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[00:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Difficult computer to work on - 06Computing With Lasers Could Power Up Genomics and AI - 528 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:09:56] <exec> 08└─It looks rather gimmicky. And until we move to all-optical architectures (fat chance), then we're still left at the mercy of the O-E converters. I was horrified to read in the article that the light was being read by a "camera sensor," because even traditional laser diodes (GaN or the GaAs family) a...
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[00:10:09] <exec> 08└─In case you're not trolling. That's where those people have lived thousands of years. Why should they leave because you don't get it? They lived there utilising resources in an amazingly efficient manner that whole time. We can probably learn from them. Produce in the winter is a recent thing, and g...
[00:10:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:2) 02Re:My mother-in-law's childhood christmas present - 06Arctic Farming: Town Turns to Hydroponics for Fresh Greens - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:10:14] <exec> 08└─Extravagence! When I was growing up, we would have traded an arm and a leg to dream.
[00:10:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:My mother-in-law's childhood christmas present - 06Arctic Farming: Town Turns to Hydroponics for Fresh Greens - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:10:16] <exec> 08└─IOW you would have dearmed to dream.
[00:10:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02About time - 06Arctic Farming: Town Turns to Hydroponics for Fresh Greens - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:19] <exec> 08└─These guys have always had amazing burgers [acburger.com], but the lettuce and other fresh veggies have always been lacking. I guess next time I'm out that way I'll give them another try.
[00:10:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:processing - 06What Programming Language Should you Learn First? - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:10:29] <exec> 08└─Processing.org is a great suggestion for those "How should I teach my 3 year-old kid how to code?" discussions. You'd be better off using Duplo blocks.
[00:10:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03moondoctor [2963] (Score:2) 02Re:processing - 06What Programming Language Should you Learn First? - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:10:30] <exec> 08└─I thought that was the question! I learned to program when I was 8, basic and pascal.
[00:10:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:COBOL - 06What Programming Language Should you Learn First? - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:10:39] <exec> 08└─According to a fortune I saw today, English is the language in which "fat chance" and "slim chance" mean the same thing. And in which we drive on a parkway and park on a driveway.
[00:10:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:2) 02Re:COBOL - 06What Programming Language Should you Learn First? - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:10:47] <exec> 08└─Thanks! I like you too. I enjoy most of your comments that I read, and I was using a version of your init system on a virtual machine for a while. I don't know if you remember that time we flamed each other over my half-trollsy anti-vaccination position (the CIA does have a history of using vaccinat...
[00:10:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score:2) 02Re:The deep end - 06What Programming Language Should you Learn First? - 4019 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:10:56] <exec> 08└─There's some merit to this suggestion, but not because of your trial-by-fire logic. If you want someone to get interested in programming, they need a language that lets them do something useful and interesting. That means you want a "batteries included" type of language that comes with a lot of usef...
[00:10:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:The deep end - 06What Programming Language Should you Learn First? - 915 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:10:58] <exec> 08└─This is why C# on Visual Studio is still by far the most awesome thing to get ignorant noobs' attention. You create a Windows forms project and just drag and drop shit everywhere. Even making a simple pocket calculator is being like God to students who know only introductory console programming, and...
[00:11:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Two trains of thought here - 06What Programming Language Should you Learn First? - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:11:05] <exec> 08└─C++ for intermediate/hard-mode, Java for easy mode. Both if you have enough free time. And for the reasons you specified, fuck no, not Python.
[00:11:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:JavaScript is the correct answer - 06What Programming Language Should you Learn First? - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:11:11] <exec> 08└─JavaScript is a language I used when teaching a "learn how to code a simple card game in a week" class and the younger students cried when they kept running into problems with case sensitivity and curly-braces. The lesson learned is that having to code Javascript makes people cry, and I was only giv...
[00:11:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tangaroa [682] (Score:1) 02Re:What Programming Language Did you Learn First? - 06What Programming Language Should you Learn First? - 1414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:11:26] <exec> 08└─My first language was TRS Basic but I never did any heavy lifting in it. I was young and never taught myself many programming concepts beyond goto. We had a brief introduction to Logo in grade school and then I did some .bat scripting in DOS. My first language that counts was C. Our introductory lan...
[00:11:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:Today Must Be National Fear Day - 06Users in Middle East Targeted in "Moonlight" Espionage Campaign - 747 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:11:36] <exec> 08└─One, I'd say that at least America is actually a proper place name. Palestine does not, in point of fact, exist. So just by the choice of language we know the article is propaganda. Two, as a Red Pilled person who is into Alt-Right and NRx study I certainly won't defend all of the actions of my gove...
[00:11:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Today Must Be National Fear Day - 06Users in Middle East Targeted in "Moonlight" Espionage Campaign - 608 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:11:38] <exec> 08└─America is the name of a continent. Actually two, to be pedantic. You may want to brush up on that historical detail called the Balfour Declaration, which conveniently just turned 99 years old this week. Even without arguing about documented (and proudly endorsed) CIA actions, I'm pretty sure that t...
[00:11:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Link to the paper, and summary of results - 06New Research Uncovers Pattern in Global Flu Outbreaks - 1233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:11:57] <exec> 08└─The statement they made is that it is known from other work* that the virus cannot be transmitted as an aerosol above that temperature. This is why the effect of humidity drops to zero at that temperature. They said that for temperatures between 75 F and 85 F, the virus would dry out unless the humi...
[00:13:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Re:Why the Euphemism? - 06Infosys' U.S. Workforce is Mostly South Asian and No Accident, Plaintiffs Allege - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:13:27] <exec> 08└─Regarding the Thais, that was exactly my point; South Asian is ill-defined.
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[01:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Piracy at sea? How it possible? - 06British Firm to Build World's First Offshore Automated Ship - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:44] <exec> 08└─Star Trek covered this. Klingons attack robot ships transporting grain to Sherman's Planet. Oh right. No one ever watched The Animated Series. Carry on, morons!
[01:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Sorry to be boring - 06Computing With Lasers Could Power Up Genomics and AI - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:09:52] <exec> 08└─C on Windows 98 [numerical.recipes] can already do that compared to whatever Win10 shitbox you're running now, can.
[01:10:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:What a waste of resources - 06Arctic Farming: Town Turns to Hydroponics for Fresh Greens - 1591 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:10:07] <exec> 08└─We are nowhere near that desperate that we really have to do hydroponics in the arctic and such. It's not like we lack land to grow stuff on. Heck, you could feed another entire America if you really put the southeast of Utah under cultivation. The United States is very, very large and there are hug...
[01:10:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:2) 02Re:My mother-in-law's childhood christmas present - 06Arctic Farming: Town Turns to Hydroponics for Fresh Greens - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:10:16] <exec> 08└─No-no, we lacked the mere conception of dreaming, and we certainly weren't dreaming of dreaming. But if somebody suggested the trade, we would have taken it; what good are arms and legs without hands and feet, anyway?
[01:10:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02Re:COBOL - 06What Programming Language Should you Learn First? - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:10:37] <exec> 08└─Brainfuck.
[01:10:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:The deep end - 06What Programming Language Should you Learn First? - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:10:51] <exec> 08└─If Soylent requires 1M lines of Perl to do what it does, the programmers should be given an obfuscation award.
[01:12:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:"ancestors traditionally used the animals" - 06Eastern Shoshone Tribe in Wyoming Marks Return of Buffalo - 465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:12:44] <exec> 08└─Ho-hum. I've been bitching for decades that we need to put whitey to work. Any sumbitch who won't pick the produce out of the fields should be cut off of welfare and other assistance. There has always been work to be done. Our grandparents did that work - what makes us any better than they were? No...
[01:13:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:I wanna mow your lawn, man!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - 06Infosys' U.S. Workforce is Mostly South Asian and No Accident, Plaintiffs Allege - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:13:18] <exec> 08└─Like I said - good luck enforcing a verbal contract. He said, she said, blah blah blah - how many lawyers are going to take a case like that, without charging far more than the dispute is even worth? That's the kind of case only an idiot would go to court for. "Your honor, dude owes me $150, and I'm...
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[02:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedGreen [888] (Score:2) 02If I got one of these calls I would be - 06This Evil Office Printer Hijacks Your Cellphone Connection - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:50] <exec> 08└─very superstitious, nothin' more to say.
[02:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02Re:Piracy at sea? How it possible? - 06British Firm to Build World's First Offshore Automated Ship - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:09:59] <exec> 08└─The Animated Series did the Niven story where a Slaver Stasis box had a spy's screwdriver. Click once, it dug holes. Click twice, it was a laser, etc etc etc. Got Netflix a couple years back, first thing I searched for was that ep.
[02:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02Automating the wrong thing - 06British Firm to Build World's First Offshore Automated Ship - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:01] <exec> 08└─It would save more money to automate the loading/unloading of ships. Dockworkers make an obscene amount of money for what they do, and they seem to like going on strike every few years. Notice how I can rail about H1-Bs taking my job, but blissfully claim AI should take dockworkers jobs. Being able...
[02:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Automating the wrong thing - 06British Firm to Build World's First Offshore Automated Ship - 594 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:10:03] <exec> 08└─On the contrary, drone ships provide job opportunities for recent veterans who never saw real combat, because they worked as video game console operators and bombed brown people on another continent while staying safely out of harm's way themselves. Stargate ran an episode about how using remote con...
[02:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02No cognitive dissonance there - 06British Firm to Build World's First Offshore Automated Ship - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:10:05] <exec> 08└─If the government decided to put dockworkers out of work by setting up a program to import cheap foreigners, and then exempt those workers from labor laws, there would be riots. People getting put out of work by robots just frees up those people to do other productive work. Work that can be done by...
[02:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:No cognitive dissonance there - 06British Firm to Build World's First Offshore Automated Ship - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:10:07] <exec> 08└─other productive work
[02:10:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02faith - 06British Firm to Build World's First Offshore Automated Ship - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:09] <exec> 08└─You've got to have a lot of faith in your computers to put tens/hundreds of millions of dollars out to sea without a human aboard. Faith - or just crazy. The unexpected WILL HAPPEN.
[02:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:faith - 06British Firm to Build World's First Offshore Automated Ship - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:10:12] <exec> 08└─And, also a lot of faith in the machinery on the ship. Big ships that I know about all have onboard engineers/mechanics and well stocked repair/machine shops.
[02:10:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02Will not be legal under current maritime law - 06British Firm to Build World's First Offshore Automated Ship - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:14] <exec> 08└─International Maritime Oranization COLREGs Part B-Rule 5 "requires that "every vessel shall at all times maintain a proper look-out by sight and hearing as well as by all available means appropriate in the prevailing circumstances and conditions so as to make a full appraisal of the situation and of...
[02:10:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Will not be legal under current maritime law - 06British Firm to Build World's First Offshore Automated Ship - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:10:16] <exec> 08└─Read the summary: employing them on-shore to monitor and operate robotic vessels remotely
[02:10:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Difficult computer to work on - 06Computing With Lasers Could Power Up Genomics and AI - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:10:28] <exec> 08└─There's no point of even thinking about it right now, which is why I've mentioned Optalysys in a few comments but never subbed a story yet. They claimed that they could have a 9 petaflops machine ready to be sold by 2017 and 17.1 exaflops by 2020. Even if they are a couple of orders of magnitude off...
[02:10:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02"and other greens" - 06Arctic Farming: Town Turns to Hydroponics for Fresh Greens - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:50] <exec> 08└─"and other greens" And we all know what THAT means!
[02:11:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03dyingtolive [952] 02Re:COBOL - 06What Programming Language Should you Learn First? - 66 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:11:14] <exec> 08└─Sadly there is no "-1 Literal glimpse into unknowable horror" mod.
[02:11:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02fuck mendax - 06What Programming Language Should you Learn First? - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:11:37] <exec> 08└─It helps when one's father is a university professor and had an account on the school's mainframe. [...] That mainframe I learned to program on was built in the late 1970's and one of the fastest computers in existence at the time.
[02:12:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:Today Must Be National Fear Day - 06Users in Middle East Targeted in "Moonlight" Espionage Campaign - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:12:07] <exec> 08└─historical detail called the Balfour Declaration
[02:12:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Today Must Be National Fear Day - 06Users in Middle East Targeted in "Moonlight" Espionage Campaign - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:12:08] <exec> 08└─can you clarify if you are some kind of retarded ignorant or just shilling?
[02:13:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I wanna mow your lawn, man!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - 06Infosys' U.S. Workforce is Mostly South Asian and No Accident, Plaintiffs Allege - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:13:56] <exec> 08└─Thats why you have small claims court. You do have those in your backwards country don't you?
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[03:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score:2) 02Re:If I got one of these calls I would be - 06This Evil Office Printer Hijacks Your Cellphone Connection - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:09:53] <exec> 08└─Maybe this [youtube.com] would be a better song to play then? ;) To up the creep factor of this "printer", it might be interesting to automatically do some lookups on IMSI and/or phone-number to dig up personal information and text-to-speech that down the line too...
[03:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Another reason why I don't buy shit from the web - 06This Evil Office Printer Hijacks Your Cellphone Connection - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:55] <exec> 08└─Unless you take it all apart, and this applies to many things, not just electronics, you never really know for certain what you're getting.
[03:10:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score:2) 02Re:faith - 06British Firm to Build World's First Offshore Automated Ship - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:10:10] <exec> 08└─Well, they’re not like planes that will drop out of the sky if the motor goes out. They can just float there until a maintenance ship comes to fix them.
[03:10:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score:2) 02Because.... - 06British Firm to Build World's First Offshore Automated Ship - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:13] <exec> 08└─It will never get hijacked.... ?
[03:10:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:What a waste of resources - 06Arctic Farming: Town Turns to Hydroponics for Fresh Greens - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:10:38] <exec> 08└─Most farmland uses resources imported from elsewhere. Few locations are entirely self sufficient. Since people tend to pay for the resources they use, then if this is economically viable then by defini 1ff6 tion it's efficient enough, unless of course it's heavily subsidized.
[03:10:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:Decentralization is the future - 06Arctic Farming: Town Turns to Hydroponics for Fresh Greens - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:10:42] <exec> 08└─If you want to practice, just play Rimworld.
[03:11:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:The deep end - 06What Programming Language Should you Learn First? - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:11:25] <exec> 08└─Nah, only a little over 175K. Not counting external perl modules.
[03:11:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:The deep end - 06What Programming Language Should you Learn First? - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:11:26] <exec> 08└─That's teamwork, and libraries for you. I've developed a couple of "big things" solo, and I can usually get more or less any "big thing" done in 100KLOC (C or C++). Put more people on the team and things tend to inflate. Bring in big libraries that need tweaking and things inflate fast (as you start...
[03:11:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score:2) 02Re:The deep end - 06What Programming Language Should you Learn First? - 1366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:11:31] <exec> 08└─Eclipse is a clunky mess in my experience, never did like it much. I'd hate to see that be the first impression people get of programming. IntelliJ, however, is a very nice Java IDE. I bet if you combined IntelliJ with Scala, you could get a pretty good beginner experience set up, except for still h...
[03:14:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:NBA - 06Infosys' U.S. Workforce is Mostly South Asian and No Accident, Plaintiffs Allege - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:14:02] <exec> 08└─Yeah, put some Infosys Indian players on those teams.
[03:17:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score:2) 02spider-friendly links - 06Thousands of Patients Turned Away from UK Hospitals Because of Malware in Computer Network - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:17:22] <exec> 08└─What if the software detected the spider and presented it in nested mode w/threshold by default? There must be a way to accomplish both goals (search engines seeing more comments and respecting user preferences) if that's what we choose to do.
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[04:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02why I don't date outside the family - 06This Evil Office Printer Hijacks Your Cellphone Connection - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:09:59] <exec> 08└─Incest is best, because if you don't keep it in the family, you'll never know really know the life history of your sexual partners.
[04:10:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:Will not be legal under current maritime law - 06British Firm to Build World's First Offshore Automated Ship - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:10:19] <exec> 08└─Radar is better than a mate in the crow's nest. I'm surprised nobody is making a big deal about the lack of crew quarters, supplies, living space, wheel house, etc. On larger ships it's a smaller percentage of the total vessel, but for a smallish supply ship ditching the crew is a significant upgrad...
[04:10:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score:2) 02Big deal - 06British Firm to Build World's First Offshore Automated Ship - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:22] <exec> 08└─British Firm to Build World's First Offshore Automated Ship
[04:10:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03GDX [1950] (Score:1) 02Unfeasible... - 06British Firm to Build World's First Offshore Automated Ship - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:24] <exec> 08└─That is unfeasible unless the automatic ones are the small delivery craft doing the transport from the main ship to the final offshore destination. After all, modern cargo ship are near autonomous, run with a few people and most of of the crew are for maintenance.
[04:11:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02The deep end - 06What Programming Language Should you Learn First? - 316 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:11:26] <exec> 08└─Have them bail off into the deep end right from the start; teach them perl. Yes, it's confusing having thirty ways to do any given task and they can very easily shoot themselves in the foot. Which will make other languages seem fresh and relaxing when they go on to learn them. Except java, it will s...
[04:11:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:fuck mendax - 06What Programming Language Should you Learn First? - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:11:49] <exec> 08└─No, you're most definitely the asshole. Mendax was fortunate enough to have access to equipment many people didn't, and you tell him to feel bad about that. WTF kind of sense does that make? That's like some bum screaming at everyone with nice cars and jobs to "check their privelege" because he's un...
[04:11:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score:2) 02Rorschach test - 06What Programming Language Should you Learn First? - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:11:56] <exec> 08└─Too many people freak out about perl accommodating many diverse styles of programming and thought. Some styles are of value, others not so much. Perl on some levels is just a Rorschach test for programmers. If your code is a mess, then the problem is staring you in the mirror and not coming from the...
[04:13:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Bacteria vs. Pyrolysis vs. Mechanical recycling - 06 Open-Source Plastic Recycling Machine Plans Allow Anyone to Convert Waste into New Products - 1413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:13:07] <exec> 08└─Most plastics can be recycled and the products made out of recycled plastic are indistinguishable from those made from virgin materials. Point of fact, when oil prices are high, most stuff is made from recycled material, when the prices drop, mostly virgin material. Right now, recycling plastic is...
[04:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score:2) 02Re:Sovereignty of Parliament - 06Brexit Court Defeat for UK Government - 775 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:14:31] <exec> 08└─Try to keep up. People born in the UK or to a parent with UK citizenship are UK citizens and have been since 1949. People born in a Commonwealth country such as Canada or Australia were citizens of their country and British subjects up till 1982 (and still can move to the UK and have the same rights...
[04:15:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ayn Anonymous [5012] (Score:1) 02Paywall is histoy - 06Yet Another Battery Breakthrough, But Different - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:57] <exec> 08└─Paywall ? Lame. pubs.acs.org.sci-hub.cc/doi/full/10.1021/acsenergylett.6b00295
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[05:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Gonzalez? - 06Rock Shelter Used by Speedy Early Australians - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:47] <exec> 08└─Speedy vatos.
[05:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No cognitive dissonance there - 06British Firm to Build World's First Offshore Automated Ship - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:10:11] <exec> 08└─Sounds like my resume. You hiring?
[05:10:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Re:"and other greens" - 06Arctic Farming: Town Turns to Hydroponics for Fresh Greens - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:10:57] <exec> 08└─Yes, I'm surprised an entire contingent of armed agents of the state has not swarmed in boots-first to investigate this potential crime.
[05:11:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:Rorschach test - 06What Programming Language Should you Learn First? - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:11:55] <exec> 08└─Maybe so, but from the point of a beginning programmer? You need structure to learn.
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[06:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Misandry on parade. - 06Male Birth Control Study Killed After Men Complain About Side Effects - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:43] <exec> 08└─People are comparing ethical standards from the 1950s (when icepick lobotomies were still condoned) and are demanding a horrendous step backwards in the name of some misguided sense of “equality”. With the ugly history male birth control has had, we get to see how vicious some women are yet agai...
[06:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03riT-k0MA [88] (Score:2) 02Duplicate - 06Male Birth Control Study Killed After Men Complain About Side Effects - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:45] <exec> 08└─This appears to be a duplicate of a story posted on 29 October 2016: https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org]
[06:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''the entire history of Western Civilization'' - 06Rock Shelter Used by Speedy Early Australians - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:53] <exec> 08└─I count roughly 7,400 years. Eridu - Founded: Approximately 54th century BCE [wikipedia.org] -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[06:10:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score:2) 02Re:Will not be legal under current maritime law - 06British Firm to Build World's First Offshore Automated Ship - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:10:24] <exec> 08└─Radar is only good for large ships, or ships with radar enhancers. Many, many smaller sailing ships get run over (and often sunk) by larger ships that "just didn't see" the smaller boat. Camera operated ships will just be worse.
[06:11:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score:2) 02Re:processing - 06What Programming Language Should you Learn First? - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:11:16] <exec> 08└─Intercal! After that, everything else will seem easy.
[06:11:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:COBOL - 06What Programming Language Should you Learn First? - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:11:33] <exec> 08└─That's right but don't forget that If you gaze long into COBOL, COBOL also gazes into you...
[06:15:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score:2) 02Re:Gutter Press in Meltdown - 06Brexit Court Defeat for UK Government - 1067 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:15:21] <exec> 08└─The fixed elections act can be simply repealed or amended to allow an election. At the worst she can call it a confidence vote. I hate it when we (Canada) get a new PM or (Provincial) Premier and they don't call an election. We've also had fixed election legislation for a long time. The government h...
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[07:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score:2) 02Re:Duplicate - 06Male Birth Control Study Killed After Men Complain About Side Effects - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:09:52] <exec> 08└─It's not a duplicate, it's an update.
[07:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Duplicate - 06Male Birth Control Study Killed After Men Complain About Side Effects - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:09:54] <exec> 08└─But an update with no new information is a duplicate, is it not? Besides, I read the title as Males Killed After Birth Control Study Complains About Side Effects
[07:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score:2) 02Re:Duplicate - 06Male Birth Control Study Killed After Men Complain About Side Effects - 519 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:09:56] <exec> 08└─You're right, after examining a little closer it is a dup, I was thinking this one presented some new info about the study being cancelled, but it doesn't the summary of the other article is justed worded more ambiguously so I misread. I'm interested in what the MRA angle could possibly be? Male bir...
[07:10:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Techwolf [87] (Score:2) 02Bad design - 06This Evil Office Printer Hijacks Your Cellphone Connection - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:10:15] <exec> 08└─The FCC needs to step in and force a change in the cell system to allow the phones to connect to a tower of the PHONE choice instead of the tower choose. Too many time the tower forces the phone to connect to an overloaded tower instead of a tower farther away, but not overloaded.
[07:11:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:COBOL - 06What Programming Language Should you Learn First? - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:11:44] <exec> 08└─Once you've seen the slaughterhouse that is the original code base, doing this isn't so bad. Mix in periodic shots of Jack, and every day is easy.
[07:13:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:Something something terrorism - 06Nanosensors On the Alert for Terrorist Threats - 707 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:13:06] <exec> 08└─Basically, these sensors will detect any cell phone, and turn it on remotely if it is turned off. Because the NSA heard a terrorist once touched a cell phone, so now they decided to track every single one in the hopes of narrowing down which people are possibly a terrorists. Now they have two lists:...
[07:15:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Modern "Demockeracy" - 06Brexit Court Defeat for UK Government - 589 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:15:01] <exec> 08└─Again, read the emails. Hillary's own staff bemoan her ineptitude. One referencing her "not knowing which planet she's living in" in regards to her general disconnect with reality and lack of practical knowledge. Countless other emails make similar allusions. And Trump also isn't exactly mensa mater...
[07:15:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score:2) 02Re:Gutter Press in Meltdown - 06Brexit Court Defeat for UK Government - 656 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:15:41] <exec> 08└─It is scuzzy and many Parliamentary systems have enacted fixed election terms through legislation, being legislation it can always be changed and should be changed when the leader of the government changes. They really should have a mandate from the people. There's also no confidence votes, includin...
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[08:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:1, Troll) 02Re:Duplicate - 06Male Birth Control Study Killed After Men Complain About Side Effects - 906 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:09:52] <exec> 08└─I claim no special insight into the MRA psyche, but I have to say that what they seem to believe is that what does not kill you makes you stronger, and what is willing to fuck you will kill you. Preying Mantis humans, basically. Or male Black Widows. Not real men, by any stretch of the imagination....
[08:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:1, Troll) 02Re:Duplicate - 06Male Birth Control Study Killed After Men Complain About Side Effects - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:09:53] <exec> 08└─Modded troll after calling Men's Rights Asphaltics out? Could it be! Francis! Is that you, you poor excuse for a man? If not, whoever you are, you are just as poor an excuse for a man, and all us real men will be looking for you in shower, at the Y, or in the Gym, or in the Big House. Don't drop the...
[08:10:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score 2000 :2) 02Re:Piracy at sea? How it possible? - 06British Firm to Build World's First Offshore Automated Ship - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:10:23] <exec> 08└─The Animated Series did [...] had a spy's screwdriver. Click once, it dug holes. Click twice, it was a laser, etc etc etc.
[08:10:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Will not be legal under current maritime law - 06British Firm to Build World's First Offshore Automated Ship - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:10:34] <exec> 08└─Yeah, and the network never has any outages …
[08:10:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Because.... - 06British Firm to Build World's First Offshore Automated Ship - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:10:39] <exec> 08└─Well, for the pirates it has the advantage that they don't have to get on board and fight with people to hijack it. Just compromise the computer systems and take over control.
[08:11:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score:2) 02Re:COBOL - 06What Programming Language Should you Learn First? - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:11:39] <exec> 08└─English is the language in which ... we drive on a parkway and park on a driveway.
[08:14:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score:2) 02Re:Sovereignty of Parliament - 06Brexit Court Defeat for UK Government - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:14:50] <exec> 08└─Theresa May should just declare herself Queen...
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[09:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Bespoke Fucks - 06Uncle Sam Launches Open Source Trove of Government Code - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:45] <exec> 08└─Hire a fucksmith, sir? Live your sexual fantasy? [oglaf.com]
[09:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sarasani [3283] (Score:3, Informative) 02What a mess - 06Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and WhatsApp Shutdown in Turkey - 740 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:52] <exec> 08└─Turkey is such a mess these days. Historically considered the place where the influences of Christianity and Islam meet, and geographically wedged between the Middle East, Europe and Russia, it has some serious balancing to do. Constant domestic pressure over secularism. And then there are of course...
[09:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02LUDDITE paradise! - 06Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and WhatsApp Shutdown in Turkey - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:55] <exec> 08└─I don't use any of those sites, because I DON'T APP APPS!!
[09:12:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Two trains of thought here - 06What Programming Language Should you Learn First? - 962 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:12:18] <exec> 08└─For beginners, Python also has the issue that you can do things in a horrible, overcomplicated way, or you can do it in a nice and clean way. The nice and clean way is not obvious and to even find it documented often requires searching for it after going "there must be a better way". Without guidanc...
[09:12:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:JavaScript is the correct answer - 06What Programming Language Should you Learn First? - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:12:27] <exec> 08└─I’d rather not imprint loose typing onto a newbie.
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[10:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bespoke Fucks - 06Uncle Sam Launches Open Source Trove of Government Code - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:09:52] <exec> 08└─One clusterfuck, please.
[10:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Us as well - 06Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and WhatsApp Shutdown in Turkey - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:10:02] <exec> 08└─Apparently we've also been blocked in Turkey for weeks now. Not much we can do about it. Of course anyone using a VPN or TOR will still reach us but I would never advise breaking your local laws. Unless you really, really want to.
[10:10:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score:2) 02Information - 06Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and WhatsApp Shutdown in Turkey - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:10:04] <exec> 08└─Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master.
[10:10:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Information - 06Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and WhatsApp Shutdown in Turkey - 496 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:10:06] <exec> 08└─Due to excessive bad posting from this IP or Subnet, anonymous comment posting has temporarily been disabled. You can still login to post. However, if bad posting continues from your IP or Subnet that privilege could be revoked as well. If it's you, consider this a chance to sit in the timeout corne...
[10:10:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Censorship & routing around it - 06Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and WhatsApp Shutdown in Turkey - 988 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:10:08] <exec> 08└─Censorship is indeed always a horrible act, even in the best of circumstances (and Turkey's circumstances at present are far from the best) -- an act that George Bernard Shaw described so aptly as "a mild form of assassination". My heart goes out to those caught up in all this. As well as highlighti...
[10:10:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Justin and Janet - 06Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and WhatsApp Shutdown in Turkey - 3937 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:10:10] <exec> 08└─The thought of watching his sister screw excited Justin. She was a cute girl, blonde with big blue eyes and a cute smile. She had had sex before, and he always wondered what it would be like watching her do it. He had seen her naked a couple of times, and promptly jacked off after each time. He and...
[10:10:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Misandry on parade. - 06Male Birth Control Study Killed After Men Complain About Side Effects - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:10:20] <exec> 08└─Calm down. You aren't going to be forced to take it, you know.
[10:10:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Duplicate - 06Male Birth Control Study Killed After Men Complain About Side Effects - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:10:29] <exec> 08└─Sorry, couldn't help but keep the running gag going at this point.
[10:10:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Side effects that are tolerable - 06Male Birth Control Study Killed After Men Complain About Side Effects - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:10:31] <exec> 08└─If any of the side effects were to increase the size of your dingdong, there would be no complaints of about any side effects.
[10:10:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 021000 years = 50 generations - 06Rock Shelter Used by Speedy Early Australians - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:10:41] <exec> 08└─To keep it simple, let's call it 2000 years and 100 generations. So, to span the continent of let's say 4000km across, each generation would have to move away from their parents by 40km. Is that speedy? I would say so.
[10:12:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:The deep end - 06What Programming Language Should you Learn First? - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:12:36] <exec> 08└─Mind you, there's thousands of lines of dead code in there that we simply do not use. There might still be some D2 code in there as well as all of the AJAX code, for instance.
[10:12:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart9h [767] (Score:2) 02Re:The deep end - 06What Programming Language Should you Learn First? - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:12:43] <exec> 08└─I agree with most of your arguments, and they all point to BASIC. I'm obviously biased, cause that what I learnt first.
[10:12:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sarasani [3283] (Score:2) 02How it feels to learn JavaScript in 2016 - 06What Programming Language Should you Learn First? - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:12:58] <exec> 08└─Want to get into JavaScript in 2016? Better read this first: https://hackernoon.com [hackernoon.com]
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[11:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Namaste, Motherfucker - 06Regular Meditation More Beneficial Than Vacation - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:50] <exec> 08└─Yeah, that's right. I'm the Yoga Police. [soylentnews.org]
[11:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 0212 oz meditation - 06Regular Meditation More Beneficial Than Vacation - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:51] <exec> 08└─This was figured out millennia ago. You know, when beer was invented.
[11:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03 (Score:2) 02Some of this isn't newly releasesd. - 06Uncle Sam Launches Open Source Trove of Government Code - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:10:01] <exec> 08└─ConMan (https://github.com/dun/conman) for instance been out for a while. Still, reassuring to know it's being funded and maintained by the DoE if you're debating using it I guess.
[11:11:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score:2) 02fft's... - 06Computing With Lasers Could Power Up Genomics and AI - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:11:31] <exec> 08└─Well if they can so sub 1us fft's , I have a problem for them....;-) To be precsise, 128x128x128 in less than 1us would be quite an advance, assuming: a) they can do convolution too b) reverse the result. c) the result could be distributed to the rest of the calculation. Otherwise I'll wait and see....
[11:12:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score:2) 02Re:The deep end - 06What Programming Language Should you Learn First? - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:12:38] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but as ever the trouble is you don't know exactly _which_ thousands of lines are unused so it all just has to stay there with (possibly) no function except to scare and confuse the uninitiated...
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[12:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:2) 02Re:Namaste, Motherfucker - 06Regular Meditation More Beneficial Than Vacation - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:09:55] <exec> 08└─Some sort of Nirvana, embrace the void or something? Link gives 404...
[12:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] (Score:2) 02Re:12 oz meditation - 06Regular Meditation More Beneficial Than Vacation - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:09:57] <exec> 08└─mayhaps before then when MJ was 'invented'...
[12:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Oh, mediTation - 06Regular Meditation More Beneficial Than Vacation - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:59] <exec> 08└─Regular Meditation More Beneficial Than Vacation
[12:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03mtrycz [60] (Score:2) 02Re:Oh, mediTation - 06Regular Meditation More Beneficial Than Vacation - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:10:01] <exec> 08└─Why not both, tho? :) Anyway, does anybody have any legit resources about this "mindfullnes meditation" thing? Been hearing about it, and wanted to do my own trial run.
[12:10:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02conclusions. - 06Regular Meditation More Beneficial Than Vacation - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:10:04] <exec> 08└─The very existence of these studies, together with the very existence of beaches with girls in bikini in them, clearly demonstrates that science does not give correct guidance.
[12:10:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score:2) 02Re:Duplicate - 06Male Birth Control Study Killed After Men Complain About Side Effects - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:10:44] <exec> 08└─Yeah, me too.
[12:12:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03mendax [2840] 02Re:COBOL - 06What Programming Language Should you Learn First? - 292 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:12:23] <exec> 08└─Uh.... COBOL and FORTRAN are very much alive. The world's banks and governments couldn't function without COBOL. And scientific applications are generally written in FORTRAN. Both languages are today object-oriented and continue to evolve, and new applications are written in these languages.
[12:13:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03moondoctor [2963] (Score:2) 02Re:JavaScript is the correct answer - 06What Programming Language Should you Learn First? - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:13:07] <exec> 08└─Yep, my Mom's boyfriend was head of the math dept at local good university as a kid, got to play on a PDP-11 getting my feet wet. The idea of starting out as a 9 year old with a terminal window open in my smartphone that is attached to a global network kinda blows my mind...
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[13:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score:2) 02How? - 06How to Block the Ultrasonic Signals You Didn’t Know Were Tracking You - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:47] <exec> 08└─Am I supposed to have some shitty app running all the time on my mobile? How can it record these sounds AND report to the mothership?
[13:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Just about any app - 06How to Block the Ultrasonic Signals You Didn’t Know Were Tracking You - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:09:48] <exec> 08└─Any app that has permission to listen to your microphone would be able to collect this data. - Facebook comes immediately to mind - they sell out their users all the time, why not do so again? - The various Google apps running on your phone could also track this data. - Any random stupid game might,...
[13:10:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03fadrian [3194] (Score:2) 02Keep this under your hat... - 06Regular Meditation More Beneficial Than Vacation - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:03] <exec> 08└─Or else you'll get corporate lobbying in Congress for things like daily 10-minute meditation breaks instead of vacation time.
[13:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Advice? - 06Regular Meditation More Beneficial Than Vacation - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:04] <exec> 08└─What technique works for you? What do you think about? Should you lay down or sit up?
[13:10:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bobs [1462] (Score:2) 02Nice - 06Uncle Sam Launches Open Source Trove of Government Code - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:14] <exec> 08└─This is a good thing. People are paying to develop apps - should be available and leveraged by the people. And as open source we get to improve and collaborate on making it better. Very cool. —— But, for those of you who insist on focusing on the dark cloud of every silver lining, I do hope some...
[13:10:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03ticho [89] (Score:2) 02Re:Information - 06Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and WhatsApp Shutdown in Turkey - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:10:27] <exec> 08└─JFYI, I modded you Flamebait, since you and I both know that "access to information" does not mean "allowing you to post crap", so you're just being an idiot here (and possibly so am I, by responding to one).
[13:10:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03ticho [89] (Score:2) 02Re:Censorship & routing around it - 06Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and WhatsApp Shutdown in Turkey - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:10:30] <exec> 08└─I don't think it is an opportune time to launch any $technical_solution_to_bypass_censorship. It is my opinion that if such solution is not already in place, and has not been used by many, many people on daily basis even though there was no censorship to bypass, switching to such solution now is not...
[13:10:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score:2) 02Too many side effects? - 06Male Birth Control Study Killed After Men Complain About Side Effects - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:50] <exec> 08└─Wow, that must be a lot of side effects. Have you seen any of the drug commercials in the last decade. No drug is advertised without 5 minutes of the presentation going to listing off the dozen of serious side effects.
[13:11:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bobs [1462] (Score:2) 02Re:faith - 06British Firm to Build World's First Offshore Automated Ship - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:11:29] <exec> 08└─They can just float there until a maintenance ship comes to fix them
[13:12:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:The deep end - 06What Programming Language Should you Learn First? - 0 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
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[14:10:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03driven [6295] (Score:2) 02Re:Just about any app - 06How to Block the Ultrasonic Signals You Didn’t Know Were Tracking You - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:10:04] <exec> 08└─What's an appropriate way to stop this, I wonder? One thought is Android could report on the amount of time an app used the microphone for. Sort by microphone usage highest->lowest, let the user decide what is legit usage, uninstall the app/revoke permission if necessary.
[14:10:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score:2) 02Re:Just about any app - 06How to Block the Ultrasonic Signals You Didn’t Know Were Tracking You - 591 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:10:05] <exec> 08└─An app that was doing this all the time would cause massive battery drain. That of course doesn't remove Facebook's app from scrutiny, which I refuse to install on any of my devices for this among other reasons. It is a notorious battery hog. The various Google apps are almost as suspect: removing G...
[14:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score:2) 02Re:How? - 06How to Block the Ultrasonic Signals You Didn’t Know Were Tracking You - 691 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:10:07] <exec> 08└─Most apps request (require) more access than they actually need to perform their primary and secondary functions. Many apps implement a lot of stuff that has nothing to with the application as such. This is either down to lazy programmers who didn't put limits on (optimistic view), or by design to s...
[14:10:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02good start - 06Uncle Sam Launches Open Source Trove of Government Code - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:34] <exec> 08└─now just mandate that every piece of code paid for by tax money has to be Free Software. It's just common sense.
[14:10:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Coming soon to the US - 06Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and WhatsApp Shutdown in Turkey - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:51] <exec> 08└─If Hillary wins next week.
[14:11:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Duplicate - 06Male Birth Control Study Killed After Men Complain About Side Effects - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:11:11] <exec> 08└─Fitting your concept of manhood involves rape and intimidation.
[14:11:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Side effects that are tolerable - 06Male Birth Control Study Killed After Men Complain About Side Effects - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:11:15] <exec> 08└─How does a larger penis increase the man's pleasure? Especially compared to not worrying whether a random fling will result in an 18 year long installment plan?
[14:11:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score:2) 02Re:Too many side effects? - 06Male Birth Control Study Killed After Men Complain About Side Effects - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:11:18] <exec> 08└─Have you seen any of the drug commercials in the last decade. No drug is advertised without 5 minutes of the presentation going to listing off the dozen of serious side effects.
[14:11:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02bullshit story spin - 06Male Birth Control Study Killed After Men Complain About Side Effects - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:11:20] <exec> 08└─This place seems to have fallen for the feminist slant of shaming the men in the study as the main take of the story. When 75% of the men in the study said they would use the drug anyway despite the side effects! It might kill you or render you sterile. Give you acne and mood swings. And the answer...
[14:11:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:bullshit story spin - 06Male Birth Control Study Killed After Men Complain About Side Effects - 684 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:11:23] <exec> 08└─There was a similar birth control trial for men in the early 90s to which the response from feminist ran the gamut of men not being trustworthy enough to control their reproduction except by means verifiable by women to chastising about concerns over long term effects to the arrogant waste of pursui...
[14:11:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score:2) 02Re:1000 years = 50 generations - 06Rock Shelter Used by Speedy Early Australians - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:11:34] <exec> 08└─Except that's assuming a stationary (agricultural) society. Tribes of nomadic hunter-gatherer's may well wander much farther than that over the course of a single year.
[14:11:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Breaking news - 06This Evil Office Printer Hijacks Your Cellphone Connection - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:11:46] <exec> 08└─Earlier this week, the Berlin-based hacker-artist unveiled the result: An entirely boring-looking Hewlett Packard printer that also secretly functions as a rogue GSM cell base station
[14:12:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:Will not be legal under current maritime law - 06British Firm to Build World's First Offshore Automated Ship - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:12:12] <exec> 08└─Smaller sailing ships in the oil fields of the North sea (where these auto-supply craft are proposed to operate) can probably be convinced to put a reflector on the top of their mast. The mates in the crows' nests of the conventional ships won't be seeing them anyway.
[14:12:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02hilarious - 06British Firm to Build World's First Offshore Automated Ship - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:12:17] <exec> 08└─removing people from the hazardous environment of at-sea operations and re-employing them on-shore to monitor and operate robotic vessels remotely
[14:13:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:The deep end - 06What Programming Language Should you Learn First? - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:42] <exec> 08└─That's why my solo projects topped out around 100KLOC, around 5 or 6 years in we'd do a major refactoring (language change once, reboot on new hardware and systems the other), and rebuild without the cruft. Even along the way I endeavor to get the dead code out - it causes more trouble than benefit...
[14:14:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score:2) 02Re:JavaScript is the correct answer - 06What Programming Language Should you Learn First? - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:14:06] <exec> 08└─Holy fuck, check your privilege. In 1981, novice programmers were lucky enough to use Applesoft Basic on an Apple II, not Fortran on a goddamn mainframe.
[14:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Today Must Be National Fear Day - 06Users in Middle East Targeted in "Moonlight" Espionage Campaign - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:14:21] <exec> 08└─You needed someone to remind you that your country is bombing a lot of places it isn't at war with. How naive and stupid are you?
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[15:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Just about any app - 06How to Block the Ultrasonic Signals You Didn’t Know Were Tracking You - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:10:11] <exec> 08└─> An app that was doing this all the time would cause massive battery drain. Don't count on it. How do you think modern phones are able to constantly listen for commands as in "hey siri" and "ok google?" They have dedicated low-power chips for microphone data processing.
[15:10:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Put something over the microphone. - 06How to Block the Ultrasonic Signals You Didn’t Know Were Tracking You - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:14] <exec> 08└─You want to filter high freqs, right? As wikipedia says A stiff physical barrier tends to reflect higher sound frequencies.
[15:10:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03ShadowSystems [6185] (Score:1) 02A solution from a Crotchety Old Git... - 06How to Block the Ultrasonic Signals You Didn’t Know Were Tracking You - 1378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:16] <exec> 08└─It's called a Feature Phone. It doesn't run apps, it has no onboard storeage to keep such an app even if it could run it, & the fact that it's a "flip phone" design that folds shut means the microphone spends the bulk of it's time resting upon the speaker... You know what microphones tend to do when...
[15:10:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Namaste, Motherfucker - 06Regular Meditation More Beneficial Than Vacation - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:10:27] <exec> 08└─The dummy meant to link to a youtube video, but he left off the hostname part of the URL and just cut-n-pasted the youtube identifier, so your browser automatically adds the soylent hostname. Do a google search on the part after the hostname and it will take you to the intended youtube video. Its no...
[15:10:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Oh, mediTation - 06Regular Meditation More Beneficial Than Vacation - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:10:33] <exec> 08└─Take mushrooms and meditate while on a vacation in peaceful setting with music you enjoy, and I guarantee you will come out of it in better shape than before. The costs are negligable; the hard part is securing all of that. But once you do, you probably will have benefits that six months just physio...
[15:10:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Advice? - 06Regular Meditation More Beneficial Than Vacation - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:10:38] <exec> 08└─Sit down cross-legged and chant ,"oooooommmmmm puto chingon." Puto Chingon is Hindi for "spirit and happiness."
[15:10:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02vacay need - 06Regular Meditation More Beneficial Than Vacation - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:40] <exec> 08└─How can I meditate if I'm stuck in San Diego?
[15:10:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The Dark Side of Meditation - 06Regular Meditation More Beneficial Than Vacation - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:42] <exec> 08└─If you are susceptible, the introspection of meditation can drive you insane: The Dark Knight of the Soul [theatlantic.com]
[15:10:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Not a new concept - 06Uncle Sam Launches Open Source Trove of Government Code - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:54] <exec> 08└─But its good to hear its still happening. I remember getting many 'open' documents in the past. Does anyone else remember sending a form to the DoD to get a copy of BRL-CAD printed manuals back in the 90s?
[15:11:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Coming soon to the US - 06Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and WhatsApp Shutdown in Turkey - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:11:12] <exec> 08└─It's not so blatant. Hillary has people inside Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube to shut down content the government does not like. Since Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Qatar bought into the project, they have people inside too.
[15:11:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:Coming soon to the US - 06Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and WhatsApp Shutdown in Turkey - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:11:14] <exec> 08└─It's coming regardless of which if the two major parties wins. The US is well on its way to becoming a police state, thoroughly owned by corporations.
[15:11:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score:2) 02Productivity levels skyrocketed - 06Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and WhatsApp Shutdown in Turkey - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:16] <exec> 08└─And in totally unrelated news, productivity levels in Turkey have inexplicably skyrocketed and the collective IQ has risen by a surprising amount.
[15:11:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Misandry on parade. - 06Male Birth Control Study Killed After Men Complain About Side Effects - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:11:27] <exec> 08└─For now...
[15:11:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Misandry on parade. - 06Male Birth Control Study Killed After Men Complain About Side Effects - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:11:29] <exec> 08└─When did "Misandry" become a code word for "I don't want to think about the widely applied double standards of society?"
[15:11:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:Duplicate - 06Male Birth Control Study Killed After Men Complain About Side Effects - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:11:40] <exec> 08└─What the fuck is an A magnetic resonance angiogram agenda and why in the hell do you expect me to have a clue what it is?
[15:11:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02women asking: Why not men? - 06Male Birth Control Study Killed After Men Complain About Side Effects - 685 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:47] <exec> 08└─WOMEN asking?? Women have a myriad of choices, including forgoing birth control and lying to their partner about it. Then when she gets pregnant, the poor sucker whose only BC choices are a permanent vasectomy (SURGERY!), a condom that his partner has to agree with, and chastity has to pay child sup...
[15:15:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Link to the paper, and summary of results - 06New Research Uncovers Pattern in Global Flu Outbreaks - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:15:01] <exec> 08└─so we just need darth vader masks with a heating element in the mouthal region.
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[16:10:08] <exec> 08└─"So, how can a white hat work in a responsible way that is distinguishable from a black hat who, when caught, only claims he is a white hat?" How many angels can dance on the head of a pin or if a tree falls in the forest and no one is there does it make a sound? In short it is impossible to make th...
[16:10:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Suckers and their money - 06The Next Big Play? Block Chain for Real Estate - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:16] <exec> 08└─This sounds like a new way to separate suckers from their money, brought to you by the same kind of people who caused the 2008 housing crash, the 2001 Internet bubble, and many other fun events. On top of that: If BitCoin is supposed to be a shining example of blockchain usage, well, there have been...
[16:10:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Innaneness - 06The Next Big Play? Block Chain for Real Estate - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:18] <exec> 08└─When will this blockchain stupidity end... it's nothing different from, say, Git history, yet everyone thinks its this is going to make them millions. I really don't get what the big deal is. Can someone actually explain to me what makes these blockchain things such a BFD?
[16:10:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sarasani [3283] (Score:2) 02Re:How? - 06How to Block the Ultrasonic Signals You Didn’t Know Were Tracking You - 692 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:10:32] <exec> 08└─I once asked the developers of a popular open source Android based email client why their application requested something to the tune of 45 permissions when all the application was supposed to do is [1] access network [2] fetch/send email and [3] access the contacts list. The developers' response ma...
[16:10:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:A solution from a Crotchety Old Git... - 06How to Block the Ultrasonic Signals You Didn’t Know Were Tracking You - 610 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:10:36] <exec> 08└─The more modern "feature phones" include Android phones from such manufacturers as LG and Samsung. I'm defining "feature phone" as a cheap throwaway, $50 US or less, often times packaged by the second tier telcos with a pay as you go plan. I have a throwaway for which I paid only $20, it has a coupl...
[16:10:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02from older guy - 06How to Block the Ultrasonic Signals You Didn’t Know Were Tracking You - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:38] <exec> 08└─Home computers no speakers or mics. Speakers make multiple machines in a room unbearable. Office computer no speakers or mics. Cell Phones, turned off - they are for emergencies only. So what is this tracking about?
[16:10:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:from older guy - 06How to Block the Ultrasonic Signals You Didn’t Know Were Tracking You - 498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:10:40] <exec> 08└─Here's a scenario for you with your "Cell Phones, turned off - they are for emergencies only": You're walking in your favorite park with your wife, no one around, both of you have your 'turned-off' cell phone in your pocket. You suffer cardiac arrest. How long until you can dial 911/112? Turning the...
[16:10:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02frequency? amplitude? - 06How to Block the Ultrasonic Signals You Didn’t Know Were Tracking You - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:42] <exec> 08└─I read tfa(s) and didn't see anything about what frequencies are being used. In the 1980s, I remember working in a lab that could feel really oppressive. Finally someone hooked a good microphone up to an oscilloscope and discovered that the motion sensor that turned the lights off (for energy saving...
[16:10:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Clickbait article is clickbait - 06How to Block the Ultrasonic Signals You Didn’t Know Were Tracking You - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:44] <exec> 08└─C'mon guys, if I wanted that I'd go read the green site. The solution is not to install apps that use the microphone. Or, if you have a mobile OS that allows you more fine-grained permissions, you can even install the app but not give it microphone access.
[16:10:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Namaste, Motherfucker - 06Regular Meditation More Beneficial Than Vacation - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:10:55] <exec> 08└─I think a rickrolling would have been a lot more adequate. bruce lee meditating, then suddenly opening his eyes "never gonna give you up". instant classic.
[16:11:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Advice? - 06Regular Meditation More Beneficial Than Vacation - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:11:05] <exec> 08└─Sitting crosslegged and chanting Na myoho arenge ku with eyes closed worked for some of the characters on old TV police shows. They were the ones who did the deed, of course.
[16:11:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] (Score:2) 02Re:Advice? - 06Regular Meditation More Beneficial Than Vacation - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:11:07] <exec> 08└─oooooooommmmmm is hindi for oooooommmmmm ? ? ?
[16:11:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03PizzaRollPlinkett [4512] (Score:2) 02Re:Advice? - 06Regular Meditation More Beneficial Than Vacation - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:11:09] <exec> 08└─audiodharma.org has Gil Fronsdal's five-part beginner's meditation series, which is a good place to start. Also Bhante G's "Mindfulness in Plain English" book.
[16:11:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Vacation? - 06Regular Meditation More Beneficial Than Vacation - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:13] <exec> 08└─Boss: You don't need vacation, just meditate over lunch. Now get back to work or I will replace you with someone else.
[16:11:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Drake_Edgewater [780] (Score:1) 02Re:Us as well - 06Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and WhatsApp Shutdown in Turkey - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:11:35] <exec> 08└─I went to Istanbul in July (you may recall a story about a space science meeting being cancelled, well since I had bought tickets I decided to go there anyway) and I couldn't check SN the whole week. I bet it's been blocked since then. It is such an amazing place, I can only hope they sort their iss...
[16:12:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03aristarchus [2645] 02Re:Duplicate - 06Male Birth Control Study Killed After Men Complain About Side Effects - 906 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:12:01] <exec> 08└─I claim no special insight into the MRA psyche, but I have to say that what they seem to believe is that what does not kill you makes you stronger, and what is willing to fuck you will kill you. Preying Mantis humans, basically. Or male Black Widows. Not real men, by any stretch of the imagination....
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[17:10:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Suckers and their money - 06The Next Big Play? Block Chain for Real Estate - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:10:20] <exec> 08└─Well, you heard it here early -- get in on the ground floor, then get out! Of course there are likely to be multiple competing bets and only some of them will go big (before crashing). Me? I'm not a gambler, I'll buy popcorn. In fact, maybe popcorn would make a nice stable investment.
[17:10:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Suckers and their money - 06The Next Big Play? Block Chain for Real Estate - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:10:21] <exec> 08└─Popcorn futures, anyone?
[17:10:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Suckers and their money - 06The Next Big Play? Block Chain for Real Estate - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:10:23] <exec> 08└─The popcorn and corn guys are just the middlemen. I'm going to get to the bottom of this - fertilizer futures. Tons and tons of bullshit, not unlike the information digestion disruptive blockchain.
[17:10:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02Re:A solution from a Crotchety Old Git... - 06How to Block the Ultrasonic Signals You Didn’t Know Were Tracking You - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:10:42] <exec> 08└─You usually just have to install a mini-SD card in it. Please don't tell us you didn't RTFM.
[17:10:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:A solution from a Crotchety Old Git... - 06How to Block the Ultrasonic Signals You Didn’t Know Were Tracking You - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:10:44] <exec> 08└─RTFM - the same card that works in multiple other phones isn't seen by this phone. It just isn't seen. I did some poking around on the net, but haven't researched it seriously yet. Most phones are just plug and play, this one is not.
[17:10:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02Re:Clickbait article is clickbait - 06How to Block the Ultrasonic Signals You Didn’t Know Were Tracking You - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:10:50] <exec> 08└─Do you have GooMaps on your phone? Best look at the permissions you granted when you installed it. For some reason virtually every app in the Google Store wants access to not only your location, but also access to your phones camera, microphone, and images in your gallery.
[17:10:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Clickbait article is clickbait - 06How to Block the Ultrasonic Signals You Didn’t Know Were Tracking You - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:10:52] <exec> 08└─Google maps doesn't require any of those permissions. The only "inappropriate" permission it requires is access to contacts, but Google already has the contacts, so it's not a big deal (for a third-party app it would be).
[17:11:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02Re:Oh, mediTation - 06Regular Meditation More Beneficial Than Vacation - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:11:09] <exec> 08└─https://zenhabits.net/meditation-guide/ [zenhabits.net]
[17:12:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Misandry on parade. - 06Male Birth Control Study Killed After Men Complain About Side Effects - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:12:03] <exec> 08└─You're right. In fact men won't be ALLOWED to take it. The pushback will be massive to put a stop to it when it's viable.
[17:12:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:bullshit story spin - 06Male Birth Control Study Killed After Men Complain About Side Effects - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:12:23] <exec> 08└─It's going to be amazing. Anyone younger than 50 is going to see the massive change to the socio-sexual landscape. With male birth control, virtual reality and 'sexbots'. Women are finally going to get that absolute equality they always say they wanted. Altho there are actually womens groups agains...
[17:12:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03purple_cobra [1435] (Score:1) 02Re:bullshit story spin - 06Male Birth Control Study Killed After Men Complain About Side Effects - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:12:24] <exec> 08└─An alternative take here at the New Statesman [newstatesman.com]. Personally I find the author to be a bit of a reactionary/professionally offended person who far too often lets the perfect be the enemy of the good, but she made the point that it wasn't the participants who (effectively) stopped the...
[17:15:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score:2) 02Re:Link to the paper, and summary of results - 06New Research Uncovers Pattern in Global Flu Outbreaks - 639 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:15:40] <exec> 08└─Could be that - but I've had great luck when travveling with two changes: taking immunoboosters starting a few days before the trip, and washing my hands obsessively, and/or otherwise treating them as biohazards. *Way* too many unfamiliar germs in airports, and you can't help getting them on your ha...
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[18:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Well - 06Protection of White-Hat Hackers is Slow in Coming - 741 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:10:08] <exec> 08└─There probably aren't a lot of "white" hat hackers. Most of them are gray. For that matter, there are probably fewer black hats than people think. (first we have to discard the public perception that all hackers are evil - FFS the media has gone crazy with that) Some are just darker gray, others are...
[18:10:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Just like with gun laws - 06Protection of White-Hat Hackers is Slow in Coming - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:10] <exec> 08└─Anti-hacking laws only work against the white hat law abiding hackers that seek to stop the black hat hackers. The black hat hackers are going to break the laws anyways.
[18:10:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Innaneness - 06The Next Big Play? Block Chain for Real Estate - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:10:23] <exec> 08└─It's disruptive, man! Look at everyone trading cash for logs of carbon dioxide emissions, do you want to be left behind?
[18:10:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Put something over the microphone. - 06How to Block the Ultrasonic Signals You Didn’t Know Were Tracking You - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:10:39] <exec> 08└─Unless it redirects the speaker as an input.
[18:11:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:vacay need - 06Regular Meditation More Beneficial Than Vacation - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:11:15] <exec> 08└─Find a quiet place away from all the noisy obnoxious minorities. The fields of Lakeside and Santee are good for that.
[18:11:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sarasani [3283] (Score:2) 02Re:Coming soon to the US - 06Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and WhatsApp Shutdown in Turkey - 585 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:11:50] <exec> 08└─Thank you for providing such an excellent example of masterful trolling: a short statement, not backed up by any facts (or insight, or humour for that matter). This type of trolling reminds me of an observation someone made about the climate change debate: a climate change denier can squawk the firs...
[18:12:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Breaking news - 06This Evil Office Printer Hijacks Your Cellphone Connection - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:12:47] <exec> 08└─In the mid 1970s high school electronics class, I took an old portable am/fm transistor radio and replaced the guts with a custom built audio transmitter. It looked the same on the outside but would transmit audio to a nearby radio receiver. Definitely better than what clockboy did with his suitcase...
[18:13:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fnord666 [652] (Score:2) 02Of Course I Still Love You - 06British Firm to Build World's First Offshore Automated Ship - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:19] <exec> 08└─I thought the "Of Course I Still Love You" [wikipedia.org] would have been the first.
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[19:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Desperate - 06Windows 10 Serving Edge Advertisements - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:54] <exec> 08└─In other words, Microsoft are desperate because Ballmer royally fucked the company and now they hired Pajeet Poodoo as their new leader, to gut the company and reduce all of their offerings to the modern equivalents of BonziBuddy. Just imagine how fucking awesome it would have been if Microsoft open...
[19:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:0, Troll) 02Buttcoins - 06Ethereum Unusuable, DAO Refunds Possible - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:01] <exec> 08└─Dabbling in Buttcoins is gambling. Might as well take your pistol and a bottle of malt liquor and go shoot dice with Blacks in an alley somewhere.
[19:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Buttcoins - 06Ethereum Unusuable, DAO Refunds Possible - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:10:03] <exec> 08└─I shouldn't be surprised that EF uses bitcoins for gay sex with black men... But there you have it!
[19:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Told you so? - 06Ethereum Unusuable, DAO Refunds Possible - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:05] <exec> 08└─Now, I have to go troll Bitcointalk for my appropriate "told-you-so" post. Coloured coins were never going to work. They defeat the whole purpose of money, which is to be fungible.
[19:10:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Just like with gun laws - 06Protection of White-Hat Hackers is Slow in Coming - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:10:16] <exec> 08└─We should just ban all hacking, and make everyone take a full battery of psych tests every year to have a computing license. Ya that's the ticket!
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[20:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02U.S. Government Agencies Promised Microsoft ... - 06Windows 10 Serving Edge Advertisements - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:56] <exec> 08└─... that if they could get the vast majority of the people using software that made it easier for those agencies to collect information about the users, then they would refrain from filing additional anti-trust charges, or taking certain other actions against principle officers at Microsoft. I have...
[20:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:3, Insightful) 02No surprise there - 06Windows 10 Serving Edge Advertisements - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:57] <exec> 08└─Microsoft really wants Windows 10 users to use Cortana and Edge.
[20:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No surprise there - 06Windows 10 Serving Edge Advertisements - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:09:59] <exec> 08└─Edge is also designed for increasing the use of Bing. The address bar isn't visible in a new tab or window unless you specifically click where it should be. They do this to try to get users to type what they want in the Bing box which will automatically increase Bing's usage.
[20:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Dear Customers - 06Windows 10 Serving Edge Advertisements - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:01] <exec> 08└─Microsoft really wants Windows 10 users to use Linux. FTFY
[20:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02shills - 06Windows 10 Serving Edge Advertisements - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:03] <exec> 08└─I wonder how many Microsoft shills (paid and unpaid) are jumping ship with WinX? It's one thing to promote a defective system to the ignorant masses. Promoting an actively malevalent system is something else entirely.
[20:10:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Celestial [4891] (Score:2) 02Done with Windows - 06Windows 10 Serving Edge Advertisements - 1230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:06] <exec> 08└─Back around 2002 - 2005, I used to triple boot between Libranet Linux, Mandrake Linux, and Windows 2000 Professional. However, in 2005, I began playing a MMORPG video game that (at least at the time), did not work in WINE. I played that game almost every day for years, so I just deleted the Linux pa...
[20:10:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02edge out IE - 06Windows 10 Serving Edge Advertisements - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:08] <exec> 08└─They should set the ads to display if the user is using IE by default. Windows 10 ships with both of those browsers, right?
[20:10:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score:2) 02Edge sucks - 06Windows 10 Serving Edge Advertisements - 738 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:10] <exec> 08└─I agree, M$ Edge is a horrible browser, but I don't have it on the start bar, or on the taskbar, the is an icon under M$ default manager. I've not seen ad pop-ups for Edge either but I've done some tinkering to make Windows10 heel when I call it. It took some research but I think I've tamed most of...
[20:10:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Told you so? - 06Ethereum Unusuable, DAO Refunds Possible - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:10:21] <exec> 08└─And yet there are other things people want to do as part of exchanging value. Just because one thing has always been one way does not mean something new can not also do new things too.
[20:10:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score:2) 02Torrens. - 06The Next Big Play? Block Chain for Real Estate - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:44] <exec> 08└─If you have a stable government, "Torrens Title" systems work pretty well and fix most of the problems with title deeds. Given that the .gov taxes most land transactions, HFLT (high frequency land trading) is never going to be a thing anyway.
[20:11:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Re:Clickbait article is clickbait - 06How to Block the Ultrasonic Signals You Didn’t Know Were Tracking You - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:11:11] <exec> 08└─Maps has hands free voice control, which is fucking amazing when careening down the freeway, half a second away from brutal death. The images permission, if it exists, it probably to pull geolocation data to suggest places to go to in the Driving mode. You may not want these features, but some peopl...
[20:11:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:Advice? - 06Regular Meditation More Beneficial Than Vacation - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:11:35] <exec> 08└─ohwa tagu Siam.
[20:13:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score:2) 02Re:faith - 06British Firm to Build World's First Offshore Automated Ship - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:28] <exec> 08└─Unless it is near the shore
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[21:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedGreen [888] (Score:2) 02More than them - 06The Chinese are Coming and They're Hungry for Games Companies - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:55] <exec> 08└─"Should games firms welcome or fear Chinese conquest?" Better fear it the Chinese are buying everything in sight to have hard assets out of that country before the inevitable crash that is coming to their ponzi scheme version of capitalism comes to a crashing halt and they lose it all. Pretty soon t...
[21:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:More than them - 06The Chinese are Coming and They're Hungry for Games Companies - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:09:56] <exec> 08└─Cool idea for a game, bro.
[21:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:More than them - 06The Chinese are Coming and They're Hungry for Games Companies - 661 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:09:58] <exec> 08└─The Chinese have more substance backing their Ponzi scheme today than the US has had for the last 30 years. Japan, Europe, China, India, Korea, even Brazil, we're all building wealth on the faith of investors that the future will be bright, brighter than today - when that optimism falters, there is...
[21:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02What's the state of the market? - 06The Chinese are Coming and They're Hungry for Games Companies - 963 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:00] <exec> 08└─Are there any signs that China has softened up the market for acquisition? I mean, has there been anything in the video games industry like a clique of Maoist journalists and no-name wannabe devs demanding ideological conformity and launching harassment campaigns to disrupt the operations of targete...
[21:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02They send us iPhones - 06The Chinese are Coming and They're Hungry for Games Companies - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:03] <exec> 08└─We send them back video game source code and graphics assets. Sounds like a good deal for us.
[21:10:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Done with Windows - 06Windows 10 Serving Edge Advertisements - 802 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:10:17] <exec> 08└─The only reason why I stopped dual-booting and went Windoze only was because a lot of bullshit in my Computer Science program (with the exception of Intro to Operating Systems class) required Windows crap. Having to work most of the time and then go home and do schoolwork, I was too tired to fuck ar...
[21:10:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02freally? - 06Ethereum Unusuable, DAO Refunds Possible - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:30] <exec> 08└─How is this still a thing?
[21:10:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02we come for the troll - 06Ethereum Unusuable, DAO Refunds Possible - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:31] <exec> 08└─People come to SN for the comments? Please.
[21:10:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02the answer - 06Protection of White-Hat Hackers is Slow in Coming - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:43] <exec> 08└─So the question was "So, how can a white hat work in a responsible way that is distinguishable from a black hat who, when caught, only claims he is a white hat?" Change careers.
[21:11:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Cell phones equal immortality? - 06How to Block the Ultrasonic Signals You Didn’t Know Were Tracking You - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:11:20] <exec> 08└─Here's a scenario for you [...] You suffer cardiac arrest.
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[22:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheLink [332] (Score:2) 02Real bread and virtual circuses - 06The Chinese are Coming and They're Hungry for Games Companies - 879 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:00] <exec> 08└─On a finite Earth, there's no such thing as sustainable growth in "real stuff"[1] So to keep increasing billions of people happy, while the "bread" has to be real, more and more of the "circuses" have to be virtual. It works for me, a good game would keep me satisfied and occupied for longer than so...
[22:10:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Desperate - 06Windows 10 Serving Edge Advertisements - 940 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:10:09] <exec> 08└─I'm sure there already is a product on the market, but if they keep this crap up, people will make tons of money selling "advertisement blocking" software for Windows 10 - something that keeps up with the latest Microsoft rollouts and changes and just shuts that crap off before it even has a chance...
[22:10:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Possible Solution - 06Protection of White-Hat Hackers is Slow in Coming - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:42] <exec> 08└─"So, how can a white hat work in a responsible way that is distinguishable from a black hat who, when caught, only claims he is a white hat?" Have some professional certification and oversight?
[22:11:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The Dark Side of Meditation - 06Regular Meditation More Beneficial Than Vacation - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:11:53] <exec> 08└─Many people seem to think that the goal and effect of meditation is simply bliss out and go into some alpha wave trance. From my research and my own experience this is false. The purpose and effect of meditation is cultivate awareness (some people call that mindfulness). Meditation can sometimes be...
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[23:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Appalbarry [66] (Score:2) 02Not Pet Pals Inc. - 06Pet Pals Pounced by Petty Powers Peering into Past Purchases - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:47] <exec> 08└─Sloppy headline. There area whole pile of retailers and other companies operating under the name "Pet Pals." As far as I can tell, none of them are involved in this mess. Only Safeway and QVC were mentioned, and even those were speculation.
[23:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not Pet Pals Inc. - 06Pet Pals Pounced by Petty Powers Peering into Past Purchases - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:09:48] <exec> 08└─people used to make fun of me for being paranoid that this would happen. And when it happened, they didn't care anyway as long as it didn't negatively impact them.
[23:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Touché) 02Re:Not Pet Pals Inc. - 06Pet Pals Pounced by Petty Powers Peering into Past Purchases - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:09:50] <exec> 08└─Peevish Poster Pounces on Perceived Pitfall in Parallel Pronoucement
[23:10:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:No surprise there - 06Windows 10 Serving Edge Advertisements - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:10:16] <exec> 08└─I was under the impression that one of the Windows 10 updates forcibly enabled Cortana on all machines. Does that mean it's always listening? I certainly wouldn't put it past them.
[23:10:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:2) 02Re:Told you so? - 06Ethereum Unusuable, DAO Refunds Possible - 487 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:10:34] <exec> 08└─And yet, by the end of the 19th \ early 20th century there were some 20 foreign banks operating dozens of branches in China cities and ports all buying and selling different notes using different rates. Even in the same city, you'd see the likes of Chartered buying and selling at different rates the...
[23:10:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Only hack your stuff? - 06Protection of White-Hat Hackers is Slow in Coming - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:49] <exec> 08└─So, how can a white hat work in a responsible way that is distinguishable from a black hat who, when caught, only claims he is a white hat?
[23:11:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Empyrean [5241] (Score:1) 02Re:Advice? - 06Regular Meditation More Beneficial Than Vacation - 2318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:11:56] <exec> 08└─Here is the Zen inspired meditation technique that I use: 1. Find a good spot facing a wall (preferably monochromatic). 2. Sit down and assume a comfortable, balanced posture (spine straight). Some people insist on sitting in full/half lotus or seiza, however, I think this is unnecessary (I use a ch...
[23:12:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:3, Informative) 02non-Javascript link - 06Uncle Sam Launches Open Source Trove of Government Code - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:14] <exec> 08└─https://github.com/presidential-innovation-fellows/ [github.com]
[23:12:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Duplicate - 06Male Birth Control Study Killed After Men Complain About Side Effects - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:12:57] <exec> 08└─it would be nice to have reversible birth control for men Why, when we can knock 'em up, leave 'em, and come back for more?
[23:13:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Too many side effects? - 06Male Birth Control Study Killed After Men Complain About Side Effects - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:13:05] <exec> 08└─If a man gets too depressed to bang, the birth control is working. ☺ If a man suicides, that's even better. It actually reduces the population. ☺
[23:13:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:women asking: Why not men? - 06Male Birth Control Study Killed After Men Complain About Side Effects - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:13:12] <exec> 08└─Give men a CHOICE over their procreation. Women claim it as a right. He wants a kid ans she doesn't? Abortion. She wants a kid and he doesn't? Birth. Christ, but people are stupid!
[23:13:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:1000 years = 50 generations - 06Rock Shelter Used by Speedy Early Australians - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:13:22] <exec> 08└─You may be onto something. In the article they say there's evidence of hunting.
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