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[00:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Those fools! - 06Update: Convictions Upheld, Sentences Extended In Romanian Microsoft Bribery Trial - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:39] <exec> 08└─Don't they know to always include the regulatory agency bureaucrats, prosecutors' offices, and judges on the list of bribe recipients?
[00:09:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Post-Nihilist [5672] 02Mitigation: do not use GOST 28147-89 - 06Audit Reveals Significant Vulnerabilities for TrueCrypt and Successor VeraCrypt - 703 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:46] <exec> 08└─Problem: The availability of GOST 28147-89, a symmetric block cipher with a 64-bit block size, is an issue. This algorithm has been added in VeraCrypt 1.18. It is a 64-bit block cipher, contrary to the other block ciphers used in VeraCrypt. The XTS code has not been adapted for such ciphers, so Ver...
[00:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not scientific - 06Lexus, Toyota and Buick Top New-Auto Reliability Survey - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:09:58] <exec> 08└─I've been a driver for 27 years, and Chryslers have always been pieces of shit that fall apart. I owned one, my college roommate owned one, and my parents owned one. I am surprised anyone ever owns *more than* one.
[00:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:2) 02Re:The missing link - 06Lexus, Toyota and Buick Top New-Auto Reliability Survey - 902 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:10:04] <exec> 08└─The fact they're soliciting all of their subscribers is the problem: There simply shouldn't be enough reliable data to determine Lexus and Buick topping in reliability. Even counting road accident is biased considering how little a luxury motor rides yearly compared to work and commute vehicles. Toy...
[00:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The missing link - 06Lexus, Toyota and Buick Top New-Auto Reliability Survey - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:10:07] <exec> 08└─How are they funded? I skimmed the site and didn't see mention of anything about that and its kinda critical both in choosing to share info with them and trusting the info they publish.
[00:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02ABS a real improvement - 06Lexus, Toyota and Buick Top New-Auto Reliability Survey - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:10:12] <exec> 08└─ABS is a real improvement and I welcome it. Old brakes that would've spun me around in rain or ice in (esp. in a hard stop) are very safely and easily handled by the ABS.
[00:12:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03sjames [2882] 02Re:Money pissed away - 06Total Cost of USA's Wars Since 2001 Approaches $5 Trillion - 53 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:12:10] <exec> 08└─Broken windows. We could do so much better than that.
[00:12:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03VLM [445] 02Afghanistan where empires go to die - 06Total Cost of USA's Wars Since 2001 Approaches $5 Trillion - 528 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:44] <exec> 08└─Afghanistan is where empires go to die. Don't matter if ten in a row did it "this time is different and we're gonna win" and plop there goes another dead empire. Its the imperialist version of the TV trope of jumping the shark... Soon as some idiot tries to invade Afghanistan best start looking for...
[00:13:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:None whatsoever - 06What You Should Know about the Cobalt in Your Smartphone - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:13:39] <exec> 08└─Clinton has a public and a private position, by her own admission. She isn't really opposed to the TPP, especially not after pushing so hard for it previously. What our politicians--including Clinton--want is for the TPP to be passed in a lame duck session.
[00:13:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Total Fucking Dunce - 06What You Should Know about the Cobalt in Your Smartphone - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:13:49] <exec> 08└─Yay! Autistic kallow joins the battle!
[00:14:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:synthetic cobalt - 06What You Should Know about the Cobalt in Your Smartphone - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:14:02] <exec> 08└─go back to reviewing star wars u old bum
[00:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03linuxrocks123 [2557] (Score:2) 02Re:''NONE of the candidates running...'' - 06Cops and Juries in Drug War-Happy Kansas are Refusing to Enforce Pot Prohibition - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:14:20] <exec> 08└─Jill Stein is economically illiterate. Her campaign promise to order the Federal Reserve (which the President can't do) to "use quantitative easing to erase all student debt" (which is impossible, an absurd thing to even say, and shows she knows nothing about what quantitative easing even is) suffic...
[00:14:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:War is a moneymaking machine - 06Cops and Juries in Drug War-Happy Kansas are Refusing to Enforce Pot Prohibition - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:14:26] <exec> 08└─You might wonder then why many other animals have the same "defect".
[00:14:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fuck O'Reilly - 06O'Reilly: Platform Software Developers are Now 'Managers', their Software is the 'Work Force' - 776 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:14:43] <exec> 08└─Pretending that there is no problem is just as dishonest as pretending the problem is omnipresent. It's no laughing matter when people accused of rape in many universities are punished without any actual due process and alleged victims are automatically believed. It's also disconcerting when many ma...
[00:15:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score:2) 02Re:Neutrino astronomy - 06Either Stars Are Strange, or There Are 234 Aliens Trying to Contact Us - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:15:20] <exec> 08└─An antineutrino signature is more like a sign: it's evidence that there exists some alien civilisation with the technology to harness nuclear energy. Actually communicating with those extraterrestrials is a different problem.
[00:15:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score:2) 02Re:Neutrino astronomy - 06Either Stars Are Strange, or There Are 234 Aliens Trying to Contact Us - 582 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:15:22] <exec> 08└─Phenomena like the Oklo natural nuclear reactor are extremely rare, and they won't generate anywhere near the amount of high energy antineutrino flux that a true nuclear reactor would. Or a planet with a few hundred nuclear power plants would. If you were to explain an antineutrino signature that wa...
[00:18:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score:2) 02Re:"Tor users are often not seen in postive..." - 06Anonymity of Tor Users and Wikipedia Editors - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:18:59] <exec> 08└─How is this scary amount of information that some lawyer digs up repression? If I was convicted of a violent crime, and I can't get a concealed permit is that repression? No. So how would this scay data (shit in public records) be considered repression? I don't understand where you are coming from....
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[01:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Common knowledge, isn't it? - 06Update: Convictions Upheld, Sentences Extended In Romanian Microsoft Bribery Trial - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:37] <exec> 08└─MS offers licensing deals to OEM's, if and only if that OEM promises to build ONLY Microsoft machines. Those deals have been known about for decades. In more sophisticated circles, that is known as a "kickback". The only reason it has appeared to pass muster is, it's a corporate deal, between corpor...
[01:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Re:Common knowledge, isn't it? - 06Update: Convictions Upheld, Sentences Extended In Romanian Microsoft Bribery Trial - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:09:38] <exec> 08└─Welcome to the US of A, where corruption is more of a *technical* situation.
[01:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score:2) 02US Law - 06Update: Convictions Upheld, Sentences Extended In Romanian Microsoft Bribery Trial - 722 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:40] <exec> 08└─I work for a US company, and every year as part of my training, I have to go through the details of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act [wikipedia.org] The stupid training states that as the company is US owned, I am bound by the act, which is total bullshit as I don't live there and have never even...
[01:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02DoJ, too, will come after them - 06Update: Convictions Upheld, Sentences Extended In Romanian Microsoft Bribery Trial - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:42] <exec> 08└─It's illegal for US firms to engage in bribery in foreign countries. Let the hammers drop.
[01:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] (Score:2) 02Re:DoJ, too, will come after them - 06Update: Convictions Upheld, Sentences Extended In Romanian Microsoft Bribery Trial - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:09:45] <exec> 08└─10 years from now, a $100 million dollar fine will be levied, that the CEO will dislodge from his shoe and pay.
[01:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Mitigation: do not use GOST 28147-89 - 06Audit Reveals Significant Vulnerabilities for TrueCrypt and Successor VeraCrypt - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:53] <exec> 08└─So, essentially, Veracrypt is the best thing on the market, IF you understand those three vulnerabilities and their "fixes"? And, even if you don't know to avoid GOST, and to use a long password, to avoid UEFI, and to use Camellia - Veracrypt is still pretty good? These vulnerabilities have been ide...
[01:10:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02Just shut the fuck up already - 06Lexus, Toyota and Buick Top New-Auto Reliability Survey - 624 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:10:11] <exec> 08└─> There simply shouldn't be enough reliable data to determine Lexus and Buick topping in reliability. More fucktard pontifications based on knowing absolutely nothing. Just shut the fuck up already. > As for everything from the third sentence onward, it's a real shame how quick people are to forget...
[01:10:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Non-scientific, not representational, etc etc - 06Lexus, Toyota and Buick Top New-Auto Reliability Survey - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:10:23] <exec> 08└─Cynicism is no replacement for knowledge or insight and its especially shitty in the hands of the incurious. CR gets about half a million responses to their subscriber-only survey and they require a sample size of at least 100 cars of an individual model/year before including the results. The typica...
[01:12:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Money pissed away - 06Total Cost of USA's Wars Since 2001 Approaches $5 Trillion - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:12:14] <exec> 08└─Fuck out of here with that bullshit. [nasa.gov]
[01:12:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score:2) 02Re:Well damn - 06Total Cost of USA's Wars Since 2001 Approaches $5 Trillion - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:12:26] <exec> 08└─So all, or nearly all, of the taxes a person employed at minimum wage or near it go to funding the U.S. war machine?
[01:12:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Afghanistan where empires go to die - 06Total Cost of USA's Wars Since 2001 Approaches $5 Trillion - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:12:56] <exec> 08└─Brian Wilson [youtube.com] is running for POTUS?
[01:13:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Total Fucking Dunce - 06What You Should Know about the Cobalt in Your Smartphone - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:13:56] <exec> 08└─Enriching other parts of the world is not the job of the locals. Especially when that enrichment is on the backs of their health and quality and of life.
[01:15:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03lgw [2836] (Score:2) 02Re:Neutrino astronomy - 06Either Stars Are Strange, or There Are 234 Aliens Trying to Contact Us - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:15:26] <exec> 08└─The nice thing about neutrinos is that they are subject only to the weak interaction and gravity, and as such they can go a very, very long way indeed and pass through a lot of material before they interact with anything else.
[01:15:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03lgw [2836] (Score:2) 02Re:Relativity Predictions - 06Either Stars Are Strange, or There Are 234 Aliens Trying to Contact Us - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:15:39] <exec> 08└─I see where you are coming from, but still think it is disingenuous of the people who keep saying "look how many times the predictions of relativity were correct" without mentioning the times they clearly aren't. In fact, a falsification means much more than a confirmation.
[01:15:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03lgw [2836] (Score:2) 02Re:two points - 06Either Stars Are Strange, or There Are 234 Aliens Trying to Contact Us - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:15:43] <exec> 08└─He wasn't talking about social media, but rather antisocial media: the chans.
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[02:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Appalbarry [66] (Score:2) 02Excellence in distro reporting! - 06Refracta 8.0: Devuan on a Stick - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:47] <exec> 08└─Seriously, you have to check out this image, [distrowatch.com] labelled Refracta on a USB stick (full image size: 625kB, resolution: 1024x768 pixels)
[02:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:DoJ, too, will come after them - 06Update: Convictions Upheld, Sentences Extended In Romanian Microsoft Bribery Trial - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:10:00] <exec> 08└─There won't be Microsoft in 10 years.
[02:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score:2) 02Re:DoJ, too, will come after them - 06Update: Convictions Upheld, Sentences Extended In Romanian Microsoft Bribery Trial - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:10:02] <exec> 08└─Where iz the +1 "delusionally optimistic" mod?
[02:10:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Post-Nihilist [5672] (Score:2) 02Re:Mitigation: do not use GOST 28147-89 - 06Audit Reveals Significant Vulnerabilities for TrueCrypt and Successor VeraCrypt - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:10:12] <exec> 08└─GOST 28147-89 is for Russian fetishist. If you do not know how to use long password Veracrypt is not for you And cache timing attack are somewhat impraticables. if you have a need to encrypt a volumes and you do not have the ressources of a nation state then yes veracrypt is still pretty good And I...
[02:10:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The missing link - 06Lexus, Toyota and Buick Top New-Auto Reliability Survey - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:10:32] <exec> 08└─Editor's Note Ratings for models with an asterisk (*) are based on one year of reliability data. Because reliable means your brand new car doesn't break down in the first year. Progress.
[02:10:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Roger Murdock [4897] (Score:1) 02Re:Conservative - 06Lexus, Toyota and Buick Top New-Auto Reliability Survey - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:10:39] <exec> 08└─It sounds like you and I might have the same car. At low speed the brakes are like a light switch. But the power and fuel economy make up for it overall. It's actually quicker and easier to select a colour theme for the dash than it is to view the coolant temp.
[02:10:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score:2) 02Re:Non-scientific, not representational, etc etc - 06Lexus, Toyota and Buick Top New-Auto Reliability Survey - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:10:47] <exec> 08└─Half a million sounds good. Represents just under 3% of vehicle sales in the U.S last year. But - there is nothing to say the subscribers bought a new car last year. So the survey selects for subscribers of a particular publication, which is not representative of the actual vehicle buying public. ht...
[02:12:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Money pissed away - 06Total Cost of USA's Wars Since 2001 Approaches $5 Trillion - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:12:35] <exec> 08└─If you can't take the heat...
[02:12:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Money pissed away - 06Total Cost of USA's Wars Since 2001 Approaches $5 Trillion - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:12:40] <exec> 08└─Oh the grunts sweated but you can't have an officer doing so. That just wouldn't be kosher.
[02:12:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard (18) 2000 (Score:2) 02Re:Money pissed away - 06Total Cost of USA's Wars Since 2001 Approaches $5 Trillion - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:12:43] <exec> 08└─Tell me that when it's 90+ both temperature and humidity.
[02:12:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Money pissed away - 06Total Cost of USA's Wars Since 2001 Approaches $5 Trillion - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:12:46] <exec> 08└─Kinda my point.
[02:13:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03el_oscuro [1711] (Score:2) 02Re:Well damn - 06Total Cost of USA's Wars Since 2001 Approaches $5 Trillion - 451 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:13:02] <exec> 08└─But the Democrats controlled both houses when Obamacare passed. And they had to do some really janky shit to get it passed even with the majority. Anyone remember "The Louisiana Purchase" and "The Corn husker kickback"? And WTF is the Speaker of the House saying "we have to pass it to see what is in...
[02:13:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Well damn - 06Total Cost of USA's Wars Since 2001 Approaches $5 Trillion - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:13:05] <exec> 08└─Bullshit. The Republicans never even had a chance to read that monstrosity before it was passed. Nobody did. It was humanly impossible.
[02:13:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Backwards as Usual - 06Total Cost of USA's Wars Since 2001 Approaches $5 Trillion - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:13:13] <exec> 08└─Pffft, my CHA is rockin. You simply mistake my thinking you're an unintelligent waste of oxygen for not being able to charm someone.
[02:14:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03linuxrocks123 [2557] (Score:2) 02Re:There's only one fix - 06What You Should Know about the Cobalt in Your Smartphone - 1790 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:14:23] <exec> 08└─Nice comment. Some more interesting things about China: - There are countless local spoken Chinese "dialects" that are mutually unintelligible. Given the definition of "dialect", those dialects are really different languages from a linguistics point of view. They're basically as different as Spanish...
[02:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Techwolf [87] (Score:2) 02LiFePO4 - 06What You Should Know about the Cobalt in Your Smartphone - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:33] <exec> 08└─I would like to buy a LiFePO4 for my devices. They last 10 years and no toxic materials. Does anyone know of a good source of these?
[02:14:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''Jill Stein is economically illiterate'' - 06Cops and Juries in Drug War-Happy Kansas are Refusing to Enforce Pot Prohibition - 895 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:14:53] <exec> 08└─Hyperbole. Now, she isn't quite as savvy as Ellen Brown, who ran on the Green Party ticket for California State Treasurer (and got my vote). Ellen is a smart babe who knows how to save a state big bucks. She ta 2000 lks up The Bank of North Dakota every chance she gets and notes that THAT is the way...
[02:15:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kenny Blankenship [5712] (Score:1) 02Re:programs are the workers - 06O'Reilly: Platform Software Developers are Now 'Managers', their Software is the 'Work Force' - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:15:18] <exec> 08└─I totally get it. I have several hundred programs which monitor and fix recurring issues. I designed and wrote them, so I was wearing my "worker hat" during that phase. However, that phase is a relatively short fraction of the program's lifetime. After that I put on my "manager hat" to make sure the...
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[03:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Odd comparisons - 06Refracta 8.0: Devuan on a Stick - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:47] <exec> 08└─A total Linux newbie might feel more comfortable with a distro that mimics Windows' point-and-click friendliness,
[03:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Gentoo: The Forgotten Distro - 06Refracta 8.0: Devuan on a Stick - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:48] <exec> 08└─It's the Linux nobody wants to talk about... and it makes all these problems go away. Along with quite a few others. I think Gentoo has the Amiga's marketing team. They like to talk about performance - the extra, like, 1% you get by building everything specifically for your own system. But what you...
[03:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Gentoo: The Forgotten Distro - 06Refracta 8.0: Devuan on a Stick - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:09:51] <exec> 08└─It's the Linux nobody wants to talk about... and it makes all these problems go away. Along with quite a few others. I think Gentoo has the Amiga's marketing team. They like to talk about performance - the extra, like, 1% you get by building everything specifically for your own system. But what you...
[03:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Common knowledge, isn't it? - 06Update: Convictions Upheld, Sentences Extended In Romanian Microsoft Bribery Trial - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:10:02] <exec> 08└─MS offers licensing deals to OEM's, if and only if that OEM promises to build ONLY Microsoft machines. Those deals have been known about for decades.
[03:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:US Law - 06Update: Convictions Upheld, Sentences Extended In Romanian Microsoft Bribery Trial - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:10:05] <exec> 08└─Chances are the practices forbidden to the US company are those practices that are outlawed by YOUR COUNTRY, even if nobody in your own country follows those laws. For instance, bribes are common place in south/central america and much of asia. They are also illegal in those places. In most places t...
[03:10:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Back to your cell, fool! - 06Update: Convictions Upheld, Sentences Extended In Romanian Microsoft Bribery Trial - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:11] <exec> 08└─confirmed the guilt and increased the sentences to 14 years in prison and 17 million euros of asset forfeiture for these same persons.
[03:13:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Backwards as Usual - 06Total Cost of USA's Wars Since 2001 Approaches $5 Trillion - 521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:13:14] <exec> 08└─Uh...actually, I didn't have you in mind with that comment. But, um, thanks for proving my point about a zillion times over. You DO know, don't you, that one symptom of low CHA is being very susceptible to demagoguery? Based on your posts relating to...well, everything outside coding, which I'm sure...
[03:14:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:There's only one fix - 06What You Should Know about the Cobalt in Your Smartphone - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:14:26] <exec> 08└─Because of no reason other than the geography of the territory held by the two main factions, the Japanese invasion fell much harder on the Nationalists. The Communists were happy to let the Japanese wipe out their enemies for them, and the Japanese didn't much care who they were killing, so long as...
[03:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:LiFePO4 - 06What You Should Know about the Cobalt in Your Smartphone - 844 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:14:37] <exec> 08└─http://www.powerstream.com/b.htm [powerstream.com] http://www.powerstream.com [powerstream.com] Beware of "drop in" 12V lead-acid battery pack substitutes. These work, but they're much less reliable than properly managed LiFePO4 battery packs. Read this first: http://www.pbase.com
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[04:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Oh well - 06Twitter Planning Hundreds More Job Cuts as Soon as This Week - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:47] <exec> 08└─The same would have happened if it was bought out.
[04:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Good riddance. - 06Twitter Planning Hundreds More Job Cuts as Soon as This Week - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:48] <exec> 08└─Honestly.... The whole implementation was rubbish from the start. Yes yes it was used by famous people for PR and made money due to advertising blag blah. That is not the measure I am using and nor should people in general. Fat chance of that....
[04:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Odd comparisons - 06Refracta 8.0: Devuan on a Stick - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:09:58] <exec> 08└─Yeah, pretty rare indeed. Pulseaudio is a mixer that uses ALSA (the kernel driver portion, anyway). Can't have pulseaudio without ALSA but ALSA works just fine without pulseaudio. ALSA doesn't clobber your CPU usage like pulseaudio nor does it suffer outrageous latency like pulseaudio.
[04:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Gentoo: The Forgotten Distro - 06Refracta 8.0: Devuan on a Stick - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:10:02] <exec> 08└─If you know what you're doing, the parent poster is actually correct. It just demands a lot of patience and, honestly, a slightly autistic level of attention to detail. Gentoo is more of a framework for a distro than a distro proper. It was my first and I'll always love it, though until I get someth...
[04:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Gentoo: The Forgotten Distro - 06Refracta 8.0: Devuan on a Stick - 523 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:10:05] <exec> 08└─This is NOT offtopic. Gentoo is still my favorite distro, and the very first one I started on almost 13 years ago...yes, that is rather like learning to swim by slathering yourself in KC Barbecue sauce and leaping into a piranha tank, but that's how I do things. It's too painful on my old hardware n...
[04:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score:2) 02Re:Gentoo: The Forgotten Distro - 06Refracta 8.0: Devuan on a Stick - 460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:10:07] <exec> 08└─Agreed. Gentoo is always dismissed as "too hard" or "compiling takes too long", which I guess are legitimate complaints... but portage is hands down the better than any of the other systems our there. To get a clean, minimal install and have only the packages you want, with only the dependencies you...
[04:10:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Workaround: stick to Truecrypt? - 06Audit Reveals Significant Vulnerabilities for TrueCrypt and Successor VeraCrypt - 1532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:35] <exec> 08└─Seems to me Veracrypt is introducing bugs that are more serious and the Veracrypt coders seem to be of a lower grade than the Truecrypt coders. Yes Truecrypt has vulnerabilities but many of them do not apply for the "non-shared machine" scenario. If you are using disk encryption and you are sharing...
[04:10:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The missing link - 06Lexus, Toyota and Buick Top New-Auto Reliability Survey - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:10:57] <exec> 08└─They get a cut if you buy a car using this feature: http://truedelta.simplecarshopping.com [simplecarshopping.com] (which is accessed from the "get a quote" link or through truedelta's car comparison feature). Many websites that deal with cars have similar partnerships through dealer referral...
[04:11:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:ABS a real improvement - 06Lexus, Toyota and Buick Top New-Auto Reliability Survey - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:11:02] <exec> 08└─The nice thing about ABS is that unlike all that flashy crap on the "infotainment" system that's always in your way, ABS is basically invisible until you need it.
[04:11:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score:1) 02Re:Buick? - 06Lexus, Toyota and Buick Top New-Auto Reliability Survey - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:11:15] <exec> 08└─Take a Chevy, re-skin it with some different sheetmetal and stick random bits of chrome all over it, and you've got a Buick! I don't know why GM even bothers*. I guess it's because the Chinese love that crap. Reliability undoubtedly has more to do with who buys and owns the Buick versus the Chevy ve...
[04:12:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Money pissed away - 06Total Cost of USA's Wars Since 2001 Approaches $5 Trillion - 300 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:12:52] <exec> 08└─Healthcare is useful. Militarism, as practiced by USA, is just a stupid waste of money. N.B. I'm not saying Obamacare would be my first choice for a healthcare system, but guns and bombs used for hegemonic aggression are completely off the list of useful spending. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[04:13:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:Well damn - 06Total Cost of USA's Wars Since 2001 Approaches $5 Trillion - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:13:19] <exec> 08└─Well, persons employed at minimum wage actually don't pay net taxes - if they take advantage of the programs offered they are net gaining funding (pay some, get more back through programs.) So, yeah, all their money, and all the money that other people who don't earn income at all pay in taxes, that...
[04:14:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:exploration - 06Uranus May Have Two Undiscovered Moons - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:14:05] <exec> 08└─Urvagina.
[04:14:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Re:exploration - 06Uranus May Have Two Undiscovered Moons - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:14:09] <exec> 08└─If thou were knowledgeable, thou would know that it should be "thine anus".
[04:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Not really - 06What You Should Know about the Cobalt in Your Smartphone - 1463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:14:34] <exec> 08└─If you participate in the world economy in any way, it's highly likely that some of the money you are spending will wind up in the hands of people who you don't really like. Whether that's in the form of supporters of whichever American presidential candidate you find to be more criminal, or a count...
[04:16:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:two points - 06Either Stars Are Strange, or There Are 234 Aliens Trying to Contact Us - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:16:38] <exec> 08└─>/pol/ >/r9k/ >/b/ come on man, you could complete the shitpost by adding /qa/, /int/, /mlp/, /lgbt/, and /v/.
[04:16:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:SN posts suck - 06Leaked Samsung Doc Highlights Toxic Internal Culture - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:16:59] <exec> 08└─Yeah I figure it was trollin', but it wasn't wrong either. SN could use more submitters. I'm happy to be able to help the community by submitting a lot, but more submitters is better.
[04:18:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snotnose [1623] 02Re:Not a fan of this - 06Rhode Island Universities' Move to Open-License Textbooks will Save Students $5M over 5 years - 118 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:18:35] <exec> 08└─Would you advise someone to begin their study of any level of mathematics or one of the basic sciences from Wikipedia?
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[05:09:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02lazy reader - 06Fission Power Plant, 43 Years in the Making, Comes Online in Tennessee - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:35] <exec> 08└─So is this the first new nuclear power plant built and launched in the U.S. since 1996, or what? Scratch that: Unit 2 is the most recent civilian reactor to come on-line in the United States and the first new reactor to enter service in the United States after a 20 year hiatus.
[05:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:lazy reader - 06Fission Power Plant, 43 Years in the Making, Comes Online in Tennessee - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:09:37] <exec> 08└─Its not. Its been mothballed for decades. They just finished the last ~10% and turned it on now is all. Nothing new here.
[05:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:lazy reader - 06Fission Power Plant, 43 Years in the Making, Comes Online in Tennessee - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:09:39] <exec> 08└─There are a lot of plants like this one out there. 'Almost done' but never to be finished.
[05:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geotti [1146] (Score:2) 02Re:Good riddance. - 06Twitter Planning Hundreds More Job Cuts as Soon as This Week - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:09:49] <exec> 08└─They should transform into a pub-sub-hub... Oh... Wait...
[05:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Good riddance. - 06Twitter Planning Hundreds More Job Cuts as Soon as This Week - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:09:51] <exec> 08└─Consider how much worse social media has gotten since the days of MySpace. While I'm not a fan of Twitter, I would hope the constant devaluations would get everyone to pull their collective heads out of their ass instead of this slow motion dot.com crash that seems to be social media at large.
[05:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sarasani [3283] (Score:1) 02Re:Good riddance. - 06Twitter Planning Hundreds More Job Cuts as Soon as This Week - 514 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:09:53] <exec> 08└─Ah, lovely MySpace. That place where everyone proudly put up their own version of Homer Simpson's homepage [youtube.com]. Aside from wasting far too much time with some incredibly funny & insightful people on the MyOpera community (why on earth did they delete that?), I never really "got" the whole...
[05:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02English ruined - 06Twitter Planning Hundreds More Job Cuts as Soon as This Week - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:09:56] <exec> 08└─The twitter ruined a whole generation's writing skill - kids write like blithering idiots now.
[05:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:English ruined - 06Twitter Planning Hundreds More Job Cuts as Soon as This Week - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:09:58] <exec> 08└─#MakeAmericaGreatAgain
[05:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:English ruined - 06Twitter Planning Hundreds More Job Cuts as Soon as This Week - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:10:00] <exec> 08└─#MakeAmericaGreatAgain
[05:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Good riddance. - 06Twitter Planning Hundreds More Job Cuts as Soon as This Week - 476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:10:02] <exec> 08└─Twitter has always been more useful than other social media. Want to find out why your favorite website is experiencing downtime? Check their Twitter. Want to find out what people are saying in real time? Search a phrase or hashtag and check the live results. Want to find a link to an album or other...
[05:10:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Good riddance. - 06Twitter Planning Hundreds More Job Cuts as Soon as This Week - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:10:04] <exec> 08└─So its a placeholder for a news feed? Wow...couldn't do that on any other platform.... And I will say again: A VERY poorly designed one. Facebook does better... You are mistaking popularity for excellent implementation.
[05:10:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Veyrdite [6386] (Score:1) 02Re:Odd comparisons - 06Refracta 8.0: Devuan on a Stick - 1625 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:10:15] <exec> 08└─Two statements here: 1) Those are not alternatives Technically correct, but misleading. Pulseaudio requires ALSA as a backend, so they're not alternatives to each other. But from a user's perspective they can be. Some applications only support pulseaudio and some only support ALSA. Others support bo...
[05:10:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03twistedcubic [929] (Score:2) 02Re:Gentoo: The Forgotten Distro - 06Refracta 8.0: Devuan on a Stick - 547 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:10:21] <exec> 08└─I used Gentoo exclusively from 2002-2007, on the desktop and on my linode server. After the umpteenth emerge world resulted in broken printing (I teach, so this is a mission critical app for me), I tested Debian Etch on the server, then on the desktop, and never looked back. I've been using Debian s...
[05:10:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geotti [1146] (Score:2) 02Quick and Easy Dev1 - 06Refracta 8.0: Devuan on a Stick - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:10:23] <exec> 08└─It was my search for a quick and easy way to get Devuan up and running [...]
[05:12:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I don't want my Things to be on the Internet - 06Webcams Used to Attack Reddit and Twitter Recalled - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:12:55] <exec> 08└─Well its not like the flight controls share the same wireless network as the in flight entertainment or anything....... https://www.wired.com [wired.com]
[05:15:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:War is a moneymaking machine - 06Cops and Juries in Drug War-Happy Kansas are Refusing to Enforce Pot Prohibition - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:15:41] <exec> 08└─Over time (and there has been a lot) evolution optimizes very finely - specific shapes of bones, specific molecules, etc. - so something like "dies occasionally when drunk" would be pretty well optimized away unless it had some pretty strong plus side. Judging by responses thus far... you can specul...
[05:16:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Relativity Predictions - 06Either Stars Are Strange, or There Are 234 Aliens Trying to Contact Us - 632 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:16:48] <exec> 08└─Yeah, General Relativity probably also is wrong in the same way that Newtonian physics is wrong, i.e. there may be extreme cases where GR holds only as an approximation. Such as beyond a black hole's event horizon or at the Big Bang. GR predicts that there are singularities there, but that probably...
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[06:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score:2) 021973 - 06Fission Power Plant, 43 Years in the Making, Comes Online in Tennessee - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:40] <exec> 08└─I wonder if has that trendy shag carpet, faux wood paneling, floral upholstery, pod chairs and a HAL 9000.
[06:10:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Odd comparisons - 06Refracta 8.0: Devuan on a Stick - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:10:09] <exec> 08└─Pulse does not require Alsa, it merely requires A back end. Just about any would do. Also does not require pulse. It has its own facilities for stream managment, multiplexing, etc. Pulse is just the last in a long line of glue layers of that shambles we call the Linux sound architecture.
[06:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Odd comparisons - 06Refracta 8.0: Devuan on a Stick - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:10:11] <exec> 08└─Also does not require pulse
[06:10:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03fnj [1654] (Score:2) 02Re:Gentoo: The Forgotten Distro - 06Refracta 8.0: Devuan on a Stick - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:10:18] <exec> 08└─"Arch's installer", hah hah, LOL.
[06:10:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Gentoo: The Forgotten Distro - 06Refracta 8.0: Devuan on a Stick - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:10:21] <exec> 08└─If you are happy with Debian then by all means stick with it! However, Gentoo - like Linux in general - has come a *long* way since 2007. The rough edges are a lot less rough. Just rough enough to grab onto and twist the way you like them, but not so rough that you cut yourself just trying to do bas...
[06:11:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Cool story bro! - 06Lexus, Toyota and Buick Top New-Auto Reliability Survey - 646 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:11:00] <exec> 08└─NO! 2000 It is not all, at all! The dude went the full Saturn, dude? Do you know what that means? 1. Dude knows nothing about cars. 2. Dude is probably a chick, or at least alt-right metrosexual, or ammosexual. (why is it the gun nuts can never figure out anything more complicated than an autom...
[06:11:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bogsnoticus [3982] (Score:2) 02Re:The missing link - 06Lexus, Toyota and Buick Top New-Auto Reliability Survey - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:11:10] <exec> 08└─0 years about exhausts and efficiency. Now, go take a puff of that cigarette and calm your nerves. 9/10 doctors recommend Camel Lite.
[06:11:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bogsnoticus [3982] (Score:2) 02Re:Not a Millenial - 06Lexus, Toyota and Buick Top New-Auto Reliability Survey - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:11:23] <exec> 08└─Mum, Julian's forgotten to take his meds again!
[06:12:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"beautiful vehicle" - 06Space Station Accepts First Virginia Delivery in Two Years - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:12:21] <exec> 08└─You never will, and this is because there IS no vehicle. The "space program", which comes into the "private sector" variety these days is a hoax: no machines "orbit" the Earth, as common sense and physics can tell you. Satellites allegedly measure in the tens of thousands, yet nobody ever seen one....
[06:12:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:spacex - 06Space Station Accepts First Virginia Delivery in Two Years - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:12:25] <exec> 08└─The thing I find odd is its all rumor and innuendo and they're gonna launch again soon but no official report on this incident.
[06:12:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bogsnoticus [3982] (Score:2) 02Re:spacex - 06Space Station Accepts First Virginia Delivery in Two Years - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
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[06:12:27] <exec> 08└─With the way your is head buried so far up your arse, it's not a scam you're smelling.
[06:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bogsnoticus [3982] (Score:2) 02Re:Uranus may have two moons - 06Uranus May Have Two Undiscovered Moons - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:14:21] <exec> 08└─By always doing things half-arsed.
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[07:10:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Common knowledge, isn't it? - 06Update: Convictions Upheld, Sentences Extended In Romanian Microsoft Bribery Trial - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:10:31] <exec> 08└─That is informative. There is no "quota" or anything? That is, if you were to sell 80% competing OS's instead of MS, you didn't get charged significantly more for your next stack of licenses?
[07:10:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Common knowledge, isn't it? - 06Update: Convictions Upheld, Sentences Extended In Romanian Microsoft Bribery Trial - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:10:33] <exec> 08└─The discounts for volume are steep, STEEP. The Dells and the HPs of the world were basically paying nothing for consumer windows licenses. Nothing at all. Small fry operators were paying 25% and down.
[07:11:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score:2) 02Re:Conservative - 06Lexus, Toyota and Buick Top New-Auto Reliability Survey - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:11:21] <exec> 08└─The Honda Civic I drive doesn't have a temperature gauge of any kind, but it does have two different dash indicator lights for "too cold" and "too hot". I don't actually know what it's measuring. I live in Southern California and I've never seen the too hot light. Most mornings I get the too cold li...
[07:12:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score:1) 02Re:Never thought I would see the day. - 06Webcams Used to Attack Reddit and Twitter Recalled - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:12:57] <exec> 08└─They aren't taking responsibility for the security of their products
[07:14:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:exploration - 06Uranus May Have Two Undiscovered Moons - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:14:32] <exec> 08└─*wouldst
[07:14:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score:2) 02Re:None whatsoever - 06What You Should Know about the Cobalt in Your Smartphone - 845 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:14:55] <exec> 08└─If you want a humanitarian crisis, the Africans cannot govern themselves and i 2000 ts been lord of the flies savagery since the euro imperialists left, just like it was for eons before we got there, so the only thing more hell on earth for a bunch of villagers than working a mine for money is in a...
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[08:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:lazy reader - 06Fission Power Plant, 43 Years in the Making, Comes Online in Tennessee - 967 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:09:45] <exec> 08└─Yes, in one of the articles I linked I read that the plant was 80% completed (whatever that means) when construction was suspended. Also, I read that it has the same rated power output as Unit 1. Therefore I assume that Unit 2 is very similar to Unit 1, on which construction was also begun in 1973....
[08:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Dire Straits! - 06Fission Power Plant, 43 Years in the Making, Comes Online in Tennessee - 720 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:48] <exec> 08└─Money for nothin'! (except fissile material appropriate for illegal weapons of mass destruction), chicks for free! Yes, you can light your lights, TVA, but at what moral cost? At long last, Federal Agency, have you no shame? And this is why, I cannot tolerate all these alleged nerds, who say they s...
[08:10:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:English ruined - 06Twitter Planning Hundreds More Job Cuts as Soon as This Week - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:10:03] <exec> 08└─Nope. Too long for Twitter. #MAGA #TRUMP2016 That is how you have to say things in Twitterspeak. Feh.
[08:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Good riddance. - 06Twitter Planning Hundreds More Job Cuts as Soon as This Week - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:10:07] <exec> 08└─Facebook is just as bad, if not worse, due to the massive privacy violations. If you've used Facebook at any point, you're just a fool.
[08:10:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Gentoo: The Forgotten Distro - 06Refracta 8.0: Devuan on a Stick - 569 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:10:24] <exec> 08└─> If you come back after a cup of coffee tomorrow morning it might be ready. I've been using Gentoo for more than ten years. Compilation times are the least of your problems. W 2000 ith a modern computer you can get your whole system recompiled in 24 hours (and without monstrosities like Chromium an...
[08:12:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:New Jersey - 06Space Station Accepts First Virginia Delivery in Two Years - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:12:29] <exec> 08└─Shouldn't be hard for someone who is used to orbital mechanics, where if you want to go from taking 2 hours to complete an orbit to taking 24 hours, you need to accelerate.
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[09:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Good, but - 06Baby "Born Twice" for Tumor Surgery - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:34] <exec> 08└─A great step for medicine, a great shame for a society where tumors, formerly rare and restricted to old people, now affect people who still have to be born.
[09:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03mtrycz [60] (Score:2) 02Re:Dire Straits! - 06Fission Power Plant, 43 Years in the Making, Comes Online in Tennessee - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:09:53] <exec> 08└─I agree with this comment (maybe not the wording), but feel humbled to upvote because of groupthink. Is it bad?
[09:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Dire Straits! - 06Fission Power Plant, 43 Years in the Making, Comes Online in Tennessee - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:09:55] <exec> 08└─In capitalist America, ads view YOU!
[09:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02$4.09??? - 06Fission Power Plant, 43 Years in the Making, Comes Online in Tennessee - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:57] <exec> 08└─Did anyone else think $4.09 per watt is a bit of strange metric? What does it tell you? Wouldn't it be more interesting to divide this number over the planned running time?
[09:10:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Good riddance. - 06Twitter Planning Hundreds More Job Cuts as Soon as This Week - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:10:16] <exec> 08└─Privacy is a completely unrelated topic to this discussion. It would be incredibly foolish to mistake this.
[09:10:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Gentoo: The Forgotten Distro - 06Refracta 8.0: Devuan on a Stick - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:10:39] <exec> 08└─... unless it does not. In my experience Gentoo never works when you set more than 5 or so USE flags or go for one of the more esoteric profiles.
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[10:09:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geotti [1146] (Score:2) 02Security - 06Live Kernel Patches Available for Ubuntu (Gratis Up to 3 Systems) - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:32] <exec> 08└─Wait, so you want me to allow some entity that is not under my control to update my kernel? No. Fucking. Way! (binary blobs or not)
[10:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03ewk [5923] (Score:1) 02Re:Good, but - 06Baby "Born Twice" for Tumor Surgery - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:09:40] <exec> 08└─back in the good'ole days babies/infants/children/etc. all got tumors, they just died from them. Even 'worse'... This specific type of tumor (Sacrococcygeal teratoma (SCT) is more likely to develop in children. So, old people don't have much to to with this type of tumor.
[10:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Dire Straits! - 06Fission Power Plant, 43 Years in the Making, Comes Online in Tennessee - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:10:01] <exec> 08└─Group think is roughly equal to mass hysteria, IMHO. When everyone thinks alike, no one is actually thinking. Those who think contrary to the group are going to be right at least as often as they are wrong. Hysteria is always wrong. Witness the efforts at gun control.
[10:10:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02correction/clarification about tritium - 06Fission Power Plant, 43 Years in the Making, Comes Online in Tennessee - 1239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:10:03] <exec> 08└─I used the term "hydrogen bomb" but that's misleading, because most of the tritium that gives what we commonly call hydrogen bombs much of their explosive power is created at the time of the explosion from 6Li. Small amounts of tritium are used in various types of thermonuclear weapons, notably fusi...
[10:10:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Excellence in distro reporting! - 06Refracta 8.0: Devuan on a Stick - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:10:32] <exec> 08└─*wanks* 31
[10:10:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Odd comparisons - 06Refracta 8.0: Devuan on a Stick - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:10:38] <exec> 08└─A distro without pulseaudio is probably a good thing if you want/need to use JACK.
[10:10:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score:2) 02Re:Gentoo: The Forgotten Distro - 06Refracta 8.0: Devuan on a Stick - 2225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:10:50] <exec> 08└─Gentoo was one of my first distros, I have been running it for more than 10 years, however I find little reason to use it nowadays as a desktop OS. Back in the early 2000s when my machine was a hand me down AMD K6-II, it made perfect sense to compile from source. Yes it took an age (i usually starte...
[10:10:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Flamebait) 02Is Devuan even a distribution? - 06Refracta 8.0: Devuan on a Stick - 562 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:10:52] <exec> 08└─Sad times when Devuan is your best option. Is Devuan technically even a distribution without any release ever? It has almost been two years and they are still stuck with one beta release. They have a couple of admins that keep their web site barely running, one packager and no developer support what...
[10:10:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Is Devuan even a distribution? - 06Refracta 8.0: Devuan on a Stick - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:10:54] <exec> 08└─So speaks the anonymous coward. Back under your bridge! From another anonymous coward.
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[11:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score:2) 02Frustrating - 06Seagate Launches 5 TB 2.5" HDDs and 2 TB SMR SSHDs - 1038 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:36] <exec> 08└─Seems like they've hit a pretty hard barrier in data storage density for laptop drives. I used to be able to significantly upgrade my notebooks' storage every couple of years, but for at least 3 or 4 years or so the largest capacity that will fit in even my 17" MacBook Pro (which handles up to 12.5m...
[11:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score:2) 02Give me 10TB 3,5 inch instead - 06Seagate Launches 5 TB 2.5" HDDs and 2 TB SMR SSHDs - 1601 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:37] <exec> 08└─While a 5TB 2,5inch is impressive, It feels a bit gimmicky. As they mention, at 15mm depth it is too big to fit in existing slots for 2,5 disks (Although it could fit in my old 486DX4 laptop, as that is a thick 2,5 as well) , so you cannot upgrade your existing disk with this one. Also, its write sp...
[11:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Security - 06Live Kernel Patches Available for Ubuntu (Gratis Up to 3 Systems) - 1416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:09:46] <exec> 08└─Just how literally should we take you? Should we assume that you write your own kernel, line by line, and that EVERYTHING is under your direct control? Computing is a world of compromises. All of us decide who to trust, and how much to trust them. All of us have been burned by misplaced trust. But,...
[11:10:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:lazy reader - 06Fission Power Plant, 43 Years in the Making, Comes Online in Tennessee - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:10:12] <exec> 08└─I found a 2011 CBS News article that said "Watts Bar, in Spring City, Tenn., is the last nuclear plant to be licensed in the U.S. [...]" That would refer to Unit 1. So, in a sens, those two reactors at Watts Bar are the country's newest commercial ones. http://www.cbsnews.com
[11:10:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Dire Straits! - 06Fission Power Plant, 43 Years in the Making, Comes Online in Tennessee - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:10:18] <exec> 08└─You made a good decision. He's just trolling in favor of groupthink.
[11:10:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Better metric - 06Fission Power Plant, 43 Years in the Making, Comes Online in Tennessee - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:10:22] <exec> 08└─Would 95% of the power necessary to energize a flux capacitor suit you better?
[11:10:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02My question - 06Fission Power Plant, 43 Years in the Making, Comes Online in Tennessee - 549 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:10:25] <exec> 08└─While you lot are all "boo, nukes" and "hiss, nuclear waste", my question is: how is the added warmth going to affect the fishing patterns in the lake they use for cooling water? Fish go where they go and bite when they bite based on a lot of things but one of the big factors is water temperature. A...
[11:10:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Good riddance. - 06Twitter Planning Hundreds More Job Cuts as Soon as This Week - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:10:45] <exec> 08└─It's a news feed that you can argue on. But you're right, nobody would ever want to argue about the news.
[11:10:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Good riddance. - 06Twitter Planning Hundreds More Job Cuts as Soon as This Week - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:10:46] <exec> 08└─But you're right, nobody would ever want to argue about the news.
[11:10:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Good riddance. - 06Twitter Planning Hundreds More Job Cuts as Soon as This Week - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:10:49] <exec> 08└─You are mistaking popularity for excellent implementation.
[11:11:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Geotti [1146] 02Quick and Easy Dev1 - 06Refracta 8.0: Devuan on a Stick - 76 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:11:14] <exec> 08└─It was my search for a quick and easy way to get Devuan up and running [...]
[11:11:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score:2) 02Re:DoJ, too, will come after them - 06Update: Convictions Upheld, Sentences Extended In Romanian Microsoft Bribery Trial - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:11:35] <exec> 08└─People said something similar anout IBM. Then I was born.
[11:11:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score:2) 02Re:Mitigation: do not use GOST 28147-89 - 06Audit Reveals Significant Vulnerabilities for TrueCrypt and Successor VeraCrypt - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:11:47] <exec> 08└─These include the AES implementation, which is still susceptible to cache-timing attacks.
[11:13:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03purple_cobra [1435] (Score:1) 02Cheers! - 06Tool Lets You Easily Install Ubuntu Touch OS on Mobile Devices - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:13:08] <exec> 08└─Thanks for this story. I have a Nexus 7 (2013) sitting around doing basically nothing and will give this a try to see if I can make it more useful than as a paperweight!
[11:14:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Backwards as Usual - 06Total Cost of USA's Wars Since 2001 Approaches $5 Trillion - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:14:58] <exec> 08└─My bedpost notches tell an entirely different story.
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[12:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score:1) 02Re:Give me 10TB 3,5 inch instead - 06Seagate Launches 5 TB 2.5" HDDs and 2 TB SMR SSHDs - 1906 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:09:49] <exec> 08└─I agree, and thinking about how I'd like storage to behave in my laptop, I've realised I want two types of internal storage: 1) Ephemeral storage, for things that get overwritten on a frequent basis. So storage for a Swap partition, and /var. I/O performance needs to be very good, and the medium nee...
[12:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Security - 06Live Kernel Patches Available for Ubuntu (Gratis Up to 3 Systems) - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:09:59] <exec> 08└─as a fellow paranoiac i can understand what he's saying as .. i'm not giving you or anyone a way to inject and later remove bits into my kernel. ... you know.. in an auto-update or live system that can get man-in-the-middle'd. and no, people past 30..40..50.. depends on intelligence and evilness......
[12:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score:2) 02Sigh. - 06Live Kernel Patches Available for Ubuntu (Gratis Up to 3 Systems) - 803 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:10:01] <exec> 08└─Ha ha ha ha ha! Linux Kernel, security by subscription, just buy our DLC licences to get this functionality? Do you have ANY IDEA of your prime customer base? They are going to throw a fit and just replicate this functionality for themselves without your interference. Linux kernel trampolines have b...
[12:10:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02merger mania last part of cycle b4 downturn - 06Rockwell Collins to Purchase B/E Aerospace for $6.4 Billion - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:10:15] <exec> 08└─Lot of mergers in the news lately. AT&T and Time Warner, TD Ameritrade and Scottrade, and now this. I read speculation that lots of mergers can herald the end of good times in the current business cycle. Businesses grasping for more profit and out of ideas turn to mergers. Of course they always poin...
[12:10:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:lazy reader - 06Fission Power Plant, 43 Years in the Making, Comes Online in Tennessee - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:10:27] <exec> 08└─So it's like GitHub for nuclear power plants?
[12:10:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:My question - 06Fission Power Plant, 43 Years in the Making, Comes Online in Tennessee - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:10:40] <exec> 08└─Use to live close to such a lake. From the old timers, not that much was changed (maybe some algae, but that's debatable) except for more people visiting the lake throughout the year because it was warm water. It was actually an odd though not unpleasant feeling jumping in and not feeling much of a...
[12:10:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:My question - 06Fission Power Plant, 43 Years in the Making, Comes Online in Tennessee - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:10:42] <exec> 08└─I was thinking more of the flatheads. They're a warm weather catfish and are damned difficult to catch in the winter because of the cold water. A nuke plant warming things up could make all the difference. Also the crappie tend to move to deep brush in the winter and this also might change that.
[12:10:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:My question - 06Fission Power Plant, 43 Years in the Making, Comes Online in Tennessee - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:10:44] <exec> 08└─Oh definitely fishing areas moved, but it is hard to say whether that was expressly from the warm water or hoards more people splashing around in the water.
[12:10:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:My question - 06Fission Power Plant, 43 Years in the Making, Comes Online in Tennessee - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:10:46] <exec> 08└─Yeah. Since I'm actually living in TN at the moment and go fishing every chance I get, this isn't a purely theoretical question for me.
[12:11:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:English ruined - 06Twitter Planning Hundreds More Job Cuts as Soon as This Week - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:11:02] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't put it on Twitter. The real culprit is SMS. People started using that short form because it was hard to type on the early cell phones. That's where OMG! and BFF and the like came from. Twitter really only adopted that convention. Their real contribution is the hashtag concept.
[12:11:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Odd comparisons - 06Refracta 8.0: Devuan on a Stick - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:11:25] <exec> 08└─Yeah, well you don't know JACK.
[12:11:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Gentoo: The Forgotten Distro - 06Refracta 8.0: Devuan on a Stick - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:11:30] <exec> 08└─Everything's easy if you know what you're doing.
[12:11:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Gentoo: The Forgotten Distro - 06Refracta 8.0: Devuan on a Stick - 977 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:11:38] <exec> 08└─I went to Gentoo around 2004 or so, despite the annoying inflated exuberance of the user community, because I liked the idea behind it, and its supposed simplicity in upgrading, and because I didn't feel I had time to spend on a Linux From Scratch. I did an install on a server and it seemed to work...
[12:11:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:2) 02Re:Common knowledge, isn't it? - 06Update: Convictions Upheld, Sentences Extended In Romanian Microsoft Bribery Trial - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:11:56] <exec> 08└─Those deals were NEVER exactly as you think.
[12:12:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Workaround: stick to Truecrypt? - 06Audit Reveals Significant Vulnerabilities for TrueCrypt and Successor VeraCrypt - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:12:18] <exec> 08└─Seems to me Veracrypt is introducing bugs that are more serious and the Veracrypt coders seem to be of a lower grade than the Truecrypt coders.
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[13:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Target Row Refresh? - 06Samsung Announces 8 GB DRAM Package for Mobile Devices - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:43] <exec> 08└─Does this memory include Rowhammer mitigations?
[13:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:1) 02Re:Target Row Refresh? - 06Samsung Announces 8 GB DRAM Package for Mobile Devices - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:09:44] <exec> 08└─Well, it is a 64, rather than 72 bit memory bus, so no.
[13:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sarasani [3283] (Score:2) 02Hush hush - 06Samsung Announces 8 GB DRAM Package for Mobile Devices - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:46] <exec> 08└─I figured Samsung would have preferred to remain silent for some time re their messing about with mobile phones.
[13:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:2) 02I really hope this sells well. - 06Samsung Announces 8 GB DRAM Package for Mobile Devices - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:48] <exec> 08└─This kind of hardware could push smartphones SoCs to the higher frequencies and bandwidth we need from our desktops. From there, SATA and PCI-e aren't too much of a stretch. It's really sad how long we've been waiting: https://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl [juszkiewi...
[13:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02ZFS solves everything? - 06Seagate Launches 5 TB 2.5" HDDs and 2 TB SMR SSHDs - 980 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:09:59] <exec> 08└─I may write up my triple-redundant backup server if I ever get it working. It would use ZFS, and as a result require 4GB of ECC memory. The triple redundancy allows you to recover from a hard-disk failure without losing redundancy. ZFS uses the magic of cryptographic hashing to figure out which vers...
[13:10:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:Security - 06Live Kernel Patches Available for Ubuntu (Gratis Up to 3 Systems) - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:10:11] <exec> 08└─Your kernel package and hundreds of other packages are already coming from them. What's the difference?
[13:10:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:2) 02Re:Sigh. - 06Live Kernel Patches Available for Ubuntu (Gratis Up to 3 Systems) - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:10:14] <exec> 08└─Maybe the Red Hat people would buy it
[13:10:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Good, but - 06Baby "Born Twice" for Tumor Surgery - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:10:24] <exec> 08└─No, but now this girl might live to have cancer prone children of her own, who will be saved by surgery, who will then go on to have cancer prone children of their own...
[13:10:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03ewk [5923] (Score:1) 02Re:Good, but - 06Baby "Born Twice" for Tumor Surgery - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:10:26] <exec> 08└─And like any adult with a known hereditary defect, she will be able to make an informed choice about children or not. If we would only allow people without genetic defect to live and procreate...
[13:10:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Good, but - 06Baby "Born Twice" for Tumor Surgery - 483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:10:28] <exec> 08└─> she will be able to make an informed choice Will she be shown photos of the lump of malformed body parts that was pretending to be her tail for a few months when she's older? And if she is shown that, will she volunteer to not fling her legs in the air after her prom date? Reversible sterilisation...
[13:12:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MostCynical [2589] 02Re:DoJ, too, will come after them - 06Update: Convictions Upheld, Sentences Extended In Romanian Microsoft Bribery Trial - 46 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:12:17] <exec> 08└─Where iz the +1 "delusionally optimistic" mod?
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[14:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Should have bought Yahoo - 06AT&T Is Spying on Americans for Profit, New Documents Reveal - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:41] <exec> 08└─It should have been ATT that bought Yahoo instead of Verizon, make them the conglomerate of ratting out paying customers. Although Verizon is probably in just as deep and just haven't been exposed yet.
[14:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score:2) 02Cool - 06Samsung Announces 8 GB DRAM Package for Mobile Devices - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:53] <exec> 08└─I hope.
[14:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02It's so fast - 06Samsung Announces 8 GB DRAM Package for Mobile Devices - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:54] <exec> 08└─It's on fire!!!
[14:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score:2) 02Re:ZFS solves everything? - 06Seagate Launches 5 TB 2.5" HDDs and 2 TB SMR SSHDs - 2020 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:10:06] <exec> 08└─ZFS is not a backup solution. Don't get me wrong, ZFS is awesome. I am running it for any storage server I build with FreeBSD. My current SOHO setup is a 12TB array, 2x (2x3TB raidz2 3.5 drives) zvols, and my previous was 2 x ( 4x1TB raidz1 2.5 drives). Both with 128GB SSD backed read/write cache,...
[14:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Anecdotal: - 06Seagate Launches 5 TB 2.5" HDDs and 2 TB SMR SSHDs - 1022 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:10:08] <exec> 08└─I have spun up hard drives dating back up to 20 years (including drives with damaged seeking mechanisms for the heads!) Anything that didn't have a motor failure/seize and was kept in dryish conditions (garage with variable humidity in the 20-40 percent range) has survived just fine. While there are...
[14:10:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score:2) 02Re:Anecdotal: - 06Seagate Launches 5 TB 2.5" HDDs and 2 TB SMR SSHDs - 1310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:10:10] <exec> 08└─Yes, but old disks had wider tracks, and stronger fields imprinted on them. Look at things like SMR, and you see that they are deliberately packing bits close enough so that they cause interference. That is why they have to rewrite all adjacent tracks as well as the one you are writing to (hence the...
[14:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score:2) 02Re:Give me 10TB 3,5 inch instead - 06Seagate Launches 5 TB 2.5" HDDs and 2 TB SMR SSHDs - 1486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:10:12] <exec> 08└─This is how I have it set up: 1) I use SSDs. My laptop is SSD, as is my desktop. I was worried about the excessive writes, but my current 128GB SSD has been going strong for years. I had one (OCZ) SSD fail on me due to excessive writes, but when it failed, it failed read-only, so just transferred th...
[14:10:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Security - 06Live Kernel Patches Available for Ubuntu (Gratis Up to 3 Systems) - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:10:23] <exec> 08└─Assuming Debian/Ubuntu, when manually upgrading apt-get will whine about the signature hierarchy although you can override it. I have not looked at this kernel thingy to see if its equally secured or worst case something like has an implied --force-yes as default config.
[14:10:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:1) 02Re:Good, but - 06Baby "Born Twice" for Tumor Surgery - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:10:38] <exec> 08└─Forced sterilization has a long, sad history. I doubt any sterilization techniques effective at birth would be reversible.
[14:10:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03ewk [5923] (Score:1) 02Re:Good, but - 06Baby "Born Twice" for Tumor Surgery - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:10:40] <exec> 08└─Sure... let's just preventative sterilize everyone after birth. Just to prevent any 'oopses'. And you're calling me naive?? tsk, tsk....
[14:10:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:Good, but - 06Baby "Born Twice" for Tumor Surgery - 593 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:10:42] <exec> 08└─1) Not all cancers are hereditary, and my guess is that this one isn't as well. 2) There is no such thing as "without genetic defects", even after selection "defects" might develop at later age (e.g. skin cancer due to UV exposure or lung cancer due to smoking). And good luck defining what would be...
[14:10:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03ewk [5923] (Score:1) 02Re:Good, but - 06Baby "Born Twice" for Tumor Surgery - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:10:44] <exec> 08└─So... all the more reason to not interfere too much in life finding it's way... Good to see that some ACs actually do think :-)
[14:10:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Good, but - 06Baby "Born Twice" for Tumor Surgery - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:10:46] <exec> 08└─You are making the assumption that the cause is due to a dominant genetic allele.
[14:10:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Born again? - 06Baby "Born Twice" for Tumor Surgery - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:49] <exec> 08└─Perhaps too obvious, but does this automatically make her a Christian? Or does she need to be born again again?
[14:11:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Nuclear is Good - 06Fission Power Plant, 43 Years in the Making, Comes Online in Tennessee - 683 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:11:23] <exec> 08└─I favor renewables over any other form of electricity generation because it is easiest on the environment and can be generated where you are. Nuclear is not bad, though, if you do it right. France gets almost all of its electricity from nuclear. New York State gets a little more than a third. A lot...
[14:11:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:English ruined - 06Twitter Planning Hundreds More Job Cuts as Soon as This Week - 857 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:11:41] <exec> 08└─Technically their two contributions were making the first IRC to SMS gateway and then slapping a low quality yet usable ultra low learning curve web interface onto IRC. When twitter dies or becomes ineffective due to desperate thrashing around for revenue, it can be replaced by commercial silos like...
[14:12:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Odd comparisons - 06Refracta 8.0: Devuan on a Stick - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:12:04] <exec> 08└─A glue layer introduced by a serial-NIHer named Poettering. The only thing PA has going for it is that it has a central volume control for each program that hooked into it. But then i wonder how many actually makes use of that even over at Windows where the idea apparently came from.
[14:12:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Gentoo: The Forgotten Distro - 06Refracta 8.0: Devuan on a Stick - 474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:12:20] <exec> 08└─I still use Gentoo. It starts in a minimal state and you can grow it from there. Most people who like other distros probably don't spend the first three days removing all the crap that comes pre-installed. My one big complaint about Gentoo is when one package blocks another it's not always obvious w...
[14:12:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02absolute vs relative - 06Refracta 8.0: Devuan on a Stick - 1024 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:12:25] <exec> 08└─In an absolute sense it sounds mighty good. Don't get me wrong, if it was the only FOSS distro out there I'd be mighty happy with it. The problem is in a relative sense if you just install freebsd you'll have all the devuan features PLUS a thousand times as many users meaning 1000 times better odds...
[14:12:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:DoJ, too, will come after them - 06Update: Convictions Upheld, Sentences Extended In Romanian Microsoft Bribery Trial - 562 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:12:47] <exec> 08└─Someone pointed out a while ago that the best way to make bribery go away is to make giving a bribe totally legal, but have large penalties for receiving one. This means that anyone giving a bribe can then immediately turn around after it's been accepted and have the recipient indicted. It then mean...
[14:12:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Shit like this makes me so happy - 06Update: Convictions Upheld, Sentences Extended In Romanian Microsoft Bribery Trial - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:12:49] <exec> 08└─to be using an operating system that doesn't need millions of dollars of persuasion in bribes to use... Shame on these monopolists and the people who do business with them!
[14:13:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02client uses it - 06Audit Reveals Significant Vulnerabilities for TrueCrypt and Successor VeraCrypt - 1017 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:04] <exec> 08└─I have a client using TrueCrypt still. They are using the last released version; we saved the binaries in various places. They are in a very confidential business and were concerned following public data leaks that something like that could happen to them. The company partners didn't want to trust M...
[14:13:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:The missing link - 06Lexus, Toyota and Buick Top New-Auto Reliability Survey - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:25] <exec> 08└─The fact they're soliciting all of their subscribers is the problem
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[15:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:2, Insightful) 02New Facisim - 06AT&T Is Spying on Americans for Profit, New Documents Reveal - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:44] <exec> 08└─Instead of the government forcing corporations to work for them to spy, corporations are "offering exciting new services" in exchange for huge payouts.
[15:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:New Facisim - 06AT&T Is Spying on Americans for Profit, New Documents Reveal - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:09:45] <exec> 08└─In a sense better than haranguing business that didn't play ball. But we have a moral hazard now of the government purchasing said data is the same government that sez you can't control/own your data. The Teleco Immunity Act was the gift I suspect, and now we are seeing the payout. And unfortunately...
[15:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:New Facisim - 06AT&T Is Spying on Americans for Profit, New Documents Reveal - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:09:48] <exec> 08└─It should be extremely illegal for any corporation to supply information on a person without a warrant. It's actually quite surprising that this is not the law already in free countries.
[15:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:New Facisim - 06AT&T Is Spying on Americans for Profit, New Documents Reveal - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:09:50] <exec> 08└─> free countries. In fact it is probably illegal in Cheran, MEX
[15:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Free Market Capitalism! - 06AT&T Is Spying on Americans for Profit, New Documents Reveal - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:52] <exec> 08└─Free market capitalism at work! Shareholder-driven profit! No costly ethics! It's the economy of the future, today!
[15:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Re:Free Market Capitalism! - 06AT&T Is Spying on Americans for Profit, New Documents Reveal - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:09:54] <exec> 08└─Just get a burner phone from Samsung.
[15:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score:2) 02Nothing New - 06AT&T Is Spying on Americans for Profit, New Documents Reveal - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:56] <exec> 08└─AT&T has been pulling monopolistic, unethical, and at times, downright criminal shit, for decades. They even slammed [wikipedia.org] me back in the 1990s. Assholes. As soon as I had a choice, I got rid of the "baby bell" (cf. 1982 Consent Decree [wikipedia.org]) in my area. These bastards should die...
[15:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:3, Informative) 02Confirmed - 06AT&T Is Spying on Americans for Profit, New Documents Reveal - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:59] <exec> 08└─This just confirms what we have known for quite some time. I remember the article on /. about sale of lots of high speed storage and DSP hardware to the NSA (or was it CIA?) from Texas Memory Systems and the connection to the rumored Room 641A at AT&T. URL:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A>
[15:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Accountability - 06AT&T Is Spying on Americans for Profit, New Documents Reveal - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:01] <exec> 08└─As usual, what is missing is accountability. AT&T can create this product, that's actually not a problem. They just cannot allow law enforcement to use it without a valid warrant. When law enforcement uses this tool without a valid warrant, that is a criminal offense. People need to be in jail: poli...
[15:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Accountability - 06AT&T Is Spying on Americans for Profit, New Documents Reveal - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:10:03] <exec> 08└─Looking from a slightly different angle at a different aspect of the problem: When law enforcement uses this tool without a valid warrant, that is ...
[15:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Accountability - 06AT&T Is Spying on Americans for Profit, New Documents Reveal - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:10:05] <exec> 08└─Oh and I forgot a tangent of my different angle is I acknowledge you're gonna have problems with illegal use and crazy cops stalking and killing ex-girlfriends and stuff. I admit that sucks. In like an optimist/pessimist thing the glass is like 75% empty and 25% full. In practice its bad, just not e...
[15:10:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:I really hope this sells well. - 06Samsung Announces 8 GB DRAM Package for Mobile Devices - 496 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:10:17] <exec> 08└─Agreed. The ARM builders are so focused on mobile that anything for the desktop would have to be a mobile chip. I wish we would see an up-to-date iMX from NXP (formerly Freescale). Those have a decent amount of I/O including PCIe, SATA, CAN, Gigabit and up to 4 cores. Documentation is also easy to a...
[15:10:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03WillR [2012] (Score:1) 02Re:Frustrating - 06Seagate Launches 5 TB 2.5" HDDs and 2 TB SMR SSHDs - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:10:28] <exec> 08└─My totally unscientific guess is it's a combination of there being a technical barrier, and market research saying most people who are willing to spend money on better storage want SSD speed, so they wouldn't turn a profit on an investment into pushing spinning hard drive density forward.
[15:10:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Frustrating - 06Seagate Launches 5 TB 2.5" HDDs and 2 TB SMR SSHDs - 836 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:10:30] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure that it's practical to have SSDs that size. People on laptops are probably not working with that amount of data and people who are working with that kind of data tend to get pissy when the disk goes bad taking all the data with them. Not to mention that they'll usually be using a big to...
[15:10:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Give me 10TB 3,5 inch instead - 06Seagate Launches 5 TB 2.5" HDDs and 2 TB SMR SSHDs - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:10:39] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't recommend that unless the disks are have tons of empty space and you're not making constant backups. You can easily wear out a regular HDD with ZFS if you allow it to get too full through too much snapshotting.
[15:10:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02who cares about reboots anymore? - 06Live Kernel Patches Available for Ubuntu (Gratis Up to 3 Systems) - 3739 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:53] <exec> 08└─Does anyone care about reboots anymore other than "solution providers" who are convincing us a problem exists which they have a very complicated way to solve? I'm just saying, with virtualization and clustering technology being better (at least in PC world, although todays IT still isn't as good as...
[15:10:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03zugedneb [4556] (Score:2, Interesting) 02Re:who cares about reboots anymore? - 06Live Kernel Patches Available for Ubuntu (Gratis Up to 3 Systems) - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:10:54] <exec> 08└─the main problem here is that whatever becomes popular, and gains momentum in terms of user base + becoming industrial norm, eventually gets the main feedback loop attached to psychology, and not technology, and the organization gets infested by sociopaths... enjoy ur 1337 freebsd distro, but I give...
[15:11:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score:2) 02Health Care Costs - 06Baby "Born Twice" for Tumor Surgery - 1020 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:13] <exec> 08└─Much as it is a miracle of modern medicine that this child survived, this is exactly why America has the most expensive health care system in the world. TFA doesn't say anything about the finances, but I'd guess that the procedure was covered past a deductible by insurance at a cost of at least 7 fi...
[15:11:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Health Care Costs - 06Baby "Born Twice" for Tumor Surgery - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:11:15] <exec> 08└─if it wasn't worth it, it wouldn't have happened. and you're an asshole.
[15:12:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03linuxrocks123 [2557] (Score:2) 02Re:Gentoo: The Forgotten Distro - 06Refracta 8.0: Devuan on a Stick - 1420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:12:44] <exec> 08└─> After the umpteenth emerge world resulted in broken printing (I teach, so this is a mission critical app for me), I tested Debian Etch on the server, then on the desktop, and never looked back. For real, man? I teach, too. I use Slackware-Current, which is technically the alpha for Slackware's rel...
[15:12:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:absolute vs relative - 06Refracta 8.0: Devuan on a Stick - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:12:52] <exec> 08└─But when still using a Linux kernel you get more mature hardware support, an almost infinite choice of filesystems, LUKS etc.
[15:13:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03tisI [5866] (Score:2) 02When here? - 06Update: Convictions Upheld, Sentences Extended In Romanian Microsoft Bribery Trial - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:17] <exec> 08└─Everyone knows all elected scum, senators, congresscritters & even the POTUS, are all bought off by corporate bribes. When can we jail them?
[15:13:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:client uses it - 06Audit Reveals Significant Vulnerabilities for TrueCrypt and Successor VeraCrypt - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:32] <exec> 08└─I have a client using TrueCrypt still. They are using the last released version
[15:13:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:client uses it - 06Audit Reveals Significant Vulnerabilities for TrueCrypt and Successor VeraCrypt - 842 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:34] <exec> 08└─In other words, they're idiots that have been coddled. It's rather unfortunate, that IT winds up having to babysit people that are too lazy to learn anything. A simple one page document should be more than enough to get people to switch to a new program like this. The security implications of a new...
[15:14:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03bootsy [3440] (Score:2) 02Will this push the cost down? - 06New Metamaterial Paves Way for Terahertz Technologies - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:40] <exec> 08└─I went to a talk in my old Electronic Engineering department over 17 years ago on Terrahertz technology and the challanges and applications. At the time they showed how useful this would be for passively scanning your teeth. You could build up a 3D model without any X-rays being used and accurately...
[15:17:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:false dichotomy - 06What You Should Know about the Cobalt in Your Smartphone - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:17:58] <exec> 08└─You underestimate the human capacity for greed.
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[16:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:Nothing New - 06AT&T Is Spying on Americans for Profit, New Documents Reveal - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:10:00] <exec> 08└─These bastards should die a slow, painful death. I agree completely. Early this century I had Cingular, and my bills were never over fifty a month. AT&T bought them out and my next bill was $900. It was, of course, my last AT&T bill, I cancelled service the day that bill came.
[16:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Insightful) 02Re:Accountability - 06AT&T Is Spying on Americans for Profit, New Documents Reveal - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:10:06] <exec> 08└─Incorrect. Law enforcement agencies need a warrant to compel AT&T to provide them w 22b6 ith data for investigations, but no warrant is required if the information is volunteered.
[16:10:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02No Accountability for the bradster and VLM - 06AT&T Is Spying on Americans for Profit, New Documents Reveal - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:10:08] <exec> 08└─What? A self-confident loudmouth idiot doesn't actually have even the most basic understanding of a topic, but he decides to make definitive proclamations about it, and other idiots of the same feather take him at his word? That's never happened on soylent before!
[16:10:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:Accountability - 06AT&T Is Spying on Americans for Profit, New Documents Reveal - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:10:10] <exec> 08└─Accountability? From law enforcement??? In a country where being a cop almost guarantees you can literally get away with murder? Think of the "black lives matter" movement and why it came about.
[16:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02an essential, and prudently deployed, counter-narc - 06AT&T Is Spying on Americans for Profit, New Documents Reveal - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:12] <exec> 08└─If it's essential, then how did they ever catch anyone before they had that "essential" tool?
[16:10:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:Frustrating - 06Seagate Launches 5 TB 2.5" HDDs and 2 TB SMR SSHDs - 1011 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:10:36] <exec> 08└─It's not made se 2000 nse to put spinning rust into a laptop for ages. Laptops are moved around a lot and using a gyroscope that has to have a blade held a few atoms above the surface seems a terrible idea. My current one is now three years old and has a 1TB SSD. It replaced one two years older with...
[16:10:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:ZFS solves everything? - 06Seagate Launches 5 TB 2.5" HDDs and 2 TB SMR SSHDs - 1014 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:10:42] <exec> 08└─Your comments, while informative, don't invalidate my concept. You are simply restating the classic "RAID is not a backup solution". The problem with using a single disk as a back-up solution is that hard-disks will not always return correct data.* Modern drives are only rated to 10^14 bits without...
[16:10:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:ZFS solves everything? - 06Seagate Launches 5 TB 2.5" HDDs and 2 TB SMR SSHDs - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:10:44] <exec> 08└─ZFS is not a backup solution
[16:10:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Deceptive advertising at best - 06Seagate Launches 5 TB 2.5" HDDs and 2 TB SMR SSHDs - 541 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:50] <exec> 08└─Why do they claim this is the 2.5" form factor when the drives are 15mm tall? It may be literally true that it is a 2.5" wide, but clearly when people talk about the drive size they are referring to the overall drive. I was excited thinking that this would be a new drop-in replacement for laptops, w...
[16:11:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Dire Straits! - 06Fission Power Plant, 43 Years in the Making, Comes Online in Tennessee - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:11:53] <exec> 08└─Yes, you can light your lights, TVA, but at what moral cost? At long last, Federal Agency, have you no shame?
[16:12:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:English ruined - 06Twitter Planning Hundreds More Job Cuts as Soon as This Week - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:12:22] <exec> 08└─I don't mean OMG GTFO WTF sorta stuff. I am talking about kids writing streams of English-looking-ish words without a trace of punctuation marks, grammar, or spelling
[16:13:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Quick and Easy Dev1 - 06Refracta 8.0: Devuan on a Stick - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:04] <exec> 08└─A worthy +5 post - thank you! Gonna try Devuan on my RasPi next time I have the chance! -- FatPhil
[16:13:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:absolute vs relative - 06Refracta 8.0: Devuan on a Stick - 1551 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:09] <exec> 08└─All that matters is my hardware is supported and the list of hardware is accurate so I buy the right stuff. With the rush to virtualization I'm way more interested in support of VirtIO_pci0 than some random ether card anyway. By LUKS you probably mean dm-crypt support to encrypt partitions. The proj...
[16:14:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03el_oscuro [1711] 02Re:The missing link - 06Lexus, Toyota and Buick Top New-Auto Reliability Survey - 612 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:14:13] <exec> 08└─A much better alternative to Consumer Reports is True Delta [truedelta.com] With Consumer Reports, all they ask you is "Has your car had a serious problem in the last 6 months?" with the definition of serious to be left to the owner. If you sign up for True Delta, you get an email about every 3 mont...
[16:14:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The missing link - 06Lexus, Toyota and Buick Top New-Auto Reliability Survey - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:14:17] <exec> 08└─This. I signed up with TrueDelta shortly after it opened. At first there wasn't much data, and the site was very careful to say how many samples they were basing their statistics on. Looking from the outside it seemed like a very honest approach, by someone very familiar with statistics. When I was...
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[17:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score:2) 02Content producers vs distributors - 06Big Tech-Media Mergers Raise Fresh Privacy Concerns - 1372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:49] <exec> 08└─It's too bad the content producters and distributors were ever allowed to begin to merge into these huge media conglomerates in the first place. There would be no wars between the various distributors over how much they should get paid to carry others' content, etc. We could have had a nice, open ma...
[17:10:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03meustrus [4961] 02Free Market Capitalism! - 06AT&T Is Spying on Americans for Profit, New Documents Reveal - 115 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:08] <exec> 08└─Free market capitalism at work! Shareholder-driven profit! No costly ethics! It's the economy of the future, today!
[17:10:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Gary Johnson approves this meaasge - 06AT&T Is Spying on Americans for Profit, New Documents Reveal - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:22] <exec> 08└─Gary Johnson is totally fine with this.
[17:10:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Hush hush - 06Samsung Announces 8 GB DRAM Package for Mobile Devices - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:10:33] <exec> 08└─That Samsung is a customer of this Samsung, but this Samsung also has other customers, namely pretty much anyone doing cellphone designs. That Samsung also has another few hundred cellphone designs in development, so the loss of a flagship is a shame, but not preventing the rest of the navy from mov...
[17:10:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Frustrating - 06Seagate Launches 5 TB 2.5" HDDs and 2 TB SMR SSHDs - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:10:48] <exec> 08└─I've got a 640k hard drive to sell to you.
[17:11:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Give me 10TB 3,5 inch instead - 06Seagate Launches 5 TB 2.5" HDDs and 2 TB SMR SSHDs - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:11:00] <exec> 08└─There are lots of benefits to the 2.5" size, even if the drive is a bit tall. Think of those companies who have hundreds of drives running in racks or with robotic arms. 3.5" form factor makes a huge difference.
[17:11:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:who cares about reboots anymore? - 06Live Kernel Patches Available for Ubuntu (Gratis Up to 3 Systems) - 650 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:11:18] <exec> 08└─Pretty much. With this new virtualized cloud stuff, who needs to worry about rebooting? You have multiple virtual machines with a load balancer/proxy/whatever in front handing out connections to multiple systems in the back. Just take those systems down one at a time and plug in the new patched syst...
[17:11:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:Health Care Costs - 06Baby "Born Twice" for Tumor Surgery - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:11:39] <exec> 08└─Much as it is a miracle of modern medicine that this child survived, this is exactly why America has the most expensive health care system in the world. TFA doesn't say anything about the finances, but I'd guess that the procedure was covered past a deductible by insurance at a cost of at least 7 fi...
[17:12:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Dire Straits! - 06Fission Power Plant, 43 Years in the Making, Comes Online in Tennessee - 560 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:12:04] <exec> 08└─> Those who think contrary to the group are going to be right at least as often as they are wrong. So you mean that the individual brain is as good as a group of brains... When did your boss start inviting me to his meetings? > Hysteria is always wrong. Witness the efforts at gun control. Thanks for...
[17:12:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Dire Straits! - 06Fission Power Plant, 43 Years in the Making, Comes Online in Tennessee - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:12:08] <exec> 08└─The moral cost of this nobody-killing, GHG-reducing power supply is quite a bit lower than many competitors. Don't let perfect be the enemy of good.
[17:12:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02There will be fish - 06Fission Power Plant, 43 Years in the Making, Comes Online in Tennessee - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:18] <exec> 08└─Rest assured there will be no lack of fish. They are stocked anyway by the state. Given the amount of fishing pressure those lakes get, they would be emptied otherwise.
[17:17:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Backwards as Usual - 06Total Cost of USA's Wars Since 2001 Approaches $5 Trillion - 645 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:17:22] <exec> 08└─Another symptom of low CHA is a complete lack of understanding--or caring--that you've gone off the reservation. Also inappropriate remarks for your supposed level of age or maturity. But that's just "locker room talk," right, big man? I think what I like most about you is that you prove my point, a...
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[18:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Gary Johnson supports the mergers - 06Big Tech-Media Mergers Raise Fresh Privacy Concerns - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:50] <exec> 08└─Gary Johnson supports this merger, just a policy reminder for any "protest voters" out there. [foxbusiness.com]
[18:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] (Score:2) 02once the nano-bots are fully functional... - 06Big Tech-Media Mergers Raise Fresh Privacy Concerns - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:52] <exec> 08└─...you won't have to worry about anything, citizen: we will all be one, safe and at peace; we will all be one, controlled and contained; we will all be one, good and proper; we will all be one, thinking and believing; we will all be one, whether you fucking like it or not, citizen... (relax, you won...
[18:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02And what will ATT do with all this data? - 06Big Tech-Media Mergers Raise Fresh Privacy Concerns - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:54] <exec> 08└─https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=16/10/25/2011206 [soylentnews.org]
[18:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:And what will ATT do with all this data? - 06Big Tech-Media Mergers Raise Fresh Privacy Concerns - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:09:56] <exec> 08└─They expect to get more than 85 Billion dollars out of it, in a short period. 300 million Americans. Do the math.
[18:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:And what will ATT do with all this data? - 06Big Tech-Media Mergers Raise Fresh Privacy Concerns - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:09:58] <exec> 08└─Yay for taxpayers funding their own oppression! These companies work hard, they DESERVE their profits!!
[18:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Maud - 06Amundsen's Ship Raised! - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:07] <exec> 08└─I knew a Maud in college, an unusual/archaic name in the mid-70s -- she started out pretty mouse-y and hung out with a quiet genius. Later she hooked up with an anesthesiologist and started to bloom, last time I saw her at a reunion (still with the doctor) a lot of old guys were drooling. I wonder i...
[18:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score:4, Funny) 02Certainly - 06Amundsen's Ship Raised! - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:09] <exec> 08└─They definitely don't make them like that anymore. That one sunk. Not a great track record for that design.
[18:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score:3, Informative) 02Raised is a bit of a mis-nomer - 06Amundsen's Ship Raised! - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:12] <exec> 08└─Looking at the Wikipedia article, you can see that the ship was just off shore and not completely submerged (in the photo, perhaps it would "sink" with the tide or season). Refloated seems more appropriate.
[18:10:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Nethack strikes again! - 06Amundsen's Ship Raised! - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:14] <exec> 08└─"You read a scroll of amnesia. Thinking of Maud you forget everything else." The Nethack Dev Team really does think of everything!
[18:10:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Should have bought Yahoo - 06AT&T Is Spying on Americans for Profit, New Documents Reveal - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:10:25] <exec> 08└─No they are probably 4 years behind on the project and several million dollars over budget and have 3 groups all trying to do the same thing.
[18:10:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:New Facisim - 06AT&T Is Spying on Americans for Profit, New Documents Reveal - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:10:29] <exec> 08└─And unfortunately I really don't see a good way out of this situation short of rope and trees.
[18:10:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Confirmed - 06AT&T Is Spying on Americans for Profit, New Documents Reveal - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:10:38] <exec> 08└─In their defense their name is three letters.
[18:10:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Accountability - 06AT&T Is Spying on Americans for Profit, New Documents Reveal - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:10:44] <exec> 08└─Pretty soon you will be able to call a self-driving car and program it to go somewhere...and then send it off with your cell phone. Perfect alibi? "But, from my cell tracking records you can see that I was driving across town in an auto-Uber".
[18:10:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Accountability - 06AT&T Is Spying on Americans for Profit, New Documents Reveal - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:10:46] <exec> 08└─Keep in mind that while tracking by phone maybe questionable in a legal sense, even if that method is removed from law enforcement, new methods are being developed to track people in mass: http://www.radiolab.org [radiolab.org] (in particular the part about how they discover a...
[18:10:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No Accountability for the bradster and VLM - 06AT&T Is Spying on Americans for Profit, New Documents Reveal - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:10:51] <exec> 08└─And yet it's how you got modded up to 0 points. Go figure.
[18:10:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:No Accountability for the bradster and VLM - 06AT&T Is Spying on Americans for Profit, New Documents Reveal - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:10:53] <exec> 08└─Why yes, you certanly are a self-confident loudmouth idiot doesn't actually have even the most basic understanding of the topic. Maybe you should learn something [propublica.org] before spouting off about others.
[18:10:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Accountability - 06AT&T Is Spying on Americans for Profit, New Documents Reveal - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:10:56] <exec> 08└─Though I agree that it should be a criminal offense ... Privacy policies can be changed at any time.Privacy policies are not a binding contract. (see #1)AFAIK call "meta data" is equivalent to the outside of an envelope.We live in a de facto police state.Profit!
[18:10:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Gary Johnson approves this meaasge - 06AT&T Is Spying on Americans for Profit, New Documents Reveal - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:11:00] <exec> 08└─So vote for Darryl Perry [darrylwperry.com] if you can.
[18:11:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score:2) 02Where to draw the line? - 06AT&T Is Spying on Americans for Profit, New Documents Reveal - 2008 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:02] <exec> 08└─If I own a retail store outfitted with security footage, and someone gets in a fight on my premises, I'll give law enforcement footage without a warrant. This seems reasonable, even though the parties involved in the did not give consent. If I own a warehouse outfitted with security footage, and som...
[18:11:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:Where to draw the line? - 06AT&T Is Spying on Americans for Profit, New Documents Reveal - 1216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:11:04] <exec> 08└─Having worked at one of the 'big ones'. They know it is wrong. It is in *all* of their training documents. It is built into the law that gives them power to string the lines up. The title I of the communications act is big on consumer privacy. Small drone working in the company giving away internal...
[18:11:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score:2) 02Re:ZFS solves everything? - 06Seagate Launches 5 TB 2.5" HDDs and 2 TB SMR SSHDs - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:11:38] <exec> 08└─Yes, apologies, I meant vdev's. Been a long few days for me :-) Agree with you otherwise on all your points. One thing though: "You can alternatively replace each disk in the RAID-Z vdev with a larger one in turn and resilver the vdev. Once they're all replaced, you can increase the size of the vdev...
[18:11:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score:2) 02Re:Give me 10TB 3,5 inch instead - 06Seagate Launches 5 TB 2.5" HDDs and 2 TB SMR SSHDs - 906 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:11:44] <exec> 08└─Yes, I know, I have worked with them. stacks of hundreds upon hundreds of drives per storage unit. A lot of places I know (and have worked at) have been moving away from 2.5 to 3.5 for storage. Back in the day, the smaller size of the 2.5 resulted in lower latency when seeking, and being able to pac...
[18:11:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Re:Give me 10TB 3,5 inch instead - 06Seagate Launches 5 TB 2.5" HDDs and 2 TB SMR SSHDs - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:11:47] <exec> 08└─I think 10TB is too much storage for one disk. Simply reading all of it (e.g., for backup) is going to take days, and guarantee read errors due to the sheer size. Much better to stick with smaller disks and RAID 0 them. Of course, SSDs have the potential to go bigger.
[18:11:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score:2) 02Re:Give me 10TB 3,5 inch instead - 06Seagate Launches 5 TB 2.5" HDDs and 2 TB SMR SSHDs - 1452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:11:49] <exec> 08└─I think 10TB is too much storage for one disk. Simply reading all of it (e.g., for backup) is going to take days, As long as it takes about the same time as a tape drive, people will be ok with it. In these situations streaming read performance is all that matters, and I don't see why that would be...
[18:11:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score:2) 02Re:Deceptive advertising at best - 06Seagate Launches 5 TB 2.5" HDDs and 2 TB SMR SSHDs - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:11:52] <exec> 08└─There are really two 2.5" standards: the laptop size (including the thin laptop size) and the server size. These are clearly the latter.
[18:12:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Good, but - 06Baby "Born Twice" for Tumor Surgery - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:12:25] <exec> 08└─Be sure to tell your doctor about your opinion on not-treating treatable diseases. I assume you're a Christian Scientist 'cause there's no way you could be a massive hypocrite on the internet. That never happens.
[18:12:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Dire Straits! - 06Fission Power Plant, 43 Years in the Making, Comes Online in Tennessee - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:12:57] <exec> 08└─Those who think contrary to the group are going to be right at least as often as they are wrong. Unless they aren't. This is known as the balance fallacy. The balance fallacy is a logical fallacy that occurs when two sides of an argument are assumed to have equal or comparable value regardless o...
[18:13:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score:2) 02Re:$4.09??? - 06Fission Power Plant, 43 Years in the Making, Comes Online in Tennessee - 520 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:03] <exec> 08└─It is strange but not for that reason. Nuclear (like most large scale power plants) tends to have their cost expressed as "cost per installed kW nameplate capacity" to more easily compare (powerplants exist at roughly every 20MW interval between 20 and 800MW and every 50MW up to about 1450MW so $/kW...
[18:13:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score:2) 02Re:$4.09??? - 06Fission Power Plant, 43 Years in the Making, Comes Online in Tennessee - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:05] <exec> 08└─construction cost that is
[18:13:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Re:Oh well - 06Twitter Planning Hundreds More Job Cuts as Soon as This Week - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:22] <exec> 08└─Except this way the blame falls on the existing management and ownership, rather than the new.
[18:13:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Good riddance. - 06Twitter Planning Hundreds More Job Cuts as Soon as This Week - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:28] <exec> 08└─I never really "got" the whole social media thing. Yeah! Posting comments on the internet is stupid!!
[18:16:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02XDA forum is a shit show - 06Tool Lets You Easily Install Ubuntu Touch OS on Mobile Devices - 635 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:16:26] <exec> 08└─Man is that XDA forum a shit show. First the forum software itself is crap. Painful, tedious, barely fit for purpose crap. And the people there are almost all self-taught hobbyists which means they have their own vocabulary that only rarely overlaps professional software development terminology (and...
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[19:09:42] <exec> 08└─Generic calculators with tiny solar panels have been around quite a while. They must be functioning on pretty low power levels. What about using all the radio waves in the air to power something? I had a cheapo Radio-Shack crystal radio kit that produced audible sound (without headphones) using abou...
[19:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02I need to RTFA, I guess - 06New Tech Could Let Devices Function for Years Without a Battery - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:43] <exec> 08└─I don't get how scavenging the loss automagically allows you to run forever. It's still the loss from something, which has to run and drains the battery. It that something doesn't run, then you're not scavenging a loss, but merely running off a battery with a low-power transistor. Those exist alread...
[19:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Content producers vs distributors - 06Big Tech-Media Mergers Raise Fresh Privacy Concerns - 623 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:09:53] <exec> 08└─The formulas are old and tired, but with megacorp lockin producers aren't allowed the create the content they WANT to create. Its like old school Patrons, except the corps only care about profit and not art. Humanity needs to free itself, and increasingly we are seeing the success of smaller communi...
[19:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Certainly - 06Amundsen's Ship Raised! - 1551 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:10:08] <exec> 08└─Have you ever had a leak in your propeller shaft? Usually this is a result of a lack of proper maintenance, not a design flaw. I blame Hudson's Bay Co.! Of course, not as bad a fate as the Jeanette, an American expedition ship whose remains in polar ice discovered some thousands of miles from its pl...
[19:10:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Shoul 2000 d have bought Yahoo - 06AT&T Is Spying on Americans for Profit, New Documents Reveal - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:10:21] <exec> 08└─And once they settle on the most inefficient solution, they will double the price to their customers after about a year.
[19:10:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:New Facisim - 06AT&T Is Spying on Americans for Profit, New Documents Reveal - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:10:26] <exec> 08└─I see you COMPLETELY overlooked the Teleco Immunity Act and the implications it has to now. It was the law, dumbass. It was changed since it benefits the government to do so. Hence the moral hazard bit. These aren't difficult concepts. Pay attention.
[19:10:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Where to draw the line? - 06AT&T Is Spying on Americans for Profit, New Documents Reveal - 1040 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:10:52] <exec> 08└─There's a difference between your scenarios and what AT&T is doing. And it all comes down to a critical phrase in Fourth Amendment law, expectation of privacy [cornell.edu]. In your example, there's absolutely no expectation of privacy for any of my actions during a sporting event except maybe going...
[19:11:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03PocketSizeSUn [5340] (Score:2) 02Re:Frustrating - 06Seagate Launches 5 TB 2.5" HDDs and 2 TB SMR SSHDs - 1097 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:11:21] <exec> 08└─It's physics. We can not write at any higher density w/o worse comprises. - Helium filled (get the read/write heads closer to the media and more stable) - Heat assisted (probably requires a low duty cycle or a seriously problematic heat-sink for laptops): https://en.wikipedia.org
[19:11:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Frustrating - 06Seagate Launches 5 TB 2.5" HDDs and 2 TB SMR SSHDs - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:11:22] <exec> 08└─- Heat assisted (probably requires a low duty cycle or a seriously problematic heat-sink for laptops): https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] [wikipedia.org]
[19:11:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:ZFS solves everything? - 06Seagate Launches 5 TB 2.5" HDDs and 2 TB SMR SSHDs - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:11:31] <exec> 08└─How would you increase the size of the vdev? I was under the impression the above is not possible with ZFS. Would be interesting to have a read up on it.
[19:11:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03PocketSizeSUn [5340] (Score:2) 02Re:Give me 10TB 3,5 inch instead - 06Seagate Launches 5 TB 2.5" HDDs and 2 TB SMR SSHDs - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:41] <exec> 08└─It's still good for external low powered portable storage. Powering a 3.5 in form factor from a laptop's USB is still a bit problematic although USB C should solve that the 3.5 in drives are still (usually) too bulky.
[19:11:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03PocketSizeSUn [5340] (Score:2) 02Re:Give me 10TB 3,5 inch instead - 06Seagate Launches 5 TB 2.5" HDDs and 2 TB SMR SSHDs - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:11:43] <exec> 08└─10TB 3.5in drives are already available in both conventional (PMR) and SMR configurations.
[19:11:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Give me 10TB 3,5 inch instead - 06Seagate Launches 5 TB 2.5" HDDs and 2 TB SMR SSHDs - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:11:46] <exec> 08└─Like PocketSizeSUn mentioned, 10 TB in the 3.5" form factor has been out for some time now. The first models were for the enterprise and datacenters but there may be a consumer version "floating" around (8 TB is a capacity I know consumers can get easily). https://www.google.com
[19:11:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02Re:Security - 06Live Kernel Patches Available for Ubuntu (Gratis Up to 3 Systems) - 1416 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:11:56] <exec> 08└─Just how literally should we take you? Should we assume that you write your own kernel, line by line, and that EVERYTHING is under your direct control? Computing is a world of compromises. All of us decide who to trust, and how much to trust them. All of us have been burned by misplaced trust. But,...
[19:12:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:who cares about reboots anymore? - 06Live Kernel Patches Available for Ubuntu (Gratis Up to 3 Systems) - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:12:05] <exec> 08└─Just take those systems down one at a time and plug in the new patched systems.
[19:12:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03ewk [5923] (Score:1) 02Re:Good, but - 06Baby "Born Twice" for Tumor Surgery - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:12:24] <exec> 08└─Once you assume you're making an 'ass' out of mostly 'u' and a bit of 'me'... :-) Not burdened by any religion or religious upbringing, I am all in favour of treating what can be treated, hence the phrase 'too much' in my previous comment in this thread. Next time please engage your brain before you...
[19:12:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Dire Straits! - 06Fission Power Plant, 43 Years in the Making, Comes Online in Tennessee - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:12:59] <exec> 08└─It is just that Nuclear power seems to never have actually been practical, except under subsidy from the military. one of three plants which manufacture tritium under contract to the U.S. government for use in hydrogen bombs.
[19:13:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zinho [759] (Score:2) 02Re:Better metric - 06Fission Power Plant, 43 Years in the Making, Comes Online in Tennessee - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:02] <exec> 08└─Came looking for a Back To The Future reference, was not disappointed. Bravo!
[19:14:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiTher 2000 e [866] (Score:2) 02Re:Gentoo: The Forgotten Distro - 06Refracta 8.0: Devuan on a Stick - 608 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:14:03] <exec> 08└─Not true. Ever dig a ditch? Some things are a lot of work even when you know what you're doing. And just saying "with a computer" doesn't change false to true. That said, things are a lot *easier* if you know what you're doing. I can generally compile code that I want. But this doesn't mean that I c...
[19:14:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:Gentoo: The Forgotten Distro - 06Refracta 8.0: Devuan on a Stick - 791 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:14:12] <exec> 08└─Back when I was using Red Hat, I like them. When they ditched the professional edition without warning I switched to Debian, and I usually like that. I'm not real thrilled with systemd, but finally the rough edges seem to be smoothing out...I hope. At least I can currently boot from images on two di...
[19:15:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Workaround: stick to Truecrypt? - 06Audit Reveals Significant Vulnerabilities for TrueCrypt and Successor VeraCrypt - 956 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:15:04] <exec> 08└─That's because you didn't read one of the links supplied: http://blog.quarkslab.com [quarkslab.com] Among the problems found during the audit, some must be corrected quickly: The availability of GOST 28147-89, a...
[19:16:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Taibhsear [1464] (Score:2) 02Re:How can I get my DNA sequenced? - 06New Bacteria Groups, and Stunning Diversity, Discovered Underground - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:16:08] <exec> 08└─I haven't done so myself yet but a few friends of mine went to "23 and Me." Looks like it might not be the full sequencing but rather genotyping. https://www.23andme.com [23andme.com]
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[20:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:I need to RTFA, I guess - 06New Tech Could Let Devices Function for Years Without a Battery - 938 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:09:48] <exec> 08└─Yep, as usual, the only way to make any sense of it is to ignore what the journalists say, and read the paper. Abstract The quest for low power becomes highly compelling in newly emerging application areas related to wearable devices in the Internet of Things. Here, we report on a Schottky-barrier...
[20:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Actually you are lucky... - 06New Tech Could Let Devices Function for Years Without a Battery - 517 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:09:49] <exec> 08└─If they last until their stamped on expiry date. Especially Duracell. I don't know why, but I have had duracells puke their guts constantly stored either by themselves or inside a device. In contrast I have had many no-name batteries last in the same devices for years without leaking, indicating eit...
[20:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02its only six paragraphs - 06New Tech Could Let Devices Function for Years Without a Battery - 548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:09:52] <exec> 08└─The summary's already 2/3 of the article. Here's the best excluded paragraph (of two). The transistor’s design also utilizes a ‘non-desirable’ characteristic, namely the ‘Schottky barrier’ to create smaller transistors. Transistors today cannot be manufactured into smaller sizes since the...
[20:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02WOAH - 06New Tech Could Let Devices Function for Years Without a Battery - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:54] <exec> 08└─"if we were to draw energy from a typical AA battery based on this design, it would last for a billion years."
[20:10:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03http [1920] (Score:2) 02Re:Content producers vs distributors - 06Big Tech-Media Mergers Raise Fresh Privacy Concerns - 605 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:10:04] <exec> 08└─Your "too bad" idea is horrifying. Television is dying because content producers don't control the more efficient broadcast/distribution system, and that is a good thing. Mander pointed out over 40 years ago that the mechanics of television necessarily tries to filter out certain kinds of content (c...
[20:10:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:what video game company ? - 06Big Tech-Media Mergers Raise Fresh Privacy Concerns - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:10:12] <exec> 08└─> I'm wondering what the point of mentioning it so vaguely is. Its because it is not a household name and nobody other than fanbois really cares what it is, knowing the industry is sufficient for the ideas the article is discussing. Failure to cater to your narrow interests is not a conspiracy, its...
[20:10:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Maud - 06Amundsen's Ship Raised! - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:10:22] <exec> 08└─Did she look like Bea Arthur, because that is the only image I can conjure up for a Maud.
[20:10:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Should have bought Yahoo - 06AT&T Is Spying on Americans for Profit, New Documents Reveal - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:10:39] <exec> 08└─Close. It will be a product that no one really wants. It will start off at 3x what the competitors have then next year raise the prices by 20%. But it will be built on their 'world class network'. The billing will be crazy and no one will really know how it works at all. Including the guys who wrote...
[20:10:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Accountability - 06AT&T Is Spying on Americans for Profit, New Documents Reveal - 559 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:10:57] <exec> 08└─I'm sure some fine upstanding citizen will take a dump on the dashboard and like two weeks later a bunch of Chinese webcams (of course the security is no good so you could pown them and insert your own pix) will get installed and they'll have a nice picture of your phone taking a driving tour of the...
[20:10:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Accountability - 06AT&T Is Spying on Americans for Profit, New Documents Reveal - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:10:59] <exec> 08└─tracking by phone maybe questionable in a legal sense
[20:11:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Accountability - 06AT&T Is Spying on Americans for Profit, New Documents Reveal - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:11:02] <exec> 08└─political opponent
[20:11:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No Accountability for the bradster and VLM - 06AT&T Is Spying on Americans for Profit, New Documents Reveal - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:11:08] <exec> 08└─You seem to be accusing me of the same ignorance that bradling is guilty of.. And yet your proof is an article that literally says bradling is wrong. Authorities can often obtain your emails and texts by going to Google or AT&T with a court order that doesn't require showing probable cause of a cri...
[20:12:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Security - 06Live Kernel Patches Available for Ubuntu (Gratis Up to 3 Systems) - 505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:12:19] <exec> 08└─If they were serious about security they would update their packages to be something a tad more current. A few of the packages I rely on are 1-2 years out of date in ubuntu. Many of them have serious security issues. *IF* they did that better than debian at this point they might be worth listening t...
[20:12:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score:1) 02Re:Good, but - 06Baby "Born Twice" for Tumor Surgery - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:12:44] <exec> 08└─Maybe if she was born with some nightmarish mutation that caused unending suffering for her and everyone she encountered, like spewing poison she herself is not immune to whenever she opens her mouth, I could understand not helping her. But where would we get politicians from if we made a habit of t...
[20:13:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Dire Straits! - 06Fission Power Plant, 43 Years in the Making, Comes Online in Tennessee - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:20] <exec> 08└─I think that what you think groupthink is, is not what groupthink actually is, even though you keep using that word.
[20:13:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03lgw [2836] (Score:2) 02Re:English ruined - 06Twitter Planning Hundreds More Job Cuts as Soon as This Week - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:58] <exec> 08└─Scale is harder than you think, but I'd bet Twitter has (far) more engineer-years in operations at scale than their actual software.
[20:13:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:English ruined - 06Twitter Planning Hundreds More Job Cuts as Soon as This Week - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:59] <exec> 08└─Twitter, at least technically, is like an undergrad group project for a couple weeks, or a real professional working alone for a weekend, type of thing, at least technically.
[20:15:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03lgw [2836] (Score:2) 02Re:client uses it - 06Audit Reveals Significant Vulnerabilities for TrueCrypt and Successor VeraCrypt - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:15:33] <exec> 08└─I've yet to see any practical exploits in TrueCrypt that are fixed in VeraCrypt. Why would you insist people change? Until we have real evidence that VeraCrypt is making the overall security better than TrueCrypt, what's the win, and what's the urgency? I begin to suspect you're an IT guy of the tie...
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[21:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02cool but useless - 06Prototype System Replaces Stairs and Elevators with Human Power - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:36] <exec> 08└─That's actually pretty cool. Nobody will actually want to use one.
[21:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:cool but useless - 06Prototype System Replaces Stairs and Elevators with Human Power - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:09:38] <exec> 08└─I could see this being a replacement for those powered stair-lifts for old people. Obviously you've got to figure out where to put it, so it won't be feasible for a lot of houses nor for every old person. But at just 10% of the effort of walking up the stairs and you get to do it sitting down, if it...
[21:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Innovative but - 06Prototype System Replaces Stairs and Elevators with Human Power - 804 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:40] <exec> 08└─>Stairs, elevators, and lifts all take up precious space within buildings, and they're expensive, complicated, or require endless maintenance. This is their sales pitch? That stairs take up too much space in the architecture of a building? So let's say that gets cut in half, now we can be ble...
[21:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Yeah ok - 06Prototype System Replaces Stairs and Elevators with Human Power - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:42] <exec> 08└─Call me when you reach the 86th floor.
[21:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Yeah ok - 06Prototype System Replaces Stairs and Elevators with Human Power - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:09:44] <exec> 08└─LOL. Fuck that. You think I'm gonna get into a tube 86 stories high protected from plummeting by a collection of pulleys and elastic ropes? Who's building it? What rich fucker is making money by cutting corners? BWAHAHAHHAA.... yeah, no. The only tube elevator I will get in is the one from the Stran...
[21:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03zugedneb [4556] (Score:1) 02Re:Yeah ok - 06Prototype System Replaces Stairs and Elevators with Human Power - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:09:46] <exec> 08└─Is it not Asimov - Prelude to Foundation? Where the robot points out the lack of interest in the elevators in question as a possible sign of decline? sry for spoiler, but not much info in above line...
[21:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03zugedneb [4556] (Score:2) 02mod parent down for SPOILER, mod this up =) - 06Prototype System Replaces Stairs and Elevators with Human Power - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:09:49] <exec> 08└─sry, it was actually a bit of a spoiler. but anyways, i think book is: Asimov - Prelude to Foundation...
[21:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Capacity - 06Prototype System Replaces Stairs and Elevators with Human Power - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:51] <exec> 08└─Seems better for low traffic areas. If you need more than 2-3 of these then you are taking up more space than conventional stairs. Also, taking your coffee upstairs will be a bit more difficult : P Interesting though. I wonder what environment this would be ideal? Some place where you have a lot of...
[21:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score:2) 02Can you reclaim the downstairs energy? - 06Prototype System Replaces Stairs and Elevators with Human Power - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:53] <exec> 08└─I wonder if when people went back downstairs, if the energy could be reclaimed and made available to the system via a regenerative-braking style mechanism, flywheel, selectable counterweight, or the like.
[21:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Stairs are multiplexing - 06Prototype System Replaces Stairs and Elevators with Human Power - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:55] <exec> 08└─Important especially when there's a fire.
[21:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02How does it move when empty? - 06Prototype System Replaces Stairs and Elevators with Human Power - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:57] <exec> 08└─It isn't clear how the chair is sent back down/up when it isn't on the same floor as the next user. This won't replace elevators or stair lifts for weak people, as their main problem is that they don't have the strength to move their weight, or more especially, their weight plus their motorized whee...
[21:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02How about Fatty McFatcheeks? - 06Prototype System Replaces Stairs and Elevators with Human Power - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:00] <exec> 08└─How will s/he maintain those full, soft cheeks if they have to *gasp* exercise once in a while?
[21:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anne Nonymous [712] (Score:2) 02Put these near the bathroom - 06Prototype System Replaces Stairs and Elevators with Human Power - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:02] <exec> 08└─Because you're going to want to wash your hands after sharing the rails with Judy from accounting.
[21:11:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Re:New Facisim - 06AT&T Is Spying on Americans for Profit, New Documents Reveal - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:11:00] <exec> 08└─It was the law, dumbass. It was changed since it benefits the government to do so. Hence the moral hazard bit.
[21:11:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:New Facisim - 06AT&T Is Spying on Americans for Profit, New Documents Reveal - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:11:02] <exec> 08└─I know,and it is pretty boring to do it through the process built into the system. It actually takes more effort to actually do it the right way, which is how it is supposed to work.
[21:11:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:New Facisim - 06AT&T Is Spying on Americans for Profit, New Documents Reveal - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:11:06] <exec> 08└─It should be extremely illegal for any corporation to supply information on a person without a warrant. It's actually quite surprising that this is not the law already in free countries.
[21:11:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:Confirmed - 06AT&T Is Spying on Americans for Profit, New Documents Reveal - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:11:14] <exec> 08└─They are all three letters: NSA CIA ATT TMS HFS! (Holy fuckin shit!)
[21:11:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Accountability - 06AT&T Is Spying on Americans for Profit, New Documents Reveal - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:11:25] <exec> 08└─The Snowden documents showed the government actually does the things you're describing. I mention that because some people, even Soylentils, might still be tempted to dismiss those facts as fiction or paranoia. 1984 is now.
[21:11:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Accountability - 06AT&T Is Spying on Americans for Profit, New Documents Reveal - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:11:34] <exec> 08└─People need to be in jail: police, prosecutors, attorneys general --> inside of a cell.
[21:13:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:2) 02Oxymoron - 06Baby "Born Twice" for Tumor Surgery - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:13] <exec> 08└─"Baby Boemer is still an infant but is doing beautiful,"
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[22:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02poor Dick Tracy - 06Apple Watch Leads the Dying Smartwatch Market - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:34] <exec> 08└─Turns out the smartwatch idea doesn't work in real life, just like the basic income idea, right?
[22:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score:2) 02Re:cool but useless - 06Prototype System Replaces Stairs and Elevators with Human Power - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:09:45] <exec> 08└─Perhaps in industry, like an emergency escape shaft for a mine. But yea, I sat here trying to think of uses, and the only other use I could imagine is for a treehouse, which would be pretty cool as a kid.
[22:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:mod parent down for SPOILER, mod this up =) - 06Prototype System Replaces Stairs and Elevators with Human Power - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:09:52] <exec> 08└─That's okay. It was killing me that I couldn't remember. I don't remember reading the book you mentioned, but the little spoiler won't stop me :)
[22:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:Capacity - 06Prototype System Replaces Stairs and Elevators with Human Power - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:09:55] <exec> 08└─That was my first thought: cool, but "but my coffee, but I can't sext/Facebook doing this.... waaah, I just broke a nail!!!" I'd use it, but I'll also think nothing of walking 10 floors to visit my parents.
[22:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How about Fatty McFatcheeks? - 06Prototype System Replaces Stairs and Elevators with Human Power - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:10:01] <exec> 08└─Buy-1-get-1 coupon deals for fine fast food establishments.
[22:10:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score:2) 02Video of the concept in action - 06Prototype System Replaces Stairs and Elevators with Human Power - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:04] <exec> 08└─on youtube [youtube.com]
[22:10:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02fine example of excessive engineering - 06Prototype System Replaces Stairs and Elevators with Human Power - 682 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:06] <exec> 08└─It's neat, and maybe there's a niche for it to supplement elevators and escalators. Perhaps it takes less maintenance than those classic contraptions. But it's not as good as a plain old stairway, which has no moving parts. A freight elevator is best for heavy and bulky objects. The stairway is in t...
[22:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:fine example of excessive engineering - 06Prototype System Replaces Stairs and Elevators with Human Power - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:10:08] <exec> 08└─Ramps are great for small elevations, but replacing stairs and elevators with ramps would require a massive amount of extra space as you say. In most cities real estate is at a premium so it makes perfect sense for ramps to be ignored for most vertical travel. Some buildings have used ramps, so far...
[22:10:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02ADA - 06Prototype System Replaces Stairs and Elevators with Human Power - 676 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:11] <exec> 08└─Don't expect to see this replace elevators in the US - at least not all of them in a building. The ADA (American's with Disabilities Act) has requirements that include all sorts of things architects need to keep in mind. As a consulting engineer who does HVAC design, I work with a lot of architects....
[22:10:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Something smells fishy here - 06Prototype System Replaces Stairs and Elevators with Human Power - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:13] <exec> 08└─requires just ten percent of the effort needed to climb stairs,
[22:10:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Something smells fishy here - 06Prototype System Replaces Stairs and Elevators with Human Power - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:10:15] <exec> 08└─10% does seem a bit low, but look into pulleys and counterweights for more info (not sure if they have counterweights in this machine though). Also, human movement is not very efficient. Some ladies in Africa I believe carry large jugs of water on their heads and have a weird walking rhythm, turns o...
[22:10:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Something smells fishy here - 06Prototype System Replaces Stairs and Elevators with Human Power - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:10:17] <exec> 08└─I agree, the article gives no source for that 10% number. Have forwarded the link to a ME prof friend who studies walking and gait. Will report back if I hear from him, while this item is still on the main SN page. (speculation)It could be that the motions in climbing stairs are very inefficient?
[22:10:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:Something smells fishy here - 06Prototype System Replaces Stairs and Elevators with Human Power - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:10:19] <exec> 08└─Maybe it requires 10% of the effort for 10x the time. Speeding up will reduce time and increase effort.
[22:10:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score:1) 02store brands - 06New Tech Could Let Devices Function for Years Without a Battery - 1438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:10:30] <exec> 08└─A lot of store brand batteries are actually made by the same companies that produce Duracell and others, but they are packaged cheaper. They don't skimp on battery quality but they skimp on stuff like labelling (they come off the same machines). Many stores sign contracts for battery supplies and ac...
[22:10:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03drussell [2678] 02Content producers vs distributors - 06Big Tech-Media Mergers Raise Fresh Privacy Concerns - 1372 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:39] <exec> 08└─It's too bad the content producters and distributors were ever allowed to begin to merge into these huge media conglomerates in the first place. There would be no wars between the various distributors over how much they should get paid to carry others' content, etc. We could have had a nice, open ma...
[22:11:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:New Facisim - 06AT&T Is Spying on Americans for Profit, New Documents Reveal - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:11:19] <exec> 08└─Thankfully those protections don't stop incredible corruption that disables any action for the good of the people /s. "Vote for change" hahahaha that worked SO well.
[22:11:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Where to draw the line? - 06AT&T Is Spying on Americans for Profit, New Documents Reveal - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:11:55] <exec> 08└─No, the data does not belong to them. Well, legally it might, and so we should change the law. Telecoms should just be providers selling bandwidth. Whatever that bandwidth is used for is NOT THEIR BUSINESS.
[22:12:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score:2) 02How will they explode - 06Samsung Announces 8 GB DRAM Package for Mobile Devices - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:11] <exec> 08└─Will it be a single in-line explosion, or a parallel detonation ? On a side note : When will the devices stop being smart phones and just be portable computing devices ? I look forward to the day when I don't need a 'smart'-phone and a laptop or tablet device but can use just a single device for on...
[22:12:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Security - 06Live Kernel Patches Available for Ubuntu (Gratis Up to 3 Systems) - 1269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:12:57] <exec> 08└─I do understand the problems with auto-updating. It was one of the things that turned me off of Ubuntu. I rather like the way my Gentoo runs. I ask it to check for updates. It comes up with three, or three hundred different updates. I can browse the list, and decide which, if any, I want to update....
[22:13:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02kpatch [...] kgraft [...] ksplice - 06Live Kernel Patches Available for Ubuntu (Gratis Up to 3 Systems) - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:13:03] <exec> 08└─Forgetful me failed to include the story that mentioned that stuff. Previous: Kernel Live-Patching Moving into the Linux Kernel [soylentnews.org] That references other related stories as well. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[22:13:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] 02Re:Health Care Costs - 06Baby "Born Twice" for Tumor Surgery - 364 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:13:31] <exec> 08└─Much as it is a miracle of modern medicine that this child survived, this is exactly why America has the most expensive health care system in the world. TFA doesn't say anything about the finances, but I'd guess that the procedure was covered past a deductible by insurance at a cost of at least 7 fi...
[22:14:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Dire Straits! - 06Fission Power Plant, 43 Years in the Making, Comes Online in Tennessee - 539 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:14:00] <exec> 08└─Uhhhhh - group think has nothing to do with science. Or, only in so far as a scientist sometimes gets included in the group for one reason or another. You DO realize that scientists are subject to emotions, scientists are subject to injustices, and scientists can be brainwashed and/or influenced by...
[22:14:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:English ruined - 06Twitter Planning Hundreds More Job Cuts as Soon as This Week - 2619 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:14:40] <exec> 08└─But does the scale provide value, either to the users or the bottom line, and why wouldn't sufficiently advanced IRC scale well? Isn't the market kinda saying "no"? I'm not just saying toss twitter and load up IRC clients and connect to freenode. You could do some behind the scenes stuff. Remember t...
[22:15:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score:2) 02Re:absolute vs relative - 06Refracta 8.0: Devuan on a Stick - 734 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:15:31] <exec> 08└─Devuan seems pretty solid, as it is based on Debian. Since Devuan came out, I gradually switched over all my Debian systems to Devuan, including company production machines, with no problems what so ever (except the storage server, went with FreeBSD for that). Everything is stable as a rock, which d...
[22:16:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Post-Nihilist [5672] (Score:2) 02Re:Mitigation: do not use GOST 28147-89 - 06Audit Reveals Significant Vulnerabilities for TrueCrypt and Successor VeraCrypt - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:16:08] <exec> 08└─Your right, Camellia has the potential to be worse
[22:16:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Post-Nihilist [5672] (Score:2) 02Re:Mitigation: do not use GOST 28147-89 - 06Audit Reveals Significant Vulnerabilities for TrueCrypt and Successor VeraCrypt - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:16:09] <exec> 08└─I missed that phrase : "NCC Group’s report only focuses on AES. We did not check if other implementations are susceptible to such attacks" when I first read the report, I apologize
[22:17:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Addendum: Maru OS now supported - 06Tool Lets You Easily Install Ubuntu Touch OS on Mobile Devices - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:42] <exec> 08└─Tool That Lets You Install Ubuntu Touch on Your Mobile Device Now Supports Maru [softpedia.com] -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
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[23:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02moto sport - 06Apple Watch Leads the Dying Smartwatch Market - 2076 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:38] <exec> 08└─I somehow ended up with a moto sport as a mostly gift. Its basically a very expensive fitbit. Fitbit sells about 5M per year and cost about the same. The battery quite easily lasts a day, maybe more (maybe I sleep too much?) I mostly use it as an offbrand fitbit step counter and it is kinda nifty ho...
[23:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:moto sport - 06Apple Watch Leads the Dying Smartwatch Market - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:09:39] <exec> 08└─I pity da fool hardware company that thinks they're gonna ship watches at $500. They can ask $500 but nobody is going to buy.
[23:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:moto sport - 06Apple Watch Leads the Dying Smartwatch Market - 538 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:09:41] <exec> 08└─> I'm a creative dude. I can't think of anything for my watch to do. Off the top of my head: (1) Automatically lock the screen on my PC went I walk away (2) Warn me when I get too far away from phone and/or laptop (3) Make my phone play a loud alarm noise when it gets too far away (thief deterrent "...
[23:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Screen too Small - 06Apple Watch Leads the Dying Smartwatch Market - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:44] <exec> 08└─for Porn. The real Reason.
[23:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Screen too Small - 06Apple Watch Leads the Dying Smartwatch Market - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:09:46] <exec> 08└─The killer app would recognize the motions, and properly set your calendar to "in a meeting" and redirect the mother-in-law's calls automatically. The hidden mode redirects the calls to the wife.
[23:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score:2) 02watch? - 06Apple Watch Leads the Dying Smartwatch Market - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:48] <exec> 08└─I wear a match. Analogue, date, day, self, winding. I have a "smart" phone. Everything the smart watch can do, my phone can do, usually better. I don't want to wear two watches. I don't think I am the target market. I have seen many people who are wearing there watches, and fitbits, as some form of...
[23:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Need or saturation? - 06Apple Watch Leads the Dying Smartwatch Market - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:50] <exec> 08└─I vote the 2nd. Many people did want them, but they now have them and new models dont offer anything worth 'upgrading' for.
[23:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score:2) 02Re:Innovative but - 06Prototype System Replaces Stairs and Elevators with Human Power - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:10:01] <exec> 08└─Stairs, elevators, and lifts all take up precious space within buildings, and they're expensive, complicated, or require endless maintenance.
[23:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score:2) 02Re:Can you reclaim the downstairs energy? - 06Prototype System Replaces Stairs and Elevators with Human Power - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:10:11] <exec> 08└─I wonder if when people went back downstairs, if the energy could be reclaimed and made available to the system
[23:10:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score:2) 02Re:Stairs are multiplexing - 06Prototype System Replaces Stairs and Elevators with Human Power - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:10:15] <exec> 08└─It is abundantly obvious that you did not read TFA and neither did the idiot who modded you up.
[23:10:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Put these near the bathroom - 06Prototype System Replaces Stairs and Elevators with Human Power - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:10:21] <exec> 08└─Less problematic these days, she upgraded the C-suite to blowjobs.
[23:10:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score:2) 02Re:Something smells fishy here - 06Prototype System Replaces Stairs and Elevators with Human Power - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:10:31] <exec> 08└─As I said further up, I think it involves stretching springs to re-use the energy of descents, otherwise the 10% claim is pure BS. Looking at the action of the guy demonstrating it, fit though he looks, it is obvious he is being assisted by upward pulling cables. TFA does not want to trouble our pre...
[23:11:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02I like old ships - 06Amundsen's Ship Raised! - 1053 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:11:13] <exec> 08└─No, it's not a hobby, it's not that advanced, but I do like old ships. It's amazing how walking the decks of those old wooden ships makes things "real". Sailing ships, steam powered, or whatever, the old ships are fascinating. One of the strangest moments, was visiting the HMS Victory. There was an...
[23:11:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Confirmed - 06AT&T Is Spying on Americans for Profit, New Documents Reveal - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:11:43] <exec> 08└─USA
[23:12:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02Re:Where to draw the line? - 06AT&T Is Spying on Americans for Profit, New Documents Reveal - 1040 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:12:07] <exec> 08└─There's a difference between your scenarios and what AT&T is doing. And it all comes down to a critical phrase in Fourth Amendment law, expectation of privacy [cornell.edu]. In your example, there's absolutely no expectation of privacy for any of my actions during a sporting event except maybe going...
[23:12:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Stick to the Facts - 06AT&T Is Spying on Americans for Profit, New Documents Reveal - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:12:09] <exec> 08└─For AT&T though, there is generally an expectation of privacy when it comes to web browsing or phone conversation (this has been established by courts), so what they're doing constitutes illegal wiretapping.
[23:13:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02kpatch - 06Live Kernel Patches Available for Ubuntu (Gratis Up to 3 Systems) - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:21] <exec> 08└─GPLv2, no fees... https://github.com [github.com]
[23:13:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score:2) 02Re:Health Care Costs - 06Baby "Born Twice" for Tumor Surgery - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:13:45] <exec> 08└─It's hard to tell if it's worth it when the family is facing a fixed deductible and the health insurance company is facing contractual obligations based on doctor's recommendations with nobody even able to find out what the total costs really were. And yes, I am being an asshole. It's the internet a...
[23:13:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:merger mania last part of cycle b4 downturn - 06Rockwell Collins to Purchase B/E Aerospace for $6.4 Billion - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:13:55] <exec> 08└─This, and the "my merger's bigger than yours" effect between CEOs. Everyone want to set records. Everyone wants their proportional kickback/fee/bonus... Do these dcd mergers all make sense for future company development? Hell no! But I'm not gonna be the hold out when everyone else is cashing in.
[23:17:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Global deadness - 06New Bacteria Groups, and Stunning Diversity, Discovered Underground - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:17:27] <exec> 08└─When the discoveries are new, they perhaps shouldn't even attempt to classify them. Just say, "We found lots of organisms we don't recognize yet."
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