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[00:53:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03physicsmajor [1471] (Score:3, Insightful) 02There are reasons to do this - 06Bimodal IT: Let the Backlash Begin - 1063 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:53:20] <exec> 08└─I'm involved with the scientific Python community, which is an excellent example of where this kind of development is needed. There are core projects which provide important math/science routines that move slowly, then as you move farther away from those you get to the cutting edge where development...
[00:53:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02We have always been Bimodal - get over it - 06Bimodal IT: Let the Backlash Begin - 964 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:53:21] <exec> 08└─There is *NO* pure Agile development. There is *NO* pure Waterfall development. (expect maybe the software on space shuttle) IT has always been a hybrid. A VP walks into the IT and asks for report by 5pm. Are you going to write specs and send it oversee and wait 3 more weeks? No you are going to get...
[00:53:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:We have always been Bimodal - get over it - 06Bimodal IT: Let the Backlash Begin - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:53:23] <exec> 08└─It's Gartner, not Garther.
[00:53:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Your Boson's so fat . . . - 06The Boson That Was Never There - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:53:39] <exec> 08└─But just imagine the teasing! "Your Boson is so massive, it generates its own gravity!" Sure, you could reply, "That is kind of the point." But it would be too late. Almost makes it a relief not to find it.
[00:53:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Just A Few - 06Robocalling Scourge May Not be Unstoppable After All - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:53:50] <exec> 08└─I'm not certain what is more vulnerable than having their assets frozen pending litigation. I mean when you really fuck up, it affects your credit rating :) Or perhaps you were thinking of the slap on the wrist fines that normally come from this? As noted elsewhere, the tools to address this crimina...
[00:54:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score:2) 02Re:zombie food - 06Rapid Heating of Milk Can Extend Shelf Life By Weeks - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:54:14] <exec> 08└─Organisms are perfectly happy with it. There just aren't many of them there when it's sealed up in an organism proof container. A lot like that newfangled 1800s technology called canning, you just don't have to heat it as thoroughly. And yes, I'm sure it's safe for zombies too if you're really worri...
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[00:54:15] <exec> 08└─related article: 40 Years Later, Twinkie Remains Intact at Maine School [soylentnews.org]
[00:55:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03cellocgw [4190] (Score:2) 02Hello? Alex P? - 06The Developer Died 14 Years Ago, Here's a Print Out of His Source Code - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:55:08] <exec> 08└─Gotta warn you, Alex, Soylent News is trying to horn in on your turf here. Better fight back with lawyers, or something worse.
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[01:53:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score:2) 02Done it that way for a long time - 06Bimodal IT: Let the Backlash Begin - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:53:33] <exec> 08└─I worked for a large financial organization and we supported both the Day to Day stuff and R&D. The day to day stuff stayed the same with the same procedures/and equipment until it HAD to change, and the R&D stuff was built for week long tests of the newest breed of hardware on loan from some vendor...
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[02:53:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02ok, where does "safe" come from? - 06Bimodal IT: Let the Backlash Begin - 591 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:53:29] <exec> 08└─I find it weird that the writer forgot about testing. Even in a safe, accurate environment you will on occasion need to upgrade (say because your machine is dying or because key parts of your infrastructure are no longer supported). No sane upgrade approach ignores aggressive and thorough testing of...
[02:53:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Keep posting article like that - 06Robert Fano Dead at Age 98 - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:53:37] <exec> 08└─While they are not generating comment, I like to have article like that here... Silence is frequently better than noise
[02:55:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score:2) 02Re:Who Killed Jade Rabbit? - 06Jade Rabbit: China's Moon Rover Dies - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:55:24] <exec> 08└─My bet is on Marvin, testing the Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator. "Oh, the Earth will be gone in just a few seconds."
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[03:53:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score:2) 02Careful What You Ask For: - 06FBI Chief Calls for National Talk Over Encryption vs. Safety - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:53:23] <exec> 08└─"FBI Chief Calls for National Talk Over Encryption vs. Safety" It's my nation , too. And you may not like what I have to say.
[03:53:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Careful What You Ask For: - 06FBI Chief Calls for National Talk Over Encryption vs. Safety - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:53:25] <exec> 08└─Perhaps he should be having this talk with Hillary Clinton. Or not, the more bumbling idiots revealing their criminality, the easier it will be to topple them.
[03:53:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:Careful What You Ask For: - 06FBI Chief Calls for National Talk Over Encryption vs. Safety - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:53:27] <exec> 08└─Well, really!, AGREED! Hillary leaks confidential info like I leak crap after eating dairy products, but that is fine. But others aren't so FUCKING STUPID, and OMG, terrorists!!!!! Did this crap from Comey REALLY come from Hillary instead??? Man, she is evil, and the US is sucking her clit. Does it...
[03:53:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Insightful) 02Fuck You, Comey - 06FBI Chief Calls for National Talk Over Encryption vs. Safety - 702 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:53:29] <exec> 08└─If it weren't for your proven track record of unconstitutional actions, including the outright illegal and blatantly corrupt perversion of justice known as parallel construction [wikipedia.org]... if you'd actually honor the constitution and the law and only go after people when you have a valid war...
[03:53:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:3, Insightful) 02What's to talk about? - 06FBI Chief Calls for National Talk Over Encryption vs. Safety - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:53:31] <exec> 08└─If the fibbies can break my encryption so can the bad guys. We'll assume for the sake of argument the fibbies aren't the bad guys.
[03:53:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03physicsmajor [1471] (Score:2) 02Re:What's to talk about? - 06FBI Chief Calls for National Talk Over Encryption vs. Safety - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:53:34] <exec> 08└─Never assume.
[03:53:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Pointless - 06FBI Chief Calls for National Talk Over Encryption vs. Safety - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:53:36] <exec> 08└─Pointless. It's like asking for a national discussion on banning vaccines, denying global warming, or restricting the Second Amendment. You're going to get slaughtered on the biggest stage. Actually, I would love to see this.
[03:53:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Decision - 06FBI Chief Calls for National Talk Over Encryption vs. Safety - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:53:38] <exec> 08└─Comey says encryption technology makes it impossible in a growing number of cases to search electronic devices. He says it's up to U.S. citizens to decide whether to modify the technology.
[03:53:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fnord666 [652] (Score:2) 02Re:Decision - 06FBI Chief Calls for National Talk Over Encryption vs. Safety - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:53:40] <exec> 08└─No. There, that was an easy decision. I'll tell you what: if you feel unsafe, you modify your technology, okay? The main danger to me is the people who want to be able to snoop on anything I do.
[03:53:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02You loved Brad - AND THEN YOU TOTALED HIM! - 06FBI Chief Calls for National Talk Over Encryption vs. Safety - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:53:42] <exec> 08└─Department of Justice Official Tells Hundred Federal Judges to Use Tor: https://motherboard.vice.com [vice.com] In a recent hearing related to the FBI’s mass hacking campaign, a judge revealed that a Department of Justice...
[03:53:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:There are reasons to do this - 06Bimodal IT: Let the Backlash Begin - 682 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:53:55] <exec> 08└─Works fine for research. Doesn't work at all for business. For one thing, this is paying to develop the same thing twice, which is usually frowned upon in a place where profits are valued. For another, when something works "well enough" in a business environment, it's generally delivered. Sure time...
[03:54:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:ok, where does "safe" come from? - 06Bimodal IT: Let the Backlash Begin - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:54:01] <exec> 08└─ok, where does "safe" come from?
[03:54:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:ok, where does "safe" come from? - 06Bimodal IT: Let the Backlash Begin - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:54:03] <exec> 08└─I find it weird that the writer forgot about testing.
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[04:53:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03physicsmajor [1471] (Score:3, Informative) 02Edelstein and the Guardian, really? - 06Apple Urged to Rethink Gun Emoji Change - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:53:19] <exec> 08└─Who lets facts get in the way of an agenda? Read up, make your own conclusions about if we're losing anything even close to a "battle to keep Americans safe": http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com [thetruthaboutguns.com] What I see supported by robust...
[04:53:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02As a standards guy, I say keep it. - 06Apple Urged to Rethink Gun Emoji Change - 647 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:53:21] <exec> 08└─I think they should keep it. Nothing bothers me more than purposeful deviations from a standard. The whole point of a standard is to allow things to interoperate and that things work across platforms/programs whatever. To me, this is no different than Apple deciding to replace the glyph of "†" wit...
[04:53:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:1) 02Re:Careful What You Ask For: - 06FBI Chief Calls for National Talk Over Encryption vs. Safety - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:53:31] <exec> 08└─It's the lizard people. It's one of their last bids to harness the spiral power they've found on this planet. They are going to overplay their hand. John May lives!
[04:53:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score:2) 02Re:Careful What You Ask For: - 06FBI Chief Calls for National Talk Over Encryption vs. Safety - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:53:32] <exec> 08└─I can think of a more wise man to turn to to speak than myself...Ben Franklin..."Those Who Sacrifice Liberty For Security Deserve Neither". Honestly that says it better than I ever could.
[04:53:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:What's to talk about? - 06FBI Chief Calls for National Talk Over Encryption vs. Safety - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:53:38] <exec> 08└─..even "for the sake of argument"? I read that as a way to reduce the number of variables in a though experiment.
[04:53:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Remember Clipper - 06FBI Chief Calls for National Talk Over Encryption vs. Safety - 809 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:53:44] <exec> 08└─Remember when we had all that encryption-is-a-munition stuff? Remember how the best and brightest in the country were being wooed to leave the country where they could do their work? Remember t-shirts with encryption code on them in perl? Comey, the best case scenario is that you will drive the exac...
[04:53:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Nope - 06FBI Chief Calls for National Talk Over Encryption vs. Safety - 1259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:53:46] <exec> 08└─How about we talk about the constitution? Instead of trying to achieve some mythical "balance" fabricated by rights-violating government thugs, how about we just let the constitution be our balance? You know, like the fourth amendment and the first amendment (trying to ban certain kinds of encryptio...
[04:53:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02What's the price - 06Google Racks Up its First Contributions to Open Compute Project - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:53:54] <exec> 08└─How much to buy one rackful and associated stuff?
[04:55:40] <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 - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:55:41] <exec> 08└─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."
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[05:53:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Edelstein and the Guardian, really? - 06Apple Urged to Rethink Gun Emoji Change - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:53:17] <exec> 08└─Even more inane is this argument about a caricature of a gun somehowhaving an effect on actual safety at any level. It makes everyone involved look ridiculous. When Apple want's to make a statement about anythingi in the future, everyone will point to this and assume it's more of the same.
[05:53:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Metaphors - 06Apple Urged to Rethink Gun Emoji Change - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:53:20] <exec> 08└─This entire discussion is just a metaphor for transforming society from a potent force, into a wimpy dream.
[05:53:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02make love not war - 06Apple Urged to Rethink Gun Emoji Change - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:53:22] <exec> 08└─Change the gun emoji to a penis. That would change it from an X-rated symbol to a mere R-rated sym--- wait, the penis is the X-rated one? Isn't that backwards?
[05:53:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:make love not war - 06Apple Urged to Rethink Gun Emoji Change - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:53:24] <exec> 08└─"Isn't that backwards?" As far as I know, human penises have always been forwards.
[05:53:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03ShadowSystems [6185] (Score:1) 02Re:Metaphors - 06Apple Urged to Rethink Gun Emoji Change - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:53:26] <exec> 08└─I've always wondered what's a meta for... *Runs away before you can whack me with a dead fish* =-D
[05:53:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What's to talk about? - 06FBI Chief Calls for National Talk Over Encryption vs. Safety - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:53:42] <exec> 08└─They won't break your encryption, they'll request the right to imprison you as guilty until you break it for them.
[05:53:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02the strategy - 06FBI Chief Calls for National Talk Over Encryption vs. Safety - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:53:50] <exec> 08└─Talk and talk and talk. Keep talking until you've scared the American people enough to stand by and watch their rights get taken away. Show us "evidence" that we don't care about anyway.
[05:53:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03dingus [5224] (Score:2) 02Maybe they should just learn to do their jobs. - 06FBI Chief Calls for National Talk Over Encryption vs. Safety - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:53:52] <exec> 08└─"In other news, according to the FBI, 650 out of 5,000 safes searched in 2015 were too secure to break open. The FBI says it wants to pass a law that would require all safes to made of cardboard, so that they will have easy access."
[05:54:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:Just A Few - 06Robocalling Scourge May Not be Unstoppable After All - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:54:42] <exec> 08└─I have called from a "local" (6 digit) number. I gave up my DID with my first VOIP provider when they stopped routing calls to me.
[05:54:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03KritonK [465] (Score:2) 02Re: from the isn't-this-just-uht-milk? dept. - 06Rapid Heating of Milk Can Extend Shelf Life By Weeks - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:54:59] <exec> 08└─Nobody in this day and age knows what milk really tastes like.
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[06:53:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02deception overload - 06New Form of Light Would Bind a Photon to an Electron - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:53:20] <exec> 08└─white light! red light!? green light????
[06:53:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03frojack [1554] 02Re:Edelstein and the Guardian, really? - 06Apple Urged to Rethink Gun Emoji Change - 290 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:53:28] <exec> 08└─Even more inane is this argument about a caricature of a gun somehowhaving an effect on actual safety at any level. It makes everyone involved look ridiculous. When Apple want's to make a statement about anythingi in the future, everyone will point to this and assume it's more of the same.
[06:53:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Edelstein and the Guardian, really? - 06Apple Urged to Rethink Gun Emoji Change - 483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:53:31] <exec> 08└─But this is less about safety than Apple's image, especially as advertising to a certain segment. I'm actually okay with Apple going this route. It makes clear to me whose business they want, little different than the little fishes that adorn certain businesses. The bit that bothers me is people not...
[06:53:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:As a standards guy, I say keep it. - 06Apple Urged to Rethink Gun Emoji Change - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:53:34] <exec> 08└─For at least 10 years apple has been purposefully deviating from standards. Just in case you had missed it. By the way: my own opinion is that standardizing emoji's is a disgusting waste of resources. It's kinda like the wives meeting to discuss and decide, on the basis of serious scientific researc...
[06:53:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Metaphors - 06Apple Urged to Rethink Gun Emoji Change - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:53:40] <exec> 08└─Your choice of words is so very, very revealing. Fear of "impotence," I see. What kind of dream, precisely, a wet dream? For the record I think Apple is being idiotic, but I'm almost tempted to support them in this now JUST because it gives people like you ridiculous conniption fits.
[06:53:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02whipping llama ass - 06Apple Urged to Rethink Gun Emoji Change - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:53:42] <exec> 08└─u must whip it
[06:54:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jdavidb [5690] 02Decision - 06FBI Chief Calls for National Talk Over Encryption vs. Safety - 188 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:54:00] <exec> 08└─Comey says encryption technology makes it impossible in a growing number of cases to search electronic devices. He says it's up to U.S. citizens to decide whether to modify the technology.
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[07:53:24] <exec> 08└─If we can make robust electronics, how will we ever convince consumers to buy breakable flaky crap?! You fools! Capitalism will collapse!!!
[07:53:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03physicsmajor [1471] 02Edelstein and the Guardian, really? - 06Apple Urged to Rethink Gun Emoji Change - 414 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:53:31] <exec> 08└─Who lets facts get in the way of an agenda? Read up, make your own conclusions about if we're losing anything even close to a "battle to keep Americans safe": http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com [thetruthaboutguns.com] What I see supported by robust...
[07:53:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:Edelstein and the Guardian, really? - 06Apple Urged to Rethink Gun Emoji Change - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:53:35] <exec> 08└─what's going to happen is that person A on an iOS device will input a gun emoji cuz it looks cute in a string of emojis, and send it to person B who has an Android phone, and then that person's parent will be going through their messages and see the real-looking gun and phone the police that person...
[07:53:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:As a standards guy, I say keep it. - 06Apple Urged to Rethink Gun Emoji Change - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:53:39] <exec> 08└─By the way: my own opinion is that standardizing emoji's is a disgusting waste of resources.
[07:53:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:As a standards guy, I say keep it. - 06Apple Urged to Rethink Gun Emoji Change - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:53:42] <exec> 08└─Yep this is exertion of control, and it obviously, as a side effect (or as the first intended consequence, we are talking about corporations who are demonstrably sociopath organizations), preps people for more. We break the standard, for OF COURSE IMPORTANT SAFETY REASONS BECAUSE WE KNOW BETTER, and...
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[07:53:49] <exec> 08└─Consider the world as a single system, since it already is. The system has pulled a systemd and rendered society an interdependent mess, so that population is under control. You want to secede? good luck with starving into irrelevancy, in a way that makes north korea look a tourist resort. Now be go...
[07:54:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Careful What You Ask For: - 06FBI Chief Calls for National Talk Over Encryption vs. Safety - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:54:02] <exec> 08└─And we already had a "conversation". We're fine with you not being able to read every single fucking message/email/whatever on every single fucking phone.
[07:54:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Fuck You, Comey - 06FBI Chief Calls for National Talk Over Encryption vs. Safety - 702 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:54:03] <exec> 08└─If it weren't for your proven track record of unconstitutional actions, including the outright illegal and blatantly corrupt perversion of justice known as parallel construction [wikipedia.org]... if you'd actually honor the constitution and the law and only go after people when you have a valid war...
[07:54:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:What's to talk about? - 06FBI Chief Calls for National Talk Over Encryption vs. Safety - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:54:09] <exec> 08└─Again, an "insightfunny" mod would come in very handy.
[07:54:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02AOL + PLAN9 OS BLOWS AWAY COMPETITION!! - 06FBI Chief Calls for National Talk Over Encryption vs. Safety - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:54:19] <exec> 08└─You want OS working hard? You want best friend who will never let you down? Enter Plan9 OS!! Nothing better in combination than a cold beer, Plan9 OS, and free AOL email! I feel safe, warm, and secure when I sit down with a cold beer, boot up Plan9, and check out what my best friends forever are doi...
[07:54:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Not another Gartner report... - 06Bimodal IT: Let the Backlash Begin - 948 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:54:41] <exec> 08└─Somehow, on first reading, I missed this critical intro: "Gartner defines Bimodal IT as..." Gartner likes to identify things that have become common practice, slap a label on them, and then charge you thousands to read a report about the label. I've lived through a few too many trends. Hire good peo...
[07:55:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Hey Blackberry - 06Blackberry Enters a New Era, Files 105-Page Patent Lawsuit Against Avaya - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:55:53] <exec> 08└─Before becoming litigation dicks, here is a possible unexplored market strategy : go anti-smartphone and make dumb phones that can't spy on you.
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[08:53:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Who ya gonna call?? - 06Particle Accelerator Reveals Hidden Degas Painting - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:53:19] <exec> 08└─Is the ghost of an evil warlord trapped in the painting?
[08:53:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Can we use this for propulsion? - 06New Form of Light Would Bind a Photon to an Electron - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:53:28] <exec> 08└─An electron has mass. And if it is entangled to a photon traveling at the speed of light, can we direct this to get thrust? ( Is it possible to make a "flashlight" that develops a thrust when turned on? )
[08:53:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] 02Re:As a standards guy, I say keep it. - 06Apple Urged to Rethink Gun Emoji Change - 92 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:53:41] <exec> 08└─By the way: my own opinion is that standardizing emoji's is a disgusting waste of resources.
[08:53:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03ticho [89] (Score:2) 02Re:Metaphors - 06Apple Urged to Rethink Gun Emoji Change - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:53:48] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure, but I think that emoji is built around the mIRC desktop icon.
[08:53:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Metaphors - 06Apple Urged to Rethink Gun Emoji Change - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:53:51] <exec> 08└─Your choice of words is so very, very revealing.
[08:54:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02On silence - 06Robert Fano Dead at Age 98 - 860 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:54:51] <exec> 08└─Actually, I am beginning to be quite concerned about the silence. The staff of Soylent are doing an excellent job of running a lot of very interesting tidbits up the pole. I find it quite interesting to see what other people think of this stuff, especially technically astute people with finely tune...
[08:54:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score:1) 02Re:On silence - 06Robert Fano Dead at Age 98 - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:54:52] <exec> 08└─To be honest, I think your time may be best spent contributing articles. I don't do it enough. Mea culpa and all that. I support the site with real money, comments and moderation, but to live, it needs more (decent) articles. So I should give myself a good kick in the backside and contribute more of...
[08:55:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02How about this? - 06Robocalling Scourge May Not be Unstoppable After All - 2330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:55:20] <exec> 08└─My phone plan from AT&T charges me something like $10/month plus $2 for any day the phone is actually used to originate or receive a call. I would love to have the plan amended so that if its a telemarketer calling, HE is billed the $2 if I do not press "*" to accept the charge. That way, I do not g...
[08:55:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score:1) 02Another turn of the screw for dairy farmers - 06Rapid Heating of Milk Can Extend Shelf Life By Weeks - 641 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:55:42] <exec> 08└─Anything that allows supermarkets (or middleman suppliers) to stockpile 'fresh' milk will make it difficult for the smallest farmers to compete. If the choice for the supermarket is to buy fresh milk from the small farmer at x+delta, or treated milk at x from the stockpile, then it makes it difficul...
[08:56:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:Ah, memories! - 06The Developer Died 14 Years Ago, Here's a Print Out of His Source Code - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:56:32] <exec> 08└─First rule, if they want a demo on their system, they must sign off that it is a scratch system and may be wiped after the demo. They copy the data on to it so if they somehow screw it up, it's on them. Software for the demo should include a logic bomb to wipe itself out.
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[09:53:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02If the team had attempted this scan 10 years ago - 06Particle Accelerator Reveals Hidden Degas Painting - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:53:27] <exec> 08└─They would still have finished the process ahead by about 8 and a half years...
[09:53:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Can we use this for propulsion? - 06New Form of Light Would Bind a Photon to an Electron - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:53:37] <exec> 08└─Thrust? Didn't you see who discovered this? They are obviously working on the main armament of the Death Star. Put enough lightspeed electrons in a beam and you have the power to obliterate a planet.
[09:53:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02As a standards guy, I say keep it. - 06Apple Urged to Rethink Gun Emoji Change - 647 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:53:49] <exec> 08└─I think they should keep it. Nothing bothers me more than purposeful deviations from a standard. The whole point of a standard is to allow things to interoperate and that things work across platforms/programs whatever. To me, this is no different than Apple deciding to replace the glyph of "†" wit...
[09:54:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Metaphors - 06Apple Urged to Rethink Gun Emoji Change - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:54:01] <exec> 08└─Your choice of words is so very, very revealing. Fear of "impotence," I see. What kind of dream, precisely, a wet dream?
[09:54:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Metaphors - 06Apple Urged to Rethink Gun Emoji Change - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:54:03] <exec> 08└─This entire discussion is just a metaphor for transforming society from a potent force, into a wimpy dream.
[09:54:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Metaphors - 06Apple Urged to Rethink Gun Emoji Change - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:54:05] <exec> 08└─I will never be able to get those images out of my head, or the emoji stains out of the sheets.
[09:54:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:whipping llama ass - 06Apple Urged to Rethink Gun Emoji Change - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:54:09] <exec> 08└─u must whip it
[09:54:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:whipping llama ass - 06Apple Urged to Rethink Gun Emoji Change - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:54:11] <exec> 08└─Devo! How could anyone mod this offtopic, no matter what the topic was?
[09:55:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:ok, where does "safe" come from? - 06Bimodal IT: Let the Backlash Begin - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:55:01] <exec> 08└─when you can just have the right one which completely tests your program correctly?
[09:57:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:Secrecy? - 06Jade Rabbit: China's Moon Rover Dies - 2150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:57:09] <exec> 08└─Git yer tinfoil hats out... I have this stinkin' suspicion that there is something on the moon related to the pyramids, Machu Picchu, the Chaco ruins in New Mexico, the Aztec structures, and similar structures observed all over the Earth that have strikingly similar construction. I consider that l...
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[10:53:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02And then … - 06Particle Accelerator Reveals Hidden Degas Painting - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:53:31] <exec> 08└─And then, at an arts conference, just as the first art researchers want to present their theories about that hidden painting, they will reveal that further experiments didn't confirm its existence.
[10:53:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:not my planned obsolescence ! - 06New Form of Light Would Bind a Photon to an Electron - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:53:40] <exec> 08└─See computers... old PC (Pentium 2 generation and before) systems often still work and computer cases were sturdy, but the space race for faster systems, more memory, etc. put them more or less out of business. Improve your product and people will buy it, even if it is durable.
[10:53:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Can we use this for propulsion? - 06New Form of Light Would Bind a Photon to an Electron - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:53:44] <exec> 08└─Is it possible to make a "flashlight" that develops a thrust when turned on?
[10:54:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Careful What You Ask For: - 06FBI Chief Calls for National Talk Over Encryption vs. Safety - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:54:23] <exec> 08└─Man, she is evil, and the US is sucking her clint on.
[10:54:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:Careful What You Ask For: - 06FBI Chief Calls for National Talk Over Encryption vs. Safety - 2264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:54:27] <exec> 08└─More to the point, the adage that if you outlaw encryption then only outlaws will have encryption couldn't be more true. Applied Cryptography demonstrated a simple way of getting around the previous attempts by the USA to restrict access to strong crypto: the example code in the books had symbolic c...
[10:55:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Your Boson's so fat . . . - 06The Boson That Was Never There - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:55:26] <exec> 08└─That's the explanation! After the researchers discovered how heavy it was, the boson decided to make a diet and lost mass, therefore the researchers couldn't find it any more, as they were looking for the old mass.
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[11:53:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score:2) 02Black Helicopters - 06FBI Releases Secret Spy Plane Footage from Freddie Gray Protests - 674 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:53:25] <exec> 08└─Dammit, it's supposed to be black helicopters! All the conspiracy nuts have told me for years it was supposed to be black helicopters! That always gave me a good laugh, because I figured that even the government wasn't stupid enough to use something so obvious. Somehow though, I expected the quality...
[11:54:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snotnose [1623] 02What's to talk about? - 06FBI Chief Calls for National Talk Over Encryption vs. Safety - 130 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:54:31] <exec> 08└─If the fibbies can break my encryption so can the bad guys. We'll assume for the sake of argument the fibbies aren't the bad guys.
[11:54:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Capt. Obvious [6089] (Score:2) 02Re:What's to talk about? - 06FBI Chief Calls for National Talk Over Encryption vs. Safety - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:54:37] <exec> 08└─That's not true. The government has tons of hardware. There is probably some size of encryption key such that the (okay, a) government can brute force it, but a standard bad actor cannot. Now, that doesn't scale to breaking everyone's encryption simultaneously....
[11:55:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Pity the audience - 06The Boson That Was Never There - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:55:31] <exec> 08└─Physics talks can be excruciating anyway. Sitting through those follow on talks must have been torture.
[11:55:49] <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 - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:55:50] <exec> 08└─Establish a * code to report a fraud number that pulls the ANI (i.e. the real originating number) and and routes it to a small task force of ten FBI agents.
[11:56:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Another turn of the screw for dairy farmers - 06Rapid Heating of Milk Can Extend Shelf Life By Weeks - 824 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:56:14] <exec> 08└─The whole agricultural sector is ill... pretty bad... not only from a biological point of view, but also from an economical point of view. Here in Europe the milk quotum was released two years ago and since a year the price has dropped half. Now the sector needs financial injections (subsidies) to s...
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[12:53:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02we follow the Founder in all things - 06Slingbox Founder and Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Blake Krikorian Has Died at 48 - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:53:19] <exec> 08└─A Founder has died to show us the way. Everyone above the age of 47, kill yourself now. Kill the deadwood and keep the Valley young.
[12:53:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:we follow the Founder in all things - 06Slingbox Founder and Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Blake Krikorian Has Died at 48 - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:53:21] <exec> 08└─Hey, I resent that! Just turned 62 and still inventing new shit.
[12:53:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:we follow the Founder in all things - 06Slingbox Founder and Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Blake Krikorian Has Died at 48 - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:53:23] <exec> 08└─Your inventions will be disregarded because you neglected to commit ritual suicide at age 60 per Kaelon tradition.
[12:54:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Nope - 06FBI Chief Calls for National Talk Over Encryption vs. Safety - 1259 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:54:47] <exec> 08└─How about we talk about the constitution? Instead of trying to achieve some mythical "balance" fabricated by rights-violating government thugs, how about we just let the constitution be our balance? You know, like the fourth amendment and the first amendment (trying to ban certain kinds of encryptio...
[12:55:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:ok, where does "safe" come from? - 06Bimodal IT: Let the Backlash Begin - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:55:14] <exec> 08└─Fine, but I still get this impression that you think there is something wrong with what I said in the first place. Are tests not lightweight? Are they not intended to be easy to add, remove, or change with far less rigor to them than the code they test?
[12:56:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score:2) 02Re:No graceful exit - 06Blackberry Enters a New Era, Files 105-Page Patent Lawsuit Against Avaya - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:56:34] <exec> 08└─They can't really sell the IP, because it's not actually worth all that much.
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[13:53:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score:2) 02Fuck the Olympics - 06Minnesota Carpet Cleaning Business Sues US Olympic Committee Over Ridiculous Social Media Rules - 650 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:53:24] <exec> 08└─and the Euro soccer tournament, and the world soccer tournament, and the Tour de France, and the Paris Dakar, and all the rest of the ultra-commercial sporting events that plague the yearly calendar one after the other. If you like sports, fine. But for the rest of us who don't give a rat's ass, it'...
[13:53:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Not allowed... - 06Minnesota Carpet Cleaning Business Sues US Olympic Committee Over Ridiculous Social Media Rules - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:53:25] <exec> 08└─#Olympics #TeamUSA #Rio2016. Even this story probably violates their policy. And I thought the MPAA RIAA were the lowest scum sucking form of life. Maybe they were all in bed with each other. I stopped watching professional sports long ago because it turned into a money grubbing clusterfuck, and onl...
[13:53:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:we follow the Founder in all things - 06Slingbox Founder and Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Blake Krikorian Has Died at 48 - 673 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:53:35] <exec> 08└─So the current meme is that the human brain doesn't finish developing until mid to late twenties. That doesn't leave a good deal of time to to make your mark on the world while in full command of your faculties. Full maturation at 40ish, and then a slow decline. So 7 years. Although I'm not quite 47...
[13:53:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:we follow the Founder in all things - 06Slingbox Founder and Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Blake Krikorian Has Died at 48 - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:53:37] <exec> 08└─I haven't noticed much groundbreaking research coming out of the valley either.
[13:53:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:Black Helicopters - 06FBI Releases Secret Spy Plane Footage from Freddie Gray Protests - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:53:46] <exec> 08└─They may have trans-coded it for "internet consumption", much like a jpg can be converted into a gif to save space (bad example, I know).
[13:53:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02and? - 06Particle Accelerator Reveals Hidden Degas Painting - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:53:57] <exec> 08└─If the team had attempted this scan 10 years ago, it would have taken 18 months.
[13:54:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:As a standards guy, I say keep it. - 06Apple Urged to Rethink Gun Emoji Change - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:54:24] <exec> 08└─Well at least this time they're not deviating from standards purely to screw people over for more money and lock-in.
[13:54:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Stupid on so many levels... - 06Apple Urged to Rethink Gun Emoji Change - 1500 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:54:40] <exec> 08└─Seriously? Which way do you want to look at this? The idea that the easy availability of guns and the legal right for everybody to carry them might result in more shootings is, at the very least, a hypothesis worthy of debate. The idea that the availability or otherwise of "realistic" gun Emoji migh...
[13:55:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:What's to talk about? - 06FBI Chief Calls for National Talk Over Encryption vs. Safety - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:55:00] <exec> 08└─Never assume.
[13:55:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Refugee from beyond [2699] (Score:2) 02There is no vs. - 06FBI Chief Calls for National Talk Over Encryption vs. Safety - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:55:14] <exec> 08└─Encryption is safety.
[13:55:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02oww, so great. (눈‸눈) - 06Google Racks Up its First Contributions to Open Compute Project - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:55:23] <exec> 08└─is anyone really excited about how datacenters are put together? seriously, unless you actually work at one, you really don't give a shit about this stuff. the "OpenCompute Project" is a misnomer because it has nothing to do with computing and everything to do with form factor standardization. i mea...
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[14:53:29] <exec> 08└─Yeah, it was the Olympics that made me switch from the Today show in the morning to GMA. Got tired of olympic crap and really, the morning shows are all about the same.
[14:53:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02Re:Fuck the Olympics - 06Minnesota Carpet Cleaning Business Sues US Olympic Committee Over Ridiculous Social Media Rules - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:53:30] <exec> 08└─it's just about impossible to tune to a TV channel, go to a cafe or simply talk to anybody without being assaulted by sports talk.
[14:53:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score:2) 02Re:Fuck the Olympics - 06Minnesota Carpet Cleaning Business Sues US Olympic Committee Over Ridiculous Social Media Rules - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:53:32] <exec> 08└─careful...it's bread and circuses that stop them going after the 0.01%....
[14:53:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score:2) 02Drink Dogfish Beer - 06Minnesota Carpet Cleaning Business Sues US Olympic Committee Over Ridiculous Social Media Rules - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:53:36] <exec> 08└─#Olympics #TeamUSA #Rio2016 Use Burma Shave
[14:53:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Binding Arbitration - 06Minnesota Carpet Cleaning Business Sues US Olympic Committee Over Ridiculous Social Media Rules - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:53:38] <exec> 08└─Next Olympics, the rules are going to include: Only sponsors are a allowed to file suit in court against the USOC. Third parties must use confidential binding arbitration, using an arbitrator chosen by the USOC.
[14:53:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02artificial hearts - 06Slingbox Founder and Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Blake Krikorian Has Died at 48 - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:53:49] <exec> 08└─by the amount of people that die from heart issues, you would think everyone in positions of power would be pushing into biotech to make permanent artificial hearts a reality. seriously, it's not like it's even a distant technology and it would likely extend the lives of most people. but hey, if you...
[14:53:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score:2) 02who? - 06Slingbox Founder and Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Blake Krikorian Has Died at 48 - 924 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:53:51] <exec> 08└─and all of Silicon Valley really, devastated. yeah, my world is now rocked. I am not able to carry on. oh wait, are we talking about reality or dream land? who the fuck is this guy? and why do you think 'silicon valley is devastated'? please stop becoming the green site. we could care less about ri...
[14:53:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Struck by a heart attack while surfing - 06Slingbox Founder and Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Blake Krikorian Has Died at 48 - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:53:53] <exec> 08└─If they are endemic to the region, they shoulda put some safety nets against those heart attacks; really, do you want ebullient characters to go extinct? In other parts of the world they do it against shark attacks. leaves... all of Silicon Valley ... devastated.
[14:54:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score:2) 02Re:Can we use this for propulsion? - 06New Form of Light Would Bind a Photon to an Electron - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:54:23] <exec> 08└─I read it as "ways to more efficiently control electrons in weird band-gap materials". So CPU stuff...
[14:54:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:make love not war - 06Apple Urged to Rethink Gun Emoji Change - 558 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:54:43] <exec> 08└─You did not get the memo? Zardoz: Zardoz speaks to you, His chosen ones. Exterminators: We are the chosen ones! Zardoz: You have been raised up from Brutality, to kill the Brutals who multiply, and are legion. To this end, Zardoz your God gave you the gift of the Gun. The Gun is good! Exterminators...
[14:55:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:ok, where does "safe" come from? - 06Bimodal IT: Let the Backlash Begin - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:55:56] <exec> 08└─Fine, but I still get this impression that you think there is something wrong with what I said in the first place.
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[15:53:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:4, Informative) 02Shaking my head ... - 06Btrfs RAID 5/6 Code Completely Hosed - 678 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:53:20] <exec> 08└─btrfs amazes me in the fact its a pile of crap that has been in development for almost a decade. It's the Duke Nukem Forever of filesystems. To put this in context, ZFS development was started in 2001, and shipped in 2005, and at the time of its release, ZFS was likely the most advanced filesystem i...
[15:53:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Post-Nihilist [5672] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Shaking my head ... - 06Btrfs RAID 5/6 Code Completely Hosed - 595 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:53:22] <exec> 08└─The number of paid full time engineer working on ZFS was borderline ridiculous1 Compared to ZFS, brtfs is resources starved since the development started. It's no wonder that they are progressing so slowly... 1-I knew this as I was working as a campus ambassador for SUN at that time. My job was to s...
[15:53:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02HAW HAW - 06Btrfs RAID 5/6 Code Completely Hosed - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:53:24] <exec> 08└─This is why I laugh at idiots that think using RAID means you don't need backups.
[15:53:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:HAW HAW - 06Btrfs RAID 5/6 Code Completely Hosed - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:53:26] <exec> 08└─Yes, RAID is not a replacement for backups. Both strategies should be used. I don't see how that's relevant. Only a fool would use btrfs for production. Has btrfs ever had a stable release?
[15:53:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02We don't need backups, we have RAID! - 06Btrfs RAID 5/6 Code Completely Hosed - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:53:28] <exec> 08└─Reminds me of Joshua Woodruff ... and Zuora.com, where that very claim was asserted, by management. Idiots. Working there was like strewing pearls before swine.
[15:53:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Flamebait) 02GitHub should butter raid right now! - 06Btrfs RAID 5/6 Code Completely Hosed - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:53:30] <exec> 08└─Just imagine what would happen if GitHub imploded. Goodbye Linux. Goodbye open source. So many careers ruined.
[15:53:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Title needs correction - 06Btrfs RAID 5/6 Code Completely Hosed - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:53:33] <exec> 08└─This should be the title: Btrfs Code Completely Hosed
[15:53:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score:2) 02Trademark - 06Minnesota Carpet Cleaning Business Sues US Olympic Committee Over Ridiculous Social Media Rules - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:53:46] <exec> 08└─That no non-official commercial entities are allowed to use certain hashtags in tweets
[15:54:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Black Helicopters - 06FBI Releases Secret Spy Plane Footage from Freddie Gray Protests - 1524 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:54:09] <exec> 08└─That always gave me a good laugh, because I figured that even the government wasn't stupid enough to use something so obvious. In the woods near Fort Bragg are dozens of small (400-500 people per) communities of heavily armed "sovereign citizens" who live a lawless lifestyle independently from the o...
[15:54:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Dirac point, plasmon, phonon ... - 06New Form of Light Would Bind a Photon to an Electron - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:33] <exec> 08└─The Nature article is full of impenetrable terms. I think this is one of those things the experts may understand but they'll never get the average person to understand without dumbing it down so much it missfires. Kind of like the bowling ball on a rubber sheet; hey now you understand General Relati...
[15:54:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02yay? - 06New Form of Light Would Bind a Photon to an Electron - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:35] <exec> 08└─Gauss gun? Finally?
[15:55:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Collecting? - 06FBI Chief Calls for National Talk Over Encryption vs. Safety - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:55:42] <exec> 08└─The FBI's director says the agency is collecting data
[15:56:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:ok, where does "safe" come from? - 06Bimodal IT: Let the Backlash Begin - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:56:08] <exec> 08└─And I said: "Testing is a part of development, as is coding, software arch/design and all the rest. Why do you think testing is worth a special mention, when all the others contribute equally to the safety?"
[15:56:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Just A Few - 06Robocalling Scourge May Not be Unstoppable After All - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:56:42] <exec> 08└─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. This is actually best addressed through civil law.
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[16:53:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:HAW HAW - 06Btrfs RAID 5/6 Code Completely Hosed - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:53:29] <exec> 08└─Has btrfs ever had a stable release?
[16:53:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] 02Fuck the Olympics - 06Minnesota Carpet Cleaning Business Sues US Olympic Committee Over Ridiculous Social Media Rules - 650 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:53:39] <exec> 08└─and the Euro soccer tournament, and the world soccer tournament, and the Tour de France, and the Paris Dakar, and all the rest of the ultra-commercial sporting events that plague the yearly calendar one after the other. If you like sports, fine. But for the rest of us who don't give a rat's ass, it'...
[16:53:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02Re:Not allowed... - 06Minnesota Carpet Cleaning Business Sues US Olympic Committee Over Ridiculous Social Media Rules - 1480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:53:45] <exec> 08└─Well, some think that just linking to web sites can be a crime. I don't know if the official site of the Olympics is https://www.olympic.org [olympic.org] or https://www.rio2016.com [rio2016.com] or something else. What's with all this casual trampling upon our freedoms? Many freedoms are so ingra...
[16:53:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Trademark - 06Minnesota Carpet Cleaning Business Sues US Olympic Committee Over Ridiculous Social Media Rules - 971 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:53:50] <exec> 08└─The purpose of the trademarks is to prevent confusion in the market. AFAIK, the restrictions don't apply to you if you're not in the same business as the trademark grant specifies. A computer repair shop can freely tag their posts with #CocaCola. Furthermore, trademarks don't apply to obvious or geo...
[16:54:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:we follow the Founder in all things - 06Slingbox Founder and Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Blake Krikorian Has Died at 48 - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:54:02] <exec> 08└─Although I'm not quite 47, I recognize the damnable idiocy that is youth. In short- too stupid to know how stupid you really are. I'm doubtful the young would make for a better world, given the seat of power.
[16:54:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02So what is this story about? - 06FBI Releases Secret Spy Plane Footage from Freddie Gray Protests - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:15] <exec> 08└─So why is the ACLU all fired up and filing FOIA requests? What is supposed to be the issue here? When a city is on the edge of widespread civil disorder, isn't law enforcement supposed to be taking measures to prepare? What is the misdeed being investigated?
[16:54:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:and? - 06Particle Accelerator Reveals Hidden Degas Painting - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:54:26] <exec> 08└─Probably might have been a lot more expensive too. Not like finding this second painting and guessing the colours was that urgent.
[16:54:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:2, Informative) 02Re:Edelstein and the Guardian, really? - 06Apple Urged to Rethink Gun Emoji Change - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:54:54] <exec> 08└─This is modded funny, but take a gander here: https://www.rt.com [rt.com]
[16:55:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:As a standards guy, I say keep it. - 06Apple Urged to Rethink Gun Emoji Change - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:55:00] <exec> 08└─Check out the difference in turd emojis. No real standardization even now.
[16:56:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:2) 02Re:oww, so great. (눈‸눈) - 06Google Racks Up its First Contributions to Open Compute Project - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:56:00] <exec> 08└─Maybe people will care when their power supplies jump in price since: 1. Either the market got segregated causing PC\small servers peripherals to cost more. 2. Intel decided to scale production to PCs meaning the power-supply now needs to filter 4 times the spikes for power surges. This, while ARM S...
[16:57:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03dak664 [2433] (Score:2) 02Re:zombie food - 06Rapid Heating of Milk Can Extend Shelf Life By Weeks - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:57:21] <exec> 08└─But bacteria enter as soon as it is opened. My take is, if the bugs won't touch it, I won't eat it.
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[17:53:20] <exec> 08└─It's obviously sixth-dimensional extraterrestrial beings making sure we don't discover the history of their civilization.
[17:53:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Obv - 06NASA's Planet-Hunting Kepler Spacecraft Bouncing Back from Glitch - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:53:21] <exec> 08└─Wasn't that the plot of a Culture novel? Sublimed aliens didn't want a Culture anthropologist to study their history so they arranged an elaborate conspiracy to assassinate a Culture Mind who was suicidal anyway, with the seemingly unrelated side effect that the anthropologist was killed in the proc...
[17:53:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02thousands of planets - 06NASA's Planet-Hunting Kepler Spacecraft Bouncing Back from Glitch - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:53:23] <exec> 08└─We're on a thousand planets and spreading out. We cross fantastic distances and nothing's alive, man. Life nowhere. We estimate there are zero planets with intelligent life.
[17:53:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re:Shaking my head ... - 06Btrfs RAID 5/6 Code Completely Hosed - 494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:53:33] <exec> 08└─Sun's management was famously clueless. I've liked how the (in)famous USENIX talk on the subject, https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] which had a rather epic rant on the subject, describing the situation akin to Somalia warlords. That being said, I miss Sun. I rather deal with...
[17:53:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Funny) 02Re:Shaking my head ... - 06Btrfs RAID 5/6 Code Completely Hosed - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:53:35] <exec> 08└─btrfs- "I Can't Believe It's Not Better"® Well actually I can... ;)
[17:53:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fuck the Olympics - 06Minnesota Carpet Cleaning Business Sues US Olympic Committee Over Ridiculous Social Media Rules - 639 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:53:50] <exec> 08└─You do realize that many of the "segments" on those morning shows are just paid advertisements, right? I remember the day when a friend of mine bought two rounds of drinks because they got a guaranteed spot on a morning show. That meant enough people wrote in and liked it that his company a huge bre...
[17:53:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Focus on the problem - 06Minnesota Carpet Cleaning Business Sues US Olympic Committee Over Ridiculous Social Media Rules - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:54:00] <exec> 08└─Thee and me have signed no agreements with the IOC. Mentioning a sports event isn't in any shape or form illegal or any sort of IP infringement. Copy/paste of a news account is different of course. The focus of anger should be on -twitter- if they are enforcing such obviously bogus rules on using a...
[17:54:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:we follow the Founder in all things - 06Slingbox Founder and Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Blake Krikorian Has Died at 48 - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:54:13] <exec> 08└─every man wants to write a book and the end of the world is evidently approaching
[17:55:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:As a standards guy, I say keep it. - 06Apple Urged to Rethink Gun Emoji Change - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:55:08] <exec> 08└─Oh, I agree it is a total waste of resources, but then don't implement the standard at all. The selective picking and choosing of what parts to implement is a bigger problem. At least people will know it doesn't work, rather than having edge cases.
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[18:53:24] <exec> 08└─Just reject SYN with RST and leave the rest alone. Goddamn whippersnappers have to complicate everything for no good reason. It's a router. It does one job.
[18:53:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:thousands of planets - 06NASA's Planet-Hunting Kepler Spacecraft Bouncing Back from Glitch - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:53:34] <exec> 08└─Not even a female ionic cloud with a fetish for human men.
[18:53:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Shaking my head ... - 06Btrfs RAID 5/6 Code Completely Hosed - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:53:46] <exec> 08└─(Oracle owns ZFS and is also the chief contributor to btrfs)
[18:53:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03rleigh [4887] (Score:2) 02Re:We don't need backups, we have RAID! - 06Btrfs RAID 5/6 Code Completely Hosed - 1331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:53:51] <exec> 08└─Yep. I argued with my immediate boss about this at a previous job. He wouldn't have any of it, after all, the systems they had sold were all working fine and no customer had complained. A while later, a thunderstorm over a customer's shop caused a lightning strike, which went through the phone line,...
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[18:53:56] <exec> 08└─Different AC here, but I've had similar experiences with btrfs killing itself. It was on a fresh install of opensuse, I believe, and it didn't last a week before it wouldn't boot. Nothing fancy, no raid or the like, just pure defaults, hence why I used it at all. Didn't inspire confidence in the fil...
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[18:53:58] <exec> 08└─You most likely hit the unbalancing issue which makes it go read-only. I've seen this repeatedly. A rebalance would fix it, though it takes ages and kills the system's performance while it grinds away. Note I use "issue" rather than "bug" because it's more of a design flaw, though the implementation...
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[18:54:00] <exec> 08└─I've had bad experiences with it since the start. I wrote up some of the issues I had in this related thread: https://news.ycombinator.com [ycombinator.com] These horrific problems are by no means isolated instances. Even if the RAID1 code is now fixed, I've lost all trust...
[18:54:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Title needs correction - 06Btrfs RAID 5/6 Code Completely Hosed - 604 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:54:02] <exec> 08└─Same here. With the Second data loss (slow learner) I kicked BTRFS off my machines. It solves a lot of problems that no one new existed, and tries to be the systemd of file systems. You never know how much free space you actually have. And deleting data can actually take more space in unexpected way...
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[18:54:13] <exec> 08└─careful...it's bread and circuses that stop them going after the 0.01%....
[18:54:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score:2) 02Trademark rights - 06Minnesota Carpet Cleaning Business Sues US Olympic Committee Over Ridiculous Social Media Rules - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:21] <exec> 08└─The Committee announced last month that non-sponsors are banned from even using hashtags like #Rio2016 or #TeamUSA.
[18:54:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:we follow the Founder in all things - 06Slingbox Founder and Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Blake Krikorian Has Died at 48 - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:54:36] <exec> 08└─Difference being those quotes were written by people who had actually left mom's basement before the age of 35.
[18:54:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:1) 02Re:Black Helicopters - 06FBI Releases Secret Spy Plane Footage from Freddie Gray Protests - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:54:49] <exec> 08└─Did some googling. That was a trip down memory lane and a good laugh. I was one of three kids in our community whose parents let them go to government school
[18:55:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:not my planned obsolescence ! - 06New Form of Light Would Bind a Photon to an Electron - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:55:12] <exec> 08└─"[...] Moore's Law has come to be the most successful marketing gimmick and implementation of planned obsolescence in history."—http://www.itworld.com/article/2949368/hardware/the-impending-end-of-moores-law-is-not-intels-biggest-problem.html [itworld.com]
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[19:53:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score:2) 02Re:I want dumb-brick firmware, damn you! - 06New Home Router OS Tackles Firmware Shortcomings - 3573 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:53:23] <exec> 08└─I guess I never realized that home routers were supposed to be insecure so that they were easy to use? Untangle, anyway, is the company behind Cymphonix, an "in-line" content filter and proxy, router, and security device that isn't a firewall when taken into the context of what traditional firewalls...
[19:53:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:I want dumb-brick firmware, damn you! - 06New Home Router OS Tackles Firmware Shortcomings - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:53:25] <exec> 08└─A cursory glance doesn't state how or what makes those decisions, but the comparison page to other router OSes that are designed for entirely different purposes and are not apples-to-apples is here: https://wiki.untangle.com [untangle.com] This also shows that i...
[19:53:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Re:I want dumb-brick firmware, damn you! - 06New Home Router OS Tackles Firmware Shortcomings - 568 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:53:27] <exec> 08└─> Here's one that always gets me excited: "Prevent devices from visiting malicious sites" I've been thinking about implementing a module for DD-WRT that does something like that. Essentially it needs to identify each device type and then white-list the ip addresses it is legitimately supposed to tal...
[19:53:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Odd place to start - 06New Home Router OS Tackles Firmware Shortcomings - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:29] <exec> 08└─They mention starting with the Asus AC3100 RT AC88U as a target platform. However, that router is relatively new, and not known to be particularly wanting in terms of firmware. It has a capable processor, and not horrible software which has had updates. Why not start with something well deployed, ha...
[19:53:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Post-Nihilist [5672] (Score:2) 02Re:Shaking my head ... - 06Btrfs RAID 5/6 Code Completely Hosed - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:53:49] <exec> 08└─Sun's management was well past the cluelessness point, they were deep into the Kafka zone. When I got bored by that chearleading job, I did a small experiment: Instead of quitting I kept submitting reports on how i spent my time fillings the report requested by the other managers, naively thinking t...
[19:54:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Fuck the Olympics - 06Minnesota Carpet Cleaning Business Sues US Olympic Committee Over Ridiculous Social Media Rules - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:54:13] <exec> 08└─I literally don't know a single guy who watches morning tv. I thought they were all chick-shows. (Not that I am allowed to touch the remote control at that time of day mind you).
[19:54:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02Re:Fuck the Olympics - 06Minnesota Carpet Cleaning Business Sues US Olympic Committee Over Ridiculous Social Media Rules - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:54:14] <exec> 08└─I can watch the first hour in about 30 minutes with my DVR. Only the first hour is worth watching. Is there anyone naive enough to not think those "hottest trends for the $season" segments are anything but paid ads?
[19:54:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score:2) 02Drama queen much ? - 06Minnesota Carpet Cleaning Business Sues US Olympic Committee Over Ridiculous Social Media Rules - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:54:18] <exec> 08└─While I realize a lot of people don't care about sports, and I freely acknowledge it is your right and privilege to complain about it and not watch. Don't you think that "... being assaulted by sports talk..." is a little over the top ? Next you will be battered by a brawny commercial ? Raped by a l...
[19:54:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Not allowed... - 06Minnesota Carpet Cleaning Business Sues US Olympic Committee Over Ridiculous Social Media Rules - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:54:22] <exec> 08└─Its not just the hashtags. A few years ago the USOC went after a lot of western Washington businesses on the Olympic Peninsula [dvorak.org] about the word Olympic in their name. I believe the Washington Attorney General shut them up with a threat and pointed out an exemption in US law.
[19:54:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03gmrath [4181] (Score:1) 02Re:Trademark rights - 06Minnesota Carpet Cleaning Business Sues US Olympic Committee Over Ridiculous Social Media Rules - 505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:54:31] <exec> 08└─That they may claim rights they "simply don't have," is no doubt true, but they DO have lots of money and lawyers and lobyists to make sure their worldview prevails, things the small fry don't have. Only large entities with resources could fight them to a possible successful conclusion - but most of...
[19:54:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Black Helicopters - 06FBI Releases Secret Spy Plane Footage from Freddie Gray Protests - 1179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:54:58] <exec> 08└─My parents were not sovereign citizens. In fact, my dad worked for a local community college. We just happened to live in a sovereign community that grew up around us. Property came cheap ($1k/acre) and there was a huge lake in the middle. Easy peazy for people to move in. My parents paid taxes, wer...
[19:55:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02make love not war - 06Apple Urged to Rethink Gun Emoji Change - 159 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:55:48] <exec> 08└─Change the gun emoji to a penis. That would change it from an X-rated symbol to a mere R-rated sym--- wait, the penis is the X-rated one? Isn't that backwards?
[19:55:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Metaphors - 06Apple Urged to Rethink Gun Emoji Change - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:55:56] <exec> 08└─Look at his post history; words like "emasculate" come up in conversations that nothing whatsoever to do with, for example, neutering pets. I've always been amused by how a certain type of man--it's ALWAYS a man!--sees everything on the national and societal level through the lens of macho, Iron-Age...
[19:56:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score:2) 02Re:whipping llama ass - 06Apple Urged to Rethink Gun Emoji Change - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:56:05] <exec> 08└─I'm upset no one mentioned Winamp as the best player to use to play Devo music on... The fact that the media center was removed from win10 would give it a sort of de-evolutionary feel, too.
[19:56:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03theluggage [1797] 02Stupid on so many levels... - 06Apple Urged to Rethink Gun Emoji Change - 1500 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:56:06] <exec> 08└─Seriously? Which way do you want to look at this? The idea that the easy availability of guns and the legal right for everybody to carry them might result in more shootings is, at the very least, a hypothesis worthy of debate. The idea that the availability or otherwise of "realistic" gun Emoji migh...
[19:56:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:Remember Clipper - 06FBI Chief Calls for National Talk Over Encryption vs. Safety - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:56:36] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately, while I believe you could make a very good case for malfeasance, it doesn't meet the constitutional definition of treason.
[19:57:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03ah.clem [4241] (Score:2) 02There was a bit of a solution - 06Robocalling Scourge May Not be Unstoppable After All - 830 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:57:53] <exec> 08└─About 3 years ago, someone came up with a solution that worked by comparing incoming numbers to frequently used spammer numbers and shunting the calls off to a disconnect after one ring. It was a free service and I signed up for it and it works great. The problem is, I can't remember who developed i...
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[20:53:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02So like everything else 3D printed... - 06Statue Destroyed 1,500 Years Ago Revived Through 3D Printing - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:53:26] <exec> 08└─Its fake, tiny, and useless plastic.
[20:53:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Uncle_Al [1108] (Score:1) 021.8 metres tall - 06Statue Destroyed 1,500 Years Ago Revived Through 3D Printing - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:53:27] <exec> 08└─Now they just need Spinal Tap to write a song about it.
[20:53:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I want dumb-brick firmware, damn you! - 06New Home Router OS Tackles Firmware Shortcomings - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:53:40] <exec> 08└─> You want to maintain whitelists PER device of legitimate sites? Have you thought this through? Oh frojo... There are tons of single use devices that need only very limited internet access. Nest, roku, sonos, tivo, ring doorbell, ip security cams, xbox, phillips hue, etc. So yes, I have thought it...
[20:53:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03gmrath [4181] (Score:1) 02Re:thousands of planets - 06NASA's Planet-Hunting Kepler Spacecraft Bouncing Back from Glitch - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:53:52] <exec> 08└─Wow, this one goes way back. . . One of the better episodes.
[20:54:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02pain and negativity - 06Minnesota Carpet Cleaning Business Sues US Olympic Committee Over Ridiculous Social Media Rules - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:54:42] <exec> 08└─"especially at a time when we're going through a time of pain and negativity." What does this mean in the context of a carpet cleaning business? Deep stains?
[20:55:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02As predicted - 06Apple Urged to Rethink Gun Emoji Change - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:55:58] <exec> 08└─It seems like I'm not the only one who saw this serious problem (although my comment was rated Funny for some reason): https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] Really, you'd think no on at Apple has a brain.
[20:58:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Homogenization - 06Rapid Heating of Milk Can Extend Shelf Life By Weeks - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:58:28] <exec> 08└─Since almost all milk is homogenized, just do the heating in the homogenization nozzle?
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[21:53:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02I can't see this backfiring at all. Nope. - 06'Campus Carry' Goes Into Effect as Texas Remembers UT Tower Shootings 50 Years Later - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:19] <exec> 08└─Surely nothing bad will come from this. Armed society is polite society. No one ever makes a bad decision in college. If good guys have guns, they can stop bad guys with guns...out of range...unseen...100 feet off the ground...yeaaaaah, that's the ticket! Queue the Darwin Awards nominations.
[21:53:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I can't see this backfiring at all. Nope. - 06'Campus Carry' Goes Into Effect as Texas Remembers UT Tower Shootings 50 Years Later - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:53:21] <exec> 08└─Why did something just vreep?
[21:53:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score:2) 02So they can sell it - 06New Home Router OS Tackles Firmware Shortcomings - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:53:42] <exec> 08└─My guess is that they're targeting a new high-end router so they can sell it flashed them with their OS at really high prices. (Or rather, they're targeting a new router in part to justify the high cost they'll sell at.) I wouldn't be surprised if it eventually turns out that their OS turned out to...
[21:54:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Shaking my head ... - 06Btrfs RAID 5/6 Code Completely Hosed - 971 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:54:07] <exec> 08└─Apart from the nutters that insist upon using draconian licensing schemes to control developer behavior, was there every really any point to the filesystem? It seems to me that the problem with Linux filesystems isn't that there are too few of them, but that there's so many that they often times are...
[21:54:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score:2) 02Re:Shaking my head ... - 06Btrfs RAID 5/6 Code Completely Hosed - 603 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:54:08] <exec> 08└─ZFS has everything BTRFS has, but in a vastly superior interface. Last I checked each snapshot in BTRFS needed to be mounted(why?) making your mount screen look like a tragedy. Also writable snapshots? Why would I ever want to write to a snapshot?! The point of a snapshot is it's frozen. Of course Z...
[21:54:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Title needs correction - 06Btrfs RAID 5/6 Code Completely Hosed - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:54:19] <exec> 08└─It's also default on SUSE commercial distro that is supported until 2030 or something, so .... but you can also select Ext4 or XFS too. But some influential people were pushing for it so SUSE is stuck with it now - hopefully it's not too buggy!
[21:54:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Title needs correction - 06Btrfs RAID 5/6 Code Completely Hosed - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:54:20] <exec> 08└─Nope, in my SuSE case, it was a single disk VM and mounting it into another VM with btrfs support reported errors when running through the diagnostic procedure on the wiki. But, if you have stupid things pop up like rebalancing in normal use in less than a week on a single disk after light use, assu...
[21:54:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Re:Title needs correction - 06Btrfs RAID 5/6 Code Completely Hosed - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:54:24] <exec> 08└─For a different anecdotal viewpoint, I have been using BTRFS (without RAID) for six months now and have had zero issues, with constant writing and deleting of large media files with LUKS encryption.
[21:54:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03rleigh [4887] (Score:2) 02Re:Title needs correction - 06Btrfs RAID 5/6 Code Completely Hosed - 1938 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:54:26] <exec> 08└─This is a "relatively safe" mode of operation, since you're not using any of the RAID code, and it's also much better tested in this mode. But, the thing with filesystems is that it's all fine when there are no problems, since if there are no faults you're not exercising any of the failure codepaths...
[21:54:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Load of crap - 06Minnesota Carpet Cleaning Business Sues US Olympic Committee Over Ridiculous Social Media Rules - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:52] <exec> 08└─The Olympics are overrated anyway. They need to get over themselves.
[21:55:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02How hands off are the county inspectors up there? - 06FBI Releases Secret Spy Plane Footage from Freddie Gray Protests - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:55:22] <exec> 08└─I'm between emigrating and disappearing up into a community/area like that. Is it still possible to buy property near there? How (un)friendly are the locals to newcomers moving in to keep to themselves? Not interesting in causing trouble, but also not looking to waste 30k per permit improving my own...
[21:55:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:So what is this story about? - 06FBI Releases Secret Spy Plane Footage from Freddie Gray Protests - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:55:24] <exec> 08└─In case you're serious: remember that riot is the language of the oppressed. Humanity, like water, can't be compressed very much before things explode or move large objects (see: hydraulics). Sometimes, people bring riots on themselves. I can only hope that, in a fit of poetic irony, your ticket to...
[21:56:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Metaphors - 06Apple Urged to Rethink Gun Emoji Change - 927 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:56:22] <exec> 08└─It is a common, if not universal, aspect of fascism to worry about the alleged loss of masculinity. From Heidegger to Yukio Mishima, there is a constant complaint that men are being femininized. Mishima reported that in Chinese medicine it used to be possible to differentiate the gender of a person...
[21:57:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Re:On silence - 06Robert Fano Dead at Age 98 - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:57:44] <exec> 08└─I like to read the articles, but don't comment very often these days because everything seems to degenerate into a rant fest about Jews, Muslims, SJWs, reds, women etc.
[21:57:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Re:On silence - 06Robert Fano Dead at Age 98 - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:57:46] <exec> 08└─Oh, and if you're anything other than a gun-toting, god-fearing Libertarian, prepare to be argued into oblivion.
[21:58:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:1) 02Re: from the isn't-this-just-uht-milk? dept. - 06Rapid Heating of Milk Can Extend Shelf Life By Weeks - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:58:32] <exec> 08└─Nobody knows what milk really tastes like, not because of pasteurization, but because of homogenization. It's funny how dairy products have been modified to prevent the formation of the best part: cream at the top of milk bottles and skin at the top of yogurt.
[21:58:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score:2) 02Re:zombie food - 06Rapid Heating of Milk Can Extend Shelf Life By Weeks - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:58:41] <exec> 08└─Yes, bacteria enter it immediately. That's why shelf life doesn't mean lifetime after opening. Once you open it, all bets are off. They're talking about the time while it's shipped/on the shelf in the store unopened. After it's opened, the bacteria chow down on it just like any other milk. This only...
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[22:53:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:I can't see this backfiring at all. Nope. - 06'Campus Carry' Goes Into Effect as Texas Remembers UT Tower Shootings 50 Years Later - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:53:21] <exec> 08└─I'm actually interested in how this will turn out. I don't know how hard it is to get a concealed carry, but I have a feeling it isn't easy so a college student or faculty / work will probably take the responsibility seriously. Most stupid decisions happen off campus anyway where the concealed carry...
[22:53:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:I can't see this backfiring at all. Nope. - 06'Campus Carry' Goes Into Effect as Texas Remembers UT Tower Shootings 50 Years Later - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:53:22] <exec> 08└─In Texas? Dunno. Across the river in Oklahoma? Gun safety class, prove you can hit the broad side of a barn, and don't have any felonies that would prevent you from owning a gun.
[22:53:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I can't see this backfiring at all. Nope. - 06'Campus Carry' Goes Into Effect as Texas Remembers UT Tower Shootings 50 Years Later - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:53:24] <exec> 08└─Don't you know? There will always be something bad coming from every decision, to someone. It's just a question of wether the good outweights the bad. I bet you've never fired a gun, so your passive aggressiveness is uncalled for.
[22:53:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Walzmyn [987] (Score:4, Informative) 02Good - 06'Campus Carry' Goes Into Effect as Texas Remembers UT Tower Shootings 50 Years Later - 774 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:53:27] <exec> 08└─As a graduate of a college in the South, I can tell you firearms are already carried concealed on campus. It's good to be making it legal. I wish our pansy governor here wouldn't have overturned our law. Not sure about the Texas law, but the Georgia one would have only allowed 21 year olds with CCLs...
[22:53:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:Good - 06'Campus Carry' Goes Into Effect as Texas Remembers UT Tower Shootings 50 Years Later - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:53:29] <exec> 08└─Most people serious enough to go through the trouble and expense of getting a carry permit aren't going to do something that gets them a felony conviction and forgoes their gun rights forever.
[22:53:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2, Informative) 02Private colleges and universities - 06'Campus Carry' Goes Into Effect as Texas Remembers UT Tower Shootings 50 Years Later - 967 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:53:31] <exec> 08└─What's telling is that private colleges and universities in Texas [dallasnews.com] have almost unanimously opted out of this law. I recall reading that only one private college in the entire state decided to let guns in. You'd think in the land of Texas -- full of conservative gun-toting god-fearin...
[22:53:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score:1, Flamebait) 02It's a good decision... - 06'Campus Carry' Goes Into Effect as Texas Remembers UT Tower Shootings 50 Years Later - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:53:33] <exec> 08└─Terrorists are not idiots. If there's a choice between shooting people on an armed campus, and an unarmed campus I'd bet they would choose the one without guns..who wouldn't? They are not making a passionate in the moment decision: They are planning, preparing, and executing their intent. What if 20...
[22:53:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:So like everything else 3D printed... - 06Statue Destroyed 1,500 Years Ago Revived Through 3D Printing - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:53:42] <exec> 08└─No. 1: plastic isn't fake. It's real and extremely useful. No. 2: amber is a type of plastic. No. 3: fuck Stratasys the Microsoft of the 3D printing world (in botherhood with 3D Systems)
[22:53:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:1.8 metres tall - 06Statue Destroyed 1,500 Years Ago Revived Through 3D Printing - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:53:45] <exec> 08└─"I don' care if it rains or freezes, 'long as I got my plastic, um, Zeus, Sitting on the, um, bed of my pickup?"
[22:54:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So they can sell it - 06New Home Router OS Tackles Firmware Shortcomings - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:54:00] <exec> 08└─http://www.snbforums.com/threads/state-of-the-project-august-2016.33995/ [snbforums.com] And apparently ASUS is basically going to closed source.
[22:54:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03driven [6295] (Score:1) 02Smart TV spying - 06New Home Router OS Tackles Firmware Shortcomings - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:02] <exec> 08└─I want my router to block Smart TV spying. More and more devices will be spying on us (not the least of which is Windows 10, not that I use it personally) - I hope to see anti-spying features implemented in an easy to use manner.
[22:54:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02FYI... - 06Btrfs RAID 5/6 Code Completely Hosed - 1259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:54:27] <exec> 08└─crashing an ext4 filesystem by having your seagate harddrive overheat does the same thing. And yes I have tried with ext2/3 and the same thing doesn't happen... HOWEVER running ext3 on the ext4 driver DOES cause similiar corruption. So now all my archival partitions stay ext2 and only my OS drives e...
[22:55:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Next Target: Thucydides - 06Minnesota Carpet Cleaning Business Sues US Olympic Committee Over Ridiculous Social Media Rules - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:55:11] <exec> 08└─Anyone talking about Zeus, Hera, Athena, et al are going to be referring to Olympians, and if they get into a detailed discussion of Greek religious practices they'll even talk about the Olympic Games. Therefore, all those Greek writers and modern scholars of that stuff are clearly in violation of t...
[22:56:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Metaphors - 06Apple Urged to Rethink Gun Emoji Change - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:56:42] <exec> 08└─To me, this speaks of 1) deep personal anxiety and 2) a frankly dangerous, one-sided view of sexuality.
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[23:53:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03deadstick [5110] (Score:2) 02Re:I can't see this backfiring at all. Nope. - 06'Campus Carry' Goes Into Effect as Texas Remembers UT Tower Shootings 50 Years Later - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:53:29] <exec> 08└─Here in Colorado, even the firing range session is optional. You just have to pass a police record check and sit through a half-day presentation -- most of which is an infomercial for a prepaid legal-services plan.
[23:53:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:I can't see this backfiring at all. Nope. - 06'Campus Carry' Goes Into Effect as Texas Remembers UT Tower Shootings 50 Years Later - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:53:31] <exec> 08└─You would lose that bet, sir. I have. I liked it. What's that sound? Why, another assumption shattering, of course.
[23:53:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03deadstick [5110] (Score:2) 02Re:Good - 06'Campus Carry' Goes Into Effect as Texas Remembers UT Tower Shootings 50 Years Later - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:53:35] <exec> 08└─the trouble and expense
[23:53:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Good - 06'Campus Carry' Goes Into Effect as Texas Remembers UT Tower Shootings 50 Years Later - 550 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:53:38] <exec> 08└─Why would college students only in the South need guns? Are they threatened by education? Are they insecure and scared to death so that they must have either medication, or a soothing hunk of metal that can spew hot death, if need be? Or are the involved in dangerous and illegal activities, blood f...
[23:53:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Private colleges and universities - 06'Campus Carry' Goes Into Effect as Texas Remembers UT Tower Shootings 50 Years Later - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:53:41] <exec> 08└─What's telling is that private colleges and universities in Texas have almost unanimously opted out of this law. I recall reading that only one private college in the entire state decided to let guns in.
[23:53:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Private colleges and universities - 06'Campus Carry' Goes Into Effect as Texas Remembers UT Tower Shootings 50 Years Later - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:53:43] <exec> 08└─The point is that private schools have the option to opt out, but Texas State institutions do not, per the legislation, have this open to them. The inference is that public schools would also choose to disallow firearms, if they could.
[23:53:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:It's a good decision... - 06'Campus Carry' Goes Into Effect as Texas Remembers UT Tower Shootings 50 Years Later - 483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:53:46] <exec> 08└─The club had an armed guard, who did exchange gunfire with the attacker. However, he gave up because he deemed himself "outgunned." http://www.orlandosentinel.com [orlandosentinel.com] Some commentators have su...
[23:53:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03snufu [5855] (Score:2) 02Professor... - 06'Campus Carry' Goes Into Effect as Texas Remembers UT Tower Shootings 50 Years Later - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:53:48] <exec> 08└─Let's have a little chat about the 'F' you gave me on the last exam.
[23:53:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Professor... - 06'Campus Carry' Goes Into Effect as Texas Remembers UT Tower Shootings 50 Years Later - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:53:51] <exec> 08└─As a Professor, I find that when you have students named "Greedo", sometimes it is better to just . . .
[23:53:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score:2) 02awesome business idea - 06'Campus Carry' Goes Into Effect as Texas Remembers UT Tower Shootings 50 Years Later - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:53:53] <exec> 08└─I'm tihnking... green organic decomposing one-use bullet proof fashion wear in vending machines all over campus. Also, vending machines with gun accessories, i.e. silencers, kydex holsters, pink lanyards for the girls, etc. Think of the profit! You heard it first here on SN!
[23:54:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Ebony and ivory... - 06Statue Destroyed 1,500 Years Ago Revived Through 3D Printing - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:54:03] <exec> 08└─...lived together in perfect harmony side by side in old statues now whose fools are we?
[23:54:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:I want dumb-brick firmware, damn you! - 06New Home Router OS Tackles Firmware Shortcomings - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:54:17] <exec> 08└─For those you don't want any packets leaving your network. Unfortunately, unless you emulate the manufacturer's server, you will be bricking your device.
[23:54:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I want dumb-brick firmware, damn you! - 06New Home Router OS Tackles Firmware Shortcomings - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:54:18] <exec> 08└─A router with interchangeable bits--what will they think of next!
[23:54:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score:2) 02Re:So they can sell it - 06New Home Router OS Tackles Firmware Shortcomings - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:54:24] <exec> 08└─Sorry for the mangled first sentence... I thought I hit "Preview" and instead hit "Submit." :-p (Wow, not my day… I apparently also hit "preview" instead of "submit" for this comment before walking off.)
[23:54:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score:2) 02Re:Smart TV spying - 06New Home Router OS Tackles Firmware Shortcomings - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:54:27] <exec> 08└─Tv calls home. No reply. Tv stops working. Will be the same for many devices..
[23:54:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score:2) 02Re:Shaking my head ... - 06Btrfs RAID 5/6 Code Completely Hosed - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:54:53] <exec> 08└─Apart from the nutters that insist upon using draconian licensing schemes to control developer behavior, was there every really any point to the filesystem?
[23:55:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Trademark - 06Minnesota Carpet Cleaning Business Sues US Olympic Committee Over Ridiculous Social Media Rules - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:55:32] <exec> 08└─Create DRM that uses the phrase as its decryption key.
[23:55:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score:2) 02Re:Trademark rights - 06Minnesota Carpet Cleaning Business Sues US Olympic Committee Over Ridiculous Social Media Rules - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:55:36] <exec> 08└─Exactly. They are giant assholes.
[23:55:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03seeprime [5580] (Score:2) 02The "rules" aren't laws - 06Minnesota Carpet Cleaning Business Sues US Olympic Committee Over Ridiculous Social Media Rules - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:55:41] <exec> 08└─Who do these assholes think they are? Anyone can communicate about anything as long as it's not about committing, or plotting to commit, a crime. Fuck the Olympic committee and anyone that thinks that they can stop humans from doing human things, even tweeting.
[23:55:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The "rules" aren't laws - 06Minnesota Carpet Cleaning Business Sues US Olympic Committee Over Ridiculous Social Media Rules - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:55:44] <exec> 08└─They got special laws and treaties passed to make their rules laws. Well, you can interpret those laws to mean that they can make the rules or you can interpret those laws differently. This lawsuit should decide. So yes, the Olympic committee is 'above' standard copyright, trademark, and IP laws. Du...
[23:56:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How hands off are the county inspectors up ther - 06FBI Releases Secret Spy Plane Footage from Freddie Gray Protests - 1489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:56:13] <exec> 08└─I don't know anything at all about county inspectors. I didn't even know that was a thing until I graduated college and bought my first house in a metro area. I saw all sorts of shit people did to their houses when I was growing up that probably aren't kosher. Areas like Moore County, Hoke County, a...
[23:56:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:1) 02Re:Edelstein and the Guardian, really? - 06Apple Urged to Rethink Gun Emoji Change - 530 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:56:55] <exec> 08└─Exactly. Whenever you think the government won't react over a cartoon caricature of a weapon, just remember this [techdirt.com]. (For those who don't want to bother with the link -- the TSA actually provided a tiny cartoon "bomb" paperweight photo that looks like something used by Wile E. Coyote as...
[23:57:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:1) 02Re:Careful What You Ask For: - 06FBI Chief Calls for National Talk Over Encryption vs. Safety - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:57:37] <exec> 08└─I can think of a more wise man to turn to to speak than myself...Ben Franklin..."Those Who Sacrifice Liberty For Security Deserve Neither".
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