337 H4kZ0r5 4r3 d34d - 06How Yuppies Hacked the Original Hacker Ethos - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:39:06] <exec> 08└─10n9 11v3 1337 H4kZ0r5
[14:39:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Time to kick merchants out of the Temple again! - 06How Yuppies Hacked the Original Hacker Ethos - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:11] <exec> 08└─"a true hacker spirit does not reside at google" reminds me of things Martin Luther wrote and nailed to doors, lmao Powerful language, ehehe.
[14:39:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:It's not stealing, it's copying. - 06Major Firefox Vulnerability Lets Hackers Steal Your Files Using Dodgy Web Ads - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:39:36] <exec> 08└─Here you go: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[14:39:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:It's not stealing, it's copying. - 06Major Firefox Vulnerability Lets Hackers Steal Your Files Using Dodgy Web Ads - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:39:38] <exec> 08└─Bitcoins may be a big one. They are only copied, yes. But once the copies are spent the originals are useless.
[14:40:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Update checker - 06Major Firefox Vulnerability Lets Hackers Steal Your Files Using Dodgy Web Ads - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:40:00] <exec> 08└─The distro package manager is comparable to Windows Update. I'm talking about the update checker built in to Firefox, which doesn't require root, and checks the official Mozilla.org site, rather than whatever mirror the distro package manager checks.
[14:40:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Name 'Google' has become synonymous with spying - 06Google Becomes Alphabet, Spins Off Google - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:49] <exec> 08└─I thought they already were using 1e100.net for that.
[14:41:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03ghost [4467] (Score:1) 02Re:The whole summary seems suspect - 06Google Becomes Alphabet, Spins Off Google - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:01] <exec> 08└─You've heard of 10x programmers, right? There are also 10x stock holders! Yep, Sergey and Larry have special 10x stock that gives them 10x voting rights. Also, remember that stock split a couple years ago? The new shares didn't get any voting rights at all! That gives Larry and Sergey a way to sell...
[14:41:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Upgrade to Linux - 06Windows 10 Cumulative Update Causes 'Reboot Loop' Havoc for Some Users - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:41:58] <exec> 08└─I'll go a step further. A fair percentage of customers are damned fools.
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[15:37:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02hack opportunity - 06Scientists Develop Software for Drone Traffic Management - 1232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:16] <exec> 08└─Obvious hack opportunity to redirect three letter agency and secret police spy drones into colliding with each other or high value ground targets. Or for that matter, high value air targets. Aside from that, this smells a lot like exotic RF spectrum sharing techniques that really are needed in downt...
[15:37:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02$400/hr - 06Scientists Develop Software for Drone Traffic Management - 1964 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:17] <exec> 08└─Another aspect to think about in urban areas is a human chopper is probably cheaper than drones... so a wet Raven which can carry 800 pounds of crew and cargo costs $400/hr including a healthy profit margin for my local FBO, so a regular delivery "route" in Manhattan could probably leverage and bulk...
[15:37:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03NezSez [961] (Score:1) 026 degrees of freedomlessness! - 06Scientists Develop Software for Drone Traffic Management - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:20] <exec> 08└─Great, now we can have traffic jams in 6 degrees of freedom. India, Brazil, and many others will obviously *NOT* adopt these algorithms: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[15:37:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:So. - 06The Drone That Can Hack You - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:37:31] <exec> 08└─same reaction.
[15:37:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03garfiejas [2072] (Score:1) 02Would clearly violate NZ UAV rules... - 06The Drone That Can Hack You - 657 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:32] <exec> 08└─See http://www.caa.govt.nz [caa.govt.nz] (Item 12. have the consent of the property owner or person in charge of the area you are wanting to fly above.) Seriously though, this and things like the flying "gun" (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-33613784) are going to get these things le...
[15:37:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Would clearly violate NZ UAV rules... - 06The Drone That Can Hack You - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:37:34] <exec> 08└─Well, hopefully those hunter-killer drones would not only test for "not mine/not friendly" but also for "not living". Otherwise, you might get into deep trouble if the little son of your neighbour ever enters your garden.
[15:37:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03garfiejas [2072] (Score:1) 02Re:Would clearly violate NZ UAV rules... - 06The Drone That Can Hack You - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:37:35] <exec> 08└─Should have added not mine/not friendly (doesn't answer cryptographic hails) "drone", but it would bring a whole new concept to "getting off my lawn" :-)
[15:37:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:Would clearly violate NZ UAV rules... - 06The Drone That Can Hack You - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:37:37] <exec> 08└─Fly it over the street next to the building you want to hack.
[15:38:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03NezSez [961] (Score:1) 02Re: +NDXOXCHWDRGHDXORVI+ - 06British Museum Asks for Help Deciphering a Medieval Sword - 895 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:38:17] <exec> 08└─That might not be so far from the truth actually. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Consider that the printing press wasn't invented until 1440ish. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Scribes were the printing presses, and scribes introduce in...
[15:38:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03gznork26 [1159] (Score:1) 02Re:Merchants throw plates, or prophet predicts vi? - 06British Museum Asks for Help Deciphering a Medieval Sword - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:38:21] <exec> 08└─Excelsior! Flick Lives!
[15:38:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:3, Funny) 02I can't remember .. - 06British Museum Asks for Help Deciphering a Medieval Sword - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:34] <exec> 08└─Is X a kiss and O a hug, or vice versa?
[15:38:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03VanderDecken [5216] (Score:1) 02Easy - 06British Museum Asks for Help Deciphering a Medieval Sword - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:36] <exec> 08└─"All your wench are belong to us."
[15:38:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02fuck star wars - 06Starwars.Co.Uk Owner Strikes Back Against Disney - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:46] <exec> 08└─had enough of it.
[15:39:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score:2) 02Re:Suggest us of Bozo Filters. - 06How Yuppies Hacked the Original Hacker Ethos - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:39:14] <exec> 08└─around here, they call starbucks 'four bucks' since its just too damned expensive for even a simple coffee, there.
[15:39:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Suggest us of Bozo Filters. - 06How Yuppies Hacked the Original Hacker Ethos - 592 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:39:15] <exec> 08└─I think you're not their target market. Most of the "cheap" stuff that I remember when I was younger was cheap because it was complete crap. Usually burnt, sitting out all day and way too bitter. Personally, I prefer my coffee like I like my women strong and bitter. But, for people who just want cof...
[15:39:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Suggest us of Bozo Filters. - 06How Yuppies Hacked the Original Hacker Ethos - 733 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:39:17] <exec> 08└─Agile can work. In particular cases. IF people are willing to use it. But you have to use it in its particular ways. If you get off doing 'the way' you will end up with a mish mash of bad agile practices mashed together with poor waterfall practices. Making it a hell to do at all. Some people use ag...
[15:40:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Good thing I'm using Internet Explorer - 06Major Firefox Vulnerability Lets Hackers Steal Your Files Using Dodgy Web Ads - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:23] <exec> 08└─with Adobe Acrobat! /sarcasm
[15:41:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Alphabet has new domain - 06Google Becomes Alphabet, Spins Off Google - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:37] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure what the easter egg is supposed to be, but I found this part interesting: As Forbes reported, “It is worth noting, however, that the new company will not be able to use the URL http://www.alphabet.com. [www.alphabet.com] That’s currently held by Alphabet Inc., the international flee...
[15:43:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:Genetic modification itself is not the problem. - 06Scotland to Ban Genetically Modified Crops - 623 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:43:00] <exec> 08└─Who decides what is trace amount? That would be Monsanto of course. There are of course the lawsuits: http://www.theguardian.com [theguardian.com] But don't forget all of the settlements in the RIAA vein: http://www.corpwatch.org
[15:46:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score:2) 02chess. - 06Ask Soylent: Gaming - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:27] <exec> 08└─Didn't there use to be an internet chess server somewhere maybe a decade or two ago? It would match up people who wanted to play. Where is it now?
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[16:37:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03OrugTor [5147] (Score:1) 02speculative - 06MIT Researchers Propose Compact Tokamak Fusion Reactor - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:16] <exec> 08└─Fusion is one of those things one should expect extreme difficulties in engineering the implementation. Given that this is a design within a class of yet-unrealized devices I'll stick with the traditional estimate of 30-40 years.
[16:37:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score:2) 02Re:speculative - 06MIT Researchers Propose Compact Tokamak Fusion Reactor - 904 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:37:17] <exec> 08└─Prediction is of course not easy ;-) However, many of the predictions of the past did not have the exponential growth of computational modelling to aid in the design processes. For current fission reactors there is a huge intertia in building new reactors, such that there are designs in use from bef...
[16:37:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03gnuman [5013] (Score:2) 02Compactness irrelevant at this point - 06MIT Researchers Propose Compact Tokamak Fusion Reactor - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:20] <exec> 08└─ITER is already getting built. Redesigning it doesn't make sense and US will never fund another experiment like that just because it's more compact. New technological improvements could play a role for DEMO, once that finally arrives. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[16:37:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Compactness irrelevant at this point - 06MIT Researchers Propose Compact Tokamak Fusion Reactor - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:37:21] <exec> 08└─The point is that it is intended to be an AFFORDABLE, robust, and compact design. If a new fusion reactor design is orders of magnitude more cost efficient, there's no need to wait for $30 billion in government funding or the fate of ITER. It is well known that Lockheed Martin [bbc.com] and others [...
[16:37:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Nickel Steel - 06MIT Researchers Propose Compact Tokamak Fusion Reactor - 1875 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:23] <exec> 08└─Interesting to see their magnetic strength limited by material limits, stainless steel topping out around 500 MPA on planet earth (ha ha at their graph implying 1 GPA for stainless steel) means they're going to be limited to below 20T at any factor of safety greater than 1 (LOL). Of course there are...
[16:37:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Nickel Steel - 06MIT Researchers Propose Compact Tokamak Fusion Reactor - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:37:25] <exec> 08└─It took me a bit of time until I understood that your "GPA" were meant to be "GPa", that is, "Gigapascal". In units, case matters!
[16:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zinho [759] (Score:2) 02Obligatory XKCD - 06MIT Researchers Propose Compact Tokamak Fusion Reactor - 498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:26] <exec> 08└─What they mean when they say 10 years... [xkcd.com] Is someone familiar enough with the design of these fusion reactors to explain how they intend to get the heat out of the reaction chamber? Eventually the point of this exercise is to boil water to spin a turbine. From what I've seen, we've so far...
[16:37:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Tokamak? - 06MIT Researchers Propose Compact Tokamak Fusion Reactor - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:28] <exec> 08└─Was it named after a famous Romulan?
[16:37:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The last thing you'll see? - 06Scientists Develop Software for Drone Traffic Management - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:36] <exec> 08└─Maybe I'll get to see some flying cars, before I die.
[16:37:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02Re:So. - 06The Drone That Can Hack You - 100 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:37:47] <exec> 08└─I can buy a wifi pineapple and duck tape it to a dji phantom too. Look yall I'm a hackur! ??? profit
[16:37:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Obligatory - 06The Drone That Can Hack You - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:54] <exec> 08└─Would this be In Soviet Russia?
[16:38:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score:2) 02Re:So... - 06Some Honeybee Colonies Adapt in Wake of Deadly Mites - 568 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:38:12] <exec> 08└─They're a factor in it. They put massive stress on the colonies, and weaken them. It appears that it's a combination of factors, some understood, others not well understood at all. We do a lot of research on honeybees where I work. Here's a link to an interview in 2013 with Gene Robinson, one of our...
[16:38:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03gnuman [5013] (Score:2) 02Re:Pollinator niche - 06Some Honeybee Colonies Adapt in Wake of Deadly Mites - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:38:16] <exec> 08└─The wife hated the idea that a thistle was growing near the house,
[16:38:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03gnuman [5013] (Score:2) 02Re:Pollinator niche - 06Some Honeybee Colonies Adapt in Wake of Deadly Mites - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:38:18] <exec> 08└─How conceivable is it that other species will step in to fill the void as pollinators?
[16:38:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:Working theory - 06British Museum Asks for Help Deciphering a Medieval Sword - 841 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:38:32] <exec> 08└─Pretty good assumption. Perhaps the noble wanted a sword that was engraved with a foreign "exotic" language like the GP mentioned. Sword maker has no clue how to make said language. Perhaps he remembers seeing characters that looked foreign but can't exactly remember them, something about chinese or...
[16:38:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Re:Looks like abbreviated text - 06British Museum Asks for Help Deciphering a Medieval Sword - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:38:37] <exec> 08└─Patent pending
[16:39:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Re:1337 H4kZ0r5 4r3 d34d - 06How Yuppies Hacked the Original Hacker Ethos - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:39:51] <exec> 08└─937 0|=|= |\/|'/ 14\^/|\| Damn whippersnappers..
[16:39:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Huh? - 06How Yuppies Hacked the Original Hacker Ethos - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:39:53] <exec> 08└─Looks like we have the same culture appropriating, language hipsters penning anti-hipster articles now. How hipster.
[16:40:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Splains it - 06Major Firefox Vulnerability Lets Hackers Steal Your Files Using Dodgy Web Ads - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:40:40] <exec> 08└─I'd call it spice and playboy. Crappy boner killing softcore.
[16:41:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Non Sequor [1005] (Score:2) 02Re:didn't see that coming - 06Google Becomes Alphabet, Spins Off Google - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:18] <exec> 08└─Most of the things they've killed off have been fairly practical iterative extensions of their existing infrastructure.
[16:42:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Translation Error [718] (Score:2) 02Re:"Windows 10 - the final version of windows" - 06Windows 10 Cumulative Update Causes 'Reboot Loop' Havoc for Some Users - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:42:52] <exec> 08└─Absolutely. Windows 7 Ultimate should have been the final version.
[16:43:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TrumpetPower! [590] 02Re:Genetic modification itself is not the problem. - 06Scotland to Ban Genetically Modified Crops - 691 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:43:17] <exec> 08└─Maybe you could help clarify your position by indicating which of these half-dozen means of modifying an organism's genome you object to, and on what basis you conclude that one technique is objectionable but another isn't. http://www.biofortified.org
[16:46:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:legalize - 06Tomorrow, NASA Astronauts Will Finally Eat Fresh, Microgravity-Grown Veggies - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:46:23] <exec> 08└─Every little hiccup, malfunction, health issue, and burp leads to valuable research and experience.
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[17:37:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score:2) 02I know this has been said before but.... - 06Videos Taken Down From Vimeo for Using the Word 'Pixels' - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:20] <exec> 08└─The damn movie should be called "Voxels" anyway. Morons.
[17:37:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02One cannot copyright film titles - 06Videos Taken Down From Vimeo for Using the Word 'Pixels' - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:22] <exec> 08└─The creators of the taken-down films have standing to sue. One can trademark titles but only if they use the mark of some other product or service that has been used in trade. That is, Mattel could trademark "Barbie(TM): Longer, Harder and Uncut".
[17:37:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:One cannot copyright film titles - 06Videos Taken Down From Vimeo for Using the Word 'Pixels' - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:37:24] <exec> 08└─One of the big problems here is that while they have standing to sue, I'm sure many of those cases wouldn't get to court as the plaintiff doesn't have the pockets necessary to take it to court. Cases like this really need to be prosecuted as a criminal matter rather than being treated as a civil aff...
[17:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:One cannot copyright film titles - 06Videos Taken Down From Vimeo for Using the Word 'Pixels' - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:37:26] <exec> 08└─doesn't have the pockets necessary to take it to court. Considering the scope of what has happened I smell a class action lawsuit where only lawyers make money.
[17:37:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03gnuman [5013] (Score:2) 02Re:Nickel Steel - 06MIT Researchers Propose Compact Tokamak Fusion Reactor - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:37:39] <exec> 08└─Magnets are not the problem with ITER. Or even the money. The problem with ITER is that it's not proven technology. Science has to be done and finished before anyone will spend billions making more compact fusion reactors. If ITER is costing something like $20B, then "compact DEMO" that's "order of...
[17:37:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Nickel Steel - 06MIT Researchers Propose Compact Tokamak Fusion Reactor - 548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:37:40] <exec> 08└─http://lawrencevilleplasmaphysics.com/cost-advantage-roi/ [lawrencevilleplasmaphysics.com] The estimated sale cost for 5 mega watt LPP design fusion generators is projected to be $ 1 – 2 M; low enough that electricity produced will cost about .5 cents per kilowatt hour wholesale. This per KWh rat...
[17:37:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score:2) 02Re:Obligatory XKCD - 06MIT Researchers Propose Compact Tokamak Fusion Reactor - 900 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:37:42] <exec> 08└─My general understanding is that extracting heat is generally left as a "we'll cross that bridge when we get to it" sort of issue because it's (relatively) trivial to do. The technology for moving heat around has been pretty well refined over the past couple of centuries. There may be some material...
[17:37:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03deadstick [5110] (Score:1) 02Re:Tokamak? - 06MIT Researchers Propose Compact Tokamak Fusion Reactor - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:37:44] <exec> 08└─No, it's a Russian contraction for "toroidal chamber with magnetic coils" (sorry if you were just joking). But a Republican congressman made an ass of himself back in the 80's when he thought it was an American invention because it seemed to have an American Indian name.
[17:37:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:Tokamak? - 06MIT Researchers Propose Compact Tokamak Fusion Reactor - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:37:46] <exec> 08└─Although I was joking, I do appreciate the explanation. Thank you!
[17:37:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score:1) 02Re:Tokamak? - 06MIT Researchers Propose Compact Tokamak Fusion Reactor - 580 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:37:49] <exec> 08└─From Wikipedia: [wikipedia.org] The word tokamak is a transliteration of the Russian word токамак, an acronym of either: "тороидальная камера с магнитными катушками" (toroidal'naya kamera s magnitnymi katushkami) — toroidal chamber with magnetic coils...
[17:38:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score:2) 02Re:Uh oh - 06Some Honeybee Colonies Adapt in Wake of Deadly Mites - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:38:34] <exec> 08└─More proof that climate change isn’t a big deal either.
[17:38:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02+NDXOXCHWDRGHDXORVI+ - 06British Museum Asks for Help Deciphering a Medieval Sword - 51 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:58] <exec> 08└─is the mystery string. I'd liked it in the summary.
[17:39:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re: +NDXOXCHWDRGHDXORVI+ - 06British Museum Asks for Help Deciphering a Medieval Sword - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:39:03] <exec> 08└─It's a serial number: + 90 500 10 11 10 100 200 W 500 80 400 200 10 11 80 5 1 + https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[17:40:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02I like my women like I like my coffee: - 06How Yuppies Hacked the Original Hacker Ethos - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:40:01] <exec> 08└─Strong, black, ground-up and in my freezer.
[17:40:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02A desk at NedSpace is $350.00. - 06How Yuppies Hacked the Original Hacker Ethos - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:40:02] <exec> 08└─One cannot deduct meal expenses unless overnight travel is required. So I deduct my Pike's Place as office space rental.
[17:40:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Yes but then I would have to walk a mile. - 06How Yuppies Hacked the Original Hacker Ethos - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:40:04] <exec> 08└─Back in the day I would have enjoyed the commute but now I am olde and greye.
[17:40:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Refugee from beyond [2699] (Score:2) 02Re:Is there a single list of such about:config opt - 06Major Firefox Vulnerability Lets Hackers Steal Your Files Using Dodgy Web Ads - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:40:58] <exec> 08└─There was something on github, but I didn't save the link unfortunately.
[17:41:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Dupe - Firejail - 06Major Firefox Vulnerability Lets Hackers Steal Your Files Using Dodgy Web Ads - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:41:17] <exec> 08└─It would be nice if firejail also did network firewalling. That would make it a one-stop shop for per-app isolation.
[17:43:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Genetic modification itself is not the problem. - 06Scotland to Ban Genetically Modified Crops - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:43:47] <exec> 08└─Maybe you could help clarify your position by indicating which of these half-dozen means of modifying an organism's genome you object to, and on what basis you conclude that one technique is objectionable but another isn't.
[17:46:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:So Helpful . . . - 06Peaceful Rallies in Ferguson Give Way to Violence, Gunfire - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:46:21] <exec> 08└─Because cops are usually incompetent, racist, and outright malicious.
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[18:37:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Post-Nihilist [5672] (Score:1) 02I understand now some changes to IBM jvm - 06IBM's Power Roadmap Extends to 2020+ - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:19] <exec> 08└─IBM has recently added rudimentary support for gpu offloading on their's excellent JVM, now I see why they are investing in that direction. Here is the relevant information from the documentation https://www-01.ibm.com
[18:37:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03miljo [5757] (Score:1) 02Re:I know this has been said before but.... - 06Videos Taken Down From Vimeo for Using the Word 'Pixels' - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:37:29] <exec> 08└─Get in the sea, pendant. ;-)
[18:37:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score:2) 02Re:I know this has been said before but.... - 06Videos Taken Down From Vimeo for Using the Word 'Pixels' - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:37:30] <exec> 08└─Get in the sea, pendant. ;-)
[18:37:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Touché) 02Re:I know this has been said before but.... - 06Videos Taken Down From Vimeo for Using the Word 'Pixels' - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:37:33] <exec> 08└─> I know this has been said before but... Not here. Thanks for ruining our perfect record.
[18:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:One cannot copyright film titles - 06Videos Taken Down From Vimeo for Using the Word 'Pixels' - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:37:35] <exec> 08└─> I smell a class action lawsuit where only lawyers make money. That's the inevitable result of a legal system based on capitalism.
[18:37:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:One cannot copyright film titles - 06Videos Taken Down From Vimeo for Using the Word 'Pixels' - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:37:36] <exec> 08└─And a possibility for me to be snarky and make a dumb joke ;)
[18:37:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score:2) 02Heh, you mean people downloaded it? - 06Videos Taken Down From Vimeo for Using the Word 'Pixels' - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:38] <exec> 08└─I'm having so much trouble believing that anyone actually watches Sandler's excuses to take friends on free vacations at this point that I'm 50% sure this is a PR move to make it seem like there are more pirates than there are (because if X people are getting DMCA'd that must mean there are X * 100...
[18:37:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:3, Disagree) 02Re:Compactness irrelevant at this point - 06MIT Researchers Propose Compact Tokamak Fusion Reactor - 599 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:37:49] <exec> 08└─Right, and more importantly, they're fundamentally different principles involved. ITER is inertial confinement, which is easily understood as shooting lasers from all directions at once to "push" atoms together. This one and Lockheed are both magnetic confinement, using strong magnetic fields to cre...
[18:37:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Compactness irrelevant at this point - 06MIT Researchers Propose Compact Tokamak Fusion Reactor - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:37:51] <exec> 08└─ITER is not laser confinement fusion. ITER is a tokamak. Here: http://lmgtfy.com [lmgtfy.com] http://lmgtfy.com [lmgtfy.com] http://lmgtfy.com [lmgtfy.com]
[18:37:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Nickel Steel - 06MIT Researchers Propose Compact Tokamak Fusion Reactor - 1183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:37:56] <exec> 08└─Yeah I donno about the wikipedia article, where its claimed you can't build a mobile breeder because the breeding blanket weighs a kiloton but there seems to be no explanation why you can't build a non-breeding mobile. In fact, to get a mobile space reactor or submarine reactor, countries would prob...
[18:37:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Nickel Steel - 06MIT Researchers Propose Compact Tokamak Fusion Reactor - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:37:58] <exec> 08└─I'm interested in the parts I blockquoted, and you can find other reporting on Lockheed's fusion plans. Indications are they think they can commercialize a small-scale shipping container sized nuclear fusion reactor.
[18:37:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Nickel Steel - 06MIT Researchers Propose Compact Tokamak Fusion Reactor - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:38:00] <exec> 08└─Right right I think we agree on the good parts. Will be very interesting to see what happens with these guys. There are merely aspects of the wiki article that are non sequitur. I suspect "shipping crate sized" means our Navy will fund it and we'll see nothing for quite awhile. Its like they were fi...
[18:38:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Nickel Steel - 06MIT Researchers Propose Compact Tokamak Fusion Reactor - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:38:03] <exec> 08└─The Navy likes the taste of fusion bait so much, they are apparently looking into cold fusion/LENR: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] https://www.google.com [google.com]
[18:38:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Nickel Steel - 06MIT Researchers Propose Compact Tokamak Fusion Reactor - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:38:04] <exec> 08└─The problem with ITER is that it's not proven technology.
[18:38:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Nickel Steel - 06MIT Researchers Propose Compact Tokamak Fusion Reactor - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:38:07] <exec> 08└─Steel-nickel alloys or "Nickel steel" as you put it is a subcategory of stainless. Tool steel has been common for a century and some varieties overlap with stainless. For all that boasting and googling there really isn't much accuracy in your post.
[18:38:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score:2) 02Re:Tokamak? - 06MIT Researchers Propose Compact Tokamak Fusion Reactor - 579 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:38:09] <exec> 08└─First, Romulan names do not commonly end in K, that is a naming convention for Vulcan males. The logic behind this is that Vulcans follow the teachings of Surak, while Romulans do not. Second, Romulans use the gravitational pull of an artificial singularity as their energy matrix, while Vulcan (Fede...
[18:38:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:Tokamak? - 06MIT Researchers Propose Compact Tokamak Fusion Reactor - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:38:11] <exec> 08└─First, Romulan names do not commonly end in K...
[18:38:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02This seems familiar - 06MIT Researchers Propose Compact Tokamak Fusion Reactor - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:12] <exec> 08└─As the old saw goes, nuclear fusion is 10 years away ... and always will be! Also, the last time somebody announced something similar to this [wikipedia.org], it turned out to not be anything remotely similar to what the announcement said it was. As far as industrial and commercial use goes, why not...
[18:38:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:This seems familiar - 06MIT Researchers Propose Compact Tokamak Fusion Reactor - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:38:14] <exec> 08└─This is hot fusion http://www.bbc.com [bbc.com] http://www.extremetech.com [extremetech.com]
[18:38:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score:2) 02Re:This seems familiar - 06MIT Researchers Propose Compact Tokamak Fusion Reactor - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:38:17] <exec> 08└─> why not instead focus on using existing technology to collect power from that really large fusion reactor safely ~98 million miles away? Because when you go to Pluto, or even Mars, this reactor is not so close and the received energy tends to be insufficient.
[18:39:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Easy! - 06British Museum Asks for Help Deciphering a Medieval Sword - 1307 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:44] <exec> 08└─My latin is a bit rusty, but clearly this is the sword of a knight, king or other person tasked with roles that would require good judgement. The inscription is +NDXOXCHWDRGHDXORVI+ It's obviously a prayer and a Christian prayer at that, judging by the crosses and etc that adorn the message. X is us...
[18:39:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Easy! - 06British Museum Asks for Help Deciphering a Medieval Sword - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:39:46] <exec> 08└─More proof of a spoken invocation? Notice that the crosses on either side of the message aren't exactly the same. They contain marks that look live almost the same as we use in iconography to indicate speech. I might be wrong about that W, it pretty clearly looks like an actual W and not 2 V's. Not...
[18:39:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score:2) 02Re:I can't remember .. - 06British Museum Asks for Help Deciphering a Medieval Sword - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:39:49] <exec> 08└─X is a hug and O is a kiss. Which is why you type Hugs and Kisses XOXOXO.
[18:39:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score:2) 02Re:I can't remember .. - 06British Museum Asks for Help Deciphering a Medieval Sword - 699 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:39:50] <exec> 08└─Erm... pretty sure X is the kiss; and O is the hug; and wikipedia seems to agree... "The common custom of placing "X" on envelopes, notes and at the bottom of letters to mean kisses dates back to the Middle Ages, when a Christian cross was drawn on documents or letters to mean sincerity, faith, and...
[18:39:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score:2) 02Re:I can't remember .. - 06British Museum Asks for Help Deciphering a Medieval Sword - 557 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:39:52] <exec> 08└─The Wikipedia page has a link to this more through article on the subject: https://www.washingtonpost.com [washingtonpost.com] Though, yes you are correct, I just had it bac...
[18:39:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score:2) 02Name of a saint? - 06British Museum Asks for Help Deciphering a Medieval Sword - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:54] <exec> 08└─If I get bored later I might code something up to run through this list [wikipedia.org] and return the saints with the greatest number of matching characters to the inscription and / or substrings of the inscription that exclude the parts discussed in the TFA as possibly meaning other things. Still,...
[18:39:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score:2) 02Re:Name of a saint? - 06British Museum Asks for Help Deciphering a Medieval Sword - 3494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:39:55] <exec> 08└─OK, first things first. Just in case anyone else is interested in this playing with this stuff, here's a raw list of those saint names extracted from the Wiki: Abadiu of Antinoe Abakuh Abamun of Tarnut Saint Phoenix Abaskhayroun Abban of Magheranoidhe Abban of New Ross Abban the Hermit Abbo of Fleur...
[18:39:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score:2) 02Re:Name of a saint? - 06British Museum Asks for Help Deciphering a Medieval Sword - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:39:57] <exec> 08└─You know what? Before I extracted the names I should've filtered out all the ones after 1330ish. They could probably do with translating into Latin equivalents as well. Meh this sounds like an awful lot of work. I wonder what's on TV.
[18:39:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03J.J. Dane [402] (Score:1) 02Only partly legible.. - 06British Museum Asks for Help Deciphering a Medieval Sword - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:58] <exec> 08└─Whomsoever draweth forth this...something,something. Probably not important..
[18:40:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score:2) 02Re:Does estoppel apply in the UK? - 06Starwars.Co.Uk Owner Strikes Back Against Disney - 1162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:40:05] <exec> 08└─Yes, you do have to protect your trademark. But defending your trademark doesn't mean preventing other people from using it. It means ensuring that when it does get used that it refers to your trademarked product in a way that isn't confusing to customers. For example, Disney does not have to yank t...
[18:40:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Re:Fixing the blame - 06How Yuppies Hacked the Original Hacker Ethos - 754 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:40:19] <exec> 08└─> Nobody realistically claims google employees are hackers, yet the clown sets up the straw man and masterfully destroys it. (golf clap). That's a no true scotsman fallacy if I've ever seen one. Here's Inc singing praises of the hacking skills [inc.com] of the team managed by google's "security prin...
[18:40:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Suggest us of Bozo Filters. - 06How Yuppies Hacked the Original Hacker Ethos - 504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:40:38] <exec> 08└─Starbucks burns its coffee up front before they make it. The "Starbucks roast" is burnt, which some like to derisively refer to the chain as "Charbucks". I was never a fan of Starbucks because of that. A great deal of their appeal isn't really the taste of their coffee, it is the taste of their coff...
[18:40:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03morgauxo [2082] (Score:2) 02Re:Suggest us of Bozo Filters. - 06How Yuppies Hacked the Original Hacker Ethos - 812 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:40:44] <exec> 08└─If I were immortal that would sound awesome! If I were immortal I would get a low-responsibility part-tme job and however many roomates it takes to afford rent. The roomates just provide free entertainment anyway. It would be like college days again but without all that time studying or in class! It...
[18:41:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Is there a single list of such about:config opt - 06Major Firefox Vulnerability Lets Hackers Steal Your Files Using Dodgy Web Ads - 889 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:41:39] <exec> 08└─Perhaps this is too obvious an answer, but have you tried just opening a new tab and "browsing" to about:config? Is not the complete list of options listed within such a tab? This news was the final straw for me, and I've personally finished switching over to Pale Moon. Stupid Mozilla Foundation: I'...
[18:44:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Pretty sure most of the... 'No GMO' - 06Scotland to Ban Genetically Modified Crops - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:44:16] <exec> 08└─It's simpler to ban any activity I don't understand or like. Doesn't mean it's a good idea though.
[18:44:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Genetic modification itself is not the problem. - 06Scotland to Ban Genetically Modified Crops - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:44:28] <exec> 08└─You still haven't explained what the basis is for your objections. Argument from ignorance isn't good enough. Should we collectively only do things that I understand and am familiar with?
[18:44:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Genetic modification itself is not the problem. - 06Scotland to Ban Genetically Modified Crops - 574 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:44:29] <exec> 08└─Maybe you could help clarify your position by indicating which of these half-dozen means of modifying an organism's genome you object to, and on what basis you conclude that one technique is objectionable but another isn't. His position, as clearly stated, is that the claim that selective breedi...
[18:44:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Genetic modification itself is not the problem. - 06Scotland to Ban Genetically Modified Crops - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:44:36] <exec> 08└─When TrumpetPower humps, he gets in there and modifies those genes himself, LIKE A MAN.
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[19:37:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02POWER and PowerPC have different machine code - 06IBM's POWER Roadmap Extends to 2020+ - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:21] <exec> 08└─Why is that? PowerPC is based on the POWER architecture but it is not quite identical to it. For example both ISAs have an assembly mnemonic that clears one L1 cache line to zero without hitting the L2 cache, but they are distinctly different mnemonics. In my understanding the actual bits of machine...
[19:37:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Francis [5544] 02Re:One cannot copyright film titles - 06Videos Taken Down From Vimeo for Using the Word 'Pixels' - 456 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:37:34] <exec> 08└─One of the big problems here is that while they have standing to sue, I'm sure many of those cases wouldn't get to court as the plaintiff doesn't have the pockets necessary to take it to court. Cases like this really need to be prosecuted as a criminal matter rather than being treated as a civil aff...
[19:37:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02An injured party need not be a class member - 06Videos Taken Down From Vimeo for Using the Word 'Pixels' - 522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:37:38] <exec> 08└─I recently received two plainly fraudulent Robo Calls. Automated recorded telephone calls other than from political campaigns are a Federal civil offense. I don't know that I have the headspace to deal with it but I contemplate suing the ignorant mother fuckers. However I could not use Small Claims...
[19:37:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02That's what Public Interest Law Firms are for - 06Videos Taken Down From Vimeo for Using the Word 'Pixels' - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:37:39] <exec> 08└─My friend Thomas Leavitt [880itservices.com] was sued by right-wing talk show host Michael Savage, over Thomas' "Savage Stupidity" site. Savage was concerned that his advertising revenues were not up to scratch. Thomas found a Washington DC public interest law firm that agreed to represent him Pro B...
[19:37:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:One cannot copyright film titles - 06Videos Taken Down From Vimeo for Using the Word 'Pixels' - 1519 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:37:41] <exec> 08└─Of all the movies mentioned so far, yours sounds: 1) Most likely to make a profit 2) Most appealing for me to watch as a guy with mostly stereotypical preferences I mean, if the business model is to shovel out brainless exploitative formulaic dreck videos, at least make it a media with appeal, like...
[19:37:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Filter error: I am out of mod points - 06Videos Taken Down From Vimeo for Using the Word 'Pixels' - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:37:43] <exec> 08└─Mainstream media has demonstrated its reluctance to protect its trademarks when infringed by our friends in Chatsworth.
[19:37:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Heh, you mean people downloaded it? - 06Videos Taken Down From Vimeo for Using the Word 'Pixels' - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:37:44] <exec> 08└─The more I hear about DMCA trolls, the more I use piratebay. I'll never pay to see this movie after seeing this news.
[19:37:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Heh, you mean people downloaded it? - 06Videos Taken Down From Vimeo for Using the Word 'Pixels' - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:37:46] <exec> 08└─Wait, people pay to see Adam Sandler movies? He's not funny and he was never fucking funny. Not on his album, not on Saturday Night Live, and especially not in any of his shit movies. If I wanted to hear goo-goo ga-ga baby-talk and yelling all day I'd go hang out with a bunch of Downs' Syndromes and...
[19:37:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02We need distributed hosting - 06Videos Taken Down From Vimeo for Using the Word 'Pixels' - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:48] <exec> 08└─The current sad oligarchy of internet we have today is lacking. This is exactly why. Other reasons include privacy.
[19:37:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03PizzaRollPlinkett [4512] (Score:2) 02Good - 06Videos Taken Down From Vimeo for Using the Word 'Pixels' - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:49] <exec> 08└─We need more of this to show how one-sided, draconian, arbitrary, and unfair this kind of thing is. Unless it hurts the public in some way that gets the attention of individuals, though, it's not going to matter. If some random videos no one has ever heard of before hosted on a service that isn't Yo...
[19:38:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Nickel Steel - 06MIT Researchers Propose Compact Tokamak Fusion Reactor - 827 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:38:11] <exec> 08└─The navy has (had?) a thing for the polywell/fusor approach too. That's another one of those "works so well it fell off the face of the earth" technologies. Last I heard WB-8 exceeded all contract expectations so the next step was (insert radio silence here). I'm sure when they resurface the stories...
[19:38:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03fnj [1654] (Score:2) 02Re:Nickel Steel - 06MIT Researchers Propose Compact Tokamak Fusion Reactor - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:38:14] <exec> 08└─stainless steel topping out around 500 MPA on planet earth (ha ha at their graph implying 1 GPA for stainless steel)
[19:38:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03BananaPhone [2488] (Score:2) 02Anybody else discusted this beats LFTR in funding? - 06MIT Researchers Propose Compact Tokamak Fusion Reactor - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:26] <exec> 08└─You can get funding up the wazoo for unproven Fusion project but you can't even get a commitment for a LFTR reactor?
[19:39:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:So... - 06Some Honeybee Colonies Adapt in Wake of Deadly Mites - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:39:13] <exec> 08└─Citation Provided, GP is incorrect. [time.com]
[19:39:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So... - 06Some Honeybee Colonies Adapt in Wake of Deadly Mites - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:39:16] <exec> 08└─...illustrating the type of work Robinson and our head of entomology, May Berenbaum ...
[19:39:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re: +NDXOXCHWDRGHDXORVI+ - 06British Museum Asks for Help Deciphering a Medieval Sword - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:39:47] <exec> 08└─Then given what I learned from having once read the German tank problem [wikipedia.org] we now know that there were A LOT of swords from that time ...
[19:39:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re: +NDXOXCHWDRGHDXORVI+ - 06British Museum Asks for Help Deciphering a Medieval Sword - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:39:49] <exec> 08└─No, it's a registration code. You had to engrave it on the sword to prove that you didn't obtain an illegal copy; the sword would not be operative unless the correct code was engraved. ;-)
[19:39:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Merchants throw plates, or prophet predicts vi? - 06British Museum Asks for Help Deciphering a Medieval Sword - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:39:52] <exec> 08└─But you can also eat it! (Although your parents won't like it when you do.)
[19:40:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:"Whosoever pulleth the sword from the stone..." - 06British Museum Asks for Help Deciphering a Medieval Sword - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:40:01] <exec> 08└─I mean they found it in a river. Probably the Lady of the Lake has been rehoused or something... Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!
[19:40:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:"Whosoever pulleth the sword from the stone..." - 06British Museum Asks for Help Deciphering a Medieval Sword - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:40:03] <exec> 08└─See? That's why she moved to a river.
[19:40:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03AnonymousCowardNoMore [5416] (Score:2) 02Re:Easy! - 06British Museum Asks for Help Deciphering a Medieval Sword - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:40:08] <exec> 08└─X is used as the letter Thorn (pronounced as Kr) and represents Christ (as in XMas).
[19:40:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Easy! - 06British Museum Asks for Help Deciphering a Medieval Sword - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:40:10] <exec> 08└─What's next? The two inscriptions on the other sword, of course.
[19:40:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Semantics Police: - 06Starwars.Co.Uk Owner Strikes Back Against Disney - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:40:30] <exec> 08└─They *LEASED* the domain. You *NEVER* own domains or IP addresses. They are similiar to nations where all land is government owned and you are given X years of property utilization with the possibility of renewal at the end of your current term.
[19:41:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Actually, I like Agile to - 06How Yuppies Hacked the Original Hacker Ethos - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:41:08] <exec> 08└─That's why I don't apply to shops that advertise its use. If a team is really Agile they don't brag about it. If HR brags about Agile then the team is managed by a Pointy-Haired Boss.
[19:41:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02We only get one Tick on The Mortal Coil. - 06How Yuppies Hacked the Original Hacker Ethos - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:41:11] <exec> 08└─I've devoted enough of my fractional Tick to Working For The Man. Actually it _is_ my old age that I am concerned about. From my AMCC 3ware resignation: "When The End comes and I lay on my deathbed looking back on a life well lived, I am not going to wish I had shipped more product."
[19:41:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03morgauxo [2082] (Score:2) 02Why would a 'real' hacker care? - 06How Yuppies Hacked the Original Hacker Ethos - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:26] <exec> 08└─Why would a real hacker care about someone ursurping the meaning of a word? They should be too busy exploring some corner of the technological world to give a shit about petty semantics. Days are short and you only get so many!
[19:42:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02site:github.com firefox about config - 06Major Firefox Vulnerability Lets Hackers Steal Your Files Using Dodgy Web Ads - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:42:07] <exec> 08└─https://gist.github.com/bamanzi/2921306 [github.com] That particular one is not quite what I seek but there are some others. This suggests a market opportunity for http://www.warplife.com [warplife.com] I Am Eternally In Your Debt.
[19:45:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03unzombied [4572] (Score:1) 02Re:Genetic modification - 06Scotland to Ban Genetically Modified Crops - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:45:12] <exec> 08└─We've been modifying food genes ever since the last hunter-gatherers started planting seeds and herding prey, and the whole point of agriculture is ever-better methods of modifying those genes.
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[20:37:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score:2) 02He should appeal to a higher authority - 06Obama to Putin: Stop Hacking Me - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:18] <exec> 08└─"Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, if you do not stay on your side and stop hacking Obama, I will turn this planet around RIGHT NOW!"
[20:37:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:He should appeal to a higher authority - 06Obama to Putin: Stop Hacking Me - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:37:20] <exec> 08└─Russia sends weapons inspectors to check out the U.S. weapons stockpile.
[20:37:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:He should appeal to a higher authority - 06Obama to Putin: Stop Hacking Me - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:37:22] <exec> 08└─I will turn this planet around RIGHT NOW!
[20:37:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Blame Putin - 06Obama to Putin: Stop Hacking Me - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:23] <exec> 08└─Of course since the situation in Ukraine has calmed down, the US is desperate to try to justify (and bully the EU into) continuing sanctions against Russia.
[20:37:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Blame Putin - 06Obama to Putin: Stop Hacking Me - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:37:25] <exec> 08└─Given the NSA espionage in Europe, Russian espionage in the US would be a very weak argument for sanctions. "Oh, you say we should do sanctions against countries because of cyber espionage? Are you sure? Really, absolutely sure? Well, then … sorry, but we can't any longer do business with you."
[20:37:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Blame Putin - 06Obama to Putin: Stop Hacking Me - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:37:27] <exec> 08└─"situation has calmed down"? where the hell do you get your news from? just in the past week there were stories about russian soldiers being active in Ucraine, and the separatists not implementing their obligations from the minsk accord.
[20:37:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Obama is shit out of luck, because Vlad is insane - 06Obama to Putin: Stop Hacking Me - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:28] <exec> 08└─One cannot use rational arguments to argue someone out of a position they did not arrive at in a rational way. -- Some Soylentil whos name escapes me - paraphrased from memory.
[20:37:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Obama is shit out of luck, because Vlad is insa - 06Obama to Putin: Stop Hacking Me - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:37:31] <exec> 08└─Vlad may or may not be insane, but Obama is clearly delusional if he thinks he can have his spooks peeking into Russian servers, (as will as British, German, French, and everybody else) without expecting the same in return.
[20:37:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Obama is shit out of luck, because Vlad is insa - 06Obama to Putin: Stop Hacking Me - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:37:32] <exec> 08└─Reagan had nothing to do with this. Also, Putin quickly figured out how to feather his nest.
[20:37:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02You must have flunked History. - 06Obama to Putin: Stop Hacking Me - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:37:34] <exec> 08└─Or perhaps you didn't study United States or World History. Are you British?
[20:37:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Goose and Gander - 06Obama to Putin: Stop Hacking Me - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:37] <exec> 08└─Ahhhh! The commander in chief of the NSA is upset that another country is hacking his government? How terrible! Maybe this will convince our government that on the internet the best defense is a good defense so stop hoarding zero-days and instead focus on improving software security for everyone.
[20:37:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Goose and Gander - 06Obama to Putin: Stop Hacking Me - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:37:38] <exec> 08└─Seriously. The S doesn't stand for spying.
[20:37:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02+1: Touche - 06IBM's POWER Roadmap Extends to 2020+ - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:37:42] <exec> 08└─Filter error: Out of mod points
[20:37:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03miljo [5757] (Score:1) 02Re:I know this has been said before but.... - 06Videos Taken Down From Vimeo for Using the Word 'Pixels' - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:37:53] <exec> 08└─I don't swing that way but whatever floats your boat, dude.
[20:38:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:We need distributed hosting - 06Videos Taken Down From Vimeo for Using the Word 'Pixels' - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:38:08] <exec> 08└─Or run your own server(s) depending on load. Do not use clouds. Then you can control your videos/creation. Everyone else will have trouble tracking who visits your site and exactly how popular it is except you. And your visitors don't see ads and don't get tracked by spies. The downside is you pay m...
[20:38:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03terrab0t [4674] (Score:1) 02Re:We need distributed hosting - 06Videos Taken Down From Vimeo for Using the Word 'Pixels' - 1113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:38:10] <exec> 08└─There is a decent way [mediagoblin.org] to decentralize sites like Vimeo, flickr, etc. Unfortunately, using this on a server you have any control over will never be as easy and accessible as signing up for a free account on one of the existing sites. It's possible that MediaGoblin could become as ub...
[20:38:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02As retaliation - 06Videos Taken Down From Vimeo for Using the Word 'Pixels' - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:12] <exec> 08└─Get ready to torrent the shit out of that shitty movie. Fuck with us? We fuck with you. Get ready to plaster that warm turd of a Hollywood sphincter-vomit all over every possible sharing medium. "How come no one is watching our shitty movie?, waah waah waah" "Everyone already has, for free. Oh, by t...
[20:38:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Nickel Steel - 06MIT Researchers Propose Compact Tokamak Fusion Reactor - 560 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:38:39] <exec> 08└─I admit defeat. Cheap stuff without proper heat treat was probably a bad expectation for a nuclear reactor. Still the greater point stands that there are a lot stronger things than stainless steel they could use to their advantage, if they are, per the pdf, tensile strength limited. I wonder if they...
[20:39:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03AnonymousCowardNoMore [5416] (Score:2) 02Re:$400/hr - 06Scientists Develop Software for Drone Traffic Management - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:39:02] <exec> 08└─solving the traveling salesman problem in real time
[20:39:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:So... - 06Some Honeybee Colonies Adapt in Wake of Deadly Mites - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:39:43] <exec> 08└─She rocks! Every year she coordinates the Insect Fear Film Festival which features all sorts of horror movies that use insects. That's a big draw. I've not talked to her much, (outside of hello at the snack truck), but everyone who deals with her says she's a very cool person.
[20:42:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:It's not stealing, it's copying. - 06Major Firefox Vulnerability Lets Hackers Steal Your Files Using Dodgy Web Ads - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:42:24] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuxO6CZptck [youtube.com]
[20:42:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03unzombied [4572] (Score:1) 02Re:It's not stealing, it's copying. - 06Major Firefox Vulnerability Lets Hackers Steal Your Files Using Dodgy Web Ads - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:42:28] <exec> 08└─That's so funny I can hardly stand it. And it brings up a new point (to me): stealing, err, copying private files (whether "hackers" or TLAs) is not just an intrustion, but also a copyright violation.
[20:42:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Dodgy? - 06Major Firefox Vulnerability Lets Hackers Steal Your Files Using Dodgy Web Ads - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:42:49] <exec> 08└─You misunderstood. The only steal those files which use dodgy web ads. Since none of my files use dodgy web ads, I'm obviously safe.
[20:42:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Update checker - 06Major Firefox Vulnerability Lets Hackers Steal Your Files Using Dodgy Web Ads - 527 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:42:57] <exec> 08└─Windows update is hardly comparable to a Linux package manager, both in scope and capability. Although that really is beside the point. The question is, did you originally install it through the package manager? If you did then you can't expect the in-built update checker to work. If you instead ins...
[20:43:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Taxes - 06Google Becomes Alphabet, Spins Off Google - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:45] <exec> 08└─You mean subsidies?
[20:45:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Pretty sure most of the... 'No GMO' - 06Scotland to Ban Genetically Modified Crops - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:45:15] <exec> 08└─The first step is a moratorium (a ban will do - it can be rescinded) on GMOs. The second step is dismantling companies like Monsanto and Archer Daniels Midlands, separating them into smaller companies that cannot push the government around. This must also include tractable regulations to prevent suc...
[20:47:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:So Helpful . . . - 06Peaceful Rallies in Ferguson Give Way to Violence, Gunfire - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:47:07] <exec> 08└─But putting your income above human lives?????
[20:47:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:So Helpful . . . - 06Peaceful Rallies in Ferguson Give Way to Violence, Gunfire - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:47:14] <exec> 08└─human lives vs human lives is a totally different equation.
[20:47:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:So Helpful . . . - 06Peaceful Rallies in Ferguson Give Way to Violence, Gunfire - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:47:16] <exec> 08└─Cos protecting a fucking storefront is worth shooting any number of darkies?RIght?
[20:47:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:So Helpful . . . - 06Peaceful Rallies in Ferguson Give Way to Violence, Gunfire - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:47:23] <exec> 08└─Most of the businesses that were destroyed were owned by people from outside the community
[20:48:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Mentioned but downplayed - 06Foxconn to Invest $5 Billion in India - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:48:27] <exec> 08└─The thing is wages are higher than Foxconn is comfortable with because other employers are paying more. Foxconn is not the only employer in China. I predict the desperation will continue to decline in China as it continues to get more prosperous.
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[21:37:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Social Responsibility - 06Ocean Threat from Hong Kong's Taste for Seafood - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:19] <exec> 08└─"Social Responsibility" seems near non-existent in the Western world and even worse in China. No raindrop feels responsible for the flood.
[21:37:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score:2) 02Re:He should appeal to a higher authority - 06Obama to Putin: Stop Hacking Me - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:37:30] <exec> 08└─You don't have my vote . . . the high today is supposed to be 103 degrees fahrenheit with a "cool front" due to move in and drop the temperatures into the upper 90s. Winter's the only reasonable time to be outside in Texas. Unless you're into doing your running at 4AM when it's 80 degrees fahrenheit...
[21:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Blame Putin - 06Obama to Putin: Stop Hacking Me - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:37:34] <exec> 08└─If you don't see BIG HEADLINES in mass media, it doesn't matter that the things are "calmed down".
[21:37:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:You must have flunked History. - 06Obama to Putin: Stop Hacking Me - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:37:40] <exec> 08└─We met in Sacramento a few years back. And I'll point out the obvious here, it wasn't Reagan's responsibility to pay for Putin's pension. Even if Reagan did cover Putin's pension, I don't see how things would be different. Just getting into a leadership position in the KGB passes a filter for soci...
[21:37:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score:2) 02Re:You must have flunked History. - 06Obama to Putin: Stop Hacking Me - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:37:42] <exec> 08└─Wealth does not imply sanity.
[21:37:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:You must have flunked History. - 06Obama to Putin: Stop Hacking Me - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:37:44] <exec> 08└─But when incentives exist for behavior that is normally considered insane, then sane people can act otherwise.
[21:37:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score:2) 02Re:Goose and Gander - 06Obama to Putin: Stop Hacking Me - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:37:46] <exec> 08└─True, that's what we have the CIA for.
[21:37:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score:2) 02Veiled threats isn't what I'd call it - 06Obama to Putin: Stop Hacking Me - 1101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:49] <exec> 08└─I would call this weak-UN-style angry letters. If Putin didn't care about US threats before he sure as hell doesn't now. How many times have Obama's people tried to strong arm him with nothing more than a derisive laugh in return? 3 times in recent history with 1 of them being their attempt to convi...
[21:37:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02the term "GPU" is looking dated - 06IBM's POWER Roadmap Extends to 2020+ - 2139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:59] <exec> 08└─In a server, what's a Graphics Processing Unit for? Not graphics. It's for massive parallel processing. The term is becoming a legacy of desktop computing. Would an end user even get these machines? Probably not. Just no reason to invest big $ in hardware designed for server and networking throughpu...
[21:38:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score:2) 02Re:Heh, you mean people downloaded it? - 06Videos Taken Down From Vimeo for Using the Word 'Pixels' - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:38:23] <exec> 08└─Ethanol, I'd never say this to anyone usually but you're such a wholesome and earnest person that I feel I can tell you: I liked him at one point. I was smoking entirely too much weed during this time period though. That may have had something to do with it.
[21:38:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03everdred [110] (Score:2) 02Re:We need distributed hosting - 06Videos Taken Down From Vimeo for Using the Word 'Pixels' - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:38:26] <exec> 08└─You probably shouldn't rely on a domain name, just to be safe. Or an ISP, for that matter.
[21:38:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Good - 06Videos Taken Down From Vimeo for Using the Word 'Pixels' - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:38:30] <exec> 08└─Yup. My thoughts exactly. Once it starts effecting little Tommy and Jane, it effects every day parents and the **** will start to hit the fan. Until then, its still "someone else's problem" and nothing will change.
[21:38:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:As retaliation - 06Videos Taken Down From Vimeo for Using the Word 'Pixels' - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:38:33] <exec> 08└─Sorry, but my bandwidth is more dear to me than some hollywood shit. Almost all hollywood movies are meant for generally retarded people. I don't watch any hollywood movies, especially "comedies". I've found better things to do with my time.
[21:38:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:As retaliation - 06Videos Taken Down From Vimeo for Using the Word 'Pixels' - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:38:34] <exec> 08└─Why would you think promoting their stuff is retaliation? One of the insidious aspects of piracy is that it displaces works under more liberal licenses.
[21:38:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02What are you all talking about? - 06Videos Taken Down From Vimeo for Using the Word 'Pixels' - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:36] <exec> 08└─Who is that Adam Sandler? O_O
[21:38:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03VLM [445] 02Nickel Steel - 06MIT Researchers Propose Compact Tokamak Fusion Reactor - 1875 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:49] <exec> 08└─Interesting to see their magnetic strength limited by material limits, stainless steel topping out around 500 MPA on planet earth (ha ha at their graph implying 1 GPA for stainless steel) means they're going to be limited to below 20T at any factor of safety greater than 1 (LOL). Of course there are...
[21:39:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Nickel Steel - 06MIT Researchers Propose Compact Tokamak Fusion Reactor - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:39:00] <exec> 08└─The problem with ITER is that it's not proven technology.
[21:39:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Anybody else discusted this beats LFTR in fundi - 06MIT Researchers Propose Compact Tokamak Fusion Reactor - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:39:16] <exec> 08└─LFTR and other big projects are currently begin developed by the countries capable and willing of constructing and maintaining such infrastructure like China and India. As for the USA, I understand congress is finally getting ready to approve the budget necessary to fix the pot-holes in the intersta...
[21:39:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score:1) 02ARC reactor - 06MIT Researchers Propose Compact Tokamak Fusion Reactor - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:17] <exec> 08└─Excellent, I expect to see some powered armor in gold and hot rod red soon thereafter.
[21:41:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I bet is a tutorial - 06British Museum Asks for Help Deciphering a Medieval Sword - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:14] <exec> 08└─On medieval Perl.
[21:41:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score:2) 02Possible Saints matched algorithmically - 06British Museum Asks for Help Deciphering a Medieval Sword - 1409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:15] <exec> 08└─Well, I ran Wikipedia's list of 699 saint names through some code I wrote to count how many characters matched in order from the inscription after removing the prefix 'NDXOX' that, based on the TFA, likely isn't part of the name. The results would be more interesting if I could get a Latinized versi...
[21:41:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score:2) 02Re:Possible Saints matched algorithmically - 06British Museum Asks for Help Deciphering a Medieval Sword - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:41:17] <exec> 08└─My algorithm also needs refining. For example, if it finds only one 'C' (1st letter of inscription string) near the very end of the saint's name, it won't look for any matching letters before that point. That's really crappy because the 'C' might not be part of the name at all. It could also do with...
[21:42:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03everdred [110] (Score:2) 02Re:Suggest us of Bozo Filters. - 06How Yuppies Hacked the Original Hacker Ethos - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:42:03] <exec> 08└─What is your definition of "a simple coffee"? Around here, my Starbucks usual (12 oz black coffee) is something like $1.60.
[21:44:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03DarkMorph [674] (Score:2) 02Re:Trademark protection - 06Google Becomes Alphabet, Spins Off Google - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:23] <exec> 08└─If you're trying to imply that trademarking "Alphabet" is not practical, it didn't seem to be a problem for Microsoft and the term "Windows", both of which are common dictionary words.
[21:45:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:Upgrade to Linux - 06Windows 10 Cumulative Update Causes 'Reboot Loop' Havoc for Some Users - 700 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:24] <exec> 08└─I'm sorry, but in my experience FOSS software is more likely to perform as it claims to perform than is proprietary software. This despite the fact that most claims made by proprietary software vendors are so vague that they cannot be falsified. (The benefit of a marketing division.) That said, ther...
[21:45:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:Pretty sure most of the... 'No GMO' - 06Scotland to Ban Genetically Modified Crops - 1045 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:46] <exec> 08└─I wish you weren't being a hopeless dreamer. FWIW, I *believe* that most current GMO plants are safe. But I don't trust either the vendors or the certifying authorities. GMOs are essentially new drugs, and should be treated as such. (Actually, they are often a collection of multiple new drugs, but t...
[21:46:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Genetic modification itself is not the problem. - 06Scotland to Ban Genetically Modified Crops - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:46:01] <exec> 08└─You still haven't explained what the basis is for your objections.
[21:46:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02Re:Who controls the list? - 06Google, Facebook and Twitter to Block Hash Lists of Child Abuse - 1142 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:46:40] <exec> 08└─You may have heard of IWF: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Wikipedia was censored by them in 2008 over an album cover. Ordered by date: Demon ends porn-less Internet Ar...
[21:48:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:So Helpful . . . - 06Peaceful Rallies in Ferguson Give Way to Violence, Gunfire - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:48:45] <exec> 08└─What part of "usually" is not clear? Even the ones who don't do the rights violating tend to defend and lie for those that do. I strongly believe "usually" is correct.
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[22:37:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score:2) 02Oblig. Snark - 06Switching Mouse Neural Stem Cells to a Primate-Like Behaviour - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:18] <exec> 08└─We always assumed it would be the monkeys that would wipe out mankind.... And then we made them. Oh it was simple, express the Pax6 gene. Little did we know that we just engineered our own demise. Extinction of the human race by the genius mouse. Brilliant idiots, all of us.
[22:37:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Social Responsibility - 06Ocean Threat from Hong Kong's Taste for Seafood - 574 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:37:28] <exec> 08└─For what it is worth, most western consumers eat almost exclusively from sustainable, domesticated stock. Hogs, chicken, and cattle are as sustainable as meat gets. Where I live taxes that go to replenishing any wild fish stock every few years and there is a short leash on mammal hunting licenses to...
[22:37:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02primus - 06Ocean Threat from Hong Kong's Taste for Seafood - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:29] <exec> 08└─too many puppies
[22:37:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Obama is shit out of luck, because Vlad is insa - 06Obama to Putin: Stop Hacking Me - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:37:46] <exec> 08└─If you think Obama was the first, or even tenth president to do that, I have news for you. [nsa.gov] Should you not like the source you can always check out the critical book The Puzzle Palace. Just that organization started in 1952 and it was not the first.
[22:37:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Obama is shit out of luck, because Vlad is insa - 06Obama to Putin: Stop Hacking Me - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:37:52] <exec> 08└─Not bad MDC, very on topic with only mild ramblings... not bad at all. The anecdote about him driving the taxi is rather amusing. Still I think it is premature to pawn it all off on his financial situation. Rather that I think it did contribute, but in sense it hurt his pride. So while some megaloma...
[22:38:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score:2) 02Re:Heh, you mean people downloaded it? - 06Videos Taken Down From Vimeo for Using the Word 'Pixels' - 690 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:38:35] <exec> 08└─Same here, I liked Waterboy but to be fair the guy in the apt down the hall had some REALLY good bubble gum smoke and was always giving me some to fix his computer. When i had no more bubble gum? I had no more interest in seeing a Sandler movie. BTW everybody should go to one of the pirate sites and...
[22:38:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:What are you all talking about? - 06Videos Taken Down From Vimeo for Using the Word 'Pixels' - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:38:46] <exec> 08└─The proper question is: "Why is Adam Sandler?"
[22:38:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] (Score:2) 02No wonder they kept catching the wrong videos - 06Videos Taken Down From Vimeo for Using the Word 'Pixels' - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:47] <exec> 08└─They really should have put out DMCAs against things matching the words "Shitty Adam Sandler Movie". Hell, they'd catch copies of his last few films in that dragnet.
[22:38:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score:2) 02Re:speculative - 06MIT Researchers Propose Compact Tokamak Fusion Reactor - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:39:00] <exec> 08└─So you're predicting that the output harmonic frequencies in the audible range will be recorded and copyrighted, and thus any operating fusion reactor will require a performance rebroadcasting license from the RIAA?
[22:39:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Eristone [4775] (Score:1) 02Re:Compactness irrelevant at this point - 06MIT Researchers Propose Compact Tokamak Fusion Reactor - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:39:05] <exec> 08└─Does this make the new design an ARC reactor? (okay - couldn't resist)
[22:39:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Compactness irrelevant at this point - 06MIT Researchers Propose Compact Tokamak Fusion Reactor - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:39:07] <exec> 08└─They couldn't resist first!
[22:40:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Why land? - 06Rosetta Mission Progress Report - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:40:13] <exec> 08└─If you are in orbit around a comet, you can see why you would not want to be on the surface for perihelion. But why would it make sense to land on the comet on the way out from the center of the solar system? Does Rosetta have instruments that require contact with the comet itself? Is this a plan B...
[22:40:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score:2) 02Re:ask The Doctor - 06British Museum Asks for Help Deciphering a Medieval Sword - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:40:46] <exec> 08└─it probably says "Hello Sweety" plus some temporal coordinates.
[22:42:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Who is it that grows coffee? - 06How Yuppies Hacked the Original Hacker Ethos - 778 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:42:13] <exec> 08└─Coffee is generally grown on a plantation. The Plantation model used to be called by an unapologetic name: Slavery. On those plantations, any actual labor is being done by an exploited worker class. N.B. The Plantation model still exists in the USA: Professional sports teams. Think about it: There's...
[22:42:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:Suggest us of Bozo Filters. - 06How Yuppies Hacked the Original Hacker Ethos - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:42:23] <exec> 08└─I can only assume that you either grew up on US diner coffee, or have no taste buds. Starbucks over roasts their beans horribly. There's a reason that most of the things that they sell are a tiny bit of coffee and a lot of sugar and milk: it's to disguise the taste of how bad their coffee is.
[22:46:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Genetic modification itself is not the problem. - 06Scotland to Ban Genetically Modified Crops - 1035 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:46:20] <exec> 08└─I see my concerns have not been addressed. I don't care about 1) aside from observing that there is a rational reason why you're getting tarred with the Luddite brush. On 2), we have ways to determine whether something is safe enough. And on 3), see 2) (and my answer to "Could it happen?" is "no fuc...
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[23:38:04] <exec> 08└─O M G.. " They're Pinky and The Brain Yes, Pinky and The Brain One is a genius The other's insane. They're laboratory mice Their genes have been spliced They're dinky They're Pinky and The Brain, Brain, Brain, Brain...
[23:38:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score:2) 02Geography: - 06Ocean Threat from Hong Kong's Taste for Seafood - 617 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:16] <exec> 08└─Given the amount of land in Hong Kong, what food aren't they going to have to import? It's only 7 million people. Even with that high a consumption per capita, it's a drop in the bucket compared to much larger countries nearby that also consume seafood (Japan, China, etc, etc,). Though those have mu...
[23:38:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score:2) 02Re:Blame Putin - 06Obama to Putin: Stop Hacking Me - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:38:32] <exec> 08└─Probably RT Novosti.
[23:38:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Re:Blame Putin - 06Obama to Putin: Stop Hacking Me - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:38:34] <exec> 08└─The same ghost Russian soldiers that both Kiev and the OSCE have denied are in Ukraine.
[23:38:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Obama is shit out of luck, because Vlad is insa - 06Obama to Putin: Stop Hacking Me - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:38:44] <exec> 08└─Tell us the story about the time you met Reagan.
[23:39:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03M. Baranczak [1673] (Score:2) 02Re:Heh, you mean people downloaded it? - 06Videos Taken Down From Vimeo for Using the Word 'Pixels' - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:39:27] <exec> 08└─The original "Pixels", the short film by Patrick Jean, is actually worth watching. I don't even want to think about the things that were done to turn it into an Adam Sandler film.
[23:39:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What are you all talking about? - 06Videos Taken Down From Vimeo for Using the Word 'Pixels' - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:39:41] <exec> 08└─You and I have heard of that talentless ass-clown because he is promoted by some. The reason he exists has nothing to do with talent, I promise. It has to do with race, unfortunately.
[23:41:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03acp_sn [5254] (Score:1) 02Varroa destructor mites - 06Some Honeybee Colonies Adapt in Wake of Deadly Mites - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:27] <exec> 08└─"Varroa destructor mites" sounds like a 40K Tyranid or Necron unit
[23:42:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Easy! - 06British Museum Asks for Help Deciphering a Medieval Sword - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:42:16] <exec> 08└─Þorn is a letter which is used to denote a (sometimes strictly voiceless) dental fricative in Scandinavian languages and English.
[23:44:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Yawn... wait a sec - 06UK Retail Hack Hits 2.4M Consumers - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:56] <exec> 08└─We get this kind of news once or twice a week. That's kind of a problem. Imagine if banks were losing all of their money every week. They'd get hit with so many regulations it wouldn't even be funny for regulation lovers.
[23:45:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Re:Founders lowering their sights - 06Google Becomes Alphabet, Spins Off Google - 611 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:50] <exec> 08└─This really puts into perspective just how large a googol is. It's really fucking large. Then there's the googolplex, which is so large that your mind just blanks out. Mathematicians aren't to be outdone in the realm of ridiculously large numbers though. There's tetration, which is to exponentiation...
[23:46:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Re:Upgrade to Linux - 06Windows 10 Cumulative Update Causes 'Reboot Loop' Havoc for Some Users - 936 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:46:38] <exec> 08└─The average person can reasonably hire someone or ask a friend to add a feature or fix a bug in FREE software. It would likely be cheaper than, e.g., calling a plumber. That's why FREE software is so important; go read some of Richard Stallman's writings. He may be crazy or autistic, but his fears h...
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