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[00:01:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03el_oscuro [1711] (Score:2) 02Re:Hail - 06Elon Musk: "It's a Solar Roof, as Opposed to Modules on a Roof" - 1140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:01:57] <exec> 08└─You mean 2003? It was over. Microsoft had won. IE specific pages dominated the Internet. Competition was non-existent. Even I had come around and used IE, but wanted something better. Mozilla 1.0 appeared with an automatic popup blocker and suddenly the Internet was a much nicer place even if some w...
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[00:53:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Agree with DEA - 06DEA Mines Travel Records, Seizes Millions in Cash to "Feed the Monster" - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:53:40] <exec> 08└─Or fix the system and make "legal" highway robbery illegal.
[00:53:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score:2) 02Re:Agree with DEA - 06DEA Mines Travel Records, Seizes Millions in Cash to "Feed the Monster" - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:53:42] <exec> 08└─Come on now, read what you wrote there: If you are wronged by your civil asset forfeiture, then sue and make your suit and its circumstances public. Else If you are too poor to sue, make the circumstances public. Else be glad you're not rotting behind bars.
[00:53:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Agree with DEA - 06DEA Mines Travel Records, Seizes Millions in Cash to "Feed the Monster" - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:53:44] <exec> 08└─Fuck yeah. It's the best goddamn country on Earth. It's better than Canada (run by an infant at the wheel of a large automobile), Mexico (full of impulsive potato-headed retards) and everything below it, Europe (enjoy your multiculturalism and subsequent downfall), Russia, everywhere else. America i...
[00:53:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Agree with DEA - 06DEA Mines Travel Records, Seizes Millions in Cash to "Feed the Monster" - 454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:53:46] <exec> 08└─Absolutely not They count on this as part of the budget," said Louis Weiss, a former supervisor of the DEA group assigned to Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. "Basically, you've got to feed the monster." In most cases, records show the agents gave the suspected couriers a receipt fo...
[00:53:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:Agree with DEA - 06DEA Mines Travel Records, Seizes Millions in Cash to "Feed the Monster" - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:53:50] <exec> 08└─Going to a police auction, for example. Moving. Buying business equipment.
[00:53:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Agree with DEA - 06DEA Mines Travel Records, Seizes Millions in Cash to "Feed the Monster" - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:53:53] <exec> 08└─Buying real estate.
[00:53:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Agree with DEA - 06DEA Mines Travel Records, Seizes Millions in Cash to "Feed the Monster" - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:53:55] <exec> 08└─Clinton Foundation / China, please go home.
[00:53:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Agree with DEA - 06DEA Mines Travel Records, Seizes Millions in Cash to "Feed the Monster" - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:53:57] <exec> 08└─When is being pro-fascist a good idea? Why let people cross stat borders without showing papers? They could be illegals let in by the lazy state next door! Why let poor people vote, they obviously couldn't afford a good education and don't understand the issues. Why let trolls exist on SN, not like...
[00:54:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Yog-Yogguth [1862] (Score:2) 02That can't be worth it - 06$200,000 for a Serious iOS Bug? We'll Give You $500,000 - 903 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:54:18] <exec> 08└─That microscopic writing sure is very very loud, why don't they just state it in plain English that they're absolutely desperate for smart people dumb enough to allow them to "potentially" fuck them up while they're hiding behind a combined alibi and penance consisting of 500000 small slips of green...
[00:54:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport! - 06Australian Census: Hacked or Just Ill-Prepared? - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:54:30] <exec> 08└─Malcolm's part'll be: Tan me hide when I'm dead, Fred Tan me hide when I'm dead So we tanned his hide when he died, Clyde And that's it hangin' on the shed!! Altogether now!
[00:54:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Anonymous claims responsibility - 06Australian Census: Hacked or Just Ill-Prepared? - 614 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:54:34] <exec> 08└─Other than what the inmates do to each other, which quite frankly is hard to stop without severe steps being taken to prevent people having a "sexual emergency", I ask: what child abuse? Those people are living in better conditions than ranges of people in Australia. Yet they complain, train the chi...
[00:54:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Timing of attacks - 06Australian Census: Hacked or Just Ill-Prepared? - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:54:37] <exec> 08└─I wonder if anyone bothered to check if the timing of these "attacks" coincided with commercial breaks and the end of TV shows.
[00:54:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:State vs. Federal - 06Appeals Court Rules the FCC Cannot Override State Laws Banning Municipal ISPs - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:54:58] <exec> 08└─I'm too old and bitter to believe we can fix ourselves the peaceful way. things have been broken for a long time - some things have been broken nearly 100 years.
[00:54:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03fnj [1654] (Score:2) 02Re:State vs. Federal - 06Appeals Court Rules the FCC Cannot Override State Laws Banning Municipal ISPs - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:54:59] <exec> 08└─infatuated with the fantasy of revolution
[00:55:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:State vs. Federal - 06Appeals Court Rules the FCC Cannot Override State Laws Banning Municipal ISPs - 3736 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:55:01] <exec> 08└─I'm right there with you, for all the same reasons. I don't want violence... but it's the only future we have. One of great bloodshed, everywhere. For no other reason than people can no longer survive off a day's work. We both know the simple reasons why the bloodshed will occur; Food, shelter, ente...
[00:55:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03fnj [1654] (Score:2) 02Re:State vs. Federal - 06Appeals Court Rules the FCC Cannot Override State Laws Banning Municipal ISPs - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:55:09] <exec> 08└─disingenuous
[00:55:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Seek immediate medical attention! - 06Appeals Court Rules the FCC Cannot Override State Laws Banning Municipal ISPs - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:55:23] <exec> 08└─... and god help you if it turns professional.
[00:55:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:captain obvious department - 06Google Maps Accused of Deleting Palestine - But the Truth is More Complicated - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:55:54] <exec> 08└─I'm pointing out that not all jews like Bibi and approve of his actions. There are lots of people who would like to see him and the extremist settler parties gone from government and the Occupied Territories
[00:55:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:captain obvious department - 06Google Maps Accused of Deleting Palestine - But the Truth is More Complicated - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:55:55] <exec> 08└─What are those 'people' (if one could call jews 'people' That is an antisimitic statement. I have no love of the jewish, I do not care how we got here, the fighting must stop. If the arabs/muslims put down their weapons today there would be peace. If israel puts down its weapons there would be no is...
[00:56:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:ISIS Claims Responsibility - 06Student Built Electric Racecar - Lithium Battery Fire in Hotel Room - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:56:23] <exec> 08└─Somehow I reckon ISIS is not yet dumb enough to attempt something nasty against China.
[00:57:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Resistance... is futile. Huh? - 06Google Employees Enjoyed "Revolving Door" to White House Appointed Positions - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:57:44] <exec> 08└─Beyond that, I think Google has seen it's opportunity, it can be the next Goldman Sachs or McKinsey & Co... There won't be a sovereign state in the world without one of their alumni in an important but unelected and unaccountable position, shaping policy where it matters.
[00:58:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Also - 06WikiLeaks Announces $20k Bounty For Murderer(s) of DNC Staffer - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:58:27] <exec> 08└─Obvious suicide is obvious. Nothing to see here.
[00:59:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not trivial to recreate the Saturn V - 06Book Review: Moonrush by Dennis Wingo - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:59:35] <exec> 08└─> Operational sub assembly lines in 4 to 5 years, and full assemblies in 7 to 10. Isn't this about the same amount of time as the Saturn V program took the first time around? I take your point that with modern processes & machinery it will be much easier to make many of them...once the design is ada...
[01:00:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Should I laugh or should I cry? - 06Bungling Microsoft Singlehandedly Proves that Golden Backdoor Keys are a Terrible Idea - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:00:34] <exec> 08└─Worst troll ever.
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[01:53:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score:2) 02Re:... - 06DEA Mines Travel Records, Seizes Millions in Cash to "Feed the Monster" - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:53:40] <exec> 08└─Exactly. This is theft. They figured it'd cost $5k to appeal, figuring the victim wouldn't bother since they'd lose $1k doing it even if they win.
[01:53:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jeremiah Cornelius [2785] (Score:2) 02Re:Agree with DEA - 06DEA Mines Travel Records, Seizes Millions in Cash to "Feed the Monster" - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:53:48] <exec> 08└─A 'best country" contest is like a beauty pageant for blue-ribbon turds.
[01:53:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03lgw [2836] (Score:1) 02Re:Agree with DEA - 06DEA Mines Travel Records, Seizes Millions in Cash to "Feed the Monster" - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:53:57] <exec> 08└─1 - why does it matter? Prove guilt. 2 - 200 miles? That's not even the nearest city in Texas. Bringing a "decent sum" to a relative to make/repay a loan happens a lot.
[01:53:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score:2) 02Re:Agree with DEA - 06DEA Mines Travel Records, Seizes Millions in Cash to "Feed the Monster" - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:53:59] <exec> 08└─Buying a pinball machine. I used to restore and trade them. It's a cash an carry hobby, and just driving in state for the right game can be a 500 mile trip each way easily. (Texas is big...)
[01:54:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:1) 02Re:Agree with DEA - 06DEA Mines Travel Records, Seizes Millions in Cash to "Feed the Monster" - 480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:54:01] <exec> 08└─I'm honestly surprised by this post, Ethanol. I guess it shows even in a small town people can still surprise each other every now and then. So let me ask you this. Don't you think accepting this kind of behavior from the government is dangerous to people who would prefer not to trust their wealth t...
[01:54:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jeremiah Cornelius [2785] (Score:2) 02Re:Something smells, but it ain't drugs - 06DEA Mines Travel Records, Seizes Millions in Cash to "Feed the Monster" - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:54:06] <exec> 08└─And the coke isn't even like it once was, back in last gasp of magnificent disco...
[01:54:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Nonsense - 06Appeals Court Rules the FCC Cannot Override State Laws Banning Municipal ISPs - 994 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:54:58] <exec> 08└─"As to whether a state can ban a city from municipal ISP, that would depend on that state's own constitution." Except, I'm not aware of any cases in which a community run ISP was beaten down based on some vague constitutional issue. Each and every case of which I'm aware is based on the vague idea t...
[01:55:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03fnj [1654] (Score:2) 02Re:State vs. Federal - 06Appeals Court Rules the FCC Cannot Override State Laws Banning Municipal ISPs - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:55:13] <exec> 08└─I'm sorry, I wasn't aware they suspended elections in North Carolina and Tennessee
[01:56:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03korger [4465] 02The US is up to its antics, as usual - 06Google Maps Accused of Deleting Palestine - But the Truth is More Complicated - 2386 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:56:06] <exec> 08└─The US does not recognize Palestine, and the problem here is that an American firm is pushing this view on other countries who have a different world view. The US is so powerful that it always finds a way to promote its agenda and convert others. This must stop. I'm just reading the book "O Jerusale...
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[02:53:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Trojan horse - 06Cisco Gives Cable Industry Tech for 10Gbps Uploads on DOCSIS - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:53:30] <exec> 08└─These sorts of corporate gifts are always Trojan horses filled to the brim with submarine patents...or submarine horses filled with Trojan patents.
[02:53:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02greed is great - 06Flaw in Facebook Copyright Tool Earns Expert $4,000 - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:53:37] <exec> 08└─Become a security researcher for the greed! Never mind that you might do humanity a grave disservice by improving Facebook.
[02:53:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I do not want to hear about facebook - 06Flaw in Facebook Copyright Tool Earns Expert $4,000 - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:53:39] <exec> 08└─The fact that one can 'publish' videos on the 'platform' known as fuckbook has no use for me. The fact that a bug bounty hunter is based in India has no use for me either. Now there are a few more memory cells wasted after hearing about it. In short, the story caused me brain damage. Shove your fuck...
[02:53:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score:2) 02Re:Agree with DEA - 06DEA Mines Travel Records, Seizes Millions in Cash to "Feed the Monster" - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:53:57] <exec> 08└─So, in the described case, what about the $4k that the DEA held on to? These organizations know that it costs money to sue, often they take amounts that would be less than the cost of suing, or they hand back some amount so that it isn't financially rewarding to sue. As for the idea of making a publ...
[02:53:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03sjames [2882] 02Re:Agree with DEA - 06DEA Mines Travel Records, Seizes Millions in Cash to "Feed the Monster" - 697 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:53:59] <exec> 08└─I can't agree with that. Innocent until proven guilty isn't just a good idea. There are plenty of people who do carry decent sums of cash when travelling and for good reason. Do we really want law enforcement to become indistinguishable from the highwaymen of old? They're worse actually, if you mana...
[02:54:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:or you could take a salary - 06$200,000 for a Serious iOS Bug? We'll Give You $500,000 - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:54:28] <exec> 08└─"I won a $500 000 prize that is being paid to me as an annuity. Oh and I have the nudes from your iPhone...if wearing catsup counts as nudity." Try getting a loan on that basis. Impossibru!
[02:54:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02IANAL but... - 06$200,000 for a Serious iOS Bug? We'll Give You $500,000 - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:54:32] <exec> 08└─While it might be perfectly legal for a company to pay you to report security flaws in their system, it is completely illegal to pay someone to hack a 3rd party's system...
[02:54:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:IANAL but... - 06$200,000 for a Serious iOS Bug? We'll Give You $500,000 - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:54:34] <exec> 08└─This story is about iOS exploits, not iCloud exploits. Breaking into one's own iphone or iPad is enough.
[02:54:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Distributed DOS? - 06Australian Census: Hacked or Just Ill-Prepared? - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:54:48] <exec> 08└─This was really a DDoC - Disappointing Denial of Census.
[02:56:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02Re:captain obvious department - 06Google Maps Accused of Deleting Palestine - But the Truth is More Complicated - 107 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:56:04] <exec> 08└─Don't blame "Jews". Blame the current government of the state of Israel, and its most hard-line supporters.
[02:56:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02Re:captain obvious department - 06Google Maps Accused of Deleting Palestine - But the Truth is More Complicated - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:56:09] <exec> 08└─I do not care how we got here
[02:57:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03fleg [128] (Score:2) 02Re:DMT is interesting - 06Scientists Prolong Length of DMT Trips - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:57:29] <exec> 08└─thanks for the interesting post. you might like this... http://slatestarcodex.com [slatestarcodex.com]
[02:59:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score:2) 02Re:DNC Emails too small fry - 06WikiLeaks Announces $20k Bounty For Murderer(s) of DNC Staffer - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:59:05] <exec> 08└─Sure, but why should Julian Assange/Wikileaks of all the millions of people and orgs out there with $20k to kick around be the one to post the bounty? Heck, there may even be a way to coordinate with the MPDC to increase the existing $25k bounty anonymously, in order to avoid making the dead man loo...
[03:01:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Wah! - 06Apple says Australia's Banks Pose a Security Threat to iPhones - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:01:55] <exec> 08└─Except you are both missing the whole point that Apple just plain isn't any cheaper. Show us the part where it's cheaper for the customer, or the merchant.
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[03:53:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03tynin [2013] (Score:2) 02Why hybrid, and why only 10Gbps? - 06Cisco Gives Cable Industry Tech for 10Gbps Uploads on DOCSIS - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:53:37] <exec> 08└─10 Gbit is becoming the new 25 Gbit, and 40 Gbit is becoming the new 100 Gbit with only a firmware upgrade in many cases. Why do we need a hybrid half copper, half optic solution that is slower? While conspiratorial, it seems to me that the copper half of the equation is easier to splice into withou...
[03:53:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Nah... - 06Cisco Gives Cable Industry Tech for 10Gbps Uploads on DOCSIS - 610 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:53:38] <exec> 08└─They just siphon the data at the backbone switches nowadays. That combined with customer data from the ISP is enough to hang people. As to why Cisco might want to provide this royalty free: They make a lot of money off their switches, and providing ways to push ISPs to purchase their higher throughp...
[03:53:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03BananaPhone [2488] (Score:2) 02With data Caps, why bother? - 06Cisco Gives Cable Industry Tech for 10Gbps Uploads on DOCSIS - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:53:40] <exec> 08└─With data Caps, why bother? You could blow your data cap in hours instead of days.
[03:54:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:or you could take a salary - 06$200,000 for a Serious iOS Bug? We'll Give You $500,000 - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:54:37] <exec> 08└─I've read numerous articles that suggest that many of the people do it for fun. They spend all day trying to be constructive, so at night they tear stuff apart with the added benefit of not having to be the one to actually fix it. Plus, with many automated testing tools, many bugs are found by those...
[03:54:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03caffeinated bacon [4151] (Score:1) 02Re:Hmmm - 06Australian Census: Hacked or Just Ill-Prepared? - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:54:55] <exec> 08└─The government already knows when you travel overseas. People in hospitals fill out census forms, people travelling fill out census forms. They can already see who was born or who died on those days if it's really important.
[03:54:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03caffeinated bacon [4151] (Score:1) 02Re:Distributed DOS? - 06Australian Census: Hacked or Just Ill-Prepared? - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:54:58] <exec> 08└─I'm going to call bullshit on that one. “If you can’t fill out a Census form on the night of 9 August, fill it out as soon as possible and answer the questions as if it were Census night,” Mr Lowe says.
[03:55:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02Re:Nonsense - 06Appeals Court Rules the FCC Cannot Override State Laws Banning Municipal ISPs - 482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:55:21] <exec> 08└─In recent years the 6th Circuit has been overturned by SCOTUS more than any other district. "Decisions issued by the Sixth Circuit were reversed by the United States Supreme Court 24 out of the 25 times they were reviewed in the five annual terms starting in October 2008 and ending in June 2013 —...
[03:56:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Donald Trump eats babies on toast - 06Google Maps Accused of Deleting Palestine - But the Truth is More Complicated - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:56:03] <exec> 08└─They lose weight for the first day or so, so it's best to eat them fresh.
[03:59:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:DNC Emails too small fry - 06WikiLeaks Announces $20k Bounty For Murderer(s) of DNC Staffer - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:59:20] <exec> 08└─Is that bounty not available if you just publish the information? Must you only give it to the police and no one else? Basically your entire argument boils down to a world so enormously compromised that there is no room for good actors in any position of authority. In which case, why should anyone e...
[03:59:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:DNC Emails too small fry - 06WikiLeaks Announces $20k Bounty For Murderer(s) of DNC Staffer - 675 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:59:25] <exec> 08└─> What is insulting is your ascription of "rage" to any view of Hillary Rodham Clinton that correctly holds her as damaged goods at best. Not any view. EVERY view. Hemo is so fucking rageful that he can't read *anything* about clinton without assuming the maximal worst interpretation. I'll spell it...
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[04:53:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''Malware'' - 06Linux Malware? That'll Never Happen. Okay, Just This Once Then - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:53:35] <exec> 08└─I consider adware, nagware, and crippleware to be "malware". It's a mostly-useless term. Russian security outfit I have a real good idea where this is headed. worms its way... As Anonymous Coward mentions in the 2nd of the comments at El Reg, [theregister.co.uk] it requires killing off safe default...
[04:53:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03jbernardo [300] (Score:2) 02Systemd only, it seems - 06Linux Malware? That'll Never Happen. Okay, Just This Once Then - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:53:37] <exec> 08└─According to the original article, the Trojan will install /etc/systemd/system/ntp.service , so probably it will only run on systemd and not on plain Linux. Another reason to stay away from systemd? :)
[04:53:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Informative) 02Seen this coming - 06Cisco Gives Cable Industry Tech for 10Gbps Uploads on DOCSIS - 1000 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:53:48] <exec> 08└─Docsis 2 and 3 still mostly use the t channels (1 mhz to 54 mhz). These frequencies are very noisy so you can rarely use the whole band. By moving the upstream frequencies up in to regular cable bands and bonding the upstream channels the same as the downstream channels it seems really inevitable....
[04:53:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 024000 is not a significant bug bounty - 06Flaw in Facebook Copyright Tool Earns Expert $4,000 - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:53:57] <exec> 08└─It depends on the effort involved. It is significant for a "I happened to notice this bug" but not significant for "I spent the last month uncovering this bug"
[04:54:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Agree with DEA - 06DEA Mines Travel Records, Seizes Millions in Cash to "Feed the Monster" - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:54:17] <exec> 08└─It's a win-win-win for the couriers, cartels, and DEA agents.
[04:54:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03tisI [5866] (Score:1) 02Re:Agree with DEA - 06DEA Mines Travel Records, Seizes Millions in Cash to "Feed the Monster" - 576 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:54:27] <exec> 08└─This is all a scam and legalized racketeering, nothing more. Many people take cash with them when they travel. Saved tips from a good server has paid for many a vacation while out of country. Drug traffickers deal with enormous amounts of money. They don't transport it across borders like this. This...
[04:55:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Nonsense - 06Appeals Court Rules the FCC Cannot Override State Laws Banning Municipal ISPs - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:55:25] <exec> 08└─the part that allows it to put people in jail for growing unapproved plants
[04:55:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:State vs. Federal - 06Appeals Court Rules the FCC Cannot Override State Laws Banning Municipal ISPs - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:55:42] <exec> 08└─a lot of people like you are pissed and they do see a possible way out
[04:56:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:The truth is that modern "Palestine" is a ficti - 06Google Maps Accused of Deleting Palestine - But the Truth is More Complicated - 728 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:56:44] <exec> 08└─Ah yes, 1996. [...] in 1996, David Bar-Illan, then Netanyahu’s director of communications and policy planning, said, in reference to the notion of a Palestinian state, “Semantics don’t matter. If Palestinian sovereignty is limited enough so that we feel safe, call it fried chicken.” [In 201...
[04:58:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score:2) 02Time dilation. - 06Scientists Prolong Length of DMT Trips - 994 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:58:17] <exec> 08└─The scariest thing for me is time dilation. The second, the the unexplainable (un)reality of it. Then, you take the two combined. There's a reason why they call it tripping out. The reason is it seems like a journey... A long good and bad (mostly overwhelming) voyage. I've only done shrooms. I can t...
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[05:53:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:Systemd only, it seems - 06Linux Malware? That'll Never Happen. Okay, Just This Once Then - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:53:33] <exec> 08└─looks like it overwrites /usr/sbin/ntp first. So if you are using an NTP binary in that location, you are still at risk.
[05:53:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Systemd only, it seems - 06Linux Malware? That'll Never Happen. Okay, Just This Once Then - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:53:34] <exec> 08└─The problem is thats at this point in time systemd IS plain Linux. On the other hand I've neverl laid eyes on Redid.
[05:53:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Systemd only, it seems - 06Linux Malware? That'll Never Happen. Okay, Just This Once Then - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:53:36] <exec> 08└─XenOrchestra, a web-based frontend to XenServer, requires a Redis instance to connect to. I've used it, though there's something incredibly dirty and buzzword-y greasy-feeling about the whole thing...node.js, Redis, web-based...yuck.
[05:53:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:1) 02off topic: diversity - 06Linux Malware? That'll Never Happen. Okay, Just This Once Then - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:53:39] <exec> 08└─Of the 15 stories now on the main page, [archive.is] this one and another 5 are from The Register: - Cisco Gives Cable Industry Tech for 10Gbps Uploads on DOCSIS - $200,000 for a Serious iOS Bug? We'll Give You $500,000 - Appeals Court Rules the FCC Cannot Override State Laws Banning Municipal ISPs...
[05:53:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:off topic: diversity - 06Linux Malware? That'll Never Happen. Okay, Just This Once Then - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:53:41] <exec> 08└─And 4 of these 5 were collected by Arthur T Knackerbracket. Need I translate what you need to do to see diversity on S/N submission list? (if you answered "shut Arthur T Knackerbracket down" you are allowed to try again)
[05:53:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02But then they migrate to BSD to be cool again - 06Linux Malware? That'll Never Happen. Okay, Just This Once Then - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:53:43] <exec> 08└─but then their e-boner over BSD goes soft because BSD then becomes popular. so then they try PLAN 9 OS and discover they are masters of the universe after all! shit, you mean after all of these YEARS, Plan 9 OS was right in front of our fuckin' noses? that is some freaky shit. so they continue with...
[05:54:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02So, when can I copyright my creations? - 06Flaw in Facebook Copyright Tool Earns Expert $4,000 - 569 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:54:04] <exec> 08└─My life is my creation. I claim copyright on it. However, my copyright is routinely violated. Why am I expected to honor other people's wish-list but they not honor mine? Apparently, the fundamental law is that one cannot deprive another of his stuff, but one can observe. Monkey-see, monkey-do. If...
[05:54:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Agree with DEA - 06DEA Mines Travel Records, Seizes Millions in Cash to "Feed the Monster" - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:54:34] <exec> 08└─Eth isn't entirely serious, Kurenai. He's a troll, an artist, the sort of disruptive shitkicker whose medium is the bits-and-bytes equivalent of silly string and Liquid Ass. I don't think he means all or most of what he says, and doubt he actually understands half of it.
[05:54:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:or you could take a salary - 06$200,000 for a Serious iOS Bug? We'll Give You $500,000 - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:54:52] <exec> 08└─Yeah, it only requires a tough pussy/ass, cause nobody cares about your wits
[05:54:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:not us - 06$200,000 for a Serious iOS Bug? We'll Give You $500,000 - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:54:57] <exec> 08└─she's eaten more than her fair share of shit and hates everything about people.
[05:55:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Do they know or don't they? - 06$200,000 for a Serious iOS Bug? We'll Give You $500,000 - 2512 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:55:06] <exec> 08└─If you are a corporate executive and received a communication from Exodus warning you of a vulnerability in your system, offering a fee of several million dollars to fix it, or you can just let it go until someone else finds out how to do it, then lose your business data to God-knows-who.... would y...
[05:57:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:Possible lesson? - 06Student Built Electric Racecar - Lithium Battery Fire in Hotel Room - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:57:13] <exec> 08└─I get the idea that whatever is good for the oven is good for the battery. So, I store some of my Pyrex bakeware on my bedroom dresser drawer now... as where I put charging devices. ( By now, almost all of my devices run on 18650 cells as well, and many of those cells have unknown histories, )
[05:57:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Summary is to technical - 06Scientists Prolong Length of DMT Trips - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:57:59] <exec> 08└─Check MAPS [maps.org] (the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies).
[05:58:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Side effects? - 06Scientists Prolong Length of DMT Trips - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:58:04] <exec> 08└─Any long-term users here?
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[06:53:51] <exec> 08└─The summary says said Trojan requires a poorly configured redis in order to do full damage. How does it even get on the machine in the first place to take advantage of this misconfigured redis?
[06:58:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Resistance... is futile. Huh? - 06Google Employees Enjoyed "Revolving Door" to White House Appointed Positions - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:58:49] <exec> 08└─Is the idea of "we have enough information to ruin you" so remote it has to be dismissed as totally improbable?
[06:59:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Other direction - 06Google Employees Enjoyed "Revolving Door" to White House Appointed Positions - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:59:00] <exec> 08└─You people are thick. Haven't you been paying attention?
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[07:53:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Thought Leader - 06Direct to Consumer Cancer Drug Advertising - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:53:27] <exec> 08└─In additional to doctors getting speaking fees, also look out for the sleazy "Thought Leader" title bestowed by industry in exchange for basically putting *your* name on *their* product. Like celebrity advertizing but without the pay.
[07:53:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Uninformed lay people easy to mislead.... - 06Direct to Consumer Cancer Drug Advertising - 661 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:53:29] <exec> 08└─How many times have *we* seen highly technical stuff marketed to those who have no idea of what they are really buying? Salesmanship techniques can get pretty effective on people ignorant of the trade. A doctor would recognize snake oil when he saw it, just as we recognize crap when we see it. We c...
[07:53:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:''Malware'' - 06Linux Malware? That'll Never Happen. Okay, Just This Once Then - 1912 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:53:38] <exec> 08└─Exactly. Malware is a general term covering everything from viruses to software with ads and DRM. Nobody said that couldn't happen on Linux. Some categories of malware are harder on Linux, but not all. Trojans: Mostly easy. For people who ONLY install from the distro repository, it's hard, but anyon...
[07:53:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:off topic: diversity - 06Linux Malware? That'll Never Happen. Okay, Just This Once Then - 795 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:53:46] <exec> 08└─Thanks for answering. I hadn't even realised that Arthur T Knackerbracket is a bot. It submitted 5 of those 6 stories. Short of shutting down the bots, surely their operation can be adjusted. I'm largely ignorant of how they work; in particular I don't know how to direct them. Glancing very briefly...
[07:53:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:But then they migrate to BSD to be cool again - 06Linux Malware? That'll Never Happen. Okay, Just This Once Then - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:53:49] <exec> 08└─Eventually they'll all migrate to HURD. You'll see!!
[07:58:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Actual meaning vs random weirdness - 06Scientists Prolong Length of DMT Trips - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:58:32] <exec> 08└─I have a 1980s pocket calculator. Nearly everyone who fiddles around with glitching the mechanical on/off switch gets wacky alien symbols on the display. Do the wacky alien symbols mean anything?
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[08:53:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Uninformed lay people easy to mislead.... - 06Direct to Consumer Cancer Drug Advertising - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:53:40] <exec> 08└─We certainly would not willingly pass crap to our customer... but if the customer demands crap, we have no choice but comply, or the customer will just get the crap from somewhere else.
[08:53:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Advertising ban? - 06Direct to Consumer Cancer Drug Advertising - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:53:41] <exec> 08└─It seems to me that one should simply prohibit consumer advertisements for prescription drugs. Patients shouldn't be arguing with their doctors, trying to get some medication prescribed that they saw on TV. Patients are generally not in a position to evaluate what drugs are appropriate for their dis...
[08:53:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:off topic: diversity - 06Linux Malware? That'll Never Happen. Okay, Just This Once Then - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:53:58] <exec> 08└─Or simply continue manually submitting stories?
[08:54:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How does it get on the machine? - 06Linux Malware? That'll Never Happen. Okay, Just This Once Then - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:54:02] <exec> 08└─Redis is a caching system that can be used to make the cache available to multiple servers so it allows connections from outside sources. The "poorly configured" part is not requiring a password on outside connections (which is always a bad idea for any software).
[08:55:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:®®®®®® - 06Australian Census: Hacked or Just Ill-Prepared? - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:55:31] <exec> 08└─Is it really Offtopic if there's an errant ® at the end of TFS?
[08:56:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Re:State vs. Federal - 06Appeals Court Rules the FCC Cannot Override State Laws Banning Municipal ISPs - 1070 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:56:12] <exec> 08└─Yeaaah, it does scare me a bit, Hitler didn't come to power as some monster but as a symbol of hope to many people. Then they realized what they brought to life... Trump shows every sign of being the same thing for the US, but I really think he's just a distraction to get Hillary in office. If he wi...
[08:58:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score:2) 02Re:DMT is interesting - 06Scientists Prolong Length of DMT Trips - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:58:32] <exec> 08└─Now, why would a *good* person have to experience that? Sounds like the kind of thing a serial murderer and rapist would be subject to...
[08:58:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score:2) 02Re:DMT is interesting - 06Scientists Prolong Length of DMT Trips - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:58:34] <exec> 08└─I did like that, thanks. Very zen koan mixed with a DMT trip. I keep groping around for that damn door handle but never can seem to find it.
[08:58:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Actual meaning vs random weirdness - 06Scientists Prolong Length of DMT Trips - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:58:51] <exec> 08└─There's a way more easily reproducible hallucination: that things on TV and in movies are moving.
[08:58:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:Actual meaning vs random weirdness - 06Scientists Prolong Length of DMT Trips - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:58:55] <exec> 08└─Yes. With careful analysis they reveal a bit about how the chip works and how it's wired. In the case of the chip, there are easier ways to get at the same information, but those aren't likely to work on the brain.
[08:59:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:Resistance... is futile. Huh? - 06Google Employees Enjoyed "Revolving Door" to White House Appointed Positions - 701 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:59:11] <exec> 08└─There are several issues. The first is that former Googlers likely have share options and so anything that benefits Google remains in their financial interest. The second is that 'revolving door' usually implies movement in both directions. The Goldman Sachs model is to send people off to government...
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[09:53:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02What keeps you from removing it? - 06Google Chrome to Finally Beat Flash to Death With a Shovel: Why... Won't... You... Just... Die! - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:53:30] <exec> 08└─Adult games.
[09:53:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Uninformed lay people easy to mislead.... - 06Direct to Consumer Cancer Drug Advertising - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:53:45] <exec> 08└─A doctor would recognize snake oil when he saw it, just as we recognize crap when we see it.
[09:54:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:off topic: diversity - 06Linux Malware? That'll Never Happen. Okay, Just This Once Then - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:54:04] <exec> 08└─Excluding spam, it looks as though 15 of the pending submissions in the current queue [archive.is] were manually submitted, whilst 4 were scraped by Arthur T Knackerbracket. Among the 10 approved submissions, 7 were scraped by Arthur T Knackerbracket. It leaves me with an impression that the editors...
[09:54:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:off topic: diversity - 06Linux Malware? That'll Never Happen. Okay, Just This Once Then - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:54:06] <exec> 08└─Excluding spam, it looks as though 15 of the pending submissions in the current queue were manually submitted, whilst 4 were scraped by Arthur T Knackerbracket.
[09:54:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Here's a little challenge for you - 06Linux Malware? That'll Never Happen. Okay, Just This Once Then - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:54:12] <exec> 08└─Name an open computing platform that is immune to trojans. Protip: it's impossible.
[09:54:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score:2) 02Re:4000 is not a significant bug bounty - 06Flaw in Facebook Copyright Tool Earns Expert $4,000 - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:54:32] <exec> 08└─Indeed. It is the very act of looking for the bugs that is the effort, and that should be paid. If one happens to notice a bug while doing something else, then fine cash in. However, anything else is just working for free without any return on the effort. However, the best thing that can be done wit...
[09:55:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sell it to both ? - 06$200,000 for a Serious iOS Bug? We'll Give You $500,000 - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:55:31] <exec> 08└─Parent is marked funny, but seriously, why not sell to both, if both (and even others) are willing to be your customers? Or is there small writing saying something about they want to be the exclusive customer of the exploit?
[09:55:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:IANAL but... - 06$200,000 for a Serious iOS Bug? We'll Give You $500,000 - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:55:35] <exec> 08└─Try reading an EULA some time. They almost invariably prohibit reverse engineering.
[09:59:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Resistance... is futile. Huh? - 06Google Employees Enjoyed "Revolving Door" to White House Appointed Positions - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:59:23] <exec> 08└─The first is that former Googlers likely have share options and so anything that benefits Google remains in their financial interest.
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[10:53:26] <exec> 08└─A few games and downloaded .swf-files I enjoy.
[10:53:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score:2) 02Re:Still have it - 06Google Chrome to Finally Beat Flash to Death With a Shovel: Why... Won't... You... Just... Die! - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:53:27] <exec> 08└─Actually - weebl and bob mostly :) And a few silly cardgames and mahjong-games.
[10:53:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03cloud.pt [5516] (Score:1) 02It's called Spotify Web Player... - 06Google Chrome to Finally Beat Flash to Death With a Shovel: Why... Won't... You... Just... Die! - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:53:29] <exec> 08└─...and Spotify just won't make an HTML version because they don't want to: the bad user experience is a way to force you on the ad-unblockable desktop variants, which force you into ponying up the 8 bucks monthly subscription. But it's not alone in my browsing list: my government still uses a lot of...
[10:53:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02But who will kill Chrome? - 06Google Chrome to Finally Beat Flash to Death With a Shovel: Why... Won't... You... Just... Die! - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:53:31] <exec> 08└─List of problems with it 1) proprietary 2) google
[10:53:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score:2) 02BBC and Homestar Runner - 06Google Chrome to Finally Beat Flash to Death With a Shovel: Why... Won't... You... Just... Die! - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:53:34] <exec> 08└─The BBC hasn't quite ironed out all the bugs in its HTML5 implementation, so I find i need to use Flash to watch most programmes. Also watching re-runs of Strongbad et.al. on HomestarRunner.com. Even they acknowledge that Flash is Dying! [homestarrunner.com] Everywhere else is on click-to-activate.
[10:53:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03WizardFusion [498] (Score:2) 02Work - 06Google Chrome to Finally Beat Flash to Death With a Shovel: Why... Won't... You... Just... Die! - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:53:36] <exec> 08└─We are meant to have it installed at work. I refuse to. The only reason for it is the corporate screensaver and some pointless training modules that we have to do once a year (H&S bullshit). At home, there is no Flash nor Java installed anywhere
[10:53:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Twitch - 06Google Chrome to Finally Beat Flash to Death With a Shovel: Why... Won't... You... Just... Die! - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:53:38] <exec> 08└─Last reason I got Flash: Twitch video streams. But they are on the way of HTML5, finally. Beta is rolling out, so I expect that by the end of the year I won't be needing Flash any more. Good Riddance.
[10:53:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03mmcmonster [401] (Score:2) 02Re:Uninformed lay people easy to mislead.... - 06Direct to Consumer Cancer Drug Advertising - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:53:53] <exec> 08└─It's even worse than this. The FDA will approve the drug because it will extend life 10 percent. And the company will sell it for $10,000 a treatment infusion. But for a person with metastatic pancreatic cancer, that 10 percent extension will give them a couple days of painful existence. Sometimes i...
[10:53:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:2, Informative) 02Re:Uninformed lay people easy to mislead.... - 06Direct to Consumer Cancer Drug Advertising - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:53:55] <exec> 08└─... that of the physician as a compensated endorser. ...
[10:57:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:2) 02Re:captain obvious department - 06Google Maps Accused of Deleting Palestine - But the Truth is More Complicated - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:57:29] <exec> 08└─What are those 'people' (if one could call jews 'people') doing about their 'disapproval' of their hardline government?
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[11:53:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Not since FBSD 4.8... - 06FreeBSD Devs Ponder Changes to Security Processes - 784 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:53:28] <exec> 08└─However the only reason I didn't run it on more hardware was the lack of 3d acceleration at the time. As a server grade OS it ran like a champ (in fact for the linux binary servers I was running under it, via linux emulation it was as fast if not faster than the 2.6.x release of the time.) Unlike li...
[11:53:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02fundamental flaws? - 06Google Chrome to Finally Beat Flash to Death With a Shovel: Why... Won't... You... Just... Die! - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:53:45] <exec> 08└─doesn't administrating a remote vmware bare-metal hypervisor require you to install a client and FLASH(!) locally to able to setup / configure and maintain the remote hypervisor server (thru the lan/wan)? also, i think the client works natyvely only on windblows ... the next to let go?
[11:53:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Yes, set click-to-play - 06Google Chrome to Finally Beat Flash to Death With a Shovel: Why... Won't... You... Just... Die! - 560 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:53:46] <exec> 08└─I do still have it installed, set click-to-play. Two reasons it is still around: - I am working on one project where the customer is trying to replace Flash content with something more modern. Since I need to see the old content, well... - Our national television (srf.ch [www.srf.ch]) still uses Fla...
[11:53:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Touché) 02Cool. Now how do I block HTML5? - 06Google Chrome to Finally Beat Flash to Death With a Shovel: Why... Won't... You... Just... Die! - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:53:48] <exec> 08└─Thank God for that. Only problem remaining is how to block this new HTML5 shit?
[11:53:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03esperto123 [4303] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Youtube - 06Google Chrome to Finally Beat Flash to Death With a Shovel: Why... Won't... You... Just... Die! - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:53:50] <exec> 08└─I still prefer flash on youtube over HTML5, mainly because I can use flashblock add-on and not have the 30+ youtube tabs that I have queued up on my browser start downloading and autoplaying at the same time EVERY TIME I open the browser. As far as I know there is no similar add-on for HTML5 content...
[11:53:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Just to think... - 06Hawaiian Petroglyphs Revealed by Shifting Sands on Waianae Coast - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:53:58] <exec> 08└─In 1000 years that dude with a giant penis I etched into my school desk will have a fancy name and be revered.
[11:54:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Petroglyph? - 06Hawaiian Petroglyphs Revealed by Shifting Sands on Waianae Coast - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:54:00] <exec> 08└─Wikipedia: Outside North America, scholars often use terms such as "carving", "engraving", or other descriptions of the technique to refer to such images.
[11:54:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03mmcmonster [401] (Score:2) 02Re:Uninformed lay people easy to mislead.... - 06Direct to Consumer Cancer Drug Advertising - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:54:11] <exec> 08└─[...]and employ former exotic dancers as sales representatives.
[11:54:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03mmcmonster [401] (Score:2) 02I meant to reply to the article, not a comment... - 06Direct to Consumer Cancer Drug Advertising - 518 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:54:16] <exec> 08└─Because God forbid a former exotic dancer get another job sometime in life. I've met several exotic dancers. Most are just trying to make ends meet while doing something else. They know they've got the body or face to make a few bucks off it it while they are young. Why not let them? There's obvious...
[11:54:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score:2) 02Really? - 06Direct to Consumer Cancer Drug Advertising - 1190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:54:18] <exec> 08└─Is this a US thing? Because I'm pretty sure I've never seen direct-advertised pharamceuticals except over-the-counter stuff. And though I live in a country with a National Health Service (yes, I'm part of modern civilisation!), there is private healthcare available if I want to pay for it. I'm just...
[11:54:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Here's a little challenge for you - 06Linux Malware? That'll Never Happen. Okay, Just This Once Then - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:54:42] <exec> 08└─Name a closed one that's immune to trojans, then.
[11:54:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03PizzaRollPlinkett [4512] (Score:2) 02scare headlines for LINUX!!! MALWARE!!! - 06Linux Malware? That'll Never Happen. Okay, Just This Once Then - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:54:43] <exec> 08└─This flaw is in software that happens to run on Linux (that I've never heard of) which is poorly secured, but nothing stops the technology press from running wall-to-wall LINUX!!! MALWARE!!! scare headlines. Reminds me of all the scare headlines for poorly configured PHP bulletin board packages that...
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[12:53:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Dunno...works fine... - 06FreeBSD Devs Ponder Changes to Security Processes - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:53:35] <exec> 08└─I get the systemd hate, I really do. However, I'm happy with Ubuntu, so I grit my teeth and upgraded to 16.04. Adapting to a different distro? Sure, it would have been possible, but in the end I just want to get work done. Guess what, Ubuntu 16.04 works just fine.
[12:53:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:Dunno...works fine... - 06FreeBSD Devs Ponder Changes to Security Processes - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:53:36] <exec> 08└─Hate? I moved way past hate after a 3am call. Fuck systemd.
[12:53:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Beige [3989] (Score:2) 02It's your time investment, but.. - 06FreeBSD Devs Ponder Changes to Security Processes - 683 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:53:39] <exec> 08└─Couple quick thoughts based on my experiences using both Linux and FreeBSD for many years; - You'll probably find it *much* easier to adapt to systemd (and/or firewalld for that matter) than to adapt to a whole different OS. - Having said that, FreeBSD's network stack is generally more solid out of...
[12:53:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02I use FreeBSD - 06FreeBSD Devs Ponder Changes to Security Processes - 1382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:53:41] <exec> 08└─Security is as much a function of the admin as it is the product used. I have had a good experience with FreeBSD. FreeBSD having jails, ZFS, up to date software, and in place upgrades is hard to beat. The patch and port vulnerabilities are concerning, but don't really apply to my use case. In order...
[12:53:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03sunami88 [5409] (Score:1) 02Looked into this - 06FreeBSD Devs Ponder Changes to Security Processes - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:53:43] <exec> 08└─Did the smallest amount of research on switching to BSD recently (looking forward to when Mint 17.3 is no longer supported). The bottom line is it looks like Steam won't work, and that's a deal breaker. I'm sure there are many other considerations but that's as far as I got.
[12:53:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02'Hook' Turns 25: Lost Boys Reunite For Photo Shoot - 06FreeBSD Devs Ponder Changes to Security Processes - 2312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:53:45] <exec> 08└─* Hook 25th Anniversary Reunion @https://www.facebook.com/22Vision/ [facebook.com] URL: https://www.facebook.com [facebook.com] Archived #1: https://archive.is [archive.is] Archived #2: https://web.archive.org*/https://www...
[12:53:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What keeps you from removing it? - 06Google Chrome to Finally Beat Flash to Death With a Shovel: Why... Won't... You... Just... Die! - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:53:54] <exec> 08└─More info? Links? Or does this mean "pornhub"
[12:54:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's called Spotify Web Player... - 06Google Chrome to Finally Beat Flash to Death With a Shovel: Why... Won't... You... Just... Die! - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:54:01] <exec> 08└─I found that privoxy blocks ads on Spotify, but it still leaves a blank white box where the ads were.
[12:54:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:But who will kill Chrome? - 06Google Chrome to Finally Beat Flash to Death With a Shovel: Why... Won't... You... Just... Die! - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:54:04] <exec> 08└─Yet it is still better than IE/Edge. Even with google service integration. Some things annoyed me enough that I stopped using chrome. Not patching the webrtc hole was the last straw.
[12:54:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Youtube - 06Google Chrome to Finally Beat Flash to Death With a Shovel: Why... Won't... You... Just... Die! - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:54:13] <exec> 08└─Youtube fixed that. Now videos never start on page load.
[12:54:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I meant to reply to the article, not a comment. - 06Direct to Consumer Cancer Drug Advertising - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:54:36] <exec> 08└─And marketing drugs to doctors requires just memorization of a couple pages of facts, a good personality, and the ability to talk to others. Don't see how an exotic dancer would be underqualified.
[12:54:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03n1 [993] (Score:2) 02Re:off topic: diversity - 06Linux Malware? That'll Never Happen. Okay, Just This Once Then - 2824 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:54:57] <exec> 08└─Glad you brought this up, have a few thoughts on this myself. Firstly i'd be happy if we stopped using The Register's stupid 'hey buddy, we're cool too' headlines. Other than that, multiple el reg stories is a coincidence but does perhaps illustrate how good they are at drawing interest and clicks w...
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[13:53:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:1) 02profit! - 06U.S. Federal Cannabis Prohibition Remains Intact - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:53:40] <exec> 08└─Remember that article yesterday about TSA seizing cash?
[13:53:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:profit! - 06U.S. Federal Cannabis Prohibition Remains Intact - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:53:42] <exec> 08└─They even admit so themselves But marijuana's designation has nothing to do with danger, Rosenberg said.
[13:53:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Taibhsear [1464] (Score:4, Informative) 02ORLY? - 06U.S. Federal Cannabis Prohibition Remains Intact - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:53:44] <exec> 08└─marijuana has "no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States,"
[13:53:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Politicians are all the same - 06U.S. Federal Cannabis Prohibition Remains Intact - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:53:46] <exec> 08└─The Obama administration has denied a bid by two Democratic governors to reconsider how it treats marijuana under federal drug control laws
[13:53:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Dunno...works fine... - 06FreeBSD Devs Ponder Changes to Security Processes - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:53:58] <exec> 08└─that sounds a little ridiculous. i'm not the most senior lsa but i can't think of a single issue i've had with systemd except having to learn new things. I'm not saying that some of the criticisms about scope creep, not unixy, etc aren't justifiable but as far as reliability, i've had no problems an...
[13:54:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score:2) 02Re:It's your time investment, but.. - 06FreeBSD Devs Ponder Changes to Security Processes - 1950 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:54:01] <exec> 08└─I have to say in my experience, I disagree with you. I found adopting to FreeBSD was much easier than SystemD, especially debugging problems with it. The fact it has reached a point where it is easier to either "Turn it off and on again", or "reinstall Linux" than actually delve into the OS and debu...
[13:54:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score:2) 02Steam on FreeBSD - 06FreeBSD Devs Ponder Changes to Security Processes - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:54:05] <exec> 08└─Actually there is some movement on getting Steam on FreeBSD [github.com]. It looks like it uses the Linux compatiblity layer, but if it works, it's one less barrier for your use case.
[13:54:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The problem with free software - 06FreeBSD Devs Ponder Changes to Security Processes - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:54:08] <exec> 08└─Is that there's always something across the street that's newer and shinier and just as free.
[13:54:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The problem with free software - 06FreeBSD Devs Ponder Changes to Security Processes - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:54:10] <exec> 08└─ohh, the horror! i hope you're being sarcastic...
[13:54:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score:2) 02Use FreeBSD and be happy - 06FreeBSD Devs Ponder Changes to Security Processes - 812 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:54:12] <exec> 08└─I returned to FreeBSD 10.x after a long stint with Linux - the last version of FreeBSD I ran was around 4.x or so, it has been a minute for sure. Systemd was the thing that pushed me over the edge to look at FreeBSD again very seriously. Things are different but there is nothing wrong with FreeBSD....
[13:54:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02FreeBSD - 06FreeBSD Devs Ponder Changes to Security Processes - 1415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:54:15] <exec> 08└─I cut my teeth in Linux, and was pretty diehard. I found my way to FreeBSD with a new gig, and haven't looked back in 6+ years. I now manage an exclusively FreeBSD shop. There is certainly a learning-curve, but it's not so bad, largely thanks to coherent documentation. I've tip-toed back into Linux...
[13:54:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03damnbunni [704] (Score:2) 02Re:Still have it - 06Google Chrome to Finally Beat Flash to Death With a Shovel: Why... Won't... You... Just... Die! - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:54:27] <exec> 08└─Weebl and Bob have been slowly replacing the old Flash versions with links to Youtube videos. Which really sucks. Especially when the YouTube version is censored.
[13:54:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:But who will kill Chrome? - 06Google Chrome to Finally Beat Flash to Death With a Shovel: Why... Won't... You... Just... Die! - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:54:32] <exec> 08└─get a real OS and use chromium. only a slave uses chrome.
[13:54:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Twitch - 06Google Chrome to Finally Beat Flash to Death With a Shovel: Why... Won't... You... Just... Die! - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:54:38] <exec> 08└─You might consider using Livestreamer [livestreamer.io] in the meantime.
[13:54:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03WizardFusion [498] (Score:2) 02Re:fundamental flaws? - 06Google Chrome to Finally Beat Flash to Death With a Shovel: Why... Won't... You... Just... Die! - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:54:41] <exec> 08└─What you need is this VMware Fling - https://labs.vmware.com [vmware.com] It's a VIB that you can install that gives you a HTML5 client. It's quite good. There is also a HTML5 client for vCenter that is currently shipped with vSphere 6 u2 (IIRC), but also downloadabl...
[13:54:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:fundamental flaws? - 06Google Chrome to Finally Beat Flash to Death With a Shovel: Why... Won't... You... Just... Die! - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:54:43] <exec> 08└─vmware are gpl violating scum. why would you even think it's an option?
[13:54:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:1) 02Re:Yes, set click-to-play - 06Google Chrome to Finally Beat Flash to Death With a Shovel: Why... Won't... You... Just... Die! - 2029 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:54:46] <exec> 08└─I'll fess up and admit to writing a business application in Flex (Flash's last dying attempt to occupy the nice of Java Webstart, apparently not realizing that Webstart was already dead as a doorknob). HTML5 just wasn't ready when I wrote it, and developing a desktop application was out of the quest...
[13:54:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Cool. Now how do I block HTML5? - 06Google Chrome to Finally Beat Flash to Death With a Shovel: Why... Won't... You... Just... Die! - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:54:49] <exec> 08└─html5 will become a bigger pain and will need to be killed in the future. Then we go back to browser plugins to fix the problems with html5. With plugins, you can disable it, or not install in the first place. With html5, if you don't want to see it, there is not a damn thing you can do. You can onl...
[13:54:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Youtube - 06Google Chrome to Finally Beat Flash to Death With a Shovel: Why... Won't... You... Just... Die! - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:54:53] <exec> 08└─Youtube is not the only video website in the world.
[13:54:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03tempest [3050] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Left hand, Right hand - 06Google Chrome to Finally Beat Flash to Death With a Shovel: Why... Won't... You... Just... Die! - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:54:56] <exec> 08└─Nice of google to try killing of adobe flash. Even though they give a lot of lip service to doing so, Google Finance still requires flash for the interactive stock chart. Why won't flash just die? Maybe they should ask themselves.
[13:54:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score:2) 02HTML5 - 06Google Chrome to Finally Beat Flash to Death With a Shovel: Why... Won't... You... Just... Die! - 702 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:54:58] <exec> 08└─I think I reached the point several years ago where, when the content I want isn't available on the technology of the day, I don't bother to consume that content at all. The biggest thing that'll hit me here? I can't think of any. iPlayer has HTML5 Amazon Instant Video has HTML5 Google Play Movies h...
[13:55:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03JeanCroix [573] (Score:2) 02Translation - 06Hawaiian Petroglyphs Revealed by Shifting Sands on Waianae Coast - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:55:08] <exec> 08└─"No trespassing - private beach."
[13:55:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:off topic: diversity - 06Linux Malware? That'll Never Happen. Okay, Just This Once Then - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:55:46] <exec> 08└─Can you scrape BBC news? That's where I get most stories from for submission to Soylent.
[13:55:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:scare headlines for LINUX!!! MALWARE!!! - 06Linux Malware? That'll Never Happen. Okay, Just This Once Then - 473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:55:54] <exec> 08└─yes, it's pitiful, but in fairness, this makes me realize how much the same thing has been done to windows, though MS deserves all the BS they get. The writers that want to smear GNU+Linux know that people who don't know anything but brands won't know the difference. they know all they have to do is...
[13:56:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Agree with DEA - 06DEA Mines Travel Records, Seizes Millions in Cash to "Feed the Monster" - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:56:48] <exec> 08└─fuck you. that is all.
[13:56:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03JeanCroix [573] (Score:2) 02Re:Something smells, but it ain't drugs - 06DEA Mines Travel Records, Seizes Millions in Cash to "Feed the Monster" - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:56:54] <exec> 08└─Speaking of... http://mashable.com [mashable.com]
[13:56:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02shut them down - 06DEA Mines Travel Records, Seizes Millions in Cash to "Feed the Monster" - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:56:56] <exec> 08└─make our reps shut the dea down!
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[14:53:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Echo - 06Acoustic Prism Invented at EPFL - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:53:39] <exec> 08└─That [...] is hilarious, like it was placed there to highlight the echo in the first paragraph.
[14:53:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03rts008 [3001] (Score:2) 02Re:Echo - 06Acoustic Prism Invented at EPFL - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:53:40] <exec> 08└─That is just an effect of SN's new 'Summary Prism', nothing to be concerned about. ;-)
[14:53:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score:2) 02airports... - 06Acoustic Prism Invented at EPFL - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:53:42] <exec> 08└─might be useful for airports....
[14:53:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:profit! - 06U.S. Federal Cannabis Prohibition Remains Intact - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:53:53] <exec> 08└─DEA rather than TSA (although they are also known to steal). I was going to submit them as one article but decided to do them separately instead.
[14:53:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:1) 02Re:profit! - 06U.S. Federal Cannabis Prohibition Remains Intact - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:53:55] <exec> 08└─Oops, you're right. My bad.
[14:53:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Taibhsear [1464] 02ORLY? - 06U.S. Federal Cannabis Prohibition Remains Intact - 84 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:53:57] <exec> 08└─marijuana has "no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States,"
[14:53:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:ORLY? - 06U.S. Federal Cannabis Prohibition Remains Intact - 817 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:53:59] <exec> 08└─Well, no, there is no currently accepted use for marijuana in the US at the present. Because it's another federal agency that sets those rules. Whether or not there are any acceptable uses for marijuana is beside the point as the FDA hasn't found any yet. And they haven't found any yet in large part...
[14:54:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:ORLY? - 06U.S. Federal Cannabis Prohibition Remains Intact - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:54:01] <exec> 08└─Allowing a bunch of stoners to throw a hissy fit isn't a replacement for proper research studies.
[14:54:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score:2) 02Re:ORLY? - 06U.S. Federal Cannabis Prohibition Remains Intact - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:54:03] <exec> 08└─Bottom line here is that we need more research to make appropriate changes to our drug policy. Allowing a bunch of stoners to throw a hissy fit isn't a replacement for proper research studies.
[14:54:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Politicians are all the same - 06U.S. Federal Cannabis Prohibition Remains Intact - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:54:07] <exec> 08└─If Trump jumped on this and said he'd legalize MJ he'd win the election. If Cliton did the same I wouldn't believe it.
[14:54:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Politicians are all the same - 06U.S. Federal Cannabis Prohibition Remains Intact - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:54:09] <exec> 08└─Clinton: "I'm cool! I smoke the devil's lettuce like the cool kids do!"
[14:54:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02If Hillary was down for a smoke'n'poke... - 06U.S. Federal Cannabis Prohibition Remains Intact - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:54:11] <exec> 08└─She never would've had to deal with Bill having his whistle wet by interns!
[14:54:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Think about this - 06U.S. Federal Cannabis Prohibition Remains Intact - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:13] <exec> 08└─Cannabis is the same level of illegality as amphetamines and cocaine.
[14:54:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03rts008 [3001] (Score:2) 02Rooted in political agenda, NOT science... - 06U.S. Federal Cannabis Prohibition Remains Intact - 655 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:15] <exec> 08└─It started with Anslinger's 'war' on Mexicans and African-Americans, and Nixon hit the turbo button (as part of the GOP "Southern Strategy") with his 'War on Drugs' to try to discourage minorities and 'hippies' from participating in politics, as they were seemingly voting Democrat mostly. Since then...
[14:54:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score:2) 02just remember... - 06U.S. Federal Cannabis Prohibition Remains Intact - 947 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:17] <exec> 08└─Every pharmaceutical on the market is the best fit to the worst copy of a natural molecule. Why? Because you cannot patent natural molecules , there is a perverse incentive to produce molecules that can *only* be synthesized artificially, with unknown binding effects... Ever wondered where the side...
[14:54:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:Looked into this - 06FreeBSD Devs Ponder Changes to Security Processes - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:54:34] <exec> 08└─Yes, the "will it work on BSD" is my new quick&dirty test for binary drivers (though BSD supports running Windows binary wifi drivers).
[14:54:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:Still have it - 06Google Chrome to Finally Beat Flash to Death With a Shovel: Why... Won't... You... Just... Die! - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:54:53] <exec> 08└─For some reason, I have found that embed links bypass the Youtube Censors.
[14:55:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Yes, set click-to-play - 06Google Chrome to Finally Beat Flash to Death With a Shovel: Why... Won't... You... Just... Die! - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:55:09] <exec> 08└─Have you considered moving somewhere else where everyone you interact with aren't assholes?
[14:55:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Youtube - 06Google Chrome to Finally Beat Flash to Death With a Shovel: Why... Won't... You... Just... Die! - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:55:15] <exec> 08└─You do realize that there are addons to prevent that, right? My clips will play like a half second before being automatically paused until I get around to clicking play.
[14:55:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Youtube - 06Google Chrome to Finally Beat Flash to Death With a Shovel: Why... Won't... You... Just... Die! - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:55:17] <exec> 08└─You're using Chrome, then? Firefox by default only loads the active tab when you reopen a multitab session. It loads the rest if and when you switch to them, and has had this feature for years now.
[14:55:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Youtube - 06Google Chrome to Finally Beat Flash to Death With a Shovel: Why... Won't... You... Just... Die! - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:55:20] <exec> 08└─D'oh! User commenting on a story about Chrome is probably using Chrome. News at 11 :P
[14:55:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03aristarchus [2645] 02Re:Uninformed lay people easy to mislead.... - 06Direct to Consumer Cancer Drug Advertising - 185 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:55:40] <exec> 08└─We certainly would not willingly pass crap to our customer... but if the customer demands crap, we have no choice but comply, or the customer will just get the crap from somewhere else.
[14:55:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03rts008 [3001] (Score:2) 02Strippers? Where? w00t!! - 06Direct to Consumer Cancer Drug Advertising - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:55:49] <exec> 08└─You must have been focused on the 'exotic dancers'. Understandable. :-) But your question was answered in the last sentence of the prior paragraph. (literally the line directly above the exotic dancers) FTFS: Except for the US and New Zealand, the rest of the world does not allow direct to consumer...
[14:55:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:Really? - 06Direct to Consumer Cancer Drug Advertising - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:55:51] <exec> 08└─Yes, it is a US thing. Why You Can't Advertise Cancer Cures In Britainhttps://www.youtube.com
[14:56:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PizzaRollPlinkett [4512] 02scare headlines for LINUX!!! MALWARE!!! - 06Linux Malware? That'll Never Happen. Okay, Just This Once Then - 444 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:56:18] <exec> 08└─This flaw is in software that happens to run on Linux (that I've never heard of) which is poorly secured, but nothing stops the technology press from running wall-to-wall LINUX!!! MALWARE!!! scare headlines. Reminds me of all the scare headlines for poorly configured PHP bulletin board packages that...
[14:56:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Spamalope [5233] 02Re:... - 06DEA Mines Travel Records, Seizes Millions in Cash to "Feed the Monster" - 146 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:56:52] <exec> 08└─Exactly. This is theft. They figured it'd cost $5k to appeal, figuring the victim wouldn't bother since they'd lose $1k doing it even if they win.
[14:56:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:... - 06DEA Mines Travel Records, Seizes Millions in Cash to "Feed the Monster" - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:56:53] <exec> 08└─Not to mention that one-sixth is "a small percentage." That's a judgment call I suppose, but I would say it has to be single-digits to be "small." 4000/25000 = 16% 100/6 = 16.666
[14:57:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02not right - 06DEA Mines Travel Records, Seizes Millions in Cash to "Feed the Monster" - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:57:23] <exec> 08└─nothing about this practice is right. we have a judicial system for a reason and this does an endrun around it.
[14:57:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03julian [6003] 02Don't 0day me, bro! - 06$200,000 for a Serious iOS Bug? We'll Give You $500,000 - 89 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:57:32] <exec> 08└─but [Exodus] only discloses after it has extracted the "maximum value for our customers."
[14:58:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:State vs. Federal - 06Appeals Court Rules the FCC Cannot Override State Laws Banning Municipal ISPs - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:58:38] <exec> 08└─Revolutions happen all the time. They are hardly fantasies.
[15:01:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03n1 [993] (Score:2) 02Re:Resistance... is futile. Huh? - 06Google Employees Enjoyed "Revolving Door" to White House Appointed Positions - 1314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:01:47] <exec> 08└─I don't doubt there are many people in there who are just professionals changing their jobs. The concern is that only takes a handful out of that 250 in positions across the DoD, NSA, FCC etc for Google faithful to have a tangible effect on government policy direction. And even if they are just good...
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[15:53:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Echo - 06Acoustic Prism Invented at EPFL - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:53:38] <exec> 08└─Just firin' up the echo chamber.
[15:53:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:airports... - 06Acoustic Prism Invented at EPFL - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:53:40] <exec> 08└─.....to analyze the voiceprints of suspects for terrist tendencies, of course! ALLAHLAHLAHLAHLAHLAHLAHLAHLAH!!!
[15:53:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02wrong (but interesting) link - 06Acoustic Prism Invented at EPFL - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:53:42] <exec> 08└─Went to the link, http://scitation.aip.org [aip.org] and found paper "Exploiting the leaky-wave properties of transmission-line metamaterials for single-microphone direction finding" Neat stuff, correct author (Hervé Lissek) but no prisms. Searched f...
[15:53:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:wrong (but interesting) link - 06Acoustic Prism Invented at EPFL - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:53:44] <exec> 08└─I think the discrepancy is that Lissek calls it a "transmission-line acoustic metamaterial" or "acoustic leaky-wave structure", while the EPFL has chosen to dumb it down by calling it an "acoustic prism".
[15:54:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:ORLY? - 06U.S. Federal Cannabis Prohibition Remains Intact - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:54:00] <exec> 08└─Before you make assumptions about me: I have never taken any illegal drug.
[15:54:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2, Informative) 02Re:ORLY? - 06U.S. Federal Cannabis Prohibition Remains Intact - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:54:02] <exec> 08└─Let's not forget that the federal government has done much to suppress research on medical uses of marijuana, so calls for more research are a little disingenuous.
[15:54:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Politicians are all the same - 06U.S. Federal Cannabis Prohibition Remains Intact - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:54:08] <exec> 08└─"I put it to my lips and I did inhale"
[15:54:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Think about this - 06U.S. Federal Cannabis Prohibition Remains Intact - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:54:11] <exec> 08└─More like LSD is at the same level as heroin. Look at almost any of these mainstream media articles about cannabis prohibition. They will mention something along the lines of "marijuana is listed in Schedule I, alongside heroin and LSD." Then look at one of my favorite graphs. [economist.com]
[15:54:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03arcz [4501] (Score:1) 02Re:Think about this - 06U.S. Federal Cannabis Prohibition Remains Intact - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:54:14] <exec> 08└─LSD is essentially prohibited because of the danger it poses to society as a whole. It's too easy to poison people with LSD.
[15:54:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Think about this - 06U.S. Federal Cannabis Prohibition Remains Intact - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:54:16] <exec> 08└─plz poison me bby
[15:54:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Oxycodone and Methamphetimes are only... - 06U.S. Federal Cannabis Prohibition Remains Intact - 665 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:54:18] <exec> 08└─Schedule II... what the fuck does that say that Marijuana is listed as more dangerous than drugs which have potentially immediate and lethal side effects (How often have you heard of someone dying as a direct result of smoking marijuana, short of maybe an asthma attack, which would affect cigarette...
[15:54:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03arcz [4501] (Score:1) 02Re:Think about this - 06U.S. Federal Cannabis Prohibition Remains Intact - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:54:20] <exec> 08└─Wrong! Amphetamine is schedule II, THC (marijuwana) is schedule I. Schedule I = Always illegal Schedule II = Legal with a valid prescription with certain restrictions Speaking as someone who takes amphetamines for treatment of a common disorder, I can assure you that amphetamine is indeed not as reg...
[15:54:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Rooted in political agenda, NOT science... - 06U.S. Federal Cannabis Prohibition Remains Intact - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:54:23] <exec> 08└─and Nixon hit the turbo button (as part of the GOP "Southern Strategy") with his 'War on Drugs' to try to discourage minorities and 'hippies' from participating in politics, as they were seemingly voting Democrat mostly. And on top of that, Nixon's good buddy Henry Kissinger is Hillary's idol.
[15:54:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03bootsy [3440] (Score:2) 02Re:Rooted in political agenda, NOT science... - 06U.S. Federal Cannabis Prohibition Remains Intact - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:54:26] <exec> 08└─I thought the DuPont company vs Henry Ford was also part of the problem. DuPont and the paper mills were worried about paper being made from hemp and Henry Ford wanted to use hemp as part of his car doors. It's a massively useful material and needs far less water than cotton.
[15:54:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Rooted in political agenda, NOT science... - 06U.S. Federal Cannabis Prohibition Remains Intact - 991 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:54:28] <exec> 08└─From the opening of 4/20: Half-Baked Headline [soylentnews.org]: At the time, I was writing a book about the politics of drug prohibition. I started to ask Ehrlichman a series of earnest, wonky questions that he impatiently waved away. "You want to know what this was really all about?" he asked with...
[15:54:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Re:just remember... - 06U.S. Federal Cannabis Prohibition Remains Intact - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:54:31] <exec> 08└─We should be looking at the natural molecules first...
[15:54:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Dunno...works fine... - 06FreeBSD Devs Ponder Changes to Security Processes - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:54:42] <exec> 08└─You're claiming that one other user's anecdata is "ridiculous" and using your own one user's (yourself) anecdata as evidence? Dude: listen to yourself. "That's crazy; systemd doesn't have any problems because I personally haven't run into any."
[15:54:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score:2) 02Re:FreeBSD - 06FreeBSD Devs Ponder Changes to Security Processes - 675 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:54:55] <exec> 08└─I came from the other direction - I started on FreeBSD 2.2.5 and eventually ended up on Linux. My last FreeBSD box was in the 10.x days. Actually, the only reason I'm not still running FreeBSD on my main system is that I use Linux at work, and it makes it easier for me to work from home with a Linux...
[15:54:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Devuan - 06FreeBSD Devs Ponder Changes to Security Processes - 815 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:56] <exec> 08└─I'm using Devuan exclusively for laptop and server. It works. It was an easy upgrade from Debian wheezy to Devuan jessie -- just replace a few lines in /etc/apt/sources.list, upgrade apt and maybe a few tools, then everything. I had a complete bootable system backup just in case, but I never needed...
[15:55:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:But who will kill Chrome? - 06Google Chrome to Finally Beat Flash to Death With a Shovel: Why... Won't... You... Just... Die! - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:55:19] <exec> 08└─You are a fucking idiot. Chromium is open source. Try researching things before commenting in the future, dick. From Wikipedia: "BSD license, MIT License, LGPL, MS-PL and MPL/GPL/LGPL tri-licensed code, plus unlicensed files"
[15:56:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score:2) 02Re:Uninformed lay people easy to mislead.... - 06Direct to Consumer Cancer Drug Advertising - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:56:01] <exec> 08└─Have they no shame?
[15:57:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Agree with DEA - 06DEA Mines Travel Records, Seizes Millions in Cash to "Feed the Monster" - 537 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:57:21] <exec> 08└─You obviously aren't familiar with the issue of standing in these cases. Remember, the government isn't going after you, or charging you with anything. So you don't get to have any standing to sue. So the first step is paying a lawyer a lot of money to try and jigger up some standing so you can actu...
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[16:53:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02first first world problems - 06Cyber-Crime Cost Calculation Studies Are Rubbish Says ENISA - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:53:33] <exec> 08└─Must be nice to live in an ivory tower and publish studies about studies.
[16:53:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03AudioGuy [24] (Score:2) 02Re:wrong (but interesting) link - 06Acoustic Prism Invented at EPFL - 744 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:53:48] <exec> 08└─Acoustic prism would not have been my choice as a descriptive term for this. Ordinary directional microphones exibit a falloff of high frequencies as you go off axis. What this does is greatly exaggerate that effect using an acoustic tramsmission line with resonant chambers and membranes. Enough tha...
[16:53:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:wrong (but interesting) link - 06Acoustic Prism Invented at EPFL - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:53:49] <exec> 08└─(same AC) No, it's worse than that, the abstract makes it clear that this is about directionality of sound, last line: This introduces the concept of sound source localization without resorting to beam-steering techniques based on multiple sensors.
[16:54:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] 02Re:ORLY? - 06U.S. Federal Cannabis Prohibition Remains Intact - 163 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:54:07] <exec> 08└─Let's not forget that the federal government has done much to suppress research on medical uses of marijuana, so calls for more research are a little disingenuous.
[16:54:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:ORLY? - 06U.S. Federal Cannabis Prohibition Remains Intact - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:54:08] <exec> 08└─The FDA is pointedly looking away from the massive body of existing evidence. They are not interested in evidence, they are only interested in having their boots licked. I firmly believe regulation of food and drugs is necessary, just not by the FDA. That organization needs to be chopped up for fire...
[16:54:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:1) 02Re:ORLY? - 06U.S. Federal Cannabis Prohibition Remains Intact - 3849 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:54:10] <exec> 08└─I, for one, will be throwing a hissy fit at the ballot box this year and every year until cannabis is legal for recreational activity. As long as the D team seriously intends to explore the pathway towards legalization, they're worth voting for as far as I care. (May even yet have a change of heart...
[16:54:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:ORLY? - 06U.S. Federal Cannabis Prohibition Remains Intact - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:54:13] <exec> 08└─> Also, homeopathic remedies aren't effective, but they are generally safe. Homeopathic remedies are extremely effective for treating people suffering from dehydration. Drinking pure water is exactly what those people need. And it is a safe. :-)
[16:54:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03driven [6295] (Score:1) 02Re:ORLY? - 06U.S. Federal Cannabis Prohibition Remains Intact - 987 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:54:15] <exec> 08└─Sounds like a straw man anyway. Why does marijuana need to be a safe and effective _medicine_ to be legal? Is alcohol a safe and effective medicine? No, and it can be misused just like pot. Enough with the false fronts.. let's hear the real reasons it is still not legal. The truth may or may not be...
[16:54:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:ORLY? - 06U.S. Federal Cannabis Prohibition Remains Intact - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:54:17] <exec> 08└─Even if you were to accept as true that marijuana has "no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States,"
[16:54:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score:2, Informative) 02Re:Think about this - 06U.S. Federal Cannabis Prohibition Remains Intact - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:54:28] <exec> 08└─LSD is not poisonous in any fashion. It can only temporarily upset the chemical balance in the brain. It has no physically harmful side effects and leaves no trace of its consumption (after you get a haircut in about 3 months). It is indeed a harmless substance.
[16:54:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ellis D. Tripp [3416] (Score:2) 02THC itself is in schedule III... - 06U.S. Federal Cannabis Prohibition Remains Intact - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:54:32] <exec> 08└─Listed as "dronabinol", and available under the brand name "Marinol" Whole plant cannabis is schedule I, in part because it isn't a patentable product for Big Pharma.
[16:54:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:just remember... - 06U.S. Federal Cannabis Prohibition Remains Intact - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:54:40] <exec> 08└─The dirty secret is that for drugs with a high therapeutic index, exact dosing is unimportant. As for manufacture, even people who are stoned most of the time manage to 'manufacture' marijuana successfully. That's the problem for the pharmaceutical industry. You can't charge a thousand dollars/scrip...
[16:55:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03srobert [4803] (Score:2) 02I've had good luck with FreeBSD on a Laptop - 06FreeBSD Devs Ponder Changes to Security Processes - 966 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:55:06] <exec> 08└─I've been a desktop/laptop Linux user since 1996. I started playing around with FreeBSD on a laptop around 2012. I'm not a gamer, and my needs are pretty simple, email, web browsing, simple spreadsheets, word processing. I'm not running a server. Most of my personal computing for the last few years...
[16:55:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Celestial [4891] (Score:2) 02Re:I've had good luck with FreeBSD on a Laptop - 06FreeBSD Devs Ponder Changes to Security Processes - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:55:07] <exec> 08└─Out of curiosity, have you tried DragonFly BSD? I've been told that it has better hardware support for notebook computers than FreeBSD, and plan on trying it the next time I buy a notebook.
[16:55:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Compromised? - 06FreeBSD Devs Ponder Changes to Security Processes - 1417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:55:10] <exec> 08└─Theo de Raadt has speculated that FreeBSD is compromised given their complete lack of security culture and the proximity of a USGOV building in California to FreeBSD. This is exactly the kind of exploit that we've seen in the past with the USGOV. Suddenly, the freebsd-security team has been quiet on...
[16:55:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Cool. Now how do I block HTML5? - 06Google Chrome to Finally Beat Flash to Death With a Shovel: Why... Won't... You... Just... Die! - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:55:44] <exec> 08└─Block javascript
[16:55:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Cool. Now how do I block HTML5? - 06Google Chrome to Finally Beat Flash to Death With a Shovel: Why... Won't... You... Just... Die! - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:55:46] <exec> 08└─I've found over the past couple of years that blocking JavaScript is increasingly non-viable, as the vast majority of the web sites I visit now require JavaScript to function.
[16:56:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03OrugTor [5147] (Score:1) 02Army? - 06Hawaiian Petroglyphs Revealed by Shifting Sands on Waianae Coast - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:56:04] <exec> 08└─The Army has archaeologists and manages archaelogical sites? WTF?
[16:56:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''Hook'' - 06Linux Malware? That'll Never Happen. Okay, Just This Once Then - 648 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:56:45] <exec> 08└─I'm not in the mood to click on 20+ links Before your post, my curiosity had gotten the better of me and I had looked at that submission. It mentions Robin Williams and the concurrent anniversary of his death. The term "The Lost Boys" is also significant within the post. Yes, it is link soup for tho...
[16:56:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''the same thing has been done to [Windoze]'' - 06Linux Malware? That'll Never Happen. Okay, Just This Once Then - 581 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:56:57] <exec> 08└─Disagree. When a Windoze-only app has a vulnerability being actively exploited, I don't tend to see the name of the OS in the title of the article; I see the name of the app. The reason for the presence of a significant number of items in the Patch Tuesday list is because of stupid choices[1] made b...
[16:57:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Won't Someone Please Think of the Environment?? - 06Cisco Gives Cable Industry Tech for 10Gbps Uploads on DOCSIS - 2598 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:57:10] <exec> 08└─Just the other day I saw some research showing that the world's packet reserves are already running dangerously low. Just look at what happened when IPv4 started having resource contention: various world powers set up shadow wars in Central Africa to push out indigenous peoples so they can exploit t...
[16:59:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:Nonsense - 06Appeals Court Rules the FCC Cannot Override State Laws Banning Municipal ISPs - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:59:10] <exec> 08└─I agree with you. I think ALL services like water, sewer, gas, electric, should be run by the city or county. Here in Springfield the city owns the electric company, and we have the best uptime and lowest rates in Illinois. Electric rates go up or dependability or customer service goes down, the May...
[16:59:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Solution - 06Google Maps Accused of Deleting Palestine - But the Truth is More Complicated - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:59:53] <exec> 08└─OK. I've decided that my government should be the Confederate States of America. I live in Illinois. Where's my custom map showing me that as my region and the permission for me to stop paying my US Income Tax?
[17:01:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:DMT is interesting - 06Scientists Prolong Length of DMT Trips - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:01:47] <exec> 08└─By definition if he was experiencing infinite pain he'd still be experiencing it. This isn't right. He'd need to be infinitely large and have infinite power of perception including nociception to experience that too.
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[17:53:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:first first world problems - 06Cyber-Crime Cost Calculation Studies Are Rubbish Says ENISA - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:53:39] <exec> 08└─Compare to published "street price" of drugs confiscated when police make a big raid -- unrealistically high.
[17:53:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02In Other News - 06Cyber-Crime Cost Calculation Studies Are Rubbish Says ENISA - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:53:40] <exec> 08└─In other news... a new study shows that US record labels are loosing $250 million every day due to piracy.
[17:54:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score:2) 02Re:just remember... - 06U.S. Federal Cannabis Prohibition Remains Intact - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:54:41] <exec> 08└─since the molecule is not natural it can stick so many other places than were avoided by 3 billion years of natural selection might require
[17:54:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03DutchUncle [5370] (Score:2) 02How to state "it's not" without RESEARCH? - 06U.S. Federal Cannabis Prohibition Remains Intact - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:54:42] <exec> 08└─And how to do RESEARCH without moving it to schedule 2? The pure circularity of the reasoning is impressive.
[17:54:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02US fedgov continues criminal activity - 06U.S. Federal Cannabis Prohibition Remains Intact - 701 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:54:44] <exec> 08└─First Prohibition started with the passage of the 18th Constitutional amendment, supposedly granting Congress the power to pass laws effectively banning alcohol. (It was later repealed via the 21st amendment.) Second Prohibition, aka the War on Some Drugs, was "passed" without retracing the amendmen...
[17:54:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's your time investment, but.. - 06FreeBSD Devs Ponder Changes to Security Processes - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:54:59] <exec> 08└─>You'll probably find it *much* easier to adapt to systemd (and/or firewalld for that matter) than to adapt to a whole different OS. The answer: use Slackware. It's best of both worlds.
[17:55:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03jlv [3756] (Score:1) 02Re:But who will kill Chrome? - 06Google Chrome to Finally Beat Flash to Death With a Shovel: Why... Won't... You... Just... Die! - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:55:35] <exec> 08└─3) unstoppable forced update of extensions (which leads to the "it worked yesterday, but not today" scratch-my-head problem when something oddly stops working; not to mention the extension authors who've sold a popular extension so that the next forced update injects ads or worse)
[17:55:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:Yes, set click-to-play - 06Google Chrome to Finally Beat Flash to Death With a Shovel: Why... Won't... You... Just... Die! - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:55:46] <exec> 08└─Probably easier said than done.
[17:55:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Yes, set click-to-play - 06Google Chrome to Finally Beat Flash to Death With a Shovel: Why... Won't... You... Just... Die! - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:55:48] <exec> 08└─Never said it would be, but when the mental anguish is so extreme it's all tsubasa can talk about maybe it's worth a shot.
[17:56:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:Systemd only, it seems - 06Linux Malware? That'll Never Happen. Okay, Just This Once Then - 839 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:56:44] <exec> 08└─Redis is a fairly common database. But if the first step is to overwrite /usr/sbin/ntp, as stated above, then it must have some privilege escalation method...and that sounds like a flaw in Linux...and that it would be systemd is the kind of flaw that people were predicting last year. The assertion w...
[17:56:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Why El Reg appears here with such regularity - 06Linux Malware? That'll Never Happen. Okay, Just This Once Then - 505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:56:54] <exec> 08└─The Register often has a story before anyone else. scrape BBC Roy Schestowitz and his band of smart helpers over at TechRights regularly bust BBC for being a blatantly M$-friendly and FOSS-hostile environment. ...as well as GCHQ-|NSA-friendly. IMO, BBC is only useful for tech news if you like your s...
[17:57:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score:2) 02Re:Agree with DEA - 06DEA Mines Travel Records, Seizes Millions in Cash to "Feed the Monster" - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:57:58] <exec> 08└─Personal choice. Why would I utilize a bank that is paying .025% interest and charging a monthly fee that far exceeds what interest I could make? I keep enough money in the bank for emergency purposes that might require the use of a credit/debit solution, but otherwise I am a cash/barter only person...
[17:58:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02$500,000 is good as salary in some countries - 06$200,000 for a Serious iOS Bug? We'll Give You $500,000 - 1932 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:58:31] <exec> 08└─If they actually pay up it's not a problem for people in cheaper countries. USD500,000 = 33,452,500 Indian rupees. 33.4 million rupees Salary for Senior Software Engineer in India: http://www.payscale.com [payscale.com] Let's say 1M rupees per year. So...
[17:58:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Exodus strategy - 06$200,000 for a Serious iOS Bug? We'll Give You $500,000 - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:58:40] <exec> 08└─1) Sell exploit to Exodus 2) Reveal that the exploit leaves behind steganographic data about its source on the exploited device and all of their customers are exposed 3) profit??????
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[18:53:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02A long time - 06Ecuador Says Swedes Will Question Assange at its UK Embassy - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:53:49] <exec> 08└─Four years is quite a long time to be inside the same place and having your "home" within a work environment must not be any fun either. I wonder how well he gets along with all the people that work in the embassy.
[18:53:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02believe it after the meeting concludes - 06Ecuador Says Swedes Will Question Assange at its UK Embassy - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:53:50] <exec> 08└─One or both sides have said this in the past, only for the meeting to never happen.
[18:53:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:believe it after the meeting concludes - 06Ecuador Says Swedes Will Question Assange at its UK Embassy - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:53:52] <exec> 08└─Assange should just claim to be a Muslim refugee, because Europe (and Sweden especially) doesn't mind if those commit rape. All joking aside, Assange is a deadman the second he steps outside those embassy doors whether or not the UN endorses his freedom, dead-mans' switch or not.
[18:54:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:In Other News - 06Cyber-Crime Cost Calculation Studies Are Rubbish Says ENISA - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:54:04] <exec> 08└─Only $250 million/day? C'mon people, if we make a script that keeps deleting and redownloading your entire music library, I bet we can push that over a $billion/day.
[18:54:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02WTF is EPFL - 06Acoustic Prism Invented at EPFL - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:20] <exec> 08└─LOL You might want to open such acronyms OMG
[18:54:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Thought of a weird use for this - 06Acoustic Prism Invented at EPFL - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:22] <exec> 08└─Audio to MIDI conversion. It would be trivial for a good programmer to write something that takes the output of one of these and makes some very clear MIDI transcripts of what's coming through it. If you can construct the prism such that it splits along the Western tonal scale (A = 440Hz etc) in the...
[18:54:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score:1) 02Re:ORLY? - 06U.S. Federal Cannabis Prohibition Remains Intact - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:54:43] <exec> 08└─Considering the multitude of people profiting mightily from The War On Freedom^H^H^H Drugs, I am not at all surprised. What would surprise me is if they would actually act upon this injustice.
[18:54:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:ORLY? - 06U.S. Federal Cannabis Prohibition Remains Intact - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:54:44] <exec> 08└─> After J. Edgar Hoover, Anslinger probably deserves a prize as being one of the most overbearing thugs at the head of a government agency during the expansion of federal government power in the mid-1900s. Pretty sure Allen "Operation Sunrise" Dulles deserves a shoutout here too.
[18:54:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:ORLY? - 06U.S. Federal Cannabis Prohibition Remains Intact - 812 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:54:47] <exec> 08└─The "Chopped up and replaced" is a reasonable solution, but expecting an agency to "stay on mission" isn't reasonable. The only agencies that exhibit "staying on mission" are those that do not become centers of power. If they do, the controlling positions will be acquired by someone who desires to e...
[18:54:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Politicians are all the same - 06U.S. Federal Cannabis Prohibition Remains Intact - 688 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:54:58] <exec> 08└─Here's what the D team platform has to say about it: Because of conflicting federal and state laws concerning marijuana, we encourage the federal government to remove marijuana from the list of “Schedule 1" federal controlled substances and to appropriately regulate it, providing a reasoned pathw...
[18:55:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:Think about this - 06U.S. Federal Cannabis Prohibition Remains Intact - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:55:05] <exec> 08└─Sorry, even pure LSD is a poison. So is every other drug. Including water...people have died from drinking too much water. In all cases it is a matter of dosage. In some cases, e.g. Lead, there is no known safe level...but this doesn't mean that there isn't one, or that it might not even be needed....
[18:55:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03rts008 [3001] (Score:2) 02Re:Rooted in political agenda, NOT science... - 06U.S. Federal Cannabis Prohibition Remains Intact - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:55:13] <exec> 08└─In context of this discussion, so what? What exactly does that opinion have to do with the DEA's decision, or drug laws and policy about marijuana? Why you were modded insightful instead of offtopic, troll, or flamebait, is troubling, and an abuse of modpoints, IMO.(and according to the SN moderator...
[18:55:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Rooted in political agenda, NOT science... - 06U.S. Federal Cannabis Prohibition Remains Intact - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:55:17] <exec> 08└─mod that comment way up, that's the crux of this whole show
[18:55:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03rleigh [4887] (Score:2) 02Re:FreeBSD - 06FreeBSD Devs Ponder Changes to Security Processes - 1367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:55:48] <exec> 08└─All very true. I'm increasingly using FreeBSD but still very much in the Linux world as well. With respect to the large number of filesystems which Linux supports, it's nice if you need them but in practice most people will use one or two at most. On FreeBSD I'm finding UFS perfectly adequate for VM...
[18:55:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimtheowl [5929] (Score:1) 02Do it and tell us about it. - 06FreeBSD Devs Ponder Changes to Security Processes - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:55:54] <exec> 08└─I have been running FreeBSD since version 3.2 in a personal context only, but I know some people who use it in a professional one. I do not recall ever having any surprises. Whether or not it works out, we all like a good systemd story. Soylentnews would be the news.
[18:56:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:But who will kill Chrome? - 06Google Chrome to Finally Beat Flash to Death With a Shovel: Why... Won't... You... Just... Die! - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:56:16] <exec> 08└─Chromium might be, but Chrome is proprietary.
[18:56:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score:1) 02Re:Yes, set click-to-play - 06Google Chrome to Finally Beat Flash to Death With a Shovel: Why... Won't... You... Just... Die! - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:56:30] <exec> 08└─The problem with your suggestion is that no matter where you go there are always more assholes, and sometimes they are bigger than the ones you are trying to escape. I myself would rather have to deal with an ignorant asshole than a malicious asshole.
[18:56:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Youtube - 06Google Chrome to Finally Beat Flash to Death With a Shovel: Why... Won't... You... Just... Die! - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:56:42] <exec> 08└─So I can't comment on a Chrome article, which kinda defines the trends for other browsers, because I prefer not to have Google stare at all my browsing? By the way, I set my firefox to load all the tabs before I click on them (opposite of the default), because people don't know how to code small pag...
[18:58:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jeremiah Cornelius [2785] (Score:2) 02Re:Something smells, but it ain't drugs - 06DEA Mines Travel Records, Seizes Millions in Cash to "Feed the Monster" - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:58:52] <exec> 08└─This is wonderful!
[18:58:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jeremiah Cornelius [2785] (Score:2) 02Re:Something smells, but it ain't drugs - 06DEA Mines Travel Records, Seizes Millions in Cash to "Feed the Monster" - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:58:53] <exec> 08└─If the Atari thing didn't pan out, I could have seen this as Jobs' next venture...
[19:00:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:federal funding - 06Appeals Court Rules the FCC Cannot Override State Laws Banning Municipal ISPs - 486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:00:38] <exec> 08└─The legislation took a “carrot and stick” approach. For the “stick,” it required withholding a portion of federal highway funds from states that by 1987 had not enacted laws prohibiting the purchase or possession of alcohol by persons under the age of 21. The “carrot” provided financial...
[19:02:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score:2) 02Re:DMT is interesting - 06Scientists Prolong Length of DMT Trips - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:02:45] <exec> 08└─By definition if he was experiencing infinite pain he'd still be experiencing it. This isn't right. He'd need to be infinitely large and have infinite power of perception including nociception to experience that too.
[19:02:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:1, Offtopic) 02Re:DMT is interesting - 06Scientists Prolong Length of DMT Trips - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:02:47] <exec> 08└─He'd still need infinite time. We're talking about an endless amount of something which takes time to perceive, hence he'd need infinite time to perceive it all. I know infinities are hard to comprehend but that one is fairly obvious.
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[19:53:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Oh boy - 06Internet of Things (IoT) is Now Growing Faster Than Smartphones - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:42] <exec> 08└─1.4 million cars got connected to cellular networks in the quarter
[19:53:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:A long time - 06Ecuador Says Swedes Will Question Assange at its UK Embassy - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:53:50] <exec> 08└─Initially, it was probably a welcome change from the embassy daily routine (which is mostly dull paperwork when you're a small country embassy in a major capital). The fact that they have yet to set an "accidental" electrical fire in the basement or plumbing malfunction on the top floor (or the next...
[19:54:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:WTF is EPFL - 06Acoustic Prism Invented at EPFL - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:54:20] <exec> 08└─Swiss call it MIT of Europe. Maybe other Europeans disagree, but I understand it's regarded highly in STEM fields.
[19:54:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Whoever [4524] 02Re:ORLY? - 06U.S. Federal Cannabis Prohibition Remains Intact - 192 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:54:38] <exec> 08└─Bottom line here is that we need more research to make appropriate changes to our drug policy. Allowing a bunch of stoners to throw a hissy fit isn't a replacement for proper research studies.
[19:54:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:ORLY? - 06U.S. Federal Cannabis Prohibition Remains Intact - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:54:46] <exec> 08└─Understood that agencies will tend over time to go off mission. That just means it's time to replace them. Fully agreed about restricting whatever would replace the FDA to approval stickers, though I would also allow warning stickers based of doubtful efficacy or actual danger to health. The FTC is...
[19:54:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:ORLY? - 06U.S. Federal Cannabis Prohibition Remains Intact - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:54:52] <exec> 08└─Those two things alone are responsible for either [...] or DUI's and other crimes like physical or sexual assaults.
[19:54:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:ORLY? - 06U.S. Federal Cannabis Prohibition Remains Intact - 747 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:54:54] <exec> 08└─Yes, you are correct. I should not blame either drug. In particular alcohol. Clearly, there are people who can drink and not do bad things as a result. While some other people seem predisposed to bad things happening when they drink. Wouldn't it work the same way for marijuana? Some people wouldn't...
[19:55:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Politicians are all the same - 06U.S. Federal Cannabis Prohibition Remains Intact - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:55:02] <exec> 08└─She only swings with what will give her the most votes, pretty much like every career politician. Trump and perhaps a very few others (but I can't think of any) don't bend over for a vote as much.
[19:55:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Think about this - 06U.S. Federal Cannabis Prohibition Remains Intact - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:55:10] <exec> 08└─LSD is essentially prohibited because people feel that it is okay to use government to force to violate people's fundamental liberties in the name of safety. This is hardly different from the attitude that says that mass surveillance is okay if it stops terrorists, which is false even if it does inc...
[19:55:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Oxycodone and Methamphetimes are only... - 06U.S. Federal Cannabis Prohibition Remains Intact - 913 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:55:13] <exec> 08└─I've observed that it can cause shit fits, hypertension, wild mood swings, psychopathic tendencies, and even violent outbursts in conservative and religious non-users. More seriously there's been at least one self-inflicted death and one murder related to edibles in Colorado. Alcohol may have been i...
[19:55:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:just remember... - 06U.S. Federal Cannabis Prohibition Remains Intact - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:55:26] <exec> 08└─Every pharmaceutical on the market is the best fit to the worst copy of a natural molecule.
[19:55:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03mobydisk [5472] (Score:1) 02Re:just remember... - 06U.S. Federal Cannabis Prohibition Remains Intact - 688 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:55:28] <exec> 08└─The basic idea you present is that drugs only exist because drug companies are evil, and every medication on earth has a natural alternative that is safer and more effective. This sums up modern medical pseudo-science very well. It is this kind of stupidity that makes people buy organic foods then w...
[19:55:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Beige [3989] (Score:2) 02Re:It's your time investment, but.. - 06FreeBSD Devs Ponder Changes to Security Processes - 722 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:55:43] <exec> 08└─It appears I touched a raw nerve with the previous posting and I'm sorry for that - however, in my personal experience learning systemtd didn't take much time and it has worked fine since. Most day-to-day stuff you can handle with just systemctl and chkconfig and these seem to work fine at least on...
[19:56:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I've Been Using FreeBSD For Thirty Years (Sort Of) - 06FreeBSD Devs Ponder Changes to Security Processes - 1769 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:56:02] <exec> 08└─I've been a UNIX systems administrator for over thirty years. I started out administering VAX 11/750s running BSD 4.2 and BSD 4.3, directly from Berkeley. I also supported machines running Mt Xinu's port of BSD. At one time I was working with engineers evaluating the Sun 1 - if I recall correctly, i...
[19:56:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03linuxrocks123 [2557] (Score:2) 02Just Run Ubuntu Without SystemD - 06FreeBSD Devs Ponder Changes to Security Processes - 472 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:56:03] <exec> 08└─I recently upgraded a 14.04 LTS XUbuntu installation to 16.04 LTS. It was an easy task after that was finished to disable SystemD and re-enable upstart: sudo apt-get install upstart-sysv It's probably not "supported", but so what. I'm sure Slash isn't supported, either. Personally, I'd probably...
[19:56:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What keeps you from removing it? - 06Google Chrome to Finally Beat Flash to Death With a Shovel: Why... Won't... You... Just... Die! - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:56:15] <exec> 08└─And more serious games like: Whack it [whackit.co] Never gets old.
[19:56:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Alternative ways of seeing SWF videos - 06Google Chrome to Finally Beat Flash to Death With a Shovel: Why... Won't... You... Just... Die! - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:56:22] <exec> 08└─Anyone tried Gnash, PepperFlash, Shumway, or Lightspark? Other apps? -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[19:56:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:But who will kill Chrome? - 06Google Chrome to Finally Beat Flash to Death With a Shovel: Why... Won't... You... Just... Die! - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:56:31] <exec> 08└─You stupid asshole, what part of _unlicensed files_ do you not understand? Get some brains moran! https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[19:56:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score:2) 02Re:Twitch - 06Google Chrome to Finally Beat Flash to Death With a Shovel: Why... Won't... You... Just... Die! - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:56:38] <exec> 08└─http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2016/08/install-gnome-twitch-desktop-appubuntu-16-04 [omgubuntu.co.uk] Noticed that article earlier today... (program to watch twitch without flash in ubuntu - despite the incomplete html5)
[19:56:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Handing users back control over their browser - 06Google Chrome to Finally Beat Flash to Death With a Shovel: Why... Won't... You... Just... Die! - 486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:56:55] <exec> 08└─Pale Moon [palemoon.org] (the Firefox-derived non-stupid browser) recently added some about:config options to allow users to force their autoplay preferences over pages containing HTML5 video served by remote sites such as youtube. I believe the new key piece was "media.autoplay.allowscripted", to s...
[19:57:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03J_Darnley [5679] (Score:1) 02I still have it installed. - 06Google Chrome to Finally Beat Flash to Death With a Shovel: Why... Won't... You... Just... Die! - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:57:03] <exec> 08└─Yes, I still have it installed. For all the old flash animations.
[19:57:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03aclarke [2049] (Score:2) 02Badgers - 06Google Chrome to Finally Beat Flash to Death With a Shovel: Why... Won't... You... Just... Die! - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:57:05] <exec> 08└─Clearly, the answer is badgers [badgerbadgerbadger.com]. That was my immediate and first thought.
[19:57:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03mobydisk [5472] (Score:1) 02Hasn't Firefox done this for years? - 06Google Chrome to Finally Beat Flash to Death With a Shovel: Why... Won't... You... Just... Die! - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:57:07] <exec> 08└─I thought Firefox has been "click to activate" on Flash since... gosh, 3-5 years? Flashblock was around before that. Do other browsers just blindly run plug-ins without telling you? That sounds dangerous. Does Chrome run Java applets too? And Firefox is the insecure browser????
[19:57:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Advertising ban? - 06Direct to Consumer Cancer Drug Advertising - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:57:34] <exec> 08└─You can't, in the land of the First... Forcing them to reveal that your migraine medecine might be linked to melting organs and sudden brain explosions is about as far as you can go. I'm all for an informed public, and I like to know exactly what my doctor are talking about, but creating web reposit...
[20:01:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score:2) 02Re:federal funding - 06Appeals Court Rules the FCC Cannot Override State Laws Banning Municipal ISPs - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:01:06] <exec> 08└─Really? Raising the drinking age was "rigorous; unusually severe or cruel?" Love that registration required link too. Thanks!
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[20:53:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Oh boy - 06Internet of Things (IoT) is Now Growing Faster Than Smartphones - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:53:46] <exec> 08└─Soon, they'll have to click Cancel every time they start the car, because the infotainment will want to update itself to a version which display ads and spies on them (a $1000 option to remove on corporate fleets, until that changes to an $860/yr option to remove)
[20:53:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score:2) 02Bingo - 06Internet of Things (IoT) is Now Growing Faster Than Smartphones - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:53:47] <exec> 08└─Cars are coming with a year of FREE connectivity so they can try and hook the new owners. I'll bet that half the 'new' connections are sitting in manufacturer lots awaiting delivery to car dealerships all over. My jeep will email me when the tire pressure is low, or the oil is due to change. I do li...
[20:53:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Played this game before... - 06Internet of Things (IoT) is Now Growing Faster Than Smartphones - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:53:50] <exec> 08└─It was called Rockman.exe (Megaman Battle Network here in the 'States) and as I recall it did not end well... On the upside, maybe we'll get our own NetNavis soon.
[20:53:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score:2) 02Waiting for the IoT cat brush - 06Internet of Things (IoT) is Now Growing Faster Than Smartphones - 1075 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:53:52] <exec> 08└─Fortunately, while I am a geek, I resist the temptation to buy "geeky stuff". My truck is 10 years old and is hackable only with a master key (or a tire iron). However, I recently got hearing aids thanks to the tinnitus created by a concussion thanks to an idiot who knocked me off my motorcycle at a...
[20:53:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Waiting for the IoT cat brush - 06Internet of Things (IoT) is Now Growing Faster Than Smartphones - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:53:54] <exec> 08└─I brushed a cat a few times in my life. As I was reaching for that stupid brush one evening, it occured to me that the cat has it's own built in cat brush. If Kitty needs grooming, then Kitty needs to get busy. I've done my part to slow down the upward evolution of felines, and the downward evolutio...
[20:53:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Waiting for the IoT cat brush - 06Internet of Things (IoT) is Now Growing Faster Than Smartphones - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:53:56] <exec> 08└─We domesticated one another, if you think about it.
[20:53:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:3, Interesting) 02I find this disturbing - 06Internet of Things (IoT) is Now Growing Faster Than Smartphones - 476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:53:58] <exec> 08└─So I'm going 60 MPH on a twisty mountain road in a driving snowstorm when they instrument panel is entirely replaced with "Firmware Update Failed". I don't want my things to be in the Internet. I used to drive Grandpa Crawford's 1950s Chevy pickup truck. The starter didn't work so well so you had to...
[20:54:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:A long time - 06Ecuador Says Swedes Will Question Assange at its UK Embassy - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:54:09] <exec> 08└─It might not be fun being stuck in an embassy for four years. But God only knows what would happen if he ended up in the US. Or somewhere not officially in the US. I do not have an opinion on whether he has committed a sexual assault. But I do know he has done something far, far worse. He has offend...
[20:54:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:A long time - 06Ecuador Says Swedes Will Question Assange at its UK Embassy - 1716 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:54:11] <exec> 08└─There really aren't very many truly valid opinions about whether Assange committed a sexual assault. Both women involved tell the same story - they were NOT raped, they were NOT assaulted. Both women have been very clear about that. Assange may have committed a societal transgression related to his...
[20:54:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02So... - 06Acoustic Prism Invented at EPFL - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:54:42] <exec> 08└─Can this be used in reverse to convert it back into a sound mix after modifying some parts? Kind of like using Audacity to filter or otherwise modify audio files. Also, what about using it to power a speaker for each constituent frequency? That would probably be the absolute best audio reproduction...
[20:55:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Politicians are all the same - 06U.S. Federal Cannabis Prohibition Remains Intact - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:55:20] <exec> 08└─Trump and perhaps a very few others (but I can't think of any) don't bend over for a vote as much.
[20:55:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score:2) 02Re:just remember... - 06U.S. Federal Cannabis Prohibition Remains Intact - 989 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:55:45] <exec> 08└─I design pharmaceutical compounds for a profession. We can design anything - we can synthesis much less. Hence, all compounds that make it to market are only optimised from libraries of stuff we *can* make to a) not kill you (quickly) b) do what they say c) be better than something already sold. Sur...
[20:57:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ledow [5567] 02Really? - 06Direct to Consumer Cancer Drug Advertising - 1190 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:57:45] <exec> 08└─Is this a US thing? Because I'm pretty sure I've never seen direct-advertised pharamceuticals except over-the-counter stuff. And though I live in a country with a National Health Service (yes, I'm part of modern civilisation!), there is private healthcare available if I want to pay for it. I'm just...
[20:57:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Re:Really? - 06Direct to Consumer Cancer Drug Advertising - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:57:49] <exec> 08└─Don't worry, UKIP will fix it. They love America.
[20:58:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score:2) 02Re:Won't Someone Please Think of the Environment?? - 06Cisco Gives Cable Industry Tech for 10Gbps Uploads on DOCSIS - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:58:35] <exec> 08└─As a concrete example, I have read about people going to Antarctica for the express purpose of extracting data from the polar ice cap. That data is, presumably, then packetized and sent off to satisfy a tiny portion of society's hunger for data. This deep data from ice caps is irreplaceable!
[20:58:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score:2) 02Exploit versus report - 06Flaw in Facebook Copyright Tool Earns Expert $4,000 - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:58:48] <exec> 08└─How long would it have taken to earn $4000 by exploiting this flaw? I'm just unfamiliar with Facebook's process for paying 'content controllers,' or whatever they are called.
[21:01:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:State vs. Federal - 06Appeals Court Rules the FCC Cannot Override State Laws Banning Municipal ISPs - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:01:08] <exec> 08└─The bread and circuses works really well because there is a certain tipping point the people must reach on average before they are willing to fully invest themselves in protest.
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[21:53:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03lgw [2836] (Score:1) 02SJW Friday? - 06Science Fiction Publishing And Racism - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:33] <exec> 08└─Can we please keep the "SJW Friday" stories on contained within the green site? This place is bettor off without them.
[21:53:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:SJW Friday? - 06Science Fiction Publishing And Racism - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:53:34] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msL-XFs3Ggs [youtube.com]
[21:53:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02need a proper response - 06Science Fiction Publishing And Racism - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:53:36] <exec> 08└─Somehow, this nonsense needs to die. I'm thinking maybe... posting links to KKK web sites? We could do that for every story like this one. If a story like this gets posted, we dedicate the comments to promoting the KKK. Don't want to promote the KKK? Great, don't post stories like this.
[21:53:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Professional Basketball - 06Science Fiction Publishing And Racism - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:38] <exec> 08└─I wonder what the analogous statistics for professional basketball players are, and if that can be used as an argument that the NBA is plagued by "structural, institutional, personal, universal" racism. Against white people.
[21:53:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Professional Basketball - 06Science Fiction Publishing And Racism - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:53:41] <exec> 08└─It kinda is. White Men Can't Jump after all...
[21:53:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Here comes the stupid questions - 06Science Fiction Publishing And Racism - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:43] <exec> 08└─How many black people do write SF? What's the white_written/white_published ratio, compared to the black_written/black_published ratio? One step further: Getting published is excessively about knowing the right person/channel. Tends to be that poorer people don't have those channels. Tends to be tha...
[21:53:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Benny Russell - 06Science Fiction Publishing And Racism - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:45] <exec> 08└─Black actor plays insane black man who writes science fiction! http://memory-alpha.wikia.com [wikia.com]
[21:53:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Millenials - 06Science Fiction Publishing And Racism - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:47] <exec> 08└─You lots are idiots of the Idiocracy. SMH.
[21:53:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02lyrics are fiction too - 06Science Fiction Publishing And Racism - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:49] <exec> 08└─I want to see a study of how many black musicians sing about money. I want to see a study of how many country musicians sing about trucks. I want to see a study of how many female musicians sing about breakups. Fuck your ism. Every genre is biased.
[21:53:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02How would I know? - 06Science Fiction Publishing And Racism - 459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:52] <exec> 08└─What color is Alastair Reynolds? Kevin J Anderson? Blake Crouch? Peter Hamilton? Don't know, don't care. Write a good story and I'll read it, I don't care what color you are. Some 20 years ago I read a story by John Barnes. About halfway through it the author made clear the protagonist was black. O...
[21:53:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How would I know? - 06Science Fiction Publishing And Racism - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:53:54] <exec> 08└─If only there were some kind of tradition of including photographs of authors on dust jackets. Won't someone please think of the racists who need to know which books not to read.
[21:53:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02How many black writers were rejected by publishers - 06Science Fiction Publishing And Racism - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:56] <exec> 08└─The argument might have more force if it contained statistics on how many black writers tried to get published and were rejected at a rate greater than authors of other races. As it is, it seems it's looking only at acceptance.
[21:53:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How many black writers were rejected by publish - 06Science Fiction Publishing And Racism - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:53:58] <exec> 08└─shhhhh stop making sense. You know that is not allowed once the word 'racism' is used.
[21:53:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Stupid Analysis - 06Science Fiction Publishing And Racism - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:00] <exec> 08└─...we don’t have access to submission-rate data concerning race and ethnicity either overall or by individual magazine...
[21:54:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03claywar [3069] (Score:1) 02Re:Bingo - 06Internet of Things (IoT) is Now Growing Faster Than Smartphones - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:54:12] <exec> 08└─I'm assuming they're counting the cellular modem, and not just basing this number of people who have calling plans. OnStar would be one of the biggest contributers I'd guess, however any vehicle will telematics would have to have some way of communicating with the outside world over the air.
[21:54:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Waiting for the IoT cat brush - 06Internet of Things (IoT) is Now Growing Faster Than Smartphones - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:54:18] <exec> 08└─The cats directed the evolution of the simians for maximum comfort and heat transfer. Why else would we only have hair left where we do?
[21:54:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Waiting for the IoT cat brush - 06Internet of Things (IoT) is Now Growing Faster Than Smartphones - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:54:20] <exec> 08└─while I am a geek, I resist the temptation to buy "geeky stuff"
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[21:54:22] <exec> 08└─I have a different reason not to buy these IoT things. Once you seen how the sausage is made you dont want it :)
[21:54:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03quintessence [6227] (Score:2) 02Re:I find this disturbing - 06Internet of Things (IoT) is Now Growing Faster Than Smartphones - 667 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:54:26] <exec> 08└─I would hope automakers are smart enough to keep separate systems for vital functions and infotainment systems. If not, they'll soon get wise once the lawsuits start coming in. I could see discreet LANs coming into play with encrypted keys to gain access from the web, but yeah, the current implement...
[21:54:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03claywar [3069] (Score:1) 02Re:I find this disturbing - 06Internet of Things (IoT) is Now Growing Faster Than Smartphones - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:54:28] <exec> 08└─From my own personal experience, upgrades have always required the car to be parked/not running in order to install.
[21:54:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:believe it after the meeting concludes - 06Ecuador Says Swedes Will Question Assange at its UK Embassy - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:54:41] <exec> 08└─Knowing what Wikileaks did for Seth Rich [soylentnews.org], no one will dare to touch Assange.
[21:54:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:In Other News - 06Cyber-Crime Cost Calculation Studies Are Rubbish Says ENISA - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:54:52] <exec> 08└─You jest but I do exactly this. I don't have a music library. I stream everything. Billions of bytes per day.
[21:55:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score:2) 02Re:profit! - 06U.S. Federal Cannabis Prohibition Remains Intact - 1291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:55:24] <exec> 08└─Yeah its profit...but not like you think, its big pharma profit they are truly worried about. A recent study was published showing the effect on big pharma of medical pot.....40% fewer anti-anxiety meds pushed, 70% less anti- nausea meds pushed and a whopping 1750%! fewer pain pills pushed by your f...
[21:55:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03lgw [2836] (Score:1) 02Re:ORLY? - 06U.S. Federal Cannabis Prohibition Remains Intact - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:55:36] <exec> 08└─I feel exactly the same way about the EPA, for the same reason. Sure, the new ones will be just as bad in 50 years, but at least sanity will return for 30+ years.
[21:55:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:ORLY? - 06U.S. Federal Cannabis Prohibition Remains Intact - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:55:38] <exec> 08└─I would say government agencies fall under Twain's advice: “Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.”
[21:55:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03lgw [2836] (Score:1) 02Re:ORLY? - 06U.S. Federal Cannabis Prohibition Remains Intact - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:55:46] <exec> 08└─higher rates of lung cancer, which we all have to ultimately pay to treat;
[21:56:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02so take Marinol - 06U.S. Federal Cannabis Prohibition Remains Intact - 474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:56:06] <exec> 08└─You can get your THC in a form that doesn't fill your lungs with tar, and the dosing will be far more accurate. There is no medical justification for choosing the raw plant. We all know why you want this. You like the coolness factor, or you can't legitimately get a Marinol prescription. You want to...
[21:56:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03http [1920] (Score:2) 02Re:Dunno...works fine... - 06FreeBSD Devs Ponder Changes to Security Processes - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:56:25] <exec> 08└─Nobody seriously "hates" systemd, but there's every kind of flaw in philosophy and implementation that makes it desireable to avoid. Kind of like a wild bear. You don't hate it, you stay hte fuck away and do your best to alert anyone nearby.
[21:57:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yes, set click-to-play - 06Google Chrome to Finally Beat Flash to Death With a Shovel: Why... Won't... You... Just... Die! - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:57:28] <exec> 08└─And some times you cannot move to avoid the assholes, because wherever you go, there you are. If this happens often enough, it behooves one to examine hypotheses: Either the universe is full of assholes, or, you are the common element, and you seems to be making people into assholes by your mere pre...
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[21:57:42] <exec> 08└─Nice of google to try killing of adobe flash. Even though they give a lot of lip service to doing so, Google Finance still requires flash for the interactive stock chart. Why won't flash just die? Maybe they should ask themselves.
[21:59:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] 02Re:Agree with DEA - 06DEA Mines Travel Records, Seizes Millions in Cash to "Feed the Monster" - 77 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:59:29] <exec> 08└─Does due process and innocent until proven guilty have no place anymore then?
[21:59:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Re:Agree with DEA - 06DEA Mines Travel Records, Seizes Millions in Cash to "Feed the Monster" - 444 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:59:44] <exec> 08└─When is being pro-fascist a good idea? Why let people cross stat borders without showing papers? They could be illegals let in by the lazy state next door! Why let poor people vote, they obviously couldn't afford a good education and don't understand the issues. Why let trolls exist on SN, not like...
[21:59:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Agree with DEA - 06DEA Mines Travel Records, Seizes Millions in Cash to "Feed the Monster" - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:59:48] <exec> 08└─According to the stupid TV shows: to pay the tip at the end of your luxury vacation. But maybe the DEA doesn't stop people going to the drug-infested Caribbean if they fly first class or private charter.
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[22:53:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:need a proper response - 06Science Fiction Publishing And Racism - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:53:27] <exec> 08└─GAY. NIGGERS. It's sci-fi and it's sexist. Strangely not racist though. Dr Ildo turns white when he's chosen as the Gay Ambassador to Earth, and his black crewmates all accept him as a white man.
[22:53:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03n1 [993] (Score:2) 02Re:SJW Friday? - 06Science Fiction Publishing And Racism - 569 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:53:28] <exec> 08└─Throwing the term SJW around at every opportunity is no better than the people who will find racism, sexism or other form of discrimination in anything and everything. Be constructive, explain why the methodology is flawed, how the results are poorly interpreted or misrepresented. There's lots to ta...
[22:53:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:SJW Friday? - 06Science Fiction Publishing And Racism - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:53:30] <exec> 08└─Arguing with the SJW types just gives them credibility. It's kind of like arguing with the climate change deniers or anti-vaxxers, they haven't got a leg to stand on to begin with, so why give them validation by arguing like they have a valid point?
[22:53:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Professional Basketball - 06Science Fiction Publishing And Racism - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:53:35] <exec> 08└─Are you implying that Black Men Can't Write? oO
[22:53:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Professional Basketball - 06Science Fiction Publishing And Racism - 1672 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:53:37] <exec> 08└─Black people represent about 13% of the population at large in the US and so them only being published 2% of the time in one genre isn't necessarily unreasonable. The assertion that this is by design makes some assumptions that aren't valid. Blacks are significantly less likely to graduate high scho...
[22:53:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Millenials - 06Science Fiction Publishing And Racism - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:53:42] <exec> 08└─Well, shit. You had to say that. Now they don't feel safe here. What kind of a monster does something like that?
[22:53:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02Re:How would I know? - 06Science Fiction Publishing And Racism - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:53:47] <exec> 08└─I don't recall seeing pictures of any of the authors I mentioned. Books with the author plastered on the back tend to have titles like A is for Asshole, and The Jailhouse Lawyer. Mass market crap I don't waste time reading.
[22:53:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How many black writers were rejected by publish - 06Science Fiction Publishing And Racism - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:53:51] <exec> 08└─Eh, this seems to be riffing on the Academy Awards controversy. While pure chance has that at least a few worthy people were denied, jumping from that to institutionalized racism seems to be a stretch. Have to admit this new McCarthism is proving to be the gift that keeps on giving. Is there no area...
[22:53:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02That number - 06Science Fiction Publishing And Racism - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:53:54] <exec> 08└─"The probability that it is random chance that only 1.96% of published writers are black in a country where 13.2% of the population is black is 0.00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000321%," says the report.
[22:53:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:That number - 06Science Fiction Publishing And Racism - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:53:56] <exec> 08└─Writers Cannot Do Math [tvtropes.org]
[22:53:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Integrating - 06Science Fiction Publishing And Racism - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:53:59] <exec> 08└─Blacks have enough of a problem blending into society already. Being a geek writer would only add to that, to be frank.
[22:54:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Integrating - 06Science Fiction Publishing And Racism - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:54:01] <exec> 08└─Being able to read and write makes you and Uncle Tom. *duck*
[22:54:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Integrating - 06Science Fiction Publishing And Racism - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:54:03] <exec> 08└─Fetty Wap can read and write with only one good eye.
[22:54:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02Re:Integrating - 06Science Fiction Publishing And Racism - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:54:05] <exec> 08└─I don't know what decade you're thinking of, but here in the 2010s, it's geeky white men who have a problem integrating into society. Try being a white man looking for work and being rejected time after time by women, indians, and black men hiring women, indians, and black men.
[22:54:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Disagree) 02Racist - 06Science Fiction Publishing And Racism - 2441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:07] <exec> 08└─The problem is that blacks never developed the wheel, never developed written language, never developed houses more than one story tall made out of anything but mud and thatched roofs. They never developed anything that uses metal. They never built bridges, never wove cloth. The island of Madagascar...
[22:54:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Just state the problem - 06Science Fiction Publishing And Racism - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:09] <exec> 08└─like everywhere in our society, marginalisation of black people is still a huge problem in publishing
[22:54:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Just state the problem - 06Science Fiction Publishing And Racism - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:54:12] <exec> 08└─Nope. That's how religion works. Everyone's a sinner. Beg for forgiveness, sinner.
[22:54:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Statistics - 06Science Fiction Publishing And Racism - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:14] <exec> 08└─"The probability that it is random chance that only 1.96% of published writers are black in a country where 13.2% of the population is black is 0.00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000321%," says the report.
[22:54:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:1) 02i give up (again) - 06Science Fiction Publishing And Racism - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:16] <exec> 08└─The world of speculative fiction publishing is plagued by "structural, institutional, personal, universal" racism, according to a new report that found less than 2% of more than 2,000 SF stories published last year
[22:54:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Re:i give up (again) - 06Science Fiction Publishing And Racism - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:54:18] <exec> 08└─Ethanol, is that you?
[22:54:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Racial Heresy - 06Science Fiction Publishing And Racism - 487 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:20] <exec> 08└─Just as men and women prefer different things, so do can different races and ethnicities prefer different things on some sort of genetic or biological level. At some point in the distant past each group had a small nucleus, and likely some of the associated qualities we know today in modern groups c...
[22:54:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Waiting for the IoT cat brush - 06Internet of Things (IoT) is Now Growing Faster Than Smartphones - 737 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:54:35] <exec> 08└─Domestication and ownership of cats may actually be caused by a disease. Toxoplasma gondii has well-known effects on the behavior of mammals, including the seeking out of cats. People say that it doesn't have the same effect on humans, in what I surmise to the whole "people aren't animals" line of t...
[22:54:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Waiting for the IoT cat brush - 06Internet of Things (IoT) is Now Growing Faster Than Smartphones - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:54:40] <exec> 08└─Once you see the source code, you appreciate the software even more, because it's a miracle that it works at all!
[22:54:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Waiting for the IoT cat brush - 06Internet of Things (IoT) is Now Growing Faster Than Smartphones - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:54:42] <exec> 08└─as evil as Hitler
[22:56:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:'Hook' Turns 25: Lost Boys Reunite For Photo Sh - 06FreeBSD Devs Ponder Changes to Security Processes - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:56:49] <exec> 08└─Aw, man, I thought you were talking about Blues Traveler. That Hook is only 22 years old.
[22:56:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I've had good luck with FreeBSD on a Laptop - 06FreeBSD Devs Ponder Changes to Security Processes - 822 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:56:59] <exec> 08└─DragonFly is a fork from the 4.x branch of FreeBSD. That was probably the last good release of FreeBSD for general purpose computing; everything since then has been geared more towards the production server environment. Thus device drivers for recent graphics have been neglected since 2007 or so; th...
[22:57:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Compromised? - 06FreeBSD Devs Ponder Changes to Security Processes - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:57:02] <exec> 08└─and the proximity of a USGOV building in California to FreeBSD
[23:00:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score:1) 02Re:Agree with DEA - 06DEA Mines Travel Records, Seizes Millions in Cash to "Feed the Monster" - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:00:07] <exec> 08└─Buying a used truck from a private party?
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[23:53:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02email is becoming social media - 06Gmail: Question Marks for Unauthenticated Senders - GHacks Tech News - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:53:30] <exec> 08└─Profile photos for email? Slowly it's happening. Email is becoming a federated social media platform of big providers who trust each others authenticated senders. I stopped using email about the same time social media became popular. I'm not going back. If that means I'm not welcome to communicate w...
[23:53:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:email is becoming social media - 06Gmail: Question Marks for Unauthenticated Senders - GHacks Tech News - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:53:32] <exec> 08└─Google has profile photos because Gmail has been integrated with Google Talk and/or Google Plus. Many smaller webmail providers have no social media features and probably never will. And if they did add them, what are they going to do, delete your account for not having a profile photo? Problem solv...
[23:53:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03n1 [993] (Score:2) 02Re:SJW Friday? - 06Science Fiction Publishing And Racism - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:53:47] <exec> 08└─If they don't have a valid point, explain why. Take the high ground, let your side of the discussion stand in internet history as a reasoned one. Why dive in looking to argue and be confrontational? Discuss and share your perspective to the people who are new to the debate and/or have not formed an...
[23:53:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:SJW Friday? - 06Science Fiction Publishing And Racism - 1818 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:53:48] <exec> 08└─Too many people nuke these arguments, the rebuttals are so obvious. Doesn't matter, these people aren't thinking so reasoning can't influence them. For example, these are instant argument enders in any rational debate. Watch the hate that flows though. The most obvious is to ask for the evidence the...
[23:53:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:SJW Friday? - 06Science Fiction Publishing And Racism - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:53:50] <exec> 08└─> Isn't the whole point of diversity that we should be different? There's a clear racist bias in the fact most electronics sold in the US are now built by Chinese people. Are manufacturers racists against white, or are whites just incompetent at building electronics?
[23:53:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03IndigoFreak [3415] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:SJW Friday? - 06Science Fiction Publishing And Racism - 1156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:53:52] <exec> 08└─The methodology is flawed since they do not know the submission rates of black authors. It could be that magazines are racist, or it could be that no black authors are submitting stories. There could be other causes as well. But since we do not have any other data than how many black authors they fo...
[23:53:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03n1 [993] (Score:2) 02Re:SJW Friday? - 06Science Fiction Publishing And Racism - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:53:55] <exec> 08└─Thank you, that's what I wanted to see. It doesn't take much to explain why this article is a pile of useless shit and has a much better chance of educating and informing someone than reading "SJW blah blah blah".
[23:53:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:SJW Friday? - 06Science Fiction Publishing And Racism - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:53:57] <exec> 08└─Its true and it isn't. I've read some bigotied scifi. This tool is a good example [tomkratman.com] But by far the greater majority are at least neutral if not approving of different life choices. The problem as I see it is that Scifi for the longest time was a white mas genre and it has a lot of out...
[23:54:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Professional Basketball - 06Science Fiction Publishing And Racism - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:54:03] <exec> 08└─I wonder what the analogous statistics for professional basketball players are
[23:54:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02It's About Lack a Lack of Options - 06Science Fiction Publishing And Racism - 1288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:54:05] <exec> 08└─> that the NBA is plagued by "structural, institutional, personal, universal" racism. Against white people. Here's the thing about being middle-class in America: you have practically all career options open to you. But when you are a member of the underclass your choices are limited. If you aren't o...
[23:54:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Addendum - 06Science Fiction Publishing And Racism - 700 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:54:07] <exec> 08└─Same thing with jews in hollywood. The reason jews are over represented in hollywood is not a jewish conspiracy - its the result of anti-semitism that kept them out of practically all other industries. Same thing with jewish lawyers - for centuries most lawyers represented landed gentry and jews wer...
[23:54:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's About Lack a Lack of Options - 06Science Fiction Publishing And Racism - 486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:54:09] <exec> 08└─So the professions you say are not biased against men but have lot more women in them, do I understand right when you say it's because women are better in those fields than men ? One gender better than the other ? No favoritism? And all white men are rich and they would not dream to became a basketb...
[23:54:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Professional Basketball - 06Science Fiction Publishing And Racism - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:54:12] <exec> 08└─Yes, there is at least evidence of institutional racism against Asians: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[23:54:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Here comes the stupid questions - 06Science Fiction Publishing And Racism - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:54:15] <exec> 08└─Its going to be savaged as an argument when the IQ stats come out. For obvious political reasons, it can't be talked about directly, but the best I can find is a SFWA article http://www.sfwa.org [sfwa.org] A majority of Sci Fi readers make more than $80,000.
[23:54:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Millenials - 06Science Fiction Publishing And Racism - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:54:20] <exec> 08└─No Millenials ? Great, they can run and hide behind their mother's skirt and complain about not enough black people in heavy metal bands.
[23:54:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:How many black writers were rejected by publish - 06Science Fiction Publishing And Racism - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:54:29] <exec> 08└─The obvious counter to that is "check your privilege". That is to say, the theory goes that people are racist (or sexist) without even realizing it. The sad part is that it makes it hard to have a conversation about it. People get defensive, when the people pointing out sexist or racist things may s...
[23:54:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Stupid Analysis - 06Science Fiction Publishing And Racism - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:54:32] <exec> 08└─You're asking for proper statistical analysis from these yokels when half the pre-publication articles that I review lay out statistical analysis strategies straight outta Imagination Land. Optimist.
[23:54:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Integrating - 06Science Fiction Publishing And Racism - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:54:40] <exec> 08└─Where's the -1 Inconvenient Truth mod?
[23:54:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Statistics - 06Science Fiction Publishing And Racism - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:54:47] <exec> 08└─Since most afro-americans are barely literate, how could they write science fiction. It requires both literacy and an understanding of science (beyond how to convert crack from the solid to the gaseous phase).
[23:54:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:i give up (again) - 06Science Fiction Publishing And Racism - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:54:51] <exec> 08└─Blame Ethanol. Eth is the only troll.
[23:55:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:A long time - 06Ecuador Says Swedes Will Question Assange at its UK Embassy - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:55:25] <exec> 08└─But God only knows what would happen if he ended up in the US.
[23:55:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:WTF is EPFL - 06Acoustic Prism Invented at EPFL - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:55:58] <exec> 08└─1. click the first link of the story 2. note the epfl.ch domain 3, look on the left up corner and read "Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne" 4. spare the time posting your question, use it better 5. ... 6. profit (grin)
[23:56:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Thought of a weird use for this - 06Acoustic Prism Invented at EPFL - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:56:00] <exec> 08└─Not quite. Try for yourself: you could do the same using FFT. If you think of the timbre/tone of various music instruments, you'll understand why.
[23:56:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:ORLY? - 06U.S. Federal Cannabis Prohibition Remains Intact - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:56:24] <exec> 08└─Or, to summarize: Some powerful men in government decided to boost their own careers by locking up non-white men and occasionally annoying left-wing types by the millions (and conveniently legalizing discrimination against them for life) and declaring it was all for their health. That's all the War...
[23:57:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03rleigh [4887] (Score:2) 02Re:It's your time investment, but.. - 06FreeBSD Devs Ponder Changes to Security Processes - 1459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:57:20] <exec> 08└─"You'll probably find it *much* easier to adapt to systemd (and/or firewalld for that matter) than to adapt to a whole different OS." I'm not sure. With systemd, it is already effectively a whole different OS. The whole core system is changed. The rest of the system, the daemons and applications etc...
[23:58:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score:1) 02Re:But who will kill Chrome? - 06Google Chrome to Finally Beat Flash to Death With a Shovel: Why... Won't... You... Just... Die! - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:58:07] <exec> 08└─Hmm... so if Chromium has unlicensed, presumably copyrighted files in it, that means legally you couldn't use it. This potentially also applies to Chrome, and other browsers based on Chromium (Opera, etc.) On the other hand, Chromium is in the official Ubuntu and Debian repositories, and they tend t...
[23:58:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Badgers - 06Google Chrome to Finally Beat Flash to Death With a Shovel: Why... Won't... You... Just... Die! - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:58:41] <exec> 08└─This one's better. [dagobah.net]