#comments | Logs for 2015-08-22

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[00:01:00] <exec> 08└─God's. He's hallucinating all of us.
[00:01:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Will the Pronoun I Become Obsolete? - 06Will the Pronoun I Become Obsolete? A Biological Perspective - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:01:01] <exec> 08└─Cogito ergo sum
[00:01:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Mur Burns - 06Will the Pronoun I Become Obsolete? A Biological Perspective - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:01:22] <exec> 08└─You could have at least linked to a version that wasn't audio over a still shot.
[00:01:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Royal we - 06Will the Pronoun I Become Obsolete? A Biological Perspective - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:23] <exec> 08└─We think this is a bad move. How else do we distinguish the commoner from our greatness?
[00:01:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02We are Colonies of Cells - 06Will the Pronoun I Become Obsolete? A Biological Perspective - 932 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:25] <exec> 08└─I've been thinking about this sort of thing for a while and my current understanding is that our concept of identity is really a vast over-simplification - we are essentially a system of both related and distinct organisms. For a clear-cut example, consider microchimerism [wikipedia.org] which is th...
[00:01:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03sudo rm -rf [2357] (Score:2) 02Re:Use your own account, asshole - 06Ex-Astroturfer Wins Lawsuit Against Propaganda 'Factory' - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:01:43] <exec> 08└─I am confused now, who is the real gewg? Who are you and if yes, how many? Don't answer, Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same: leave it to our bureaucrats and our police to see that our papers are in order. At least spare us their morality when we write
[00:01:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:M$? - 06Ex-Astroturfer Wins Lawsuit Against Propaganda 'Factory' - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:01:45] <exec> 08└─Hey, I have my own opinions of Snowden that paint him only just a little less in stature than the Almighty Savior, but I'm not allowed to express them without getting mod-bombed. Do you hear me bitching?
[00:01:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03frojack [1554] 02Re:citation required - 06Ex-Astroturfer Wins Lawsuit Against Propaganda 'Factory' - 421 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:01:49] <exec> 08└─People demanding citations for stuff easily googled generally are not prepared to accept any citations what so ever. On the off chance that does not describe you: http://www.pcworld.com [pcworld.com] http:...
[00:01:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02M$ shills at the other site - 06Ex-Astroturfer Wins Lawsuit Against Propaganda 'Factory' - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:01:53] <exec> 08└─Slashdot editor Nerval's Lobster aka Nick Kolakowski is also known as Microsoft Nick. [google.com] The astroturfing runs deep there. -- gewg_
[00:02:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Bow hunting - 06Scientists Say Humans are an Unsustainable (Super)Predator - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:02:57] <exec> 08└─Brilliant idea. NOT. [google.com] Cecil the lion: Shot with an arrow; tracked for 40 hours; finished off with a gun. You consume too much of Hollywood's nonsense. -- gewg_
[00:03:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Welp - 06Scientists Say Humans are an Unsustainable (Super)Predator - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:03:34] <exec> 08└─Make sure to stay sustainable and exclusively eat heirloom varieties. Also, by not consuming meat hundreds of cows and pigs, and thousands of chickens which would have otherwise lived will never get a chance at all thanks to your eating habits.
[00:03:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02relevant xkcd - 06Scientists Say Humans are an Unsustainable (Super)Predator - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:03:35] <exec> 08└─A chart shows people and livestock greatly outweighing other land mammals. http://www.explainxkcd.com [explainxkcd.com] discussion about it: https://www.reddit.com [reddit.com]
[00:04:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02No demand for that - 06Modern Parenting May Hinder Brain Development, Research Suggests - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:04:43] <exec> 08└─The US doesn't need healthy, socially conscious, moral adults, it needs more sociopaths to milk it dry. I think current parenting and education techniques fulfill that demand perfectly.
[00:06:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Anecdotal data - 06The Amazing Adaptability of Brain's Vision Center - 615 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:50] <exec> 08└─Just some personal anecdotal observations. My vision has always been poor. Thus, even though I'm not blind, I tend to use vision to identify objects rather than details, sort of like sonar. My facial recognition is poor. In contrast, my hearing is very good, though probably not as good as a blind pe...
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[01:30:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03JeanCroix [573] (Score:2) 02So basically... - 06World's First Portable Islands Will Let Super-rich Create Eco-friendly Getaways Anywhere On Earth - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:30:44] <exec> 08└─The Chinese get the portable artillery/missile bases they're been dreaming of? So much for all that landfilling action they've been attending to recently...
[01:30:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Floating Mobilehome With Astroturf... - 06World's First Portable Islands Will Let Super-rich Create Eco-friendly Getaways Anywhere On Earth - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:30:45] <exec> 08└─and fake palm trees. Excuse my French but they look like shit. What about rogue waves? What about emergency services? How about pirates? No thanks, I'll spend my billions elsewhere.
[01:30:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Beryllium Sphere (r) (5062) (Score:2) 02Not just rogue waves - 06World's First Portable Islands Will Let Super-rich Create Eco-friendly Getaways Anywhere On Earth - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:30:46] <exec> 08└─Normal waves, storms, and the huge maintenance expense of anything immersed in salt water. The ocean is a hostile environment.
[01:30:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03FrogBlast [21] (Score:2) 02Bluthton - 06World's First Portable Islands Will Let Super-rich Create Eco-friendly Getaways Anywhere On Earth - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:30:48] <exec> 08└─Oh, big deal. I had that same basic idea years ago.
[01:30:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Where is the HGTV coverage - 06World's First Portable Islands Will Let Super-rich Create Eco-friendly Getaways Anywhere On Earth - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:30:50] <exec> 08└─Home and Garden TV coverage or it didn't happen...
[01:31:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Will the Pronoun I Become Obsolete? - 06Will the Pronoun I Become Obsolete? A Biological Perspective - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:31:16] <exec> 08└─Fuck off, Ray. You're not fooling anyone.
[01:31:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:what the fuck - 06Will the Pronoun I Become Obsolete? A Biological Perspective - 616 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:31:28] <exec> 08└─The thing is, you are not a singular individual. You're a collection of different organisms, working together. So you shouldn't use any singular pronouns to refer to yourself or other people; you should only use plural ones. It's just like companies. Decades ago, we used to refer to a company as a s...
[01:31:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02And this whole time - 06Will the Pronoun I Become Obsolete? A Biological Perspective - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:31:38] <exec> 08└─I thought the voices in my head were due to schizophrenia. Turns out I was just arguing with my inner bacteria. We always get into arguments over what to eat.
[01:31:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I am gewg_! - 06Ex-Astroturfer Wins Lawsuit Against Propaganda 'Factory' - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:31:58] <exec> 08└─That is all -- gewg_
[01:32:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:My father had Da Vinci surgery - 06The Da Vinci Surgical Robot Sews a Grape - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:32:53] <exec> 08└─I was going to ask about how well it does Prostate surgery. I don't think Prostate Cancer gets anywhere near the headlines as Breast Cancer, but it is just as deadly, and the surgery has far more complications. Robotic surgery improvements may make Prostate surgery less dangerous.
[01:37:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Re:Hopefully it is configurable - 06Samsung Invents the 'Transparent' Truck - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:37:48] <exec> 08└─Turn on the tail lights? I don't think a screen on the back severely impacts visibility, especially in conditions like fog (there's not much visibility to lose in heavy fog). Also, it's not like you can actually see through the truck, it's a TV screen. Remember, you're REQUIRED BY LAW to have good v...
[01:38:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03penguinoid [5331] (Score:2) 02Re:Easy solution - 06Stop Universities From Hoarding Money - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:38:28] <exec> 08└─This seems like an excellent idea, and I'd even suggest expanding on it: Any business, corporation, or individual can deduct expenses related to research, education, etc, with no special treatment for universities. There should also be some strong incentive to have public patents.
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[02:30:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart9h [767] (Score:2) 02So, - 06Astronomers Discover the Biggest Thing in The Universe - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:30:34] <exec> 08└─*that's* where your mom were hiding!
[02:30:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score:3, Touché) 02Re:So, - 06Astronomers Discover the Biggest Thing in The Universe - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:30:35] <exec> 08└─mod parent +1 first post, +1 obligatory, -1 grammar
[02:30:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03fleg [128] (Score:2) 02Re:So, - 06Astronomers Discover the Biggest Thing in The Universe - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:30:36] <exec> 08└─>-1 grammer or it was written in northern english vernacular. yorkshire, lancashire etc they speak funny oop north.
[02:30:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score:2) 02Re:Not just rogue waves - 06World's First Portable Islands Will Let Super-rich Create Eco-friendly Getaways Anywhere On Earth - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:30:47] <exec> 08└─There exists the technology [wikipedia.org] to smooth out almost all waves: Basically it just has to be very tall with most of its height below the surface.
[02:30:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Insightful) 02friendly to whose environment? - 06World's First Portable Islands Will Let Super-rich Create Eco-friendly Getaways Anywhere On Earth - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:30:50] <exec> 08└─These are a giant middle finger to the environment. How about the folks who can afford these spend that money on protecting the actual environment?
[02:30:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:0, Troll) 02Re:friendly to whose environment? - 06World's First Portable Islands Will Let Super-rich Create Eco-friendly Getaways Anywhere On Earth - 644 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:30:52] <exec> 08└─Yes, and additionally, since it's not politically correct to address the overpopulation problem ideas such as this will just send population sprawl out into the seas and humanity will continue to shit the planet up. We need a serious depopulation program. Hitler had the right idea but got syphillis...
[02:30:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score:2) 02BS - 06World's First Portable Islands Will Let Super-rich Create Eco-friendly Getaways Anywhere On Earth - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:30:54] <exec> 08└─Unless they are connected to the sea floor they are floating platforms, not islands.
[02:32:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:M$? - 06Ex-Astroturfer Wins Lawsuit Against Propaganda 'Factory' - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:32:05] <exec> 08└─Which is why I call them MicroPenisSuckingShits$. Just seems to capture the essence of the corporation, and is much more professional than the usual juvenile anti-Micro$erf stuff we usually see here.
[02:32:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:citation required - 06Ex-Astroturfer Wins Lawsuit Against Propaganda 'Factory' - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:32:11] <exec> 08└─I refer you to my original statement.
[02:32:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02Re:citation required - 06Ex-Astroturfer Wins Lawsuit Against Propaganda 'Factory' - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:32:15] <exec> 08└─I'm using Vista now on my boat computer, you insensitive clod.
[02:33:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score:2) 02Re:Bow hunting - 06Scientists Say Humans are an Unsustainable (Super)Predator - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:33:21] <exec> 08└─lion != deer
[02:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Agent Smith - 06Scientists Say Humans are an Unsustainable (Super)Predator - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:00] <exec> 08└─called us virus-analogs, in case you forgot. IMHO, it's more apt than a mere predator since we're also busy extracting everything our environment has to offer, including other humans.
[02:36:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Whither=Whereto=Wohin - 06Die, OpenOffice? - 539 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:36:08] <exec> 08└─I didn't have any problem with the original title. "Whither, my good man?" = "Whereto, my good man?" As in, "Where do you want to go?" To me it fits well with German constructions that start with "Wohin?" No verb required, because it's understood there's a sense of motion. There are strong Scandinav...
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[03:30:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Turkey - 06The Curious Case of Whistled Languages and Their Lack of Left-brain Dominance - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:30:33] <exec> 08└─Everytime I hear about Turkey there is interesting stuff going on over there. First it was the people who walk on all fours: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Then all the people searching for Noah's ark over there: http://news.nationalgeographic.com
[03:30:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Whistling Languages - 06The Curious Case of Whistled Languages and Their Lack of Left-brain Dominance - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:30:34] <exec> 08└─You know who can speak a real good whistling language? Your mom, her legs open! [wordpress.com]
[03:30:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So, - 06Astronomers Discover the Biggest Thing in The Universe - 481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:30:45] <exec> 08└─You missed the memo. First person pronouns are obsolete. There is no "I" or "you" or "he" or "she". Only "us" and "them" (and maybe "it"): A series of groundbreaking studies have revealed that what we have always thought of as individuals are actually "biomolecular networks" that consist of visible...
[03:30:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:2) 02Re:So, - 06Astronomers Discover the Biggest Thing in The Universe - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:30:46] <exec> 08└─Were… seriously? I expect more out of my trolls! I expect more out of all of you! We were going to better ourselves, beginning with grammar! A plural when a singular is needed? Have you heard the phrase, “You are as you grammaticise?” When I look at you, guess what I see? A plural where a sing...
[03:30:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:2) 02they've cut the fiber! - 06Astronomers Discover the Biggest Thing in The Universe - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:30:48] <exec> 08└─Strawberries are packed with fiber…. How long until we can get market fresh strawberries?
[03:30:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02I've discovered... - 06Astronomers Discover the Biggest Thing in The Universe - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:30:50] <exec> 08└─...the biggest thing in the universe: All the stars in the known and unknown universe form a 360 degree ring in all known directions which covers 100% of our sky. Good to know you can play fast and furious with your definition of what is a 'thing'.
[03:30:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:I've discovered... - 06Astronomers Discover the Biggest Thing in The Universe - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:30:51] <exec> 08└─Gravity binds structures together into bigger structures.
[03:31:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bytram [4043] (Score:2) 02Overconfident - 06Will the Pronoun I Become Obsolete? A Biological Perspective - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:31:30] <exec> 08└─Cogito ergo sum
[03:31:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:2) 02So, "I" can't be possibly selfish or self-centered - 06Will the Pronoun I Become Obsolete? A Biological Perspective - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:31:57] <exec> 08└─"We" are just a strong community! And the voices I hear are a normal part of our inner dialogue.
[03:32:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02Slow performance? - 06Switching Mechanism for DNA Computing Found - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:32:47] <exec> 08└─Actually the human brain (an electro-chemical processor) is pretty damn fast. Just do a bit of google-fu you'll find it processes information faster than anything mechanical that takes less space than a football field.
[03:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Bow hunting - 06Scientists Say Humans are an Unsustainable (Super)Predator - 623 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:33:39] <exec> 08└─You should have seen enough posts from me to know i do actually understand human violence. So please stow your projected stereotype. Anyways, i don't want to be put into a position where i am defending sport hunting. Because i do not care for it. An arrow can kill or wound just like a gun. The whole...
[03:33:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score:2) 02Re:Homeostasis - 06Scientists Say Humans are an Unsustainable (Super)Predator - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:33:41] <exec> 08└─I have an awesome idea for a business in NJ. Rent out front-reinforced deer-smacking 4x4s for off-season venison collection.
[03:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Solved problem - 06Scientists Say Humans are an Unsustainable (Super)Predator - 652 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:33:50] <exec> 08└─If your argument is that it is sustainable until people break the law then i think that is a weak argument against scientists saying humans are unsustainable. Obviously humans can be. Except when they break the law. The law breaking is the exception, not the normal state of things. But you are right...
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[04:30:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:2, Insightful) 02Theory stood the test of time? - 06Trio Create Artificial Magnetic Wormhole - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:30:36] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure you know what a theory is if it's stood the test of time, but nobody's been able to make it work. It's not a theory if it hasn't been tested experimentally, it's a hypothesis. Apparently a hypothesis with no obvious mathematical errors, but it's still just a hypothesis until such a time...
[04:31:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Alien Garbage Dumps - 06Astronomers Discover the Biggest Thing in The Universe - 562 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:31:02] <exec> 08└─The Spathi mention a Precursor text referring to what they translated as "10 artificial `waste disposal sites`". Similarly, the Slylandro Joyous Lifting remembers that the "Shaggy Ones" (the Precursors) either discovered or assembled a set of 10 worlds and organized them in some pattern. He describe...
[04:31:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score:2) 02scale - 06Astronomers Discover the Biggest Thing in The Universe - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:31:03] <exec> 08└─So far, every time someone has told me that above a certain scale the universe is uniform, it has turned out to be false. This has held true since the 60's. I see no reason why that should stop. Nor why that should violate the cosmological principle. Presumably structure-at-every-detectable-scale ho...
[04:31:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:scale - 06Astronomers Discover the Biggest Thing in The Universe - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:31:04] <exec> 08└─Structure at every scale? What are you saying, Professor Mandelbrot?
[04:31:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score:2) 02Donald Trump - 06Astronomers Discover the Biggest Thing in The Universe - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:31:06] <exec> 08└─You mean there is something bigger in the universe than Donald Trump's ego? Would could it have been? It couldn't have been George W. Bush's intellect? That would fit on a head of a pin.
[04:32:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:what the fuck - 06Will the Pronoun I Become Obsolete? A Biological Perspective - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:32:03] <exec> 08└─You're trying to teach us grammar and you use 'an car', now where did I leave that pinch of salt...
[04:32:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:M$ shills at the other site - 06Ex-Astroturfer Wins Lawsuit Against Propaganda 'Factory' - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:32:46] <exec> 08└─Which is just crazy, imo. Did they think they were converting people from Linux? If you tried Vista and think it's crap then all the 3rd party opinions in the world won't change your mind. But then again i know some people who genuinely liked win8 over win7. Going from 7 to 8 is like the level of di...
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[05:30:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Offtopic) 02Bad News for Magnetic Storage - 06Trio Create Artificial Magnetic Wormhole - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:30:38] <exec> 08└─All your bits got degaussed by a passing magnetic wormhole. Bad news if you still use spinning plates of magnetic dust to store your data because you have equipment that's, like, five years old. Wait what am I saying? This is fuking awsome news for OBama's Evil Empire! We the Troops can fuck up the...
[05:30:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:2) 02Missing information / error in summary? - 06Trio Create Artificial Magnetic Wormhole - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:30:39] <exec> 08└─Their device essentially allows for a magnetic field to be conveyed from one point to another, while remaining magnetically invisible.
[05:31:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:So, - 06Astronomers Discover the Biggest Thing in The Universe - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:31:03] <exec> 08└─I expect more out of all of you!
[05:31:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02As many Angels as want to - 06Astronomers Discover the Biggest Thing in The Universe - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:31:10] <exec> 08└─There's no room on the head of pin because the angels are having a party.
[05:35:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02Re:children don't need to socialize - 06Modern Parenting May Hinder Brain Development, Research Suggests - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:35:21] <exec> 08└─I do not think that button pushing yes men without the ability to improvise make good soldiers.
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[06:30:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Microsoft Edge is the future! - 06Mozilla Thinks You Should Eat Cake - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:30:34] <exec> 08└─Firefux can have its fun with Chroom and Oopra while they all slide into irrelevance together. The future is Edgy.
[06:30:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Speculative Connections - 06Mozilla Thinks You Should Eat Cake - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:30:35] <exec> 08└─Can anyone explain what this means: I'm sorry but I can't give you a full explanation of how the networking back-end works. It's very complex and can't be summarized in a few sentences. Pale Moon makes connections when navigating: when you actually surf. Not when doing passive page interactions like...
[06:30:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Speculative Connections - 06Mozilla Thinks You Should Eat Cake - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:30:37] <exec> 08└─Exactly what is written.
[06:30:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03AndyTheAbsurd [3958] (Score:2) 02Re:Speculative Connections - 06Mozilla Thinks You Should Eat Cake - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:30:38] <exec> 08└─Original: I'm sorry but I can't give you a full explanation of how the networking back-end works. It's very complex and can't be summarized in a few sentences.
[06:30:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Why bother to fork - 06Mozilla Thinks You Should Eat Cake - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:30:40] <exec> 08└─Realistically, I think firefox has less and less to offer. Its principal claim to fame sees to be "Its not Chrome". Is that engine really worth the effort of a fork?
[06:30:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03panachocala [464] (Score:2) 02Aww - 06Mozilla Thinks You Should Eat Cake - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:30:42] <exec> 08└─Already lost a few addons due to "enhancements" over the years. Meanwhile the amount of stuff I need to disable or find addons for to remove keeps increasing. Pale Moon just doesn't have enough working addons (yet?).
[06:31:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Floating Mobilehome With Astroturf... - 06World's First Portable Islands Will Let Super-rich Create Eco-friendly Getaways Anywhere On Earth - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:31:32] <exec> 08└─As long as someone can launch Thunderbird 2 from it, I'm fine with that.
[06:31:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:friendly to whose environment? - 06World's First Portable Islands Will Let Super-rich Create Eco-friendly Getaways Anywhere On Earth - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:31:37] <exec> 08└─You are so full of it.
[06:31:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02there's a name for it - 06Augmented Reality Glasses Could Visually Encrypt Secrets - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:31:47] <exec> 08└─it's called steganography! (not to be confused with stenography)
[06:34:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Solved problem - 06Scientists Say Humans are an Unsustainable (Super)Predator - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:34:31] <exec> 08└─Even old cats do this. It's not just training.
[06:34:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02Re:Solved problem - 06Scientists Say Humans are an Unsustainable (Super)Predator - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:34:42] <exec> 08└─It's called "animal husbandry" or in layman's terms, "farming".
[06:34:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Welp - 06Scientists Say Humans are an Unsustainable (Super)Predator - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:34:57] <exec> 08└─Nonexistence is neither good nor bad, so that is not a problem. It's like saying you're doing something terrible by choosing not to have a baby; no baby exists so you can't hurt it by choosing not to bring one into existence. What you are saying is that thousands of animals will never live only to b...
[06:35:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02i'll wait for phase change memory - 06Intel Announces "Optane"-Brand 3D XPoint SSDs and DIMMs for 2016 - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:35:21] <exec> 08└─while yes, intel may be first to market, they are leveraging this memory to force people to keep buying there processors. i would rather wait a few years for the phase-change-memory-that-they-swear-this-isn't to hit the market than reward intel for their shitty anti-competitive behavior. it's a sham...
[06:36:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score:2) 02Re:Emacs - 06Die, OpenOffice? - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:36:37] <exec> 08└─"Use up resources and energy to build complicated devices, and then take them out to the desert and blow them up." That is a net loss strategy for the society. Even if some people get rich on some of the various transactions. it just means that others lost even more.
[06:37:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score:2) 02Re:Maybe they are happy with it as is? - 06Die, OpenOffice? - 1080 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:37:15] <exec> 08└─Uhhh...did anybody actually bother to READ the links to this "vulnerability" the AC was talking about? Its a bug in a file designed to support mid 90s South Korean proprietary office files from a program I bet none of you have ever heard of. the Apache Office simply gets rid of the file because comm...
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[07:30:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Speculative Connections - 06Mozilla Thinks You Should Eat Cake - 2040 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:30:36] <exec> 08└─It meana that a browser like Firefox (and Seamonkey, Palemoon) will look up the address of a linked web page when you hover your mouse over the link. not when you actually click on the link. Say you were reading an article on the Internet and in the comments there was a link that another poster said...
[07:30:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03sudo rm -rf [2357] (Score:2) 02Re:Speculative Connections - 06Mozilla Thinks You Should Eat Cake - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:30:37] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the explanation, the Firefox (40) setting is called 'network.dns.disablePrefetch' https://developer.mozilla.org [mozilla.org]
[07:30:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03basstard [5595] (Score:2) 02Re:Why bother to fork - 06Mozilla Thinks You Should Eat Cake - 515 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:30:40] <exec> 08└─I am using Pale Moon because of all those years that I've used FF. Perhaps the main reason for me is this. Same browser profiles since years ago with tons of cookie settings for various sites, it'd be annoying to click through "Allow for session" or "Deny" for all those sites again. Surely there are...
[07:30:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03mth [2848] (Score:2) 02Isn't standardization a good thing? - 06Mozilla Thinks You Should Eat Cake - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:30:42] <exec> 08└─I understand that migrating extensions to a new API will be a lot of work for extension developers, but in the long run isn't it better to have a standard extension API instead of several browser-specific ones?
[07:30:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score:2) 02Re:Isn't standardization a good thing? - 06Mozilla Thinks You Should Eat Cake - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:30:44] <exec> 08└─I understand that migrating extensions to a new API will be a lot of work for extension developers, but in the long run isn't it better to have a standard extension API instead of several browser-specific ones?
[07:30:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Loss of addons = loss of identity. - 06Mozilla Thinks You Should Eat Cake - 2477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:30:46] <exec> 08└─The entire point of Firefox is its incredible flexibility due to its addon design. Without that, what reason is there to continue using it? Sure, they've said they'll try to make workarounds for popular extensions, but it's still going to leave a bunch of addons crippled or completely broken, with n...
[07:30:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score:2) 02Misleading summary/article title - 06Trio Create Artificial Magnetic Wormhole - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:30:56] <exec> 08└─Did a fast read of the linked article. This is not a wormhole in any sense of the term. Unless I am totally misunderstanding what they have done its nothing more than an innovative way of projecting a magnetic field. There is no hole in spacetime being created.
[07:32:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Here's a realistic perspective - 06Will the Pronoun I Become Obsolete? A Biological Perspective - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:32:37] <exec> 08└─Will the Pronoun "I" Become Obsolete?
[07:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Sounds like the plot of Rush... - 06The Da Vinci Surgical Robot Sews a Grape - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:34:01] <exec> 08└─Last season's LA themed underground doctor drama. He had a hispanic(?) drug dealer who provided him with his upper/downer doses so he could keep up his around the clock doctor practices. Show got cancelled and the guy is now on Lucifer, while the general theme of the show got moved to 'Complications...
[07:37:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:It's whither, not wither - 06Die, OpenOffice? - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:37:12] <exec> 08└─https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?sid=9106&cid=225745#commentwrap [soylentnews.org]
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[08:30:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03No Respect [991] (Score:2) 02This is great! - 06Crowdfunding to Restore Neil Armstrong Spacesuit Exceeds Goal - 687 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:30:33] <exec> 08└─It also infuriates me. The Smithsonian spends all kinds of money each and every year. If they won't pick up the tab to preserve, oh, I dunno.... THE FUCKING SPACESUIT OF THE 1ST MAN ON THE MOON than what the fuck else are they spending it on? It's gratifying that so many people donated to this cause...
[08:30:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02whole lotta money for a theatrical prop - 06Crowdfunding to Restore Neil Armstrong Spacesuit Exceeds Goal - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:30:34] <exec> 08└─I know production companies like to dispose of their garbage by selling props at auction, but this is ridiculous.
[08:30:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02When will the Phoenix be in the Smithsonian? - 06Crowdfunding to Restore Neil Armstrong Spacesuit Exceeds Goal - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:30:36] <exec> 08└─I was asking myself this very question, when I realized, what if I am Zefram Cochrane? I'd better get to work. I'll need a doctorate in physics. Time to start drinking and hit the books. Should take me about 50 years. See you then!
[08:30:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Speculative Connections - 06Mozilla Thinks You Should Eat Cake - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:30:48] <exec> 08└─If I click on something, there is nothing "speculative" about it though. It must do something else.
[08:30:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Speculative Connections - 06Mozilla Thinks You Should Eat Cake - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:30:49] <exec> 08└─So, without inspecting the code, the only way I can make sense of that is if I click a link it "speculatively" connects to everything linked to the destination. That seems possibly even worse. If that's it, why? If not, what is being speculated on?
[08:30:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Re:Speculative Connections - 06Mozilla Thinks You Should Eat Cake - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:30:53] <exec> 08└─I'm glad it can be disabled, but they've removed the ability to change settings before. Also, nothing should EVER be only accessible through something like about:config. Regular users will never decipher that, or know the option even exists unless told by someone. All browser options should be in th...
[08:30:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Marand [1081] 02Re:Isn't standardization a good thing? - 06Mozilla Thinks You Should Eat Cake - 210 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:30:59] <exec> 08└─I understand that migrating extensions to a new API will be a lot of work for extension developers, but in the long run isn't it better to have a standard extension API instead of several browser-specific ones?
[08:30:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Marand [1081] 02Loss of addons = loss of identity. - 06Mozilla Thinks You Should Eat Cake - 2477 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:31:00] <exec> 08└─The entire point of Firefox is its incredible flexibility due to its addon design. Without that, what reason is there to continue using it? Sure, they've said they'll try to make workarounds for popular extensions, but it's still going to leave a bunch of addons crippled or completely broken, with n...
[08:31:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Loss of addons = loss of identity. - 06Mozilla Thinks You Should Eat Cake - 2184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:31:02] <exec> 08└─Welcome to software that comes out of SF. The culture is very arrogant, and consideration for the community is non-existent. The consideration is moving more and more towards "enterprise", which actually reads as "sellouts". We are in the process of developing the next equivalent of yuppies. One exa...
[08:31:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Cake? - 06Mozilla Thinks You Should Eat Cake - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:31:04] <exec> 08└─Mozilla Thinks You Should Eat Cake
[08:31:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Re:Cake? - 06Mozilla Thinks You Should Eat Cake - 679 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:31:05] <exec> 08└─I modded you insightful, because you are completely accurate. However, I wish there was a mod for "pedantic". While the metaphor doesn't track 100%, it fits well enough. The new system is cross compatible (fancy new cake) and the addon community is being forced to eat it. Their contempt is readily g...
[08:31:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marneus68 [3572] (Score:2) 02Nail in the coffin - 06Mozilla Thinks You Should Eat Cake - 541 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:31:07] <exec> 08└─Well, that's the en of that then. Once this rolls out there will be no reason to use Firefox over Chromium. Australis did bother ma a wee bit, but I got over it since it was only cosmetic changes. This however will impact the features available to the addons developers. Stuff like Down Them All will...
[08:31:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02magnetic cogwheels? - 06Trio Create Artificial Magnetic Wormhole - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:31:16] <exec> 08└─well this seems cool. if i understand correctly, then let's say the top of the computer screen is the north pole and the bottom is the south pole (of the wormhole-magnet). you can now move a magnet from right-side of screen to left without it noticing the top-to-bottom magnetic field?
[08:31:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Re:I've discovered... - 06Astronomers Discover the Biggest Thing in The Universe - 753 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:31:41] <exec> 08└─The point you're missing is that it is a structure where the pieces directly influence each other. The universe as a whole "supposedly" has areas which no longer directly effect one another. This discovery is important because it points out that our understanding of gravity is lacking. It is high ti...
[08:31:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Re:scale - 06Astronomers Discover the Biggest Thing in The Universe - 604 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:31:45] <exec> 08└─Your last sentence, structure at every scale, basically violates the cosmological principle. Our theory for how the universe evolved assumes that it is like (simplified) gas filling a room. You'll see some random distributions/fluctuations, but once you zoom out to even the millimeter scale you coul...
[08:32:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Urlax [3027] (Score:2) 02sounds good, but limited use - 06Augmented Reality Glasses Could Visually Encrypt Secrets - 583 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:32:16] <exec> 08└─The keypad idea is great. each time the button layout changes, so using the glasses only the wearer knows which button to press. it seems redundant, connecting glasses to the ATM requires much more security than the 4 digit code itself.. (unless you allow every display to connect to the terminal wit...
[08:33:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02eviction - 06Will the Pronoun I Become Obsolete? A Biological Perspective - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:02] <exec> 08└─stinky-feet and tooth-decay I prefer to kick out of my "holobiont-ness"
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[09:31:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:Microsoft Edge is the future! - 06Mozilla Thinks You Should Eat Cake - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:31:17] <exec> 08└─Hopefully Microsoft will never port it to OS X. IE for MacOS [way back] was only good for awhile because it rendered the internet 'the microsoft way'.
[09:31:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Speculative Connections - 06Mozilla Thinks You Should Eat Cake - 748 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:31:26] <exec> 08└─I'm sorry but you are completely off-base. DNS Pre-fetching does not happen when you hover over a link, it happens when the page is loaded [blogspot.com] - by default firefox (and palemoon) do DNS prefetching on ALL href anchors in the document. You've confused speculative connections (see the subje...
[09:31:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marneus68 [3572] (Score:2) 02Re:Isn't standardization a good thing? - 06Mozilla Thinks You Should Eat Cake - 706 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:31:33] <exec> 08└─Without going into the the full-length explanation that has been brilliantly made earlier, I kinda want to add that I'm not exactly sure that standardization is great when you're aligning yourself with the lowest common denominator. In the case of the Firefox API, we will lose a lot a features in th...
[09:32:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score:2) 02One in 20000 Chance? - 06Astronomers Discover the Biggest Thing in The Universe - 1080 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:32:24] <exec> 08└─TFA implies that the nine galaxies, 5 billion light years apart, emmited energy bursts simultaneously. [I've not read the scientific account, and Gizmag looks like a popular scince thing]. I think they might check their instrumentation as a first step. Or perhaps something has been lost in translati...
[09:32:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So basically... - 06World's First Portable Islands Will Let Super-rich Create Eco-friendly Getaways Anywhere On Earth - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:32:34] <exec> 08└─The landfilling isn't about weapons installations, its about real-estate so that they can claim ownership of the south china sea for drilling rights and shipping lanes. Mostly the former, but the later has other countries freaking out about the possibility of China deciding to "shut down" the shippi...
[09:32:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:3, Touché) 02Re:BS - 06World's First Portable Islands Will Let Super-rich Create Eco-friendly Getaways Anywhere On Earth - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:32:45] <exec> 08└─I don't believe they will command quite as high a price using the proper name "barge".
[09:32:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:sounds good, but limited use - 06Augmented Reality Glasses Could Visually Encrypt Secrets - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:32:56] <exec> 08└─I know, just make one of the USB ports publicly accessible.
[09:35:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I've actually used one. - 06The Da Vinci Surgical Robot Sews a Grape - 2161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:35:13] <exec> 08└─I would say "in an odd turn of events" but my life has a history of odd events, my wife and I decided to take a trip to the mall on a whim. I was estatic to see a monstrously large device, which I immediately recognized as a DiVinci robot, sitting in one of the commons areas. I approached and realiz...
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[10:31:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02derp derp I can watch TV too - 06SpaceWorks Believes Cryogenic Sleep Holds the Key to Space Travel - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:31:37] <exec> 08└─Hey, I know this! I saw it tonight on "Dark Matter" in the TV box. There's cryogenic sleep that gives the crew amnesia, and there's space travel by cloning yourself, and some kind of FTL drive called an FTL drive. Amazing stuff on that Syfy channel. I should watch more TV then I can write stupid new...
[10:32:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Microsoft Edge is the future! - 06Mozilla Thinks You Should Eat Cake - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:32:01] <exec> 08└─As an Opera user, I am offended. The proper pejorative is either "Chropera" or "Oprah".
[10:32:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03andersjm [3931] (Score:2, Informative) 02Re:Why bother to fork - 06Mozilla Thinks You Should Eat Cake - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:32:13] <exec> 08└─It's not google spyware, there's a plethora is extensions, and it's cross-platform. What other browser would you suggest that offers as much?
[10:32:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03andersjm [3931] (Score:1, Disagree) 02Re:Why bother to fork - 06Mozilla Thinks You Should Eat Cake - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:32:14] <exec> 08└─"plethora of extensions" (sigh, I did use Preview, really!)
[10:32:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score:2) 02Re:Why bother to fork - 06Mozilla Thinks You Should Eat Cake - 883 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:32:16] <exec> 08└─Actually I would argue it doesn't even have the "its not Chrome" as it is ripping off the look of Chrome. A more apropos description would be "a more unsafe Chrome ripoff" as unlike Chrome (and all browsers based on Chromium) Firefox runs in the same permissions as the user instead of using Low Righ...
[10:32:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Why bother to fork - 06Mozilla Thinks You Should Eat Cake - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:32:17] <exec> 08└─Last I checked, and granted it's been a few months, PaleMoon had one developer. One. That's not cool if you value things like timely responses to critical bugs and knowing your dev team would survive the loss of one member.
[10:32:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score:2) 02Re:Loss of addons = loss of identity. - 06Mozilla Thinks You Should Eat Cake - 740 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:32:25] <exec> 08└─Before you give up PLEASE tell the devs at Pale Moon which ones you are having issue with, okay? I've dropped a line there a time or two and those guys actually care about their users (I know, fucking amazing huh?) and were able to help me fix the issue I was having pretty quickly, which considering...
[10:32:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Fork - 06Mozilla Thinks You Should Eat Cake - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:32:29] <exec> 08└─Fork 'em, baby. Fork 'em hard.
[10:32:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Whistling Robots - 06The Curious Case of Whistled Languages and Their Lack of Left-brain Dominance - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:32:52] <exec> 08└─Whistling languages have appeared in science fiction. For example, R2D2's distinctive noises. And now there may be a scientific basis for it.
[10:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Encrypt? - 06Augmented Reality Glasses Could Visually Encrypt Secrets - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:53] <exec> 08└─Isn't it rather that the glasses decrypt the message?
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[11:31:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02replace players with Robots - 06The mThrow Wearable Sleeve Turns Baseball Pitching Into a Science - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:31:38] <exec> 08└─Robot baseball couldn't possibly be any more boring than regular baseball.
[11:32:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score:2) 02Re:Speculative Connections - 06Mozilla Thinks You Should Eat Cake - 514 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:32:17] <exec> 08└─No... When you click on a link, Pale Moon will take you to that page, downloading only the elements for that one specific page so you can see them. That's the traditional behavior, where the browser does what you tell it to and only what you tell it to. In contrast, he is saying PM does not do these...
[11:32:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Speculative Connections - 06Mozilla Thinks You Should Eat Cake - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:32:21] <exec> 08└─Make sure that flipping that actually disables it. Some of those booleans don't actually do anything because the code ignores their value.
[11:32:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] 02Re:Loss of addons = loss of identity. - 06Mozilla Thinks You Should Eat Cake - 2184 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:32:34] <exec> 08└─Welcome to software that comes out of SF. The culture is very arrogant, and consideration for the community is non-existent. The consideration is moving more and more towards "enterprise", which actually reads as "sellouts". We are in the process of developing the next equivalent of yuppies. One exa...
[11:32:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Cake? - 06Mozilla Thinks You Should Eat Cake - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:32:38] <exec> 08└─I thought it was a joke about 'having your cake and eating it too' but you're right that it's a bad headline.
[11:32:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marneus68 [3572] (Score:3, Informative) 02For those who want to have their voice heard - 06Mozilla Thinks You Should Eat Cake - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:32:41] <exec> 08└─https://webextensions.uservoice.com/forums/315663-webextension-api-ideas/suggestions/9437103-drop-webextensions [uservoice.com]
[11:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:there's a name for it - 06Augmented Reality Glasses Could Visually Encrypt Secrets - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:34:04] <exec> 08└─No, it isn't. Steganography hides that a message exists. Encryption hides what the message says. This is encryption.
[11:39:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03dvader [1936] (Score:1) 02Re:Maybe they are happy with it as is? - 06Die, OpenOffice? - 874 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:39:55] <exec> 08└─Good point. This is not new tech. After 20-30 years of use we know pretty well what features we want from an office suite. (Actually, I just care about spreadsheets. Latex, markdown, wikis etc has replaced almost all my needs of a word processor) The only feature I'm missing and which is missing fro...
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[12:30:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:replace players with Robots - 06The mThrow Wearable Sleeve Turns Baseball Pitching Into a Science - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:30:42] <exec> 08└─but I prefer volleyball!
[12:30:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02the hard truth - 06SpaceWorks Believes Cryogenic Sleep Holds the Key to Space Travel - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:30:51] <exec> 08└─space sucks, sci fi and space programs just distract the masses from what is done to their planet. /unpopular opinion puffin
[12:30:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:the hard truth - 06SpaceWorks Believes Cryogenic Sleep Holds the Key to Space Travel - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:30:53] <exec> 08└─also look at these ----- -- - --- -- -- - - - ---- ----^
[12:30:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02heavy fuel - 06SpaceWorks Believes Cryogenic Sleep Holds the Key to Space Travel - 500 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:30:55] <exec> 08└─maybe de-volve back from land to water. water can be used as fuel for a fusion reactor. it can be used for radiation shielding (like in them 'ol nuke reactors). liquid or solid, whatever. it can "cushion" a submerged astronaut in scuba gear from high acceleration >30 G no problem! hmmm ... what else...
[12:31:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Refugee from beyond [2699] (Score:2) 02Re:Cake? - 06Mozilla Thinks You Should Eat Cake - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:31:43] <exec> 08└─Cake is just an euphemism for something less pleasant.
[12:31:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:Fork - 06Mozilla Thinks You Should Eat Cake - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:31:46] <exec> 08└─Or help out seamonkey, which will become the only place for old FF extensions, unless they switch too, but then why would they morph into another chrome clone?
[12:31:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03NoMaster [3543] (Score:2) 02I know what I think - 06Mozilla Thinks You Should Eat Cake - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:31:49] <exec> 08└─If Mozilla thinks I can eat cake, I think they can suck my cock. If they're going to remove the last remaining reasons to use their browser, I'm going to use remove their browser. Why use a shitty Chrome-alike when I could use Chrome (or, more likely since I'm on OS X, Safari)?
[12:31:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02A really appropriate submitter nickname - 06Mozilla Thinks You Should Eat Cake - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:31:50] <exec> 08└─> The Mighty Buzzard THY GAME IS OVER
[12:32:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Re:Not just rogue waves - 06World's First Portable Islands Will Let Super-rich Create Eco-friendly Getaways Anywhere On Earth - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:32:49] <exec> 08└─Yup I don't see how making it look like an island changes the fact that it's a boat. And the traditional definition of a boat is "a hole in the water where you pour all your money".
[12:33:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:Does Betteridge Law ever fail? - 06Will the Pronoun I Become Obsolete? A Biological Perspective - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:33:41] <exec> 08└─At least someone noticed :)
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[13:30:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Uh.... - 06Only H1Bs Need Apply? - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:30:33] <exec> 08└─Uh... They don't mean only H1B, you can apply if you want. They just have such a huge plurality of H1B applicants that they want to filter out those who can't legally work in the US already.
[13:30:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2, Disagree) 02Re:Uh.... - 06Only H1Bs Need Apply? - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:30:34] <exec> 08└─No story here. I thought H1Bs were "bady paid" and kept wages down. USA median household income was $51,939 in 2013, so $85k is pretty good.
[13:30:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kilo110 [2853] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Uh.... - 06Only H1Bs Need Apply? - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:30:36] <exec> 08└─85k is certainly over the median of 52k, but that's irrelevant. What matters is how 85k compares to other similar job postings in that geographic area.
[13:30:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score:2) 02Re:Uh.... - 06Only H1Bs Need Apply? - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:30:38] <exec> 08└─Masters in (presumably) CS with 8 years of relevant experience. Sounds about right for Pierre, SD.
[13:30:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score:2) 02Re:Uh.... - 06Only H1Bs Need Apply? - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:30:40] <exec> 08└─That said looking at the requirements, or as I like to call it the HR departments unrealistic x-mas wishlist, the applicant should have almost a decade of experience in software development and a masters degree with an emphasis on mathematics etc. I'm not certain that 85k is really that great a pay,...
[13:30:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Uh.... - 06Only H1Bs Need Apply? - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:30:41] <exec> 08└─Well, they do keep wages down in their field. How much? We don't know. But the net effect on average productivity in the country is positive. Things can have a collective cost to one group(US born tech workers) and still fundamentally be a net positive once everyone is considered.
[13:30:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Bias is legal - 06Only H1Bs Need Apply? - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:30:43] <exec> 08└─It is legal to be biased against American citizens. It is ILLEGAL to be biased against any outside minority group, but biases against Americans, against males, against whites, those are all good.
[13:30:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Why is surgery ok, but not drugs? - 06The mThrow Wearable Sleeve Turns Baseball Pitching Into a Science - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:30:51] <exec> 08└─Is there anything stopping players getting surgery that not only repairs, but improves their ability? And can you even draw a line between them?
[13:31:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score:2) 02Passage of time - 06SpaceWorks Believes Cryogenic Sleep Holds the Key to Space Travel - 701 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:31:02] <exec> 08└─So they finally got around to watching a rerun of Alien? As they note this has been known as an option in sci-fi for quite some time. Cameron figured it out before 1979 and I doubt he came up with the idea. Either you learn how to travel really fast or you learn some tech that makes the passage of t...
[13:31:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03No Respect [991] 02This is great! - 06Crowdfunding to Restore Neil Armstrong Spacesuit Exceeds Goal - 687 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:31:09] <exec> 08└─It also infuriates me. The Smithsonian spends all kinds of money each and every year. If they won't pick up the tab to preserve, oh, I dunno.... THE FUCKING SPACESUIT OF THE 1ST MAN ON THE MOON than what the fuck else are they spending it on? It's gratifying that so many people donated to this cause...
[13:31:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] 02Re:Speculative Connections - 06Mozilla Thinks You Should Eat Cake - 2040 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:31:30] <exec> 08└─It meana that a browser like Firefox (and Seamonkey, Palemoon) will look up the address of a linked web page when you hover your mouse over the link. not when you actually click on the link. Say you were reading an article on the Internet and in the comments there was a link that another poster said...
[13:31:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03sudo rm -rf [2357] 02Re:Speculative Connections - 06Mozilla Thinks You Should Eat Cake - 184 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:31:31] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the explanation, the Firefox (40) setting is called 'network.dns.disablePrefetch' https://developer.mozilla.org [mozilla.org]
[13:31:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03frojack [1554] 02Why bother to fork - 06Mozilla Thinks You Should Eat Cake - 165 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:31:36] <exec> 08└─Realistically, I think firefox has less and less to offer. Its principal claim to fame sees to be "Its not Chrome". Is that engine really worth the effort of a fork?
[13:31:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02Re:Why bother to fork - 06Mozilla Thinks You Should Eat Cake - 223 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:31:41] <exec> 08└─Last I checked, and granted it's been a few months, PaleMoon had one developer. One. That's not cool if you value things like timely responses to critical bugs and knowing your dev team would survive the loss of one member.
[13:31:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] 02Cake? - 06Mozilla Thinks You Should Eat Cake - 34 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:31:50] <exec> 08└─Mozilla Thinks You Should Eat Cake
[13:33:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03davester666 [155] 02Re:BS - 06World's First Portable Islands Will Let Super-rich Create Eco-friendly Getaways Anywhere On Earth - 86 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:33:05] <exec> 08└─I don't believe they will command quite as high a price using the proper name "barge".
[13:33:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03throwaway28 [5181] (Score:1) 02Older - 06Augmented Reality Glasses Could Visually Encrypt Secrets - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:19] <exec> 08└─A while back, it was suggested displaying an inverse color image every other frame; then viewing through active LCD shutter glasses as used in some forms of 3d tv. So to casual observers, no matter what's displayed, the screen always looks pure gray.
[13:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Ugh... - 06Will the Pronoun I Become Obsolete? A Biological Perspective - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:34:00] <exec> 08└─Good bit of phenix666's submissions are crap.
[13:35:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Homeostasis - 06Scientists Say Humans are an Unsustainable (Super)Predator - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:35:57] <exec> 08└─In the West we used to offer to pay for additional tags for the hunters we knew through our church. They liked to hunt and didn't care that they didn't keep the additional kills.
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[14:30:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:Uh.... - 06Only H1Bs Need Apply? - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:30:39] <exec> 08└─... for some very unusual definitions of 'everyone'.
[14:30:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03srobert [4803] (Score:2) 02Re:Uh.... - 06Only H1Bs Need Apply? - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:30:40] <exec> 08└─Yes, things can have a collective cost to one group and still be a net positive. But the notion that driving down wages either increases average productivity, or is a net positive worldwide, is highly dubious.
[14:30:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Uh.... - 06Only H1Bs Need Apply? - 532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:30:41] <exec> 08└─I'm not one of the "No more H1-Bs - call your congressman now!" crowd, but this ad does seem targeted to H1-B's, since it's very unlikely they'll be able to find an American with that lengthy list of qualifications (C++, math, distributed computing, master's degree) willing to work in SD for $85K/yr...
[14:30:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Uh.... - 06Only H1Bs Need Apply? - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:30:43] <exec> 08└─They just assume they're getting a lot of H1B people. I've applied to plenty of positions including a "please include your Visa information with your application" and gotten responses. At first when I saw that I was discouraged too. Then I realized that I was dealing with recruiters who are lazy ass...
[14:30:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score:4, Informative) 02Really? - 06Only H1Bs Need Apply? - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:30:45] <exec> 08└─Please read this job description carefully. We are looking for solid C/C++ Engineer with valid h1b visa who are currently in US and willing to transfer his visa to our company for long term employment.
[14:30:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Really? - 06Only H1Bs Need Apply? - 658 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:30:47] <exec> 08└─And this is more an "exception proves the rule" understanding that you need. If they are demanding people with valid H1Bs then the contextually understood meaning is that they're ruling out people with invalid ones. Then you need to analyze why they're asking that. The natural conclusion is that the...
[14:30:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Bias is legal - 06Only H1Bs Need Apply? - 516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:30:48] <exec> 08└─-1 Totally and completely incorrect. It's explicitly illegal to discriminate on national origin under the civil rights act of 1964. US is a national origin. You're right that you could discriminate on citizenship, but that doesn't distinguish between naturalized and natural born. And I'm pretty sure...
[14:30:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Bias is legal - 06Only H1Bs Need Apply? - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:30:50] <exec> 08└─Uh-huh. You are technically correct - and Hillary Clinton is technically in violation of laws that would put most people in prison for years. Let's just see how things play out, alright? No one is going to be fined, or spend any time in jail, for refusing to hire an American citizen. That has alread...
[14:30:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Bias is legal - 06Only H1Bs Need Apply? - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:30:52] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I have no idea where the Clinton thing is going. She may well get a slap on the wrist.
[14:31:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:the hard truth - 06SpaceWorks Believes Cryogenic Sleep Holds the Key to Space Travel - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:31:09] <exec> 08└─Not so much unpopular as shallow and one dimensional. Literally everything that isn't [important issue X] is a distraction from [important issue X]. Even if it's [important issue Y] instead.
[14:31:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02The conclusion is skewed - 06SpaceWorks Believes Cryogenic Sleep Holds the Key to Space Travel - 1072 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:31:12] <exec> 08└─Maybe - just maybe, the conclusion is right, in that "humans as we commonly accept the term today, probably can't survive very well in space". Big deal. Aren't we evolving? How does evolution work? Well - it's kinda like organisms are thrown into a demanding environment, and they mostly die off. Tho...
[14:31:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:Why bother to fork - 06Mozilla Thinks You Should Eat Cake - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:31:48] <exec> 08└─Try uMatrix for Chrome (and I think they actually have a FireFox version as well). Pretty similar, and more usable if I remember RequestPolicy correctly. You can also configure it via text based rules, block malware domains via imported hosts files, and a few other things.
[14:31:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Why bother to fork - 06Mozilla Thinks You Should Eat Cake - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:31:52] <exec> 08└─hehe nice disagree mod
[14:32:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Just freeze your browser version - 06Mozilla Thinks You Should Eat Cake - 791 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:32:12] <exec> 08└─A lot of people seem pretty upset about this. And, I think you're being at least a little premature in getting upset. Apparently, you have, right now, a version of FF which you like. Freeze it! Don't update it. Hold what you've got. You'll have months, if not years, before you have to jump one direc...
[14:36:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Homeostasis - 06Scientists Say Humans are an Unsustainable (Super)Predator - 939 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:36:08] <exec> 08└─You're not kidding. There is very little about the natural world that city people are actually comfortable with, beyond the mere idea of "nature=good." A couple years ago there was a freakout in Brooklyn about reports that racoons had come into the area. "OMG!!! They could have rabies!!! Think of th...
[14:36:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Welp - 06Scientists Say Humans are an Unsustainable (Super)Predator - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:36:52] <exec> 08└─It's better to skip right over fruitarianism [wikipedia.org] to breathairianism [wikipedia.org].
[14:38:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Emacs not. ASCIIDOC yes. - 06Die, OpenOffice? - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:38:28] <exec> 08└─".... That's the real "universal" document format of today, " Actually, ASCIIDOC is the way to go.
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[15:30:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Oh the irony - 06Shutdownify is Shutting Down - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:30:31] <exec> 08└─Its startups all the way down
[15:30:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02I have a great target market! - 06Shutdownify is Shutting Down - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:30:32] <exec> 08└─Companies entering bankruptcy! They're sure to pay us well!
[15:30:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03M. Baranczak [1673] (Score:2) 02Re:I have a great target market! - 06Shutdownify is Shutting Down - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:30:34] <exec> 08└─On the other hand, their operating costs must be pretty damn low. That is, unless the whole thing was a money-laundering scheme designed to fail from the start.
[15:30:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:I have a great target market! - 06Shutdownify is Shutting Down - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:30:36] <exec> 08└─unless the whole thing was a money-laundering scheme designed to fail from the start.
[15:30:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02What was the plan again? - 06Shutdownify is Shutting Down - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:30:37] <exec> 08└─We knew when we started Shutdownify that its business model was risky, since many of our clients had already run out of money and were in the process of dissolving their companies. We naively assumed that acquisitions and acqui-hires would make up for it. We were wrong.
[15:30:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MrGuy [1007] 02Really? - 06Only H1Bs Need Apply? - 201 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:30:54] <exec> 08└─Please read this job description carefully. We are looking for solid C/C++ Engineer with valid h1b visa who are currently in US and willing to transfer his visa to our company for long term employment.
[15:30:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Really? - 06Only H1Bs Need Apply? - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:30:57] <exec> 08└─I think that "...please read this job description carefully..." means exactly that: "We are looking for... Engineer with valid h1b visa" There is not question of what that sentence says. And we should take it for what it means rather than assuming they meant anything else. Send that advertisement to...
[15:31:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Re:Bias is legal - 06Only H1Bs Need Apply? - 622 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:31:02] <exec> 08└─"Totally and completely incorrect. It's explicitly illegal to discriminate" Naive. What's illegal is one thing; what's common practice is another. Discrimination happens all the time, because - unless the person discriminating is stupid about it - it is essentially impossible to prove. "Gee, the guy...
[15:31:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Wells Fargo: Embezzlement, Or H1-B Abuse? - 06Only H1Bs Need Apply? - 1893 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:31:04] <exec> 08└─I was contacted by a recruiter this past week for a remote security administration role for Wells Fargo Bank, in San Francisco. The recruiters said I was a perfect match - because I have considerable experience with Wells Fargo Bank, and their security mechanisms. The job is a 6 to 12-month CONTRA...
[15:31:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Wells Fargo: Embezzlement, Or H1-B Abuse? - 06Only H1Bs Need Apply? - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:31:05] <exec> 08└─You dont have to put North Carolina after Charlotte. People know where the fuck it is. It is one of the largest cities in the United States, with a larger population than Detroit, Seattle, or Boston.
[15:31:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Wells Fargo: Embezzlement, Or H1-B Abuse? - 06Only H1Bs Need Apply? - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:31:07] <exec> 08└─My experience has been that the H1Bs don't necessarily know this. Please be kind to your future masters.
[15:31:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02There's a real life outside of the movies - 06The mThrow Wearable Sleeve Turns Baseball Pitching Into a Science - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:31:17] <exec> 08└─It's an article of faith among geeks that despite the travails of youth and high school, they shall triumph over jocks in the end. This is a rather more direct example.
[15:31:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score:2) 02Re:the hard truth - 06SpaceWorks Believes Cryogenic Sleep Holds the Key to Space Travel - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:31:28] <exec> 08└─Could there be a typo there? Couold you, for example, have meant ----- -- - --- -- -- - --- ---- ----^ ?
[15:32:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03drgibbon [74] (Score:1) 02Re:Why bother to fork - 06Mozilla Thinks You Should Eat Cake - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:32:08] <exec> 08└─I've found Policeman [mozilla.org] to be an improvement over RequestPolicy, and Self-Destructing Cookies [mozilla.org] is a whitelist cookie policy system. By default cookies are accepted but deleted after you close the tab (with a 10 second delay), but they can also be kept for the entire session (...
[15:32:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02field interference - 06Trio Create Artificial Magnetic Wormhole - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:32:44] <exec> 08└─Going to RTFA now, but this sounds more like they use an interference pattern to have a magnetic peak somewhere inside the machine while minimizing field strength elsewhere.
[15:36:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:Solved problem - 06Scientists Say Humans are an Unsustainable (Super)Predator - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:36:52] <exec> 08└─I don't think so. Watch a video of big cats and their prey sometime, they act just like house cats when hunting. I saw one video of a gazelle that wouldn't run away from a couple of tigers, who didn't know what to do with a docile gazelle.
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[16:30:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Perl has CPAN - 06Github’s Top Coding Languages Show Open Source is Everywhere - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:30:32] <exec> 08└─This graph really shows which programming languages have most embraced GitHub, which is correlated to the popularity of programming languages used for open source, but not the same.
[16:30:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score:2) 02OH GOD - 06Github’s Top Coding Languages Show Open Source is Everywhere - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:30:33] <exec> 08└─C# and Java up, Javascript up, and C and python, my two favorite languages, declining. Kill it with fire.
[16:30:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:3, Interesting) 02They had a visionn - 06Shutdownify is Shutting Down - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:30:46] <exec> 08└─C'mon people! Let's give these guys a break. They had a vision for something great and they tried their best to make it happen. Not every business succeeds, in fact almost many fail. They had the guts, the vision and the nerve to be great.
[16:31:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:Uh.... - 06Only H1Bs Need Apply? - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:31:03] <exec> 08└─No, $85K is downright insulting for an experienced engineer almost anywhere, and in the Boston area, it's nearly poverty-level. Boston is one of the most expensive parts of the US to live in, probably just under Manhattan NYC.
[16:31:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bias is legal - 06Only H1Bs Need Apply? - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:31:13] <exec> 08└─Notice how once his persecution fantasy was proven false, he threw in that red herring about Clinton and then you swallowed it hook, line and sinker? Runaway is a whiny little bitch who makes up lies in order to justify his bigotry and people are forever giving him the benefit of the doubt.
[16:31:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Bias is legal - 06Only H1Bs Need Apply? - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:31:15] <exec> 08└─Yeah, it's a red herring. Perfectly true. "Ha! You claim to to care about the justice system and it's rules, but what about [politicized scandal]?" is always going to be vacuous. I was just trying to get the discussion back on course by not caring. I kinda failed.
[16:31:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Bias is legal - 06Only H1Bs Need Apply? - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:31:18] <exec> 08└─They talked about legality in their post. It's okay to object to that.
[16:31:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bias is legal - 06Only H1Bs Need Apply? - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:31:19] <exec> 08└─How the hell is this rated 4, informative? There isn't a since scrap of information in there.
[16:31:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Wells Fargo: Embezzlement, Or H1-B Abuse? - 06Only H1Bs Need Apply? - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:31:23] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure there is someone in the middle - another recruiting agency, or maybe a crooked manager, there at Wells Fargo Bank - who is embezzling the travel funds.
[16:31:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why is surgery ok, but not drugs? - 06The mThrow Wearable Sleeve Turns Baseball Pitching Into a Science - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:31:34] <exec> 08└─Surgery is regarded as repair of broken bones, muscles and cartilage. PEDs are regarded as an artificial attempt to create a super-athlete, that sets an unhealthy example to kids hoping to become professional athletes, or adult amateur athletes trying to emulate them.
[16:31:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02reminds me of golf - 06The mThrow Wearable Sleeve Turns Baseball Pitching Into a Science - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:31:36] <exec> 08└─In golf, training devices are constantly being pitched, mostly to recreational players although tour pros do use some gadgets (particularly alignment aids for putting). They range the gamut from computerized motion feedback (like the gizmo in TFS) to mechanical alignment aids and wearables. There ar...
[16:31:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:Passage of time - 06SpaceWorks Believes Cryogenic Sleep Holds the Key to Space Travel - 1708 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:31:50] <exec> 08└─So they finally got around to watching a rerun of Alien? As they note this has been known as an option in sci-fi for quite some time. Cameron figured it out before 1979 and I doubt he came up with the idea. Holy crap. No, Cameron did not figure it out before 1979, he hadn't even made his piranha mo...
[16:32:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03andersjm [3931] 02Re:Why bother to fork - 06Mozilla Thinks You Should Eat Cake - 141 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:32:29] <exec> 08└─It's not google spyware, there's a plethora is extensions, and it's cross-platform. What other browser would you suggest that offers as much?
[16:32:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NoMaster [3543] 02I know what I think - 06Mozilla Thinks You Should Eat Cake - 278 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:32:49] <exec> 08└─If Mozilla thinks I can eat cake, I think they can suck my cock. If they're going to remove the last remaining reasons to use their browser, I'm going to use remove their browser. Why use a shitty Chrome-alike when I could use Chrome (or, more likely since I'm on OS X, Safari)?
[16:32:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03drgibbon [74] (Score:2, Insightful) 02Re:Just freeze your browser version - 06Mozilla Thinks You Should Eat Cake - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:32:52] <exec> 08└─Sure but there's been quite a few security patches coming out lately for FF builds..
[16:32:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03PizzaRollPlinkett [4512] (Score:2) 02I can't believe it's not Firefox - 06Mozilla Thinks You Should Eat Cake - 535 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:32:54] <exec> 08└─The self-destruction of Firefox over the past few years has been amazing to watch. What is going on? Why are they slowly destroying their browser? Why don't they listen to anyone? Someone is on a mission to destroy the one browser that can actually be used to give users some control over the Interne...
[16:32:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03DarkMorph [674] (Score:2) 02What about Seamonkey? - 06Mozilla Thinks You Should Eat Cake - 869 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:32:55] <exec> 08└─Many extensions are cross-compatible with Firefox and Seamonkey. Is this plan exclusive to Firefox, which would suggest all extensions that currently work with Seamonkey will continue to do so? Honestly I'm not sure how separate the development paths are for those two browsers. It was an idea years...
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[17:30:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03N3Roaster [3860] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:OH GOD - 06Github’s Top Coding Languages Show Open Source is Everywhere - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:30:36] <exec> 08└─I wonder how much of C is declining is really just GitHub getting better at deciding what's C and what's not. I have a project hosted there that used to be detected as about 90% C when it was really mostly C++. Now it's showing that as only about 16% C (still an over-estimation) and it's estimating...
[17:30:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:OH GOD - 06Github’s Top Coding Languages Show Open Source is Everywhere - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:30:37] <exec> 08└─C may eventually be replaced by Golang, which was created by some of the same people. Go wasn't on this list because not enough people are familiar with it yet. It probably will be in a few years (Docker, for example, is written in Go).
[17:30:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:OH GOD - 06Github’s Top Coding Languages Show Open Source is Everywhere - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:30:39] <exec> 08└─All of those but javascript are languages that have something positive to say about them.
[17:30:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03DarkMorph [674] (Score:2) 02Miscellany - 06Github’s Top Coding Languages Show Open Source is Everywhere - 2071 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:30:40] <exec> 08└─Spent about 3 weeks or so going through 2 popular ebooks I found on Perl. It had always bothered me that I never studied the language despite that it's not far off from turning 30 years old, and given its prevalence on *nix systems. The fact that SN is powered by it and I had trouble figuring out it...
[17:30:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Miscellany - 06Github’s Top Coding Languages Show Open Source is Everywhere - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:30:42] <exec> 08└─I can't remember the last script I looked at on Ubuntu that was Perl. It's all python now.
[17:30:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:They had a visionn - 06Shutdownify is Shutting Down - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:30:54] <exec> 08└─BTW, the above is a reproduction the running "house troll" post made (usually within 20 minutes) of each new story that appeared on fuckedcompany.com [wikipedia.org], a Slashdot-style blog on failing companies that Philip Kaplan started in 2000 and ran for a few years until he got tired of it. It re...
[17:31:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Uh.... - 06Only H1Bs Need Apply? - 748 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:31:12] <exec> 08└─They are badly paid and there to keep the wages down. What you don't see in those sorts of postings is all the extra crap you have to put up with because of your residency status. AFAIK, the H-1B program doesn't require raises and doesn't require that the employer be willing to negotiate over salary...
[17:31:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Re:Why is surgery ok, but not drugs? - 06The mThrow Wearable Sleeve Turns Baseball Pitching Into a Science - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:31:42] <exec> 08└─So then genetically-engineered athletes are okay?
[17:32:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:The conclusion is skewed - 06SpaceWorks Believes Cryogenic Sleep Holds the Key to Space Travel - 2268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:32:02] <exec> 08└─They're not going to survive, no matter what; that's the problem. It takes too long to get between star systems with our technology, and we don't even know how to build things which can last that long without significant repairs and overhauls. Without cryo-sleep, there's no way for anyone to survive...
[17:32:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:The conclusion is skewed - 06SpaceWorks Believes Cryogenic Sleep Holds the Key to Space Travel - 857 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:32:03] <exec> 08└─You're talking interstellar, but I'm thinking of just this solar system for now. From TFS, "may be the key to getting humans to Mars — and beyond" In my own estimation, it's going to take a couple hundred years, MINIMUM, to establish a presence throughout the solar system. We simply aren't ready t...
[17:32:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Speculative Connections - 06Mozilla Thinks You Should Eat Cake - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:32:33] <exec> 08└─Or you open a dictionary and look the word speculatively up. It means in a speculative manner or in a predictive fashion. I'm not really sure what's so hard to understand about that. Some browsers will hit up every link of a page in case you choose to click that link. I don't think it's a good pract...
[17:32:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03number11 [1170] (Score:1) 02Re:Speculative Connections - 06Mozilla Thinks You Should Eat Cake - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:32:39] <exec> 08└─It meana that a browser like Firefox (and Seamonkey, Palemoon) will look up the address of a linked web page when you hover your mouse over the link.
[17:32:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03basstard [5595] (Score:2) 02Re:Why bother to fork - 06Mozilla Thinks You Should Eat Cake - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:32:44] <exec> 08└─Self-Destructing Cookies seems very handy, as you say! Cheers!
[17:32:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03BananaPhone [2488] (Score:2) 02Re:Isn't standardization a good thing? - 06Mozilla Thinks You Should Eat Cake - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:32:55] <exec> 08└─I've read some places that Adblock and NoScript will not work anymore due to missing functionality in the API. Palemoon or seamonkey might be the only alternatives. Maybe the TAILS people will pickup the torch.
[17:33:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I can't believe it's not Firefox - 06Mozilla Thinks You Should Eat Cake - 550 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:33:11] <exec> 08└─They decided that they were done making a browser and needed instead to provide a comprehensive user experience that accorded with a set of philosophic goals grounded in sheer hipsterdom. The new FF experience will strive to anticipate all your decisions, for the set of decisions of which your privi...
[17:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Good thing I wasn't born in Turkey - 06The Curious Case of Whistled Languages and Their Lack of Left-brain Dominance - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:36] <exec> 08└─I'd be considered a cripple, for not being able to whistle.
[17:35:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I am gewg_! - 06Ex-Astroturfer Wins Lawsuit Against Propaganda 'Factory' - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:35:46] <exec> 08└─I'm gewg_ and so is my wife!
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[18:30:36] <exec> 08└─I hope not. In many places, Go lacks features that C has. I do recall pointer arithmetic being among them...
[18:30:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:OH GOD - 06Github’s Top Coding Languages Show Open Source is Everywhere - 500 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:30:38] <exec> 08└─What is wrong with javascript? It does exactly what it was built for, and well. Sure the plain old javascript has a lot more to go, but libraries built for it are making it magic for frontend development. jQuery and now Angular JS have freed legions of frustrated web developers from rendering web co...
[18:30:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1, Disagree) 02Re:Miscellany - 06Github’s Top Coding Languages Show Open Source is Everywhere - 729 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:30:41] <exec> 08└─And we're all worse off for it. I'm sure it works out fine until the first time when you set things up incorrectly and lose your white space. Python is OK if you haven't ever used a proper language, but defaulting to white space as delimiters just shows how little the people designing it know about...
[18:30:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Miscellany - 06Github’s Top Coding Languages Show Open Source is Everywhere - 780 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:30:43] <exec> 08└─I can't help but disagree. I've been a python developer in the past, and that's not an accurate portrayal of the biggest problems you'll face. #1. Dependency resolution can be really awful to debug. This is balanced by the fact that pypi eggs have all the tools to get the right dependencies out of t...
[18:30:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03PizzaRollPlinkett [4512] (Score:2) 02on github - 06Github’s Top Coding Languages Show Open Source is Everywhere - 1826 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:30:45] <exec> 08└─You'd expect github to mainly be populated by open-source languages and tools. How many people upload CICS exits or IMS transactions to github? There's got to be a certain amount of selection bias going on just by the nature of github itself. This survey borders on saying water is wet. Besides, ther...
[18:30:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03purpleland [5193] (Score:1) 02Java tidbits - 06Github’s Top Coding Languages Show Open Source is Everywhere - 806 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:30:47] <exec> 08└─Java has evolved quite nicely even though it isn't particularly elegant. Recent closure/functional programming features are very nice. But what makes Java great is: Rich set of libraries (mostly open source) available to do pretty much anything you desire.Powerful frameworks to structure complex pro...
[18:31:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Uh.... - 06Only H1Bs Need Apply? - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:31:13] <exec> 08└─85K for 8 years experience and a Master's degree? LMAO!
[18:31:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Uh.... - 06Only H1Bs Need Apply? - 655 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:31:19] <exec> 08└─I make 75k as a support tech in this same city, it's teeming with people. They are targeting an H1B, because the company is an H1B factory, which advertises as such. This salary is abysmally low for the area with the experience required. Around here He should be making roughly 100~125k/yr with stock...
[18:31:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Really? - 06Only H1Bs Need Apply? - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:31:24] <exec> 08└─No, this is an H1B factory looking for H1Bs. They bill themselves as such. Google the company, it's one of the first things that comes up.
[18:31:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Really? - 06Only H1Bs Need Apply? - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:31:26] <exec> 08└─No, this is an H1B factory looking for H1Bs. They bill themselves as such. Google the company, it's one of the first things that comes up. The company website is blank, and for a company of "10" people they've filed 46 requests for H1B visas.
[18:31:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Really? - 06Only H1Bs Need Apply? - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:31:28] <exec> 08└─Indeed. Regardless of some rare exception to the rule, the way it's written would probably make citizens think they're not suppose to apply for the job, or that it is indeed discriminating against them. And that's what matters. I agree, show it to a congressman (that cares about his job) and you'll...
[18:31:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bias is legal - 06Only H1Bs Need Apply? - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:31:35] <exec> 08└─Hillary Clinton is in violation of laws? That has yet to be proven. Seems like you're deflecting from the fact that you are very wrong by using a highly politically charged statement, commonly used by followers of Breitbart, The Drudge Report, and Fox News. Making up a controversy to deflect from bu...
[18:31:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Wells Fargo: Embezzlement, Or H1-B Abuse? - 06Only H1Bs Need Apply? - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:31:42] <exec> 08└─Charlotte is only "more populous" because it's more than double the size and half of Boston proper is water. The Metro region has significantly more people and population density is higher. Keep trying to make Charlotte sound like it's important though..someday someone might care. Everyone knows Ash...
[18:31:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03purpleland [5193] (Score:1) 02Make Software Engineering a Profession - 06Only H1Bs Need Apply? - 859 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:31:45] <exec> 08└─For better or worse, professional accreditation can become a barrier to entry, and indirectly reduce H1B/foreign entrants but not preclude anyone who can get accreditation. IMO the right approach is to move software engineering/development towards a Profession (like CPA=accountants, bar=lawyers). Th...
[18:31:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Need a Workout Suit - 06The mThrow Wearable Sleeve Turns Baseball Pitching Into a Science - 911 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:31:58] <exec> 08└─I'd like to see a bodysuit like this for regular people who just want to workout with good form. I want a suit that I can tell it which exercise I am doing and it will give me coaching about how to hold my body (angle of extension, etc) to maximize results and minimize risk of injury. It would proba...
[18:32:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Speculative Connections - 06Mozilla Thinks You Should Eat Cake - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:32:47] <exec> 08└─Some browsers will hit up every link of a page in case you choose to click that link.
[18:33:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Loss of addons = loss of identity. - 06Mozilla Thinks You Should Eat Cake - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:33:12] <exec> 08└─Mine, for example, are Ubiquity and TreeStyleTab. (...) When they stop working I'll check if Pale Moon plays nice with them, and if not, I'll probably just give up and use konqueror.
[18:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:As many Angels as want to - 06Astronomers Discover the Biggest Thing in The Universe - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:34:15] <exec> 08└─When the party stops and the angels start puking and weeping into the toilets... ... don't blink.
[18:35:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Here's a realistic perspective - 06Will the Pronoun I Become Obsolete? A Biological Perspective - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:35:40] <exec> 08└─My inner bacteria would beg to differ.
[18:35:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Re:M$? - 06Ex-Astroturfer Wins Lawsuit Against Propaganda 'Factory' - 39 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:35:54] <exec> 08└─I prefer to call them MICROS~1 -- gewg_
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[19:30:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Why would any enterprise would tolerate this? - 06Windows 10 Collects All Texts Entered into the Keyboard - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:30:32] <exec> 08└─I can assure you that my business will not be using windows 10 in any capacity. My content is private, proprietary, and in some cases classified.
[19:30:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:OH GOD - 06Github’s Top Coding Languages Show Open Source is Everywhere - 892 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:30:49] <exec> 08└─I remember reading about one of the creators of JavaScript saying that it was not intended for large scripts. They considered something like 1000 lines of code more than it was intended for. I'm not trolling here, I actually do a lot of JavaScript and don't *mind* it if it's written properly, that b...
[19:30:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03meisterister [949] (Score:2) 02Re:OH GOD - 06Github’s Top Coding Languages Show Open Source is Everywhere - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:30:50] <exec> 08└─Welcome to the Glorious Garbage Collected, Interpreted/Jitted Object-Oriented Language Cult... joooiiiin.... usss.
[19:30:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DarkMorph [674] 02Miscellany - 06Github’s Top Coding Languages Show Open Source is Everywhere - 2071 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:30:52] <exec> 08└─Spent about 3 weeks or so going through 2 popular ebooks I found on Perl. It had always bothered me that I never studied the language despite that it's not far off from turning 30 years old, and given its prevalence on *nix systems. The fact that SN is powered by it and I had trouble figuring out it...
[19:30:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Miscellany - 06Github’s Top Coding Languages Show Open Source is Everywhere - 1165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:30:57] <exec> 08└─White space in this usage is neither natural nor intuitive. And it was one of the most common things that I saw students screwing up. What's worse is that because it's white space, you don't see it. And if it ever gets messed up, you pretty much have to start over. It also means that when you do lea...
[19:30:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Miscellany - 06Github’s Top Coding Languages Show Open Source is Everywhere - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:30:58] <exec> 08└─This sounds like something who's never tried programming in python would say. Start over because of a formatting issue? Really? The fuck?
[19:31:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:Java tidbits - 06Github’s Top Coding Languages Show Open Source is Everywhere - 559 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:31:01] <exec> 08└─If you like some of the features of Java but hate the boilerplate code, try Groovy. You can mix it seamlessly with Java and it adds a pile of the features that really should have been there earlier, including generated getters and setters, traits, closures, fantastic collection handling, and a varie...
[19:31:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02McD's top orders show fries everywhere - 06Github’s Top Coding Languages Show Open Source is Everywhere - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:31:02] <exec> 08└─In other news McDonald's top orders show fries are everywhere. But Chipotle claims burritos are everywhere... Yawn.
[19:31:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02Re:I have a great target market! - 06Shutdownify is Shutting Down - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:31:14] <exec> 08└─Yeah that or a good way to scam venture capital.
[19:31:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:They had a visionn - 06Shutdownify is Shutting Down - 658 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:31:18] <exec> 08└─"Slashdot-style" is being a bit charitable; if I recall correctly, the comments section was called the "Happy Fun Slander Corner". However, it was a good way of keeping score of the companies, small and large, that faltered and failed in the early-2000's bubble. While I don't miss how crass it was (...
[19:31:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bias is legal - 06Only H1Bs Need Apply? - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:31:53] <exec> 08└─She's either in violation of laws or completely and utterly incompetent. Either way, that worthless corporatist fool should get out of the way of Bernie Sanders so the Democrat party can finally put forth a candidate that's at least slightly decent.
[19:31:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bias is legal - 06Only H1Bs Need Apply? - 991 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:31:57] <exec> 08└─Give me a fucking break. You privileged little butt hurt whinny little fuck. White people who have never attended a day of college make more than blacks who have-- it continues all the way up through blacks with advanced degrees making less than whites without them. Women make 20-30% less than men....
[19:32:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03fubari [4551] (Score:1) 02Re:Make Software Engineering a Profession - 06Only H1Bs Need Apply? - 1080 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:32:05] <exec> 08└─I see no incentives for demand side (employers) to do this. And few incentives for the supply side (programmers) to do this. It won't happen until we have a catastrophe with massive fatalities that was clearly caused by a lack of software engineering. Or maybe a massive data breach that causes the c...
[19:32:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Make Software Engineering a Profession - 06Only H1Bs Need Apply? - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:32:07] <exec> 08└─For better or worse, professional accreditation can become a barrier to entry
[19:32:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Need a Workout Suit - 06The mThrow Wearable Sleeve Turns Baseball Pitching Into a Science - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:32:22] <exec> 08└─I want a robot arm that brings my beer up to my mouth when I want a drink.
[19:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I've discovered... - 06Astronomers Discover the Biggest Thing in The Universe - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:34:32] <exec> 08└─no my ego is bigger.
[19:34:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheLink [332] (Score:2) 02Re:Not just rogue waves - 06World's First Portable Islands Will Let Super-rich Create Eco-friendly Getaways Anywhere On Earth - 553 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:34:54] <exec> 08└─That technology merely smooths out your island's motion while still letting the huge wave smooth out the top of your island... Maybe this sort of technology might work better: http://news.sciencemag.org [sciencemag.org] https://www...
[19:36:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:citation required - 06Ex-Astroturfer Wins Lawsuit Against Propaganda 'Factory' - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:36:42] <exec> 08└─[citation required]
[19:37:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Homeostasis - 06Scientists Say Humans are an Unsustainable (Super)Predator - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:37:57] <exec> 08└─I thought about something like that, but if you are following legal procedures you are reporting each deer you "accidentally" hit and at some point frequent accidents with deer are going to be noticed, either by the police, the Fish & Wildlife people or worse, the insurance companies. On the other h...
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[20:30:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Why would any enterprise would tolerate this? - 06Windows 10 Collects All Texts Entered into the Keyboard - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:30:33] <exec> 08└─Good job, now watch the IT bureaucracies of major corporations not give a damn.
[20:30:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score:2, Insightful) 02Re:Why would any enterprise would tolerate this? - 06Windows 10 Collects All Texts Entered into the Keyboard - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:30:34] <exec> 08└─Oh, they give a damn... about the kickbacks they get for deploying Windows 10.
[20:30:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why would any enterprise would tolerate this? - 06Windows 10 Collects All Texts Entered into the Keyboard - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:30:35] <exec> 08└─Of course, by all means try the competition. We'll see you crawling back because You are already vendor-locked-in.
[20:30:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:3, Insightful) 02What about the rest? - 06Windows 10 Collects All Texts Entered into the Keyboard - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:30:37] <exec> 08└─Smart nerds on soylentnews can easily fire up Wireshark and reveal the communication for themselves.
[20:30:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What about the rest? - 06Windows 10 Collects All Texts Entered into the Keyboard - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:30:39] <exec> 08└─> And just what are the not-so-smart nerds supposed to do? If Win10 only periodically phones home to the mothership, like just once a week, even being smart won't be enough, its going to take lots of effort to catch it in the act.
[20:30:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What about the rest? - 06Windows 10 Collects All Texts Entered into the Keyboard - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:30:41] <exec> 08└─No it doesn't. Just monitor traffic to those domains. A very simple filter.
[20:30:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What about the rest? - 06Windows 10 Collects All Texts Entered into the Keyboard - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:30:42] <exec> 08└─Doth protest too much. Wireshark is easy. It is just like any other program. Tinker for a few minutes. If anything isn't clear just search around and, well, read. What nerds do.
[20:30:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score:2, Insightful) 02Goodby Personal Computing - 06Windows 10 Collects All Texts Entered into the Keyboard - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:30:44] <exec> 08└─Microsoft is now 'delivering Windows 10 as a service'.
[20:30:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Goodby Personal Computing - 06Windows 10 Collects All Texts Entered into the Keyboard - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:30:46] <exec> 08└─Although I agree with the sentiment, I cannot agree to the conclusion. We _can_ have control and it is called "stop using stuff from the bad players". There are plenty of alternatives. It is different, it is enlightenment, it is frustrating and it gives you complete control. Choose wise my friend, c...
[20:30:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Goodby Personal Computing - 06Windows 10 Collects All Texts Entered into the Keyboard - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:30:48] <exec> 08└─Seems to me wise people have been saying for thousands of years, cast not your pearls before swine. And for just as long a time, the message is not being received.
[20:30:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03dentonj [1309] (Score:1) 02Reliable? - 06Windows 10 Collects All Texts Entered into the Keyboard - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:30:49] <exec> 08└─https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10053420 [ycombinator.com] Discussion about the source article on the Czech website. There are some questions as to whether the claims are reliable and trustworthy.
[20:30:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Win10 appears to be unfinished - 06Windows 10 Collects All Texts Entered into the Keyboard - 508 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:30:51] <exec> 08└─When I installed the preview builds, and I saw during the OOBE configuration process that Windows would send user inputs to Microsoft by default, I assumed it was doing that for quality improvement purposes because it was a preview, and I assumed that the final product would not continue to collect...
[20:30:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02No clipboard snooping yet ? - 06Windows 10 Collects All Texts Entered into the Keyboard - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:30:53] <exec> 08└─If I used dasher, ( http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk [cam.ac.uk] ), a mouse driven predictive text input method; all they'ld ever see is alt-tab, ctrl-C, ctrl-V. They really should snoop and send clipboard contents to the same servers. As spyware, windows 10 is really half baked and incomp...
[20:30:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03number6 [1831] (Score:2) 02This HOSTS list is essential.... - 06Windows 10 Collects All Texts Entered into the Keyboard - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:30:54] <exec> 08└─This is one of the best HOSTS lists which attempts to totally blacklist Microsoft from your computer; I did say attempts---read the comments!! There are 5,721 addresses in this list!! (including the three mentioned in the summary).
[20:30:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This HOSTS list is essential.... - 06Windows 10 Collects All Texts Entered into the Keyboard - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:30:56] <exec> 08└─You could reduce the size dramatically by simply blocking second-level domains.
[20:30:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This HOSTS list is essential.... - 06Windows 10 Collects All Texts Entered into the Keyboard - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:30:58] <exec> 08└─Golly, bro, you so l33t. But if your OS is untrustworthy, why do you trust it to use your hosts file?
[20:31:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02I have a great target market! - 06Shutdownify is Shutting Down - 59 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:31:25] <exec> 08└─Companies entering bankruptcy! They're sure to pay us well!
[20:32:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Bias is legal - 06Only H1Bs Need Apply? - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:32:10] <exec> 08└─Well, looks like we will need more "off-topic" mods, stat!
[20:32:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bias is legal - 06Only H1Bs Need Apply? - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:32:14] <exec> 08└─Being male, white, or American is not a protected class, therefore those that are those things do not get lawful protection from discrimination. Quite simple really. How else do you think women-only or black-only businesses survive when white-male only businesses get sued?
[20:32:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bias is legal - 06Only H1Bs Need Apply? - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:32:17] <exec> 08└─You do know that everything you just said was racist and sexist right?
[20:32:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Make Software Engineering a Profession - 06Only H1Bs Need Apply? - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:32:27] <exec> 08└─If you know what you are doing, certs and professional accreditation is easy. We don't let people drive until they have a license even if they have the skill. You must prove your worth for anyone to believe you.
[20:32:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Need a Workout Suit - 06The mThrow Wearable Sleeve Turns Baseball Pitching Into a Science - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:32:43] <exec> 08└─> I want a robot arm that brings my beer up to my mouth when I want a drink. Already available. [engadget.com]
[20:33:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] 02Re:Speculative Connections - 06Mozilla Thinks You Should Eat Cake - 514 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:33:29] <exec> 08└─No... When you click on a link, Pale Moon will take you to that page, downloading only the elements for that one specific page so you can see them. That's the traditional behavior, where the browser does what you tell it to and only what you tell it to. In contrast, he is saying PM does not do these...
[20:33:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Speculative Connections - 06Mozilla Thinks You Should Eat Cake - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:33:30] <exec> 08└─From that same thread: Pale Moon doesn't connect on hover. It will make speculative TCP connections when actually navigating and that is what the pref applies to.
[20:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Isn't standardization a good thing? - 06Mozilla Thinks You Should Eat Cake - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:33:55] <exec> 08└─They already had a standard Firefox extension API. A lot of the reason people used it was because it was better than Chrome's API for actually getting stuff done, I hear. So obviously they've got to kill it off and roll out a new Chrome-ified version as part of the ongoing march to change Firefox in...
[20:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Loss of addons = loss of identity. - 06Mozilla Thinks You Should Eat Cake - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:33:58] <exec> 08└─Welcome to software that comes out of SF.
[20:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Loss of addons = loss of identity. - 06Mozilla Thinks You Should Eat Cake - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:34:03] <exec> 08└─I use TST in PM as well. All my other core extensions: AdBlock, NoScript, RequestPolicy, GreaseMonkey, and FireGestures are supported :)
[20:34:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] 02Re:I've discovered... - 06Astronomers Discover the Biggest Thing in The Universe - 753 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:34:53] <exec> 08└─The point you're missing is that it is a structure where the pieces directly influence each other. The universe as a whole "supposedly" has areas which no longer directly effect one another. This discovery is important because it points out that our understanding of gravity is lacking. It is high ti...
[20:36:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:what the fuck - 06Will the Pronoun I Become Obsolete? A Biological Perspective - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:36:15] <exec> 08└─The thing is, you are not a singular individual. You're a collection of different organisms, working together. So you shouldn't use any singular pronouns to refer to yourself or other people; you should only use plural ones.
[20:36:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:what the fuck - 06Will the Pronoun I Become Obsolete? A Biological Perspective - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:36:16] <exec> 08└─We're bacteria, you insensitive clod!
[20:38:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:Solved problem - 06Scientists Say Humans are an Unsustainable (Super)Predator - 1844 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:38:31] <exec> 08└─OK, now we get the the problem of reduced genetic diversity leading to single-point-of-failure managed ecosystems. Unless you think that humans are going to manage bacterial, viral, and fungal evolution. P.S.: That humans "break the law" (or remain outside the agreements) is something that needs to...
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[21:30:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02silly Greeks, that's not how it works - 06Greek Prime Minister's Resignation Will Trigger an Early Election - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:30:30] <exec> 08└─In the civilized world, after you elect your leader, you're married to him for the next 8 years, unless he cheats on you by getting a blowjob from an intern.
[21:30:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Why would any enterprise would tolerate this? - 06Windows 10 Collects All Texts Entered into the Keyboard - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:30:42] <exec> 08└─Don't bet on that. Bigcorp is not all that happy about potentially incriminating data being held by others. In fact, I could see some very deep pockets launching lawsuits against Microsoft, as well as those uppity EU agencies dragging them back into court. As for the US authorities, expect no action...
[21:30:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why would any enterprise would tolerate this? - 06Windows 10 Collects All Texts Entered into the Keyboard - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:30:43] <exec> 08└─Would be hilarious if EU required spying features to be removed from the N editions, and Microsoft offered a download to put all the spying back in. After all, you wouldn't want to use the N editions, would you? They're not feature-complete!
[21:30:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:What about the rest? - 06Windows 10 Collects All Texts Entered into the Keyboard - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:30:50] <exec> 08└─I'm a little concerned. I would certainly hope that this is all done through an SSL collection, otherwise usernames, passwords, etc, can be grabbed by basically *anyone* who happens to be along the route. Anyone read TFA.
[21:30:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bill Dimm [940] (Score:2) 02Re:Reliable? - 06Windows 10 Collects All Texts Entered into the Keyboard - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:30:56] <exec> 08└─It was reasonable to be skeptical an hour or two after the story broke. Microsoft has now had over a week to refute the story (or at least put out a denial). Why the silence?
[21:31:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This HOSTS list is essential.... - 06Windows 10 Collects All Texts Entered into the Keyboard - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:31:01] <exec> 08└─You don't even know what a hosts file is, do you?
[21:31:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score:1) 02Re:This HOSTS list is essential.... - 06Windows 10 Collects All Texts Entered into the Keyboard - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:31:03] <exec> 08└─But if your OS is untrustworthy, why do you trust it to use your hosts file?
[21:31:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This HOSTS list is essential.... - 06Windows 10 Collects All Texts Entered into the Keyboard - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:31:05] <exec> 08└─Windows or Android, choose your evil...
[21:31:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Re:This HOSTS list is essential.... - 06Windows 10 Collects All Texts Entered into the Keyboard - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:31:06] <exec> 08└─You mean: Share your data with Microsoft or share your data with everyone.
[21:31:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This HOSTS list is essential.... - 06Windows 10 Collects All Texts Entered into the Keyboard - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:31:08] <exec> 08└─Read the articles. Win 10 bypasses the hosts file for all of this "telemetry" information. That's rights the IP addresses are already in the code.
[21:31:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03number6 [1831] (Score:2) 02Did you read my article? - 06Windows 10 Collects All Texts Entered into the Keyboard - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:31:10] <exec> 08└─Did you read my article aka post? ...All Windows versions since XP-SP2 have had the ability to bypass the hosts file. That's right the IP addresses are already in the code. The comments in the hosts list I posted shed some light on possible workarounds.
[21:31:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Can You Say ... - 06Windows 10 Collects All Texts Entered into the Keyboard - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:31:12] <exec> 08└─Can you say "HIPPA violation"? I have advised all of my clients, especially those in the healthcare and/or insurance industries, to avioid Win 10.
[21:31:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Can You Say ... - 06Windows 10 Collects All Texts Entered into the Keyboard - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:31:13] <exec> 08└─Smile and nod, quietly putting you on the shit list.
[21:31:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Re:I have a great target market! - 06Shutdownify is Shutting Down - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:31:49] <exec> 08└─No you're thinking of Wall Street.
[21:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Isn't standardization a good thing? - 06Mozilla Thinks You Should Eat Cake - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:34:15] <exec> 08└─I'm waiting for TAILS and the TOR Browser to switch to Pale Moon. Much less of a moving target than Firefox and the others.
[21:37:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:M$? - 06Ex-Astroturfer Wins Lawsuit Against Propaganda 'Factory' - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:37:14] <exec> 08└─Yes.
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[22:30:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03chucky [3309] (Score:1) 02Who is pulling the strings? - 06Greek Prime Minister's Resignation Will Trigger an Early Election - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:30:33] <exec> 08└─The finance minister says he'd resign in case of a 'yes' in the referendum, resigns the next day after people vote for 'no'. Prime minister says 'no, no, no' until the referendum day, suddenly changes his mind into 'yes' for worse conditions, waits for the day the first money arrives, resigns. I rea...
[22:30:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Who is pulling the strings? - 06Greek Prime Minister's Resignation Will Trigger an Early Election - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:30:34] <exec> 08└─Could it be... Europe? Resigning was a good political move that could help him consolidate after having had a more liberal faction break away.
[22:30:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03chucky [3309] (Score:1) 02Re:Who is pulling the strings? - 06Greek Prime Minister's Resignation Will Trigger an Early Election - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:30:36] <exec> 08└─Europe who? (I have to help myself with somebody else's words: "We hear a lot about somebody called Europe. In the past we had somebody called Party. Got taken care of everything, decided everything, sometimes his iron fist fell on somebody, but nobody has ever seen him nor went for a beer with him....
[22:30:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score:2) 02Re:Why would any enterprise would tolerate this? - 06Windows 10 Collects All Texts Entered into the Keyboard - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:30:50] <exec> 08└─Tell it to the finance industry. Or the legal industry. There are DEFINITELY a large number of companies who care deeply about the privacy of the information on their own machines, and they absolutely WILL tell the IT department what to do. Mike
[22:30:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What about the rest? - 06Windows 10 Collects All Texts Entered into the Keyboard - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:30:55] <exec> 08└─If your average russian botnet can use random domains so can micro$oft.
[22:30:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:What about the rest? - 06Windows 10 Collects All Texts Entered into the Keyboard - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:30:56] <exec> 08└─As TFS says, once per 30 min.
[22:31:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score:1) 02Secure Boot - 06Windows 10 Collects All Texts Entered into the Keyboard - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:31:03] <exec> 08└─We _can_ have control and it is called "stop using stuff from the bad players". There are plenty of alternatives.
[22:31:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03acharax [4264] (Score:2) 02Re:Win10 appears to be unfinished - 06Windows 10 Collects All Texts Entered into the Keyboard - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:31:07] <exec> 08└─It will never be finished, "software as a service" means perpetual alpha.
[22:31:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03seeprime [5580] (Score:2) 02Windows as a service - 06Windows 10 Collects All Texts Entered into the Keyboard - 687 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:31:19] <exec> 08└─So Windows as a service means that Microsoft is collecting information that corporations can buy and governments can collect to track the citizen minions. The "as a service" part is pure bullshit. I still buy Windows OEM licenses to install on new PC's. It's not free at all. The users getting "free"...
[22:31:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Enjoy! - 06Windows 10 Collects All Texts Entered into the Keyboard - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:31:20] <exec> 08└─you've rewarded them with your money for previous versions, now it's time to take it up the ass.
[22:31:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Block via router? - 06Windows 10 Collects All Texts Entered into the Keyboard - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:31:22] <exec> 08└─If you add... "oca.telemetry.microsoft.com.nsatc.net pre.footprintpredict.com reports.wes.df.telemetry.microsoft.com" to the routers website filter and choose "deny access to these websites" will that work?
[22:31:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03PizzaRollPlinkett [4512] (Score:2) 02wireshark - 06Windows 10 Collects All Texts Entered into the Keyboard - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:31:23] <exec> 08└─Color me skeptical, because hasn't every tech news outlet been running wireshark since the beta period looking for a story like this? If Win10 was sending every keystroke to MS ... or even anything like it ... wouldn't someone in the clickbait world have reported on this already?
[22:31:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Post-Nihilist [5672] (Score:1) 02Re:OH GOD - 06Github’s Top Coding Languages Show Open Source is Everywhere - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:31:36] <exec> 08└─Pointers arithmetic is something best left to the compiler, you only need to be able to get and set a pointers; even for system programming and GO provides that. When you think about using pointer arithmetic you should be thinking about slice and struct. Go ahead try to find a case where structs and...
[22:31:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Post-Nihilist [5672] (Score:1) 02Re:Java tidbits - 06Github’s Top Coding Languages Show Open Source is Everywhere - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:31:51] <exec> 08└─Groovy is also wonderful for shell scripting, I now use it instead of Perl. But if you do use groovy as a stand-alone script engine, use the interpreted mode of java, unless your script execution time is so long the 1 or 2 seconds of AOT compiling is negligible. (the jvm flag to use is -Xint)
[22:32:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:They had a visionn - 06Shutdownify is Shutting Down - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:32:10] <exec> 08└─we desperately need a "cloud-startup-economy deadpool" to track the failures of these startups
[22:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Doesn't Pale Moon collect and profit from - 06Mozilla Thinks You Should Eat Cake - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:34:23] <exec> 08└─your searches? I've heard a lot of on-line masturbatory support for Pale Moon, but right there on their site, maybe the privacy policy or somewhere else, IIRC he states he profits somehow by your use of the browser.
[22:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Why bother to fork - 06Mozilla Thinks You Should Eat Cake - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:34:27] <exec> 08└─It's not google spyware, there's a plethora is extensions, and it's cross-platform.
[22:34:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why bother to fork - 06Mozilla Thinks You Should Eat Cake - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:34:30] <exec> 08└─Then you actually cannot distinguish "lead developer" from "sole developer". Your ability to read and understand written text need alot of improving.
[22:34:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03unzombied [4572] (Score:1) 02Re:Theory stood the test of time? - 06Trio Create Artificial Magnetic Wormhole - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:34:59] <exec> 08└─Exactly. Might even go further by calling the wormhole theory "conjecture." Further, if one redefines "wormhole" to include this "invisible magnetic field conveyence," well, once you start making up definitons, no one can know what you're talking about. Leaving conjecture and entering fictional nons...
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[23:30:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mr Big in the Pants [4956] (Score:2) 02Re:silly Greeks, that's not how it works - 06Greek Prime Minister's Resignation Will Trigger an Early Election - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:30:34] <exec> 08└─It appears you are implying america is the civilised world? I am sure you must be joking...
[23:30:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02You know nothing, Jon Snow... - 06Greek Prime Minister's Resignation Will Trigger an Early Election - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:30:38] <exec> 08└─It's one of the most basic rules of electoral politics: Keep your campaign promises or you will lose the support of your voters
[23:30:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03massa [5547] (Score:1) 02Re:What about the rest? - 06Windows 10 Collects All Texts Entered into the Keyboard - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:30:59] <exec> 08└─Let me fix that for you: JUST DON'T ALLOW ANY TRAFFIC TO those domains. Blacklist them on the router. And in the hosts file.
[23:31:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score:1) 02Re:This HOSTS list is essential.... - 06Windows 10 Collects All Texts Entered into the Keyboard - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:31:19] <exec> 08└─Windows or Android, choose your evil...
[23:31:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Did you read my article? - 06Windows 10 Collects All Texts Entered into the Keyboard - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:31:22] <exec> 08└─I ran into that some time ago when I was wanting to block msn.com. It doesn't matter what you put in the hosts file, it would always connect anyways. Even when other sites would go nowhere.
[23:31:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Block via router? - 06Windows 10 Collects All Texts Entered into the Keyboard - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:31:28] <exec> 08└─I tested that, then tried to ping the address. It won't ping, but don't know if that router setting is for both inbound and outbound. If it's only inbound then it's still sending the info but not getting a response back.
[23:31:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03massa [5547] (Score:1) 02Re:Block via router? - 06Windows 10 Collects All Texts Entered into the Keyboard - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:31:30] <exec> 08└─I think you should resolve the names and block the addresses on the firewall, too.
[23:31:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ayn Anonymous [5012] (Score:1) 02The holy grail in computer hacking - 06Windows 10 Collects All Texts Entered into the Keyboard - 513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:31:32] <exec> 08└─Who want bet how long it takes until someone is successful in a DNS attack of the MS data collecting server ? [ ] 1-4 weeks [ ] 1-3 month [ ] 3-6 month [ ] 6-12 month [ ] 12+ month This is the holy grail in computer hacking ! Imagine the reward if you are successful: Millions of fullz (google it). $...
[23:32:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Uh.... - 06Only H1Bs Need Apply? - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:32:35] <exec> 08└─I live in a town where a Bachelor of Science will net you the national minimum wage, often less when overtime is taken into account, but not having one will pay you more. Even shelf-stacking supermarket staff earn more than those with a BS.
[23:33:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bias is legal - 06Only H1Bs Need Apply? - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:33:03] <exec> 08└─Nonsense, one's gender, race and national origin are all protected classes. http://www.eeoc.gov [eeoc.gov] http://www.hr-guide.com [hr-guide.com] https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[23:34:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Cake? - 06Mozilla Thinks You Should Eat Cake - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:34:58] <exec> 08└─I actually thought it was a Portal reference.
[23:35:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03halcyon1234 [1082] (Score:2) 02On the telescope - 06Astronomers Discover the Biggest Thing in The Universe - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:53] <exec> 08└─Actually, they're just seeing splotches of blood on the telescope from the people they beat to death for making "actually that's just my cock on the telescope" jokes.
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