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[09:26:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03quadrox [315] (Score:2) 02Advisable doesn't matter, it will be done anyway - 06How Does a Parasite Create Zombie-like Behavior? - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:26:24] <exec> 08└─Is this avenue of inquiry really advisable?
[09:26:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Farkus888 [5159] (Score:2) 02Re:Advisable doesn't matter, it will be done anywa - 06How Does a Parasite Create Zombie-like Behavior? - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:26:26] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxoplasma_gondii [wikipedia.org] Just the beginning. Like all effective tools what can be used for good can be used for evil. There is potentially an immeasurable upside here so it will be studied despite those risks. 20 years from now we may find it weird that there a...
[09:26:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Yes. - 06How Does a Parasite Create Zombie-like Behavior? - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:26:28] <exec> 08└─Is this avenue of inquiry really advisable?
[09:26:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Shimitar [4208] (Score:1) 02Failed to see the "news" here (no pun intended) - 06Google Maps for Android Adds Offline Mode - 1075 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:26:35] <exec> 08└─This is not much news. Don't get me wrong, while it might seem so, it's not. For two reasons: 1. Lots of other products exist with same (even better) feature. "Here" is mentioned in the submission, but "Here" it's, again, one of the latest to enter the market too. Garmin as well a TomTom and plenty...
[09:26:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Shimitar [4208] (Score:1) 02Re:Failed to see the "news" here (no pun intended) - 06Google Maps for Android Adds Offline Mode - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:26:36] <exec> 08└─I missed the "offline directions" part of the news... which might seem a little bit more "news". My previous points still stand, tough, specially because it's not news, but just "changelog".
[09:26:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02OSMAND Kills Android Maps - 06Google Maps for Android Adds Offline Mode - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:26:38] <exec> 08└─https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdid=net.osmand.plus [f-droid.org] OsmAnd and its maps are open source, they have a smaller space footprint, and the on-device navigation is really good. I've been using it for five years and it has served me well through my travels in the US, Puerto Rico, and...
[09:26:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Not for the Farmer, just the Government - 06Researchers Develop New Way to Measure Crop Yields from Space - 650 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:26:46] <exec> 08└─Farmers have been doing this by eyeball for a couple hundred years or more. "Knee high by the 4th of July" was just one of the rules of thumb farmers have been using forever. This tech seems to allow governments to estimate yield over large areas, but I fail to see how it helps to "safeguard the glo...
[09:26:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Touché) 02What happened to the service academies? - 06The 100 Most Militarized Universities in America - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:26:54] <exec> 08└─You know, West Point, Annapolis, Colorado Springs? Oh, we decided to skip those because that didn't fit in with our narrative. You know, the one grinding the gigantic axe?
[09:26:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score:2) 02This is a hoot: - 06The 100 Most Militarized Universities in America - 501 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:26:56] <exec> 08└─I love that they put in CTC. I've taken classes there while I was stationed on Fort Hood. It's a two year community college and has no research as far as I know. What were the evil military related classes I took? College Algebra and and intro Astronomy class. (That latter one was held in their plan...
[09:26:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Did you not read the summary? - 06The 100 Most Militarized Universities in America - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:26:58] <exec> 08└─administrators with strong ties to those same agencies, and, most importantly, the educational backgrounds of the approximately 1.4 million people who hold Top Secret clearance in the United States.
[09:26:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Flamebait) 02Re:Did you not read the summary? - 06The 100 Most Militarized Universities in America - 501 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:27:00] <exec> 08└─The military ensures that advanced studies are available. Think about it. Without that funding, advanced education would be pretty much toast. The military funds a huge amount of research, sometimes it pays off, sometimes it doesn't. _Gewg pull your head out of your ass and please take a look at the...
[09:27:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Parent didn't even read all of the summary - 06The 100 Most Militarized Universities in America - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:27:02] <exec> 08└─How many of your classmates have gained a Top Secret clearance? How did you ascertain that number? -- gewg_
[09:27:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:4, Insightful) 02Re:This is a hoot: - 06The 100 Most Militarized Universities in America - 2540 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:27:03] <exec> 08└─Sorry Hartree, but you missed it. The article I saw has a picture of some Texas A&M students holding a banner, and I can assure you that school is heavy into military service. Cadets have tons of little privileges, seemingly to constantly remind everyone that the school is joined at the hip to the m...
[09:27:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Yawn - 06The 100 Most Militarized Universities in America - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:27:05] <exec> 08└─Y-A-W-N
[09:27:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03slap [5764] (Score:2, Insightful) 02Stupid. - 06The 100 Most Militarized Universities in America - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:27:07] <exec> 08└─"and, most importantly, the educational backgrounds of the approximately 1.4 million people who hold Top Secret clearance in the United States." What a stupid measure. So many people get their education prior to having anything to do with the military or intelligence. I'll just assume that "VICE new...
[09:27:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Moron Labe! - 06The 100 Most Militarized Universities in America - 1221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:27:09] <exec> 08└─The military depends on the geeks. The geeks provide the new weapons that the other side does not even see coming. So it is in the interest of a military to fund geeks. Problem is, geeks think for their selves, and may decide that giving a technological advantage to their military may not actually b...
[09:27:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:3, Interesting) 02So useless, why worry? - 06The 100 Most Militarized Universities in America - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:27:10] <exec> 08└─Twenty of the top 100 schools...are effectively online diploma mills. Twelve are for-profit companies; several didn't exist before 9/11. The schools have become so important that two of them, American Military University (No. 2) and the University of Phoenix (No. 3), rank near the top of the list ba...
[09:27:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So useless, why worry? - 06The 100 Most Militarized Universities in America - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:27:13] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't that mean we have nothing to fear because the spys are all incompetent?
[09:27:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:So useless, why worry? - 06The 100 Most Militarized Universities in America - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:27:14] <exec> 08└─Alright, let's get this straight. Your reasoning is broken. Maybe many spies are incompetent, but not all of them. Have all of them attended diploma mills? Was that even a claim?
[09:27:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02valuable chemical products - 06Researchers Design Computational Tool to Prospect Novel Bioconversion Pathways - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:27:16] <exec> 08└─converting carbon substrates from renewable sources such as glucose and glycerol and gases such as methane, carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide, into valuable chemical products and biofuels.
[09:27:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I'm surprised a network hasn't picked this up - 06Joel Hodgson Wants to Bring Back MST3K - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:27:23] <exec> 08└─But we all know how networks can fuck up a wet dream.
[09:27:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Maybe never put it on TV? - 06Joel Hodgson Wants to Bring Back MST3K - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:27:25] <exec> 08└─Maybe its time to change it up a little bit and put it on YouTube or Netflix and pair it with a choice of user-select-able alternate "comment" tracks for the wise cracking puppets. You could get users involvement on some level.
[09:27:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Beryllium Sphere (r) (5062) (Score:2) 02User involement: Make it social - 06Joel Hodgson Wants to Bring Back MST3K - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:27:27] <exec> 08└─Groups of friends could appear together in silhouette on a shared showing and make snarky remarks of their own when the zingers from the show writers weren't playing.
[09:27:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03mmcmonster [401] (Score:2) 02Truman Show!!! - 06Joel Hodgson Wants to Bring Back MST3K - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:27:28] <exec> 08└─Finally, if we raise $1 BILLION – stay with me on this one – we’re going to adopt a real live teenage boy and “Truman Show” him into believing he is the Pumaman!*
[09:27:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:Truman Show!!! - 06Joel Hodgson Wants to Bring Back MST3K - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:27:30] <exec> 08└─If they do get $1B, then it's not prohibited anywhere...
[09:27:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02how about no - 06Joel Hodgson Wants to Bring Back MST3K - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:27:33] <exec> 08└─$2,000,000 for 3 episodes, $5,500,000 for 12 episodes. Joel, seriously? I can't even.
[09:27:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02Re:how about no - 06Joel Hodgson Wants to Bring Back MST3K - 510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:27:34] <exec> 08└─Guess he wants to make his money on the front end. $666,666.66 for movies like "Plan 9 from Outer Space" and "Them"? Doubt if those kind of movies are still in copyright. I think the original shows were done on 16mm with a mask in front of the screen running the movie being copied from. The puppets...
[09:27:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:how about no - 06Joel Hodgson Wants to Bring Back MST3K - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:27:36] <exec> 08└─Doubt if those kind of movies are still in copyright.
[09:27:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Non Sequor [1005] (Score:2) 02Pledge levels - 06Joel Hodgson Wants to Bring Back MST3K - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:27:38] <exec> 08└─Reading the pledge level descriptions, I can't help but imagine Joel laying out all of them in a segment not unlike an invention sign gone horribly long on time.
[09:27:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:3, Informative) 02why wait - 06Joel Hodgson Wants to Bring Back MST3K - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:27:40] <exec> 08└─http://www.rifftrax.com/ [rifftrax.com]
[09:27:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sir Finkus [192] (Score:3, Insightful) 02I don't get it - 06Joel Hodgson Wants to Bring Back MST3K - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:27:41] <exec> 08└─I've tried watching this show a few times, but I don't get what's so great about it. I'm fully onboard with the "bad movies" part, but I find the puppets, host, and "skits" rather unfunny. Am I just watching the wrong episodes or what? Maybe I'm just stupid. If someone could explain the appeal, I'd...
[09:27:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:3, Touché) 02Re:I don't get it - 06Joel Hodgson Wants to Bring Back MST3K - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:27:43] <exec> 08└─You need to stay up late and smoke a lot of pot in order to find Mystery Science Theater interesting.
[09:27:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:I don't get it - 06Joel Hodgson Wants to Bring Back MST3K - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:27:45] <exec> 08└─It's okay just to not like it. I don't think anyone explaining why they enjoy it is going to change your mind, and they're not "wrong" about it any more than you are. Just watch something you do like.
[09:27:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Prior art - 06Using Sound Waves to Move Data - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:27:47] <exec> 08└─Pshaw, I move data using sound waves all the time. I call this revolutionary technique "yelling".
[09:27:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Prior art - 06Using Sound Waves to Move Data - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:27:50] <exec> 08└─What?
[09:27:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 0221st century bubble memory - 06Using Sound Waves to Move Data - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:27:51] <exec> 08└─yee haww!
[09:27:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Pretty neat. But will it drive your dog crazy? - 06Using Sound Waves to Move Data - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:27:53] <exec> 08└─No, those sound waves will have to be FAR above any living species hearing range or it would slow it down.
[09:27:56] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03isostatic [365] 02sudo - 06Why Improving Kernel Security is Important - 160 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:27:57] <exec> 08└─I screwed sudoers once, and lacking a root password I used a very recent privilege escalation bug to get back to root and fix it. More security problems please!
[09:27:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0, Flamebait) 02Fuck this SJW - 06Why Improving Kernel Security is Important - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:27:58] <exec> 08└─Matthew Garrett? Is he still running his SJWed fork of Linux on Github?
[09:27:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score:0, Offtopic) 02Re:Fuck this SJW - 06Why Improving Kernel Security is Important - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:28:00] <exec> 08└─While I share your disapproval of the Social Justice Warrior, it is important to remember that specific, open-minded, and logical articulation of ideas is what separates thinkers from zealots. "Fuck this SJW," no matter how agreeable the statement may be, would be more widely accepted and respectabl...
[09:28:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:Fuck this SJW - 06Why Improving Kernel Security is Important - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:28:02] <exec> 08└─In other words, the term SJW is shorthand for: "I'm angry, ignorant, and my post lacks content."
[09:28:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Fuck this SJW - 06Why Improving Kernel Security is Important - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:28:04] <exec> 08└─Certainly not any moreso than the majority of comments "SJWs" make about most of their gripes. Extremism is the problem here, not a particular ideology; rejecting any statement outright based on buzzwords alone is hasty, IMO. Either way, this is offtopic.
[09:28:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:1, Offtopic) 02Re:Fuck this SJW - 06Why Improving Kernel Security is Important - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:28:05] <exec> 08└─The term SJW is applied so broadly that your statement is not true, that's why I said what I did about lacking content. I do agree that I went way off-topic.
[09:28:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Flamebait) 02Re:Fuck this SJW - 06Why Improving Kernel Security is Important - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:28:07] <exec> 08└─Fuck off. Go suck on some transgendered freak's plastic dildo dick.
[09:28:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Funny) 02Re:Fuck this SJW - 06Why Improving Kernel Security is Important - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:28:09] <exec> 08└─Why do you presume I care about validation from the rest of the world? mjg is a stupid SJW who attention-whored out his github fork of the kernel and then after about a dozen commits it went dead and is now more than a month behind mainline. Great success!
[09:28:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:Fuck this SJW - 06Why Improving Kernel Security is Important - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:28:10] <exec> 08└─The guy had not deigned to include *any* evidence for this tale. Expects his words to be taken on faith. Ergo - see subject. The Internet is overfull of tall tales, and of spinners of such. Any faith I had, is long ago spent several times over; evidence must be presented. When a vulnerability is spo...
[09:28:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Flamebait) 02Re:Fuck this SJW - 06Why Improving Kernel Security is Important - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:28:12] <exec> 08└─How dare you. When an SJW states something is fact then it is fact. Do not try to use your white, cisgender priviledge to question them.
[09:28:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Insightful) 02Now is the time - 06Why Improving Kernel Security is Important - 1136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:28:14] <exec> 08└─The information age is at a critical point. We are at a crossroads where major parts of our lives depend on technology to work without fail or we face very serious consequences. Once things like self-driving cars become a daily reality this point will literally be life or death. At the core of this...
[09:28:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:1, Offtopic) 02Re:Now is the time - 06Why Improving Kernel Security is Important - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:28:15] <exec> 08└─It [security] is the last thing many developers think about ... when developing software.
[09:28:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lunix Nutcase [3913] (Score:2) 02Re:Now is the time - 06Why Improving Kernel Security is Important - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:28:17] <exec> 08└─I do and his statement is quite true. It's actually quite scary who true it still is.
[09:28:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Now is the time - 06Why Improving Kernel Security is Important - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:28:19] <exec> 08└─I am a developer and work on Medicaid projects. The security in the projects I've seen would terrify you. If want the parent poster says seems foreign to you, count yourself as lucky.
[09:28:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Now is the time - 06Why Improving Kernel Security is Important - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:28:21] <exec> 08└─No, its not. Hasn't been for a long time. Do you actually cut any code yourself?
[09:28:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Now is the time - 06Why Improving Kernel Security is Important - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:28:22] <exec> 08└─We don't work that way. And our systems don't have security holes, and we ARE paid for that. You should try it some time.
[09:28:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Now is the time - 06Why Improving Kernel Security is Important - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:28:24] <exec> 08└─Once things like self-driving cars become a daily reality
[09:28:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Touché) 02Security - 06Why Improving Kernel Security is Important - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:28:26] <exec> 08└─When it comes to security, we need to kill all the bad guys then there will be no bad stuff left. Where's my votes?
[09:28:27] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03frojack [1554] 02Bug in Kernel - 06Why Improving Kernel Security is Important - 1104 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:28:28] <exec> 08└─Should be pointed out that SELinux (Probably the last GOOD thing the NSA actually did for Linux) represented a significant barrier to these guys, and their first order of business was to get rid of it. That a bug existed in the kernel APIs is not a surprise. I'm sure there are hundreds. That's not t...
[09:28:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:Bug in Kernel - 06Why Improving Kernel Security is Important - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:28:29] <exec> 08└─Can you (or anyone else) tell me how hard life would get using an SELinux kernel? To print, do you need a password? To play a movie, do you need a password? To install a program, would you need to input multiple password requests? *How does SELinux make your life harder?
[09:28:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Re:Bug in Kernel - 06Why Improving Kernel Security is Important - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:28:31] <exec> 08└─SELinux's usability, illustrated once again [utoronto.ca]
[09:28:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Bug in Kernel - 06Why Improving Kernel Security is Important - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:28:33] <exec> 08└─Set up right, it doesn't make life harder at all. It just allows you to do the things you are allowed to do, and stops you from doing the things you aren't supposed to do. Its a much finer grained permissions system. I suggest some basic reading: http://www.cyberciti.biz [cyberc...
[09:28:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02I'm a bit confused. - 06Why Improving Kernel Security is Important - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:28:34] <exec> 08└─The security of the Linux commercial sucks. This guy disagreed, but he's wrong, and here's why: Then we go on to explain this example situation where it sounds like the kernel was fine until Google made a change that screwed it up and somebody found a way to disable a layer of security in their vers...
[09:28:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02After further reading - 06Why Improving Kernel Security is Important - 525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:28:36] <exec> 08└─Okay, this summary is another example of the problem where nobody writes god damn summaries, either here on or the other site. Instead, it's just the first 3 paragraphs copy-and-pasted from the article itself. While in theory this should be enough (with the journalistic rule that each paragraph furt...
[09:28:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:After further reading - 06Why Improving Kernel Security is Important - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:28:38] <exec> 08└─And finally (sorry about the multiple posts): Phoenix666 writes:
[09:28:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:After further reading - 06Why Improving Kernel Security is Important - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:28:40] <exec> 08└─If you click the "Original Submission" link right below the article, you can see which it was.
[09:28:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03bornagainpenguin [3538] (Score:0, Offtopic) 02The death of an idenity? - 06Why Improving Kernel Security is Important - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:28:42] <exec> 08└─Linux users are dead. Linux users don't have to be your audience. You don't have to identify as a Linux user. Isn't it funny how suddenly there are all these articles about how insecure Linux is after the attempts by SJWs to oust Linus Torvalds were leaked? [breitbart.com] It feels so similar to a...
[09:28:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The death of an idenity? - 06Why Improving Kernel Security is Important - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:28:43] <exec> 08└─SJWs are toxic to all communities. [archive.is]
[09:28:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score:2) 02Re:3200 bits eh... - 06Let a Grandmaster of Memory Teach You Something You Will Never Forget - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:28:45] <exec> 08└─This might be [wikipedia.org] the documentary you're looking for.
[09:28:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score:2) 02Re:3200 bits eh... - 06Let a Grandmaster of Memory Teach You Something You Will Never Forget - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:28:47] <exec> 08└─I count 17 bits. It's not even a power of two!
[09:28:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:Memorizing strings of code? - 06Let a Grandmaster of Memory Teach You Something You Will Never Forget - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:28:49] <exec> 08└─Running? Isn't that what we invented the wheel for?
[09:28:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Memorizing strings of code? - 06Let a Grandmaster of Memory Teach You Something You Will Never Forget - 472 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:28:50] <exec> 08└─Running is for exercise. You could say that memorizing random garbage is exercising your brain, but then you would have a fundamental misunderstanding of what it means to truly understand something. Rote memorization is not a virtue and should be avoided when possible; having a deep understanding of...
[09:28:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Memorizing strings of code? - 06Let a Grandmaster of Memory Teach You Something You Will Never Forget - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:28:52] <exec> 08└─They're not trying to exercise or understand something, they're competing. Competitive running is not for exercise. Neither is competitive memorizing.
[09:28:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03dbe [1422] (Score:2) 02Re:How many girls will be there? - 06Let a Grandmaster of Memory Teach You Something You Will Never Forget - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:28:54] <exec> 08└─Human nature is predictable... that was the original motivation of the narrator: 18 years old and in hospital with nothing to do but try to impress the nurses (sic) -dbe
[09:28:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How many girls will be there? - 06Let a Grandmaster of Memory Teach You Something You Will Never Forget - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:28:56] <exec> 08└─dbe(1422) is the most predictable (so I here). (1422) is also below average intelligence.
[09:28:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Forgot the subject? - 06Let a Grandmaster of Memory Teach You Something You Will Never Forget - 780 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:28:57] <exec> 08└─The goofy association is one that I've heard touted often though it's not really worked out well for me either. I find it's easier for me to remember something if I've written it down. Generally I can remember it well enough without referring to it, or at least the majority of it. I don't know if i...
[09:28:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Forgot the subject? - 06Let a Grandmaster of Memory Teach You Something You Will Never Forget - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:28:59] <exec> 08└─Of course, this leads to the silly outcome of having notebook after notebook laying around
[09:29:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:Forgot the subject? - 06Let a Grandmaster of Memory Teach You Something You Will Never Forget - 568 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:29:01] <exec> 08└─Symbol sequence memory isn't all that great for sequences of more than 7 symbols. What makes it possible (easy?) to remember things like 10 digit phone numbers is grouping the latin characters into larger symbols: 321-555-1212 would be hard to remember as 3-2-1-5-5-5-1-2-1-2, but as 3 familiar group...
[09:29:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Re:Forgot the subject? - 06Let a Grandmaster of Memory Teach You Something You Will Never Forget - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:29:02] <exec> 08└─You can compress into streaks and remember whether it started on zero or one. 01010010101010101010100011110010 start=0 streak_length=1111 2 111111111111111 342 11 Then compress into streaks of streaks: 4 , 1 1 , 2 15, 1 1 , 3 1 , 4 1 , 2 2, 1 One initial value and seven pairs would be doable.
[09:29:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Covalent [43] (Score:2) 02Re:Forgot the subject? - 06Let a Grandmaster of Memory Teach You Something You Will Never Forget - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:29:04] <exec> 08└─I thought maybe the way to do it would be to memorize the ASCII table and translate your 4000 bits into 4000/8 = 500 letters and symbols. Those letters might be more easily memorized. Or maybe take them 8 at a time and turn them into decimal and remember the decimal. Or hex maybe? Seems like the asc...
[09:29:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Forgot the subject? - 06Let a Grandmaster of Memory Teach You Something You Will Never Forget - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:29:06] <exec> 08└─Steve Roberts pedaled around on a recumbent bike in the 1980s with 4 buttons on each hand grip. He typed "chorded ascii" into a TRS-80 Model 100 while pedaling. iirc, he also had some ham radio way to send and receive text while on the road. http://teknomadics.com
[09:29:07] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03Dunbal [3515] 02Selection bias - 06Let a Grandmaster of Memory Teach You Something You Will Never Forget - 89 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:29:08] <exec> 08└─In other news, centenarians argue that anyone can live to advanced age, it's rather easy.
[09:29:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mr Big in the Pants [4956] (Score:2) 02Re:Selection bias - 06Let a Grandmaster of Memory Teach You Something You Will Never Forget - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:29:09] <exec> 08└─True, but at least their skill has some sort of usefulness for the person involved. I mean I could sit down for a week and write out 4000 completely and utterly useless things for people to spend enormous amounts of time on... Not to say they are not welcome to it. Just wondering why it's "news"?
[09:29:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Bad sector - 06Let a Grandmaster of Memory Teach You Something You Will Never Forget - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:29:12] <exec> 08└─I can't even remember the last time I remembered something.
[09:29:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02cheaters - 06Let a Grandmaster of Memory Teach You Something You Will Never Forget - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:29:14] <exec> 08└─Like Chess, its really all about having the best cheating device implanted on your thigh
[09:29:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03engblom [556] (Score:2) 02Windows Licence key - 06Let a Grandmaster of Memory Teach You Something You Will Never Forget - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:29:15] <exec> 08└─A bit better memory would be to benefit when typing the ms harassments glued on the bottom of computers... Those that only law followers end up typing from a sticker.
[09:29:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03CirclesInSand [2899] (Score:2) 02Sucks to be this guy - 06Let a Grandmaster of Memory Teach You Something You Will Never Forget - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:29:17] <exec> 08└─Man I bet this guy is gonna have a hard time being married. "Honey, I asked you to take out the trash." "Sorry, I forgot." *Wife holds up world champion memorization trophy* "Oh crap"
[09:29:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03devnulljapan [5178] (Score:1) 02Boring? Really? - 06Let a Grandmaster of Memory Teach You Something You Will Never Forget - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:29:20] <exec> 08└─Can't take seriously anyone who suggests that cell structure is boring. Really, anyone who says "all these intensely boring-sounding concepts such as cytoplasm, centrioles, mitochondria or, more encouragingly, the “golgi apparatus" is a fuckwit. I don't care how many 1s and 0s he can memorise. He'...
[09:29:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Of course - 06 You Don't Have to Be a Scientist to Own a Proper EEG Headset - 580 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:29:25] <exec> 08└─Right and in addition to that there have been specialist ones available for years. I own a Zeo to track my sleep, although it's no longer particularly useful because the manufacturer is out of business. And I recently bought a Muse to help with my meditation. There are probably other ones out there...
[09:29:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:2) 02Re:Of course - 06 You Don't Have to Be a Scientist to Own a Proper EEG Headset - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:29:29] <exec> 08└─There are other options, but this actually seems like the best one available. Or at least, the best one on Wikipedia's comparison chart. [wikipedia.org] The Emotiv EPOC also looks interesting, but not as interesting. Note that the OpenBCI has inputs for other biodata (though that isn't mentioned on...
[09:29:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Re:1-channel EEG on a budget - 06 You Don't Have to Be a Scientist to Own a Proper EEG Headset - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:29:32] <exec> 08└─3 years ago experimented with their mindwave sensor: https://github.com [github.com] I could move around windows and push buttons on my computer screen using nothing but eye blinks, and generate music using mind waves. The sensor has limited functionality, but nevertheless you...
[09:29:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bogsnoticus [3982] (Score:2) 02Re:Simple solution - 06Fantasy Sports Ordered to Stop Taking Bets in New York State - 838 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:29:38] <exec> 08└─No, they're not limited Take Australian Rules Football (AFL) for example. They field a team of 22, 18 active on field, and 4 on the interchange bench. They also have 1 substitute player available in case of serious injury. AFL is played on a field typically twice the size of an NFL pitch, has the sa...
[09:29:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score:2) 02Re:Simple solution - 06Fantasy Sports Ordered to Stop Taking Bets in New York State - 671 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:29:39] <exec> 08└─The AFL have ditched the sub beginning next season, 4 interchange players, maximum of 80 interchanges per match. I just checked, and the Melbourne Cricket Ground is 173.6 long x 148.3 metres wide which makes it an oval of approximately 4 times the area of an NFL ground. (Unless my maths is off, whic...
[09:29:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Simple solution - 06Fantasy Sports Ordered to Stop Taking Bets in New York State - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:29:40] <exec> 08└─Bit of the pot calling the kettle black there, innit? [concussionfoundation.org] Association Foorball ("soccer" in the U.S.) results in quite a bit of post concussion syndrome [postconcussionsyndromeawarenessuk.com] among its players, too. Besides, soccer players have their own particular brand of i...
[09:29:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Simple solution - 06Fantasy Sports Ordered to Stop Taking Bets in New York State - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:29:42] <exec> 08└─Bit of the pot calling the kettle black there, innit? Association Foorball ("soccer" in the U.S.) results in quite a bit of post concussion syndrome among its players, too. Besides, soccer players have their own particular brand of idiocy (although the women's players seem to have that bit sorted ou...
[09:29:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Simple solution - 06Fantasy Sports Ordered to Stop Taking Bets in New York State - 551 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:29:44] <exec> 08└─If the websites aren't located in New York, I don't see where the NY Attny General has any say in the matter. If you accept that he does have a say, then you also accept that any tin-horn dictator in any backwater country has equal say in how you run your web site. The Sultan of Oman or some pissant...
[09:29:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:games of skill - 06Fantasy Sports Ordered to Stop Taking Bets in New York State - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:29:45] <exec> 08└─You're correct about horse racing versus betting on basketball or football. What's deeply problematic about these games is how they're set up. They could change the way the games work so that they function more like poker at which point it would be a game of skill. It would probably also scare off a...
[09:29:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03SubiculumHammer [5191] (Score:2) 02Re:games of skill - 06Fantasy Sports Ordered to Stop Taking Bets in New York State - 1583 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:29:47] <exec> 08└─Your points are well taken, but my brevity misled you, i think. I will not argue that takeout is sufficient to determine whether something is a game of skill...that is just silly. I generally define games of chance as a game in which even the top %1 of skilled players cannot net a profit over time....
[09:29:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:games of skill - 06Fantasy Sports Ordered to Stop Taking Bets in New York State - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:29:49] <exec> 08└─the values of players are estimated by house.
[09:29:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03SubiculumHammer [5191] (Score:2) 02Re:games of skill - 06Fantasy Sports Ordered to Stop Taking Bets in New York State - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:29:51] <exec> 08└─The players performance that day determines your points, yes. However to play you muct choose players. How King does it is give everyone a Budger, 70k, and thehous determines the prices of players. They set prices using some model that tries to predict performance.
[09:29:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:games of skill - 06Fantasy Sports Ordered to Stop Taking Bets in New York State - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:29:52] <exec> 08└─Hmmm, I thought the prices were based on real world contract values. (Which is pretty much the same model, come to think of it).
[09:29:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:4, Insightful) 02Re:games of skill - 06Fantasy Sports Ordered to Stop Taking Bets in New York State - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:29:54] <exec> 08└─What I don't understand is how can these daily fantasy sports games be legal by being called "games of skill" while online poker (definitely a game of skill) is deemed illegal. The same with all these lottery (numbers) games. The lottery games are pure chance, no skill (other than opening a wallet)...
[09:29:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score:2) 02Re:games of skill - 06Fantasy Sports Ordered to Stop Taking Bets in New York State - 583 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:29:56] <exec> 08└─What I don't understand is why governments feel the need to criminalise human behaviour. People like gambling and they're going to gamble whether it's legal or not. why not just regulate it and tax it? That's what happens where I live, and it works very well. We also decided a few years ago that arr...
[09:30:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:If the games are more luck than skill - 06Fantasy Sports Ordered to Stop Taking Bets in New York State - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:30:01] <exec> 08└─Rock. Good old rock always wins.
[09:30:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:If the games are more luck than skill - 06Fantasy Sports Ordered to Stop Taking Bets in New York State - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:30:03] <exec> 08└─There was a newscast that said the big winners have inside information and are connected to these businesses.
[09:30:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:Police State USA - 06Fantasy Sports Ordered to Stop Taking Bets in New York State - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:30:07] <exec> 08└─Nothing, but people do it all the time. If the power is there, people will use it. It corrupts. That's why it scares me when a big government forces liberty on a small government. If it is big enough to do that, it is big enough to take liberty away, and it regularly does. We ought to see the smalle...
[09:30:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Police State USA - 06Fantasy Sports Ordered to Stop Taking Bets in New York State - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:30:11] <exec> 08└─They won't, as long as it's only bitcoin (like Uber, AirBNB, and Lyft) involved.
[09:30:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Dear HughPickens - 06Fantasy Sports Ordered to Stop Taking Bets in New York State - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:30:14] <exec> 08└─His submissions wouldn't run as often if the rest of us picked up the slack. For what it's worth, I'd rather have him than not.
[09:30:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Dear HughPickens - 06Fantasy Sports Ordered to Stop Taking Bets in New York State - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:30:18] <exec> 08└─It's easy to snipe at the submissions when you're sitting there not contributing. WAAAAAAH, I deserve a better web surfing experience, my time is worth a lot you know.
[09:30:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:Terrible for streaming - 06The Official Twitch Blog: Monday Night is Bob Ross Night - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:30:38] <exec> 08└─You might like Face Off. It's a reality show where aspiring Hollywood makeup artists compete to win a big prize. In one episode an artist smashed his hand, requiring a trip to the ER. Each of the contestants took a little time to work on his project, they helped out so he wouldn't be as far behind...
[09:30:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Hans Reiser - 06The Official Twitch Blog: Monday Night is Bob Ross Night - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:30:39] <exec> 08└─He did the correct thing. Did you?
[09:30:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03ticho [89] (Score:2) 02Re:Terrible for streaming - 06The Official Twitch Blog: Monday Night is Bob Ross Night - 717 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:30:43] <exec> 08└─Most people who watch the stream don't paint (or at least don't paint along). For most, it is something to relax to - soothing and very positive voice, calm and pretty visuals, that kind of stuff. I watched a few episodes, and it is very nice to kick back for a few minutes and watch Bob paint. Of co...
[09:30:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:bob ross would torrent this - 06The Official Twitch Blog: Monday Night is Bob Ross Night - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:30:52] <exec> 08└─Scriptblock+Ghostery+Adblock. You only need to allow twitch to watch the video, the rest are blocked.
[09:30:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score:2) 02Re:bob ross would torrent this - 06The Official Twitch Blog: Monday Night is Bob Ross Night - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:30:54] <exec> 08└─Pass. This is 2015. The page does not support HTML. If I see a blank fucking page, I pass, tyvm.
[09:30:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Another CRAP post - 06The Official Twitch Blog: Monday Night is Bob Ross Night - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:30:58] <exec> 08└─But it does typically mean you know what "next big thing" is.
[09:31:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Shake My Head - 06First Results from MAVEN Mission Published - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:31:11] <exec> 08└─This is a decent post. And it gets no comments. But then, it's very speculative stuff. And it's couched in a cautious tone (as science generally should be) such that AGW warriors are unaware/too confused to know if they should go pounce and rant about the end of world and how we should all repent....
[09:31:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Shake My Head - 06First Results from MAVEN Mission Published - 823 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:31:12] <exec> 08└─Yeah, it's much too late to tell the Venusians and the Martians to strengthen their planets' magnetic fields (not to mention gravity, tsk) so water and air won't escape to space so quickly. As for the people of Earth, we've been ignoring scientists in regard to the warming effect of carbon dioxide s...
[09:31:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:What the fuck.... - 06A Different Kind of Wearable Technology: MIT's LineFORM - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:31:36] <exec> 08└─Yeah, now explain to me why all the recent "self-forming" robots have been based on a flat sheet, and using principles of origami. That's why these guys are obsessed with 1D designs, because somebody already published 2D ones.
[09:31:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03present_arms [4392] (Score:2) 02Re:Why they didn't catch on.... cost - 06What Happened to Passenger Hovercraft? - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:31:54] <exec> 08└─Hover from Ryde is great when in a rush, it is faster than the fast cat but not much in it :) much better than 45mins for the car ferry from Fishbourne for sure
[09:32:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03fnj [1654] (Score:2) 02Re:moving air - 06What Happened to Passenger Hovercraft? - 1584 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:32:10] <exec> 08└─How about you finish comparing the apples to the oranges? The productivity of the 747-8I is 410 passengers times 917 km/h, or 375,970 passenger-km/h, and the purchase price burden is just about $1000 per passenger-km/h. Actually, the figures for a single-class version are 50% higher. I don't think a...
[09:32:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03damnbunni [704] (Score:2) 02Re:moving air - 06What Happened to Passenger Hovercraft? - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:32:11] <exec> 08└─I was trying to address the 'I'm not sure the cost of even one single zeppelin is cheaper than one single 747.' part, not make the case that a Zeppelin is a better deal than a bizjet or 747. As a filthy-rich toy, it's certainly cooler. Though if I had to choose between a Zeppelin and one of those su...
[09:32:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:moving air - 06What Happened to Passenger Hovercraft? - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:32:12] <exec> 08└─Landing a dirigible on top of a tall building in Manhattan is cool. Landing a jet there is not cool. http://untappedcities.com [untappedcities.com]
[09:32:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03fnj [1654] (Score:2) 02Re:moving air - 06What Happened to Passenger Hovercraft? - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:32:14] <exec> 08└─Landing a dirigible on top of a tall building in Manhattan is cool. Landing a jet there is not cool.
[09:32:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:moving air - 06What Happened to Passenger Hovercraft? - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:32:16] <exec> 08└─Any pictures you may have seen are staged science fiction.
[09:32:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 021979 - 06What Happened to Passenger Hovercraft? - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:32:22] <exec> 08└─In 1979 my father bought some plans to build a hovercraft, and for many years he was always going to build it. As a small boy I was very excited! I'm still waiting.
[09:32:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03fnj [1654] (Score:2) 02No mystery - 06What Happened to Passenger Hovercraft? - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:32:23] <exec> 08└─The economic unsuitability of the hovercraft (and hydrofoil) is formidable. It is too poor in relation to the Karman-Gabrielli relationship, which plots specific propulsion power vs speed. There are other severe problems, such as torturous noise levels, wear to the skirts, and vulnerability to side...
[09:32:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score:2) 02Re:No mystery - 06What Happened to Passenger Hovercraft? - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:32:25] <exec> 08└─So the science to overcome these problems have been done to death and there really is no solution or we just haven't really tried?
[09:32:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03juggs [63] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Obvious - 06What the Dust in Your House Says About You - 1476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:32:41] <exec> 08└─Anecdotal of course... IME the young kids of parents who hermetically seal their offspring by bleaching every surface everyday and chastising ever picking anything off the floor to put it into their mouth are the ones that perpetually have horrific looking green and yellow mucus running from their n...
[09:33:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geotti [1146] (Score:2) 02Re:Missing info - 06First Linux Ransomware Program Cracked, for Now - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:33:05] <exec> 08└─but avoided .hg ones.
[09:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mr Big in the Pants [4956] (Score:2) 02Re:Hundreds, nationwide, eh? - 06U.S. Fast Food Workers Strike Nationwide for $15/Hr - 692 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:33:59] <exec> 08└─Outsourcing to 3rd world countries that are already part of this dystopia is part of the process, not separate. Outsourcing is not as efficient as producing in your target market and there are many minefields. So it is better to subjugate your own. What has not really been thought through until only...
[09:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mr Big in the Pants [4956] (Score:2) 02Re:Hundreds, nationwide, eh? - 06U.S. Fast Food Workers Strike Nationwide for $15/Hr - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:34:11] <exec> 08└─The entire ridiculous and quite obviously false premise here is that unions are one thing. They are not. They vary wildly and are very much dependant on their membership and leadership.
[09:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:Hundreds, nationwide, eh? - 06U.S. Fast Food Workers Strike Nationwide for $15/Hr - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:34:13] <exec> 08└─Of course they are not - each individual should be judged on his own actions.
[09:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mr Big in the Pants [4956] (Score:2) 02Re:Hundreds, nationwide, eh? - 06U.S. Fast Food Workers Strike Nationwide for $15/Hr - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:34:15] <exec> 08└─Tell that to the anti-union crowd. They do not see it that way. (although they are oblivious to the fact that is what they doing)
[09:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02An animated map showing the spread of this - 06U.S. Fast Food Workers Strike Nationwide for $15/Hr - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:34:17] <exec> 08└─I wish that The Center for American Progress had updated this concept this week. The page contains a 647kB animated GIF that shows the number of cities where actions have occurred between Autumn 2012 and Spring 2014. [thinkprogress.org] The final count then was 150 cities. -- gewg_
[09:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score:4, Funny) 02Re:Don't matter much anyway - 06U.S. Fast Food Workers Strike Nationwide for $15/Hr - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:34:21] <exec> 08└─Only if they offer enough in return. Everybody is entitled to life. Nobody is entitled to the means to support that life. For that you have to trade equal value.
[09:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:Don't matter much anyway - 06U.S. Fast Food Workers Strike Nationwide for $15/Hr - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:34:22] <exec> 08└─Being poor isn't a disease, it's a choice. You choose to either be poor or acquire skills through hard work and then work your ass off like the rest of the world who like to eat regularly. Bitching because flipping burgers or sweeping a floor won't get you a nice house in the burbs is childish bulls...
[09:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score:4, Insightful) 02Re:Don't matter much anyway - 06U.S. Fast Food Workers Strike Nationwide for $15/Hr - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:34:24] <exec> 08└─Being poor isn't a disease, it's a choice. You choose to either be poor or acquire skills through hard work and then work your ass off like the rest of the world who like to eat regularly. Bitching because flipping burgers or sweeping a floor won't get you a nice house in the burbs is childish bulls...
[09:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Don't matter much anyway - 06U.S. Fast Food Workers Strike Nationwide for $15/Hr - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:34:26] <exec> 08└─Sounds like your hypothetical people made a hell of a lot of shitty decisions and are having to live with the consequences. I approve of this. People should have to live with the consequences of their choices. The state exists to secure our liberty not to hold our hands cradle to grave.
[09:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score:2) 02Re:Don't matter much anyway - 06U.S. Fast Food Workers Strike Nationwide for $15/Hr - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:34:27] <exec> 08└─Sounds like your hypothetical people made a hell of a lot of shitty decisions and are having to live with the consequences. I approve of this. People should have to live with the consequences of their choices. The state exists to secure our liberty not to hold our hands cradle to grave.
[09:34:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:Don't matter much anyway - 06U.S. Fast Food Workers Strike Nationwide for $15/Hr - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:34:29] <exec> 08└─Yup, it was really stupid of them to be born into poor uneducated minority families. Serves them right. Wrath begets wealth and poverty begets poverty. The world is not nearly as economically mobile as you seem to think.
[09:34:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:Don't matter much anyway - 06U.S. Fast Food Workers Strike Nationwide for $15/Hr - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:34:31] <exec> 08└─*wealth begets wealth.
[09:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:Don't matter much anyway - 06U.S. Fast Food Workers Strike Nationwide for $15/Hr - 1484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:34:32] <exec> 08└─[QUOTE]If an utterly unskilled teenager can do your job with little to no training, you should be paid like it.[/QUOTE] Agreed, unfortunately there are precious few opportunities to do anything "better" even for people who have skills. I'm paid well, have valuable widely applicable skills, but in ou...
[09:34:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Concentration of wealth leads to social failure - 06U.S. Fast Food Workers Strike Nationwide for $15/Hr - 3726 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:34:52] <exec> 08└─"Wealth is not finite. Wealth, both personal and universal, is limited only by the human mind's ability to create." True (as with Julian Simon); however, a society made of humans will not work well if a few (greedy, unenlightened) humans have 99.999%+ of everything and so can buy the laws in their f...
[09:34:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Concentration of wealth leads to social failure - 06U.S. Fast Food Workers Strike Nationwide for $15/Hr - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:34:54] <exec> 08└─tl;dr Also, don't make arguments to me with other people's words. Especially not in video format. A quote or two is fine but I'm not going to read fifty pages or watch half an hour of people spouting idiocy for the sake of an Internet argument.
[09:34:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:Don't matter much anyway - 06U.S. Fast Food Workers Strike Nationwide for $15/Hr - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:34:56] <exec> 08└─Ever been in a Bobcat (skid-steer) factory? I got to see one and there were hardly any humans in it. That was in 2001.
[09:35:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:Don't matter much anyway - 06U.S. Fast Food Workers Strike Nationwide for $15/Hr - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:35:07] <exec> 08└─Mmm. Cheese. I know of a cheese stick in the fridge. I must eat it now.
[09:35:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:Don't matter much anyway - 06U.S. Fast Food Workers Strike Nationwide for $15/Hr - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:35:10] <exec> 08└─I do my own plumbing, contracting, electrical and welding.
[09:35:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:Don't matter much anyway - 06U.S. Fast Food Workers Strike Nationwide for $15/Hr - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:35:12] <exec> 08└─I'm thinking the industry is going to require mind uploading or memory copying to preserve skills and experience unless strong-enough AI can be implemented before too many of us retire or die off. No, it won't. The skills and experience simply *won't* be preserved. The BRIC nations will reinvent thi...
[09:35:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:Don't matter much anyway - 06U.S. Fast Food Workers Strike Nationwide for $15/Hr - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:35:16] <exec> 08└─I'm fine with more green cards and no H1-Bs. The point is to leave the various HR departments no option but adjusting expectations.
[09:35:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score:2) 02Re:Don't matter much anyway - 06U.S. Fast Food Workers Strike Nationwide for $15/Hr - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:35:18] <exec> 08└─If people want free college, we should first vastly raise the standards of all existing colleges and universities that have poor standards so as to kick out all the losers, but I am sure most would not like that.
[09:35:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score:2) 02Re:Don't matter much anyway - 06U.S. Fast Food Workers Strike Nationwide for $15/Hr - 1009 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:35:19] <exec> 08└─Your point reminded me of this Emerson quote: If the colleges were better, if they really had it, you would need to get the police at the gates to keep order in the inrushing multitude. See in college how we thwart the natural love of learning by leaving the natural method of teaching what each wish...
[09:35:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02Re:Don't matter much anyway - 06U.S. Fast Food Workers Strike Nationwide for $15/Hr - 569 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:35:21] <exec> 08└─Why do they think automating away the jobs of burger flippers is easy, but automating away the jobs of Wall Street Bankers who do nothing more than play with spreadsheets all day is impossible? Because it ain't. It's quite the opposite. I've done it. I once automated an entire division at the Northe...
[09:35:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:Don't matter much anyway - 06U.S. Fast Food Workers Strike Nationwide for $15/Hr - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:35:23] <exec> 08└─Well you just answered the question yourself. It won't happen (before the burger-flippers) because it'd piss off too many powerful people. The people at the bottom of the totem pole (being unskilled workers) have the least power to protest their job being automated away, so their jobs will go first.
[09:35:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:Don't matter much anyway - 06U.S. Fast Food Workers Strike Nationwide for $15/Hr - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:35:24] <exec> 08└─Occasionally a score of five is not high enough.
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[10:26:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:Yes. - 06How Does a Parasite Create Zombie-like Behavior? - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:26:41] <exec> 08└─When they do turn this into the T-virus, by the time you detect it, it will be too late.
[10:26:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Windows 10 update - 06How Does a Parasite Create Zombie-like Behavior? - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:26:42] <exec> 08└─it's simple! enjoy your Win 7/8 box while it lasts - the update is coming!! it's coming!! IT'S COMING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 (smoke if you got em) aahhh
[10:26:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Serpent and the Rainbow Sex-bots! - 06How Does a Parasite Create Zombie-like Behavior? - 543 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:26:44] <exec> 08└─Slaves! Zombie slaves! Robbed of their free will and the right to form unions by a mixture of Blowfish and Coneshell poisons! Or the old fashioned blow to the head and chains in the basement. But yes, the attempt to create the perfect employee, or spouse for the human-relations-challenged. Better if...
[10:26:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:Failed to see the "news" here (no pun intended) - 06Google Maps for Android Adds Offline Mode - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:26:55] <exec> 08└─I missed the "offline directions" part of the news... which might seem a little bit more "news".
[10:26:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Shimitar [4208] (Score:1) 02Re:OSMAND Kills Android Maps - 06Google Maps for Android Adds Offline Mode - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:26:57] <exec> 08└─While it might seem strange, there is people who don't like "free" and "community". It always boggles me, but i know a couple. They just say that if it's free either i does not work or it has hidden agendas. For these people, anything from Microsoft or Google is much better than something like OSM....
[10:28:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Prior art - 06Using Sound Waves to Move Data - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:28:08] <exec> 08└─I CALL IT YELLING.
[10:28:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score:2) 02Re:Now is the time - 06Why Improving Kernel Security is Important - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:28:35] <exec> 08└─I would like to congratulate frojack for being employed in an apparently ideal world. Only slightly jealous. Most projects I have worked on have only as much security as the contract or legislation required, and often only "in spirit" ("look 'xyz certification', we have that! (for one box, that we d...
[10:29:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:Windows Licence key - 06Let a Grandmaster of Memory Teach You Something You Will Never Forget - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:29:22] <exec> 08└─I follow the law yet haven't type a ms product key since 1998
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[11:26:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Exposure? - 06Shadow Bans Not Banny Enough For Reddit - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:26:04] <exec> 08└─Mighty Buzz, are you alright? No need to paint a target on yourself. We either can take you out, or we back you up. But the theatrics are a bit over the top. Reddit, you say? What is that?
[11:26:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Exposure? - 06Shadow Bans Not Banny Enough For Reddit - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:26:05] <exec> 08└─No theatrics. This is simply something I have strong opinions on.
[11:26:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Better than shadow bans - 06Shadow Bans Not Banny Enough For Reddit - 508 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:26:06] <exec> 08└─An outright account suspension is definitely better than a shadowban, since that way you know what is happening and can defend yourself. After all, invalid suspensions will happen. After all, it's still humans who operate this, not infallible gods. The message on the user's page, on the other hand,...
[11:26:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02UnReddit and VOAT - 06Shadow Bans Not Banny Enough For Reddit - 627 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:26:08] <exec> 08└─If you want to see how Reddit is systematically deleting comments to push an agenda, check out unreddit [unreddit.com]. Actually, you can place any Reddit feed into the unreddit URL to see how they are editing comments, for example: https://unreddit.com
[11:26:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score:2) 02You Go, Girlfriend! - 06Shadow Bans Not Banny Enough For Reddit - 712 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:26:10] <exec> 08└─There are many things about which we disagree, TMB. And I'm glad to have the opportunity to discuss them with you. On this topic however, I couldn't agree with you more. Knowing (and not being very surprised, either) that you (and the rest of the team) take the idea of free expression seriously, is...
[11:26:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Adult schizophrenics often had cats as children - 06How Does a Parasite Create Zombie-like Behavior? - 616 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:26:22] <exec> 08└─I did. The correllation has been observed since the 1950s. While we do not have a definitive explanation, it is speculated that the adult schizophrenia is caused by the same cat feces parasite as causes Toxoplasmosis in pregnant women. If that's actually the case I would expect the prevalence of sch...
[11:26:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02In other news, Christ has returned to Earth - 06Google Maps for Android Adds Offline Mode - 739 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:26:35] <exec> 08└─How hard does it have to be to save the map data in a local cache? So I want to see how to get to a certain very special oasis way the Hell out in the middle of death valley. I look it up in Google Maps oh yeah that's where it is. Then I'm in Death Valley and I'm lost. O well I'm shit outta luck bec...
[11:27:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02surprised Caltech isn't in that list - 06The 100 Most Militarized Universities in America - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:27:04] <exec> 08└─General Dynamics always buys a full-age ad in the yearbook. When I was there all us students were the worst kind of dope-smoking hippies but then it turned out a very large portion of alumni go to work for military contractors.
[11:27:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02My favorite MST3K flick - 06Joel Hodgson Wants to Bring Back MST3K - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:27:34] <exec> 08└─it was a US Air Force training film in which a fighter-bomber pilot was learning to drop bombs in the desert. Being the real USAF, he was dropping real bombs. The way that looks on film is quite unlike the Hollywood special effects - you don't see much flame but there's lots of circularly-expanding...
[11:28:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:Bug in Kernel - 06Why Improving Kernel Security is Important - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:28:17] <exec> 08└─Thanks.... now to do some reading.
[11:28:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:3200 bits eh... - 06Let a Grandmaster of Memory Teach You Something You Will Never Forget - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:28:37] <exec> 08└─What a bloated virus! 640 bits should be enough for anybody!
[11:28:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03engblom [556] (Score:2) 02Re:Windows Licence key - 06Let a Grandmaster of Memory Teach You Something You Will Never Forget - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:28:59] <exec> 08└─I follow the law yet haven't type a ms product key since 1998
[11:30:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hans Reiser - 06The Official Twitch Blog: Monday Night is Bob Ross Night - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:30:37] <exec> 08└─You mean, he killed his wife only to have an excuse to why he didn't get his file system to work reliably? :-)
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[12:25:59] <exec> 08└─Did your last Flash update really come from Adobe? How would you know?
[12:26:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03nekomata [5432] (Score:1) 02Re:UnReddit and VOAT - 06Shadow Bans Not Banny Enough For Reddit - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:26:12] <exec> 08└─what the flying fuck. I had _absolutely_ no concept of this. Basically, this is opinion-genocide (almost, Godwin, almost!). Who makes these deletions? Is it the mods? Admins? Is unreddit actually trustworthy? I'm really quite astonished, especially since almost none of those comments are bad, it's r...
[12:26:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:You Go, Girlfriend! - 06Shadow Bans Not Banny Enough For Reddit - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:26:15] <exec> 08└─I could never get into reading stuff on reddit, as their interface is both ugly and vertigo-inducing.
[12:26:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yes. - 06How Does a Parasite Create Zombie-like Behavior? - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:26:26] <exec> 08└─Kind of like those economic extremists who want to deregulate everything, convinced that customer opinion and retrospective lawsuits will be enough to force businesses to behave themselves - completely ignoring the fact that by the time your family have all died of food poisoning, suing the food man...
[12:26:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score:2) 02Re:Adult schizophrenics often had cats as children - 06How Does a Parasite Create Zombie-like Behavior? - 586 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:26:30] <exec> 08└─Even your rhesus blood group is significant according to research: http://journals.plos.org [plos.org] I remember reading about a study that found a correlation with traffic accidents, because affected people show a "startle second" (can't think of a b...
[12:26:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03WizardFusion [498] (Score:2) 02Book - 06How Does a Parasite Create Zombie-like Behavior? - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:26:31] <exec> 08└─There is a fiction book about this sort of thing happening to humans. It's a very good book too (well, I enjoyed it). The Girl With All The Gifts [amazon.co.uk] (no affiliate code)
[12:26:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:OSMAND Kills Android Maps - 06Google Maps for Android Adds Offline Mode - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:26:44] <exec> 08└─For what it's worth, I've been using it as well throughout Europe with very few glitches, most of these usually caused by me not updating the map before my trip.
[12:27:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02I've Got One Word For You. - 06Joel Hodgson Wants to Bring Back MST3K - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:27:43] <exec> 08└─Just One Word: "Marijuana." Enough Said.
[12:27:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03CaTfiSh [5221] (Score:1) 02Re:I don't get it - 06Joel Hodgson Wants to Bring Back MST3K - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:27:43] <exec> 08└─The appeal of the show is best described by, "You had to be there". Like a lot of cult classics, they were innovative for their time, but that doesn't necessarily make them timeless. Pop culture and tastes change, but the nostalgia remains. For me, the show died when Mike replaced Joel. I saw a few...
[12:27:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Alan Turing's Acoustic Delay Line Memory - 06Using Sound Waves to Move Data - 900 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:59] <exec> 08└─these are described in great detail by Hodges in "Alan Turing: The Enigma". Filled with liquid Mercury, the long narrow tube had a voice coil at one end - the driver from a speaker - and a microphone at the other. At their very best they could store two kilobytes. When you wanted to read a particula...
[12:28:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02iOS Processes All Run As Root - 06Why Improving Kernel Security is Important - 808 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:28:37] <exec> 08└─The iOS - as far as we know - uses a port of the Mac OS X kernel xnu. xnu is a massive fork of BSD. While it is built around the Mach microkernel, Mach is statically-linked, it doesn't run in a separate process as Andy envisioned. Every last userspace process on iOS runs as root. Surely Apple had so...
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[13:26:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Flash - 06How Secure Can Your Router Get? - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:03] <exec> 08└─. Did your last Flash update really come from Adobe? How would you know? Flash isn't installed on any machine in my house. If I really needed it I'd run it in a container and destroy the container afterwards
[13:26:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Top security - 06How Secure Can Your Router Get? - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:04] <exec> 08└─My router is so secure, even I can't connect to it!
[13:26:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score:2) 02I'm Not So Sure - 06How Secure Can Your Router Get? - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:07] <exec> 08└─A hacked/compromised router is the worst thing that can happen to computer users.
[13:26:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I'm Not So Sure - 06How Secure Can Your Router Get? - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:26:08] <exec> 08└─Hyperbole is the worst thing that can happen to computer users.
[13:26:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02security drama - 06How Secure Can Your Router Get? - 621 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:10] <exec> 08└─Worst thing? No, it isn't. Lot of crap among commodity routers. Just finding one that works can be hard, never mind the security! Manufacturers are always pushing the limits of cheapness. Sure, we'd all like every piece of equipment to be secure, and free of flaws. But there's too much focus on that...
[13:26:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Better than shadow bans - 06Shadow Bans Not Banny Enough For Reddit - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:26:20] <exec> 08└─Yup, this is better. I don't see any exposure to libel litigation though.
[13:26:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score:2) 02Re:You Go, Girlfriend! - 06Shadow Bans Not Banny Enough For Reddit - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:26:25] <exec> 08└─I must agree. There does seem to be a trend of "ban untidy comments to keep the front page pretty" from the likes of reddit. Essentially, we all know that occasionally(!) there are some unwise things said online...
[13:26:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Reddit can suck it - 06Shadow Bans Not Banny Enough For Reddit - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:26:27] <exec> 08└─I could never get into reading stuff on reddit
[13:26:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Toxplasmii in the brain doesn't always cause schiz - 06How Does a Parasite Create Zombie-like Behavior? - 473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:26:42] <exec> 08└─I expect that's why they remain unsure as to why children who have cats become adult schizophrenics. It's a correllation, not a sure thing. I expect one could take fecal samples from all the cats that are around children, then track the children through adulthood but to the best of my knowledge that...
[13:26:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Zombies? - 06How Does a Parasite Create Zombie-like Behavior? - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:45] <exec> 08└─Also known as husbands.
[13:26:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fnord666 [652] (Score:2) 02Phones without Service - 06Google Maps for Android Adds Offline Mode - 490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:00] <exec> 08└─One nice thing about this is that it lets you use phones that don't have cell service as navigation devices anyway. For example I picked up this phone [amazon.com] recently for $20US. You can skip activating it with the carrier and you still have a decent GPS for very cheap. It even has a microSD sl...
[13:27:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not for the Farmer, just the Government - 06Researchers Develop New Way to Measure Crop Yields from Space - 1710 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:27:09] <exec> 08└─It has been a HUGE boon to farmers and farming, not to mention the fact that farming and the government have had a symbiotic relationship ever since there has been farming and government. What we're talking about currently is the data from the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) instrum...
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[14:26:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2, Flamebait) 02Blame the government - 06 Multinationals Hiding more than USD$500 Billion from G20 Tax Collectors - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:00] <exec> 08└─This is of course the governments fault. If the government didn't tax them, they wouldn't be forced to do this. It's every ones inalienable human right to maximise profits in this way while minimising paying for the infrastructure that allows that profit.
[14:26:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02Re:My house got hacked... - 06How Secure Can Your Router Get? - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:26:10] <exec> 08└─Easy: Does her pussy stink? False: danger! True: All is well.
[14:26:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:I'm Not So Sure - 06How Secure Can Your Router Get? - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:26:15] <exec> 08└─What's more, securing your router is neither difficult nor time consuming.
[14:26:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I'm Not So Sure - 06How Secure Can Your Router Get? - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:26:17] <exec> 08└─Oh, it's trivial to secure the router. It just takes removing one plug. The only downside is that this also makes it much less useful. ;-)
[14:26:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02MITM SSL - 06How Secure Can Your Router Get? - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:19] <exec> 08└─Uh, you can't MITM SSL/TLS, that's the point. Well, you can, technically, but you have to compromise the certificate authorities or otherwise compromise the trust of signed certificates. Compromising a router won't do jack unless your router is providing trusted root certificates, which it should no...
[14:26:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02What is safe? - 06How Secure Can Your Router Get? - 726 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:21] <exec> 08└─Am I safer because I run DD-WRT or Tomato on my router? Are alternate firmwares really safe? They still contain binary blobs to drive chips... But what about my bad-ass Linux desktop, is that safer? I think so, but it's running on an Intel platform that has something called AMT so... who knows? What...
[14:26:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What is safe? - 06How Secure Can Your Router Get? - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:26:23] <exec> 08└─Perfect is the enemy of good. You don't need to be able to spot every exploit in existence to be safer than you would be if you used something different.
[14:26:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03tempest [3050] (Score:2) 02Secure, but for how long. - 06How Secure Can Your Router Get? - 642 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:24] <exec> 08└─I eventually went to using a small PC with FreeBSD as my router. It seemed like a really bad idea having the linchpin of everything on my home network left to the mercy of some arbitrary box (with shit performance). Aside from that I have a cable modem I use for internet access. I have no idea what'...
[14:26:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Encryption - 06How Secure Can Your Router Get? - 715 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:26] <exec> 08└─If your router can MITM your encrypted (SSL, SSH, VPN) connections, you have a much more serious problem than your router. Personally, I regard "my" router as compromised, as my ISP has access to it. Even so, connecting e.g. my tablet to it is no less secure, than connecting to any other untrusted n...
[14:26:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:UnReddit and VOAT - 06Shadow Bans Not Banny Enough For Reddit - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:26:38] <exec> 08└─it may be a good site, I don't know, but saying VOAT makes me feel uneasy, kinda throw up in my mouth kinda uneasy.
[14:27:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:2) 02Re:Failed to see the "news" here (no pun intended) - 06Google Maps for Android Adds Offline Mode - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:27:11] <exec> 08└─Full disclosure: I work for HERE. I missed the "offline directions" part of the news... which might seem a little bit more "news"
[14:27:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart9h [767] (Score:2) 02Re:Phones without Service - 06Google Maps for Android Adds Offline Mode - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:27:17] <exec> 08└─whether or not you can save the offline map data onto a microSD card instead of the main memory on the phone
[14:27:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This is a hoot: - 06The 100 Most Militarized Universities in America - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:27:42] <exec> 08└─The brainwashing is thorough. Is military force our best tool for solving our problems? If the only problems you see are other peoples, you are also likely to think that the military is the best answer. They love this sort of world view in which the world is an indestructible stage upon which groups...
[14:27:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03WillR [2012] (Score:2) 02Re:So useless, why worry? - 06The 100 Most Militarized Universities in America - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:27:49] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't that mean we have nothing to fear because the spys are all incompetent?
[14:28:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:how about no - 06Joel Hodgson Wants to Bring Back MST3K - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:28:16] <exec> 08└─There are certain ramp-up costs to get things started, like purchasing cameras and sound equipment and building new sets for example.
[14:29:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score:2) 02Re:Memorizing strings of code? - 06Let a Grandmaster of Memory Teach You Something You Will Never Forget - 714 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:29:36] <exec> 08└─Quite the contrary. Rote memorization frees up the brain to do stuff other than the routine. Routine shit is what rote memorization is for. Times tables and other basic math formulas, spelling, grammar, and other stuff that doesn't change from one day to the next -- learn it once by rote memorizatio...
[14:29:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score:2) 02Re:Boring? Really? - 06Let a Grandmaster of Memory Teach You Something You Will Never Forget - 454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:29:57] <exec> 08└─A crude approximation, but I kinda agree: this describes someone who needs everything to be structured, ordered, and defined, and is stressed out by stuff that defies pigeonholing; biology tends to slop around the edges in not-so-predictable ways and is therefore (in their worldview) to be avoided....
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[15:26:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Silver Lining. - 06Provider of Prisoner Phone Calls Hacked - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:00] <exec> 08└─The good news is that when thousands of prisoners get their convictions overturned due to their attorney communications being compromised, your prison overcrowding problem will be greatly reduced!
[15:26:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Silver Lining. - 06Provider of Prisoner Phone Calls Hacked - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:26:01] <exec> 08└─Good in theory, however there might be just as many new inmates that used to be attorneys to offset the few that might get released this way.
[15:26:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:Blame the government - 06 Multinationals Hiding more than USD$500 Billion from G20 Tax Collectors - 1269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:26:11] <exec> 08└─The problem is a large portion of the western world, especially the U.S., believe that the government is the enemy, and companies are your friend. The problem is the natural state of companies is to coallese into enormous multinationals that we have to deal with. And while there are the anarchists w...
[15:26:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Blame the government - 06 Multinationals Hiding more than USD$500 Billion from G20 Tax Collectors - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:26:13] <exec> 08└─The problem is a large portion of the western world, especially the U.S., believe that the government is the enemy, and companies are your friend.
[15:26:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Blame the government - 06 Multinationals Hiding more than USD$500 Billion from G20 Tax Collectors - 813 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:26:14] <exec> 08└─"The answer is business creation" The problem is, large corporations don't create jobs. In lean times, they get rid of jobs, and in fat times, they let small businesses and entrepreneurs take all the risk - then buy those out. Large corporations don't create jobs, or business. Think back a couple de...
[15:26:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03acp_sn [5254] (Score:3, Interesting) 02stop taxing income, tax both property&cash exports - 06 Multinationals Hiding more than USD$500 Billion from G20 Tax Collectors - 864 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:16] <exec> 08└─The solution is to stop taxing income. That only fucks the middle class anyway. Instead tax property including government-protected IP, and also tax cash leaving the country. property tax more fairly shifts the tax burden from labor (the people doing work) to capital (the people who own stuff)it is...
[15:26:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:stop taxing income, tax both property&cash expo - 06 Multinationals Hiding more than USD$500 Billion from G20 Tax Collectors - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:26:18] <exec> 08└─But, if this is a tax cut for the majority and revenue neutral, somebody is getting the tax burden... in this case the holders of great wealth (property). Care to guess how capable they are of maintaining the status quo? Effectively, they pay a tax, but it's through back channels, and much more effi...
[15:26:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Exposure? - 06Shadow Bans Not Banny Enough For Reddit - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:26:47] <exec> 08└─Redditors having strong opinions about reddit is a bit like high schoolers having strong opinions about high schools. You're gathered with a huge group of people who, by their nature, are assholes, and a few people responsible for making sure they don't burn the place down. The former will always re...
[15:26:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Exposure? - 06Shadow Bans Not Banny Enough For Reddit - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:26:48] <exec> 08└─Redditors having strong opinions about reddit is a bit like high schoolers having strong opinions about high schools.
[15:26:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Exposure? - 06Shadow Bans Not Banny Enough For Reddit - 1040 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:26:50] <exec> 08└─"See, I'm a veteran. This means I was willing to take a bullet for the right of my countrymen to speak their minds." An observation, Brother. I really don't have much use for Fox Noise, but I can join a discussion on Fox, and I can say some pretty outrageous things, and no one ever threatens to ban...
[15:26:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02UnReddit and VOAT - 06Shadow Bans Not Banny Enough For Reddit - 627 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:53] <exec> 08└─If you want to see how Reddit is systematically deleting comments to push an agenda, check out unreddit [unreddit.com]. Actually, you can place any Reddit feed into the unreddit URL to see how they are editing comments, for example: https://unreddit.com
[15:26:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:You Go, Girlfriend! - 06Shadow Bans Not Banny Enough For Reddit - 1692 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:26:59] <exec> 08└─I recently saw an example of how a video critical of European anti-immigration was removed from r/videos for being "political," but a video about the SJW academic nonsense was not, and how the mod said with a straight face that one was political and one wasn't. Of course, Reddit's been on my shit-li...
[15:27:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:You Go, Girlfriend! - 06Shadow Bans Not Banny Enough For Reddit - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:27:02] <exec> 08└─Truthfully, I could never get into reading stuff on reddit, as their interface is both ugly and vertigo-inducing. Yuck.
[15:27:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02It depends on so much - 06Shadow Bans Not Banny Enough For Reddit - 1411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:03] <exec> 08└─I was always an advocate of no moderation or a light touch to moderation until I got involved in a subject specific discussion forum where lots of people wanted to show up and detract from the purpose of the site by contradicting the main subject matter we were discussing. These people really had no...
[15:27:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:It depends on so much - 06Shadow Bans Not Banny Enough For Reddit - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:27:05] <exec> 08└─The legality of their censorship is not in question, as far as I know.
[15:27:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:Failed to see the "news" here (no pun intended) - 06Google Maps for Android Adds Offline Mode - 821 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:27:34] <exec> 08└─OSMAnd has had offline navigation and offline vector maps for years. The vector part is important, as detailed maps for the entire UK are smaller than Google Maps for Greater London. I have a cheap Android phone (Moto G) and have used OSMAnd on it and my previous cheap Android phone (HTC Desire), wi...
[15:28:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This is a hoot: - 06The 100 Most Militarized Universities in America - 1146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:28:04] <exec> 08└─Yes, the bogeymen will come and get us if we don't steal people's money to fund an over-sized military. The thing is, the bogeymen aren't a very big threat. Rather, they are merely convenient tools that corrupt politicians use to scare people into voting for warmongering pieces of trash so the milit...
[15:28:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So useless, why worry? - 06The 100 Most Militarized Universities in America - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:28:11] <exec> 08└─That made them vote Democratic, since they had some education.
[15:28:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03eof [5559] (Score:2) 02Re:surprised Caltech isn't in that list - 06The 100 Most Militarized Universities in America - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:28:15] <exec> 08└─"...a very large portion of alumni go to work for military contractors." I think that has more to do with people with a decent technical background and who enjoy solving problems going where they can use their talents and earn a reasonably large salary, regardless of the industry. That may also expl...
[15:29:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Wait, what? - 06Using Sound Waves to Move Data - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:29:00] <exec> 08└─Didn't we use to call that a "modem"?
[15:30:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Simple solution - 06Fantasy Sports Ordered to Stop Taking Bets in New York State - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:30:53] <exec> 08└─has the same intensity player on player impacts,
[15:30:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Simple solution - 06Fantasy Sports Ordered to Stop Taking Bets in New York State - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:30:59] <exec> 08└─Don't worry, it was appreciated by the person you were replying to!
[15:32:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:What the fuck.... - 06A Different Kind of Wearable Technology: MIT's LineFORM - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:32:56] <exec> 08└─Presumably strength - there's a lot more matter to be rigid. I'm a little surprised that the self-folding walking robot that was announced a year ago didn't have more drilled out sections in order to reduce its weight though, some bits of it were clearly stronger than they needed to be.
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[16:26:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Welcome to US of A - 06Provider of Prisoner Phone Calls Hacked - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:03] <exec> 08└─Oh by the way you have no rights here.
[16:26:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Welcome to US of A - 06Provider of Prisoner Phone Calls Hacked - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:26:04] <exec> 08└─Land of the free - if you can afford it.
[16:26:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Probably Legal - 06Provider of Prisoner Phone Calls Hacked - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:06] <exec> 08└─It's not illegal to record the calls, only listen to them. Unless there's some way to determine which calls are to lawyers and which aren't, I would guess they'd record them all. I also seem to remember attorney/client privilege not actually applying in a few cases. Of course, I certainly wouldn't p...
[16:26:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Probably Legal - 06Provider of Prisoner Phone Calls Hacked - 964 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:26:07] <exec> 08└─Interestingly, regardless of if they were listened to this can be illegal, or just a good catch-22. -This actually depends on the state in which the calls were made and recorded. If it is a two party consent state, and the prisoners making the calls were not notified that all calls were recorded, th...
[16:26:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Personally - 06Provider of Prisoner Phone Calls Hacked - 943 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:09] <exec> 08└─Personally, I wish half the people in the various "Departments of Corrections" would just drop dead. Prisons are an industry, plain and simple. That is, corporations are profiting from imprisoning people. Every jail, every prison, should be government owned and operated. All of them. This is one par...
[16:26:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Blame the government - 06 Multinationals Hiding more than USD$500 Billion from G20 Tax Collectors - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:26:20] <exec> 08└─The problem is, large corporations don't create jobs.
[16:26:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:stop taxing income, tax both property&cash expo - 06 Multinationals Hiding more than USD$500 Billion from G20 Tax Collectors - 1080 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:26:24] <exec> 08└─Tax property? I'm not a big fan of taxing either real estate or personal property. I've paid enough taxes on my 15 acres to have bought another 15 acres. That is money just pissed away - I get nothing for it. I have to pay for the trees that grow here, as well as trees that don't grow here. With exo...
[16:26:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:stop taxing income, tax both property&cash expo - 06 Multinationals Hiding more than USD$500 Billion from G20 Tax Collectors - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:26:26] <exec> 08└─My property tax equals about $200 per month for a 1000 sq ft house on 1/5 acre. It's pissed away too, our local schools are still asking for donation of school supplies. In fairness, there should be a flat tax across all income categories. No more giving the rich tax breaks or loopholes, because tha...
[16:26:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score:2) 02Re:stop taxing income, tax both property&cash expo - 06 Multinationals Hiding more than USD$500 Billion from G20 Tax Collectors - 638 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:26:28] <exec> 08└─taxing properties has the problem that if you are not working, you lose your property. This has been used as a class war weapon in the UK for sometime... The more rational approach is the "http://fairtax.org" point, about sales taxes and the fact that *illegal* aliens will pay it, in a way income ta...
[16:26:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Forbes Put It at $21 Trillion - 06 Multinationals Hiding more than USD$500 Billion from G20 Tax Collectors - 486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:29] <exec> 08└─A new report finds that around the world the extremely wealthy have accumulated at least $21 trillion in secretive offshore accounts [forbes.com]. That’s a sum equal to the gross domestic products of the United States and Japan added together. The number may sound unbelievable, but the study was c...
[16:26:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Forbes Put It at $21 Trillion - 06 Multinationals Hiding more than USD$500 Billion from G20 Tax Collectors - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:26:31] <exec> 08└─That constitutes a currency default. That is a very, very, very bad idea (unless you're trying to smash the US standard of living and quite likely precipitate another civil war, in which case, rock on, brother!) But at least you're thinking about it.
[16:26:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Like counting info in libraries of congress - 06 Multinationals Hiding more than USD$500 Billion from G20 Tax Collectors - 690 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:33] <exec> 08└─we should count this money in dead people. "For each annual U.S. birth cohort vaccinated against 13 diseases in accordance with the recommended schedule from the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), approximately 42,000 lives are saved, 20 million cases of disease are prevented, $13....
[16:26:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Only as secure as the firmware (router OS) allows - 06How Secure Can Your Router Get? - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:52] <exec> 08└─But you can select one that allows you to do anything at all. Zero blobs. https://librecmc.org [librecmc.org]
[16:27:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Exposure? - 06Shadow Bans Not Banny Enough For Reddit - 587 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:27:05] <exec> 08└─True. Anybody with half a brain and an internet connection could do 5 (or less) minutes of research and determine that mods and admins are actively censoring things that shouldn't be censored. Getting rid of r/coontown? Eh, okay, fine. Removing Snowden news and Drone Papers news from r/news? Totally...
[16:27:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Exposure? - 06Shadow Bans Not Banny Enough For Reddit - 460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:27:07] <exec> 08└─Some discussion venues value "safety from offensive content" more than the free flow of ideas. In the real world, I can see how this is important for situations where people would be afraid to speak otherwise. On the internet, I only see this as useful for getting rid of posters that are deliberatel...
[16:27:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02Re:You Go, Girlfriend! - 06Shadow Bans Not Banny Enough For Reddit - 101 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:27:15] <exec> 08└─I could never get into reading stuff on reddit, as their interface is both ugly and vertigo-inducing.
[16:27:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score:2) 02Re:You Go, Girlfriend! - 06Shadow Bans Not Banny Enough For Reddit - 958 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:27:19] <exec> 08└─well banning for speech is entirely down to the platform's politics and greed. In principle, we could have a peer-to-peer comment system, where individuals could "ban" seeing another, but the infrastructure could not. If you know why you were banned, the question is , would you do it again? I am con...
[16:27:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:You Go, Girlfriend! - 06Shadow Bans Not Banny Enough For Reddit - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:27:20] <exec> 08└─> Nowadays my main beef is them censoring any speech they find "problematic". Don't forget, *everything* is problematic. - Laci Sarkeesian
[16:27:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03moondrake [2658] (Score:2) 02Re:You Go, Girlfriend! - 06Shadow Bans Not Banny Enough For Reddit - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:27:23] <exec> 08└─I find reddit useful to read (I never post there) about stuff that is mostly irrelevant (reviews of things, info about a game or so, etc). SN is for stuff that does matter.
[16:27:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02OSMAND Kills Android Maps - 06Google Maps for Android Adds Offline Mode - 306 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:56] <exec> 08└─https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdid=net.osmand.plus [f-droid.org] OsmAnd and its maps are open source, they have a smaller space footprint, and the on-device navigation is really good. I've been using it for five years and it has served me well through my travels in the US, Puerto Rico, and...
[16:27:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:OSMAND Kills Android Maps - 06Google Maps for Android Adds Offline Mode - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:27:58] <exec> 08└─That is when you empasize that if is Free as in Freedom, not price. They are probably trusting the price system to tell them how much something is worth. Of course, Google maps are "free" as in beer, so I dunno.
[16:28:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03deadstick [5110] (Score:2) 02Re:What happened to the service academies? - 06The 100 Most Militarized Universities in America - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:28:29] <exec> 08└─Those are militarY, not militarIZED.
[16:29:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:My favorite MST3K flick - 06Joel Hodgson Wants to Bring Back MST3K - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:29:15] <exec> 08└─it was a US Air Force training film
[16:29:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score:2) 02Re:Wait, what? - 06Using Sound Waves to Move Data - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:29:29] <exec> 08└─No. Modems didn't use sound waves as a transmission vector. Sure, you ended up hearing things while you were being connected, but that's simply due to the fact that there was a speaker attached providing feedback.
[16:29:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lunix Nutcase [3913] (Score:2) 02Re:Now is the time - 06Why Improving Kernel Security is Important - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:29:54] <exec> 08└─Good for you, but just because that is true for where you work does not mean it is true everywhere. There's that whole line of "evidence is not the plural of anecdote".
[16:31:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:games of skill - 06Fantasy Sports Ordered to Stop Taking Bets in New York State - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:31:38] <exec> 08└─You're right. Also, there are people that like to murder and they're going to murder whether it's legal or not. why not just regulate it and tax it? We could also decide that arresting drunk drivers does nothing to stop drunk driving, so just regulate it, and let the drunk driver pay a tax like ever...
[16:33:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:What the fuck.... - 06A Different Kind of Wearable Technology: MIT's LineFORM - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:33:28] <exec> 08└─I've just worked out what it reminded me of - it's vaguely reminiscent of this: http://battlebots.wikia.com
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[17:26:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02"Trained?!" - 06Why TV Networks Are Cutting Back on Commercials - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:01] <exec> 08└─" We know one of the benefits of an ecosystem like Netflix is its lack of advertising," Howard Shimmel, chief research officer at Time Warner’s Turner Broadcasting, said in an interview. "Consumers are being trained there are places they can go to avoid ads. "
[17:26:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:"Trained?!" - 06Why TV Networks Are Cutting Back on Commercials - 668 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:26:02] <exec> 08└─Even when Netflix pays them for the content, they are conditioned to think of viewers who watch that content without commercials as thieves. But On-Demand is killing cable for sure. I have a buddy who's Director of Programming at Starz and he says he runs hard every day to limit the bleeding. I sugg...
[17:26:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"Trained?!" - 06Why TV Networks Are Cutting Back on Commercials - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:26:04] <exec> 08└─Why did you bold the guy's last name?
[17:26:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:"Trained?!" - 06Why TV Networks Are Cutting Back on Commercials - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:26:06] <exec> 08└─I went to a professional trade show (NAB), where a guy was demoing his weather animations designed to keep the viewers engaged. He was talking about the viewers in about the same way you'd talk about someone's out-of-control four year-old.
[17:26:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tramii [920] (Score:2) 02Too little, too late... - 06Why TV Networks Are Cutting Back on Commercials - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:08] <exec> 08└─The "younger viewers" have already learned how to avoid commercials entirely. The genie is already out of the bottle.
[17:26:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmoschner [3296] (Score:2) 02Re:Too little, too late... - 06Why TV Networks Are Cutting Back on Commercials - 553 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:26:09] <exec> 08└─This is not driven by an attempt to appeal to the "youngin's" who "don't much care for dem ads" but rather because there is demand from advertisers for airtime. Ratings are low and ad space is plentiful. By reducing the number of spaces in a show, they are trying to reduce teh inventory they have to...
[17:26:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03dublet [2994] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Doesn't matter - 06Why TV Networks Are Cutting Back on Commercials - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:11] <exec> 08└─The majority of my TV watching is based on recorded programmes, so skipping ads is not a problem. Also here there's the good ol' Auntie Beeb, featuring no ads.
[17:26:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimtheowl [5929] (Score:2, Interesting) 02Greedy training - 06Why TV Networks Are Cutting Back on Commercials - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:13] <exec> 08└─They have tried to 'train' people to accept the increased amount of advertising over decades, and have made it intolerable. Advertising is the main reason I cut the cord, but there is also the crappy programming and the crappy 'news', which aims to 'train' people to think as they wish.
[17:26:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Required interaction - 06Why TV Networks Are Cutting Back on Commercials - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:16] <exec> 08└─So an ad that requires me to click on it before I get my video? Well it works for warez sites...
[17:26:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03goodie [1877] (Score:2) 02Re:Required interaction - 06Why TV Networks Are Cutting Back on Commercials - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:26:17] <exec> 08└─Well at least on a warez site you get to see a nipple or two (or even more!) to get to video ;-) (Ok but that would be followed by warning from your A/V etc.)
[17:26:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:2) 02"interactive ad...require viewers to engage..." - 06Why TV Networks Are Cutting Back on Commercials - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:19] <exec> 08└─You know, those young demographics only buy cable for mind-less, aimless channel surfing. Take that away and you're left with the same experience you get with steaming and downloading, but with commercials and\or a bill at the end of the month.
[17:26:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score:2) 02Change. - 06Why TV Networks Are Cutting Back on Commercials - 3864 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:21] <exec> 08└─No viewer WANTS ads. No viewer is going to interact with ads deliberately, especially if that interaction is forced upon them. No viewer wants to stop in the middle of a movie or TV series they love, to have to be distracted and brought out of "suspension of disbelief", to forcibly interact with an...
[17:26:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Advertising origins . . . - 06Why TV Networks Are Cutting Back on Commercials - 1387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:22] <exec> 08└─It is true that newspapers ran advertising almost from the earliest days of typesetting and moveable print. But, the advertising was static, non-obtrusive, and generally interesting enough to the intended audience. A newspaper serving an audience in a rural area, consisting of mostly farmers, logger...
[17:26:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The fine print....? - 06Why TV Networks Are Cutting Back on Commercials - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:24] <exec> 08└─They are cutting minutes... OK fine. But does that mean they are still going to overlay ads on top of the show like some channels do more and more? It's completely obnoxious - 33% of the screen has an animated elephant or something bouncing around while you are trying to see the show or read the sub...
[17:26:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Personally - 06Provider of Prisoner Phone Calls Hacked - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:26:32] <exec> 08└─General opinion is that we fought a war to free the slaves - but how in HELL do we explain away tens of millions of black men decaying in prison cells?
[17:26:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Personally - 06Provider of Prisoner Phone Calls Hacked - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:26:34] <exec> 08└─"Now I am just talking out of my ass" Yes - no - maybe? You're not telling the full story accurately, but it's close enough to pass on a working knowledge of the situation to any outsiders who might be interested.
[17:26:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score:2) 02Re:Personally - 06Provider of Prisoner Phone Calls Hacked - 2022 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:26:36] <exec> 08└─Tens of Millions is a totally inaccurate statement. Also, you can't really compare the US to "the most backward oppressive regimes in the third world" as those regimes have serious human rights violations to go along with it. http://thinkprogress.org
[17:26:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Personally - 06Provider of Prisoner Phone Calls Hacked - 2618 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:26:37] <exec> 08└─Bear in mind that the prison population is a rolling number. Some number of people go to prison for forever. Others spend decades in prison. Others are repeatedly sentenced to shorter terms. Many others go to prison for short terms, and are released, only to be replaced by new faces. The numbers bel...
[17:26:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03isostatic [365] 02Blame the government - 06 Multinationals Hiding more than USD$500 Billion from G20 Tax Collectors - 255 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:45] <exec> 08└─This is of course the governments fault. If the government didn't tax them, they wouldn't be forced to do this. It's every ones inalienable human right to maximise profits in this way while minimising paying for the infrastructure that allows that profit.
[17:26:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03isostatic [365] 02Re:Blame the government - 06 Multinationals Hiding more than USD$500 Billion from G20 Tax Collectors - 1269 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:26:46] <exec> 08└─The problem is a large portion of the western world, especially the U.S., believe that the government is the enemy, and companies are your friend. The problem is the natural state of companies is to coallese into enormous multinationals that we have to deal with. And while there are the anarchists w...
[17:26:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03DutchUncle [5370] (Score:1) 02Re:Blame the government - 06 Multinationals Hiding more than USD$500 Billion from G20 Tax Collectors - 441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:26:50] <exec> 08└─Straw man much? In truth I agree with your concerns about the NSA, but that is a separate issue from this one, and this should be easier to deal with precisely because it doesn't have any supposed benefit to hide behind. People can argue that the NSA is "keeping us safe" (we both disagree, but peopl...
[17:26:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03acp_sn [5254] 02stop taxing income, tax both property&cash exports - 06 Multinationals Hiding more than USD$500 Billion from G20 Tax Collectors - 864 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:52] <exec> 08└─The solution is to stop taxing income. That only fucks the middle class anyway. Instead tax property including government-protected IP, and also tax cash leaving the country. property tax more fairly shifts the tax burden from labor (the people doing work) to capital (the people who own stuff)it is...
[17:26:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:stop taxing income, tax both property&cash expo - 06 Multinationals Hiding more than USD$500 Billion from G20 Tax Collectors - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:26:57] <exec> 08└─Trump said he'd fix this.
[17:26:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03DutchUncle [5370] (Score:1) 02Re:stop taxing income, tax both property&cash expo - 06 Multinationals Hiding more than USD$500 Billion from G20 Tax Collectors - 587 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:26:58] <exec> 08└─No, sorry, taxing property punishes the retired pensioner, or the family living in the house that great-grandpa built that has become worth more than anyone imagined - and that the family couldn't possibly afford to replace at the modern valuation. Taxing consumption is regressive because even the r...
[17:26:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:stop taxing income, tax both property&cash expo - 06 Multinationals Hiding more than USD$500 Billion from G20 Tax Collectors - 637 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:27:00] <exec> 08└─If we really want to level the playing field, we should tax income, property, and capital gains steeply above a certain level. That means there's no more incentive for the billionaires to amass 50 trophy homes, or give themselves multi-million dollar golden parachutes, or what-have-you. Financial tr...
[17:27:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:stop taxing income, tax both property&cash expo - 06 Multinationals Hiding more than USD$500 Billion from G20 Tax Collectors - 3028 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:27:02] <exec> 08└─There are alternatives to taxing income, so sure, I'll go with that part of your idea. But taxing property is a bad idea. The state in the union with the most regressive taxes is Washington, not because they tax poor people's income (Washington is one of the half dozen or so states without an income...
[17:27:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:stop taxing income, tax both property&cash expo - 06 Multinationals Hiding more than USD$500 Billion from G20 Tax Collectors - 871 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:27:04] <exec> 08└─Poor people who own property, especially the elderly on limited fixed income or those who inherited after their family died, now suddenly have a property tax albatross that prevents them from saving up to fix their financial situation Can they not sell this property? We have it in the UK, called cou...
[17:27:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:stop taxing income, tax both property&cash expo - 06 Multinationals Hiding more than USD$500 Billion from G20 Tax Collectors - 973 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:27:05] <exec> 08└─Good questions! Unfortunately, it's founded in a problem: the taxes they can't pay don't go away - they end up being attached to the property. The state won't throw them out, but when the property changes hands, the tax has to be paid (or the government just won't issue a new deed). So yes, grandpa...
[17:27:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Forbes Put It at $21 Trillion - 06 Multinationals Hiding more than USD$500 Billion from G20 Tax Collectors - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:27:07] <exec> 08└─No, it doesn't. I put a simple gloss on a complex subject, because it's not worth anyone's time on an internet forum to compose an apt proposal that covers all the bases, and which no one will read. But there has been precedent, it has been done at least twice with major, major currencies in living...
[17:27:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Forbes Put It at $21 Trillion - 06 Multinationals Hiding more than USD$500 Billion from G20 Tax Collectors - 1197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:27:09] <exec> 08└─Just saying it doesn't constitute a currency default doesn't suddenly make it not one. Let's break this down. In Germany, to take the case you referred to, it was a currency default. It didn't matter much because one state was actually going away, the prior currency was basically toilet paper anyway...
[17:27:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Non Sequor [1005] (Score:2) 02Re:Flash - 06How Secure Can Your Router Get? - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:27:19] <exec> 08└─I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
[17:27:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score:2) 02Captive portal MITM - 06How Secure Can Your Router Get? - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:27:27] <exec> 08└─I was under the impression that people routinely clicked through MITM warnings in order to make a public hotspot's "I agree to the terms and conditions" captive portal flow finish.
[17:27:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score:2) 02The customer service cost of router security - 06How Secure Can Your Router Get? - 1534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:33] <exec> 08└─I wonder if some router makers intentionally leave out certain security features to reduce the cost of customer service when a user uses said features to shoot himself in the foot. Say your router is configured with a MAC whitelist or Ethernet-only policy for administration. Then your device breaks...
[17:27:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:UnReddit and VOAT - 06Shadow Bans Not Banny Enough For Reddit - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:27:53] <exec> 08└─That is not one or two here and there... That is systematic mod abuse. Fuck me...
[17:28:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02The Answer - 06How Does a Parasite Create Zombie-like Behavior? - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:24] <exec> 08└─" How Does a Parasite Create Zombie-like Behavior? "
[17:29:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:So useless, why worry? - 06The 100 Most Militarized Universities in America - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:29:18] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't that mean we have nothing to fear because the spys are all incompetent?
[17:29:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:how about no - 06Joel Hodgson Wants to Bring Back MST3K - 757 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:29:46] <exec> 08└─The shows were actually heavily scripted. They would go thru the movie 2-3 times and just pound out one liners. Go back re-edit them and make the 'script' or if they want some sort of theme to go along with it. Also 1m for 3 episodes? For say 10-15 people involved (it is not 3 schmucks and and 2 pup...
[17:30:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Now is the time - 06Why Improving Kernel Security is Important - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:30:38] <exec> 08└─And our systems don't have security holes....
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[18:25:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Clarification needed - 06World Nations Reach Landmark Deal on Using Satellites to Track Flights - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:58] <exec> 08└─The text implies that 160 nations came together to address this issue. Those nations got together for the WRC of which this is one of many issues.
[18:26:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"Trained?!" - 06Why TV Networks Are Cutting Back on Commercials - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:26:11] <exec> 08└─So you'd notice he is a jew?
[18:26:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:Greedy training - 06Why TV Networks Are Cutting Back on Commercials - 654 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:26:17] <exec> 08└─I'm amazed that it took so long in the USA. You get vastly more ads than we do in the UK (even ignoring the BBC channels, which are ad-free), and a lot of people my age and younger gave up on UK TV because of the amount of time wasted on ads, in favour of DVD rental subscriptions, streaming, or just...
[18:26:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:Change. - 06Why TV Networks Are Cutting Back on Commercials - 1381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:26:22] <exec> 08└─No viewer WANTS ads. No viewer is going to interact with ads deliberately, especially if that interaction is forced upon them. No viewer wants to stop in the middle of a movie or TV series they love, to have to be distracted and brought out of "suspension of disbelief", to forcibly interact with an...
[18:26:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:Change. - 06Why TV Networks Are Cutting Back on Commercials - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:26:24] <exec> 08└─I think that the real point is that no one wants adverts to interrupt them. If someone is going to make an advert that is entertaining in its own right, then people might choose to watch it, but few people want to be interrupted and made to watch something else.
[18:26:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:Change. - 06Why TV Networks Are Cutting Back on Commercials - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:26:26] <exec> 08└─Great points, but the article is that they are reducing advertising, not increasing.
[18:26:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03SrLnclt [1473] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:The fine print....? - 06Why TV Networks Are Cutting Back on Commercials - 749 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:26:28] <exec> 08└─Ever notice what networks showing reruns do between episodes? As soon as the credits begin they will do a split screen, squash down the credits so you can't even read them, and begin showing the next episode on 2/3 of the screen. This must look like crap for anyone still using a SD TV. Or sometimes...
[18:26:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Done with advertising - 06Why TV Networks Are Cutting Back on Commercials - 757 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:30] <exec> 08└─I don't want to be advertised to any more. I don't have anything contemptuous to say about advertisers (well, maybe not much), I don't think they are the spawn of Satan, I don't think advertising should be illegal or laws should be passed about the situation or advertisers should be disemboweled or...
[18:26:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Singularity - 06Why TV Networks Are Cutting Back on Commercials - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:32] <exec> 08└─We seem to be headed for a singularity. Everybody says that the web and media will cease to exist if thieving scumbags skip or block ads. Now apparently advertisers are less willing to pay for ads. So - will creators stop creating? My guess is, no. In fact, I think we'll see an improvement in qualit...
[18:26:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score:2) 02Prison PBX "Features" - 06Provider of Prisoner Phone Calls Hacked - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:26:44] <exec> 08└─It's not illegal to record the calls, only listen to them. Unless there's some way to determine which calls are to lawyers and which aren't, I would guess they'd record them all.
[18:27:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Blame the government - 06 Multinationals Hiding more than USD$500 Billion from G20 Tax Collectors - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:27:04] <exec> 08└─In truth I agree with your concerns about the NSA, but that is a separate issue from this one, and this should be easier to deal with precisely because it doesn't have any supposed benefit to hide behind.
[18:27:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Blame the government - 06 Multinationals Hiding more than USD$500 Billion from G20 Tax Collectors - 1236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:27:05] <exec> 08└─> As a US citizen who sees things like NSA, ATF, or the EPA play their games, > why should I be more concerned about a multinational who is simply avoiding paying some taxes? Nice that you put the EPA in the data collector argument... Apparently, the EPA trusts it's customer's data so much they don'...
[18:27:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Blame the government - 06 Multinationals Hiding more than USD$500 Billion from G20 Tax Collectors - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:27:07] <exec> 08└─Nice that you put the EPA in the data collector argument... Apparently, the EPA trusts it's customer's data so much they don't need to check tailpipes. So oppressive...
[18:28:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Exposure? - 06Shadow Bans Not Banny Enough For Reddit - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:28:06] <exec> 08└─They don't care how many years I served my country, they don't care that I might be a veteran, they don't care how many lives I've saved (or taken) in my life. You're right, "we" don't care because those things have absolutely nothing to do with the quality of your comment. (except in that recen...
[18:28:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Exposure? - 06Shadow Bans Not Banny Enough For Reddit - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:28:07] <exec> 08└─This is the internet. He/She might be a genious 12 year-old girl from Algeria that likes to assume different internet identities.
[18:28:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Exposure? - 06Shadow Bans Not Banny Enough For Reddit - 807 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:28:08] <exec> 08└─> i really don't have much use for Fox Noise, but I can join a discussion on Fox, and I can say some pretty outrageous things, and no one ever threatens to ban me. I've been banned from many MSM discussion sites. Imagine that. This whining about censorship and conflating it with "the right of my cou...
[18:28:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Exposure? - 06Shadow Bans Not Banny Enough For Reddit - 1249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:28:10] <exec> 08└─No, it is you who is being dishonest. You may give some lip service to freedom of speech, but you have no problem with seing people punished arbitrarily and capriciously by random moderators who often have their own political agendas. I suppose that it made sense that you could speak your mind in 19...
[18:28:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Exposure? - 06Shadow Bans Not Banny Enough For Reddit - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:28:12] <exec> 08└─but I can join a discussion on Fox, and I can say some pretty outrageous things, and no one ever threatens to ban me. Yeah, 'cause shutting down the entire comments section [newshounds.us] is so much better!
[18:28:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Exposure? - 06Shadow Bans Not Banny Enough For Reddit - 967 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:28:14] <exec> 08└─Interesting. Newshounds seems to imply that Fox shouldn't have put news stories online that might be controversial. So - are you pointing out that Fox censored the comments on one especially controversial story, or are you instead pointing out that Newshounds wants to censor Fox? And that line of th...
[18:28:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Exposure? - 06Shadow Bans Not Banny Enough For Reddit - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:28:16] <exec> 08└─So - are you pointing out that Fox censored the comments Yes, I am pointing out that you are completely wrong about Fox not censoring. And that line of thought leads me to ask: You are aware that trying to move the goalposts like that implies that you know you're wrong?
[18:28:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Exposure? - 06Shadow Bans Not Banny Enough For Reddit - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:28:17] <exec> 08└─I fail to see the outrage in a moderated forum (moderated in the traditional sense, of course) making their ban policy more transparent. But, of course, I don't need a persecution conspiracy to protect my ego from people not liking my posts.
[18:28:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Reddit can suck it - 06Shadow Bans Not Banny Enough For Reddit - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:28:29] <exec> 08└─or just off-topic stupid shit in general.
[18:28:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It depends on so much - 06Shadow Bans Not Banny Enough For Reddit - 490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:28:34] <exec> 08└─I fully appreciate the need to moderate discussions, however I feel a better method would be to mark posts as offtopic/troll like we do here. Once modded the comment becomes "hidden", but anyone can choose to display the hidden comments. That way there is no real censorship, just an annoying wall to...
[18:28:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:It depends on so much - 06Shadow Bans Not Banny Enough For Reddit - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:28:35] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure we all think that our style of moderation is better, that's why we're here. Seriously, who gives a crap how Reddit moderates? Frankly, if they make is sucky enough maybe we'll get some of their users that value that sort of thing.
[18:28:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:It depends on so much - 06Shadow Bans Not Banny Enough For Reddit - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:28:37] <exec> 08└─Seriously, who gives a crap how Reddit moderates?
[18:28:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:It depends on so much - 06Shadow Bans Not Banny Enough For Reddit - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:28:39] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I like that approach better for here, too. And I would probably like it better for reddit, too, if I were a redditor.
[18:28:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Shadowbans Are a Godsend! - 06Shadow Bans Not Banny Enough For Reddit - 1304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:41] <exec> 08└─Subs like Suicide Watch are moderated quite heavily. The users there are constantly bombarded by trolls and spammers. The mods will use the shadowban for most of them, but when they are over the top trolling then they'll ban them, but that usually ends up with the troll just creating other alts and...
[18:28:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Shadowbans Are Evil! - 06Shadow Bans Not Banny Enough For Reddit - 2042 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:28:42] <exec> 08└─The problem with shadowbans is when they get used against legit posters. I quit hackernews when I got shadowbanned - I posted a follow-up story with all new information to a very popular story from a week earlier. It was the most upvoted story I had ever submitted and was getting active, civil discu...
[18:29:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03kadal [4731] (Score:2) 02Re:Failed to see the "news" here (no pun intended) - 06Google Maps for Android Adds Offline Mode - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:29:14] <exec> 08└─Have you had good luck with the navigation? Google Maps' big advantage is the ease of finding what you're looking for.
[18:29:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:Failed to see the "news" here (no pun intended) - 06Google Maps for Android Adds Offline Mode - 949 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:29:18] <exec> 08└─Yes, I used the OSMAnd navigation fairly extensively when I moved here. I also tried Google Maps, but it was mostly missing footpaths and cycle paths, and in a couple of places didn't know about one-way streets. I've used OSMAnd in Belgium, France, and four states in the USA in the last year or so w...
[18:29:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03SanityCheck [5190] (Score:2) 02Re:Stupid. - 06The 100 Most Militarized Universities in America - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:29:49] <exec> 08└─I do like them, but I admit you may be right there. They are unlike other news outlets because I get on VICE stories I would not see anywhere else. But they are much like every other news outlet because they do push their agenda.
[18:30:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03termigator [4271] (Score:1) 02Re:I don't get it - 06Joel Hodgson Wants to Bring Back MST3K - 721 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:30:33] <exec> 08└─Agree about the show declining when Mike replaced Joel. After Joel left, it seemed the humor became more generic. One of the nice thing about the show was the obscure pop culture references. You may not always get it, but when you did, it was funny. They had references that spanned at least a coupl...
[18:30:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03termigator [4271] (Score:1) 02Re:My favorite MST3K flick - 06Joel Hodgson Wants to Bring Back MST3K - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:30:36] <exec> 08└─I always liked when they showed old shorts and educational films. The king and queen of posture. Kids rodeo. Drunk driving. etc. I thought some of their best stuff was the short and educational films they riffed.
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[19:26:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Clarification needed - 06World Nations Reach Landmark Deal on Using Satellites to Track Flights - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:26:01] <exec> 08└─Sounds like they allocated some spectrum to it, basically. (All I read was the press-release)
[19:26:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Here's a weird idea... - 06World Nations Reach Landmark Deal on Using Satellites to Track Flights - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:02] <exec> 08└─why don't we just reach a 'landmark deal' to stop creating and selling/trading weapons and try to just GET THE FECK ALONG?!?! Oh, if wishes were horses, i'd have what Scotty said.
[19:26:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:Here's a weird idea... - 06World Nations Reach Landmark Deal on Using Satellites to Track Flights - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:26:03] <exec> 08└─Because the FAA, as just one example, has no reach to do that.
[19:26:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Here's a weird idea... - 06World Nations Reach Landmark Deal on Using Satellites to Track Flights - 652 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:26:05] <exec> 08└─because not everyone will respect that deal. as an example, I'm confident there is gun crime in the UK, even though "there is a deal" that civilians and the police should not be armed. as a sidenote, if I were in control (i.e. god-like power) I would provide everyone with a ridiculously powerful and...
[19:26:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Re:"Trained?!" - 06Why TV Networks Are Cutting Back on Commercials - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:26:16] <exec> 08└─You should have said "tv execs are trained to think of the viewers as theives." :)
[19:26:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:"Trained?!" - 06Why TV Networks Are Cutting Back on Commercials - 628 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:26:18] <exec> 08└─Well, no, I employed the right verb. "Trained" means someone sat them in a room and pounded it into their heads with repetition and/or shock therapy. "Conditioned" means they picked it up via osmosis, which is by far the more accurate descriptor. That is, even in the highest echelons of business and...
[19:26:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:"Trained?!" - 06Why TV Networks Are Cutting Back on Commercials - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:26:22] <exec> 08└─I went to a professional trade show (NAB), where a guy was demoing his weather animations designed to keep the viewers engaged. He was talking about the viewers in about the same way you'd talk about someone's out-of-control four year-old.
[19:26:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:"Trained?!" - 06Why TV Networks Are Cutting Back on Commercials - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:26:23] <exec> 08└─Apparently, women would be amongst the weather-watching public. Having both a babe and a hunk sharing the weather stage is a recipe for disaster.
[19:26:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimtheowl [5929] (Score:2, Interesting) 02Re:Greedy training - 06Why TV Networks Are Cutting Back on Commercials - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:26:29] <exec> 08└─The sad part is the show is not free as the cable subscription costs plenty. It used to be that one of the incentives to get cable over TV on the air was the reduced number of commercials, but that is what seems a lifetime ago. That said, I'm not even in the USA.
[19:26:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Change. - 06Why TV Networks Are Cutting Back on Commercials - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:26:36] <exec> 08└─You forgot Victorias Secret commercials.
[19:26:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Change. - 06Why TV Networks Are Cutting Back on Commercials - 535 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:26:37] <exec> 08└─Some advertising can actually go with the show it is interrupting. I'm reminded of the target commercials during the last episode of Lost. The other 800 commercials were crap and i regretted watching "normal" tv : ) Should have just waited for the torrent like usual! https://www.youtube.com
[19:26:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The fine print....? - 06Why TV Networks Are Cutting Back on Commercials - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:26:42] <exec> 08└─Or really old shows where they speed it up to get more commercial time crammed in there.
[19:26:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Re:Singularity - 06Why TV Networks Are Cutting Back on Commercials - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:26:45] <exec> 08└─With repealing copyright entirely, all we would see is more endless remakes of things once Paramount, Warner Bros., etc can make Star Wars movies. I think that would be a step backwards for creativity.
[19:26:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02What's the conversion from Metric-Shit-Ton to Year - 06Why TV Networks Are Cutting Back on Commercials - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:47] <exec> 08└─WAY too little, METRIC_SHIT_TON * WAY too late.
[19:26:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02last night - 06Why TV Networks Are Cutting Back on Commercials - 969 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:48] <exec> 08└─Last night the wife and I watched some OTA TV for the first time in a year. We came across the Carol Burnett Show. A show that in its heyday was 54 mins long. They sliced this show down to 15 mins to fit into a half hour slot. The other 15 mins were commercials. I saw the same commercials 4 times ov...
[19:26:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Advertising = Brainwashing - 06Why TV Networks Are Cutting Back on Commercials - 779 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:50] <exec> 08└─It's actually true that advertising is brainwashing. There have been more studies recently that employ brain scans that establish that. That's why it works. Yes, there are truisms like "sex sells" that tap into the lizard brain, but more fundamental than that is the fact that images you've seen over...
[19:26:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Silver Lining. - 06Provider of Prisoner Phone Calls Hacked - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:26:59] <exec> 08└─We can only hope.
[19:27:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Silver Lining. - 06Provider of Prisoner Phone Calls Hacked - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:27:01] <exec> 08└─The good news is that when thousands of prisoners get their convictions overturned due to their attorney communications being compromised, your prison overcrowding problem will be greatly reduced! Meh, thousands... So long as we're beating China per-capita then AMERICA #1!!
[19:27:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Silver Lining. - 06Provider of Prisoner Phone Calls Hacked - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:27:02] <exec> 08└─Not just per capita: Even in absolute terms we have far more total prisoners than any other country on Earth. USA! USA! USA!
[19:27:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score:1) 02Re:Welcome to US of A - 06Provider of Prisoner Phone Calls Hacked - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:27:04] <exec> 08└─The land of the FEE
[19:27:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Personally - 06Provider of Prisoner Phone Calls Hacked - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:27:11] <exec> 08└─While inside, for your crimes, repeat this three thousand times: Where bread were bred.
[19:27:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Blame the government - 06 Multinationals Hiding more than USD$500 Billion from G20 Tax Collectors - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:27:31] <exec> 08└─...believe that the government is the enemy... How is that a problem... Using a model that simplistic on a problem that complex isn't going to turn out well.
[19:27:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03SanityCheck [5190] (Score:2) 02Re:stop taxing income, tax both property&cash expo - 06 Multinationals Hiding more than USD$500 Billion from G20 Tax Collectors - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:27:39] <exec> 08└─He probably could. He strikes me as one candidate who wouldn't stop if he was to set his sights on something. Every other whinnie would just get a back-room deal to dilute the reform away and add another 1000 pages of garbage to our laws. Of course it could so happen that he only sounds like it's th...
[19:27:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Forbes Put It at $21 Trillion - 06 Multinationals Hiding more than USD$500 Billion from G20 Tax Collectors - 1108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:27:49] <exec> 08└─And your desire to cast it as a currency default does not make it one. Touche. What it does represent is a real desire to translate paper balances with real ones. There would have to be provisions to classify debt held by state actors differently from that held by private banks or individuals. That'...
[19:28:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03SanityCheck [5190] (Score:2) 02Re:Secure, but for how long. - 06How Secure Can Your Router Get? - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:28:14] <exec> 08└─I am looking at this solution every time one of my routers dies, but I usually am too busy to even begin it and u need a router right away. I would be interested in a lot more information about your implementation.
[19:28:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Exposure? - 06Shadow Bans Not Banny Enough For Reddit - 664 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:28:38] <exec> 08└─> No, it is you who is being dishonest. You may give some lip service to freedom of speech, but you have no problem with seing people punished arbitrarily and capriciously by random moderators who often have their own political agendas. Thanks for telling me what I think. You would definitely be the...
[19:28:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Exposure? - 06Shadow Bans Not Banny Enough For Reddit - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:28:39] <exec> 08└─There are also other places that do not want to be free for alls, they want to have a specific character and you are required to follow their rules in their house. That's how free speech works. Funny how "let the free-market decide" and "invisible hand" get thrown by the wayside whenever "SJW"s...
[19:28:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Exposure? - 06Shadow Bans Not Banny Enough For Reddit - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:28:44] <exec> 08└─Uhhhhh - discussions tend to evolve, ya know? A discussion that leads nowhere isn't much of a discussion. I've pointed out that Fox censors far less than MSM. You showed me that Fox did censor a story. I've moved no goalposts. I'm still asking.
[19:28:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:Exposure? - 06Shadow Bans Not Banny Enough For Reddit - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:28:46] <exec> 08└─> I've pointed out that Fox censors far less than MSM. Uh no. You claimed something totally nebulous "MSM" versus one named company. Totally unprovable assertion. Face with counter-evidence you retreated into further generics. Besides Fox is fucking mainstream. The number one news channel and they a...
[19:29:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Shadowbans Are Evil! - 06Shadow Bans Not Banny Enough For Reddit - 1226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:29:12] <exec> 08└─I totally agree with what you said. The mods on SW don't take shadowbanning nor banning lightly. They do automodding as well, but the parameters are very tight, so as to not impede with legitimate posters. I think the behavior you're describing is quite prevalent everywhere in human life. There are...
[19:29:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Shadowbans Are Evil! - 06Shadow Bans Not Banny Enough For Reddit - 876 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:29:14] <exec> 08└─> Due to the sheer volume of posters to that site you posted at, it could have been a mistake or deliberate, but I would have tried to ascertain what was going on. If you got nowhere with it, then I would have just abandoned the site as you have done. The thing that made me give up was that they had...
[19:29:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:Advisable doesn't matter, it will be done anywa - 06How Does a Parasite Create Zombie-like Behavior? - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:29:24] <exec> 08└─And, FWIW, Alzheimer's may well be caused by a fungal infection. The evidence is inconclusive, but suggestive.
[19:29:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Let's not research the brain! - 06How Does a Parasite Create Zombie-like Behavior? - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:29:35] <exec> 08└─Is this avenue of inquiry really advisable? Yes. And we'd be a lot further along if it wasn't for the bullshit drug war.
[19:30:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:This is a hoot: - 06The 100 Most Militarized Universities in America - 640 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:30:23] <exec> 08└─The military was important to Britain to keep others from taking their stuff. But they more often used it to take other people's stuff. Ask China about the Boxer Rebellion. "The sun never sets on the British Empire" can also be said "We steal all the way around the world". Perhaps it was necessary....
[19:31:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:I don't get it - 06Joel Hodgson Wants to Bring Back MST3K - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:31:10] <exec> 08└─Some of them are definitely better than others, as well. I seem to recall "Manos: The Hands of Fate" being a really funny one if you want to give it a shot again. Could be on Netflix...
[19:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Simple solution - 06Fantasy Sports Ordered to Stop Taking Bets in New York State - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:33:31] <exec> 08└─Pissant judges in France have indeed ordered american companies to not display everything on their website to the French. I agree, that's unworkable, but unfortunately that's how things are some of the time.
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[20:25:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02.Net hell - 06Think Your IT Project is a Disaster? These Will Make You Feel Better - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:59] <exec> 08└─I work for the US government and live in .net hell. The simpliest project must have dozens of references and blackbox third party libraries which no longer exist anymore and use ancient versions of the framework. All to put wrappers of wrappers of CLR and then spit out acres of dlls that will be los...
[20:25:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:.Net hell - 06Think Your IT Project is a Disaster? These Will Make You Feel Better - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:26:00] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't consider .net terrible. But unsupported black box libraries and ancient frameworks are. .net isn't your problem. And moving to another language, runtime or platform would not solve it either.
[20:26:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:.Net hell - 06Think Your IT Project is a Disaster? These Will Make You Feel Better - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:26:02] <exec> 08└─How about the project managers who chose the wrong tool for the job? I know they may not have chosen the tool. But they could choose not to use it. Or write C/C++ and call it from .NET. The upside would be the C/C++ can be ported to any platform. The biggest upside would be that sub-par, dim-light d...
[20:26:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:.Net hell - 06Think Your IT Project is a Disaster? These Will Make You Feel Better - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:26:03] <exec> 08└─Save the world, kill Microsoft.
[20:26:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02I'm shocked. Shocked I tell you. - 06Think Your IT Project is a Disaster? These Will Make You Feel Better - 1461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:05] <exec> 08└─Surprise! Government contractors, aka thieves, entertain politicians to secure lucrative contracts. They then call up the punjabi coding hut staffed by people with fake degrees who don't know a pointer from a gif file to build the system. Millions are blown on bogus overruns which are nothing more t...
[20:26:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I'm shocked. Shocked I tell you. - 06Think Your IT Project is a Disaster? These Will Make You Feel Better - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:26:07] <exec> 08└─They then call up the punjabi coding hut staffed by people with fake degrees
[20:26:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I'm shocked. Shocked I tell you. - 06Think Your IT Project is a Disaster? These Will Make You Feel Better - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:26:09] <exec> 08└─How about we instead change the word degree to credentials? That works better.
[20:26:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Here's a weird idea... - 06World Nations Reach Landmark Deal on Using Satellites to Track Flights - 653 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:26:20] <exec> 08└─Suppose an aircraft went down over the ocean, deviating from its flight path, for reasons not related to hijacking or other sabotage. Sensors or instruments can go wonky, autopilot can go wonky, or generators and power systems could fail. Knowing where aircraft are is and being able to quickly hone...
[20:26:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Here's a weird idea... - 06World Nations Reach Landmark Deal on Using Satellites to Track Flights - 685 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:26:22] <exec> 08└─It isn't about getting along. It is about those who want to remain in control (and want more control) and those who are controlled. International elements benefit greatly from wars and conflict. Healthy populations with enough to eat and and maintain a decent living are hard to control. A population...
[20:26:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02"Track" being the keyword - 06World Nations Reach Landmark Deal on Using Satellites to Track Flights - 951 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:24] <exec> 08└─An airplane with all passengers and crew on-board were sacrificed in order for this global tracking to be made official. The disappearance of a flight has been blown out of proportion to be able to track everything that flies. As if their current tracking satellites weren't already tracking everythi...
[20:26:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03moondoctor [2963] (Score:2) 02Re:"Trained?!" - 06Why TV Networks Are Cutting Back on Commercials - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:26:35] <exec> 08└─I worked at an on-demand iptv service, and you'd be amazed at how much work it is just keeping a library of networks and shows live. Aside from the technical challenge (pretty huge) there's a ridiculous amount of contract stuff meaning things have to be made available or unavailable constantly. Yes:...
[20:26:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score:2) 02Re:Doesn't matter - 06Why TV Networks Are Cutting Back on Commercials - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:26:44] <exec> 08└─here there's the good ol' Auntie Beeb, featuring no ads
[20:27:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score:2) 02Re:Advertising = Brainwashing - 06Why TV Networks Are Cutting Back on Commercials - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:27:07] <exec> 08└─the fact that images you've seen over and over again become indistinguishable from your actual memories
[20:27:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Advertising = Brainwashing - 06Why TV Networks Are Cutting Back on Commercials - 1576 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:27:08] <exec> 08└─Booking time with directors, camera crews, actors, etc is very expensive. Ridiculously expensive. It's diametrically opposed to what your real world knowledge of starving actors/artists says it should be. That's why they play the same commercials over an over again, because it lowers the marginal co...
[20:27:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Advertising = Brainwashing - 06Why TV Networks Are Cutting Back on Commercials - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:27:10] <exec> 08└─It's actually true that advertising is brainwashing.
[20:27:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:Blame the government - 06 Multinationals Hiding more than USD$500 Billion from G20 Tax Collectors - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:27:54] <exec> 08└─Why is Google, et al., hiding taxes somehow less bad than the NSA spying on people? Why can't both be bad? And second, any American should rightly be plenty pissed at both because if Google didn't pay taxes, that means the little guys paid the taxes that built the NSA spying programs. Google didn't...
[20:28:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Forbes Put It at $21 Trillion - 06 Multinationals Hiding more than USD$500 Billion from G20 Tax Collectors - 3748 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:28:13] <exec> 08└─And your desire to cast it as a currency default does not make it one. Touche. Cute. I broke down precisely why it is a currency default. Feel free to use a different set of terminology for monetary economics, but at least do the rest of the world the courtesy of telling us what your words mean. So,...
[20:28:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:My house got hacked... - 06How Secure Can Your Router Get? - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:28:24] <exec> 08└─That itching problem you've started having...yeah, that's from your wife. You're welcome.
[20:28:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03tempest [3050] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Secure, but for how long. - 06How Secure Can Your Router Get? - 1899 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:28:39] <exec> 08└─Previously I had a Soekris box which only used as much power as a consumer router, but had too many issues with it. Similar low power devices exist, but I haven't looked. So now I just use a low profile dell optiplex. It's fast, so easy to update, with enough resources to grow into other functions,...
[20:28:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03SanityCheck [5190] (Score:2) 02Re:Secure, but for how long. - 06How Secure Can Your Router Get? - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:28:41] <exec> 08└─I would probably buy all new parts because anything I have lying around is gonna use 100W. And I definitely get why it's worth it to pay more for this setup, because if something breaks you can replace one part, not the whole thing. As is the consumer-grade shit dies in about 18 months, regardless o...
[20:28:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The customer service cost of router security - 06How Secure Can Your Router Get? - 676 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:28:45] <exec> 08└─Most of those failures can be worked around the way forgetting your password is currently handled: with physical access you can hard-reset the router to regain access to it at the cost of losing all of the settings. HTTPS support is fairly common at least in alternative firmwares. As you point out,...
[20:29:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:Exposure? - 06Shadow Bans Not Banny Enough For Reddit - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:29:08] <exec> 08└─Who is suggesting that the government stop the censorship? From what I see, people are merely criticizing it. Or do you think that freedom of speech and the free market mean being free from criticism?
[20:29:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Exposure? - 06Shadow Bans Not Banny Enough For Reddit - 841 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:29:17] <exec> 08└─Whatever. If Fox is mainstream, it is right of center mainstream, while almost all of the rest of mainstream is left to far left. There really is nothing "nebulous" about US mainstream media. There are the Turner affiliated networks, and the Hearst affiliated networks, and finally, there is Fox. Hea...
[20:30:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Not for the Farmer, just the Government - 06Researchers Develop New Way to Measure Crop Yields from Space - 591 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:30:35] <exec> 08└─All true, but again, your own links prove my point, that the claim of researchers are turning to technology to help safeguard the global food supply isn't exactly true with regard to the satellite imaging. Further, these don't help the farmers, they simply help government. Go read them again, there...
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[21:26:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Cornwallis [359] (Score:1) 02Then again - 06Mars' Moon Phobos is Being Slowly Ripped Apart - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:00] <exec> 08└─It *could* happen tomorrow.
[21:26:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:.Net hell - 06Think Your IT Project is a Disaster? These Will Make You Feel Better - 711 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:26:11] <exec> 08└─.net isn't your problem This exactly. I have a multimillion per year revenue project that runs on .net. But we are stuck on libraries that are 5+ years old. Not because .net is 'hard'. But because no one in the org wants to upgrade. Never mind the 15 or so bugs the NEWER frameworks fixed and were fi...
[21:26:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:.Net hell - 06Think Your IT Project is a Disaster? These Will Make You Feel Better - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:26:13] <exec> 08└─Fire all MBA's. Into the Sun.
[21:26:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:4, Insightful) 02Re:I'm shocked. Shocked I tell you. - 06Think Your IT Project is a Disaster? These Will Make You Feel Better - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:26:18] <exec> 08└─I would say over a long career I've seen many CS-certified people who aren't fit to lick the shit off your shoes, and many liberal-arts trained people who rock, and rock hard. I've also seen many people who are fucking phenomenal on the skills level, who become utterly despondent and useless because...
[21:26:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:I'm shocked. Shocked I tell you. - 06Think Your IT Project is a Disaster? These Will Make You Feel Better - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:26:20] <exec> 08└─I think I'm pretty damn good at my job, but my potential was still squandered because I spent years helping banks sell derivatives before I wised up and found a job that didn't make me hate myself.
[21:26:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I'm shocked. Shocked I tell you. - 06Think Your IT Project is a Disaster? These Will Make You Feel Better - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:26:22] <exec> 08└─If private companies like Google, Amazon and others, can build high capacity, rock solid, high reliability IT infrastructure then so can the government.
[21:26:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I'm shocked. Shocked I tell you. - 06Think Your IT Project is a Disaster? These Will Make You Feel Better - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:26:24] <exec> 08└─If you're going to complain about other people's education, please learn to spell "ludicrous" and "lose-lose."
[21:26:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Does make me feel a little better - 06Think Your IT Project is a Disaster? These Will Make You Feel Better - 1110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:26] <exec> 08└─I am typing this on the hardware I wanted to use as a personal "file and everything else server" about a decade ago. My bother now brings that project up as an example of how I do not get things done. Scope-creep was a big one. The "everything else" part was a little too ambitious. It did not help t...
[21:26:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdccdevel [1329] (Score:2) 02Workflow problems and Training elimination - 06Think Your IT Project is a Disaster? These Will Make You Feel Better - 2844 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:28] <exec> 08└─I've seen these sorts of headaches before several times. SAP migrations have a particularly bad reputation for this, when companies want to move from their old Terminal style applications to a more "modern" user interface. Mainly, the problems stem from: - Replacing software that has grown organical...
[21:26:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:"Track" being the keyword - 06World Nations Reach Landmark Deal on Using Satellites to Track Flights - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:26:39] <exec> 08└─That's ridiculous, we all know that there was no plane. The "plane" was just a set on the sound stage next to the one they're prepping for when humans go to Mars.
[21:26:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"Track" being the keyword - 06World Nations Reach Landmark Deal on Using Satellites to Track Flights - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:26:40] <exec> 08└─If you're not resourceful enough to disable your plane's ADS-B transmitter (or to avoid having one fitted), you may not be resourceful enough to survive in isolation on a small island. Although I suppose it takes all kinds.
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[21:26:51] <exec> 08└─" We know one of the benefits of an ecosystem like Netflix is its lack of advertising," Howard Shimmel, chief research officer at Time Warner’s Turner Broadcasting, said in an interview. "Consumers are being trained there are places they can go to avoid ads. "
[21:26:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:"Trained?!" - 06Why TV Networks Are Cutting Back on Commercials - 566 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:26:56] <exec> 08└─Not to mention the fact that you've got an exponential decrease in ratings per branch as you go. Even if there are only 2 options per branch within 3 branches you're down to an eight of the viewership. And probably less as people will choose not to watch. But to get that eight of the viewership each...
[21:26:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"Trained?!" - 06Why TV Networks Are Cutting Back on Commercials - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:27:00] <exec> 08└─Why are jews named after plants? baum zweig Shimmel (ok, technically a fungus is maybe a different phylum from plants) Spinoza (spinach?) Maimonides (I give up. apparantly I was overgeneralizing)
[21:27:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Too little, too late... - 06Why TV Networks Are Cutting Back on Commercials - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:27:07] <exec> 08└─Did you mean "there is decreased demand"?
[21:27:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03snufu [5855] (Score:1) 02Re:Too little, too late... - 06Why TV Networks Are Cutting Back on Commercials - 755 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:27:08] <exec> 08└─They were called "broadcasters" for a reason, they controlled the content you received. It was "push" model with a limited number of private commercial broadcasters holding all the power. You either accepted the broadcast as is and sat through ads or you got nothing. The internet changed everything....
[21:27:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Invisible Hand - 06Why TV Networks Are Cutting Back on Commercials - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:27:26] <exec> 08└─Hi, Invisible Hand here. I've provided you with just what you want: the DVD box set. No ads, just TV.
[21:27:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Advertising = Brainwashing - 06Why TV Networks Are Cutting Back on Commercials - 735 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:27:35] <exec> 08└─That is at least part of the truth. Tell a lie often enough, and loud enough, and people start to beleive it. I could look up the exact quote, but you get the idea. Let's say that you ate at Mable's Diner some years ago, and the food sucked. Mable runs adverts claiming that she makes the best food i...
[21:27:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Advertising = Brainwashing - 06Why TV Networks Are Cutting Back on Commercials - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:27:38] <exec> 08└─Yes, it's true. http://www.bl.uk [www.bl.uk]
[21:27:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03acp_sn [5254] (Score:2) 02piratebay still provides a better service - 06Why TV Networks Are Cutting Back on Commercials - 1020 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:40] <exec> 08└─And I assume a private tracker would be even better if I could get in one (grumble grumble) Any show I want, within a couple of hours of "airtime" (or sooner), in multiple resolutions (480/dvd quality, 720, or 1080), with the choice of 5.1 or 2.0 sound When I download it once its my option to keep i...
[21:28:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03J053 [3532] (Score:1) 02Re:stop taxing income, tax both property&cash expo - 06 Multinationals Hiding more than USD$500 Billion from G20 Tax Collectors - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:28:33] <exec> 08└─Exactly. Tax all income at the same rate (can be progressive, or not) and eliminate the capital-gains and business distinctions. Corporations would pay tax on gross income, just like individuals. Eliminate all deductions except one standard deduction per taxpayer equal to the poverty level.
[21:28:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:My house got hacked... - 06How Secure Can Your Router Get? - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:28:55] <exec> 08└─Oh... you mean the AIDS? YOU'RE welcome! :)
[21:28:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:Flash - 06How Secure Can Your Router Get? - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:28:58] <exec> 08└─Can i ride the bomb down? I have a cowboy hat! ... now all i need is a space suit... some oxygen... some kind of heating element for my suit... maybe gps to try to guide the bomb.... wow: this is going to be harder than i thought...
[21:29:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03termigator [4271] (Score:1) 02Re:I'm Not So Sure - 06How Secure Can Your Router Get? - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:29:05] <exec> 08└─And verizon stores that password on their servers. The more secure thing is to disable wireless on the verizon router and use your own access point.
[21:29:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I'm Not So Sure - 06How Secure Can Your Router Get? - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:29:07] <exec> 08└─What's more, securing your router is neither difficult nor time consuming.
[21:29:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:MITM SSL - 06How Secure Can Your Router Get? - 902 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:29:11] <exec> 08└─Actually, you can MITM SSL/TLS. Well, you might not be able to, but I can. The other respondent is correct in using the term "captive portal" but web proxies can do similarly. NIDPS and DLP suites cant monitor encrypted traffic, so for companies that actually care about good IT, we MITM every connec...
[21:29:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03CarlU [5076] (Score:1) 02Re:Encryption - 06How Secure Can Your Router Get? - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:29:20] <exec> 08└─Article said MITM attack, but then went on to describe Phishing so I think that's what they meant.
[21:29:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Exposure? - 06Shadow Bans Not Banny Enough For Reddit - 688 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:29:38] <exec> 08└─SoylentNews, where absurdly Godwinning a debate gets you modded "Insightful". It's reddit, for fuck's sake. It's not something that actually matters. Statements like yours are fucking offensive to anyone who actually experienced the Stasi. (Note: "Stasi", not "Stazi". "Stazi" looks like a teenager's...
[21:30:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sir Finkus [192] (Score:2) 02Re:It depends on so much - 06Shadow Bans Not Banny Enough For Reddit - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:30:15] <exec> 08└─Seriously, who gives a crap how Reddit moderates? Frankly, if they make is sucky enough maybe we'll get some of their users that value that sort of thing.
[21:30:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score:1) 02Other zombie analogies - 06How Does a Parasite Create Zombie-like Behavior? - 524 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:30:43] <exec> 08└─Some astute SN readers will note the similarities to a phenomenon in the otherwise unrelated field of computers. In this context, a computer 'virus' (similar to a parasite fungus) can cause an otherwise normal computer to do things that further the interests of the virus or its designer. You can rea...
[21:32:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Wait, what? - 06Using Sound Waves to Move Data - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:32:39] <exec> 08└─so, this analog modem I have, where I actually secured the rotary phone handset into it and secured the cups around the mouth and earpieces - which gave me 300 bps -- wasn't using sound? Then what was it modulating the digital to and demodulating it from?
[21:33:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03etherscythe [937] (Score:2) 02Re:Now is the time - 06Why Improving Kernel Security is Important - 1142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:33:07] <exec> 08└─Where do you work, NASA? DOD? There are few places that truly value security focus, and they usually handle it by throwing lots of money at it. Banks are vulnerable for crying out loud. I should not feel like I need an RFID blocker wallet in a world where security actually works. Even studies of cry...
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