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[00:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Again with this shit? - 06Google Changes Algorithm to Derank Neo-Nazi Site - 733 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:19] <exec> 08└─Again with this shit? Didnt we just argue it a couple of hour or so ago? Before anyone here starts labeling each other go read what a Nazi was. How they came about. Why did they end up where they were? https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] [wikipedia.org] https://en.wikipedia.org
[00:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:Again with this shit? - 06Google Changes Algorithm to Derank Neo-Nazi Site - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:22:20] <exec> 08└─This is an SEO story, not a Nazi story.
[00:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Again with this shit? - 06Google Changes Algorithm to Derank Neo-Nazi Site - 792 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:22:23] <exec> 08└─If Google's top search results regarding Jews are negative then either Google's algorithms are biased against Jews, or the majority of the searches regarding Jews are in a negative context. And if you've met a few of them, or are at least annoyed by how many poorly-acting and/or unfunny ones magical...
[00:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Again with this shit? - 06Google Changes Algorithm to Derank Neo-Nazi Site - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:22:25] <exec> 08└─So I typed in "Ethanol_fueled" into Google, and I got a "racist not found" message.
[00:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Touché) 02Re:Again with this shit? - 06Google Changes Algorithm to Derank Neo-Nazi Site - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:22:27] <exec> 08└─Whats with all these trolls following ethanol anyway? You make him look rational in comparison.
[00:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02breibart - 06Google Changes Algorithm to Derank Neo-Nazi Site - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:29] <exec> 08└─that one is as neonazi as it gets
[00:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:breibart - 06Google Changes Algorithm to Derank Neo-Nazi Site - 607 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:22:31] <exec> 08└─That's the Liberal Fascist plan right there. 1) Declare everybody who's right of your politics a Nazi/Bigot/Racist/Sexist 2) Convince Google/Facebook/Twitter not to allow links to any "extreme" material 3) Your opponents are effectively censored off the internet You guys were fulling expecting to wi...
[00:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02gop.gov - 06Google Changes Algorithm to Derank Neo-Nazi Site - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:33] <exec> 08└─gop.gov?
[00:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score:2) 02Google controls all - 06Google Changes Algorithm to Derank Neo-Nazi Site - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:36] <exec> 08└─And yet with all these improvements, the top 10 sites for many obscure searches I do are still content-less crap sites. The problem here is that one person's "better results" is another persons censorship. Last week Google de-listed a site I frequent for fuck knows why. (Vetusware.com if you really...
[00:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Google controls all - 06Google Changes Algorithm to Derank Neo-Nazi Site - 640 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:22:38] <exec> 08└─These sorts of shenanigans are a large part of why I don't use Google. It's not just the delistings and the constant modification of how pages are ranked, it's that they even rank things in the first place by things other than how closely it matches my current search query. If I wanted other things,...
[00:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Via chickens? - 06Oral Vaccine Against Salmonella Developed - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:22:47] <exec> 08└─No, unless you regularly eat whole raw chickens. Pumping dead animals full of vaccine and throwing them out of helicopters is actually a very effective way of vaccinating wild animals against rabies.
[00:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Re:Would it be ready in time for Rocky 8? - 06Oral Vaccine Against Salmonella Developed - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:22:50] <exec> 08└─According to America's Test Kitchen, ~1/10000 supermarket eggs is contaminated with salmonella. Rocky would get exposed to one every 3-4 years at 8 per day, but he probably wouldn't get sick due to the fact that he eats lightning and craps thunder.
[00:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:Simple solution is not so simple - 065. 4. 3. 2. 1. 1... An Extra Second to See Out 2016 - 781 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:23:24] <exec> 08└─I've seen a couple of things about the rotation rate of the Earth through history - human evolution was supposed to have happened mostly on a longer 25ish hour day, but then in deep history the Earth's rotation was supposed to have been much faster. I'm wondering if there's a net correlation between...
[00:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:Simple solution: - 065. 4. 3. 2. 1. 1... An Extra Second to See Out 2016 - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:23:27] <exec> 08└─For bnetter or worse, it's the word chosen for use in various documents on clock handling in a computer. It is used as opposed to stepping where the clock is simply set to the corrected time instantly. Slewing also guarantees monotonic time (it never goes backwards). Google "ntp clock slew" for a ba...
[00:24:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:lost interest once I read the word Neolibral - 06Mexican Farmers See Opportunity to Renegotiate NAFTA After Trump - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:24:03] <exec> 08└─You have taken the first step, now come to the Dark Side and understand ALL journalism is like that,
[00:24:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03caffeine [249] (Score:2) 02Re:Not necessarily a bad thing - 06Mexican Farmers See Opportunity to Renegotiate NAFTA After Trump - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:24:16] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure any country can negotiate in good faith when dealing with an 800lb gorilla. The US people may dislike free trade agreements, but they seem far worse when you are from the smaller country in the agreement.
[00:25:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] 02Re:Only going to legitimize nazism by diluting it - 06Casting Call for Neo-Nazis - 3952 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:25:02] <exec> 08└─Now read this very carefully because I am going to tell you something about myself and hopefully it will tell you something about yourself. I am not white. I am not American. I am not European. I have lived for quite many years in Europe. I have my family ties with people who are married to white Eu...
[00:25:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02alt-right != neo-nazi - 06Casting Call for Neo-Nazis - 2213 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:32] <exec> 08└─What I find amusing is the way that the MSM so desperately and blatantly tries to label the alt-right as "neo-Nazi". They think they are defending liberal values, but in fact, they are just defending the existing political establshment. The Republicans and the Democrats in the US are nearly indistig...
[00:26:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Good research - 06Discovering the Origin of the Anus and Mouth - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:26:09] <exec> 08└─ποιμένες ἄγραυλοι, κάκ᾽ ἐλέγχεα, γαστέρες οἶον, ἴδμεν ψεύδεα πολλὰ λέγειν ἐτύμοισιν ὁμοῖα, ἴδμεν δ᾽, εὖτ᾽ ἐθέλωμεν, ἀληθέα γηρύσασθαι.
[00:26:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:1) 02Re:Something interesting I hadn't seen mentioned.. - 06IBM Staff Petition for Right Not to Work on Trump's Pet Projects - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:26:32] <exec> 08└─> I am personally hope to see the full results of a single party government this coming 4-8 years [...] Consider a visit to Cuba, the PRC or the DPRK.
[00:27:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The horrors of working for big blue. - 06IBM Staff Petition for Right Not to Work on Trump's Pet Projects - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:27:12] <exec> 08└─It's exactly what D Trump needs to do to make America great again. Reagan fired the air traffic controllers and planes kept on flying, IBM can fire these liberal retards for cause and start making some serious profits for shareholders.
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[01:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:Again with this shit? - 06Google Changes Algorithm to Derank Neo-Nazi Site - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:22:20] <exec> 08└─split the diff, its about seo-nazis.
[01:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:breibart - 06Google Changes Algorithm to Derank Neo-Nazi Site - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:22:27] <exec> 08└─3) Your opponents are effectively censored off the internet
[01:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:breibart - 06Google Changes Algorithm to Derank Neo-Nazi Site - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:22:29] <exec> 08└─I love how "Tolerant" Liberals think it's hilarious to make gay jokes about their enemies, but will throw a gigantic fucking hissy fit and boycott you if anyone they don't like does it.
[01:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Google controls all - 06Google Changes Algorithm to Derank Neo-Nazi Site - 890 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:22:35] <exec> 08└─It's called being "bubbled" where they take the things that match what you typed in and then filter it based upon what they think you'll want. The problem is that it leads to biased results that don't necessarily match with what you're looking for. It's a very dangerous way of handling the situation...
[01:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Google controls all - 06Google Changes Algorithm to Derank Neo-Nazi Site - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:22:37] <exec> 08└─I thought being bubbled involved a hooker and some champagne?
[01:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Google controls all - 06Google Changes Algorithm to Derank Neo-Nazi Site - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:22:39] <exec> 08└─Not for Francis, it doesn't! This is why he doesn't do google.
[01:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Google controls all - 06Google Changes Algorithm to Derank Neo-Nazi Site - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:22:41] <exec> 08└─> Last week Google de-listed a site I frequent for fuck knows why. (Vetusware.com if you really want to know). Probably because its 100% piracy. You can argue about whether it should be considered piracy or not, but the fact is that. due to the ridiculously long length of copyright, sharing abandonw...
[01:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02the name says it all - 06Google Changes Algorithm to Derank Neo-Nazi Site - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:22:44] <exec> 08└─vetusware? Obviously a spam site. OS2? Subversive! MS-DOS 6.0? REGRESSIVE!! Oh, God, there's Wordstar! Whacko science fiction writers are known to use that! Vetusware needs to be censored right out of the universe! /sarcasm The games list is pretty impressive too. Errr, I mean, LET'S STOMP OUT THAT...
[01:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Rampant paranoia - 06Google Changes Algorithm to Derank Neo-Nazi Site - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:46] <exec> 08└─But Heidi Beirich, intelligence project director for the Southern Poverty Law Center, said Tuesday that Google has a long way to go to "clean up its act."
[01:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Rampant paranoia - 06Google Changes Algorithm to Derank Neo-Nazi Site - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:22:48] <exec> 08└─> So does the SPLC. They think everyone is a hate group Blah, blah, blah. How dare you call me out for being racist!?! I'm not racist, you're the racist! Same old shit.
[01:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:Rampant paranoia - 06Google Changes Algorithm to Derank Neo-Nazi Site - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:22:50] <exec> 08└─Which is why people need to be allowed to leave each other the heck alone. Unfortunately, merely wanting that is enough to be branded a racist.
[01:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Getting there! Still needs tuning. - 06Google Changes Algorithm to Derank Neo-Nazi Site - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:53] <exec> 08└─I searched with Google Search for "The Holocaust is a lie." https://www.google.com [google.com] The top-ranking page informed me What an arch-fabrication it is, what degree of absolute treachery, one that exceeds all limits of human deceit an...
[01:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Getting there! Still needs tuning. - 06Google Changes Algorithm to Derank Neo-Nazi Site - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:22:55] <exec> 08└─That seems to be a real product, only available in India: http://www.dailymail.co.uk [dailymail.co.uk]
[01:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:1) 02Re:Getting there! Still needs tuning. - 06Google Changes Algorithm to Derank Neo-Nazi Site - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:22:57] <exec> 08└─Someone had written (http://www.wittyprofiles.com/q/3440348 [wittyprofiles.com]) "www.theholocaustisalie.com = An ice cream shop". The domain is for sale now.
[01:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Food poisoning is a major issue - 06Oral Vaccine Against Salmonella Developed - 2368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:08] <exec> 08└─I know when stats come up with "millions" of cases of food poisoning that many people can be skeptical. But Salmonella, like many types of food poisoning, can present in a variety of fashions from very mild to very severe. For one thing, contrary to popular belief, there is no such thing as the "24-...
[01:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02Hey babe, got your salmonella vaccine right here - 06Oral Vaccine Against Salmonella Developed - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:09] <exec> 08└─Just swallow this. Low hanging fruit and all that. The internet has ruined me.
[01:23:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:Simple solution is not so simple - 065. 4. 3. 2. 1. 1... An Extra Second to See Out 2016 - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:23:46] <exec> 08└─human evolution was supposed to have happened mostly on a longer 25ish hour day
[01:23:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:Simple solution is not so simple - 065. 4. 3. 2. 1. 1... An Extra Second to See Out 2016 - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:23:47] <exec> 08└─It's quite the rabbit hole, isn't it?
[01:23:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Dunbal [3515] 02Re:Self-centered much? - 065. 4. 3. 2. 1. 1... An Extra Second to See Out 2016 - 216 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:23:53] <exec> 08└─It is one second in the day, not one second in every single time zone in the day. Unless your New Year happens to coincide with the UTC time zone, the leap second will have come and gone and you'll be none the wiser.
[01:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The obvious needs to be stated? - 06Mexican Farmers See Opportunity to Renegotiate NAFTA After Trump - 660 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:24:32] <exec> 08└─> The maquiladoras in Mexico employ "approximately one million workers," someone has written in Wikipedia with a citation I didn't check. You should have checked. That number is well over a decade out of date, the paper its from was published in 2004 [elsevier.com] so it probably doesn't include num...
[01:24:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Where's the Proof? - 06Mexican Farmers See Opportunity to Renegotiate NAFTA After Trump - 983 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:24:37] <exec> 08└─> ONLY RICH BASTARDS BENEFITTED FROM NAFTA!! Where's your proof? Don't just say "everybody knows" because that's just wishful thinking. Just because money didn't flow over the border into your bank account doesn't mean you did not benefit. Pretty much everybody benefited except the very bottom rungs...
[01:24:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Made in Downtown LA - 06Mexican Farmers See Opportunity to Renegotiate NAFTA After Trump - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:48] <exec> 08└─Maybe the anti-NAFTA crowd should look patronize this retailer [fastcompany.com], who has always made all of its products in the USA, and mostly at its own factory in Los Angeles. I've been in one of their stores and I didn't have much use for way-overpriced oxford shirts, but others might have diff...
[01:25:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Once again, no liability. - 06New York Charges Three Hackers Who Targeted Merger-Advising Law Firms - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:25:00] <exec> 08└─They could've installed a keystroke logger on a lawyer's home PC through malware, or maybe they just relied on the fact that many lawyers choose estoppel as their password.
[01:25:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Only going to legitimize nazism by diluting it - 06Casting Call for Neo-Nazis - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:25:33] <exec> 08└─The vocal few have been clamoring for years, and getting their way, in regards to race relations. Those vocal few don't LISTEN to the common man and woman on the street.
[01:25:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02He who smelt it dealt it! - 06Casting Call for Neo-Nazis - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:25:36] <exec> 08└─> You know what? Both of you are racists and that is the fact. Yeah. He who smelt it dealt it! We all know that's how racism works. #whitegermicide
[01:26:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Rejecting Globalism = Encouraging Nationalism? - 06Casting Call for Neo-Nazis - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:26:24] <exec> 08└─> A robust free market is still individualism. That level of "free" doesn't exist, at least not for the vast majority of the population. All markets for individuals are coercive. You need food, shelter, clothing, etc. Therefore you must participate in the market. The only people for whom such free m...
[01:26:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03stretch611 [6199] 02Re:Question.. - 06Discovering the Origin of the Anus and Mouth - 57 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:26:37] <exec> 08└─which came first, talking out your arse, or talking sh!t?
[01:26:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Question.. - 06Discovering the Origin of the Anus and Mouth - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:26:40] <exec> 08└─Starfish can feed without even ingesting: they evert their stomachs.
[01:26:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02In other won't-work-for-Trump news... - 06IBM Staff Petition for Right Not to Work on Trump's Pet Projects - 1249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:26:57] <exec> 08└─In other won't-work-for-Trump news, the transition team is trying to find A-List performers who are willing to participate in the inaugural events and are having extreme difficulty. [blogspot.com] Italian Reactionary Andrea Bocelli initially said Yes, but the masses convinced him that that would be...
[01:27:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Replacing old paradigms - 06IBM Staff Petition for Right Not to Work on Trump's Pet Projects - 589 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:27:20] <exec> 08└─just accept all the [butt] fucking they get from the world Moving on to an Egalitarian future Step 1: Stop giving Nielson points to TeeVee that has advertisers, sponsors, and underwriters. Lamestream Media isn't interested in giving you useful information; they're strictly about making money and kee...
[01:27:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I just want to bang on the drum all day - 06IBM Staff Petition for Right Not to Work on Trump's Pet Projects - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:27:23] <exec> 08└─Gene Krupa, Philly Joe Jones, Max Roach, Elvin Jones, Ginger Baker, Ringo Starr, Neil Peart... More. [google.com] Hardly of the "I don't want to work" genre. [genius.com] The key to life is to find something you enjoy doing and figuring out a way to make a buck doing that. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylent...
[01:27:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''That's capitalist pig, not nazi'' - 06IBM Staff Petition for Right Not to Work on Trump's Pet Projects - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:27:28] <exec> 08└─In his 696-page book Capital in the Twenty-First Century, [wikipedia.org] where he analyzed 250 years of Capitalism, Professor Piketty notes that Capitalism proceeds toward greater and greater inequality, monopoly, and Fascism. To say it a different way, Fascism can be considered to be the ultimate...
[01:28:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:All these little signs all pointing toward sani - 06Korean Air Has Given Flight Attendants the Green Light to Use Tasers on Unruly Passengers - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:28:24] <exec> 08└─I think universities should be allowed to use tasers on SJWs.
[01:28:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Legality - 06Korean Air Has Given Flight Attendants the Green Light to Use Tasers on Unruly Passengers - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:28:25] <exec> 08└─Hold on, tasers aren't legal in all countries. Does some law allow airlines to carry weapons on flights into jurisdictions where they're prohibited?
[01:28:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Not exactly breaking news - 06Astrophysicist and Dark Matter Discoverer Vera Rubin has Died at 88 - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:28:44] <exec> 08└─Again, fuck you. Your complaint was unwarranted and stupid. You could submit the story. It was obviously important to you. Yes, you come off as an entitled mother fucker when you *specifically* complain about the lack of a story when you are very able to submit same story. Nothing you can say can er...
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[02:22:29] <exec> 08└─Confirmed it goes for Somali, but the only thing it attempts to translate winds up as “which.” So for shits and giggles I punched in “Which witch is which?” and got “Waa kuwee saaxirad taasoo ah?” Wikipedia provides a sample of Somali speech [wikimedia.org] along with phonology [wikipedi...
[02:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:breibart - 06Google Changes Algorithm to Derank Neo-Nazi Site - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:22:34] <exec> 08└─hilarious to make gay jokes about their enemies,
[02:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Google controls all - 06Google Changes Algorithm to Derank Neo-Nazi Site - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:22:43] <exec> 08└─Francis, Francis, my poor deluded Francis! The problem is that it leads to biased results that don't necessarily match with what you're looking for.
[02:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score:2) 02Re:Google controls all - 06Google Changes Algorithm to Derank Neo-Nazi Site - 870 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:22:47] <exec> 08└─If you wanted to get pedantic about it, there are copyright violations just about everywhere, so you might as well just pull the plug on the entire internet. But there are hundreds of other sites that host abandoned/vintage software. Should Goolge also pull the plug on Bitsaver's or archive.org? Wha...
[02:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Rampant paranoia - 06Google Changes Algorithm to Derank Neo-Nazi Site - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:22:53] <exec> 08└─> Which is why people need to be allowed to leave each other the heck alone. You are welcome to go live in the hills without the benefits of society. But otherwise you are going to have to accept the rules of the society as the price for those benefits. There's no such thing as a free lunch.
[02:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:Rampant paranoia - 06Google Changes Algorithm to Derank Neo-Nazi Site - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:22:55] <exec> 08└─But otherwise you are going to have to accept the rules of the society as the price for those benefits.
[02:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03zeigerpuppy [1298] (Score:2) 02To edit or not to edit - 06Google Changes Algorithm to Derank Neo-Nazi Site - 594 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:00] <exec> 08└─These developments are really interesting because they are revealing the true power of google (alphabet). Until now, google has been able to claim that their algorithm is an innocent one, without bias or hand picking. This is blatantly false, search results are edited by hand at Google (even though...
[02:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Food poisoning is a major issue - 06Oral Vaccine Against Salmonella Developed - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:23:12] <exec> 08└─One thing that many people forget is that food poisoning can be caused by more than just under-cooked meat. According to some estimates, most FBI is caused by cross-contamination at home and by contaminated vegetables (especially spinach) in commercial settings. Additionally, infections from contami...
[02:23:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score:2) 02Re:Simple solution is not so simple - 065. 4. 3. 2. 1. 1... An Extra Second to See Out 2016 - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:23:51] <exec> 08└─Maybe once the error accumulates to 10 minutes or more in a few centuries, we can deal with a correction.
[02:24:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Nothing precise uses UTC - 065. 4. 3. 2. 1. 1... An Extra Second to See Out 2016 - 854 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:24:12] <exec> 08└─You are confused. Unix time is defined as seconds elapsed since Jan 1, 1970 without including any leap seconds. We agree on that. That doesn't make Unix time any less precise than UTC. All UTC does with its leap seconds is to make the calendar year longer; specifically, it makes the month (even more...
[02:24:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Yes, you caught my time typo. -msg - 065. 4. 3. 2. 1. 1... An Extra Second to See Out 2016 - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:24:14] <exec> 08└─You caught my typo: I meant 11:59:59 PM
[02:24:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Runaway is Goatsecxing Again! - 06Mexican Farmers See Opportunity to Renegotiate NAFTA After Trump - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:24:44] <exec> 08└─Fifty million or more illegal aliens flooding into the United States
[02:24:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Where's the Proof? - 06Mexican Farmers See Opportunity to Renegotiate NAFTA After Trump - 814 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:24:46] <exec> 08└─Proof? The flood of people leaving Mexico when they realized how badly they had been screwed. The millions of US citizens out of work today. Figures don't lie, but liars figure. Pay a fool enough, and he can manipulate numbers to say anything you want them to say. Go to Mexico, and look at the quali...
[02:24:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Modern Man of the Moment! - 06Mexican Farmers See Opportunity to Renegotiate NAFTA After Trump - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:24:48] <exec> 08└─So anyone with actual numbers is a liar. The only truth is whatever you take on faith. Runaway you truly are a modern man, you were post-factual before it was trendy!
[02:26:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:alt-right != neo-nazi - 06Casting Call for Neo-Nazis - 627 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:26:28] <exec> 08└─George Soros once posed as a gentile in order to confiscate wealth from the Jews in the same way he now poses as a liberal in order to confiscate wealth from entire nations. FFS indeed! [rt.com] Soros is on record as saying the time he spent with the Nazis was the best time of his life. He supports...
[02:27:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02Affirmative action - 06IBM Staff Petition for Right Not to Work on Trump's Pet Projects - 276 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:10] <exec> 08└─TFA: (2) Expand our diversity recruitment programs specifically targeting women, people of color, and LGBT people with the goal of doubling recruitment of these groups in 2017 and steadily increasing the share of these groups as a proportion of new hiring in subsequent years.
[02:27:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I just want to bang on the drum all day - 06IBM Staff Petition for Right Not to Work on Trump's Pet Projects - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:27:32] <exec> 08└─Can I make a buck from pseudo anon trolling. I really like pseudo anon trolling.
[02:27:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''[IBM] automated the holocaust'' - 06IBM Staff Petition for Right Not to Work on Trump's Pet Projects - 529 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:27:46] <exec> 08└─I heard an account[1] which said that IBM rejiggered the maintenance recommendations for the Nazi equipment such that it significantly increased the downtime. Of course, it seems unlikely IBM didn't charge extra for the extra service calls, so, cha-ching there as well. ...and there's no shortage of...
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[03:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score:2) 02Re:Google controls all - 06Google Changes Algorithm to Derank Neo-Nazi Site - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:22:51] <exec> 08└─Google has an amazing amount of power. If they don't want you on the web , they can remove you at a press of a button [emphasis added]
[03:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03linuxrocks123 [2557] (Score:2) 02Re:Google controls all - 06Google Changes Algorithm to Derank Neo-Nazi Site - 1101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:22:53] <exec> 08└─That looks like it might be a mistake on Google's part somehow. Using Google's Transparency Report, I was able to find this on Lumen.org as the only complaint Google has received about vetusware: https://lumendatabase.org [lumendatabase.org] And that was in 2014, so I don't know what...
[03:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Rampant paranoia - 06Google Changes Algorithm to Derank Neo-Nazi Site - 696 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:23:00] <exec> 08└─> [8 minute youtube video] Not even going to watch that. Linking to youtube videos without spelling out your specific issues is the cop out of a lazy mind. Its a way to feel smug and righteous without actually making even one point that can be addressed. > But the rule that seems to exist right now...
[03:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:To edit or not to edit - 06Google Changes Algorithm to Derank Neo-Nazi Site - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:23:06] <exec> 08└─Google have it pretty rough, because their 'hood is run by weenies who are offended at everything. That runs counter to being an impartial search engine, and as their bias increases, the quality of their searches degrades. I'm guessing it started with the "Michelle Obama Monkey" debacle and went ste...
[03:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Yeah right... - 06Google Changes Algorithm to Derank Neo-Nazi Site - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:08] <exec> 08└─We will not be done until "is the holocaust real?" shows that it did in fact happen, that it was funded by banking families including jewish banking families and that these same Nazi's were still in power upto Dec 2016. Can we just get rid of the psychopaths instead of making excuses for their conti...
[03:24:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Modern Man of the Moment! - 06Mexican Farmers See Opportunity to Renegotiate NAFTA After Trump - 1796 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:24:54] <exec> 08└─The Clinton White House cited numbers like 12 million. The Bush White House set the figure at 20 million, in it's first administration. The O'Bummer White House released a number like 11 million at some point in time. More reliable sources state quite simply that nobody knows - they are undocumented...
[03:24:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Modern Man of the Moment! - 06Mexican Farmers See Opportunity to Renegotiate NAFTA After Trump - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:24:56] <exec> 08└─WTF are you talking about? I was talking about the number of skilled jobs due to exports. You? I dunno, drunk maybe?
[03:25:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Made in Downtown LA ...in a sweatshop - 06Mexican Farmers See Opportunity to Renegotiate NAFTA After Trump - 615 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:25:07] <exec> 08└─American Apparel has had a pattern of labor abuse for well over a decade. ...and, in 2010, the founder essentially turned over his company to 3 MBA types. You can just imagine how that "improved" labor relations. Why buy from USAian manufacturers when they treat their people as if they are Third-Wor...
[03:25:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02Re:Only going to legitimize nazism by diluting it - 06Casting Call for Neo-Nazis - 642 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:25:42] <exec> 08└─Maybe in whatever alternate dimension you live in. Here, on the real earth, CubanCigar usually has things pegged pretty accurately. For instance - there is no "alt-right". The so-called "alt-right" are just regular people, pushing back against the demoplicans and the republicrats who have been abusi...
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[04:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Quamcomm is the new Microsoft - 06Qualcomm Fined $853 Million by South Korea for Antitrust Violations - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:22] <exec> 08└─Qualcomm is being sued all across the world for their patent abuse.
[04:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The shakedown business - 06Qualcomm Fined $853 Million by South Korea for Antitrust Violations - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:24] <exec> 08└─Sometimes you're collecting, sometimes you're getting collected.
[04:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score:2) 02Re:breibart - 06Google Changes Algorithm to Derank Neo-Nazi Site - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:22:50] <exec> 08└─the US NAVY (at least when Runaway was in), and Milo and Peter.
[04:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Google controls all - 06Google Changes Algorithm to Derank Neo-Nazi Site - 656 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:23:00] <exec> 08└─You mean sort of how nothing intelligent can pass through your thick skull? The greater risk here is in filtering out material in reality. If nobody is doing any filtering then there's at least some way of addressing the situation. But, if there's filtering going on, then there's no way of knowing w...
[04:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Google controls all - 06Google Changes Algorithm to Derank Neo-Nazi Site - 660 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:23:04] <exec> 08└─> If you wanted to get pedantic about it, there are copyright violations just about everywhere, so you might as well just pull the plug on the entire internet. Ugh. Typical reductive geek logic used to define away the question rather than address it. Its not insightful, its deflection. If you don't...
[04:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02It is a bit disappointing... - 06Google Changes Algorithm to Derank Neo-Nazi Site - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:23:07] <exec> 08└─That most of these sites don't have a darknet presence and the foresight to nudge their collective userbases to learn to use such software to help protect themselves and the service hosters from easily tracked future enforcement actions.
[04:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Try searx.me - 06Google Changes Algorithm to Derank Neo-Nazi Site - 635 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:23:11] <exec> 08└─And maybe we can push for a Solus(or whatever the java/apache search engine is called) with a DHT for search terms so end users can do spidering and help provide results we actually want, rather than relying on commercial sites shoving us what we don't. There are two ways to get free: whore yourself...
[04:23:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score:1) 02Re:Via chickens? - 06Oral Vaccine Against Salmonella Developed - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:23:32] <exec> 08└─So it should also work tossing out live Turkeys?
[04:23:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hey babe, got your salmonella vaccine right her - 06Oral Vaccine Against Salmonella Developed - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:23:38] <exec> 08└─Aristarchus likes to swallow my low hanging fruit.
[04:23:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02"Vaccine" nitpick - 06Oral Vaccine Against Salmonella Developed - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:41] <exec> 08└─Salmonella is a bacteria. "Vaccine" does not work against bacterial infection.
[04:23:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score:1) 02Re:"Vaccine" nitpick - 06Oral Vaccine Against Salmonella Developed - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:23:43] <exec> 08└─TFA disagrees, as well as innumerable places on the interwebs. One example: http://www.historyofvaccines.org [historyofvaccines.org] 1. How do vaccines work? Do they work against viruses and bacteria? Vaccines work to prime your immune system agai...
[04:24:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Worthless comment - 06Mexican Farmers See Opportunity to Renegotiate NAFTA After Trump - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:24:54] <exec> 08└─Just the tip.
[04:25:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Simple soution to undocumented workers - 06Mexican Farmers See Opportunity to Renegotiate NAFTA After Trump - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:25:19] <exec> 08└─The (white) people who hire them are committing a crime. Jail ALL of the people breaking the law. Problem solved. N.B. Not holding my breath waiting for this to happen. Reagan stopped enforcing the law and no chief executive since has had the balls to start again. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
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[05:22:30] <exec> 08└─It is *the* key aspect of their cell phone business. Every cell phone sold pays the qualcomm tax. They went from a 'maybe' to the forefront because of patent litigation. They are quite proud of their history.
[05:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:Quamcomm is the new Microsoft - 06Qualcomm Fined $853 Million by South Korea for Antitrust Violations - 822 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:22:32] <exec> 08└─It is also temporary... 20 years post implementation, the tax will be gone, and the incentive will be there for the next innovator to make an equally meaningful contribution to technology. Well, that's the theory - more often the entrenched players just freeze out new technology until the inventors'...
[05:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Quamcomm is the new Microsoft - 06Qualcomm Fined $853 Million by South Korea for Antitrust Violations - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:22:34] <exec> 08└─Most of these patents are minor improvement over the existing tech - each by themselves, they are useless, so can't stick a price tag on them. BTW, in fast moving tech sectors, 20 years is eternity.
[05:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Google controls all - 06Google Changes Algorithm to Derank Neo-Nazi Site - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:23:11] <exec> 08└─Seriously, I've had to re-evaluate my views on several posters here as you've set a new all time low for lack of intellectual capacity.
[05:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:Google controls all - 06Google Changes Algorithm to Derank Neo-Nazi Site - 1462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:23:15] <exec> 08└─Lets really go for blood here. Youtube was explicitly built on rampant, massive, pervasive copyright violation. They encouraged and facilitated random users on the Internet to upload content all parties knew was copyrighted by someone other than the uploader. Then Google used its size to simply bull...
[05:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Screw Google... - 06Google Changes Algorithm to Derank Neo-Nazi Site - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:34] <exec> 08└─I'll start my own search engine...with Black Jack, and hookers!
[05:23:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"Vaccine" nitpick - 06Oral Vaccine Against Salmonella Developed - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:23:52] <exec> 08└─Vaccine is dead or weakened virus injected so that the immune system is primed with the specific antibody against the virus. This mechanism doesn't work against bacterial infection.
[05:24:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Simple solution, simple people! - 06Privacy Groups Complain to FTC Over Google's 'Deceptive' Policy Change - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:24:17] <exec> 08└─uhhh they do it too but this is google...
[05:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:Simple solution is not so simple - 065. 4. 3. 2. 1. 1... An Extra Second to See Out 2016 - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:24:32] <exec> 08└─It may have been the sleep-cycle research. I'm remembering something from 25+ years ago, and lots of stuff from back then has been formally retracted, debunked, etc...
[05:24:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02^^ I retract above post; darkfeline is right - 065. 4. 3. 2. 1. 1... An Extra Second to See Out 2016 - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:24:55] <exec> 08└─The way Unix time kludges in "support" for leap seconds (it doesn't support them, it employs hacks to sync back up with UTC) is pretty ugly and is explained in detail here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[05:25:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Modern Man of the Moment! - 06Mexican Farmers See Opportunity to Renegotiate NAFTA After Trump - 822 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:25:36] <exec> 08└─Oh - so - you're one of those elitests, who don't care that Joe Smith's kid isn't fit for much more than digging ditches. If Smith wanted his kid to have a *good job* he would have sent the kid to college. Except - you don't seem to have noticed that somewhat educated people in the tech industries a...
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[06:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Who could have guessed - 06Cyanogen Inc. Shuts Down CyanogenMod in Christmas Bloodbath - 478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:23] <exec> 08└─Who could have guessed that open source peeps would have a problem swapping Google as their information overlord for Microsoft. Everyone is just shocked to learn there wasn't a gusher of fame and money in that deal. NOT. Everybody thinks they can monetize Open Source. To date Red Hat has sorta manag...
[06:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score:2) 02Re:Again with this shit? - 06Google Changes Algorithm to Derank Neo-Nazi Site - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:22:54] <exec> 08└─A king needs his court....
[06:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Google controls all - 06Google Changes Algorithm to Derank Neo-Nazi Site - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:23:12] <exec> 08└─The greater risk here is in filtering out material in reality. If nobody is doing any filtering then there's at least some way of addressing the situation. But, if there's filtering going on, then there's no way of knowing what is and isn't being kept from the public and there's a very big problem a...
[06:23:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:Rampant paranoia - 06Google Changes Algorithm to Derank Neo-Nazi Site - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:23:29] <exec> 08└─Because what you seem to be complaining about is the opposite - that the might of the "majority" of is being thwarted by minorities.
[06:23:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:Rampant paranoia - 06Google Changes Algorithm to Derank Neo-Nazi Site - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:23:30] <exec> 08└─But Heidi Beirich, intelligence project director for the Southern Poverty Law Center, said Tuesday that Google has a long way to go to "clean up its act."
[06:24:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"Privacy"? - 06Privacy Groups Complain to FTC Over Google's 'Deceptive' Policy Change - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:24:19] <exec> 08└─We are the jews... and we won.
[06:24:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Simple solution, simple people! - 06Privacy Groups Complain to FTC Over Google's 'Deceptive' Policy Change - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:24:22] <exec> 08└─Whoops - I screwed that one up. Yeah, Google too. People can learn to block a lot of Google's crap. I don't see Google advertising, because ad servers are blocked. I've blocked some of Google's services, java script runs only selectively. Yeah, Google still tracks me, I'm sure, but if they do, they...
[06:27:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Good research - 06Discovering the Origin of the Anus and Mouth - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:27:46] <exec> 08└─That Feeling When: you get modded "offtopic" by someone who cannot read Greek. Oh, Mores! Oh, Tempura! Oh, Literatti!
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[07:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:Who could have guessed - 06Cyanogen Inc. Shuts Down CyanogenMod in Christmas Bloodbath - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:22:28] <exec> 08└─Everybody thinks they can monetize Open Source.
[07:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Who could have guessed - 06Cyanogen Inc. Shuts Down CyanogenMod in Christmas Bloodbath - 861 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:22:30] <exec> 08└─jmorris, you have committed one of the two classic blunders! The first is never get involved in a land war in Asia! The second, only slightly less known, is never try to monetize free software on the basis of property rights! This would have been obvious to anyone with half a brain? But like SCO, w...
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[07:22:32] <exec> 08└─Proposal to end internet advertising and proprietary software. Facebook becomes an agency of the United States federal government. All persons pay the Facebook Tax. GitHub becomes a subsidiary of Facebook. All software development happens on GitHub and is funded by the Facebook Tax. Under penalty of...
[07:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Who could have guessed - 06Cyanogen Inc. Shuts Down CyanogenMod in Christmas Bloodbath - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:22:34] <exec> 08└─Chose the form of the Destroyer! Deus ex Machina has an entirely new definition, and the libertarians could be, well, not wrong.
[07:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Who could have guessed - 06Cyanogen Inc. Shuts Down CyanogenMod in Christmas Bloodbath - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:22:36] <exec> 08└─You're awfully optimistic about this. As far as I can tell, at the rate things are going, rentseeking will indeed be rewarded with death, but everyone else will have died first.
[07:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Who could have guessed - 06Cyanogen Inc. Shuts Down CyanogenMod in Christmas Bloodbath - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:22:38] <exec> 08└─Moz Corp makes shitloads of money and is currently feeding from the bloated corpse of Yahoo. Even with their mismanagement of money they can last forever. They may even be able to leech off Google again and burn money on more useless projects.
[07:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Quamcomm is the new Microsoft - 06Qualcomm Fined $853 Million by South Korea for Antitrust Violations - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:22:49] <exec> 08└─Most of their innovation has been bought from other companies at this point. They just finished buying a parts company. The place where I live was paid for because they bought out another company...
[07:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Flamebait) 02diamond studded bling - 06Diamond Nanowires Assemble Themselves - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:58] <exec> 08└─appears wherever there are welfare niggers
[07:23:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:Google controls all - 06Google Changes Algorithm to Derank Neo-Nazi Site - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:23:33] <exec> 08└─Exactly how do you know what you are looking for, such that you can identify biased results? If you can recognize "biased results", you already knew what you were looking for, so you were not in fact looking for something, you were looking for confirmation, as in "confirmation bias".
[07:23:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Rampant paranoia - 06Google Changes Algorithm to Derank Neo-Nazi Site - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:23:50] <exec> 08└─You've made a lot of wrong assumptions about what I'm complaining about and come to some really wrong conclusions.
[07:23:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Rampant paranoia - 06Google Changes Algorithm to Derank Neo-Nazi Site - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:23:53] <exec> 08└─You can say "horse's ass" you know. We're allowed to swear here.
[07:24:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"Vaccine" nitpick - 06Oral Vaccine Against Salmonella Developed - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:24:18] <exec> 08└─nope.
[07:25:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:Simple solution is not so simple - 065. 4. 3. 2. 1. 1... An Extra Second to See Out 2016 - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:25:01] <exec> 08└─You are proposing replacing the inconvenient leap second with the supposedly more workable ten leap minutes?
[07:26:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Modern Man of the Moment! - 06Mexican Farmers See Opportunity to Renegotiate NAFTA After Trump - 551 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:26:03] <exec> 08└─So drunk it is then? Because NAFTA has got shit all to do with illegal aliens. Its like the drinking has let loose your seething racism and its all blurred together in an alcoholic rage about the brown. You could make an argument about NAFTA sending low skilled jobs going south of the border. But I...
[07:30:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score:2) 02Re:Not exactly breaking news - 06Astrophysicist and Dark Matter Discoverer Vera Rubin has Died at 88 - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:30:10] <exec> 08└─Fuck you too, you motherfucker! If that is the level of conversation you're used to, fine I can deal with cocksuckers like you all day. I'm too fucking old to be scared by childish foul language. Now go and take that giant cock off your ass.
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[08:22:22] <exec> 08└─Expect more Chinese ascendancy and American decline in 2017 under Uber Trump.
[08:23:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Google controls all - 06Google Changes Algorithm to Derank Neo-Nazi Site - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:23:29] <exec> 08└─While you are quite correct, While I understand what you're getting at, you have to admit that Francis has a point here too.
[08:23:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Re:Rampant paranoia - 06Google Changes Algorithm to Derank Neo-Nazi Site - 451 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:23:50] <exec> 08└─It is a common meme that con-sultants and pharmaceutical companies do not exist to cure problems but to profit on the journey to 'manage disease'. So too do these pressure groups, who continue pushing their agendas even if the founding goals have been met. What profit is there in that? The Carpetbag...
[08:24:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"Vaccine" nitpick - 06Oral Vaccine Against Salmonella Developed - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:24:14] <exec> 08└─There are vaccines for TB, anthrax, typhus, and bacterial meningitis. I'm not sure about eukaryotic parasites, but there's certainly people working on malaria and sleeping sickness.
[08:25:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Modern Man of the Moment! - 06Mexican Farmers See Opportunity to Renegotiate NAFTA After Trump - 1073 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:25:59] <exec> 08└─Science suggests that some brains are the densest material on earth. Which part of "NAFTA and the drug wars destroyed Mexico's economy" do you fail to understand? Mexicans flood across the border, but WHY? They have always trickled across, but suddenly they are a torrent. WHY? The answers are NAFTA...
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[09:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Re:Who could have guessed - 06Cyanogen Inc. Shuts Down CyanogenMod in Christmas Bloodbath - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:22:28] <exec> 08└─That's sounds very unlikely, since everyone else will be eager to have a chat with the rentseekers once things get bad enough.
[09:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Re:Google controls all - 06Google Changes Algorithm to Derank Neo-Nazi Site - 612 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:23:23] <exec> 08└─Let's say you do a lot of Ron Paul searches. Now Google has to show you some Ron Paul results. What should Google show you? Should Google show you what it thinks you want, or should Google show you something you don't want ("the truth")? Which is more ethical? Does Google have the right to decide wh...
[09:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Google controls all - 06Google Changes Algorithm to Derank Neo-Nazi Site - 682 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:23:24] <exec> 08└─Google should show you what you ask for plain and simple. If that's not what you want, you can always refine your search criteria. But if google of some other engine makes those decisions for you, now what, the only way to know something has gone wrong is if you stumble on different results with a d...
[09:26:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03fubari [4551] (Score:2) 02nice! Re:Only going to legitimize nazism by diluti - 06Casting Call for Neo-Nazis - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:26:51] <exec> 08└─Cubancigar11, nicely written, very interesting. You have given me some interesting things to think about - thank you.
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[10:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Maybe the key is... - 06Cyanogen Inc. Shuts Down CyanogenMod in Christmas Bloodbath - 1562 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:22:43] <exec> 08└─not that Stallman wanted everyone to be poor, but that he realized the average programmer and the average clerk produced about the same level of productivity and financial work as far as the company is concerned. As programming became commoditized to the same level as other white collar work, of cou...
[10:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ayn Anonymous [5012] (Score:2) 02MICROSOFT - 06Cyanogen Inc. Shuts Down CyanogenMod in Christmas Bloodbath - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:50] <exec> 08└─Why the fuck is the Microsoft deal not mentioned in the article ? https://www.wired.com [wired.com]
[10:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ayn Anonymous [5012] (Score:2) 02It took MICROSOFT 20 month to get rid of Cyanogen - 06Cyanogen Inc. Shuts Down CyanogenMod in Christmas Bloodbath - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:22:52] <exec> 08└─Palo Alto, CA. — April 16, 2015 — Cyanogen Inc. and Microsoft Corp. announced a partnership to integrate popular Microsoft services across the Cyanogen Operating System https://cyngn.com [cyngn.com]
[10:23:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Google controls all - 06Google Changes Algorithm to Derank Neo-Nazi Site - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:23:48] <exec> 08└─I see, so you admit that you're not a scholar. This is an internet forum, not a research paper. I am not going to waste time looking up every possible thing that people could disagree with just because aristarchus has a small penis and a large ego. Doubly so since you can't even be bothered to do mo...
[10:23:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Google controls all - 06Google Changes Algorithm to Derank Neo-Nazi Site - 511 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:23:49] <exec> 08└─Triply so: what the fuch are you talking about? Are you a complete idiot? Or an incomplete idiot? Either way, I recommend, as usual, more education. Evidently you need help to realize how profoundly ignorant you are. Nothing to be ashamed of, we all have to start somewhere. Oh, why is it that intern...
[10:23:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Google controls all - 06Google Changes Algorithm to Derank Neo-Nazi Site - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:23:53] <exec> 08└─Exactly how do you know what you are looking for, such that you can identify biased results? If you can recognize "biased results", you already knew what you were looking for, so you were not in fact looking for something, you were looking for confirmation, as in "confirmation bias".
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[11:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Well, shit - 06Toshiba Shares Plunge Ahead of Nuclear Investment Writedown - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:32] <exec> 08└─I just bought a laptop :-(
[11:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Maybe the key is... - 06Cyanogen Inc. Shuts Down CyanogenMod in Christmas Bloodbath - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:22:49] <exec> 08└─Oh no, don't tell the special snowflakes at webappernews [ycombinator.com] that their bubble will burst! They might give up on their precious side projects, and then how will we ever live without privacy-invading overdesigned webapps full of popunder malware ads?
[11:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Who could have guessed - 06Cyanogen Inc. Shuts Down CyanogenMod in Christmas Bloodbath - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:22:57] <exec> 08└─Are you implying replacing variables named "master" and "slave" are not valuable projects worth thousands of dollars?
[11:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Lol! - 06Cyanogen Inc. Shuts Down CyanogenMod in Christmas Bloodbath - 753 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:22:59] <exec> 08└─Mozilla is on Death's Door, even if they don't realize it yet. The only *REAL* question is whether the community will have enough sense to either pick it up and support it until an alternative is made, or start throwing serious effort into analyzing Chromium source code and fixing it to either be pr...
[11:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It took MICROSOFT 20 month to get rid of Cyanog - 06Cyanogen Inc. Shuts Down CyanogenMod in Christmas Bloodbath - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:23:03] <exec> 08└─Ewww
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[12:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Isn't flash dead? - 06Adobe Offers Flash Update for Linux Again - but Without All the Functionality - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:20] <exec> 08└─For almost all web uses? I know I haven't visited a site where I missed it in almost 10 years.
[12:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Isn't flash dead? - 06Adobe Offers Flash Update for Linux Again - but Without All the Functionality - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:22:22] <exec> 08└─I'm using flash right now, to lower my cpu load, because you wouldn't believe the amount of unnecessary crap morons love to shove into their html5 media players.
[12:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:2) 02Adobe was still maintaining the 11 branch... - 06Adobe Offers Flash Update for Linux Again - but Without All the Functionality - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:24] <exec> 08└─Last month's 11 branch update followed this [adobe.com]. I suspect if this latest issue [adobe.com] wasn't discovered so soon, Adobe might have postponed the 11.2.202.644 -> 24.0.0.186 switch until they got GPU acceleration working. Mind you, non of this changes the fact Flash is trash and you shoul...
[12:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Toshiba ain't the only one... - 06Toshiba Shares Plunge Ahead of Nuclear Investment Writedown - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:33] <exec> 08└─To this day, I keep hearing about all the "big names" in the industry who are buying into Rossi's E-Cat. I have been waiting for years for them to either shit or get off the stool. Anyone have insight into this? I can't rule the concept out, but the mechanizations I have been allowed to see only g...
[12:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03rigrig [5129] (Score:2) 02Great! - 06Ancient Chinese Malaria Remedy Fights TB - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:42] <exec> 08└─Now we* can properly test this drug, patent it, forbid unregulated sales of the original herbs, and charge a hundred times a much for it. Oh, and possibly save some lives of those who can afford it. * i.e. some poor starving drug company
[12:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Cherrypicked parts, if you have the hardware - 06Cyanogen Inc. Shuts Down CyanogenMod in Christmas Bloodbath - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:04] <exec> 08└─All free software exclusively, all the time. [replicant.us]
[12:23:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03aristarchus [2645] 02Re:Google controls all - 06Google Changes Algorithm to Derank Neo-Nazi Site - 149 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:23:53] <exec> 08└─Francis, Francis, my poor deluded Francis! The problem is that it leads to biased results that don't necessarily match with what you're looking for.
[12:24:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03requerdanos [5997] 02Re:Google controls all - 06Google Changes Algorithm to Derank Neo-Nazi Site - 134 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:24:10] <exec> 08└─Google has an amazing amount of power. If they don't want you on the web , they can remove you at a press of a button [emphasis added]
[12:24:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:Via chickens? - 06Oral Vaccine Against Salmonella Developed - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:24:34] <exec> 08└─Les Nessman: "Oh, the humanity!"
[12:24:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Maybe - 06Oral Vaccine Against Salmonella Developed - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:47] <exec> 08└─If this works, maybe one day i'll be able to buy a freaking turtle in my city. As it is i have to travel like 80 km to the nearest turtle selling city... because.... SALMONELLA! Well if people are stupid enough to let their little kid stick the turtle in their mouths, they deserve to have a kid wind...
[12:25:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:^^ I retract above post; darkfeline is right - 065. 4. 3. 2. 1. 1... An Extra Second to See Out 2016 - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:25:53] <exec> 08└─The whole point of the original definition (seconds since a certain point in time) was perfect. The leap seconds could (and should) have been considered during conversion from/to local time, just as the time zone is. As bonus, you'd get correct handling of the leap second automatically as soon as th...
[12:27:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Only going to legitimize nazism by diluting it - 06Casting Call for Neo-Nazis - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:27:49] <exec> 08└─Lemme splain. No, is too much, lemme sum up. Libertarians are opposed to theft. Charity is a fine thing but charity is voluntary. Robbing citizens at gunpoint and giving what they have earned to someone else is not charity; it is organized crime wherein the criminals are the ones receiving the money...
[12:28:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:alt-right != neo-nazi - 06Casting Call for Neo-Nazis - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:28:12] <exec> 08└─I know it's in the playbook to change the subject then act like it always was the new subject but we expect better than that around here. If you'd care to weigh in on what is actually being discussed here or start a separate thread for your new complaint, I'm game. Otherwise you're Offtopic.
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[13:22:31] <exec> 08└─but muh ads how i get payed if yoo dont see muh ads
[13:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Why? - 06Adobe Offers Flash Update for Linux Again - but Without All the Functionality - 486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:34] <exec> 08└─Google is in the first stage of dropping support in Chrome, Mozilla announced they'd follow later in 2017, and MS Edge or whatever is about to make it click-to-run by default. The industry has already decided that Flash has got to go and it's unlikely that any amount of effort by Adobe will change t...
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[13:22:51] <exec> 08└─https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=16/12/20/1956201 [soylentnews.org] A centuries-old herbal medicine, discovered by Chinese scientists and used to effectively treat malaria, has been found to potentially aid in the treatment of tuberculosis and may slow the evolution of drug resistance. In a p...
[13:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Ouch, bad name - 06Cyanogen Inc. Shuts Down CyanogenMod in Christmas Bloodbath - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:15] <exec> 08└─LineageOS
[13:23:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] 02Google controls all - 06Google Changes Algorithm to Derank Neo-Nazi Site - 432 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:58] <exec> 08└─And yet with all these improvements, the top 10 sites for many obscure searches I do are still content-less crap sites. The problem here is that one person's "better results" is another persons censorship. Last week Google de-listed a site I frequent for fuck knows why. (Vetusware.com if you really...
[13:24:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Francis [5544] 02Re:Google controls all - 06Google Changes Algorithm to Derank Neo-Nazi Site - 890 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:24:01] <exec> 08└─It's called being "bubbled" where they take the things that match what you typed in and then filter it based upon what they think you'll want. The problem is that it leads to biased results that don't necessarily match with what you're looking for. It's a very dangerous way of handling the situation...
[13:24:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] 02Re:Google controls all - 06Google Changes Algorithm to Derank Neo-Nazi Site - 284 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:24:09] <exec> 08└─Exactly how do you know what you are looking for, such that you can identify biased results? If you can recognize "biased results", you already knew what you were looking for, so you were not in fact looking for something, you were looking for confirmation, as in "confirmation bias".
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[13:24:58] <exec> 08└─What vaccination does is to present a characteristic (but harmless) fragment of surface structure of the "bad guy" to train the immune system, so there is no fundamental reason why this would not work for (or rather against) bacteria - indeed there are even experimental cancer therapies based on thi...
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[14:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Fore! - 06CES 2017: LG's Levitating Bluetooth Speaker - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:24] <exec> 08└─**whack with golf club**
[14:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03rts008 [3001] (Score:2) 02Re:Fore! - 06CES 2017: LG's Levitating Bluetooth Speaker - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:22:26] <exec> 08└─I think that upon finding electronics in your golfballs, they kick you out of the tournament, Tiger. ;-)
[14:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:3, Insightful) 02So much bad video implementation out there... - 06Adobe Offers Flash Update for Linux Again - but Without All the Functionality - 1391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:38] <exec> 08└─Flash was, and in some ways still is, the "easy" way to embed video in web pages. There's still a lot of content out there, lazy static website devs, clueless bespoke live video solutions, and some enterprises that hold back browser updates 5+ years for their idea of "security," such that Flash is b...
[14:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So much bad video implementation out there... - 06Adobe Offers Flash Update for Linux Again - but Without All the Functionality - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:22:39] <exec> 08└─The actual security exploits in flash are pretty dumb and amateurish too. Such as using a signed integer as the scene index without a lower bounds check.
[14:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Webweasel [567] (Score:2) 02Re:It is a bit disappointing... - 06Google Changes Algorithm to Derank Neo-Nazi Site - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:24:26] <exec> 08└─Funny that. Using a darknet or VPN instantly flags you with the authorities. Use either of these services and GCHQ/NSA will have a file on you. A lot of sites in the TOR network are honey traps made by TLA's and the like.
[14:24:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Rampant paranoia - 06Google Changes Algorithm to Derank Neo-Nazi Site - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:24:42] <exec> 08└─Yes, everyone who sees the world differently from you is actually a hypocrite. You cracked the code for how to ignore any idea you disagree with. You should apply for the job of drowning witches, you've got mad skillz.
[14:25:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Told you so - 06Privacy Groups Complain to FTC Over Google's 'Deceptive' Policy Change - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:33] <exec> 08└─NOW would be a great time to stop using any and all google services. They already know way too much about you. Just fucking do it. Be a man.
[14:26:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Modern Man of the Moment! - 06Mexican Farmers See Opportunity to Renegotiate NAFTA After Trump - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:26:55] <exec> 08└─So NAFTA is bad for everybody except the 1%ers in all 3 countries. Because NAFTA made it possible to increase profits while simultaneously reducing demand for labor. Your underpants gnome logic is impeccable!
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[15:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fore! - 06CES 2017: LG's Levitating Bluetooth Speaker - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:22:31] <exec> 08└─I think golfing with levitating balls should become a trend among "tech" billionaires.
[15:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score:2) 02Re:Fore! - 06CES 2017: LG's Levitating Bluetooth Speaker - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:22:33] <exec> 08└─What would be even better would be if you could get it to play the Wilhelm scream at max volume while it sails down the fairway. :)
[15:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fore! - 06CES 2017: LG's Levitating Bluetooth Speaker - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:22:35] <exec> 08└─What would be even better would be if you could get it to play the Wilhelm scream at max volume while it sails down the fairway. :)
[15:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score:2) 02Whats the point? - 06CES 2017: LG's Levitating Bluetooth Speaker - 509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:37] <exec> 08└─I haven't quite kept up with modern gadgetry. Is there some reason apart from the gimmick of "ooh floaty" for making a speaker levitate? Any improvement in sound reproduction? I can't think of anything except possibly removing sound from transmitting from the speaker case to the surface, however. 1)...
[15:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Not with the audio fidelity of Bluetooth... - 06CES 2017: LG's Levitating Bluetooth Speaker - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:22:39] <exec> 08└─And I think the picture in TFA says it all: Gimmick marketed towards people who think (or are) asian chicks (are hot) Mostly gadget nerds and Silicon Valley douches with disposable income: See Zuck or that ex-Reddit chick.
[15:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Don't worry - 06CES 2017: LG's Levitating Bluetooth Speaker - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:22:41] <exec> 08└─Don't worry your little head, it's not intended for you.
[15:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score:2) 02Re:So much bad video implementation out there... - 06Adobe Offers Flash Update for Linux Again - but Without All the Functionality - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:22:55] <exec> 08└─Is there yet a workable solution for authoring and playing vector animations that involves no Adobe products?
[15:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] (Score:2) 02Re:So much bad video implementation out there... - 06Adobe Offers Flash Update for Linux Again - but Without All the Functionality - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:22:57] <exec> 08└─teevee ?
[15:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So much bad video implementation out there... - 06Adobe Offers Flash Update for Linux Again - but Without All the Functionality - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:22:59] <exec> 08└─For some fucked up reason Netflix uses silverlight Seriously, WTF
[15:23:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Cherrypicked parts, if you have the hardware - 06Cyanogen Inc. Shuts Down CyanogenMod in Christmas Bloodbath - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:23:40] <exec> 08└─Unless I read the compatibility charts wrong, no supported hardware is completely supported. FOSS only but your phone won't function to make calls.
[15:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02cool animation - 06Diamond Nanowires Assemble Themselves - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:01] <exec> 08└─The link is worth a look, just for the animation. > (caption to the animation) The copper and sulfur atoms form a conductive wire in the middle, and the diamondoids form an insulating outer shell.
[15:24:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03TrentDavey [1526] (Score:1) 02Re:Google controls all - 06Google Changes Algorithm to Derank Neo-Nazi Site - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:24:52] <exec> 08└─... and don't forget Archie [wikipedia.org]. I would submit search queries and get results days later (if I'm recalling correctly). And I used Lynx [wikipedia.org], the text-based browser. And before that when I was younger, I had to get up off the couch, walk to the TV and change the channel via a...
[15:26:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Self-centered much? - 065. 4. 3. 2. 1. 1... An Extra Second to See Out 2016 - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:26:28] <exec> 08└─Another year of 2016! Haven't enough celebrities died already? ;)
[15:27:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Modern Man of the Moment! - 06Mexican Farmers See Opportunity to Renegotiate NAFTA After Trump - 701 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:27:22] <exec> 08└─Alright, smart guy - who should profit off of treaties and agreements? Does the world actually belong to the 1%? Is that the correct way of looking at things? Streamline the profiteering of the 1%, and cull most of the remaining 99% to live on the dole? Where does that kind of thinking lead? I reall...
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[16:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03seeprime [5580] (Score:4, Insightful) 02This is a prediction, not a fact - 06Hotter Days Will Drive Global Inequality - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:28] <exec> 08└─Climate change today is not understood enough to be able to precisely predict how much some countries will warm up and have less rainfall. Countries that are already in bad shape, due to political turmoil as many in Africa are, will still be in bad shape. Others that have the resources to build dels...
[16:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03tisI [5866] (Score:2) 02No Problem - 06Hotter Days Will Drive Global Inequality - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:30] <exec> 08└─Here in the ol US of A we have this magic orange haired guy whos going to fix all that real soon. All those hoaxes will all disappear and he'll do that all by himself. I know cause we all heard him say so. His super management team is lead by Helen Waite. She's who you go to see now.
[16:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02That's why the Pentagon identified - 06Hotter Days Will Drive Global Inequality - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:32] <exec> 08└─Climate change as a major long-term strategic threat to the USA. Impoverished countries with failed economies are breeding grounds for civil war, genocide and terrorists. That will most likely change under Trump. Those initiatives will be shut down because it's not "military" enough.
[16:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Who would have thunk? - 06Hotter Days Will Drive Global Inequality - 654 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:34] <exec> 08└─Pretty much all those countries painted red are torn by civil war, or have economies completely destroyed by criminals that the population keeps electing to power. World goes to shit, poor countries will have less money to do damage control. No need to conjure conspiracy theories concocted by white...
[16:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03tisI [5866] (Score:2) 02Re:Adobe was still maintaining the 11 branch... - 06Adobe Offers Flash Update for Linux Again - but Without All the Functionality - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:22:59] <exec> 08└─Yeah, now that flash is being phased out off internet use. None of my *nix boxes run anything adobe anyway. Who cares. Just another outdated greedy corporation dying out and gasping for breath. Until the Donald makes them employ more Americans and that will be the end of them.
[16:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Dupe? - 06Ancient Chinese Malaria Remedy Fights TB - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:23:24] <exec> 08└─Maybe frojack has changed his mind since then.
[16:23:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Ayn Anonymous [5012] 02MICROSOFT - 06Cyanogen Inc. Shuts Down CyanogenMod in Christmas Bloodbath - 134 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:43] <exec> 08└─Why the fuck is the Microsoft deal not mentioned in the article ? https://www.wired.com [wired.com]
[16:25:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:Rampant paranoia - 06Google Changes Algorithm to Derank Neo-Nazi Site - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:25:10] <exec> 08└─You've trotted out enough of the typical racist tropes to make anyone who has seen those tropes before conclude that you are indeed a racist
[16:25:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:Rampant paranoia - 06Google Changes Algorithm to Derank Neo-Nazi Site - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:25:13] <exec> 08└─I'm more of a horse's butt kind of person. ;) But the rest of you can feel welcome to fill in what I'm leaving out because he certainly deserves more and stronger epithets.
[16:26:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I agree completely - 065. 4. 3. 2. 1. 1... An Extra Second to See Out 2016 - 618 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:26:48] <exec> 08└─I agree completely. That would be the obvious, straightforward, and unambiguous way to solve it, i.e., the correct way. Therefore, that way never stood a chance. Computer nerds LOVE the complicated, undependable hack more than anything else. Why fix it when you can kludge it instead? I think it's be...
[16:27:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Made in Downtown LA ...in a sweatshop - 06Mexican Farmers See Opportunity to Renegotiate NAFTA After Trump - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:27:45] <exec> 08└─Why buy from USAian manufacturers when they treat their people as if they are Third-World inhabitants?
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[17:22:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03seeprime [5580] 02This is a prediction, not a fact - 06Hotter Days Will Drive Global Inequality - 427 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:31] <exec> 08└─Climate change today is not understood enough to be able to precisely predict how much some countries will warm up and have less rainfall. Countries that are already in bad shape, due to political turmoil as many in Africa are, will still be in bad shape. Others that have the resources to build dels...
[17:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:This is a prediction, not a fact - 06Hotter Days Will Drive Global Inequality - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:22:32] <exec> 08└─Should it not be the opposite? more heat means more jungle like weather, more rain.
[17:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This is a prediction, not a fact - 06Hotter Days Will Drive Global Inequality - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:22:34] <exec> 08└─Should it not be the opposite? more heat means more jungle like weather, more rain.
[17:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This is a prediction, not a fact - 06Hotter Days Will Drive Global Inequality - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:22:36] <exec> 08└─Climate change today is not understood enough
[17:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No Problem - 06Hotter Days Will Drive Global Inequality - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:22:40] <exec> 08└─I hear he's gonna fix the ecomoney, and he's got a plan to make the crops grow!
[17:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:That's why the Pentagon identified - 06Hotter Days Will Drive Global Inequality - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:22:43] <exec> 08└─As long as there are guns on those walls shooting the bastids trying to get in, we can kill two proverbal birds with one stone - helping solve the overpopulation problem as well as protecting your nation's quality of life.
[17:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02veiled racism? - 06Hotter Days Will Drive Global Inequality - 814 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:46] <exec> 08└─To paraprhase, "Dem darkies in Africa just got a tough break. It's hot in Africa, and the heat slows economic development. That's really tough, because with global warming, the economy won't develop at all. It's tough being a darkie." At least, that's how I read the summary. There's no mention of co...
[17:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:veiled racism? - 06Hotter Days Will Drive Global Inequality - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:22:48] <exec> 08└─It's your blathering nonsense that gave rise to the Trumpites.
[17:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score:2) 02Or The Opposite - 06Hotter Days Will Drive Global Inequality - 2031 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:50] <exec> 08└─Hot countries do poorly because their weather is so idealistic. It is not hard to survive in Africa, plants thrive year round, something is always bearing fruit, and you can sleep outside every day of the year. So yes people in these societies will work less, because the necessities are taken care o...
[17:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Or The Opposite - 06Hotter Days Will Drive Global Inequality - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:22:52] <exec> 08└─That explains the huge demand to live in Africa. Don't need a job, don't need a place to stay. Just picking fruit and sleeping under the stars.
[17:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score:2) 02Re:Not with the audio fidelity of Bluetooth... - 06CES 2017: LG's Levitating Bluetooth Speaker - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:23:06] <exec> 08└─It is very important to give the rich something to spent their money on.
[17:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02earth lander - 06CES 2017: LG's Levitating Bluetooth Speaker - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:09] <exec> 08└─It also doubles up as a charger: once the hovering speaker has used up its 10 hours of battery life, it descends slowly onto the base for charging, settling back to terra firma like a little lunar lander.
[17:23:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So much bad video implementation out there... - 06Adobe Offers Flash Update for Linux Again - but Without All the Functionality - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:23:27] <exec> 08└─Well, there is Gnash, which despite not having a release in over four years is still seeing some development: http://git.savannah.gnu.org [gnu.org]
[17:23:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Great! - 06Ancient Chinese Malaria Remedy Fights TB - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:23:45] <exec> 08└─Then you and your dirty, unwashed, uneducated comrades will have one more reason to rise up and murder the perceived overlords in what will be a celebrated reign of terror.
[17:24:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Ayn Anonymous [5012] 02It took MICROSOFT 20 month to get rid of Cyanogen - 06Cyanogen Inc. Shuts Down CyanogenMod in Christmas Bloodbath - 264 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:24:07] <exec> 08└─Palo Alto, CA. — April 16, 2015 — Cyanogen Inc. and Microsoft Corp. announced a partnership to integrate popular Microsoft services across the Cyanogen Operating System https://cyngn.com [cyngn.com]
[17:24:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:breibart - 06Google Changes Algorithm to Derank Neo-Nazi Site - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:24:55] <exec> 08└─>that one is as neonazi as it gets maybe you meant: ashkenazi Breitbarth Name Meaning German, Alsatian, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): nickname for a man with a full beard, from German breit ‘broad’ + Bart ‘beard’.
[17:25:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Google controls all - 06Google Changes Algorithm to Derank Neo-Nazi Site - 489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:25:14] <exec> 08└─Google broke their verbatim search too. It used to work, now it turns up pages that don't have my search terms. I've tried duckduckgo and bing and they both aren't noticeably better. I don't know why search engines nowadays insist on listing pages that don't have all my search terms. I put those ter...
[17:31:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nollij [4559] (Score:2) 02Re:''[IBM] automated the holocaust'' - 06IBM Staff Petition for Right Not to Work on Trump's Pet Projects - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:31:02] <exec> 08└─This is exactly the kind of claim that explicitly requires a source. It's a wild an unlikely claim, and now unsubstantiated.
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[18:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03mechanicjay [7] (Score:2) 02Recruitment Agency... - 06True Cost of Recruiting a Developer - 962 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:23] <exec> 08└─A little off topic, but what the hell. Am I the only one who find technical recruiters to be basically useless? I've moved jobs a number of times. Every job I've landed, except one, I've gotten by applying directly. The recruiter assisted I got by being connected with a recruiter was, quite honestly...
[18:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Talent shortage - 06True Cost of Recruiting a Developer - 596 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:25] <exec> 08└─Is there really a shortage of talent, or do employers and HR drones simply place too many unnecessary requirements on those who might want the job? You have to have a degree, even if you understand the subject matter completely without one. You have to have seven years of experience in this technolo...
[18:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Don't forget H1B visa sponsorship - 06True Cost of Recruiting a Developer - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:27] <exec> 08└─But you make it up with slave wage.
[18:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Boy who cried wolf: ENOUGH ALREADY! - 06Hotter Days Will Drive Global Inequality - 1046 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:47] <exec> 08└─Ya know, the obvious alarmism is offputting to those of us with brains. Only a few days ago we got OBQ: [How Much] Should We Bioengineer Animals to Live in Our Damaged World? [soylentnews.org] which was so over the top funny it should have just imported the "foot" icon from the other place. And that...
[18:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Ugh - 06CES 2017: LG's Levitating Bluetooth Speaker - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:05] <exec> 08└─features Dual Passive Radiator technology for "flush mid-range tones and crisp highs."
[18:23:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02highly political, not highly technical - 06Adobe Offers Flash Update for Linux Again - but Without All the Functionality - 1431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:25] <exec> 08└─How many years will it take for homo economicus business person to understand that DRM and intellectual property are illogical? To accept that copying is a natural right that is impossible to restrict and that information cannot be monetized in the same ways as material goods? DRM and its twin broth...
[18:28:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:Only going to legitimize nazism by diluting it - 06Casting Call for Neo-Nazis - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:28:42] <exec> 08└─That was a plural "you", you've mentioned being a Johnson supporter before. BTW, we've had three President Johnsons so far, and all three did crappy jobs. Fourth time's a charm? Out of four viable choices, we picked the worst one (again, a collective "we", not you or me).
[18:28:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:Only going to legitimize nazism by diluting it - 06Casting Call for Neo-Nazis - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:29:00] <exec> 08└─You're half right. I'm a retired lower middle class white. I also know a lot of poor people of most races, and I also have a lot of racist white friends. Many of them are very poor, some have been to prison.
[18:29:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score:2) 02Re:use Eco's ur-fascism essay plz - 06Casting Call for Neo-Nazis - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:29:03] <exec> 08└─Sorry for replying late. I may be wrong in my choice of words. Please forgive me. The liberalism you quote is what I actually call the snatching of victory for individual rights from the oppressive system humanity created to keep those damn carnivorous animals, insects, diseases and other natural fo...
[18:29:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:Only going to legitimize nazism by diluting it - 06Casting Call for Neo-Nazis - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:29:13] <exec> 08└─That is one thing I disagree with the LP about. Nobody's going to volunteer to pay for roads, schools, enactment and enforcement of laws. You're not being robbed at gunpoint, you're paying the price of the civilization you enjoy living in. It's not a robbery, it's a moral, ethical, and legal transac...
[18:30:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:Affirmative action - 06IBM Staff Petition for Right Not to Work on Trump's Pet Projects - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:30:14] <exec> 08└─No, I'm saying the mistakes of the past should be rectified, and care should be taken so that they're not repeated.
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[19:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03SanityCheck [5190] (Score:2) 02Re:Recruitment Agency... - 06True Cost of Recruiting a Developer - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:22:36] <exec> 08└─Companies prefer people who apply directly, because those people are more likely to stick with a job. Recruiters are just a symptom of a problem, that being that Hiring Managers do not want to deal with the process of hiring at all. It's long, painful, and annoying.
[19:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Recruitment Agency... - 06True Cost of Recruiting a Developer - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:22:38] <exec> 08└─I am looking for a job. I have one word for these dudes. I use them. Because at this point I am just spamming. But they are flaky. One dude called me yesterday. "I will send you an email next week asking for your resume". DUDE YOU ALREADY HAVE IT. I already sent it to you 3 times. I am in your peopl...
[19:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Recruitment Agency... - 06True Cost of Recruiting a Developer - 530 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:22:40] <exec> 08└─I usually like recruiters, with the exception of the ones which are obviously from India. You know the kind - they call from a New Jersey area code, and the time delay while talking indicates their call's being bounced from Mumbai into the united states. Those are utterly worthless. Companies are sh...
[19:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Talent shortage - 06True Cost of Recruiting a Developer - 505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:22:43] <exec> 08└─Hell I would love to be a drone. I can not even get them to call me back. 20 yr exp. All the cool tech buzzwords and the chops to back it up. Right in the trash because I do not live in the area. My area is a desert of tech jobs (hence me wanting to move). I applied to one place. 'oh you are a good...
[19:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Talent shortage - 06True Cost of Recruiting a Developer - 873 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:22:45] <exec> 08└─It's because the executives usually set an example that encourages HR workers to be as petty and lazy as possible. There are places with good HR workers out there, but most of them are more concerned with being as stingy as possible with benefits and doing as little work as possible. In most cases,...
[19:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03fadrian [3194] (Score:2) 02Why do you think average tenure is < 6 yr? - 06True Cost of Recruiting a Developer - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:48] <exec> 08└─There are a lot of reasons for reduced tenure in tech, the reasons mainly lying in the corporate boardroom. I'll believe in these stories of rock stars and dire talent shortages when I see average salaries going up. Until then, it's all BS put out by recruiters and companies trying to lower labor co...
[19:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score:2) 02Re:Why do you think average tenure is < 6 yr? - 06True Cost of Recruiting a Developer - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:22:51] <exec> 08└─lying in the corporate boardroom is the main reason. FTFY
[19:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Not just IT - 06True Cost of Recruiting a Developer - 1994 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:53] <exec> 08└─I think there is a fundamental difference of opinions between how young employees and management view their companies. I will try to explain this through interactions with my father in law, the absolute embodiment of boomer privalidge and luck. Started at some company and worked there until he was m...
[19:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] (Score:2) 02Re:Not just IT - 06True Cost of Recruiting a Developer - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:22:55] <exec> 08└─As a hiring manager, when I look at your resume and see "I am only working because this is the best offer I was given and I will leave as soon as I get a better offer", which is obvious from the job changes, your resume goes on the trash pile. That may be OK for you; I hope it is and I hope it works...
[19:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:Not just IT - 06True Cost of Recruiting a Developer - 835 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:22:57] <exec> 08└─Did you bother to inform them you trashed it? If not I consider you a flake and thank you for letting me know how I would be treated at that company. I have about 40 applications out there with 0 response. The only way for me to know is the job was 'closed' or 'filled' or 'no longer available'. I am...
[19:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No Problem - 06Hotter Days Will Drive Global Inequality - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:23:10] <exec> 08└─No no no, you got it all wrong. His FACE is orange. The hairpiece is the buisness end of a mop.
[19:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:veiled racism? - 06Hotter Days Will Drive Global Inequality - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:23:17] <exec> 08└─It sucks being black no matter where you are. They only places they aren't starving to death are in white countries who hand them lots of free welfare. And even in those cases, they're happily shooting each other to death in record numbers. Luckily for them, most idiots worldwide have fallen for the...
[19:23:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score:2) 02Global Insanity? - 06Hotter Days Will Drive Global Inequality - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:22] <exec> 08└─Did anyone else read this as "Hotter Days Will Drive Global Insanity "? Global Insanity seems to be rising fast! It must be the globules warming!
[19:23:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03rts008 [3001] (Score:2) 02Re:Fore! - 06CES 2017: LG's Levitating Bluetooth Speaker - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:23:32] <exec> 08└─As long as they are playing with their own balls, fine. But if they are trying to play with the caddy's balls(floating, or not) then there could be a problem. I guess it would depend on the caddy... I wonder...if you try swimming with floating balls, do you turn belly-up? Put the 'freestyle' back in...
[19:23:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Isn't flash dead? - 06Adobe Offers Flash Update for Linux Again - but Without All the Functionality - 508 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:23:52] <exec> 08└─not even close. when I'm looking at porn, I like to open up 30 tabs and grab the flv out of the temp folder. I also sometimes leave a video paused for an hour or 24 and resume playback. I also like preloaded things to seek immediately on arrow press, and not have weird issues where the screen goes b...
[19:23:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''i could care less'' - 06Adobe Offers Flash Update for Linux Again - but Without All the Functionality - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:23:53] <exec> 08└─You could NOT care less. Until you have it memorized, here's a wall hanging to remind you. [archive.li] For those who are weak on words and better with charts it's diagrammed here. [archive.li] -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[19:23:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''poke holes in my fairly secure OS'' - 06Adobe Offers Flash Update for Linux Again - but Without All the Functionality - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:23:58] <exec> 08└─it just seems ridiculous to purposely poke holes in my fairly secure OS Amen. No one has yet mentioned Flash Cookies aka LSOs (Local shared objects). [wikipedia.org] Down farther on that page is a list of tools to deal with that junk. Smart folks just avoid the whole mess. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylent...
[19:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So much bad video implementation out there... - 06Adobe Offers Flash Update for Linux Again - but Without All the Functionality - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:24:06] <exec> 08└─browser vendors still don't support playing rtsp directly in browser via html5 video. they're too busy arguing about whether they are socialist enough or how better to screw their users. so surveillance cams use flash or windows plugins or you can needlessly transcode each stream with ffmpeg, etc. t...
[19:24:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03EEMac [6423] (Score:1) 02Re:highly political, not highly technical - 06Adobe Offers Flash Update for Linux Again - but Without All the Functionality - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:24:10] <exec> 08└─How many years will it take for homo economicus business person to understand that DRM and intellectual property are illogical?
[19:25:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] 02Re:Again with this shit? - 06Google Changes Algorithm to Derank Neo-Nazi Site - 36 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:25:25] <exec> 08└─split the diff, its about seo-nazis.
[19:27:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 025 4 3 1 just kidding ... 2 1 - 065. 4. 3. 2. 1. 1... An Extra Second to See Out 2016 - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:57] <exec> 08└─Have A Nice Day.
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[20:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score:1) 02Hacking by proxy? - 06Top Secret Snowden Doc Reveals What NSA Knew About Previous Russian Hacking - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:26] <exec> 08└─Maybe someone has hacked into Russian govt. computers or routers and is using them to hack US govt.
[20:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score:2) 02re Questions - 06Top Secret Snowden Doc Reveals What NSA Knew About Previous Russian Hacking - 1033 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:27] <exec> 08└─I suspect that there are things going on deep inside the government apparatus, things we will never learn. (Or in the best case, they will be made public after we are dead.) According to the news [vice.com], Podesta was hacked back in March 2016 and a report [secureworks.com] about it was published...
[20:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:2, Interesting) 02Re:re Questions - 06Top Secret Snowden Doc Reveals What NSA Knew About Previous Russian Hacking - 1067 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:22:30] <exec> 08└─One of my favorite theories is that there is an internal power-struggle in progress and that Snowden was a CIA op to discredit and put public pressure on the NSA (I came up with this theory before obscure LARPer High Level Insider revealed it in the asshole of the internet, although I do not recall...
[20:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:re Questions - 06Top Secret Snowden Doc Reveals What NSA Knew About Previous Russian Hacking - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:22:32] <exec> 08└─the asshole of the internet
[20:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:re Questions - 06Top Secret Snowden Doc Reveals What NSA Knew About Previous Russian Hacking - 739 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:22:34] <exec> 08└─> Why the hell wait until after the elections to impose sanctions? Have you seen how the tweeter in chief has reacted to the entire issue? He's made it all about him. So much so that you'd be forgiven for thinking that maybe there was some kind of collusion going on there and he's insecure about it...
[20:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:re Questions - 06Top Secret Snowden Doc Reveals What NSA Knew About Previous Russian Hacking - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:22:37] <exec> 08└─Why the hell wait until after the elections to impose sanctions?
[20:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score:2) 02Re:Not just IT - 06True Cost of Recruiting a Developer - 1506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:22:57] <exec> 08└─And how did you get to where you are today? Find a place and work your way up as the previous generation retired? Most places I have been do everything they can to only hire externally and not promote from within. CFO at a state I worked for (as relayed to me by my at the time boss who was one posit...
[20:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:veiled racism? - 06Hotter Days Will Drive Global Inequality - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:23:17] <exec> 08└─Well, they aren't going to admit governments are to blame.
[20:23:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:veiled racism? - 06Hotter Days Will Drive Global Inequality - 1177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:23:19] <exec> 08└─Consider this scenario: In the year 2525, Europe has been flooded with African migrants and is essentially Africanized with regard to both population and culture. The degree of migration was so significant that it emptied out entire populations of African countries. Suppose, then, that a few of the...
[20:23:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02flash is alive and well - 06Adobe Offers Flash Update for Linux Again - but Without All the Functionality - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:23:52] <exec> 08└─Not to mention linux browsers lack hardware decoding for the most part and the developers don't see it as a priority. Chromium with patches squeaks by because google needed gpu on chromeOS. Everyone else should just live with 100% cpu or buy new machines. Nobody *needs* video playback anyway, a mono...
[20:23:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:''i could care less'' - 06Adobe Offers Flash Update for Linux Again - but Without All the Functionality - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:23:55] <exec> 08└─I could care less about your pedantic hangups, because I'm careless with language as long as it serves it's function of facilitating communication. Everyone knows what he meant, so quit trying to preserve "proper english" and all that bullshit when it doesn't matter at all.
[20:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:''poke holes in my fairly secure OS'' - 06Adobe Offers Flash Update for Linux Again - but Without All the Functionality - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:24:02] <exec> 08└─And folks who need accelerated playback can't. Unless watching web video stutter on CPU decoding is your thing.
[20:24:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02What Stallman actually wanted - 06Cyanogen Inc. Shuts Down CyanogenMod in Christmas Bloodbath - 765 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:24:45] <exec> 08└─It's disappointing how many people who visit tech-oriented sites don't know the origin of FOSS. They aren't aware of Stallman's malfunctioning printer [google.com] which was not easily field-correctable because its manufacturer would only provide a closed-source proprietary device driver. In Stallma...
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[21:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:re Questions - 06Top Secret Snowden Doc Reveals What NSA Knew About Previous Russian Hacking - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:22:50] <exec> 08└─I like your theory and I modded up.
[21:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:Not just IT - 06True Cost of Recruiting a Developer - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:23:14] <exec> 08└─The one and only time l ever went out of town for a job interview, they couldn't even bother to notify me that I wasn't hired. So I had to call them to make sure. Very unprofessional, definitely will not recommend them. It's basic professionalism and usually doesn't require any effort.
[21:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score:1) 02Re:Not just IT - 06True Cost of Recruiting a Developer - 611 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:23:15] <exec> 08└─The lack of informing job seekers about not getting the job is outstanding. I was complaining about this to my mother in law (also management, but without the management attitude) and my FIL chimed in that it is a waste of his time to respond to failed applicants. And then they complain that people...
[21:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03YeaWhatevs [5623] (Score:2, Interesting) 02Re:Not just IT - 06True Cost of Recruiting a Developer - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:23:18] <exec> 08└─I am sensing a bit of generational value gap here. The fact is, your values of loyalty are not applicable these days. If you take a loyalty approach you are only setting yourself up for disappointment. I don't expect I'll persuade you. Your values tell you what is right and wrong, so words alone wo...
[21:24:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score:2) 02Re:Ugh - 06CES 2017: LG's Levitating Bluetooth Speaker - 569 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:24:12] <exec> 08└─Test and see (hear): https://www.lifewire.com [lifewire.com] http://www.audiocheck.net [audiocheck.net] Tbh, most modern listening is in compromised environments with compromised equipment. Which is likely why only some people bother finding quality F...
[21:24:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:highly political, not highly technical - 06Adobe Offers Flash Update for Linux Again - but Without All the Functionality - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:24:41] <exec> 08└─They are over 50 years old because this crap dates back to floppies that worked as hardware dongles (and my guess is that there're even earlier incarnations of it).
[21:24:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Flash - 06Adobe Offers Flash Update for Linux Again - but Without All the Functionality - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:43] <exec> 08└─Just let it die already...
[21:27:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"Vaccine" nitpick - 06Oral Vaccine Against Salmonella Developed - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:27:22] <exec> 08└─For all I know you're trolling, but vaccines can be made to protect against viruses, bacteria, and even some larger molecules. If you're not simply trolling, you may also be getting tripped up by mixing up vaccines and antibiotics in your head; antibiotics are only effective against bacteria and not...
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[21:28:09] <exec> 08└─Leap seconds are a non problem for average people who do not operate to the precision of one second nor to the accuracy of one second per year. Only computers care and we have hacks to handle that situation. The first rule before taking action should be: don't make the situation worse! Anyone who tr...
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[22:22:29] <exec> 08└─The next Batman will wear a necktie.
[22:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:3, Insightful) 02This is stupid - 06Top Secret Snowden Doc Reveals What NSA Knew About Previous Russian Hacking - 1670 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:44] <exec> 08└─How stupid do Democrats think we are? How many times does Julian Assange have to say it was an inside leak? How many clues does he have to give that it was in fact the very dead Seth Rich? But that doesn't fit the Narrative. It is all nice to see Democrats back to sniffing Snowden's jock again, but...
[22:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:Recruitment Agency... - 06True Cost of Recruiting a Developer - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:22:56] <exec> 08└─It totally depends... I've usually gotten hired by word of mouth, personal referrals, etc. but then, I've also been placed by an agent - that place had me for 2.5 years, and spent over 9 months of my annual salary on recruitment and relocation fees.
[22:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why do you think average tenure is < 6 yr? - 06True Cost of Recruiting a Developer - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:23:04] <exec> 08└─A tenure of two years or more is long enough to make a positive impact. Someone who leaves after three years should usually be considered a successful hire unless they were pushed aside and/or marked for the next layoff.
[22:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02comment removed from summary - 06CES 2017: LG's Levitating Bluetooth Speaker - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:56] <exec> 08└─Let me know how you would like future CES-related overpriced gadget stories to be submitted (if at all).
[22:24:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''Everyone knows what he meant'' - 06Adobe Offers Flash Update for Linux Again - but Without All the Functionality - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:24:12] <exec> 08└─Don't come crying to me when you get burned by some vendor who put weird non-standard English in a contract because "everyone knows what he meant". There are reasons that standards exist. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[22:24:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score:1) 02Re:Why? - 06Adobe Offers Flash Update for Linux Again - but Without All the Functionality - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:24:18] <exec> 08└─As a Linux user I haven't installed it years because it just seems ridiculous to purposely poke holes in my fairly secure OS. If a video player can poke holes, then your OS is not very secure. It doesn't matter which one you are using. I figure there's no reason to use any of Adobe's bloat when Chro...
[22:24:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:So much bad video implementation out there... - 06Adobe Offers Flash Update for Linux Again - but Without All the Functionality - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:24:26] <exec> 08└─To the Empire theme: DRM DRM DRM DRM drm DRM DRM drm DRM
[22:24:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:So much bad video implementation out there... - 06Adobe Offers Flash Update for Linux Again - but Without All the Functionality - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:24:29] <exec> 08└─>not so much with 16 cams at 1440p. Oh, come on, you can co-locate NUCs, one per 4 cameras, and have them do the transcode for you. Yeah, it sucks.
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[23:23:05] <exec> 08└─In my view the biggest problem with it is that these are people that are looking to enter the field you're in. Many of them are going to be your competitors in the future. Is it really worth the three seconds they save not sending out a form letter thanking the applicant for applying? Also, just bec...
[23:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:4, Interesting) 02Re:Not just IT - 06True Cost of Recruiting a Developer - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:23:08] <exec> 08└─As a hiring manager, when I look at your resume and see "I am only working because this is the best offer I was given and I will leave as soon as I get a better offer", which is obvious from the job changes, your resume goes on the trash pile.
[23:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not just IT - 06True Cost of Recruiting a Developer - 604 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:23:11] <exec> 08└─That's the right question to be asking. Changing jobs is a real pain in the ass for most people. Answering the why in even a rudimentary way goes a long ways towards answering whether or not the employee is worth hiring. Unfortunately, that's not an easy question to answer as the time and resources...
[23:24:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:highly political, not highly technical - 06Adobe Offers Flash Update for Linux Again - but Without All the Functionality - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:24:30] <exec> 08└─To accept that copying is a natural right that is impossible to restrict and that information cannot be monetized in the same ways as material goods?
[23:25:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Quamcomm is the new Microsoft - 06Qualcomm Fined $853 Million by South Korea for Antitrust Violations - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:25:27] <exec> 08└─Hundreds of billions USD buys a lot. You'd have to be some kind of an idiot not to be able to hit on some decent long term acquisitions (of midsize and large companies with existing products, not startups) with that kind of cash horde.
[23:26:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Google controls all - 06Google Changes Algorithm to Derank Neo-Nazi Site - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:26:19] <exec> 08└─Chances are you can't get it unless you know exactly what to type and it isn't the same as the new stuff. Knowing roughly the title doesn't cut it either.
[23:26:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Re:Google controls all - 06Google Changes Algorithm to Derank Neo-Nazi Site - 508 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:26:20] <exec> 08└─How does Google know what you are asking for? Humans aren't very good at being unambiguous and explicit. Maybe Google could gather lots of personal data to try to improve their algorithms, but then people complain about privacy (and even then, it's hard to tell what humans want. Have you TRIED under...
[23:27:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03purple_cobra [1435] (Score:1) 02Re:Uh Huh - 06Privacy Groups Complain to FTC Over Google's 'Deceptive' Policy Change - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:27:31] <exec> 08└─uBlock Origin and uMatrix worked for me as of 27.x, but it kept losing the buttons for each on Windows; after a few attempts at diagnosing it I gave up and went back to Waterfox. Seems to work fine on Pale Moon for Linux (Manjaro, FWIW) without the button-eating behaviour so it's either peculiar to...
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