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[00:37:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02First MIT killed Aaron Swartz... - 06MIT Robot Steals Human Brains to Help It Balance - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:15] <exec> 08└─Now MIT is building killer cybogs that enslave their human operators. Is there no evil that MIT will not do? Professor Sangbae Kim is not a mad scientist, oh no, he's just a greedy asshole scumbag who will do absolutely anything for military funding. FUCK MIT AND EVERYONE WHO WORKS FOR MIT
[00:37:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:First MIT killed Aaron Swartz... - 06MIT Robot Steals Human Brains to Help It Balance - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:37:16] <exec> 08└─The flamebait, it burns. Keep calm and worship The Lord Obama!
[00:37:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02don't blame the robot - 06MIT Robot Steals Human Brains to Help It Balance - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:18] <exec> 08└─squishing an actual fleshy human brain into a robot would make it unstoppable. And probably evil.
[00:37:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Nerdfest [80] 02Social Responsibility - 06Ocean Threat from Hong Kong's Taste for Seafood - 138 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:34] <exec> 08└─"Social Responsibility" seems near non-existent in the Western world and even worse in China. No raindrop feels responsible for the flood.
[00:37:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:2, Informative) 02Re:Social Responsibility - 06Ocean Threat from Hong Kong's Taste for Seafood - 892 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:37:36] <exec> 08└─It depends what you mean by "western world." Around here most of the fisheries have bounced back after decades of overfishing with many of the species available for harvesting again.It's mostly things like tuna that cross over multiple jurisdictions that are the problem. You still have to pay attent...
[00:38:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Obama is shit out of luck, because Vlad is insa - 06Obama to Putin: Stop Hacking Me - 612 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:38:07] <exec> 08└─Bush and Clinton are to be blamed rather than Reagan. Something happened between the fall of the Soviet Union and the rise of Putin. That something was called "shock therapy": https://paullikoudis.wordpress.com [wordpress.com] http://www.pbs.org
[00:38:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Obama is shit out of luck, because Vlad is insa - 06Obama to Putin: Stop Hacking Me - 614 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:38:09] <exec> 08└─Bush and Clinton are to be blamed rather than Reagan. Something happened between the fall of the Soviet Union and the rise of Putin... That something was called "shock therapy": https://paullikoudis.wordpress.com [wordpress.com] http://www.pbs.org
[00:38:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Good - 06Videos Taken Down From Vimeo for Using the Word 'Pixels' - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:38:59] <exec> 08└─Once it impacts little Tommy and Jane, we should really consider getting Little Bobby Tables involved. That guy can fix anything.
[00:39:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:As retaliation - 06Videos Taken Down From Vimeo for Using the Word 'Pixels' - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:39:01] <exec> 08└─Such as laud your own greatness and superiority on Soylent, one would presume.
[00:40:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02Re:Why land? - 06Rosetta Mission Progress Report - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:40:33] <exec> 08└─If you are in orbit around a comet...
[00:41:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03M. Baranczak [1673] (Score:2) 02Re:I can't remember .. - 06British Museum Asks for Help Deciphering a Medieval Sword - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:41:51] <exec> 08└─If you have your mouth open while kissing, then it's an O. So it's context-dependent.
[00:42:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Suggest us of Bozo Filters. - 06How Yuppies Hacked the Original Hacker Ethos - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:42:47] <exec> 08└─That's sort of my point, the cheap coffee in the US was always the diner type stuff that was left sitting for hours. Generally burnt and of rather poor quality. But, pretty much all the coffee shops I've gone to over the years are basically the same sort of deal.
[00:45:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Yog-Yogguth [1862] (Score:2) 02Re:Founders lowering their sights - 06Google Becomes Alphabet, Spins Off Google - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:20] <exec> 08└─Although those numbers are a lot like a front door: there's at least small, big, convergent, divergent, countable, and uncountable infinities [wikipedia.org] in mathematics :)
[00:46:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Upgrade to Linux - 06Windows 10 Cumulative Update Causes 'Reboot Loop' Havoc for Some Users - 1180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:46:09] <exec> 08└─But don't forget that it only in the last several years that interoperability with Windows document formats finally arrived in the Linux world. Mostly in the form of ODF packages that were released for both windows, mac and linux. The arrival LO and OO allowed many many shops to solve the document h...
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[01:37:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03TrumpetPower! [590] (Score:2) 02Pocket calculator, smocket calculator - 06Intel Left a Fascinating Security Flaw in its Chips for 16 Years - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:15] <exec> 08└─Slide rule or go home! In fact, I'm posting this message using mine and a couple tin cans on a string.... b&
[01:37:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03caseih [2744] (Score:2) 02microcode updates - 06Intel Left a Fascinating Security Flaw in its Chips for 16 Years - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:16] <exec> 08└─Doesn't Intel have microcode updates to fix things like this? When Linux distros say on boot, "applying microcode update" what is that referring to?
[01:37:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02Re:microcode updates - 06Intel Left a Fascinating Security Flaw in its Chips for 16 Years - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:37:18] <exec> 08└─When Linux distros say on boot, "applying microcode update" what is that referring to?
[01:37:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03gman003 [4155] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Not worth worrying about - 06Intel Left a Fascinating Security Flaw in its Chips for 16 Years - 727 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:20] <exec> 08└─To access this, an attacker doesn't just need to be able to run arbitrary executable code on your machine. They need to be able to do so at kernel-level permissions. Quite frankly, if someone has that level of access to my machine, they've already won. I'd already have assumed the box was pwned beyo...
[01:37:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Offtopic) 02smart hackers, what are those? - 06Intel Left a Fascinating Security Flaw in its Chips for 16 Years - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:21] <exec> 08└─I once knew a guy who would get hacked all the time, and every single time he laughed at the stupid hackers running their stupid hacking tools on his box. He'd find out which tools they used and download the tools himself and run them against all the other boxes on his network just for fun. Look at...
[01:37:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:First MIT killed Aaron Swartz... - 06MIT Robot Steals Human Brains to Help It Balance - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:37:30] <exec> 08└─MIT didn't kill Aaron Swartz. It was US Attorney Carmen Ortiz who drove him to suicide.
[01:37:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:don't blame the robot - 06MIT Robot Steals Human Brains to Help It Balance - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:37:32] <exec> 08└─blame the guy who paid the guy to build the fucking robot
[01:38:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Obama is shit out of luck, because Vlad is insa - 06Obama to Putin: Stop Hacking Me - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:38:14] <exec> 08└─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.
[01:38:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Incentives dont lead to actual insane behavior - 06Obama to Putin: Stop Hacking Me - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:38:20] <exec> 08└─Take it from a Certified Lunatic. Im on my ipad so cant explain in detail but there are significant difference between truly irrational behaviors and behaviors that only seem irrational. I will post at more length tomorrow.
[01:38:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Sure it wasnt San Diego? - 06Obama to Putin: Stop Hacking Me - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:38:22] <exec> 08└─You know Damn well that I can trace many current events all the way back to Masada in 70 AD. Or Davis? The Structure of Scientific Revolutions http://www.warplife.com [warplife.com]
[01:38:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02It was most of the KGB, not just Putin. - 06Obama to Putin: Stop Hacking Me - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:38:25] <exec> 08└─And its not just that they didnt know where their next meal was coming from but that they were all James Bond and Peter Gunn fans.
[01:38:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02American Religion too. - 06Obama to Putin: Stop Hacking Me - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:38:28] <exec> 08└─I dont know how significant Midwestern Evangelism was but for the most part the former Soviets wanted to practice Russian Orthodoxy, Judiasm and Islam. Imagine you were just released from prison when a bunch of Brazilian Rainforest Shamans turned up.
[01:38:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Goose and Gander - 06Obama to Putin: Stop Hacking Me - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:38:32] <exec> 08└─> True, that's what we have the CIA for. Crying?
[01:38:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03GDX [1950] (Score:1) 02Re:POWER and PowerPC have different machine code - 06IBM's POWER Roadmap Extends to 2020+ - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:38:45] <exec> 08└─Yes and No, the thing is mess of names and relations but starting from Power ISA 2.03 both are the same, to put simply: POWER CPU 1 2 3 used their on POWER specification POWER CPU 3 and 4 use the PowerPC ISA v2.x POWER CPU 5 onward use Power ISA v.2.x There are some inaccuracies are the are like tha...
[01:38:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02That's assuming IBM's Roadmap 2020+ - 06IBM's POWER Roadmap Extends to 2020+ - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:47] <exec> 08└─ends up better than Roadmap 2015 [ibtimes.com]
[01:40:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So. - 06The Drone That Can Hack You - 1411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:40:42] <exec> 08└─I was doing this with estes rocket engines. Just cushion it for a good fall.. your stuff won't break like an egg if you do it right. and if you use a raspberry pi of an older variety you can use a number of free distros to run the scans you want. Getting so high up sort of clears out a lot of physic...
[01:40:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Why land? - 06Rosetta Mission Progress Report - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:40:58] <exec> 08└─"Oh, what sad times are these when passing ruffians can say Ni at will to comets. There is a pestilence upon this land, nothing is sacred. Even those who arrange, design, and orbit shrubberies are under considerable economic stress in this period in history." Roger the Rosetta-er Gravis, heavy, dude...
[01:40:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02Re:Why land? - 06Rosetta Mission Progress Report - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:40:59] <exec> 08└─How much gravity is necessary to orbit,
[01:43:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why would a 'real' hacker care? - 06How Yuppies Hacked the Original Hacker Ethos - 846 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:43:32] <exec> 08└─This is true. It reminds me of the breaking a "hat" into obedience post that someone made. A hacker has to be broken into it, and in the process, the hat is crushed or otherwise no longer the hat it was. Otherwise, without that breaking/conditioning, the hacker/hat is too busy learning something new...
[01:45:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03m2o2r2g2 [3673] (Score:1) 02Re:Future sight activating - 06Google Becomes Alphabet, Spins Off Google - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:27] <exec> 08└─FYI: Alphabet will continue to use the GOOG and GOOGL ticker symbols. - (from another article I read yesterday on the topic can't be bothered finding it again).
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[02:37:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:Pocket calculator, smocket calculator - 06Intel Left a Fascinating Security Flaw in its Chips for 16 Years - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:37:20] <exec> 08└─Slide rule or go home! In fact, I'm posting this message using mine and a couple tin cans on a string....
[02:37:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03TrumpetPower! [590] (Score:2) 02Re:Pocket calculator, smocket calculator - 06Intel Left a Fascinating Security Flaw in its Chips for 16 Years - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:37:21] <exec> 08└─YOU FORGET THE FIRST RULE OF USENET! b&
[02:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmoschner [3296] (Score:1) 02Re:Not worth worrying about - 06Intel Left a Fascinating Security Flaw in its Chips for 16 Years - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:37:26] <exec> 08└─Actually it is worse, they just have to enter: @[=g3,8d/&fbb=-q]/hk%fg followed by pressing the delete key
[02:37:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02FPGA - 06Intel Left a Fascinating Security Flaw in its Chips for 16 Years - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:29] <exec> 08└─This is why we should all be running opensource cores on FPGA chips ( with an opensource OS on top of that ). While they are not exempt from a bug ( or intentional backdoor ), at least you can fix it once its patched.. Yes, they are slower, but nothing comes free. Peace of mind is of value.
[02:37:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03ese002 [5306] (Score:1) 02Re:FPGA - 06Intel Left a Fascinating Security Flaw in its Chips for 16 Years - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:37:30] <exec> 08└─FPGA's are not just a little slower or a little more power hungry than hard logic. It would be like running the entirety of the OS in python. But, even putting that aside, a patchable cpu creates yet another opportunity for attack. If you can update the cpu, so can malware. Imagine an attack that ch...
[02:37:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03albert [276] (Score:3, Insightful) 02SMM doesn't need this "security" - 06Intel Left a Fascinating Security Flaw in its Chips for 16 Years - 817 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:32] <exec> 08└─SMM wasn't advertised as some sort of hypervisor feature. People often make that assumption because it is all powerful and because it can kind of has a private physical address bit, but really it's just a way to work around motherboard bugs and do the things that ACPI does today. The recent trend ha...
[02:37:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02I bought my Xeon e5400 in 2008. - 06Intel Left a Fascinating Security Flaw in its Chips for 16 Years - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:34] <exec> 08└─The e5400 itself can be had for a song these days but not the rest of my box. Is there a plug compatible cpu with the electrical fix? I am actually more concerned about my fb-dimm memory. The core i$N cpus dont fit in fbdimm motherboard sockets.
[02:37:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02What are we going to do tonight, Brain? - 06Switching Mouse Neural Stem Cells to a Primate-Like Behaviour - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:53] <exec> 08└─Develop a robot at MIT to pop human brains out of the tops of the skull. oops.. wrong story.
[02:37:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Alternatives - 06Switching Mouse Neural Stem Cells to a Primate-Like Behaviour - 590 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:54] <exec> 08└─I've been trying to offer alternative explanations for the bio articles posted here, but this paper is too long (44 pages). There is a lot of histology going on there. However, they also do a lot of normalizing to red fluorescent protein: "all our quantifications are confined to electroporated, RFP-...
[02:37:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Read this story in third grade - 06Switching Mouse Neural Stem Cells to a Primate-Like Behaviour - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:56] <exec> 08└─Finally on topic [oglethorpe.edu] (sorta)
[02:39:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:An injured party need not be a class member - 06Videos Taken Down From Vimeo for Using the Word 'Pixels' - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:39:20] <exec> 08└─Politicians exempted themselves from robocall laws, just like they exempted themselves from insider trading laws.
[02:39:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02RU SIrius? - 06Videos Taken Down From Vimeo for Using the Word 'Pixels' - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:39:21] <exec> 08└─Insider trading? How many elected officials would be willing to sign a sworn statement that itemized all their trades?
[02:41:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why land? - 06Rosetta Mission Progress Report - 493 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:41:16] <exec> 08└─It is already in orbit about the comet and has been for over a year now. The distance and speed of the orbit are largely dictated by Mr. Kepler, which is about 25 km and a few cm/sec. And we've got a two-body problem here; stable orbit. Comet composition and mass distribution don't matter. Rosetta o...
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[03:37:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02perseid viewing in U.S. - 06Glittering Shower of Perseid Meteors Will Enliven Our Skies on 12 August - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:17] <exec> 08└─http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/viewing-conditions-perseid-met-1/51527038 [accuweather.com] http://vortex.accuweather.com [accuweather.com]
[03:37:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score:2) 02Re:Pocket calculator, smocket calculator - 06Intel Left a Fascinating Security Flaw in its Chips for 16 Years - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:37:29] <exec> 08└─I did think about saying instead that I'd consider using my fingers but thought better of it. With my fingers I can only count to 11.
[03:37:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:microcode updates - 06Intel Left a Fascinating Security Flaw in its Chips for 16 Years - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:37:32] <exec> 08└─Note the term "blueprints". This was a physical problem. Good luck patching a processor itself.
[03:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Not worth worrying about - 06Intel Left a Fascinating Security Flaw in its Chips for 16 Years - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:37:35] <exec> 08└─Tried that. Didn't work. What comes after the g?
[03:37:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:Not worth worrying about - 06Intel Left a Fascinating Security Flaw in its Chips for 16 Years - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:37:37] <exec> 08└─A good reason to run AMD.
[03:37:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03gman003 [4155] (Score:2) 02Re:Not worth worrying about - 06Intel Left a Fascinating Security Flaw in its Chips for 16 Years - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:37:38] <exec> 08└─I doubt AMD is any better regarding security. Possibly worse, since they have much fewer engineers and would probably devote more resources towards trying to catch up on performance, not something as unmarketable as security.
[03:38:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:Read this story in third grade - 06Switching Mouse Neural Stem Cells to a Primate-Like Behaviour - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:38:06] <exec> 08└─NIMH
[03:38:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Pot, - 06Obama to Putin: Stop Hacking Me - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:59] <exec> 08└─Meet Kettle.
[03:39:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:the term "GPU" is looking dated - 06IBM's POWER Roadmap Extends to 2020+ - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:39:13] <exec> 08└─AFAIK, GPUs are limited in the kind of algorithms they can efficiently run. What I could use is a multi socket mobo that can support dissimilar CPUs so I could have a fast one with a few cores, and one or more slower ones with many cores each.
[03:40:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:Nickel Steel - 06MIT Researchers Propose Compact Tokamak Fusion Reactor - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:40:31] <exec> 08└─Well, they started producing F35s well before the design was finished, let alone tested. they put a lot more money into that, and now they'll have a bunch of expensive hanger queens for airshows.
[03:40:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:Nickel Steel - 06MIT Researchers Propose Compact Tokamak Fusion Reactor - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:40:35] <exec> 08└─Steels with that much tensile strength tend to be extremely brittle. I would be extremely nervous around it; a little uneven thermal expansion and it could explode.
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[04:37:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I say you good authority. - 06New York Times Publishes Prosecutors' Op/Ed Against Encryption - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:16] <exec> 08└─I write good thing about authority. I good guy. You appoint me political posting. You pay me good I agree with every thing.
[04:37:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] (Score:2) 02Passcode? - 06New York Times Publishes Prosecutors' Op/Ed Against Encryption - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:18] <exec> 08└─Oh, my god. Have they considered hiring someone who's capable of downloading a password cracker from the internet, looking at the Android code to see how the decryption key is generated from the passcode, and start brute forcing passcodes from the internet databases of most common passwords? Is it r...
[04:37:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Passcode? - 06New York Times Publishes Prosecutors' Op/Ed Against Encryption - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:37:19] <exec> 08└─They could even outsource the job to Hacking Team
[04:37:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not worth worrying about - 06Intel Left a Fascinating Security Flaw in its Chips for 16 Years - 666 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:37:46] <exec> 08└─Yeah if you're worried about that kind of thing you should be far more worried about Intel's built in stuff: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] The article's exploit is small stuff, AMT is a huge fancy infrastructure/sy...
[04:37:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02DRM forces security audit? - 06Intel Left a Fascinating Security Flaw in its Chips for 16 Years - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:53] <exec> 08└─I find it interesting that this was fixed with the Sandy Bridge. Sandy bridge also introduced Intel Insider [intel.com]. As far as I can tell, Intel insider is a modified implementation of DTCP [dtcp.com] allowing a long first hop since it is entirely decoded inside the chipset. When that news came...
[04:38:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02see also - 06Ocean Threat from Hong Kong's Taste for Seafood - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:29] <exec> 08└─http://fishcooking.about.com/od/howtochoosefreshfish/tp/avoid_fish.htm [about.com] https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[04:39:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03acid andy [1683] 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)
[04:39:37] <exec> 08└─Get in the sea, pendant. ;-)
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[05:37:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:I say you good authority. - 06New York Times Publishes Prosecutors' Op/Ed Against Encryption - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:37:19] <exec> 08└─Too soon, Xia Hong. Hang out in your Orange County beach house and wait a few more presidential elections and try again when the Democrats win.
[05:37:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Have they forgotten waterboarding already? - 06New York Times Publishes Prosecutors' Op/Ed Against Encryption - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:37:22] <exec> 08└─Hey, maybe America is improving after all. Still evil, but the idiots in charge are so incredibly stupid they they've completely forgotten how to do evil things, like waterboard random suspects until someone confesses to the murder.
[05:37:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Hemh. - 06New York Times Publishes Prosecutors' Op/Ed Against Encryption - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:24] <exec> 08└─" They talk about the murder scene of a father of six, where an iPhone 6 and a Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge were found.
[05:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hemh. - 06New York Times Publishes Prosecutors' Op/Ed Against Encryption - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:37:26] <exec> 08└─Why would a killer toss his phone in the crime scene?
[05:37:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Weak objections - 06New York Times Publishes Prosecutors' Op/Ed Against Encryption - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:28] <exec> 08└─Except, there is no proof that having such a backdoor would conclusively allow them to solve the case and wouldn't require actual police work.
[05:37:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Father of six?! - 06New York Times Publishes Prosecutors' Op/Ed Against Encryption - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:29] <exec> 08└─The state should murder such people!
[05:37:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Father of six?! - 06New York Times Publishes Prosecutors' Op/Ed Against Encryption - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:37:31] <exec> 08└─There are too many people nowadays. Please eliminate all of them.
[05:37:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Dam Rain! - 06Glittering Shower of Perseid Meteors Will Enliven Our Skies on 12 August - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:37] <exec> 08└─Hot and Hot and Hot.... Clear skys and heat.... Meteor shower and it Rains and Rains and Rains...... Every year. Always... Never fails.... Glad I didn't plan a trip outta the City... Maybe next year....
[05:37:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:microcode updates - 06Intel Left a Fascinating Security Flaw in its Chips for 16 Years - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:37:52] <exec> 08└─Because it's obviously impossible to make software drive hardware... that's why we use fully mechanical computers by Babbage.
[05:37:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not worth worrying about - 06Intel Left a Fascinating Security Flaw in its Chips for 16 Years - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:37:58] <exec> 08└─Implying it didn't cost more to add the backdoor, and that it was finally removed because they don't need this one anymore since they root the newer chips wirelessly now via an on-chip cellular "anti-theft" feature. "Oh, and we'll even name the company 'INTEL', haha... and the suckers will still buy...
[05:38:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03fnj [1654] (Score:3, Funny) 02Paranoia - 06Intel Left a Fascinating Security Flaw in its Chips for 16 Years - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:38:07] <exec> 08└─Not this ignorant shit again.
[05:38:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03VortexCortex [4067] (Score:2) 02Re:don't blame the robot - 06MIT Robot Steals Human Brains to Help It Balance - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:38:19] <exec> 08└─blame the guy who paid the guy to build the fucking robot
[05:38:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Alternatives - 06Switching Mouse Neural Stem Cells to a Primate-Like Behaviour - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:38:32] <exec> 08└─It doesn't look like there is much of a difference. The plasmids share the same promoter so the RNA levels should be about the same and the RFP is independently translated through the IRES element. Or do you think there is a difference in transfection efficiency? The Pax6 plasmid would be a bit larg...
[05:38:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Alternatives - 06Switching Mouse Neural Stem Cells to a Primate-Like Behaviour - 614 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:38:33] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure how it would all work out in vivo, co-expressing Pax6 and RFP could also affect degradation of RFP, etc. The idea is that if the co-expression increases RFP fluorescence somehow then it would make it appear that there was less of whatever other protein they are normalizing to RFP, and v...
[05:38:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Coax them to eat jellyfish - 06Ocean Threat from Hong Kong's Taste for Seafood - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:38:49] <exec> 08└─Before we all are buried in them! Very soon nobody will be eating anything but...
[05:42:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Why land? - 06Rosetta Mission Progress Report - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:42:04] <exec> 08└─It is already in orbit about the comet and has been for over a year now. The distance and speed of the orbit are largely dictated by Mr. Kepler, which is about 25 km and a few cm/sec.
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[06:37:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02In Soviet America - 06See Through Walls by Passive Radiation From Wi-Fi - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:37:20] <exec> 08└─Your porn watches you while you download.
[06:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheLink [332] (Score:2) 02Re:Passcode? - 06New York Times Publishes Prosecutors' Op/Ed Against Encryption - 560 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:37:35] <exec> 08└─Don't they have an upgraded version of this? http://www.forbes.com [forbes.com] I'm pretty sure most phone users don't use strong passphrases on their phones and most use something that can be brute-for...
[06:37:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Flamebait) 02Re:Hemh. - 06New York Times Publishes Prosecutors' Op/Ed Against Encryption - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:37:38] <exec> 08└─>In Chicago It was a nigger.
[06:37:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hemh. - 06New York Times Publishes Prosecutors' Op/Ed Against Encryption - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:37:40] <exec> 08└─Evanston is not in Chicago, it's a suburb, and the article is wrong as well, as Evanston is on the northern border of the city, not 10 miles north of the city. Chicago is bigger than the article says it is and yet smaller than you want it to be. Good work. You're all geographically ignorant.
[06:37:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:0, Offtopic) 02Re:Hemh. - 06New York Times Publishes Prosecutors' Op/Ed Against Encryption - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:37:41] <exec> 08└─Somebody once used "its" instead of "it's" on an online forum somewhere. Nobody believed that motherfucker because he was too stupid to know English.
[06:37:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Prosecuters love pedophiles and murderers - 06New York Times Publishes Prosecutors' Op/Ed Against Encryption - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:37:44] <exec> 08└─They love to trot out pedophiles and murderers in support of ridiculous policies. But I'm sure they would also use their "lawful warrants" to crack the phones of protesters who practice civil disobedience. Thankfully, some chickens are coming home to roost.
[06:37:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Jon Stewart's Last Words! - 06New York Times Publishes Prosecutors' Op/Ed Against Encryption - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:37:46] <exec> 08└─If you say something, . . . no, that's not it. If you smell something, yeah, that's it, say something. But since we want law enforcement to have tips given to them because they are no longer capable of basic investigative operations, it should be, "If you say something, see something." So I guess...
[06:37:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Be careful what you wish for - 06New York Times Publishes Prosecutors' Op/Ed Against Encryption - 2088 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:37:47] <exec> 08└─Be careful what you wish for.... you might get it good and hard up the pooper. If they can really make a phone that can't be cracked then it is, pretty much by definition, equally capable of being unrootable and unjailbreakable too. And does anyone really think Apple doesn't have a way to force an F...
[06:37:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Be careful what you wish for - 06New York Times Publishes Prosecutors' Op/Ed Against Encryption - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:37:49] <exec> 08└─If they can really make a phone that can't be cracked then it is, pretty much by definition, equally capable of being unrootable and unjailbreakable too.
[06:38:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:microcode updates - 06Intel Left a Fascinating Security Flaw in its Chips for 16 Years - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:38:11] <exec> 08└─The attack requires to run a specific instruction (wrmsr) to be run with a parameter in a specific range (the memory range reserved for SMM). So the microcode could just look for that instruction/parameter and prevent its execution.
[06:38:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ese002 [5306] 02Re:FPGA - 06Intel Left a Fascinating Security Flaw in its Chips for 16 Years - 342 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:38:21] <exec> 08└─FPGA's are not just a little slower or a little more power hungry than hard logic. It would be like running the entirety of the OS in python. But, even putting that aside, a patchable cpu creates yet another opportunity for attack. If you can update the cpu, so can malware. Imagine an attack that ch...
[06:38:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03albert [276] 02SMM doesn't need this "security" - 06Intel Left a Fascinating Security Flaw in its Chips for 16 Years - 817 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:38:23] <exec> 08└─SMM wasn't advertised as some sort of hypervisor feature. People often make that assumption because it is all powerful and because it can kind of has a private physical address bit, but really it's just a way to work around motherboard bugs and do the things that ACPI does today. The recent trend ha...
[06:38:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Read this story in third grade - 06Switching Mouse Neural Stem Cells to a Primate-Like Behaviour - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:38:54] <exec> 08└─All I get is a 404.
[06:39:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03frojack [1554] 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)
[06:39:28] <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.
[06:39:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Sure it wasnt San Diego? - 06Obama to Putin: Stop Hacking Me - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:39:38] <exec> 08└─It was Davis which is near Sacramento.
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[07:37:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03timbim [907] (Score:2) 02ELI5 Please - 06Time-Symmetric Formulation of Quantum Theory Provides New Understanding of Causality - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:37:20] <exec> 08└─Thanks.
[07:37:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:ELI5 Please - 06Time-Symmetric Formulation of Quantum Theory Provides New Understanding of Causality - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:37:21] <exec> 08└─Precrime.
[07:37:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:ELI5 Please - 06Time-Symmetric Formulation of Quantum Theory Provides New Understanding of Causality - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:37:23] <exec> 08└─Oh my god, where are your parents?
[07:37:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02I have always wanted to go trekking in Nepal. - 06See Through Walls by Passive Radiation From Wi-Fi - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:37:32] <exec> 08└─I understand they need lots of carpenters. I have all my own tools, even a contractor's table saw.
[07:37:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I have always wanted to go trekking in Nepal. - 06See Through Walls by Passive Radiation From Wi-Fi - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:37:33] <exec> 08└─Too late. In Nepal, free Wi-Fi is everywhere. [takepart.com]
[07:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02this is why we pay researchers - 06See Through Walls by Passive Radiation From Wi-Fi - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:37:35] <exec> 08└─We pay researchers to deprive us of our liberties, and they gleefully do it, because researchers are immoral whores for grant money.
[07:37:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:this is why we pay researchers - 06See Through Walls by Passive Radiation From Wi-Fi - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:37:37] <exec> 08└─it's just light bro
[07:37:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:this is why we pay researchers - 06See Through Walls by Passive Radiation From Wi-Fi - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:37:38] <exec> 08└─Well then you won't mind if I watch your daughter in the shower.
[07:37:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hemh. - 06New York Times Publishes Prosecutors' Op/Ed Against Encryption - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:37:54] <exec> 08└─Tits or it didn't happen.
[07:37:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Hemh. - 06New York Times Publishes Prosecutors' Op/Ed Against Encryption - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:37:55] <exec> 08└─Mexican boobies don't taste like chocolate milk. [google.com] They taste like nipple.
[07:37:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:Hemh. - 06New York Times Publishes Prosecutors' Op/Ed Against Encryption - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:37:57] <exec> 08└─Why would a killer toss his phone in the crime scene?
[07:38:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Be careful what you wish for - 06New York Times Publishes Prosecutors' Op/Ed Against Encryption - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:38:06] <exec> 08└─If they can really make a phone that can't be cracked then it is, pretty much by definition, equally capable of being unrootable and unjailbreakable too.
[07:38:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score:3, Insightful) 02More of the same governmental bullshit - 06New York Times Publishes Prosecutors' Op/Ed Against Encryption - 529 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:38:07] <exec> 08└─The bullshit spewed by bastards like Cyrus Vance, Jr., et al. makes my blood boil. The new encryption policies of Apple and Google have made it harder to protect people from crime. We support the privacy rights of individuals. But in the absence of cooperation from Apple and Google, regulators and l...
[07:38:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Pocket calculator, smocket calculator - 06Intel Left a Fascinating Security Flaw in its Chips for 16 Years - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:38:27] <exec> 08└─Only to 11? I can count up to a number of ten digits! But anyway, fingers are easily hacked.
[07:38:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score:2) 02Re:Pocket calculator, smocket calculator - 06Intel Left a Fascinating Security Flaw in its Chips for 16 Years - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:38:28] <exec> 08└─I only have ten fingers, and my netherthumb [wikipedia.org].
[07:38:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Pocket calculator, smocket calculator - 06Intel Left a Fascinating Security Flaw in its Chips for 16 Years - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:38:29] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digit_%28anatomy%29" [wikipedia.org]
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[08:38:20] <exec> 08└─You'd prefer if only the three letter agencies know about this possibility? This way, you at least know, too, and can use countermeasures if you care about it. I mean, it's not as if electromagnetic radiation is unstoppable.
[08:38:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02next stop bank vault - 06See Through Walls by Passive Radiation From Wi-Fi - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:38:21] <exec> 08└─I want money I want lots of money In fact, I want so much money Give me your money, just give me money
[08:38:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:3, Insightful) 02In other news … - 06New York Times Publishes Prosecutors' Op/Ed Against Encryption - 577 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:38:55] <exec> 08└─In other news, if the authorities would have a complete record of where everyone was and what they did at any instant in time, then there would never be a question who did it, at we could just look it up in the database. Does that justify the total surveillance state, with every corner of the world...
[08:39:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02*Like* teleoperation? - 06MIT Robot Steals Human Brains to Help It Balance - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:39:53] <exec> 08└─It's like teleoperation, except the user's brain and body are controlling the robot directly, from inside a haptic suit.
[08:40:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02Re:Obama is shit out of luck, because Vlad is insa - 06Obama to Putin: Stop Hacking Me - 612 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:40:59] <exec> 08└─Bush and Clinton are to be blamed rather than Reagan. Something happened between the fall of the Soviet Union and the rise of Putin. That something was called "shock therapy": https://paullikoudis.wordpress.com [wordpress.com] http://www.pbs.org
[08:42:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03turonah [2317] (Score:1) 02Imagine if they had done this for "Click" ... - 06Videos Taken Down From Vimeo for Using the Word 'Pixels' - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:42:11] <exec> 08└─... thousands of Geocities sites, gone in an instant.
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[09:37:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Tomorrow's news... - 06Curtin University Professor Grows Ear on Arm, Plans to Connect It to the Internet - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:37:50] <exec> 08└─Internet-connected man murders wife in fit of rage, with the entire Internet listening in. Prosecutors agree to drop all charges against him, in exchange for wiring every person with a mandatory microphone to record everything everyone does all the time.
[09:37:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimshatt [978] (Score:2) 02Internet - 06Curtin University Professor Grows Ear on Arm, Plans to Connect It to the Internet - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:37:52] <exec> 08└─imagine if I could hear with the ears of someone in New York
[09:37:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Look, this prof is obviously a trendy moron. - 06Curtin University Professor Grows Ear on Arm, Plans to Connect It to the Internet - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:37:53] <exec> 08└─It's the Internet of Things, man. Every Thing needs to be on the Internet because all the trendy morons are doing it. Next he'll hook up his fucking dick to the Internet because he's never heard of teledildonics before.
[09:37:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02it's a gimmick - 06Curtin University Professor Grows Ear on Arm, Plans to Connect It to the Internet - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:37:55] <exec> 08└─but it's still hardcore to grow an ear on your arm
[09:37:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:it's a gimmick - 06Curtin University Professor Grows Ear on Arm, Plans to Connect It to the Internet - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:37:57] <exec> 08└─It would be hardcore, if he could grow an ear on his arm and wire it to his own brain instead of Siri. But then, I doubt this jackass even has a brain to call his own.
[09:37:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Re:it's a gimmick - 06Curtin University Professor Grows Ear on Arm, Plans to Connect It to the Internet - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:37:58] <exec> 08└─It's not an ear. None of the actual organs for hearing are being grown. It's a piece of deformed skin on a bit of scaffolding. They stuck a microphone in it, but had to remove it because it got infected. Unsuccessful reconstructive plastic surgery on the wrong part of the guy's body. Whoopie doodle....
[09:38:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02I Can Run But I Cannot Hide. - 06See Through Walls by Passive Radiation From Wi-Fi - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:38:18] <exec> 08└─Filter error: Just because I'm paranoid it doesn't mean they're not out to get me
[09:38:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:this is why we pay researchers - 06See Through Walls by Passive Radiation From Wi-Fi - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:38:23] <exec> 08└─Lead paint, don't fail me now!
[09:38:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score:2) 02Movement only - 06See Through Walls by Passive Radiation From Wi-Fi - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:38:25] <exec> 08└─This system will only detect and show movement. The question is how sensitive is it? Will it show heartbeats, or can you safely move at speeds less than 1 km/h without being detected. I'm guessing that it can be tricked by moving very slowly.
[09:38:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] 02Weak objections - 06New York Times Publishes Prosecutors' Op/Ed Against Encryption - 142 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:38:48] <exec> 08└─Except, there is no proof that having such a backdoor would conclusively allow them to solve the case and wouldn't require actual police work.
[09:39:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:microcode updates - 06Intel Left a Fascinating Security Flaw in its Chips for 16 Years - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:39:26] <exec> 08└─This reminds me of updating the boot record [24b6.net] on my old ppc macs!
[09:40:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score:2) 02Re:Read this story in third grade - 06Switching Mouse Neural Stem Cells to a Primate-Like Behaviour - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:40:14] <exec> 08└─NIMH
[09:40:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] 02Re:Blame Putin - 06Obama to Putin: Stop Hacking Me - 297 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:40:47] <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."
[09:41:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Lagg [105] 02Heh, you mean people downloaded it? - 06Videos Taken Down From Vimeo for Using the Word 'Pixels' - 357 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:41:57] <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...
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[10:39:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02medical team wasting their talents - 06Curtin University Professor Grows Ear on Arm, Plans to Connect It to the Internet - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:39:10] <exec> 08└─Oh I'm so sorry, the medical team don't have any talents, that's why they're doing pointless cosmetic art projects instead of saving lives, healing the sick, curing diseases, you know, practicing real medicine like real doctors.
[10:39:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02"art" vs bullshit - 06Curtin University Professor Grows Ear on Arm, Plans to Connect It to the Internet - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:39:12] <exec> 08└─Kardashians are less asinine than "art" (note the quotes).
[10:39:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03chrysosphinx [5262] (Score:1) 02Biopunk - 06Curtin University Professor Grows Ear on Arm, Plans to Connect It to the Internet - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:39:14] <exec> 08└─is coming.
[10:39:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score:2) 02Modern houses - 06See Through Walls by Passive Radiation From Wi-Fi - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:39:42] <exec> 08└─Does anyknown kmow how this kind of technology stands up against modern insulation in houses? Now I mean the energyeffecient houses that has metallic foil and (inadvertently) blocks cellphone signals.
[10:40:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03brocksampson [1810] (Score:1) 02Re:Hemh. - 06New York Times Publishes Prosecutors' Op/Ed Against Encryption - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:40:07] <exec> 08└─How do you know when you are making a baseless argument? When you use scary-sounding numbers instead of statistics followed by the implication of a hyperbolic tragedy. They managed to do both in the same paragraph; 74 iPhones!!! That sounds like a big number!!! And THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!! Oh, why w...
[10:41:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:FPGA - 06Intel Left a Fascinating Security Flaw in its Chips for 16 Years - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:41:01] <exec> 08└─FPGA's are not just a little slower or a little more power hungry than hard logic. It would be like running the entirety of the OS in python
[10:41:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03mtrycz [60] (Score:2) 02Re:SMM doesn't need this "security" - 06Intel Left a Fascinating Security Flaw in its Chips for 16 Years - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:41:03] <exec> 08└─This would be your kernel breaking into... itself
[10:41:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03cafebabe [894] (Score:2) 02Dodgy Processor Or Dodgy RAM - 06Intel Left a Fascinating Security Flaw in its Chips for 16 Years - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:41:08] <exec> 08└─Intel may have fixed one of many significant security flaws in 2011. Unfortunately, 2011 is when DRAM started [soylentnews.org] becoming exploitable [soylentnews.org].
[10:41:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Read this story in third grade - 06Switching Mouse Neural Stem Cells to a Primate-Like Behaviour - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:41:42] <exec> 08└─Wow, that was pretty quick turnaround for a DMCA takedown notice and compliance. - OP
[10:42:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03o_o [1544] (Score:1) 02Obama to Putin: Stop Hacking Me - 06Obama to Putin: Stop Hacking Me - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:42:44] <exec> 08└─Or what?
[10:43:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score:2) 02Re:Heh, you mean people downloaded it? - 06Videos Taken Down From Vimeo for Using the Word 'Pixels' - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:43:33] <exec> 08└─I watched 10 min when the stink hit and its pretty much "Douchebag: The Movie". You ever see any of his shitastic films like "That's My Boy"? Well there ya go, references treated as jokes, LOTS of homophobia, lots of really douchey shit from Sandler. Lather rinse repeat.
[10:47:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03evilcam [3239] (Score:1) 02Re:Does estoppel apply in the UK? - 06Starwars.Co.Uk Owner Strikes Back Against Disney - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:47:07] <exec> 08└─I believe this is also the case in the UK. There is a pub called the Hobbit [wikipedia.org] in Southampton that received a C+D from the company that manages Tolkiens copyrights when the Hobbit Films began to be made due to the "use it or lose it" trademark guff. I believe that they licensed their na...
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[11:38:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Offtopic) 02I wanna be a wind farmer! - 06Department of Energy Wind Power 2014 Report Finds It’s Dropping Dramatically in Cost - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:38:16] <exec> 08└─Is there any room in the wind market for the small-time mom-&-pop family-owned wind farm? No I didn't think so.
[11:38:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I wanna be a wind farmer! - 06Department of Energy Wind Power 2014 Report Finds It’s Dropping Dramatically in Cost - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:38:17] <exec> 08└─Sure. There are plenty of wind power settups you can buy for your home, and many states have net metering. Go for it.
[11:38:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Biopunk - 06Curtin University Professor Grows Ear on Arm, Plans to Connect It to the Internet - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:38:35] <exec> 08└─Oh yes. I got this weird looking scar on the back of my hand from falling in the shower when I was a kid. My scar totally deserves its own Facebook page.
[11:41:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Mercury - 06Ocean Threat from Hong Kong's Taste for Seafood - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:41:22] <exec> 08└─an average resident consumes 71.2 kilos (157 pounds) of seafood each year, more than four times the global average
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[12:37:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Touché) 02The wrong side of the law - 06FBI: Confidential Press Releases Used by Hackers for Insider Trading - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:20] <exec> 08└─Only elected officials and people from the C suite get to legally insider trade.
[12:37:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03xav [5579] (Score:1) 02That can't happen - 06Curtin University Professor Grows Ear on Arm, Plans to Connect It to the Internet - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:37:38] <exec> 08└─Such guys are single and will remain so.
[12:37:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Arm - 06Curtin University Professor Grows Ear on Arm, Plans to Connect It to the Internet - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:48] <exec> 08└─Cortex?
[12:37:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Not Hawking - 06Time-Symmetric Formulation of Quantum Theory Provides New Understanding of Causality - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:59] <exec> 08└─The "psychological" arrow of time is much older than Hawking's discussions on the topic. He may use the phrase, but he is not the one who coined it.
[12:38:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Movement only - 06See Through Walls by Passive Radiation From Wi-Fi - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:38:18] <exec> 08└─Your neighbor might be none the wiser but your girlfriend won't be happy either...
[12:38:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03mtrycz [60] (Score:2) 02Re:Prosecuters love pedophiles and murderers - 06New York Times Publishes Prosecutors' Op/Ed Against Encryption - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:38:47] <exec> 08└─You are several years late, but yes, that's the idea.
[12:38:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03doublerot13 [4497] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Do it for the children! - 06New York Times Publishes Prosecutors' Op/Ed Against Encryption - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:38:54] <exec> 08└─The only way I can protect you is if you give me complete power of you.
[12:39:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02So Sky and Telescope is owned by BBC, then? - 06Glittering Shower of Perseid Meteors Will Enliven Our Skies on 12 August - 705 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:05] <exec> 08└─The original article is complete crap. While the BBC may promise excellent Perseids every year, the reality is that the WHOLE of the astronomy community is optimistic about this year's shower. My understanding is this is due to orbital mechanics. (i.e. the part of Swift Tuttle's track we'll pass thr...
[12:40:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Blame Putin - 06Obama to Putin: Stop Hacking Me - 643 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:40:48] <exec> 08└─I got my news from multiple sides both Russian and Western. And yes, things have definitely calmed down from daily artillery fire, gun fights, tank activity and air raids. I wouldn't yet plan a vacation there ofcourse. Oh and, the west tells everyone who wants to hear that the "separatist rebels" (w...
[12:43:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03hubie [1068] (Score:2) 02Re:Why land? - 06Rosetta Mission Progress Report - 544 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:43:53] <exec> 08└─I would surmise that it is due to a combination of issues: it met its primary mission goals, it will have met its extended mission goals, and after its extended mission, it will be too far from the Sun for the solar panels to power the craft. On its return in five or so years, there might be a low p...
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[13:37:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Oh no! - 06FBI: Confidential Press Releases Used by Hackers for Insider Trading - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:26] <exec> 08└─Poor people are gaming the system! That's not how it's supposed to work! HUNT THEM DOWN!
[13:37:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03curunir_wolf [4772] (Score:2) 02Re:I wanna be a wind farmer! - 06Department of Energy Wind Power 2014 Report Finds It’s Dropping Dramatically in Cost - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:37:36] <exec> 08└─Beware the zoning commissions! http://www.wgrz.com [wgrz.com] http://www.useful-community-development.org [useful-community-development.org] http://cleantechies.com
[13:37:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03wantkitteh [3362] (Score:2) 02Re:Internet - 06Curtin University Professor Grows Ear on Arm, Plans to Connect It to the Internet - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:37:48] <exec> 08└─Way to completely miss the artistic aspect of the whole thing dude, total failure to understand what's going on here. Which isn't surprising, it's cutting edge performance art. My other half used a bunch of this guy's work in her masters dissertation and it took me a while to understand what he was...
[13:37:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Internet - 06Curtin University Professor Grows Ear on Arm, Plans to Connect It to the Internet - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:37:49] <exec> 08└─STFU moron.
[13:38:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:ELI5 Please - 06Time-Symmetric Formulation of Quantum Theory Provides New Understanding of Causality - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:38:07] <exec> 08└─If your like me, you'll need this: http://www.explainxkcd.com'm_Five [explainxkcd.com]
[13:38:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:ELI5 Please - 06Time-Symmetric Formulation of Quantum Theory Provides New Understanding of Causality - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:38:08] <exec> 08└─time is wibbly wobbly stuff, all tied together with quantum. when you don't have enough quantum, causality breaks down.
[13:38:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02link to original research - 06Time-Symmetric Formulation of Quantum Theory Provides New Understanding of Causality - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:11] <exec> 08└─not necessarily this original research though http://timecube.com [timecube.com]
[13:38:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02What else have they been busy working on? - 06See Through Walls by Passive Radiation From Wi-Fi - 1847 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:31] <exec> 08└─This cannot be new research, because what has been approved for public consumption is usually old news. Decades old and obsolete. They've moved on to much better methods with excellent results. Radar has been around a while and can be used to track movement, but I am also interested in mind reading...
[13:39:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03gman003 [4155] 02Not worth worrying about - 06Intel Left a Fascinating Security Flaw in its Chips for 16 Years - 727 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:38] <exec> 08└─To access this, an attacker doesn't just need to be able to run arbitrary executable code on your machine. They need to be able to do so at kernel-level permissions. Quite frankly, if someone has that level of access to my machine, they've already won. I'd already have assumed the box was pwned beyo...
[13:39:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score:2) 02Re:Not worth worrying about - 06Intel Left a Fascinating Security Flaw in its Chips for 16 Years - 1545 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:39:44] <exec> 08└─Well since AMD has decided to be FOSS friendly and open up all their specs (they just switched their math libraries from proprietary ACML to BSD flame [amd.com] Aug 7th) hopefully if a problem like this popped up the community could patch it. BTW if anybody is thinking about an AMD chip? Check out t...
[13:40:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score:2) 02Saturn 3 - 06MIT Robot Steals Human Brains to Help It Balance - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:40:10] <exec> 08└─Obligatory Hector reference. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[13:41:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:the term "GPU" is looking dated - 06IBM's POWER Roadmap Extends to 2020+ - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:41:44] <exec> 08└─What I could use is a multi socket mobo that can support dissimilar CPUs so I could have a fast one with a few cores, and one or more slower ones with many cores each.
[13:43:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zinho [759] (Score:2) 02Re:Obligatory XKCD - 06MIT Researchers Propose Compact Tokamak Fusion Reactor - 1574 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:43:10] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the reply. Part of the reason I was asking is that fusion reactors have some unique challenges that don't apply to fission plants. The fusion containment bottle is very "hands-off": the plasma (while very energetic) doesn't have a lot of mass, and if the plasma touches anything it cools o...
[13:43:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03gidds [589] (Score:2) 02What's wrong with existing visual flight rules? - 06Scientists Develop Software for Drone Traffic Management - 1017 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:35] <exec> 08└─(This is probably a heretical view, but I like playing Devil's Advocate :-) The air is already fairly crowded: there are light aircraft, gliders, remote-controlled aircraft, kites, balloons, birds, bats, insects, the odd plastic bag... And there's already a navigation system that works for them all:...
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[14:37:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Blame the Taliban? - 06Africa Celebrates One Year Without Polio - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:18] <exec> 08└─I mean the Taliban are certainly to blame for lots of horrible things, but they are surely not to blame for the CIA's choice of an immunization campaign as cover.
[14:37:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02Re:Blame the Taliban? - 06Africa Celebrates One Year Without Polio - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:37:19] <exec> 08└─If it wasn't for the Taliban, the CIA wouldn't have had to use such subterfuge.
[14:37:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03M. Baranczak [1673] (Score:2) 02Re:Blame the Taliban? - 06Africa Celebrates One Year Without Polio - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
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[14:37:21] <exec> 08└─The bearded freaks were anti-immunization even before the CIA thing. The linked article talks about that.
[14:37:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:3, Interesting) 02One company i worked at - 06Why Employees Bend Workplace Confidential Information Rules - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:29] <exec> 08└─held a meeting to emphasize documents stamped "Company Confidential" needed to be treated with care. I pointed out that everything, including the cafeteria menu, was stamped "Company Confidential" and that made it hard to take it seriously. He said he'd look into it, when I left 6 months later the m...
[14:37:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:3, Interesting) 02It's not just CI rules - 06Why Employees Bend Workplace Confidential Information Rules - 641 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:31] <exec> 08└─One of the standard union tactics against management is a "work-to-rule", where the union members all agree to follow the formally documented procedures of the company to the letter. The result more often than not is a massive slowdown in productivity as, for example, workers need to wait until exac...
[14:37:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Oh no! - 06FBI: Confidential Press Releases Used by Hackers for Insider Trading - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:37:40] <exec> 08└─Wealth is relative? This wasn't on the scale of bank fraud but if you read the Bloomberg article, it doesn't sound like these are poor people either. One of the guys caught in USA managed a hedge fund, so he knew what he was doing. Once they had some advance information, they made big buys -- in the...
[14:37:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02Re:Oh no! - 06FBI: Confidential Press Releases Used by Hackers for Insider Trading - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:37:42] <exec> 08└─Yeah only the people on the Boards of big corporations and their golfing buddies are supposed to trade on inside information.
[14:37:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Pretty stupid - 06FBI: Confidential Press Releases Used by Hackers for Insider Trading - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:43] <exec> 08└─Sites discovered they are hacked, and later suspicious trades *on the day of the release* are made from accounts held by Eastern Europeans.
[14:37:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:I wanna be a wind farmer! - 06Department of Energy Wind Power 2014 Report Finds It’s Dropping Dramatically in Cost - 1186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:37:53] <exec> 08└─You can buy small turbines but everyone I have looked at is woefully inadequate to generate a modest amount of power unless you are in a windstorm. They are advertised with very enticing power outputs like 1, 2, 3 or even 5kW. You start thinking, woah, I only need a fraction of that, the rest I sell...
[14:37:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Maintenance - 06Department of Energy Wind Power 2014 Report Finds It’s Dropping Dramatically in Cost - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:55] <exec> 08└─Everyone's happy with their new installations, not least because of the tax-credits and various governmental bribes and back-pocketing of tax-payers' money that accompanies such gold-rushes. But what happens when they all start to get as creaky as the US's nuclear installations? Nobody told us they'...
[14:38:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:That can't happen - 06Curtin University Professor Grows Ear on Arm, Plans to Connect It to the Internet - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:38:04] <exec> 08└─Not all internet-connected men are single despite all single men being connected!
[14:38:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02This one... - 06Curtin University Professor Grows Ear on Arm, Plans to Connect It to the Internet - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:16] <exec> 08└─a self-promoting attention whore, innit.
[14:38:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score:2) 02Just the art component - 06Curtin University Professor Grows Ear on Arm, Plans to Connect It to the Internet - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:17] <exec> 08└─"People's reactions range from bemusement to bewilderment to curiosity, but you don't really expect people to understand the art component of all of this," Stelarc said.
[14:39:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03quacking duck [1395] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Passcode? - 06New York Times Publishes Prosecutors' Op/Ed Against Encryption - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:39:07] <exec> 08└─Any phone OS worth their salt has the option to wipe the phone after a certain number of failed attempts, and if not will still introduce longer lockout delays with every failed passcode attempt. Not long ago a flaw was discovered on iOS where you could get around this by killing power to it before...
[14:39:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] (Score:2) 02Re:Passcode? - 06New York Times Publishes Prosecutors' Op/Ed Against Encryption - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:39:08] <exec> 08└─And any phone manufacturer worth their salt can have a technician desolder the FLASH from the phone motherboard, and attach it to a non-phone microcontroller as a peripheral, and run the brute force attacks on that. Two weeks at the outside if you have to have a PCB designed/built. No timeouts, no r...
[14:39:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:2) 02Re:Passcode? - 06New York Times Publishes Prosecutors' Op/Ed Against Encryption - 608 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:39:09] <exec> 08└─I have been wondering this as well. If whatever's on the cell phone is so absolutely crucial to the investigation, why don't they buy some CPU time from, say, the NSA and spin up a cluster of a few thousand John the Ripper [wikipedia.org] nodes? Of course, doing that, obtaining the password in a few...
[14:39:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03mendax [2840] 02More of the same governmental bullshit - 06New York Times Publishes Prosecutors' Op/Ed Against Encryption - 529 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:29] <exec> 08└─The bullshit spewed by bastards like Cyrus Vance, Jr., et al. makes my blood boil. The new encryption policies of Apple and Google have made it harder to protect people from crime. We support the privacy rights of individuals. But in the absence of cooperation from Apple and Google, regulators and l...
[14:39:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] 02In other news … - 06New York Times Publishes Prosecutors' Op/Ed Against Encryption - 577 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:31] <exec> 08└─In other news, if the authorities would have a complete record of where everyone was and what they did at any instant in time, then there would never be a question who did it, at we could just look it up in the database. Does that justify the total surveillance state, with every corner of the world...
[14:40:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Processor upgrade? - 06Intel Left a Fascinating Security Flaw in its Chips for 16 Years - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:19] <exec> 08└─Looks like Intel wants everyone to upgrade their pre 2011 CPU ;-)
[14:40:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fishscene [4361] (Score:1) 02What are we doing tomorrow night? - 06Switching Mouse Neural Stem Cells to a Primate-Like Behaviour - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:54] <exec> 08└─So... we're a stones throw away from Pinky and the Brain - who knew!?
[14:41:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Mercury - 06Ocean Threat from Hong Kong's Taste for Seafood - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:41:10] <exec> 08└─Chinamen are used to eating, drinking and breathing mercury as well as other toxic waste. I'm sure they'll be fine.
[14:41:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Parse error - 06Ocean Threat from Hong Kong's Taste for Seafood - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:12] <exec> 08└─Is it me, or is the subject line hard to parse?
[14:41:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score:2) 02Re:He should appeal to a higher authority - 06Obama to Putin: Stop Hacking Me - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:41:24] <exec> 08└─Please permit me to be glad I'm not in Texas.
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[15:37:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03skullz [2532] (Score:3, Funny) 024G! - 06Internal LTE/3G Modems Can be Hacked to Help Malware Survive OS Reinstalls - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:18] <exec> 08└─What a relief I use Verizon's 4G! Take that, suckers!
[15:37:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03WizardFusion [498] (Score:2) 02Disable? - 06Internal LTE/3G Modems Can be Hacked to Help Malware Survive OS Reinstalls - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:19] <exec> 08└─Can these be disabled in the systems BIOS.? At what point does this module get activated when power is applied.?
[15:37:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrNemesis [1582] (Score:2) 02Re:Disable? - 06Internal LTE/3G Modems Can be Hacked to Help Malware Survive OS Reinstalls - 1015 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:37:21] <exec> 08└─As another story in the submission queue points out, you can do the same thing in the BIOS (actually UEFI) as well; someone's caught Lenovo using some not-very-well-documented features of UEFI to write to disk and then run an arbitrary .exe on your nice clean windows install on every boot: https://n...
[15:37:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 021 peripheral down 99999 to go - 06Internal LTE/3G Modems Can be Hacked to Help Malware Survive OS Reinstalls - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:22] <exec> 08└─How about your hard disk firmware? Your GPU firmware? Your ethernet firmware? Your audio card firmware? Your card reader firmware? Your firewire firmware Your... The grand scheme is rotten and needs to be fixed instead of desperately trying to tackle every single bit by bit.
[15:37:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score:2) 02You're going to be reading this story a lot. - 06Internal LTE/3G Modems Can be Hacked to Help Malware Survive OS Reinstalls - 521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:24] <exec> 08└─Firmware is a new attack surface for devices that there's really no "industry standard" defense against yet. The equation group's [kaspersky.com] exploitation of this vulnerability really put it on people's radars as an attractive way to install malware that was hard to detect and hard to clean. Now...
[15:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Simple is better - 06Internal LTE/3G Modems Can be Hacked to Help Malware Survive OS Reinstalls - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:26] <exec> 08└─the update process for the modem's firmware was insecure, lacking a cryptographic signature verification
[15:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Informative) 02Re:Blame the Taliban? - 06Africa Celebrates One Year Without Polio - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:37:34] <exec> 08└─Now that's a twisted logic. But then, without the help of the CIA (back at the time when Soviet Rusia was the enemy, and religious fanatism seemed the ideal weapon against atheist communism), the Taliban would not have existed anyway. [emperors-clothes.com] So even with that sort of twisted logic, t...
[15:37:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:4, Insightful) 02Re:Blame the Taliban? - 06Africa Celebrates One Year Without Polio - 687 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:37:36] <exec> 08└─On the other hand, the CIA using the immunization campaign as cover was against every rule in the books among international health organizations, in an attempt to prevent scenarios identical to this one. The CIA in general is not good at managing the larger trade-offs - if you give them a mission, t...
[15:37:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Blame the Taliban? - 06Africa Celebrates One Year Without Polio - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:37:38] <exec> 08└─And many Americans are anti-vaccination, too. However there's a big difference between a general fear without data to back it up, and "look, there you have a real, documented case of a fake vaccination campaign being used against us." The latter spreads much more effectively, and is much harder to o...
[15:37:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Blame the Taliban? - 06Africa Celebrates One Year Without Polio - 1285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:37:39] <exec> 08└─Talking about our own hippies or the Taliban? I suppose it doesn't matter. Note that the most famous anti-vaxxer in the UK was just doing insider trading, I don't think he intentionally sprung a worldwide conspiracy theory, he just wanted to collect a bunch of money by entering a ton of financial tr...
[15:37:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Blame the Taliban? - 06Africa Celebrates One Year Without Polio - 1575 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:37:41] <exec> 08└─The Taliban have been distrustful of ANY signs of western intervention for some time, including immunization. There have been rumors for a long time that the immunization campaign has secret ulterior motives. It's always been hard for immunization workers. That fact is on the Taliban. The CIA's usin...
[15:37:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Flamebait) 02Simple - 06Africa Celebrates One Year Without Polio - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:43] <exec> 08└─Afghanistan and Pakistan... Nothing a few nukes couldn't take care of. They're nothing but a blight on this world anyway nothing and nobody of value there. Not many tears would be shed over their demise.
[15:37:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Simple - 06Africa Celebrates One Year Without Polio - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:37:45] <exec> 08└─Assuming you meant that honestly, you're on the same moral level as Osama bin Laden.
[15:37:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score:2) 02Re:Simple - 06Africa Celebrates One Year Without Polio - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:37:46] <exec> 08└─you're on the same moral level as Osama bin Laden
[15:37:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Vaccine-derived Polio - 06Africa Celebrates One Year Without Polio - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:49] <exec> 08└─I'm guessing the article means Africa is free of wild polio. There is probably still some very small number of vaccine-derived polio cases in countries using the oral polio vaccine. I didn't see any mention of those numbers. A new vaccine is needed to fully eradicate the disease since both live and...
[15:37:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Re:Vaccine-derived Polio - 06Africa Celebrates One Year Without Polio - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:37:50] <exec> 08└─Even combining both vaccines allows for 8.8%, at best, of people to shed the virus. http://www.virology.ws [virology.ws]
[15:37:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snotnose [1623] 02One company i worked at - 06Why Employees Bend Workplace Confidential Information Rules - 328 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:53] <exec> 08└─held a meeting to emphasize documents stamped "Company Confidential" needed to be treated with care. I pointed out that everything, including the cafeteria menu, was stamped "Company Confidential" and that made it hard to take it seriously. He said he'd look into it, when I left 6 months later the m...
[15:37:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score:2) 02Re:One company i worked at - 06Why Employees Bend Workplace Confidential Information Rules - 729 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:37:54] <exec> 08└─Yeah that's the problem in a lot of companies. The management generate endless procedures which they expect employees to follow religiously but often don't really understand exactly why they're generating them. Because business. Because professionalism. Because ISO guy. There are plenty of good reas...
[15:37:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03snick [1408] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:One company i worked at - 06Why Employees Bend Workplace Confidential Information Rules - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:37:56] <exec> 08└─When the process to stamp something CONFIDENTIAL is ... to stamp it CONFIDENTIAL, and the process to release something without a CONFIDENTIAL stamp on it is to meet with legal, have the document reviewed for a month, and then signed off on by a director, the cafeteria menu is going to be stamped CON...
[15:37:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score:2) 02Easier to classify than declassify. - 06Why Employees Bend Workplace Confidential Information Rules - 1764 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:37:58] <exec> 08└─The generalization of this problem is that there needs to be trust on both sides for this system to work. Employers need to trust employees to respect the decision to designate something as confidential as something generally deserving of extra effort to secure. Employees need to trust that most ite...
[15:37:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score:2) 02The 5P-Rule - 06Why Employees Bend Workplace Confidential Information Rules - 998 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:59] <exec> 08└─Related to this topic, but concerning higher-ups, I once, semi-humorously, postulated the "5P-rule" that explains why large organizations cannot be run in an informationally secure fashion. It's the "Peter prinicple - PowerPoint - Pocketdrive" progression. First, technically inept people with presum...
[15:38:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Why? - 06Why Employees Bend Workplace Confidential Information Rules - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:01] <exec> 08└─That's easy. Employees like to remain employed...
[15:38:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dale [539] (Score:2) 02natural law of offices - 06Why Employees Bend Workplace Confidential Information Rules - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:02] <exec> 08└─Getting it done will always trump doing it right.
[15:38:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03skullz [2532] (Score:2) 02Re:Oh no! - 06FBI: Confidential Press Releases Used by Hackers for Insider Trading - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:38:11] <exec> 08└─"Speculation -- the press release system will be re-worked." Or everyone will have to go through mandatory confidential information training. Again.
[15:38:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score:2) 02Difficult structural issue. - 06FBI: Confidential Press Releases Used by Hackers for Insider Trading - 2233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:14] <exec> 08└─This is a problem that's not likely to go away, and ironically, the issue of fairness is part of the problem. The SEC in the US (and similar regulatory bodies elsewhere) require market participants to try as much as possible to keep the playing field level with potentially market-moving information....
[15:38:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score:2) 02Potential fix - 06FBI: Confidential Press Releases Used by Hackers for Insider Trading - 826 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:15] <exec> 08└─The issue appears to be uploaded releases being uploaded and stored in plaintext into news servers prior to scheduled release. In many ways, that's necessary - if you want your news to hit everyone in the market simultaneously, you need to coordinate and schedule the release of information. Uploadin...
[15:38:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03skullz [2532] (Score:2) 02Video tutorial - 06FBI: Confidential Press Releases Used by Hackers for Insider Trading - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:18] <exec> 08└─The best part is when they had to make a video tutorial to show the A-Team Alpha Wall Street Traders how to access an FTP server. Those Ukrainian hackers, man! Full service.
[15:38:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:2) 02Re:I wanna be a wind farmer! - 06Department of Energy Wind Power 2014 Report Finds It’s Dropping Dramatically in Cost - 666 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:38:28] <exec> 08└─Huh? Anything that can't be done as a mom and pop operation shouldn't be done? I suppose if that is your meaning, you might look to utilize one of these [wikipedia.org] on your farm. You see plenty of these in flyover country. Some are rusted and have fallen into disuse, but I'm fairly certain a lot...
[15:38:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Just the art component - 06Curtin University Professor Grows Ear on Arm, Plans to Connect It to the Internet - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:38:53] <exec> 08└─Well it does serve to focus sound. Presumably the ear also act as a reminder that conversations are bing recorded.
[15:39:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What else have they been busy working on? - 06See Through Walls by Passive Radiation From Wi-Fi - 658 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:39:28] <exec> 08└─The closest to mind reading we have is FMRI that shows what parts of the brain are active. Determining what is is happening inside the brain from brain waves is like trying to understand what is happening inside a factory by listening to the noise while standing outside. (not sure who I stole that a...
[15:40:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TrumpetPower! [590] 02Pocket calculator, smocket calculator - 06Intel Left a Fascinating Security Flaw in its Chips for 16 Years - 108 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:25] <exec> 08└─Slide rule or go home! In fact, I'm posting this message using mine and a couple tin cans on a string.... b&
[15:41:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Send flowers - 06Switching Mouse Neural Stem Cells to a Primate-Like Behaviour - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:32] <exec> 08└─Address to Algernon.
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[16:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Redundant) 02I stopped reading at - 06Lawrence Lessig Considering US Presidential Bid - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:26] <exec> 08└─Harvard Law. Nothing good comes out of Harvard.
[16:37:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Interesting) 02Re:I stopped reading at - 06Lawrence Lessig Considering US Presidential Bid - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:37:27] <exec> 08└─No worthwhile comment has ever started with "I stopped reading at". Your comment didn't break that rule either.
[16:37:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart9h [767] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:1 peripheral down 99999 to go - 06Internal LTE/3G Modems Can be Hacked to Help Malware Survive OS Reinstalls - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:37:39] <exec> 08└─and they say people who want a completely Free system, including hardware, firmware, etc, are paranoid..
[16:37:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Insightful) 02Re:1 peripheral down 99999 to go - 06Internal LTE/3G Modems Can be Hacked to Help Malware Survive OS Reinstalls - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:37:40] <exec> 08└─People are finally starting to realize that with all these embedded controllers from different vendors all running their own proprietary firmware, your PC isn't a device anymore - it's a network. And it's a network where all the nodes trust each other by default, like it's still 1975 in there.
[16:37:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02Re:You're going to be reading this story a lot. - 06Internal LTE/3G Modems Can be Hacked to Help Malware Survive OS Reinstalls - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:37:42] <exec> 08└─It's not going to stop until there's a "good" way for anti-malware to detect these kinds of attacks.
[16:37:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02compound computer - 06Internal LTE/3G Modems Can be Hacked to Help Malware Survive OS Reinstalls - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:45] <exec> 08└─When talking about security, this is why I ask people if they how many computers are in their computer. You have one in every motherboard, SATA device, USB device, GPU, CPU, modern modems (e.g. WiFi/GSM) and now some monitors. The modern computer is more than just a computer, it's a compound compute...
[16:37:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Blame the Taliban? - 06Africa Celebrates One Year Without Polio - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:37:59] <exec> 08└─Yes. I agree. But it sure-as-hell gives them credibility on that message that we didn't want them to have.
[16:38:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02Re:Simple - 06Africa Celebrates One Year Without Polio - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:38:04] <exec> 08└─you're on the same moral level as Osama bin Laden
[16:38:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score:2) 02Re:Simple hatred - 06Africa Celebrates One Year Without Polio - 818 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:38:06] <exec> 08└─At least with Pakistan and India, that feeling is mutual in a fair bit of the population of both countries. Some years back when I did sysadmin work at an interdisciplinary science institute. I worked closely with two research groups that were amazingly segregated along Moslem/Hindu lines. I liked t...
[16:38:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score:2) 02Re:One company i worked at - 06Why Employees Bend Workplace Confidential Information Rules - 666 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:38:18] <exec> 08└─The point is common sense says that it wouldn't really be a breach of trust nor security to bypass that release procedure for the cafeteria menu. It could be somehow worked around by, for example, not considering the menu as a company document. This is exactly what the TFA is getting at. Procedures...
[16:38:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hawkwind [3531] (Score:2) 02Tax Credit Beyond 2014 - 06Department of Energy Wind Power 2014 Report Finds It’s Dropping Dramatically in Cost - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:53] <exec> 08└─Last I heard (late June) the tax credit was still going and possibly could be extended into 2016: http://cphpost.dk [cphpost.dk]. At least for the company mentioned in the previous link their business is going stron...
[16:39:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03zeigerpuppy [1298] (Score:2) 02Wow - 06Curtin University Professor Grows Ear on Arm, Plans to Connect It to the Internet - 746 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:20] <exec> 08└─There's a surprising amount of vitriol about this. Not really what I expected here, considering most soylentils take time to consider before they post. Stelarc has quite a history in pushing the boundaries of the intersection between body and technology. You may or may not like his art but it's diff...
[16:39:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Onion called, they want their article back - 06Curtin University Professor Grows Ear on Arm, Plans to Connect It to the Internet - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:21] <exec> 08└─If this is not an Onion.com article, I'll bite my own ear off.
[16:39:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03AnonymousCowardNoMore [5416] (Score:2) 02Re:ELI5 Please - 06Time-Symmetric Formulation of Quantum Theory Provides New Understanding of Causality - 2488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:39:35] <exec> 08└─Best attempt of a mere amateur: Classical physics is supposed to be "time-reversable", meaning that there is no fundamental difference between the past and the future. It is possible to specify a process which is the reverse of some other process, and both are perfectly valid ways for the system to...
[16:39:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Modern houses - 06See Through Walls by Passive Radiation From Wi-Fi - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:39:58] <exec> 08└─Unless modern insulation features Faraday cage-esque wire mesh. It ain't blocking or stopping EM radiation.
[16:40:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What else have they been busy working on? - 06See Through Walls by Passive Radiation From Wi-Fi - 849 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:40:01] <exec> 08└─No, the closest thing to mind reading that everyone is aware of is FMRI. It is not the only thing. It is possible that people are sitting in a room, connected to antennas listening for keywords people are thinking. Or electronics (satellites, perhaps) that scan the environment, gathering mind waves....
[16:40:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Dam Rain! - 06Glittering Shower of Perseid Meteors Will Enliven Our Skies on 12 August - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:40:49] <exec> 08└─Yeah, we've just had 12 to-local-standards scorchers with clear skies. That stopped at tea-time today, with spitting rain that seems like it will never wind down. Not expecting any sky to be visible at all tonight.
[16:41:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:2) 02Re:Pocket calculator, smocket calculator - 06Intel Left a Fascinating Security Flaw in its Chips for 16 Years - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:41:07] <exec> 08└─Even my 12yo son knows how to count to 31 using just one hand, and he even knows how to apply that knowledge practically :-) "I didn't have too much coke, it's less than I could count on one hand..."
[16:41:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03morgauxo [2082] (Score:2) 02Re:microcode updates - 06Intel Left a Fascinating Security Flaw in its Chips for 16 Years - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:41:14] <exec> 08└─If they did then why would they. It's just coming to light now. 2011 is long enough ago the press they will receive will not be damaging to their sales. Meanwhile the bug is a reason why people who are holding on to older hardware that is otherwise 'good enough' for their needs to shell out more mon...
[16:41:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:SMM doesn't need this "security" - 06Intel Left a Fascinating Security Flaw in its Chips for 16 Years - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:41:28] <exec> 08└─TFS doesn't say it explicitly, but I assume also it'd persist OS installs.
[16:41:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score:2) 02Re:don't blame the robot - 06MIT Robot Steals Human Brains to Help It Balance - 1013 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:41:47] <exec> 08└─Makes me think of the ending in One Must Fall 2097. http://www.omf2097.com [omf2097.com] **Spoiler Alert ** ""...was found dead today. We repeat, Hans Kreissack's body was found at 18:00 hours tonight in a garbage bin outside the Nova laboratories." Everyone is holding their brea...
[16:43:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:the term "GPU" is looking dated - 06IBM's POWER Roadmap Extends to 2020+ - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:43:28] <exec> 08└─If I were writing the software, sure, that could work. Since I'm "just" a user of the CADCAM the software I have no control over where the code executes, and it is currently not written to use CUDA or anything like that. If you can tell me a way to run a VM on the GPU I would be ever so grateful.
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[17:37:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Yeah - 06That Ad Blocker You Love? It's Costing Publishers a Pretty Penny - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:24] <exec> 08└─I have been advocating for years that the solution is personal responsibility and selective attention away from ads, or from the negative feelings they seem to engender in some people (along with proper security measures to prevent actively malicious code). For obvious reasons this has always been m...
[17:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03TrumpetPower! [590] (Score:2) 02Worng perspective - 06That Ad Blocker You Love? It's Costing Publishers a Pretty Penny - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:26] <exec> 08└─Most notably, ad blocking will cost publishers nearly $22 billion this year, it reported.
[17:37:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Marketing is societal cancer - 06That Ad Blocker You Love? It's Costing Publishers a Pretty Penny - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:27] <exec> 08└─I for one enjoy seing them bleed dry.
[17:37:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02It's a lie! - 06That Ad Blocker You Love? It's Costing Publishers a Pretty Penny - 510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:29] <exec> 08└─The adblocker isn't "costing" them anything at all. They aren't making money - true - but that is only a "cost" if they are counting their chickens before their eggs are hatched. Or, stated another way, they are failing to meet projected earnings. And, that is none of my concern. They have simply ov...
[17:37:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmoschner [3296] (Score:2, Funny) 02Headline is misleading... - 06Bulletproof Bra Saves Cyclist - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:36] <exec> 08└─...but still a titillating story.
[17:37:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score:2) 02I feel someone is obligated to say this, but... - 06Bulletproof Bra Saves Cyclist - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:37] <exec> 08└─pics or it didn't happen.
[17:37:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Germany - 06Bulletproof Bra Saves Cyclist - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:39] <exec> 08└─Germany is super serious about forest and wildlife stuff. That hunter may never hunt again.
[17:37:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmoschner [3296] (Score:2, Insightful) 02Waste of Money - 06Lawrence Lessig Considering US Presidential Bid - 494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:47] <exec> 08└─While intention may be noble, this is the wrong way to go about such change. The President just doesn't have the power to make the changes he wants. Congress would just shut out such a President and never make the changes needed. He would be better off using the money and effort to back those runnin...
[17:37:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03massa [5547] (Score:1) 02Re:Waste of Money - 06Lawrence Lessig Considering US Presidential Bid - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:37:48] <exec> 08└─That is an universally needed campaign: NEVER VOTE FOR THE INCUMBENT.
[17:37:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03etherscythe [937] (Score:2) 02Re:Waste of Money - 06Lawrence Lessig Considering US Presidential Bid - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:37:50] <exec> 08└─More specifically, I think, if he can garner some attention then he may sway the campaigns of the other candidates. I don't think anyone expects him to actually win an election, but if it helped to curb some of the excessive influence of the IP lobby or bring a voice of reason to the debate, that wo...
[17:37:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03zafiro17 [234] (Score:2) 02who is Lessig? - 06Lawrence Lessig Considering US Presidential Bid - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:52] <exec> 08└─Kidding. I know who he is and so do probably most of us here. But elsewhere he is nobody, unknown, zero. Beyond that, he's a on - issue candidate, always a bad strategy. For that matter, despite taking on worthy causes, I'm told he has lost most of the cases he has fought. I admire his ambition but...
[17:37:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03zafiro17 [234] (Score:2) 02Re:who is Lessig? - 06Lawrence Lessig Considering US Presidential Bid - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:37:54] <exec> 08└─* one-issue. Stupid android autocorrect.
[17:37:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score:2) 02Lawrence Lessig Considering Publicity Stunt - 06Lawrence Lessig Considering US Presidential Bid - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:56] <exec> 08└─Let's be honest. I generally admire Lawrence Lessig on a wide variety of issues. And while he's saying all the right things here, I doubt very much that even he really thinks he's a realistic candidate for president. Particularly when his platform is basically a "stunt" presidency. I'm all for getti...
[17:38:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Disable? - 06Internal LTE/3G Modems Can be Hacked to Help Malware Survive OS Reinstalls - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:38:03] <exec> 08└─Here's another gem, if you want to do it yourself. Roll rootkits like a state level actor. https://www.blackhat.com [blackhat.com] (Rakshasa) This is all public knowledge. Imagine what the secret sauce must be like.
[17:38:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Blame the Taliban? - 06Africa Celebrates One Year Without Polio - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:38:26] <exec> 08└─The Taliban have been distrustful of ANY signs of western intervention for some time, including immunization.
[17:38:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03lyserge [5797] (Score:1) 02CIA trickery - 06Africa Celebrates One Year Without Polio - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:34] <exec> 08└─According to this fine article [lrb.co.uk], the CIA didn't actually use a vaccination programme as a cover to help find Bin Laden: they used it as a post-hoc explanation to avoid revealing their real source. Really poor thinking on their front whichever story you believe.
[17:38:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's not just CI rules - 06Why Employees Bend Workplace Confidential Information Rules - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:38:48] <exec> 08└─That also explains government bureaucracy. All they understand is the rules and you best well follow your employer's rules to the letter when they also control the police.
[17:38:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Disust - 06Why Employees Bend Workplace Confidential Information Rules - 892 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:54] <exec> 08└─I worked for a bunch of inept bunglers who went bankrupt. They had "confidential" stuff around the plant, but didn't make a very big deal of it. I would never have dreamed of taking any of those documents, or using them in any way that didn't benefit the company. The new management is anal-retentive...
[17:39:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geotti [1146] (Score:2) 02Profit? - 06FBI: Confidential Press Releases Used by Hackers for Insider Trading - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:09] <exec> 08└─So, wait a minute... According to: "and were paid a portion of the profits from trades based on information contained there," apparently the guys that pwned the mail servers were paid by the people that watched the video tutorials to independently access the information. This raises the question for...
[17:39:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:That can't happen - 06Curtin University Professor Grows Ear on Arm, Plans to Connect It to the Internet - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:39:35] <exec> 08└─Which demographic? Guys on the Internet? Murderers? Artists?
[17:39:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03xav [5579] (Score:1) 02Re:That can't happen - 06Curtin University Professor Grows Ear on Arm, Plans to Connect It to the Internet - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:39:37] <exec> 08└─Guys that grow ears on their arms and offer anyone on the Internet the possibility to listen to their surroundings day and night. I can't imagine a wife would accept this.
[17:39:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score:2) 02Re:Just the art component - 06Curtin University Professor Grows Ear on Arm, Plans to Connect It to the Internet - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:39:53] <exec> 08└─and instead of 3D printing it or something he grows it off his arm? I really think we should reconsider the idea that there's no such thing as non-art. Because come on.
[17:39:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Wow - 06Curtin University Professor Grows Ear on Arm, Plans to Connect It to the Internet - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:39:55] <exec> 08└─Don't take it personally. Most "performance art" pieces like throwing raw meat on a bed get the same reaction from me.
[17:39:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03morgauxo [2082] (Score:2) 02It's not just for androids - 06Curtin University Professor Grows Ear on Arm, Plans to Connect It to the Internet - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:57] <exec> 08└─This guy is going to be proof that even a real human can be lost in the depts of the uncanny valley!
[17:40:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AnonymousCowardNoMore [5416] 02Re:ELI5 Please - 06Time-Symmetric Formulation of Quantum Theory Provides New Understanding of Causality - 2488 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:40:10] <exec> 08└─Best attempt of a mere amateur: Classical physics is supposed to be "time-reversable", meaning that there is no fundamental difference between the past and the future. It is possible to specify a process which is the reverse of some other process, and both are perfectly valid ways for the system to...
[17:40:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02SMH - 06Time-Symmetric Formulation of Quantum Theory Provides New Understanding of Causality - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:13] <exec> 08└─Welcome to 1600 BCE German Metaphysics. Until it can be proven definitively with facts and experiments, they just discovered a 400 year-old philosophy theory through differing means. pointing to new directions for search of physics beyond the known models
[17:40:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score:2) 02Re:Modern houses - 06See Through Walls by Passive Radiation From Wi-Fi - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:40:35] <exec> 08└─The thing is just that, the newest houses here in sweden often have the problem that cellphones are effectivly blocked. It is at the point where that have to make small slits in foil of the windows in order to get a reception. And no, not wire mesh but actually surrounded by foil.
[17:41:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Frost [3313] (Score:1) 02Prosecutor's opinion about legal policy - 06New York Times Publishes Prosecutors' Op/Ed Against Encryption - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:17] <exec> 08└─Prosecutors are exactly the wrong people to ask about legal policy. Their only priority is to maximize successful convictions. They don't give a damn about society or justice.
[17:42:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03zeigerpuppy [1298] (Score:2) 02Re:Not worth worrying about - 06Intel Left a Fascinating Security Flaw in its Chips for 16 Years - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:42:01] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the info, does seem like a great backdoor, I mean feature. Here's a good article in how to test the AMT: http://www.howtogeek.com [howtogeek.com] It's essentially like an IPMI/KVM but for consumer grade hardware. Very big hole if...
[17:42:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TheRaven [270] 02Re:FPGA - 06Intel Left a Fascinating Security Flaw in its Chips for 16 Years - 140 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:42:06] <exec> 08└─FPGA's are not just a little slower or a little more power hungry than hard logic. It would be like running the entirety of the OS in python
[17:42:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02"left it in its chips" - 06Intel Left a Fascinating Security Flaw in its Chips for 16 Years - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:16] <exec> 08└─The good news is that Intel spotted the howler in its processor blueprints, and corrected the issue: chips built from January 2011 and onwards (Sandy Bridge Core CPUs and later) are not affected.
[17:44:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:the term "GPU" is looking dated - 06IBM's POWER Roadmap Extends to 2020+ - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:44:11] <exec> 08└─No way to ever run a VM on ay current GPU (if that question was serious). I'd complain to your CAD vendor and demand CUDA or better yet, OpenCL acceleration of your CAD package. Then again, they might be offering it but only through a very costly upgrade or rendering plugin.
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[18:37:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score:2) 02Summer's End - 06It's Official: The Universe Is Dying Slowly - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:21] <exec> 08└─I just came in from the back yard and my amaryllis are also dying. So it goes.
[18:37:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain_nifty [4252] (Score:1) 02News? 2nd Law of Thermodynamics is True - 06It's Official: The Universe Is Dying Slowly - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:22] <exec> 08└─Thought this was a known outcome, the heat death of the universe, laws of thermodynamics type stuff. Good for them doing some scientific measurements, but this seems like it only confirms the known outcome, and maybe gives us a data point to know where we are on the curve.
[18:37:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score:2) 02200,000 galaxies what a large number . . . - 06It's Official: The Universe Is Dying Slowly - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:24] <exec> 08└─"All in all, Hubble reveals an estimated 100 billion galaxies in the universe or so, but this number is likely to increase to about 200 billion as telescope technology in space improves . . ." That's a sample size of an estimated 0.000002 to 0.000001 percent. That's like saying the sky is falling, b...
[18:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score:2) 02Re:200,000 galaxies what a large number . . . - 06It's Official: The Universe Is Dying Slowly - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:37:26] <exec> 08└─Forgot to include the source: http://www.space.com [space.com]
[18:37:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03miljo [5757] (Score:2) 02Fair Enough - 06It's Official: The Universe Is Dying Slowly - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:27] <exec> 08└─Since its creation made a lot of people angry and was regarded as a bad move anyway...
[18:37:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03jummama [3969] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Yeah - 06That Ad Blocker You Love? It's Costing Publishers a Pretty Penny - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:37:36] <exec> 08└─That would be great... If the ad networks weren't constantly letting exploits through.
[18:37:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03physicsmajor [1471] (Score:2) 02Re:Yeah - 06That Ad Blocker You Love? It's Costing Publishers a Pretty Penny - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:37:38] <exec> 08└─I would be fine with passive ads. I'm not fine with tracking, delayed page loads, and bandwidth sucking. If there was a curated/registered service which only did that, I wouldn't block. Until then, there is no way I'm letting that shit through.
[18:37:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Yeah - 06That Ad Blocker You Love? It's Costing Publishers a Pretty Penny - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:37:39] <exec> 08└─I have been advocating for years that the solution is personal responsibility
[18:37:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TrumpetPower! [590] 02Worng perspective - 06That Ad Blocker You Love? It's Costing Publishers a Pretty Penny - 89 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:41] <exec> 08└─Most notably, ad blocking will cost publishers nearly $22 billion this year, it reported.
[18:37:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Worng perspective - 06That Ad Blocker You Love? It's Costing Publishers a Pretty Penny - 523 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:37:42] <exec> 08└─I don't understand. how did you arrive at this figure? are you paying to watch adds? if you see an add, do you automatically buy a certain percentage of the products advertised or smth? please note that my opinion is that the ad people can go fuck themselves with their ads, but I don't see why you t...
[18:37:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Worng perspective - 06That Ad Blocker You Love? It's Costing Publishers a Pretty Penny - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:37:44] <exec> 08└─Ads cost CPU time, memory, bandwidth and can compromise your computer. However, I doubt that is what the GP or report mentioned in TFA is talking about.
[18:37:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Worng perspective - 06That Ad Blocker You Love? It's Costing Publishers a Pretty Penny - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:37:46] <exec> 08└─fair point. I hadn't thought of that.
[18:37:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03TrumpetPower! [590] (Score:2) 02Re:Worng perspective - 06That Ad Blocker You Love? It's Costing Publishers a Pretty Penny - 633 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:37:47] <exec> 08└─That $22 billion they're claiming they're "losing" is coming from the pockets of their "customers." You can bet that all those who pay the ad companies are, in turn, passing their expenses on to everybody else, with everybody adding their percentage along the way. If nothing else, the $22 billion th...
[18:37:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03e_armadillo [3695] (Score:2) 02Wrong -- was -- Re:Worng perspective - 06That Ad Blocker You Love? It's Costing Publishers a Pretty Penny - 882 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:37:49] <exec> 08└─Not sure how this is considered insightful. I'm pretty sure your perspective is the wrong one, spelled w-r-o-n-g. Check yoru title before you hit submit. The advertisers are not the ones being shorted on revenue. Ads they paid to create aren't being served, but they aren't paying out the fees to the...
[18:37:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:Wrong -- was -- Re:Worng perspective - 06That Ad Blocker You Love? It's Costing Publishers a Pretty Penny - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:37:51] <exec> 08└─and "ad blocker" allows consumers to enjoy content while depriving the content creator of the rewards for their work
[18:37:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:It's a lie! - 06That Ad Blocker You Love? It's Costing Publishers a Pretty Penny - 544 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:37:52] <exec> 08└─that really expensive car sitting on a dealer car lot? I'm not buying it, therefore I'm 'costing them money'. this statement and all like it are some of the dumbest things advertisers have ever tried to foist on us. its now just pathetic and borderline silly. you think we should feel sorry for you?...
[18:37:53] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03NCommander [2] 02Their own damn fault ... - 06That Ad Blocker You Love? It's Costing Publishers a Pretty Penny - 2067 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:54] <exec> 08└─I have relatively little sympathy for ad companies because they really brought it upon themselves. My current laptop (circa 2007; unretired after my newer one died) frequently falls over if I don't have ad blocking shit installed in Firefox. I recommend anyone who doesn't think the web has gotten ov...
[18:37:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Now that's great! - 06That Ad Blocker You Love? It's Costing Publishers a Pretty Penny - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:56] <exec> 08└─Instead of acknowledging that their current business model is bad, and look for a new one, they're trying to tell us that we are guilty of their bad revenues. Ah, ok, i'll turn off my adblockers… when ad companies will start to share their revenues with me. At least they have to pay my ISP bills a...
[18:37:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02And? - 06That Ad Blocker You Love? It's Costing Publishers a Pretty Penny - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:57] <exec> 08└─That Ad Blocker You Love? It's Costing Publishers a Pretty Penny
[18:37:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03gman003 [4155] (Score:2) 02RIAA accounting all over again - 06That Ad Blocker You Love? It's Costing Publishers a Pretty Penny - 893 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:59] <exec> 08└─Does my adblocker literally go into their bank account and drain their money? Does it literally pick cash from their pockets? No. It doesn't. This isn't a cost, it's a decrease in earnings. Many of the sites I browse with AdBlock on, are sites I would not go to if ad blocking did not exist, either b...
[18:38:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score:2) 02My computer, my choice - 06That Ad Blocker You Love? It's Costing Publishers a Pretty Penny - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:01] <exec> 08└─It may come surprisingly to some people but I run, display and read on my computer what I want, not them. And http://www.reactiongifs.com [reactiongifs.com]
[18:38:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02awww - 06That Ad Blocker You Love? It's Costing Publishers a Pretty Penny - 565 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:02] <exec> 08└─I'm sure everyone here has browsed the Web on a computer at some point without an ad blocker, probably with Flash on. You enjoyed the 5x slower browsing and freezing tabs (or windows, if you browsed pre-tabs). Malvertising [soylentnews.org] is just another nail in the coffin. With Paypal, Kickstarte...
[18:38:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Boo fucking hoo - 06That Ad Blocker You Love? It's Costing Publishers a Pretty Penny - 604 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:04] <exec> 08└─There is a reason people want to turn that shit off. Why should I give a damn because some idiot who writes a blog thinks he's entitled to retire off his ad revenue, ads which are spamming up my screen, that force me to click to close them because they block what's underneath, ads with obnoxious sou...
[18:38:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score:2) 02Take My Goddamn Money! - 06That Ad Blocker You Love? It's Costing Publishers a Pretty Penny - 635 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:06] <exec> 08└─So, Mr Publisher, give me an option to pay for the content. Set a price. It will tell me two things: 1) What you think your content is really worth, and 2) how much you think my eyeballs looking at your miserable advertisements are worth. I want to be the consumer, not the consumable (as with advert...
[18:38:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Boo freaking hoo. - 06That Ad Blocker You Love? It's Costing Publishers a Pretty Penny - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:07] <exec> 08└─This is literally the most absurd crap (well outside of the advent and utter dominance of social media) on the internet! I hope they die. https://www.encrypteverything.ca [encrypteverything.ca] I use all those functions. You should too.
[18:38:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain_nifty [4252] (Score:1) 02An Appropriate Quote - 06That Ad Blocker You Love? It's Costing Publishers a Pretty Penny - 1074 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:09] <exec> 08└─“There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged with the duty of guaranteeing such profit in the future, even in the face of changing...
[18:38:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03PizzaRollPlinkett [4512] (Score:2) 02TRACKING blocker-stop calling it an "ad" blocker - 06That Ad Blocker You Love? It's Costing Publishers a Pretty Penny - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:10] <exec> 08└─Let's stop calling these AD blockers. They're TRACKING blockers. I use three or four, and STILL have to manually go in and block trackers. I don't care about ads, I care about not having third parties track me.
[18:38:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03morgauxo [2082] (Score:2) 02Balance - 06That Ad Blocker You Love? It's Costing Publishers a Pretty Penny - 899 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:12] <exec> 08└─I like a well balanced ad blocker that just blocks the problem ads. I like my free content. Would I pay for online content if the free stuff went away? Maybe, maybe not but that would be just like the old days of newspapers. You only get a single source. Sites like Soylent which link to content from...
[18:38:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Just a bruise? - 06Bulletproof Bra Saves Cyclist - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:14] <exec> 08└─There couldn't have been much energy left in that bullet. Cops wearing full body armer are knocked breathless when they are hit by medium and large caliber rounds. The energy is simply spread out over a wider area, but it's still like being hit by a sledgehammer weilded by the Jolly Green Giant.
[18:38:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03morgauxo [2082] (Score:2) 02Re:Just a bruise? - 06Bulletproof Bra Saves Cyclist - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:38:16] <exec> 08└─I was going to say that too. I'm sure the bra is far from bulletproof if hit directly. I've been hit with shot from a 12 guage myself, It had skidded across the ground losing momentum along the way. It just bounced harmlessly off of my jeans. That doesn't mean those pants would save me if I was actu...
[18:38:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:2) 02Re:Just a bruise? - 06Bulletproof Bra Saves Cyclist - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:38:19] <exec> 08└─It may have been a ricochet rather than a direct hit. Here's a google-translated quote from the original german article: "Was found in the alleged shooting direction, among other things, a hunted boar from which the bullet could have bounced," said [André Falke from the police station Wismar on SV...
[18:38:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Just a bruise? - 06Bulletproof Bra Saves Cyclist - 2441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:38:23] <exec> 08└─From what sense I can make of the German (which isn't so good), they have some kind of special fall hunting season (this is fall? maybe its some kind of holiday name?) and the cops in Germany, not being as incompetent as American cops, have already tracked down the hunter and the wild boar the bulle...
[18:38:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02A picture speaks a thousand words - 06Bulletproof Bra Saves Cyclist - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:26] <exec> 08└─Did the said bra have a good fulfilling life?
[18:38:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score:2) 02Moral of the story - 06Bulletproof Bra Saves Cyclist - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:29] <exec> 08└─Don’t ride through somebody’s field while they’re hunting.
[18:38:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Waste of Money - 06Lawrence Lessig Considering US Presidential Bid - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:38:31] <exec> 08└─That's his way of attracting eyeballs to the issue - he's not trying to get elected. You know, like Trump (but for different reasons).
[18:39:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Blame the Taliban? - 06Africa Celebrates One Year Without Polio - 599 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:39:02] <exec> 08└─No, it's the Brits' fault because without all that tax on tea and whatnot the U.S. never would have existed to make a CIA organization to fund/train the Taliban to fight the Russians. Or maybe you could say it's the Protestants' fault for starting the Reformation which led to the Puritans wanting to...
[18:39:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Vaccine-derived Polio - 06Africa Celebrates One Year Without Polio - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:39:17] <exec> 08└─But won't you need a vaccine to cure the polio caused by the vaccine you made to cure the polio caused by the first vaccine then?
[18:39:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Vaccine-derived Polio - 06Africa Celebrates One Year Without Polio - 746 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:39:18] <exec> 08└─Did they compare to acute flaccid paralysis? Of the 10264 cases of AFP, 209 were cases of polio or compatible with polio. Of the remaining 10055, only 2553 were followed up; of these, 898 had residual paralysis (that would qualify them to be diagnosed as polio using the old definition) and 217 died....
[18:39:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Disust - 06Why Employees Bend Workplace Confidential Information Rules - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:39:37] <exec> 08└─I think the parent makes a good proof of the (generally well accepted) https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[18:40:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:SMH - 06Time-Symmetric Formulation of Quantum Theory Provides New Understanding of Causality - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:40:58] <exec> 08└─I'm sorry, that was a bit too harsh. I have not had my morning coffee yet.
[18:41:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Daiv [3940] (Score:2) 02Re:Hemh. - 06New York Times Publishes Prosecutors' Op/Ed Against Encryption - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:41:49] <exec> 08└─Yeah, well Michigan isn't Detroit, but that doesn't stop people from that mistake either. Ignore the little flaws, see the message.
[18:42:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:FPGA - 06Intel Left a Fascinating Security Flaw in its Chips for 16 Years - 513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:42:53] <exec> 08└─And adding to that, an FPGA's bit file is proprietary. No FPGA vendor has opened their bit file format nor their compilers. A comparison would be Intel being the only vendor of both the CPU *and* the compiler. No GCC, MS cl, clang, Borland etc. Just Intel. And to make it worse, the binary output fro...
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[19:37:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:3, Touché) 02Re:News? 2nd Law of Thermodynamics is True - 06It's Official: The Universe Is Dying Slowly - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:37:24] <exec> 08└─Observational verification of a theory?!?! WHAT KINDA SCIENCE IS THIS?
[19:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:News? 2nd Law of Thermodynamics is True - 06It's Official: The Universe Is Dying Slowly - 594 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:37:25] <exec> 08└─The article doesn't seem to explain how they arrived at the conclusion. If I'm reading between the lines correctly, they categorized galaxies they could see through a telescope by distance. So since the farther away they are the longer their light takes to get here, you're observing them J Random Lo...
[19:37:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03scruffybeard [533] (Score:2) 02Re:Fair Enough - 06It's Official: The Universe Is Dying Slowly - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:37:30] <exec> 08└─We apologize for the inconvenience.
[19:37:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score:2) 02Re:Fair Enough - 06It's Official: The Universe Is Dying Slowly - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:37:31] <exec> 08└─I never realized how utterly hopeless life is from an atheistic world view until I read the "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" series of books. The last book was rather depressing and would have been only more so, if I was atheist.
[19:37:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03miljo [5757] (Score:1) 02Re:Fair Enough - 06It's Official: The Universe Is Dying Slowly - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:37:33] <exec> 08└─I don't know, as an atheist, I tend to have a fairly positive world view and I thought the HGTTG books were extremely funny. I don't really feel the need to ask any particular deity to keep an eye on my mortal soul. But you're free to believe whatever you'd like.
[19:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Fair Enough - 06It's Official: The Universe Is Dying Slowly - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:37:35] <exec> 08└─I seem to recall that Douglas Adams was kind of grumpy about how they wanted him to keep writing HHGG books for the fourth and/or fifth books, so maybe that explains why #4 really had nothing to do with the rest of the series and #5 was...well, I rather enjoyed it, but admittedly it was a bit dystop...
[19:37:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Paper - 06It's Official: The Universe Is Dying Slowly - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:36] <exec> 08└─Does anyone know the paper they are basing this off of? I tried searching Simon Driver and got to this site: http://www-star.st-and.ac.uk [st-and.ac.uk] I clicked for publications and there were like five published in the future...
[19:37:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03EQ [1716] (Score:3, Funny) 02Confirmation? - 06It's Official: The Universe Is Dying Slowly - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:38] <exec> 08└─Has Netcraft confirmed that the universe is dying?
[19:37:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:2, Insightful) 02Re:Yeah - 06That Ad Blocker You Love? It's Costing Publishers a Pretty Penny - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:37:48] <exec> 08└─And causing page-load times to soar and choking browsers.
[19:37:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Yeah - 06That Ad Blocker You Love? It's Costing Publishers a Pretty Penny - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:37:49] <exec> 08└─... having Adobe propose alternatives doesn't make that seem very likely.
[19:37:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Yeah - 06That Ad Blocker You Love? It's Costing Publishers a Pretty Penny - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:37:51] <exec> 08└─No tracking means showing untargeted advertisements. You'll get so many adult diaper and v1agra ads. Wouldn't you prefer to see Grant Imahara trying to sell you electronic parts? Filter error: No Spam Please! I had to mangle some words to bypass the filter, sorry.
[19:37:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:Yeah - 06That Ad Blocker You Love? It's Costing Publishers a Pretty Penny - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:37:53] <exec> 08└─I would, but I think it really should be opt-in. Alternatively sites could show ads based on the sort of interests that *their* site attracts.
[19:37:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yeah - 06That Ad Blocker You Love? It's Costing Publishers a Pretty Penny - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:37:55] <exec> 08└─I don't care what ads they show, since i'm not buying anyway. I don't want to be tracked. The useless ads could be shown, and i'd allow it, if there was no tracking, the ads would be small in file size and page size, would not come from external sources etc. but this current shit, no way.
[19:37:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03M. Baranczak [1673] (Score:2) 02Re:Yeah - 06That Ad Blocker You Love? It's Costing Publishers a Pretty Penny - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:37:57] <exec> 08└─Loading your data onto my computer is a privilege, not a right.
[19:38:02] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03frojack [1554] 02Re:Wrong -- was -- Re:Worng perspective - 06That Ad Blocker You Love? It's Costing Publishers a Pretty Penny - 370 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:38:03] <exec> 08└─Exactly. The advertisers broke the tacit agreement that we would tolerate their ads in return for free content as long as the ads were simply that, static advertisements. Once they went to pernicious tracking, whack-the-monkey, video, audio and boat loads of insecure plug-ins, the agreement is null...
[19:38:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03e_armadillo [3695] (Score:2) 02Re:Wrong -- was -- Re:Worng perspective - 06That Ad Blocker You Love? It's Costing Publishers a Pretty Penny - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:38:04] <exec> 08└─Actually, If you want to view the content they created, then yes they have the right to display ads on the page. Just because there is a way to subvert that doesn't mean they don't. However you want to rationalize it, as an upstanding netizen your choice should be to go somewhere else at that point,...
[19:38:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03TrumpetPower! [590] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Wrong -- was -- Re:Worng perspective - 06That Ad Blocker You Love? It's Costing Publishers a Pretty Penny - 1544 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:38:06] <exec> 08└─My computer. My rules. You seem to be unaware of how the Web works. I ask somebody for something. They can send it to me or not as they please. Often, they include references to other things they think I might appreciate in addition to what I asked for -- images to display inline, style sheets, code...
[19:38:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score:2) 02Re:Worng perspective - 06That Ad Blocker You Love? It's Costing Publishers a Pretty Penny - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:38:08] <exec> 08└─I never understood how publishers can "lose" $22 billion they never had either. The money never existed. Maybe I’m losing billions by seeing ads? They could have paid me directly to view it.
[19:38:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Marketing is societal cancer - 06That Ad Blocker You Love? It's Costing Publishers a Pretty Penny - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:38:09] <exec> 08└─I for one enjoy seing them bleed dry. I, for one, am outraged by this story! 22 billion!! That's freaking pathetic. We can do WAY better than that!
[19:38:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03mechanicjay [7] (Score:1) 02Re:Their own damn fault ... - 06That Ad Blocker You Love? It's Costing Publishers a Pretty Penny - 827 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:38:12] <exec> 08└─For reference, I think Ncommander is referring the Ghostery plugin -- I recommend everyone run that one. I'm also running uBlock Origin, a fork of Ad Block since Ad Block has decided to allow some ads through by default. The thing I really like about uBlock, is that toolbar icon shows you how many a...
[19:38:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Boo freaking hoo. - 06That Ad Blocker You Love? It's Costing Publishers a Pretty Penny - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:38:22] <exec> 08└─Browse safely with firefox, by not going to that site. (Error code: sec_error_expired_certificate) Valid until Thu, 12 Mar 2015 23:59:59 UTC (expired 4 months and 30 days ago)
[19:38:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Boo freaking hoo. - 06That Ad Blocker You Love? It's Costing Publishers a Pretty Penny - 3984 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:38:26] <exec> 08└─I had it before it expired but anyways here's the untrusted cert's info lol: First,we will go over the basic privacy settings in general settings, which can be found in the options bar in Firefox 11 (Firefox > Options > Options) or for iOS, Preferences. Content: Enable block popup windows and disabl...
[19:38:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score:2) 02Re:Boo freaking hoo. - 06That Ad Blocker You Love? It's Costing Publishers a Pretty Penny - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:38:29] <exec> 08└─The irony...
[19:38:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03danmars [3662] (Score:2) 02Re:Balance - 06That Ad Blocker You Love? It's Costing Publishers a Pretty Penny - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:38:32] <exec> 08└─This is why ABP has the option to allow some non-intrusive advertising. I agree. If we block the bad ads and provide an incentive to use better ones, both sides win. https://adblockplus.org [adblockplus.org]
[19:38:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Brought it upon themselves. - 06That Ad Blocker You Love? It's Costing Publishers a Pretty Penny - 587 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:36] <exec> 08└─It seems like every other week I see news about some ad network serving up malware. That alone is reason enough to run an ad blocker, before even considering the fact that many ads are just obnoxious in their flashing and screaming for attention. Not running an ad blocker while browsing is simply ir...
[19:38:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03meisterister [949] (Score:2) 02That's nice... - 06That Ad Blocker You Love? It's Costing Publishers a Pretty Penny - 606 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:39] <exec> 08└─..but all of that energy and CPU time that their ads waste? That's costing US a pretty penny. One thing the advertisers may not have noticed is that their software is running on my computer, and I tend not to like it when that software decides it needs enough CPU power to melt my lap and kill any ba...
[19:38:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03halcyon1234 [1082] (Score:2) 02AdBlock as a Security Requirement - 06That Ad Blocker You Love? It's Costing Publishers a Pretty Penny - 1970 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:43] <exec> 08└─Alrighty, then. Who wants to be the first to comb through the Soylent News stories from just the past week, and pick out all the ones that boil down to "ad neworks serving malware". There was the one about Yahoo! being hacked and serving malware. There's the one about malicious ads triggering a .pdf...
[19:38:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score:2) 02I'll tell you what will get me to turn off adblock - 06That Ad Blocker You Love? It's Costing Publishers a Pretty Penny - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:48] <exec> 08└─How about, no flash, or javascript, or huge ads that cover the whole page or take over, or irritating gifs that flash constantly. You do that, I'll turn off my ad blocker. Until you get the shit out of the ads, I won't let you feed it to me.
[19:38:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:3, Interesting) 02I'm a convert. - 06That Ad Blocker You Love? It's Costing Publishers a Pretty Penny - 1419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:52] <exec> 08└─For the longest time I was against the idea of an ad-blocker. My attitude was: "Do I want to pay subscription fees to every site I visit? No. Okay, well it costs money to run a site so if they go silly with ads then I'll just stop going to that site." My thinking was that competition for eyeballs wo...
[19:38:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score:2) 02Consumers save over $2B with ad-blocking - 06That Ad Blocker You Love? It's Costing Publishers a Pretty Penny - 965 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:55] <exec> 08└─Hey, we can pull numbers out of our asses too: A 50W TDP CPU may draw 40W/Core at full load. Running a web page with scripted ads will increase load by 10%, so that's 4 Watts. Multiplied by the 500M computers in the first world used for web browsing, that's a load of 1 Gigawatt. Yes. One big honkin'...
[19:38:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Headline is misleading... - 06Bulletproof Bra Saves Cyclist - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:38:59] <exec> 08└─You're a boob.
[19:39:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score:2) 02Re:Just a bruise? - 06Bulletproof Bra Saves Cyclist - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:39:02] <exec> 08└─Didn’t know Germany had boar. It has to be the biggest game they have considering their deer are only two feet tall. Seems like he was out of range or a poor shot, a rifle would have solved both problems.
[19:39:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Just a bruise? - 06Bulletproof Bra Saves Cyclist - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:39:05] <exec> 08└─So sollen Schützen nur noch von einem etwa 2,50 Meter hohen Ansitz ihre Geschosse abfeuern.
[19:39:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score:2) 02Re:Just a bruise? - 06Bulletproof Bra Saves Cyclist - 474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:39:07] <exec> 08└─Even in Wisconsin, which has the most liberal gun laws in the union, it’s illegal to shoot any large game with anything below .223. Unlike other states, WI does allow .223 FMJs because they’re mostly semi automatics, and people aren’t going to shoot just one round. It wouldn’t surprise me co...
[19:39:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:2) 02Re:Just a bruise? - 06Bulletproof Bra Saves Cyclist - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:39:09] <exec> 08└─Then there's something about the minimum caliber which sounds ridiculous only a little bigger than a .22, either thats a mistake of mine, or no wonder it bounced off,
[19:39:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Moral of the story - 06Bulletproof Bra Saves Cyclist - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:39:11] <exec> 08└─...topless
[19:39:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Moral of the story - 06Bulletproof Bra Saves Cyclist - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:39:13] <exec> 08└─from where to you come to the conclusion that they rode through someone's field?!
[19:39:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Vaccine-derived Polio - 06Africa Celebrates One Year Without Polio - 459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:39:58] <exec> 08└─Depends on what kind of vaccine you use. The live vaccine is very close to wild polio and can revert to the wild sequence when it is given to someone. The inactivated vaccine is injected into the muscle so it protects from disease but it doesn't stop virus from infecting someone's intestinal tract a...
[19:41:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03throwaway28 [5181] (Score:1) 02.wen yltcaxe toN - 06Time-Symmetric Formulation of Quantum Theory Provides New Understanding of Causality - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:40] <exec> 08└─http://arxiv.org/abs/1011.2287 [arxiv.org] , 0102, snavE reteP "noitaterpretnI lanoitcasnarT eht dna yrtemmyS lasuaC" ,elpmaxe roF . ytilasuacorter tseggus ot repap tsrif eht snaem on yb si sihT
[19:42:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Passcode? - 06New York Times Publishes Prosecutors' Op/Ed Against Encryption - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:42:23] <exec> 08└─Only if it's stored in a separate flash device. I see no reason why there couldn't be some eeprom behind the security firewall of the processor core itself. I'm pretty much sure I've seen such tech from big-name SoC manufacturers.
[19:43:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score:2) 02Re:Pocket calculator, smocket calculator - 06Intel Left a Fascinating Security Flaw in its Chips for 16 Years - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:43:15] <exec> 08└─Given the replies to this comment, it's obvious that Soylentils have no sense of humor. Or if they did, it all leaked out of their bodies as the result of the trauma done to them by enduring that other news site we do not mention here.
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[20:37:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02less slapstick bitte - 06Good News for Unmarried Couples—Cohabitation is Good for You - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:18] <exec> 08└─Does co-habitating with cats or dogs count?
[20:37:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:less slapstick bitte - 06Good News for Unmarried Couples—Cohabitation is Good for You - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:37:19] <exec> 08└─https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=8879 [soylentnews.org]
[20:37:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:less slapstick bitte - 06Good News for Unmarried Couples—Cohabitation is Good for You - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:37:21] <exec> 08└─Oh, you already know it's the submitter. The answer is that Phoenix666 enjoys adding one-liners to the end of submissions, and posts a lot of stories.
[20:37:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Plus drawbacks - 06Good News for Unmarried Couples—Cohabitation is Good for You - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:23] <exec> 08└─So in terms of the benefits specific to marriage, we can probably strike "longer, healthier life" from the list.
[20:37:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jeremiah Cornelius [2785] (Score:2) 02"So? The Universe is dying." - 06It's Official: The Universe Is Dying Slowly - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:37:37] <exec> 08└─"My son calls and tells me the good news. And you call this living?"
[20:37:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03miljo [5757] 02Fair Enough - 06It's Official: The Universe Is Dying Slowly - 86 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:43] <exec> 08└─Since its creation made a lot of people angry and was regarded as a bad move anyway...
[20:37:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score:2) 02Re:Fair Enough - 06It's Official: The Universe Is Dying Slowly - 707 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:37:48] <exec> 08└─**Spoiler Alert** A bit dystopian? The end result being the "Final Destruction" of earth, so some bureaucrat can check off his list. What's more, is that the destruction of the earth wasn't good enough, they also killed off, Arthur, Trillian, Tricia (alternate universe Trillian), Ford, and Random (D...
[20:37:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Fair Enough - 06It's Official: The Universe Is Dying Slowly - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:37:50] <exec> 08└─I'm a bit afraid to read the non-DA one in case it's crap. Meh, the series started with Earth getting blown up so ending on the same thing was just completing the circle. (insert metaphysics technobabble here)
[20:37:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Paper - 06It's Official: The Universe Is Dying Slowly - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:37:51] <exec> 08└─I clicked for publications and there were like five published in the future...
[20:38:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jummama [3969] 02Re:Yeah - 06That Ad Blocker You Love? It's Costing Publishers a Pretty Penny - 86 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:38:04] <exec> 08└─That would be great... If the ad networks weren't constantly letting exploits through.
[20:38:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03naubol [1918] (Score:2) 02Re:Yeah - 06That Ad Blocker You Love? It's Costing Publishers a Pretty Penny - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:38:06] <exec> 08└─Hear, here. I ran without an ad-blocker for some time, but got tired of the aural rape and the cpu cycles theft.
[20:38:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Yeah - 06That Ad Blocker You Love? It's Costing Publishers a Pretty Penny - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:38:11] <exec> 08└─I really like the "their site" thing. Sites probably know what their demographic is anyways. Most of the tracking seems to be for weird things like "Hey, you looked at processors on that other site, now you can see processors on our furniture site too".
[20:38:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Yeah - 06That Ad Blocker You Love? It's Costing Publishers a Pretty Penny - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:38:13] <exec> 08└─No tracking means showing untargeted advertisements. You'll get so many adult diaper and v1agra ads. Wouldn't you prefer to see Grant Imahara trying to sell you electronic parts?
[20:38:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score:2) 02Re:Yeah - 06That Ad Blocker You Love? It's Costing Publishers a Pretty Penny - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:38:15] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't you prefer to see [targeted ads]
[20:38:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:Yeah - 06That Ad Blocker You Love? It's Costing Publishers a Pretty Penny - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:38:17] <exec> 08└─And your reaction to HTML5 is??
[20:38:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jdavidb [5690] 02Re:Wrong -- was -- Re:Worng perspective - 06That Ad Blocker You Love? It's Costing Publishers a Pretty Penny - 116 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:38:23] <exec> 08└─and "ad blocker" allows consumers to enjoy content while depriving the content creator of the rewards for their work
[20:38:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tramii [920] (Score:3, Touché) 02Re:Wrong -- was -- Re:Worng perspective - 06That Ad Blocker You Love? It's Costing Publishers a Pretty Penny - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:38:27] <exec> 08└─Actually, If you want to view the content they created, then yes they have the right to display ads on the page
[20:38:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03naubol [1918] (Score:2) 02Re:Wrong -- was -- Re:Worng perspective - 06That Ad Blocker You Love? It's Costing Publishers a Pretty Penny - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:38:29] <exec> 08└─Wait... wait.. wait... You're saying if I download the HTML I *have* to download every link contained therein? Are you obligated to download every embedded image in a comment on a forum? You *are* reading my content after all.
[20:38:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:Wrong -- was -- Re:Worng perspective - 06That Ad Blocker You Love? It's Costing Publishers a Pretty Penny - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:38:31] <exec> 08└─Actually, If you want to view the content they created, then yes they have the right to display ads on the page. Just because there is a way to subvert that doesn't mean they don't. However you want to rationalize it, as an upstanding netizen your choice should be to go somewhere else at that point,...
[20:38:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03naubol [1918] (Score:2) 02Re:Worng perspective - 06That Ad Blocker You Love? It's Costing Publishers a Pretty Penny - 482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:38:32] <exec> 08└─I think we can all agree that people want to buy stuff. If we assume, although I don't think we necessarily should, that advertising eventually leads to better consumer purchasing, it might not be 22 billion saved but some amount X lost to inferior purchases, inferior product development, and the ex...
[20:38:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fishscene [4361] (Score:1) 02Re:Worng perspective - 06That Ad Blocker You Love? It's Costing Publishers a Pretty Penny - 827 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:38:34] <exec> 08└─"COST"??? So because millions of people actively went out of their way and decided NOT to pay strangers on the Internet with their time/mindshare/eyeballs/etc... that is now a COST to the advertising industry? I suppose Linux users cost Microsoft millions of dollars each year, but even you don't see...
[20:38:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score:2) 02Re:Marketing is societal cancer - 06That Ad Blocker You Love? It's Costing Publishers a Pretty Penny - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:38:36] <exec> 08└─I have a solution to do much better than that. I would love for AdBlock to have a "second page" option. One page fully loads all the ads into memory, in order to keep the money flowing, while I get to see the same page nice and quiet without the ads. As long as the hidden screaming page is kept sile...
[20:38:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03naubol [1918] (Score:2) 02Re:Marketing is societal cancer - 06That Ad Blocker You Love? It's Costing Publishers a Pretty Penny - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:38:37] <exec> 08└─This wouldn't work for two reasons, the conversion rate would still be the same, ie awful, for publishers, and second, I'd still have to spend so much bandwidth on the videos and other crap which is a lot of the reason I have adblock installed in the first place.
[20:38:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Their own damn fault ... - 06That Ad Blocker You Love? It's Costing Publishers a Pretty Penny - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:38:42] <exec> 08└─I'm also running uBlock Origin, a fork of Ad Block since Ad Block has decided to allow some ads through by default
[20:38:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score:2) 02Re:RIAA accounting all over again - 06That Ad Blocker You Love? It's Costing Publishers a Pretty Penny - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:38:46] <exec> 08└─its not even a decrease in earnings. their earnings were forcast incorrectly. Not My Problem(tm). stupid marketing people are stupid. film at eleven.
[20:39:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Moral of the story - 06Bulletproof Bra Saves Cyclist - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:39:18] <exec> 08└─From the, um, fine article summary? Did you read it?
[20:39:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:1 peripheral down 99999 to go - 06Internal LTE/3G Modems Can be Hacked to Help Malware Survive OS Reinstalls - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:39:49] <exec> 08└─I'd pay an extra buck (or whatever it costs) to have a physical switch that has to be enabled to rewrite/reflash all this peripheral code.
[20:39:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score:2) 02Re:compound computer - 06Internal LTE/3G Modems Can be Hacked to Help Malware Survive OS Reinstalls - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:39:54] <exec> 08└─sun used to have a saying 'the network is the computer' but its really the other way around, now.
[20:40:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Blame the Taliban? - 06Africa Celebrates One Year Without Polio - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:40:07] <exec> 08└─It's the fault of Columbus, because without Columbus, nobody in Europe would have known that America exists. But then, ultimately it's that meteorite's fault. Had that meteorite not extinguished the dinosaurs, humans would never have developed.
[20:40:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Blame the Taliban? - 06Africa Celebrates One Year Without Polio - 459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:40:13] <exec> 08└─> Yes. I agree. But it sure-as-hell gives them credibility on that message that we didn't want them to have. Fundamentally all anti-vaxxers are anti-vaxxers because of a lack of trust. It doesn't matter if it is taliban in caves or millionaire millennial moms in Bel-Air mansions. It all comes down t...
[20:40:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:One company i worked at - 06Why Employees Bend Workplace Confidential Information Rules - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:40:39] <exec> 08└─Don't underestimate the security implications of the cafeteria menu. You know, intelligence agencies want to know what you've eaten in the airplane, so quite obviously the information what you eat is very important. You don't want your competitors know what your employees eat, or else they might der...
[20:40:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02It's not just CI rules - 06Why Employees Bend Workplace Confidential Information Rules - 641 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:41] <exec> 08└─One of the standard union tactics against management is a "work-to-rule", where the union members all agree to follow the formally documented procedures of the company to the letter. The result more often than not is a massive slowdown in productivity as, for example, workers need to wait until exac...
[20:41:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Re:Difficult structural issue. - 06FBI: Confidential Press Releases Used by Hackers for Insider Trading - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:41:02] <exec> 08└─There is no fairness. If everyone gets the information at the same time, only big financial firms with huge computing power and low latencies will win.
[20:41:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Of course Iowa leads the pack - 06Department of Energy Wind Power 2014 Report Finds It’s Dropping Dramatically in Cost - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:20] <exec> 08└─It's because Nebraska sucks and Missouri blows.
[20:42:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:SMH - 06Time-Symmetric Formulation of Quantum Theory Provides New Understanding of Causality - 886 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:42:09] <exec> 08└─Umnh... It's probably impossible to come up with an idea that doesn't have a vaguely stated precursor. Note that I didn't limit this to correct ideas. Most philosophy is impossible to test because the statements are so vague that very little could possibly be a real contradiction. This is almost inh...
[20:43:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hemh. - 06New York Times Publishes Prosecutors' Op/Ed Against Encryption - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:43:06] <exec> 08└─So they need encryption backdoors to dust fingerprints?
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[21:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:less slapstick bitte - 06Good News for Unmarried Couples—Cohabitation is Good for You - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:37:26] <exec> 08└─And, personally, I don't have a problem with it. If I wanted actually skilled writing, I wouldn't be at a user-submitted tech news site.
[21:37:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:less slapstick bitte - 06Good News for Unmarried Couples—Cohabitation is Good for You - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:37:28] <exec> 08└─Especially these days when "skilled writing" means "being really good at having no ethics or journalistic integrity"
[21:37:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Plus drawbacks - 06Good News for Unmarried Couples—Cohabitation is Good for You - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:37:30] <exec> 08└─I cheated and read the article and found The study found that changes in status had no obvious impact—the transitions from/to marriage and nonmarital cohabitation did not have a detrimental effect on health.
[21:37:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Taibhsear [1464] (Score:2) 02Re:Plus drawbacks - 06Good News for Unmarried Couples—Cohabitation is Good for You - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:37:31] <exec> 08└─women in a cohabiting relationship (and their children) are far more likely to be victims of domestic violence than women and children in a marriage?
[21:37:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bill Evans [1094] (Score:2) 02cohabitation with cats and dogs - 06Good News for Unmarried Couples—Cohabitation is Good for You - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:33] <exec> 08└─Does co-habitating with cats or dogs count?
[21:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score:1, Troll) 02Cats count - 06Good News for Unmarried Couples—Cohabitation is Good for You - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:34] <exec> 08└─Of course, cohabitating with a cat is just another way to get some pussy. ;-) And I must admit that living with my evil black cat is much less frustrating that living with my ex-wife. Perhaps the biggest mistake I made in my life was marrying my ex-wife. Perhaps the biggest mistake I made was marryi...
[21:37:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Re:Cats count - 06Good News for Unmarried Couples—Cohabitation is Good for You - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:37:36] <exec> 08└─You shouldn't marry your ex-wife.
[21:37:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Absolutely.Geek [5328] (Score:2, Insightful) 02Very cool - 06Imagination Demos Vulkan Open API on Android - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:41] <exec> 08└─It is good to see open source moving ever closer to the hardware......
[21:38:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score:2) 02Re:Yeah - 06That Ad Blocker You Love? It's Costing Publishers a Pretty Penny - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:38:27] <exec> 08└─No tracking means showing untargeted advertisements. You'll get so many adult diaper and v1agra ads. Wouldn't you prefer to see Grant Imahara trying to sell you electronic parts?
[21:38:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03termigator [4271] (Score:1) 02Tracking not needed for TV - 06That Ad Blocker You Love? It's Costing Publishers a Pretty Penny - 647 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:38:28] <exec> 08└─The TV and radio industry has operated all this time for advertisers without the need to track exactly what people were watching and listening. The type of ad is driven by the type of show. If a sporting event, beer and v1agra. If a kids program, toy commercials. There is no need to track folks on a...
[21:38:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03physicsmajor [1471] (Score:2) 02Re:Yeah - 06That Ad Blocker You Love? It's Costing Publishers a Pretty Penny - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:38:29] <exec> 08└─Not actually true! If I'm on a page on Amazon which is hawking tools, that's great info - you sure can target based on that. Home improvement, other tool brands once you get to individual listings. All of that is targeted. You can target ads based on the specific query I just input, which was necess...
[21:38:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yeah - 06That Ad Blocker You Love? It's Costing Publishers a Pretty Penny - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:38:34] <exec> 08└─My argument to this is that ignoring adds just forces the advertisers to make adds that are more blinky and more annoying, if you're that good at ignoring adds you might as well be using an ad blocker, since you're basically doing the same thing.
[21:38:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TrumpetPower! [590] 02Re:Wrong -- was -- Re:Worng perspective - 06That Ad Blocker You Love? It's Costing Publishers a Pretty Penny - 1544 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:38:44] <exec> 08└─My computer. My rules. You seem to be unaware of how the Web works. I ask somebody for something. They can send it to me or not as they please. Often, they include references to other things they think I might appreciate in addition to what I asked for -- images to display inline, style sheets, code...
[21:38:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score:2) 02Re:Marketing is societal cancer - 06That Ad Blocker You Love? It's Costing Publishers a Pretty Penny - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:38:55] <exec> 08└─That's why it needs to be an option. Personally I don't care about bandwidth because I've got uncapped 100Mb up/down fiber. I'd be happy to load all the ads in the background so the site owner gets paid. I wouldn't even mind if all the ads get a virtual click as well. But I wouldn't want this option...
[21:38:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Marketing is societal cancer - 06That Ad Blocker You Love? It's Costing Publishers a Pretty Penny - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:38:57] <exec> 08└─Damnit, I want other people to see ads and subsidize my not.
[21:38:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02It's a lie! - 06That Ad Blocker You Love? It's Costing Publishers a Pretty Penny - 510 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:58] <exec> 08└─The adblocker isn't "costing" them anything at all. They aren't making money - true - but that is only a "cost" if they are counting their chickens before their eggs are hatched. Or, stated another way, they are failing to meet projected earnings. And, that is none of my concern. They have simply ov...
[21:39:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Their own damn fault ... - 06That Ad Blocker You Love? It's Costing Publishers a Pretty Penny - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:39:02] <exec> 08└─uBlock Origin never was a "fork of Ad Block". it's completely original code written by gorhill from scratch. I wonder if people can read these days...
[21:39:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03jamestrexx [5363] (Score:1) 02Re:Their own damn fault ... - 06That Ad Blocker You Love? It's Costing Publishers a Pretty Penny - 1422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:39:04] <exec> 08└─2007? Get offa my lawn you whippersnapper! My 2003 Latitude 8500 can still sail the web swiftly with links2. Seriously though, things like this proves the core of the web is still the same as when Microsoft threw a party for having found internet and made Windows 95. The only reason the web got b...
[21:39:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03bryan [29] (Score:2) 02Re:Their own damn fault ... - 06That Ad Blocker You Love? It's Costing Publishers a Pretty Penny - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:39:05] <exec> 08└─which is an i7-330OK Sandy Bridge
[21:39:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03DarkMorph [674] (Score:2) 02Re:Their own damn fault ... - 06That Ad Blocker You Love? It's Costing Publishers a Pretty Penny - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:39:07] <exec> 08└─Just a minor addendum to NCommander's excellent post: the add-on is not named Ghostly, but Ghostery. The home page for it is here [ghostery.com]. It's an excellent companion to NoScript where you are enabling some JS on a certain page to get some functionality restored, but still want undesirable...
[21:39:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score:2) 02Re:Just a bruise? - 06Bulletproof Bra Saves Cyclist - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:39:23] <exec> 08└─(My german is bad, but here's my guess) "A shooter may not shoot from a platform/cover more than 2.5m above ground" "Hochsitz" is the german for "tree stand"/"deer stand" (and hunting from such is called "Ansitzjagd"
[21:39:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Just a bruise? - 06Bulletproof Bra Saves Cyclist - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:39:24] <exec> 08└─So translating it to German still preserves the inherent joke where you don't actually stand, but sit, in a stand? Ha ha, nice.
[21:39:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03zeigerpuppy [1298] (Score:2) 02Re:Just a bruise? - 06Bulletproof Bra Saves Cyclist - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:39:27] <exec> 08└─Yeah I call bullshit too. A bullet moving with any appreciable velocity would get deflected only slightly or break in two around the wire and still penetrate skin. It may get a little slower but if it was going to be lethal would still be lethal.
[21:39:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Moral of the story - 06Bulletproof Bra Saves Cyclist - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:39:34] <exec> 08└─The fine summary only says they rode across a field between two towns. It doesn't say whether it was private property.
[21:39:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''the wrong way to go about such change'' - 06Lawrence Lessig Considering US Presidential Bid - 1598 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:39:48] <exec> 08└─Others have mentioned that a 3rd-party candidate has a low probability of taking the top spot. [wikipedia.org] Without gaining the candidacy of an -existing- party which has an already-vibrant structure in each state, the chances are even lower. Should Lessig gain that spot with an existing party an...
[21:40:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03zeigerpuppy [1298] (Score:2) 02I see what you did there, hmmmm - 06Internal LTE/3G Modems Can be Hacked to Help Malware Survive OS Reinstalls - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:12] <exec> 08└─Oh Intel you're so cute, Telling me to look over there at the big evil Chinese Huawei. I almost didn't notice you sticking two fingers in my arse while I was distracted. There's do much hidden code and exploits built into modern processors that we don't need no fricken backdoors, I take it as a stat...
[21:40:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Simple hatred - 06Africa Celebrates One Year Without Polio - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:40:40] <exec> 08└─I worked closely with two research groups that were amazingly segregated along Moslem/Hindu lines. ... It was mind boggling to deal with two groups of PhD and postdoc level (highly educated and highly intelligent) people that were united only in their compete disdain for the other.
[21:41:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:natural law of offices - 06Why Employees Bend Workplace Confidential Information Rules - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:41:04] <exec> 08└─> Getting it done will always trump doing it right. Good security makes the 'easy path' the secure path. Bad security makes the 'easy path' an insecure path.
[21:42:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:ELI5 Please - 06Time-Symmetric Formulation of Quantum Theory Provides New Understanding of Causality - 889 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:42:26] <exec> 08└─well doesn't the weak interaction always require a something to "decay"? the most nasty ones being those that involve free neutrons? Doesn't the whole "violation" problem stem from the fact that we don't know what happens in beta-decay (you know the one that supposedly makes neutrinos)? if for a qui...
[21:43:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] 02Re:Passcode? - 06New York Times Publishes Prosecutors' Op/Ed Against Encryption - 312 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:43:14] <exec> 08└─And any phone manufacturer worth their salt can have a technician desolder the FLASH from the phone motherboard, and attach it to a non-phone microcontroller as a peripheral, and run the brute force attacks on that. Two weeks at the outside if you have to have a PCB designed/built. No timeouts, no r...
[21:43:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score:2) 02El Reg's take on this op-ed - 06New York Times Publishes Prosecutors' Op/Ed Against Encryption - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:43:41] <exec> 08└─El Reg published a review [theregister.co.uk] of sorts of this op-ed. It's worth reading.
[21:44:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02In a word... - 06Intel Left a Fascinating Security Flaw in its Chips for 16 Years - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:44:36] <exec> 08└─No. FBDIMMS were DDR2 only and got canned before DDR3 came out (Too power hungry and not enough demand.) Furthermore Sandybridge+ were a new microarch and entirely new chipsets and sockets. However, if your chipset supports coreboot, most of this is a non-issue since you could easily make a bios ima...
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[22:37:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03SubiculumHammer [5191] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Good luck changing your "password" - 06HTC Caught Storing Fingerprints as World-Readable Cleartext - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:18] <exec> 08└─More evidence that the push for biometric authentication has nothing to do with security...and probably everything to do with tracking your real ID.
[22:37:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score:2) 02Re:Good luck changing your "password" - 06HTC Caught Storing Fingerprints as World-Readable Cleartext - 631 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:37:19] <exec> 08└─sure... if you want to go the conspiracy theory route... or it could just be that phone manufacturers, particularly in the Android model where the hardware phone manufacturers don't have an active stake in software side just couldn't be bothered or just don't have the expertise to use the software p...
[22:37:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:less slapstick bitte - 06Good News for Unmarried Couples—Cohabitation is Good for You - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:37:34] <exec> 08└─Yeah, God forbid anybody write with actual style and not like a word-regurgitating automaton. Fuck off, control-freak.
[22:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:less slapstick bitte - 06Good News for Unmarried Couples—Cohabitation is Good for You - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:37:35] <exec> 08└─No. What's up with all the summaries lately that bring up a thought-provoking issue and then have some inane gag at the end by the submitter that totally destroys the atmosphere? Because if he doesn't, people like you will bitch about the fact that there is no original content in the summary.
[22:37:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:2) 02Re:Plus drawbacks - 06Good News for Unmarried Couples—Cohabitation is Good for You - 1001 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:37:39] <exec> 08└─Reporting is always the bugbear in these matters. This summary piece [heritage.org] is from The Heritage Foundation so obvious bias, but I don't believe the numbers are unreliable: The DOJ's National Crime Victimization Survey collects data on victimization through an ongoing survey of a nationally...
[22:37:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Cats count - 06Good News for Unmarried Couples—Cohabitation is Good for You - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:37:43] <exec> 08└─You shouldn't marry your ex-wife. No kidding. You would think he would have learned that the first time around!
[22:37:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Cats count - 06Good News for Unmarried Couples—Cohabitation is Good for You - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:37:44] <exec> 08└─Just be sure to wrap duct-tape around it before you fuck it, or else it will explode.
[22:37:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score:2) 02Link to the Study? - 06Good News for Unmarried Couples—Cohabitation is Good for You - 571 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:46] <exec> 08└─I was unable to find a link to the study or able to even find a specific volume / issue that the study is supposed to be in. After about 5 minutes of googling, I was able to find this source http://ajph.aphapublications.org [aphapublications.org] Which is most proba...
[22:37:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Flamebait) 02Take the red pill, people - 06Good News for Unmarried Couples—Cohabitation is Good for You - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:48] <exec> 08└─Instead of encouraging cohabitation with women, who are only going to screw you over in our modern misandrist society, we should be encouraging men to live alone and preserve their autonomy. Today, one's bodily needs can be relieved with the endless availability of porn, or casual pickups. Cohabitat...
[22:37:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:2) 02Re:Take the red pill, people - 06Good News for Unmarried Couples—Cohabitation is Good for You - 1517 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:37:50] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure how I'd mod this, but since I've already opened my big mouth, we'll never know now! One thing to consider before somebody gives it a -1 knee jerk: the redpill movement, particularly MGTOW¹, if one ignores some of the men who have backwards views of women, is happening for reasons not d...
[22:37:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02PowerVR and Open Source don't belong... - 06Imagination Demos Vulkan Open API on Android - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:37:56] <exec> 08└─in the same sentence. If you disagree, go read up on Intel Atom processors with GMA 500,600,36xx GPUs (PowerVR SGX535/545 models) They have questionable Windows drivers, and since Ubuntu 12.xx no linux drivers (they were ubuntu and some embedded linux distro only. Also limited to 2.6.32 kernels.)
[22:38:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Confirmation? - 06It's Official: The Universe Is Dying Slowly - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:38:20] <exec> 08└─Is not the release of Windows Ten enough confirmation of the death of the universe/end of the world as we know it?
[22:38:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Yeah - 06That Ad Blocker You Love? It's Costing Publishers a Pretty Penny - 1233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:38:45] <exec> 08└─What it means is going back to the days where the ads were targeted to the content. In days of yore the targeting was done by the prospective customer when they selected the material. If you bought a magazine about home decorating, there would be ads related to home decorating. If you bought a magaz...
[22:39:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03acharax [4264] (Score:2) 02Re:It's a lie! - 06That Ad Blocker You Love? It's Costing Publishers a Pretty Penny - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:39:14] <exec> 08└─yeah, I'll disable my adblockers. as soon as the web returns to a state of normality and trust (ie, it won't ever happen; horse has left the barn and ain't coming back).
[22:39:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's a lie! - 06That Ad Blocker You Love? It's Costing Publishers a Pretty Penny - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:39:16] <exec> 08└─That car analogy would work better if you took the car for a test drive then didn't buy it. There is some cost to letting you have a test drive, just like their is some cost to serving up content on a website. And in both cases, without some sort of contract/agreement, you don't owe them anything ju...
[22:39:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03skullz [2532] (Score:2) 02Re:Their own damn fault ... - 06That Ad Blocker You Love? It's Costing Publishers a Pretty Penny - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:39:25] <exec> 08└─Thank you! It is really ridiculous to see a modern computer running a modern browser s-s-s-stutter when loading the news. All except Soylent, of course! My tablet can do HTML5 games but chokes on CNN. Don't even mention what happens when someone sends me a BuzzFeed link. It doesn't seem to be JavaSc...
[22:39:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Their own damn fault ... - 06That Ad Blocker You Love? It's Costing Publishers a Pretty Penny - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:39:26] <exec> 08└─I do view Slashdot without Adblock and don't have a problem with ads. I do however use NoScript, and if the advertisers can't figure out how to serve ads without Javascript, that's not my problem.
[22:39:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Absolutely.Geek [5328] (Score:1) 02Re:Germany - 06Bulletproof Bra Saves Cyclist - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:39:37] <exec> 08└─"injury caused by negligence" is being a bad shot negligence? How about it is effectively impossible to know where exactly a ricochet will go; but depending on where she was compared to the target the shooter should have seen her and should not have shot; then it would be negligence but who is to kn...
[22:39:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03VanderDecken [5216] (Score:1) 02Re:Just a bruise? - 06Bulletproof Bra Saves Cyclist - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:39:42] <exec> 08└─I concur. I've been hit by a ricochet of a large bore (7.62mm) round. If most of the energy had not already been expended, I wouldn't be here, now.
[22:39:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:A picture speaks a thousand words - 06Bulletproof Bra Saves Cyclist - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:39:53] <exec> 08└─It was just one day away from retiring to someplace sunny.
[22:41:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score:2) 02Re:Simple hatred - 06Africa Celebrates One Year Without Polio - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:41:03] <exec> 08└─"That is the inevitable result of segregation" I disagree. Many times groups that have little to do with each other have little knowledge of each other don't feel much either way. Now, when segregation is imposed, it usually has quite bad effects. Other times, groups that by whatever fate are forced...
[22:41:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02polio can be eradicated in less than an hour - 06Africa Celebrates One Year Without Polio - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:10] <exec> 08└─The virus is unable to survive nuclear explosions. This is 100% effective and nothing of value would be lost. Well, do we want polio gone or not?
[22:41:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:One company i worked at - 06Why Employees Bend Workplace Confidential Information Rules - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:41:22] <exec> 08└─Security comes from having trustworthy employees that understand why the procedures are there.
[22:42:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Absolutely.Geek [5328] (Score:1) 02Re:I wanna be a wind farmer! - 06Department of Energy Wind Power 2014 Report Finds It’s Dropping Dramatically in Cost - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:42:03] <exec> 08└─I find it offensive that you left out the the double amputee transgender furries and their conspiracy to take over the world
[22:42:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:I wanna be a wind farmer! - 06Department of Energy Wind Power 2014 Report Finds It’s Dropping Dramatically in Cost - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:42:04] <exec> 08└─Welcome to economies of scale. And there may well be an opportunity for "mom and pop" in isolated markets.
[22:43:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Only need to.... - 06See Through Walls by Passive Radiation From Wi-Fi - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:43:21] <exec> 08└─Produce a randomized signal that overpowers their reference. If you do that it'll just come back as garbage. Getting ahold of variable-spectrum transmission gear capable of blanketing all those possible frequencies is non-trivial. Producing discrete, powerful, and portable jamming units for when you...
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[23:37:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Oh my - 06Large Warehouse Explosions Injure 300-400 in Tianjin, China - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:30] <exec> 08└─I saw the video of this earlier. It's terrifying!
[23:37:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02is my new ipad safe? - 06Large Warehouse Explosions Injure 300-400 in Tianjin, China - 1046 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:31] <exec> 08└─(Begin cheesy commercial. overly enthusiastic Chinese salesman pitching services) Hey! You have exprosive? (pans to pile of loose dynamite on floor) You have nat-tuwal gas or other ting that go boom or poison? (pans to rusty, leaking tanks with hazardous/flammable/explosive warning labels while smok...
[23:37:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Non Sequor [1005] (Score:2) 02Simple for humans? - 063D-Printed Device Helps Computers Solve Cocktail-Party Problem - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:40] <exec> 08└─I can't do that.
[23:37:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score:2) 02Re:Simple for humans? - 063D-Printed Device Helps Computers Solve Cocktail-Party Problem - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:37:41] <exec> 08└─Indeed. I don't like crowds because it feels like I'm constantly trying to fixate on words I can barely hear. That and I hear voices and music in white noise, but that's another thing [wikipedia.org] entirely.
[23:37:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:Good luck changing your "password" - 06HTC Caught Storing Fingerprints as World-Readable Cleartext - 890 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:37:51] <exec> 08└─Does not seem a conspiracy theory to me, the reasoning is: - biometric authentication is impractical compared to crypto keys because there is no practical way to recover from a compromise. - the above flaw is obvious to anybody devoting more than 5 minutes to the topic - the above flaw is not a flaw...
[23:37:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score:2) 02Not very useful anyway - 06HTC Caught Storing Fingerprints as World-Readable Cleartext - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:53] <exec> 08└─Most fingerprint scanners can be unlocked by anyone that has a fingerprint. That’s why they tie most them to a pin. I used to work at a place that had a hand scanner that would reject my prints from time to time. Was solved by someone else putting their hand in there and I just entered my pin to p...
[23:37:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score:2) 02Biometrics are not secrets - 06HTC Caught Storing Fingerprints as World-Readable Cleartext - 958 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:54] <exec> 08└─Bruce Schneier as usual has a very old article from 1999 [schneier.com] that is still very much relevant. It's clear that many people implementing these biometric systems haven't even read Schneier's paper which has been on his website for the past sixteen years. Biometrics also don't handle failur...
[23:38:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:less slapstick bitte - 06Good News for Unmarried Couples—Cohabitation is Good for You - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:38:08] <exec> 08└─Oh please. While the writing skills seen in TFSs here aren't usually Oxford-level, I never see blatantly bad and error-filled writing like I see at the MSM sites these days. The typical CNN or Reuters article these days is absolutely full of spelling and grammar errors which should embarrass an 8th-...
[23:38:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:2) 02Re:less slapstick bitte - 06Good News for Unmarried Couples—Cohabitation is Good for You - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:38:10] <exec> 08└─Not to mention that MSM sites often just do a superficial edit of the Reuters or AP release and no actual journalism.
[23:38:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:less slapstick bitte - 06Good News for Unmarried Couples—Cohabitation is Good for You - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:38:12] <exec> 08└─It's kind of a time-honored tradition, really.
[23:38:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:less slapstick bitte - 06Good News for Unmarried Couples—Cohabitation is Good for You - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:38:13] <exec> 08└─Because it's entirely relevant. The divorce rate is over 50%, and the number of people in unhappy marriages (out of that other 50%) is probably significant, so surely a LOT of people are wondering, "maybe I'd be better off just staying single and living with a cat". I know I think about that a lot....
[23:38:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:less slapstick bitte - 06Good News for Unmarried Couples—Cohabitation is Good for You - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:38:15] <exec> 08└─The statistics that I have heard are: 40% of marriages end in divorce20% of marriages end in permanent separation: living apart and possibly not even having contact with each other. They don't get a legal divorce, but they effectively are divorced.20% of marriages don't divorce and stay together, bu...
[23:38:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:less slapstick bitte - 06Good News for Unmarried Couples—Cohabitation is Good for You - 1063 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:38:17] <exec> 08└─That sounds about right from what I've seen, and tabulated that way is rather sobering about the realities of relationships. It really makes me wonder, why do we bother? It seems to me that we as a society are really doing things wrongly. People in the good ol' days surely didn't live this way, they...
[23:38:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score:2) 02Re:less slapstick bitte - 06Good News for Unmarried Couples—Cohabitation is Good for You - 641 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:38:18] <exec> 08└─There was a discussion about it a week or two ago. The point was made that some of the very scientific or technical topics get very few comments (especially when compared to political topics or others that stir up subjective opinions) and someone said it's sometimes hard to think of a worthwhile com...
[23:38:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:less slapstick bitte - 06Good News for Unmarried Couples—Cohabitation is Good for You - 1792 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:38:20] <exec> 08└─Believe it or not, it was not an attempt at levity, but an honest question. My brother lives alone but has a cat. He has a solid job as an automotive engineer, has a fine house, has lots of income and toys and would make someone a catch. But the longer he goes single, the more it seems he's likely t...
[23:38:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:1) 02Re:Take the red pill, people - 06Good News for Unmarried Couples—Cohabitation is Good for You - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:38:30] <exec> 08└─Aww, rats. I spent too much time typing and it got a -1 knee jerk anyway. (no karma bonus, engage!)
[23:38:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:Take the red pill, people - 06Good News for Unmarried Couples—Cohabitation is Good for You - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:38:32] <exec> 08└─If you're going to do the casual pickup thing, you might want to invest in a vasectomy. There's likely a small but non-zero number of women who'll tell you they're on the pill, but really aren't. And there's also a non-zero number of cases where a woman really is on BC, but gets pregnant anyway: fem...
[23:38:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03dcollins [1168] (Score:2) 02Correlation does not imply Causation - 06Good News for Unmarried Couples—Cohabitation is Good for You - 2186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:33] <exec> 08└─"Correlation does not imply Causation" -- I'm actually hyper-critical about people who sling this phrase around too much in improper cases, but here's a golden example where it does apply. The headline here & the original Ars Technica article, "Cohabitation is good for you", is totally unwarranted....
[23:38:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02No doubt, this is more propaganda - 06Good News for Unmarried Couples—Cohabitation is Good for You - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:35] <exec> 08└─>Cohabitation Family law firms must be feeling the crunch from the rapid shift from everyone getting married then divorced, to no one getting married. I wont open my bank account to modern women no matter how healthy it may be. Cohabitation will inevitably result in alimony, even without marriage.
[23:38:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02this is Google Nexus Player - 06Imagination Demos Vulkan Open API on Android - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:43] <exec> 08└─forgot it existed: http://www.engadget.com [engadget.com]
[23:39:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03EQ [1716] 02Confirmation? - 06It's Official: The Universe Is Dying Slowly - 50 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:06] <exec> 08└─Has Netcraft confirmed that the universe is dying?
[23:40:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02amazing new technology saves lives! - 06Bulletproof Bra Saves Cyclist - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:44] <exec> 08└─When will our soldiers be wearing these as standard issue battle dress?
[23:41:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Where was Lessig - 06Lawrence Lessig Considering US Presidential Bid - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:03] <exec> 08└─When his protégé Aaron Swartz needed someone to represent him in court? OK, that would've been difficult. So Lessig will campaign for a less stressful job... POTUS.
[23:42:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:2) 02Re:I wanna be a wind farmer! - 06Department of Energy Wind Power 2014 Report Finds It’s Dropping Dramatically in Cost - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:42:56] <exec> 08└─Zomg! You're right! Please accept my profuse apologies!
[23:43:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score:2) 02The Internet Of Things - 06Curtin University Professor Grows Ear on Arm, Plans to Connect It to the Internet - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:43:32] <exec> 08└─All those IOT vendors should sign this guy up for endorsement... having an ear grown on an arm connected to the internet would make one hell of a marketing pamphlet..
[23:43:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02School founded by Jane Curtin, from '70s SNL? - 06Curtin University Professor Grows Ear on Arm, Plans to Connect It to the Internet - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:43:33] <exec> 08└─Jane, you ignorant slut!
[23:43:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:SMH - 06Time-Symmetric Formulation of Quantum Theory Provides New Understanding of Causality - 498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:43:54] <exec> 08└─Those "differing means" being much more advanced and physically justified, let us note. There's a vast difference between observation or idle conjecture and mathematically modeling the ideas one comes up with. Isn't it funny how most people are called irrelevant or worse when postulating these sorts...
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