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[00:13:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score:2) 02Well... - 06Prosecutors Want iPhone Unlocked Even After Guilty Plea - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:05] <exec> 08└─While I remain as cynical as ever about all such things, I am at least happy that there are judges pretending to take a look at this.
[00:13:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Soo... the Tooth Fairy Law? - 06Prosecutors Want iPhone Unlocked Even After Guilty Plea - 1175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:06] <exec> 08└─That's about what it sounds like. Federal Prosecutors: Halmark refuses to produce the model they used for the Tooth Fairy on one of their cards. Make them 'just do it and stop arguing' please. Judge: Halmark? Halmark: That would be quite the trick your honor. We kept trying to explain to the prosecu...
[00:13:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:3, Insightful) 02over reach - 06Prosecutors Want iPhone Unlocked Even After Guilty Plea - 949 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:08] <exec> 08└─As with so many other laws, government wants to apply the law beyond, or far beyond, what the law was meant to do. I read the entire PDF, and Apple's response is very well written, and makes the point very well. If government is permitted to force Apple to crack (or try to crack, as the case may be)...
[00:13:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score:2) 02PENIS - 06Prosecutors Want iPhone Unlocked Even After Guilty Plea - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:10] <exec> 08└─That's about the insight I get from this article. It's just one of those articles which riles up everyone on this site saying "how dare they!!! freedom!!! tin foil hats!!!". It's as if the prosecutors wanting more information on a confessed criminal instantly makes them an unprecedented level of evi...
[00:13:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:PENIS - 06Prosecutors Want iPhone Unlocked Even After Guilty Plea - 915 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:13:11] <exec> 08└─Wanting more information is one thing, but violating people's rights and attempting to compromise everyone's security (remember, the government also wants encryption to have backdoors) to get it is unethical and anti-freedom. Trying to force Apple to break the encryption is just insane. By the way,...
[00:13:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Fuck the police - 06Prosecutors Want iPhone Unlocked Even After Guilty Plea - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:13] <exec> 08└─Make and do drugs.
[00:13:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03fnj [1654] (Score:2) 02Compulsion does not guarantee capability - 06Prosecutors Want iPhone Unlocked Even After Guilty Plea - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:15] <exec> 08└─Re IOS 9: The government could attempt to compel me to produce a unicorn for them, but that does not guarantee that I have the capability to produce a unicorn for them. Same with prime factoring a very large number.
[00:13:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:A billion euros - 06Starting Up the German "Sun" - 820 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:13:26] <exec> 08└─Those are all nuclear fusion. I have high hopes for Thorium reactors, which can be small scale too IIRC. Too much research money is tasked to large centralized systems, that are obviously very conducive to setting up power monopolies in the form of utility companies. In the future I'm hoping industr...
[00:13:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:A billion euros - 06Starting Up the German "Sun" - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:13:32] <exec> 08└─Jeez, I mean we could put that billion towards the J35 jet and get a reasonable $1.301 trillion budget instead of the pathetic $1.3 trillion it has currently.
[00:13:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03VanderDecken [5216] (Score:2) 02I want ... - 06Starting Up the German "Sun" - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:39] <exec> 08└─I want my Mr. Fusion. Please?
[00:13:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Another CRAP summary - 06Starting Up the German "Sun" - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:41] <exec> 08└─Loads of sleazy confusing hyperbole with zero substance.
[00:13:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03pinchy [777] (Score:1) 02Re:How it was built has already been solved - 06Egypt to Scan Pyramids, Seeking New Discoveries - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:13:59] <exec> 08└─Yea I saw that and thought they did micro gravity measurements and apparently found that ramp that spiraled around the perimeter. That was a long time ago and ought to have better instruments to verify it better.
[00:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Teh geyz - 06You Probably Have Herpes, the WHO Says - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:25] <exec> 08└─All because teh gay marriage was forced down our throats. And now we're gonna die. THANKS A LOT Obama.
[00:17:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Keeping the poor poor - 06SEC to Allow Small Investors to Crowdfund Startups - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:38] <exec> 08└─If you're not rich you can invest $2000. If you're rich, you can invest whatever you want. What's next, no investments if you're AA or Latino?
[00:18:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bogsnoticus [3982] (Score:1) 02Re:today's word of the day - 06Wearable Tech Market To Treble In Next Five Years - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:18:48] <exec> 08└─So, given the fact you are having difficulty understanding basic English, by your logic it would then certainly be worthwhile and beneficial for you to actually learn it, instead of demanding it be truncated to suit your limitations.
[00:20:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02This is what a Neoconservative looks Like - 06US Jets Scramble to Intercept Russian Planes near US Aircraft Carrier - 2636 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:20:05] <exec> 08└─The other day, an AC gave a definition and needed to be corrected. [soylentnews.org] Reading your post would be a good exercise for him. (While there is often significant overlap between the subsets of Authoritarian Reactionary and NeoCon, they are not one and the same.) top dog By what metric? Infa...
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[01:13:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02People PAY to read Rupert's crap? - 06Rupert Murdoch's "The Sun" Scraps Its Online Paywall - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:06] <exec> 08└─I'm shocked. Shocked. Yeah, I look at Fox now and then, but I don't PAY for it! Funny - I can't recall ever looking at the Sun. Is that only because it was behind a paywall, or do they just not report news? What's the word - tabloid? That's probably it. I've never intentionally clicked on this site...
[01:13:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:People PAY to read Rupert's crap? - 06Rupert Murdoch's "The Sun" Scraps Its Online Paywall - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:13:07] <exec> 08└─Valve should pre-release their games as open beta for the Linux platform before they launch the title on Windows. Linux users are good at testing, writing detailed bug reports, with step-by-step instructions how to reproduce bugs, attach screenshots, etc and are familiar with bug management and bug...
[01:13:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bogsnoticus [3982] (Score:2, Insightful) 02Re:Soo... the Tooth Fairy Law? - 06Prosecutors Want iPhone Unlocked Even After Guilty Plea - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:13:17] <exec> 08└─If you read TFA, you would have realised that it is iOS8 onwards that the encryption is enabled by default. The phone in question is running iOS7, so it is fully within Apple's technical capability to perform the decryption. Appl'se court case has been hinging around whether the feds have the legal...
[01:13:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Soo... the Tooth Fairy Law? - 06Prosecutors Want iPhone Unlocked Even After Guilty Plea - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:13:18] <exec> 08└─The fact that it's not enabled by default does not imply that Apple is capable of decrypting it any more easily than the NSA. It just means that by default the phones don't require any cracks to get at the data. This phone was encrypted and so they would have to crack it. That's of course assuming t...
[01:13:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2, Troll) 02Re:over reach - 06Prosecutors Want iPhone Unlocked Even After Guilty Plea - 561 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:13:21] <exec> 08└─While I agree with your statement, I would replace "the government" with "some hard-headed egomaniac prosecutor". While in too many cases, "the government" (in the DOJ's Brass sense) mechanically supports idiotic prosecutors who are just trying to make themselves look tough while trampling constitut...
[01:13:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:over reach - 06Prosecutors Want iPhone Unlocked Even After Guilty Plea - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:13:23] <exec> 08└─I would replace "the government" with "some hard-headed egomaniac prosecutor".
[01:13:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:over reach - 06Prosecutors Want iPhone Unlocked Even After Guilty Plea - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:13:25] <exec> 08└─Funny you should mention the "automotive technician may be abducted for the purpose of diagnosing the auto". I had to correct an expert forensic investigators shitty inspection of a brake problem in a court case. The fucking idiot missed wheel cylinders leaking brake fluid all over the place.
[01:13:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:over reach - 06Prosecutors Want iPhone Unlocked Even After Guilty Plea - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:13:26] <exec> 08└─Huh? But - everyone knows that the insides of the brake drums need to be lubricated, don't they? If you don't allow brake fluid to drip on them, they just get rusty and dusty.
[01:13:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:over reach - 06Prosecutors Want iPhone Unlocked Even After Guilty Plea - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:13:28] <exec> 08└─Interestingly, the all writs act, is merely a sentence (a) The Supreme Court and all courts established by Act of Congress may issue all writs necessary or appropriate in aid of their respective jurisdictions and agreeable to the usages and principles of law.
[01:13:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score:2, Informative) 02Re:Compulsion does not guarantee capability - 06Prosecutors Want iPhone Unlocked Even After Guilty Plea - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:13:31] <exec> 08└─The government could attempt to compel me to produce a unicorn for them, but that does not guarantee that I have the capability to produce a unicorn for them.
[01:13:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:A billion euros - 06Starting Up the German "Sun" - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:13:42] <exec> 08└─Fusion research is fundamentally flawed and always will be. Until we can compress space like the tremendous gravitational fields inside stars, fusion is doomed to fail. You simply cannot hope to replace gravity with magnets and think you'll get the same result. Gravity takes no energy to sustain. Ma...
[01:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:George Carlin - 06You Probably Have Herpes, the WHO Says - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:14:44] <exec> 08└─Hoipees. Get it right.
[01:17:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score:1) 02Re:To what end? - 06New Addressing System Abandons Numbers for Just Three Words - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:17:23] <exec> 08└─Both sets of coordinates miss the house and the barn. If you are aiming for a mobile target that is in that field, you will likely need real-time decision making capability, rather than bomb-on-coordinate targeting.
[01:19:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:hmm... - 06Compiler Jump Threading - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:19:46] <exec> 08└─Yea, the gnu memcpy function is half as many LOC.
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[02:13:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02Re:People PAY to read Rupert's crap? - 06Rupert Murdoch's "The Sun" Scraps Its Online Paywall - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:13:06] <exec> 08└─and they're also good at bitching when developers don't volunteer their time and expertise making software for the masses
[02:13:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score:2, Informative) 02Page 3 no longer paywalled - 06Rupert Murdoch's "The Sun" Scraps Its Online Paywall - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:07] <exec> 08└─I just followed the link, and page 3 seems no longer to be paywalled. Is that just me? Or is it maybe region-specific?
[02:13:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02domain name for main site - 06Rupert Murdoch's "The Sun" Scraps Its Online Paywall - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:09] <exec> 08└─For some reason, neither The Register nor SoylentNews provided the name of the site. After trying sun.co.uk and sun.com I looked it up: it's thesun.co.uk. By the by, I notice that sun.news is available.
[02:13:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score:2) 02Re:over reach - 06Prosecutors Want iPhone Unlocked Even After Guilty Plea - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:13:24] <exec> 08└─HR people who probably can't pick the good ones out of the bad. Might be different, but mainly I'm going on IT experience in hiring and who the HR folks forward to us for shortlists.
[02:13:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Re:PENIS - 06Prosecutors Want iPhone Unlocked Even After Guilty Plea - 915 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:13:29] <exec> 08└─Wanting more information is one thing, but violating people's rights and attempting to compromise everyone's security (remember, the government also wants encryption to have backdoors) to get it is unethical and anti-freedom. Trying to force Apple to break the encryption is just insane. By the way,...
[02:13:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:PENIS - 06Prosecutors Want iPhone Unlocked Even After Guilty Plea - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:13:31] <exec> 08└─It's as if the prosecutors wanting more information on a confessed criminal instantly makes them an unprecedented level of evil.
[02:13:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:PENIS - 06Prosecutors Want iPhone Unlocked Even After Guilty Plea - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:13:33] <exec> 08└─It's also very akin to applying for a search warrant after the case is closed. The entire purpose of a search warrant is to collect evidence, which has no application after the guilty plea.
[02:13:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:PENIS - 06Prosecutors Want iPhone Unlocked Even After Guilty Plea - 2555 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:13:35] <exec> 08└─Tin foil hats? What's unprecedented is the level of stupidity and malice. A prosecutor seeking information to help his criminal case is boringly normal. I agree with you; who cares right? A prosecutor who demands that Subway reform the exact sandwich that the defendant ate, not another one, but that...
[02:13:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] (Score:2) 02Re:A billion euros - 06Starting Up the German "Sun" - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:13:48] <exec> 08└─huh! shows what you know: i got some of them neodime, or sumpin magnets, and they is not only *strong*, jack, they is PERMANENT ! ! ! get you a metal sphere, smack them magnets all around, and, viola, as the frogs say, containment for about $25 of magnets off aliexpress...
[02:13:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03VortexCortex [4067] (Score:2) 02Re:A billion euros - 06Starting Up the German "Sun" - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:13:50] <exec> 08└─Gravity takes no energy to sustain
[02:13:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:A billion euros - 06Starting Up the German "Sun" - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:13:51] <exec> 08└─To make your bar magnet, somebody had to heat a bit of metal, in which the magnetic domains were randomly aligned, above its Curie point in the presence of a magnetic field, then cool it. I would assume that aligning the domains reduces the entropy within the metal, thereby increasing the entropy el...
[02:14:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Another CRAP summary - 06Starting Up the German "Sun" - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:14:08] <exec> 08└─It's about The German Sun. What were you expecting?
[02:14:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:"infra-red and muon" scanning - 06Egypt to Scan Pyramids, Seeking New Discoveries - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:14:25] <exec> 08└─You are not going to see anything inside with infrared scanning.
[02:14:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I've got it - 06You Probably Have Herpes, the WHO Says - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:14:50] <exec> 08└─Hmm, I seem to have got it from your Mom also :(.
[02:16:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] (Score:2) 02Re:No, they didn't... - 06SXSW Receives Threats, Cancels Online Harassment Panel, then Restores it - 1068 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:16:17] <exec> 08└─you mean you've discovered that a gender will act one way if in a group of the same gender, but differently if the other gender(s) is/are present ? ? ? this is amazing stuff... next you'll be telling me that nekkid apes act differently if among friends than strangers ! *snort* don't mean to pick on...
[02:17:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] (Score:2) 02Re:To what end? - 06New Addressing System Abandons Numbers for Just Three Words - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:17:39] <exec> 08└─at jack- i can't disagree with a single argument you've made (except it still obtains that 99%+ of us would have difficulty remembering lat/longs, vs this virtually foolproof mnemonic), but i still think it is a pretty cool idea, and probably has some great specific use...
[02:18:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score:2) 02Re:It's a method not a rule book, DERP! - 06The Scientific Method is a Myth - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:18:32] <exec> 08└─I know I'm getting sick of the SJWs on here and the other site, attacking SJWs. Perfect example upstream in this thread.
[02:18:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] (Score:2) 02Re:I'll try - 06The Scientific Method is a Myth - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:18:43] <exec> 08└─adduce
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[03:13:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bogsnoticus [3982] (Score:1) 02Re:Soo... the Tooth Fairy Law? - 06Prosecutors Want iPhone Unlocked Even After Guilty Plea - 474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:13:23] <exec> 08└─One more time for the dummies who don't read TFA. IOS8 onwards is the one where it is on by default, and that Apple does not have a master key for. The phone in question is IOS7, which Apple DO have a master key for, and are fully capable of decrypting it. The thing that Apple has been fighting is t...
[03:13:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Soo... the Tooth Fairy Law? - 06Prosecutors Want iPhone Unlocked Even After Guilty Plea - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:13:24] <exec> 08└─There is no need to decrypt it, and no need for Apple to do so. I don't know why anyone would defend the government at this point, which is routinely in opposition to freedom and privacy.
[03:13:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:PENIS - 06Prosecutors Want iPhone Unlocked Even After Guilty Plea - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:13:37] <exec> 08└─If the guy already pled guilty, surely they have no need to decrypt the phone, as surely they only sought to do that in order to win the case, not to establish precedent, right? Right?
[03:14:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03TrumpetPower! [590] (Score:2) 02Re:A billion euros - 06Starting Up the German "Sun" - 2080 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:14:03] <exec> 08└─What you'd get for your billion Euros would be an hundred thousand homes that would have a net zero energy consumption for basically forever. Not too shabby. While I'm all for basic research and applaud the efforts of this project...it's insulting to sell it as a financially viable path to energy pr...
[03:14:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mr Big in the Pants [4956] (Score:2) 02Re:Not surprising - 06You Probably Have Herpes, the WHO Says - 671 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:14:50] <exec> 08└─I would double down on the shingles. And when you read that shingles is a version of herpes you do tend to have an "ewwwwww" reaction even though it makes no sense! My retired mother just got it out of the blue in her eye. (one of the worst places to get it) Constant pain, angry welts, head aches, f...
[03:15:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score:2) 02Re:Herpes - 06You Probably Have Herpes, the WHO Says - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:15:02] <exec> 08└─I assume they were smiling because you had mono, the "kissing disease". Now if it were herpes maybe both sexes would be smiling at you, especially if they found the warts or lesions somewhere other than your mouth, but where another person's mouth on occasion ventures. ;-)
[03:15:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What's that smell? - 06MIT Group Explores Bacteria Use for Comfort Wear - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:15:38] <exec> 08└─I've smelled natto (from a grocery store in America) and to my gaijin nose it smelled like fecal matter.
[03:16:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Vanderhoth [61] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:No, they didn't... - 06SXSW Receives Threats, Cancels Online Harassment Panel, then Restores it - 780 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:16:41] <exec> 08└─No, it's still about ethics in the media, but the media is throwing all the spaghetti at the wall to find something that will stick. How fictional women are represented is just another lazy narrative to get people mad and attacking gamers to keep them from organizing any meaningful discussion about...
[03:17:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score:2) 02Re:To what end? - 06New Addressing System Abandons Numbers for Just Three Words - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:17:51] <exec> 08└─Both sets of coordinates miss the house and the barn.
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[03:20:10] <exec> 08└─Being readable and easier to maintain is better than saving on function overhead. If the compiler finds it is best to in-line some functions, let it do that. Unless you are dealing with an extremely resource constrained system.
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[04:19:39] <exec> 08└─Government not understanding technology is not a good thing. All of this "disruption" that is occurring without regulation is jeopardizing careers and stagnating wages, to the point where there's arguments of "living wage" to offset the income instability for most Americans... something that would h...
[04:19:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I don't know that it's a good thing - 06The Law Can’t Keep Up With Technology…and That’s a Very Good Thing - 720 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:19:40] <exec> 08└─For many of these newfangled industries - BTW many of which have little to do with technical brilliance on the part of the startup - there is a classic debate that has (at least) two sides. Maybe more. Back in the 18th and 19th century, you could argue that the law was slow to catch up with the indu...
[04:19:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I don't know that it's a good thing - 06The Law Can’t Keep Up With Technology…and That’s a Very Good Thing - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:19:41] <exec> 08└─Here's a profile from that time: Henry Clay Frick [wikipedia.org], founder of a coke (coal-derived fuel) manufacturing company, chairman of Carnegie Steel, and labeled "The Most Hated Man in America" (and probably the origin of the tamed-down expletive "Frickin'").
[04:19:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I don't know that it's a good thing - 06The Law Can’t Keep Up With Technology…and That’s a Very Good Thing - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:19:43] <exec> 08└─Yeah, the parallel to many of today's software billionaires like Larry Ellison, Jeff Bezos, and Steve Jobs is pretty easy. Bill Gates actually studied biographies of the 19th century robber barons, as well as Napolean, when he was a kid attending Lakeside prep school.
[04:20:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:over reach - 06Prosecutors Want iPhone Unlocked Even After Guilty Plea - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:20:13] <exec> 08└─I highly doubt that based on my experience working as an attorney in two State level government legal offices. The hiring there was done by other attorneys higher up the food chain. HR had nothing to do with it aside from explaining benefits, setting up payroll stuff, and other such things after bei...
[04:20:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score:2) 02Re:PENIS - 06Prosecutors Want iPhone Unlocked Even After Guilty Plea - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:20:22] <exec> 08└─the government is the 'perfect bully'. is this what we want from our government? right - it stopped being OUR government decades ago. now, they don't even pretend, anymore. how much deeper are we going to go before we smarten up and reverse course? we USED to be a shining example of freedom and coun...
[04:20:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:PENIS - 06Prosecutors Want iPhone Unlocked Even After Guilty Plea - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:20:24] <exec> 08└─You do know apple have a master key for this version of the software... If you had spent a tenth as much time understanding the situation as you did on your silly rant, you would have realized it was a pointless waste of time.
[04:20:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:A billion euros - 06Starting Up the German "Sun" - 1198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:20:51] <exec> 08└─So, you're saying that 10K Euros makes "free energy forever" for a house? Check the actual lifespan of a solar panel, or storage battery, or wind turbine gearbox. These things require manufacture, maintenance, and recycling of the used up parts, and all of that requires energy too. Solar and wind ar...
[04:20:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03TrumpetPower! [590] (Score:2) 02Re:A billion euros - 06Starting Up the German "Sun" - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:20:52] <exec> 08└─cover the entire roof of a suburban home at 20 watts per square foot (peak) and solar still can't satisfy sunbelt demands for cooling
[04:20:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:A billion euros - 06Starting Up the German "Sun" - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:20:54] <exec> 08└─Oh, separately, as to why I don't have my own solar power farm: trees. We like our trees, our trees provide shade and some semblance of an ecosystem around our home (birds, squirrels, etc.) Trees screw up solar power ROI something fierce, all they have to do is shade the roof for 30% of the day and...
[04:22:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NotSanguine [285] 02Re:1970s here again - 06How Tech Companies Exploit Zombies - 117 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:22:12] <exec> 08└─Airplane! [wikipedia.org] was reactionary parody comedy against cruddy disaster movies, not a unique force in itself.
[04:23:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No, they didn't... - 06SXSW Receives Threats, Cancels Online Harassment Panel, then Restores it - 846 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:23:46] <exec> 08└─A common misconception/SJW revisionary history. GamerGate didn't explode because of Nathan Grayson's non-existent journalistic integrity, the thing that got gamers really riled up against the gaming press was the series of "gamers are dead" articles, originally based on a GamaSutra article by Leigh...
[04:27:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:hmm... - 06Compiler Jump Threading - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:27:02] <exec> 08└─Being readable and easier to maintain is better than saving on function overhead.
[04:27:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03pk [2591] (Score:1) 02Re:Another garbage "article" from HugePickens.com - 06US Jets Scramble to Intercept Russian Planes near US Aircraft Carrier - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:27:44] <exec> 08└─I'm sorry, are you describing the United States there, or Russia?
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[05:19:46] <exec> 08└─FanDuel and DraftKings are a scourge on the sports scene
[05:19:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Someone has read too much Clayton Christensen - 06The Law Can’t Keep Up With Technology…and That’s a Very Good Thing - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:19:47] <exec> 08└─The sports scene is a scourge on the sports scene. It's all simply trash.
[05:19:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The ramblings of an irrelevant magazine - 06The Law Can’t Keep Up With Technology…and That’s a Very Good Thing - 2001 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:52] <exec> 08└─Hi; same AC as the "Someone has read too much Clayton Christensen" post up above. I looked at the URL of the source story, and lo and behold, it's from Newsweek. Time, Newsweek, Bloomberg, and now National Geographic are desperately trying to become more relevant in the news cycle, so they're becomi...
[05:20:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03gnuman [5013] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:A billion euros - 06Starting Up the German "Sun" - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:20:54] <exec> 08└─I have high hopes for Thorium reactors, which can be small scale too IIRC.
[05:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No, they didn't... - 06SXSW Receives Threats, Cancels Online Harassment Panel, then Restores it - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:23:56] <exec> 08└─That somebody gets favorable reviews for bad games is nothing new. And there's a very obvious reason for that: The primary source of revenue for game reviews is advertising from the game production companies, and if those companies stop getting favorable reviews they will pull their ads, which means...
[05:27:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03gnuman [5013] (Score:2) 02Re:hmm... - 06Compiler Jump Threading - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:27:16] <exec> 08└─Crazy, I know.
[05:28:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03pk [2591] (Score:1) 02Better Late Than Never? - 06US Jets Scramble to Intercept Russian Planes near US Aircraft Carrier - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:28:17] <exec> 08└─This is only a few days old, and is just a copy paste job from CNN, but still... better late than never right? Wait, it doesn't even have anything to do with technology!
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[06:19:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jiro [3176] (Score:3, Informative) 02Nope - 06On Hacking MicroSD Cards - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:19:41] <exec> 08└─Today at the Chaos Computer Congress (30C3), xobs and I disclosed a finding that some SD cards contain vulnerabilities that allow arbitrary code execution
[06:19:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score:2) 02Re:Nope - 06On Hacking MicroSD Cards - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:19:42] <exec> 08└─Who let this article through? I suppose someone was just knocking on the door and some helpful soul let him in.
[06:19:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02I really need to rewire my brain - 06On Hacking MicroSD Cards - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:19:43] <exec> 08└─Some 10 years ago I had to write an SDCC driver. I realized it had a microcontroller on it but it never occurred to me I could use that information in my own best interest. Instead of letting millions of users save pictures/videos/mp3's on their cellphones, I could be sitting pretty letting millions...
[06:20:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Page 3 no longer paywalled - 06Rupert Murdoch's "The Sun" Scraps Its Online Paywall - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:20:09] <exec> 08└─Parts were, parts weren't from here. The mentioned lady was paywalled, some others weren't.
[06:20:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:PENIS - 06Prosecutors Want iPhone Unlocked Even After Guilty Plea - 553 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:20:42] <exec> 08└─First, now that the defendant has plead guilty, the prosecution's legitimate reasons to want to examine the phone are gone. They won, time to go home. This is why the judge is perplexed. Next up, not only do they want to mindlessly pursue this moot point, they want to compel a third party to work at...
[06:26:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Huge growth! - 06Wearable Tech Market To Treble In Next Five Years - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:26:54] <exec> 08└─We must be (i) intelligent, or (ii) related. My count also is zero and will remain zero. I have no use for these devices.
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[07:19:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Spyware - 06Cyber Letters of Marque and Reprisal: "Hacking Back" - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:19:45] <exec> 08└─If I'm running proprietary software on my computer (or more likely, my phone), and it phones home to the manufacturer to send them my confidential data, can I "hack back" at the manufacturer and break into their code repository, so I can recompile the software without the malicious features?
[07:19:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Probably not the best Idea - 06Cyber Letters of Marque and Reprisal: "Hacking Back" - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:19:46] <exec> 08└─it avoids the unsolved and paralyzing question of what a state's response can be,
[07:19:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Pirateers? - 06Cyber Letters of Marque and Reprisal: "Hacking Back" - 724 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:19:48] <exec> 08└─Letters of Marque do make the man. But a requirement is to bring all prizes where practicable to an Admiralty Court to determine dispensation. Now when these "Privateers" take a bit more upon their selves, in order, no doubt, to turn the entire operation into a paying enterprise, and skip the courts...
[07:19:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Don't bring a knife... - 06Cyber Letters of Marque and Reprisal: "Hacking Back" - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:19:50] <exec> 08└─to a gun fight. And I mean that literally. Some of these Russian hackers are tied to the mob.
[07:20:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score:2) 02Re:I really need to rewire my brain - 06On Hacking MicroSD Cards - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:20:01] <exec> 08└─"damn, it feels good to be a gansta!"
[07:20:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Someone has read too much Clayton Christensen - 06The Law Can’t Keep Up With Technology…and That’s a Very Good Thing - 3781 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:20:09] <exec> 08└─Government not understanding technology is not a good thing. All of this "disruption" that is occurring without regulation is jeopardizing careers and stagnating wages, to the point where there's arguments of "living wage" to offset the income instability for most Americans... something that would h...
[07:20:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03quadrox [315] (Score:2) 02Re:Someone has read too much Clayton Christensen - 06The Law Can’t Keep Up With Technology…and That’s a Very Good Thing - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:20:13] <exec> 08└─Watching sports on TV is better than reality TV in the same way that shooting yourself in the foot is better than shooting yourself in the head. One might be preferable to the other, but I wouldn't want to do either.
[07:20:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Someone has read too much Clayton Christensen - 06The Law Can’t Keep Up With Technology…and That’s a Very Good Thing - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:20:14] <exec> 08└─FanDuel and DraftKings are a scourge on the sports scene, in an entertainment ecosystem already partially crippled by "fantasy sports"
[07:20:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Lots New but Little to Regulate - 06The Law Can’t Keep Up With Technology…and That’s a Very Good Thing - 968 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:20:19] <exec> 08└─Sure, TFA goes out of its way to list document things that came into being apparently without the government's knowledge (although that's debatable). He ends with the statement that the suggestion to have government keep up, was all a joke. And I suggest we leave it at that. There is so many new dev...
[07:20:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02Re:People PAY to read Rupert's crap? - 06Rupert Murdoch's "The Sun" Scraps Its Online Paywall - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:20:30] <exec> 08└─Many years ago I used to pick it up and the newsstands and quickly (before the attendant could say, "Hey! If you want to read it, pay for it.") I'd flip to page 3 for a look at British boobs.
[07:22:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score:1) 02Re:Calling six-figure marketing guys! - 06Egypt to Scan Pyramids, Seeking New Discoveries - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:22:07] <exec> 08└─Are sure it's a proper study? It sounds like a Pyramid Scam to me...
[07:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not surprising - 06You Probably Have Herpes, the WHO Says - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:22:22] <exec> 08└─I was lucky. I went to my Dr. and he knew immediately what it was. And it was on the edge of my eye. I had an emergency appointment for my eyes in 45 minutes. Luckily it did not spread there. And it truly is miserable. I feel for the pain your mother went through.
[07:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not surprising - 06You Probably Have Herpes, the WHO Says - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:22:25] <exec> 08└─Vaccines are not something that is popular these days. There are still plenty of people that will have pox parties because they are afraid of autism or something.
[07:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No, they didn't... - 06SXSW Receives Threats, Cancels Online Harassment Panel, then Restores it - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:24:02] <exec> 08└─I steered my wife
[07:24:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:No, they didn't... - 06SXSW Receives Threats, Cancels Online Harassment Panel, then Restores it - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:24:19] <exec> 08└─That's what the feminists simply do not get.
[07:24:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Re:No, they didn't... - 06SXSW Receives Threats, Cancels Online Harassment Panel, then Restores it - 144 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:24:32] <exec> 08└─How many times has somebody posted your home address along with threats to kill you and your immediate family (along with their home addresses)?
[07:26:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's a method not a rule book, DERP! - 06The Scientific Method is a Myth - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:26:21] <exec> 08└─I know I'm getting sick of the SJWs on here and the other site, attacking SJWs.
[07:26:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I'll try - 06The Scientific Method is a Myth - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:26:33] <exec> 08└─https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abductive_reasoning [wikipedia.org]
[07:26:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Re:Reactionary responses here - 06The Scientific Method is a Myth - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:26:46] <exec> 08└─Yours is the voice of logic and reason. The part of the article I liked was how it pointed out that science is becoming a religion of sorts. Whether you like it or not, the general populace has a middle school level understanding of science which peaks with the phrase "scientific method". Use that p...
[07:26:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:One cannot prove a theory - 06The Scientific Method is a Myth - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:26:50] <exec> 08└─Well, get your mind out of the gutter and quit obsessing over T&A! Nice trick with the disjunction in the antecedent. Won't save you, though, from the confirmation bias of a Modus Ponens! Aha! Have at thee!
[07:28:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Re:Fuck Russians - 06US Jets Scramble to Intercept Russian Planes near US Aircraft Carrier - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:28:31] <exec> 08└─China and France tried that with varying success that ended the same way. How do we build a set of rules that are actually able to control the funneling of power? I have hope for self sustaining communities and free sharing of information. Hard to control people whocan take care of themselves.
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[08:19:55] <exec> 08└─It isn't just SD cards. A similar story went around about USB flash drives. Hard drives also have a computer in them and flashable firmware. Optical drives too. oops, so much for that read only boot CD to validate a system's security from. And most of it has only the most crude protections against a...
[08:20:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score:2) 02Re:I don't know that it's a good thing - 06The Law Can’t Keep Up With Technology…and That’s a Very Good Thing - 1487 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:20:12] <exec> 08└─Their lives weren't just dismal — until regulations were finally put in place, the situation was better described as horrific. Anyone that cheers on the idea of industries bypassing government regulation should read Upton Sinclair's classic exposé novel The Jungle [wikipedia.org]. Here's a bit ab...
[08:20:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Lots New but Little to Regulate - 06The Law Can’t Keep Up With Technology…and That’s a Very Good Thing - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:20:15] <exec> 08└─Mountain. Molehill. It works. The last thing we need is a government representative on every dev team.
[08:21:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03gnuman [5013] 02Re:A billion euros - 06Starting Up the German "Sun" - 74 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:21:22] <exec> 08└─I have high hopes for Thorium reactors, which can be small scale too IIRC.
[08:21:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03radu [1919] (Score:1) 02Re:A billion euros - 06Starting Up the German "Sun" - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:21:33] <exec> 08└─A billion euros
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[09:19:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03VanderDecken [5216] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Charging when? - 06Solar Vehicle Charging at Home - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:19:42] <exec> 08└─Sunrise today was at 7:36. Sunset was at 4:59. Just when is it that the PV on the house charges the car? Before I leave for work or after I return? Yes I know: storage ...
[09:19:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score:2) 02Re:Charging when? - 06Solar Vehicle Charging at Home - 610 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:19:44] <exec> 08└─More importantly, how much does an electric car, all the PV and the necessary cabling and installation cost. Because, as far as I'm concerned, cost is linked directly to the rarity / difficulty of managing the substances involved, and the amount of processing required to be done to them, and therefo...
[09:19:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02That's "or" not "and" - 06Solar Vehicle Charging at Home - 693 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:19:45] <exec> 08└─> not only for household consumption but also to charge their personal electric vehicle If you look at the energy consumption of a typical house and car, you'll find that the solar PV installation that approaches affordable will have the capacity to provide for some of the house's demand _or_ some o...
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[09:19:57] <exec> 08└─I can see the justice oozing out of the internet. This only has merit if the perpetrator has something of value in the first place. Otherwise, it's just revenge and retribution.
[09:20:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03rigrig [5129] (Score:1) 02Re:People PAY to read Rupert's crap? - 06Rupert Murdoch's "The Sun" Scraps Its Online Paywall - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:20:41] <exec> 08└─Apparently people don't pay to read it, or they wouldn't abandon their paywall.
[09:21:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03G-forze [1276] (Score:2) 02Re:A billion euros - 06Starting Up the German "Sun" - 490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:21:38] <exec> 08└─How about not needing huge pressure vessels, since molten salt thorium reactors work at atmospheric pressure? That alone enables far smaller and safer reactors. Maybe you meant that this is possible with pure uranium reactors too? In that case, my question is; why isn't that being done? Another huge...
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[10:19:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03moondoctor [2963] (Score:2) 02Sensors - 06Google Tests Its Ad Tech On Billboards. Here's Why. - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:19:49] <exec> 08└─With google at the helm it's hard to imagine that these billboards wouldn't get loaded with all types of sensors, cameras, facial rec, emotional analysis and so on.
[10:19:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Charging when? - 06Solar Vehicle Charging at Home - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:19:59] <exec> 08└─You're either a utility company shill, or failed EE 101 miserably. Either way, -1 Half-wit.
[10:20:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Marketing droids at work - 06Solar Vehicle Charging at Home - 625 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:20:02] <exec> 08└─The house of the future is environmentally friendly, energy efficient and smart. Is it just me, or is marketing-speak like this just nauseating? Peak generation time is during the day. One might suppose that most people - along with their electric cars - are at work. So we're going to use PV to char...
[10:20:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score:3, Insightful) 02No - you don't know what you're hacking - 06Cyber Letters of Marque and Reprisal: "Hacking Back" - 757 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:20:15] <exec> 08└─I was discussing this with Richard Clayton (an eminent and practice-oriented security researcher). He argued a big NO for hacking back, on the grounds that you do not know what you'll be hacking. You don't know if the zombie you're hacking back is embedded or not, and what its normal function is. Ha...
[10:20:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:I really need to rewire my brain - 06On Hacking MicroSD Cards - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:20:27] <exec> 08└─Followed shortly by: "Watch your cornhole dude!"
[10:20:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Good laws don't need to keep up with technology - 06The Law Can’t Keep Up With Technology…and That’s a Very Good Thing - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:20:49] <exec> 08└─Good laws don't need to keep up with technology. For example, take the law that forbids you to kill someone. It didn't need update every time a new way to kill was invented, as it doesn't say "you are not allowed to cut someone's throat, shoot a bullet in his head, or hit a knife into his heart", it...
[10:22:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Re:A billion euros - 06Starting Up the German "Sun" - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:22:09] <exec> 08└─No, what you'd get for a billion Euros is a failed project that produced dubious research and a request for 10 billion Euros for more research.
[10:24:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sir Finkus [192] (Score:2) 02Re:No, they didn't... - 06SXSW Receives Threats, Cancels Online Harassment Panel, then Restores it - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:24:41] <exec> 08└─you mean you've discovered that a gender will act one way if in a group of the same gender, but differently if the other gender(s) is/are present ? ? ?
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[11:20:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Charging when? - 06Solar Vehicle Charging at Home - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:20:28] <exec> 08└─Did the school you went to, if any, cover concepts like amortization, cost vs value, or basic, maturation of technologies, or diminished cost over time? Didn't think so. Yes, solar panels are recyclable. Unfortunately, so is stupidity.
[11:20:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score:2) 02Re:Charging when? - 06Solar Vehicle Charging at Home - 3149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:20:29] <exec> 08└─Last time I priced up a PV installation capable of pushing 32A down a cable to an electric car (Two years ago? So not that far out), the sum total of components was more than I've ever paid for all the cars I've ever owned. Without even including running, maintenance, and ongoing costs - just purcha...
[11:20:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Marketing droids at work - 06Solar Vehicle Charging at Home - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:20:34] <exec> 08└─True. Trouble is, Joe Consumer is more often "informed" by marketing shitheads than by educators. P.T. Barnum was a genius.
[11:20:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdr_tofu [5669] (Score:2, Insightful) 02a big battery in the house - 06Solar Vehicle Charging at Home - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:20:36] <exec> 08└─It's a great idea to use *excess* power to charge batteries in your electric car. I also like the idea of having your electric car power your home (in conjunction with home solar) during power outages (at least for a couple of days). This can eliminate the need for purchase, maintenance and operatio...
[11:20:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Pirateers? - 06Cyber Letters of Marque and Reprisal: "Hacking Back" - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:20:46] <exec> 08└─I'm right there with you except skip the cyber part. When SN really takes off and gets its own caribbean island, I'm hoisting the black flag and slitting some throats.
[11:20:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Ask the Chinese - 06Cyber Letters of Marque and Reprisal: "Hacking Back" - 473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:20:50] <exec> 08└─The PLA/CPC powerlords have been granting tacit de facto, if not de jure, letters of marque to their cracking gangs for years. Which gangs are directly sponsored and which are non-government actors is a murky area. Some would argue that in China there is no distinction at all. However, such arrangem...
[11:25:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:No, they didn't... - 06SXSW Receives Threats, Cancels Online Harassment Panel, then Restores it - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:25:36] <exec> 08└─Well, the good news is your trolling reflexes still work. The bad news is third-gen feminists screech their views out like harpies every chance they get, so anyone who has ever heard them is qualified to say what they think.
[11:29:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score:2) 02Re:hmm... - 06Compiler Jump Threading - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:29:16] <exec> 08└─Even inline is only a suggestion to the compiler, not a hard requirement.
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[12:19:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sir Finkus [192] (Score:2) 02Tough one - 06Ask Soylent: What Computer to Get Grandma - 968 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:19:43] <exec> 08└─It's a tough one. I've done this for a few "grandmas" and it can be difficult for them to adapt to new user interfaces. I've been burned by the Windows 10 update once, and I don't trust previous Windows versions to not dark pattern a naive user into "upgrading". I don't think simply turning off upda...
[12:19:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03mmcmonster [401] (Score:2) 02What for? - 06Ask Soylent: What Computer to Get Grandma - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:19:44] <exec> 08└─What does your grandmother do? Just light web browsing and email? Banking? Read books? Heavy duty email? Light Gaming? Hard Core Gaming? It really does make a difference. Though I think the answer will lie somewhere between: 1 - iPad if she doesn't create much content 2 - MacBook Air if you really d...
[12:19:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What for? - 06Ask Soylent: What Computer to Get Grandma - 633 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:19:46] <exec> 08└─This. I got my mother (older than your grandmother) an iPad. She absolutely loves it and now refuses to pay any attention to Dad or me because she's too busy playing Words or FreeCell. I even put Netflix on it for her and showed her how to use it. She FaceTimes me, Skypes my cousin, and e-mails ever...
[12:19:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Caballo Negro [1794] (Score:1) 02Re:What for? - 06Ask Soylent: What Computer to Get Grandma - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:19:48] <exec> 08└─Just to add that secondhand MacBooks going back to Core 2 Duo or later perform fine for light-to-medium work with the latest OS X, so long as you replace any HD with an SSD. But check for screen burn before buying, and be prepared to replace the battery if it's exchangeable.
[12:19:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03WizardFusion [498] (Score:2) 02Windows 7 - 06Ask Soylent: What Computer to Get Grandma - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:19:49] <exec> 08└─Get a Windows 7 (or 8.1 - whatever she was on before). Set all windows updates to either Manual or point to your WSUS server where the force 10 upgrades shouldn't appear. If you change the interface on her (windows 10, linux, etc) it will take longer for her to get working and as you said, some of h...
[12:19:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Android - 06Ask Soylent: What Computer to Get Grandma - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:19:51] <exec> 08└─Google understands that grandma really doesn't need a computer. Grandma needs a thingy that does stuff. Android does stuff. Get grandma an Android thingy and be done with it.
[12:19:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03ArcticScavenger [5890] (Score:1) 02There are 4 kind of evil - 06Ask Soylent: What Computer to Get Grandma - 785 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:19:53] <exec> 08└─The issues with Windows 10 privacy is that we don't know what Microsoft is collecting. It's all encrypted and I haven't seen anyone delivering proof of abuse. The next issue is that a large set of the privacy concern features have now been back ported to windows 7 and 8. So good luck with skipping o...
[12:19:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Linux Lite - 06Ask Soylent: What Computer to Get Grandma - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:19:55] <exec> 08└─Seriously, try Linux lite in a VM and see if the Win32 packages on the "must have" list run. The last time I refurbished an old machine with a dead HDD I was very impressed by how far WINE had come. So far no complaints from the user who is running more than a couple of windows programs that he coul...
[12:19:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Be nice to grandma... - 06Ask Soylent: What Computer to Get Grandma - 756 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:19:57] <exec> 08└─Just wait for Black Friday and get her a nice new Windows 10 PC/laptop or maybe something from Apple. She's your grandmother and this may be her last computer, get her something nice and tell her how much you lover her. Privacy? The companies/governments/whoever know all about her already, unless sh...
[12:20:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03FunkyLich [4689] (Score:1) 02Re:Sensors - 06Google Tests Its Ad Tech On Billboards. Here's Why. - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:20:02] <exec> 08└─Not all hope is lost. Just exactly like a stronger light gives rise to darker shadows, that's how I would think the dislike for advertising will jump up to another level too. We just need to wait a bit and watch. No matter what, my addblocker is here to stay for a long time. No matter what google or...
[12:20:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sensors - 06Google Tests Its Ad Tech On Billboards. Here's Why. - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:20:04] <exec> 08└─Best argument for easy access to firearms ever. Long live the Second Amendment!
[12:20:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimbrooking [3465] (Score:2) 02Distracting - 06Google Tests Its Ad Tech On Billboards. Here's Why. - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:20:06] <exec> 08└─I'm American and spend a month in France in 2013 and another 5 weeks in Europe (mostly France) earlier this year. I saw a LOT of these DOOHs and they tended to be VERY distracting, esp. the ones for the Italian swim suit manufacturer! I'm surprised they are allowed where drivers can see them.
[12:20:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] 02No - you don't know what you're hacking - 06Cyber Letters of Marque and Reprisal: "Hacking Back" - 757 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:20:33] <exec> 08└─I was discussing this with Richard Clayton (an eminent and practice-oriented security researcher). He argued a big NO for hacking back, on the grounds that you do not know what you'll be hacking. You don't know if the zombie you're hacking back is embedded or not, and what its normal function is. Ha...
[12:28:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score:2) 02Re:hmm... - 06Compiler Jump Threading - 703 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:28:55] <exec> 08└─This is the correct answer: having a 'single point-of-return' can be useful, especially in C where there's no RAII to handle cleanup automatically, the way you can in C++. It's also possible that single-point-of-return was required by coding guidelines that the authors were required to follow. (It's...
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[13:19:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Walzmyn [987] (Score:2) 02Re:Tough one - 06Ask Soylent: What Computer to Get Grandma - 989 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:19:47] <exec> 08└─I'm in idiot. Why didn't I think of using SSH for updates? For crying out loud, that's how my own laptop usually gets updated; I see an alert on my desktop and I just update them both from the same chair. That was my primary concern about getting her on Linux and me living in another state - updates...
[13:19:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03soylentsandor [309] (Score:2) 02Re:Linux Lite - 06Ask Soylent: What Computer to Get Grandma - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:19:55] <exec> 08└─Seriously, try Linux lite in a VM and see if the Win32 packages on the "must have" list run. The last time I refurbished an old machine with a dead HDD I was very impressed by how far WINE had come.
[13:19:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score:2) 02Re:Be nice to grandma... - 06Ask Soylent: What Computer to Get Grandma - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:19:58] <exec> 08└─I agree that Windows would be the easiest choice in this case. But a factor to consider would be that an older Windows user is more likely to become a victim of scammers. So for me it would depend on how "scammer aware" grandma is.
[13:19:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03CoolHand [438] (Score:2) 02Portable Picasa on Linux - 06Ask Soylent: What Computer to Get Grandma - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:20:00] <exec> 08└─I'd get a used laptop, install Mint or Freya, and let her use Portable Picasa [toplinuxapps.com].
[13:20:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Portable Picasa on Linux - 06Ask Soylent: What Computer to Get Grandma - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:20:01] <exec> 08└─There's an older Linux version of Picassa if you can find it. Some of the online functions no longer work correctly IIRC.
[13:20:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03chrysosphinx [5262] (Score:1) 02FreeBSD/PC-BSD - 06Ask Soylent: What Computer to Get Grandma - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:20:03] <exec> 08└─I'd recommend PC-BSD for grandma. Linux is still too freaky, certainly not good enough for a desktop.
[13:21:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:domain name for main site - 06Rupert Murdoch's "The Sun" Scraps Its Online Paywall - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:21:33] <exec> 08└─Even better, soylent.news is available, and so is lentnews.soy.
[13:27:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:The Dot-Com Boom was a 'learning opportunity' - 06SEC to Allow Small Investors to Crowdfund Startups - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:27:00] <exec> 08└─My understanding is that 400,000 computer programmers were thrown out of work.
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[14:19:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03chrysosphinx [5262] (Score:2, Interesting) 02Not buying that - 06First China-Made Passenger Jet Leaves Production Line - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:41] <exec> 08└─Are we really supposed to believe China made no passenger jet ever before? If so, than I failed at it. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[14:19:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Not buying that - 06First China-Made Passenger Jet Leaves Production Line - 1012 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:19:42] <exec> 08└─It is the first passenger aircraft 'designed to compete in the market for large passenger jetliners' to go into production. Furthermore, from your link: By the time the prototype was first flown, debate about its viability surfaced, based on a design that was already 30 years old, CAAC, which alread...
[14:19:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not flying that - 06First China-Made Passenger Jet Leaves Production Line - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:19:43] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't get into that made in china jet. I'd be afraid of the wings falling off.
[14:19:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Oh Well - 06First China-Made Passenger Jet Leaves Production Line - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:45] <exec> 08└─China's domestic market is big enough to subsidize this outfit till it becomes competitive with Boeing/Airbus. Even if developed economy don't buy it (initially), they'd be able to sell at discount to developing countries.
[14:19:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:3, Insightful) 02A great nation must have its own small electronics - 06First China-Made Passenger Jet Leaves Production Line - 685 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:47] <exec> 08└─Suppose the whole rest of the planet grew weary of our errant ways and so embargoed the United States. Would our defense manufacturers have the means to supply the United States Marines with, say, a walkie-talkie? When I was but a lad, one could not hope to obtain a Design Win for a new part until t...
[14:19:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Touché) 02Re:A great nation must have its own small electron - 06First China-Made Passenger Jet Leaves Production Line - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:19:49] <exec> 08└─... and that is how I learned to stop worrying, because the United States is not a great nation.
[14:19:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Competition is good for progress - 06First China-Made Passenger Jet Leaves Production Line - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:50] <exec> 08└─Good for them. Competition discourages complacency and encourages innovation. Wait, this is China, and the trendy meme says China = BAD. Those yellow devils never do nothing on their own! They be steal from USA the greatest ever country!!1!one 8===D suck it china
[14:19:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03BasilBrush [3994] (Score:2) 02Re:Tough one - 06Ask Soylent: What Computer to Get Grandma - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:20:00] <exec> 08└─She made absolutely the right choice for her. She's got an easy to use, secure computer which will run her key application. Had you served your own preferences instead, she'd probably have a Linux Laptop that she wouldn't use.
[14:20:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Windows 7 - 06Ask Soylent: What Computer to Get Grandma - 1293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:20:05] <exec> 08└─You can stop the Windows 10 upgrade more easily than that. Uninstall update KB3035583, and-- this is the crucial part-- blacklist it in Windows update. However, I would still see if I could switch her over to Linux. As others have pointed out, WINE is a strong possibility for those must-have Windows...
[14:20:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03BasilBrush [3994] (Score:2) 02Re:Android - 06Ask Soylent: What Computer to Get Grandma - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:20:07] <exec> 08└─Google understands that she "needs a thingy that does stuff" because it's been spying on her activities. Google advertises Android to her incessantly. Turns out it's the wrong thingy to do the wrong stuff.
[14:20:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03iamjacksusername [1479] (Score:2) 02Re:Be nice to grandma... - 06Ask Soylent: What Computer to Get Grandma - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:20:13] <exec> 08└─Best advice here
[14:20:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03srobert [4803] (Score:2) 02Re:FreeBSD/PC-BSD - 06Ask Soylent: What Computer to Get Grandma - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:20:17] <exec> 08└─You got modded "funny", but maybe you should be taken seriously. I put Xubuntu on the laptops of my wife and my sister. (Incidentally, we're at the grandparenting age). I use FreeBSD on my own laptop. Lately, it occurred to me it might be easier and less buggy if I just put them on FreeBSD and loade...
[14:20:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02IBM Selectric - 06Ask Soylent: What Computer to Get Grandma - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:19] <exec> 08└─A bottle of whiteout in her X-mas stocking would be a nice touch. http://www-03.ibm.com [ibm.com]
[14:20:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score:2) 02"Peak Desktop" is in the past - 06Ask Soylent: What Computer to Get Grandma - 2472 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:20] <exec> 08└─Occasionally I get asked too, what machine to choose. And even for myself, I think it's a quite dire situation. I figure mainstream "peak desktop" was hit in about 2010 with Windows 7, Snow Leopard and Lucid Lynx. Since then everything went downhill, because the vendors figured out that the fact tha...
[14:21:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Arr, matey, on the digital seas! - 06Cyber Letters of Marque and Reprisal: "Hacking Back" - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:01] <exec> 08└─Finally, we'll be able to have actual pirates on the Internet. What's the digital version of hanging scalawags by their bowels?
[14:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Parallel construction - 06Prosecutors Want iPhone Unlocked Even After Guilty Plea - 563 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:26] <exec> 08└─The new stupidity isn't that the government is trying to get Apple to do the impossible; that's old news. The new news is that they're trying to unlock the phone after the defendant pleaded guilty. The case is over, and even if it were possible for Apple to decrypt the phone, why would the feds want...
[14:26:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03iamjacksusername [1479] (Score:2) 02Re:To what end? - 06New Addressing System Abandons Numbers for Just Three Words - 938 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:26:50] <exec> 08└─It is an interesting idea but I cannot see it catching on. There is precedent - another comment below mentioned Maidenhead Locator System which is a system used by some hams. In a basic 6 character entry, the world is divided into squares where no point in each square is more than 12KM apart. Furthe...
[14:27:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Is your heart made of stone? - 06SEC to Allow Small Investors to Crowdfund Startups - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:27:20] <exec> 08└─Is there but one ounce of human compassion to be found on your person? I honestly do not regard startups as a good thing.
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[15:19:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Microsoft reformed? - 06Microsoft-Connected Xamarin Demolishes the Freedom of Android - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:41] <exec> 08└─It looks like Microsoft hasn't reformed as some would like to think
[15:19:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:Microsoft reformed? - 06Microsoft-Connected Xamarin Demolishes the Freedom of Android - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:19:42] <exec> 08└─Google: Wants a nice take via Google Play every time somebody adds an app to their phone.
[15:19:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Editing - 06Microsoft-Connected Xamarin Demolishes the Freedom of Android - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:44] <exec> 08└─Maybe you editors wanna add a bit about who this Abel Avram person is?
[15:19:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03snick [1408] (Score:3, Insightful) 02The editors are just trolling us now - 06Microsoft-Connected Xamarin Demolishes the Freedom of Android - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:46] <exec> 08└─Article: interesting. Headline: WTF???
[15:19:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02Eh... Why would anyone use .NET? - 06Microsoft-Connected Xamarin Demolishes the Freedom of Android - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:48] <exec> 08└─For like anything?
[15:19:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Noldir [1216] (Score:4, Interesting) 02The article shines another light though - 06Microsoft-Connected Xamarin Demolishes the Freedom of Android - 786 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:49] <exec> 08└─From the article: RoboVM is a complicated piece of technology that we have worked hard for years to create. Over the past few months, we have seen competitors actively exploiting our good faith by using our open source code to compete with us directly in commercial products. On...
[15:19:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:The article shines another light though - 06Microsoft-Connected Xamarin Demolishes the Freedom of Android - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:19:51] <exec> 08└─On the flip side, we have received almost no meaningful contributions to our open source code.
[15:19:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Touché) 02Re:Not flying that - 06First China-Made Passenger Jet Leaves Production Line - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:20:00] <exec> 08└─But you gladly fly in the 787? The one that the engineers who built it, refuse to fly in? After all, this C919 is likely very similar to the 787. I dare to venture that the designs were stolen from Boeing!
[15:20:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:A great nation must have its own small electron - 06First China-Made Passenger Jet Leaves Production Line - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:20:04] <exec> 08└─But Freedom!
[15:20:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02And for regional jets - 06First China-Made Passenger Jet Leaves Production Line - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:06] <exec> 08└─The Economist has a short piece also covering other players in regional jet segment: http://www.economist.com [economist.com]
[15:20:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03iamjacksusername [1479] (Score:4, Funny) 02Thank Boeing Outsourcing - 06First China-Made Passenger Jet Leaves Production Line - 615 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:08] <exec> 08└─Boeing taught the Chinese suppliers how to make aircraft components. They sold out their expertise in an effort to reduce costs. It did not work, of course. They had to fly Boeing engineers to the suppliers to teach them how to do the thing Boeing was paying the supplier to do. The end result was an...
[15:20:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:Thank Boeing Outsourcing - 06First China-Made Passenger Jet Leaves Production Line - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:20:10] <exec> 08└─"Death by MBA"
[15:20:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmoschner [3296] (Score:2) 02Re:Tough one - 06Ask Soylent: What Computer to Get Grandma - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:20:21] <exec> 08└─Don't rule out a Chromebook. Cheaper to buy/replace and less on the machine software wise to maintain. If someone is already on board the google ecosystem it makes it that much easier.
[15:20:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What for? - 06Ask Soylent: What Computer to Get Grandma - 1575 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:20:25] <exec> 08└─Another consideration is what they are used to and physically capable of using. For example I recently did this. I suggested an iPad almost immediately. They both came back and said holding it up for any amount of time was too much. They have an amazon fire and they only use it for small amounts of...
[15:20:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03SDRefugee [4477] (Score:1) 02Re:Windows 7 - 06Ask Soylent: What Computer to Get Grandma - 1039 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:20:28] <exec> 08└─Since I'm a retired sysadmin, I've set up quite a few local older folks with XUbuntu, in most cases when their older machine, still on XP, got choked up with malware and we discovered that they didn't have any recovery disks. Many of those people had me on their speeddials for help prior to the upgr...
[15:20:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:Be nice to grandma... - 06Ask Soylent: What Computer to Get Grandma - 715 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:20:37] <exec> 08└─Giving money to Microsoft or Apple is just encouraging their various abuses. My girlfriend runs Linux, and has for about 6 years now. My mother and her current partner have run Linux for about 4 years. The only call I've got was after mom got a new machine I got a call from her partner because he co...
[15:20:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03chrysosphinx [5262] 02FreeBSD/PC-BSD - 06Ask Soylent: What Computer to Get Grandma - 101 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:40] <exec> 08└─I'd recommend PC-BSD for grandma. Linux is still too freaky, certainly not good enough for a desktop.
[15:20:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:IBM Selectric - 06Ask Soylent: What Computer to Get Grandma - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:20:43] <exec> 08└─I tried whiteout but now I can't see the screen.
[15:20:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03iamjacksusername [1479] (Score:2) 02What Grandmas want - 06Ask Soylent: What Computer to Get Grandma - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:45] <exec> 08└─Grandma wants a few basic things - 1. To look at pictures of her grandchildren 2. To browse the web. She may like to watch knitting videos 3. To check her email (likely AOL) 4. Forward cat pictures You can get her a computer but an iPad is probably best. Other Grandmas will likely have one so, when...
[15:20:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What Grandmas want - 06Ask Soylent: What Computer to Get Grandma - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:20:47] <exec> 08└─Nice stereotyping. Better ask gramma what she wants. Maybe she likes kitty porn.
[15:20:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03iamjacksusername [1479] (Score:2) 02Re:What Grandmas want - 06Ask Soylent: What Computer to Get Grandma - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:20:48] <exec> 08└─In the words of George Clooney in the film Up In The Air, "I'm like my mother, I stereotype. It's faster."
[15:20:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03PizzaRollPlinkett [4512] (Score:2) 02even ipads don't always help - 06Ask Soylent: What Computer to Get Grandma - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:50] <exec> 08└─People who don't use computers much get baffled by user interfaces changes. Google completely rewrote YouTube for iOS to look like an Android material design app. Very, very confusing for people used to their old app. You can't really have a "grandma" computer or iPad these days. If a user is not ad...
[15:20:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Privacy? Is your Grandma a terrorist? - 06Ask Soylent: What Computer to Get Grandma - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:52] <exec> 08└─Privacy? What is your Grandma trying to hide? Only people who are up to no good are concerned about privacy. Is your grandmother a terrorist?
[15:20:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03TrumpetPower! [590] (Score:2) 02TurboTax for business - 06Ask Soylent: What Computer to Get Grandma - 726 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:54] <exec> 08└─Only slightly off-topic. I personally run OS X an OpenBSD. There is exactly one Windows-only application that I actually need, that I've up to now run in a VM: TurboTax for business. It does all the capital depreciation stuff and what-not that would be kinda crazy for me to do myself in a spreadshee...
[15:21:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sensors - 06Google Tests Its Ad Tech On Billboards. Here's Why. - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:21:01] <exec> 08└─No matter what, my addblocker is here to stay for a long time.
[15:21:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Re:Sensors - 06Google Tests Its Ad Tech On Billboards. Here's Why. - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:21:02] <exec> 08└─no, but it does MUL and DIV very fast. I use it to reduce my RISC
[15:21:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sensors - 06Google Tests Its Ad Tech On Billboards. Here's Why. - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:21:04] <exec> 08└─How long before we get Microsoft BingBoards?
[15:21:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Distracting - 06Google Tests Its Ad Tech On Billboards. Here's Why. - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:21:06] <exec> 08└─Maybe it's just that us Europeans are not as easily distracted as you Americans. :-)
[15:21:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Distracting - 06Google Tests Its Ad Tech On Billboards. Here's Why. - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:21:08] <exec> 08└─What do you mea.... ooooh...shiny bobble
[15:21:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03TrumpetPower! [590] (Score:2) 02Re:Charging when? - 06Solar Vehicle Charging at Home - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:21:18] <exec> 08└─Last time I looked, because I did look, the entire PV system didn't produce enough to keep a single server operational without battery backup.
[15:21:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Charging when? - 06Solar Vehicle Charging at Home - 947 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:21:19] <exec> 08└─People don't recycle solar because they're still using it. Old cells basically have their output halved. Even shattered cells can be regrouped into a panel. I also find it hard to believe that your solar install can't keep a single server online. How many KW are you using and how much is installed o...
[15:21:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03VanderDecken [5216] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Charging when? - 06Solar Vehicle Charging at Home - 1088 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:21:22] <exec> 08└─Wow. I post something a little negative and all of a sudden I'm a troll, a shill, and a half-wit. Actually, I'm all for moving away from fossil fuels. However with respect to my original comment I happen to be in an area where this time of year there *is* no sunlight during the hours people are typi...
[15:21:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03TrumpetPower! [590] (Score:2) 02Re:Charging when? - 06Solar Vehicle Charging at Home - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:21:24] <exec> 08└─Wow. I post something a little negative and all of a sudden I'm a troll, a shill, and a half-wit. [...] For the record, I was actually going for "Funny", but it was late, I was tired, and I guess I only made it half-way there ...
[15:21:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03TrumpetPower! [590] (Score:2) 02Re:a big battery in the house - 06Solar Vehicle Charging at Home - 1999 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:21:29] <exec> 08└─Nobody's really commercialized the vehicle-to-home or vehicle-to-grid backfeeding you're describing, though there's been lots of talk about it. It makes perfect sense, and the only real technical challenge is isolating the home such that, if the grid goes down, the vehicle doesn't wind up energizing...
[15:21:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Pirateers? - 06Cyber Letters of Marque and Reprisal: "Hacking Back" - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:21:40] <exec> 08└─Hmm, i think i'll wait to visit the SN island until you've exercised so of that crazy from your system : )
[15:21:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Pirateers? - 06Cyber Letters of Marque and Reprisal: "Hacking Back" - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:21:41] <exec> 08└─Any man who has not at some point in his life wanted to be a pirate has something deeply wrong with him. Might even be a beta male *shudders*.
[15:21:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Mega-corp versus script kiddie - 06Cyber Letters of Marque and Reprisal: "Hacking Back" - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:21:45] <exec> 08└─I'm getting my data back! SELECT * INTO myIP.myTables FROM yourTables DROP TABLE *
[15:21:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Arr, matey, on the digital seas! - 06Cyber Letters of Marque and Reprisal: "Hacking Back" - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:21:50] <exec> 08└─Facebook
[15:23:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03iamjacksusername [1479] (Score:2) 02Re:A billion euros - 06Starting Up the German "Sun" - 780 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:23:35] <exec> 08└─I always thought building fast breeders at existing reactor locations would make a lot of sense. Yucca Mountain is no longer viable; most reactor waste is stored in concrete pods at the reactor sites. Focusing new reactor construction on existing reactor sites would solve two major political and env...
[15:23:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:A billion euros - 06Starting Up the German "Sun" - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:23:41] <exec> 08└─To put that in perspective, it's about the same cost as sending the space shuttle into orbit and bringing it back to Earth twice.
[15:23:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:Beware the first link - 06Starting Up the German "Sun" - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:23:53] <exec> 08└─Same here. Maybe the grandparent has some malware injecting stuff into his page.
[15:25:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03OwMyBrain [5044] (Score:1) 02Re:1970s here again - 06How Tech Companies Exploit Zombies - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:25:13] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure what the 2015s analogy will be for...bell bottoms
[15:28:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Is your heart made of stone? - 06SEC to Allow Small Investors to Crowdfund Startups - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:28:14] <exec> 08└─Is there but one ounce of human compassion to be found on your person? I honestly do not regard startups as a good thing.
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[16:19:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Microsoft reformed? - 06Microsoft-Connected Xamarin Demolishes the Freedom of Android - 1103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:19:50] <exec> 08└─RedHat does not deserve to be on this list. Everything they do is open-source and GPL, to a fault; new installs of Fedora need external repos for even multimedia codecs and freetype rendered fonts. RedHat has developed almost everything we have come to associate with a FOSS desktop, from GTK+ to Net...
[16:19:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedGreen [888] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Microsoft reformed? - 06Microsoft-Connected Xamarin Demolishes the Freedom of Android - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:19:51] <exec> 08└─Apparently you missed the embrace and extend part in there while they may give back the changes for now so no extinguish there yet... That is what a lot of people are uncomfortable with that and the outright killing of the *nix method of doing one thing and doing it well not everything and the God d...
[16:19:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Microsoft reformed? - 06Microsoft-Connected Xamarin Demolishes the Freedom of Android - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:19:53] <exec> 08└─The obvious rebuttal is systemd. RedHat hasn't coerced anybody into accepting its initial system.
[16:19:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Microsoft reformed? - 06Microsoft-Connected Xamarin Demolishes the Freedom of Android - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:19:55] <exec> 08└─"Except by making a large number of vital projects dependent on systemd." What, the vital projects that RedHat themselves created, whose developers are on the RedHat payroll? Again, your problem is with your distribution's package maintainers. OpenBSD has the latest Gnome, does *not* have systemd, a...
[16:20:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03draconx [4649] (Score:4, Insightful) 02Re:The article shines another light though - 06Microsoft-Connected Xamarin Demolishes the Freedom of Android - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:20:01] <exec> 08└─RoboVM is a complicated piece of technology that we have worked hard for years to create. Over the past few months, we have seen competitors actively exploiting our good faith by using our open source code to compete with us directly in commercial products. On the flip side, we have received almost...
[16:20:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The article shines another light though - 06Microsoft-Connected Xamarin Demolishes the Freedom of Android - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:20:03] <exec> 08└─It's at least as accurate to say that RoboVM's owners killed the freedom of RoboVM by selling it to Xamarin w/o extracting a promise to keep the source open. Reminds me of Monty whining about Oracle "hijacking" MySQL, after he and his cofounders sold the company for 1 billion USD. The best things in...
[16:20:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03iamjacksusername [1479] (Score:2) 02Re:Not buying that - 06First China-Made Passenger Jet Leaves Production Line - 884 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:20:13] <exec> 08└─You are absolutely correct. The Chinese government made a concerted effort to acquire technology from Airbus and Boeing to jump-start their own aircraft industry after their own attempts crashed and burned. They realized building a modern aircraft takes an accumulated expertise and is not something...
[16:20:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03SanityCheck [5190] (Score:2) 02Re:Oh Well - 06First China-Made Passenger Jet Leaves Production Line - 471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:20:15] <exec> 08└─Yeah and the best part of the whole "let's ship the crappy jobs to China and then live like Kings by selling them high-end stuff" is blowing up in their face now. What do you mean the Chinese are not that stupid and are building their own cars/planes/ships/trains/industrial machines/computers/phones...
[16:20:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03iamjacksusername [1479] 02Thank Boeing Outsourcing - 06First China-Made Passenger Jet Leaves Production Line - 615 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:22] <exec> 08└─Boeing taught the Chinese suppliers how to make aircraft components. They sold out their expertise in an effort to reduce costs. It did not work, of course. They had to fly Boeing engineers to the suppliers to teach them how to do the thing Boeing was paying the supplier to do. The end result was an...
[16:20:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Thank Boeing Outsourcing - 06First China-Made Passenger Jet Leaves Production Line - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:20:25] <exec> 08└─Ah, I was wondering if the Chinese plane was a copy of a Boeing plane or a copy of an Airbus plane, and this answers it.
[16:20:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Walzmyn [987] 02Re:Tough one - 06Ask Soylent: What Computer to Get Grandma - 989 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:20:35] <exec> 08└─I'm in idiot. Why didn't I think of using SSH for updates? For crying out loud, that's how my own laptop usually gets updated; I see an alert on my desktop and I just update them both from the same chair. That was my primary concern about getting her on Linux and me living in another state - updates...
[16:20:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03BasilBrush [3994] 02Re:Tough one - 06Ask Soylent: What Computer to Get Grandma - 226 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:20:37] <exec> 08└─She made absolutely the right choice for her. She's got an easy to use, secure computer which will run her key application. Had you served your own preferences instead, she'd probably have a Linux Laptop that she wouldn't use.
[16:20:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:There are 4 kind of evil - 06Ask Soylent: What Computer to Get Grandma - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:20:48] <exec> 08└─I second the Chromebook if the only app she cares about is Picasa. It's lightweight and "just works". The powerwash feature is amazing for those "please fix my computer" moments. Embrace your google overlord.
[16:20:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Re:Be nice to grandma... - 06Ask Soylent: What Computer to Get Grandma - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:20:55] <exec> 08└─Grandma's time is very valuable. She hasn't any to waste waiting for and fighting against Windows whether that's its broken user interface, broken design, designed-in restrictions, broken security or broken updates and update mechanism.
[16:21:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03jon3k [3718] (Score:2, Informative) 02Apple - 06Ask Soylent: What Computer to Get Grandma - 528 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:08] <exec> 08└─iPad if she's REALLY technically challenged or a Macbook if she's a little sharper/younger. You pay more but you save it in tech support headaches. Also you can get AppleCare for it and just send her to the Apple store with any problems, and feel confident she's not going to spend hours trying to de...
[16:21:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score:2) 02Peppermint Linux - 06Ask Soylent: What Computer to Get Grandma - 589 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:09] <exec> 08└─I'm actually very on board with the other comments about running Apple/Microsoft if it will be easier. I do want to mention to everyone about Peppermint Linux. It fits into a similar nitch as the Chromebooks (lightweight design to access cloud apps), but is a full Linux install so you can install wh...
[16:21:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Sensors - 06Google Tests Its Ad Tech On Billboards. Here's Why. - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:21:24] <exec> 08└─With google at the helm it's hard to imagine that these billboards wouldn't get loaded with all types of ... cameras
[16:21:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Scalability - 06Google Tests Its Ad Tech On Billboards. Here's Why. - 1776 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:28] <exec> 08└─I wonder how well they scale. Even if capital markets are screwed up such that the cost of the giant display is free, just the electric bill must be impressive. Locally there are several along my commute. About 200K drive past per day. Lets assume 36 kilowatts to run one, they're big and daylight vi...
[16:21:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score:2) 02Re:Charging when? - 06Solar Vehicle Charging at Home - 1866 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:21:42] <exec> 08└─UK. Several hundred metres of roofing (don't know exact area but it's a LARGE base of mostly single-storey buildings). Currently at 0.8KW. Most I've seen it is a handful of KW. Would like to see anyone run a server of any import on 800W of upy-downy-flaky solar. Welcome to real life, where if you're...
[16:21:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score:2) 02Re:Charging when? - 06Solar Vehicle Charging at Home - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:21:47] <exec> 08└─Well I have an EE degree, don't work for a utility, and was going to post more or less the same (except my current sunset time is 16.30), what does that make me? This idea suffers from the same problem as all other solar pv - generation is out of phase with demand, both daily and seasonally. It very...
[16:21:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03dak664 [2433] (Score:1) 02Re:Charging when? - 06Solar Vehicle Charging at Home - 586 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:21:48] <exec> 08└─So use two cars and alternate charge days. Minimal lifestyle change if you have the money. Or carpool. Or bike to work. Public transportation. I know, infra dig. Once you accept the mindset, scheduling car usage for evenings or cloudy days would become automatic after a while. People used to do many...
[16:22:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03frojack [1554] 02Probably not the best Idea - 06Cyber Letters of Marque and Reprisal: "Hacking Back" - 81 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:02] <exec> 08└─it avoids the unsolved and paralyzing question of what a state's response can be,
[16:22:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ask the Chinese - 06Cyber Letters of Marque and Reprisal: "Hacking Back" - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:22:12] <exec> 08└─The treasure trove is in Clapper's booty.
[16:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The ramblings of an irrelevant magazine - 06The Law Can’t Keep Up With Technology…and That’s a Very Good Thing - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:22:46] <exec> 08└─You can write "shit" and "fuck" here instead of self-censoring with "****". It's OK. We are free.
[16:23:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03linuxrocks123 [2557] (Score:2) 02Re:Compulsion does not guarantee capability - 06Prosecutors Want iPhone Unlocked Even After Guilty Plea - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:23:41] <exec> 08└─If you don't have the capability to decrypt the material, that is a defense. However, if the government can prove that at some point in the last X years, where I think X is 3 but I'm not sure, you did have the capability to decrypt the material, the burden shifts to you to prove you can no longer de...
[16:24:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:A billion euros - 06Starting Up the German "Sun" - 631 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:24:13] <exec> 08└─I don't think it's paid FUD. Lots of people sincerely believe that. I had solar panels put up recently, not even enough to fully cover my south-facing roof, and I'm generating more energy than I use in a year. One of my neighbors - same size house, built at the same time - talked to me about it. I f...
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[17:19:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Whadya mean, "but"? - 06Glowforge Claims $28M in Pre-Orders - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:41] <exec> 08└─At the time of their first announcement they didn't look like they had anything more than an idea and a good sales pitch, but they've now announced that they've raised $28M in crowdsource money
[17:19:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02R+D - 06Glowforge Claims $28M in Pre-Orders - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:42] <exec> 08└─hey didn't look like they had anything more than an idea and a good sales pitch
[17:19:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02ebay comparison - 06Glowforge Claims $28M in Pre-Orders - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:44] <exec> 08└─they've raised $28M in crowdsource money
[17:19:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Microsoft reformed? - 06Microsoft-Connected Xamarin Demolishes the Freedom of Android - 963 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:19:56] <exec> 08└─"Apparently you missed the embrace and extend part" There is no embrace and extend. The projects that you are angry about were created by RedHat in the first place, and are maintained by RedHat developers. That's a fact. As is the fact that one out of every six lines in the Linux kernel was written...
[17:19:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Microsoft reformed? - 06Microsoft-Connected Xamarin Demolishes the Freedom of Android - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:19:59] <exec> 08└─What, the vital projects that RedHat themselves created
[17:20:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Microsoft reformed? - 06Microsoft-Connected Xamarin Demolishes the Freedom of Android - 1409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:20:01] <exec> 08└─In other words, RedHat has created a large number of unnecessary systemd dependencies. Here's an interesting example [soylentnews.org] of those dependencies in action: The reason I believe it is bad design is, that it makes the combination of projects more difficult to maintain, more complex to unde...
[17:20:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03draconx [4649] 02Re:The article shines another light though - 06Microsoft-Connected Xamarin Demolishes the Freedom of Android - 352 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:20:08] <exec> 08└─RoboVM is a complicated piece of technology that we have worked hard for years to create. Over the past few months, we have seen competitors actively exploiting our good faith by using our open source code to compete with us directly in commercial products. On the flip side, we have received almost...
[17:20:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Demolishes the freedom of Android? - 06Microsoft-Connected Xamarin Demolishes the Freedom of Android - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:10] <exec> 08└─From the headline, it sounds like Android is no longer open source, but actually it's RoboVM.
[17:20:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Not flying that - 06First China-Made Passenger Jet Leaves Production Line - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:20:21] <exec> 08└─"I dare to venture that the designs were stolen from Boeing!" I would have guessed Sikorsky.
[17:20:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not flying that - 06First China-Made Passenger Jet Leaves Production Line - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:20:22] <exec> 08└─I also won't be getting into an MD80 after the stories I heard from the guys that built them.
[17:20:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score:3, Informative) 02Competion in Aerospace - 06First China-Made Passenger Jet Leaves Production Line - 744 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:34] <exec> 08└─Don't get me wrong; I'm as cautious as the next guy when it comes to this plane. But it is nice to see some more competition in the medium-long range passenger market. Most are familiar with the duopoly between Airbus and Boeing. They make good products, but more players in the market should benefit...
[17:20:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score:2) 02Network address translation - 06Ask Soylent: What Computer to Get Grandma - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:20:48] <exec> 08└─I'm in idiot. Why didn't I think of using SSH for updates?
[17:20:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:2) 02Re:Network address translation - 06Ask Soylent: What Computer to Get Grandma - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:20:49] <exec> 08└─A VPN might help. Alternatively an ssh tunnel to a fixed up machine on startup initiated by the target machine.
[17:20:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03BasilBrush [3994] 02Re:Android - 06Ask Soylent: What Computer to Get Grandma - 205 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:20:59] <exec> 08└─Google understands that she "needs a thingy that does stuff" because it's been spying on her activities. Google advertises Android to her incessantly. Turns out it's the wrong thingy to do the wrong stuff.
[17:21:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02My own experience with "Grandma". - 06Ask Soylent: What Computer to Get Grandma - 867 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:23] <exec> 08└─We are grandparents. After years of frustration with Windows, I talked the wife into Ubuntu. She kept it for a couple years, but every other week, I would get nagged that her Pogo games quit working. She liked Ubuntu, except for Pogo just quitting now and then. When Unity came out, we decided NOT to...
[17:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03McD [540] (Score:1) 02Re:Nope - 06On Hacking MicroSD Cards - 498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:22:38] <exec> 08└─Seriously. The author of the article is Bunnie Huang [wikipedia.org], master hardware hacker, author of the original Hacking The Xbox [nostarch.com]. That's a link to a free download of the book, by the way, released for free in honor of Aaron Swartz. He's the same guy behind the Novena open laptop...
[17:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02Re:I really need to rewire my brain - 06On Hacking MicroSD Cards - 749 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:22:42] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I'm thoroughly used to thinking of SD cards as storage only, not as something programmable. Scary, as wrong beliefs are where people are most vulnerable. But I know I am taking a lot on trust, from whether SD cards and flash drives have malicious codes, to the firmware inside the laptop and de...
[17:25:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:"infra-red and muon" scanning - 06Egypt to Scan Pyramids, Seeking New Discoveries - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:25:03] <exec> 08└─Egypt's in the middle east. Perhaps infra-red scanning is simply something to do with examining things after the US have nuked it till it glows?
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[18:19:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Celestial [4891] (Score:2) 02CBS All Access - 06New Online Star Trek Series in 2017 - 573 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:42] <exec> 08└─What is not mentioned in the summary is that the series will be shown exclusively on CBS' own digital video streaming service, CBS All Access [soylentnews.org] (at least in the United States). I'm a huge Trekker, so I'm in. I wonder how many others besides myself will shell out the $6 per month just...
[18:19:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03draconx [4649] (Score:2) 02Re:CBS All Access - 06New Online Star Trek Series in 2017 - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:19:43] <exec> 08└─What is not mentioned in the summary is that the series will be shown exclusively on CBS' own digital video streaming service, CBS All Access (at least in the United States). I'm a huge Trekker, so I'm in. I wonder how many others besides myself will shell out the $6 per month just to watch new Star...
[18:19:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03SanityCheck [5190] (Score:2) 02Re:CBS All Access - 06New Online Star Trek Series in 2017 - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:19:44] <exec> 08└─Don't worry you can probably get the pirated version 30 minutes after this comes out.
[18:19:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:CBS All Access - 06New Online Star Trek Series in 2017 - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:19:46] <exec> 08└─More than a years warning makes the press release very early for individual consumers to sign up, so I figured the "real" story was its a shot across the bow for other streaming providers, hello Amazon Prime Instant Video or Netflix or whatever, ya got a year to ink a content licensing deal...
[18:19:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:4, Insightful) 02Online only... - 06New Online Star Trek Series in 2017 - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:48] <exec> 08└─The pilot episode will air on TV, the rest will be available at your favorite torrent site.
[18:20:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:Microsoft reformed? - 06Microsoft-Connected Xamarin Demolishes the Freedom of Android - 525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:20:14] <exec> 08└─HOWTO How to stress test a BS meter: - this is package A, it depends on package X and not on functionally equivalent packages Y, Z... that have been distributed since forever. *BS meter already pulsing an unsettling orange/brown* - uh, ok, it depends on it to perform what? - for logging purpos... *B...
[18:20:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03AnonymousCowardNoMore [5416] (Score:2) 02Re:Eh... Why would anyone use .NET? - 06Microsoft-Connected Xamarin Demolishes the Freedom of Android - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:20:18] <exec> 08└─Management invariably get convinced to mandate "industry standard" software by the guy who needs it for his resume.
[18:20:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Oh Well - 06First China-Made Passenger Jet Leaves Production Line - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:20:41] <exec> 08└─Ah but the virtual economy will expand hugely so our new jobs would be making virtual stuff and with the virtual currency we earn we would be living in virtual homes, wearing virtual clothing and eating virtual food. ;)
[18:20:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03WillR [2012] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:A great nation must have its own small electron - 06First China-Made Passenger Jet Leaves Production Line - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:20:45] <exec> 08└─Would our defense manufacturers have the means to supply the United States Marines with, say, a walkie-talkie?
[18:21:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03dr zim [748] (Score:3, Informative) 02Chromebooks! - 06Ask Soylent: What Computer to Get Grandma - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:41] <exec> 08└─I have both grandmas and the ex wife on chrome books and it meets 99% of their needs and I can always help them out on the 1% it doesn't. Cheap and fingerproof.
[18:21:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Sensors - 06Google Tests Its Ad Tech On Billboards. Here's Why. - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:21:57] <exec> 08└─The US is recruiting the best brains in the world to develop two types of tech: weapons and advertising systems.
[18:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:That's "or" not "and" - 06Solar Vehicle Charging at Home - 520 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:22:22] <exec> 08└─Its funny because that's what I'm shooting for. I live in Florida, bike to work, and have rooftop solar. I'm currently at net-neutral electricity generation. Once I can get my hot water heater onto gas/onDemand, it'll free up enough energy to power an electric bicycle. My paid-for home will then pro...
[18:22:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03aristarchus [2645] 02Pirateers? - 06Cyber Letters of Marque and Reprisal: "Hacking Back" - 724 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:37] <exec> 08└─Letters of Marque do make the man. But a requirement is to bring all prizes where practicable to an Admiralty Court to determine dispensation. Now when these "Privateers" take a bit more upon their selves, in order, no doubt, to turn the entire operation into a paying enterprise, and skip the courts...
[18:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Pirateers? - 06Cyber Letters of Marque and Reprisal: "Hacking Back" - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:22:41] <exec> 08└─I have seen, smelled, heard, and touched more dead and dying than most. A pirate's life is not for me. It's not that i cannot kill, it's that i'd rather not. Not advisable for pirates to look my way : )
[18:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:3, Funny) 02And now for a musical selection - 06Cyber Letters of Marque and Reprisal: "Hacking Back" - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:51] <exec> 08└─Oh, the year was twenty-seventeen How I wish I was in Finland now! A letter of marque came from the boss To the lousiest servers I'd ever crossed, (chorus) God damn them all! I was told we'd cruise the 'Net for the open ports We'd fire no sploits, shed no tears Now I'm a broken man trolling Monster....
[18:23:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:domain name for main site - 06Rupert Murdoch's "The Sun" Scraps Its Online Paywall - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:23:45] <exec> 08└─For some reason, neither The Register nor SoylentNews provided the name of the site.
[18:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Soo... the Tooth Fairy Law? - 06Prosecutors Want iPhone Unlocked Even After Guilty Plea - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:24:02] <exec> 08└─Saying that a demand is not impossible to fulfil is in no way morally justifying it. It just says that it's not demanding something that is impossible to do.
[18:28:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03gidds [589] (Score:2) 02Re: To what end? - 06New Addressing System Abandons Numbers for Just Three Words - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:28:43] <exec> 08└─Or, for identifying houses and other buildings (which is much more common as a target for navigation), we have a postcode, ranging in format from 'A9 9AA' to 'AA99 9AA'. This identifies no more than 100 properties; it can identify a single department or floor of a big business. They're very well...
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[19:19:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:CBS All Access - 06New Online Star Trek Series in 2017 - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:19:46] <exec> 08└─Actually the US has slightly more then 5% of the world's population. I'm sure the show will be licensed in other countries on other channels and/or streaming services.
[19:19:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03LaminatorX [14] (Score:4, Insightful) 02Re:CBS All Access - 06New Online Star Trek Series in 2017 - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:19:48] <exec> 08└─Sensors detect a binge-watch-during-a-free-trial-period-after-the-season-wraps-then-cancel decloaking off the starboard bow.
[19:19:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Nah - 06New Online Star Trek Series in 2017 - 1469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:50] <exec> 08└─Pass. Every Trek series has went downhill with the exception of parts of DS9 which bucked the trend. The problem is the producers are captured by SJWs. The original ST:TOS has a little Cultural Marxism but the later incarnations were rancid. Picard was a pussy who was content to just sit on his ass...
[19:19:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Nah - 06New Online Star Trek Series in 2017 - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:19:52] <exec> 08└─Aww, you figured out the theme in your last sentence.
[19:19:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Nah - 06New Online Star Trek Series in 2017 - 496 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:19:54] <exec> 08└─They lost me around season 2 in DS9. The last season of NG and Voyager were worth watching. Everything else after DS9 S1 (which was trying its hardest to be B5) is fairly much garbage with a few rare exceptions. It seems they only start doing scifi when they realize they are not getting renewed. The...
[19:19:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Nah - 06New Online Star Trek Series in 2017 - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:19:56] <exec> 08└─Agree on the ripping off of B5. If you want to see what SciFi can be, watch Babylon 5. The low budget got in the way at times but the quality of the storytelling beat the snot out of all but a couple of isolated Trek scripts. Thank heaven it ended before 9/11 though because JMS would have probably h...
[19:19:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Most importantly - 06New Online Star Trek Series in 2017 - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:57] <exec> 08└─As it's not on broadcast TV will they use any of the 7 words you can't say on TV? Or show some boobies? I can see it now. "It's fricken boobs. IN SPACE!."
[19:19:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Most importantly - 06New Online Star Trek Series in 2017 - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:19:59] <exec> 08└─No gravity? I'm in.
[19:20:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Why rehash - 06New Online Star Trek Series in 2017 - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:01] <exec> 08└─Seems like a /dev/random story than a rehash story.
[19:20:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Celestial [4891] (Score:2) 02Re:Why rehash - 06New Online Star Trek Series in 2017 - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:20:02] <exec> 08└─Well, if the new series will be anything like Into Darkness, "rehash" is appropriate. :P
[19:20:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03PizzaRollPlinkett [4512] (Score:2) 021979 - 06New Online Star Trek Series in 2017 - 494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:04] <exec> 08└─This is like 1979 all over again. Star Wars is being hyped, so every also-ran science fiction series is being brought back. The articles mention a Star Trek movie next year, too. Did you guys see the news that a Battlestar Galactica movie is being shopped around? If Star Wars is successful, 2016, th...
[19:20:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:1979 - 06New Online Star Trek Series in 2017 - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:20:06] <exec> 08└─Yup. Even the SYFY network is rebooting some actual science fiction after doing nothing but chasing ghosts and bigfoot and vampires for a couple seasons. (all of them done badly - mostly the SYFY network has become unwatchable). The Dark Matter series http://www.syfy.com [syfy.com] was no...
[19:20:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:1979 - 06New Online Star Trek Series in 2017 - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:20:08] <exec> 08└─The SYFY network has gone to shit. Wrestling? Really? Put that crap on A&E along with the gay bounty hunter.
[19:20:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02Microsoft reformed? - 06Microsoft-Connected Xamarin Demolishes the Freedom of Android - 67 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:20] <exec> 08└─It looks like Microsoft hasn't reformed as some would like to think
[19:20:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RedGreen [888] 02Re:Microsoft reformed? - 06Microsoft-Connected Xamarin Demolishes the Freedom of Android - 369 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:20:23] <exec> 08└─Apparently you missed the embrace and extend part in there while they may give back the changes for now so no extinguish there yet... That is what a lot of people are uncomfortable with that and the outright killing of the *nix method of doing one thing and doing it well not everything and the God d...
[19:20:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score:2, Insightful) 02systemd shim - 06Microsoft-Connected Xamarin Demolishes the Freedom of Android - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:20:30] <exec> 08└─OpenBSD, for example, is moving right along with the latest Gnome, working perfectly, and without systemd, because they have competent package maintainers.
[19:20:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Microsoft reformed? - 06Microsoft-Connected Xamarin Demolishes the Freedom of Android - 621 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:20:32] <exec> 08└─NetworkManager to PulseAudio - Jeebus and while we're at it we can add gtk3, avahi, dbus and udev, gnome oh and systemd, no not the init system the other bits, What you associate with FOSS desktop others have been stripping out actively and see the the Freedesktop as an anti-pattern. Redhat definite...
[19:21:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Network address translation - 06Ask Soylent: What Computer to Get Grandma - 491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:21:25] <exec> 08└─Yup. autossh http://linux.die.net [die.net] something like this run on Grandma's machine upon every boot: autossh -M 0 -f -N -o "ServerAliveInterval 300" -o "ServerAliveCountMax 3" -R 39876:localhost:22 joehacker@homebase.homeip.net joehacker is your login on your own machine homebase....
[19:21:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Network address translation - 06Ask Soylent: What Computer to Get Grandma - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:21:26] <exec> 08└─I use Teamviewer. There system seems to reliably udp hole punch through three (yes three) layers of NAT on one side and one layer of NAT on the other.
[19:21:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Tough one - 06Ask Soylent: What Computer to Get Grandma - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:21:27] <exec> 08└─Not just SSH, there is teamviewer, as a desktop tool (Win/ Apple, Linux). Free for non-commercial use. https://www.teamviewer.com [teamviewer.com] I used to help my brother rebuild his computer in Vegas, while I was in NC. Was online for 8 hours reinstalling and setting up his windows...
[19:21:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What for? - 06Ask Soylent: What Computer to Get Grandma - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:21:33] <exec> 08└─Handing someone with dementia a massively different interface is a non starter and just frustrates them.
[19:21:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What for? - 06Ask Soylent: What Computer to Get Grandma - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:21:35] <exec> 08└─And they mostly put it back in 10. Which is why they were still on vista.
[19:21:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Windows 7 - 06Ask Soylent: What Computer to Get Grandma - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:21:38] <exec> 08└─People using windows most of their adult lives are more at home in KDE. It could be they've stopped calling you because they've just stopped using the machine.
[19:21:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Common Joe [33] (Score:2) 02Re:Windows 7 - 06Ask Soylent: What Computer to Get Grandma - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:21:40] <exec> 08└─You can stop the Windows 10 upgrade more easily than that. Uninstall update KB3035583, and-- this is the crucial part-- blacklist it in Windows update.
[19:22:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What Grandmas want - 06Ask Soylent: What Computer to Get Grandma - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:22:00] <exec> 08└─I'm not even sure if it was stereotyping in the movie. IIRC the choice was between two security lines filled with: 1. Elderly white people; 2. A group of Asian businessmen. There are certainly differences between different cultures, age groups, and occupations.
[19:22:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What Grandmas want - 06Ask Soylent: What Computer to Get Grandma - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:22:01] <exec> 08└─The questioner's "grandma" is the stereotypical grandma otherwise he/she wouldn't be asking these questions in the first place.
[19:22:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:TurboTax for business - 06Ask Soylent: What Computer to Get Grandma - 451 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:22:06] <exec> 08└─Why not just get win10 home oem then you are done for a few years? And since you have a business just write it off as an expense... In fact MS said this is 'the last windows the rest are upgrades'. So you are pretty much set for awhile... This is a one time cost. Dont sweat it. Its 60-90 bucks. Prob...
[19:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Charging when? - 06Solar Vehicle Charging at Home - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:22:47] <exec> 08└─Wow. I post something a little negative and all of a sudden I'm a troll, a shill, and a half-wit. "Solar doesn't work at night." meh, perhaps a bit FUDdy/Trolly. In this particular case, though, the houses in question don't actually have any storage. So, consider than in your modding analysi...
[19:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02How nice - 06Solar Vehicle Charging at Home - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:56] <exec> 08└─So how much forest do we need to chop down to make room for millions or even billions of houses with PV roofs so that we can power our cars and other stuff...
[19:23:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Someone has read too much Clayton Christensen - 06The Law Can’t Keep Up With Technology…and That’s a Very Good Thing - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:23:50] <exec> 08└─This is merely an temporary aberration, a simple instance of fraud. It gets taken care of by the usual means.
[19:23:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I don't know that it's a good thing - 06The Law Can’t Keep Up With Technology…and That’s a Very Good Thing - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:23:55] <exec> 08└─Their lives weren't just dismal — until regulations were finally put in place, the situation was better described as horrific.
[19:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Good laws don't need to keep up with technology - 06The Law Can’t Keep Up With Technology…and That’s a Very Good Thing - 832 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:24:01] <exec> 08└─Except the problem with the government not understanding and keeping up with technology is that "...with a computer" suddenly changes everything and makes illegal and unconstitutional things suddenly legal and acceptable. You're right that government doesn't need to update all the laws with every ch...
[19:24:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03tathra [3367] (Score:2) 02Re:domain name for main site - 06Rupert Murdoch's "The Sun" Scraps Its Online Paywall - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:24:18] <exec> 08└─soylent.news is a pretty great address for this site, much better than the current one. we should look into taking it and having soylentnews.org redirect there.
[19:24:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:over reach - 06Prosecutors Want iPhone Unlocked Even After Guilty Plea - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:24:40] <exec> 08└─Some other hard-headed egomaniacs. Using a small subset of government employees to generalize for all government employees is the same false generalization fallacy as using the KKK or WBC to generalize for all christians, or using ISIS to generalize for all muslims - fallicious and wrong.
[19:24:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Compulsion does not guarantee capability - 06Prosecutors Want iPhone Unlocked Even After Guilty Plea - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:24:57] <exec> 08└─the burden shifts to you to prove you can no longer decrypt the material.
[19:25:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03bootsy [3440] (Score:2) 02Re:A billion euros - 06Starting Up the German "Sun" - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:25:34] <exec> 08└─1 Billion euros is nothing at the moment: Hellenic Financial Stability Fund is ready to inject the 10 billion euros
[19:29:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Common Joe [33] (Score:2) 02Re:To what end? - 06New Addressing System Abandons Numbers for Just Three Words - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:29:16] <exec> 08└─It's designed that way on purpose. Having "Purple Monkey Dishwasher" next to "Purple Monkey Dishes" could lead to unintended errors. By having a completely different names, one is quite sure that a person meant this 3m x 3m spot and not the other 3m x 3m right next to it.
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[20:19:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03SanityCheck [5190] (Score:2) 02This only proves that we know nothing - 06NASA: Antarctica Ice is Growing, Not Shrinking - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:41] <exec> 08└─This only proves that we know nothing, and we will know even less tomorrow.
[20:19:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This only proves that we know nothing - 06NASA: Antarctica Ice is Growing, Not Shrinking - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:19:42] <exec> 08└─This only proves that we know nothing
[20:19:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03gman003 [4155] (Score:2) 02Re:This only proves that we know nothing - 06NASA: Antarctica Ice is Growing, Not Shrinking - 1512 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:19:44] <exec> 08└─With the sheer number of studies being made, you're almost sure to find some measurements that go against the general trend of global warming and ice melt. This particular study was of snowfall accumulation. Which is not a 1:1 with ice - in particular, the way snow compacts into ice isn't well-known...
[20:19:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Odd Study - 06NASA: Antarctica Ice is Growing, Not Shrinking - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:46] <exec> 08└─It seems like an odd study, it mentions no clear publication date. The full text [ingentaconnect.com] is available on line and contains only the statement: MS received 9 May 2015 and accepted in revised form 19 September 2015
[20:19:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03draconx [4649] 02Re:CBS All Access - 06New Online Star Trek Series in 2017 - 322 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:19:56] <exec> 08└─What is not mentioned in the summary is that the series will be shown exclusively on CBS' own digital video streaming service, CBS All Access (at least in the United States). I'm a huge Trekker, so I'm in. I wonder how many others besides myself will shell out the $6 per month just to watch new Star...
[20:19:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:CBS All Access - 06New Online Star Trek Series in 2017 - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:19:59] <exec> 08└─Actually the US has slightly more [than] 5% of the world's population.
[20:20:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03LaminatorX [14] 02Re:CBS All Access - 06New Online Star Trek Series in 2017 - 124 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:20:01] <exec> 08└─Sensors detect a binge-watch-during-a-free-trial-period-after-the-season-wraps-then-cancel decloaking off the starboard bow.
[20:20:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Nah - 06New Online Star Trek Series in 2017 - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:20:07] <exec> 08└─has fair amount of SJW tendencies too
[20:20:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03SanityCheck [5190] (Score:2) 02Re:Nah - 06New Online Star Trek Series in 2017 - 1402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:20:09] <exec> 08└─To each his own. I loved both, but if I watched them for the first time now, I probably wouldn't be as into them for many reasons. Some reasons might have to do with being older, and a lot more jaded. Fact that it is hyped would probably lead me to look at it under microscope while blowing every neg...
[20:20:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Nah - 06New Online Star Trek Series in 2017 - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:20:10] <exec> 08└─> The original ST:TOS has a little Cultural Marxism but the later incarnations were rancid. Lol, coming from you that's a pretty meaningless criticism.
[20:20:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Most importantly - 06New Online Star Trek Series in 2017 - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:20:12] <exec> 08└─No gravity? I'm in.
[20:20:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:1979 - 06New Online Star Trek Series in 2017 - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:20:18] <exec> 08└─FWIW, WWE Smackdown is moving to the USA Network sometime next year, IIRC.
[20:20:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:1979 - 06New Online Star Trek Series in 2017 - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:20:20] <exec> 08└─> This is like 1979 all over again. http://starecat.com [starecat.com]
[20:20:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:1979 - 06New Online Star Trek Series in 2017 - 1420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:20:21] <exec> 08└─I got trolled on that in the discussion about Oct 21st and "back to the future" I assumed it was only being discussed because of the new reboot / sequel BTTF movie. You know, the one that surprisingly doesn't exist. Another one that surprisingly doesn't exist is Rambo, either the first where he's a...
[20:20:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:1979 - 06New Online Star Trek Series in 2017 - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:20:23] <exec> 08└─Hey, did you hear about the Space 1999 movie they're working on?
[20:20:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03STDOUBT [4634] (Score:1) 02Star Trek Continues - 06New Online Star Trek Series in 2017 - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:25] <exec> 08└─I've been thoroughly enjoying these: http://www.startrekcontinues.com [startrekcontinues.com] I for one would prefer a re-visit like "Star Trek Continues", versus a re-imagination. Too bad some big fat corp. doesn't fund this excellent fan-fic. On second thought, they'd probably get it wrong...
[20:20:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02December - 06Glowforge Claims $28M in Pre-Orders - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:33] <exec> 08└─It'll be interesting to see if they can meet this goal. Honestly, it looks like a nicely designed cutter, but it has a major downside. A lot of the functionality is based on some cloud software BS so that when they go out of business someday, you have a nicely designed paperweight at worst, or a nic...
[20:20:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03SanityCheck [5190] (Score:2) 02Re:December - 06Glowforge Claims $28M in Pre-Orders - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:20:35] <exec> 08└─Yeah I don't buy into nonsense like that. Give me the tools or I won't buy it. Any cloud nonsense is probably a way to weasel some sort of a rent on an item you already own.
[20:20:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03quacking duck [1395] (Score:2) 02Re:Microsoft reformed? - 06Microsoft-Connected Xamarin Demolishes the Freedom of Android - 691 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:20:46] <exec> 08└─That first complaint doesn't even fully apply to Apple anymore either. Since June Apple developer accounts capable of loading apps onto personal iOS devices have been free. So although you can't just sideload pre-built iOS apps like Android, if the app author provides the source you can compile and...
[20:20:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Microsoft reformed? - 06Microsoft-Connected Xamarin Demolishes the Freedom of Android - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:20:57] <exec> 08└─Umm, who would like to think that, when everything we know about Windows 10 suggests they're as evil as ever?
[20:21:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Noldir [1216] 02The article shines another light though - 06Microsoft-Connected Xamarin Demolishes the Freedom of Android - 786 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:02] <exec> 08└─From the article: RoboVM is a complicated piece of technology that we have worked hard for years to create. Over the past few months, we have seen competitors actively exploiting our good faith by using our open source code to compete with us directly in commercial products. On...
[20:21:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The article shines another light though - 06Microsoft-Connected Xamarin Demolishes the Freedom of Android - 737 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:21:05] <exec> 08└─That's what they are intended to allow *legally*, but normally the non copyleft guys assume some common interest sharing, or else they take their ball and go home, or the project dies. Your assumption of "copyleft would have stopped this" is probably accurate, but there are certainly successful prod...
[20:21:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kushan [5709] (Score:1) 02Stupid article is stupid - 06Microsoft-Connected Xamarin Demolishes the Freedom of Android - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:08] <exec> 08└─It looks like Microsoft hasn't reformed as some would like to think, but has moved its embrace, extend, extinguish policy to the mobile platform.
[20:21:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03SanityCheck [5190] (Score:2) 02Re:Oh Well - 06First China-Made Passenger Jet Leaves Production Line - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:21:25] <exec> 08└─Hahaha that one hits pretty close to home. This is off-topic but at one point in my life I was so addicted to online video games that when I felt hungry in real life I would eat in the game, and that caused me not to feel hungry at least for a while. Of course it was an existence worse than death, s...
[20:22:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Android - 06Ask Soylent: What Computer to Get Grandma - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:22:08] <exec> 08└─For someone who doesn't mind being monitored and monetised by Google, a Chromebook is another option.
[20:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:2) 02Re:What Grandmas want - 06Ask Soylent: What Computer to Get Grandma - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:22:30] <exec> 08└─The questioners mom wants to use Picasa. I think that's more than the stereotypical grandma already. I never used picasa and don't have an iPad, so I had to use a search machine, but according to the first search results I only found a picasa-browser for iPad, no full application.
[20:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Distracting - 06Google Tests Its Ad Tech On Billboards. Here's Why. - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:22:54] <exec> 08└─In Hawaii billboards are illegal. But it isn't about protecting drivers from being distracted, its about preserving the vistas. Still, it is really great. On the mainland the billboards that I hate the most are the ones that are 'screens' made of LEDs. Even the ones that aren't animated are way too...
[20:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score:2) 02Re:a big battery in the house - 06Solar Vehicle Charging at Home - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:23:24] <exec> 08└─Solar plus battery is already cheaper up front for new construction than installing a grid connection
[20:25:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score:1) 02Re:Compulsion does not guarantee capability - 06Prosecutors Want iPhone Unlocked Even After Guilty Plea - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:25:27] <exec> 08└─It's a messed up law, still, but not quite as bad as you make it sound.
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[21:19:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This only proves that we know nothing - 06NASA: Antarctica Ice is Growing, Not Shrinking - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:19:54] <exec> 08└─With the sheer number of studies being made, you're almost sure to find some measurements that go against the general trend of global warming and ice melt.
[21:19:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This only proves that we know nothing - 06NASA: Antarctica Ice is Growing, Not Shrinking - 610 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:19:55] <exec> 08└─No, it proves we are screwing up the planet in ways we don't fully understand. Skeptics will say, "I'm not doing anything about it until you prove we know EXACTLY how we are screwing it up." I imagine network and security administrators deal with this kind of thing all the time. PHB: "Can you instal...
[21:19:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Pangea - 06NASA: Antarctica Ice is Growing, Not Shrinking - 1214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:57] <exec> 08└─Theories regarding pangea claim warming triggers an ice age: When Pangaea separated, the reorganization of the continents changed the function of the oceans and seaways. The restructuring of the continents, changed and altered the distribution of warmth and coolness of the oceans. When North America...
[21:19:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Another story just said - 06NASA: Antarctica Ice is Growing, Not Shrinking - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:59] <exec> 08└─the antarctic was in danger of breaking off and raising the sea level 3 meters.
[21:20:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Another story just said - 06NASA: Antarctica Ice is Growing, Not Shrinking - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:20:01] <exec> 08└─http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-11-03/west-antarctic-ice-melt-could-raise-seas-by-3-metres/6908118 [abc.net.au] Posted November 03, 2015 17:02:36 Antarctic iceberg Scientists are filling in more of the details about the collapse of the Western Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS), an event that is now expe...
[21:20:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The end.. - 06NASA: Antarctica Ice is Growing, Not Shrinking - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:02] <exec> 08└─I believe this marks the end of the global warming debate. Move on.
[21:20:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:CBS All Access - 06New Online Star Trek Series in 2017 - 557 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:20:13] <exec> 08└─The great thing about now, rather than 10 years ago, is that big TV shows are simulcast. Game of Thrones is shown at the same time (2AM) in the UK as on the East Coast. It's repeated in the evening too. It's been a long time from the 3 year wait for TNG season 1, or the year-long wait for Trek in th...
[21:20:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score:2) 02Re:Online only... - 06New Online Star Trek Series in 2017 - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:20:19] <exec> 08└─Very funny, but essentially accurate. CBS would be better off I think putting this series on broadcast TV, complete with the 20 minutes of obligatory commercials, and let everyone enjoy it. They can stream it without commercials, or with deleted scenes or some other added value to get the viewer to...
[21:20:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:Online only... - 06New Online Star Trek Series in 2017 - 1118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:20:21] <exec> 08└─That's how most of the world watched Enterprise and Voyager -- I remember staying up very late when Broken Bow aired, DCCing it on a rockingly fast 10Mbit connection at uni. Far better than when I downloaded 100kbit/sec episodes of SG1 season 4. Back in the days of DS9 the only way to watch it was t...
[21:20:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Nah - 06New Online Star Trek Series in 2017 - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:20:29] <exec> 08└─Fact that it is hyped would probably lead me to look at it under microscope while blowing every negative out of proportion.
[21:20:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:Nah - 06New Online Star Trek Series in 2017 - 1354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:20:30] <exec> 08└─A lot of this is 'age' dependent (the jaded thing) as well as personal interest... watch the first 4 episodes of the first Doctor (William Hartnell's Doctor Who): my daughter and wife think this kind of thing is unwatchable where as i thing "Unearthly Child" (and on) is amazing to watch. It is not o...
[21:20:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Nah - 06New Online Star Trek Series in 2017 - 735 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:20:32] <exec> 08└─The early seasons of DS9 sucked. They were hokey and had a lot of the touchy-feely elements that ruined Voyager (at least from my perspective). This episode, [wikia.com] for example, was so terrible I'm surprised that the cast didn't walk right off the stage ranting about "not doing this fucking bul...
[21:20:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Nah - 06New Online Star Trek Series in 2017 - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:20:34] <exec> 08└─I don't remember that holodeck scene revising anything about the Enterprise. Commander Riker was "visiting" historic heroes for advice on a sticky issue. I actually liked how Enterprise tied into the other shows. The whole augments and Klingon thing was interesting.
[21:20:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score:2) 02Re:Nah - 06New Online Star Trek Series in 2017 - 1200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:20:36] <exec> 08└─NG, DS9, Voyager, and Enterprise all had their problems, some more (Enterprise), some less (DS9), but I liked them all. However, I stopped watching Enterprise shortly after its second season because it got, in my opinion at the time, stupid. My view has since changed now that I own the DVDs and have...
[21:20:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Nah - 06New Online Star Trek Series in 2017 - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:20:37] <exec> 08└─Picard was not a pussy, just with different principles than Kirk, who was much more a man of action.
[21:20:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Most importantly - 06New Online Star Trek Series in 2017 - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:20:40] <exec> 08└─Just so you know, there are guys who also wear the mini-skirt in Star Trek.
[21:20:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:1979 - 06New Online Star Trek Series in 2017 - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:20:48] <exec> 08└─The question remains, how the hell did it end up on SYFY in the first place? Just because TV wrestling is all fake and make believe doesn't make it SIFI.
[21:20:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03PizzaRollPlinkett [4512] (Score:2) 02Re:1979 - 06New Online Star Trek Series in 2017 - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:20:53] <exec> 08└─That and they probably are in discussion for being remade by someone someplace because the movie industry is so creatively bankrupt. I originally thought up the BSG thing as a joke, but searched Google and sure enough it turned up a real article from 2014 talking about a real movie. Still, Disco Fev...
[21:20:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:1979 - 06New Online Star Trek Series in 2017 - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:20:54] <exec> 08└─Given that virtually all current movies are 70s/80s remakes, its easy to see how one can get trolled into thinking all 70s/80s movies are being remade. Don't forget the 90s remakes, Jurassic Park and Man From UNCLE this year. I'm looking forward to a matrix sequel - they really should have made it i...
[21:20:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:Star Trek Continues - 06New Online Star Trek Series in 2017 - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:20:56] <exec> 08└─There are a bunch of these out there: some laughable, some really quite good! And yes, a budget would help: if only i had Warren Buffets money, lol. And i like the reboot: just park your brain at the door and enjoy (Spock!). I guess i've been Sherlocked! :)
[21:20:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score:2) 02I don't have much hope.. - 06New Online Star Trek Series in 2017 - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:58] <exec> 08└─Since many involved are connected to the JJ "lens flares and boom booms" Abrams reboot, and when you add that to the fact that they haven't had a good series since DS9? Yeah not gonna hold my breath on this being good. Of course if it DOES suck at least we have the web shows like Star Trek: Of Gods...
[21:20:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score:2) 02Why not something new? - 06New Online Star Trek Series in 2017 - 560 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:00] <exec> 08└─Ug, "Rehash" is the right term for this sort of thing. One of the things I enjoy most about watching a science fiction show is exploring the universe someone has created. Unfortunately, Star Trek has been throughly beaten inside out and run through the ringer. Why not just create something new? Simi...
[21:21:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03arulatas [3600] (Score:2) 02Re:December - 06Glowforge Claims $28M in Pre-Orders - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:21:11] <exec> 08└─Or maybe that is how they make their money. Monthly fees to keep your device functional. The new razor blade, with no out lay of cash for the physical objects (blades).
[21:21:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:December - 06Glowforge Claims $28M in Pre-Orders - 1036 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:21:13] <exec> 08└─In some ways, the price isn't that bad because of the 300x500mm bed size. It's hard to find a CO2 cutter on Amazon in that bed size for less. But, there is a huge price drop if you go down to a 200x300mm bed size: http://www.amazon.com [ama...
[21:21:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03WillR [2012] (Score:1) 02Re:Microsoft reformed? - 06Microsoft-Connected Xamarin Demolishes the Freedom of Android - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:21:23] <exec> 08└─AOSP Android allows easy side-loading, but Google Android tries very hard to make sure it doesn't work. If your phone doesn't have the Google services installed and logged in to a Google account, an app side-loaded from the Google Android world is probably going to crash immediately. If it does have...
[21:21:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03snick [1408] 02The editors are just trolling us now - 06Microsoft-Connected Xamarin Demolishes the Freedom of Android - 38 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:36] <exec> 08└─Article: interesting. Headline: WTF???
[21:21:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lunix Nutcase [3913] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Stupid article is stupid - 06Microsoft-Connected Xamarin Demolishes the Freedom of Android - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:21:46] <exec> 08└─And it has nothing to do with the "freedom of Android" since Android doesn't even use RoboVM.
[21:22:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score:2) 02Re:Not flying that - 06First China-Made Passenger Jet Leaves Production Line - 1182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:22:01] <exec> 08└─The 787 hasn't done too badly. The 707 had lots of problems when it was first introduced. A quick check of the aviation-safety.net database shows 11 fatal incidents between 1959 and 1964 with 699 fatalities (if I added up the numbers right). Several of these accidents are due to pilot errors, as pil...
[21:22:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score:2) 02Re:Oh Well - 06First China-Made Passenger Jet Leaves Production Line - 680 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:22:07] <exec> 08└─I'm not so certain about that. The Russians still build airliners. They're reliable, veritable tanks with wings, support western avionics and engines if you want them, and are far cheaper than what Airbus and Boeing offer. The Tu-204 is an excellent case in point. But developing countries don't buy...
[21:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Be nice to grandma... - 06Ask Soylent: What Computer to Get Grandma - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:23:00] <exec> 08└─[...] Windows 10 [...] I would get her something familiar.
[21:23:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Privacy? Is your Grandma a terrorist? - 06Ask Soylent: What Computer to Get Grandma - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:23:16] <exec> 08└─The corporations that are collecting and storing information about everyone will eventually be hacked, making that information available to criminals. Elderly retirees are prime targets for scammers and identity thieves. Grandma needs privacy more than most.
[21:23:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:TurboTax for business - 06Ask Soylent: What Computer to Get Grandma - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:23:19] <exec> 08└─Get Windows XP license, use it in VM without NIC (offline) and run your sw. For bonus points torrent ThinXP, when you're licensed.
[21:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sensors - 06Google Tests Its Ad Tech On Billboards. Here's Why. - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:23:36] <exec> 08└─How will Google Car respond to these billboards? Will it auto-play the advertisement, slow down, or just chime? When travellers needn't pay attention to the roadway, they can devote their full attention to roadside media. :)
[21:23:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03PizzaRollPlinkett [4512] (Score:2) 02tragedy of the common spaces - 06Google Tests Its Ad Tech On Billboards. Here's Why. - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:42] <exec> 08└─Highways have distracting billboards. Doctors offices have TVs blaring out non-stop ads in waiting rooms. Wal-Mart which is already a retail store where you go to buy stuff has mini-TVs blaring out ads. Too much pollution in common spaces. We need less of this. (But not until my new startup gets bou...
[21:24:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How nice - 06Solar Vehicle Charging at Home - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:24:14] <exec> 08└─All the forests, because putting PV panels on a roof always necessitates replacing the entire building.
[21:24:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jmorris [4844] 02It is worse Trust no one. Keep your laser handy. - 06On Hacking MicroSD Cards - 880 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:52] <exec> 08└─It isn't just SD cards. A similar story went around about USB flash drives. Hard drives also have a computer in them and flashable firmware. Optical drives too. oops, so much for that read only boot CD to validate a system's security from. And most of it has only the most crude protections against a...
[21:26:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:A billion euros - 06Starting Up the German "Sun" - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:26:37] <exec> 08└─Don't traditional uranium reactors burn uranium-235 or uranium-238? And thorium reactors produce uranium-233 in their decay chain? OK, it's theoretically possible to hop between the u-235 chain and the u-233 one, but fission happens very readily with 233, so thorium does not generally follow the sam...
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[22:45:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Nothing is accessible - 06Artificial-Intelligence Institute Launches Free Science Search Engine - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:02] <exec> 08└─Nothing is accessible. I tried a couple queries on universal turing machines and some database stuff and its all links to pay sites. Its basically the amazon.com search box for scientific papers. The little graphs of number over time and the way it links authors is pretty cool.
[22:45:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03VanderDecken [5216] (Score:2) 02Re:Nothing is accessible - 06Artificial-Intelligence Institute Launches Free Science Search Engine - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:03] <exec> 08└─Maybe a transient problem or something like a script blocker? I did a couple of CS-related searches and was able to get the full pdf for any reference I tried. (I checked for DAGs and cache coherency)
[22:45:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Nothing is accessible - 06Artificial-Intelligence Institute Launches Free Science Search Engine - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:04] <exec> 08└─I don't even get to a search field. Well, I didn't lower the shields … which shouldn't be needed for a search engine. All it needs is an entry box and a submit button. What I do see is an URL as follows: https://www.semanticscholar.org
[22:45:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02pretty impressive - 06Artificial-Intelligence Institute Launches Free Science Search Engine - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:06] <exec> 08└─I tried a terms from a couple of the big Google papers in it came back instantly. However, when I tried "Relational Model of Data", which is basically the title of Codd's big paper, it did give me back Codd, but on page 5. It seems that more recent stuff is prioritized.
[22:45:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Author Networks - 06Artificial-Intelligence Institute Launches Free Science Search Engine - 1086 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:08] <exec> 08└─They should create graphs of who has published with who on the results returned from the search. Node thickness could be total publications for each author, edge thickness could be some function of number of shared publications (take the log +1 or something). Split it into communities too. You can e...
[22:45:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03gman003 [4155] (Score:2) 02Re:This only proves that we know nothing - 06NASA: Antarctica Ice is Growing, Not Shrinking - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:18] <exec> 08└─Oh, you mean like the USGS temperature data? Where, if you take out the "corrections" for different measurement methods used in historical data, the warming is actually HIGHER than it is with the "corrected" data?
[22:45:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:The end.. - 06NASA: Antarctica Ice is Growing, Not Shrinking - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:25] <exec> 08└─I believe you are wrong. But you are free to move on.
[22:45:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The end.. - 06NASA: Antarctica Ice is Growing, Not Shrinking - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:27] <exec> 08└─This debate is settled. The data shows that ice is increasing in Antarctica. Why are we even still debating global warming....it is a myth.
[22:45:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03SanityCheck [5190] (Score:2) 02Re:CBS All Access - 06New Online Star Trek Series in 2017 - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:43] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately a lot of older people still think the Earth has 6 billion inhabitants.
[22:45:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Nah - 06New Online Star Trek Series in 2017 - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:57] <exec> 08└─Or if it was compared to Andromeda.
[22:45:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Nah - 06New Online Star Trek Series in 2017 - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:46:00] <exec> 08└─...and some people CANNOT watch it: it is dreck to them... bleeech!
[22:46:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Nah - 06New Online Star Trek Series in 2017 - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:46:02] <exec> 08└─Lol at the person that judges B5 based on the first season. Try watching the first season of TNG. With a couple of exceptions it is cringeworthy bad. Season 3-4 of B5 is the best TV sci-fi we will ever see.
[22:46:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Nah - 06New Online Star Trek Series in 2017 - 783 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:46:04] <exec> 08└─You may have been better off just skipping the first season, and from what I've heard even the creators were disappointed in several early episodes. B5 did admittedly take awhile to really get going. I ended up watching the show up until the fifth season. The thing that annoyed me the most was that...
[22:46:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Nah - 06New Online Star Trek Series in 2017 - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:46:09] <exec> 08└─It sounds like you're a pragmatist. Star Trek is for idealists. That's not Star Trek's problem per se.
[22:46:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Most importantly - 06New Online Star Trek Series in 2017 - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:46:14] <exec> 08└─You know, James Doohan. The Canadian guy.
[22:46:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:1979 - 06New Online Star Trek Series in 2017 - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:46:25] <exec> 08└─Actually, I did hear something about that. How about the British "UFO" show? There's one that hasn't been beat to death yet.
[22:46:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:1979 - 06New Online Star Trek Series in 2017 - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:46:27] <exec> 08└─Considering that after the main show wrapped, they did a TV movie, a spinoff show, and some sort of web series ("Bill Adama, younger and more emo!" or something like that), it's not surprising.
[22:46:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:1979 - 06New Online Star Trek Series in 2017 - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:46:29] <exec> 08└─Man from U.N.C.L.E. and 90's movie in the same sentence?? What are you smoking??
[22:46:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:December - 06Glowforge Claims $28M in Pre-Orders - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:46:45] <exec> 08└─What is the home market for these things anyway? I view them to be like high-end barrista machines, or bread machines, or treadmills, or a number of things that one uses the hell out of in the first month, then it sits and collects dust for the rest of its life. Unless you're setting up something li...
[22:47:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Microsoft reformed? - 06Microsoft-Connected Xamarin Demolishes the Freedom of Android - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:47:02] <exec> 08└─RedHat *is* Linux. Oh you poor thing.
[22:47:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Bot [3902] 02Re:Microsoft reformed? - 06Microsoft-Connected Xamarin Demolishes the Freedom of Android - 525 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:47:07] <exec> 08└─HOWTO How to stress test a BS meter: - this is package A, it depends on package X and not on functionally equivalent packages Y, Z... that have been distributed since forever. *BS meter already pulsing an unsettling orange/brown* - uh, ok, it depends on it to perform what? - for logging purpos... *B...
[22:47:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03canopic jug [3949] 02systemd shim - 06Microsoft-Connected Xamarin Demolishes the Freedom of Android - 155 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:47:08] <exec> 08└─OpenBSD, for example, is moving right along with the latest Gnome, working perfectly, and without systemd, because they have competent package maintainers.
[22:47:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Eh... Why would anyone use .NET? - 06Microsoft-Connected Xamarin Demolishes the Freedom of Android - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:47:16] <exec> 08└─Companies that are married to SQL Server, Visual Studio, or Excel are good candidates. Lots in the financial industry.
[22:47:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Eh... Why would anyone use .NET? - 06Microsoft-Connected Xamarin Demolishes the Freedom of Android - 760 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:47:18] <exec> 08└─My father developed a closed-source Windows application in Delphi in about 1996 that he still continues to develop and is deployed in several commercial environments. He uses an open source database backend. There was some specialist hardware (not rocket science stuff, just not consumer mass market)...
[22:47:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Oh Well - 06First China-Made Passenger Jet Leaves Production Line - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:47:45] <exec> 08└─Back in 2008, some heparin users died and it was blamed on adulterated heparin from China (processed in the USA). https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[22:48:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''not the last time I'll get asked this'' - 06Ask Soylent: What Computer to Get Grandma - 1327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:48:15] <exec> 08└─Linux Mint and Xubuntu have each been mentioned several times. Below, Rich (945) mentions a classic desktop experience and points to the "good enough" paradigm (which Redmond has had as a business model for decades). I agree. In that vein, he also mentions refurb'd hardware. I agree again. Elementar...
[22:49:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:tragedy of the common spaces - 06Google Tests Its Ad Tech On Billboards. Here's Why. - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:49:19] <exec> 08└─[...] ads in bathroom stalls
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[23:45:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dale [539] (Score:2) 02so - 06Early Life Stress and Adolescent Depression Linked to Impaired Development of Reward Circuits - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:03] <exec> 08└─So once you are a cynical bastard you tend to stay a cynical bastard and have a hard time seeing things in a non-cynical way? I can buy that.
[23:45:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02known - 06Early Life Stress and Adolescent Depression Linked to Impaired Development of Reward Circuits - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:04] <exec> 08└─Treat people like sh.t when thier young and they will not give a sh.t when they grow up. Thanks.... Already known....
[23:45:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This only proves that we know nothing - 06NASA: Antarctica Ice is Growing, Not Shrinking - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:26] <exec> 08└─Now we know the name John Snow is posting under. :-)
[23:45:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:This only proves that we know nothing - 06NASA: Antarctica Ice is Growing, Not Shrinking - 1146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:30] <exec> 08└─That's a classic problem whenever you're studying something big and complicated. What tends to happen is: Supporters - "If X happens, then Y will follow, according to our theory!" (six months later) Supporters - "Well look at that: X happened, then Y happened. I guess we're right." Deniers - "No, yo...
[23:45:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The end.. - 06NASA: Antarctica Ice is Growing, Not Shrinking - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:40] <exec> 08└─The data shows that ice is increasing in Antarctica. Why are we even still debating global warming....it is a myth.
[23:45:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03mmcmonster [401] (Score:2) 02Re:The end.. - 06NASA: Antarctica Ice is Growing, Not Shrinking - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:42] <exec> 08└─Or as Colbert said, 'I just had lunch. I declare that global famine has been eradicated!'
[23:45:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02just more bullshit - 06NASA: Antarctica Ice is Growing, Not Shrinking - 498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:43] <exec> 08└─listen to the scientists, not the editorialized bullshit: https://youtu.be [youtu.be] Some people have looked at the Antarctic increasing tread and used that to suggest that global warming isn't happening or that the increase in the Antarctic is offsetting the decrease in the Arc...
[23:46:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:CBS All Access - 06New Online Star Trek Series in 2017 - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:46:01] <exec> 08└─You can take your correction, and shove it up your corectum.
[23:46:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03quacking duck [1395] (Score:2) 02Re:Nah - 06New Online Star Trek Series in 2017 - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:46:18] <exec> 08└─Some say [O'Hare's departure] wasn't planned that way, JMS swears it was, but either way it improved the story
[23:46:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Most importantly - 06New Online Star Trek Series in 2017 - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:46:32] <exec> 08└─Actually, more than just him: http://memory-alpha.wikia.com [wikia.com]
[23:47:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:December - 06Glowforge Claims $28M in Pre-Orders - 939 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:47:06] <exec> 08└─I'm now 6 months into owning a 3D printer, and I've had it running 30-40 hours per week since I got it. If I had a laser cutter, I'm sure I'd be using the heck out of it too. But that's me -- this stuff is my kind of stuff because I've always been into making things. Most of my life, that drive has...
[23:47:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Microsoft reformed? - 06Microsoft-Connected Xamarin Demolishes the Freedom of Android - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:47:23] <exec> 08└─By your own admission, RedHat is only 1/6th Linux. Red Hat, like everyone else, is freeloading off the contributions of others. Don't pretend that Red Hat develops all, or even most of the code.
[23:47:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03khallow [3766] 02Re:Microsoft reformed? - 06Microsoft-Connected Xamarin Demolishes the Freedom of Android - 97 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:47:24] <exec> 08└─The obvious rebuttal is systemd. RedHat hasn't coerced anybody into accepting its initial system.
[23:47:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03janrinok [52] 02Re:Not buying that - 06First China-Made Passenger Jet Leaves Production Line - 1012 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:47:55] <exec> 08└─It is the first passenger aircraft 'designed to compete in the market for large passenger jetliners' to go into production. Furthermore, from your link: By the time the prototype was first flown, debate about its viability surfaced, based on a design that was already 30 years old, CAAC, which alread...
[23:48:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02Re:Oh Well - 06First China-Made Passenger Jet Leaves Production Line - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:48:06] <exec> 08└─I was so addicted to online video games that when I felt hungry in real life I would eat in the game, and that caused me not to feel hungry at least for a while.
[23:48:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:Tough one - 06Ask Soylent: What Computer to Get Grandma - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:48:41] <exec> 08└─I set my Mom up with a Linux system. She just needed web and mail and hadn't had a computer before, so it was fairly easy with nothing to unlearn. SSH and vnc make it easy for me to support.
[23:48:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Be nice to grandma... - 06Ask Soylent: What Computer to Get Grandma - 756 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:48:57] <exec> 08└─Just wait for Black Friday and get her a nice new Windows 10 PC/laptop or maybe something from Apple. She's your grandmother and this may be her last computer, get her something nice and tell her how much you lover her. Privacy? The companies/governments/whoever know all about her already, unless sh...
[23:49:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:IBM Selectric - 06Ask Soylent: What Computer to Get Grandma - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:49:10] <exec> 08└─In the USSR [soylentnews.org], IBM Selectrics were computerized, after a fashion.
[23:49:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:IBM Selectric - 06Ask Soylent: What Computer to Get Grandma - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:49:11] <exec> 08└─erm, correct link [soylentnews.org]
[23:50:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Spyware - 06Cyber Letters of Marque and Reprisal: "Hacking Back" - 292 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:50:21] <exec> 08└─If I'm running proprietary software on my computer (or more likely, my phone), and it phones home to the manufacturer to send them my confidential data, can I "hack back" at the manufacturer and break into their code repository, so I can recompile the software without the malicious features?
[23:50:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Jiro [3176] 02Nope - 06On Hacking MicroSD Cards - 154 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:50:44] <exec> 08└─Today at the Chaos Computer Congress (30C3), xobs and I disclosed a finding that some SD cards contain vulnerabilities that allow arbitrary code execution
[23:51:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:over reach - 06Prosecutors Want iPhone Unlocked Even After Guilty Plea - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:51:56] <exec> 08└─Except they all work in one place together and wield enormous power.
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