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[00:48:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03SubiculumHammer [5191] (Score:2) 02Re:Utter nonsense! - 06JRR Tolkien: 'i Never Expected a Money Success' - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:48:20] <exec> 08└─"expected a money success" is not the same as "made some money to pay past month's rent" and “In fact, I never even thought of commercial publication when I wrote The Hobbit back in the Thirties." is not the same book as Lord of the Rings
[00:48:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Re:...and yet... - 06JRR Tolkien: 'i Never Expected a Money Success' - 706 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:48:22] <exec> 08└─>"It's high past time that all intellectual so-called "property" be outlawed, and everything instead made a simple work for hire." You are going from one extreme to another. I don't think a system where intellectual property is not recognized would promote the production of art. Think about it - why...
[00:48:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:...and yet... - 06JRR Tolkien: 'i Never Expected a Money Success' - 487 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:48:24] <exec> 08└─Well, people may offer work for hire because something needs to be done? You seem to imply they people will not commission art in the absence of Copyright. I find that hard to believe. If art truly improves our lives, there will be demand for it. You also conflate Industrial Protectionism with art....
[00:48:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:...and yet... - 06JRR Tolkien: 'i Never Expected a Money Success' - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:48:26] <exec> 08└─The west relies more and more on strong "IP" rights to fuel the economy. No manufacturing, in fact pretty much all labour from making a car to help desk script followers can be done far cheaper abroad. It's a major problem and it won't be a nice century for those of us in the west.
[00:48:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Huh, What?!? - 06JRR Tolkien: 'i Never Expected a Money Success' - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:48:28] <exec> 08└─ssh! they're searching for metadata!
[00:48:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score:2) 02Re:Huh, What?!? - 06JRR Tolkien: 'i Never Expected a Money Success' - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:48:30] <exec> 08└─At least its not a dupe.... yet.
[00:48:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Applets - 06Java "No Longer the Greatest Risk" to US Windows PC Users - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:48:40] <exec> 08└─Came here to say the same thing. Either everyone had selected a different PDF reader, and photo editor or the survey must be flawed.
[00:48:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02firmware rootkits - 06Java "No Longer the Greatest Risk" to US Windows PC Users - 2 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:48:44] <exec> 08└─nt
[00:49:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Step in the right direction, but... - 06US Copyright Office Says People Have the Right to Hack their Own Cars' Software - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:49:07] <exec> 08└─In researching my reply , I came across this: Open Source IoT Code Is Not The Entire Answer [blogspot.ca]. Summary: Whether or not to open sourcing embedded software is the wrong question. The right question is how can we ensure independent checks and balances on software safety and security. Indepe...
[00:49:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Step in the right direction, but... - 06US Copyright Office Says People Have the Right to Hack their Own Cars' Software - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:49:08] <exec> 08└─Open source isn't good enough. It must be Free Software. Anything else is intolerable. And just because Free Software bugs and exploits aren't always found doesn't mean that it isn't better than non-free proprietary software on the security front. Of course, at the end of the day, freedom is what ma...
[00:50:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score:2) 02Re:Not just for humans - 06Getting Back at Them Mosquitoes - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:50:21] <exec> 08└─fricking laser beams
[00:50:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Dirtballs? - 06Study Suggests Not All Polygynous Marriage is Harmful to Women Or Children - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:50:39] <exec> 08└─but it is certainly not good for the poorer men who are left without a wife, nor good for society
[00:51:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:$2 Domestics - 06Playing Small is Ok, Says Judge in "Craft Beer" Case - 2728 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:51:42] <exec> 08└─Not supporting the macro breweries is not a hipster statement. If you don't like Wal-Mart's business practices and lobbying, you can choose not the buy from them, and that's a legit choice. If you don't like AnheuserBuschInBevSABMiller's business practices, shitty beer, and their anti-competitive lo...
[00:52:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:letter v. spirit - 06Playing Small is Ok, Says Judge in "Craft Beer" Case - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:52:07] <exec> 08└─In so doing, they destroy a whole industry.
[00:52:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:It's very simple. - 06Playing Small is Ok, Says Judge in "Craft Beer" Case - 585 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:52:12] <exec> 08└─They're still a craft brewery by the official definition (and they have some room, they produced 4.1 million barrels in 2014, and the definition is now set at 6 million). It remains to be seen whether the Brewers Association will continue to up the limit in order to keep them "craft". Their beers ar...
[00:53:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jasassin [3566] 02Not just ravens. - 06Ravens Understand It When They've Been Cheated - 403 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:53:22] <exec> 08└─This reminded me of a study a scientist did with rewarding monkeys. This monkey gets gypped after doing the same thing the other monkey did, but the other monkey gets a better treat. This monkey gets pissed off! Skip to 1 minute 45 seconds... watch that pissed off monkey. https://www.youtube.com
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[01:48:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Utter nonsense! - 06JRR Tolkien: 'i Never Expected a Money Success' - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:48:24] <exec> 08└─Having to read The Hobbit in my youth was the reason I still haven't given the Rings trilogy a chance.
[01:48:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kell [292] (Score:2) 02Re:Utter nonsense! - 06JRR Tolkien: 'i Never Expected a Money Success' - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:48:25] <exec> 08└─Arguably, even if he would have invented the story without copyright, nobody would have taken the expense of having it published it if they didn't think they could make a profit. He may have still written it, but you'd never have read it.
[01:48:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:...and yet... - 06JRR Tolkien: 'i Never Expected a Money Success' - 764 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:48:30] <exec> 08└─They will commission it, but any artist that can't find a patron has to produce the works on their own and for no pay at all. What's worse, once they produce the work, they then have no control over it. So, the work can be appropriated by obnoxious politicians or used to promote causes the artist do...
[01:48:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03TrumpetPower! [590] (Score:2) 02Re:...and yet... - 06JRR Tolkien: 'i Never Expected a Money Success' - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:48:31] <exec> 08└─hink about it - why would someone pay much for a "work for hire" if it did not constitute some intellectual property that they could then monetize?
[01:48:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:...and yet... - 06JRR Tolkien: 'i Never Expected a Money Success' - 1354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:48:33] <exec> 08└─Say what you will about the Tolkiens, but they have continued to work on the LOTR trilogy for decades. Mostly fixing mistakes that the editors and typesetters made, occasionally fixing problems that JRR made when he was originally writing the books. If you've read the earlier editions and then come...
[01:48:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score:2) 02Re:Run for the hills! Or the shire! Or something! - 06JRR Tolkien: 'i Never Expected a Money Success' - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:48:39] <exec> 08└─Comic book guy: I believe the correct term is wraith
[01:48:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03snufu [5855] (Score:1) 02Would Tolkein appreciate the description - 06JRR Tolkien: 'i Never Expected a Money Success' - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:48:40] <exec> 08└─"In his world of wondrous things, he moves with the surety of a white hunter on a game reservation." What would social media do with this description if published today?
[01:48:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score:1) 02Re:Applets - 06Java "No Longer the Greatest Risk" to US Windows PC Users - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:48:51] <exec> 08└─Either everyone had selected a different PDF reader, and photo editor or the survey must be flawed.
[01:48:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Applets - 06Java "No Longer the Greatest Risk" to US Windows PC Users - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:48:53] <exec> 08└─JavaScript, what's that? I code in ECMAScript.
[01:49:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Step in the right direction, but... - 06US Copyright Office Says People Have the Right to Hack their Own Cars' Software - 498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:49:20] <exec> 08└─From one AC to another ... The big car US/Euro/Japan companies are not going to release or GPL their code and they are going to defend as much as possible against anyone reverse engineering their code (including the distasteful business of lobbying politicians). The long term problem/enemy that they...
[01:50:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:That's an "interesting" quote - 06European Parliament Votes Against Net Neutrality Amendments - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:50:05] <exec> 08└─Seems all of our laws are written that way. It seems left up to the judicial system to ferret out what infraction will be prosecuted as a crime, and which one won't. The ones that stand out to me are the way eminent domain laws, military conscription laws ( draft ), and intellectual property laws a...
[01:50:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score:2) 02Re:Dirtballs? - 06Study Suggests Not All Polygynous Marriage is Harmful to Women Or Children - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:50:48] <exec> 08└─I took the same message away. Rural Tanzania treats it's women badly was the other thing I thought. I wondered what happens to all those men who have no chance of marrying because the wealthy men take all the women also. What does that do for society?
[01:50:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Dirtballs? - 06Study Suggests Not All Polygynous Marriage is Harmful to Women Or Children - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:50:49] <exec> 08└─In other words if the UN are currently spending resources to encourage people to abandon this practise, they should redirect their efforts into promoting women's rights instead.
[01:50:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Dirtballs? - 06Study Suggests Not All Polygynous Marriage is Harmful to Women Or Children - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:50:55] <exec> 08└─And yet gender imbalances could indeed lead to an uptick in those kinds of decisions being made, and become a public policy concern. See: China. http://uk.reuters.com [reuters.com] http://www.newsweek.com
[01:51:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snow [1601] 02Re:load of tosh...? - 06Study Suggests Not All Polygynous Marriage is Harmful to Women Or Children - 1150 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:51:09] <exec> 08└─I have a bit of experience here... For those that haven't read my journal entry, my wife and I transitioned our relationship to a poly style. I think that the story finds that poly families are no worse off is because of the extra support that having extra adults around the house can add. One can lo...
[01:53:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:2) 02Re:Data theft - 06The Eye-Scanning ATM is Here - 618 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:53:16] <exec> 08└─Ah, don't worry! Being a homeowner myself I've foreseen this situation! In our cases, perhaps the title company, real estate agent, and, if she shows up for closing (mine didn't), the previous owner can engage in mutual key signing. (Count your blessings, AC. No jealousy here, but there's a disturbi...
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[02:48:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Honda fuel cell cars in 2016 - 06Green Self-Driving Cars Take Center Stage at Tokyo Auto Show - 1021 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:48:26] <exec> 08└─Honda isn't only designing a small self driving golf cart. They are still heavily invested in Hydrogen Fuel Cell cars. http://www.computerworld.com [computerworld.com] http://www.cnet.com
[02:48:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03TrumpetPower! [590] (Score:2) 02"Fool cells" - 06Green Self-Driving Cars Take Center Stage at Tokyo Auto Show - 1657 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:48:27] <exec> 08└─Honda keeps digging that hole deeper and deeper. With rounding, there are zero places where you can refill a fool cell vehicle in the States. In stark contrast, with rounding, 100% of the garages in the country already have an outlet that'll put over 60 miles in a battery between the time you get ho...
[02:48:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Wooing Japanese buyers - 06Green Self-Driving Cars Take Center Stage at Tokyo Auto Show - 566 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:48:29] <exec> 08└─In a magical near-future something like that would be an awesome idea - that is, cars on rails -- combining the intimacy of smaller vehicles with the safety and improved traffic management of rails. Under such a system, citizens wouldn't likely own the vehicles they ride but could hop on one with no...
[02:48:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03hash14 [1102] 02Utter nonsense! - 06JRR Tolkien: 'i Never Expected a Money Success' - 213 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:48:38] <exec> 08└─“I never expected a money success,” said Tolkien, pacing the room, as he does constantly when he speaks. “In fact, I never even thought of commercial publication when I wrote The Hobbit back in the Thirties.
[02:48:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:Utter nonsense! - 06JRR Tolkien: 'i Never Expected a Money Success' - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:48:42] <exec> 08└─You'd read it today.
[02:48:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Utter nonsense! - 06JRR Tolkien: 'i Never Expected a Money Success' - 1274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:48:44] <exec> 08└─I don't quite understand why people are so hung up about copyright law, except as a holdover from their college days when they had no money but still considered it their right to download whatever music, movies, and e-books they wanted. Once people have a decent job, they can afford to buy impressiv...
[02:48:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:Utter nonsense! - 06JRR Tolkien: 'i Never Expected a Money Success' - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:48:46] <exec> 08└─I don't quite understand why people are so hung up about copyright law,
[02:48:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Utter nonsense! - 06JRR Tolkien: 'i Never Expected a Money Success' - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:48:47] <exec> 08└─Well, you can make similar arguments about the NSA surveillance, or your doctor or pharmacist selling your medical history or whatever. It's all just deez bits. Law is more useful and subtle than that. We don't just stop when someone blurts out, everyone should be able to do whatever they want, or s...
[02:48:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:Utter nonsense! - 06JRR Tolkien: 'i Never Expected a Money Success' - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:48:49] <exec> 08└─And if we don't extend copyrights in 2026, he'll never write LOTR!
[02:48:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:..moral rights - 06JRR Tolkien: 'i Never Expected a Money Success' - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:48:52] <exec> 08└─The concept of "moral rights" are independent of copyright. "Moral rights" deal with things like the right to attribution and preserving the integrity of the work.
[02:48:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:...and yet... - 06JRR Tolkien: 'i Never Expected a Money Success' - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:48:56] <exec> 08└─I agree with you heartily on eliminating intellectual property law, but I just wanted to point out that Tolkien's heirs have also expended immense amounts of effort editing, publishing, republishing, and promulgating the Tolkien legendarium.
[02:48:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:Huh, What?!? - 06JRR Tolkien: 'i Never Expected a Money Success' - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:49:00] <exec> 08└─I know slashdot was a bit slow with news
[02:49:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:What has Copyright to do with it? - 06US Copyright Office Says People Have the Right to Hack their Own Cars' Software - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:49:37] <exec> 08└─That extra cost features that weren't paid for, and were turned off at the time of sale will get turned on?
[02:49:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Step in the right direction, but... - 06US Copyright Office Says People Have the Right to Hack their Own Cars' Software - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:49:46] <exec> 08└─Well, then we should refuse to use their cars and campaign for laws that will force them to release their software as Free Software. I am usually not in favor of forcing this (though I refuse to use proprietary software), but it is clear that having a car is unavoidable in many people's cases.
[02:50:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] 02Author doesn't understand FPGA's - 06AMD Has a Mystery Product Called 'Magnum' - 80 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:50:12] <exec> 08└─...with references to FPGA and DTV, two acronyms that don't usually go together.
[02:50:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score:2) 02Re:whodunnit - 06European Parliament Votes Against Net Neutrality Amendments - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:50:29] <exec> 08└─I had NO IDEA that republicans exist in europe! I weep for you guys. its bad enough we have them here; but you guys were supposed to be more free (odd to say but given how the US is now, its pretty much true).
[02:50:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02Re:"Them mosquitoes"? - 06Getting Back at Them Mosquitoes - 422 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:50:54] <exec> 08└─Shouldn't every day be? Or, sigh, at least every Wednesday? Thursday can be Talk Like a Yinzer [wikipedia.org] Day, Friday can be Talk Like a Canuck [urbandictionary.com] Day, Saturday can be Talk Like a Surfer Dude Day, Sunday can be Talk Like a Baptist Preacher Day, Monday can be Talk Like a Gangs...
[02:51:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score:2) 02Re:Not just for humans - 06Getting Back at Them Mosquitoes - 1580 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:51:01] <exec> 08└─Ivermectin can be injected or given orally or even used as a topical. It's very safe -- I know a guy (a veterinarian who is a parasite specialist, as it happens) who took the full dose every day for six months to prevent coming down with river blindness (common in the tropical area where he was work...
[02:51:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Dirtballs? - 06Study Suggests Not All Polygynous Marriage is Harmful to Women Or Children - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:51:24] <exec> 08└─And yet gender imbalances could indeed lead to an uptick in those kinds of decisions being made, and become a public policy concern.
[02:54:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''the only species'' - 06Ravens Understand It When They've Been Cheated - 571 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:54:12] <exec> 08└─The entire crow "family" (actually, a genus) [wikipedia.org] is considered to be quite bright. In the earliest days of S/N, we had a story [soylentnews.org] that referenced how Aesop included the problem-solving adaptability of a crow in one of his fables circa 620 BCE. ...and, had you included all...
[02:55:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score:2) 02Re:My wife gets that - 06Inside the Human Blood-drinking, 'Real Vampire' Community of New Orleans - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:55:23] <exec> 08└─There was a form of anemia that used to be seen occasionally in eastern Europe, that gave some people such intense cravings for iron that they would drink blood and even eat iron nails.
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[03:48:24] <exec> 08└─...The best luxury sedan ever made is an electric, ...
[03:48:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Utter nonsense! - 06JRR Tolkien: 'I Never Expected a Money Success' - 735 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:48:39] <exec> 08└─How? You can't read what was never published and these books were incredibly hard to publish correctly. The Hobbit wasn't so bad, but the LOTR was a nightmark for editors and typesetters alike. He might have been able to publish a bastardized version to Smashwords, but that's rather unlikely as the...
[03:48:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03gman003 [4155] (Score:2) 02Re:...and yet... - 06JRR Tolkien: 'I Never Expected a Money Success' - 767 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:48:50] <exec> 08└─I wish to point out that the system you propose, while economically sound, would have sociological implications as well. It would place a yet larger amount of power over culture in the hands of the wealthy and the established institutions, as they would become the primary arbiters of what gets funde...
[03:48:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:...and yet... - 06JRR Tolkien: 'I Never Expected a Money Success' - 1459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:48:51] <exec> 08└─I don't know if that is a great example. First off, let me state up front that copyrights currently last a ridiculous amount of time. But copyrights aren't like patents. Nobody has a patent on music -- anybody can write music and play it their heart's content or publish it or whatever, because you c...
[03:49:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Celestial [4891] (Score:2) 02Re:Applets - 06Java "No Longer the Greatest Risk" to US Windows PC Users - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:49:14] <exec> 08└─I haven't used Adobe anything for a few years. For PDFs, I use PDF-XChange Viewer. For photographs, Paint.Net is more than sufficient for my needs.
[03:51:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score:2) 02Re:load of tosh...? - 06Study Suggests Not All Polygynous Marriage is Harmful to Women Or Children - 813 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:51:49] <exec> 08└─>Having 1 husband and multiple wives or 1 wife and multiple husbands definitely doesn't work in a stable society. Actually, that's only an issue if you assume that one of those arrangements dominates. If instead 10% of the women have 3 husbands (30% of the men) and 10% of the men have 3 wives (30% o...
[03:52:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:$2 Domestics - 06Playing Small is Ok, Says Judge in "Craft Beer" Case - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:52:39] <exec> 08└─If you thought you were buying a European beer, but it turned out to be made in the States, would you be a douche-bag if you sued Anheuser-Busch [courthousenews.com] and got $3.5 million? Or would you just be a lawyer? Turns out lying about WHAT COUNTRY you brew a beer in is worth a lot more than wh...
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[04:48:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Bird shot for daughters - 06Update: Dad Who Shot "Snooping Vid Drone" Out of the Sky is Cleared of Charges - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:48:10] <exec> 08└─So shotguns seems to be the beat the public endangerment argument, and if daughters are involved so much the better. Kentucky now has TWO shotguns + daughters traditions.
[04:48:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Bird shot for daughters - 06Update: Dad Who Shot "Snooping Vid Drone" Out of the Sky is Cleared of Charges - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:48:11] <exec> 08└─Well, don't forget that the forgettable guy who lives with Obama told Americans to step out on the porch, and blast away with a shotgun. If Obama's chump says it's alright - well - it's alright!
[04:48:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Great precedent, thanks a lot. - 06Update: Dad Who Shot "Snooping Vid Drone" Out of the Sky is Cleared of Charges - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:48:13] <exec> 08└─So how long before some yahoo a-shootin' one of them thar drones lands someone in the ER?
[04:48:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Think of the Drone Operators! - 06Update: Dad Who Shot "Snooping Vid Drone" Out of the Sky is Cleared of Charges - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:48:15] <exec> 08└─These guys spend all kinds of money on these toys and spend countless hours learning to fly them. They should be allowed to fly them over your property, peer in your bathroom window to film your wife taking a dump, and fly into airport glide paths. Think of the drone operators! Please! And don't for...
[04:48:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Wooing Japanese buyers - 06Green Self-Driving Cars Take Center Stage at Tokyo Auto Show - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:48:25] <exec> 08└─Sounds familiar. Where did you get that idea?
[04:48:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:Utter nonsense! - 06JRR Tolkien: 'I Never Expected a Money Success' - 751 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:48:46] <exec> 08└─So, if he had copyright protection for, say, 20 years, and made enough money to live on by publishing The Hobbit, you think he would have just packed it in or continued on with TLOTR? Oh, wait, he DID write it, with the knowledge that he had 20 years copyright protection. Actually, it was 14 years,...
[04:49:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:What has Copyright to do with it? - 06US Copyright Office Says People Have the Right to Hack their Own Cars' Software - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:49:40] <exec> 08└─Because, technically, you can't "rip out a page" of the built-in program, and insert a page of your own. You have to make a copy of the built-in program [assuming you want to figure out how it works and/or restore the system to the original setup] and then replace it with your own.
[04:49:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:What has Copyright to do with it? - 06US Copyright Office Says People Have the Right to Hack their Own Cars' Software - 882 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:49:41] <exec> 08└─I've heard it alleged that there are so few manufacturers of engine and transmission computers that the software is somewhat standardized across many manufacturers. There are already many companies in the business providing "tunes" for all sorts of vehicles, from hot rods to trucks. Some of these si...
[04:54:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Good lord! - 06Is Your Antivirus Tracking You? Surprise! - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:54:52] <exec> 08└─I think that's covered by the "we own your soul" clause in the license.
[04:55:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:i call bullshit - 06Inside the Human Blood-drinking, 'Real Vampire' Community of New Orleans - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:55:41] <exec> 08└─There is also a significant population in Atlanta Ga. I can't think of any prominent vampire story set there.
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[07:10:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score:2) 02Irony. - 06Persian Gulf may Soon be Too Hot to Support Human Life - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:10:55] <exec> 08└─Eat healthy, exercise, live long enough to die from hyperthermia.
[07:10:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02May be? - 06Persian Gulf may Soon be Too Hot to Support Human Life - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:10:56] <exec> 08└─The Persian Gulf was to hot to support this human's life in 1981. Many men who were there before me said the same thing.
[07:11:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03physicsmajor [1471] (Score:2) 02Doesn't surprise me. - 06Study Reveals Brain Mechanism for Creating Durable Memories - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:11:06] <exec> 08└─Doesn't surprise me. Doesn't surprise me. Seriously though, this is why homework works. Practice immediately after learning.
[07:11:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Proves many psychologists are quacks - 06Study Reveals Brain Mechanism for Creating Durable Memories - 1716 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:11:08] <exec> 08└─Especially those who keep making people to relive a traumatic event over and over again immediately after the traumatic incident. This just makes them remember more stuff and more intensely. Ask them whether they want to remember the incident strongly or not, if they don't want to then make them do...
[07:11:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''guy who lives with Obama'' - 06Update: Dad Who Shot "Snooping Vid Drone" Out of the Sky is Cleared of Charges - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:11:17] <exec> 08└─Are you being metaphorical or did I miss a story? -- gewg_
[07:11:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:''guy who lives with Obama'' - 06Update: Dad Who Shot "Snooping Vid Drone" Out of the Sky is Cleared of Charges - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:11:19] <exec> 08└─Maybe a bit of both - http://www.huffingtonpost.com [huffingtonpost.com] For a more humorous take on the words of a fool - https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[07:11:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03CirclesInSand [2899] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Bird shot for daughters - 06Update: Dad Who Shot "Snooping Vid Drone" Out of the Sky is Cleared of Charges - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:11:21] <exec> 08└─Har Har, but you are actually in much more danger of the drone losing it's battery and falling on you (which could cause injury) than from the pellets falling gently from the sky. If anything, he did a public safety service.
[07:11:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Bird shot for daughters - 06Update: Dad Who Shot "Snooping Vid Drone" Out of the Sky is Cleared of Charges - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:11:22] <exec> 08└─Seems to me if you shoot a drone with a shotgun, the pellets and the battery will go away from you unless you shoot straight up.
[07:11:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03CirclesInSand [2899] (Score:2) 02Re:Great precedent, thanks a lot. - 06Update: Dad Who Shot "Snooping Vid Drone" Out of the Sky is Cleared of Charges - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:11:24] <exec> 08└─A very long time. Shooting shotguns into the air isn't that dangerous...by the time the tiny shot pellets lose their upward momentum, they've basically lost all their momentum. It's not like bullets, which can overcome air resistance enough to keep their forward momentum. That's why you have outdoor...
[07:11:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:Great precedent, thanks a lot. - 06Update: Dad Who Shot "Snooping Vid Drone" Out of the Sky is Cleared of Charges - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:11:26] <exec> 08└─Specifically, most bullets have a better ballistic coefficient and a higher sectional density, so they go faster at longer ranges and penetrate more efficiently at a given velocity. That said, the level of damage done by a bullet shot at any plausible elevation for drone killing, on its return to ea...
[07:11:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:Great precedent, thanks a lot. - 06Update: Dad Who Shot "Snooping Vid Drone" Out of the Sky is Cleared of Charges - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:11:28] <exec> 08└─You have way more faith in armed southerners than I do. I once came across a group of dudes firing bottle-rockets at each other while one complained about his eye hurting after it had recently been burned. There wasn't even any alcohol involved.
[07:11:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''southerners'' - 06Update: Dad Who Shot "Snooping Vid Drone" Out of the Sky is Cleared of Charges - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:11:29] <exec> 08└─In my travels, I have found that dumb rednecks are not restricted to any particular geographic region. As best I can tell, the bell curve for intelligence applies globally. -- gewg_
[07:11:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Great precedent, thanks a lot. - 06Update: Dad Who Shot "Snooping Vid Drone" Out of the Sky is Cleared of Charges - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:11:31] <exec> 08└─Alternatively how long until someone crashes a drone and kills someone with four whirring carbon-fiber blades?
[07:11:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Adamsjas [4507] (Score:2) 02Re:"Fool cells" - 06Green Self-Driving Cars Take Center Stage at Tokyo Auto Show - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:11:39] <exec> 08└─Even Electric cars started somewhere. Nobody puts charge stations in for cars that don't exist, and nobody will put in hydrogen stations for cars that don't exist. Small hydrogen generators are already commercially available, although they reform propane or natural gas so they are are less than tota...
[07:11:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score:1) 02Re:"Fool cells" - 06Green Self-Driving Cars Take Center Stage at Tokyo Auto Show - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:11:41] <exec> 08└─In stark contrast, with rounding, 100% of the garages in the country already have an outlet that'll put over 60 miles in a battery between the time you get home from work and the time you leave again in the morning.
[07:11:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score:2) 02Re:Utter nonsense! - 06JRR Tolkien: 'I Never Expected a Money Success' - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:11:54] <exec> 08└─...there are a number of long-winded drinking songs in The Lord of the Rings. Should be right up your alley :-)
[07:12:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Utter nonsense! - 06JRR Tolkien: 'I Never Expected a Money Success' - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:12:01] <exec> 08└─I don't quite understand why people are so hung up about copyright law
[07:12:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:...and yet... - 06JRR Tolkien: 'I Never Expected a Money Success' - 917 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:12:11] <exec> 08└─"primary arbiters of what gets funded" And, I counter that this is precisely the situation we've had since about - 1960? The record labels have basically determined what is acceptable. Some upstart labels have made things available that the established labels wouldn't touch, like Motown. But, collec...
[07:12:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Run for the hills! Or the shire! Or something! - 06JRR Tolkien: 'I Never Expected a Money Success' - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:12:22] <exec> 08└─Oh, I think Barrow-wight has nice ring to it too...
[07:12:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Would Tolkein appreciate the description - 06JRR Tolkien: 'I Never Expected a Money Success' - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:12:24] <exec> 08└─You got something against albino tigers? Yes, the white hunter is stalking you!
[07:12:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Right here! This is it! - 06JRR Tolkien: 'I Never Expected a Money Success' - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:12:25] <exec> 08└─"It all began when I was reading exam papers to earn a bit of extra money. That was agony. One of the tragedies of the underpaid professor is that he has to do menial jobs."
[07:12:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Greatest threat? - 06Java "No Longer the Greatest Risk" to US Windows PC Users - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:12:43] <exec> 08└─I thought the greatest risk to Windows PC users was the fact that Windows is installed on it. This seems to continue with Windows 10
[07:12:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:What has Copyright to do with it? - 06US Copyright Office Says People Have the Right to Hack their Own Cars' Software - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:12:59] <exec> 08└─No, PRACTICAL suggestions.
[07:13:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:What has Copyright to do with it? - 06US Copyright Office Says People Have the Right to Hack their Own Cars' Software - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:13:01] <exec> 08└─Is that Analpumpernickle?
[07:13:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Tasty! - 06Cassini Is About to Taste the Huge Geysers of Enceladus - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:13:27] <exec> 08└─Is it a cheese Enceladus or a chicken Enceladus?
[07:16:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:No, they didn't get to challenge - 06Americans Win Right to Challenge Inclusion on Govt's Secret No-Fly List - 634 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:16:59] <exec> 08└─Yes, the TSA's "process" for you appealing being on the no-fly list. Send a letter/form with a whole bunch of person info to the TSA and....wait for it.....nothing. You don't get any response, even that they have received your letter. I don't believe that they will even inform you if they DO remove...
[07:17:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:Data theft - 06The Eye-Scanning ATM is Here - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:17:20] <exec> 08└─Give me 2 minutes with a knife and I'll give you a new retina pattern.
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[08:10:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02the thrill - 06Drivers Pushing Tesla’s Autopilot Beyond Its Abilities - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:10:55] <exec> 08└─Rich drivers experiment with self-dying.
[08:10:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:the thrill - 06Drivers Pushing Tesla’s Autopilot Beyond Its Abilities - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:10:56] <exec> 08└─I think that's a pretty accurate summary. The car comes with a manual that basically says, "Don't trust the damned car with your life." So, what do idiots do? Put it on autopilot, and act retarded. Where is Charles Darwin when you need him?
[08:10:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03quadrox [315] (Score:2) 02Re:the thrill - 06Drivers Pushing Tesla’s Autopilot Beyond Its Abilities - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:10:58] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't mind so much if it was only that, but they are endangering innocent bystanders with their reckless behavior. These people need to lose their license.
[08:11:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Irony. - 06Persian Gulf may Soon be Too Hot to Support Human Life - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:11:08] <exec> 08└─I think there's irony in the fact that most oil comes from countries around the Persian Gulf as well. Some of which used this money to turn pieces of the desert green, which should capture some carbon. (I'm never sure what the definition of "irony" is, but I think this fits).
[08:11:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:''guy who lives with Obama'' - 06Update: Dad Who Shot "Snooping Vid Drone" Out of the Sky is Cleared of Charges - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:11:29] <exec> 08└─Are you being metaphorical or did I miss a story?
[08:11:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"Fool cells" - 06Green Self-Driving Cars Take Center Stage at Tokyo Auto Show - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:11:52] <exec> 08└─Up north it is typical for every space to have an outlet. However, I strongly suspect that you are only ever intended to draw about 450W-750 from the outlet. It varies from building to building of course. (My new apartment has a dedicated 15A circuit for the space (mainly so that it is metered)). Th...
[08:12:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:2) 02How do they lead from JRR Tolkien to Pratchett? - 06JRR Tolkien: 'I Never Expected a Money Success' - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:12:38] <exec> 08└─Why is the summary all about Tolkien when the article itself is supposed to be about Terry Pratchett? The piece is a pleasant read about the greatest fantasy writer of all time.
[08:12:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:How do they lead from JRR Tolkien to Pratchett? - 06JRR Tolkien: 'I Never Expected a Money Success' - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:12:39] <exec> 08└─Fantasy is supposed to be escapism. The most ridiculous parts of disk world end up being true in real life.
[08:12:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why does Apple use .Net? - 06Java "No Longer the Greatest Risk" to US Windows PC Users - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:12:55] <exec> 08└─Windows comes with .net these days. are you still on millennium?
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[09:11:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:the thrill - 06Drivers Pushing Tesla’s Autopilot Beyond Its Abilities - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:11:06] <exec> 08└─It the computer actually knows what to do, it can respond faster than a human driver. It can look in all directions at once; instead of looking away for a second to shoulder-check. YES, we KNEW the autopilot is for highway driving only, we didn't shut it off as a test to see what would happen
[09:11:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2, Informative) 02Re:Irony. - 06Persian Gulf may Soon be Too Hot to Support Human Life - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:11:17] <exec> 08└─Blackadder: Baldrick, have you no idea what irony is? Baldrick: Yeah... It's like goldy or bronzey, only it's made of iron.
[09:11:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:May be? - 06Persian Gulf may Soon be Too Hot to Support Human Life - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:11:19] <exec> 08└─The Persian Gulf was to hot to support this human's life in 1981. Yet people live there
[09:11:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:May be? - 06Persian Gulf may Soon be Too Hot to Support Human Life - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:11:20] <exec> 08└─I wonder - how human are those who keep chop chop square in business? https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[09:11:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Human? - 06Persian Gulf may Soon be Too Hot to Support Human Life - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:11:22] <exec> 08└─Are.we sure that we want to classify the clothed bipedal animals who currently occupy the area as 'human'.
[09:11:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Proves many psychologists are quacks - 06Study Reveals Brain Mechanism for Creating Durable Memories - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:11:33] <exec> 08└─lighten up!
[09:11:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03mojo chan [266] (Score:2) 02Re:Bird shot for daughters - 06Update: Dad Who Shot "Snooping Vid Drone" Out of the Sky is Cleared of Charges - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:11:47] <exec> 08└─Away from you, towards some other person why isn't expecting bits of drone, battery and shot to rain down on them.
[09:11:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Great precedent, thanks a lot. - 06Update: Dad Who Shot "Snooping Vid Drone" Out of the Sky is Cleared of Charges - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:11:51] <exec> 08└─I've been hit by shotgun pellets (birdshot, #6) at about 100 yards. No effect. Shotguns are totally ineffective at that range. A drone much beyond 40 yards would probably not be damaged unless you were using #4 or larger shot (geese loads).
[09:12:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jaruzel [812] (Score:2) 02Re:...and yet... - 06JRR Tolkien: 'I Never Expected a Money Success' - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:12:46] <exec> 08└─So Great Ormond Street Hospital [gosh.org] shouldn't get any money from the royalties of Peter Pan, because they didn't write it? Won't somebody think of the children?! -Jar
[09:12:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03ticho [89] (Score:2) 02Re:Run for the hills! Or the shire! Or something! - 06JRR Tolkien: 'I Never Expected a Money Success' - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:12:54] <exec> 08└─Barrow-wight saved my life.
[09:12:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:2) 02Re:How do they lead from JRR Tolkien to Pratchett? - 06JRR Tolkien: 'I Never Expected a Money Success' - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:13:00] <exec> 08└─For me, Fantasy is also a way to deal with reality by distorting it enough to not be personally connected. I think LOTR also relates to reality in a way...
[09:13:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03rigrig [5129] (Score:1) 02Re:Applets - 06Java "No Longer the Greatest Risk" to US Windows PC Users - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:13:13] <exec> 08└─This ranking isn't about which is the most dangerous software to use, but which makes the most people vulnerable to known exploits: They rank by <% marketshare> * <% of unpatched installs> = <% of PCs made vulnerable to known exploits by this software>
[09:13:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02About f... time - 06Java "No Longer the Greatest Risk" to US Windows PC Users - 717 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:13:22] <exec> 08└─About f... time, considering that anyone that cares even a tiny bit about security has recommended getting rid of Java (plugin) for at least ten years. I am not a security researcher, and even I realized a looong time ago how insecure Java was (and still is). As a result, I removed the Java plugin,...
[09:13:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:What has Copyright to do with it? - 06US Copyright Office Says People Have the Right to Hack their Own Cars' Software - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:13:46] <exec> 08└─Because, technically, you can't "rip out a page" of the built-in program, and insert a page of your own. You have to make a copy of the built-in program [assuming you want to figure out how it works and/or restore the system to the original setup] and then replace it with your own.
[09:15:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03mojo chan [266] (Score:2) 02Re:Dirtballs? - 06Study Suggests Not All Polygynous Marriage is Harmful to Women Or Children - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:15:37] <exec> 08└─Imbalances leading to many people going without partners is a concern. Relationships are important to most people, and they become unhappy if they are unable to form them. At the most extreme end of the spectrum we get people like the "incels", who occasionally start mass murdering, but before getti...
[09:16:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03tangomargarine [667] 02Re:load of tosh...? - 06Study Suggests Not All Polygynous Marriage is Harmful to Women Or Children - 52 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:16:03] <exec> 08└─Women literally get bombarded with potential suitors
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[10:11:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Twits - 06Twitter Shares Fall 11% On Results - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:11:29] <exec> 08└─I just want to say: "Die, Twitter, Die!"
[10:11:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02subject - 06Twitter Shares Fall 11% On Results - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:11:30] <exec> 08└─Revenues up, active users up, shares down.
[10:11:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score:2) 02Too old. - 06Twitter Shares Fall 11% On Results - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:11:31] <exec> 08└─This old dog can't be taught these new tricks like Twitter and systemd. I like my Atari 2600 with only one button, with the rubber missing from the joystick handle and the end of the joystick chewed to a flattened tattered end by the dog and I still play Berzerk with it ad infinitum.
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[10:12:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedGreen [888] (Score:2) 02Pedicted decades ago. - 06Green Self-Driving Cars Take Center Stage at Tokyo Auto Show - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:12:51] <exec> 08└─"A prescient Soylentil observed here last year that one day soon driving your own car will be illegal. That might bear out." Red Barchetta by Rush predicted this same outcome a long time (30+ years) ago, along with The Trees from an earlier album predicting the political correct foolishness we have...
[10:13:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03romlok [1241] (Score:2) 02Re:...and yet... - 06JRR Tolkien: 'I Never Expected a Money Success' - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:13:24] <exec> 08└─That's the real question you should be asking. How much art, great or otherwise, are we missing out on that people would have created, for profit or just the love of creating it, had they not been stymied in their efforts because some asshole threatened to sic the MAFIAA on them?
[10:13:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03romlok [1241] (Score:2) 02Re:...and yet... - 06JRR Tolkien: 'I Never Expected a Money Success' - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:13:27] <exec> 08└─You get paid for the books that sell and the better they sell the more you make. Seems reasonable to me. I'm not even sure how you would do that with plumbing and still have something that works.
[10:19:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03ewk [5923] (Score:1) 02Re:Good lord! - 06Is Your Antivirus Tracking You? Surprise! - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:19:57] <exec> 08└─Uploading just URL's by themselves are fine... Feeding the masterbase is needed. URL's combined with a UNIQUE identifier (identifying my computer or computer/user-combo) are not.
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[11:11:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02RAID is not backup - 06FBI: "Just pay the ransom." - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:11:40] <exec> 08└─RAID is not backup.
[11:11:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:RAID is not backup - 06FBI: "Just pay the ransom." - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:11:41] <exec> 08└─I don't recall suggesting any such thing. What I said was, I could easily afford to lose everything on system and /home disks, but the contents of RAID are somewhat more important to me.
[11:11:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score:2) 02Retaliation. - 06FBI: "Just pay the ransom." - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:11:43] <exec> 08└─Someone needs to pull a Guantamo Bay/Silence of the lambs here. Find the fuckers that are doing this ransomeware and make them eat cockmeat sandwiches while it puts the lotion on its skin and after that a few hours of waterboarding... every day until they finally expire.
[11:11:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Flamebait) 02Re:Too old. - 06Twitter Shares Fall 11% On Results - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:11:55] <exec> 08└─nice shitposting. glad you paid.
[11:11:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03mmcmonster [401] (Score:2) 02It's just the market. - 06Twitter Shares Fall 11% On Results - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:11:56] <exec> 08└─It's things like this that should convince the general public not to buy stocks. There are so many non-tangible things that go into a stock price that you can never figure out which way it will go in advance. And churning stocks leads to tax implications. If you want a good tip, however, buy a broad...
[11:12:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03turgid [4318] 02Re:Irony. - 06Persian Gulf may Soon be Too Hot to Support Human Life - 123 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:12:20] <exec> 08└─Blackadder: Baldrick, have you no idea what irony is? Baldrick: Yeah... It's like goldy or bronzey, only it's made of iron.
[11:12:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Re:May be? - 06Persian Gulf may Soon be Too Hot to Support Human Life - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:12:24] <exec> 08└─Some Western countries still have the Death Penalty, and in some cases it is administered by questionable cocktails of chemicals which cause many minutes (over an hour) of torment to the victim. I'm not sure being beheaded in a single swipe by a sharp sword is so bad in comparison. Now we could argu...
[11:12:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:May be? - 06Persian Gulf may Soon be Too Hot to Support Human Life - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:12:26] <exec> 08└─We could also argue quanitity. I believe that more people die in chop chop than in all of the US, and probably all of the western world. To lazy to try finding numbers, it would take a good bit of digging.
[11:13:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03cloud.pt [5516] (Score:1) 02"Justice" - 06Update: Dad Who Shot "Snooping Vid Drone" Out of the Sky is Cleared of Charges - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:13:03] <exec> 08└─"During Monday's hearing, Boggs testified that flight data showed the drone was flying higher than Meredith stated. But Judge Rebecca Ward says that since at least two witnesses could see the drone below the tree line, it was an invasion of privacy." "He had a right to shoot at this drone, and I'm g...
[11:14:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Would Tolkein appreciate the description - 06JRR Tolkien: 'I Never Expected a Money Success' - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:14:11] <exec> 08└─Completely change the topic to start thousands of rambling monologues about sjw's and the evils of feminism? Claim it is all about ethics in games journalism? Do tell us, in mind-numbingly great detail, about that axe you have to grind...
[11:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Greatest risk - 06Java "No Longer the Greatest Risk" to US Windows PC Users - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:14:38] <exec> 08└─That and antivirus software too.
[11:17:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Dirtballs? - 06Study Suggests Not All Polygynous Marriage is Harmful to Women Or Children - 686 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:17:02] <exec> 08└─Maybe you are concerned about this problem which may or may not exist, but even if it does exist, there is nothing that I see that can reasonably be done about it. No one is entitled to a relationship; it requires the consent of all of those involved. Furthermore, if someone wants to enter into some...
[11:19:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03darkfeline [1030] 02Intelligence and tools - 06Ravens Understand It When They've Been Cheated - 542 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:19:58] <exec> 08└─If I remember correctly, ravens are also the only species other than humans that are known to both make and use tools to accomplish tasks. Using "tools" is not as impressive (seals opening clams with rocks), but making tools specifically to solve a problem (ravens bending wires to extract food) take...
[11:20:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ledow [5567] 02Sigh - 06Is Your Antivirus Tracking You? Surprise! - 721 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:20:39] <exec> 08└─"Let's allow a program with administrative privileges, which regularly scans and indexes every file on your hard disk / network for patterns, which can upload examples to the cloud, acts on signatures and heuristics updates sent to it by its manufacturer every single day, and which the user EXPECTS...
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[12:49:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:Retaliation. - 06FBI: "Just pay the ransom." - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:49:02] <exec> 08└─Oh look everyone, it's an Internet edgelord. Advocating torture for trivial crimes since the invention of the BBS.
[12:49:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Same advice as normal then. - 06FBI: "Just pay the ransom." - 692 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:49:03] <exec> 08└─Isn't this really just the same advice law enforcement normally gives? Don't be a hero. If someone sticks a gun in your face and asks for your wallet then give them your wallet. We'll try and sort it out afterwards. Same thing here. We won't be able to save your files or unlock them, the encryption...
[12:49:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Prices just went up - 06FBI: "Just pay the ransom." - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:49:05] <exec> 08└─Thanks FBI. I wouldn't be surprised if this was another FBI gig to fund their drug operations. (Manufacturing and selling drugs, that is.)
[12:49:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Follow the money - 06FBI: "Just pay the ransom." - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:49:06] <exec> 08└─I would have no problem with that advice to pay the ransom, but only if it leads to the arrest of the criminals. So the authorities will have to follow my money all the way back to the parasites and bring them to justice.
[12:49:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score:3, Informative) 02No choice - 06FBI: "Just pay the ransom." - 1029 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:49:08] <exec> 08└─If you don't have good, offline backups and you need the files you won't have much choice. A few of the keys have been recovered over the years but if you are unlucky enough to get hit with this and it's not one that's been exposed yet you're screwed. I've had customers pay to get source code, CAD f...
[12:49:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No choice - 06FBI: "Just pay the ransom." - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:49:10] <exec> 08└─that's because antivirus is the biggest waste of CPU cycles in software history, it's herd immunity for the common virii that gets sent to mailing lists and the like, if you were to be targeted today by somebody wanting to infect your network, they would and it will get past all software defenses, A...
[12:49:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Twits - 06Twitter Shares Fall 11% On Results - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:49:18] <exec> 08└─Ah yes, like the Germans say, "The Twitter, the."
[12:49:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Twits - 06Twitter Shares Fall 11% On Results - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:49:19] <exec> 08└─#dietwitter (ducks)
[12:49:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:It's just the market. - 06Twitter Shares Fall 11% On Results - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:49:24] <exec> 08└─I do a bunch of work for financial companies, and chatting with one of the finance guys I pointed out: "Any strategy to predict upcoming prices must be able to successfully and consistently beat flipping a coin." We got a good laugh out of that, because we both knew that a huge percentage of the str...
[12:49:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Twitter sucks. - 06Twitter Shares Fall 11% On Results - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:49:25] <exec> 08└─It's almost like growth is unsustainable on online services once you hit a billion people! Wow! Who'd have thought? Also, playing the tired 'anti-harassment' game shows your partisan intentions, twitter. Why would I ever trust you now?
[12:49:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03subs [4485] (Score:2) 02Re:the thrill - 06Drivers Pushing Tesla’s Autopilot Beyond Its Abilities - 799 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:49:35] <exec> 08└─Whatever BS disclaimers they put in the manual, the name "autopilot" implies that you can trust it (for the most part), like in an airplane. While the pilot ultimately remains responsible for monitoring the autopilot's performance, he/she no longer needs to keep their hands directly on or near the c...
[12:49:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score:2) 02It ain't ready till its ready... - 06Drivers Pushing Tesla’s Autopilot Beyond Its Abilities - 1289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:49:38] <exec> 08└─Sounds like Tesla have jumped the gun on this one: it will only take one idiot to kick the concept of autonomous vehicles into the long grass for years to come. Self-driving cars will only be ready for the general public when they can truly be treated as autonomous. Having an "auto pilot" mode that...
[12:49:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score:2) 02This... - 06Drivers Pushing Tesla’s Autopilot Beyond Its Abilities - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:49:40] <exec> 08└─This is why we can't have nice things... Did Tesla really thing people would follow the damn directions?
[12:49:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:2) 02Re:May be? - 06Persian Gulf may Soon be Too Hot to Support Human Life - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:49:54] <exec> 08└─That was morbid, but interesting. If Saudi law has beheading as punishment for terrorism, I wonder what's going to happen to the Saudi prince [bbc.com] who was arrested with 2000 kilos of amphetamine in his private plane? I reckon that it was not for private use, but to sell or give away to people w...
[12:49:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Re:May be? - 06Persian Gulf may Soon be Too Hot to Support Human Life - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:49:55] <exec> 08└─It's called air conditioning.
[12:49:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02lol at 77 C - 06Persian Gulf may Soon be Too Hot to Support Human Life - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:49:58] <exec> 08└─And that's unadulterated copy pasta from the fine article, no less. It should to be 77 °C instead.
[12:50:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Great precedent, thanks a lot. - 06Update: Dad Who Shot "Snooping Vid Drone" Out of the Sky is Cleared of Charges - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:50:30] <exec> 08└─If you think the idiots shooting guns in the air is going to restrain themselves to shotguns only, I have several bridges up on craigslist.
[12:52:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score:2) 02Re:Why does Apple use .Net? - 06Java "No Longer the Greatest Risk" to US Windows PC Users - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:52:00] <exec> 08└─Gigabytes huh?
[12:55:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Splitting hairs - 06Study Suggests Not All Polygynous Marriage is Harmful to Women Or Children - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:55:02] <exec> 08└─An irrelevant example - he was inventing new notation for a new concept. The journalist you quoted is not inventing new concepts, he's showing a lack of knowedge both of the field he's pretending to take an interest in, and also of the etymology of the words themselves - whose meanings are as clear...
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[13:48:52] <exec> 08└─Soooo.... steganography [wikipedia.org] then?
[13:48:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score:2) 02"Indistinguishability obfuscation" - 06New Basis for All Cryptography May be at Hand - 1095 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:48:53] <exec> 08└─I'm a mathematician, I don't claim to be actively practising but I dig into a lot of cryptography and mathematics things as a way of keeping my hand in. It's a particular interest. I've never heard of "indistinguishability obfuscation"branch of mathematics. There doesn't appear to be a wiki page on...
[13:49:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:RAID is not backup - 06FBI: "Just pay the ransom." - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:49:03] <exec> 08└─If you have a proper backup, you can certainly afford losing everything on your RAID, exactly because you've got a backup of it. Just wipe the RAID and restore the backup. Nothing to think hard about. Well, except about the question on how they managed to hack your RAID. You definitely want to plug...
[13:49:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:Retaliation. - 06FBI: "Just pay the ransom." - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:49:06] <exec> 08└─I have lots of impulses but thankfully I do not act on them all because many of them are self-destructive or harmful to other human beings (sometimes justified, but frequently out of proportion).
[13:49:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03WillAdams [1424] (Score:1) 02Translation: We're not competent so cave - 06FBI: "Just pay the ransom." - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:49:13] <exec> 08└─They need to better justify their budget: Billions for defense, not a penny for tribute. One of the justifications for the war on drugs is that the people who deal in drugs are not nice and do nasty things --- why do these people get a bye? If there isn't equal justice under the law, then where's th...
[13:49:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:Translation: We're not competent so cave - 06FBI: "Just pay the ransom." - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:49:15] <exec> 08└─One of the justifications for the war on drugs is that the people who deal in drugs are not nice and do nasty things --- why do these people get a bye?
[13:49:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03skater [4342] (Score:2) 02Defense of this... - 06FBI: "Just pay the ransom." - 871 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:49:17] <exec> 08└─I have a server with our 'media' files on it, primarily our photographs, and we'd hate to lose it. I do multiple backups, online backups, etc., but I'd like to limit damage to the media drive as much as possible. I don't worry about any of the computers themselves - they can all be reinstalled or wh...
[13:49:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Twits - 06Twitter Shares Fall 11% On Results - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:49:27] <exec> 08└─I've been saying that for years. To their credit, they have kept their staff small and burn low, unlike most VC-funded tech companies on the pump-and-dump plan.
[13:49:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's just the market. - 06Twitter Shares Fall 11% On Results - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:49:34] <exec> 08└─> "Any strategy to predict upcoming prices must be able to successfully and consistently beat flipping a coin." That's wrong. Consider the classic blackjack strategy of increasing bet size when the deck is in your favor. This strategy is used all the time in financial markets. It results is lots of...
[13:49:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:the thrill - 06Drivers Pushing Tesla’s Autopilot Beyond Its Abilities - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:49:44] <exec> 08└─they should have called it something else, like "lane-keep assist" or "driving-assist" or something similar. Not "autopilot",
[13:50:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Irony. - 06Persian Gulf may Soon be Too Hot to Support Human Life - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:50:00] <exec> 08└─I think this is more deliberate propaganda to scare the primary oil producing regions of the world into compliance with AGW mitigation measures since it implies something like a 10 C increase in wet bulb temperature over that period of time.
[13:50:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:May be? - 06Persian Gulf may Soon be Too Hot to Support Human Life - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:50:07] <exec> 08└─If humanity is revoked because of administering cruel and unusual punishment, then that becomes a justification for administering cruel and unusual punishment.
[13:50:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:May be? - 06Persian Gulf may Soon be Too Hot to Support Human Life - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:50:09] <exec> 08└─"If the market wanted people to be punished in cruel and unusual ways the invisible hand would do it." - D Trump
[13:50:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:2) 02Re:May be? - 06Persian Gulf may Soon be Too Hot to Support Human Life - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:50:12] <exec> 08└─That implies only rich people live there. I doubt that's the case.
[13:50:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:2) 02Re:lol at 77 C - 06Persian Gulf may Soon be Too Hot to Support Human Life - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:50:16] <exec> 08└─where do you get 77 °C? I read 35 °C in the fine abstract, and also in the Wiki definition of wet-bulb temperature. That also explains why we wanted to emigrate when it became 36°C in the Netherlands :-) Can someone knowledgeable explain what the difference is between the climate of Arabia and th...
[13:50:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03gman003 [4155] (Score:2) 02Journalists can't understand science - 06Persian Gulf may Soon be Too Hot to Support Human Life - 554 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:50:18] <exec> 08└─Here's a long version [slate.com], but for the short version: The study concluded that, by 2100, having six-hour periods where it gets too hot for humans to cool themselves with sweat, no matter how much water they drink, will be a once-a-decade event in some parts of the region. The outdoors could...
[13:50:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bird shot for daughters - 06Update: Dad Who Shot "Snooping Vid Drone" Out of the Sky is Cleared of Charges - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:50:42] <exec> 08└─Seems to me if you shoot a drone with a shotgun, the pellets and the battery will go away from you unless you shoot straight up.
[13:50:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Great precedent, thanks a lot. - 06Update: Dad Who Shot "Snooping Vid Drone" Out of the Sky is Cleared of Charges - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:50:51] <exec> 08└─Alternatively how long until someone crashes a drone and kills someone with four whirring carbon-fiber blades?
[13:50:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:"Justice" - 06Update: Dad Who Shot "Snooping Vid Drone" Out of the Sky is Cleared of Charges - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:50:55] <exec> 08└─So basically, this is what happens when you have solid video and computer encoded evidence as opposed to 2 obviously biased human testimonials.
[13:51:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:Utter nonsense! - 06JRR Tolkien: 'I Never Expected a Money Success' - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:51:31] <exec> 08└─The thing about the NSA surveillance is it was all funded with massive amounts of stolen money. I'd be fine with private individuals collecting what information they can collect with their own funding.
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[14:48:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2, Insightful) 02Congress? - 06Monkeys are Heading to Mars - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:53] <exec> 08└─They are sending congress to Mars? Good idea, we wouldn't want to waste human lives if the first few missions fail.
[14:48:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Congress? - 06Monkeys are Heading to Mars - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:48:54] <exec> 08└─Beat me to it: I was going to suggest Olympus Mons for the next round of presidential debates. However, I was delayed by realizing that it wasn't cynical enough - we like to think that politicians are some strange creatures that are in no way representative of the population as a whole, but when you...
[14:48:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I bet they'll cheat - 06Monkeys are Heading to Mars - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:56] <exec> 08└─I bet there will be an AV override, so the 'keys will be like driver-ed students who get to handle the controls as long as they don't fuck up.
[14:48:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Name of Mission - 06Monkeys are Heading to Mars - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:57] <exec> 08└─Does this planned mission exist?
[14:48:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Name of Mission - 06Monkeys are Heading to Mars - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:48:59] <exec> 08└─I don't buy that this mission exists, especially on a two year schedule. It's probably a joke.
[14:49:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Steganography - 06New Basis for All Cryptography May be at Hand - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:49:08] <exec> 08└─Efficiently functional indistinguishability obsfucation could yield all of cryptography, and youre saying the secret is hiding messages in cat videos?
[14:49:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03pasky [1050] (Score:1) 02Re:"Indistinguishability obfuscation" - 06New Basis for All Cryptography May be at Hand - 672 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:49:10] <exec> 08└─It is very active research topic, even if just a few years old. Many fresh research topics have no Wikipedia pages, even some specialized research topics that are fairly old have atrocious Wikipedia coverage. If the situation is better in some areas of mathematics, congratulations, but in computer s...
[14:49:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"Indistinguishability obfuscation" - 06New Basis for All Cryptography May be at Hand - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:49:11] <exec> 08└─Well, it's kinda obvious that encryption would work a lot better if a brute force attack produced dozens or hundreds of hits that appeared to be genuine, instead of just one. But making that happen would be a lot easier for a table of financial numbers, or a list of email addresses, as opposed to a...
[14:49:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Sell it to me better, please - 06New Basis for All Cryptography May be at Hand - 1127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:49:13] <exec> 08└─""" ... indistinguishability obfuscation requires only that the adversary be unable to determine which of two versions of an operation it’s executing. Most people recall from algebra, for instance, that a x (b + c) is the same thing as (a x b) + (a x c). For any given values, both expressions yiel...
[14:49:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02FTFY - 06New Basis for All Cryptography May be at Hand - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:49:15] <exec> 08└─"Indistinguishability obfuscation" is a powerful concept that would yield provably secure versions of every cryptographic system we've ever developed and all those we've been unable to develop. But nobody knows what the fuck it means or how to pronounce it.
[14:49:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:RAID is not backup - 06FBI: "Just pay the ransom." - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:49:25] <exec> 08└─Well, it appears that they can encrypt anything that you have read/write access to. So, that's how they would access my RAID. And, no, I don't have a full backup of my RAID. I would have to purchase a few hard drives to do that, along with an NAS of some type. Or, purchase space on some server in th...
[14:49:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Re:Retaliation. - 06FBI: "Just pay the ransom." - 114 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:49:27] <exec> 08└─Oh look everyone, it's an Internet edgelord. Advocating torture for trivial crimes since the invention of the BBS.
[14:49:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Prices just went up - 06FBI: "Just pay the ransom." - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:49:31] <exec> 08└─FBI fund domestic terror operations. Drug-running is the CIA's game.
[14:49:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Defense of this... - 06FBI: "Just pay the ransom." - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:49:38] <exec> 08└─I back up to a 2Gb USB hard drive that stays disconnected when done. Plus... I use Linux.
[14:49:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03mmcmonster [401] (Score:2) 02Re:Defense of this... - 06FBI: "Just pay the ransom." - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:49:40] <exec> 08└─A smart ransomware would try to change the write permission on any file you own on the drive. And they are all very, very smart. Best thing is off-line backups. But you have to be careful even with offline backups. The last thing you want is to overwrite an offline backup with a version which is enc...
[14:49:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score:2) 02Re:Defense of this... - 06FBI: "Just pay the ransom." - 664 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:49:42] <exec> 08└─It's unclear to me what operating system you are using. That said, the same general approach should apply. Define multiple users on your system. One (or more — in case you somehow lock yourself out of that account) of which have write access, and all the rest have read-only access. For watching v...
[14:49:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03VanderDecken [5216] (Score:2) 02Re:Defense of this... - 06FBI: "Just pay the ransom." - 1081 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:49:44] <exec> 08└─One option you have is to use a NAS server that allows for automated filesystem snapshots, such as FreeNAS [freenas.org] with ZFS. If you get hit by it, you roll back to a known good copy. You should still have offline backups, but having automated snapshots can minimize the damage and downtime. I...
[14:49:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score:2) 02And you expected....what, exactly? - 06FBI: "Just pay the ransom." - 1113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:49:45] <exec> 08└─The FBI isn't saying not to report it. They're saying they can't help. Why does this surprise you? If you have ransoms are on your machine, there are three possibilities. 1.) You have acceptable backups and don't mind losing the delta from last backup to now. Great. Nuke the machine and restore from...
[14:49:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:And you expected....what, exactly? - 06FBI: "Just pay the ransom." - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:49:47] <exec> 08└─Restore your data from the NSA's copy, of course. ;-)
[14:49:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimshatt [978] (Score:2) 02Question about encryption - 06FBI: "Just pay the ransom." - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:49:49] <exec> 08└─Does knowing the unencrypted data, or parts of it, make it possible or easier to decrypt the encrypted data?
[14:49:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:Question about encryption - 06FBI: "Just pay the ransom." - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:49:51] <exec> 08└─If you know the full unencrypted data, "decryption" is trivial: Just write the unencrypted data back to its original place. Otherwise, I'd expect them to use encryption algorithms where no known-plaintext attacks are known, so your partial knowledge probably won't help you.
[14:50:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:It's just the market. - 06Twitter Shares Fall 11% On Results - 519 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:50:03] <exec> 08└─You're missing the point: The only people who actually know for certain whether the deck is in their favor are engaged in illegal insider trading. Some of the stuff traded that has looked great on paper despite being absolutely lousy buys: Enron, sub-prime mortgage-backed-securities, Lehman Brothers...
[14:50:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's just the market. - 06Twitter Shares Fall 11% On Results - 486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:50:04] <exec> 08└─> The only people who actually know for certain whether the deck is in their favor are engaged in illegal insider trading. Illegal insider trading is far from the only case where one can adjust bet size to have a greater number of losing "bets" and yet come out ahead of even odds. Knowing the deck i...
[14:50:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:the thrill - 06Drivers Pushing Tesla’s Autopilot Beyond Its Abilities - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:50:20] <exec> 08└─I believe you are right. Here is the definition: http://ops.fhwa.dot.gov [dot.gov]
[14:50:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:the thrill - 06Drivers Pushing Tesla’s Autopilot Beyond Its Abilities - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:50:21] <exec> 08└─I believe the reference you cite contradicts your claim. First of all it does *not* define "highway", despite your assertion that it does, and secondly the existence of 'The FHWA publication "Managing our Congested Streets & Highways"' implies that there are streets which are not highways.
[14:50:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:the thrill - 06Drivers Pushing Tesla’s Autopilot Beyond Its Abilities - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:50:23] <exec> 08└─The differences are merely funding and designation.In town you'd never know some of our streets are really highways without looking at the signs.
[14:50:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:the thrill - 06Drivers Pushing Tesla’s Autopilot Beyond Its Abilities - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:50:24] <exec> 08└─It defines Freeway very clearly though. The difference between a street and a highway seems to be a thing but is never made clear. You are certainly correct there. But the ACs point was that Tesla's Autopilot was for Freeways and not Highways.
[14:50:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score:1) 02Auto park Valet - 06Drivers Pushing Tesla’s Autopilot Beyond Its Abilities - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:50:27] <exec> 08└─Can I just get an auto-park Valet? I get out at the front door when it's raining, the car parks and comes back when I signal with an app? It'd be perfect for concerts and sports games. The car could go find distant cheap/free parking, and not clog up lots near the venue.
[14:50:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Auto park Valet - 06Drivers Pushing Tesla’s Autopilot Beyond Its Abilities - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:50:29] <exec> 08└─That sort of car already exists: It's called taxi.
[14:50:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marco2G [5749] (Score:1) 02*sigh* - 06Drivers Pushing Tesla’s Autopilot Beyond Its Abilities - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:50:31] <exec> 08└─Oh come on, people... It's not Tesla's fault that some idiots will go out and do exactly what they're told they shouldn't do. This is the same thing as people setting cruise control and then taking a nap. Tesla pretty clearly states that you can't take your hands off the wheel. I don't think this wi...
[14:50:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:*sigh* - 06Drivers Pushing Tesla’s Autopilot Beyond Its Abilities - 508 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:50:33] <exec> 08└─> It's not Tesla's fault that some idiots will go out and do exactly what they're told they shouldn't do. It isn't 100% their fault, but it is their fault for not anticipating the mental limitations of their drivers and doing something about it. They are the experts. > Tesla pretty clearly states th...
[14:50:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:*sigh* - 06Drivers Pushing Tesla’s Autopilot Beyond Its Abilities - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:50:35] <exec> 08└─What about a robotic voice: "Put your hands back to the wheel. You have ten seconds to comply."
[14:50:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03quacking duck [1395] (Score:2) 02Re:*sigh* - 06Drivers Pushing Tesla’s Autopilot Beyond Its Abilities - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:50:36] <exec> 08└─It isn't 100% their fault, but it is their fault for not anticipating the mental limitations of their drivers and doing something about it. They are the experts.
[14:50:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:lol at 77 C - 06Persian Gulf may Soon be Too Hot to Support Human Life - 667 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:50:57] <exec> 08└─It mentions a *heat index* of up to 77C, not a temperature of 77C. heat index is probably even more bogus than wind chill factor as a way of making extremes sound more scary. Some jibberjabbber on it here (not sure this counts as "information", you won't hear any lightbulbs lighting up as you read i...
[14:50:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Journalists can't understand science - 06Persian Gulf may Soon be Too Hot to Support Human Life - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:50:59] <exec> 08└─Now imagine, that you have to do *physical work* in a surrounding that's a bit warmer than ambient temperature. Who's going to do the laundry? Who's going to operate the oil drill? Who's going to cook the deep-fried camel balls, or whatever they serve in Saudi snackbars?
[14:51:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03cloud.pt [5516] (Score:1) 02Re:"Justice" - 06Update: Dad Who Shot "Snooping Vid Drone" Out of the Sky is Cleared of Charges - 1021 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:51:40] <exec> 08└─Don't distort the facts. There are effectively 3 testimonials, only 1 states he has solid video evidence that can be verified on request, while the other 2 are based on non-verifiable circumstances. A judge with minimal technical skills (and a conscience, for that matter) would simply say "then show...
[14:51:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03cloud.pt [5516] (Score:1) 02Re:"Justice" - 06Update: Dad Who Shot "Snooping Vid Drone" Out of the Sky is Cleared of Charges - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:51:41] <exec> 08└─And don't forget this is just the controller-side video cache the owner has access to. The dumbfck (pardon the french) who shot the drone down has the memory card that has the better quality recording, but won't use that evidence since it would be self incriminating, or give it back to the original...
[14:52:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Oakenshield [4900] (Score:1) 02Re:...and yet... - 06JRR Tolkien: 'I Never Expected a Money Success' - 620 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:52:33] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately, I believe you are exactly correct. The west has suckled at the teat of "free trade" to help business who has in turn driven costs down by offshoring and importing from regions with cheap labor. Now we are reaping the consequences: job stagnation, flat wages, and dim prospects. We have...
[14:52:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Run for the hills! Or the shire! Or something! - 06JRR Tolkien: 'I Never Expected a Money Success' - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:52:49] <exec> 08└─Well said! (Translation: I was going to post darn near the same thing.) Except I'd add: It would have behooved the submitter to work in that he has been dead for over forty years. That's one of those things that should be covered under, "you never know who's actually reading the article and how fami...
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[15:49:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:4, Informative) 02Re:Name of Mission - 06Monkeys are Heading to Mars - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:49:05] <exec> 08└─It's the daily mail - which should be warned about in the summary. It's like posting something from the westboro baptist church combined with the onion with a bit of goatse thrown in for good measure.
[15:49:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03iWantToKeepAnon [686] (Score:2) 02Contaminating signs of life - 06Monkeys are Heading to Mars - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:06] <exec> 08└─If successful, any live bacteria or other life artifacts will never be accepted as Martian and not Earth seeded.
[15:49:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score:3, Insightful) 02That's fucked. - 06Monkeys are Heading to Mars - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:08] <exec> 08└─That seems cruel. If humans lose their minds in long space trips, doing it to monkeys seems somehow worse.
[15:49:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedGreen [888] (Score:2) 02Re:RAID is not backup - 06FBI: "Just pay the ransom." - 523 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:49:35] <exec> 08└─Well you don't really care about your data then. Personally I have my main copy on a machine connected to the network when I turn it on, then a backup machine with second copy and lastly third machine containing a backup if the backup fails. All using zfs RAIDz for data integrity checking now I did...
[15:49:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Retaliation. - 06FBI: "Just pay the ransom." - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:49:38] <exec> 08└─Oh look everyone, it's an Internet edgelord. Advocating torture for trivial crimes since the invention of the BBS.
[15:49:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Same advice as normal then. - 06FBI: "Just pay the ransom." - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:49:41] <exec> 08└─They use to say the same about aircraft hi-jackings... until 911.
[15:49:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Same advice as normal then. - 06FBI: "Just pay the ransom." - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:49:43] <exec> 08└─Good thing is they can then bring federal charges against you for sending a payment to a criminal organization, since you are easier to find.
[15:49:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No choice - 06FBI: "Just pay the ransom." - 693 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:49:49] <exec> 08└─I have to agree with this. My company forces one on us, but I can honestly say that it hasn't picked up anything bad in the past 10 years. Maybe I am just lucky, and I know not to click on those attachments from friends and family that say "look at this!". At home we use one of the big WebMail servi...
[15:49:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score:2) 02Re:Defense of this... - 06FBI: "Just pay the ransom." - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:49:57] <exec> 08└─After spinning my own for years I've moved to just using SpiderOak for most of my backup needs. I think their terabyte plan is 15USD a month, and you can usually find discounts. Even compared to the price of a raspberry pi and a USB 1TB drive that is relatively comparable, and a lot less headache/mo...
[15:50:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Is this a Windows only problem? - 06FBI: "Just pay the ransom." - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:50:02] <exec> 08└─I've never heard of this ransomware happening on Linux.
[15:50:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03present_arms [4392] (Score:2) 02Re:Is this a Windows only problem? - 06FBI: "Just pay the ransom." - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:50:04] <exec> 08└─Yes
[15:50:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Is this a Windows only problem? - 06FBI: "Just pay the ransom." - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:50:06] <exec> 08└─1. Linux isn't immune to anything, really. Generally, Linux users are savvy enough to avoid this kind of thing, and permissions are stricter, but Linux can be exploited. 2. You're right - several articles claim that to date, no Linux system has been hit with ransomware. It's probably safest to assum...
[15:50:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03PizzaRollPlinkett [4512] (Score:2) 02Re:It's just the market. - 06Twitter Shares Fall 11% On Results - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:50:24] <exec> 08└─Remember the time Google was growing like 20% a year every year and the stock people were talking about it being disappointing? I don't still have the link, or I'd post it. I just saw Wired treating Mary Meeker like she was something special, when she basically was a cheerleader for the dot-com bubb...
[15:50:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:the thrill - 06Drivers Pushing Tesla’s Autopilot Beyond Its Abilities - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:50:44] <exec> 08└─Yes, you're right, sorry for the interruption. AC muddied the water whilst trying to clarify things.
[15:50:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:the thrill - 06Drivers Pushing Tesla’s Autopilot Beyond Its Abilities - 908 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:50:44] <exec> 08└─Well, I guess I have to disclose my general location: PART I - PURPOSE, DEFINITIONS AND INTERPRETATION ... DEFINITIONS 2 In this bylaw unless otherwise defined: ... (k) "highway" means any thoroughfare, street, road, trail, avenue, parkway, viaduct, lane, alley, square, bridge, causeway, trest...
[15:50:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:This... - 06Drivers Pushing Tesla’s Autopilot Beyond Its Abilities - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:50:48] <exec> 08└─Their lawyers thought they could point out how explicit the directions were when the inevitable court date comes. The PR disaster is sorta mixed, because it's also showing off that the tech is available.
[15:50:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:*sigh* - 06Drivers Pushing Tesla’s Autopilot Beyond Its Abilities - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:50:56] <exec> 08└─Don't even need to look at celebs. Anyone who knows rich people knows they are just as stupid as normal people - maybe even stupider since their wealth lets them just pay money to deal with mistakes rather than experience the learning effects that come with suffering the personal consequences that n...
[15:51:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:May be? - 06Persian Gulf may Soon be Too Hot to Support Human Life - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:51:16] <exec> 08└─rotflol, as if Donald Trump believes in free markets.
[15:51:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score:2) 02Re:May be? - 06Persian Gulf may Soon be Too Hot to Support Human Life - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:51:19] <exec> 08└─I was thinking of the stillsuits from Dune. Who knew Arrakis was a pseudonym for the Persian Gulf and spice was oil? Makes sense though, the imperial nations of the world take turns to "govern" that region.
[15:51:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Journalists can't understand science - 06Persian Gulf may Soon be Too Hot to Support Human Life - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:51:27] <exec> 08└─In 85 years from now? I'm gonna say "robots" as the answer to your questions.
[15:51:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02It's going to get really hot when... - 06Persian Gulf may Soon be Too Hot to Support Human Life - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:51:28] <exec> 08└─Iran nukes start landing.
[15:52:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:"Justice" - 06Update: Dad Who Shot "Snooping Vid Drone" Out of the Sky is Cleared of Charges - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:52:08] <exec> 08└─If only I hadn't seen the video evidence he mentions . All flight during that video, including the moment you see the drone lose control and fall to the ground (i.e.: when it was actually shot), was done at least at 200ft height.
[15:52:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"Justice" - 06Update: Dad Who Shot "Snooping Vid Drone" Out of the Sky is Cleared of Charges - 1996 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:52:09] <exec> 08└─Two hundred feet over ground level? At least? At all times? I call bullshit on at least two levels. First off, the original complaint from the daughters to their father was that the drone had previously flown low, not that it was particularly low at the time of the shooting. The video provided at th...
[15:52:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:"Justice" - 06Update: Dad Who Shot "Snooping Vid Drone" Out of the Sky is Cleared of Charges - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:52:13] <exec> 08└─The dumbfck (pardon the french) who shot the drone down has the memory card that has the better quality recording, but won't use that evidence since it would be self incriminating, or give it back to the original owner. Thank god for the Fifth Amendment right?
[15:52:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"Justice" - 06Update: Dad Who Shot "Snooping Vid Drone" Out of the Sky is Cleared of Charges - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:52:15] <exec> 08└─The police never impounded the drone, they let the owner take it home. Any defence lawyer worth his pay would say he's had more than enough time to fabricate evidence to support his claims.
[15:53:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02Re:...and yet... - 06JRR Tolkien: 'I Never Expected a Money Success' - 917 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:53:01] <exec> 08└─"primary arbiters of what gets funded" And, I counter that this is precisely the situation we've had since about - 1960? The record labels have basically determined what is acceptable. Some upstart labels have made things available that the established labels wouldn't touch, like Motown. But, collec...
[15:53:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:...and yet... - 06JRR Tolkien: 'I Never Expected a Money Success' - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:53:06] <exec> 08└─Move the worlds reserve currency/oil currency from dollars to euros, or yuan, or groats, coupled with a USA that has a military competitor at least in regional theatres (China + guerrilla/terrorism), and the rest of the world ignoring US IP rights, and you're really screwed. Like it or not people th...
[15:53:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:...and yet... - 06JRR Tolkien: 'I Never Expected a Money Success' - 577 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:53:12] <exec> 08└─I suppose, but the only times I've heard of that happening were with commercial servicing agreements. That generally works because the scale of the business is much larger. Having a contract for somebody to service the elevators or the HVAC system makes sense, but when plumbing is done correctly, it...
[15:53:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score:2) 02Re:Right here! This is it! - 06JRR Tolkien: 'I Never Expected a Money Success' - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:53:26] <exec> 08└─There is so much wrong in your post, but a few tiny nuggets of possibly interesting stuff. Perhaps you shouldn't drink and post?
[15:55:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Superbugs? - 06Getting Back at Them Mosquitoes - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:55:31] <exec> 08└─Wow, strawman much?
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[16:48:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tramii [920] (Score:2) 02The summary left out the most important part - 06The Doxing Trend - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:53] <exec> 08└─The government... should allow individuals whose information has been exposed sue for damages.
[16:48:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03skater [4342] (Score:2) 02Re:The summary left out the most important part - 06The Doxing Trend - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:48:54] <exec> 08└─I have a slightly different idea. If my info is stolen from your company, you owe me $100. If that info includes SS#, it goes up to $500. Every single person affected by the breach gets this. If my stolen info is then used fraudulently, you owe me $10,000 plus all of the costs of cleaning up the mes...
[16:48:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The summary left out the most important part - 06The Doxing Trend - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:48:56] <exec> 08└─How about they are liable for damages done by their leak. If an information leak costs me $1000, then they reimburse me that 1000.
[16:48:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gertlex [3966] (Score:2, Informative) 02Weird title - 06The Doxing Trend - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:57] <exec> 08└─Apparently Bruce Schneier doesn't actually know what doxing [wikipedia.org] is... I even RTFA and all he's talking about is account hacking via social engineering via email/phone customer service (key step missing, or at least not described for his examples: broadcasting the info obtained). That sai...
[16:48:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score:2) 02re less convenient - 06The Doxing Trend - 909 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:00] <exec> 08└─And that is the entire problem: good security is less convenient, so we use less-secure methods for comfort. If the government sets minimum standars as Schneier suggests, will it be more or less convenient? I deal with a Mexican Bank (BANORTE) which mandates the use of a token for online transactio...
[16:49:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score:2) 02Individuals are responsible - 06The Doxing Trend - 520 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:01] <exec> 08└─If people didn't insist on giving companies they shouldn't trust every single details about their real life, they wouldn't be doxxed. These people wouldn't shout their identity and real address in a middle of a restaurant, would they? Yet that's exactly what they do when they send personal informati...
[16:49:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03isostatic [365] 02Re:Name of Mission - 06Monkeys are Heading to Mars - 200 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:49:12] <exec> 08└─It's the daily mail - which should be warned about in the summary. It's like posting something from the westboro baptist church combined with the onion with a bit of goatse thrown in for good measure.
[16:49:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tramii [920] (Score:2) 02Re:That's fucked. - 06Monkeys are Heading to Mars - 692 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:49:15] <exec> 08└─Most of the stresses of spaceflight probably would not apply to monkeys. I'm assuming the monkeys won't realize they are in space. As far as they are concerned, they got moved into a new weird cage and they all developed superpowers! They can't/won't think about all the things that could possibly go...
[16:49:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03scruffybeard [533] (Score:2) 02Re:That's fucked. - 06Monkeys are Heading to Mars - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:49:16] <exec> 08└─I agree. What is the point of doing this? Is there some doubt about the survivability of a trip to Mars? My understanding is that big problems will be keeping astronauts sane for the 6 month journey, and the logistics of keeping them supplied for the mission and return trip.
[16:49:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:That's fucked. - 06Monkeys are Heading to Mars - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:49:18] <exec> 08└─Besides how many black people are there in Russia anyway? I doubt they'll find enough.
[16:49:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03AnonymousCowardNoMore [5416] (Score:2) 02Other efforts have stalled - 06Monkeys are Heading to Mars - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:20] <exec> 08└─Microsoft Monkey Colony on Mars [mslinux.org] Microsoft has announced that a team of monkeys will be shot into space in 2005 to establish the first Martian Colony. At a recent press conference, Bill Gates confirmed, "We are already training the monkeys to do simple tasks like reboot the space ship w...
[16:49:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaganar [605] (Score:2) 02Re:"Indistinguishability obfuscation" - 06New Basis for All Cryptography May be at Hand - 451 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:49:31] <exec> 08└─The cryptography community is a lot like the video game community: lots of people play the big game titles, but rather few people make them. Oh, sure, there's some good indie cryptography stuff out there -- The ISAAC stream cipher [wikipedia.org] would be a good example. But if I want to know about...
[16:49:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:FTFY - 06New Basis for All Cryptography May be at Hand - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:49:34] <exec> 08└─"hey we came up with a name for this thing that we don't know how to do...it's kind of like this other thing that's impossible" It's like reading a summary of a string theory article :P
[16:49:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tramii [920] (Score:2) 02Re:RAID is not backup - 06FBI: "Just pay the ransom." - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:49:49] <exec> 08└─Well you don't really care about your data then.
[16:49:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:RAID is not backup - 06FBI: "Just pay the ransom." - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:49:50] <exec> 08└─I am considering building a triple-redundant "RAID" (using ZFS) for the sole purpose of back-ups. I have been making do with smaller hard-drives because I have no idea how to back-up otherwise. (Can't really afford tape)
[16:49:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tramii [920] (Score:2) 02Re:RAID is not backup - 06FBI: "Just pay the ransom." - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:49:52] <exec> 08└─RAID guards against certain types of hardware failure. There's lots of failure modes that it doesn't guard against. Some examples include things like: Human error (deleting files by mistake)Catastrophic damage (house burns down)Viruses and other malwareSoftware bugs that wipe out dataHardware issues...
[16:49:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Same advice as normal then. - 06FBI: "Just pay the ransom." - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:50:00] <exec> 08└─Your right, they could fly those encrypted files right into the side of a building! We need TSA on our internet connection giving full packet scans and filtering out the terroristic packages! We could expand this by filtering out all sorts of unapproved packages after they are all probed deeply! We...
[16:50:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Prices just went up - 06FBI: "Just pay the ransom." - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:50:04] <exec> 08└─FBI fund domestic terror operations.
[16:50:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Defense of this... - 06FBI: "Just pay the ransom." - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:50:14] <exec> 08└─Back up to non-rewriteable optical media.
[16:50:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03jcross [4009] (Score:2) 02Re:Is this a Windows only problem? - 06FBI: "Just pay the ransom." - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:50:25] <exec> 08└─"...as usual, few virus writers support Linux." I love the way you put that. One case where crappy Linux support is actually a good thing.
[16:50:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02secure OS - 06FBI: "Just pay the ransom." - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:27] <exec> 08└─seems like not everybody is running openbsd on their desktops/laptops
[16:50:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:secure OS - 06FBI: "Just pay the ransom." - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:50:29] <exec> 08└─Sorry, but OpenBSD won't protect you from that type of malware. Sure, the malware could not encrypt your complete disk. But you don't care that much for the contents of /usr/bin, do you? The data you care about is usually in your user account, and especially writeable from your user account. And thu...
[16:51:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Revealing your location - 06Drivers Pushing Tesla’s Autopilot Beyond Its Abilities - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:51:08] <exec> 08└─At least it's not Calgary...
[16:51:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tramii [920] (Score:2) 02Re:*sigh* - 06Drivers Pushing Tesla’s Autopilot Beyond Its Abilities - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:51:19] <exec> 08└─... it is their fault for not anticipating the mental limitations of their drivers and doing something about it.
[16:51:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:May be? - 06Persian Gulf may Soon be Too Hot to Support Human Life - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:51:41] <exec> 08└─"If the little people needed a voice, the market would let them be heard." - D. Trump
[16:52:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03cloud.pt [5516] (Score:1) 02Re:"Justice" - 06Update: Dad Who Shot "Snooping Vid Drone" Out of the Sky is Cleared of Charges - 547 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:52:38] <exec> 08└─More guns to you then. I hope some day somebody decides to shoot your beautiful Ford Mustang because it was stepping in 1 inch of his lawn. I just hope your family isn't inside the car at the time. Maybe that day you will grasp the amount of 'muricanism you should be saving for times that really mat...
[16:52:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03cloud.pt [5516] (Score:1) 02Re:"Justice" - 06Update: Dad Who Shot "Snooping Vid Drone" Out of the Sky is Cleared of Charges - 2545 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:52:41] <exec> 08└─Stating it "Sounds rather smart" just gave away your NRA membership. It's now pointless to keep this argument. You're clearly favoring getting away with shooting anything no matter what, over actually discussing the legality of the shooting under actual circumstances. That's the conundrum with arms...
[16:52:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"Fool cells" - 06Green Self-Driving Cars Take Center Stage at Tokyo Auto Show - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:52:51] <exec> 08└─Your link says that royalty were the target market, but did not buy it.
[16:57:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:load of tosh...? - 06Study Suggests Not All Polygynous Marriage is Harmful to Women Or Children - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:57:05] <exec> 08└─Lighten up Francis
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[17:48:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03SanityCheck [5190] (Score:4, Touché) 02Please if I can have a $1 - 06Researchers Create Technology to Produce Lighter, Long-lasting Batteries from Silicon - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:54] <exec> 08└─Please if I can have a $1 for every time a major breakthrough in batteries is touted in the media, I think I could live comfortably while not working.
[17:48:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03VanderDecken [5216] (Score:2) 02No net effect - 06Researchers Create Technology to Produce Lighter, Long-lasting Batteries from Silicon - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:55] <exec> 08└─It won't matter ... while one group improves cell phone battery life, another figures out a new application to drain it. My first cell phone would last a week to ten days on standby. Good luck getting much more than a day with current phones.
[17:49:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The summary left out the most important part - 06The Doxing Trend - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:49:06] <exec> 08└─Good luck proving and collecting. Ever have a car accident? You never get the cost of your time back, and you never get a loss of value on your car.
[17:49:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:re less convenient - 06The Doxing Trend - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:49:09] <exec> 08└─Perhaps your session could be hijacked, so requiring the code prevents such an attack from being able to access anything. If they get your code, then ya you're screwed.
[17:49:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:Individuals are responsible - 06The Doxing Trend - 537 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:49:12] <exec> 08└─I'd say AOL survived well into the mid 2000's until DSL and Cable became prevalent. And even then, people keep using it to keep their email address. I know a local printing business still uses the same AOL email they have had for 20 years. I was always thankful for them back in the day because they...
[17:49:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geezer [511] (Score:1) 02Re:Individuals are responsible - 06The Doxing Trend - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:49:14] <exec> 08└─And later, all those shiny free plastic drink coasters.
[17:49:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Individuals are responsible - 06The Doxing Trend - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:49:15] <exec> 08└─Security through obscurity! Also, people aren't responsible when the services they need require that information. If someone gives non-required info or uses shady service, then sure its on them.
[17:49:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03skater [4342] (Score:2) 02Re:Individuals are responsible - 06The Doxing Trend - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:49:17] <exec> 08└─Not exactly. I had to give my employer a bunch of my personal info, if I wanted to get paid. They subsequently had that information stolen from them. I got free credit monitoring for a year and a half...woohoo.
[17:49:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03TrumpetPower! [590] (Score:2) 02Re:Name of Mission - 06Monkeys are Heading to Mars - 667 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:49:29] <exec> 08└─That, and the fact that no ethical review board would sign off on the use of primates for this sort of thing. There is absolutely nothing that a trained monkey could possibly do in such a situation that would be of value. Macaques have less-developed abstracted reasoning and communication skills tha...
[17:49:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score:1) 02Re:That's fucked. - 06Monkeys are Heading to Mars - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:49:34] <exec> 08└─Is there some doubt about the survivability of a trip to Mars?
[17:49:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:That's fucked. - 06Monkeys are Heading to Mars - 763 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:49:37] <exec> 08└─Which is worse, being cruel to monkeys or being cruel to people (who volunteered but perhaps didn't truly understand what they volunteered for)? I'm not saying that's an easy moral question, but it's at least a question. My general view on the matter: If we're going to engage in the activity of putt...
[17:49:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03dak664 [2433] (Score:1) 02The summary demonstrates it well... - 06New Basis for All Cryptography May be at Hand - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:54] <exec> 08└─I certainly couldn't find any information there!
[17:50:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedGreen [888] (Score:2) 02Re:RAID is not backup - 06FBI: "Just pay the ransom." - 855 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:50:11] <exec> 08└─If it is important enough to go out of your way to have it on a RAID then it is important enough to plan for the failure that will occur. Perhaps I am just too anal about it but that is the way I go about it having many years ago lost all my important stuff to them POS Seagate drives I had it on. Wh...
[17:50:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] 02Re:Prices just went up - 06FBI: "Just pay the ransom." - 68 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:50:23] <exec> 08└─FBI fund domestic terror operations. Drug-running is the CIA's game.
[17:50:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:1) 02Question about backup - 06FBI: "Just pay the ransom." - 1112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:50:48] <exec> 08└─This is slightly off-topic, but I have a question about backup: Years ago, I worked for a short time as a sysadmin assistant, who was tasked with doing the daily backups for a development group (not the company's "real" backups, they had special people for that with the key to the vault). That compa...
[17:51:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03goodie [1877] (Score:2) 02okay, "investors"... - 06Twitter Shares Fall 11% On Results - 712 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:51:11] <exec> 08└─I don't like Twitter, and I don't see what it is good for other than a few specialized use cases but anyway... I am so sick and tired of "investors" as they are reported in the "news". It's like as a company, you cannot, ever, satisfy them and get "punished". Revenues are up, subscribers is up. But...
[17:51:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:*sigh* - 06Drivers Pushing Tesla’s Autopilot Beyond Its Abilities - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:51:44] <exec> 08└─Don't be that guy who thinks an analysis can be summarized in an either-or statement. Real life is not binary because humans are not binary.
[17:52:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Bird shot for daughters - 06Update: Dad Who Shot "Snooping Vid Drone" Out of the Sky is Cleared of Charges - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:52:45] <exec> 08└─Because shotguns are so stealth.....
[17:53:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"Justice" - 06Update: Dad Who Shot "Snooping Vid Drone" Out of the Sky is Cleared of Charges - 1856 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:53:03] <exec> 08└─OK, let's take this slowly. Breathe deeply, and follow closely: The claim (by the drone operator) is that the altitude of the drone over ground level was at least two hundred feet. Let's take that at face value, with maybe a couple of feet of grace. This claim is disputed, but let's just suppose tha...
[17:53:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score:2) 02Re:"Justice" - 06Update: Dad Who Shot "Snooping Vid Drone" Out of the Sky is Cleared of Charges - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:53:04] <exec> 08└─Sounds like another "Magic Bullet" scenario to me. Now all we need to do is come up with a good conspiracy theory.
[17:53:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"Justice" - 06Update: Dad Who Shot "Snooping Vid Drone" Out of the Sky is Cleared of Charges - 682 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:53:08] <exec> 08└─Ignoring your ad hominem attacks on Khallow for now, I don't see how people disputing the reality of what went on, on the basis of readily available physical evidence, constitutes some kind of ideological stance. Your position rests on the relevance of the video, and the analysis of that video, in t...
[17:53:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:"Justice" - 06Update: Dad Who Shot "Snooping Vid Drone" Out of the Sky is Cleared of Charges - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:53:10] <exec> 08└─Stating it "Sounds rather smart" just gave away your NRA membership.
[17:53:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03DutchUncle [5370] (Score:1) 02What about firing the gun within city limits? - 06Update: Dad Who Shot "Snooping Vid Drone" Out of the Sky is Cleared of Charges - 489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:53:12] <exec> 08└─The original arrest was for firing the gun within city limits, not for killing the drone. Whether or not he was right about the drone invading his privacy, and whether or not he was right to bring it down, he violated rules presumably related to *safety*. This is an important distinction - I wouldn'...
[17:53:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What about firing the gun within city limits? - 06Update: Dad Who Shot "Snooping Vid Drone" Out of the Sky is Cleared of Charges - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:53:14] <exec> 08└─a) Birdshot in the air is not a public hazard. Schoolboys throwing stones are more dangerous. b) People shoot in self defence in city limits, and that is excused, not because it wasn't in city limits but because the circumstances warranted gunfire. c) The foregoing in combination tells us that if th...
[17:53:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score:1) 02Re:"Fool cells" - 06Green Self-Driving Cars Take Center Stage at Tokyo Auto Show - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:53:28] <exec> 08└─The outlets are designed to keep your engine block from freezing solid, not charging the traction battery.
[17:53:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03CoolHand [438] (Score:2) 02Re:Pedicted decades ago. - 06Green Self-Driving Cars Take Center Stage at Tokyo Auto Show - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:53:32] <exec> 08└─Red Barchetta by Rush predicted this same outcome a long time (30+ years) ago, along with The Trees from an earlier album predicting the political correct foolishness we have today as well, a band well ahead of their time.
[17:56:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Superbugs? - 06Getting Back at Them Mosquitoes - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:56:35] <exec> 08└─Fine : ) Poisoning mosquitoes could lead to mosquitoes becoming resistant to that specific poison if there are survivors. At some point evolution ceases to function in providing resistance because there can be no survival. The selection pressure would favor those mosquitoes that hide. Have you ever...
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[18:48:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No net effect - 06Researchers Create Technology to Produce Lighter, Long-lasting Batteries from Silicon - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:48:55] <exec> 08└─My current phone lasts a week on standby: as long as I disable both radios :P
[18:48:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No net effect - 06Researchers Create Technology to Produce Lighter, Long-lasting Batteries from Silicon - 1208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:48:56] <exec> 08└─You can do that easily with current phones. Use your smartphone like a dumb phone and you'll have the battery life of a dumb phone, probably even longer. My current smartphone will last at least a week on standby, and I think many other recent smartphones would do about as well. Just turn off GPS, w...
[18:48:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:No net effect - 06Researchers Create Technology to Produce Lighter, Long-lasting Batteries from Silicon - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:48:58] <exec> 08└─My first cell phone would last a week to ten days on standby. Good luck getting much more than a day with current phones.
[18:48:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03WalksOnDirt [5854] (Score:2, Informative) 02What Chen has done - 06Researchers Create Technology to Produce Lighter, Long-lasting Batteries from Silicon - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:00] <exec> 08└─Silicon in lithium ion batteries is old news, and the summary doesn't explain what they did at all. Panasonic's cells already use some silicon, but what they have done to increase cycle life appears to be secret. Chen is proposing to heat treat the silicon electrode to make them last 2000 cycles. He...
[18:49:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03AnonTechie [2275] (Score:2) 02Yet Another Breakthrough - 06Researchers Create Technology to Produce Lighter, Long-lasting Batteries from Silicon - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:02] <exec> 08└─Leap in Lithium-Air Battery Tech Could Supercharge Electric Cars [ieee.org] The operative word is "Could".
[18:49:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03AnonTechie [2275] (Score:2) 02Re:Yet Another Breakthrough - 06Researchers Create Technology to Produce Lighter, Long-lasting Batteries from Silicon - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:49:03] <exec> 08└─Some more info on this: [Also Covered By]: Phys.org [phys.org] [Abstract]: Cycling Li-O2 batteries via LiOH formation and decomposition [sciencemag.org]
[18:49:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimtheowl [5929] (Score:2, Funny) 02"Covalent Synergy" - 06Researchers Create Technology to Produce Lighter, Long-lasting Batteries from Silicon - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:05] <exec> 08└─Before dismissing the paper read at least the title. Sometimes, publications have unintended beneficial side effects and paradigms. The title of this paper alone could compel the empowerment of participants in forward looking strategic venues and provide the much needed potential to re-energize coll...
[18:49:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"Covalent Synergy" - 06Researchers Create Technology to Produce Lighter, Long-lasting Batteries from Silicon - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:49:07] <exec> 08└─The bonds that bond us
[18:49:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Weird title - 06The Doxing Trend - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:49:18] <exec> 08└─(key step missing, or at least not described for his examples: broadcasting the info obtained). From the Article: Brennan was lucky. He didn't have anything classified on his AOL account. There were no personal scandals exposed in his email. Yes, his 47-page top-secret clearance form [wikileaks....
[18:49:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Individuals are responsible - 06The Doxing Trend - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:49:26] <exec> 08└─people didn't insist
[18:49:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:3, Informative) 02Idealistic - 06The Doxing Trend - 1473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:28] <exec> 08└─He assumes that government regulation actually works. In fact, all this would accomplish is to establish another bureaucracy that funds itself at the expense of the businesses it regulated. Another hurdle making market entry impossible for small competitors, because only the big companies can afford...
[18:49:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:3, Interesting) 02More Regulation? That always helps... - 06The Doxing Trend - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:30] <exec> 08└─we should demand our government start regulating the security of these companies as a matter of public safety.
[18:49:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Congress? - 06Monkeys are Heading to Mars - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:49:39] <exec> 08└─but when you really ask around you find out that the politicians are in fact some of our best and brightest. Typical self-aggrandizing lizard people! That's just what they want you to believe.
[18:49:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Name of Mission - 06Monkeys are Heading to Mars - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:49:46] <exec> 08└─...westboro baptist church combined with the onion with a bit of goatse thrown in for good measure. I don't know about a newspaper but that certainly sounds like the recipe for a powerful propellant.
[18:49:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:That's fucked. - 06Monkeys are Heading to Mars - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:49:52] <exec> 08└─Odd you mention the STS without mentioning the ISS. Its been up there testing life support systems for long enough, don't you think?
[18:49:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:That's fucked. - 06Monkeys are Heading to Mars - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:49:55] <exec> 08└─Exactly. This probably won't actually happen, as the sane portion of the world will realize there is absolutely nothing to be gained by this crazy 1950's mentality.
[18:50:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"Indistinguishability obfuscation" - 06New Basis for All Cryptography May be at Hand - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:50:08] <exec> 08└─Not if it "finds" stuff that looks like kiddie porn.
[18:51:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Question about encryption - 06FBI: "Just pay the ransom." - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:51:00] <exec> 08└─Theoretically let say you had one file that was the same as the stuff that had been encrypted. Could you encrypt that one file with every possible key and then compare it to the encrypted version to find the correct key?
[18:51:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03VanderDecken [5216] (Score:2) 02Re:Is this a Windows only problem? - 06FBI: "Just pay the ransom." - 693 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:51:05] <exec> 08└─While I have only heard of ransomware entering the environment through Windows machines, it is possible to impact any system, with the rule that if the user can write to files, then those files could be held for ransom. As usual, the major factor becomes one of how the ransomware gets a foothold in...
[18:51:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:secure OS - 06FBI: "Just pay the ransom." - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:51:09] <exec> 08└─I have a laptop less than 10 years old, so I doubt BSD supports any of the hardware. I also have a USB mouse, so that seems unlikely to work as well.
[18:51:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03dak664 [2433] (Score:1) 02Incremental backup, what's the problem? - 06FBI: "Just pay the ransom." - 760 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:51:12] <exec> 08└─You can get a secure incremental backup with just a 2x increase in storage cost and a few minutes every night. A raspberry pi can automate the process from all networked storage and needs very little attention. The beauty of incremental backup is when file(s) get encrypted or otherwise corrupted you...
[18:51:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Re:It's just the market. - 06Twitter Shares Fall 11% On Results - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:51:31] <exec> 08└─That's wrong. Consider the classic blackjack strategy of increasing bet size when the deck is in your favor. This strategy is used all the time in financial markets. It results is lots of small losses, a few large losses, and a few very large wins.
[18:52:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:*sigh* - 06Drivers Pushing Tesla’s Autopilot Beyond Its Abilities - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:52:04] <exec> 08└─https://youtu.be/Hzlt7IbTp6M?t=1m51s [youtu.be] Perhaps because it makes for a poor product?
[18:52:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:May be? - 06Persian Gulf may Soon be Too Hot to Support Human Life - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:52:32] <exec> 08└─You're right. Capital punishment is inhuman.
[18:52:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:May be? - 06Persian Gulf may Soon be Too Hot to Support Human Life - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:52:36] <exec> 08└─Who knew Arrakis was a pseudonym for the Persian Gulf and spice was oil? Ummm....everyone who actually paid attention to the book?
[18:52:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Journalists can't understand science - 06Persian Gulf may Soon be Too Hot to Support Human Life - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:52:44] <exec> 08└─"Who's going to cook the deep-fried camel balls" That's outrageous. You're going to poison the camel balls by deep-frying them? Errrr - wait . . .
[18:52:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Journalists can't understand science - 06Persian Gulf may Soon be Too Hot to Support Human Life - 522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:52:46] <exec> 08└─The study concluded that, by 2100, having six-hour periods where it gets too hot for humans to cool themselves with sweat, no matter how much water they drink, will be a once-a-decade event in some parts of the region. The outdoors could be considered "uninhabitable" only for that period - people wi...
[18:53:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Great precedent, thanks a lot. - 06Update: Dad Who Shot "Snooping Vid Drone" Out of the Sky is Cleared of Charges - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:53:22] <exec> 08└─You, sir, need to learn about the Redneck Olympics. Alcohol does *not* need to be involved for Redneck's to run around shooting fireworks and such at each other. Just good ol' fashioned goofing off.
[18:53:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:Great precedent, thanks a lot. - 06Update: Dad Who Shot "Snooping Vid Drone" Out of the Sky is Cleared of Charges - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:53:24] <exec> 08└─Alcohol does *not* need to be involved for Redneck's to run around shooting fireworks and such at each other.
[18:53:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:2, Funny) 02Re:"Justice" - 06Update: Dad Who Shot "Snooping Vid Drone" Out of the Sky is Cleared of Charges - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:53:37] <exec> 08└─Anonymous did it on the grassy knoll with a Linux-powered pellet gun painted black. Why? For the LOLZ of course.
[18:53:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:"Justice" - 06Update: Dad Who Shot "Snooping Vid Drone" Out of the Sky is Cleared of Charges - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:53:38] <exec> 08└─I hope some day somebody decides to shoot your beautiful Ford Mustang because it was stepping in 1 inch of his lawn.
[18:53:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03cloud.pt [5516] (Score:1) 02Re:"Justice" - 06Update: Dad Who Shot "Snooping Vid Drone" Out of the Sky is Cleared of Charges - 3198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:53:44] <exec> 08└─You don't need to ignore my attacks on his personality, I wanted them to be just as clear as his (to me) by ignoring the obvious height shown in the video. Manipulating that fact is an attack on any person caring for this argument. It's really easy to distort a debate through fallacy, but I, once ag...
[18:53:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score:2) 02Re:"Justice" - 06Update: Dad Who Shot "Snooping Vid Drone" Out of the Sky is Cleared of Charges - 2681 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:53:46] <exec> 08└─Without a distinct "chain of evidence" you can't know that the Video Evidence wasn't tampered with. Also, the whole issue of it being dangerous to have fired the gun into the air holds no water. Here's what the person defending his home/privacy said and I have no reason to doubt the validity of the...
[18:54:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Utter nonsense! - 06JRR Tolkien: 'I Never Expected a Money Success' - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:54:22] <exec> 08└─...there are a number of long-winded drinking songs in The Lord of the Rings. Should be right up your alley :-) I always just skipped the songs...
[18:54:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Utter nonsense! - 06JRR Tolkien: 'I Never Expected a Money Success' - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:54:33] <exec> 08└─Without copyright, he would have never thought of writing Lord of the Rings! It was only the incentive of monetary return that motivated him to write his novels... Exactly! This is why we also need to keep increasing copyright terms. Otherwise, what incentive does he have to create any new works...
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[19:48:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02One more - 06Researchers Create a Sonic Tractor Beam - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:50] <exec> 08└─One more "Researchers Create..." for the headline trifecta!
[19:48:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Please if I can have a $1 - 06Researchers Create Technology to Produce Lighter, Long-lasting Batteries from Silicon - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:48:59] <exec> 08└─Stories in the media track with dollars spent on research. So, you hear a lot about graphene, nanotechnology, quantum computing, and batteries these days because that's where big dollars are being spent. It's repetitive, but the things they're spending dollars on are good, and can yield very good th...
[19:49:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02PR piece submission - 06Researchers Create Technology to Produce Lighter, Long-lasting Batteries from Silicon - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:10] <exec> 08└─... technology promises a 40 to 60 per cent increase in energy density, which is important for consumers with smartphones, smart homes and smart wearables ... the environmentally safe technology could also make dramatic improvements for hybrid and electric vehicles. The findings could mean an electr...
[19:49:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:The summary left out the most important part - 06The Doxing Trend - 4161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:49:22] <exec> 08└─HUGE problem with that. Ummm, so.... how do you secure anything again? You can't just create blanket penalties like that or everyone will leave the market screaming and your packets will need to go to another country for service. I most certainly would have nothing to do with your system, as the ris...
[19:49:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score:2) 02Re:Individuals are responsible - 06The Doxing Trend - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:49:30] <exec> 08└─You simply wiped and re-used them.
[19:49:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Individuals are responsible - 06The Doxing Trend - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:49:35] <exec> 08└─If people didn't insist on giving companies they shouldn't trust every single details about their real life
[19:49:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Idealistic - 06The Doxing Trend - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:49:38] <exec> 08└─it's paying the fees and filling in the ever-changing forms that is such a burden to small companies.
[19:49:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:More Regulation? That always helps... - 06The Doxing Trend - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:49:40] <exec> 08└─I think the death knell of the internet will sound out the instant you decide that the government gets to approve every internet offering, and regulate every security effort.
[19:49:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Congress? - 06Monkeys are Heading to Mars - 669 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:49:50] <exec> 08└─Hmm, I have the nub of an idea. There have been many complaints of late about social science posts. Well, the problem with social science is that it's unethical to experiment on humans in such a way as to achieve reproducibility. But your post suggests a way out: politicians, and I would add, Wall S...
[19:49:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03AndyTheAbsurd [3958] (Score:2) 02Re:Name of Mission - 06Monkeys are Heading to Mars - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:49:56] <exec> 08└─While I agree with most of your post, the point of sending monkeys ahead of humans would be to prove that the trip is survivable by vertebrates. What I don't get is why they'd want to land the monkeys on Mars. It would make far more sense to bring them back for further study Earthside.
[19:50:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score:1) 02Re:That's fucked. - 06Monkeys are Heading to Mars - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:50:05] <exec> 08└─Odd you mention the STS without mentioning the ISS. Its been up there testing life support systems for long enough, don't you think?
[19:50:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Prices just went up - 06FBI: "Just pay the ransom." - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:50:57] <exec> 08└─You must be new to life. The CIA has a long history of supplying weapons to and training terrorist cells. Taliban, ISIS, etc. And then there's the US's local terrorist organizations, the DEA, TSA, DHS, and NSA. Especially the DEA.
[19:51:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score:2) 02Re:No choice - 06FBI: "Just pay the ransom." - 2149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:51:02] <exec> 08└─THIS, this right here. I stress to my customers that having multiple backups is critical and with both the prices of BD burners and USB HHDs being so cheap there is really no excuse. For your pictures and documents a single BD can hold more than most users will ever need and can easily be stored in...
[19:51:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:No choice - 06FBI: "Just pay the ransom." - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:51:04] <exec> 08└─If you don't have good, offline backups and you need the files you won't have much choice.
[19:51:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03tathra [3367] (Score:2) 02Re:Translation: We're not competent so cave - 06FBI: "Just pay the ransom." - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:51:08] <exec> 08└─One of the justifications for the war on drugs is that the people who deal in drugs are not nice and do nasty things
[19:51:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Is this a Windows only problem? - 06FBI: "Just pay the ransom." - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:51:24] <exec> 08└─Remember when Mac used to be "virus free" too? That stopped as soon as there were enough targets using it to make it worth attacking. At best its the same as security through obfuscation.
[19:51:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Too old. - 06Twitter Shares Fall 11% On Results - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:51:43] <exec> 08└─This old dog can't be taught these new tricks like Twitter and systemd.
[19:51:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Non Sequor [1005] (Score:2) 02Re:okay, "investors"... - 06Twitter Shares Fall 11% On Results - 1259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:51:53] <exec> 08└─I'm not really an active investor but some of this stuff tangentially relates to my work. There are a lot of ways to look at how much a company is worth. The easiest one to talk about is price to earnings ratio. It's not really a rigorous valuation model, but it's fairly easy to relate it to more co...
[19:52:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:May be? - 06Persian Gulf may Soon be Too Hot to Support Human Life - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:52:53] <exec> 08└─Just to be clear, I don't support Trump and think he's antithetical to nearly all I believe in. Especially as regards immigration.
[19:52:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:May be? - 06Persian Gulf may Soon be Too Hot to Support Human Life - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:52:54] <exec> 08└─"Thanks, I'll be here all week. Please tip your waitress." - D Trump.
[19:52:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score:2) 02Re:May be? - 06Persian Gulf may Soon be Too Hot to Support Human Life - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:52:56] <exec> 08└─I don't get the Troll Mod. Pointing out that public beheadings aren't humane isn't trolling. There are actually only four countries that officially carry out public executions. Iran, Saudi Arabia, North Korea, and Somalia. None of which are on my list of place that I would like to Vacation. In fact,...
[19:52:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:May be? - 06Persian Gulf may Soon be Too Hot to Support Human Life - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:52:58] <exec> 08└─A lot of people bring their politics into these discussions. But, I can't complain, because I do too. Most nerds and geeks have progressive tendencies, and since I pointed out that Islam can be and/or is rather barbaric, one or more progressive has down modded me. It happens. It amuses me to see my...
[19:53:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03gman003 [4155] 02Journalists can't understand science - 06Persian Gulf may Soon be Too Hot to Support Human Life - 554 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:06] <exec> 08└─Here's a long version [slate.com], but for the short version: The study concluded that, by 2100, having six-hour periods where it gets too hot for humans to cool themselves with sweat, no matter how much water they drink, will be a once-a-decade event in some parts of the region. The outdoors could...
[19:53:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Journalists can't understand science - 06Persian Gulf may Soon be Too Hot to Support Human Life - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:53:09] <exec> 08└─In the middle east? Ha.
[19:54:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"Justice" - 06Update: Dad Who Shot "Snooping Vid Drone" Out of the Sky is Cleared of Charges - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:54:08] <exec> 08└─OK, now we're getting somewhere ... the video shows a drone well beyond treeline altitude tumbling down. Very clearly. This video was accompanied actual GPS data to support the height and position at time of shooting
[19:58:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Dirtballs? - 06Study Suggests Not All Polygynous Marriage is Harmful to Women Or Children - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:58:16] <exec> 08└─> You're not entitled to someone else's body, to a wife, or to a relationship, so this is a silly concern. Well, gee, thanks for that. Next maybe you should tell us we're not entitled to steal things from other people's houses and we can just scrap the break-and-enter laws as "silly concerns". After...
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[20:49:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03jcross [4009] (Score:2) 02Re:In space - 06Researchers Create a Sonic Tractor Beam - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:49:08] <exec> 08└─I think they mean inside the oxygen-filled crew capsule. But yeah, I still don't see this being powerful enough to push entire astronauts to the floor without having some other strange effects.
[20:49:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02 - 06Researchers Create a Sonic Tractor Beam - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:49:09] <exec> 08└─Ultrasonics can fracture bones. This will have limited human applications.
[20:49:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re: - 06Researchers Create a Sonic Tractor Beam - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:49:11] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extracorporeal_shock_wave_lithotripsy [wikipedia.org]
[20:49:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02Re:Please if I can have a $1 - 06Researchers Create Technology to Produce Lighter, Long-lasting Batteries from Silicon - 1338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:49:23] <exec> 08└─All these tiny advances that the media touts as big breakthroughs will hopefully push battery tech to the point that the electric motor is a compelling replacement for the combustion engine in nearly all applications. 100 years from now, assuming humanity and civilization are still doing fine, peopl...
[20:49:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Please if I can have a $1 - 06Researchers Create Technology to Produce Lighter, Long-lasting Batteries from Silicon - 1320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:49:24] <exec> 08└─That's an interesting thought. 20 years ago I read a thought-provoking book, Home from Nowhere [amazon.com], that posited a return to walkable, mixed-use communities. Its chief villain was single-use zoning (such as you find in American suburbs). Will better battery technology itself change what it...
[20:49:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Weird title - 06The Doxing Trend - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:49:48] <exec> 08└─They probably already had his clearance form from the OPM hack.
[20:49:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score:2) 02Re:re less convenient - 06The Doxing Trend - 908 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:49:51] <exec> 08└─And that is the entire problem: good security is less convenient, so we use less-secure methods for comfort. If the government sets minimum standars as Schneier suggests, will it be more or less convenient? I deal with a Mexican Bank (BANORTE) which mandates the use of a token for online transaction...
[20:49:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:Individuals are responsible - 06The Doxing Trend - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:49:57] <exec> 08└─Yea, my version of the three seashells. The edges are rounded so using a corner wasn't that bad. Just make sure it's not a corner on the door side, you'd get yer butt hairs stuck in the door slide and OUCH!
[20:50:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Individuals are responsible - 06The Doxing Trend - 680 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:50:03] <exec> 08└─> If people didn't insist on giving companies they shouldn't trust every single details about their real life, they wouldn't be doxxed. Yeah? Property records are public information - you want to own a house, you either give up the fact that you own that house, and thus probably live there, or you s...
[20:50:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:More Regulation? That always helps... - 06The Doxing Trend - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:50:08] <exec> 08└─You must be new here. That's frojack's MO.
[20:50:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:Congress? - 06Monkeys are Heading to Mars - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:50:19] <exec> 08└─I say we send them on a mission to explore the surface of the sun.
[20:50:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Contaminating signs of life - 06Monkeys are Heading to Mars - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:50:29] <exec> 08└─More importantly, if there is any Martian life, shooting volleys of monkeys at Mars will doom it. It looks like no reputable news outlet has picked up this story; I'm hoping it's false.
[20:50:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tramii [920] (Score:2) 02Re:That's fucked. - 06Monkeys are Heading to Mars - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:50:33] <exec> 08└─I have a dog who is not even in the same league as monkeys, but even he exibits considerable concern when taken in a car, depending whether the car turns in the direction that leads to the vet, or not.
[20:50:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score:2) 02Re:That's fucked. - 06Monkeys are Heading to Mars - 532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:50:41] <exec> 08└─As you mentioned, the difference is in consent. Humans may not understand all possible risks or possible outcomes, but they UNDERSTAND that they don't understand, yet still choose to go, usually for the betterment of mankind. And, a lot of them probably love the idea. Monkeys cannot give consent, an...
[20:50:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tramii [920] (Score:2) 02Re:That's fucked. - 06Monkeys are Heading to Mars - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:50:43] <exec> 08└─I don't think you can claim that literally *nothing* will be gained. As mentioned in a previous post, if nothing else it would help test that the life support system would hold out on a trip to Mars. Now, if you want to debate if the amount of information collected is not worth the cost, well that's...
[20:50:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Other efforts have stalled - 06Monkeys are Heading to Mars - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:50:46] <exec> 08└─Wrong, Microsoft's Linux is actually called Azure Cloud Switch. https://azure.microsoft.com [microsoft.com]
[20:50:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score:2) 02Earth's First Ambassadors - 06Monkeys are Heading to Mars - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:50:47] <exec> 08└─Problem is when those Martians jump to the conclusion that the monkeys represent the highest form of intelligence on Earth. Could take years to sort out the misundersanding.
[20:51:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score:2) 02Re:Retaliation. - 06FBI: "Just pay the ransom." - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:51:26] <exec> 08└─I hope we come up with some 'pain machine' that we can use in place of prison. A few hours of unbridaled agony, coupled with drugs to make you never ever forget, and you're done with your sentence for murder.
[20:51:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03looorg [578] 02Same advice as normal then. - 06FBI: "Just pay the ransom." - 692 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:51:28] <exec> 08└─Isn't this really just the same advice law enforcement normally gives? Don't be a hero. If someone sticks a gun in your face and asks for your wallet then give them your wallet. We'll try and sort it out afterwards. Same thing here. We won't be able to save your files or unlock them, the encryption...
[20:51:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Translation: We're not competent so cave - 06FBI: "Just pay the ransom." - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:51:45] <exec> 08└─"That's pinko-commie terrorist Islamic Mexican talk." - D Trump.
[20:52:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:the thrill - 06Drivers Pushing Tesla’s Autopilot Beyond Its Abilities - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:52:52] <exec> 08└─As opposed to outsourcing your death to somebody else? Oh. Right. You were making a pun about "self-driving."
[20:53:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:*sigh* - 06Drivers Pushing Tesla’s Autopilot Beyond Its Abilities - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:53:02] <exec> 08└─No, what makes for a poor product is when it zaps the dog collar you're wearing to gain compliance.
[20:53:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:*sigh* - 06Drivers Pushing Tesla’s Autopilot Beyond Its Abilities - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:53:09] <exec> 08└─It isn't 100% their fault, but it is their fault for not anticipating the mental limitations of their drivers and doing something about it. They are the experts.
[20:53:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:May be? - 06Persian Gulf may Soon be Too Hot to Support Human Life - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:53:36] <exec> 08└─Public executions vs. put the guy in a room with a bunch of needles and only 1 or 2 dozen people get to watch. But everybody still knows about it. I would look more closely at what they're being executed for. Beheading isn't exactly the worst way to go, I would imagine, as long as the executioner is...
[20:54:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:''southerners'' - 06Update: Dad Who Shot "Snooping Vid Drone" Out of the Sky is Cleared of Charges - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:54:28] <exec> 08└─Down here they use traffic signs for target practice. Do you think they'll treat drones any different?
[20:54:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:''southerners'' - 06Update: Dad Who Shot "Snooping Vid Drone" Out of the Sky is Cleared of Charges - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:54:29] <exec> 08└─Yeah I'd say that's true. I've seen plenty of dumb redneck-style antics in rural China and Vietnam. The only difference was they chewed betel nut instead of Red Man.
[20:54:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Great precedent, thanks a lot. - 06Update: Dad Who Shot "Snooping Vid Drone" Out of the Sky is Cleared of Charges - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:54:35] <exec> 08└─Not too long ago a guy decapitated himself with his drone in Brooklyn: http://blogs.wsj.com [wsj.com]
[20:54:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"Justice" - 06Update: Dad Who Shot "Snooping Vid Drone" Out of the Sky is Cleared of Charges - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:54:46] <exec> 08└─Seems like a pretty clear dichotomy to me. Either the drone was flying close enough for the birdshot to down it in which case the shooting was justified and Merideth doesn't owe Boggs compensation or it was flying as high as claimed in which case the birdshot couldn't have brought it down and Meride...
[20:54:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score:2) 02Re:"Justice" - 06Update: Dad Who Shot "Snooping Vid Drone" Out of the Sky is Cleared of Charges - 640 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:54:57] <exec> 08└─Uhhh...if it was flying high he couldn't have hit it in the first place as birdshot loses its energy VERY quickly and the spread pattern widens very fast. this is why bird hunters have to use decoys and calls to get the birds very close, otherwise they aren't gonna hit squat. So the fact that he was...
[20:55:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03boristhespider [4048] (Score:2) 02Re:Utter nonsense! - 06JRR Tolkien: 'I Never Expected a Money Success' - 1303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:55:34] <exec> 08└─I am, to the surprise of no-one, an absolute nerd. I've even read the History of Middle Earth series - barring "The Lays of Middle Earth" because I can live without reading two epic poems about Beren and Luthien and about Turin, one in alliterative verse and the other in blank verse. I've read the L...
[20:56:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03isostatic [365] 02Huh, What?!? - 06JRR Tolkien: 'I Never Expected a Money Success' - 156 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:56:05] <exec> 08└─This interview was originally published in The Telegraph magazine on March 22. 1968. I know slashdot was a bit slow with news, but this takes the biscuit ;)
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