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[00:00:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score:2) 02Re:Hey ... - 06'Green Lives Matter' College Course Title Has Some Critics Seeing Red - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:00:46] <exec> 08└─I think a better way of making that point would be to say: The (white) power structure that was in place during Jim Crow/segregation era is still largely intact, still largely/disproportionately filled with white people, and that there has been no attempt to rectify the mistakes of the past or to ad...
[00:03:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score:2) 02Re:trusted computing - 06Tails Linux 2.5 is Out - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:03:15] <exec> 08└─How do you know that when your PC is off, that this management engine doesn't still get power? PC's haven't had actual mechanical power cut off switches for a long time now.
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[00:53:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:2) 02Ethics has already reduced to gibberish - 06NIH Plans To Lift Ban On Research Funds For Human-Animal Chimera Embryos - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:53:31] <exec> 08└─If anyone has a rational explanation for why it's morally permissible to do x to a rat but not to a lemur please do speak up. Otherwise I will categorize this under 'the world is now being run by morons a full grade below the morons that ran it when I was a kid.'
[00:53:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Ethics has already reduced to gibberish - 06NIH Plans To Lift Ban On Research Funds For Human-Animal Chimera Embryos - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:53:32] <exec> 08└─I think at the end of the day, I think they believe it would be a lot easier to (accidentally?) "uplift" a largish primate than a mouse/rat, by adding human genes that control the growth and density of neurons and brain structures.
[00:53:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Ethics has already reduced to gibberish - 06NIH Plans To Lift Ban On Research Funds For Human-Animal Chimera Embryos - 609 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:53:35] <exec> 08└─I believe testing on non-human animals should be outlawed and testing on human scum like Arabs and other criminally-predisposed humans should be encouraged. Why raise a human heart inside a pig when you could grow it on the hairy ass of an Arab? And there will no doubt be a huge uptick of Black peni...
[00:53:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:2, Insightful) 02Re:Ethics has already reduced to gibberish - 06NIH Plans To Lift Ban On Research Funds For Human-Animal Chimera Embryos - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:53:37] <exec> 08└─If anyone has a rational explanation for why it's morally permissible to do x to a rat but not to a lemur please do speak up.
[00:53:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Ethics has already reduced to gibberish - 06NIH Plans To Lift Ban On Research Funds For Human-Animal Chimera Embryos - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:53:40] <exec> 08└─If anyone has a rational explanation for why it's morally permissible to do x to a rat but not to a lemur please do speak up.
[00:53:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02On the Creation of Niggers, by H. P. Lovecraft - 06NIH Plans To Lift Ban On Research Funds For Human-Animal Chimera Embryos - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:53:42] <exec> 08└─When, long ago, the gods created Earth In Iove's fair image Man was shaped at birth. The beasts for lesser parts were next designed; Yet were they too remote from humankind. To fill the gap, and join the rest to Man, Th'Olympian host conceiv'd a clever plan. A beast they wrought, in semi-human figur...
[00:53:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:On the Creation of Niggers, by H. P. Lovecraft - 06NIH Plans To Lift Ban On Research Funds For Human-Animal Chimera Embryos - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:53:44] <exec> 08└─H.P. Lovecraft had some pretty interesting stuff to say about Jews as well...although if you look into what he said it's not entirely hateful...then you wonder whether or not he became an anti-Semite before or after he married that Jewish woman.
[00:53:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:Turning Radius - 06Test of Elevated Bus in China - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:53:57] <exec> 08└─Double decking the road without building additional road (though, the elevated platforms are some construction effort. It could be useful in some high traffic routes, but it's not a complete point to point solution - more like a slow rail system, without having to dig a tunnel.
[00:54:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Expect deployment ... Never - 06Test of Elevated Bus in China - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:54:01] <exec> 08└─What happened to Molson and Labatt's? No, wait, I don't want to know. :(
[00:55:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:Home business? Get business class - 06Comcast Wants to Charge for Privacy - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:55:22] <exec> 08└─Well, if you can handle the latency I understand that satellite access if available in most places.
[00:55:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Pino P [4721] 02Server Name Indication - 06Comcast Wants to Charge for Privacy - 734 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:55:29] <exec> 08└─For one thing, not all sites use HTTPS yet. Nowadays, the most common excuse for not deploying HTTPS [pineight.com] is that a site relies on third-party resources not yet available through HTTPS, such as the caniuse.com API [github.com] or ad networks. For another thing, the ISP can still see the fu...
[00:55:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:comcast - 06Comcast Wants to Charge for Privacy - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:55:36] <exec> 08└─Are you going to switch to another OS?
[00:55:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score:2) 02Re:VPN - 06Comcast Wants to Charge for Privacy - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:55:48] <exec> 08└─Why would you recommend a VPN provider that responds to DMCA takedown notices? This means it is a company based in the US, which means that a NSL (that is almost certainly in effect) completely invalidates any claims of privacy they could possibly make. At least, that is my understanding of one impo...
[00:58:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:1) 02Re:the virtue of the US side - 06Welcome to Brazil, where a Food Revolution is Changing the way People Eat - 515 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:58:30] <exec> 08└─Libertarians don't depend on money laundering? I also failed to see advice on which candidates or parties to support. Perhaps you saw something I missed. Food advertising targeted at children is particularly insidious. It's not a libertarian position to hold that the government should encourage peop...
[01:00:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:Boils down to "who do you trust" - 06Police Request Shut Off of Armed Woman's Social Media Accounts During Fatal Standoff - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:00:07] <exec> 08└─It's a bigger problem getting them out AFTER they get the cap and badge.
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[01:53:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:0, Troll) 02Ads are bad, - 06New Attack Steals SSNs, E-Mail Addresses, and More From HTTPS Pages - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:53:31] <exec> 08└─Saying the word "nigger" is good. Because when you're compromised, who knows what kind of Russians have already sullied your name. That's why you say the word "nigger," to throw them all off. It's a salted hash function. It was always the Russian niggers' fault. And they will pay for their crimes wi...
[01:53:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:2) 02Re:Ethics has already reduced to gibberish - 06NIH Plans To Lift Ban On Research Funds For Human-Animal Chimera Embryos - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:53:40] <exec> 08└─That's just superstitious hand-waving. Have any real evidence, or even a credible scenario?
[01:53:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ethics has already reduced to gibberish - 06NIH Plans To Lift Ban On Research Funds For Human-Animal Chimera Embryos - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:53:43] <exec> 08└─Why raise a human heart inside a pig when you could grow it on the hairy ass of an Arab?
[01:53:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:2) 02Re:Ethics has already reduced to gibberish - 06NIH Plans To Lift Ban On Research Funds For Human-Animal Chimera Embryos - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:53:47] <exec> 08└─"b) we already accept orders of magnitude more deaths among rats than we do among lemurs." Absolutely irrelevant. "a) a rat doesn't have the capacity for suffering or intellect that a lemur does" And your evidence for this assertion?
[01:53:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:2) 02Re:Ethics has already reduced to gibberish - 06NIH Plans To Lift Ban On Research Funds For Human-Animal Chimera Embryos - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:53:50] <exec> 08└─Lemurs used in experimentation (should there be any, I don't know of any personally) would be bred for this purpose specifically and not represent any diminishment of the natural population. Would you have any further objections?
[01:53:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:1) 02full metal science! - 06NIH Plans To Lift Ban On Research Funds For Human-Animal Chimera Embryos - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:53:54] <exec> 08└─What could possibly go wrong? [wikia.com] A more positive representation would be the Ousters [wikia.com] from The Hyperion Cantos.
[01:54:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Turning Radius - 06Test of Elevated Bus in China - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:54:07] <exec> 08└─What's yours? Freeways do not have tight corners. Neither does trains or trolleys. Bigger question is how on and off ramps work. Also if there is breakdown on the side does this super trolley have a cow-catcher ?
[01:55:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Computer idiots - 06Windows Woes - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:55:08] <exec> 08└─Non-administrative guest accounts can turn into more real quick with the right privilege escalation or ACE exploit.
[01:56:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score:2) 02Re:VPN - 06Comcast Wants to Charge for Privacy - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:56:09] <exec> 08└─PIA is a US-operating company based in London which is almost certainly compromised by a National Security Letter or the British equivalent thereof, as Britain is in an even more dire privacy situation than us. Providers based in smaller countries are not beholden to DMCA or part of the Five/Nine Ey...
[01:56:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score:2) 02re Not only about age - 06Dispute Over the Pasteur Institute President's Age - 807 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:56:36] <exec> 08└─The age factor might be the visible point of contention, however clearly there is a power struggle going on inside. However, changing the articles of incorporation is not easy, particularly if it requires a regulatory body approval. Think of it this way: in many places zoning laws govern what might...
[01:57:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score:2) 02Re:swallowing the official story - 06US State Department Denies Obama Paid $400M "Ransom" to Iran - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:57:10] <exec> 08└─And your concern about intelligence agents masquerading as journalists and NGO's is ridiculous. They won't be able to cause credible harm that couldn't be caused by other means which just aren't significantly harder or more costly.
[01:58:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:the virtue of the US side - 06Welcome to Brazil, where a Food Revolution is Changing the way People Eat - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:58:48] <exec> 08└─Food advertising targeted at children is particularly insidious. It's not a libertarian position to hold that the government should encourage people to protest it, but I don't think, given human nature, the Libertopia that you or I may wish to live in could ever work.
[01:58:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:1) 02Re:the virtue of the US side - 06Welcome to Brazil, where a Food Revolution is Changing the way People Eat - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:58:49] <exec> 08└─Er… I also don't see the slippery slope from encouraging people to discourage advertising directed at children to police state. I didn't get the “babysitter” impression. Things like the drug war are more deserving of the babysitter comparison. I wouldn't mind if government propaganda were dire...
[02:01:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Love it - 06'Green Lives Matter' College Course Title Has Some Critics Seeing Red - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:01:42] <exec> 08└─> A) anyone saying "blue lives matter" is probably a cop, and part of the group discounting the lives of anyone not wearing a badge Are you joking? They keep passing "blue lives matter" LAWS. It isn't just cops saying that shit. In fact, I have yet to hear about a cop saying it. Its always those try...
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[02:53:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score:1, Offtopic) 02Re:Ads are bad, - 06New Attack Steals SSNs, E-Mail Addresses, and More From HTTPS Pages - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:53:30] <exec> 08└─How many felched cat rectums does it take to puke the gerbil intestines?
[02:53:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:2) 02Exploit relies on ecmascript. - 06New Attack Steals SSNs, E-Mail Addresses, and More From HTTPS Pages - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:53:31] <exec> 08└─Can anyone remind me the last time there was a known exploit using HTML? Or remind me why we gave up the World Wide Web? That was such a promising concept.
[02:53:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Through TCP-Windows? - 06New Attack Steals SSNs, E-Mail Addresses, and More From HTTPS Pages - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:53:34] <exec> 08└─Is this a TCP window, or Windows TCP? In otherwords, is this a Microsoft only exploit?
[02:53:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:2, Funny) 02Re:Ethics has already reduced to gibberish - 06NIH Plans To Lift Ban On Research Funds For Human-Animal Chimera Embryos - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:53:46] <exec> 08└─A saw a documentary [imdb.com] once! Granted, time travel was also involved….
[02:53:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ethics has already reduced to gibberish - 06NIH Plans To Lift Ban On Research Funds For Human-Animal Chimera Embryos - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:53:49] <exec> 08└─Need new moderation option; -1 gibberish.
[02:53:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Ethics has already reduced to gibberish - 06NIH Plans To Lift Ban On Research Funds For Human-Animal Chimera Embryos - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:53:53] <exec> 08└─Not only that, but pigs even of different species are more socially cooperative and pragmatic than even Arabs of similar tribes. At least with respect to their women. Arab beasts, by contrast, fly to Qatar to have sex with other men and praise Allah (PBUH) and snort the highest quality cocaine while...
[02:53:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ethics has already reduced to gibberish - 06NIH Plans To Lift Ban On Research Funds For Human-Animal Chimera Embryos - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:53:56] <exec> 08└─Because Hillary has a vagina. Shut up.
[02:54:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Type44Q [4347] (Score:1) 02Re:On the Creation of Niggers, by H. P. Lovecraft - 06NIH Plans To Lift Ban On Research Funds For Human-Animal Chimera Embryos - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:54:04] <exec> 08└─then you wonder whether or not he became an anti-Semite before or after he married that Jewish woman.
[02:54:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:On the Creation of Niggers, by H. P. Lovecraft - 06NIH Plans To Lift Ban On Research Funds For Human-Animal Chimera Embryos - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:54:06] <exec> 08└─That doesn't make sense - Why would a Jewish woman couple with a man who waited tables?
[02:54:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Because for every dollar he earned waiting them... - 06NIH Plans To Lift Ban On Research Funds For Human-Animal Chimera Embryos - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:54:08] <exec> 08└─millions more were waiting from all the dirt he overheard if only he'd had the lack of scruples to use it.
[02:54:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Turning Radius - 06Test of Elevated Bus in China - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:54:20] <exec> 08└─I assumed that it wouldn't turn. But, then again, none of the Chinese cities I've been too have roads that are actually straight as they've mostly evolved over centuries and are rather oddly laid out.
[02:55:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:MS won't be around in 10 years - 06Windows Woes - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:55:08] <exec> 08└─But Microsoft is hardly a dismissed also-ran in Cloud as you seem to imply.
[02:57:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score:2) 02DDoS - 06EU Commission Proposes Central Database Record of Virtual Currency Users - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:57:15] <exec> 08└─In addition, the possibility to allow users to self-declare to authorities voluntarily should be considered.
[03:01:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:From Anonymous Coward - 06'Green Lives Matter' College Course Title Has Some Critics Seeing Red - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:01:31] <exec> 08└─Will it though. I don't think I've ever been asked about any of my coursework from my transcript unless it was relevant to a job or a transfer. And even then they're usually more interested in what you know rather than what classes you take.
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[03:53:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02alcoholism - 06Portion of Gary Kildall's Memoir Made Public - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:53:34] <exec> 08└─manifested in a struggle with alcoholism I have had a few alcoholics in my life. It truly is like living with 2-3 completely different people. Yet they are the same person you just dont know which one you are dealing with at that moment.
[03:53:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02DR - 06Portion of Gary Kildall's Memoir Made Public - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:53:35] <exec> 08└─Digital Research put out a MS-DOS clone* called DR DOS. Kids would called it "doctor dos" - as always been the case, kids in those days didn't know shit from shite either. *Ha, history is funny old thing, ain't it.
[03:53:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Exploit relies on ecmascript. - 06New Attack Steals SSNs, E-Mail Addresses, and More From HTTPS Pages - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:53:46] <exec> 08└─Firefox has patched some as late as last month in https://www.mozilla.org [mozilla.org] and all the major browsers have patched at least two this year that allowed arbitrary code to be executed. There have also been major vulnerabilities in the various image pa...
[03:53:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Through TCP-Windows? - 06New Attack Steals SSNs, E-Mail Addresses, and More From HTTPS Pages - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:53:48] <exec> 08└─It is a TCP window, meaning every browser with the proper JS API support is vulnerable, regardless of platform.
[03:53:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score:2) 02A bit of FUD in there? - 06New Attack Steals SSNs, E-Mail Addresses, and More From HTTPS Pages - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:53:50] <exec> 08└─Am I misreading this? It says HEIST is notable as it does not rely on MITM. All it does is allows the attack to guess the size of payments in the encrypted stream. But becomes problematic when used with BREACH which is a MITM attack. So for it to be problematic you have to be able to execute a MITM...
[03:53:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:A bit of FUD in there? - 06New Attack Steals SSNs, E-Mail Addresses, and More From HTTPS Pages - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:53:53] <exec> 08└─No, it allows you to figure out information in secure connections to server A, but all you need to do it is JS from server B. This JS can come from anywhere, including malvertizing on a completely different tab, with no need for a MITM.
[03:54:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Ethics has already reduced to gibberish - 06NIH Plans To Lift Ban On Research Funds For Human-Animal Chimera Embryos - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:54:09] <exec> 08└─Eth, are you okay? I'm asking this in all seriousness; your earlier material was artful and hilarious, but lately you've just been cringe-y. Is something wrong?
[03:55:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03PocketSizeSUn [5340] (Score:2) 02Re:Great! - 06China Says it's OK for Members of the Public to Record the Police - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:55:04] <exec> 08└─That's a bit paranoid. COPS in the US brutalize people for the lulz...
[03:55:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score:1) 02Re:MS won't be around in 10 years - 06Windows Woes - 606 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:55:22] <exec> 08└─The first rule when you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging. Microsoft should take note. Really, if they want to salvage the Windows market, they should take the Windows 7 interface, drop it on top of the Windows 8.1 internals, port over the few worthwhile improvements over like DirectX 12, t...
[03:56:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score:1) 02Re:Server Name Indication - 06Comcast Wants to Charge for Privacy - 579 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:56:12] <exec> 08└─And even if everything is totally encrypted, they can still see what IP addresses you connect to, how often you do so, how much traffic gets sent, what time of day, etc. Also, if you use their DNS server, they'll know what sites you look up. So they may know precisely what you are doing, they'll hav...
[03:59:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score:2) 02Re:the virtue of the US side - 06Welcome to Brazil, where a Food Revolution is Changing the way People Eat - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:59:23] <exec> 08└─Another simple solution is to make larger batches and split it up into individual servings and freeze it. eg, make a big pot of spaghetti sauce, put it into small jars/baggies, freeze them. Then you just need to boil some pasta, heat your sauce and you have a quick meal.
[03:59:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score:2) 02Re:the virtue of the US side - 06Welcome to Brazil, where a Food Revolution is Changing the way People Eat - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:59:24] <exec> 08└─True, but some things don't freeze well, and I am not a big fan of leftovers. Spaghetti, and chili are the exceptions, I think both are better the day after they are made. Another option is to cook several meals on the week end and portion up for eating during the week when you are likely to be busi...
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[04:53:35] <exec> 08└─Old DR DOS licensor here. It was by far the best version of DOS. The later versions even bundled Quarterdeck's best stuff. MS sued them, and got beaten horribly. Wound up having to give DR RO access to their source archives for about a decade to make sure they could solve compatibility problems to s...
[04:53:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03zeigerpuppy [1298] (Score:2) 02Time for browsers to deny 3rd party js - 06New Attack Steals SSNs, E-Mail Addresses, and More From HTTPS Pages - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:53:51] <exec> 08└─This seems solvable at the browser level. Surely data from each tab should be sandboxed. Hopefully it'll prompt browser makers to finally deny 3rd party scripts by default.
[04:55:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score:2) 02Re:Shocking? - 06Windows Woes - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:55:44] <exec> 08└─It used to be that Windows only blew away your MBR during the installation. More recent versions have had a tendency to do so at other times too. So much so that these days my Linux disk is in an external dock so I can remove it (well, unpower it) whenever I want to boot into Windows. It should be a...
[04:55:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:2) 02MS locked themselves out, users too myopic to noti - 06Windows Woes - 1500 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:55:50] <exec> 08└─MS locked themselves out, users too myopic to notice. And that was many years ago. I honestly don't know exactly how many. But any time I attempt to access a web page at MS all it gives me (in any sane browser) is; Javascript is disabled Please enable javascript and refresh the page Microsoft Stor...
[04:56:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Home business? Get business class - 06Comcast Wants to Charge for Privacy - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:56:07] <exec> 08└─Well, most people wouldn't want to switch to satellite if cable is available. It's not even remotely comparable, which is why it's complete nonsense when monopolistic ISPs like Comcast like to claim they're not monopolies because satellite providers exist.
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[05:53:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:2) 02"The whale skeleton can support rich communities f - 06Eerily Complete Whale Skeleton Found on Bottom of Sea - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:53:28] <exec> 08└─Just as long as those communities are non-human, did I get the line right?
[05:53:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"The whale skeleton can support rich communitie - 06Eerily Complete Whale Skeleton Found on Bottom of Sea - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:53:29] <exec> 08└─This is what's wrong with America today. There was a fresh carcass [stltoday.com] but because of excessive government regulations [fox5sandiego.com] people weren't allowed to salvage it. It was towed to sea repeatedly, floated from Los Angeles almost to San Diego, and was buried in a landfill [encin...
[05:53:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Microsoft victim #1 - 06Portion of Gary Kildall's Memoir Made Public - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:53:39] <exec> 08└─From the Wikipedia article: Kildall obtained a copy of PC DOS, examined it, and concluded that it infringed on CP/M. When he asked Gerry Davis what legal options were available, Davis told him that intellectual property law for software was not clear enough to sue.[12] Instead Kildall only threatene...
[05:54:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Ethics has already reduced to gibberish - 06NIH Plans To Lift Ban On Research Funds For Human-Animal Chimera Embryos - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:54:15] <exec> 08└─"b) we already accept orders of magnitude more deaths among rats than we do among lemurs."
[05:54:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Ethics has already reduced to gibberish - 06NIH Plans To Lift Ban On Research Funds For Human-Animal Chimera Embryos - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:54:18] <exec> 08└─Lemurs used in experimentation (should there be any, I don't know of any personally) would be bred for this purpose specifically and not represent any diminishment of the natural population. Would you have any further objections?
[05:55:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score:2) 02Re:Hah, right - 06China Says it's OK for Members of the Public to Record the Police - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:55:05] <exec> 08└─Does anyone really believe that the Chinese government says has any relation to what it does?
[05:55:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score:2) 02Re:Shocking? - 06Windows Woes - 819 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:55:51] <exec> 08└─I remember installing Win95 on a OS/2 system. At the end of the install it announced that the OS/2 install was now gone, no prior warning or anything. Fired up fdisk, changed the active partition back to bootmanager and booted back to OS/2. Same thing when I tried Win98. Win2k (service pack 3 IIRC)...
[05:56:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03http [1920] (Score:2) 02Re:Continuing "just the tip" net neutrality wheedl - 06Comcast Wants to Charge for Privacy - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:56:33] <exec> 08└─No need to fart around policing your tone of voice. It is appropriate to be combative in this instance.
[05:57:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:swallowing the official story - 06US State Department Denies Obama Paid $400M "Ransom" to Iran - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:57:53] <exec> 08└─I disagree with the claimed harm here. It's a propaganda hit piece and given the nuttery mentioned, I don't buy that the actual CIA plot means that much. They would come up with some other reason to be paranoid.
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[06:53:27] <exec> 08└─So why didn't you have your lawyer write up an agreement waiving your right to sue if you die from eating salvaged whale meat?
[06:53:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02stupid. - 06Eerily Complete Whale Skeleton Found on Bottom of Sea - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:53:29] <exec> 08└─where the fuck do they think whales go when they die? it's not like most of them are winding up on beaches around the world, and they aren't floating around waiting for ships to hit them...
[06:53:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Talking Heads – Once In A Lifetime - 06Eerily Complete Whale Skeleton Found on Bottom of Sea - 562 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:53:31] <exec> 08└─Same as it ever was... Same as it ever was... Same as it ever was... Same as it ever was... Same as it ever was... Same as it ever was... Same as it ever was... Same as it ever was... Water dissolving...and water removing There is water at the bottom of the ocean Under the water, carry the water at...
[06:53:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:stupid. - 06Eerily Complete Whale Skeleton Found on Bottom of Sea - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:53:33] <exec> 08└─I always assumed most marine life either washes up on a beach or is picked to near nothingness before it ever hits the ground leaving very little for the bottom feeders. Though in that line of thinking I only considered it for smaller fish and not a whale.
[06:53:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Exploit relies on ecmascript. - 06New Attack Steals SSNs, E-Mail Addresses, and More From HTTPS Pages - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:53:54] <exec> 08└─https://noscript.net/ [noscript.net]
[06:56:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score:2) 02Re:Home business? Get business class - 06Comcast Wants to Charge for Privacy - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:56:18] <exec> 08└─Well, if you can handle the latency I understand that satellite access if available in most places.
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[07:53:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02must be Obama bush Laden's fault as usual - 06Missouri Governor Fails to Fund Public Defender's Office so They Compel him to Work Cases - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:53:23] <exec> 08└─Neverending budget cuts for 15 years and counting! Which perpetual war got the funding instead?
[07:53:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:must be Obama bush Laden's fault as usual - 06Missouri Governor Fails to Fund Public Defender's Office so They Compel him to Work Cases - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:53:25] <exec> 08└─Gotta get all them ISIS. Go!
[07:53:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03number11 [1170] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Missouri Governor as Public Defender - 06Missouri Governor Fails to Fund Public Defender's Office so They Compel him to Work Cases - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:53:27] <exec> 08└─Perfectly reasonable. They can assign cases to any registered lawyer, and the Governor is a registered lawyer.l
[07:53:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02In violation of checks and balances? - 06Missouri Governor Fails to Fund Public Defender's Office so They Compel him to Work Cases - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:53:29] <exec> 08└─On the one hand, the governor is the member of the executive branch empowered to issue pardons. On the other hand, the governor could pardon defendants until the case load can be covered by the budget available to the public defender's office.
[07:53:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03dltaylor [4693] (Score:2) 02endless appeals, which won't help the budget - 06Missouri Governor Fails to Fund Public Defender's Office so They Compel him to Work Cases - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:53:31] <exec> 08└─Since he doesn't want them defended, particularly by himself, and who knows how competent a criminal law attorney he is anyway, pretty much all of his clients going to be able to appeal a conviction based on the quality (or lack thereof) of their representation, so the cases will be kicked back down...
[07:53:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:endless appeals, which won't help the budget - 06Missouri Governor Fails to Fund Public Defender's Office so They Compel him to Work Cases - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:53:34] <exec> 08└─Governor: "And I object that I'm compelled to work this case!" Judge: "Guilty as shit!" Accused: "Uh? Mistrial?" Governor & Judge: "Shut up!"
[07:53:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02dismiss - 06Missouri Governor Fails to Fund Public Defender's Office so They Compel him to Work Cases - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:53:36] <exec> 08└─If lawyers can't be hired, why not simply dismiss the cases? Then the governor can take the heat for letting criminals go free because he wouldn't fund the judicial system.
[07:53:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:dismiss - 06Missouri Governor Fails to Fund Public Defender's Office so They Compel him to Work Cases - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:53:38] <exec> 08└─Your ass is going to stay in jail until you pay for your own lawyer.
[07:53:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score:2) 02Funny situation - 06Missouri Governor Fails to Fund Public Defender's Office so They Compel him to Work Cases - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:53:40] <exec> 08└─Imagine a situation in which people start winning appeals on the basis of lack of competent representation because the public defender's attorney was overwhelmed by his workload. Or worse, people who fail to waive time (that is waive their right to a speedy trial) being let loose because they are no...
[07:54:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score:2) 02Re:Microsoft victim #1 - 06Portion of Gary Kildall's Memoir Made Public - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:54:03] <exec> 08└─Kildall obtained a copy of PC DOS, examined it, and concluded that it infringed on CP/M.
[07:55:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:MS won't be around in 10 years - 06Windows Woes - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:55:51] <exec> 08└─Really, if they want to salvage the Windows market, they should take the Windows 7 interface, drop it on top of the Windows 8.1 internals
[07:55:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03gawdonblue [412] (Score:2) 02Re:But it's all ok - 06Windows Woes - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:55:58] <exec> 08└─Boot, and everything around it, is extremely tricky. If you've ever tried to configure a bootloader by hand, you've probably made a mistake like this at least once. It's gotten easier with UEFI, but TFA is light on details so I have no idea what their system configuration was.
[07:56:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:Computer idiots - 06Windows Woes - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:56:12] <exec> 08└─May of us know that if you want to get PWNed, going to a porn site is a great way to accomplish the feat.
[07:56:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Shocking? - 06Windows Woes - 544 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:56:18] <exec> 08└─No, they are talking about the boot manager. They always removed the boot manager, and getting it back was pretty simple, once you got the other OS booted. This time they are talking about nuking the partitions. That means restoring the backup, rather than spending five minutes replacing the boot ma...
[07:59:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:the virtue of the US side - 06Welcome to Brazil, where a Food Revolution is Changing the way People Eat - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:59:58] <exec> 08└─Er… I also don't see the slippery slope from encouraging people to discourage advertising directed at children to police state.
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[08:53:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02what an asshole - 06Rio 2016: Kohei Uchimura Gets £3,700 Pokemon GO Bill - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:53:27] <exec> 08└─How many ordinary folk will go to debtors prison now to make up for the lost revenue of this celebrity asshole's unpaid bill?
[08:53:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:what an asshole - 06Rio 2016: Kohei Uchimura Gets £3,700 Pokemon GO Bill - 494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:53:29] <exec> 08└─Helps a lot to be a celebrity. A few words from him grousing about his carrier and what he experienced would negate millions of dollars' worth of advertising. Not only that, his carrier could not come back on him for libel, as he had the bill in hand, and told no lie. This could easily boil over to...
[08:53:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:what an asshole - 06Rio 2016: Kohei Uchimura Gets £3,700 Pokemon GO Bill - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:53:31] <exec> 08└─Notice how TFA doesn't even name the carrier. Goddamn BBC coverup.
[08:53:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Wow, Nintendo makes less from their own game - 06Rio 2016: Kohei Uchimura Gets £3,700 Pokemon GO Bill - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:53:33] <exec> 08└─Than the phone carrier? Or is there some profit sharing built in? What a windfall for the carriers.
[08:53:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Funny situation - 06Missouri Governor Fails to Fund Public Defender's Office so They Compel him to Work Cases - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:53:49] <exec> 08└─Here in America, we have a funny situation where 0% of cases go to trial. The way things work in reality, the prosecutor offers a plea bargain, the public defender says to take the plea bargain, and the judge does nothing. So in the interest of efficiency, you can eliminate public defenders and judg...
[08:53:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:"The whale skeleton can support rich communitie - 06Eerily Complete Whale Skeleton Found on Bottom of Sea - 523 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:53:59] <exec> 08└─Yeah, they totally needed to blow the carcass up, just the way they did in the good old days. That way, you get the spectacle of the actual blowing-up event, followed by the weeks of discussion about whales (namely, "what the hell is that smell?"), a good variety of different sizes of whale bits spr...
[08:54:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:DR - 06Portion of Gary Kildall's Memoir Made Public - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:54:12] <exec> 08└─OK then oldtimer, what longwinded or stupid name are you going to call it, if not Doc-tor-Dos? Di-gi-tal-Re-search-Dos? Di-gi-tal-Dos? Dee-Arr-Dos? Durr-Dos?
[08:54:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:Microsoft victim #1 - 06Portion of Gary Kildall's Memoir Made Public - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:54:16] <exec> 08└─This is one of the reasons I really enjoy these forums. I had always thought PC-DOS *WAS* CP/M-86, rebranded, and customized for the PC. I thought Gary Kindall was the true author of DOS, but Gates had bought the rights to use it for the PC... how far off am I? I stand corrected. By the similarity...
[08:54:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:Time for browsers to deny 3rd party js - 06New Attack Steals SSNs, E-Mail Addresses, and More From HTTPS Pages - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:54:33] <exec> 08└─Instead, an end user need only encounter an innocuous-looking JavaScript file hidden in an Web advertisement or hosted directly on a webpage.
[08:58:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Benefits of banks? - 06EU Commission Proposes Central Database Record of Virtual Currency Users - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:58:21] <exec> 08└─Being libertarian doesn't mean I'm uncritical of libertarian thought. If I had to choose today whether bitcoin lives or dies, I'd want it to be more widely used. Despite that I wanted to see some discussion about pros and cons of these issues - instead we usually get blind "freedom over everything"...
[09:00:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:Tell them what they've won! - 06Welcome to Brazil, where a Food Revolution is Changing the way People Eat - 740 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:00:01] <exec> 08└─Yup, the exact carbonator cap you linked to is what spawned off the idea for me to mount a stainless-steel type tire stem from Pep-Boys ( off-the-shelf ) into a bottle cap. I could also get the mating tire connector as well, known as an extension hose. I already had a regulator and hose, so a littl...
[09:00:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:Tell them what they've won! - 06Welcome to Brazil, where a Food Revolution is Changing the way People Eat - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:00:04] <exec> 08└─Thanks.. I was not aware the CO2 cylinders came in syphon and non-syphon. At the rates I use the CO2 ( very very slowly ), I do not think it would make much of a difference, but it might make a difference to using my other tank as a fire extinguisher. ( I figure if I am going to store the tank any...
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[09:53:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:what an asshole - 06Rio 2016: Kohei Uchimura Gets £3,700 Pokemon GO Bill - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:53:34] <exec> 08└─A helluva lot of damage ( way more than $5,000 USD ) has already been done by the bad press already out. Its just a matter of time before his carrier gets named. A lot of sales representatives are going to hear the phrase "Aren't you the guys who nailed Kohei Uchimura for a helluva phone bill?" How...
[09:53:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:must be Obama bush Laden's fault as usual - 06Missouri Governor Fails to Fund Public Defender's Office so They Compel him to Work Cases - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:53:45] <exec> 08└─Remember, Iraq War II was going to be cheap, somewhere under $50B, we were going to "share" the cost with our allies, and Iraq was going to pay us back for it from oil revenues. Their estimate was only out by 2 orders of magnitude...
[09:54:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:"The whale skeleton can support rich communitie - 06Eerily Complete Whale Skeleton Found on Bottom of Sea - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:54:04] <exec> 08└─Cat Food!
[09:54:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re:DR - 06Portion of Gary Kildall's Memoir Made Public - 763 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:54:18] <exec> 08└─+1 to DR-DOS kicking ass and taking names. Digital/Novell were looking to make it a real operating system vs. a small shell over hardware (which MS-DOS essentially is) by including protected memory management and preemptive task switching. It was essentially trying to do what OS/2 tried to do withou...
[09:54:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re:Microsoft victim #1 - 06Portion of Gary Kildall's Memoir Made Public - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:54:23] <exec> 08└─MS-DOS was based on a product Microsoft bought called QDOS which was intended to be a quick and dirty knock off CP/M. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] for the full story. Even taking an account that was 1980 dollar prices, MSFT made off like a fiend ...
[09:55:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02Re:Hah, right - 06China Says it's OK for Members of the Public to Record the Police - 736 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:55:49] <exec> 08└─> Does anyone really believe that the Chinese government says has any relation to what it does? I do. The Chinese people keep taking to the streets to protest local corruption. The central government is happy to put a few bullets in low-level corrupt people to prove that it's fighting corruption and...
[09:56:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:But it's all ok - 06Windows Woes - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:56:21] <exec> 08└─Will a quarterly-return obsessed MBA tolerate an attentive QC guy? My observations have been that a good QC guy interferes with immediate cash flow and would be considered first to lay off to improve this quarter's cash flow.
[10:01:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re:Wait a minute... - 06FCC Orders TP-Link to Allow Third-Party Firmware on Their Routers - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:01:01] <exec> 08└─Well, lower is fine. And yeah, people using cheesed CB sets cause all sorts of fun bleedover. (Un)fortunately, CB is surronded by ham bands on both sides in the spectrum so it doesn't hugely effect most other radio operations.
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[10:53:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02uh-oh I'm streaming music right now - 06DOJ to Require Changes to Music Royalty Collection - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:53:25] <exec> 08└─I hope the allegedly licensed radio site I'm using is actually paying royalties! No, wait, I really, really, really don't care.
[10:53:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:uh-oh I'm streaming music right now - 06DOJ to Require Changes to Music Royalty Collection - 484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:53:27] <exec> 08└─After hearing so many horror stories from the artists themselves, relating to the "business games" played on them with contract trickery, I can't see the artists taking a hit for copyright violation... rather it seems to be the creators of trickery are seeing what they sent out come back. Seems like...
[10:53:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Funny situation - 06Missouri Governor Fails to Fund Public Defender's Office so They Compel him to Work Cases - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:53:56] <exec> 08└─That's a hard pill to swallow for those who are wrongly accused or entrapped by law enforcement. Better give them extra time in jail so they can think about how to be a better defendant next time around.
[10:54:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:Microsoft victim #1 - 06Portion of Gary Kildall's Memoir Made Public - 1394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:54:27] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the link, NCommander! That old CP/M I had on my old IMSAI was so similar to the MS-DOS I later played around with that I thought it was the same thing, just a later and more specific version. Of course, at that time, a lot of us were writing our own DOS. All incompatible with each other....
[10:54:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re:Microsoft victim #1 - 06Portion of Gary Kildall's Memoir Made Public - 1060 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:54:29] <exec> 08└─I postdate the era of "roll your own" OS by a good 10 years, but I'm well familiar with the concept, and I've done it on microcontrollers. For final shits and giggles though, if you want to play with a "modern" DOS-like environment, playing around with UEFI is basically portable DOS as the programmi...
[10:56:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Computer idiots - 06Windows Woes - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:56:42] <exec> 08└─Boy oh boy you weren't around much in the time of porn dialers were you? They got that reputation for a very good reason.
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[11:53:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Subpoena the financial records of ASCAP/BMI - 06DOJ to Require Changes to Music Royalty Collection - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:53:27] <exec> 08└─Get those into the court documents, and the whole world will see whether they are ripping off the artists.
[11:53:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02gimme royalties - 06DOJ to Require Changes to Music Royalty Collection - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:53:29] <exec> 08└─i should get paid every time anyone clones my repos on github and a percentage of every fork
[11:53:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02talent - 06Rio 2016: Kohei Uchimura Gets £3,700 Pokemon GO Bill - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:53:42] <exec> 08└─And now we see proof that, just because gymnasts can jump through hoops, they can't follow all the hoops built into a phone contract...
[11:53:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re:endless appeals, which won't help the budget - 06Missouri Governor Fails to Fund Public Defender's Office so They Compel him to Work Cases - 482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:53:56] <exec> 08└─Quality in and of itself is not basis for an appeal. One can argue that having a substandard lawyer runs around Miranda rights, but that's going to be an uphill battle to fight, and if you can't get a good lawyer to defend you at trial, getting a good lawyer to lodge and win the appeal is likely imp...
[11:54:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:dismiss - 06Missouri Governor Fails to Fund Public Defender's Office so They Compel him to Work Cases - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:54:00] <exec> 08└─I'd guess the cases can't simply be dismissed, because the defendants *do* have a lawyer. It's just that each of those lawyers is also working for 100+ other people at the same time. And since the state government refused to set a cap, each of those lawyers can always be made to take on another clie...
[11:54:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:stupid. - 06Eerily Complete Whale Skeleton Found on Bottom of Sea - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:54:20] <exec> 08└─where the fuck do they think whales go when they die?
[11:54:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re:Time for browsers to deny 3rd party js - 06New Attack Steals SSNs, E-Mail Addresses, and More From HTTPS Pages - 993 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:54:55] <exec> 08└─It's sickening how much power there is in browser javascript. In a bit of common sense, ECMA decided having browsers open general sockets was a bad idea. They then reimplemented TCP over HTTP in the form of websockets. While WebSockets has its uses, I *really* dislike that someone can my browser to...
[11:54:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03cockroach [2266] (Score:2) 02Compression - 06New Attack Steals SSNs, E-Mail Addresses, and More From HTTPS Pages - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:54:56] <exec> 08└─Because the compression used by just about every website works by eliminating repetitions of text strings, correct guesses result in no appreciable increase in data size while incorrect guesses cause the response to grow larger.
[11:55:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Ethics has already reduced to gibberish - 06NIH Plans To Lift Ban On Research Funds For Human-Animal Chimera Embryos - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:55:10] <exec> 08└─It's not though. It would be easier to genetically modify a primate with a larger brain volume and more genetic similarities to humans in order to make it "sapient", or whatever you want to call it. There is some correlation between brain size and intelligence. It is unclear that a tiny mouse could...
[11:55:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Ethics has already reduced to gibberish - 06NIH Plans To Lift Ban On Research Funds For Human-Animal Chimera Embryos - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:55:12] <exec> 08└─-1 ignorant
[11:55:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Ethics has already reduced to gibberish - 06NIH Plans To Lift Ban On Research Funds For Human-Animal Chimera Embryos - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:55:19] <exec> 08└─Perhaps a bit too close to home. There has always been something about Eth that is just not quite human. Chimera-ism would explain a lot.
[11:56:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re:Aaaand Extinguish - 06Windows Woes - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:56:30] <exec> 08└─Doesn't really help if you need to use GPU heavy workloads unless you can pass through a dedicated card (which is a nightmare on the best of days). I'm not talking gaming for this, but more like AutoCAD. As it stands, my laptop is anemic enough that I have to dual boot as I simply don't have enough...
[11:59:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:A pittance - 06US State Department Denies Obama Paid $400M "Ransom" to Iran - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:59:37] <exec> 08└─I remember this game! I pick, "Col. Ollie North, with a cake, in Tehran!" What do I win? What? A stick? A clue stick? And you are going to do what with it? Silly Republicans!!
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[12:53:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Cray still exists? - 06Cray Profits Literally Go Up in Smoke After Electrical Incident - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:53:30] <exec> 08└─But but The Cloud should have killed Cray by now. Killed it dead. The Cloud is All.
[12:53:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Cray still exists? - 06Cray Profits Literally Go Up in Smoke After Electrical Incident - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:53:31] <exec> 08└─I tried to put my data into the cloud, the MS one, Asura, or whatever it's called. A gigantic rhino came out of the cloud and killed my parents. Have been forced to live off of peach ever since. Better to stick with Cray, even with the smoke. At least there are no mirrors, like in the cloud, or rhi...
[12:53:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Cray still exists? - 06Cray Profits Literally Go Up in Smoke After Electrical Incident - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:53:33] <exec> 08└─Cray serves the cloud, as do we all in our own ways.
[12:53:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score:2) 02Re:what an asshole - 06Rio 2016: Kohei Uchimura Gets £3,700 Pokemon GO Bill - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:53:54] <exec> 08└─I would consider a billion dollar loss a fair penalty for the kind of carrier that plays this trick. However, only if its a billion dollar loss PER CUSTOMER ripped off.
[12:53:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score:2) 02Re:talent - 06Rio 2016: Kohei Uchimura Gets £3,700 Pokemon GO Bill - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:53:58] <exec> 08└─As Einstein * once said: " The hardest thing in the universe to understand is my fucking phone bill!" * Jeffery Einstein, down at the 7-11
[12:54:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:must be Obama bush Laden's fault as usual - 06Missouri Governor Fails to Fund Public Defender's Office so They Compel him to Work Cases - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:54:08] <exec> 08└─Why don't we just enact a high windfall tax on haliburton to pay for it? It's the libetarian way, those (oil companies) that need the services (death and destruction over there) pay for it, and those that don't don't pay for it.
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[13:53:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Olympic malware coding - 06Zeus Panda Goes To The Olympics - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:53:30] <exec> 08└─Olympic malware coding should totally be a sport, judged entirely by the speed and accuracy of the rapid fire typing, and broadcast to spectators with a trace soundtrack. In fact, let's just make typing an Olympic sport. Because coding is just typing, and the faster the better.
[13:53:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:3, Funny) 02This is what happens - 06Cray Profits Literally Go Up in Smoke After Electrical Incident - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:53:40] <exec> 08└─Magicians are qualified to handle Magic Smoke. Technicians are not. Put your magic smoke in a plant, where technicians can diddle with stuff, and the smoke escapes. What else can you expect? Real engineers know not to tamper with stuff outside their realm. They respect the magicians, the magicians r...
[13:53:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Every dog - 06DOJ to Require Changes to Music Royalty Collection - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:53:51] <exec> 08└─Every dog has it's day. A stopped clock is right twice a day. Even the DOJ has to get it right once in awhile. Wonder why it took so long for them to realize the music industry rips everyone off? Did someone brew a pot of coffee nearby, and wake the department up?
[13:54:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spook brat [775] (Score:2) 02Re:must be Obama bush Laden's fault as usual - 06Missouri Governor Fails to Fund Public Defender's Office so They Compel him to Work Cases - 709 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:54:17] <exec> 08└─Sounds like a great idea, except for a pair of pesky facts: 1) KBR, the Halliburton division that provides battlefield services got spun off prior to Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF, also called Gulf War II elsewhere in this thread); it was fully independent and had nothing to do with either Cheney or...
[13:54:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormreaver [5101] (Score:2) 02Re:Missouri Governor as Public Defender - 06Missouri Governor Fails to Fund Public Defender's Office so They Compel him to Work Cases - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:54:21] <exec> 08└─They can assign cases to any registered lawyer, and the Governor is a registered lawyer.
[13:54:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Funny situation - 06Missouri Governor Fails to Fund Public Defender's Office so They Compel him to Work Cases - 904 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:54:31] <exec> 08└─Remember the story we had about Krispy Kreme doughnuts testing positive as cocaine? In a lot of those anecdotes, perfectly innocent people who probably had very decent cases instead took the plea bargain. Why risk jail time and a felony record, which will irreparably ruin your life and destroy your...
[13:54:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:stupid. - 06Eerily Complete Whale Skeleton Found on Bottom of Sea - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:54:48] <exec> 08└─Uh... that's davester666?
[13:54:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snort [5141] (Score:1) 02Link to actual video - 06Eerily Complete Whale Skeleton Found on Bottom of Sea - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:54:49] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x32PLnBsZsw [youtube.com]
[13:55:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Microsoft victim #1 - 06Portion of Gary Kildall's Memoir Made Public - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:55:08] <exec> 08└─> You can't just use a regular prototype as UEFI C uses an unusual call ABI Is there any reason it’s different?
[13:55:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Much More Information in this PDF - 06New Attack Steals SSNs, E-Mail Addresses, and More From HTTPS Pages - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:55:29] <exec> 08└─For those that are interested, I found much more information here: https://tom.vg [tom.vg]
[13:55:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Bypassing cloud security providers - 06New Attack Steals SSNs, E-Mail Addresses, and More From HTTPS Pages - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:55:31] <exec> 08└─The real issue is a flaw in the design of browser storage mechanisms -- the paper, to be presented at USENIX 2016, will provide a improved design for that, along with viable solutions that can thwart size-exposing attack methods. Both authors, Tom Van Goethem [kuleuven.be] and Mathy Vanhoef [kuleuve...
[13:56:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score:2) 02Re:Expect deployment ... Never - 06Test of Elevated Bus in China - 937 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:56:26] <exec> 08└─Just FYI, the Interstates in the U.S. have a minimum height requirement of 16ft (4.9m). Anything less has to be marked. Some states such as VA, have more stringent requirements, where it is 17ft (5.2m). In Texas, they like their interstates TALL! I mean crazy clearances tall, and they like to let yo...
[13:56:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score:2) 02Re:not a quote - 06Test of Elevated Bus in China - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:56:29] <exec> 08└─This is 2016. We choose blame as the default setting. ;)
[13:57:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Nerdfest [80] 02Re:Aaaand Extinguish - 06Windows Woes - 429 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:57:04] <exec> 08└─As far as I've been able to tell, for the last 10 years, running Windows in a VM is the only reasonable thing to do if you're interested in stability, privacy, and your time. Need to install updates when you're trying to shut down? Fuck you, roll back to snapshot. Infected by driveby attack while vi...
[13:59:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Benefits of banks? - 06EU Commission Proposes Central Database Record of Virtual Currency Users - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:59:31] <exec> 08└─TRADITION Translation: outlived it’s usefulness but I can’t let it go.
[14:00:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03gidds [589] (Score:2) 02Re: What's the tech angle? - 06US State Department Denies Obama Paid $400M "Ransom" to Iran - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:00:00] <exec> 08└─May I fix that for you? We are a volunteer-powered news aggregation site that deliver[sic] articles about technology, science, and general interest to Americans.
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[14:53:36] <exec> 08└─How are we going to protect against keyboard macros? What about people using non-qwerty keyboards? And how are we going to ever find qualified judges?
[14:53:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score:2) 02X-force research..... - 06Zeus Panda Goes To The Olympics - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:53:37] <exec> 08└─There must be an xkcd for that name....?
[14:53:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03pendorbound [2688] (Score:2) 02I'll download it... - 06DOJ to Require Changes to Music Royalty Collection - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:00] <exec> 08└─I guarantee artists this: If I enjoy your music, I will download it. I'd VERY much like to give you some money for doing so, but if you make it difficult to pay you or difficult to enjoy my music on any platform or device I choose, I'll hang on to my money. Don't make it difficult for me to give you...
[14:54:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:I'll download it... - 06DOJ to Require Changes to Music Royalty Collection - 834 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:54:01] <exec> 08└─As a musician, that's great (assuming you actually follow through), and many independent musicians indeed go with a donation-based model where you pay what you want to listen to the music. However, our biggest source of revenue for anybody doing anything that isn't straight-up electronica is almost...
[14:54:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:must be Obama bush Laden's fault as usual - 06Missouri Governor Fails to Fund Public Defender's Office so They Compel him to Work Cases - 595 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:54:28] <exec> 08└─None. Missouri is a state and not at war with anyone. Wars are the domain of the Federal government, which is separately funded, so they're entirely irrelevant. There's nothing stopping Missouri from properly funding its court system, except a lack of will in the state legislature and the governor's...
[14:54:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:endless appeals, which won't help the budget - 06Missouri Governor Fails to Fund Public Defender's Office so They Compel him to Work Cases - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:54:36] <exec> 08└─To be a pedant, the right to an attorney would rightfully be called your Gideon rights not your Miranda rights.
[14:54:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03pendorbound [2688] (Score:2) 02Re:Funny situation - 06Missouri Governor Fails to Fund Public Defender's Office so They Compel him to Work Cases - 583 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:54:45] <exec> 08└─Having within the last year sat on a criminal jury where the defendant rejected the DA's plea offer and went to trial, you're a bit off on that 0% number you pulled out. (For the record, the defendant was acquitted.) Even before trial, a defendant has an absolute right to council. The intricacies of...
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[14:55:41] <exec> 08└─if that's the only way to extract the info, then yes. i haven't confirmed that there aren't other ways though. maybe someone else can confirm that?
[14:59:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:DDoS - 06EU Commission Proposes Central Database Record of Virtual Currency Users - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:59:47] <exec> 08└─I'm almost positive you'd be guilty of money laundering our some other clerical crime.
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[15:53:39] <exec> 08└─Kids these days never learned to type. https://archive.org [archive.org] Off my lawn!
[15:53:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:X-force research..... - 06Zeus Panda Goes To The Olympics - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:53:41] <exec> 08└─All I've got is a car analogy [xkcd.com]
[15:54:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03pendorbound [2688] 02I'll download it... - 06DOJ to Require Changes to Music Royalty Collection - 386 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:03] <exec> 08└─I guarantee artists this: If I enjoy your music, I will download it. I'd VERY much like to give you some money for doing so, but if you make it difficult to pay you or difficult to enjoy my music on any platform or device I choose, I'll hang on to my money. Don't make it difficult for me to give you...
[15:54:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I'll download it... - 06DOJ to Require Changes to Music Royalty Collection - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:54:06] <exec> 08└─This might come as a shock to you, but "music" is a form of art, and "musicians" are a sub-type of artists.
[15:54:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:dismiss - 06Missouri Governor Fails to Fund Public Defender's Office so They Compel him to Work Cases - 1147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:54:43] <exec> 08└─As prisons increasingly become 'for profit prisons', it would make sense* for the state to allocate more money to keep prisons full, and allocate less funds to defending people which might cause unprofitable vacancies within the prisons. Prison overflows are a good thing (in states like this, with g...
[15:54:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:Funny situation - 06Missouri Governor Fails to Fund Public Defender's Office so They Compel him to Work Cases - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:54:51] <exec> 08└─The way things work in reality, the prosecutor offers a plea bargain, the public defender says to take the plea bargain, and the judge does nothing. So in the interest of efficiency, you can eliminate public defenders and judges and courts, and have offenders report directly to the prosecutor to rec...
[15:54:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02What I'd like to see - 06Missouri Governor Fails to Fund Public Defender's Office so They Compel him to Work Cases - 780 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:53] <exec> 08└─What should actually happen is that the prosecutors' office funding and public defenders' funding should be closely related. If each prosecutor has a caseload of, say, 100 cases a month of which 5 are expected to go to trial, each public defender should have about 100 cases a month of which 5 are ex...
[15:57:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hah, right - 06China Says it's OK for Members of the Public to Record the Police - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:57:08] <exec> 08└─Just like in the US, no? Try arresting a member of the Bush cartel... or the Clinton cartel...
[15:57:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No Expectation of Privacy at Work - 06China Says it's OK for Members of the Public to Record the Police - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:57:11] <exec> 08└─Not true in the UK - sysadmin has to ask permission before accessing user data.
[15:58:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03gidds [589] (Score:2) 02Re: Do they ban VPNs? - 06Comcast Wants to Charge for Privacy - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:58:32] <exec> 08└─This is probably an ignorant question, but isn't that just shifting the problem? If ISPs aren't trustworthy (and they clearly aren't), despite being paid, then why should VPN providers be? They have exactly the same opportunities.
[15:59:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The real target - 06EU Commission Proposes Central Database Record of Virtual Currency Users - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:59:43] <exec> 08└─Note that we are told, those drug lords only exist because some Nixon-era polticos wanted to do down the hippy movement...
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[16:53:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02life free, use cash - 06Mastercard Armours its Contactless Cards Against Relay Attacks - 994 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:53:32] <exec> 08└─Live free. Use cash. Cash has several advantages over plastic: - The bank statement become cleaner and easier to audit. - It's trivial to establish one's budget and stick to it. Visit the ATM once per week to get cash. - Internet connectivity is not necessary to see how much you've spent so far and...
[16:53:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Olympic malware coding - 06Zeus Panda Goes To The Olympics - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:53:42] <exec> 08└─Apparently, being able to type without looking at the keyboard is considered a superpower by young and old. Start using keyboard shortcuts to do things like making text bold or accessing the menu or ribbon, and it's as though you've gone super-saiyan. Oooh, he's so smrt! Look at how smrt he is! I ca...
[16:53:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Travelling? - 06Zeus Panda Goes To The Olympics - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:53:45] <exec> 08└─Welcome to Brazil sir, how would you like your virus today? The menu offers water-based, airborne, in packets, or our usual panel of sexual variants.
[16:53:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score:2) 02Re:Cray still exists? - 06Cray Profits Literally Go Up in Smoke After Electrical Incident - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:53:56] <exec> 08└─I had no idea Cray was still around. Even disregarding the "cloud" snark it's still surprising to me that there's a place for Cray's bespoke supercomputers when you can fill standard racks with COTS server equipment at a fraction of the cost. Even if it's not as powerful or efficient for what you wa...
[16:53:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03SecurityGuy [1453] (Score:2) 02Re:Cray still exists? - 06Cray Profits Literally Go Up in Smoke After Electrical Incident - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:53:57] <exec> 08└─...you can fill standard racks with COTS server equipment at a fraction of the cost.
[16:53:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kromagv0 [1825] (Score:2) 02Re:This is what happens - 06Cray Profits Literally Go Up in Smoke After Electrical Incident - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:54:00] <exec> 08└─Been a while since I saw the Lucas Smoke. Personally I like this diagram [mez.co.uk] better. And for those who don't find jokes about the Prince of Dark funny you can always poke fun at other aspects of British motoring [www.brit.ca].
[16:54:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:I'll download it... - 06DOJ to Require Changes to Music Royalty Collection - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:54:15] <exec> 08└─This might come as a shock to you, but "music" is a form of art, and "musicians" are a sub-type of artists.
[16:54:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I'll download it... - 06DOJ to Require Changes to Music Royalty Collection - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:54:17] <exec> 08└─Because there are a number of different disciplines that combine. Musicians. Composers. Song writers. Sound designers. Recording engineers. It's not all just one flea-bitten vagrant on a street corner with a washboard.
[16:54:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I'll download it... - 06DOJ to Require Changes to Music Royalty Collection - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:54:19] <exec> 08└─Why is it that only musicians are, in the industry, routinely called "artists" instead of "musicians"?
[16:54:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:I'll download it... - 06DOJ to Require Changes to Music Royalty Collection - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:54:21] <exec> 08└─The change came when artists stopped being musicians, but instead looked pretty, could be auto tuned, and sell a lot of music to teens too young to make rational decisions. Then those 'artists' are pushed out and replaced with a fresh batch at about the time the buyers of their 'content' graduate fr...
[16:54:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:I'll download it... - 06DOJ to Require Changes to Music Royalty Collection - 606 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:54:23] <exec> 08└─No, it didn't change when that got started, because looking good on stage has been part of a musician's job (particularly female musicians) since at least somewhere around the Renaissance, when music really began to escape the confines of the Catholic Church. Whether you're talking about minstrel's...
[16:54:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02Re:I'll download it... - 06DOJ to Require Changes to Music Royalty Collection - 1914 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:54:26] <exec> 08└─Artists have to move past copyright, to sustainable business models, of which there are several possibilities. Copying and production have come to the masses, no longer takes lots of infrastructure such as a printing press and a place to operate it, supplies of paper to feed it, and a delivery syste...
[16:54:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:what an asshole - 06Rio 2016: Kohei Uchimura Gets £3,700 Pokemon GO Bill - 684 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:54:36] <exec> 08└─The issue here is that they extend thousands of dollars worth of credit without asking the person that signed the contract for the additional credit. $5k is a lot of money in a sense, but it pales in comparison to the hundreds of thousands of dollars that AT&T was expecting to be paid for iPhones th...
[16:54:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Still one-armed robbery - 06Rio 2016: Kohei Uchimura Gets £3,700 Pokemon GO Bill - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:42] <exec> 08└─22 pounds per day for data roaming? How generous...
[16:54:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Missouri Governor as Public Defender - 06Missouri Governor Fails to Fund Public Defender's Office so They Compel him to Work Cases - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:54:59] <exec> 08└─That was for federal cases. Missouri can do what they want for state court cases.
[16:55:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:endless appeals, which won't help the budget - 06Missouri Governor Fails to Fund Public Defender's Office so They Compel him to Work Cases - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:55:05] <exec> 08└─You have the right to be pedantic ...
[16:55:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score:2) 02re What party? - 06Missouri Governor Fails to Fund Public Defender's Office so They Compel him to Work Cases - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:55:10] <exec> 08└─I don't want to blame a particular political party
[16:55:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Funny situation - 06Missouri Governor Fails to Fund Public Defender's Office so They Compel him to Work Cases - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:55:19] <exec> 08└─Couldn't the police have a tablet with an app? You waive all your rights and go directly to jail?
[16:55:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Constitutional crisis - 06Missouri Governor Fails to Fund Public Defender's Office so They Compel him to Work Cases - 925 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:55:22] <exec> 08└─Is this actually constitutional, in particular in regard to separation of powers? I am not a lawyer, but it looks like there are strong arguments both for and against it. Constitutional: It is the law that any lawyer can be "drafted." Unconstitutional: The Judicial branch is interfering with the Exe...
[16:55:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score:2) 02re The real situation - 06Missouri Governor Fails to Fund Public Defender's Office so They Compel him to Work Cases - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:55:24] <exec> 08└─Perhaps you have already watched John Oliver's segment on Public Defenders [youtube.com], if not, it is very informative.
[16:55:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jeremiah Cornelius [2785] (Score:2) 02Think About Your Troubles... Now - 06Eerily Complete Whale Skeleton Found on Bottom of Sea - 505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:55:37] <exec> 08└─Take them down to the riverside And throw them over the side To be swept up by a current And taken to the ocean To be eaten by some fishes Who were eaten by some fishes And swallowed by a whale Who grew so old He decomposed He died and left his body To the bottom of the ocean Now everybody knows Tha...
[16:56:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score:2) 02IMSAI 8080 - 06Portion of Gary Kildall's Memoir Made Public - 643 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:56:03] <exec> 08└─Nice to meet someone else who had worked on an IMSAI 8080! I was working at a lab which made various diagnostic tests. Accounting software, among other things, was running on CP/M [www.gaby.de] on their IMSAI 8080 [wikipedia.org]. I remember the first time I read through the documentation thinking...
[16:56:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Time for browsers to deny 3rd party js - 06New Attack Steals SSNs, E-Mail Addresses, and More From HTTPS Pages - 1393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:56:23] <exec> 08└─I've been using a different browser for my bank stuff, running as a different user. The browser I use for "normal" browsing also runs as yet another user. Neither of these two users are the same as my main desktop user account. My desktop user account has rights to access the files and folders those...
[16:56:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Compression - 06New Attack Steals SSNs, E-Mail Addresses, and More From HTTPS Pages - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:56:26] <exec> 08└─Disabling compression should prevent the attack. What I wondered was whether adding dummy strings for them to guess could help make things hard enough. But I suppose that just multiplies the difficulty. e.g. three strings = 3x more difficult. So that doesn't really help.
[16:56:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Much More Information in this PDF - 06New Attack Steals SSNs, E-Mail Addresses, and More From HTTPS Pages - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:56:29] <exec> 08└─For those of you for whom that connection failed: directly from blackhat [blackhat.com] and slides [regmedia.co.uk] (aka funny pics), courtesy El Reg. This is big news, people -- comparable to OpenSSL's f*ck*p of 2014.
[16:57:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:full metal science! - 06NIH Plans To Lift Ban On Research Funds For Human-Animal Chimera Embryos - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:57:04] <exec> 08└─What could possibly go wrong?
[16:57:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Expect deployment ... Never - 06Test of Elevated Bus in China - 990 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:57:28] <exec> 08└─Its pretty clear this thing will require special custom built highways with hardened shoulders, car exclusion barriers, pedestrian fencing, etc. So given that, its no different than any other mass transit project down freeway corridors. It will be disruptive, require massive rebuilds, total redesign...
[16:58:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:MS won't be around in 10 years - 06Windows Woes - 504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:58:17] <exec> 08└─I have been toying with the idea of charging $30,000 per seat? (is that what the price-point is?) for free software. With every successful sale I make I can like half a programmer or even a competent sales-person. If course the high price-point smacks of corruptions, which I don't like. Some of the...
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[17:53:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:1, Touché) 02good for them - 06Apple Says It's Mended the Pay Gap for Women and Minorities - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:53:31] <exec> 08└─Mission accomplished! Now that the problem's been solved and the white knights in management who are soo good with women have finally taken the power to determine employee pay out of the hands of the evil sexually harassing rapist sexually frustrated misogynerd tech workers who can't get laid and th...
[17:53:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:3, Informative) 02Virtual signaling and grade school math. - 06Apple Says It's Mended the Pay Gap for Women and Minorities - 914 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:53:32] <exec> 08└─The 'pay gap' is the result of a grade school level math error. It is simply averaging 'all' women, no mater of age, educational status, marital status, or profession. Vs 'all' men no mater of age, educational status, marital status, or profession. Not to mention it has been illegal since about 1957...
[17:53:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:-1, Troll) 02Re:Virtual signaling and grade school math. - 06Apple Says It's Mended the Pay Gap for Women and Minorities - 523 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:53:35] <exec> 08└─You forgot one important point - the menstruation periods of women in groups temporally synchronize with each other, so besides getting pregnant, there is an additional productivity loss with cattiness and bitchiness as well as causing losses of productive employees with bogus sexual harassment clai...
[17:53:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Virtual signaling and grade school math. - 06Apple Says It's Mended the Pay Gap for Women and Minorities - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:53:37] <exec> 08└─>'dat pussy 'doe fuck a deer
[17:53:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Virtual signaling and grade school math. - 06Apple Says It's Mended the Pay Gap for Women and Minorities - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:53:39] <exec> 08└─There we go :) You earned your -1 Troll mod that time. You neglected to remember that most of us take some form of BC though. In my case I'm just lucky and usually have fairly light periods.
[17:53:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Pay Gap - 06Apple Says It's Mended the Pay Gap for Women and Minorities - 659 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:53:41] <exec> 08└─How hard can it be to run a query that shows you an Employee ID with the number of standard deviations for that employee from the average wage for the function and level of th employee. Omit the gender from the query and sort by std. dev offset. Inspect why each one exists, some will be legit, other...
[17:53:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Pay Gap - 06Apple Says It's Mended the Pay Gap for Women and Minorities - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:53:43] <exec> 08└─> working *for* the employee HR doesn't work for the employee, they work for the employer.
[17:53:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:3, Touché) 02In Shenzen too ? - 06Apple Says It's Mended the Pay Gap for Women and Minorities - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:53:46] <exec> 08└─Next thing you know, they'll actually use their 150 billion dollars to close the China-US pay gap, because The Great Apple Designs shouldn't be handled by poor people.
[17:53:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03rts008 [3001] (Score:2) 02Re:life free, use cash - 06Mastercard Armours its Contactless Cards Against Relay Attacks - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:53:55] <exec> 08└─You forgot the important things: *Blackjack *Hookers *? *Profit! All joking aside, I fully agree with your comment, and some of the things mentioned have influenced the seemingly widespread efforts to make transactions using cash more, and more difficult as time goes on. If you use cash you are prob...
[17:53:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:life free, use cash - 06Mastercard Armours its Contactless Cards Against Relay Attacks - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:53:57] <exec> 08└─- The bank statement become cleaner and easier to audit.
[17:53:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:life free, use cash - 06Mastercard Armours its Contactless Cards Against Relay Attacks - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:53:59] <exec> 08└─parent poster here, regarding this big - You can still buy stuff during power outages. Actually you can't because the POS will be down. It's UPS will eventually run dry (I know you're going after the "but but but... sustained power outages I mean")
[17:54:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Lets get to chip and pin first. - 06Mastercard Armours its Contactless Cards Against Relay Attacks - 669 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:54:01] <exec> 08└─In the US we don't have chip and pin. We have chip and signature. I've never once been asked for a pin (except on debit cards - but that predates chips). Visa and Mastercard have been foot dragging on chip and pin, and merchants who have bought the equipment but are waiting for the banks to get off...
[17:54:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Lets get to chip and pin first. - 06Mastercard Armours its Contactless Cards Against Relay Attacks - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:54:04] <exec> 08└─nobody looks at the signature,
[17:54:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Olympic malware coding - 06Zeus Panda Goes To The Olympics - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:54:14] <exec> 08└─http://hackertyper.com [hackertyper.com] Use two keyboards at once, really impress your friends!
[17:54:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Cray still exists? - 06Cray Profits Literally Go Up in Smoke After Electrical Incident - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:54:30] <exec> 08└─> Even if it's not as powerful or efficient for what you want A few people really want FASTEST, and are ready to pay for it. A good example would be High-frequency traders, where low latency is literally worth hundreds of millions, though I don't know if Cray plays in that market. Note how TFS menti...
[17:54:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score:2) 02magic smoke und spitzensparken - 06Cray Profits Literally Go Up in Smoke After Electrical Incident - 461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:54:33] <exec> 08└─Thanks for that! Reminded me of this classic [catb.org]: ACHTUNG! ALLES LOOKENSPEEPERS! Alles touristen und non-technischen looken peepers! Das computermachine ist nicht fuer gefingerpoken und mittengrabben. Ist easy schnappen der springenwerk, blowenfusen und poppencorken mit spitzensparken. Ist...
[17:54:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:uh-oh I'm streaming music right now - 06DOJ to Require Changes to Music Royalty Collection - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:54:45] <exec> 08└─ASCAP is evil and shake down innocent bar owners, some of whom I know personally. They're extortionists. One guy I knew hosed bands who played only their own, original music. Another hosted only folk bands, and folk music is all in the public domain. But they pay because the ASCAP "fee" (i.e., ranso...
[17:54:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:I'll download it... - 06DOJ to Require Changes to Music Royalty Collection - 1124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:54:55] <exec> 08└─Acting IS an art form. No, I'm not an actor, I used to paint and sculpt, I ocasionally play my guitar, and now I write. They're all art forms. Don't you folks have dictionaries?? art1 ärt/ noun noun: art; plural noun: arts; plural noun: the arts 1. the expression or applica...
[17:54:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Re:I'll download it... - 06DOJ to Require Changes to Music Royalty Collection - 765 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:54:59] <exec> 08└─Brief reminder: presidents don't write budgets. They can suggest budgets. They can suggest that every congresscritter wear jockey shorts on their head. They can suggest anything. Congress decides. While you might be right about the Bush presidency, as a marker of the timeline, that phrasing doesn't...
[17:55:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:I'll download it... - 06DOJ to Require Changes to Music Royalty Collection - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:55:02] <exec> 08└─Oh, for Christ's sake, music IS an art form, just as painting, sculpture, or literature. A live performance isn't "content" but a recorded one is; the CD contains the music. Of course, not all art is good art. But it's still art. You ARE an artist whether or not you choose to acknowledge it.
[17:55:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:what an asshole - 06Rio 2016: Kohei Uchimura Gets £3,700 Pokemon GO Bill - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:55:14] <exec> 08└─Yes, but without data roaming, how could he possibly catch all the pokeymans?
[17:55:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03PocketSizeSUn [5340] (Score:2) 02Re:Still one-armed robbery - 06Rio 2016: Kohei Uchimura Gets £3,700 Pokemon GO Bill - 725 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:55:21] <exec> 08└─Yeah. There is a Malaysian carrier (Fast?) that is offering 320 Ringit/*day* [that is around $10USD] for unlimited international roaming which is also ludicrous. You can always pick up a local SIM (Tim) in Brazil and that 22 pounds will pretty much cover you for a month of data. Double that and you...
[17:55:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03gmrath [4181] (Score:1) 02Re:must be Obama bush Laden's fault as usual - 06Missouri Governor Fails to Fund Public Defender's Office so They Compel him to Work Cases - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:55:36] <exec> 08└─"Which perpetual [failed] war got the funding instead?" Closer to what's going on.
[17:55:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What I'd like to see - 06Missouri Governor Fails to Fund Public Defender's Office so They Compel him to Work Cases - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:55:59] <exec> 08└─The problem is that prosecutors are paid at the county level (with state and county funds, btw) and public defenders are paid at the state level.
[17:56:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:What I'd like to see - 06Missouri Governor Fails to Fund Public Defender's Office so They Compel him to Work Cases - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:56:00] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but that could result in a fair and just legal system. Can't have that!
[17:56:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Constitutional crisis - 06Missouri Governor Fails to Fund Public Defender's Office so They Compel him to Work Cases - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:56:04] <exec> 08└─Nope. The PD office is an executive branch. So you have one executive telling another what to do.
[17:56:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:DR-DOS - 06Portion of Gary Kildall's Memoir Made Public - 3967 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:56:34] <exec> 08└─DR-DOS is still being maintained! [drdos.org] v7.1 was released in 2011. Unfortunately, GPL woes killed v8.0 & v8.1 I still use DR-DOS for a legacy robotics project, and also to teach kids robotics and low level programming. Linux is a pain in the fucking ass if all you want to do is just GET and PU...
[17:57:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Compression - 06New Attack Steals SSNs, E-Mail Addresses, and More From HTTPS Pages - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:57:07] <exec> 08└─If you are targeting particular websites, then dummy strings aren't much help. They already know part of the plaintext they want so adding fakes doesn't really help.
[17:57:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Ethics has already reduced to gibberish - 06NIH Plans To Lift Ban On Research Funds For Human-Animal Chimera Embryos - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:57:32] <exec> 08└─Don't give him an excuse by saying "oh the poor thing, he's probably not entirely human." Humans are capable of the basest evil, as we have seen. No, Eth is pure human, with all that this implies.
[17:59:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:"big update" this was not - 06Windows Woes - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:59:11] <exec> 08└─Since Windows 8, MS even support the hardware clock being set to UTC. My understanding is that VMs are a pain if you try to use local time.
[17:59:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02no VR xBOX(*) - 06Windows Woes - 566 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:36] <exec> 08└─I see a problem that new VR games are going to "need" directX 12 to work. OFC directX 12 is only available on m$hit privacy-nightmare version ten. maybe some independent game studio will take notice of this forthcoming dilemma and not hand the new VR realm on a silver (golden?) platter to m$, again,...
[17:59:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:no VR xBOX(*) - 06Windows Woes - 633 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:59:37] <exec> 08└─"Dear customer, we at m$ are hard at work making your new 1'000.- dollar VR ready rig crawl to a stand still with our new security updates that will make your experience more secure. Thanks to our pervasive telemetry will will also be able to target just-released 2000.- dollar intel chips and their...
[17:59:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:no VR xBOX(*) - 06Windows Woes - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:59:39] <exec> 08└─Looks like you are not the only one wanting VR on Linux. Looks like the current focus is Windows, as you say. http://www.vronlinux.com [vronlinux.com] Virtual reality [archlinux.org] The HTC Vive and Valve's SteamVR don't yet support Linux and SteamOS [pcworld.com]
[18:01:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02meaning of something"" - 06EU Commission Proposes Central Database Record of Virtual Currency Users - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:30] <exec> 08└─so they are saying a bunch of nerds, connected thru the internet, cannot (legally) agree on a "value", a way to "secure it" and "transfer it" via some random program they run on their computers?
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[18:53:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Line - 06Disney Mix Messaging - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:53:23] <exec> 08└─Line messenger, except with your parent's credit cards.
[18:53:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Virtual signaling and grade school math. - 06Apple Says It's Mended the Pay Gap for Women and Minorities - 914 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:53:31] <exec> 08└─The 'pay gap' is the result of a grade school level math error. It is simply averaging 'all' women, no mater of age, educational status, marital status, or profession. Vs 'all' men no mater of age, educational status, marital status, or profession. Not to mention it has been illegal since about 1957...
[18:53:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Virtual signaling and grade school math. - 06Apple Says It's Mended the Pay Gap for Women and Minorities - 512 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:53:37] <exec> 08└─The 'pay gap' is the result of a grade school level math error. It is simply averaging 'all' women, no mater of age, educational status, marital status, or profession. Vs 'all' men no mater of age, educational status, marital status, or profession. On a national level, perhaps. However, in t...
[18:53:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Pay Gap - 06Apple Says It's Mended the Pay Gap for Women and Minorities - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:53:41] <exec> 08└─I'd be curious to see how many of these women named a lower wage to begin with and then got standard raises based on the lower base salary. You might be able to run that query, fix everything, and still end up with a wage gap.
[18:53:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03useless [426] (Score:3, Interesting) 02So.. - 06Apple Says It's Mended the Pay Gap for Women and Minorities - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:53:44] <exec> 08└─That means they admit that they were guilty of violating the Equal Pay Act for years? When does the trial start?
[18:53:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Lets get to chip and pin first. - 06Mastercard Armours its Contactless Cards Against Relay Attacks - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:53:56] <exec> 08└─I literally signed the receipt for the last TV I bought, "this card is stolen." At least I got a call from MasterCard about it.
[18:54:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Cray still exists? - 06Cray Profits Literally Go Up in Smoke After Electrical Incident - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:54:25] <exec> 08└─A good example would be High-frequency traders
[18:54:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02Re:I'll download it... - 06DOJ to Require Changes to Music Royalty Collection - 834 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:54:43] <exec> 08└─As a musician, that's great (assuming you actually follow through), and many independent musicians indeed go with a donation-based model where you pay what you want to listen to the music. However, our biggest source of revenue for anybody doing anything that isn't straight-up electronica is almost...
[18:54:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I'll download it... - 06DOJ to Require Changes to Music Royalty Collection - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:54:54] <exec> 08└─> ... $10 price these parasitic, evil academic publishers typically ask of researchers for a pig in a poke, 10 page research paper that has all too high a chance of being irrelevant or garbage. I thought this was what university libraries were for? Won't your library get you the papers you need? Som...
[18:55:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score:2) 02Re:Funny situation - 06Missouri Governor Fails to Fund Public Defender's Office so They Compel him to Work Cases - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:55:51] <exec> 08└─If no public defenders are available to handle the original case, and defendants have no funds, who exactly is going to file an appeal?
[18:55:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Constitutional crisis - 06Missouri Governor Fails to Fund Public Defender's Office so They Compel him to Work Cases - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:55:58] <exec> 08└─Nope. The PD office is an executive branch. So you have one executive telling another what to do.
[18:56:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:stupid. - 06Eerily Complete Whale Skeleton Found on Bottom of Sea - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:56:18] <exec> 08└─"where the fuck do they think whales go when they die?" Whale heaven, obviously.
[18:56:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snort [5141] 02Link to actual video - 06Eerily Complete Whale Skeleton Found on Bottom of Sea - 57 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:56:19] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x32PLnBsZsw [youtube.com]
[18:57:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:Ethics has already reduced to gibberish - 06NIH Plans To Lift Ban On Research Funds For Human-Animal Chimera Embryos - 773 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:57:36] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure you are justified in having more respect for the intellectual capabilities of lemurs. Rats are known to be quite intelligent, on some trials performing better than humans (you've got to pick the right test). As for brain size, some lemurs are considerably smaller than some rats, and I w...
[18:58:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hah, right - 06China Says it's OK for Members of the Public to Record the Police - 588 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:58:26] <exec> 08└─China tends to execute a lot more people too: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Then again the US cops execute a fair number of people, without even a kangaroo court involved. While blacks tend to be their main victims, even the lighter coloured ones aren't safe...
[18:59:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:Home business? Get business class - 06Comcast Wants to Charge for Privacy - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:59:55] <exec> 08└─Thank you. I have no personal experience with it, and this time is the first I have heard such unfavorable reports. Previously it was all complaints about latency.
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[19:53:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Stickers are essential. - 06Disney Mix Messaging - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:38] <exec> 08└─When I try this app, first thing I'm gonna check is whether the gun sticker looks like a proper gun, or did they pull an Apple and only have a water pistol.
[19:53:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Babysitting... - 06Disney Mix Messaging - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:40] <exec> 08└─There are already enough ways to distract a child with technology, having their communications go through a company that will mine them for advertising / product creation is a step farther than I would allow.
[19:53:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Babysitting... - 06Disney Mix Messaging - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:53:42] <exec> 08└─That's why they will get the kids to download this app without asking their parents. You are also in a small minority of adults that either care or even realize there are privacy risks.
[19:53:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score:2) 02Re:Virtual signaling and grade school math. - 06Apple Says It's Mended the Pay Gap for Women and Minorities - 655 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:53:55] <exec> 08└─In the case of Apple I am flatly rejecting that there was any "problem" to begin with. There was merely the perception of a problem due to the error GP explained. Apple--as a trendy forward-looking company--felt the need to virtue signal to appeal to one of their target demos. Now, an "image problem...
[19:54:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Women are cheaper? - 06Apple Says It's Mended the Pay Gap for Women and Minorities - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:01] <exec> 08└─I hear people complain about pay gap in the news but frankly I don't understand the arguments. If women are performing the exact same work as men for less money, then as a business you should obviously hire only women in order to reduce expenses. At least in high tech, there appears to be no evidenc...
[19:54:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Cray still exists? - 06Cray Profits Literally Go Up in Smoke After Electrical Incident - 862 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:54:44] <exec> 08└─Quoting myself: > A good example would be High-frequency traders, where low latency is literally worth hundreds of millions, though I don't know if Cray plays in that market. So no, I don't know specifically that Cray arch is useful for HFT. But I was answering > surprising to me that there's a plac...
[19:55:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:what an asshole - 06Rio 2016: Kohei Uchimura Gets £3,700 Pokemon GO Bill - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:55:28] <exec> 08└─Presumably just buy a local SIM card for Brazil and a pay as you go plan for the few weeks you're there. I'd imagine that even a year of cell service is less than what he got charged. Even if it's not, you have a much clearer idea as to how much you'll be spending. But, then again, this whole Olympi...
[19:56:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Constitutional crisis - 06Missouri Governor Fails to Fund Public Defender's Office so They Compel him to Work Cases - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:56:18] <exec> 08└─Except that 600.019 makes it an independent department covered by Chapter 536. They have been delegated executive power, and can use all powers delegated to them. The Governor doesn't like it, he can challenge it the same way you challenge any other abuse of agency power.
[19:56:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:DR-DOS - 06Portion of Gary Kildall's Memoir Made Public - 726 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:56:52] <exec> 08└─If your free pc's don't have parallel ports, they probably still have the ISA bus -- so buy a cheap board to plug in. Here's one of many, www.bonanza.com/listings/Achieve-Parallel-printer-port-8-bit-isa-db25-vintage/378657869 Or -- maybe those motherboards have parallel port pins, just not connected...
[19:57:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:A bit of FUD in there? - 06New Attack Steals SSNs, E-Mail Addresses, and More From HTTPS Pages - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:57:18] <exec> 08└─The man in the middle is javascript.
[19:57:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Ethics has already reduced to gibberish - 06NIH Plans To Lift Ban On Research Funds For Human-Animal Chimera Embryos - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:57:59] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure you are justified in having more respect for the intellectual capabilities of lemurs. Rats are known to be quite intelligent, on some trials performing better than humans (you've got to pick the right test).
[20:00:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re: Do they ban VPNs? - 06Comcast Wants to Charge for Privacy - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:00:25] <exec> 08└─Some people use VPNs to avoid geoblocking but others use them specifically to increase their privacy. If a VPN provider gets a repuatation for poor privacy practices, its customers can readily change to another provider. I suspect that a greater proportion of an ISP's customers (as compared to those...
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[20:53:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 0247 Percent? - 06Almost Half of US Businesses hit by Ransomware, Says Study - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:53:30] <exec> 08└─Wow, 47 percent of US businesses? That's an incredibly high number for a 12 month period. I don't believe it.
[20:53:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:47 Percent? - 06Almost Half of US Businesses hit by Ransomware, Says Study - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:53:31] <exec> 08└─This report presents the US results of a survey undertaken in the United States, Canada, Germany and the United Kingdom on ransomware and related issues. The survey was conducted during June 2016 with 165 organizations in the United States, and 125 each in the other nations for a total of 540 survey...
[20:53:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02This app is incompatible with your device - 06Disney Mix Messaging - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:53:43] <exec> 08└─Well... That's the end of that. It has some bad reviews too.
[20:53:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score:2) 02Re:Virtual signaling and grade school math. - 06Apple Says It's Mended the Pay Gap for Women and Minorities - 498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:53:56] <exec> 08└─You know, EF, I liked to think that women would sync up and there would be a part of the month where all hell breaks loose, but it doesn't quite happen that way... My wife works as a hair stylist, so classic woman work environment. There are definitely a few of the women there that have synched up,...
[20:54:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:3, Touché) 02Re:So.. - 06Apple Says It's Mended the Pay Gap for Women and Minorities - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:54:04] <exec> 08└─When did you stop beating your wife?
[20:54:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Women are cheaper? - 06Apple Says It's Mended the Pay Gap for Women and Minorities - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:54:07] <exec> 08└─Maybe the maternity leave evens out with the less pay? There have been studies done that demonstrate that all-male or all-female groups solve problems better than mixed company. When you're talking about a whole company I suppose you could separate them out somewhat by team.
[20:54:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Women are cheaper? - 06Apple Says It's Mended the Pay Gap for Women and Minorities - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:54:10] <exec> 08└─If women are performing the exact same work as men for less money, then as a business you should obviously hire only women in order to reduce expenses. Sure, unless the business considers females to be inferior. Then they wouldn't. And, when they did hire women, they would probably pay them les...
[20:54:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mr Big in the Pants [4956] (Score:2) 02Re:Women are cheaper? - 06Apple Says It's Mended the Pay Gap for Women and Minorities - 717 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:54:12] <exec> 08└─This is a common fallacy I see bandied about but does not make any sense at all so should really stop. The theory is (NB: whether it is true or not is irrelevant to this argument) women are not being underpaid because their ability is being undervalued compare to men. So it CANNOT follow that the pr...
[20:54:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03quintessence [6227] (Score:2) 02Re:Women are cheaper? - 06Apple Says It's Mended the Pay Gap for Women and Minorities - 822 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:54:14] <exec> 08└─It's not that clear-cut. Suppose a company needed to hire certain positions RIGHT NOW, they might be willing to pay a little more. Even paying more than people currently in that position are making. Eventually talk around the water-cooler gets around, people note the discrepancy, and the imagination...
[20:55:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Still one-armed robbery - 06Rio 2016: Kohei Uchimura Gets £3,700 Pokemon GO Bill - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:55:46] <exec> 08└─Fast, you say? For some phone companies, Faust would be a suitable name.
[20:56:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score:2) 02Re:Funny situation - 06Missouri Governor Fails to Fund Public Defender's Office so They Compel him to Work Cases - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:56:23] <exec> 08└─Now that is an interesting question. There are "jailhouse lawyers", and believe it or not successful appeals get started in that way. It's not an ideal solution obviously. My guess is that if this was such a case, the ACLU would be interested in pursuing these matters.
[21:01:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Benefits of banks? - 06EU Commission Proposes Central Database Record of Virtual Currency Users - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:01:57] <exec> 08└─Despite that I wanted to see some discussion about pros and cons of these issues - instead we usually get blind "freedom over everything" jubilation like the post below yours.
[21:02:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:swallowing the official story - 06US State Department Denies Obama Paid $400M "Ransom" to Iran - 846 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:02:18] <exec> 08└─Two more things to note here. First, that this story is IMHO is probably retaliation by the Pakistani intelligence, the ISI. It would have been easy to keep this out of the news, if they were so inclined. People only seem to care about the US's contribution to the mess, not Pakistan's. Second, Iran...
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[21:53:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:47 Percent? - 06Almost Half of US Businesses hit by Ransomware, Says Study - 598 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:53:27] <exec> 08└─I could actually see that number being higher, due to how the question is interpreted by the respondent. For example, our HR department and those with publicly posted email addresses get at least one ransomware file a month and commonly has at least one a week. However, none of those have made it pa...
[21:53:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:47 Percent? - 06Almost Half of US Businesses hit by Ransomware, Says Study - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:53:29] <exec> 08└─Good point. Attempted (but failed) attacks are still attacks. I wasn't thinking of them as such.
[21:53:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:47 Percent? - 06Almost Half of US Businesses hit by Ransomware, Says Study - 740 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:53:31] <exec> 08└─I'm surprised it's that low. Every company I talk to has been playing whack-a-mole with ransomware it for the past two years. Most of it doesn't require the user to have admin rights, it uses their existing access to their own profile folders (desktop, my documents) and their network access to thing...
[21:53:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score:2) 02Re:47 Percent? - 06Almost Half of US Businesses hit by Ransomware, Says Study - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:53:33] <exec> 08└─Fire one employee for negligence and watch how quickly the rest start taking security seriously.
[21:53:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:47 Percent? - 06Almost Half of US Businesses hit by Ransomware, Says Study - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:53:35] <exec> 08└─For a few months anyways. Then things will slowly start slipping back to how it was before. Good security takes dedication and willingness to take extra steps to make sure things are done right, most desk jockeys just can't maintain it. It's funny how inefficiently they are will to preform some task...
[21:53:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Riiiiight - 06Almost Half of US Businesses hit by Ransomware, Says Study - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:37] <exec> 08└─Security firm says "all your bases are belong to the hackers!!!@#@!!!!!" Who you gonna call? Ghost Busters!!!
[21:53:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02It's Pretty Easy - 06Almost Half of US Businesses hit by Ransomware, Says Study - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:39] <exec> 08└─I do my part by clicking every link and opening every attachment in every spam email I get. I also try to follow every ad that pops up, sure it takes a lot of time out of my day, but it's well wroth it. Like when I take my kids to a chicken pox party, I'd rather these viruses be handled naturally in...
[21:53:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02hmm - 06Almost Half of US Businesses hit by Ransomware, Says Study - 1054 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:42] <exec> 08└─It is pretty common, but, it is not always real malware. It might be the survey (which I didn't read) counted pop-ups as "malware". Sometimes, you see pop-ups that block the screen, and claim to be ransomware, and users don't know how to deal with this, so they call the helpdesk. Had a few clients g...
[21:53:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Don't run Windoze, do regular backups, - 06Almost Half of US Businesses hit by Ransomware, Says Study - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:44] <exec> 08└─physically archive data offsite, keep recovery instructions on paper - anything I forgot?
[21:53:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Have you seen the number of 40 years olds into... - 06Disney Mix Messaging - 1486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:53:55] <exec> 08└─Disney? Be it their movies, their theme parks, or their swag, that shit is creepy as all fuck, especially given how many of them are single, poor to middle class, aren't pro-copyright, but are completely clueless as to how horrible Disney is as a company, especially in regards to expecting copyright...
[21:53:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Babysitting... - 06Disney Mix Messaging - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:53:56] <exec> 08└─How do you know there is a small minority? Are there statistics on this? Who compiles them? Every family I know with young kids having any kind of app platform or computer monitors them and badgers them about over-sharing. And most of the kids I know are pretty savvy about the issue, with at least a...
[21:54:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:good for them - 06Apple Says It's Mended the Pay Gap for Women and Minorities - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:54:07] <exec> 08└─Tsk, surely you mean the /racially diverse/ knights in management.
[21:54:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score:2) 02Re:Virtual signaling and grade school math. - 06Apple Says It's Mended the Pay Gap for Women and Minorities - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:54:16] <exec> 08└─So now you can get paid less than your colleague for not being good at negotiation AND ALSO not being a woman. Hey hey - when you introduce sexism in non-gendered problem, you fight the good war against sexism.
[21:54:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:1) 02Re:So.. - 06Apple Says It's Mended the Pay Gap for Women and Minorities - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:54:25] <exec> 08└─Doesn't apply. How did they mend it if they didn't have a problem to mend in the first place? On the other hand, the whole Misogynerd Narrative could be summed up as, “Have you stopped sexually harassing women out of tech jobs yet?”
[21:54:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:life free, use cash - 06Mastercard Armours its Contactless Cards Against Relay Attacks - 878 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:54:40] <exec> 08└─You forgot: 6) They don't know how to calculate the sales tax. You probably don't either. No it isn't a fixed percentage. 7) Most cashiers can't manually make change. A phone's calculator can at least solve this one if you get one with at least animal intelligence. But your 5) is just narrow minded...
[21:55:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:what an asshole - 06Rio 2016: Kohei Uchimura Gets £3,700 Pokemon GO Bill - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:55:56] <exec> 08└─> Helps a lot to be a celebrity. Maybe, but there are cases of non-celebrities where phone companies have made offers like that. These kind of phone bills tend to be legally questionable (in places where consumer protection laws have teeth) and really bad PR, and often so much above the actual cost...
[21:56:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03linuxrocks123 [2557] (Score:2) 02Re:endless appeals, which won't help the budget - 06Missouri Governor Fails to Fund Public Defender's Office so They Compel him to Work Cases - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:56:27] <exec> 08└─Incompetent representation is grounds for mistrial: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[21:59:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score:2) 02Re:Hah, right - 06China Says it's OK for Members of the Public to Record the Police - 813 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:59:19] <exec> 08└─They might not even do that. They said you can film, they didn't say they'd do anything about it. Much like the US -- the courts say we have a right to film. The police disagree and arrest people for it quite regularly. It's exceedingly rare for officers to be disciplined for that. And even when a p...
[22:00:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score:2) 02Re:Home business? Get business class - 06Comcast Wants to Charge for Privacy - 4000 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:00:47] <exec> 08└─I figure I'll elaborate on this, since most people have probably never had to deal with it. Also, I promise, the grumpiness of my post was aimed at satellite internet in general, not at you for mentioning it. :) The latency is the first thing you notice, so it's the one that stands out for complaint...
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[22:53:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Wake me up when success in school has much to do.. - 06Kindergarteners' Mathematics Success Hinges on Preschool Skills - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:53:33] <exec> 08└─... with success, happiness, and productivity in life. http://www.salon.com [salon.com]
[22:53:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Kindergarteners' success hinges on preschool - 06Kindergarteners' Mathematics Success Hinges on Preschool Skills - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:53:35] <exec> 08└─The overall success of a student in kindergarten is improved by preschool. That is one of the reasons why people are campaigning for universal preschool.
[22:53:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:47 Percent? - 06Almost Half of US Businesses hit by Ransomware, Says Study - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:53:49] <exec> 08└─It's because they are not rewarded/evaluated/fired based on it.
[22:53:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Don't run Windoze, do regular backups, - 06Almost Half of US Businesses hit by Ransomware, Says Study - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:53:55] <exec> 08└─Stop running as Admin every-frickin-where.
[22:56:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03zero_cool [2924] (Score:1) 02Well played - 06Missouri Governor Fails to Fund Public Defender's Office so They Compel him to Work Cases - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:56:57] <exec> 08└─Well plaid Sir! the budgetary paperwork you requested, i have signed it allready please just fill in whichever numbers you require!
[22:57:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:stupid. - 06Eerily Complete Whale Skeleton Found on Bottom of Sea - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:57:16] <exec> 08└─Yes, but he is talking about someone else, like Francis, just for example.
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[23:53:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Math class? - 06Kindergarteners' Mathematics Success Hinges on Preschool Skills - 491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:53:26] <exec> 08└─I wonder how much this depends on the manner in which math is taught to those kindergartners. I remember that during my earliest math classes we were given small physical blocks to use. The math sheets also had squares on them for those blocks. So you'd physically put e.g. 3 blocks on the sheet, the...
[23:53:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Open4D [371] (Score:2) 02Re:47 Percent? - 06Almost Half of US Businesses hit by Ransomware, Says Study - 625 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:53:42] <exec> 08└─I tend to think it should be mandatory for corporations to report most/all crimes committed against them. For minor things like untargeted malware it would give much more accurate data. And for major things like targeted DDOS blackmail, it would work against the serious social problem of corporation...
[23:53:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Don't run Windoze, do regular backups, - 06Almost Half of US Businesses hit by Ransomware, Says Study - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:53:48] <exec> 08└─These things don't require admin privileges to be effective. Anything that is in a network share is a potential target.
[23:53:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Stickers are essential. - 06Disney Mix Messaging - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:53:58] <exec> 08└─I want a flintlock sticker! How else am I going to repost Gaston?
[23:54:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Women are cheaper? - 06Apple Says It's Mended the Pay Gap for Women and Minorities - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:54:33] <exec> 08└─Not to mention the fact that every bean counter seems to forget that salary is a two-way argument. I was 16 years old the last time I had a job where the pay rate wasn't negotiable.
[23:54:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Women are cheaper? - 06Apple Says It's Mended the Pay Gap for Women and Minorities - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:54:34] <exec> 08└─Why did/do people not hire blacks for a job if they could do it? Racism does still exist in hiring to some extent.
[23:56:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:must be Obama bush Laden's fault as usual - 06Missouri Governor Fails to Fund Public Defender's Office so They Compel him to Work Cases - 517 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:56:21] <exec> 08└─1) Ok, then tax KBR for profiteering off the war instead of Halliburton. 2) Somebody made money producing from Iraq's oil wells. That somebody needs to pay. Well, more precisely, somebody did before ISIS got control of many of them, and now ISIS profits from it. The larger point is clear: If the US...
[23:56:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:must be Obama bush Laden's fault as usual - 06Missouri Governor Fails to Fund Public Defender's Office so They Compel him to Work Cases - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:56:22] <exec> 08└─translation: "The point is I was totally wrong, but I'm really angry and indignant and looking for convenient scapegoats to blame! THEM! It was all those guy's fault."