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[00:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score:2) 02Re:How bad can things get? - 06City of London Police to Hire Law Firms to Tackle Cyber Criminals - 879 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:22:21] <exec> 08└─You are correct, under the Gideon v. Wainwright [wikipedia.org] States must provide a public defender to indigents in criminal cases but not in civil cases and indeed, the burden of proof is lower in civil cases than in criminal ones, so that in theory, it would work as advertised but, being a for p...
[00:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Low Detail - 06NASA Climate Model Says Venus No Longer "Habitable" - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:22:33] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure I get your point about conservation of energy. Do you have reason to think these models don't conserve energy? The Schmidt paper goes into great lengths on the involved physics.
[00:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03rleigh [4887] (Score:2) 02Re:theory as to why Earth is not like Venus - 06NASA Climate Model Says Venus No Longer "Habitable" - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:22:40] <exec> 08└─Additionally, these gases such as S0₂ are heavier than the most common constituents of the atmosphere and so would be far less likely to escape. It's going to stick around near the ground. Plus, we also have handy biologically-driven and chemically-driven sulphur cycles which recycle it so it does...
[00:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score:2) 02Re:theory as to why Earth is not like Venus - 06NASA Climate Model Says Venus No Longer "Habitable" - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:22:42] <exec> 08└─The moon may be one factor, but not for the reason you mention. The reason I've heard most often is that the presence of the moon helped stabilise the earth's axis and rotation rate, resulting in a more stable climate.
[00:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03driven [6295] (Score:1) 02Power generation? - 06NASA Climate Model Says Venus No Longer "Habitable" - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:44] <exec> 08└─Could Venus' unique environment be used for power generation?
[00:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:Power generation? - 06NASA Climate Model Says Venus No Longer "Habitable" - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:22:47] <exec> 08└─Why bother? There's orders of magnitude more power easily available from the sun.
[00:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03kramulous [255] (Score:1) 02Re:How much did those improvements really cost? - 06Notes From The Backend: SN Updates - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:06] <exec> 08└─Somebody doesn't keep up2date with security. Sometimes you do things for the love of it. Oh, and it improves your general skills and knowledge that you then apply to your main profession. I guess it is professional development. What is that worth?
[00:23:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02Re:Crocodile tears - 06Update for Facebook Ads Story: New Ads Already Blocked! - 325 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:23:21] <exec> 08└─And honestly, I find myself manually blocking all sorts of shit anyways. The blunt instrument is great for those wonderful static elements that take up 15% of your screen so you can be reminded which blog you're reading instead of actually reading it. Or nuking the auto-play videos for a news site y...
[00:23:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Crocodile tears - 06Update for Facebook Ads Story: New Ads Already Blocked! - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:23:32] <exec> 08└─I feel like AJAX exists solely to allow bloated pages to avoid refreshes.
[00:25:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Armed black guy? - 06After a Night of Violent Protests in Milwaukee, Calls for Peace - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:25:28] <exec> 08└─Yeah, the less than a percent error rate of the jury trial is intolerable.
[00:25:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Armed black guy? - 06After a Night of Violent Protests in Milwaukee, Calls for Peace - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:25:32] <exec> 08└─It's not a good idea for the government to have the power to arbitrarily strip people of some rights forever simply because they were felons, especially since many laws are unjust and/or unconstitutional.
[00:25:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Armed black guy? - 06After a Night of Violent Protests in Milwaukee, Calls for Peace - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:25:40] <exec> 08└─They might do something violent in the future, so kill them now. That could apply to anyone. If someone isn't armed now, they might be later. This can't be construed as self-defense or defense of others, since there isn't an imminent threat to someone's life.
[00:26:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Old, Tired Cliches - 06After a Night of Violent Protests in Milwaukee, Calls for Peace - 1682 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:26:11] <exec> 08└─> black culture. It is poisonous. The things it teaches them to admire are toxic to any hopes of a successful life Is that some sort of old man complaint about gangster rap? That went out with tipper gore. If you think "black culture" is anti-intellectual, then you are just repeating talk radio myth...
[00:28:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Help for Soylentils? - 06Mefenamic Acid Might Cure Alzheimers - Generic Cost in US is Crazy - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:28:48] <exec> 08└─Those who disagree with you have a mental disease? Maybe you should rethink your values.
[00:29:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:looks familiar - 06Google's New Non-Linux OS: Fuchsia - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:29:48] <exec> 08└─Well, they do now. In fact, they actually make it easier than anyone else I know of. If you want to pick on Google, pick on them for something real, like supporting the TPP.
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[01:22:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02tweet from NSA - 06"The Shadow Brokers" Claim to Have Hacked NSA - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:11] <exec> 08└─you hacker people confuse us. someone in your ranks shits on everybody, steals IP, steals research, and they're lauded as luminaries. https://twitter.com [twitter.com]
[01:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score:2) 02Re:How bad can things get? - 06City of London Police to Hire Law Firms to Tackle Cyber Criminals - 505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:22:22] <exec> 08└─Why bother with all those steps: 1. Seize all money under civil forfeiture laws. 2. There is no step 2. This puts the (now impoverished) person in the position of having to sue the government when the deck is stacked heavily in the government's favor, without money to employ a good lawyer. I suspect...
[01:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:theory as to why Earth is not like Venus - 06NASA Climate Model Says Venus No Longer "Habitable" - 1524 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:22:43] <exec> 08└─TLDR: Sulphur dioxide would be the last to go. I think the losses are mainly due to heat, the solar wind, and gravity. The temperature of a gas is the average kinetic energy of its atoms or molecules. The mean free path is the average distance an atom or molecule can travel without a collision; the...
[01:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Power generation? - 06NASA Climate Model Says Venus No Longer "Habitable" - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:22:47] <exec> 08└─For tax reasons, no doubt.
[01:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:Time to quit Facebook - 06Update for Facebook Ads Story: New Ads Already Blocked! - 2142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:23:56] <exec> 08└─But I think the meaning here is pretty clear: "Ads are fundamental to our business model. Don't block them." No, I don't think it's clear at all. He never said "Don't block them". And even if he did, I don't care: he needs to fix his site so his site will block my browser's requests. How his site re...
[01:24:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I blocked the new ads... - 06Update for Facebook Ads Story: New Ads Already Blocked! - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:24:04] <exec> 08└─It is an arms race. One day the blocker is on top and the next the website is. If you ever see ads, the first step is to update your filters, as most times someone has reported it and they've been updated.
[01:25:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Armed black guy? - 06After a Night of Violent Protests in Milwaukee, Calls for Peace - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:25:42] <exec> 08└─They might do something violent in the future, so kill them now. That could apply to anyone. If someone isn't armed now, they might be later. This can't be construed as self-defense or defense of others, since there isn't an imminent threat to someone's life.
[01:29:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:looks familiar - 06Google's New Non-Linux OS: Fuchsia - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:29:50] <exec> 08└─Google is not "they", there's something like a dozen Android phone makers, and then you also need to count all the other device manufacturers too (TFS says that this new OS is not just for phones, but for all kinds of other devices including desktops).
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[02:22:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Wow!! - 06New York Stock Indexes Reach New Highs - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:10] <exec> 08└─Reminds me of 2000 and 2008. Is this the new 8 year high. Please pass the bubbly.
[02:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02student analogy? - 06"The Shadow Brokers" Claim to Have Hacked NSA - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:18] <exec> 08└─Reminds me of stories I heard in the mid-1970s at MIT...about student lock hackers (self taught lock pickers). By and large this was recreational with minimal damage done and some very creative key making to boot. Then the story goes that the best ones picked their way into the shop of the campus lo...
[02:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02Re:How bad can things get? - 06City of London Police to Hire Law Firms to Tackle Cyber Criminals - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:22:31] <exec> 08└─What gets me is those who are actually guilty of something have put their assets in their wife's name, or the kids, or some other entity that isn't them. Government freezes their assets they get the $4000 monthly spending. On the other hand, the poor schmuck who isn't guilty has all his assets in hi...
[02:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How bad can things get? - 06City of London Police to Hire Law Firms to Tackle Cyber Criminals - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:22:32] <exec> 08└─At least this is an election year and we can vote for the candidate who will end this practice.
[02:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03gmrath [4181] (Score:1) 02Re:MediaWiki - 06Notes From The Backend: SN Updates - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:15] <exec> 08└─"I'll put my ass on it tonight. . ." Somehow the image of the proverbial lard-ass hopping onto an over-stuffed suitcase to squash it closed pops into imagination, and that once imagined, cannot be un-imagined. . . I wish you good luck on the fix. Yes. Yes I do.
[02:24:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03CirclesInSand [2899] (Score:2) 02Re:slightly biased summary - 06NASA Mistakenly Sold Apollo 11 Moon Landing Bag in Gov't Auction - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:24:22] <exec> 08└─What are standard terms? Did she sign a contract? Government auctions shouldn't get special privileges that, for example, a pawn shop wouldn't get.
[02:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Lost and Found - 06NASA Mistakenly Sold Apollo 11 Moon Landing Bag in Gov't Auction - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:24:26] <exec> 08└─They sold them to the "Forrest Gump" producers.
[02:24:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03CirclesInSand [2899] (Score:2) 02Re:Fair Play - 06NASA Mistakenly Sold Apollo 11 Moon Landing Bag in Gov't Auction - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:24:36] <exec> 08└─"Option". LOL. How optional will this be when she refuses?
[02:24:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03goody [2135] (Score:2) 02Interference - 06New Compromises Won't End the Fight Between LTE-U and Wi-Fi - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:52] <exec> 08└─There is no such thing as "unfair" interference in an unlicensed band, at least in the US. No unlicensed service is afforded any protection. It's a free for all.
[02:30:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimtheowl [5929] (Score:1) 02Re:Hydrocarbons for life? - 06Cassini Finds Flooded Canyons on Titan - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:30:55] <exec> 08└─I was referring to sampling Saturn; it is the third largest gravity well in the Solar system, so any type of probe entering the atmosphere is not going to happen in the foreseeable future. Indeed, we will likely get to know Titan.
[02:31:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03oldmac31310 [4521] (Score:1) 02Fuck off Cafe Babe with your badly written posts - 06Television Review: The Expanse [SPOILERS] - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:31:24] <exec> 08└─I just watched the first few minutes of this crap and it is awful. Your taste is way up your ass. Fuck. What a douche.
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[03:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Non Sequor [1005] (Score:2) 02Re:Wow!! - 06New York Stock Indexes Reach New Highs - 2680 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:22:20] <exec> 08└─Eh, well it's not quite the same thing but it may get interesting. One difference between 2000 and 2008 is that risk management policies for institutional investors have shifted to holding higher levels of assets. That's both due to a trend towards greater institutional conservatism (e.g. Basel acco...
[03:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Another reason - 06New York Stock Indexes Reach New Highs - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:22] <exec> 08└─Trump's odds of winning the US Presidency [ladbrokes.com] have fallen the last couple weeks or so. Not that the market loves Hillary, but they with her everyone knows what they're getting. Trump would be completely unpredictable for four years or whatever. Even he has no idea what he's going to do,...
[03:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0, Disagree) 02Re:Another reason - 06New York Stock Indexes Reach New Highs - 629 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:22:24] <exec> 08└─I would argue against this, simply because if you watch CNBC, any time Trump comes up, you see the cognitive dissonance in everyone's faces. His tax-cutting policies are exactly what Wall Street would want just as much as Hillary's tax increase is exactly what they fear, but because he's Trump and b...
[03:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Another reason - 06New York Stock Indexes Reach New Highs - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:22:27] <exec> 08└─Yes Trump promises big tax cuts for corporations and for the rich, but it reminds me of what Mark Twain said about investing: I'm not worried about the return on my investment. I'm worried about return of my investment. That's what worries Wall Streeters about Trump. They think the whole thing might...
[03:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02But - 06New York Stock Indexes Reach New Highs - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:29] <exec> 08└─Main Street, not so much.
[03:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Irrational Exhuberance - 06New York Stock Indexes Reach New Highs - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:31] <exec> 08└─How's that Labor Force Participation Rate doing? How many Americans are homeless? We've got subprime loans again.
[03:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03https [5248] (Score:2) 02Re:tweet from NSA - 06"The Shadow Brokers" Claim to Have Hacked NSA - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:22:40] <exec> 08└─They really should avoid talking about themselves in the third person - it looks like delusional behaviour.
[03:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:tweet from NSA - 06"The Shadow Brokers" Claim to Have Hacked NSA - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:22:42] <exec> 08└─Says the Twitter account of the One. Oh come on, you all know that Smith was the One.
[03:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score:2) 02Re:How bad can things get? - 06City of London Police to Hire Law Firms to Tackle Cyber Criminals - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:22:57] <exec> 08└─They've already had the election for London. This particular London is not in the US.
[03:23:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02You never know - 06NASA Climate Model Says Venus No Longer "Habitable" - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:22] <exec> 08└─Another bullshit pulled outta their ass, but who knows if anything useful might come out of it.
[03:23:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re:MediaWiki - 06Notes From The Backend: SN Updates - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:42] <exec> 08└─I got the templates fixed right now. The checkuser module is broken upstream and abandoned so I had to rip out its hooked but the wiki is now about 90% of the way fixed.
[03:24:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score:2) 02Re:Crocodile tears - 06Update for Facebook Ads Story: New Ads Already Blocked! - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:24:08] <exec> 08└─I would, except that Soylent will no longer speak to Netscape 3 (still my fave browser).
[03:26:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score:2) 02Re:Armed black guy? - 06After a Night of Violent Protests in Milwaukee, Calls for Peace - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:26:15] <exec> 08└─We should go ahead and allow felons to have guns.
[03:26:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03CirclesInSand [2899] (Score:2) 02Re:Armed black guy? - 06After a Night of Violent Protests in Milwaukee, Calls for Peace - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:26:19] <exec> 08└─The 2nd amendment doesn't mention felons. If you are willing to throw away the 2nd amendment over felonies, then what meaning is there in the 8th amendment?
[03:26:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score:2) 02Re:Armed black guy? - 06After a Night of Violent Protests in Milwaukee, Calls for Peace - 748 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:26:22] <exec> 08└─I've read the 2nd amendment, it's really simple, people have the right to bear arms. Not honest citizens have the right to bear arms. Not Protestants have the right to bear arms as the Bill of Rights of 1689 stated. I'm not American and my country doesn't have that right, yet it takes a Judge, as pa...
[03:26:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Armed black guy? - 06After a Night of Violent Protests in Milwaukee, Calls for Peace - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:26:32] <exec> 08└─A reasonable person would expect that this person would be a far greater danger to others than "anyone".
[03:27:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Armed black guy? - 06After a Night of Violent Protests in Milwaukee, Calls for Peace - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:27:14] <exec> 08└─> NO. I will never be held guilty for the actions of a bunch of greedy fucking Capitalists that formed my country a couple hundred years ago. If you are not responsible for the sins of the father, then why do you think you deserve the benefits of those sins?
[03:27:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:A tautology is a tautology - 06Identifying Potential for Success in STEM - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:27:53] <exec> 08└─Troll? I thought he made a pretty decent point.
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[04:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score:2) 02Dichotomy - 06India PM: 20 Million Toilets Built in Two Years - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:24] <exec> 08└─It's amazing to me that a country with nuclear weapons, a country which could unilaterally kick off a species-ending nuclear holocaust, still has half its people shitting in the streets.
[04:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Wow!! - 06New York Stock Indexes Reach New Highs - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:22:33] <exec> 08└─I stopped playing the stock market in 2000, the day my penny stocks shot up to $15 per share. Then I retired.
[04:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:But - 06New York Stock Indexes Reach New Highs - 688 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:22:41] <exec> 08└─That's a vitally important piece of the puzzle. The lower classes mostly don't have enough money to be able to invest. And as such don't get any option to get ahead. Meanwhile, the Clintons are doing quite well getting bribes to support more of the same neo-liberal economic policy that lead to the w...
[04:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Irrational Exhuberance - 06New York Stock Indexes Reach New Highs - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:22:44] <exec> 08└─I suppose your questions are rhetorical, but the BLS report says: Both the labor force participation rate, at 62.8 percent, and the employment-population ratio, at 59.7 percent, changed little in July.
[04:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Inflation - 06New York Stock Indexes Reach New Highs - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:46] <exec> 08└─Reuters cited as possible factors ...
[04:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Buy low, sell high - 06New York Stock Indexes Reach New Highs - 673 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:48] <exec> 08└─Now would be a very good time to take money off the table folks. The underlying economy is still crap but with the Fed throwing money out of helicopters it has to go somewhere and with interest rates way below inflation the stock market seems to be everyone's choice. But it can't last and nobody, bu...
[04:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:How bad can things get? - 06City of London Police to Hire Law Firms to Tackle Cyber Criminals - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:23:13] <exec> 08└─Doesn't matter, neither Trump nor Clinton would have put a stop to it either. Might as well vote for a martian or one of the thousands of Daves that exist.
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[04:24:26] <exec> 08└─I understand what client-side code does. I don't follow why it's valuable. Refreshes don't happen randomly while reading. They happen in response to a user action. And, I don't even know why you would even need to refresh, absent user action. I like being able to read all the replies, and then see t...
[04:25:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:narrative - 06PGP Short-ID Collision Attacks Continued, Now Targeted Linus Torvalds - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:25:53] <exec> 08└─The men in white coats are mikeusa too. He isn't what he claims to be.
[04:26:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Armed black guy? - 06After a Night of Violent Protests in Milwaukee, Calls for Peace - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:26:28] <exec> 08└─Well, for starters there's this thing called "parole". Most everyone in prison gets out early on it. But really I'd just rather criminals not be legally armed. They've already proven they can't be trusted.
[04:26:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Armed black guy? - 06After a Night of Violent Protests in Milwaukee, Calls for Peace - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:26:31] <exec> 08└─You don't so much get the concept that committing a crime means giving up your rights, do you? A hell of a lot of them, really. Every sentence ever was a violation of the defendant's rights if you want to be reductio ad absurdum about it.
[04:26:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Armed black guy? - 06After a Night of Violent Protests in Milwaukee, Calls for Peace - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:26:36] <exec> 08└─No, it's a fair enough idea. I do agree the laws that can land you as a felon need fixing but that doesn't mean you throw out all the good ideas with the bad.
[04:26:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Armed black guy? - 06After a Night of Violent Protests in Milwaukee, Calls for Peace - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:26:39] <exec> 08└─S'a fair point. It should be amended in instead of its current state.
[04:26:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Armed black guy? - 06After a Night of Violent Protests in Milwaukee, Calls for Peace - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:26:42] <exec> 08└─Criminals routinely have their rights taken away. The whole concept of going to jail is a massive rights violation if you want to be picky about it. I'll agree this one should be codified as an amendment but it's not remotely exceptional.
[04:26:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:ORLY? - 06After a Night of Violent Protests in Milwaukee, Calls for Peace - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:26:54] <exec> 08└─...but the chances of it going down the way you describe seems HIGHLY dependent on the skin color of the non-cop with the gun.
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[05:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Dichotomy - 06India PM: 20 Million Toilets Built in Two Years - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:22:16] <exec> 08└─Yes it's true, Detroit is a shithole.
[05:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Dichotomy - 06India PM: 20 Million Toilets Built in Two Years - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:22:17] <exec> 08└─India has more than a billion people. There are more people in poverty in India than the whole of Africa. But then India also has billionaires.
[05:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Dichotomy - 06India PM: 20 Million Toilets Built in Two Years - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:22:20] <exec> 08└─http://www.cnbcafrica.com/news/special-report/2016/01/31/the-forbes-billionaires-list-2016/ [cnbcafrica.com] https://www.africanexponent.com [africanexponent.com]
[05:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Dichotomy - 06India PM: 20 Million Toilets Built in Two Years - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:22:22] <exec> 08└─"Nobody starves in a democracy."
[05:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Flamebait) 02But do they run Linux? - 06India PM: 20 Million Toilets Built in Two Years - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:24] <exec> 08└─So that's why Google is training a billion Android coders in India. Coders doing the needful simply reach into their toilets to find freshly released apps.
[05:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02This is hugely important! - 06India PM: 20 Million Toilets Built in Two Years - 720 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:26] <exec> 08└─We here in the West take sanitary plumbing for granted, but this is one of the most important pieces of a functioning civilization. The amount of disease caused by lack of sanitary facilities in India is staggering, to say nothing of the knock-on effects such as having entire sub-castes of people fo...
[05:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This is hugely important! - 06India PM: 20 Million Toilets Built in Two Years - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:22:28] <exec> 08└─Here in the West, homeless people live under bridges and try to time their bowel movements to coincide with the hours that public toilets are available to them, but when they can't hold it in, they literally shit in the streets. Only rich people have the luxury of taking plumbing for granted. The re...
[05:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Wow!! - 06New York Stock Indexes Reach New Highs - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:22:38] <exec> 08└─What's the song again? Here comes the crash Huge, big and flash Gone are the fortunes ... ...
[05:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03linuxrocks123 [2557] (Score:2) 02Re:Buy low, sell high - 06New York Stock Indexes Reach New Highs - 1054 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:22:50] <exec> 08└─Thanks for posting. I get all my investment advice from random Slashdot and SoylentNews posters. Here's my current investment mix: 40% canned food and water 30% firearms and explosives 15% gold, silver, and precious metals 8% BitCoin 5% illegal drugs of various kinds 2% ownership interest in a Liber...
[05:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Oh yay, another bubble bath... - 06New York Stock Indexes Reach New Highs - 602 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:51] <exec> 08└─...and that means we peons are gonna take another soaking. Nope. Fuck this shit and fuck the greedy rent-seeking useless parasites who've turned the US economy into their own private casino with the livelihoods of tens of millions as betting collateral. Time for a tax on each and every trade, double...
[05:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:tweet from NSA - 06"The Shadow Brokers" Claim to Have Hacked NSA - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:23:02] <exec> 08└─The problem with people is they can't hack being hacked by people.
[05:24:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Crocodile tears - 06Update for Facebook Ads Story: New Ads Already Blocked! - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:24:33] <exec> 08└─If you want to expand some comments in a thread then that is a perfect use for AJAX. No need to fetch a whole page. If you want to moderate a post without full page changes (or iframe trickery) then AJAX is the way to go. Plenty of good reasons to use it.
[05:24:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score:2) 02Re:Time to quit Facebook - 06Update for Facebook Ads Story: New Ads Already Blocked! - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:24:49] <exec> 08└─But passive communication via wall posts and commenting goes a lot more in staying involved in their life or not.
[05:24:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Time to quit Facebook - 06Update for Facebook Ads Story: New Ads Already Blocked! - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:24:51] <exec> 08└─Probably not. What will happen though is the next generation won't actively use it because mom and dad are on there and watching everything. Little Timmy and Jessica even had to root their android just to get rid of the parental spyware.
[05:26:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score:2) 02Re:Armed black guy? - 06After a Night of Violent Protests in Milwaukee, Calls for Peace - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:26:39] <exec> 08└─You've obviously never been to jail, never talked at length worth anyone who has, and place an inordinate amount of trust in the abilities and ethics of law enforcement officers.
[05:27:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Armed black guy? - 06After a Night of Violent Protests in Milwaukee, Calls for Peace - 1470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:27:07] <exec> 08└─Ah, I see where you're going with this now. It's not worded properly though. We don't have true r-selection; what you think is it looks more like an overly-successful K-type strategy. We see this among K-selected large mammals all the time; take deer population booms for example. Just because some a...
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[06:22:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Final Holiday Season - 06Final Fantasy XV Worldwide Launch Officially Delayed to November 29 - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:14] <exec> 08└─Why release in November when there's the final holiday of the year in December?
[06:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This is hugely important! - 06India PM: 20 Million Toilets Built in Two Years - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:22:30] <exec> 08└─You assume the technical definition of toilet used for propaganda purposes here is similar to your definition of sanitary plumbing, That is a dangerous assumption when it comes to government numbers.
[06:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This is hugely important! - 06India PM: 20 Million Toilets Built in Two Years - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:22:31] <exec> 08└─I read the news today oh boy Four thousand holes were dug in Gujarat And though the holes were rather small They had to count them all Now they know how many holes it takes To fill the Taj Mahal.
[06:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:Buy low, sell high - 06New York Stock Indexes Reach New Highs - 1111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:22:54] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't go all in with ammo yet but another collapse, whether 2008 or 1929 model is anyone's guess of course, is a better than even risk in the next 12-24 months. A lot of people saw 2008 coming and profited thereby. If you take some money off the table now and it goes kaboom, heck of a buying op...
[06:24:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03fleg [128] (Score:2) 02Re:How much did those improvements really cost? - 06Notes From The Backend: SN Updates - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:24:08] <exec> 08└─>Soylent News as a nice idea that is going nowhere. can i get your coat for you? call a taxi perhaps?
[06:25:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ads - 06Update for Facebook Ads Story: New Ads Already Blocked! - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:25:06] <exec> 08└─No, I can do what I want with my browser legally, period. Ad-blockers are not illegal.
[06:26:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Armed black guy? - 06After a Night of Violent Protests in Milwaukee, Calls for Peace - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:26:40] <exec> 08└─I'd rather the government have no such power, because it has shown it can't be trusted. And the government is astronomically more powerful and dangerous than any individual criminal.
[06:26:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score:2) 02Re:Armed black guy? - 06After a Night of Violent Protests in Milwaukee, Calls for Peace - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:26:43] <exec> 08└─Sentences are given by Judges and often end. Division of power, legislature writes the laws, executive enforces them and judiciary decides on guilt and punishment. This is why the 1st says Congress will pass no laws limiting speech rather then the government will never limit speech.
[06:26:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score:2) 02Re:Armed black guy? - 06After a Night of Violent Protests in Milwaukee, Calls for Peace - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:26:54] <exec> 08└─Criminals also routinely have their rights restored after finishing their sentence. The idea of a blanket law removing rights forever seems very repressive.
[06:27:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:Armed black guy? - 06After a Night of Violent Protests in Milwaukee, Calls for Peace - 1896 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:27:16] <exec> 08└─Very hard to summarize a 300 page, heavily footnoted book (The Evolutionary Psychology Behind Politics: How Conservatism and Liberalism Evolved Within Humans - ISBN: 0982947933) in a forum post so let me recommend you follow up with the actual book. But in a nutshell his thesis is that evolution emb...
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[07:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score:2) 02Re:Final Holiday Season - 06Final Fantasy XV Worldwide Launch Officially Delayed to November 29 - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:22:15] <exec> 08└─Why release in November when there's the final holiday of the year in December?
[07:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02To paraphrase - 06Final Fantasy XV Worldwide Launch Officially Delayed to November 29 - 611 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:17] <exec> 08└─So my take away from this announcement is... "The master disc has been written but we still have a shitload of bugs in the software itself. So we're delaying the launch til November to try to make as large a day-1 patch as possible." It's great that they're willing to patch it up for launch day, but...
[07:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02killer game idea: Bug Hunter - 06Final Fantasy XV Worldwide Launch Officially Delayed to November 29 - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:19] <exec> 08└─You pay for the privilege of debugging prerelease games! Compete for achievements! Earn a chance to be a game developer!* * unpaid intern** ** american citizens not eligible
[07:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This is hugely important! - 06India PM: 20 Million Toilets Built in Two Years - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:22:36] <exec> 08└─The Indus Valley civilisation had toilets in 2000 BC that weren't improved upon until around the 19th century. Strange too that nearly every home in Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro had one.
[07:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Another reason - 06New York Stock Indexes Reach New Highs - 496 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:22:52] <exec> 08└─The trouble is, Trump is way too much of a wild card to sit easy in anyone's hand. It isn't just about Trump's tax policy, if they select him as the next Emperor they will have to live with everything else he might decide to do, and that makes them very nervous indeed. Hillary on the other hand is a...
[07:23:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03patella.whack [3848] (Score:2) 02'ya think? - 06City of London Police to Hire Law Firms to Tackle Cyber Criminals - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:23:28] <exec> 08└─From TFA: "One prominent criminal law firm was sceptical about the plans, expressing concern that a profit motive could damage the fairness of the process."
[07:29:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03migz [1807] (Score:2) 02Re:A possible remedy - 06Mefenamic Acid Might Cure Alzheimers - Generic Cost in US is Crazy - 1731 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:29:42] <exec> 08└─Thanks for admitting your insult. Was the insult intended to reduce my credibility, and by association the credibility of my argument? Attempting to undermine my argument by casting disparaging remarks about my alleged lack of formal economic education is an ad-hominum attack. It is a rhetorical dev...
[07:31:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:meego out of mothballs and... - 06Google's New Non-Linux OS: Fuchsia - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:31:10] <exec> 08└─Breaking a driver's ability to build will break userspace, same thing. There's always been the "if you cause another driver to fail to build, then you must fix that driver" principle too. That's what allmod and randommod configs are all about.
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[08:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score:2) 02Re:This is hugely important! - 06India PM: 20 Million Toilets Built in Two Years - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:22:43] <exec> 08└─Because they were not Dravidian, thanks for propagating a very old propaganda (older then WW2 and in some ways a precursor to nazi fantasy of superior aryan race). The demise of Harappan civilization is well documented. For someone who just casually drops the (lack of) knowledge of race in an articl...
[08:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03patella.whack [3848] (Score:2) 02some don't like it - 06India PM: 20 Million Toilets Built in Two Years - 805 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:44] <exec> 08└─A WaPo excerpt But building toilets is the easy part. Getting people to use them is the real challenge, officials say. “We never asked for a toilet. Now we are stuck with it,” said Natholi, 22, as he opened the squat toilet to show that it has not been used. His 62-year-old father peered in and...
[08:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score:2) 02Re:some don't like it - 06India PM: 20 Million Toilets Built in Two Years - 664 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:22:46] <exec> 08└─India is a poor country and it has spent past 800 years living under the rule of foreign powers which systematically dismantled whatever there was in India before they came. What India suffers from is a constant struggle for people who have created their culture, rituals, customs and society based u...
[08:25:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Time to quit Facebook - 06Update for Facebook Ads Story: New Ads Already Blocked! - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:25:16] <exec> 08└─Yep, pretty much everyone I know at least uses Facebook for organizing parties and events
[08:25:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Time to quit Facebook - 06Update for Facebook Ads Story: New Ads Already Blocked! - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:25:20] <exec> 08└─But is that really the most moral way to act?
[08:26:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:risk level - 06PGP Short-ID Collision Attacks Continued, Now Targeted Linus Torvalds - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:26:15] <exec> 08└─Erm, did you skip my parenthetical comment where I say exactly the same thing? Anything counter-intuitive is paradoxical. The intuitive way of thinking leads you down a different path (and is thus "para") from the right way of thinking (the "dox").
[08:27:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Nerdfest [80] 02Re:Jobs??? - 06Identifying Potential for Success in STEM - 28 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:27:50] <exec> 08└─socially/leadership oriented
[08:27:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:Jobs??? - 06Identifying Potential for Success in STEM - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:27:52] <exec> 08└─True for a "degree", but how many people in this field have you met that had a "degree" but still lacked an "education"?
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[09:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Wow!! - 06New York Stock Indexes Reach New Highs - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:22:51] <exec> 08└─> assets vaporized And there's yur problem. There used to be a time when "asset" meant "thing of value", but alas it now seems to mean "thing which might potentially have value". And the value of assets is being defined in terms of the value of other assets - hopefully nobody follows the dependency...
[09:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:indexes - 06New York Stock Indexes Reach New Highs - 542 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:22:54] <exec> 08└─No - you can't not care! These things are important! I notice your link says "the conventions of English" in order to support -ex -> -exes, but the conventions of English were historically -ex -> -ices, we did borrow straight from the latin. So they slightly shoot themselves in the foot there. Howev...
[09:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03moo kuh [2044] (Score:2) 02Investing 101 - 06New York Stock Indexes Reach New Highs - 1710 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:23:09] <exec> 08└─Here is how to invest: First, the US stock market has many multinational corporations traded on the exchanges. Its growth is relentless. So it isn't that hard to get international exposure. The average growth of the U.S. stock market is 10% over the last century if you count dividends. This has been...
[09:23:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02English too good and too bad at the same time - 06"The Shadow Brokers" Claim to Have Hacked NSA - 833 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:23:21] <exec> 08└─All the words are correct, all the grammar's messed up - and looks Slavglish to me. Sure, there are spelling checkers to fix words, but with the level of English demonstrated by the grammar you almost always end up with homonym (specifically heterograph) issues which are seemingly absent, and the vo...
[09:24:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02850 degrees F. - 06NASA Climate Model Says Venus No Longer "Habitable" - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:24:02] <exec> 08└─It wasn't the melting of metallic parts on Russian probes that gave it away?
[09:26:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:risk level - 06PGP Short-ID Collision Attacks Continued, Now Targeted Linus Torvalds - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:26:16] <exec> 08└─Did you miss who you were replying to?
[09:26:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:narrative - 06PGP Short-ID Collision Attacks Continued, Now Targeted Linus Torvalds - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:26:29] <exec> 08└─Unless you are drunk, or your intent is just to vandalize and troll the living shit out of the site, or you are doing an art-project or somesuch, let me make a following note: Spontaneous out-of-nowhere posting of long offtopic drivels to websites is not a sign of excellent mental health.
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[10:22:28] <exec> 08└─Copies? I thought we were all digital now? *Sees master disc in summary* Well, I'll be. *Sees downloadable patch, DLC, season pass in summary* Uhhhh... *Sees this [theregister.co.uk]* back2sleep
[10:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:2) 02Re:This is hugely important! - 06India PM: 20 Million Toilets Built in Two Years - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:22:49] <exec> 08└─Wasn't it like 50°C in the shade around Mohenjo-Daro? Maybe they had to be very careful with their precious water so that they could stay alive. Dune Fremen in Pakistan..
[10:23:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Non Sequor [1005] 02Re:Wow!! - 06New York Stock Indexes Reach New Highs - 2680 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:23:00] <exec> 08└─Eh, well it's not quite the same thing but it may get interesting. One difference between 2000 and 2008 is that risk management policies for institutional investors have shifted to holding higher levels of assets. That's both due to a trend towards greater institutional conservatism (e.g. Basel acco...
[10:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:indexes - 06New York Stock Indexes Reach New Highs - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:23:06] <exec> 08└─I, however, do that deliberately, and in order to reduce ambiguity. I am managing a bunch of index files (indexes) consisting of rows containing numerical indices. Cow-orkers seem happy with that choice.
[10:23:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03mmcmonster [401] (Score:2) 02Re:Investing 101 - 06New York Stock Indexes Reach New Highs - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:23:22] <exec> 08└─You buy as the market is crashing because you should ask yourself this question: Compared to now, where will the market be when I retire? If the answer is up, buy. If on the other hand you are close to retirement, I would suggest starting to move more of your money into Bonds. In particular Vanguard...
[10:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03mmcmonster [401] (Score:2) 02Re:Investing 101 - 06New York Stock Indexes Reach New Highs - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:23:23] <exec> 08└─BTW, if you are close to retirement, you should be moving more of your money into Bonds before the crash (cashing out stocks while the price is high), not during it.
[10:23:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How bad can things get? - 06City of London Police to Hire Law Firms to Tackle Cyber Criminals - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:23:47] <exec> 08└─How long do you think before those laws change?
[10:24:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03shanen [6084] (Score:1) 02Re:How much did those improvements really cost? - 06Notes From The Backend: SN Updates - 1153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:24:42] <exec> 08└─You are missing the point. I think he deserves to get paid for his hard work. Now if you have donated to support him and his work, then I do congratulate you. If you didn't then you are only proving my point. Or do you want to argue that he should take a vow of poverty? Funny story about security. B...
[10:26:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Easy? - 06PGP Short-ID Collision Attacks Continued, Now Targeted Linus Torvalds - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:26:55] <exec> 08└─Or you could just print out "Keys match" in green text or "Keys don't match" in red. :) But I have to say I personally like it when people overengineer.
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[11:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03gOnZo [5184] (Score:1) 02News flash - MORE bugs found in F22! - 06Bees Ground Stealth Fighter - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:19] <exec> 08└─Will it ever stop?
[11:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Oh, stick it up your nose. - 06New Study Says "FluMist" Works... When the Vaccine Does - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:27] <exec> 08└─Yes, which is precisely the sort of thing we need to know. I mean, do people want flu that can be fitted nasally?
[11:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This is hugely important! - 06India PM: 20 Million Toilets Built in Two Years - 1962 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:22:53] <exec> 08└─I am watching this play out not far from where I live. Since this last financial turnaround, a growing number of homeless have been created in out city. Many have lived here since birth, but fell for the financial shenanigans of the 2008 crash. So, the city has been letting them erect their tents a...
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[12:22:20] <exec> 08└─~20000 bugs more. Probably needs few billions more funding to fix the bugs.
[12:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02Re:News flash - MORE bugs found in F22! - 06Bees Ground Stealth Fighter - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:22:21] <exec> 08└─it's not the F-22 that has software problems, it's the F-35 that is a total clusterfuck.
[12:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Monsanto? - 06New Study Says "FluMist" Works... When the Vaccine Does - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:30] <exec> 08└─I think we should look at the link between corporations that only want profit forcing vaccines on the people. There has been an alarming rise in autism. Some question whether there is a link, this man included.
[12:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 022029-11 - 06Final Fantasy XV Worldwide Launch Officially Delayed to November 29 - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:42] <exec> 08└─Too long to wait, for release date that far out.
[12:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Investing 101 - 06New York Stock Indexes Reach New Highs - 1389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:23:36] <exec> 08└─The great thing about finance, is that is fairly simple math. Bonds have their place. The answer is you don't know where the market will be. If you stop buying right after a crash, it will take you a lot longer to recover. Run the numbers of buying right before, during, and after the great depressio...
[12:23:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kilo110 [2853] (Score:2) 02"The Shadow Brokers" - 06"The Shadow Brokers" Claim to Have Hacked NSA - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:49] <exec> 08└─Is that the Mass Effect reference?
[12:24:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] 02Really? Venus is no longer habitable? - 06NASA Climate Model Says Venus No Longer "Habitable" - 19 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:19] <exec> 08└─I'll unpack then...
[12:24:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02what if we remove the CO2? - 06NASA Climate Model Says Venus No Longer "Habitable" - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:33] <exec> 08└─I'm curious if we could turn Venus back(?) into a habitable planet by removing a huge amount of the carbon from the atmosphere. The result would be lots of O2 in the atmosphere and with some hydrogen that O2 becomes water. Alternatively, we could remove the CO2 completely by slingshotting it Mars in...
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[12:26:01] <exec> 08└─Isn't that what I said?
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[13:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Wouldn't it be funny - 06Google's High-Speed Web Plans Hit Snags - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:33] <exec> 08└─If someday a substantial fraction of Alphabet's market cap comes from the Google fiber network. Stranger things have happened.
[13:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Corelli's A [1772] (Score:1) 02Public Infrastructure - 06Google's High-Speed Web Plans Hit Snags - 1038 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:34] <exec> 08└─I'd like to see them apply their vast wealth to a more sustainable model of Internet last mile infrastructure. Specifically, 1) lobby the states and Washington to do away with incumbent telco/cableco's rent-seeking legislation that prevents municipalities from building/owning a last-mile cable plant...
[13:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:News flash - MORE bugs found in F22! - 06Bees Ground Stealth Fighter - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:22:45] <exec> 08└─NEWSFLASH: F-35 not the only military program grounded by bugs, bugs are now also grounding F-22's. Click here for compromising pictures of the Queen Bee. Picture #5 will shock you! Reports say Russia is behind the bugs!
[13:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:News flash - MORE bugs found in F22! - 06Bees Ground Stealth Fighter - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:22:46] <exec> 08└─it's not the F-22 that has software problems
[13:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:2) 02-1 flamebait - 06Bees Ground Stealth Fighter - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:48] <exec> 08└─"eight pounds, or in modern numbers, 3.6 kilos" Can we try to keep the trolling contained in the comment section please?
[13:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:-1 flamebait - 06Bees Ground Stealth Fighter - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:22:51] <exec> 08└─That's not trolling, that's just converting to modern or normal numbers... There are two - count them, two - countries in the world that continue use the imperial system as their official measurement system. Both countries are economic powerhouses; they are the United States and fucking Burma/Myanma...
[13:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:-1 flamebait - 06Bees Ground Stealth Fighter - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:22:53] <exec> 08└─It doesn't seem like trolling, I'm sure some people appreciated the weight also being listed in "pounds", whatever they are.
[13:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03CoolHand [438] (Score:2) 02Good for them - 06Bees Ground Stealth Fighter - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:55] <exec> 08└─I'm glad the USAF actually cared enough to take the time to help the bees out, instead of indiscriminately killing them, as the military normally does things. That's a bit TIC, but I actually am quite serious that I think it's great they did that, when they could very easily have just killed them al...
[13:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Good for them - 06Bees Ground Stealth Fighter - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:22:57] <exec> 08└─Quite, I thought the same thing. They took the time to call a bee-keeper and get him to collect the bees. I think that's great! The article also nicely tied in with (although did not explain) the dieing off of bees which is going to present us in a couple of years with a larger problem than just gro...
[13:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Stingers - 06Bees Ground Stealth Fighter - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:59] <exec> 08└─And here I thought the F-22 mounted stingers under the wings. This must be some new configuration I've not heard of.
[13:23:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02DSS - 06India PM: 20 Million Toilets Built in Two Years - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:42] <exec> 08└─in India's villages and more than 70,000 are free of open defecation
[13:24:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03danuk [5137] (Score:1) 02Re:Oh yay, another bubble bath... - 06New York Stock Indexes Reach New Highs - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:24:12] <exec> 08└─My favorite law for this would be, anyone who trades food stuff should have to take delivery of it and store it.
[13:25:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:what if we remove the CO2? - 06NASA Climate Model Says Venus No Longer "Habitable" - 1168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:25:15] <exec> 08└─Grow weed on Mars converting CO2 to O2, then ship the weed to Mars where its legal. There are some minor scalability aspects to this problem. Somewhat more seriously carbon monoxide is not the best rocket fuel by any means but it does work and is pretty easy to make out of CO2. Maybe decades or cent...
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[14:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Finally! - 06Viral Infections Take Advantage of Circadian Rhythms - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:22] <exec> 08└─Finally, an excellent excuse to being late: "Sorry I couldn't come earlier because of the infection risk." :-)
[14:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Time of sample collection - 06Viral Infections Take Advantage of Circadian Rhythms - 645 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:23] <exec> 08└─So the mice lived on a 12 hr day-night cycle. They injected them with virus either at t=0 (lights on) or t=10 (2 hrs before lights off). Then they assessed the amount of virus present at 3, 5, 7, 9, 13 days later. So either they tested for virus at different time of day or there was an approximately...
[14:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Wouldn't it be funny - 06Google's High-Speed Web Plans Hit Snags - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:22:32] <exec> 08└─Funny? That's a weird way of spelling 'scary'. When you're on GooFi, you'll have no-where to hide from these fuckers unless you VPN everything and anything.
[14:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Public Infrastructure - 06Google's High-Speed Web Plans Hit Snags - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:22:35] <exec> 08└─1) lobby the states and Washington to do away with incumbent telco/cableco's rent-seeking legislation that prevents municipalities from building/owning a last-mile cable plant in favor of Google Fiber last-mile cable infrastructure
[14:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Public Infrastructure - 06Google's High-Speed Web Plans Hit Snags - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:22:37] <exec> 08└─I'd rather see local duopolies or tri-opolies, privately owned, such that each house can pick more than one (fiber, not counting satellite), and then make sure they never merge.
[14:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fnord666 [652] (Score:2) 02Shocked! - 06Google's High-Speed Web Plans Hit Snags - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:40] <exec> 08└─A tech company overpromises and underdelivers. I'm shocked, shocked I say!
[14:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:1) 02Re:-1 flamebait - 06Bees Ground Stealth Fighter - 1451 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:22:54] <exec> 08└─"the metric system already where things actually make sense." Well see I would, if such a thing existed. And I do, to the extent such things exist. But in fact all measurement systems are equally arbitrary and all of them equally make sense (if you bother to learn them) on their own terms, yet both...
[14:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:-1 flamebait - 06Bees Ground Stealth Fighter - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:22:56] <exec> 08└─To be fair, it's a quote from the original article, so it's the Register guys being snarky. Hell hath no fury like a slightly miffed Englishman
[14:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Compared to people without any vaccine... - 06New Study Says "FluMist" Works... When the Vaccine Does - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:09] <exec> 08└─This is just bizarre...look at "Appendix table 2" in the paper (http://annals.org/article.aspx?articleid=2543271). This paper reports data indicating that neither vaccine does much of anything, but they just don't discuss that aspect at all. I suppose one way of spinning their result is that the two...
[14:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Compared to people without any vaccine... - 06New Study Says "FluMist" Works... When the Vaccine Does - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:23:10] <exec> 08└─Hey, that's a great marketing idea. "Buy my new medicine! It works just as well as snake oil, at half the prize!" And the best, nobody can sue for false claims, as the statement is absolutely true (assuming the prize statement is)! ;-)
[14:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Shades of gray - 06New Study Says "FluMist" Works... When the Vaccine Does - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:13] <exec> 08└─People love shades of gray — as long as there are 50 of them.
[14:23:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03mrchew1982 [3565] (Score:2) 02Re:DSS - 06India PM: 20 Million Toilets Built in Two Years - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:23:49] <exec> 08└─Whole story is a load of crap
[14:24:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Wow!! - 06New York Stock Indexes Reach New Highs - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:24:03] <exec> 08└─As Paul Samuelson said, "Wall street indices predicted nine of the last five recessions". - An actual economist
[14:24:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Oh yay, another bubble bath... - 06New York Stock Indexes Reach New Highs - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:24:21] <exec> 08└─That's how that works. If you buy a certain number of futures in pork bellies or corn futures and you still hold the contract on the day that they deliver they will quite literally drop off how ever much of it you own. There's no way that you could be made to take delivery and store them before they...
[14:25:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Power generation? - 06NASA Climate Model Says Venus No Longer "Habitable" - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:25:22] <exec> 08└─But wasn't that bought by Oracle? Better don't rely on it any more! :-)
[14:25:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Model Says Venusian *Surface* No Longer Habitable - 06NASA Climate Model Says Venus No Longer "Habitable" - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:28] <exec> 08└─Was living on the surface ever seriously considered? solar spectral irradiance estimates for 2.9 and 0.715 billion years ago
[14:25:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:2) 02Re:How much did those improvements really cost? - 06Notes From The Backend: SN Updates - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:54] <exec> 08└─You are missing the point. I think he deserves to get paid for his hard work.
[14:27:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:A used bag is a national treasure? - 06NASA Mistakenly Sold Apollo 11 Moon Landing Bag in Gov't Auction - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:27:14] <exec> 08└─Seems unlikely...who the heck is "Miss Maggie"? After a cursory googling about the only results I got were some TV show for kids, a book from 1983, and a song by a French band.
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[15:22:19] <exec> 08└─For one who has stood and looked into the black abyss this is exciting news. If it's possible to short-circuit the suicidal ideation that comes with depression and bipolar it would be a great addition to the drugs we consume. Sometimes even the most "perfect" cocktail of meds leaves us short and ope...
[15:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snort [5141] (Score:1) 02Can you please use the DOI for links? - 06Viral Infections Take Advantage of Circadian Rhythms - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:28] <exec> 08└─The DOI is not only a persistent identifier, it is also a linking mechanism. http://doi.org [doi.org] will take you to the publisher site. And no need to get some URL that will break as soon as the publisher updates their system. You can also use the DOI to pull metadata abou...
[15:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Can you please use the DOI for links? - 06Viral Infections Take Advantage of Circadian Rhythms - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:22:30] <exec> 08└─If you use my extension, the formatted DOI will link to Crossref or the site of your choice.
[15:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Shocked! - 06Google's High-Speed Web Plans Hit Snags - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:22:43] <exec> 08└─This is Google's entire business plan.
[15:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Shocked! - 06Google's High-Speed Web Plans Hit Snags - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:22:45] <exec> 08└─mmm, actually it says that they delivered on their promise. It just cost the company more than they expected to do it.
[15:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:News flash - MORE bugs found in F22! - 06Bees Ground Stealth Fighter - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:22:57] <exec> 08└─I remember an issue with the oxygen suddenly turning off and causing pilots to blackout in flight. WTF.
[15:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:-1 flamebait - 06Bees Ground Stealth Fighter - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:23:02] <exec> 08└─I live in Wisconsin. 0 F is a warm winter day you insensitive clod.
[15:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:-1 flamebait - 06Bees Ground Stealth Fighter - 969 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:23:04] <exec> 08└─This time XKCD proves useful. [xkcd.com] With some alterations: -30°C = Cold day (Minnesota) = -22°F -20°C = Cold day (Michigan) = -4°F -10°C = Cold day (Moscow???? never been myself) = 14°F 0°C = Snow! = 32°F 10°C = Jacket weather = 50°F 20°C = Room temperature = 68°F 25°C = Warm room...
[15:23:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Not really surprising - 06New Study Says "FluMist" Works... When the Vaccine Does - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:21] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately, that's how science and clinical medicine work. The challenge is to be able to help the public understand the shades of gray here.
[15:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I pre-ordered it last year... - 06Final Fantasy XV Worldwide Launch Officially Delayed to November 29 - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:34] <exec> 08└─along with Gran Turismo Sport, Kingdom Hearts III, and Dead Island II. Hoping for a new release of Crash Bandicoot and Spyro for the PS4.
[15:24:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Typo: - 06"The Shadow Brokers" Claim to Have Hacked NSA - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:48] <exec> 08└─1 million bitcoin (around $568 billion)
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[16:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:On The Edge - 06Reduced Activity of an Important Enzyme Identified Among Suicidal Patients - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:22:44] <exec> 08└─Ditto about that abyss. Don't worry, though. All this will be used for is holding non-suicidal patients against their will. More $$$ for the insurance companies and hospitals. "Oh, we did a standard blood panel and it looks like you're at risk for suicide, so we're going to have to put you in a stra...
[16:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:On The Edge - 06Reduced Activity of an Important Enzyme Identified Among Suicidal Patients - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:22:46] <exec> 08└─It's enough to make you want to KILL THEM ALL.
[16:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Uh Oh - 06Reduced Activity of an Important Enzyme Identified Among Suicidal Patients - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:48] <exec> 08└─Now the powers that be can really make undesirables commit suicide, as opposed to making them "commit suicide".
[16:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Uh Oh - 06Reduced Activity of an Important Enzyme Identified Among Suicidal Patients - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:22:50] <exec> 08└─Now the powers that be can literally work the desirables to death, without paying them any more.
[16:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Uh Oh - 06Reduced Activity of an Important Enzyme Identified Among Suicidal Patients - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:22:52] <exec> 08└─Correlation != Causation It could just as well be that through psychosomatic effects, the mental state associated with suicidal thoughts suppresses that enzyme's activity. In that case, suppressing that enzyme would likely not cause anyone to commit suicide. Of course one still could drive someone i...
[16:23:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Corelli's A [1772] 02Public Infrastructure - 06Google's High-Speed Web Plans Hit Snags - 1038 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:12] <exec> 08└─I'd like to see them apply their vast wealth to a more sustainable model of Internet last mile infrastructure. Specifically, 1) lobby the states and Washington to do away with incumbent telco/cableco's rent-seeking legislation that prevents municipalities from building/owning a last-mile cable plant...
[16:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Understandable - 06Google's High-Speed Web Plans Hit Snags - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:18] <exec> 08└─Not only is Google not getting government subsidies (I think?), they're being actively lobbied against by the existing ISPs. I'd imagine it's completely an uphill battle. There's absolutely nothing wrong with leasing existing infrastructure, and at least when Google asks a city to build out fiber, t...
[16:23:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:2) 02Re:-1 flamebait - 06Bees Ground Stealth Fighter - 2116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:23:37] <exec> 08└─"I don't really care to know whether I'm sweating like a pig because it's 91°F or 92°F. I'm still equally uncomfortable." And you don't see why some of us think it's useful to use a degree that marks the smallest difference we notice? Your list isn't too bad but you need to add the outliers so you...
[16:23:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Re:Not really surprising - 06New Study Says "FluMist" Works... When the Vaccine Does - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:23:55] <exec> 08└─Protip: the results of studies always represent reality correctly. The problem lies in trying to induct general models from those results.
[16:23:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02big suprise - 06New Study Says "FluMist" Works... When the Vaccine Does - 699 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:57] <exec> 08└─"t came as a surprise this June when the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended against using the nasal flu vaccine for the 2016-2017 flu season" yeah right! it was only a suprise to dumbasses or liars. the cdc recommends against using a method where your body might be able to keep t...
[16:23:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:big suprise - 06New Study Says "FluMist" Works... When the Vaccine Does - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:23:59] <exec> 08└─Is there a -1 batshit crazy mod available yet?
[16:24:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03timbim [907] (Score:2) 02Season Pass is Ass - 06Final Fantasy XV Worldwide Launch Officially Delayed to November 29 - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:13] <exec> 08└─The "Season Pass" is utter horse shit. You know you need that DLC but oh look you have to have a subscription.
[16:26:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:what if we remove the CO2? - 06NASA Climate Model Says Venus No Longer "Habitable" - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:26:14] <exec> 08└─We'll just send a handful of Kudzu and Dandelion seeds. Given the amount of sun, that should do the job in a couple years. Not sure there will be room left to land afterwards, though.
[16:27:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Crocodile tears - 06Update for Facebook Ads Story: New Ads Already Blocked! - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:27:06] <exec> 08└─Baseline mediawiki and mediawiki as used on wikipedia are self-reliant. You probably visit there from time to time.
[16:28:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:A used bag is a national treasure? - 06NASA Mistakenly Sold Apollo 11 Moon Landing Bag in Gov't Auction - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:28:03] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Thatcher [wikipedia.org] I should have been more specific, though her name been in the news a lot after the Brexit vote.
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[17:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Valkor [4253] (Score:2) 02Time to get back in to the scene - 06Blogger Turns Tables on Cyber-Scammer - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:29] <exec> 08└─This is an amazing idea. I need some good ransomware please. Link me bro.
[17:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Unethical? - 06Blogger Turns Tables on Cyber-Scammer - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:30] <exec> 08└─Is it unethical to stop a scammer from scamming you and scamming others who understand the nature of the scam less than you do? If you saw a bank robbery in progress and put a knife in the get away car's tires, flattening them, would that be unethical? But you damaged their property! What if you tri...
[17:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Unethical? - 06Blogger Turns Tables on Cyber-Scammer - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:22:32] <exec> 08└─You wouldn't download a scammer, would you?!
[17:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Unethical? - 06Blogger Turns Tables on Cyber-Scammer - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:22:35] <exec> 08└─Sure, why not? You would then get the personal pleasure of dishing out whatever punishment you want.
[17:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:On The Edge - 06Reduced Activity of an Important Enzyme Identified Among Suicidal Patients - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:22:45] <exec> 08└─You jest, but my biggest fear is that humanity will become the Borg before I'm 6 feet under. I leave it up to others whether or not they want to be Borg in that event. I wouldn't.
[17:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Touché) 02Re:On The Edge - 06Reduced Activity of an Important Enzyme Identified Among Suicidal Patients - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:22:46] <exec> 08└─Equally, this could lead to a drug that might make people suicidal....
[17:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Uh Oh - 06Reduced Activity of an Important Enzyme Identified Among Suicidal Patients - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:22:52] <exec> 08└─On the other hand, we developed a bunch of drugs over the years to solve other problems which are required to carry label warnings about suicide and depression. I wonder if the study of those drugs have lead to this line of research? We've apparently been able do develop a wide range of drugs that i...
[17:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:Uh Oh - 06Reduced Activity of an Important Enzyme Identified Among Suicidal Patients - 840 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:22:54] <exec> 08└─There are good reasons why Big Pharma should invest in research like this, especially when they sell drugs known to make people want to commit suicide. 1. When people commit suicide because of your drugs, you've just lost a profitable customer. (Even if their insurance is paying.) 2a. If you find a...
[17:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Picolinic acid - 06Reduced Activity of an Important Enzyme Identified Among Suicidal Patients - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:56] <exec> 08└─According to some internet searches, picolinic acid greatly aids in the absorption of minerals from the foods you eat. If you're low, you might not be getting the nutrition you need no matter if you're eating properly or not. As someone who has attempted suicide and is trying to improve their health...
[17:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Picolinic acid - 06Reduced Activity of an Important Enzyme Identified Among Suicidal Patients - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:22:58] <exec> 08└─More things have been linked to suicide than have been linked to global warming, someone should make a site like this* that attempts to list them all. I don't mean this to be funny, it really is irrational to do anything at all based on this news. *http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/globa...
[17:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Picolinic acid - 06Reduced Activity of an Important Enzyme Identified Among Suicidal Patients - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:23:00] <exec> 08└─SoylentNews is known by the State of California to cause suicide.
[17:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Like the rest of me ... - 06Viral Infections Take Advantage of Circadian Rhythms - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:23:10] <exec> 08└─My T-cells are like me: don't expect them to work before breakfast.
[17:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score:2) 02DST - 06Viral Infections Take Advantage of Circadian Rhythms - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:15] <exec> 08└─So, not only does Daylight Savings Time not save energy and is a major contributor to traffic accidents, it also puts you at risk for infection. Why do we still do this?
[17:23:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Shocked! - 06Google's High-Speed Web Plans Hit Snags - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:23:29] <exec> 08└─Actually, Google is one of the rare companies that gets a me a lot more than I directly pay for, and doesn't constantly feel that they should nag me about it (or my privacy protections).
[17:23:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:-1 flamebait - 06Bees Ground Stealth Fighter - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:23:51] <exec> 08└─There's something wrong with your table: Water freezes at zero degrees Celsius, not at zero degrees Fahrenheit. Also: normal body temperature: 37 °C, 98.6 °F. Clearly the Celsius temperature wins here.
[17:23:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:-1 flamebait - 06Bees Ground Stealth Fighter - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:23:53] <exec> 08└─Centigrade degrees are too large - you either wind up using fractions (which I've never seen anyone do) or else your integers contain more margin than they should.
[17:23:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:2) 02Re:-1 flamebait - 06Bees Ground Stealth Fighter - 1340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:23:55] <exec> 08└─As to the scale, we don't need to throw around dueling opinions, there's plenty of scholarly work on it. The threshold amount actually depends on several variables, for instance the threshold to perceive a decrease will be smaller than for an increase, and sudden change in temperature is easier to d...
[17:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Good for them - 06Bees Ground Stealth Fighter - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:24:01] <exec> 08└─Bees' lives matter! By the way, redoing the stealth coat on the F22, after the bees left, probably cost six figures. So did the Approved Bee Vacuum System.
[17:24:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not really surprising - 06New Study Says "FluMist" Works... When the Vaccine Does - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:24:16] <exec> 08└─Thanks. I meant to say "models that are ever better approximations of reality".
[17:24:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:big suprise - 06New Study Says "FluMist" Works... When the Vaccine Does - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:24:20] <exec> 08└─By the inject cancer viruses, I think they are referring to the HPV vaccine. Though I guess they never read "The Red Queen" by Matt Ridley or they would have a slightly different take on vaccines and their role in our genetic diversity.
[17:24:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:This is hugely important! - 06India PM: 20 Million Toilets Built in Two Years - 661 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:24:55] <exec> 08└─Wait, what? Granted I studied the rocks and not the people living on them, but my understanding is that the "Aryan" people (roughly "pure" in ancient Persian?) were invaders from the Middle East via the Caucasus and invaded from the north of India, driving the people who lived there further and furt...
[17:24:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This is hugely important! - 06India PM: 20 Million Toilets Built in Two Years - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:24:57] <exec> 08└─Don't worry. GP is an easily offended pussy SJW weakling. They have nothing better to do than troll the internet looking for anything that can be offensive. I honestly hope the GP dies. We will be better off without their kind.
[17:24:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This is hugely important! - 06India PM: 20 Million Toilets Built in Two Years - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:24:59] <exec> 08└─Suspicious? -1 pretensious SJW douche bag
[17:25:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:indexes - 06New York Stock Indexes Reach New Highs - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:25:23] <exec> 08└─However, every day, I use *both* spellings!
[17:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bobs [1462] (Score:2) 02Re:Investing 101 - 06New York Stock Indexes Reach New Highs - 1707 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:25:43] <exec> 08└─mmcmonster, thanks - lots of good advice. One thing I think it is important to be wary of about bonds funds: price collapse. If you own a bond fund, and interest rates go up, then the value of the fund can go way, way down, fast and you can lose a lot of money. But, if you own indivi...
[17:25:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03FatPhil [863] 02English too good and too bad at the same time - 06"The Shadow Brokers" Claim to Have Hacked NSA - 833 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:56] <exec> 08└─All the words are correct, all the grammar's messed up - and looks Slavglish to me. Sure, there are spelling checkers to fix words, but with the level of English demonstrated by the grammar you almost always end up with homonym (specifically heterograph) issues which are seemingly absent, and the vo...
[17:26:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Typo: - 06"The Shadow Brokers" Claim to Have Hacked NSA - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:26:00] <exec> 08└─Nope, 1 bitcoin = 576.99 USD so 1,000,000 bitcoin is 576,990,000 USD
[17:26:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geezer [511] (Score:2) 02Snowden's Thoughts - 06"The Shadow Brokers" Claim to Have Hacked NSA - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:02] <exec> 08└─AP is quoting Snowden's opinion that this is a little "message from Moscow". http://hosted.ap.org [ap.org]
[17:30:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Armed black guy? - 06After a Night of Violent Protests in Milwaukee, Calls for Peace - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:30:14] <exec> 08└─Many criminals are repeat offenders. Why should any criminal, including violent ones, be allowed to purchase fire arms upon release? Your choices in life have lasting effects, not that it really stops ex-cons from access to guns anyhow.
[17:30:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Armed black guy? - 06After a Night of Violent Protests in Milwaukee, Calls for Peace - 1953 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:30:38] <exec> 08└─You don't actually seem upset about all this so much as annoyed that "those people" (sed s/nigger/r-selected breeders/g -i /mnt/jmorris/racial_theory.sh) are pushing the more "worthy" (read: people like jmorris) out. I swear to Cthulhu, this whole thing is the same eugenics/Lebensraum propaganda tha...
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[18:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02motivated non-desire - 06New Movie Celebrates Geniuses Behind Apollo: NASA's Mathematicians - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:39] <exec> 08└─This movie has everything that a nerd could possibly desire: Yeah well, you'd be surprised. Somehow I predict there will be a certain segment of people on these supposedly nerd sites trying very hard to not desire this. I wonder why...
[18:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:3, Touché) 02Re:Time to get back in to the scene - 06Blogger Turns Tables on Cyber-Scammer - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:22:47] <exec> 08└─Sent it to you by mail a second ago. Just open the .exe attachment.
[18:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:Time to get back in to the scene - 06Blogger Turns Tables on Cyber-Scammer - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:22:50] <exec> 08└─Amateur. Should've made it a .gif.pif
[18:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Time to get back in to the scene - 06Blogger Turns Tables on Cyber-Scammer - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:22:52] <exec> 08└─.jgp.bat I can't understand why "hide extension for known file types" is still the default in Windows after all those years. I know they want to dumbify their UI as much as possible, keep the oft-abused "trust the system to use that file for you, you don't need to know", really ?
[18:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:Unethical? - 06Blogger Turns Tables on Cyber-Scammer - 661 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:22:57] <exec> 08└─> Is it unethical to stop a scammer from scamming you and scamming others Except he didn't stop the scammer. He might have hurt the guy, but at most all he's done is inconvenience the guy for a little bit and teach the scammer to be slightly less gullible. For all we know the scammer was using his i...
[18:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Unethical? - 06Blogger Turns Tables on Cyber-Scammer - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:22:59] <exec> 08└─That poor little hypothetical old lady. How will the hypothetical old lady ever get anything done now that her son fucked up the computer he was using to fuck up thousands of others?
[18:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:Unethical? - 06Blogger Turns Tables on Cyber-Scammer - 830 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:23:01] <exec> 08└─In my example, by flattening their tires, or tripping them as they run out the bank, you didn't *stop* the bank robbers either. You just inconvenienced them. You bring up Vigilantism, which is interesting. Where would you draw the line? Is any sort of interference, inconvenience, or action against a...
[18:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''put a knife in the get away car's tires'' - 06Blogger Turns Tables on Cyber-Scammer - 574 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:23:03] <exec> 08└─Not the best of analogies. A getaway driver is unlikely to leave the car. It is also unlikely that he will even switch off the car. It wouldn't surprise me if he also has a pistol on his person. That said, in the case of the tire flattener or the counterattacking ransomware guy, I can't imagine a ju...
[18:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:Unethical? - 06Blogger Turns Tables on Cyber-Scammer - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:23:06] <exec> 08└─Is it unethical to stop a scammer from scamming you and scamming others who understand the nature of the scam less than you do? If you saw a bank robbery in progress and put a knife in the get away car's tires, flattening them, would that be unethical? But you damaged their property! What if you tri...
[18:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Unethical? - 06Blogger Turns Tables on Cyber-Scammer - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:23:08] <exec> 08└─Ignore the other ACs. But what if you hurt the scammer's mother's computer. Now thats contrived. The only thing to regret about getting ransomware on to a scammers computer is the fact that you cant do more damage. Getting remote control over it would be much more fun, then you could actively interf...
[18:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Ethical? No. - 06Blogger Turns Tables on Cyber-Scammer - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:10] <exec> 08└─Hilarious? Mmmyes. Nicer than I would be, too; I'd exfiltrate all his passwords and sensitive info first, THEN encrypt random stuff, THEN sign him up for the vilest pornography I could find.
[18:23:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score:2) 02Re:On The Edge - 06Reduced Activity of an Important Enzyme Identified Among Suicidal Patients - 1607 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:23:21] <exec> 08└─It depends on how becoming the Borg would affect our minds. If we are controlled into taking certain actions, but are forced to watch ourselves take those actions with a desire to change them but an inability to do so, I would choose death. It's horrifying in a "I have no mouth but must scream" sort...
[18:23:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Post-Nihilist [5672] (Score:2) 02Re:Picolinic acid - 06Reduced Activity of an Important Enzyme Identified Among Suicidal Patients - 473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:23:32] <exec> 08└─You would probably decrease the activity or production of that enzyme with picolinic acid supplementation.... Berberine [wikipedia.org] could probably result in the up-regulation of the expression [nih.gov]of HNF4A that could potentially increase the ACMSD gene transcription [sabiosciences.com] and...
[18:23:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Suicide is not a chemical problem - 06Reduced Activity of an Important Enzyme Identified Among Suicidal Patients - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:33] <exec> 08└─People living decent lives rarely commit suicide. People in shitty lives do, and money is a huge factor. Study like this might be of academic interest, but to reduce suicide, nothing beats better economy where people can earn a decent living.
[18:23:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Wouldn't it be funny - 06Google's High-Speed Web Plans Hit Snags - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:23:55] <exec> 08└─The VPN-everything-to-a-VPS strategy is one I'm seriously looking at for when Fiber comes my way in the next few months.
[18:24:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:1) 02Re:-1 flamebait - 06Bees Ground Stealth Fighter - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:24:25] <exec> 08└─In reality water usually does NOT freeze right at 0, but I'll give you the point anyway, I did misphrase that badly. At 0 C water is definitely frozen hard, and it's dang cold on top of that, was more what I was trying to say. As someone that's lived most of his life in temperate climates, 32 isn't...
[18:24:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:-1 flamebait - 06Bees Ground Stealth Fighter - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:24:29] <exec> 08└─I modded your post 'flamebait' by mistake. I apologize. I misread it and set it to flamebait, but after rereading I thought I had set it back to normal. That's my bad, I'll be more careful. Sorry I cannot undo it.
[18:24:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02[...] - 06Bees Ground Stealth Fighter - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:37] <exec> 08└─20,000 [...] bees
[18:24:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Not really surprising - 06New Study Says "FluMist" Works... When the Vaccine Does - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:24:52] <exec> 08└─> Protip: the results of studies always represent reality correctly. They represent the answer to the exact question arising from the setup, which is too often unrelated to the actual intent and/or interpretation. Like most computer bugs.
[18:25:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:This is hugely important! - 06India PM: 20 Million Toilets Built in Two Years - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:25:35] <exec> 08└─Cuban Cigar there is the precise opposite of an SJW (that is, he's still a horrible person, but due to undershooting rather than overshooting social issues). Agreed with you that he's weak though, and it's the particular kind of weakness that can't see itself. Oh well, in this world or the next he'l...
[18:25:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:DSS - 06India PM: 20 Million Toilets Built in Two Years - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:25:42] <exec> 08└─I'm mostly thinking that there are 20 million extra reasons for dumb men to keep their pants on in public, hopefully giving a little bit more breathing room to Indian women.
[18:26:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Re:Another reason - 06New York Stock Indexes Reach New Highs - 326 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:26:03] <exec> 08└─Yes Trump promises big tax cuts for corporations and for the rich, but it reminds me of what Mark Twain said about investing: I'm not worried about the return on my investment. I'm worried about return of my investment. That's what worries Wall Streeters about Trump. They think the whole thing might...
[18:26:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Re:Inflation - 06New York Stock Indexes Reach New Highs - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:26:11] <exec> 08└─You're right. Compared to what exactly? GBP? Euro?
[18:31:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:Armed black guy? - 06After a Night of Violent Protests in Milwaukee, Calls for Peace - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:31:16] <exec> 08└─so much as annoyed that "those people"
[18:31:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Armed black guy? - 06After a Night of Violent Protests in Milwaukee, Calls for Peace - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:31:18] <exec> 08└─Keep telling yourself that. You're still fatally and permanently stuck in an egoistic mode of thinking, and NO solution scientific or otherwise is going to solve THAT. The irony here is just sickening...
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[19:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:1) 02Re:motivated non-desire - 06New Movie Celebrates Geniuses Behind Apollo: NASA's Mathematicians - 1218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:22:32] <exec> 08└─Probably. Not me this time. Success stories are good. We need more success stories. I like success stories. I like stories about women who succeed. The Misogynerd Narrative is about people who never even tried bitching about what other people who never even tried didn't accomplish in a field that ha...
[19:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:motivated non-desire - 06New Movie Celebrates Geniuses Behind Apollo: NASA's Mathematicians - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:22:34] <exec> 08└─Basically you want to hide news articles that contain certain keywords? Shouldn't be too difficult (aside from the nuisance of pre-fetching articles, if you don't stop at scanning headlines), might even be an existing extension that you could adapt. I'm sure the list of keywords you come up with wou...
[19:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02It may not go Boom - 06New Movie Celebrates Geniuses Behind Apollo: NASA's Mathematicians - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:36] <exec> 08└─and knowing that if you make an error, there's a good chance something is going to go BOOM and probably take some lives with it.
[19:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03iWantToKeepAnon [686] (Score:2) 02meteoric rise - 06New Movie Celebrates Geniuses Behind Apollo: NASA's Mathematicians - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:38] <exec> 08└─NASA ... Apollo ... the Moon ... "meteoric rise" punny [youtu.be]
[19:22:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02Re:Time to get back in to the scene - 06Blogger Turns Tables on Cyber-Scammer - 67 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:22:47] <exec> 08└─Sent it to you by mail a second ago. Just open the .exe attachment.
[19:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:4, Interesting) 02Re:Time to get back in to the scene - 06Blogger Turns Tables on Cyber-Scammer - 807 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:22:51] <exec> 08└─It's Mac envy. The classic Mac, back in the day, the Mac that Microsoft was trying to hard to copy, didn't have any file extensions. None. Not even hidden file extensions. Files had two additional directory attributes. (You know, files have a name, permissions bits, last used date, etc.) Mac files a...
[19:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:Time to get back in to the scene - 06Blogger Turns Tables on Cyber-Scammer - 816 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:22:53] <exec> 08└─Extensions are a very simple way of differentiating one file type from another. They're extremely portable, too. Aside from the content, a filename is really the only required - and universal - attribute of a file (there may be some esoteric file systems which don't use filenames, of course). So it'...
[19:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Time to get back in to the scene - 06Blogger Turns Tables on Cyber-Scammer - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:22:56] <exec> 08└─All I remember off the top of my head is that ff9 was for Sprite files.
[19:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Time to get back in to the scene - 06Blogger Turns Tables on Cyber-Scammer - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:22:58] <exec> 08└─Not really that ironic. Given that sharing between computer types is much more common, the bar of users is lower, and most OSes don't use resource forks, I'm not surprised that file extensions are catching on. They are a cheap way to tell what kind of file you are opening and don't depend on the pot...
[19:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fnord666 [652] (Score:2) 02Re:Time to get back in to the scene - 06Blogger Turns Tables on Cyber-Scammer - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:23:00] <exec> 08└─This is an amazing idea. I need some good ransomware please. Link me bro.
[19:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Time to get back in to the scene - 06Blogger Turns Tables on Cyber-Scammer - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:23:02] <exec> 08└─If you can't find malware just send goatsie.
[19:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03iWantToKeepAnon [686] (Score:2) 02Re:Unethical? - 06Blogger Turns Tables on Cyber-Scammer - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:23:07] <exec> 08└─You wouldn't go to the toilet on his scam email and then forward it to his widowed grandmother's computer.
[19:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:Unethical? - 06Blogger Turns Tables on Cyber-Scammer - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:23:13] <exec> 08└─There is no 'mother'. The dude works in a sweat shop that does this for a living. From the blog 'He calls his superior in the hopes of figuring out why the payment isn't going through. In the meantime, I hear other operators in the background repeating credit card numbers and CVVs aloud.'
[19:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:''put a knife in the get away car's tires'' - 06Blogger Turns Tables on Cyber-Scammer - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:23:16] <exec> 08└─Not the best of analogies to be sure. But the main point should be about the Unethical question. If you could stop or slow down the bank robbers, and there was no doubt about the get away car, would it be unethical? Or is it vigilantism to engage in any action whatsoever? (Even calling the police ma...
[19:23:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02link to original blog - 06Blogger Turns Tables on Cyber-Scammer - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:21] <exec> 08└─Here is the link to the original blog instead of a summary from the BBC. https://blog.kwiatkowski.fr [kwiatkowski.fr]
[19:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03gmrath [4181] (Score:1) 02Re:On The Edge - 06Reduced Activity of an Important Enzyme Identified Among Suicidal Patients - 3577 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:23:34] <exec> 08└─Scenario: You are at your doctor's office on a follow up visit to review the results of your yearly physical exam. During that exam a blood draw was taken; unbeknownst to you, by government mandate an additional test was added to the standard panel. The doctor walks in. DOCTOR: Good morning Mr. So-a...
[19:23:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Suicide is not a chemical problem - 06Reduced Activity of an Important Enzyme Identified Among Suicidal Patients - 1024 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:23:46] <exec> 08└─And the teenage offspring of people leading decent lives, who have a model for success but no blueprint for achieving it and haven't decided they like the looks of that model anyway, commit suicide regardless. Mostly along the lines of whether they feel socially in line with the rest of society or o...
[19:23:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Post-Nihilist [5672] (Score:2) 02Re:Suicide is not a chemical problem - 06Reduced Activity of an Important Enzyme Identified Among Suicidal Patients - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:23:48] <exec> 08└─Otherwise, why exist ?
[19:23:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score:2) 02Re:Suicide is not a chemical problem - 06Reduced Activity of an Important Enzyme Identified Among Suicidal Patients - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:23:50] <exec> 08└─...so do you measure your value by your destructive impact on the order of the universe? I'm afraid your personal contribution to that is quite low.
[19:23:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Suicide is not a chemical problem - 06Reduced Activity of an Important Enzyme Identified Among Suicidal Patients - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:23:52] <exec> 08└─After many existential crisis, I concluded that we exist as a means for the Universe to fight against entropy !
[19:23:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Post-Nihilist [5672] (Score:2) 02Why not just block it at the NDMA receptors - 06Reduced Activity of an Important Enzyme Identified Among Suicidal Patients - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:54] <exec> 08└─After re reading the article: Quinolinic acid is inflammatory and binds to and activates glutamate receptors in the brain.
[19:23:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score:2) 02Potential cause of suicidal side effects? - 06Reduced Activity of an Important Enzyme Identified Among Suicidal Patients - 627 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:56] <exec> 08└─Could this chemical be the mechanism by which many anti-depressants make users more vulnerable to suicidal thoughts? This makes sense as a chemical foundation that could arise from a chemical modification to our nervous system like anti-depressants. If my hypothesis is correct, we can mitigate one o...
[19:24:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02"Dar she blows!" - 06Google's High-Speed Web Plans Hit Snags - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:27] <exec> 08└─I guess some people/ISP/corporation still want you to think that having internet service is like drinking champagne while in reality technology and people demands would allow it to be more like a fire hydrant on a hot summer day ("say: "AAAHHH!""). amazing stopping power of paper/lobbying/laws in a...
[19:24:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:1) 02my day for typos? - 06Bees Ground Stealth Fighter - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:24:49] <exec> 08└─Obviously I meant 0F in the first paragraph, not 0C, sorry.
[19:25:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02hide-and-seek - 06Bees Ground Stealth Fighter - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:01] <exec> 08└─so does the bee-hive have a radar cross-section of one-bee thanks to the stealth capabilities of the raptor, to which they attached (which leads to the question of how the dang the other bees found that stealtified queen) or does the raptor now have the radar cross-section of ... oh ..errr ... 20'00...
[19:25:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score:2) 02Re:Compared to people without any vaccine... - 06New Study Says "FluMist" Works... When the Vaccine Does - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:25:13] <exec> 08└─Competing on price is a difficult business model to sustain. It ends up being a race to the bottom, where, pretty soon, you end up selling commodity placebos for commodity prices. Look to homeopathy for a better marketing plan. (Hint: it involves bullshit for added value)
[19:26:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:But - 06New York Stock Indexes Reach New Highs - 1247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:26:31] <exec> 08└─The more I think about it, the more I am lead to question investment itself as it is practiced now. We can't ALL shirk productive effort and live on investments, after all. Someone has to actually DO something. It seems we would be better off focusing support on those people. Agreed, we need to tax...
[19:26:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:Inflation - 06New York Stock Indexes Reach New Highs - 1440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:26:37] <exec> 08└─I generally measure monetary values in SF paperback books. It worked for a long time, but these days I think e-readers may have destroyed it's values, so I should probably switch to the price of a pound of chocolate candy. (Bread got destroyed as a measure when they started pumping air into it.) You...
[19:26:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:Inflation - 06New York Stock Indexes Reach New Highs - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:26:39] <exec> 08└─Compared to pretty much anything, but I think this book [mises.org] gives a lot of insight on how we can think about that.
[19:26:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:Buy low, sell high - 06New York Stock Indexes Reach New Highs - 692 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:26:44] <exec> 08└─Since you're expecting a real collapse, you should take some of that money and invest it in Whiskey, Vodka, or Rum. They keep well. And some of that food budget should be sugar cubes, or packets, so you have a ready trade item in small denominations. For this purpose avoid sugar substitutes. Other t...
[19:26:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:Oh yay, another bubble bath... - 06New York Stock Indexes Reach New Highs - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:26:49] <exec> 08└─Futures and commodity trading aren't inherently evil, but the current system is, especially high speed trading. So is anything that allows one to "corner the market". Monopolies of any sort can never be trusted, and that's essentially paying extra to create a monopoly that you can abuse, i.e. for th...
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[20:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Lemme bring my harpoons! - 06Airlander 10 - Test Flight Delayed - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:31] <exec> 08└─Oh yes, oh yes, terrorists wet dream! Buttrape the balloon with pointy weapons!! ALLAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
[20:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Lemme bring my harpoons! - 06Airlander 10 - Test Flight Delayed - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:22:32] <exec> 08└─500 internets to the first person who convinces a terrorist to crash this giant balloon into a skyscraper.
[20:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Lemme bring my harpoons! - 06Airlander 10 - Test Flight Delayed - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:22:34] <exec> 08└─You're supposed to suicide-crash it yourself, not convince a loser to do it for you.
[20:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fnord666 [652] (Score:2) 02Re:motivated non-desire - 06New Movie Celebrates Geniuses Behind Apollo: NASA's Mathematicians - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:22:46] <exec> 08└─I believe there was a script floating around, either here or at that other site, that would suppress posts from Bennett Haselton. You might be able to start with that. Sorry I can't find it right now or I would link to it.
[20:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:motivated non-desire - 06New Movie Celebrates Geniuses Behind Apollo: NASA's Mathematicians - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:22:48] <exec> 08└─bitching about what other people who never even tried didn't accomplish in a field that has a barrier of entry these days of a whopping $300 to get a refurbished laptop
[20:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fnord666 [652] (Score:2) 02Re:It may not go Boom - 06New Movie Celebrates Geniuses Behind Apollo: NASA's Mathematicians - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:22:51] <exec> 08└─It may not go boom. And lives might not be lost in a single instant. There might slowly come the realization that lives will be lost. Then a period while people try in vain to find a solution. And who was to blame.
[20:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Who the fuck... - 06New Movie Celebrates Geniuses Behind Apollo: NASA's Mathematicians - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:54] <exec> 08└─...is behind all of this goddamn pro-afro shit. I've seen so many goddamn afros in the media, that Caucasians (oops, did I offend anyone?) look like albinos, and I live in the goddamn USA, not fuckin' Africa!
[20:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Who the fuck... - 06New Movie Celebrates Geniuses Behind Apollo: NASA's Mathematicians - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:22:56] <exec> 08└─Obama.
[20:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Time to get back in to the scene - 06Blogger Turns Tables on Cyber-Scammer - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:23:12] <exec> 08└─Extensions are a very *simple-minded* way of differentiating one file type from another. FTFY. The name of a file, including extensions, in no way guaranties the type of file. Extensions cannot be used to differentiate one file type from another. Trying to do that is what got us into this mess.
[20:23:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Ethical? No. - 06Blogger Turns Tables on Cyber-Scammer - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:23:29] <exec> 08└─> sign him up for the vilest pornography I could find. Someone who scams people for a living may just happen to enjoy whatever porn you can put your hands on. I would have ransomware lock his computer with full-volume Boys Band videos, then Frozen Songs and Elmo's Song looping over Battlefield Earth...
[20:23:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:On The Edge - 06Reduced Activity of an Important Enzyme Identified Among Suicidal Patients - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:23:45] <exec> 08└─you have a new job, a new girlfriend, maybe a better future. Oh, and you're still on the no-fly list. .
[20:24:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Potential cause of suicidal side effects? - 06Reduced Activity of an Important Enzyme Identified Among Suicidal Patients - 1197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:24:03] <exec> 08└─Anti-depressants make users more vulnerable to suicide because before starting them many users are too depressed to commit suicide. Depression can zap all your energy and willpower to do anything. Anti-depressants recover your energy faster than your mood, so those people will regain the energy to k...
[20:25:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03tfried [5534] (Score:2) 02Re:-1 flamebait - 06Bees Ground Stealth Fighter - 1622 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:25:00] <exec> 08└─Well, yeah, the threshold to perceive a temperature difference is lower than a degree C and - as you point out - lower than a degree F, too. But in practice that will rarely matter, anyway, in particular for your initial example of "how you should dress." For answering that question on this scale, y...
[20:25:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Re:Stingers - 06Bees Ground Stealth Fighter - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:25:09] <exec> 08└─Brings to mind an old Pogo comic strip, in which the characters were going to do the A bomb one better by inventing a B bomb, which turned out to be a hornet's nest captured in a box.
[20:25:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Compared to people without any vaccine... - 06New Study Says "FluMist" Works... When the Vaccine Does - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:25:24] <exec> 08└─People tested positive for influenza after squirting "live" influenza viruses up their noses? Impossibru!
[20:28:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re:How much did those improvements really cost? - 06Notes From The Backend: SN Updates - 575 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:28:34] <exec> 08└─None of these updates are critical. I'm realistic that much of what I do is relatively low value, and to be more blunt, there's very little of value here for someone to break into. At best someone could supposedly grab an admin's credentials in flight and delete all the stories but that's why we hav...
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[21:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score:2) 02Re:Lemme bring my harpoons! - 06Airlander 10 - Test Flight Delayed - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:22:32] <exec> 08└─You obviously have no ambition to become a CET (Chief Executive Terrorist).
[21:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Lemme bring my harpoons! - 06Airlander 10 - Test Flight Delayed - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:22:33] <exec> 08└─I'm a Master Chief Petty Terrorist.
[21:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02proper name - 06Airlander 10 - Test Flight Delayed - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:35] <exec> 08└─The ship's proper name is The Martha Gwyn [blimpinfo.com] . Please stop calling it the Blimpy McBumface.
[21:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:1) 02Re:motivated non-desire - 06New Movie Celebrates Geniuses Behind Apollo: NASA's Mathematicians - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:22:47] <exec> 08└─Thanks! I'll hunt it down!
[21:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:1) 02Re:motivated non-desire - 06New Movie Celebrates Geniuses Behind Apollo: NASA's Mathematicians - 822 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:22:48] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure a keyword list will capture it. Biggest problem would be that I'd want to see this article, but I wouldn't want to see the two yesterday. On the other hand, “Ada Lovelace” would be near the top of a keyword list I'd generate, but on the odd chance she's not being used as a cudgel I'...
[21:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:2) 02Re:motivated non-desire - 06New Movie Celebrates Geniuses Behind Apollo: NASA's Mathematicians - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:22:50] <exec> 08└─I think your Greasemonkey echo-chamber script should scan for links instead of keywords, since it's a specific story you want to blacklist rather than a topic.
[21:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02reasonable fear - 06New Movie Celebrates Geniuses Behind Apollo: NASA's Mathematicians - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:22:53] <exec> 08└─Does the movie actually focus on the nerd things? More likely, it's a chick flick. It probably focuses on race, sex, and especially feelings. It's probably loaded with emotional content, including internal conflict. It probably even contains romance.
[21:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:It may not go Boom - 06New Movie Celebrates Geniuses Behind Apollo: NASA's Mathematicians - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:22:58] <exec> 08└─It would take a lot of delta-V to leave the solar system. A more likely error is to end up in permanent or very long lived orbit of something. Earth. Moon. Or Sun. Or on a collision course with one of those. A sign error? How about two transposed digits?
[21:23:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02Re:Time to get back in to the scene - 06Blogger Turns Tables on Cyber-Scammer - 807 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:23:13] <exec> 08└─It's Mac envy. The classic Mac, back in the day, the Mac that Microsoft was trying to hard to copy, didn't have any file extensions. None. Not even hidden file extensions. Files had two additional directory attributes. (You know, files have a name, permissions bits, last used date, etc.) Mac files a...
[21:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Time to get back in to the scene - 06Blogger Turns Tables on Cyber-Scammer - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:23:17] <exec> 08└─Telling file types apart is one of the hard problems in computing. There is no simple (or even complex) way to tell file types apart that cannot be gamed by bad actors. Although, if you think you have a solution, I'm sure someone will tell you what is wrong with that technique and why it isn't/shoul...
[21:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:Time to get back in to the scene - 06Blogger Turns Tables on Cyber-Scammer - 471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:23:19] <exec> 08└─The real problem is that MS further dumbed the system by removing the distinction between run this and open this using an appropriate tool. Then they use the changable extension to decide what to do, and just to complete the disaster, they hide that from the user by default so they have no clue whic...
[21:23:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:Time to get back in to the scene - 06Blogger Turns Tables on Cyber-Scammer - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:23:22] <exec> 08└─Resource Forks should be a separate topic from not having file extensions that signify a special meaning to the computer -- yet which users can easily change and be fooled by.
[21:23:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02Unethical? - 06Blogger Turns Tables on Cyber-Scammer - 433 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:26] <exec> 08└─Is it unethical to stop a scammer from scamming you and scamming others who understand the nature of the scam less than you do? If you saw a bank robbery in progress and put a knife in the get away car's tires, flattening them, would that be unethical? But you damaged their property! What if you tri...
[21:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Unethical? - 06Blogger Turns Tables on Cyber-Scammer - 842 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:23:34] <exec> 08└─> In my example, by flattening their tires, or tripping them as they run out the bank, you didn't *stop* the bank robbers either. You just inconvenienced them. No you didn't. In those examples you made it easier for them to be caught by delaying them. That is a key point -- those hypothetical actio...
[21:23:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Unethical? - 06Blogger Turns Tables on Cyber-Scammer - 545 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:23:37] <exec> 08└─> There is no 'mother'. The dude works in a sweat shop that does this for a living. How do you know that the shop provided the computer? That it isn't a laptop he had to bring from home? It is always *easy* to ascribe the most favorable conclusions to the limited number of facts we have. Kind of lik...
[21:23:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Re:Unethical? - 06Blogger Turns Tables on Cyber-Scammer - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:23:40] <exec> 08└─Your heart bleeds for criminals that prey on innocents, truly. Won't someone think of the scammers?
[21:23:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Unethical? - 06Blogger Turns Tables on Cyber-Scammer - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:23:42] <exec> 08└─> Your heart bleeds for criminals that prey on innocents, truly. This is not about the criminals. It is about us. If we embrace vigilantism then we've replaced the rule of law with the rule of man. And that makes us just as morally bankrupt as them.
[21:23:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:Unethical? - 06Blogger Turns Tables on Cyber-Scammer - 476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:23:44] <exec> 08└─And in return, while the mother is busy whacking the scammer's ankles with her cane demanding that he fix it, he is not disabling the computers of a thousand other invalids and charging them $300/ea. for the "service" (if he's not just hoovering the accounts). If the authorities don't like it, they...
[21:23:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:Unethical? - 06Blogger Turns Tables on Cyber-Scammer - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:23:49] <exec> 08└─> What if that tire you knifed was an innocent bystander's In another post I mentioned, it's not the best analogy, but focus on the Unethical question. What if there was no doubt about whose car and tires? Is it unethical? > a good meaning ecologist so worried about overfishing that they sink fishin...
[21:23:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Ethical? No. - 06Blogger Turns Tables on Cyber-Scammer - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:23:54] <exec> 08└─I doubt very much he would enjoy what I have in mind. There is a subtype of drawn pornography called "ero-guro" that mostly involves gore, torture, and dismemberment; it's known to cause PTSD on viewing for some people.
[21:24:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02chemical imbalance - 06Reduced Activity of an Important Enzyme Identified Among Suicidal Patients - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:29] <exec> 08└─Currently, there are no biomarkers for psychiatric illness, namely biological factors that can be measured and provide information about the patient's psychiatric health.
[21:28:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03shanen [6084] (Score:1) 02Re:How much did those improvements really cost? - 06Notes From The Backend: SN Updates - 1385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:57] <exec> 08└─I'm glad to hear that, but I still think you deserve to be well paid for good work, and you didn't really address my original question. Putting too much reliance on the Subject: line? Let me clarify that I am not interested in the real cost of those improvements from a managerial perspective. You do...
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[21:28:58] <exec> 08└─>Soylent News as a nice idea that is going nowhere. can i get your coat for you? call a taxi perhaps?
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[22:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02agenda - 06DNC Creates A 'Cybersecurity Board' Without A Single Cybersecurity Expert - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:24] <exec> 08└─How to build a large empire is probably on the agenda at *some* point. But for now make sure people who need a favor get a job.
[22:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Absolutely.Geek [5328] (Score:2) 02But the smoke and mirrors - 06DNC Creates A 'Cybersecurity Board' Without A Single Cybersecurity Expert - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:25] <exec> 08└─The job titles of these people sound so impressive; we must instantly be more secure just from forming the team.
[22:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:But the smoke and mirrors - 06DNC Creates A 'Cybersecurity Board' Without A Single Cybersecurity Expert - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:22:27] <exec> 08└─It depends upon the purpose of the board. I doubt they are the ones who are supposed to come up with the detailed nuts-and-bolts technical answers. I would bet that they would have cybersecurity people they task to address issues. Just like with rockets. The board of directors of Boeing, or whomever...
[22:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:But the smoke and mirrors - 06DNC Creates A 'Cybersecurity Board' Without A Single Cybersecurity Expert - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:22:30] <exec> 08└─But then what sort of advice can this advisory board give? Their advice will be to ask someone who actually knows! lol
[22:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:But the smoke and mirrors - 06DNC Creates A 'Cybersecurity Board' Without A Single Cybersecurity Expert - 1032 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:22:32] <exec> 08└─Scott Adams has been talking about exactly this point. http://blog.dilbert.com [dilbert.com] http://blog.dilbert.com [dilbert.com] It is an interesting theory. It fits the evidence of how people like Trump and Clinto...
[22:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02CxO facing people should be CxO types - 06DNC Creates A 'Cybersecurity Board' Without A Single Cybersecurity Expert - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:34] <exec> 08└─I have no problem with not populating the board with hands-on types, who would probably be bored, annoyed and/or incompetent at handling the duties of board members.
[22:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Experts ? In a political board ? - 06DNC Creates A 'Cybersecurity Board' Without A Single Cybersecurity Expert - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:36] <exec> 08└─Do I really need to link to the background of the various members of scientific and tech committees in the US congress? For the DNC (and the RNC), getting appropriately knowledgeable members is not a requirement. It's not even on the criteria list. Business as usual
[22:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Security through Thuggery - 06DNC Creates A 'Cybersecurity Board' Without A Single Cybersecurity Expert - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:38] <exec> 08└─As seen on Mr. Robot, the way to ensure security is to beat up the IT guy. Or as seen in real life, the way to secure a government network is to throw the IT guy in jail, such as happened to Terry Childs (who? nobody remembers that loser). To ordinary people, security means violence. Nothing more.
[22:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Security through Thuggery - 06DNC Creates A 'Cybersecurity Board' Without A Single Cybersecurity Expert - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:22:41] <exec> 08└─Scientists are among the only people capable of destroying humanity. Maybe we should let them.
[22:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03SanityCheck [5190] (Score:2) 02A Victory! - 06DNC Creates A 'Cybersecurity Board' Without A Single Cybersecurity Expert - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:43] <exec> 08└─A victory for transparency. Soon we will know all their secrets.
[22:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:2) 02Re:Lemme bring my harpoons! - 06Airlander 10 - Test Flight Delayed - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:22:54] <exec> 08└─It's captain A-H-ab, not captain A-R-ab. Sheesh.. Although, your comment, and the airship's shape, also reminds me a bit of Robert de Niro's fantastic rôle as captain Shakespeare in "Stardust" [wikipedia.org]..
[22:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Absolutely.Geek [5328] (Score:2) 02Daily Fail - Not surprised - 06Airlander 10 - Test Flight Delayed - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:57] <exec> 08└─Why am I not surprised that the Daily Fail would have a headline like "...the flying bum..." such quality journalism; it should be an example to us all.
[22:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score:2) 02Anyone - 06Airlander 10 - Test Flight Delayed - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:59] <exec> 08└─does anyone think this will ever have a successful commercial flight?
[22:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:1) 02Re:motivated non-desire - 06New Movie Celebrates Geniuses Behind Apollo: NASA's Mathematicians - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:23:13] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure a keyword list will capture it. Mostly I just want an article-by-article /ignore for my news browsing that doesn't try to be too clever.
[22:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:2) 02Re:motivated non-desire - 06New Movie Celebrates Geniuses Behind Apollo: NASA's Mathematicians - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:23:15] <exec> 08└─Right, but once you've identified a specific story that you don't want to see on other sites EchoChamber.user.js needs to recognize that story between different sites even when the content and headline are different. If you're thinking about matching articles using machine learning, that sounds quit...
[22:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:reasonable fear - 06New Movie Celebrates Geniuses Behind Apollo: NASA's Mathematicians - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:23:19] <exec> 08└─You know, all those race, sex, and feels they had up in the Apollo mission control room full of white, middle-aged dudes.
[22:23:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:reasonable fear - 06New Movie Celebrates Geniuses Behind Apollo: NASA's Mathematicians - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:23:21] <exec> 08└─the Apollo mission control room full of white, middle-aged dudes.
[22:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:reasonable fear - 06New Movie Celebrates Geniuses Behind Apollo: NASA's Mathematicians - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:23:23] <exec> 08└─After all, the reason NASA won the Space Race was that their German scientists were smarter than the Soviet's German scientists.
[22:23:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:reasonable fear - 06New Movie Celebrates Geniuses Behind Apollo: NASA's Mathematicians - 480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:23:26] <exec> 08└─Have to wait and see it. You are probably correct on what sort of movie it is. However, they can make one movie seem like a totally different one in the trailer. It also struck me as a movie with an agenda to teach something. It also looked intensely dull to me. The tone of the commercial reminded m...
[22:23:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02pretty cool math - 06New Movie Celebrates Geniuses Behind Apollo: NASA's Mathematicians - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:34] <exec> 08└─Ever read about Kalyan filters? That stuff is awesome. Good blog post about them here http://www.anuncommonlab.com [anuncommonlab.com]
[22:23:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02Re:Time to get back in to the scene - 06Blogger Turns Tables on Cyber-Scammer - 280 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:23:45] <exec> 08└─.jgp.bat I can't understand why "hide extension for known file types" is still the default in Windows after all those years. I know they want to dumbify their UI as much as possible, keep the oft-abused "trust the system to use that file for you, you don't need to know", really ?
[22:24:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Unethical? - 06Blogger Turns Tables on Cyber-Scammer - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:24:04] <exec> 08└─You just can't take the effect and make it the cause.
[22:24:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score:2) 02Re:Unethical? - 06Blogger Turns Tables on Cyber-Scammer - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:24:10] <exec> 08└─If we embrace vigilantism then we've replaced the rule of law with the rule of man
[22:24:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Unethical? - 06Blogger Turns Tables on Cyber-Scammer - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:24:12] <exec> 08└─> Trouble is, there is no effective rule of law in this area. The crooks are having a free run. That does not excuse vigilantism, regardless of the history of vigilantism. There are laws on the books, they just are not being effectively enforced.
[22:24:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Unethical? - 06Blogger Turns Tables on Cyber-Scammer - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:24:15] <exec> 08└─I think it more likely that if he's not using his own computer, he's using one that is p0wned. That poor person who if fucked because their computer has been compromised now is double-fucked because now it's encrypted.
[22:24:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:Unethical? - 06Blogger Turns Tables on Cyber-Scammer - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:24:17] <exec> 08└─Same things about police grabbing the machine apply. Add in that the loss of use of that machine may save the rightful owner a thorough hoovering of their bank account. But what if the scammer is using {insert good person}'s hacked pacemaker? Let's not get silly here.
[22:24:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:Unethical? - 06Blogger Turns Tables on Cyber-Scammer - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:24:23] <exec> 08└─Except there was literally no chance that it was the 'right car' and there was no ambiguity about what he was doing being a crime. If the dummy made the mistake of somehow getting caught, the police would certainly take the computer with no concern for the theoretical invalid mother and if they ever...
[22:24:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02Re:Why not just block it at the NDMA receptors - 06Reduced Activity of an Important Enzyme Identified Among Suicidal Patients - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:24:59] <exec> 08└─I theorize that you could just block quinolinic acid at the NDMA receptor
[22:26:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:big suprise - 06New Study Says "FluMist" Works... When the Vaccine Does - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:26:31] <exec> 08└─Some polio vaccines prepared from 1954 to 1961 were contaminated with infectious SV40.
[22:27:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Judging inflation since 1954-ish - 06New York Stock Indexes Reach New Highs - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:27:46] <exec> 08└─The date was 1954. So one measure is based on 12 ounces of cheap flavored cola
[22:29:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03shanen [6084] (Score:1) 02Re:How much did those improvements really cost? - 06Notes From The Backend: SN Updates - 1850 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:29:30] <exec> 08└─For someone writing on a journalism-related website, my main conclusion is that you [JNCF] don't write very clearly. I'll try to deal with your "objections" as well as I can understand them. I am not saying that essentially blind subscriptions are a terrible business model. Mostly I am saying that I...
[22:29:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re:How much did those improvements really cost? - 06Notes From The Backend: SN Updates - 537 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:29:34] <exec> 08└─Speaking candidly, personal issues really prevented me from putting the effort in to building out the site as I planned w/ more original journalism, plus a somewhat lukewarm response from the community. We'll run original articles if someone submits one but thats once in a bluemoon sorta thing. I've...
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[23:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:CxO facing people should be CxO types - 06DNC Creates A 'Cybersecurity Board' Without A Single Cybersecurity Expert - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:22:32] <exec> 08└─Dead weight of the 1%. That seems to be the root of so many problems in America -- the people who actually do the work get none of the glory, little of the money, and shafted or imprisoned if anything goes wrong. Those on top get richer and more powerful.
[23:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Security through Thuggery - 06DNC Creates A 'Cybersecurity Board' Without A Single Cybersecurity Expert - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:22:36] <exec> 08└─Scientists never actually go through with it. The most they do is build doomsday devices and snigger about how they could destroy humanity.
[23:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:A Victory! - 06DNC Creates A 'Cybersecurity Board' Without A Single Cybersecurity Expert - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:22:39] <exec> 08└─Buzzard sleeps with a penismightier.
[23:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:A Victory! - 06DNC Creates A 'Cybersecurity Board' Without A Single Cybersecurity Expert - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:22:41] <exec> 08└─Gussy it up however you want, Trebek, what matters is does it work?
[23:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02There’s only one guy who can fix this, - 06DNC Creates A 'Cybersecurity Board' Without A Single Cybersecurity Expert - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:44] <exec> 08└─... and that’s TheMightyBuzzard. I hope he’s willing.
[23:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Daily Fail - Not surprised - 06Airlander 10 - Test Flight Delayed - 705 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:22:59] <exec> 08└─Others who dived into the cesspool with filthy headlines are The Japan Times, http://www.japantimes.co.jp [japantimes.co.jp] Reuters, http://www.reuters.com
[23:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score:2) 02Re:Anyone - 06Airlander 10 - Test Flight Delayed - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:23:01] <exec> 08└─I think that its success will be just short of the Titanic's.
[23:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score:2) 02Re:Anyone - 06Airlander 10 - Test Flight Delayed - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:23:03] <exec> 08└─Well, it likely harder to sink..
[23:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score:2) 02Paint it green! - 06Airlander 10 - Test Flight Delayed - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:05] <exec> 08└─And you have Thunderbird 0.2 give it a few more years and it'll eventually get to version 2.0 http://wetwebworkcomimg.s3.amazonaws.com [amazonaws.com]
[23:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score:2) 02Getting the answers right - 06New Movie Celebrates Geniuses Behind Apollo: NASA's Mathematicians - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:35] <exec> 08└─knowing that if you make an error, there's a good chance something is going to go BOOM and probably take some lives with it.
[23:23:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Time to get back in to the scene - 06Blogger Turns Tables on Cyber-Scammer - 2984 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:23:55] <exec> 08└─The mac file system had a resource fork to hold that goop. I personally thought it was major pain in the ass. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] I spent many months trying to get those files to work correctly with FAT32. Many times people would store crap in them and you had...
[23:24:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Unethical? - 06Blogger Turns Tables on Cyber-Scammer - 1274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:24:10] <exec> 08└─You also have *NO* idea there is a mother and he brought in his own hardware. Perhaps he brought his own phone in. Perhaps he built his own cubical? Perhaps the chair he was sitting on was brought from home too. Even *the* cheapest of Indian sweat shops provides computers. I know I have contracted o...
[23:24:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score:2) 02Re:On The Edge - 06Reduced Activity of an Important Enzyme Identified Among Suicidal Patients - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:24:43] <exec> 08└─Cool story, bro. It's so filled with ridiculous assumptions that it would be laughable, if it weren't so pathetic. Good job.
[23:26:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Compared to people without any vaccine... - 06New Study Says "FluMist" Works... When the Vaccine Does - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:26:22] <exec> 08└─The primary outcome was reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction–confirmed influenza A or B virus in all participants (vaccinated children and persons who did not receive the study vaccine).
[23:29:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:2) 02Re:How much did those improvements really cost? - 06Notes From The Backend: SN Updates - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:29:32] <exec> 08└─For someone writing on a journalism-related website, my main conclusion is that you [JNCF] don't write very clearly.
[23:29:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03shanen [6084] (Score:1) 02Re:How much did those improvements really cost? - 06Notes From The Backend: SN Updates - 1544 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:29:36] <exec> 08└─Well, I don't know if you ever saw my much ballyhooed suggestion, but I'll recap it in the context of your specific example for this thread. You would have begun by preparing a summary of the work as a project proposal. Since it was a security-related project, I think the links to the project propos...
[23:29:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re:How much did those improvements really cost? - 06Notes From The Backend: SN Updates - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:29:38] <exec> 08└─Hrm ... I could def. see how it could work for some things. Right now, a lot of this is just basic site maintence; updating old software and such, but this gives an idea I think I need to pitch to the community and such.
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