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[00:53:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Wake me up when success in school has much to d - 06Kindergarteners' Mathematics Success Hinges on Preschool Skills - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:53:31] <exec> 08└─Wake up and go check the stats on income and poverty vs scholastic level. You don't have to be good at school to be successful, but there's an indisputable correlation.
[00:53:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02What ages? - 06Kindergarteners' Mathematics Success Hinges on Preschool Skills - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:53:34] <exec> 08└─What age ranges do pre-school & kindergarten in this article cover?
[00:53:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What ages? - 06Kindergarteners' Mathematics Success Hinges on Preschool Skills - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:53:36] <exec> 08└─Preschool covers children aged 3-5, while kindergarten is ages 5-6.
[00:53:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03SacredSalt [2772] (Score:2) 02This article is astroturf from a group wanting - 06Kindergarteners' Mathematics Success Hinges on Preschool Skills - 545 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:53:38] <exec> 08└─This article is astroturf, as is the "study" from a group wanting to pass a huge cigarette tax increase in Missouri. There was no study, there was a review of what was already done, and known. Of course, our kids do just fine without it, and the real aim of this is to try to push for the cigarette t...
[00:54:00] <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 - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:54:00] <exec> 08└─That and they usually come packaged with a privilege escalation exploit anyway.
[00:54:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score:2) 02Backup only - 06Almost Half of US Businesses hit by Ransomware, Says Study - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:54:02] <exec> 08└─I take security on my personal system relatively lightly, with basic anti-virus and a heavy dose of don't talk to strangers on the internet. I do however use SpiderOak to backup in the background. Am I mistaken for thinking that a robust backup strategy mitigates the effects of these attacks? If som...
[00:54:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Already been done. - 06Apple Says It's Mended the Pay Gap for Women and Minorities - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:54:48] <exec> 08└─Citation: http://www.economist.com [economist.com] Please note: South Korea, not USA.
[00:58:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03chair [6194] (Score:1) 02Re:Compression - 06New Attack Steals SSNs, E-Mail Addresses, and More From HTTPS Pages - 659 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:58:16] <exec> 08└─In the PDF page 23 they mention disabling compression as a counter-measure, but dismiss it as an incomplete counter measure: 4.2.2 Disable compression (incomplete) HTTP responses are often served with compression (either at SSL level, or using gzip) to reduce the required bandwidth. It is a well-kno...
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[01:53:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Puerto Rico - 06Quick Summary of Zika in the U.S. - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:53:22] <exec> 08└─Puerto Rico deserves a call-out for its 5460 cases.
[01:53:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 022-Factor Auth. Is a Scam - 06NIST Recommends Against Using SMS for 2-Factor Authentication - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:53:29] <exec> 08└─The way most big sites employ it is entirely to associate accounts with real live people through phone numbers.
[01:53:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Kindergarteners' success hinges on preschool - 06Kindergarteners' Mathematics Success Hinges on Preschool Skills - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:53:39] <exec> 08└─Preschoolers' success is improved by having wealthy parents. That is one of the reasons why people are campaigning for kids to choose wealthy parents.
[01:53:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:2, Interesting) 02Re:Math class? - 06Kindergarteners' Mathematics Success Hinges on Preschool Skills - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:53:42] <exec> 08└─A proper mathematical curriculum goes from extremely concrete while dealing with arithmetic to highly abstract when dealing with higher level mathematics. One of the areas where teachers often get it wrong is going too abstract too early or waiting until calculus and then getting extremely abstract...
[01:53:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:This article is astroturf from a group wanting - 06Kindergarteners' Mathematics Success Hinges on Preschool Skills - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:53:47] <exec> 08└─> to get kids under government controls sooner Fuck you. You were making a good point until you had to bring bullshit conspiracy crap into it. Pre-K "teachers" are not secretly part of a giant secret org bound to warp kids. The most harmful thing they do in that regard is mumble fucking pledge every...
[01:53:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02time management - 06Kindergarteners' Mathematics Success Hinges on Preschool Skills - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:53:49] <exec> 08└─Maybe basic math skillz and number theory helps to "grasp" the concept of time better? Instead of each day being a repeat of the day before, the concept of "numbering" can help manage a continuity instead of a repeat? This might lead to a situation where differences are noticed more easily and thus...
[01:56:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (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)
[01:56:09] <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.
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[02:53:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Puerto Rico - 06Quick Summary of Zika in the U.S. - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:53:24] <exec> 08└─The microcephaly babies will be a great addition to our 51st state.
[02:53:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02Re:Puerto Rico - 06Quick Summary of Zika in the U.S. - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:53:25] <exec> 08└─Puerto Rico is a state now? Stupid article with stupid "facts" is stupid.
[02:53:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Offtopic) 02Why can't we use nuclear weapons? - 06Quick Summary of Zika in the U.S. - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:53:27] <exec> 08└─If we have them, why can’t we use them?
[02:53:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Sad state of affairs - 06NIST Recommends Against Using SMS for 2-Factor Authentication - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:53:36] <exec> 08└─when you can't depend on the phone system to keep your dealings private. tell you who you are talking to.
[02:53:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Killed by Voip? - 06NIST Recommends Against Using SMS for 2-Factor Authentication - 724 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:53:38] <exec> 08└─Due to the risk that SMS messages may be intercepted or redirected, implementers of new systems SHOULD carefully consider alternative authenticators. If the out of band verification is to be made using a SMS message on a public mobile telephone network, the verifier SHALL verify that the pre-registe...
[02:53:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Number portability - 06NIST Recommends Against Using SMS for 2-Factor Authentication - 1819 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:53:40] <exec> 08└─I'd guess one of the things they worry about is number portability. For example when I ported my home phone from AT&T to h2o (a MVNO reselling AT&T) nobody from AT&T called to verify the request. Helped move another number from a Net10 cellphone and again nobody called to verify. Would be interested...
[02:54:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Virtual signaling and grade school math. - 06Apple Says It's Mended the Pay Gap for Women and Minorities - 602 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:54:52] <exec> 08└─Listened to a talk show host who made a case that "women" don't have a pay gap, but "mothers" definitely have a huge pay gap. Mothers who decide that their families are more important than their careers almost always earn less than their peers, because mothers are the people who take those part time...
[02:56:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:I'll download it... - 06DOJ to Require Changes to Music Royalty Collection - 943 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:56:20] <exec> 08└─So, the fact that a third party might be able to get the papers for him makes the GP's complaints all go away? Let us presume that he's doing important, legitimate research, on his own electronic device. Is the library going to permit him to download multiple papers onto his own device? Not likely....
[02:56:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:I'll download it... - 06DOJ to Require Changes to Music Royalty Collection - 869 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:56:23] <exec> 08└─Personally, "artist" means some person with a paint brush, or charcoal, or pencils - something with which he creates images on paper, canvas, or some media which has some durability, and can be physically transferred to another person. I acknowledge that music is an art form, but I call musicians "m...
[02:56:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I'll download it... - 06DOJ to Require Changes to Music Royalty Collection - 576 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:56:25] <exec> 08└─Yes, but the thing is that ASCAP and company supposedly collect on the behalf of more than musicians. They also collect for composers, and they collect for songwriters, and so on. So it's kind of stupid to say, every time: We work for long list of occupations instead of artists. Similarly, do you, e...
[02:57:07] <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 - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:57:08] <exec> 08└─I hope they didn't forget any registered lawyers in the state legislature.
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[03:53:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Puerto Rico - 06Quick Summary of Zika in the U.S. - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:53:36] <exec> 08└─The article doesn't call Puerto Rico a state, but lumps it in with the other colonies, where there have been far fewer cases.
[03:53:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why can't we use nuclear weapons? - 06Quick Summary of Zika in the U.S. - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:53:39] <exec> 08└─Shut the fuck up, donnie.
[03:54:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Kindergarteners' success hinges on preschool - 06Kindergarteners' Mathematics Success Hinges on Preschool Skills - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:54:00] <exec> 08└─The College Board and the Educational Testing Service have developed the Kindergarten Admission Test. This new tool can help kindergarten admissions boards choose applicants who are likely to succeed in kindergarten.
[03:55:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score:2) 02Re:Virtual signaling and grade school math. - 06Apple Says It's Mended the Pay Gap for Women and Minorities - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:55:04] <exec> 08└─The easy proof: If women are paid less, why does anyone hire men?
[03:57:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score:2) 02Re:Funny situation - 06Missouri Governor Fails to Fund Public Defender's Office so They Compel him to Work Cases - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:57:34] <exec> 08└─I don't think I have ever, once in my lifetime observed an American who give a flying fuck about liberty except maybe on the TV. I hate America because Americans hate my freedoms.
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[04:53:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02Re:Killed by Voip? - 06NIST Recommends Against Using SMS for 2-Factor Authentication - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:53:55] <exec> 08└─Apparently they were prepared to accept it as long as SMS traveled via SS7 [wikipedia.org], the side channel that cell systems us to tell your handset a call is arriving. Phone companies used to jealously guard this channel, and charge blood for a text message because it used this signaling channel...
[04:53:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02Re:Killed by Voip? - 06NIST Recommends Against Using SMS for 2-Factor Authentication - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:53:57] <exec> 08└─I really wish I could edit a post within a minute or two of submitting it. Or get better with the preview button.
[04:54:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score:2) 02Stating the obvious much? - 06Kindergarteners' Mathematics Success Hinges on Preschool Skills - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:54:17] <exec> 08└─Isn't it just logical that understanding the language and concepts associated with math correlate with an aptitude for math?
[04:54:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:47 Percent? - 06Almost Half of US Businesses hit by Ransomware, Says Study - 564 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:54:33] <exec> 08└─Fire an employee for what is perceived as an honest mistake that anyone could make by other employees and watch yourself having a very hard time retaining any employees. Employees are expensive to replace and you don't want to encourage them to quit. This should be done with a whole lot of care if y...
[04:56:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score:2) 02Re:Cray still exists? - 06Cray Profits Literally Go Up in Smoke After Electrical Incident - 1026 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:56:14] <exec> 08└─For some classes of problems nothing else but a bespoke supercomputer will do. If you're doing something like, say, trying to find solutions to a lattice quantum chromodynamics problem, or for a massively high resolution finite element method problem, or trying to use the general number field sieve...
[04:56:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score:2) 02Re:I'll download it... - 06DOJ to Require Changes to Music Royalty Collection - 505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:56:47] <exec> 08└─What about the case when you have a poet teaming up with a musician to create the art? Shit, Jim Morrison always referred to himself as a poet. As art, musicianship and poetry have a lot of overlap but are still considered separate forms of art. Then there are bands like Pink Floyd whose art consist...
[04:57:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 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)
[04:57:25] <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...
[04:58:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Link to actual video - 06Eerily Complete Whale Skeleton Found on Bottom of Sea - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:58:23] <exec> 08└─ლ) whale fall link fail! thx for fixing it.
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[05:53:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Snapchat-ing about cord cutting - 06ESPN Airs the National Drone Racing Championships - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:53:32] <exec> 08└─They generally don't bother to subscribe to old-fashioned cable.
[05:53:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score:2) 02Why ESPN.... - 06ESPN Airs the National Drone Racing Championships - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:53:33] <exec> 08└─As much as I want drone racing to be a thing, I do not want to support ESPN.
[05:53:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02AllSafe - 06Game Over Security Researchers - DARPA's AI Bug Hunters Are Coming for Your Jobs - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:53:41] <exec> 08└─Bon soir Elliot. Security researchers are script kiddies all grown up and collecting a paycheck. Bad news dude. No more paycheck. Move back in your mother. I have enormous respect for those folks.
[05:53:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Federal Funding - 06Game Over Security Researchers - DARPA's AI Bug Hunters Are Coming for Your Jobs - 888 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:53:43] <exec> 08└─You'll receive the federal funding You can add another wing You'll receive the federal funding You can add another wing Take your colleagues out to dinner Pay your brother to come and sing Take your colleagues out to dinner Pay your brother to come and sing Sing, sing, sing You'll receive the federa...
[05:54:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Math class? - 06Kindergarteners' Mathematics Success Hinges on Preschool Skills - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:54:20] <exec> 08└─It wouldn't need to be so abstract if they integrated programming into the classes.
[05:54:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Stating the obvious much? - 06Kindergarteners' Mathematics Success Hinges on Preschool Skills - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:54:27] <exec> 08└─Isn't it just logical that shooting sticky white goodies into your raw hole and fertilizing your feces results in feces babies?
[05:55:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02pedobear paradise - 06Disney Mix Messaging - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:55:07] <exec> 08└─party!
[05:55:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score:2) 02Re:life free, use cash - 06Mastercard Armours its Contactless Cards Against Relay Attacks - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:55:53] <exec> 08└─5 USD minimum? Where the fuck do you live? Over here it's 1 USD minimum and that's reasonable. When was the last time you bought something under 1 USD?
[05:58:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:Link to actual video - 06Eerily Complete Whale Skeleton Found on Bottom of Sea - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:58:36] <exec> 08└─Thank you
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[06:53:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Honey Badger? - 06Netflix Glitch Puts Aziz Ansari Stand-Up Subtitles Over Nature Documentary, Hilarity Ensues - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:53:32] <exec> 08└─Because Honey Badger doesn't care.
[06:54:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Why can't we use nuclear weapons? - 06Quick Summary of Zika in the U.S. - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:54:01] <exec> 08└─Shut the fuck up, donnie.
[06:54:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score:1) 02Re:Killed by Voip? - 06NIST Recommends Against Using SMS for 2-Factor Authentication - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:54:13] <exec> 08└─I really wish I could edit a post within a minute or two of submitting it.
[06:54:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:This article is astroturf from a group wanting - 06Kindergarteners' Mathematics Success Hinges on Preschool Skills - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:54:34] <exec> 08└─Learning which hand to doodle with is bad. The only thing which should be done is to encourage children to try both hands, so they find out which one they are better with.
[06:59:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:IMSAI 8080 - 06Portion of Gary Kildall's Memoir Made Public - 752 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:59:06] <exec> 08└─The last thing I had bought for my IMSAI was a pair of CALCOMP100 8 inch drives, and an FD1771 controller. That was when I was finally giving into commercial software ( aka CP/M ). No sooner than I finally had that beast functional, the company I worked for at the time got one of the first IBM PC's...
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[07:53:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02What about their.... - 06ESPN Airs the National Drone Racing Championships - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:53:36] <exec> 08└─20-30 year old umbilical cords? Or are those just phone chargers they forgot to disconnect as they walked away?
[07:53:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Might be a good thing - 06Game Over Security Researchers - DARPA's AI Bug Hunters Are Coming for Your Jobs - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:53:46] <exec> 08└─If bug-finding is automated, there will be no excuse for bugs^wback doors in production code.
[07:54:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This article is astroturf from a group wanting - 06Kindergarteners' Mathematics Success Hinges on Preschool Skills - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:54:33] <exec> 08└─I believe a claim like you just made needs a citation. Here's one, but googling "cigarette tax Missouri preschool" gets quite a few. http://www.kansascity.com [kansascity.com]
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[07:54:53] <exec> 08└─In a way, I am happy to see that at least businesses are becoming aware of the cesspool of malware out there. It is so frustrating to try to talk to a business about their communication models when all the businessman knows about is what was in the package of sales tools provided by some vendor. It...
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[07:55:03] <exec> 08└─For your back-ups to be safe, they must be "off-line". Not sure spider Oak meets that criterion.
[07:55:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:Stickers are essential. - 06Disney Mix Messaging - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:55:14] <exec> 08└─I gotta admit I had to read the summary several times, as I was getting some sort of vertigo parsing it. sharing stickers and more, says Disney.
[07:56:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:uh-oh I'm streaming music right now - 06DOJ to Require Changes to Music Royalty Collection - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:56:51] <exec> 08└─Actually, I got those numbers using the standard Thetford analysis ( derived from the Stetson-Harrison method ). My numbers are the result of observation where I always seem to see one guy with a shovel in his hand, and five supervisors watching him.
[07:57:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:I'll download it... - 06DOJ to Require Changes to Music Royalty Collection - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:57:15] <exec> 08└─Personally, "artist" means some person with a paint brush, or charcoal, or pencils - something with which he creates images on paper, canvas, or some media which has some durability, and can be physically transferred to another person.
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[08:53:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02same Amazon as Elastic Compute Cloud - 06Amazon Gets its Own Branded Air Cargo Plane With 39 More to Follow - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:53:30] <exec> 08└─The Cloud is literally in the clouds now?
[08:53:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Netflix, Reddit, Facebook - 06Netflix Glitch Puts Aziz Ansari Stand-Up Subtitles Over Nature Documentary, Hilarity Ensues - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:53:38] <exec> 08└─The trifecta of trendy shit for fucking idiots. The real news is morons even noticed the glitch.
[08:53:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Might be a good thing - 06Game Over Security Researchers - DARPA's AI Bug Hunters Are Coming for Your Jobs - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:53:56] <exec> 08└─Backdoors will be ignored by automated bug-finding, rockstar coders will learn to code all their bugs to pass inspection, and nothing will fucking change.
[08:54:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Re:Puerto Rico - 06Quick Summary of Zika in the U.S. - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:54:08] <exec> 08└─the U.S. territories of Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and American Samoa.
[08:54:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:Kindergarteners' success hinges on preschool - 06Kindergarteners' Mathematics Success Hinges on Preschool Skills - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:54:37] <exec> 08└─they are also certifying trainers to aid people in enabling their children to excel in these kindergarten admissions boards so they can get into the kindergarten of their choice.
[08:57:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I'll download it... - 06DOJ to Require Changes to Music Royalty Collection - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:57:16] <exec> 08└─Elton John's hat and glasses... and Kiss all painted up.
[08:57:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I'll download it... - 06DOJ to Require Changes to Music Royalty Collection - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:57:28] <exec> 08└─Even a "con-artist" is an artist. Albeit creative, I do not much enjoy his art.
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[09:53:35] <exec> 08└─Some of the photos have distortions on them that don't seem to affect the subtitles. The only distortion I see on the subtitles are JPEG compression artifacts, not the line and dot patterns that are on the rest of the image, including white areas. This could mean the subtitles were added after the p...
[09:53:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score:2) 02Re:Why ESPN.... - 06ESPN Airs the National Drone Racing Championships - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:53:45] <exec> 08└─Only if you are talking about US Military/TLA drones. "Race 12 times around this 24 km track, and feel free to blow the other suckers out of the sky." I'd probably watch that.
[09:53:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03n1 [993] (Score:2) 02Re:Why ESPN.... - 06ESPN Airs the National Drone Racing Championships - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:53:47] <exec> 08└─why do you want drone racing to be a thing?
[09:53:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Federal Funding - 06Game Over Security Researchers - DARPA's AI Bug Hunters Are Coming for Your Jobs - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:53:57] <exec> 08└─For the musically uninclined, what tune goes with it?
[09:55:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Versioning filesystem? - 06Almost Half of US Businesses hit by Ransomware, Says Study - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:55:18] <exec> 08└─Couldn't such thing be solved by a versioning filesystem (every filesystem write is a new version, versions are retained and can be rolled back)? Like git, but then for filesystems no every write. Ransomware encrypts file... restore to previous "version".
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[10:54:02] <exec> 08└─Security problem detected: NSA backdoor missing.
[10:57:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Re:I'll download it... - 06DOJ to Require Changes to Music Royalty Collection - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:57:36] <exec> 08└─Also, I'm a stickler for this: Musicians should be called "musicians", and what they make should be called "music". We're not "artists" producing "content". I'm not entirely sure when that changed happened
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[11:54:30] <exec> 08└─especially if the user can't be talked into buying a security token or even installing a frickin' free (F-Droid, Google Play, Apple App Store) app like FreeOTP (formerly Google Authenticator).
[11:55:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Versioning filesystem? - 06Almost Half of US Businesses hit by Ransomware, Says Study - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:55:23] <exec> 08└─Sure, check out btrfs for a similar setup. But, understand, these businesses are all running Windows, so anything like competent, flexible, useful software is just not available.
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[12:53:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Who Killed Jade Rabbit? - 06Jade Rabbit: China's Moon Rover Dies - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:53:31] <exec> 08└─So who killed Jade Rabbit?
[12:54:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Number portability - 06NIST Recommends Against Using SMS for 2-Factor Authentication - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:54:38] <exec> 08└─> ... for my debit card, ... Am I missing something here? When a card is needed instead of cash (eg., renting a car effectively requires a card), I thought debit cards were to be avoided and credit cards were the way to go?
[12:55:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score:2) 02Re:47 Percent? - 06Almost Half of US Businesses hit by Ransomware, Says Study - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:55:19] <exec> 08└─Bravo - good comment. The insidious thing about malware is that is sneaks up and catches people unawares by its very design. I'd wager that getting infected by malware is almost always an "honest mistake". I certainly agree with you that firing people in such a capricious manner would be counter-pro...
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[13:53:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Could be worse - 06The Developer Died 14 Years Ago, Here's a Print Out of His Source Code - 2258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:53:25] <exec> 08└─As someone who has (and currently is) working full time freelancer, I can sympathize with Earl. Some clients are remarkably poor at providing people with what they need to successfully do the job. I had a more recent version of this involving development with VNC due to lack of hardware at previous...
[13:53:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03driven [6295] (Score:1) 02Take them to court - 06The Developer Died 14 Years Ago, Here's a Print Out of His Source Code - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:53:27] <exec> 08└─For that amount of money, I'd be taking them to small claims court. Hopefully Earl has his case well documented.
[13:53:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Spam) 02Cool story, brah - 06The Developer Died 14 Years Ago, Here's a Print Out of His Source Code - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:53:29] <exec> 08└─No, really, interesting one.
[13:53:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03PizzaRollPlinkett [4512] (Score:2) 02a Novell NetWare Admin - 06The Developer Died 14 Years Ago, Here's a Print Out of His Source Code - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:53:31] <exec> 08└─Ya think? A company which hasn't upgraded anything since the 1990s might be cheap? And they stiffed him the $5k? Wow ... "a Pascal compiler could cross-compile for NetWare" ... surely he could get Turbo Pascal 7 off of a warez site or something? I mean, tools of that period aren't hard to find.
[13:53:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re:a Novell NetWare Admin - 06The Developer Died 14 Years Ago, Here's a Print Out of His Source Code - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:53:33] <exec> 08└─NW was an unusual beast. Very little supports NLM, and I've never heard turbo pascal support it. I won't be surprised if the compiler was niehg impossible to find.
[13:53:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score:2) 02Re:Who Killed Jade Rabbit? - 06Jade Rabbit: China's Moon Rover Dies - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:53:42] <exec> 08└─Roger? Judge Doom? Disney? Longing for his insane hot cartoon wife back on earth?
[13:53:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03driven [6295] (Score:1) 02Secrecy? - 06Jade Rabbit: China's Moon Rover Dies - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:53:44] <exec> 08└─I found this kind of interesting... According to Chinese space agency releases best images ever taken of the Moon's surface [independent.co.uk]: Unlike Nasa or the European Space Agency, which release images and data from around the universe on a daily basis, the China National Space Administration...
[13:55:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Wake me up when success in school has much to d - 06Kindergarteners' Mathematics Success Hinges on Preschool Skills - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:55:01] <exec> 08└─Correlation does not prove causation... The same well-fed kids living in secure homes do better either in school, homeschool, or life.
[13:55:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Kindergarteners' success hinges on preschool - 06Kindergarteners' Mathematics Success Hinges on Preschool Skills - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:55:04] <exec> 08└─I'd want my kids to choose wealthy parents!
[13:55:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02JT Gatto on "Schooling is a form of adoption" - 06Kindergarteners' Mathematics Success Hinges on Preschool Skills - 3957 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:55:16] <exec> 08└─From what the "NYS Teacher of the Year" said here: https://web.archive.org [archive.org] Schooling is a form of adoption. You give your kid up in his or her most plastic years to a group of strangers. You accept a promise, sometimes stated...
[13:57:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:I'll download it... - 06DOJ to Require Changes to Music Royalty Collection - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:57:57] <exec> 08└─Artists have to move past copyright
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[14:53:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I would like to know the recourse - 06The Developer Died 14 Years Ago, Here's a Print Out of His Source Code - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:53:34] <exec> 08└─I'm working a job now where I've put in a enormous amount of hours and at the end the problem is with the training of the personnel. They don't see it that way and I fear that they will not pay the bill. To make matters worse they still call in the old tech to 'fix' things and he is making a lot of...
[14:53:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02At least his sanity is still intact - 06The Developer Died 14 Years Ago, Here's a Print Out of His Source Code - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:53:35] <exec> 08└─Welcome again to On-Call, our Friday wallow in jobs that are nastier than yours.
[14:53:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03toygeek [28] (Score:2) 02Same sentiment, different arena - 06The Developer Died 14 Years Ago, Here's a Print Out of His Source Code - 885 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:53:38] <exec> 08└─I do computer repair on the side, have for a long time. For a while I trolled on Craigslist for jobs, but no more- the clientele were too far out for me. Case in point: Lady says her laptops are "hacked" and needs them fixed. She has two or three of them. I get to the location (her house) and the la...
[14:54:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Constructed? - 06Netflix Glitch Puts Aziz Ansari Stand-Up Subtitles Over Nature Documentary, Hilarity Ensues - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:54:03] <exec> 08└─And the photographer would have to be very alert to catch them.
[14:54:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Happy Accident - 06Netflix Glitch Puts Aziz Ansari Stand-Up Subtitles Over Nature Documentary, Hilarity Ensues - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:04] <exec> 08└─Ansari should be thankful - it's the closest he's come to actually being funny.
[14:55:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Math class? - 06Kindergarteners' Mathematics Success Hinges on Preschool Skills - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:55:15] <exec> 08└─Not really, all that does is introduce a great amount of inefficiency into the classroom. The same basic people that find abstract mathematics hard are the people who find programming hard. Adding additional programming into the classroom environment doesn't add anything that properly taught math wo...
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[15:53:37] <exec> 08└─I used to work for a call center that regularly had customers default on $1k+ bills. I don't think there's a lot you can do other than sell it off to a collections agency. You do have everything you did, what you were asked to do, and the expectations you communicated to them documented and signed o...
[15:53:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:At least his sanity is still intact - 06The Developer Died 14 Years Ago, Here's a Print Out of His Source Code - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:53:39] <exec> 08└─Heh. Call center AC here. One of the things I remember was that we weren't allowed to open notepad or calc even though those would have been incredibly helpful. Co-worker nearly got fired for using notepad to keep track of details about his caller's problem instead of using scrap paper. I think I ca...
[15:53:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Ah, memories! - 06The Developer Died 14 Years Ago, Here's a Print Out of His Source Code - 2043 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:53:42] <exec> 08└─I was working for a <10 person consulting company, and a competitor's customer was expressing interest in switching to our product. But they wanted to see our product working on their server with their data first. One of our developers went to their site to set up the system. He asked for a tape wit...
[15:53:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Who Killed Jade Rabbit? - 06Jade Rabbit: China's Moon Rover Dies - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:53:52] <exec> 08└─Just recharge it, that's what I do when my Jade Rabbit dies.http://www.ebay.com/itm/SensualHut-Magic-Wand-Massager-Kit-Vibrator-Dildo-Jade-Rabbit-Wand-Attachment-/261486051785/ [ebay.com] ;-)
[15:54:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03jcross [4009] (Score:2) 02Re:Constructed? - 06Netflix Glitch Puts Aziz Ansari Stand-Up Subtitles Over Nature Documentary, Hilarity Ensues - 543 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:54:11] <exec> 08└─You're probably right, but I notice there's less color moire patterning toward the bottom of the screen in general. And of course areas with high spatial frequency are going to encode differently. Also the text is presumably not moving while the background is, so inter-frame artifacts will show on t...
[15:54:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Locale corruption - 06Netflix Glitch Puts Aziz Ansari Stand-Up Subtitles Over Nature Documentary, Hilarity Ensues - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:14] <exec> 08└─A while back I filed a bug report with NetFlix. My son and I use different "personalities" on the same account. He started watching a bunch of anime with English subtitles. Then, about half the menus on MY personality (like show descriptions) started displaying in Japanese despite ensuring that my p...
[15:54:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03rts008 [3001] (Score:2) 02Fonzi Olympics... - 06ESPN Airs the National Drone Racing Championships - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:26] <exec> 08└─Drone racing? What's next, shark jumping?
[15:54:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Federal Funding - 06Game Over Security Researchers - DARPA's AI Bug Hunters Are Coming for Your Jobs - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:54:37] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phHe6aNcocQ [youtube.com]
[15:54:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Um - 06Quick Summary of Zika in the U.S. - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:56] <exec> 08└─1,817 cases
[15:55:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:Number portability - 06NIST Recommends Against Using SMS for 2-Factor Authentication - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:55:13] <exec> 08└─Debit cards don't work for car rentals. Ask me how I know. :P Credit card companies (banks) like it that way. With debit cards, you are not going into debt with every purchase. That is why you pay the fees instead of the merchant.
[15:55:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:Number portability - 06NIST Recommends Against Using SMS for 2-Factor Authentication - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:55:15] <exec> 08└─That may explain why I was not able to port my number from diamondcard.us: it had stopped working. That was why I was switching providers!
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[16:53:27] <exec> 08└─> Panelists did not detect differences in color, aroma, taste or aftertaste between the products. http://i.imgur.com [imgur.com]
[16:53:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimios [201] (Score:2) 02If you can't innovate, litigate - 06Blackberry Enters a New Era, Files 105-Page Patent Lawsuit Against Avaya - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:53:34] <exec> 08└─The writing has been on the wall for a while now. RIP Blackberry, disinfect the needles less you become another SCO.
[16:53:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NCommander [2] 02Could be worse - 06The Developer Died 14 Years Ago, Here's a Print Out of His Source Code - 2258 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:53:42] <exec> 08└─As someone who has (and currently is) working full time freelancer, I can sympathize with Earl. Some clients are remarkably poor at providing people with what they need to successfully do the job. I had a more recent version of this involving development with VNC due to lack of hardware at previous...
[16:53:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:a Novell NetWare Admin - 06The Developer Died 14 Years Ago, Here's a Print Out of His Source Code - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:53:48] <exec> 08└─A company which hasn't upgraded anything since the 1990s might be cheap? And they stiffed him the $5k?
[16:53:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ah, memories! - 06The Developer Died 14 Years Ago, Here's a Print Out of His Source Code - 867 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:53:56] <exec> 08└─Our place has been bitten by that scam before. That is why we bring a new computer to show off our systems and copy data over. We also have sign offs and waivers and never do anything they should. Need to back up the system first? Ask one of them to do it and sign off that they did or that they acce...
[16:54:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Who Killed Jade Rabbit? - 06Jade Rabbit: China's Moon Rover Dies - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:54:07] <exec> 08└─So who killed Jade Rabbit?
[16:54:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02chinese pirate dvds too - 06Netflix Glitch Puts Aziz Ansari Stand-Up Subtitles Over Nature Documentary, Hilarity Ensues - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:29] <exec> 08└─sometimes you get subtitles for a completely different film.
[16:54:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anne Nonymous [712] (Score:2) 02Late to the party - 06ESPN Airs the National Drone Racing Championships - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:42] <exec> 08└─C-SPAN has been doing this for years.
[16:55:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02the new HIV - 06Quick Summary of Zika in the U.S. - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:55:12] <exec> 08└─The Zika virus is rapidly becoming the HIV of our time. The difference is that instead of killing you, it just kills your chance of productive procreation. I think the not cancelling the Olympic games in Rio is going to seen as the tipping point for the Zika virus because with so many infected hosts...
[16:56:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anne Nonymous [712] (Score:2) 02So... - 06Disney Mix Messaging - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:56:46] <exec> 08└─Disney is encouraging us to send mixed messages?
[16:57:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02Re:So.. - 06Apple Says It's Mended the Pay Gap for Women and Minorities - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:57:14] <exec> 08└─When did you stop beating your wife?
[16:58:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02Re:I'll download it... - 06DOJ to Require Changes to Music Royalty Collection - 1295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:58:40] <exec> 08└─> Copyright is what allows me to say that someone can't (legally) take stuff I created and pawn it off as their own. No, copyright wasn't for stopping plagiarism, it is exactly what its name says, the right to make copies, no more. When you sell your copyright, your name still stays on your creation...
[16:59:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02only if you are famous - 06Rio 2016: Kohei Uchimura Gets £3,700 Pokemon GO Bill - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:11] <exec> 08└─remember, if you can generate sufficient bad PR for your company, they'll be sure to treat you right. however, you are a regular nobody, you better believe you are paying that bill in full.
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[17:53:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Moar nasty stuff please - 06Rapid Heating of Milk Can Extend Shelf Life By Weeks - 532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:53:17] <exec> 08└─This sounds interesting. Its probably also possible to scale it up just as easy as industrial scale pasteurization . But I's like to see more tests with a whole lot more infectious agents that a couple tame lab bacteria strains. There is a lot more stuff floating around in milk, some bad, some highl...
[17:53:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03mtrycz [60] (Score:2) 02from the isn't-this-just-uht-milk? dept. - 06Rapid Heating of Milk Can Extend Shelf Life By Weeks - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:53:19] <exec> 08└─So it's like UHT, but without the taste alteration? I'm kinda sold.
[17:53:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jeremiah Cornelius [2785] (Score:2) 02Re:If you can't innovate, litigate - 06Blackberry Enters a New Era, Files 105-Page Patent Lawsuit Against Avaya - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:53:28] <exec> 08└─EXACTLY what I was just about to comment. RIM is the new SCO.
[17:53:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score:2) 02Re:If you can't innovate, litigate - 06Blackberry Enters a New Era, Files 105-Page Patent Lawsuit Against Avaya - 913 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:53:30] <exec> 08└─I think a good difference is that old blackberry products are still useful if you keep within the context of what they are used for. I just bought one off ebay to replace an older smartphone of mine, and it works fantastically for this purpose. I get emails, MMS, SMS, IM clients, can make calls, can...
[17:53:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:If you can't innovate, litigate - 06Blackberry Enters a New Era, Files 105-Page Patent Lawsuit Against Avaya - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:53:32] <exec> 08└─Yeah, But how is that different than any other obsolete phone? I have an ancient iphone I use only as a Sip handset. The only thing Blackberry ever had going for them was their encrypted message service, and once they started handing those keys over to every government on earth their only claim to f...
[17:53:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02No graceful exit - 06Blackberry Enters a New Era, Files 105-Page Patent Lawsuit Against Avaya - 843 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:53:35] <exec> 08└─It's a shame that no graceful exit is possible. Blackberry lost the initiative to competitors, and it has been clear for a few year now that the company is dead. It's just too big - like a dinosaur - and the message hasn't reached the brain yet. So now they are trying to monetize their IP, before al...
[17:53:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jeremiah Cornelius [2785] (Score:2) 02Re:No graceful exit - 06Blackberry Enters a New Era, Files 105-Page Patent Lawsuit Against Avaya - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:53:37] <exec> 08└─But!? What about the need for a chicklet QWERTY!
[17:53:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:No graceful exit - 06Blackberry Enters a New Era, Files 105-Page Patent Lawsuit Against Avaya - 659 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:53:39] <exec> 08└─Exactly. All we got left is lawyers, let's sic em on those other bastards. A lot of this reads like other "with a computer" patents. (Seems to me Nortel did most of the telephone over IP work in the latter half of the Pleistocene.) And suing someone for using am encryption standard published by the...
[17:53:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score:2) 02Re:Could be worse - 06The Developer Died 14 Years Ago, Here's a Print Out of His Source Code - 1395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:53:49] <exec> 08└─I still have my Novell 3.12 server operational (although.. it's not particularly fast in modern terms). It is on a Cyrix 5x86 120mhz processor; about the speed of a pentium 90 or 100 in comparison. 4 IDE drives were used as the mountable file share. For the network file share speed, it was definitel...
[17:54:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ah, memories! - 06The Developer Died 14 Years Ago, Here's a Print Out of His Source Code - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:54:01] <exec> 08└─Indeed, and always always make sure there are no problems on the customer hardware prior to daring to touch it beyond more than log review. They often won't let you just reboot servers to see if they come back up... but no one should have a problem letting you look at logs. If they don't know how to...
[17:54:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03CirclesInSand [2899] (Score:2) 02Suspicious - 06The Developer Died 14 Years Ago, Here's a Print Out of His Source Code - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:54:03] <exec> 08└─Earl tells The Register the client owes him about US$5,000.00 for his time and is showing no signs of paying up.
[17:55:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score:2) 02Re:Might be a good thing - 06Game Over Security Researchers - DARPA's AI Bug Hunters Are Coming for Your Jobs - 607 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:55:03] <exec> 08└─I dunno, it sounds to me the perfect hardware to find, exploit, and prevent appropriate closure of holes by providing a trojan horse in the guise of patching, automatically, has been developed for use by the government. We will still need security researchers in the private sector, because this tool...
[17:55:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score:2) 02Re:Number portability - 06NIST Recommends Against Using SMS for 2-Factor Authentication - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:55:37] <exec> 08└─Am I missing something here?
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[18:53:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Just A Few - 06Robocalling Scourge May Not be Unstoppable After All - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:53:29] <exec> 08└─We don't need to catch them all. If we publicly hang the first few we catch the rest will probably close up shop quickly. And before the naysayers start squawking "due process!" we'll let them call a lawyer but only from one of their fake phone numbers. It's not our fault if no-one answers.
[18:53:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03rts008 [3001] (Score:2) 02Re:Just A Few - 06Robocalling Scourge May Not be Unstoppable After All - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:53:30] <exec> 08└─This is one time I would not be opposed to drone strikes. ;-) Reminds me of playing Fallout, and the encounter with the spammer being attacked by the crowd. I just sat back and watched, amused. Of course, I looted the corpse when all was said and done. :-)
[18:53:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re: from the isn't-this-just-uht-milk? dept. - 06Rapid Heating of Milk Can Extend Shelf Life By Weeks - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:53:41] <exec> 08└─I thought it was odd that the only taste comparison was to normally pasteurized milk. Nobody in this day and age knows what milk really tastes like.
[18:53:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score:2) 02probably lysing.. - 06Rapid Heating of Milk Can Extend Shelf Life By Weeks - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:53:43] <exec> 08└─this is probably a lysing effect - the bacteria in question is not equipped to adapt. Try ecoli, it has evolved to survive being dropped in acid and then dilution into the gut!!
[18:53:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Re:No graceful exit - 06Blackberry Enters a New Era, Files 105-Page Patent Lawsuit Against Avaya - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:53:56] <exec> 08└─Apparently those of us who like to type aren't all that far away from laptops and desktops.
[18:54:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Could be worse - 06The Developer Died 14 Years Ago, Here's a Print Out of His Source Code - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:54:08] <exec> 08└─NetWare as a server side platform was a very very strange beast. In terms of programming, it was very much like DOS with Win 3.1 multitasking schematics. The entire thing ran in Ring 0, and NLMs basically linked right into the kernel. To get a working NetWare server, you had to link a special kernel...
[18:54:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re:Could be worse - 06The Developer Died 14 Years Ago, Here's a Print Out of His Source Code - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:54:09] <exec> 08└─YOu know, thinking about this, I wonder of TFA is getting more than a few details wrong. An accounting app on NetWare does seem kinda ... odd, esp, considering its written in a language that isn't generally used for dev on NetWare.
[18:54:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score:2) 02Re:Could be worse - 06The Developer Died 14 Years Ago, Here's a Print Out of His Source Code - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:54:11] <exec> 08└─Reminds me of a story I read many years ago. Server 54 where are you ? http://www.theregister.co.uk [theregister.co.uk]
[18:54:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score:2) 02I Could Have Been Worse... - 06The Developer Died 14 Years Ago, Here's a Print Out of His Source Code - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:26] <exec> 08└─The developer, it turned out, had died in 2001. But the source code was in the company safe … on about 2000 pages of dot matrix printer paper.
[18:54:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Andrew S. Tanenbaum Says - 06Amazon Gets its Own Branded Air Cargo Plane With 39 More to Follow - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:54:46] <exec> 08└─Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway. Weren't The Rolling Stones the first band to have their logo on an airplane? Or was that Led Zeppelin?
[18:55:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Gibson? - 06Game Over Security Researchers - DARPA's AI Bug Hunters Are Coming for Your Jobs - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:55:29] <exec> 08└─One find oneself reminded of how in either Neuromancer or Count Zero there was a mention of how AIs were writing all the attack and defense code (usually on behalf of nations), because human programmers could not keep up.
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[19:53:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Re:Just A Few - 06Robocalling Scourge May Not be Unstoppable After All - 483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:53:28] <exec> 08└─As a resident naysayer, there is due process and there is due process :) Criminal sanctions isn't really the way to address this (it's an economic problem. You solve it through economic means). What you really want is to freeze credit assets, drying up cash flow, making the business unprofitable. Th...
[19:53:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Just A Few - 06Robocalling Scourge May Not be Unstoppable After All - 1339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:53:29] <exec> 08└─We don't necessarily need to catch any of them to get this to stop. What we need to do is start fining the telecoms that profit off of this. As it is most of those calls are using spoofed numbers rather than real numbers or just the usual masking. I've even gotten calls that were purported to be fro...
[19:53:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Great! - 06Robocalling Scourge May Not be Unstoppable After All - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:32] <exec> 08└─the researchers were able to obtain a fingerprint of each different call center.
[19:53:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:3, Insightful) 02This is a problem "they" don't want fixed - 06Robocalling Scourge May Not be Unstoppable After All - 1173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:34] <exec> 08└─Think about it, the phone companies see these call centers as valuable customers so they run cover for them while their pet politicians allow it. Think two seconds about it and it is obvious this problem could be eliminated in a month if the powers that be actually cared. Establish a * code to repor...
[19:53:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This is a problem "they" don't want fixed - 06Robocalling Scourge May Not be Unstoppable After All - 982 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:53:36] <exec> 08└─The problem is that the government is too busy going after the easy people to go after, namely, the victimless criminals. The war on drugs is designed to create 'criminals' that are easy to go after so that you can hire more law enforcement and proclaim that you are doing something constructive. Now...
[19:53:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Moar nasty stuff please - 06Rapid Heating of Milk Can Extend Shelf Life By Weeks - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:53:46] <exec> 08└─What (if any) damage does this process induce?
[19:53:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03blackhawk [5275] (Score:2) 02Re: from the isn't-this-just-uht-milk? dept. - 06Rapid Heating of Milk Can Extend Shelf Life By Weeks - 542 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:53:51] <exec> 08└─Apparently you can buy milk that hasn't been pasteurised at some shops, but it's sold as a beauty product or similar, since it's not legal here in Oz to sell it as food. Still, if you want to taste real milk, it's not that hard to do so. I'd be happy just to have the old fatty milk of my childhood b...
[19:53:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Is Wal-Mart selling this stuff? - 06Rapid Heating of Milk Can Extend Shelf Life By Weeks - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:54] <exec> 08└─A couple of months ago I was in walmart and saw some really expensive milk ($6.50/gallon) that had expiration dates 2 months out. The label had a bunch of stuff about being organic. I bought a couple because I was about to go in for surgery and wouldn't be able to get back to the grocery for over a...
[19:54:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Similiar... - 06The Developer Died 14 Years Ago, Here's a Print Out of His Source Code - 2396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:54:30] <exec> 08└─Last two jobs were a Win 7 box somebody had legally or illegally upgraded to Win 7 Ultimate from Home Basic I think it was. Long story short it now defaulted to Aero, resulting in them thinking it had a virus. Switch Aero off, OMG it was so fast! Turned out it had an HD3000 IGP in it. Not very fast,...
[19:55:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score:2) 02Re:Might be a good thing - 06Game Over Security Researchers - DARPA's AI Bug Hunters Are Coming for Your Jobs - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:55:37] <exec> 08└─More likely they'll only report a few hard to exploit bugs publicly (to insure funding) while giving all the easy to exploit bugs to the NSA and Homeland for use against US citizens. Remember the days when it was the Russians and Chinese you had to worry about trying to get into your data? Those wer...
[19:57:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03useless [426] 02So.. - 06Apple Says It's Mended the Pay Gap for Women and Minorities - 112 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:57:51] <exec> 08└─That means they admit that they were guilty of violating the Equal Pay Act for years? When does the trial start?
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[20:53:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02That would suck - 06The Boson That Was Never There - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:53:25] <exec> 08└─You've gone through a couple boxes of chalk writing equations on the blackboard, written a paper, flown to a conference, rehearsed your talk. Then some dipwad ahead of you says "our bad, there was nothing there". Now what? Head off to the bar? Give the talk anyway?
[20:54:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Here we go - 06Blackberry Enters a New Era, Files 105-Page Patent Lawsuit Against Avaya - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:54:07] <exec> 08└─As if a decade of 'dying' wasn't enough.. they will milk this for another 30 years.
[20:54:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Similiar... - 06The Developer Died 14 Years Ago, Here's a Print Out of His Source Code - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:54:31] <exec> 08└─Restoring a BIOS to defaults by changing a jumper is a feature that has existed almost since we've had BIOSes. What kind of tech support guy are you to not know that?
[20:54:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Same sentiment, different arena - 06The Developer Died 14 Years Ago, Here's a Print Out of His Source Code - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:54:32] <exec> 08└─You should have fucked the shit out of her.
[20:55:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02DARPA works for the government not us - 06Game Over Security Researchers - DARPA's AI Bug Hunters Are Coming for Your Jobs - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:55:39] <exec> 08└─This will help the NSA find entry points into our computers which they most definitely will not share. Sure as hell is not going to make us all safer.
[20:55:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:the new HIV - 06Quick Summary of Zika in the U.S. - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:55:57] <exec> 08└─I think the not cancelling the Olympic games in Rio is going to seen as the tipping point for the Zika virus because with so many infected hosts, it's going to mutate into germ-line ending monster that spreads far and wide.
[20:57:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score:2) 02I don't worry about it with my clients.. - 06Almost Half of US Businesses hit by Ransomware, Says Study - 1546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:57:14] <exec> 08└─Because the combination of offline backups combined with hidden encrypted "data vaults" that keeps an image of the OS and a copy of the latest backup has so far worked perfectly against every nasty thrown at 'em. I haven't run into Ransomware yet in part because I have trained my clients well to "in...
[20:57:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score:2) 02Re:Virtual signaling and grade school math. - 06Apple Says It's Mended the Pay Gap for Women and Minorities - 522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:57:46] <exec> 08└─They are not in close enough proximity and I have no doubt all the chemicals in the air probably don't help in that regard, but when I used to tour with a band that brought their wives along? Jesus tap dancing christ on a cracker that week was fricking HELL. And you wanna guess who always got stuck...
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[21:53:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score:2) 02Re:That would suck - 06The Boson That Was Never There - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:53:27] <exec> 08└─'but when we added yet another dimension, we got it all to balance and it works, again' too many notes; but never enough dimensions, it seems.
[21:53:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re: from the isn't-this-just-uht-milk? dept. - 06Rapid Heating of Milk Can Extend Shelf Life By Weeks - 916 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:53:53] <exec> 08└─UHT never has been very common in the US. All those years ago when I was in the Navy, we commonly bought UHT when in Europe. We never bought it in the US. I don't believe I've ever seen it in any US grocery. Google shopping says that Staples and Quills has it, $43 bucks for 12 quarts. Staples? Offic...
[21:53:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Is Wal-Mart selling this stuff? - 06Rapid Heating of Milk Can Extend Shelf Life By Weeks - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:53:57] <exec> 08└─A lot of grocery stores sell UHT organic milk. Taste is probably off, and the milk likely took a trip across the country too.
[21:54:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score:2) 02Re:If you can't innovate, litigate - 06Blackberry Enters a New Era, Files 105-Page Patent Lawsuit Against Avaya - 1553 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:54:08] <exec> 08└─I don't suppose it's any better -- but it isn't any worse, and it was inexpensive. I've thought about getting some pretty basic phones that receive SMS and can make calls, but I generally have come to depend on the email availability -- for mostly personal life (work stuff is seperate as needed). Th...
[21:54:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score:2) 02Re:At least his sanity is still intact - 06The Developer Died 14 Years Ago, Here's a Print Out of His Source Code - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:54:36] <exec> 08└─I once had a supervisor who informed me that creating shortcuts on my desktop was "destruction of government property", and threatened to have me refereed to the DOJ for investigation
[21:54:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I Could Have Been Worse... - 06The Developer Died 14 Years Ago, Here's a Print Out of His Source Code - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:54:46] <exec> 08└─While "Earl" probably isn't going back, if he did he might be able to scan and OCR that dot-matrix printed source code. A whole lot easier than re-typing it in (assuming he can tweak the OCR software to do a good job).
[21:54:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Secrecy? - 06Jade Rabbit: China's Moon Rover Dies - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:54:59] <exec> 08└─> China
[21:55:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03deadstick [5110] (Score:2) 02What? - 06Amazon Gets its Own Branded Air Cargo Plane With 39 More to Follow - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:55:08] <exec> 08└─OK, they have 11 dedicated airplanes flying for them, but they're bringing us quicker deliveries by branding one? What the hell does that mean?
[21:55:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Re:Late to the party - 06ESPN Airs the National Drone Racing Championships - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:55:36] <exec> 08└─No, those are droning races, not drone racing.
[21:55:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score:2) 02Re:Gibson? - 06Game Over Security Researchers - DARPA's AI Bug Hunters Are Coming for Your Jobs - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:55:54] <exec> 08└─I guess the singularity is when we all can become a Dixie Flatline and and get encoded onto some ROM that no one loads unless your special skill is required? I imagine that would lead to a future where a lot of people simply get deleted (if perhaps not in the same way he approaches life after death)...
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[22:53:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score:2) 02Introduction of the video - 06Robert Fano Dead at Age 98 - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:53:22] <exec> 08└─Note that in the You tube interview [youtube.com] mentioned in the posting, Dr. Fano is introduced by Fernando J. Corbató, referred to in the video as "Corby", who in many ways really is the "father of timesharing", what you youngsters would call today "multitasking". He is a legend in the history...
[22:53:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score:2) 02Re:This is a problem "they" don't want fixed - 06Robocalling Scourge May Not be Unstoppable After All - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:53:44] <exec> 08└─the government is too busy going after the easy people to go after ... the war on drugs is designed to create 'criminals' that are easy to go after
[22:54:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02zombie food - 06Rapid Heating of Milk Can Extend Shelf Life By Weeks - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:01] <exec> 08└─so good that bacteria want nothing to do with it, and they have been around much longer than you meatbags. Food for thought, huh?
[22:54:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:At least his sanity is still intact - 06The Developer Died 14 Years Ago, Here's a Print Out of His Source Code - 1250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:54:40] <exec> 08└─There was someone like that at my old job. The worse part is that we all suspected (and I do mean "all," as most people who had to deal with her regardless of department) that some of that was actually purposeful "incompetence." My suspicion is that one day, one of the techs went full on BOFH on her...
[22:59:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:magic smoke und spitzensparken - 06Cray Profits Literally Go Up in Smoke After Electrical Incident - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:59:13] <exec> 08└─Why are you making fun of my grandpa?
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[23:53:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Just A Few - 06Robocalling Scourge May Not be Unstoppable After All - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:53:47] <exec> 08└─Economic penalties are only effective if they leave their assets vulnerable. I'm for criminal penalties including incarceration and feeding them into thresher machine.
[23:53:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jmorris [4844] 02This is a problem "they" don't want fixed - 06Robocalling Scourge May Not be Unstoppable After All - 1173 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:53:50] <exec> 08└─Think about it, the phone companies see these call centers as valuable customers so they run cover for them while their pet politicians allow it. Think two seconds about it and it is obvious this problem could be eliminated in a month if the powers that be actually cared. Establish a * code to repor...
[23:54:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Doublespeak - 06Blackberry Enters a New Era, Files 105-Page Patent Lawsuit Against Avaya - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:54:27] <exec> 08└─In May, BlackBerry CEO John Chen told investors on an earnings call that he was in "patent licensing mode," eager to monetize his company's 38,000 patents.
[23:55:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score:2) 02Re:I Could Have Been Worse... - 06The Developer Died 14 Years Ago, Here's a Print Out of His Source Code - 632 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:55:01] <exec> 08└─As bad as printing out the executable is, at least it's something. I typed in some executables for the C64 from the old Compute! magazine, with a checksum on each line and all that. It really wasn't that bad, and they worked. Of course today's code is so much larger it's not practical. Maybe you cou...
[23:57:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Contrast - 06Kindergarteners' Mathematics Success Hinges on Preschool Skills - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:57:12] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfCJgC2zezw [youtube.com] https://www.eimacs.com [eimacs.com]
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