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[08:08:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Bad PR - 06Mozilla CEO Threatens to Fire Person Responsible for Anonymous Posts on Reddit - 496 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:08:21] <exec> 08└─OK, so this is bad PR, but is it true? I don't see anything in there that disputes the idea or sheds any other light on the subject. Of course it's also likely that it is some sort of prejudiced asshole, but knowing how SJW operate, she would hardly be the first person to behave like that. It's all...
[08:08:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Great - 06Mozilla CEO Threatens to Fire Person Responsible for Anonymous Posts on Reddit - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:08:23] <exec> 08└─If Mozilla gets busy with internal fights, maybe they won't have the time to further destroy a once-great browser.
[08:08:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Great - 06Mozilla CEO Threatens to Fire Person Responsible for Anonymous Posts on Reddit - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:08:24] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure they can do both. Screwing up the UI doesn't require a whole lot of effort when they can just ape what Chrome is doing. The time they save on planning is more than enough to engage in this sort of infighting.
[08:08:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Perhaps I may be of assistance? - 06Mozilla CEO Threatens to Fire Person Responsible for Anonymous Posts on Reddit - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:08:26] <exec> 08└─When I criticize my employer I don't post anonymously.
[08:08:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Perhaps I may be of assistance? - 06Mozilla CEO Threatens to Fire Person Responsible for Anonymous Posts on Reddit - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:08:28] <exec> 08└─When I fire you for criticizing me, I post anonymously. Crawford!! You're fired.
[08:08:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score:2) 02Re:Perhaps I may be of assistance? - 06Mozilla CEO Threatens to Fire Person Responsible for Anonymous Posts on Reddit - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:08:29] <exec> 08└─When I criticize my employer I don't post anonymously.
[08:08:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score:2) 02Welcome to the machine - 06Mozilla CEO Threatens to Fire Person Responsible for Anonymous Posts on Reddit - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:08:31] <exec> 08└─Hi! We have fired the the person you complained about. Now we will fire you for complaining about that person. Hello there, sir! We have another post we can outsource!
[08:08:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02blue-haired?! - 06Mozilla CEO Threatens to Fire Person Responsible for Anonymous Posts on Reddit - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:08:33] <exec> 08└─But I thought the company dress code specifically requires red hair.
[08:08:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Please explain, why BitTorrent? - 06Chasing Illegal Movie Downloaders Proves an Unprofitable Exercise - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:08:38] <exec> 08└─Why does anyone still use BitTorrent? Ever since the rise in popularity of free cloud storage, there are dozens of copies of every movie available for free from cloud storage sites and streamed on demand from actual content delivery networks. Why bother downloading crappy jigsawed copies from a whol...
[08:08:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02Re:Please explain, why BitTorrent? - 06Chasing Illegal Movie Downloaders Proves an Unprofitable Exercise - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:08:40] <exec> 08└─cuz torrenting is l33t, bitch! i'm l33t! i'm l33t! *drops pants*
[08:08:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimshatt [978] (Score:2) 02Re:Please explain, why BitTorrent? - 06Chasing Illegal Movie Downloaders Proves an Unprofitable Exercise - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:08:42] <exec> 08└─Because where I live, slow residential connections are blazing fast.
[08:08:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Please explain, why BitTorrent? - 06Chasing Illegal Movie Downloaders Proves an Unprofitable Exercise - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:08:43] <exec> 08└─OK then lucky guy, you can either gamble on all your peers also having blazing fast connections, or you can download from say, EdgeCast. I'd bet on EdgeCast.
[08:08:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Extortion, not blackmail - 06Chasing Illegal Movie Downloaders Proves an Unprofitable Exercise - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:08:45] <exec> 08└─Voltage and its lawyers, were engaging in "speculative invoicing", a practice that is a form of legal blackmail
[08:08:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Extortion, not blackmail - 06Chasing Illegal Movie Downloaders Proves an Unprofitable Exercise - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:08:47] <exec> 08└─What's the difference? Both are: "Give us money, or we do something you really don't want us to do."
[08:08:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02I like Windows 8.1 With Bing - 06Microsoft Has No Plans to Tell Us What’s in Windows Patches - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:08:52] <exec> 08└─I think I'll wait a year to upgrade, maybe never.
[08:08:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02Re:I like Windows 8.1 With Bing - 06Microsoft Has No Plans to Tell Us What’s in Windows Patches - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:08:54] <exec> 08└─Same here. I'm not liking the spyware I'm reading about and, with Steam, I should be able to switch to Linux without much trouble.
[08:08:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:I like Windows 8.1 With Bing - 06Microsoft Has No Plans to Tell Us What’s in Windows Patches - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:08:55] <exec> 08└─Hey, you get it free "software as a service", so they have to monetize it somehow, and the obvious way is to sell your private information. It's the most valuable thing they can access.
[08:08:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score:2) 02Re:I like Windows 8.1 With Bing - 06Microsoft Has No Plans to Tell Us What’s in Windows Patches - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:08:57] <exec> 08└─The subject line says it all. I don't know if I should laugh or sigh.
[08:08:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I like Windows 8.1 With Bing - 06Microsoft Has No Plans to Tell Us What’s in Windows Patches - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:08:59] <exec> 08└─"8.1 with Bing" [wikipedia.org] is a lightweight edition of Windows 8.1 and one of the last releases before Windows 10.
[08:08:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I like Windows 8.1 With Bing - 06Microsoft Has No Plans to Tell Us What’s in Windows Patches - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:09:00] <exec> 08└─The only difference between 8.1 with Bing and regular 8.1 is that PC makers can't change the search engine in Internet Explorer before they ship the PC. The user can still change it.
[08:09:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:4, Insightful) 02Some people take longer.... - 06Microsoft Has No Plans to Tell Us What’s in Windows Patches - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:02] <exec> 08└─I dunno, I bailed off the Microsoft train after looking at Win95 vs Linux. Yes Linux was a lot more work, mostly carefully picking compatible hardware, but it has been so much less stressful overall. Never owned a virus scanner. Never worried about spyware, toolbars or Flash Player trying to infect...
[08:09:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0, Offtopic) 02Re:Some people take longer.... - 06Microsoft Has No Plans to Tell Us What’s in Windows Patches - 1080 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:09:04] <exec> 08└─I tried some sort of Linux (SCO?) when I had Windows 95, but for the life of me I couldn't compile a kernel that would run sound, so I gave up. Later, when I had Windows 98, I tried SuSE, and a friend introduced me to Slackware. Slack struck a chord with me: it was fast as hell on my outdated system...
[08:09:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Some people take longer.... - 06Microsoft Has No Plans to Tell Us What’s in Windows Patches - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:09:05] <exec> 08└─I ended up in yoyo mode between DOS/Windows and Linux between 1994 and 200, went to Linux while I was at university, went back to Windows for a short time around 2003, and then went to Linux in 2004. No Windows since then, until about 8 months ago I was given an old MacBook. Now it's OSX for life, L...
[08:09:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Some people take longer.... - 06Microsoft Has No Plans to Tell Us What’s in Windows Patches - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:09:07] <exec> 08└─I ended up in yoyo mode between DOS/Windows and Linux between 1994 and 200
[08:09:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03VanderDecken [5216] (Score:4, Insightful) 02Collateral Damage - 06Microsoft Has No Plans to Tell Us What’s in Windows Patches - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:09] <exec> 08└─Other than client sites which provide a Windows workstation (and from which I do not connect to my own systems), I've been off the train since ... probably '97. However, the problem then becomes one of with how many people I am interacting where they deal with *my* personal information on their syst...
[08:09:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03BTRE [4612] (Score:1) 02It's more like a slow-motion trainwreck - 06Microsoft Has No Plans to Tell Us What’s in Windows Patches - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:10] <exec> 08└─Between this, the telemetry that can only really be blocked with hardware firewalls and the general unwillingness to listen to customers, I'm surprised there's anyone that would freely choose Windows. I get it if you have to use it at work but otherwise come on over to Linux land. We've got update n...
[08:09:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's more like a slow-motion trainwreck - 06Microsoft Has No Plans to Tell Us What’s in Windows Patches - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:09:12] <exec> 08└─Free choice involves knowledge of one's choices. Many people lack that knowledge. No knowledge = no choice. I've pretty much given up on W10 and now use Xubuntu almost exclusively.
[08:09:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score:2) 02Re:It's more like a slow-motion trainwreck - 06Microsoft Has No Plans to Tell Us What’s in Windows Patches - 2249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:09:14] <exec> 08└─Yep. I just don't get it, either. After what Microsoft has just gone through with Windows XP holdouts (and still is, to some extent) and the backlash over Windows 8 it really appeared that they were getting their act together with Windows 10 and setting it up to eventually (e.g. when the SP1 equival...
[08:09:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score:2) 02Too late - 06Microsoft Has No Plans to Tell Us What’s in Windows Patches - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:15] <exec> 08└─Anybody want off the Microsoft train yet?
[08:09:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Firefly - 06Microsoft Has No Plans to Tell Us What’s in Windows Patches - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:17] <exec> 08└─Capt. Malcolm Reynolds: Ah, hell, Shepherd, I ain't looking for help from on high. That's a long wait for a train don't come. Shepherd Book: Why when I talk about belief, why do you always assume I'm talking about Microsoft?
[08:09:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02If it's not Linux, it's crap! - 06Microsoft Has No Plans to Tell Us What’s in Windows Patches - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:19] <exec> 08└─sudo mod me Insightful for agreeing with the crowd
[08:09:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Flamebait) 02Re:If it's not Linux, it's crap! - 06Microsoft Has No Plans to Tell Us What’s in Windows Patches - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:09:20] <exec> 08└─Sudo mod you troll, bitch.
[08:09:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Spam) 02Re:If it's not Linux, it's crap! - 06Microsoft Has No Plans to Tell Us What’s in Windows Patches - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:09:22] <exec> 08└─1 h4v3 ph4t l3wt 1n my l01ncl0th, w4nt 2 f33l?
[08:09:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02There oughta be a law - 06Infidelity Website Hack Leads to Suicides in Canada - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:24] <exec> 08└─There oughta be laws against adultery. Oh wait. There are, and they're self-enforced by suicide and a trip to hell. Burn baby burn!
[08:09:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0, Troll) 02Maybe (a little) callous, but - 06Infidelity Website Hack Leads to Suicides in Canada - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:25] <exec> 08└─That website operators have now blood on their hands (yeah, the crackers, too, but they are crackers, what you expect?). There is a phd/masters thesis here.
[08:09:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Maybe (a little) callous, but - 06Infidelity Website Hack Leads to Suicides in Canada - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:09:27] <exec> 08└─There is a phd/masters thesis here.
[08:09:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Maybe (a little) callous, but - 06Infidelity Website Hack Leads to Suicides in Canada - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:09:29] <exec> 08└─> That website operators have now blood on their hands I'd wait until more details come out. There were like 40 million accounts, even if only 10% were real that's still 4 million people. There are hundreds of suicides every day - there is a pretty good chance its coincidence. Especially with the st...
[08:09:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03slinches [5049] (Score:2) 02Re:Maybe (a little) callous, but - 06Infidelity Website Hack Leads to Suicides in Canada - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:09:31] <exec> 08└─yeah, the crackers, too, but they are crackers, what you expect?
[08:09:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:Maybe (a little) callous, but - 06Infidelity Website Hack Leads to Suicides in Canada - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:09:32] <exec> 08└─I believe "If you can't do the time, don't do the crime." pretty much covered this.
[08:09:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Offtopic) 02I'm so lucky I don't need to cheat. - 06Infidelity Website Hack Leads to Suicides in Canada - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:34] <exec> 08└─I'm in a open relationship with Righty and Lefty. Sometimes we have a threesome!
[08:09:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I'm so lucky I don't need to cheat. - 06Infidelity Website Hack Leads to Suicides in Canada - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:09:36] <exec> 08└─You mean it's so short you can do it with one hand?
[08:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I'm so lucky I don't need to cheat. - 06Infidelity Website Hack Leads to Suicides in Canada - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:09:38] <exec> 08└─Clits are short, that's why it's called a Shorty.
[08:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Bill just grabbed another cigar... - 06Infidelity Website Hack Leads to Suicides in Canada - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:40] <exec> 08└─and the rest of us is reminded that "A prostitute is always a better deal than a mistress [or AM_encounter]" I'm not sure how to feel about people who provided enough information to a cheating website to be identified, but can't live with the consequences of that info's release. http://despair.com
[08:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Informative) 02Re:Bill just grabbed another cigar... - 06Infidelity Website Hack Leads to Suicides in Canada - 851 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:09:41] <exec> 08└─> and the rest of us is reminded that "A prostitute is always a better deal than a mistress [or AM_encounter]" That's a very reductionist analysis. For most people, affairs aren't about getting their dick wet, they are about alienation in the marriage, getting attention and validation. The kind of p...
[08:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02Re:Bill just grabbed another cigar... - 06Infidelity Website Hack Leads to Suicides in Canada - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:09:43] <exec> 08└─And you're asking too much - to empathize with cheaters, ones that actively look to cheat rather than one-thing-lead-to-another sorts. Why the hell would they sign up for annonymous hook up?
[08:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bill just grabbed another cigar... - 06Infidelity Website Hack Leads to Suicides in Canada - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:09:45] <exec> 08└─> Why the hell would they sign up for annonymous hook up? They didn't sign up for anonymous hook ups, that's tindr's market. They signed up to meet other people and have an affair. AM's slogan was "Life's short, have an affair."
[08:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bill just grabbed another cigar... - 06Infidelity Website Hack Leads to Suicides in Canada - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:09:46] <exec> 08└─your transaction can still get exposed.
[08:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02how's that Free Love workin' out for ya? - 06Infidelity Website Hack Leads to Suicides in Canada - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:48] <exec> 08└─Hypocrites.
[08:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02citation needed - 06Infidelity Website Hack Leads to Suicides in Canada - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:50] <exec> 08└─I call shenanigans. There are no details. Do people often kill themselves upon being caught cheating?
[08:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:citation needed - 06Infidelity Website Hack Leads to Suicides in Canada - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:09:51] <exec> 08└─Do people often kill themselves upon being caught cheating?
[08:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Funny) 02Re:citation needed - 06Infidelity Website Hack Leads to Suicides in Canada - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:09:53] <exec> 08└─They do if they're rich and expect to lose everything in the divorce.
[08:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:citation needed - 06Infidelity Website Hack Leads to Suicides in Canada - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:09:55] <exec> 08└─"I don't wanna live in a world without all my possessions!"
[08:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03dcollins [1168] (Score:2) 02Re:citation needed - 06Infidelity Website Hack Leads to Suicides in Canada - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:09:57] <exec> 08└─It doesn't need to be "often" to account for 2 in 30 million.
[08:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:citation needed - 06Infidelity Website Hack Leads to Suicides in Canada - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:09:59] <exec> 08└─Here's another one, San Antonio Police Captain Michael Gorhum [google.com]
[08:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score:2) 02Re:citation needed - 06Infidelity Website Hack Leads to Suicides in Canada - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:10:01] <exec> 08└─Do people often kill themselves upon being caught cheating?
[08:10:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:citation needed - 06Infidelity Website Hack Leads to Suicides in Canada - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:10:03] <exec> 08└─Or the wife was just really clever and made it look like a suicide...
[08:10:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Don't Count on that Reward - 06Infidelity Website Hack Leads to Suicides in Canada - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:10:06] <exec> 08└─Avid Life Media is offering a C$500,000 (£240,000) reward for information on the hackers, they
[08:10:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:3, Insightful) 02Poll: Who are the good guys? - 06Infidelity Website Hack Leads to Suicides in Canada - 486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:10:07] <exec> 08└─A-M owners, who created a hyped-up site for marital cheaters, then failed to protect customer infoA-M customers, who posted their email address, credit card and other contact info so they could cheat on their spousesthe hackers, who disrupted thousands of lives, driving several to suicide, so they c...
[08:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Poll: Who are the good guys? - 06Infidelity Website Hack Leads to Suicides in Canada - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:10:09] <exec> 08└─Or maybe the moralizing public and media [firstlook.org].
[08:10:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Touché) 02Re:Poll: Who are the good guys? - 06Infidelity Website Hack Leads to Suicides in Canada - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:10:11] <exec> 08└─Maybe the spouse who finds forgiveness in his or her heart?
[08:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Re:Poll: Who are the good guys? - 06Infidelity Website Hack Leads to Suicides in Canada - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:10:12] <exec> 08└─Wasnt the hackers message basically a statement against A-M because the vast overwhelming majority of their female users are bots or paid staff. So the website is in essence a scam and that's what the hackers want A-M to admit?
[08:10:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Poll: Who are the good guys? - 06Infidelity Website Hack Leads to Suicides in Canada - 653 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:10:14] <exec> 08└─> Wasnt the hackers message basically a statement against A-M because the vast overwhelming majority of their female users are bots or paid staff. No. Their initial complaint was that AM was selling a service for ~$20 to scrub your details from the website - which was extortionate in and of itself -...
[08:10:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Where's Snow? - 06Infidelity Website Hack Leads to Suicides in Canada - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:10:15] <exec> 08└─No commentary from our own "relationship hacker"? Hmmm, what happened?
[08:10:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Sociopath algo speaking - 06Infidelity Website Hack Leads to Suicides in Canada - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:10:17] <exec> 08└─All suicides and nobody putting a high bitcoin bounty on the testicles of those involved. I am disappoint.
[08:10:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Banned in Canada - 06Ballot Selfie Bans Coming Before Federal Courts - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:10:19] <exec> 08└─I Canada cameras are banned in polling booths. There is a new exemption of assistive devices (such as cell phone apps) intended for the blind. This is part of the problem with e-voting as well. It is very hard to hold a secure but annonymous e-vote.
[08:10:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Does the vote actually matter, anyway? - 06Ballot Selfie Bans Coming Before Federal Courts - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:10:21] <exec> 08└─Since the people who are going to buy or coerce the vote can easily make the person take a pic without posting it online, it's a bit moot. If you want to deploy TSA scanners in front of the voting booth to ensure that people do not take videos of their vote, then you will actually address the potent...
[08:10:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Does the vote actually matter, anyway? - 06Ballot Selfie Bans Coming Before Federal Courts - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:10:22] <exec> 08└─On the other hand, there are a lot of things you are not allowed to take pictures of. And these seem to pass constitutional muster.
[08:10:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:3, Funny) 02Ban Selfies, Ban Hipsters - 06Ballot Selfie Bans Coming Before Federal Courts - 505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:10:24] <exec> 08└─It seems to me that the root of the problem isn't potential coercion of voters but rather unchecked narcissism. It isn't enough to ban selfies with ballots: we must ban all selfies. If elected, I promise to work with Congress to end the degeneration of America's youth and the Hipster menace by makin...
[08:10:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Ban Selfies, Ban Hipsters - 06Ballot Selfie Bans Coming Before Federal Courts - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:10:26] <exec> 08└─> thirty strokes with a selfie-stick Good luck administering full 30 strokes using less than 10 sticks. Strength is not a design feature. I'm sure professional photographers would volunteer their high-end monopods or tripods as appropriate for the punishment.
[08:10:26] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03TrumpetPower! [590] 02Oh, how soon we forget - 06Ballot Selfie Bans Coming Before Federal Courts - 95 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:10:27] <exec> 08└─there was no evidence that vote-buying or voter coercion were current problems in New Hampshire
[08:10:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2, Disagree) 02Re:Oh, how soon we forget - 06Ballot Selfie Bans Coming Before Federal Courts - 848 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:10:29] <exec> 08└─Yea, amazing what passes for 'thought' among progs. There isn't a problem because of the success of the very laws they just overthrew. In other words, they were tossed out because they worked. Of course they really aren't that stupid, they know exactly what they are doing, bringing back vote fraud a...
[08:10:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:4, Informative) 02Re:Oh, how soon we forget - 06Ballot Selfie Bans Coming Before Federal Courts - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:10:31] <exec> 08└─Not that long ago, it was common for bosses to collect ballots and vote for their employees
[08:10:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Oh, how soon we forget - 06Ballot Selfie Bans Coming Before Federal Courts - 1384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:10:32] <exec> 08└─> Other than that, there hasn't been a single scandal about vote by mail. You still need to supply documentation to get on the voter roles, I've posted this story before. Here it is again. A girl I grew up with married a fox news 'fan.' In fact, he actually worked on the Kerry 'swiftboat' campaign a...
[08:10:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Oh, how soon we forget - 06Ballot Selfie Bans Coming Before Federal Courts - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:10:34] <exec> 08└─but it is a straight up example of fraud that was made 1000x easier by mail-in ballots.
[08:10:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Oh, how soon we forget - 06Ballot Selfie Bans Coming Before Federal Courts - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:10:36] <exec> 08└─> they have absentee ballots, which can be sent by mail, but that is NOT the same thing, You seem really invested in splitting hairs. Its a difference of degree, not kind. The exact same exploit works in either case.
[08:10:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03TrumpetPower! [590] (Score:2) 02Re:Oh, how soon we forget - 06Ballot Selfie Bans Coming Before Federal Courts - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:10:37] <exec> 08└─I see you've also forgotten the history of the labor rights movement. You do know why we ostensibly have 40-hour five-day work weeks with paid overtime, no? And what it took to get it? b&
[08:10:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Oh, how soon we forget - 06Ballot Selfie Bans Coming Before Federal Courts - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:10:39] <exec> 08└─Now you are just grasping at straws. Vote by mail is a new construct circa 2008, and never happened during the heyday of labor unions.
[08:10:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03TrumpetPower! [590] (Score:2) 02Re:Oh, how soon we forget - 06Ballot Selfie Bans Coming Before Federal Courts - 681 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:10:41] <exec> 08└─Huh? Are you trying to demonstrate technological incompetence? Do you seriously think that it makes a difference if you put a stamp on the ballot, or that the anti-union managers of history would even have noticed this irrelevant trivia you're trying to distract us with? "Oh, no, Mr. Moneybags! The...
[08:10:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Oh, how soon we forget - 06Ballot Selfie Bans Coming Before Federal Courts - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:10:42] <exec> 08└─He does seem to have a peculiar fixation on vote by mail. I wonder why that is.
[08:10:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Oh, how soon we forget - 06Ballot Selfie Bans Coming Before Federal Courts - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:10:44] <exec> 08└─What it took was labor being valuable enough and scarce enough that they had pricing power. IMHO, the 40 hour work week is a significant part of the reason US labor has been in decline for the past 50 years.
[08:10:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03TrumpetPower! [590] (Score:2) 02Re:Oh, how soon we forget - 06Ballot Selfie Bans Coming Before Federal Courts - 868 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:10:46] <exec> 08└─Erm...you do realize that America's economy lags significantly behind, for example, Germany's, where 40-hour work weeks are excessive and a mere two weeks of vacation is incomprehensible? Their worker productivity puts ours to shame. The Protestant work ethic has killed the spirit of the American wo...
[08:10:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Oh, how soon we forget - 06Ballot Selfie Bans Coming Before Federal Courts - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:10:47] <exec> 08└─Erm...you do realize that America's economy lags significantly behind, for example, Germany's
[08:10:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Insightful) 02Means to an End - 06Ballot Selfie Bans Coming Before Federal Courts - 710 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:10:49] <exec> 08└─> - Against the ban: Such a photograph is protected free speech, and thus cannot be legally banned. For all the lofty rhetoric, ultimately free speech is a means to an end - a society where power is measured by the ballot, not by the dollar. Does this use of speech endanger that? Yes. Is it a signi...
[08:10:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03TrumpetPower! [590] (Score:2) 02Re:Means to an End - 06Ballot Selfie Bans Coming Before Federal Courts - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:10:51] <exec> 08└─Especially since it isn't terribly difficult to take a pic with one ballot and then actually submit another one.
[08:10:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score:1) 02Re:Means to an End - 06Ballot Selfie Bans Coming Before Federal Courts - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:10:52] <exec> 08└─You're only permitted to have one ballot in your hands at a time; you can't have the spoiled one to refer to or whatever. And there's a limit of three total ballots you can be given
[08:10:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03iwoloschin [3863] (Score:2) 02Re:Means to an End - 06Ballot Selfie Bans Coming Before Federal Courts - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:10:54] <exec> 08└─In many areas you get a little desk with 3 sides to protect your ballot, but no back. You have plenty of privacy, but no easy opportunity to take a selfie. Of course, the old ladies running the polling place aren't going to put up much of a fight...
[08:10:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score:1) 02Re:Means to an End - 06Ballot Selfie Bans Coming Before Federal Courts - 1027 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:10:56] <exec> 08└─In such a configuration all you need is a small mirror that you put onto the ballot. Then you take the picture of the ballot; the booth's walls would be sufficient for that. The mirror will insert your face into the photo. If the voter needs to prove the vote right after exiting the polling place, h...
[08:10:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Means to an End - 06Ballot Selfie Bans Coming Before Federal Courts - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:10:58] <exec> 08└─Widespread vote buying is not occurring because it is not practical.
[08:10:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Means to an End - 06Ballot Selfie Bans Coming Before Federal Courts - 745 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:10:59] <exec> 08└─That is one reason, but the other reason, implicit in GP's comparison to campaign promises, still holds. Vote buying is mostly impractical because it costs your own campaign money up front, regardless of the outcome; OTOH, campaign promises cost nothing if you lose, cost public money if you win and...
[08:11:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score:2) 02Re:Means to an End - 06Ballot Selfie Bans Coming Before Federal Courts - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:11:01] <exec> 08└─In many areas you get a little desk with 3 sides to protect your ballot, but no back. You have plenty of privacy, but no easy opportunity to take a selfie. Of course, the old ladies running the polling place aren't going to put up much of a fight...
[08:11:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Re:Means to an End - 06Ballot Selfie Bans Coming Before Federal Courts - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:11:03] <exec> 08└─As long as I get to write the questions, I'm fine with that.
[08:11:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Means to an End - 06Ballot Selfie Bans Coming Before Federal Courts - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:11:04] <exec> 08└─> As long as I get to write the questions, I'm fine with that. And I'm fine with it too, but only if I get to write the questions.
[08:11:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:Means to an End - 06Ballot Selfie Bans Coming Before Federal Courts - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:11:06] <exec> 08└─Being required to prove intelligence and/or knowledge in order to vote is a nice idea, but it's far too easy to pervert any such test to exclude certain groups if people. There's also the fact that even those in office wouldn't be able to agree on most of the answers.
[08:11:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score:1) 02Re:Means to an End - 06Ballot Selfie Bans Coming Before Federal Courts - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:11:08] <exec> 08└─Being required to prove intelligence and/or knowledge in order to vote is a nice idea, but it's far too easy to pervert any such test to exclude certain groups if people.
[08:11:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03TrumpetPower! [590] (Score:2) 02Re:Means to an End - 06Ballot Selfie Bans Coming Before Federal Courts - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:11:09] <exec> 08└─I personally think that certain conditions for voting must exist - such as proven fluency in politics. The test can be built into the same voting machines. Pool of 1,000 questions, you answer 100 questions, must correctly answer 80.
[08:11:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score:1) 02Re:Means to an End - 06Ballot Selfie Bans Coming Before Federal Courts - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:11:11] <exec> 08└─Simply even offering that suggestion is highly insensitive at best, and typically expected from unabashed racists yearning for the good ol' days.
[08:11:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03TrumpetPower! [590] (Score:2) 02Re:Means to an End - 06Ballot Selfie Bans Coming Before Federal Courts - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:11:13] <exec> 08└─Racists??? Why do you introduce race into a simple question of competency?
[08:11:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03albert [276] (Score:2) 02excellent idea, and not racist at all - 06Ballot Selfie Bans Coming Before Federal Courts - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:11:14] <exec> 08└─Because, historically, in the States, tests such as you describe have only ever been used in practice to prevent Blacks from voting.
[08:11:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:excellent idea, and not racist at all - 06Ballot Selfie Bans Coming Before Federal Courts - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:11:16] <exec> 08└─> Such a test would eliminate worthless votes by people of all races. For your personal definition of "worthless" sure. Any sort of testing requirement will just result in pandering to the type of people able to pass the test and ignoring the people who can't pass the test. Just like any other sort...
[08:11:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score:1) 02Re:Means to an End - 06Ballot Selfie Bans Coming Before Federal Courts - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:11:18] <exec> 08└─Because, historically, in the States, tests such as you describe have only ever been used in practice to prevent Blacks from voting.
[08:11:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Means to an End - 06Ballot Selfie Bans Coming Before Federal Courts - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:11:19] <exec> 08└─Not exactly convenient, at least in Maricopa County. For reasons that should be obvious, you're only given one ballot. If you make a mistrake, you can exchange that one for a new one, The old is clearly marked in the presence of the voter as, "SPOILED,"
[08:11:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score:2) 02Re:Means to an End - 06Ballot Selfie Bans Coming Before Federal Courts - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:11:21] <exec> 08└─Against the ban: Such a photograph is protected free speech, and thus cannot be legally banned.
[08:11:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Means to an End - 06Ballot Selfie Bans Coming Before Federal Courts - 546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:11:23] <exec> 08└─Actually you are confused. Freedom of speech, in the USA, means freedom from consequences from the government for your speech. Punishment for libel isn't about not being free from consequences, its about libel being an issue for the civil courts rather than criminal courts. It is impossible to libel...
[08:11:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Voting - 06Ballot Selfie Bans Coming Before Federal Courts - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:11:25] <exec> 08└─I think vote buying ought to be legal and democracy ought to be illegal.
[08:11:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I work elections - 06Ballot Selfie Bans Coming Before Federal Courts - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:11:26] <exec> 08└─I work elections, and if I notice voters playing with their phones, I'll tell them to put it away.
[08:11:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03dcollins [1168] (Score:2) 02Re:I work elections - 06Ballot Selfie Bans Coming Before Federal Courts - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:11:28] <exec> 08└─I read that as "I work electrons", like some kind of hipster IT slang.
[08:11:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03ncc74656 [4917] (Score:3, Touché) 02Mencken nailed it - 06Ballot Selfie Bans Coming Before Federal Courts - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:11:29] <exec> 08└─As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron. -- H. L. Mencken
[08:11:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03srobert [4803] (Score:2) 02But If I Can't Take a Picture ... - 06Ballot Selfie Bans Coming Before Federal Courts - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:11:31] <exec> 08└─... how will I prove to my boss that I support the same political candidates that he does? But seriously, I do wish there were a way to anonymously confirm that my vote was applied in the way I indicated in the voting booth.
[08:11:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:But If I Can't Take a Picture ... - 06Ballot Selfie Bans Coming Before Federal Courts - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:11:33] <exec> 08└─> But seriously, I do wish there were a way to anonymously confirm that my vote was applied in the way I indicated in the voting booth. Like one of those places with single-topic ballots where the single-answer papers are taken out of the transparent urn and counted by hand in the presence of anyone...
[08:11:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:But If I Can't Take a Picture ... - 06Ballot Selfie Bans Coming Before Federal Courts - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:11:35] <exec> 08└─But seriously, I do wish there were a way to anonymously confirm that my vote was applied in the way I indicated in the voting booth.
[08:11:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0, Informative) 02Re:But If I Can't Take a Picture ... - 06Ballot Selfie Bans Coming Before Federal Courts - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:11:36] <exec> 08└─> Nobody is going to reach in and change YOUR ballot one by one. Perhaps you haven't heard of these new fangled contraptions called computers. Computer-based vote fraud is exactly changing ballots one by one, automation is exactly what makes that possible.
[08:11:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:But If I Can't Take a Picture ... - 06Ballot Selfie Bans Coming Before Federal Courts - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:11:38] <exec> 08└─Wow, a troll moderation? How quickly we forget Diebold. [columbusfreepress.com]
[08:11:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ken_g6 [3706] (Score:3, Informative) 02Easily worked around - 06Ballot Selfie Bans Coming Before Federal Courts - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:11:39] <exec> 08└─Let's assume your boss wants you to prove you voted a certain way. 1. Fill out the ballot the way your boss wants. 2. Take ballot selfie. 3. Tell polling official you accidentally marked something wrong and that you want a replacement ballot. 4. Fill out the ballot the way you want. 5. Vote the way...
[08:11:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score:2) 02Retaliation - 06Ballot Selfie Bans Coming Before Federal Courts - 2715 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:11:41] <exec> 08└─In a way it's kind of unfortunate that there has been so little actual violence or corruption related to American voting events in recent memory that many people can't really comprehend why voting is secret in the first place. It's a free, civilized, democratic country, right? So why does my vote ne...
[08:11:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Interesting Idea - 06How One German Millennial Chose to Live On Trains Rather Than Pay Rent - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:11:43] <exec> 08└─The flat-rate ticket costs her about $380, whereas she had to pay about $450 for her previous apartment.
[08:11:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:Interesting Idea - 06How One German Millennial Chose to Live On Trains Rather Than Pay Rent - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:11:45] <exec> 08└─The unlimited rail tickets are cheap, but they only get you open seating, access to sleeper berths (used to be) another $10-$12 per night. I did my share of falling asleep in an empty compartment and waking up with a bunch of early morning commuters in there with me... would rather spend the night i...
[08:11:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Interesting Idea - 06How One German Millennial Chose to Live On Trains Rather Than Pay Rent - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:11:46] <exec> 08└─Not that cheap anymore. http://www.seat61.com [seat61.com] http://www.seat61.com [seat61.com] Having spent some time in sleeper berths, I can tell you its not that enjoyable. Very little actual sleep is possible.
[08:11:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:Interesting Idea - 06How One German Millennial Chose to Live On Trains Rather Than Pay Rent - 517 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:11:48] <exec> 08└─In my experience, it depended entirely on the circumstances. Paris->Rome, I was in a 6 berth room with one other (paranoid) person, they stayed up all night and watched for pickpockets, I was way too tired for that and slept like a baby. Another night in an identical room with 4 other people, 3 of w...
[08:11:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:Interesting Idea - 06How One German Millennial Chose to Live On Trains Rather Than Pay Rent - 901 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:11:49] <exec> 08└─Indeed. It sounds great, but I'd rather hotel at the airport and get an early flight up than go by sleeper (assuming I miss the last flight - why can't we have a midnight departure from gatwick to Manchester, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Belfast? Leave Central London 2200 arrive gatwick 2300, 0000 departu...
[08:11:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score:1) 02Re:Interesting Idea - 06How One German Millennial Chose to Live On Trains Rather Than Pay Rent - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:11:51] <exec> 08└─Well. Too bad American trains cost well over $500 a night for a sleeper car.
[08:11:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Jump 225 trilogy - 06How One German Millennial Chose to Live On Trains Rather Than Pay Rent - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:11:53] <exec> 08└─Ah now I remember it. The David Louis Edelman Jump 225 trilogy, aka "infoquake" "multireal" and "Geosynchron" I don't want to spoiler it too much but the guy pretty much crosses modern IT concepts with hard sci fi and lets see what happens, at least in the first two books. I liked the first two book...
[08:11:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:Jump 225 trilogy - 06How One German Millennial Chose to Live On Trains Rather Than Pay Rent - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:11:55] <exec> 08└─Oh yeah, the point. Yes the point ... is Natch (the main character) liked to chill out and sleep on high speed trains. It was kind of his form of recreation.
[08:11:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Again, Editors? - 06How One German Millennial Chose to Live On Trains Rather Than Pay Rent - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:11:56] <exec> 08└─I thought the point of the Original Submission link was so readers can read the unedited, raw version if they chose. Müller washing her hair on trains.
[08:11:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Appalbarry [66] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Again, Editors? - 06How One German Millennial Chose to Live On Trains Rather Than Pay Rent - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:11:58] <exec> 08└─Not to mention some really basic proofreading of sentences like this: "she bought a subscription that allows her to board every train in the country for free."
[08:11:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03skullz [2532] (Score:2) 02Mesh: yes - 06How One German Millennial Chose to Live On Trains Rather Than Pay Rent - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:12:00] <exec> 08└─Would your work, creativity, and lifestyle mesh well with a life of permanent travel, like the girl from the article?
[08:12:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Mesh: yes - 06How One German Millennial Chose to Live On Trains Rather Than Pay Rent - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:12:04] <exec> 08└─You make me wonder... How much did her food expenses go up? Does she have a storage unit somewhere? Maybe I should read the article...please hold... although she tries to sleep at the apartments of relatives or friends. Often, she is accommodated by her boyfriend, her mother or grandmother.
[08:12:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Mesh: yes - 06How One German Millennial Chose to Live On Trains Rather Than Pay Rent - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:12:07] <exec> 08└─So she doesn't actually sleep on the trains always. Note that sleeping accommodations on trains are hugely expensive, so when she's forced to sleep on the train its probably in the "general seating" area. I can't imagine buying an unlimited number of sleeping accommodations. Buying a house would be...
[08:12:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score:2) 02Hmmmmm........ - 06How One German Millennial Chose to Live On Trains Rather Than Pay Rent - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:12:10] <exec> 08└─Having taken Amtrak and Greyhound on long journeys what I know is that a person can sit upright only for so long before one's tail bone starts to hurt. But even if I could stand sitting more than a couple days on a train or bus, I think I'd prefer to pay for a place to put my books and a bed and hav...
[08:12:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Hmmmmm........ - 06How One German Millennial Chose to Live On Trains Rather Than Pay Rent - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:12:14] <exec> 08└─Lots of Euro trains have sleep-able seats, some of the older German 6 sets will fold almost flat into 3 almost comfortable beds, and many of the others allow you to put the armrests up and turn 6 seats into 2 beds.
[08:12:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score:2) 02Not the First - 06How One German Millennial Chose to Live On Trains Rather Than Pay Rent - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:12:16] <exec> 08└─I remember reading about an Italian railway director who had been given a life-long pass by Mussolini. He lived on trains for about 20 years after he retired. I should think it takes some clever organising to be on a sleeper train every night without spending hours waiting around in stations.
[08:12:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:3, Insightful) 02Not sleeping - 06How One German Millennial Chose to Live On Trains Rather Than Pay Rent - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:12:18] <exec> 08└─If you read the article you will see she actually spends the night at her boyfriends house. Which really makes me wonder how is she "living" on the train? Sounds more like hanging out during the day.
[08:12:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not sleeping - 06How One German Millennial Chose to Live On Trains Rather Than Pay Rent - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:12:20] <exec> 08└─Oh, that college SO. Seems like nearly everyone has had a live in SO during college that insisted they really truly weren't living there permanently and thus weren't really a lazy mooch.
[08:12:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not sleeping - 06How One German Millennial Chose to Live On Trains Rather Than Pay Rent - 554 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:12:21] <exec> 08└─In one Pynchon novel (V? can't remember exactly) it was referred to as "yoyoing" - riding the subway (in that instance) up and down the line. If you avoid the authorities, it's only one ticket all day. I did that when I skipped high school. I could read books or write essays on the trains - no I di...
[08:12:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:4, Insightful) 02News? - 06How One German Millennial Chose to Live On Trains Rather Than Pay Rent - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:12:23] <exec> 08└─There is word for this: Homeless. It isn't new. The homeless camp out in pretty much every public place that doesn't take active measures to eliminate them, So she stinks up the trains, wrecks their restrooms trying to bathe in them and we are supposed to praise her because.... oh, I missed that pa...
[08:12:24] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03RedBear [1734] 02Re:News? - 06How One German Millennial Chose to Live On Trains Rather Than Pay Rent - 496 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:12:25] <exec> 08└─There is word for this: Homeless. It isn't new. The homeless camp out in pretty much every public place that doesn't take active measures to eliminate them, So she stinks up the trains, wrecks their restrooms trying to bathe in them and we are supposed to praise her because.... oh, I missed that par...
[08:12:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score:2) 02Re:News? - 06How One German Millennial Chose to Live On Trains Rather Than Pay Rent - 518 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:12:26] <exec> 08└─And what about those who have lost their homes through no fault of their own? It Is one thing to choose to be homeless like this woman. It is quite another to lose your home because because of a fire, flood or death of the sole provider. The woman in the article is not begging and pays her way. She...
[08:12:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:News? - 06How One German Millennial Chose to Live On Trains Rather Than Pay Rent - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:12:28] <exec> 08└─Not homeless if she's sleeping every night at her boyfriend's.
[08:12:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03PapayaSF [1183] (Score:2) 02Subways Are for Sleeping - 06How One German Millennial Chose to Live On Trains Rather Than Pay Rent - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:12:30] <exec> 08└─What's old is new again. Subways Are for Sleeping [wikipedia.org] first appeared as an article in 1956.
[08:12:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score:2) 02Re:Harper's 'not quite dead yet'... - 06Canadians "Caring About Civil Liberties" - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:12:31] <exec> 08└─This elections puts a lot of Canadians in a tough position. I think many of us are sick of the stong-arm tactics of the Harper government. The other options aren't all that great though... I'm tired of living under the oppressive Harper Regime, so I'll be strategic voting this election.
[08:12:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] (Score:2) 02Re:Harper's 'not quite dead yet'... - 06Canadians "Caring About Civil Liberties" - 711 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:12:33] <exec> 08└─Ditto. I voted NDP here in Alberta - the thing I once swore I'd never do - but only because I desperately wanted the Prentice Conservatives out and the NDP were the only ones who could do it. And Prentice himself proved everything I thought about him when he won his riding and then quit, forcing a c...
[08:12:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:Harper's 'not quite dead yet'... - 06Canadians "Caring About Civil Liberties" - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:12:35] <exec> 08└─That's the problem. The only people running for the job are people I would not want anywhere near it. All of them will say or do anything if they think it will get you to vote for them, in particular, saying one thing in French and another in English. All of them will run the country as close to a d...
[08:12:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:Harper's 'not quite dead yet'... - 06Canadians "Caring About Civil Liberties" - 561 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:12:36] <exec> 08└─That sounds exactly like me. Green for the past couple of elections, but the Conservatives must go. I'm completely amazed that *anybody* would consider voting for the conservatives; they're effectively a fascist organization. I do know a few though, and they seem to be the "safety at any cost crowd"...
[08:12:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Harper's 'not quite dead yet'... - 06Canadians "Caring About Civil Liberties" - 1335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:12:38] <exec> 08└─The NDP, the Liberals, and the Greens all have one thing in common -- they want to change the voting system. Details differ; the Greens ad NDP want to go to proportional representation (which Fair Vote Canada tells me does not require a constitutional change), and the Liberals want a preferential ba...
[08:12:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Harper's 'not quite dead yet'... - 06Canadians "Caring About Civil Liberties" - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:12:40] <exec> 08└─I wish that Elizabeth May was the head of one of the other parties (Liberals or NDP). I really like her a lot, but voting for the Green Party right now is a waste (unfortunately). I think that if she was the head of either of those two parties, they would win in a landslide. She is honestly one of t...
[08:12:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:Harper's 'not quite dead yet'... - 06Canadians "Caring About Civil Liberties" - 1033 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:12:42] <exec> 08└─Sigh, that's the problem: it's like i had a good feeling about Preston Manning, but i think he must have gotten pushed out or something with the Reform/conservative merge or whatever. I liked him (just that gut feeling). I like Elizabeth May (again, gut). I would vote for her (cause i like seeing th...
[08:12:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Harper's 'not quite dead yet'... - 06Canadians "Caring About Civil Liberties" - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:12:43] <exec> 08└─Voting for the lesser evil is still voting for evil.
[08:12:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score:2) 02Re:Harper's 'not quite dead yet'... - 06Canadians "Caring About Civil Liberties" - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:12:45] <exec> 08└─I'm not voting for a lesser evil; at least, that isn't my purpose. I'm voting NDP for one of its policies, namely, to reform the electoral system so that the Greens and all other small parties have a chance in a later election.
[08:12:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03dw861 [1561] (Score:1) 02Re:Harper's 'not quite dead yet'... - 06Canadians "Caring About Civil Liberties" - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:12:47] <exec> 08└─The Green party is a *conservative* party.
[08:12:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03gnuman [5013] (Score:2) 02Re:Harper's 'not quite dead yet'... - 06Canadians "Caring About Civil Liberties" - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:12:48] <exec> 08└─The NDP, the Liberals, and the Greens all have one thing in common -- they want to change the voting system.
[08:12:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score:2) 02Re:Harper's 'not quite dead yet'... - 06Canadians "Caring About Civil Liberties" - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:12:50] <exec> 08└─We've had situations in the past where, at least in one riding,when one of the Liberals or NDP (I forget which) bowed out in a riding to help defeat the Conservatives, their loyal supporters became so enraged that they voted Conservative to spite them. Not a good situation either. It's also difficul...
[08:12:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score:2) 02Re:Harper's 'not quite dead yet'... - 06Canadians "Caring About Civil Liberties" - 1142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:12:52] <exec> 08└─Here in New Zealand we changed from first past the post to mixed member proportional voting system in 1996 and the politicians of the two main parties have been trying to get us back to FPP ever since. I don't remember the details, but we were promised a referendum by the Prime Minister in a weak mo...
[08:12:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Harper's 'not quite dead yet'... - 06Canadians "Caring About Civil Liberties" - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:12:53] <exec> 08└─Damn, I was raised Conservative, but have turned my back on them due to the Big Corps getting too damn powerful. Give them hundreds of millions in profit, and all you hear is 'cut hours, work harder' while they give the Execs big bonuses.
[08:12:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Gaaark [41] 02Re:Ehhh - 06Canadians "Caring About Civil Liberties" - 109 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:12:55] <exec> 08└─GODS, no... we sell our children for beer and toques. Or feed them to the bears to soothe the polar bear god.
[08:12:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03compro01 [2515] (Score:2) 02Re:Ehhh - 06Canadians "Caring About Civil Liberties" - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:12:57] <exec> 08└─And then Toews got appointed as a judge.
[08:12:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score:2) 02Re:Ehhh - 06Canadians "Caring About Civil Liberties" - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:12:58] <exec> 08└─It's the Greens who should take ownership of that line -- they want our children to have a livable world.
[08:12:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ehhh - 06Canadians "Caring About Civil Liberties" - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:13:00] <exec> 08└─I am thinking of the children. I am thinking of the sort of world they will live in. I want my children to grow up in a country where their liberties are respected and their rights and dignities as human beings are not violated by spurious electronic surveillance!
[08:13:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Sigh - 06Canadians "Caring About Civil Liberties" - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:13:02] <exec> 08└─Sitting in Canada, I do hope there is a backlash against the security state. Canada is fine country whose major flaw is that it borders the US and too much of that muck rubs off on it.
[08:13:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03M. Baranczak [1673] (Score:2) 02Re:Oh good - 0638 New Emojis to be Introduced in 2016 - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:13:03] <exec> 08└─No, that would be: EO∃
[08:13:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03VortexCortex [4067] (Score:2) 02Re:Oh good - 0638 New Emojis to be Introduced in 2016 - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:13:05] <exec> 08└─what I really need is one that's a half-bare bum, trousers mid pull-down, for sending someone a moonie when I feel the need to insult them.
[08:13:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Emotional emoji - 0638 New Emojis to be Introduced in 2016 - 678 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:13:07] <exec> 08└─Like guys, we're not clones and don't have a hive mind, so you might as well ask if humans' favorite color is green. ;-) Anyway, some mothers get a swelled ego out of being pregnant because of the massive amount of positive attention they get. I've seen some articles by mothers that said they felt...
[08:13:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Appalbarry [66] (Score:3, Insightful) 02What an Utter Waste of Bandwidth - 0638 New Emojis to be Introduced in 2016 - 703 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:13:08] <exec> 08└─a) Couldn't care less about Emojis. b) Haven't used emojis, can't think of the slightest reason why I would. c) Hard to believe that in less than two decades we've gone from people actually worrying about keeping sigs short and tight, to save bandwidth, to stuffing comic emojis into messages. d) You...
[08:13:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score:2) 02Re:What an Utter Waste of Bandwidth - 0638 New Emojis to be Introduced in 2016 - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:13:10] <exec> 08└─You just need words. And Intelligence. And, OK, I admit this is pushing things, some handle on spelling and grammar.
[08:13:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:4, Disagree) 02Feel the decline - 0638 New Emojis to be Introduced in 2016 - 1292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:13:12] <exec> 08└─Why do I get the feeling this is just part of the collapse of civilization? Thought we had tried hieroglyphics a few thousand years ago and had figured out that it is a bad idea. Guess not? Text is best when limited to a rigidly defined character set that can actually be typed easily and written una...
[08:13:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Feel the decline - 0638 New Emojis to be Introduced in 2016 - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:13:14] <exec> 08└─Sorry about your lawn, jmorris!
[08:13:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:Feel the decline - 0638 New Emojis to be Introduced in 2016 - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:13:15] <exec> 08└─I've got bad news for you. [unicode.org]
[08:13:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Feel the decline - 0638 New Emojis to be Introduced in 2016 - 555 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:13:17] <exec> 08└─I was going to post this too. Emoji is just going back to the days of cave paintings. Cell phones and Twitter are ruining our culture and language. Extreme word abbreviations, 150 character limits that restrict insightful, deep writing, and emoji that simplify the complex and rewarding process of di...
[08:13:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Feel the decline - 0638 New Emojis to be Introduced in 2016 - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:13:19] <exec> 08└─We're not heading toward idiocracy, we're living it.
[08:13:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:Feel the decline - 0638 New Emojis to be Introduced in 2016 - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:13:20] <exec> 08└─Yup. Ok, we don't have President Mountain Dew yet... but doesn't Trump get us pretty darned close? We have already went beyond "Ow, My Balls!" with modern reality tv. Bottom line is Mike Judge was a hell of a optimist to think his dystopia required freezing the protaganist to get him into the future...
[08:13:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Feel the decline - 0638 New Emojis to be Introduced in 2016 - 1292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:13:22] <exec> 08└─Why do I get the feeling this is just part of the collapse of civilization? Thought we had tried hieroglyphics a few thousand years ago and had figured out that it is a bad idea. Guess not? Text is best when limited to a rigidly defined character set that can actually be typed easily and written una...
[08:13:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03hankwang [100] (Score:2) 02Re:Feel the decline - 0638 New Emojis to be Introduced in 2016 - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:13:24] <exec> 08└─"It's not "exponentially expanding" either. At worst it's geometrically expanding." Umm.. that's essentially the same thing. https://en.m.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[08:13:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Would Warner sue you for bat emoji on a t-shirt? - 0638 New Emojis to be Introduced in 2016 - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:13:25] <exec> 08└─With litigation happy corporations, would owners of the Batman franchise try to sue you for using the Bat emoji on a shirt?
[08:13:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score:2) 02Re:Yet More Human Arrogance - 06Why We're Smarter Than Chickens - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:13:27] <exec> 08└─Sounds like she is to me. ;)
[08:13:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Nuggets for everyone! Part II - 06Why We're Smarter Than Chickens - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:13:29] <exec> 08└─Who else is going to change until artificial meat is of far better quality than present?
[08:13:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03modecx [1925] (Score:1) 02Re:That's it? - 06Threats on Pokémon World Championship Lead to Two Arrests - 620 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:13:31] <exec> 08└─Respectfully, that's a terrible analogy, and it's nothing like that at all. The law in question is otherwise known as the "Firearms Owners Protection Act", and was created to partially preempt (rather, provide a narrow affirmative defense against) more restrictive state and local laws concerning tra...
[08:13:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:That's it? - 06Threats on Pokémon World Championship Lead to Two Arrests - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:13:32] <exec> 08└─I heard the exact opposite, from a person in law enforcement no less.
[08:13:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Licensing - 06Threats on Pokémon World Championship Lead to Two Arrests - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:13:36] <exec> 08└─These are not statewide. They are only for Boston. Imagine if some podunk town you were traveling through required a license for shoelaces and a $20,000 fine if you didn't have it. How would you know?
[08:13:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03CirclesInSand [2899] (Score:2) 02That would have made the show a lot different - 06Threats on Pokémon World Championship Lead to Two Arrests - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:13:37] <exec> 08└─On Friday, after obtaining a warrant, detectives searched the vehicle and "recovered one 12-gauge Remington shotgun, one DPM5 Model AR-15 rifle, several hundred rounds of ammunition, and a hunting knife," according to police.
[08:13:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:Emigration? - 06I'm Now an Estonian E-resident, But I Still Don't Know What to Do With It - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:13:59] <exec> 08└─Easy place for a tech company to host from perhaps that's somewhat out of the reaches of the US "Patriot Act". Being free from NSLs if your business depends on proper security would be a good thing.
[08:14:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Insightful) 02Identity fraud at polling places - 06I'm Now an Estonian E-resident, But I Still Don't Know What to Do With It - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:14:06] <exec> 08└─It should be dirt simple for you to link to 10 examples of people convicted of this incredibly common crime which poses an existential threat to the republic. Switch off the Faux News. It's turning your brain into mush. N.B. The truth on this topic can be found at BradBlog. -- gewg_
[08:14:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03wirelessduck [3407] (Score:2, Informative) 02Re:Software support - 06I'm Now an Estonian E-resident, But I Still Don't Know What to Do With It - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:14:12] <exec> 08└─https://installer.id.ee/media/sources/ [installer.id.ee]
[08:14:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03plogerjb [5744] (Score:2, Informative) 02Re:To come to a school near you … never - 06How a Radical New Teaching Method Could Unleash a Generation of Geniuses - 1420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:14:46] <exec> 08└─I attended Vo Tech for Computer Networking, which as a two year program prepared me completely for CCNA testing as well as a lot of other computer related tasks. That said, my teacher tried to skip me a year, but the school wouldn't have it. Gotta go through the rigors like everyone else. I did get...
[08:14:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:To come to a school near you … never - 06How a Radical New Teaching Method Could Unleash a Generation of Geniuses - 1064 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:14:51] <exec> 08└─The only way that would work is if we went down the road that most other countries did and told most of the students that they're not allowed to go to college at all. Or have to take years of remedial courses in order to get a second chance. I've met people from various parts of the world and they r...
[08:14:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Asia - 06How a Radical New Teaching Method Could Unleash a Generation of Geniuses - 530 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:14:53] <exec> 08└─Well, I've lived in japan as a teacher and china as a grad student and have travelled extensively in korea and southeast asia. My wife and inlaws are korean. Based on that experience I observe that the number of dumbasses is more or less constant across all places. From the perspective of many in no...
[08:15:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Chem Lab! - 06MIT Creates a 3D Printer for Glass - 625 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:15:25] <exec> 08└─> Yeah yeah they try to anneal computationally, good luck with that. My experience with plastic PLA 3d printing is the marketing is a consumer experience but the actual operation is very crafty All new tech require expert operators. It used to be that cars practically required a mechanic living over...
[08:16:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:artists - 06Apple Music Has a Stickiness Problem - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:16:12] <exec> 08└─I'm addicted to soma fm [somafm.com]. Plenty of stations, good music (especially the Secret Agent station), and it plays on all my devices (including iPod, thanks to the app, since Apple fucked over internet radio in the new iOS Music). I've ended up discovering through them and buying a lot of arti...
[08:16:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Pissed Off their Users - 06Apple Music Has a Stickiness Problem - 392 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:16:16] <exec> 08└─I would like to know how many people had their iTunes libraries wiped out [apple.com] (well, de-tagged) by the upgrade that enabled Apple Music? It happened to my ex-wife, she was so angry and this wasn't the first time an Apple software release burned her either. She's a totally non-technical user,...
[08:16:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Social skills? - 06The Growing Importance of Social Skills in the Labor Market - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:16:42] <exec> 08└─> I don't see anything new here. Boot-lickers and ass-suckers have always risen to the top. Shit floats, after all. Which explains why, at +5, your post is the highest rated of all posts for this story.
[08:16:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Social Justice Warriors meet Clueless Economist - 06The Growing Importance of Social Skills in the Labor Market - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:16:57] <exec> 08└─Woah, slow down there misogynist. Take the time to register for the Patriarchy Party. [mensrightsedmonton.com]
[08:17:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Implications - 06The Growing Importance of Social Skills in the Labor Market - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:06] <exec> 08└─Let's assume this is true. What does this say about the current market? There's a decreasing demand for people with the skills to deal with technical problems and an increasing demand for people with the skills to deal with people problems. Maybe we should just stop hiring problematic people instead...
[08:18:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:2) 02Re:Glad the submitter did the thinking for us - 06Hugo Awards Drama - 2602 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:18:05] <exec> 08└─Overall, I found the Wired article to be fairly informative. At least after reading it, many of the comments in this “discussion” are making vastly more sense than they were a few hours ago. Thank you for including this. It seems that this whole thing is more complicated than us vs. them, and my...
[08:18:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Re:Bodily Fluids Exchanged? - 06Long Distance Travelers Likely Contributing to Antibiotic Resistance's Spread - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:18:31] <exec> 08└─We call it the foreign exchange program.
[08:18:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Editors? - 06The Holy Grail in Computer Hacking - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:18:57] <exec> 08└─Yes, but why do you have to decipher that for us. The editors here are as useless as the dipshits at Slashdot? FFS, editors, do your job or let someone else who is qualified do it.
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[09:08:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Typical SJWs! - 06Mozilla CEO Threatens to Fire Person Responsible for Anonymous Posts on Reddit - 584 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:08:30] <exec> 08└─We all know that aoiyama is actually Koehler herself. Its just like an SJW to make a false-flag attack on themselves to generate public sympathy!!! The proof is right there in the name - Aoiyama Kosuke is a bulgarian sumo wrestler, he's the ultimate SJW breaking into the officially racist [japantime...
[09:08:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Perhaps I may be of assistance? - 06Mozilla CEO Threatens to Fire Person Responsible for Anonymous Posts on Reddit - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:08:36] <exec> 08└─I heard MDC pretends to be a rockstar web developer while he works at the local Starbucks and lives in his sister's basement.
[09:08:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Perhaps I may be of assistance? - 06Mozilla CEO Threatens to Fire Person Responsible for Anonymous Posts on Reddit - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:08:37] <exec> 08└─Ah, good, I'd almost forgotten how awesome you are, but I knew you'd be along to remind me sooner or later.
[09:08:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:Perhaps I may be of assistance? - 06Mozilla CEO Threatens to Fire Person Responsible for Anonymous Posts on Reddit - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:08:39] <exec> 08└─When I criticize my employer I don't post anonymously.
[09:08:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02What Else Will Get You Fired? - 06Mozilla CEO Threatens to Fire Person Responsible for Anonymous Posts on Reddit - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:08:42] <exec> 08└─Would anyone care if a company fired someone for publicly calling their manager a batshit insane asshole? Maybe I'm wrong, but I think plenty of people wouldn't raise an eyebrow at such a firing. Given that baseline, what is it that makes this story newsworthy?
[09:08:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Mighty Buzz's Soulmate! - 06Mozilla CEO Threatens to Fire Person Responsible for Anonymous Posts on Reddit - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:08:44] <exec> 08└─She was batshit insane and permanently offended at everything,
[09:08:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:3, Insightful) 02An insightful company - 06Mozilla CEO Threatens to Fire Person Responsible for Anonymous Posts on Reddit - 586 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:08:46] <exec> 08└─An insightful company might first step back and ask the question: Is this complaint correct? Is Ms. Koehler one of the permanently offended, more interested in stirring things up than in getting work done? On her personal blog, Ms. Koehler writes "I have given notice at Mozilla...I'm not going quiet...
[09:08:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:Please explain, why BitTorrent? - 06Chasing Illegal Movie Downloaders Proves an Unprofitable Exercise - 461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:08:57] <exec> 08└─Maybe it's easier to find them? Back in the day, you'd type the thing you wanted into astalavista.ask.sk and get a load of links to 'free cloud storage' (which we didn't call cloud storage back then) sites where things were split into 1MB chunks, download them all, and reassemble. Then bittorrent ma...
[09:09:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03VortexCortex [4067] (Score:2) 02Re:I like Windows 8.1 With Bing - 06Microsoft Has No Plans to Tell Us What’s in Windows Patches - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:09:12] <exec> 08└─Windows 9 is the only good version of Windows.
[09:09:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score:2) 02Planning to switch trains - 06Microsoft Has No Plans to Tell Us What’s in Windows Patches - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:27] <exec> 08└─I'm staying on Windows 7 until I build my next system, I managed to stop the Windows 10 infection so far. Next system will probably be a hypervisor Linux Mint with virtual Windows 7.
[09:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Re:Maybe (a little) callous, but - 06Infidelity Website Hack Leads to Suicides in Canada - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:09:42] <exec> 08└─No they don't. That's why homicide uses a whole different word that suicide. It's like as if you got upset at this answer and decided to kill yourself. How the hell is that my fault?
[09:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Re:Bill just grabbed another cigar... - 06Infidelity Website Hack Leads to Suicides in Canada - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:09:51] <exec> 08└─Until you get busted in a sting or end up with an embarrassing/chronic/life threatening sexually transmitted infection.
[09:10:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score:2) 02Re:Poll: Who are the good guys? - 06Infidelity Website Hack Leads to Suicides in Canada - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:10:07] <exec> 08└─Hmm... considering that women were more common on that website, I believe the leaked data more than any conspiracy theories.
[09:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Poll: Who are the good guys? - 06Infidelity Website Hack Leads to Suicides in Canada - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:10:09] <exec> 08└─a statement against A-M because the vast overwhelming majority of their female users are bots
[09:10:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:Poll: Who are the good guys? - 06Infidelity Website Hack Leads to Suicides in Canada - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:10:10] <exec> 08└─No one, that's why the story is so popular. If you don't empathise with any of the participants in a story then schadenfreude (making the world a better place [youtube.com]) becomes a lot easier.
[09:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03zugedneb [4556] (Score:2) 02Want some ganja? - 06Infidelity Website Hack Leads to Suicides in Canada - 486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:10:12] <exec> 08└─It is the hackers. If lifelong marriage does not fit the human nature, then fucking use the democratic tools available to change the society. The only people who seem to actually fight for their freedom is the faggot (and variations) community... As other example, there are plenty of people who foug...
[09:10:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:Does the vote actually matter, anyway? - 06Ballot Selfie Bans Coming Before Federal Courts - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:10:26] <exec> 08└─If someone is going to coerce your vote, then a ban makes it easy to say 'I'm not allowed to take a camera into the booth, you'll have to trust me' and then vote for whoever you wanted. Even if the law is a bit lax in implementation, it still helps act as a shield.
[09:10:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Oh, how soon we forget - 06Ballot Selfie Bans Coming Before Federal Courts - 1090 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:10:35] <exec> 08└─And the same frigging exploit works whether people can post selfies of themselves or not. So why even bother banning people from posting selfies of themselves voting? Why reduce freedoms for zero real gain? It's clear that no idiot is coercing those selfie idiots to be idiots, they're being idiots o...
[09:10:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Oh, how soon we forget - 06Ballot Selfie Bans Coming Before Federal Courts - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:10:36] <exec> 08└─Now, that's not coercion (well she basically votes the way her husband tells her to) but it is a straight up example of fraud that was made 1000x easier by mail-in ballots.
[09:10:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Oh, how soon we forget - 06Ballot Selfie Bans Coming Before Federal Courts - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:10:45] <exec> 08└─> I think the problem here is that your thinking is fucked up. Fix plz. Mirrors. You need one.
[09:11:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:Means to an End - 06Ballot Selfie Bans Coming Before Federal Courts - 768 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:11:03] <exec> 08└─The easy solution is to allow all of the candidates to submit some of the questions, which would mean that only people that all of the candidates wanted disenfranchised would be disenfranchised (and the current system manages that pretty well). In fact, I'd be happy with the candidates agreeing the...
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[09:11:04] <exec> 08└─Sorry, too dangerous. It is a fact of life that education is correlated with wealth. So ultimately the wealthy people will do the elections. They will not be the only voters, but the majority. And that in turn will even more than today promote politics that's targeted at pleasing those with money, b...
[09:11:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:Not sleeping - 06How One German Millennial Chose to Live On Trains Rather Than Pay Rent - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:11:44] <exec> 08└─$380/month as a substitute for rent sounds pretty good. For a place to be in the day, with rent on top, it sounds pretty bad. I wonder how her boyfriend feels about her basically living with him, but not paying a share of the rent.
[09:12:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jmorris [4844] 02Feel the decline - 0638 New Emojis to be Introduced in 2016 - 1292 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:12:54] <exec> 08└─Why do I get the feeling this is just part of the collapse of civilization? Thought we had tried hieroglyphics a few thousand years ago and had figured out that it is a bad idea. Guess not? Text is best when limited to a rigidly defined character set that can actually be typed easily and written una...
[09:13:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03VortexCortex [4067] (Score:2) 02Re:Nuggets for everyone! Part II - 06Why We're Smarter Than Chickens - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:13:21] <exec> 08└─Think how awkward it would have been if the roles was reversed. Chickens as smart as us and us like them. I'll think about that next time I have a nugget.
[09:13:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The real news - 06Threats on Pokémon World Championship Lead to Two Arrests - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:13:57] <exec> 08└─Cops finally doing stuff that actually seems to be part of their jobs. On a public Facebook page called “Mayhem Pokemon Crew,” Stumbo posted a photo of a white sedan, with two military-style weapons crossed over the trunk. “Kevin Norton and I are ready for worlds Boston here we come!!!” wro...
[09:15:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:To come to a school near you … never - 06How a Radical New Teaching Method Could Unleash a Generation of Geniuses - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:15:14] <exec> 08└─The only way that would work is if we went down the road that most other countries did and told most of the students that they're not allowed to go to college at all.
[09:18:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ticho [89] 02Re:Some people disagree with the assessment... - 06Hugo Awards Drama - 141 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:18:06] <exec> 08└─Sad puppies, rabid puppies... Anyone else here confused and sadly wondering what happened to science fiction that they loved since childhood?
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[10:09:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Great - 06Mozilla CEO Threatens to Fire Person Responsible for Anonymous Posts on Reddit - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:09:08] <exec> 08└─Hear me out, it may sound crazy, but maybe the great social justice infiltration might be what's causing all the new retarded ideas implemented in a once great product. It might be totally tinfoil, but I don't know... sounds plausible.
[10:09:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03massa [5547] (Score:1) 02Re:Great - 06Mozilla CEO Threatens to Fire Person Responsible for Anonymous Posts on Reddit - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:09:09] <exec> 08└─It does not sound crazy! (it just sounds stupid)
[10:09:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kell [292] (Score:2) 02Re:Welcome to the machine - 06Mozilla CEO Threatens to Fire Person Responsible for Anonymous Posts on Reddit - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:09:17] <exec> 08└─+1 sad truth.
[10:09:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02An insightful company - 06Mozilla CEO Threatens to Fire Person Responsible for Anonymous Posts on Reddit - 586 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:22] <exec> 08└─An insightful company might first step back and ask the question: Is this complaint correct? Is Ms. Koehler one of the permanently offended, more interested in stirring things up than in getting work done? On her personal blog, Ms. Koehler writes "I have given notice at Mozilla...I'm not going quiet...
[10:09:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:An insightful comment! - 06Mozilla CEO Threatens to Fire Person Responsible for Anonymous Posts on Reddit - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:09:24] <exec> 08└─Is it true insightful comments containing the insightful keyword insightful get modded insightful? Let us test this insightful hypothesis. FOR SCIENCE.
[10:09:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:An insightful company - 06Mozilla CEO Threatens to Fire Person Responsible for Anonymous Posts on Reddit - 505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:09:25] <exec> 08└─Bingo! The reddit comments were made in a discussion of a CoC proposal on github, here's one of the comments: I use Github for code, not social justice politics. If this continues I'll be migrating everything off of Github. I don't even see the need, if someone is harassing people just allow them to...
[10:09:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03tonyPick [1237] (Score:2) 02Re:An insightful company - 06Mozilla CEO Threatens to Fire Person Responsible for Anonymous Posts on Reddit - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:09:27] <exec> 08└─So, I looked up Koheler's blog [subfictional.com], and from the tweets about departing from Mozilla there's this gem: "We tell people to speak their mind, but marginalize those who do when what they say doesn't match the status quo"
[10:09:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score:1) 02Fire ALL the employees!!! - 06Mozilla CEO Threatens to Fire Person Responsible for Anonymous Posts on Reddit - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:29] <exec> 08└─Because, you know, firing always fixes moral problems. Hmm, can't seem to find anyone to do the work now, I wonder why? Oh, time for HR to bring in their golden-brown h1b buddies.
[10:09:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fire ALL the employees!!! - 06Mozilla CEO Threatens to Fire Person Responsible for Anonymous Posts on Reddit - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:09:31] <exec> 08└─Who needs employees? We have this trendy new compiler now that writes your code for you. We call it clang.
[10:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Please explain, why BitTorrent? - 06Chasing Illegal Movie Downloaders Proves an Unprofitable Exercise - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:09:41] <exec> 08└─I'll just leave this here: PrimeWire [primewire.ag]
[10:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score:2) 02Re:Please explain, why BitTorrent? - 06Chasing Illegal Movie Downloaders Proves an Unprofitable Exercise - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:09:43] <exec> 08└─Because its simple to download a torrent, its blindingly fast, you have the file on your hard drive so you can watch it anywhere, there's guaranteed no buffering lag, you could modify the video if you wanted... Those are just a few reasons right offhand. The anonymous coward in the comment saying be...
[10:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Please explain, why BitTorrent? - 06Chasing Illegal Movie Downloaders Proves an Unprofitable Exercise - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:09:45] <exec> 08└─You forgot the downside of a torrent: while you download, you also upload, which exposes you to liability because you are literally distributing copyright infringing content.
[10:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score:2) 02Re:I like Windows 8.1 With Bing - 06Microsoft Has No Plans to Tell Us What’s in Windows Patches - 720 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:09:57] <exec> 08└─That spyware and the opacity over what patches do is proving to be a huge stumbling block in people's willingness to move to Windows 10. Worse yet, it appears that MS is doing all it can to retroactively bolt some of that functionality on to Windows 7 and 8.x as well, so not only are they risking bu...
[10:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kell [292] (Score:2) 02Re:I like Windows 8.1 With Bing - 06Microsoft Has No Plans to Tell Us What’s in Windows Patches - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:09:59] <exec> 08└─Perhaps it is some sort of desperation? It seems like someone in the tech pit had a good idea: "Our software suffers from bugs. If we switch to software as a service, we can patch continuously so everyone stays up to date!". When someone in the business office heard it up the chain, the immediate re...
[10:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score:2) 02Re:I like Windows 8.1 With Bing - 06Microsoft Has No Plans to Tell Us What’s in Windows Patches - 1019 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:10:00] <exec> 08└─Express train is right. The sad thing is that they could probably have gotten there if they'd just taken a little more time over it rather than trying to ram it down users throats all at once and pushed all the "telemetry" out and stepped up the opacity over a series of feature updates once users go...
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[10:10:12] <exec> 08└─Yep. I just don't get it, either. After what Microsoft has just gone through with Windows XP holdouts (and still is, to some extent) and the backlash over Windows 8 it really appeared that they were getting their act together with Windows 10 and setting it up to eventually (e.g. when the SP1 equival...
[10:10:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Cannot leave Windows because Clients - 06Microsoft Has No Plans to Tell Us What’s in Windows Patches - 547 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:10:19] <exec> 08└─Cannot move to another OS because clients depend on Windows. Software cannot simply be re-written for another OS and clients told to use that OS. Makes one seriously think about moving away from Windows software because Win 10 is not the end. There will be more to come that will be even worse. Softw...
[10:12:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03sudo rm -rf [2357] (Score:2) 02It's greeeen! - 06How One German Millennial Chose to Live On Trains Rather Than Pay Rent - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:12:44] <exec> 08└─For those interested, if you can afford to pay 4090€ up front, it is even cheaper. From the offer page of "Deutsche Bahn" [www.bahn.de] Price of main card: One-off payment for BahnCard 100: First class: EUR 6,890 Second class: EUR 4,090 Subscription BahnCard 100 (for min. of one year)*: First c...
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[11:09:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02flu shots will become mandatory - 06Progress Reported on Universal Flu Vaccines - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:29] <exec> 08└─You know it. Didn't get your flu shot? Well sure, that's your choice, but look here, your drivers license just got revoked, and Social Security has been informed that you are no longer allowed to work, and your house has been seized under eminent domain. Keep paying those taxes, though.
[11:09:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Re:An insightful comment! - 06Mozilla CEO Threatens to Fire Person Responsible for Anonymous Posts on Reddit - 151 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:09:57] <exec> 08└─Is it true insightful comments containing the insightful keyword insightful get modded insightful? Let us test this insightful hypothesis. FOR SCIENCE.
[11:10:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimshatt [978] (Score:2) 02Re:Please explain, why BitTorrent? - 06Chasing Illegal Movie Downloaders Proves an Unprofitable Exercise - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:10:17] <exec> 08└─Warez sites. Those were the days... 20-second quicktime porn.mov... RealAudio, god I'm glad we don't have that crap anymore.
[11:10:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03WizardFusion [498] (Score:2) 02Versions - 06Chasing Illegal Movie Downloaders Proves an Unprofitable Exercise - 459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:10:22] <exec> 08└─They can put whatever code they want in the BitTorrent client to stop illegal downloads, but people just simply won't use it. Look at the fiasco when they inserted adverts into the client, everyone complained and no-one used that version. Having said that, I have seen a lot of people that don't even...
[11:12:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Oh, how soon we forget - 06Ballot Selfie Bans Coming Before Federal Courts - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:12:10] <exec> 08└─Why reduce freedoms for zero real gain?
[11:13:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Interesting Idea - 06How One German Millennial Chose to Live On Trains Rather Than Pay Rent - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:13:03] <exec> 08└─midnight flights (most flights, really) between london and manchester are pretty pointless. The train only takes about 2 hours from city centre to city centre, so setting off at 2200 would generally get you there before the plane. There really isn't much point to internal flights in mainland UK, esp...
[11:13:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jmorris [4844] 02News? - 06How One German Millennial Chose to Live On Trains Rather Than Pay Rent - 497 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:13:19] <exec> 08└─There is word for this: Homeless. It isn't new. The homeless camp out in pretty much every public place that doesn't take active measures to eliminate them, So she stinks up the trains, wrecks their restrooms trying to bathe in them and we are supposed to praise her because.... oh, I missed that pa...
[11:13:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score:2) 02Re:It's greeeen! - 06How One German Millennial Chose to Live On Trains Rather Than Pay Rent - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:13:27] <exec> 08└─Pro tip: If you are going to finish your post with a bombshell like that, don't spoil it by also putting it in the title.
[11:13:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03PizzaRollPlinkett [4512] (Score:2) 02The Air-Conditioned Nightmare - 06How One German Millennial Chose to Live On Trains Rather Than Pay Rent - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:13:31] <exec> 08└─They wrote a book about this, it's called "The Air-Conditioned Nightmare" http://www.ndbooks.com [ndbooks.com] http://www.thesatirist.com [thesatirist.com] Well, not exactly, but there's a train. I may have found the only book...
[11:20:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03cafebabe [894] (Score:2) 02Re:Some people disagree with the assessment... - 06Hugo Awards Drama - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:20:15] <exec> 08└─I thought that the Sad Puppies was a series of young-adult science-fiction books. Or maybe a graphic novel. I'm vaguely disappointed that it isn't.
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[12:09:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03pe1rxq [844] (Score:2) 02Re:flu shots will become mandatory - 06Progress Reported on Universal Flu Vaccines - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:09:20] <exec> 08└─No they won't, but I wouldn't mind if those without would be banned from entering public places where they can put others (those without a choice) at risk. Like working at a hospital or elderly home, or visiting those places (not as a patient).
[12:09:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03curunir_wolf [4772] (Score:2) 02Re:flu shots will become mandatory - 06Progress Reported on Universal Flu Vaccines - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:09:21] <exec> 08└─I'd rather ban people from public places if they are obese or hygienically offensive than their willingness to be injected by the incredibly untrustworthy pharmaceutical industry.
[12:09:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] 02Great - 06Mozilla CEO Threatens to Fire Person Responsible for Anonymous Posts on Reddit - 114 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:33] <exec> 08└─If Mozilla gets busy with internal fights, maybe they won't have the time to further destroy a once-great browser.
[12:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03pe1rxq [844] (Score:2) 02Re:Great - 06Mozilla CEO Threatens to Fire Person Responsible for Anonymous Posts on Reddit - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:09:38] <exec> 08└─It does sound crazy. We white man have proven time and again to be perfectly capable of screwing things up beyond recognition without any outside help. (Note: I am sure women are just as capable of screwing things up...)
[12:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03acharax [4264] (Score:2) 02Re:Great - 06Mozilla CEO Threatens to Fire Person Responsible for Anonymous Posts on Reddit - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:09:39] <exec> 08└─I'd love if they'd have gotten into internal fights over ruining their browser, but it's got to be nonsense like this. Priorities.
[12:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03pe1rxq [844] (Score:2) 02Re:An insightful company - 06Mozilla CEO Threatens to Fire Person Responsible for Anonymous Posts on Reddit - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:09:55] <exec> 08└─A company that would treat this as a possibly correct complaint is not insightful. An insightful company would not even consider this to be a 'complaint' at all. Especially the second part of the comment where a complete group is generalized. I am not sure firing the guy is the right thing (it could...
[12:10:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Please explain, why BitTorrent? - 06Chasing Illegal Movie Downloaders Proves an Unprofitable Exercise - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:10:15] <exec> 08└─It's extremely improbable that they will actually go after you, especially if you wait before downloading the latest stuff. Furthermore, lawsuits where these companies sue thousands of people at once are beginning to be looked down on by the courts, as far as I've heard. Extortion letters can genera...
[12:10:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:It's more like a slow-motion trainwreck - 06Microsoft Has No Plans to Tell Us What’s in Windows Patches - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:10:46] <exec> 08└─It's sad, but the amount of abuse people are willing to endure from those who develop non-free proprietary software is truly staggering. Many people will not just endure this abuse, but actively defend it. I can't tell you how many people I've seen saying things like "Well, the abuses aren't *that*...
[12:12:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Oh, how soon we forget - 06Ballot Selfie Bans Coming Before Federal Courts - 1179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:12:16] <exec> 08└─Let's look over this thread. You asserted that the German economy was better than the US one. I note that the US economy is considerably wealthier using the metric of GDP (which incidentally would be a really common rebuttal). You complain that the "Protestant work ethic" was a problem. I merely not...
[12:12:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Means to an End - 06Ballot Selfie Bans Coming Before Federal Courts - 1841 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:12:36] <exec> 08└─Does it matter if they don't vote? I think not. Assume for the sake of argument that there is one leadership and one party, the rich guys who finance the whole thing. And they have two candidates who tell different PR story lies and compete on whos better at lying? This is not so far fetched, the cu...
[12:12:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Means to an End - 06Ballot Selfie Bans Coming Before Federal Courts - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:12:37] <exec> 08└─Racists??? Why do you introduce race into a simple question of competency?
[12:12:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Means to an End - 06Ballot Selfie Bans Coming Before Federal Courts - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:12:43] <exec> 08└─Given that even as a non-United States of American, I understand that the whole "Free Speech" that the US has means you can SAY it, but it DOES NOT mean that there aren't consequences to doing it.
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[13:08:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03yarp [2665] (Score:3, Funny) 02Breaking - 06Revealed: the First Hydrogen-powered Battery That Will Charge Your Apple iPhone for a Week - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:08:24] <exec> 08└─This just in: Apple buys Intelligent Energy, rebrands as iDrogen.
[13:08:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02same old same old... - 06Revealed: the First Hydrogen-powered Battery That Will Charge Your Apple iPhone for a Week - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:08:25] <exec> 08└─The basic problem with these systems is that once the fuel cell reaction is underway, it can't be shut down. Thus you better damn be using all that power, or it will simply be vented...
[13:08:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:same old same old... - 06Revealed: the First Hydrogen-powered Battery That Will Charge Your Apple iPhone for a Week - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:08:26] <exec> 08└─Liar liar pants on fire.
[13:08:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:same old same old... - 06Revealed: the First Hydrogen-powered Battery That Will Charge Your Apple iPhone for a Week - 2824 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:08:28] <exec> 08└─Yeah that was the old space age era ones with liq/gel electrolytes, where you have to control the temp very closely to control the electrolyte concentration, too hot and it boils all the water out and the reaction dies and too cold and the water doesn't boil out so the reaction dies. So you pretty m...
[13:08:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:same old same old... - 06Revealed: the First Hydrogen-powered Battery That Will Charge Your Apple iPhone for a Week - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:08:30] <exec> 08└─And of course having steady supply of water vapor near electronic device is just topping.
[13:08:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Is that a wet phone in your pocket.... - 06Revealed: the First Hydrogen-powered Battery That Will Charge Your Apple iPhone for a Week - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:08:32] <exec> 08└─Or you just happy to see me?
[13:08:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Might wipe it out - 06Progress Reported on Universal Flu Vaccines - 701 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:08:41] <exec> 08└─The flu barely seems to survive as it is. I never get a shot and I only get the flu like once a decade and most folks I know don't catch it either. So if even half the population became totally immune, its already pitiful ability to spread might completely wipe it out. Some farmer in China catches i...
[13:08:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Might wipe it out - 06Progress Reported on Universal Flu Vaccines - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:08:43] <exec> 08└─Just because you haven't met many of the "tens of millions" who get infected or the "hundreds of thousands" that die every year, that doesn't mean that influenza barely survives. Influenza is not transmitted sexually. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[13:08:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The should try the vaccine in pigs - 06Progress Reported on Universal Flu Vaccines - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:08:45] <exec> 08└─If the vaccine is effective in pigs then it may reduce their role as a mixing vessel for new subtypes. I hope vaccines are considered "organic", anyone know?
[13:08:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Phew - 06Progress Reported on Universal Flu Vaccines - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:08:47] <exec> 08└─Progress Reported on Universal Flu Vaccines
[13:08:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bad PR - 06Mozilla CEO Threatens to Fire Person Responsible for Anonymous Posts on Reddit - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:08:56] <exec> 08└─Koehler already left the company and you have no proof that the complaint has any merit. Why would a company try to shed light on a subject brought up by an anonymous comment somewhere on the internet?
[13:09:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Great - 06Mozilla CEO Threatens to Fire Person Responsible for Anonymous Posts on Reddit - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:09:01] <exec> 08└─Well, delusional is a subset of crazy, and delusional is defined as holding beliefs that do not have any basis in reality(and aren't actively shared by a large, personally influential peer group, such as a religion). Stupid, with respect to beliefs, just means "poorly thought out", and this appears...
[13:09:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03zugedneb [4556] (Score:2) 02Re:Great - 06Mozilla CEO Threatens to Fire Person Responsible for Anonymous Posts on Reddit - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:09:03] <exec> 08└─Probably true. There is a lot of code in a browser that does not need introverted dudes with expert knowledge in some obscure math... A lot of it is higher level stuff, that an ambitious extraverted person looking for a situation to troll, is capable or doing. Generally, when stuff become "less diff...
[13:09:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Great - 06Mozilla CEO Threatens to Fire Person Responsible for Anonymous Posts on Reddit - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:09:05] <exec> 08└─Yup we can have them writing the setter and getter functions for all private class variables. So what if a male-engineered compiler can do it!
[13:09:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:Welcome to the machine - 06Mozilla CEO Threatens to Fire Person Responsible for Anonymous Posts on Reddit - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:09:14] <exec> 08└─My sister was bitten by a møøse.
[13:09:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03M. Baranczak [1673] (Score:2) 02Re:What Else Will Get You Fired? - 06Mozilla CEO Threatens to Fire Person Responsible for Anonymous Posts on Reddit - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:09:17] <exec> 08└─what is it that makes this story newsworthy?
[13:09:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fire ALL the employees!!! - 06Mozilla CEO Threatens to Fire Person Responsible for Anonymous Posts on Reddit - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:09:26] <exec> 08└─You don't need employees when you can just ship in interns by the crateload.
[13:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Please explain, why BitTorrent? - 06Chasing Illegal Movie Downloaders Proves an Unprofitable Exercise - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:09:39] <exec> 08└─Seriously? It's been a long time since I saw these kind of sites. Lots of promises but just keep on following shit links to shit embedded players. Now on the other hand, I can simple search for a movie on the pirate bay, open it with my favorite bittorretn client, wait 10-30 minutes and have a no no...
[13:10:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score:2) 02Re:It's more like a slow-motion trainwreck - 06Microsoft Has No Plans to Tell Us What’s in Windows Patches - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:10:12] <exec> 08└─I'm on devuan Linux. Not interested in systemd either. My friend that uses Windows did the free upgrade to 10, and in a day or so downgraded again. It seems none of his games worked on 10. -- hendrik
[13:11:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:Want some ganja? - 06Infidelity Website Hack Leads to Suicides in Canada - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:11:06] <exec> 08└─If lifelong marriage does not fit the human nature, then why do I know people who have been married longer than I have lived? You might as well ask "If murder does not fit the human nature..." Some people cheat and steal and commit adultery. NOT most people.
[13:11:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:Poll: Who are the good guys? - 06Infidelity Website Hack Leads to Suicides in Canada - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:11:07] <exec> 08└─None of the above. All are in the wrong.
[13:12:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Means to an End - 06Ballot Selfie Bans Coming Before Federal Courts - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:12:03] <exec> 08└─Why don't you allow a possibility that, after SEVERAL GENERATIONS, such tests won't be used in practice for suppression of votes?
[13:12:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:News? - 06How One German Millennial Chose to Live On Trains Rather Than Pay Rent - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:12:45] <exec> 08└─wrecks their restrooms trying to bathe in them
[13:13:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03M. Baranczak [1673] (Score:2) 02Re:Oh good - 0638 New Emojis to be Introduced in 2016 - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:13:34] <exec> 08└─Oh, and thanks again for fixing Unicode support.
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[14:08:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03dcollins [1168] (Score:2) 02Mules - 06Study: Students Cheat in MOOCs to Gain a Certificate - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:08:19] <exec> 08└─They should more simply call them "mules", as is historically done in MMORPGs.
[14:08:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03githaron [581] (Score:2) 02What Is The Benefit? - 06Study: Students Cheat in MOOCs to Gain a Certificate - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:08:21] <exec> 08└─Aren't most MOOCs submit until correct (or too lazy to correct). I have taken a course on Udacity and Coursera and I never remember having to worry about getting an answer wrong. If I got it wrong I went back and corrected my answer/code.
[14:08:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:3, Funny) 02Batteries - 06Revealed: the First Hydrogen-powered Battery That Will Charge Your Apple iPhone for a Week - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:08:35] <exec> 08└─You'd think they'd do this for a device that actually had a replaceable battery first.
[14:08:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score:2) 02The answer to dripping - 06Revealed: the First Hydrogen-powered Battery That Will Charge Your Apple iPhone for a Week - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:08:36] <exec> 08└─The answer to dripping complaints will be: "you're holding it wrong".
[14:08:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03skater [4342] (Score:2) 02Re:The answer to dripping - 06Revealed: the First Hydrogen-powered Battery That Will Charge Your Apple iPhone for a Week - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:08:38] <exec> 08└─For Android phones, it'll finally let you use the phone an entire day without needing a recharge.
[14:08:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03gidds [589] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re: Flu shots will become mandatory - 06Progress Reported on Universal Flu Vaccines - 952 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:08:48] <exec> 08└─There's a huge range of strong evidence for the benefits of many vaccinations. (And no credible evidence against them, despite what people like now-discredited Andrew Wakefield [wikipedia.org] used to claim.) Or don't you think it's possible to hate the (admittedly highly-dodgy and in need of chan...
[14:08:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02Re:Might wipe it out - 06Progress Reported on Universal Flu Vaccines - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:08:51] <exec> 08└─The flu barely seems to survive as it is. I never get a shot and I only get the flu like once a decade and most folks I know don't catch it either.
[14:09:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Perhaps I may be of assistance? - 06Mozilla CEO Threatens to Fire Person Responsible for Anonymous Posts on Reddit - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:09:21] <exec> 08└─With every article posted to SN, I always wonder how it personally relates to MDC. But he makes sure I never have to wonder long.
[14:09:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03dcollins [1168] (Score:2) 02Re:What Else Will Get You Fired? - 06Mozilla CEO Threatens to Fire Person Responsible for Anonymous Posts on Reddit - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:09:29] <exec> 08└─That's just how the SIW (Social Injustice Warriors) operate. Any opportunity for angry white men to whine about "I'm being oppressed" at having so much as a single uppity woman in the workplace, or not being able to abuse them at will.
[14:09:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:An insightful comment! - 06Mozilla CEO Threatens to Fire Person Responsible for Anonymous Posts on Reddit - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:09:33] <exec> 08└─Apparently your insight was insightful.
[14:09:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:2) 02Re:An insightful company - 06Mozilla CEO Threatens to Fire Person Responsible for Anonymous Posts on Reddit - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:09:36] <exec> 08└─cisgender privilege
[14:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:An insightful company - 06Mozilla CEO Threatens to Fire Person Responsible for Anonymous Posts on Reddit - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:09:39] <exec> 08└─Well, let's look at her complaints. There's the time I raised the issue of alcohol use at company events with our head of HR and got a speech about personal responsibility.
[14:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fire ALL the employees!!! - 06Mozilla CEO Threatens to Fire Person Responsible for Anonymous Posts on Reddit - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:09:44] <exec> 08└─I actually have fun punching that one down. "we are going to try and get a bunch of interns to do this work" "sooooo in your budget how are you going to pay for them?" "what they are free" "not under the labor laws of this state you need to pay them at a minimum, minimum wage" "oh I dont have the bu...
[14:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Fire ALL the employees!!! - 06Mozilla CEO Threatens to Fire Person Responsible for Anonymous Posts on Reddit - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:09:45] <exec> 08└─LOL - you meant morale - but maybe moral problems work just as well. I've gotta think about that for a bit . . .
[14:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03zafiro17 [234] (Score:2) 02Let the dirty laundry flow - 06Mozilla CEO Threatens to Fire Person Responsible for Anonymous Posts on Reddit - 1360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:47] <exec> 08└─Ultimately, the CEO is obliged to defend the employee being badmouthed, because it is among the CEO's responsibilities to foster a healthy and safe working environment for all employees. That said, threatening to fire someone seems to cross the line. No points for the idiot spreading dirty laundry a...
[14:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Behavior - 06Mozilla CEO Threatens to Fire Person Responsible for Anonymous Posts on Reddit - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:49] <exec> 08└─I'm talking about when you start saying 'someone's kind doesn't belong here, and we'll all be happy when they're gone
[14:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03dcollins [1168] (Score:2) 02Re:Behavior - 06Mozilla CEO Threatens to Fire Person Responsible for Anonymous Posts on Reddit - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:09:51] <exec> 08└─Stuff white people do: Invoke strangely colored people. [blogspot.com]
[14:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Please explain, why BitTorrent? - 06Chasing Illegal Movie Downloaders Proves an Unprofitable Exercise - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:10:06] <exec> 08└─It's extremely improbable that they will actually go after you I think it comes down to who your ISP is. Some are willing to give up the goods. Others not so much. I personally rip my movies because I want the best quality I can get my hands on. But an old friend had TB of movies he had got from tor...
[14:10:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Extortion, not blackmail - 06Chasing Illegal Movie Downloaders Proves an Unprofitable Exercise - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:10:09] <exec> 08└─You'd make one heckuva lawyer, Sparky.
[14:10:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Poisoning earlier versions, too? - 06Microsoft Has No Plans to Tell Us What’s in Windows Patches - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:10:25] <exec> 08└─Holy crap. Each one of these stories about Win10 that comes out leaves me astonished at MS's gall. And you've done it interstitially. If you have a link to a story on what you're saying, you should submit it to the story queue. More people need to know, if that's the case.
[14:10:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Some people take longer.... - 06Microsoft Has No Plans to Tell Us What’s in Windows Patches - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:10:34] <exec> 08└─Well, you would know better than most.
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[14:10:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score:2) 02Nothing new in windows update ... - 06Microsoft Has No Plans to Tell Us What’s in Windows Patches - 688 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:48] <exec> 08└─So Microsoft does not have a plan to tell us what windows patches contain. How is this new? Pre-Windows10 patches are not exactly fountains of knowledge when it comes to describing what they do or their content. There is a vague headline, a code and or id number followed by a block of standard text...
[14:12:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Oh, how soon we forget - 06Ballot Selfie Bans Coming Before Federal Courts - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:12:11] <exec> 08└─Oops. I see you're probably not the same person I was complaining about earlier.
[14:12:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Means to an End - 06Ballot Selfie Bans Coming Before Federal Courts - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:12:33] <exec> 08└─nobody can tell the difference
[14:13:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02Sigh - 06Canadians "Caring About Civil Liberties" - 184 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:49] <exec> 08└─Sitting in Canada, I do hope there is a backlash against the security state. Canada is fine country whose major flaw is that it borders the US and too much of that muck rubs off on it.
[14:14:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrNemesis [1582] (Score:2) 02Re:Feel the decline - 0638 New Emojis to be Introduced in 2016 - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:14:28] <exec> 08└─Ok, we don't have President Mountain Dew yet... but doesn't Trump get us pretty darned close?
[14:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrNemesis [1582] (Score:2) 02Re:Feel the decline - 0638 New Emojis to be Introduced in 2016 - 2931 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:14:31] <exec> 08└─Age-old debate about CLI vs. GUI; GUI is more discoverable but CLI is great for better communicating info. Lots of people complain that linux/BSD/windows is too hard because "I asked for help with XYZ and they said do this gobbledeygook in something called a terminator that looks like the kind of th...
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[15:08:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:What Is The Benefit? - 06Study: Students Cheat in MOOCs to Gain a Certificate - 791 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:08:23] <exec> 08└─At least the automata theory class on coursera was lose another 5% every submission attempt, or something like that, and you got to keep your peak historical score rather than most recent score. So if you finally got 100% correct on your third try that would be an 85% net, although if you got one wr...
[15:08:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02NONSENSE!!!111 - 06Study: Students Cheat in MOOCs to Gain a Certificate - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:08:24] <exec> 08└─I was a straight A student and didn't need to study AT ALL. Everyone around me was so slow and stupid. These so-called "researchers" are the idiots just because THEY couldn't answer questions fast they think that no-one can. Well that is nonsense and I am the proof - as I said, I was brilliant in sc...
[15:08:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:NONSENSE!!!111 - 06Study: Students Cheat in MOOCs to Gain a Certificate - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:08:26] <exec> 08└─Are you Jacob Trump? I didn't even know Donald had a kid brother.
[15:08:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:NONSENSE!!!111 - 06Study: Students Cheat in MOOCs to Gain a Certificate - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:08:28] <exec> 08└─and I live on a yacht
[15:08:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02It's white, thus it must be milk - 06Study: Students Cheat in MOOCs to Gain a Certificate - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:08:30] <exec> 08└─...The researchers discovered it when they found some users were answering questions "faster than is humanly possible."
[15:08:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Breaking - 06Revealed: the First Hydrogen-powered Battery That Will Charge Your Apple iPhone for a Week - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:08:38] <exec> 08└─Followed by an unexpected large sales in Germany, and subsequently many cases of eaten batteries in German hospitals. Why? "Drogen" is German for "drugs"!
[15:08:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03VLM [445] 02Re:same old same old... - 06Revealed: the First Hydrogen-powered Battery That Will Charge Your Apple iPhone for a Week - 2824 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:08:41] <exec> 08└─Yeah that was the old space age era ones with liq/gel electrolytes, where you have to control the temp very closely to control the electrolyte concentration, too hot and it boils all the water out and the reaction dies and too cold and the water doesn't boil out so the reaction dies. So you pretty m...
[15:08:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:same old same old... - 06Revealed: the First Hydrogen-powered Battery That Will Charge Your Apple iPhone for a Week - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:08:43] <exec> 08└─Keep your device moist for tender results.
[15:08:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score:2) 02Re:Batteries - 06Revealed: the First Hydrogen-powered Battery That Will Charge Your Apple iPhone for a Week - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:08:46] <exec> 08└─You'd think they'd do this for a device that actually had a replaceable battery first.
[15:08:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score:3, Funny) 02Just one question - 06Revealed: the First Hydrogen-powered Battery That Will Charge Your Apple iPhone for a Week - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:08:50] <exec> 08└─Great, now how do I cut one of these out and wire it up as an external battery pack for my Android phone whilst decorating the inside of my bin with the little sparkly shards of iPhone?
[15:08:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03morgauxo [2082] (Score:2) 02Bigger News - 06Revealed: the First Hydrogen-powered Battery That Will Charge Your Apple iPhone for a Week - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:08:51] <exec> 08└─So Apple finally gets removable batteries! "The plan is to offer the fuel cells as disposable cartridges."
[15:09:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re: Flu shots will become mandatory - 06Progress Reported on Universal Flu Vaccines - 742 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:09:02] <exec> 08└─The medical research community has shown no indication they are capable of assessing the evidence for anything. The method of disproving a null hypothesis cannot provide any support for an explanation like "vaccine works". In fact what has been created is something like occult mystery school knowled...
[15:09:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re: Flu shots will become mandatory - 06Progress Reported on Universal Flu Vaccines - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:09:03] <exec> 08└─There are no more smallpox infections and rabies, a nearly 100% fatal disease, is successfully treated with a vaccine. Those are two obvious examples that vaccines work.
[15:09:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:flu shots will become mandatory - 06Progress Reported on Universal Flu Vaccines - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:09:05] <exec> 08└─An universal flu vaccine that gives lifelong protection would almost certainly not be fake. I mean, if you provide fake vaccinations to earn easy money, which one would make you more money: A yearly vaccination as we have now, or a one-time vaccination that protects you for the rest of your life? I'...
[15:09:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Might wipe it out - 06Progress Reported on Universal Flu Vaccines - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:09:09] <exec> 08└─Your link said they have no idea who is dying from the flu because they don't test for it.
[15:09:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Might wipe it out - 06Progress Reported on Universal Flu Vaccines - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:09:10] <exec> 08└─No, it says that the exact worldwide numbers are not known. Many parts of the world do not do a PCR or antibody test to confirm what someone died of and just classify the cause based on symptoms. Guess why it is called Influenza-like illness and not coronavirus-like illness.
[15:09:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Might wipe it out - 06Progress Reported on Universal Flu Vaccines - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:09:12] <exec> 08└─They don't wash their hands, so its the same thing. Just like those people that use the bathroom and walk out without washing their hands, yes people do notice, yes we do.
[15:09:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:The should try the vaccine in pigs - 06Progress Reported on Universal Flu Vaccines - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:09:14] <exec> 08└─Mass innoculation of livestock? Sounds expensive, but apparently eradication of rinderpest [wikipedia.org] only cost $5 billion.
[15:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Re:An insightful company - 06Mozilla CEO Threatens to Fire Person Responsible for Anonymous Posts on Reddit - 1465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:09:56] <exec> 08└─I think you two are actually agreeing with each other. Just from different perspectives. Professional victim? Stirring up troubled due to being LGBT, or female, or black, or whatever sort of victimhood one can claim? Neither of you like that type. On the other hand, take someone who separates their...
[15:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:An insightful company - 06Mozilla CEO Threatens to Fire Person Responsible for Anonymous Posts on Reddit - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:09:57] <exec> 08└─wat
[15:09:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03tonyPick [1237] 02Re:An insightful company - 06Mozilla CEO Threatens to Fire Person Responsible for Anonymous Posts on Reddit - 233 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:09:58] <exec> 08└─So, I looked up Koheler's blog [subfictional.com], and from the tweets about departing from Mozilla there's this gem: "We tell people to speak their mind, but marginalize those who do when what they say doesn't match the status quo"
[15:10:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I like Windows 8.1 With Bing - 06Microsoft Has No Plans to Tell Us What’s in Windows Patches - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:10:51] <exec> 08└─I prefer Windows CE, have it on an HP Jornada 820 that still works. Internet Explorer 4 kind of sucks though.
[15:10:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jmorris [4844] 02Some people take longer.... - 06Microsoft Has No Plans to Tell Us What’s in Windows Patches - 398 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:52] <exec> 08└─I dunno, I bailed off the Microsoft train after looking at Win95 vs Linux. Yes Linux was a lot more work, mostly carefully picking compatible hardware, but it has been so much less stressful overall. Never owned a virus scanner. Never worried about spyware, toolbars or Flash Player trying to infect...
[15:12:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TrumpetPower! [590] 02Re:Means to an End - 06Ballot Selfie Bans Coming Before Federal Courts - 232 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:12:46] <exec> 08└─I personally think that certain conditions for voting must exist - such as proven fluency in politics. The test can be built into the same voting machines. Pool of 1,000 questions, you answer 100 questions, must correctly answer 80.
[15:13:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03morgauxo [2082] (Score:2) 02Re:News? - 06How One German Millennial Chose to Live On Trains Rather Than Pay Rent - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:35] <exec> 08└─I see Ethanol Fueled got a new nick
[15:13:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03sudo rm -rf [2357] (Score:2) 02Re:It's greeeen! - 06How One German Millennial Chose to Live On Trains Rather Than Pay Rent - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:41] <exec> 08└─Awwright, here's your +1 insightful.
[15:17:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:To come to a school near you … never - 06How a Radical New Teaching Method Could Unleash a Generation of Geniuses - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:17:08] <exec> 08└─In the years since, I believe that all Vo-Tech schools have disappeared. Or, rather, those that exist are "college" level, or community college. High school students aren't permitted to play with fire, or knives, or screwdrivers, or anything that might conceivably cause an injurty today.
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[16:08:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:4, Informative) 02Disagree - 06Windows 95 at Twenty - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:08:28] <exec> 08└─OS/2 was superior to Windows 95 in almost every respect.
[16:08:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Disagree - 06Windows 95 at Twenty - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:08:29] <exec> 08└─Except the two that won the market: drivers and software support... Oh, and that pesky "installed for you at the PC's factory" stroke of genius.
[16:08:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score:1) 02Re:Disagree - 06Windows 95 at Twenty - 797 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:08:31] <exec> 08└─From a technical perspective, yes OS/2 was "superior". It (2.x and later anyway) was a true 32-bit operating system like Unix, Linux, and Windows NT. But from a practical standpoint, it didn't run enough of the software people needed. Or if it could run their software, it required extra hassle. I re...
[16:08:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02QA Effort - 06Windows 95 at Twenty - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:08:33] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't put the achievement based on QA effort alone. There are vastly more types of computers now than there were in 1995, the QA effort on releasing an operating system is much more difficult now than ever.
[16:08:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:QA Effort - 06Windows 95 at Twenty - 1016 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:08:34] <exec> 08└─That's true, but it's also largely MS' fault for being willing to cater to hardware manufacturers that can't be bothered to follow spec properly. 20 years ago if your hardware didn't follow spec, it wouldn't work at all. You might not get the chance to install a driver for the video card because you...
[16:08:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03number6 [1831] (Score:2) 02About Windows Chicago - 06Windows 95 at Twenty - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:08:36] <exec> 08└─Chicago was the code name for the development and beta builds of Windows 95. An excellent in-depth article on this can be found here: __http://oyvind.servehttp.com
[16:08:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score:2, Interesting) 02Windows 95 forever! - 06Windows 95 at Twenty - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:08:38] <exec> 08└─Perhaps what I'm going to say will be controversial, but I'm of the opinion that Windows 95 is the greatest software engineering feat ever,
[16:08:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03eof [5559] (Score:1) 02Re:What Is The Benefit? - 06Study: Students Cheat in MOOCs to Gain a Certificate - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:08:47] <exec> 08└─There are all kinds of different models. With some you have only one chance to submit and then your work is either graded by the computer or by your peers. The peer grading can work fairly well, if the instructors have done a good job in preparing the assignment; it can be a disaster otherwise.
[16:08:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03eof [5559] (Score:1) 02Re:It's white, thus it must be milk - 06Study: Students Cheat in MOOCs to Gain a Certificate - 492 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:08:52] <exec> 08└─You should look into the methodology reported in the paper: The detection strategy begins by considering all possible ordered pairs of accounts, within each course, as candidate CAMEO users. It asks whether the pattern of “show answers” from one, the “candidate harvester” (CH), and “corre...
[16:08:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Which is more work? - 06Study: Students Cheat in MOOCs to Gain a Certificate - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:08:54] <exec> 08└─Seems like it might be less work to study, and pass the tests, than to create all these accounts to mine the correct answers. And, what are these people going to do with a pile of certifications which they don't even understand? Use them for toilet paper, I guess, because no intelligent employer is...
[16:08:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Which is more work? - 06Study: Students Cheat in MOOCs to Gain a Certificate - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:08:56] <exec> 08└─Yeah, well, there are currently a large number of unintelligent employers who discard candidates based on a lack of certs/degrees alone. So there is still hope for people to impress some unintelligent employer with their useless certifications.
[16:08:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Which is more work? - 06Study: Students Cheat in MOOCs to Gain a Certificate - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:08:57] <exec> 08└─How many employers will accept these for the purposes of employment? I'd also like they're names so I can avoid applying to work there. These certificates are at best an indication of interest, and nothing more. It's easy enough to make your way through a proper degree program without learning anyth...
[16:08:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Solved problem in other systems - 06Study: Students Cheat in MOOCs to Gain a Certificate - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:08:59] <exec> 08└─Other online learning systems (such as Blackboard, Moodle, Sakai, etc.) have had a method of preventing this for years. Tests can be set so that scores and feedback are only released after the deadline has passed and no more submissions can be made. So this research have coined a cutesy acronym for...
[16:09:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03eof [5559] (Score:1) 02Re:Solved problem in other systems - 06Study: Students Cheat in MOOCs to Gain a Certificate - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:09:01] <exec> 08└─As mentioned in the article, these strategies are already used in many MOOCs. To quote the summary article However, some of these strategies are costly or may limit learning opportunities. “We may face a tradeoff between enabling learning and preventing cheating”
[16:09:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Breaking - 06Revealed: the First Hydrogen-powered Battery That Will Charge Your Apple iPhone for a Week - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:09:08] <exec> 08└─> "Drogen" is German for "drugs"! It's an Apple product. Have you tried prying Apple products from some of their owners? Might be safer to reach for their Meth...
[16:09:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Breaking - 06Revealed: the First Hydrogen-powered Battery That Will Charge Your Apple iPhone for a Week - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:09:10] <exec> 08└─Apple becomes even more iDrogenous!
[16:09:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score:2) 02Re:same old same old... - 06Revealed: the First Hydrogen-powered Battery That Will Charge Your Apple iPhone for a Week - 791 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:09:16] <exec> 08└─Nope. The bigger problem is that they're non-rechargeable. You now have to pay some non-pittance every time you charge your phone (what does a phone cost to charge from a wall-socket? Pence a year? How many batteries / re-fills is that, and how much would they cost? I'm guessing just the cost of a c...
[16:09:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:same old same old... - 06Revealed: the First Hydrogen-powered Battery That Will Charge Your Apple iPhone for a Week - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:09:17] <exec> 08└─I don't know enough about fuel cells to know how often/fast you can switch between shutdown and full power, but presumably that's why it has both a rechargable battery and a fuel cell -- the fuel cell only comes on when the battery's low, then charges it at constant power, then shuts off. You can't...
[16:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re: Flu shots will become mandatory - 06Progress Reported on Universal Flu Vaccines - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:09:37] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure it maks sense to talk about vaccines as some monolithic entity. There is no contradiction if vaccine A being 100% effective, safe, and cheap, while vaccine B is an expensive death injection that does not even offer any protection.
[16:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re: Flu shots will become mandatory - 06Progress Reported on Universal Flu Vaccines - 505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:09:38] <exec> 08└─Vaccination is a successful strategy to prevent disease and mechanism of protection is understood so well that they can be rationally designed. Any medical treatment has variability in the way that it is administered and its effect on diverse groups of people with various statuses of health or histo...
[16:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Bad PR - 06Mozilla CEO Threatens to Fire Person Responsible for Anonymous Posts on Reddit - 712 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:10:01] <exec> 08└─If you read the tweets, it looks like there probably is some merit to the complaints. It looks like she was rather tone deaf and didn't understand what her job was. By her own admission her manager even explained to her what her job was. Agitating for social justice in the work place isn't something...
[16:10:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Re:An insightful company - 06Mozilla CEO Threatens to Fire Person Responsible for Anonymous Posts on Reddit - 505 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:10:29] <exec> 08└─Bingo! The reddit comments were made in a discussion of a CoC proposal on github, here's one of the comments: I use Github for code, not social justice politics. If this continues I'll be migrating everything off of Github. I don't even see the need, if someone is harassing people just allow them to...
[16:10:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02Re:An insightful company - 06Mozilla CEO Threatens to Fire Person Responsible for Anonymous Posts on Reddit - 1465 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:10:31] <exec> 08└─I think you two are actually agreeing with each other. Just from different perspectives. Professional victim? Stirring up troubled due to being LGBT, or female, or black, or whatever sort of victimhood one can claim? Neither of you like that type. On the other hand, take someone who separates their...
[16:10:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:An insightful company - 06Mozilla CEO Threatens to Fire Person Responsible for Anonymous Posts on Reddit - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:10:35] <exec> 08└─I wonder if Koehler will state support for aoiyama's attempt to "Speak their mind" and against Beard's attempt to "marginalize" these views.
[16:10:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03rheaghen [2470] (Score:1) 02I Hate you for Hating someone Hateful! - 06Mozilla CEO Threatens to Fire Person Responsible for Anonymous Posts on Reddit - 643 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:45] <exec> 08└─Mozilla CEO Chris Beard, you have only fanned the flames of conflict. If Christie Koehler was half of of the persistently toxic personality she was made out to be, I really don't find aoiyama's content all that surprising. You had the opportunity to help resolve the unrest in your ranks, but you did...
[16:11:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score:2) 02Re:Poisoning earlier versions, too? - 06Microsoft Has No Plans to Tell Us What’s in Windows Patches - 770 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:11:26] <exec> 08└─tbh, I'm kind of the same way - it's more WTF? bemusement at the moment, although the chances of my upgrading my own systems or advising any of our clients to do so until this is settled one way or the other are precisely zero. As for posting the story, I agree that this needs to get out there. Th...
[16:11:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:It's more like a slow-motion trainwreck - 06Microsoft Has No Plans to Tell Us What’s in Windows Patches - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:11:43] <exec> 08└─Inertia makes the world go 'round...
[16:13:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03M. Baranczak [1673] (Score:2) 02Re:Oh, how soon we forget - 06Ballot Selfie Bans Coming Before Federal Courts - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:16] <exec> 08└─The secret ballot? The one where even the voters can't prove which vote was cast, even if they wanted to?
[16:13:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:2) 02Re:Means to an End - 06Ballot Selfie Bans Coming Before Federal Courts - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:40] <exec> 08└─I do not care who is the genius who manages the country - he could be a Martian.
[16:16:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score:1) 02On lay nahl drao koi embleer lendril - 06Why We're Smarter Than Chickens - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:16:04] <exec> 08└─I haven't even read Watership Down, but I recognized silflay as Lapine for "to forage" just from contact with the conlang scene [watershipdown.org]. "Lendril? LENDRIL? On lay nahl drao koi embleer lendril!" Take a guess what movie that's translated from.
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[17:08:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Intelligence services that serve a PURPOSE? - 06Intelligence Agencies Have a "Duty to Warn" Endangered Persons - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:21] <exec> 08└─I'm sorry, but this idea is completely foreign to me.
[17:08:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Disagree - 06Windows 95 at Twenty - 1104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:08:33] <exec> 08└─It's the oldest IT problem in the book: Technical perfection versus "How hard is it to do my (non-technical) job?" From the point of view of users, the occasional crash and stupid modal confirmation dialog boxes were relatively small prices to pay for something they could actually work with. Whereas...
[17:08:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Disagree - 06Windows 95 at Twenty - 567 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:08:34] <exec> 08└─>But from a practical standpoint, it didn't run enough of the software people needed. >Or if it could run their software, it required extra hassle. This is exactly the situation that Linux is in today. Wine will run some Windows software, but maybe not. BTW - I still think that OS/2 had the best use...
[17:08:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Disagree - 06Windows 95 at Twenty - 576 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:08:36] <exec> 08└─I agree, OS/2 ran almost everything I needed and was much better than Windows. In early '95 Microsoft announced their next Windows would be released by the end of the year. I'd been running OS/2 for a while by then and figured IBM had a year to convince folks it was a great OS. Went to Comdex that J...
[17:08:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Disagree - 06Windows 95 at Twenty - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:08:38] <exec> 08└─Operating systems, explained: OS/2 - designed by geniuses, marketed by idiots Windows - designed by idiots, marketed by geniuses Apple - designed by geniuses, marketed to idiots Linux - designed by idiots who think they're geniuses, marketed?...bwahahahaha!! Android - designed by BORG*, marketed...
[17:08:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03skater [4342] (Score:2) 02Re:Windows 95 forever! - 06Windows 95 at Twenty - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:08:43] <exec> 08└─I remember all the comments - "I'm not going to downgrade to Windows 95 from Windows 3.1!!!!" As though Windows 3.1 was some kind of wonderful flower.
[17:08:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03PizzaRollPlinkett [4512] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Those were the days - 06Windows 95 at Twenty - 837 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:44] <exec> 08└─I had a machine without a CD-ROM drive, so I took an external drive home from work to install W95 on my machine. I had to disassemble the machine and put a SCSI card in it (similarly borrowed from disassembling a macine at work), because those were the days before USB and similar interfaces. And bef...
[17:08:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03xav [5579] (Score:1) 02Re:Those were the days - 06Windows 95 at Twenty - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:08:46] <exec> 08└─Those were the days when computers were obsolete after a year or so.
[17:08:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Correct me if I'm wrong... - 06Windows 95 at Twenty - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:48] <exec> 08└─Wasn't it Windows95SP1 that included the first NSA spyware?
[17:08:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03xav [5579] (Score:1) 02Re:Correct me if I'm wrong... - 06Windows 95 at Twenty - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:08:49] <exec> 08└─Do you mean https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] ? It was NT 4, some years later.
[17:08:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02yes, BUT it took 1mbfort to make work. - 06Windows 95 at Twenty - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:51] <exec> 08└─http://www.mcpressonline.com/operating-systems/microsoft/prevent-the-windows-insufficient-memory-error.html [mcpressonline.com] May my wife machine from having only 2 windows opened, to 30+ windows opened, running on 486dx333 w/ 4MB of memory w/ SCSI and 10BaseT. Else windows just crashed.
[17:09:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's white, thus it must be milk - 06Study: Students Cheat in MOOCs to Gain a Certificate - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:09:04] <exec> 08└─That statement does not assert what you think it does.
[17:09:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Solved problem in other systems - 06Study: Students Cheat in MOOCs to Gain a Certificate - 1934 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:09:10] <exec> 08└─Same A/C here. Your quote from the article shows a fairly limited view of online learning. The (summative) test is highly unlikely to be 'enabling learning', rather it is more likely that it is 'confirming learning'. A formative test, with multiple attempts and instant feedback on where you went wro...
[17:09:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Marks - 06Study: Students Cheat in MOOCs to Gain a Certificate - 663 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:12] <exec> 08└─I took a sociology course in university, and they used Moodle for their tests. There was a glitch where if you hit the back button it would show you the correct answers. I ignored the the glitch and took the test fair and square, and came out with a mark around 80%. We got to see all the class marks...
[17:09:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03yarp [2665] 02Breaking - 06Revealed: the First Hydrogen-powered Battery That Will Charge Your Apple iPhone for a Week - 65 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:21] <exec> 08└─This just in: Apple buys Intelligent Energy, rebrands as iDrogen.
[17:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03xav [5579] (Score:1) 02Working closely with Apple? - 06Revealed: the First Hydrogen-powered Battery That Will Charge Your Apple iPhone for a Week - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:38] <exec> 08└─The company is believed to be working closely with Apple.
[17:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re: Flu shots will become mandatory - 06Progress Reported on Universal Flu Vaccines - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:09:55] <exec> 08└─Vaccination is a successful strategy to prevent disease and mechanism of protection is understood so well that they can be rationally designed
[17:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Phew - 06Progress Reported on Universal Flu Vaccines - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:10:06] <exec> 08└─However I'm interested to learn more about that Progress who reported on the vaccine. Is is a newspaper? Or some medical organization?
[17:10:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03pe1rxq [844] 02Re:Great - 06Mozilla CEO Threatens to Fire Person Responsible for Anonymous Posts on Reddit - 220 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:10:26] <exec> 08└─It does sound crazy. We white man have proven time and again to be perfectly capable of screwing things up beyond recognition without any outside help. (Note: I am sure women are just as capable of screwing things up...)
[17:10:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:2, Insightful) 02Re:What Else Will Get You Fired? - 06Mozilla CEO Threatens to Fire Person Responsible for Anonymous Posts on Reddit - 599 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:10:44] <exec> 08└─Or more likely getting tired of people tarring us for the "Patriarchy" while demanding better conditions than us because we're men and clearly we already have those conditions. Kind of reminds me of when take your daughter to work day came out and they said that every day was take your son to work d...
[17:10:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Re:An insightful comment! - 06Mozilla CEO Threatens to Fire Person Responsible for Anonymous Posts on Reddit - 39 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:10:48] <exec> 08└─Apparently your insight was insightful.
[17:10:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:2) 02Re:An insightful company - 06Mozilla CEO Threatens to Fire Person Responsible for Anonymous Posts on Reddit - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:10:53] <exec> 08└─(if only there weren't any research at all that the brain is a gendered organ and if only there weren't any evidence at all that the body may have organs of conflicting gender)
[17:11:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03SecurityGuy [1453] (Score:2) 02Re:Let the dirty laundry flow - 06Mozilla CEO Threatens to Fire Person Responsible for Anonymous Posts on Reddit - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:11:04] <exec> 08└─Ultimately, the CEO is obliged to defend the employee being badmouthed, because it is among the CEO's responsibilities to foster a healthy and safe working environment for all employees.
[17:11:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Let the dirty laundry flow - 06Mozilla CEO Threatens to Fire Person Responsible for Anonymous Posts on Reddit - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:11:05] <exec> 08└─Ultimately, the CEO is obliged to defend the employee being badmouthed
[17:12:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03skullz [2532] (Score:2) 02Re:It's more like a slow-motion trainwreck - 06Microsoft Has No Plans to Tell Us What’s in Windows Patches - 1087 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:12:07] <exec> 08└─Drivers, games and .NET development keep me on the Windows system. I don't see any viable alternatives for an OS that will manage the daily grind. I had high hopes for MS, it seemed they were pulling their heads out of their butts, moving to a service model so they could patch their crap, adding in...
[17:12:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedGreen [888] (Score:2) 02Re:It's more like a slow-motion trainwreck - 06Microsoft Has No Plans to Tell Us What’s in Windows Patches - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:12:09] <exec> 08└─Stockholm syndrome is at work there I would say.
[17:14:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score:1) 02Re:Again, Editors? - 06How One German Millennial Chose to Live On Trains Rather Than Pay Rent - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:14:28] <exec> 08└─In context, "for free" means "at no additional charge".
[17:14:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score:1) 02Private sector insurance - 06How One German Millennial Chose to Live On Trains Rather Than Pay Rent - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:14:42] <exec> 08└─It is quite another to lose your home because because of a fire, flood or death of the sole provider.
[17:14:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score:1) 02Any reliable reviews? - 06How One German Millennial Chose to Live On Trains Rather Than Pay Rent - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:14:51] <exec> 08└─I may have found the only book that doesn't have a Wikipedia page, too.
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[18:08:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Enigma-dilemma - 06Intelligence Agencies Have a "Duty to Warn" Endangered Persons - 769 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:22] <exec> 08└─"Notification of the target would be waived if it "would unduly endanger U.S. government personnel, sources, methods, intelligence operations, or defense operations." Cannot warn the english town of imminent aerial bombing because it would reveal the secret that enigma has been cracked. You can use...
[18:08:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03BananaPhone [2488] (Score:4, Insightful) 02Not gonna happen - 06Intelligence Agencies Have a "Duty to Warn" Endangered Persons - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:23] <exec> 08└─It would risk exposing their capabilities. Meanwhile: Besides Win10, They themselves are the biggest threat out there.
[18:08:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:2) 02Re:Not gonna happen - 06Intelligence Agencies Have a "Duty to Warn" Endangered Persons - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:08:24] <exec> 08└─Their capabilities are already (partly) exposed. They may be looking to normalise them by using them to stop 'the bad guys.'
[18:08:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Translation - 06Intelligence Agencies Have a "Duty to Warn" Endangered Persons - 1233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:26] <exec> 08└─Translation: if it suits your purpose, you may notify selected elites. Maybe. Which is just the way it always has been. Notify someone who would then require police protection? Sorry, that endangers government personnel. Notifying anybody (US or foreign) who is not a fervent supporter of the current...
[18:08:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03M. Baranczak [1673] (Score:2) 02..... - 06Intelligence Agencies Have a "Duty to Warn" Endangered Persons - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:28] <exec> 08└─Thus, the directive states that the requirement would be appropriately waived when "There is a reasonable basis for believing that the intended victim is a terrorist, a direct supporter of terrorists, an assassin, a drug trafficker, or involved in violent crimes."
[18:08:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Without compromising intelligence sources - 06Intelligence Agencies Have a "Duty to Warn" Endangered Persons - 524 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:30] <exec> 08└─Hey, just attribute it to the customary and usual "internet chatter". Problem solved. Of course, they include an "Out" that essentially says even if you could prove they failed to warn, you have no case against them in a court of law. 2. (U) This Directive is not intended to, and does not, create a...
[18:08:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02PR garbage - 06Intelligence Agencies Have a "Duty to Warn" Endangered Persons - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:32] <exec> 08└─No clauses allowed, save the life then worry about the precious methodology. If someone else is endangered by warning someone, then that is what witness protection type programs are for. Life is valued less than someone's career making case... Sick. I will reserve full judgment on how pointless thei...
[18:08:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:Disagree - 06Windows 95 at Twenty - 738 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:08:44] <exec> 08└─From a publisher POV OS/2 was a non starter. The kit to develop was *expensive*. Think 5 digits per developer expensive vs MS 500-2k per dev. Then on top of that it 'ran everything else'. Which means I could target win95/3.1 and hit 99% of the market AND OS2. I worked in a couple of companies and re...
[18:08:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score:1) 02M$ backed out of OS/2 software - 06Windows 95 at Twenty - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:08:45] <exec> 08└─But from a practical standpoint, it didn't run enough of the software people needed.
[18:08:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score:2) 02Re:Windows 95 forever! - 06Windows 95 at Twenty - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:08:53] <exec> 08└─I bounced back and forth between Win95 and 3.x. IIRC the main problem I had with Win95 is that it crashed a lot, just like 3.x. When your computer crashes multiple times per day, the boot-up time becomes pretty noticable. Win95 took much longer to boot than 3.x.
[18:08:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03skater [4342] (Score:2) 02Re:Windows 95 forever! - 06Windows 95 at Twenty - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:08:54] <exec> 08└─Of course, when Win 3.x crashed, you just fell back to DOS and could restart it (usually). Win 95 required a hardware reboot. But I don't miss worrying about 640K, extended, and expanded memory... sheesh that was annoying. You could have a meg of RAM and still not enough memory to run something beca...
[18:08:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score:1) 02Crashing every 30 to 40 minutes - 06Windows 95 at Twenty - 735 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:08:56] <exec> 08└─I had Windows 95 and later 98 on a home notebook that I often brought in to work to test web designs. I learned not to try to do any work from it other than viewing because it would crash very frequently, like every 30 to 40 minutes. I did sometimes use the M$ wordprocessor or spreadsheet and learne...
[18:08:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Those were the days - 06Windows 95 at Twenty - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:08:58] <exec> 08└─Higher end machines? One of my friends had an external triple speed CDROM and my parents had a built in quad speed drive about the time that Windows 95 came out. I don't think either computer was high end. The one we bought was made by a small company and wasn't that expensive. I think it was only l...
[18:09:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Correct me if I'm wrong... - 06Windows 95 at Twenty - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:09:01] <exec> 08└─"The National Security Agency has backdoor access to all Windows software since the release of Windows 95, according to informed sources, a development which follows the insistence by the agency and federal law enforcement for backdoor “keys” to any encryption, according to a report "
[18:09:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03darnkitten [1912] (Score:2) 02Longevity - 06Windows 95 at Twenty - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:04] <exec> 08└─The last person I was personally aware of that used Windows 95 died a couple of years ago--still have 2 or 3 locally that I know use Win 98, as well.
[18:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02come october! - 06Revealed: the First Hydrogen-powered Battery That Will Charge Your Apple iPhone for a Week - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:54] <exec> 08└─it will probably take 4-6 iteration until it works, like the PHONEi version 14S(teve)J(uice)? there's already (or there will be) a ""battery recharger" that has fuelcell: https://www.kickstarter.com [kickstarter.com] also there is s...
[18:10:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re: Flu shots will become mandatory - 06Progress Reported on Universal Flu Vaccines - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:10:12] <exec> 08└─Did you read TFA? If you mean in use, then there is the recombinant canarypox vaccine for rabies. Subunit vaccines, such as HBV and HPV, are used to generate antigens that will produce neutralizing antibodies. Seasonal influenza vaccines are specifically recombined with high-yielding egg strains to...
[18:10:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03darnkitten [1912] (Score:2) 02Re:Might wipe it out - 06Progress Reported on Universal Flu Vaccines - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:10:20] <exec> 08└─Where I live, we usually have one or two (usually Seniors) die per year from pneumonia or some other complication which starts out with flu. Several more are generally hospitalized from said complications. I, myself, usually catch it every 2-3 years, because I work in the Library and come in contact...
[18:10:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bad PR - 06Mozilla CEO Threatens to Fire Person Responsible for Anonymous Posts on Reddit - 1102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:10:39] <exec> 08└─It is totally fine to have an issue with someone you think is treating people unfairly. If she is mistreating coworkers, or pushing an agenda innapropriately, that is cause for report/discussion. That does not warrant lumping a group of people together and saying they don't belong, that is the cultu...
[18:10:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Re:Bad PR - 06Mozilla CEO Threatens to Fire Person Responsible for Anonymous Posts on Reddit - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:10:40] <exec> 08└─Gotta love messing up the password when submitting a comment before logging in...
[18:10:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Bad PR - 06Mozilla CEO Threatens to Fire Person Responsible for Anonymous Posts on Reddit - 715 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:10:42] <exec> 08└─Of course it should change, but it doesn't appear to me like she was engaging with her coworkers in a sensitive way. The only way these things change are if management realizes how foolish they are or you can get enough coworkers on board that the management doesn't have any option other than to rea...
[18:11:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03K_benzoate [5036] (Score:2) 02Re:What Else Will Get You Fired? - 06Mozilla CEO Threatens to Fire Person Responsible for Anonymous Posts on Reddit - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:11:04] <exec> 08└─Give up this false narrative that everyone hating moral authoritarians must be "right wing". Plenty of us on the left are sick of these people, too.
[18:11:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score:2) 02Re:Please explain, why BitTorrent? - 06Chasing Illegal Movie Downloaders Proves an Unprofitable Exercise - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:11:41] <exec> 08└─The sign of a true company is that they never die, they just re-incarnate: http://www.real.com [real.com]
[18:11:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Please explain, why BitTorrent? - 06Chasing Illegal Movie Downloaders Proves an Unprofitable Exercise - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:11:46] <exec> 08└─It's extremely improbable that they will actually go after you,
[18:12:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03etherscythe [937] (Score:2) 02Re:I like Windows 8.1 With Bing - 06Microsoft Has No Plans to Tell Us What’s in Windows Patches - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:12:04] <exec> 08└─It is not free. You either got a promotional upgrade from Windows 7 or 8, or you paid full price up front. That's more like "Buy a Tesla Model S today, and we'll give you the difference between trade-in and the sticker price for next year's model at the time of trade-in" than "here's a free Model S....
[18:12:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Some people take longer.... - 06Microsoft Has No Plans to Tell Us What’s in Windows Patches - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:12:19] <exec> 08└─Ha! True, that. But I at least go in the normal "time's arrow" direction!
[18:12:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Some people take longer.... - 06Microsoft Has No Plans to Tell Us What’s in Windows Patches - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:12:20] <exec> 08└─> I never left OSX and am still using it. It just gets out of my way and lets me be productive > in ways that Windows and Linux never did. > Most people should realize, hopefully, that your comment says nothing about Windows or Linux but only about you. One cannot blame the OS for the shortcomings o...
[18:12:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03etherscythe [937] (Score:2) 02Re:It's more like a slow-motion trainwreck - 06Microsoft Has No Plans to Tell Us What’s in Windows Patches - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:12:26] <exec> 08└─This surprises me. Which games? Were they modern, or designed for XP?
[18:12:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Maybe (a little) callous, but - 06Infidelity Website Hack Leads to Suicides in Canada - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:12:55] <exec> 08└─Oh come on. Life isn't binary. Neither AM nor the hackers pulled any triggers, but they pushed a lot of people that much closer to pulling the trigger. Denying that these events can not be a factor in a suicide is denying human nature.
[18:13:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Want some ganja? - 06Infidelity Website Hack Leads to Suicides in Canada - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:25] <exec> 08└─> Some people cheat and steal and commit adultery. NOT most people. Puhlease. The idea that only one course of human behaviour is normal and everything else is an aberration is profoundly fascist. People are complicated, different people have wildly differing life circumstances. Boiling it down to b...
[18:14:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score:1) 02Re:Means to an End - 06Ballot Selfie Bans Coming Before Federal Courts - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:14:28] <exec> 08└─People have a constitutional right to vote.
[18:16:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:2) 02Re:Feel the decline - 0638 New Emojis to be Introduced in 2016 - 867 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:16:32] <exec> 08└─Woah, there! I suppose UTF-16 makes sense when encoding text that's primarily an Eastern Asian language. Then there's that thing where the Windows world was all about UCS-2 (fixed-width 16 bit) for a while. Does anybody actually use UTF-32? Personally, I'm very happy with UTF-8. Almost everything is...
[18:18:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03etherscythe [937] (Score:2) 02Re:Identity fraud at polling places - 06I'm Now an Estonian E-resident, But I Still Don't Know What to Do With It - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:18:06] <exec> 08└─I believe this calls for a "whoosh"
[18:18:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Identity fraud at polling places - 06I'm Now an Estonian E-resident, But I Still Don't Know What to Do With It - 687 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:18:07] <exec> 08└─One might see it that way. That he brought it up at all makes one think that he believes that the notion has credence. It doesn't. The gains are too small and the risk is too large for Joe Average to even consider it. As I said, if it was that significant a thing, it would be in the courts bigtime a...
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[19:08:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:Intelligence services that serve a PURPOSE? - 06Intelligence Agencies Have a "Duty to Warn" Endangered Persons - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:08:34] <exec> 08└─It's purpose is clearly spelled out in their guidebook. You can get it at any bookstore or online. Title is "1984".
[19:08:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Enigma-dilemma - 06Intelligence Agencies Have a "Duty to Warn" Endangered Persons - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:08:36] <exec> 08└─Who is more important, your own child or one on the other side of the globe that you will never meet? Governments preferring their own citizens to others is the same principle.
[19:08:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Fine print - 06Intelligence Agencies Have a "Duty to Warn" Endangered Persons - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:08:44] <exec> 08└─shall have a duty to warn the intended victim or those responsible for protecting the intended victim
[19:09:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score:2) 02Re:Disagree - 06Windows 95 at Twenty - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:09:01] <exec> 08└─Let me clarify what I wrote in the submission. I did not say that Windows 95 was the best operating system, nor was it superior to others. Rather, I said it was the greatest feat of software engineering because of the huge task Microsoft faced in making it work. Indeed, I agree that OS/2 was superi...
[19:09:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:yes, BUT it took 1mbfort to make work. - 06Windows 95 at Twenty - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:09:17] <exec> 08└─I remember buying extra video ram for the onboard video, it cost $95 for a 1MB chip, which boosted it to the max of 2MB. It gave me 1024x768, where before it was maxed out at 800x600.
[19:09:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score:2) 02Trip down memory lane - 06Windows 95 at Twenty - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:19] <exec> 08└─Let's be Friends with Win95! Rachel & Chandler Win95 promo video [youtube.com] (~1hr). Enjoy!
[19:10:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Nerdfest [80] 02Batteries - 06Revealed: the First Hydrogen-powered Battery That Will Charge Your Apple iPhone for a Week - 86 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:04] <exec> 08└─You'd think they'd do this for a device that actually had a replaceable battery first.
[19:10:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] 02Phew - 06Progress Reported on Universal Flu Vaccines - 43 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:40] <exec> 08└─Progress Reported on Universal Flu Vaccines
[19:10:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bad PR - 06Mozilla CEO Threatens to Fire Person Responsible for Anonymous Posts on Reddit - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:10:55] <exec> 08└─"the rest of her blue-haired nose-pierced asshole feminists" Of course it isn't about anything practical. It is just about PR but the comment wasn't restricted to just one person. I still fail to see the responsibility of Mozilla to shed light on the anonymous internet complaint about Koehler.
[19:11:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Great - 06Mozilla CEO Threatens to Fire Person Responsible for Anonymous Posts on Reddit - 613 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:11:07] <exec> 08└─Well, once Mozilla was just like every other tech firm: saturated with people that think emotions are largely irrelevant and UI design ought to be simple, consistent, powerful, and hide nothing from the user. Technical minds being what they are. Now interject people that obsess about race and sex an...
[19:11:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03M. Baranczak [1673] 02Re:What Else Will Get You Fired? - 06Mozilla CEO Threatens to Fire Person Responsible for Anonymous Posts on Reddit - 44 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:11:21] <exec> 08└─what is it that makes this story newsworthy?
[19:12:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snotnose [1623] 02Re:I like Windows 8.1 With Bing - 06Microsoft Has No Plans to Tell Us What’s in Windows Patches - 130 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:12:19] <exec> 08└─Same here. I'm not liking the spyware I'm reading about and, with Steam, I should be able to switch to Linux without much trouble.
[19:12:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's more like a slow-motion trainwreck - 06Microsoft Has No Plans to Tell Us What’s in Windows Patches - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:12:48] <exec> 08└─Mono can run many .NET applications.
[19:12:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03darnkitten [1912] (Score:2) 02Re:It's more like a slow-motion trainwreck - 06Microsoft Has No Plans to Tell Us What’s in Windows Patches - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:12:50] <exec> 08└─It's sad, but the amount of abuse people are willing to endure from those who develop non-free proprietary software is truly staggering.
[19:13:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03etherscythe [937] (Score:2) 02Re:Want some ganja? - 06Infidelity Website Hack Leads to Suicides in Canada - 855 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:46] <exec> 08└─So you know some; that's anecdotal (ever take a statistics course? Wish I had, it applies much more often than anybody ever told me). I know a few like that too, but let's be honest, those are exceptions, not the rule. A few people have the advantages which result in them become materially rich in t...
[19:14:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Oh, how soon we forget - 06Ballot Selfie Bans Coming Before Federal Courts - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:14:14] <exec> 08└─You are right, it is the photo that is the problem, not the posting of the photo. But posting it makes it really easy to prove that they took the photo.
[19:14:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Oh, how soon we forget - 06Ballot Selfie Bans Coming Before Federal Courts - 532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:14:25] <exec> 08└─Here is your problem. I recognize that it will fall on 100% deaf ears, but I am drunk so I will write it anyway. Your focus on libertarian theories is incredibly narrow. You are blinded to the realities of the world by your focus on your simplistic theory of human nature. Maybe in a perfect theoreti...
[19:14:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Means to an End - 06Ballot Selfie Bans Coming Before Federal Courts - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:14:47] <exec> 08└─Of course, it could be that instead of trying to disenfranchise black people, they were trying to disenfranchise Democrats (black people are by far the most Democrat-heavy demographic).
[19:14:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Means to an End - 06Ballot Selfie Bans Coming Before Federal Courts - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:14:51] <exec> 08└─> I challenge people to name any aspect of the job of president that George W Bush got right other than the silly ceremonial stuff AIDS preventation. [vox.com] I think Bush was a tool, but you only lose credibility by declaring his reign to be black and white.
[19:14:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Means to an End - 06Ballot Selfie Bans Coming Before Federal Courts - 546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:15:00] <exec> 08└─That's why it's kind of stupid that so many US people are against Big Government. All the idiots thinking they're so smart complaining about Big Gov and asking for a smaller Gov. It's quality not quantity that matters more. Guess what they'll actually give you when you ask for smaller Gov? They'll o...
[19:15:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score:2) 02Re:News? - 06How One German Millennial Chose to Live On Trains Rather Than Pay Rent - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:15:37] <exec> 08└─Some folks here have apparently never heard of the concept of being facetious to make a point, don't have the sarcasm detection gene, are very poor in reading comprehension, or are just too impatient to read the last two lines of my post.
[19:16:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:2) 02Re:What an Utter Waste of Bandwidth - 0638 New Emojis to be Introduced in 2016 - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:16:49] <exec> 08└─I have located the only necessary addition out of the candidate emojis: 🥓! Once that is rendering correctly, I believe we can declare MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!
[19:16:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score:2) 02Re:Feel the decline - 0638 New Emojis to be Introduced in 2016 - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:16:59] <exec> 08└─I may have gotten confused since middle school. I was thinking of some form of linear sequential growth vs. exponential expansion toward a asymptotic curve approaching infinity.
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[20:08:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03erik.erikson [4859] (Score:1) 02fixed - 06Reflective Satellites may be the Future of High-end Encryption - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:08:21] <exec> 08└─"two parties can exchange a secret key knowing whether they've been overheard"
[20:08:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03erik.erikson [4859] (Score:1) 02Re:fixed - 06Reflective Satellites may be the Future of High-end Encryption - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:08:22] <exec> 08└─Maybe better: "knowing that that have not been overheard"
[20:08:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03BananaPhone [2488] (Score:2) 02True QKD does not required Line-of-Sight - 06Reflective Satellites may be the Future of High-end Encryption - 515 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:08:23] <exec> 08└─Quantum key distribution (QKD) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_key_distribution [wikipedia.org]) Uses Quantum Entanglement (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_entanglement [wikipedia.org]) It thus appears that one particle of an entangled pair "knows" what measurement has been performed on...
[20:08:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03BananaPhone [2488] (Score:2) 02Re:Not gonna happen - 06Intelligence Agencies Have a "Duty to Warn" Endangered Persons - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:08:44] <exec> 08└─To them, WE are the "bad guys" (tm).
[20:08:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:PR garbage - 06Intelligence Agencies Have a "Duty to Warn" Endangered Persons - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:08:49] <exec> 08└─I will reserve full judgment on how pointless their statement is just in case they run with it and become agencies that protect and serve.
[20:09:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''stroke of genius'' - 06Windows 95 at Twenty - 504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:09:02] <exec> 08└─Is that what you call it when someone breaks the law? It has long been in the law that it is a criminal act to specify that *you must buy this in order to get that*. [google.com] The fact that that law isn't enforced demonstrates that the Facists have complete control of the system. One Microsoft Wa...
[20:09:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02Re:Disagree - 06Windows 95 at Twenty - 1104 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:09:04] <exec> 08└─It's the oldest IT problem in the book: Technical perfection versus "How hard is it to do my (non-technical) job?" From the point of view of users, the occasional crash and stupid modal confirmation dialog boxes were relatively small prices to pay for something they could actually work with. Whereas...
[20:09:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''Win95 was a nightmare'' - 06Windows 95 at Twenty - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:09:05] <exec> 08└─If you don't *start* with a security model, what you end up with is a mess. -- gewg_
[20:09:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:''Win95 was a nightmare'' - 06Windows 95 at Twenty - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:09:07] <exec> 08└─And even then you are not guaranteed success.
[20:09:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score:2) 02Re:Crashing every 30 to 40 minutes - 06Windows 95 at Twenty - 910 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:09:21] <exec> 08└─Yeah, it crashed on occasion. The Blue Screen of Death was sometimes your constant companion. However, I was in grad school when it came out and was doing a lot of writing in MS Word 6, a Windows 3.1 app that ran splendidly in Windows 95, except for the short file name conventions you had to follow...
[20:09:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score:2) 02Re:Windows 95 forever! - 06Windows 95 at Twenty - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:09:22] <exec> 08└─What may not be obvious from the summary or even just looking at 95 is that Windows 95 was built on top of the Windows 3.1x code base.
[20:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03eof [5559] (Score:1) 02Re:Solved problem in other systems - 06Study: Students Cheat in MOOCs to Gain a Certificate - 1072 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:09:58] <exec> 08└─My exposure to Blackboard and similar programs is a few years old and limited to its use in the context of a classroom; it makes sense it would be adapted to MOOCs, but I wasn't aware it had been. As for the novelty of the cheating, as I wrote in the original post, it seemed to me obvious that this...
[20:10:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re: Flu shots will become mandatory - 06Progress Reported on Universal Flu Vaccines - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:10:45] <exec> 08└─You think these flu vaccines have been shown successful? That is extremely low standards, using your standards we should believe in all sorts of paranormal crap. Make it easier for me by linking the exact papers you are referring to for one of the other cases. I do not believe any of those has reall...
[20:11:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Francis [5544] 02Re:Great - 06Mozilla CEO Threatens to Fire Person Responsible for Anonymous Posts on Reddit - 224 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:11:17] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure they can do both. Screwing up the UI doesn't require a whole lot of effort when they can just ape what Chrome is doing. The time they save on planning is more than enough to engage in this sort of infighting.
[20:11:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03VortexCortex [4067] (Score:2) 02Re:Great - 06Mozilla CEO Threatens to Fire Person Responsible for Anonymous Posts on Reddit - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:11:25] <exec> 08└─I wrote about the same thing, just days ago. [soylentnews.org]
[20:11:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:An insightful company - 06Mozilla CEO Threatens to Fire Person Responsible for Anonymous Posts on Reddit - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:11:52] <exec> 08└─Did you miss the "If only"?
[20:11:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] (Score:2) 02Re:An insightful company - 06Mozilla CEO Threatens to Fire Person Responsible for Anonymous Posts on Reddit - 990 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:11:57] <exec> 08└─> > (That was said to me by someone from HR while I was trying to get help with the manager who was gas-lighting me.) > Maybe the problems are yours and not the manager's. Thinking that someone is "gaslighting" you is a paranoid justification of continuing aberrant behavior. Gaslighting is one hell...
[20:12:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Please explain, why BitTorrent? - 06Chasing Illegal Movie Downloaders Proves an Unprofitable Exercise - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:12:20] <exec> 08└─So you deliberately engage in risky behavior
[20:12:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03darnkitten [1912] (Score:2) 02Re:I like Windows 8.1 With Bing - 06Microsoft Has No Plans to Tell Us What’s in Windows Patches - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:12:43] <exec> 08└─I can't believe that Microsoft can possibly think that having an OS where no one trusts their patches, and taken to the logical conclusion do not install them either, is a good idea
[20:13:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:If it's not Linux, it's crap! - 06Microsoft Has No Plans to Tell Us What’s in Windows Patches - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:13] <exec> 08└─I'd you want an insightful mod, post that on the green site.
[20:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Oh, how soon we forget - 06Ballot Selfie Bans Coming Before Federal Courts - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:14:34] <exec> 08└─You seem really invested in splitting hairs. Its a difference of degree, not kind. The exact same exploit works in either case.
[20:14:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Oh, how soon we forget - 06Ballot Selfie Bans Coming Before Federal Courts - 898 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:14:48] <exec> 08└─At least, I don't get basic facts wrong such as insisting that Germany is doing better than the US or that the Protestant work ethic is responsible for the US's current employment issues rather than the nasty combination of cheap foreign labor competition and short sighted employment regulation whic...
[20:15:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Means to an End - 06Ballot Selfie Bans Coming Before Federal Courts - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:15:15] <exec> 08└─As a person, I decide nothing. However I have the right to offer suggestions; the society will decide their worth. Isn't it so?
[20:17:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zinho [759] (Score:2) 02Re:On lay nahl drao koi embleer lendril - 06Why We're Smarter Than Chickens - 604 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:17:50] <exec> 08└─Glad to see we've got other Weird Al fan on the site! You're doing better than I am; I only figured out the phrase was Lapine with help from Google. I bow to your superior linguistic Geekery! I'm curious, does Lapine require all of that syntax? As a non-speaker I'd have made a naive translation with...
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[21:08:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Such as the Moon? - 06Reflective Satellites may be the Future of High-end Encryption - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:08:26] <exec> 08└─Filter error: Fat government contract not required
[21:08:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02QKD - 06Reflective Satellites may be the Future of High-end Encryption - 1335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:08:27] <exec> 08└─Just reading through QKD and it sounds bad for secure connections. Because it is based on chance there is a possibility that a 3rd party does indeed have the key (however low that may be, it is possible). In my experience with computers if there is a slight possibility of something happening you onl...
[21:08:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:QKD - 06Reflective Satellites may be the Future of High-end Encryption - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:08:29] <exec> 08└─50% ^ key length[2048] is pretty fricken small. [3.094346047382578275480183369971197853892556303884969045... × 10^-617]
[21:08:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03skullz [2532] (Score:2) 02Interesting - 06The Secret of AirBnB’s Pricing Algorithm - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:08:38] <exec> 08└─I think everyone else is still reading the source code (https://github.com/airbnb/airflow) Looks like an interesting project, a mix of Java and Scala with some machine learning terms that are far newer than ones I remember. No training / testing data (always half the problem with any machine learnin...
[21:08:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03panachocala [464] (Score:2) 02Getting flakey - 06The Secret of AirBnB’s Pricing Algorithm - 716 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:08:39] <exec> 08└─The last 2 times I tried to used AirBnb, I found it pretty flakey. In Toronto the listed price was good but when I tried to book it referred me off-site to email and the price was more than double. In Tallinn, there were a bunch of places listed as available but whenever I tried to book them the hos...
[21:08:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:Translation - 06Intelligence Agencies Have a "Duty to Warn" Endangered Persons - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:08:54] <exec> 08└─The difference is that now they are admitting that they are terrorists.
[21:09:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02M$ and IBM: Preditors circling each other - 06Windows 95 at Twenty - 2112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:09:19] <exec> 08└─Back when the courts had teeth to enforce antitrust remedies They have always had them; since Reagan, however, they have chosen to use them sparingly. The revolving door doesn't work for DoJ employees if they make life difficult for potential future employers. IBM was prohibited from making both the...
[21:09:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02Re:Disagree - 06Windows 95 at Twenty - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:09:22] <exec> 08└─Every time someone posts a note that hints of criticism of Linux, even in jest, it gets flagged as a troll. Someone has very thin skin.
[21:09:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Maybe it wasn't that at all - 06Windows 95 at Twenty - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:09:23] <exec> 08└─Perhaps it was the "marketed by geniuses" allusion. It wouldn't surprise me to find many here who would note that that slot should be filled with "marketed by convicted criminals". ...and when exactly did Sweaty get promoted to genius? -- gewg_
[21:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:Those were the days - 06Windows 95 at Twenty - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:09:38] <exec> 08└─My first win95 install was from floppies. Really annoying when you got to an error on disk 34.
[21:11:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02s/sister's basement/mother's guest room/ - 06Mozilla CEO Threatens to Fire Person Responsible for Anonymous Posts on Reddit - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:11:44] <exec> 08└─I often work at Peet's Coffe and Tea as well. Jeannie's house doesn't have a basement.
[21:11:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02I spoke at an Apple All-Hands Meeting in 1996. - 06Mozilla CEO Threatens to Fire Person Responsible for Anonymous Posts on Reddit - 1186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:11:46] <exec> 08└─In the Flint Center, a large concert hall on the campus of Cupertino's DeAnza College. A few of the executives gave us all a pep talk, a couple engineers demonstrated "Look -shiny!" then every Apple employee was invited to ask any question we damn well pleased. I understand that hilarity ensued when...
[21:11:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Perhaps I may be of assistance? - 06Mozilla CEO Threatens to Fire Person Responsible for Anonymous Posts on Reddit - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:11:49] <exec> 08└─Well at least _gewg has not show up yet...
[21:11:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02I'll send you my bill in the mail. - 06Mozilla CEO Threatens to Fire Person Responsible for Anonymous Posts on Reddit - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:11:51] <exec> 08└─"I'm too sexy for my clothes..."
[21:11:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02In the words of the immortal Inspector Clouseau: - 06Mozilla CEO Threatens to Fire Person Responsible for Anonymous Posts on Reddit - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:11:53] <exec> 08└─"Not anymore." I work for a digital agency.
[21:12:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What Else Will Get You Fired? - 06Mozilla CEO Threatens to Fire Person Responsible for Anonymous Posts on Reddit - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:12:01] <exec> 08└─Give up this false narrative that everyone hating moral authoritarians must be "right wing". Plenty of us on the left are sick of these people, too.
[21:12:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What Else Will Get You Fired? - 06Mozilla CEO Threatens to Fire Person Responsible for Anonymous Posts on Reddit - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:12:03] <exec> 08└─> It wins at the Right-Wing Buzzword Bingo. The first time I read your post, I thought you wrote "Buzzard Bingo" as in The Mighty Buzzard. I just thought you should know the unintentional truth of your post.
[21:12:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03M. Baranczak [1673] (Score:2) 02Re:What Else Will Get You Fired? - 06Mozilla CEO Threatens to Fire Person Responsible for Anonymous Posts on Reddit - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:12:05] <exec> 08└─Let's meet halfway. "Buzzard Buzzword Bingo".
[21:12:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What Else Will Get You Fired? - 06Mozilla CEO Threatens to Fire Person Responsible for Anonymous Posts on Reddit - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:12:06] <exec> 08└─> Or more likely getting tired The loss of unearned privilege is the most painful loss of them all because it feels so unjust. You grew up in a world where you thought you were an egalitarian participant, but now faced with the truth it feels like a zero sum game.
[21:12:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:An insightful comment! - 06Mozilla CEO Threatens to Fire Person Responsible for Anonymous Posts on Reddit - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:12:11] <exec> 08└─It's insightfuls all the way down!
[21:15:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score:1) 02Re:Means to an End - 06Ballot Selfie Bans Coming Before Federal Courts - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:15:40] <exec> 08└─You have the right, but you should be ignored, just as people who support mass surveillance should be ignored.
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[22:08:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Oh good idea - 06 ‘420’ Mile-markers Changed to ‘419.9’ to Avoid Theft by Stoners - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:21] <exec> 08└─Now everyone will want to steal them for their oddity. And stoners will just round up.
[22:08:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Oh good idea - 06 ‘420’ Mile-markers Changed to ‘419.9’ to Avoid Theft by Stoners - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:08:22] <exec> 08└─whoa dude, that's just an incredible thought
[22:08:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03nyder [4525] (Score:2) 02Re:Oh good idea - 06 ‘420’ Mile-markers Changed to ‘419.9’ to Avoid Theft by Stoners - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:08:24] <exec> 08└─"4:19 and loading!" "4:19.99999 and rounding!" "What the fuck does that mean?" "Hit the fucking weed you idiot. We are in Idaho, we do it the Idaho way" "Fuck I miss being in a normal state."
[22:08:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02"Hump" - 06 ‘420’ Mile-markers Changed to ‘419.9’ to Avoid Theft by Stoners - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:08:26] <exec> 08└─During the work to replace the railroad tracks on the lower level of the Oakland Bay Bridge with one way to Oakland automoble lanes, with the previously two-way top deck now onw-way to San Francisco. The Hump sign was placed at one end of the tunnel through Yerba Buena - "Good Herb" - Island. It was...
[22:08:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Just a short walk away - 06 ‘420’ Mile-markers Changed to ‘419.9’ to Avoid Theft by Stoners - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:28] <exec> 08└─"We start at this sign and smoke this joint as we walk. By the time its done we're at 420 duuuuuude!!" But seriously, it should work out. 419.9 is like $4.99, just annoying enough to want the whole number.
[22:08:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03chrysosphinx [5262] (Score:1) 02So, a new meme arises - 06 ‘420’ Mile-markers Changed to ‘419.9’ to Avoid Theft by Stoners - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:29] <exec> 08└─I like the term "strategic inaccuracy", that alone wants to be reused wildly in many different contexts.
[22:08:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Very few 420's, and only 1 in Idaho - 06 ‘420’ Mile-markers Changed to ‘419.9’ to Avoid Theft by Stoners - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:31] <exec> 08└─There's just one milepost 420 in the state: US-95 runs North-South along western Idaho, so it manages to have nearly 500 miles. No other Idaho highway has the length. Am told it is similarly rare in other states (many don't have any 400+mile highways)
[22:08:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Business Oppportunity - 06 ‘420’ Mile-markers Changed to ‘419.9’ to Avoid Theft by Stoners - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:33] <exec> 08└─They should sell 420 mile markers at all the surrounding rest-stops/visitor centers. Use part of the profits to pay for new 420 mile markers as needed. Spend enough to buy a 'tamper-proof' mile-marker that is over-sized and acts as an advertisement -- nothing is 100% tamper-proof but make it too big...
[22:08:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:Business Oppportunity - 06 ‘420’ Mile-markers Changed to ‘419.9’ to Avoid Theft by Stoners - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:08:34] <exec> 08└─b-b-b-b-b-but that might CONDONE activity that's IMMORAL! (gasp)
[22:08:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02stoners... - 06 ‘420’ Mile-markers Changed to ‘419.9’ to Avoid Theft by Stoners - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:36] <exec> 08└─Meanwhile, markers for miles 13, 42, 69, 256, 777 remain...
[22:08:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:stoners... - 06 ‘420’ Mile-markers Changed to ‘419.9’ to Avoid Theft by Stoners - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:08:38] <exec> 08└─I still giggle when I see the 3rd one.
[22:08:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02for everyone who needs to know - 06 ‘420’ Mile-markers Changed to ‘419.9’ to Avoid Theft by Stoners - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:40] <exec> 08└─http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview/id/19013.html [google.com]
[22:08:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03rigrig [5129] (Score:1) 02Re:True QKD does not required Line-of-Sight - 06Reflective Satellites may be the Future of High-end Encryption - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:08:45] <exec> 08└─Entangled particles are generated in pairs, so you need to get one of them to the other party before you can use it to communicate: 1) Alice generates a pair of entangled photons 2) Alice sends one half of the pair to Bob. This used to need line of sight or a fiber cable, but was now done by bouncin...
[22:08:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03draconx [4649] (Score:2) 02Re:QKD - 06Reflective Satellites may be the Future of High-end Encryption - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:08:50] <exec> 08└─The whole thing looks like an excellent puzzle to solve for a spy agency. Intercepting a key isn't impossible, just unlikely. How can those odds be improved? Please correct me if i am wrong!
[22:08:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02AirBNB == Homelessness - 06The Secret of AirBnB’s Pricing Algorithm - 1285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:00] <exec> 08└─Consider that homelessness is uncommon in Canada in large part due to what Americans commonly regard as single-family homes often having basement apartments. While basement apartments are uncommon in the US, large houses are common. I once rented a room from a well-to-do man who just liked having ot...
[22:09:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score:2) 02Re:..... - 06Intelligence Agencies Have a "Duty to Warn" Endangered Persons - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:09:17] <exec> 08└─No, no, the requirement is waived. You can still let them know as a courtesy, of course. It would be the polite thing to do.
[22:09:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Re:PR garbage - 06Intelligence Agencies Have a "Duty to Warn" Endangered Persons - 866 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:09:21] <exec> 08└─Nope, I will never agree with universal surveillance. If there is something going on they should use some good old detective work, then get a warrant. Even warranted spying can lead to problems, but AT LEAST there is a human being deciding on a case by case basis. Seems you are fishing for the respo...
[22:09:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Disagree - 06Windows 95 at Twenty - 56 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:32] <exec> 08└─OS/2 was superior to Windows 95 in almost every respect.
[22:09:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:''stroke of genius'' - 06Windows 95 at Twenty - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:09:35] <exec> 08└─Remember the legal technicality "if you do not agree with the EULA, do not use it and you can return it"? I did not specify the kind of Genius involved. I just pointed out that Mr Gates wasn't just enjoying sheer dumb luck.
[22:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''hardware didn't follow spec [...] ACPI'' - 06Windows 95 at Twenty - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:09:51] <exec> 08└─Excellent example. At the other site on 2008/07/25, there was a story about a guy who had installed Linux and "his new Foxconn motherboard caused his Linux install to freeze and fire off weird kernel errors". There were many comments that suspected collusion with MSFT. [google.com] (Bill Gates' memo...
[22:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Why Windows Sucks - 06Windows 95 at Twenty - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:11] <exec> 08└─All the PC manufacturers give Microsoft lots of high-end boxen. I was an OS X coder for Microsoft but even so I used the very best that Dell made to check my corporate email on Windows 7. If you want your code to work well, develop it on the cheapest, nastiest piece of shit hardware your tools could...
[22:11:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03O-Deka-K [4838] (Score:1) 02Re:Bigger News - 06Revealed: the First Hydrogen-powered Battery That Will Charge Your Apple iPhone for a Week - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:11:04] <exec> 08└─You'll probably have to take it to an Apple Store to get it replaced. How many Geniuses does it take to change a battery?
[22:11:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re: Flu shots will become mandatory - 06Progress Reported on Universal Flu Vaccines - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:11:26] <exec> 08└─Wow, just like for Zmapp these immunology researchers decided that blinding was unimportant: Animal groups were not blinded to the investigators.
[22:11:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re: Flu shots will become mandatory - 06Progress Reported on Universal Flu Vaccines - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:11:27] <exec> 08└─Why would you not believe that the currently used HBV and HPV subunit vaccines have been tested? "2012 meta analysis found that flu shots were efficacious 67 percent of the time" Not exactly paranormal. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Ebola vaccine link:...
[22:11:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re: Flu shots will become mandatory - 06Progress Reported on Universal Flu Vaccines - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:11:29] <exec> 08└─Do you think the scientists told the B cells of the mice to make broadly reactive antibodies?
[22:12:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What Else Will Get You Fired? - 06Mozilla CEO Threatens to Fire Person Responsible for Anonymous Posts on Reddit - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:12:36] <exec> 08└─Kind of reminds me of when take your daughter to work day came out and they said that every day was take your son to work day. In my entire life, I only went to work with my dad one day
[22:12:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:An insightful company - 06Mozilla CEO Threatens to Fire Person Responsible for Anonymous Posts on Reddit - 770 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:12:51] <exec> 08└─You have to understand she isn't speaking English, she is speaking NewSpeak and once you realize that you can correctly translate her words. "Speaking their mind" means everyone should be free (i.e. required) to duckspeak the Party Line, whatever it is today. Remember that silence is assent so that...
[22:12:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:An insightful company - 06Mozilla CEO Threatens to Fire Person Responsible for Anonymous Posts on Reddit - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:12:52] <exec> 08└─Indeed. If you don't tolerate my intolerance you are just a damn hypocrite!!! There should be room for everybody, including the people who don't want to make room for everybody. Also, GNU are a bunch of hypocrites, talking about Freedom and then trying to stop me from being Free to limit other peopl...
[22:13:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Private trackers and a seedbox - 06Chasing Illegal Movie Downloaders Proves an Unprofitable Exercise - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:23] <exec> 08└─They are getting harder and harder to join, but also less likely your peer is spying on you. Add in a seedbox in some other country and that again lowers your risk...
[22:16:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Means to an End - 06Ballot Selfie Bans Coming Before Federal Courts - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:16:16] <exec> 08└─Huh? What kind of rights do you propose for your Utopia that have no meaning?
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