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[00:44:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Deleted Server Supplier After Finding Infected Firmware in Servers - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:54] <exec> 08└─If this is true, then Supermicro cannot be trusted.
[00:44:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Deleted Server Supplier After Finding Infected Firmware in Servers - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:56] <exec> 08└─I'd like to know what the malware did, and how they detected it. Why is the firmware still on the sight? Hmmmm...
[00:44:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Deleted Server Supplier After Finding Infected Firmware in Servers - 1164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:58] <exec> 08└─Apple is well known to be a horrible company to sell to. They will tear up contracts at the slightest provocation, don't believe in negotiated settlements, demand special snowflake treatment to the point of having products redesigned for them - oh, unless it's the other way around, then everybody is...
[00:44:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Deleted Server Supplier After Finding Infected Firmware in Servers - 675 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:00] <exec> 08└─for those who aren't subscribers to The Information: https://arstechnica.com https://9to5mac.com http://appleinsider.com
[00:45:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Watershed SHA1 Collision Just Broke the WebKit Repository - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:11] <exec> 08└─It's probably for the beta. /meta/article.pl?sid=17/02/12/1618241
[00:45:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uncle Sam Needs You... to Debug, Improve Dept of Defense Open-Source Software at Code.Mil - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:39] <exec> 08└─The *NEW* garbage doesn't bother me anywhere nearly as much as the chevrons for expand or reduce posts. And not only are they ugly, but the changed action is far inferior to the previous action. It's much more useful to be able to expand or contract all subsequent posts in the thread than whatever t...
[00:45:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uncle Sam Needs You... to Debug, Improve Dept of Defense Open-Source Software at Code.Mil - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:40] <exec> 08└─It's just so… beta.
[00:45:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uncle Sam Needs You... to Debug, Improve Dept of Defense Open-Source Software at Code.Mil - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:42] <exec> 08└─Looks like I have managed to right-justify it by changing it from this: *NEW*
[00:45:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uncle Sam Needs You... to Debug, Improve Dept of Defense Open-Source Software at Code.Mil - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:44] <exec> 08└─Yes, you are a beta male.
[00:46:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smart Toys Are a Minefield, for Both Toymakers and Parents - 1274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:19] <exec> 08└─This reminds me so much of the breathless rush to push RFID into retail a few years ago. Visions of a utopia where Customer X walks into a store and is identified by the RFID in his clothes. The sales staff being given a quick summary of all of X's purchases for the past few months, so they can walk...
[00:47:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Original Star Wars Trilogy Theatrical Cuts To Be Released On Blu-Ray - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:19] <exec> 08└─While fans have speculated for years that George Lucas will finally release the first edits...
[00:49:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Site Update 17_2 - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:49:26] <exec> 08└─It works now as it should with Breakthrough=1 and Threading=TNG. The same did not work last night, I saw only the headings. Now I see nested comments. Thanks for the fix!
[00:50:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Site Update 17_2 - 644 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:50:28] <exec> 08└─I'm using a [closed-source payware] Screen Reader Environment (SRE known as Jaws from Freedom Scientific) You've said before that you tried Knoppix ADRIANE and couldn't get that to do what you needed. I've been meaning to ask if you've you tried Emacspeak. Emacspeak is an audible interface that allo...
[00:50:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03ShadowSystems [6185] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Site Update 17_2 - 773 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:50:29] <exec> 08└─No, I had not knowingly tried that particular package, so thank you for the heads up. I will go click the link to go visit the results in a moment so please forgive me if I'm about to ask what turns out to be a rhetorical question. Is there a "LiveCD" distro that includes it working OOB that I can t...
[00:50:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmn32480 [443] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Site Update 17_2 - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:50:46] <exec> 08└─The dimmed comments ARE optional, as stated in the summary. Dimming of comments you've already read. (You can turn this off with the controls on the "Comments" tab of your preferences page if it annoys you.)
[00:50:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Site Update 17_2 - 501 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:50:48] <exec> 08└─Was it too readable? Because this transparency shit makes it hard to read, so I just have to assume that was the goal. Was it too accessible? Because I cannot read comments on my phone anymore since there is no link. WTF is with https://soylentnews.org ? + wasn’t good enough? Wh...
[00:52:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Washington State Will Resist Federal Crackdown on Cannabis - 600 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:52:48] <exec> 08└─Assault rifles require permits (or, more precisely, tax stamps). Assault rifles are select-fire weapons that are, as such, regulated as being capable of fully automatic fire. Typically available civilian weapons aren't assault rifles. Some morons who have trouble with language tried to invent a cate...
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[01:45:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Watershed SHA1 Collision Just Broke the WebKit Repository - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:06] <exec> 08└─We just had an article warning everyone to stop using sha-1. They weren't exaggerating.
[01:45:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Watershed SHA1 Collision Just Broke the WebKit Repository - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:07] <exec> 08└─You can't check out parts of a larger repository using git.
[01:45:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Watershed SHA1 Collision Just Broke the WebKit Repository - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:09] <exec> 08└─Fuck Beta! Time to start over once again. Any thoughts on the next site name? I say we go with a navy blue color scheme.
[01:45:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uncle Sam Needs You... to Debug, Improve Dept of Defense Open-Source Software at Code.Mil - 542 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:40] <exec> 08└─How do you share code that implicitly has no copyright. Now that I go back and re-read what I wrote it seems odd and not exactly what I meant. What I mean is how do you force an outcome without copyright? Our OS license schema uses copyright to force an outcome. It also happens to be one issue I hav...
[01:45:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nintendo Switch Impressions: Out of the Box and Into Our Hands - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:54] <exec> 08└─Mario64 would have been enough for me to get the n64, but it has Zelda and star fox, wipeout, jet force Gemini, sin and punishment, have to mod your us n64. Awesome console. No load times.
[01:46:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06No Key, No Login: G Suite Admins Can Now Make FIDO Security Keys Mandatory - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:46] <exec> 08└─That's not what Monoculture means. I think you mean biculture.
[01:48:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Guilty of Misconduct Went on to Receive $100 Million in NIH Grants - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:48:07] <exec> 08└─Usually the title and abstract of a paywalled article are not paywalled.
[01:50:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmn32480 [443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Site Update 17_2 - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:50:45] <exec> 08└─Was it too readable? Because this transparency shit makes it hard to read, so I just have to assume that was the goal.
[01:50:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Site Update 17_2 - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:50:47] <exec> 08└─Saying that somewhere, buried on this site, is a way to opt out, does not make my criticism invalid. http://oi67.tinypic.com Well, what differences do you see?
[01:50:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03EETech1 [957] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Site Update 17_2 - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:50:49] <exec> 08└─Soylent News BETA Here we go again...
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[02:44:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Deleted Server Supplier After Finding Infected Firmware in Servers - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:44:53] <exec> 08└─Replace every apple reference in there with walmart and you have described two of the largest companies in the world. I have been saying this to people for years Apple is not a company to be trusted (my stories go back to the mid 90s). MS is good/'bad' at what they do but they learned at the hands o...
[02:44:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Apple Deleted Server Supplier After Finding Infected Firmware in Servers - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:44:55] <exec> 08└─I worked at Qualcomm in, I dunno, '05 or '06 when we got a supersekrit assignment to look into what it would take to add some special features to our chips, both hardware and software. We were told explicitly, several times, to not discuss this with anyone not in the room, not even our wives. Turned...
[02:44:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Deleted Server Supplier After Finding Infected Firmware in Servers - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:44:57] <exec> 08└─I worked at qcom too at the same time. It was not that big of a secret ;) As to why? Jobs played us. He already knew which chips were in. He was using us to negotiate a better price.
[02:45:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Watershed SHA1 Collision Just Broke the WebKit Repository - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:12] <exec> 08└─Soylent News: Two-day old news...TODAY!!!
[02:45:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03metarox [788] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Watershed SHA1 Collision Just Broke the WebKit Repository - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:14] <exec> 08└─I have high hopes that this would help immensely with large got repos https://github.com
[02:45:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nintendo Switch Impressions: Out of the Box and Into Our Hands - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:59] <exec> 08└─"flip-phone"
[02:46:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nintendo Switch Impressions: Out of the Box and Into Our Hands - 537 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:01] <exec> 08└─Buying Nintendo products has been a recurring nightmare recently. The NES Mini, Pokemon Go+, most models of New 3DS and of course preorders for the Switch have either been completely sold out or intermittent since the holiday buying season. Part of it has to be blamed on scalpers, as you can find mo...
[02:46:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smart Toys Are a Minefield, for Both Toymakers and Parents - 548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:25] <exec> 08└─Works for me, but the mere existence of a surveillance device such as this toy violates the law in Germany. After the hubbub dies down, and everyone else in the country has destroyed their toys, you will not want to be seen in possession of that toy, or anything similar. Someone will ask questions,...
[02:49:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Site Update 17_2 - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:49:24] <exec> 08└─That'd be why then. Drop the www and things should work fine.
[02:49:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Site Update 17_2 - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:49:34] <exec> 08└─Same here, I don't always log in just to read so custom profile settings are a no-go. Please bring back the previous setup as a default, the arrows are detrimental.
[02:50:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmn32480 [443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Site Update 17_2 - 535 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:50:58] <exec> 08└─OK. Let's try this again, shall we? The differences in the pictures you link to show 2 distinct differences that I can see. 1) The buttons to collapse individual comments and the comment threads are different. This has been addressed upstream in this comment thread. 2) The comments are collapsed or...
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[03:44:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06These E-Glasses Help the Legally Blind See - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:44:57] <exec> 08└─This sounds like it might help sufferers of macular degeneration. But it is such an obvious application, and wasn't mentioned in the abstract of the article, maybe it doesn't work for that.
[03:45:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Watershed SHA1 Collision Just Broke the WebKit Repository - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:45:28] <exec> 08└─SN -- old news but the best comments. You get what you pay for...
[03:47:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Original Star Wars Trilogy Theatrical Cuts To Be Released On Blu-Ray - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:47:24] <exec> 08└─Hi Aristarchus, ignorant as always, I see. They paid something for the franchise and the money they make on top of their expenses is profit.
[03:50:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03paulej72 [58] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Site Update 17_2 - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:50:18] <exec> 08└─Wow, that is strange. Going to need to research that one.
[03:50:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03carguy [568] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Site Update 17_2 - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:50:49] <exec> 08└─> I suspect that carguy is using the -one- config that doesn't work. 8-) I seem to have an special ability to find things like this...comes in handy for alpha/sanity testing.
[03:51:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Site Update 17_2 - 744 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:51:08] <exec> 08└─To add to this, the collapsed comments were all in bold text last night when I left. I asked that that be fixed to what it used to be. Now they're mostly fixed, but the "Comment Below Threshold" of downmodded collapsed comments is still in bold. As I pointed out in another comment, bolded text looks...
[03:51:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03charon [5660] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Site Update 17_2 - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:51:15] <exec> 08└─The "transparency shit" is to make it much easier to engage in a conversation, as you can now very easily tell which comments you have already read. It's not change for change's sake; it's change for a great improvement.
[03:51:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Site Update 17_2 - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:51:18] <exec> 08└─Yeah, this is exactly like /.'s Beta. You can tell by how paulej72 spent all morning fixing user complaints and how I'll be doing the same all week. If you've got a specific beef or beefs, let's hear them and we'll work on them as quickly as possible but you can go fuck yourself with comparing us to...
[03:51:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03EETech1 [957] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Site Update 17_2 - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:51:21] <exec> 08└─Guess I'm not getting a funny mod from you? I really appreciate what you guys do, perhaps I should take this opportunity to request a sarcasm tag:) I was hoping I didn't have to end that message with: I kid... I kid... Thanks for sticking up for us! Cheers
[03:51:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Site Update 17_2 - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:51:23] <exec> 08└─There actually is a <sarcasm> tag ;)
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[04:44:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Linux Double Free Vulnerability/Privilege Escalation Exploit Found - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:44:40] <exec> 08└─Doesn't bother me. I'm running 2.4.x.
[04:45:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uncle Sam Needs You... to Debug, Improve Dept of Defense Open-Source Software at Code.Mil - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:45:48] <exec> 08└─Ah... thanks in heaps, much better now.
[04:46:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03darnkitten [1912] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smart Toys Are a Minefield, for Both Toymakers and Parents - 806 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:46:29] <exec> 08└─Today, I saw a five-year-old girl conversing with her stuffed kitten, a wooden riding-horse, and her sister (who, from all indications, was the least responsive of the three, due to playing on her Kindle). During that time, she also, apparently, was imprisoned, escaped from the prison, lost a shoe (...
[04:50:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03darnkitten [1912] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Site Update 17_2 - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:50:33] <exec> 08└─That kind of thing happens when you have no art folks on staff.
[04:50:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Site Update 17_2 - 1584 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:50:45] <exec> 08└─I was hoping this might be dirt-simple, but DistroWatch doesn't list this app in its tracking database. https://distrowatch.com I then thought that getting it in a live media distro was going to be a real longshot and that you would end up install...
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[05:44:40] <exec> 08└─Government is not just a monopoly; it's one that is violently imposed.
[05:44:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Customs Block Canadian Man After Reading His Scruff Profile - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:44:42] <exec> 08└─Visiting the US in 2017 is like visiting Germany in 1933: yeah, you can. But do you really want to?
[05:44:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Customs Block Canadian Man After Reading His Scruff Profile - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:44:44] <exec> 08└─I submitted this story.
[05:44:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linux Double Free Vulnerability/Privilege Escalation Exploit Found - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:44:54] <exec> 08└─You'd think something like the Linux kernel would have inspired someone to design and build a development environment that caters to providing abstractions, efficiency, and provable guarantees for low-level system programming. Alas, what we get instead is a hodgepodge of C99 code strung together wit...
[05:45:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06These E-Glasses Help the Legally Blind See - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:45:03] <exec> 08└─It works also for penile degeneration
[05:45:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Watershed SHA1 Collision Just Broke the WebKit Repository - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:45:33] <exec> 08└─No, you don't have a phone bad enough to have problems with any sane repository anymore.
[05:51:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Site Update 17_2 - 3442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:51:24] <exec> 08└─cmn32480, I will thank you to be less dismissive of complaints from the members of this site that help keep this site in existence by contributing subscription funds and content. You make your own contributions and we thank you for it. But the rest of us contribute as well. You've taken a simple web...
[05:51:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03EETech1 [957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Site Update 17_2 - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:51:31] <exec> 08└─I guess I need a tag:) I see it now!
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[06:44:38] <exec> 08└─Visiting the US in 2017 is like visiting Germany in 1933: yeah, you can. But do you really want to?
[06:44:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Customs Block Canadian Man After Reading His Scruff Profile - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:44:40] <exec> 08└─The problem with your "gub'mint is evil!!!" notion is that people in civilized countries don't seem to have this problem.
[06:44:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Customs Block Canadian Man After Reading His Scruff Profile - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:44:42] <exec> 08└─It's Texas, what did he expect? Texas is like the arm pit of the southern US.
[06:44:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Customs Block Canadian Man After Reading His Scruff Profile - 1068 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:44:44] <exec> 08└─What happens in other countries, if a customs officer refuses you entry? Does it make the news? Do lawyers get involved? Does anyone give a damn, aside from the few people who might have been expecting you? It might be interesting to hear some stories on the subject. I would expect that Canada is mu...
[06:44:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Customs Block Canadian Man After Reading His Scruff Profile - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:44:47] <exec> 08└─You'll never be able to square that circle. Organizing society around taxation is the last vestige of humanity's barbaric, uncivilized origins; if you consider yourself to be "civilized", then surely you are interested in figuring out how to organize society around voluntary agreements rather than c...
[06:44:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06US Customs Block Canadian Man After Reading His Scruff Profile - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:44:49] <exec> 08└─You moron - it was an "exception to the rule". Do you know every exception to every rule in your own field of "expertise"? Yeah, Texas is the armpit of the US, California is the anus - which would you rather live in? Don't bother to tell me, you feces eating bacteriophage.
[06:44:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Customs Block Canadian Man After Reading His Scruff Profile - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:44:51] <exec> 08└─Texas is like the arm pit of the southern US.
[06:44:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Customs Block Canadian Man After Reading His Scruff Profile - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:44:53] <exec> 08└─Organizing society around taxation is the last vestige of humanity's barbaric, uncivilized origins;
[06:44:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Customs Block Canadian Man After Reading His Scruff Profile - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:44:55] <exec> 08└─I am not sure I want to do the Google on a "Scruff" profile. Can someone provide details, discreetly, of course. The Congressman I work for is interested. And yes, he is an (R).
[06:44:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Customs Block Canadian Man After Reading His Scruff Profile - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:44:57] <exec> 08└─Here, it makes the news. "I think you're a degenerate, and you can't come in."
[06:44:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06US Customs Block Canadian Man After Reading His Scruff Profile - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:45:00] <exec> 08└─Specially brought to you for your (R) congressman, as discreet as possible, still NSFW (you've been warned): here you have a sample
[06:45:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Customs Block Canadian Man After Reading His Scruff Profile - 1073 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:45:02] <exec> 08└─Uhhhh - let me look at my post again. "I would expect that Canada is much like the US, with a similar freedom to talk, write, broadcast, and exchange ideas. (I'm aware that the laws are different, but the end result is similar) The UK, and most of Europe would be similar as well, and let's not forge...
[06:45:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Customs Block Canadian Man After Reading His Scruff Profile - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:45:04] <exec> 08└─Use https://startpage.com and click the "Proxy" link next to a search result to view it anonymously through a Startpage proxy server. Disclaimer: Startpage claims to be very privacy conscious, but I can't personally vouch for it.
[06:45:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Customs Block Canadian Man After Reading His Scruff Profile - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:45:06] <exec> 08└─I thought I more or less covered my bases, in regards to "some other westernized places".
[06:45:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linux Double Free Vulnerability/Privilege Escalation Exploit Found - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:45:16] <exec> 08└─Those kind of intermediaries lead to laziness like what recently struck cloudflare.
[06:45:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linux Double Free Vulnerability/Privilege Escalation Exploit Found - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:45:18] <exec> 08└─That's the kind of shit that a computer can check for you; if your computer is not doing a computer's work, then the design of your system is lazy.
[06:47:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bogsnoticus [3982] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Original Star Wars Trilogy Theatrical Cuts To Be Released On Blu-Ray - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:47:52] <exec> 08└─He got it on with Chewy's mum, and spawned Wicket.
[06:51:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Site Update 17_2 - 1883 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:51:15] <exec> 08└─Now I see how you're doing the dimming, and why I had such an extreme reaction to the original setting. It still looks bad even toned down. Here's the problem: When you change the opacity of the entire element, you are also changing the opacity of the text. This exacerbates the "low contrast" feelin...
[06:51:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Site Update 17_2 - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:51:52] <exec> 08└─The "transparency shit" is to make it much easier to engage in a conversation, as you can now very easily tell which comments you have already read. It's not change for change's sake; it's change for a great improvement.
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[07:44:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Plain Packets Help Smokers Quit by Killing Brand Identities - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:44:51] <exec> 08└─The "Plain Packet" experiment proves that smokers are Dumb Fucks.
[07:44:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06Plain Packets Help Smokers Quit by Killing Brand Identities - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:44:53] <exec> 08└─Mandatory insertion lawn clippings into the mix would probably help. Later to be replaced by pieces of shredded recycled tires.
[07:44:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Plain Packets Help Smokers Quit by Killing Brand Identities - 2019 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:44:55] <exec> 08└─The tobacco companies really flipped out about the Australian packaging. This tells us that they know that loss of lifestyle marketing hurts them dearly. Think about how Virginia Slims are marketed to a certain kind of woman, and Newports to a certain kind of black, and so on. That camel on the Came...
[07:45:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Customs Block Canadian Man After Reading His Scruff Profile - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:45:18] <exec> 08└─Come to Somalia, my friend! No violently imposed monopolies here! All violence is free market!
[07:45:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06US Customs Block Canadian Man After Reading His Scruff Profile - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:45:19] <exec> 08└─What happens in other countries, if a customs officer refuses you entry? Does it make the news?
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[07:45:22] <exec> 08└─Try again.
[07:45:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Customs Block Canadian Man After Reading His Scruff Profile - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:45:24] <exec> 08└─f there is one positive thing we can take away from this whole sorry mess is that people are willing to stand up and say "I am gay, and your treatment of me is unacceptable". This would not have happened such a short time ago. All those gay pride marches, all those homosexuals beaten and killed have...
[07:45:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Customs Block Canadian Man After Reading His Scruff Profile - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:45:26] <exec> 08└─As with any complex phenomenon, society evolves by variation and selection; it is through competition that society as a whole cooperates to find solutions to problems that no one necessarily even knows exist. "Wealth resdistribution"... you mean THEFT? Here's the deal, we're not discussing "higher ...
[07:45:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Customs Block Canadian Man After Reading His Scruff Profile - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:45:28] <exec> 08└─Competition *is* cooperation
[07:45:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Double Free Vulnerability/Privilege Escalation Exploit Found - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:45:39] <exec> 08└─At least Linux-based router distro is safe. They use the 2.0.39 Linux kernel (because it is small enough to fit on a floppy).
[07:46:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Deleted Server Supplier After Finding Infected Firmware in Servers - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:46:02] <exec> 08└─Heinleins razor seems important to remember here: You have attributed conditions to villainy that can simply result from stupidity.
[07:46:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Watershed SHA1 Collision Just Broke the WebKit Repository - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:46:21] <exec> 08└─HAHAHAHAHHA FUCKIN PWNED!
[07:47:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Smart Toys Are a Minefield, for Both Toymakers and Parents - 214 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:47:16] <exec> 08└─If we can't monetize your kids, then what good are they? Watch for it in the near future: all the tech industries are going to either find ways around the laws protecting children, or they'll just buy off congress.
[07:47:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03zeigerpuppy [1298] 02 - 06Smart Toys Are a Minefield, for Both Toymakers and Parents - 331 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:47:27] <exec> 08└─there is no "fine line" here. making engaging toys doesn't require voice recognition and even if it did, there's no excuse for keeping voiceprints and identifyable data. Speech recognition can be done locally using a modern smart phone but Google/Apple/Amazon and the rest are in the surveillence bus...
[07:47:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Smart Toys Are a Minefield, for Both Toymakers and Parents - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:47:35] <exec> 08└─So in a year you're going to marry her, just like Muhammed did?
[07:48:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 1) 02 - 06No Key, No Login: G Suite Admins Can Now Make FIDO Security Keys Mandatory - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:48:07] <exec> 08└─I may have been mis-interpreting a mangled version of this. Until just now, I had not idea the ActiveX was supposed to be cross-platform in the literal, Java-like, sense. Presumably those plans got scuttled when people either realized that ActiveX was a horrid idea; or they wanted to tie Internet Ex...
[07:48:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 1) 02 - 06No Key, No Login: G Suite Admins Can Now Make FIDO Security Keys Mandatory - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:48:08] <exec> 08└─I screwed up my explanation slightly. True TFA will do crypographic operations on hardware device the computer has no undue influence over. sometimes, it is simply a synchronized counter.
[07:48:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 1) 02 - 06No Key, No Login: G Suite Admins Can Now Make FIDO Security Keys Mandatory - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:48:10] <exec> 08└─Re-checking the link in Parent, I noticed it only talked about Internet Explorer being cross-platform, not ActiveX being cross-platform. ActiveX pointed me to "ActiveX technology: You can't go there today". InfoWorld. May 19, 1997. pp. 90 ff.
[07:48:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Earth BioGenome Project Aims to Sequence the Genomes of All Species on Earth - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:48:54] <exec> 08└─Funny, how the word "customer lock-in" is used when the correct party profits from the arrangement, and the word "extortion" is used when it doesn't.
[07:52:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Site Update 17_2 - 918 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:52:24] <exec> 08└─I'm going to weigh in here. First this change was not made lightly, and I nearly vetoed it entirely, it took several arounds of fixing by paul and TMB to get to the point I was willing to let it out in the world. If you want to blame anyone, blame me. Secondly, the drive for the change is that sever...
[07:52:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Site Update 17_2 - 604 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:52:33] <exec> 08└─I came on here and tried to read an article, and then my goal changed to complaining. Had to scroll back a page to find this, and by the time I read it I'm having a hard time complaining. I guess in a way it's cool you got this to happen without javascript but I didn't want it to happen at all! So n...
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[08:44:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Plain Packets Help Smokers Quit by Killing Brand Identities - 1114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:44:53] <exec> 08└─Make vaping cheaper and easier, simple as that. I smoked nearly 2 packs a day for over 25 years and I tried everything, patches and gums and pills...no joy. Then after my dad died from COPD my youngest got me a vaping kit for Xmas, its been 4 years now without a single cigarette and I have gone from...
[08:44:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03ShadowSystems [6185] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Plain Packets Help Smokers Quit by Killing Brand Identities - 1555 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:44:54] <exec> 08└─My mom got so sick & f'ing tired of my dad's smoking that she gave up trying to talk him into quitting & started resorting to sabotage. Filling them with bits of plastic shavings, nail clippings, cat/dog urine, soaking them in vinegar, anything that would alter the taste to make him gag up a bowel i...
[08:44:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Plain Packets Help Smokers Quit by Killing Brand Identities - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:44:56] <exec> 08└─Granted, the big tobacco companies are mercenary bastards like any other corporation. Smokers incur health risks, as do drinkers, drug users, the promiscuous, over-eaters, and practically any other pleasurable vices you carer to mention. That said, smokers who are considerate of others and understan...
[08:44:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Plain Packets Help Smokers Quit by Killing Brand Identities - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:44:58] <exec> 08└─Confused. I'm a smoker, in Australia and I didn't quit, in spite of would-be-horrendous plain packaging. This makes me a dumb-fuck or not?
[08:45:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Plain Packets Help Smokers Quit by Killing Brand Identities - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:45:00] <exec> 08└─Mandatory insertion lawn clippings into the mix would probably help.
[08:45:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Plain Packets Help Smokers Quit by Killing Brand Identities - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:45:03] <exec> 08└─But at least I'm smart enough not to smoke!
[08:45:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Plain Packets Help Smokers Quit by Killing Brand Identities - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:45:05] <exec> 08└─Think about how Virginia Slims are marketed to a certain kind of woman, and Newports to a certain kind of black, and so on. That camel on the Camels, the Marlboro man... all of it is about getting you to buy into an image about your lifestyle, either real or what you aspire to.
[08:45:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03lentilla [1770] 02 - 06US Customs Block Canadian Man After Reading His Scruff Profile - 95 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:45:29] <exec> 08└─What happens in other countries, if a customs officer refuses you entry? Does it make the news?
[08:45:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kawumpa [1187] (Score: 1) 02 - 06US Customs Block Canadian Man After Reading His Scruff Profile - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:45:35] <exec> 08└─Those border agents all need to be singing from the same choir book - we can't have people denied entry for arbitrary reasons according the whim of the individual agent - even if they manage to fabricate a lame excuse (here: "I am pretending that I believe he is a sex worker".)
[08:45:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Customs Block Canadian Man After Reading His Scruff Profile - 1196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:45:37] <exec> 08└─I think the term "undesirable" comes up in immigration processes. It may not be illegal to be homosexual in the US, but that doesn't mean that homosexuality is a desirable trait. "undesirable" is open to definition, and/or interpretation. Let me run a quick search . . . http://sonorannews.com
[08:45:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Customs Block Canadian Man After Reading His Scruff Profile - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:45:39] <exec> 08└─Competition *is* cooperation
[08:45:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06US Customs Block Canadian Man After Reading His Scruff Profile - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:45:41] <exec> 08└─Some freedom you have if you're afraid to search for something on Google.
[08:45:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03charon [5660] (Score: 1) 02 - 06US Customs Block Canadian Man After Reading His Scruff Profile - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:45:43] <exec> 08└─Bwahahahahahahahahahahahaha. That was a good one. So, when are you libertarians going to move to Galt's Gulch anyway? Drop me a line to let me know which billionaire volunteers to wash the dishes after dinner.
[08:46:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Deleted Server Supplier After Finding Infected Firmware in Servers - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:46:16] <exec> 08└─So you would knowingly buy from a vendor whom you know to be stupid enough to allow the computers to come preinstalled with malware?
[08:46:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Deleted Server Supplier After Finding Infected Firmware in Servers - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:46:18] <exec> 08└─I wonder if Tau Leng knows who did it
[08:46:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Watershed SHA1 Collision Just Broke the WebKit Repository - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:46:38] <exec> 08└─I know ZFS does not use SHA-1, but you have the option of telling ZFS to check that the data is actually different before de-duplicating. Now that I think about it, I should make sure to enable that option if I try to de-duplicate without ECC (should be slightly safer).
[08:47:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uncle Sam Needs You... to Debug, Improve Dept of Defense Open-Source Software at Code.Mil - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:47:11] <exec> 08└─The new commenting code is still in flux. What we have right now isn't the final set, and we're running daily articles about it. Next one goes live in several hours.
[08:47:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Uncle Sam Needs You... to Debug, Improve Dept of Defense Open-Source Software at Code.Mil - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:47:13] <exec> 08└─Commenting stuff is in flux. We're still working on it. Articles going out this week for feedback and notes will be a daily thing here for awhile. Next one goes out in a few hours.
[08:47:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uncle Sam Needs You... to Debug, Improve Dept of Defense Open-Source Software at Code.Mil - 688 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:47:15] <exec> 08└─The official definition of “open source software” (which is published by the Open Source Initiative and is too long to include here) was derived indirectly from our criteria for free software. It is not the same; it is a little looser in some respects. Nonetheless, their definition agrees with o...
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[08:48:44] <exec> 08└─Disney has a reputation for aggressively going after file sharers.
[08:49:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Guilty of Misconduct Went on to Receive $100 Million in NIH Grants - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:49:55] <exec> 08└─That gives an explanation to the outsider, why I asked AC instead of right away accusing him. But it does not answer the question, if he actually used those sources, or, as I suspect, just took his own guess as fact.
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[09:44:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] 02 - 06Plain Packets Help Smokers Quit by Killing Brand Identities - 1114 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:44:43] <exec> 08└─Make vaping cheaper and easier, simple as that. I smoked nearly 2 packs a day for over 25 years and I tried everything, patches and gums and pills...no joy. Then after my dad died from COPD my youngest got me a vaping kit for Xmas, its been 4 years now without a single cigarette and I have gone from...
[09:44:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Plain Packets Help Smokers Quit by Killing Brand Identities - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:44:51] <exec> 08└─If your health is not that badly affected and you're enjoying it then you're not a dumb fuck. If you're not addicted but your health is badly affected and/or you're not actually enjoying it then you're a dumb fuck. If you're addicted and your health is badly affected and/or you're not actually enjoy...
[09:44:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Plain Packets Help Smokers Quit by Killing Brand Identities - 576 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:44:53] <exec> 08└─Advocating vaping now sounds a lot like people a hundred years ago advocating smoking to cure a cold. Vaping definitely can be safer, but a load of vaping fluid contains some truly horrible stuff (benzine, for example) that is known to be carcinogenic. Your lung x-rays will look better, because you...
[09:44:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Plain Packets Help Smokers Quit by Killing Brand Identities - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:44:55] <exec> 08└─Cool. A bit incomplete (the case of "addicted, enjoying it and badly affected" is missing) but seems correct.
[09:45:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06US Customs Block Canadian Man After Reading His Scruff Profile - 28 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:45:23] <exec> 08└─Competition *is* cooperation
[09:45:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Customs Block Canadian Man After Reading His Scruff Profile - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:45:30] <exec> 08└─Oh plenty are ashamed, and you'd probably be shocked how many conservatives would be shocked and ashamed if they were faced with the bald truths.
[09:45:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Customs Block Canadian Man After Reading His Scruff Profile - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:45:32] <exec> 08└─Even poor people have dishwasher machines, charon.
[09:45:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03charon [5660] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06US Customs Block Canadian Man After Reading His Scruff Profile - 815 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:45:34] <exec> 08└─Wait, did you mean the Immigration and Nationality Services Act of 1965 or the Immigration Act of 1990, both of which modified and negated portions of the 1952 Act? You know, the 1965 one that specifically removed "national origin, race, and ancestry" barriers as well as the quota system? And the 19...
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[09:45:36] <exec> 08└─I have found that a lot of confusion goes away when we think of money as power in tangible form. Government immediately becomes a nothing but a powerful being laying down laws for the powerless. Rich becomes powerful, richest becomes powerful enough to negotiate with government. Socialism becomes a...
[09:45:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03charon [5660] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06US Customs Block Canadian Man After Reading His Scruff Profile - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:45:38] <exec> 08└─No one has yet touched on what I found the worst thing in this story, and the detail that convinced me to publish it. They kept his passwords after the first time he was turned away. US Customs had real time access to his personal accounts. For the libertarian, get gubmint off my back, taxes are the...
[09:45:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Customs Block Canadian Man After Reading His Scruff Profile - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:45:41] <exec> 08└─You might want to actually read the pages you link to before asserting that they support your viewpoint.
[09:45:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03charon [5660] (Score: 1) 02 - 06US Customs Block Canadian Man After Reading His Scruff Profile - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:45:43] <exec> 08└─Thanks, but having you on my side is not necessarily helpful, aristarchus. But anyway, Ancient Greeks together, rah rah rah!
[09:45:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Customs Block Canadian Man After Reading His Scruff Profile - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:45:45] <exec> 08└─Sure it's bad that they kept his passwords. However, what kind of idiot doesn't change their password after they are compelled to divulge them to the customs officials?
[09:45:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03tfried [5534] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Customs Block Canadian Man After Reading His Scruff Profile - 507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:45:47] <exec> 08└─Let's forget about any formal objections that might be raised against your interpretation of the law, for the moment. I ask you Runaway1956, do you think it is good and reasonable to deny people entry due to undesirable traits such as - ugly - overweight - bald - short-sight...
[09:45:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03lx [1915] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Customs Block Canadian Man After Reading His Scruff Profile - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:45:49] <exec> 08└─It's terrible and wrong. OTOH I'm disappointed that he apparently didn't change his passwords after the previous incident.
[09:45:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Customs Block Canadian Man After Reading His Scruff Profile - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:45:51] <exec> 08└─It may not be illegal to be homosexual in the US, but that doesn't mean that homosexuality is a desirable trait.
[09:45:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Customs Block Canadian Man After Reading His Scruff Profile - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:45:54] <exec> 08└─Relevant xkcd. If you push faulty analogies enough, they'll break. Some, like this one, earlier than others.
[09:46:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Deleted Server Supplier After Finding Infected Firmware in Servers - 515 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:46:30] <exec> 08└─And this is why you shouldn't trust cloud services. Apple may have the best of intentions and respect your privacy, but simply by collecting a load of data in one place they're creating a high-value target. No one cares about you enough to try to compromise your account, but the data about you and a...
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[09:47:25] <exec> 08└─The new commenting code is still in flux.
[09:47:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nintendo Switch Impressions: Out of the Box and Into Our Hands - 452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:47:42] <exec> 08└─It's not just lately — the same thing happened during the 1996 holiday season with the release of the N64. My brother only got one for Christmas because relatives in rural Oregon somehow managed to snag the last one at a Toys R Us that "nobody goes to anymore." Though from what I've read, Nintendo...
[09:52:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Site Update 17_2 - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:52:57] <exec> 08└─Or just have it off by default and have an opt in buried somewhere.
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[10:45:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Customs Block Canadian Man After Reading His Scruff Profile - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:45:39] <exec> 08└─Well, good points. I realize that being homosexual doesn't rule a person out for immigration - I did read those later changes to the law. But, the changes didn't make homosexuality a "desirable" trait, either. Then again, you point out that the laws apply to "immigrants", not necessarily to a visito...
[10:45:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Customs Block Canadian Man After Reading His Scruff Profile - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:45:41] <exec> 08└─Charon is a Greek? I didn't realize the gods and other characters were Greeks. That's kinda like saying that Allah is Muslim, or Jesus is Christian, or the Great Father is Seminole. Charon would have been above any national or ethnic identity. Which makes you far superior to that other character fro...
[10:45:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linux Double Free Vulnerability/Privilege Escalation Exploit Found - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:45:53] <exec> 08└─if your computer is not doing a computer's work, then the design of your system is lazy.
[10:46:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Watershed SHA1 Collision Just Broke the WebKit Repository - 709 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:46:40] <exec> 08└─Ok, it's Linus saying not to worry. Still, I don't like his reasoning: "I haven't seen the attack details, but I bet" So he doesn't actually know how the attack works, beyond it being a hash-collision via PDFs. "we have a separate size encoding makes it much harder to do on git objects" But he doesn...
[10:46:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Watershed SHA1 Collision Just Broke the WebKit Repository - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:46:42] <exec> 08└─so... they thought their hash was so good that there would never be a collision and they wouldn't even need to account for that possibility in their code?
[10:46:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Watershed SHA1 Collision Just Broke the WebKit Repository - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:46:44] <exec> 08└─Soylent Blues. We can have some smooth jazz auto-played.
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[11:45:08] <exec> 08└─When I read the topic, it reminded me of a prank I pulled on my uncle, who would smoke his pipe in our house while visiting, which mom did not take kindly to. I was about 12 years old at the time. I got a hold of his bag of pipe mixture and adulterated it with a rubber band, which I spent quite some...
[11:45:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] 02 - 06US Customs Block Canadian Man After Reading His Scruff Profile - 168 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:45:50] <exec> 08└─Sure it's bad that they kept his passwords. However, what kind of idiot doesn't change their password after they are compelled to divulge them to the customs officials?
[11:45:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Customs Block Canadian Man After Reading His Scruff Profile - 1298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:45:58] <exec> 08└─http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/28/travel/ben-gurion-worlds-safest-airport-tel-aviv/ Profiling. In point of fact, a security (customs) agent doesn't actually need a reason to turn someone around at the border. If a particular border agent grows suspicious of someone, for ANY REASON, he can take one or mo...
[11:45:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06US Customs Block Canadian Man After Reading His Scruff Profile - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:00] <exec> 08└─A warlord is government
[11:46:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Customs Block Canadian Man After Reading His Scruff Profile - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:02] <exec> 08└─I'm disappointed that he apparently didn't change his passwords after the previous incident.
[11:46:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Customs Block Canadian Man After Reading His Scruff Profile - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:04] <exec> 08└─Ok, but who cleared the table and filled the dishwasher?
[11:46:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03mmcmonster [401] (Score: 2) 02 - 06These E-Glasses Help the Legally Blind See - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:25] <exec> 08└─Why the heck aren't these technologies more well known? I know a lot of people with limited sight. Not quite at the legally blind stage, but some of them are close. Why don't these people know about this?
[11:46:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06These E-Glasses Help the Legally Blind See - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:26] <exec> 08└─...but obviously not the cinema, because it's a camera http://the-gadgeteer.com at some point, tech is going to pit the cinema camera bans against disability discrimination laws, and the guy in TFA would, at my guess, win.
[11:47:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03KiloByte [375] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Watershed SHA1 Collision Just Broke the WebKit Repository - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:47:08] <exec> 08└─But you're not running git on that phone, are you?
[11:47:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Watershed SHA1 Collision Just Broke the WebKit Repository - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:47:09] <exec> 08└─SVN is *much* easier for non-technical people to understand and use.
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[11:47:12] <exec> 08└─btrfs always does that. This way, you can just as well use short hashes while looking for dedup candidates (far more memory efficient), then for the actual dedupe it uses a hash function immune to both preimage and collision attacks, ie, the identity function.
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[12:44:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC to Halt Rule That Protects Your Private Data From Security Breaches - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:44:55] <exec> 08└─Will this work hand in hand with the enforcement of treaties like the TPP (or whatever the next version will be called) and in allowing the *AA's to snoop on what an ISP's customers are doing?
[12:44:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC to Halt Rule That Protects Your Private Data From Security Breaches - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:44:57] <exec> 08└─As the orange one dropped TPP, I have a hunch you'll be safe from intrusion under TPP rules. Otherwise, since ISP-es are no longer required to protect your data, maybe the safest solution is to store them in a vault... I don't know, somewhere in Utah? (grin)
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[12:45:25] <exec> 08└─Actually, I have smoked for many years - and I enjoy the taste and flavour of what I smoke. Sorry if that doesn't fit the narrative - but there's a good chance that for most smokers, the flavour is a significant aspect of what keeps them smoking. Having said that, I would have been happy for cigaret...
[12:45:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06US Customs Block Canadian Man After Reading His Scruff Profile - 99 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:42] <exec> 08└─Organizing society around taxation is the last vestige of humanity's barbaric, uncivilized origins;
[12:46:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Customs Block Canadian Man After Reading His Scruff Profile - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:19] <exec> 08└─Yes, this. Also, what kind of idiot would voluntarily subject himself to that bullshit again by turning up at a US airport? 49% of US voters and the government they voted for have made their stance clear, and the rest of the world should listen: GO AWAY. THE US DOESN'T WANT YOU DIRTY FOREIGNERS. GO...
[12:46:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Customs Block Canadian Man After Reading His Scruff Profile - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:20] <exec> 08└─No, I mean wealth redistribution
[12:46:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Customs Block Canadian Man After Reading His Scruff Profile - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:22] <exec> 08└─A civilised government should have no opinion regarding the desirability of homosexuality. It is; simply; none of their business.
[12:46:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Customs Block Canadian Man After Reading His Scruff Profile - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:24] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I noticed that bit alrighty. Note to self: change your passwords to temporary throwaway ones before trying to cross the border. Did they keep his credit card numbers too? Could get the banks on his side if the customs agents did that.
[12:46:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Customs Block Canadian Man After Reading His Scruff Profile - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:26] <exec> 08└─If you read the article, the first visit where the gentleman's phone and computer were confiscated and he was barred entry took place in October, before the election.
[12:46:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Customs Block Canadian Man After Reading His Scruff Profile - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:29] <exec> 08└─People are turned away all the time. Hell, America alone has something like 50 million people who have had a DUI sometime in their life, which alone means they would be ineligible to enter Canada. I would not be surprised if half of Americas would not meet muster if they were interviewed by a Canadi...
[12:47:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Watershed SHA1 Collision Just Broke the WebKit Repository - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:47:35] <exec> 08└─Of course not. D'you see what high level of security it has?
[12:47:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03ticho [89] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Watershed SHA1 Collision Just Broke the WebKit Repository - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:47:36] <exec> 08└─Fair enough, but that was just the initial reaction. The linked thread then develops into an indepth discussion about how git is or can be affected by collisions, and how to improve the resilience. An interesting read, if you can spare the time (90+ messages, some of them quite meaty).
[12:48:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uncle Sam Needs You... to Debug, Improve Dept of Defense Open-Source Software at Code.Mil - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:48:14] <exec> 08└─Trump is doing everything he can to cut social benefits, health care, raise my taxes, attack my freedoms, destroy education, fucking wrecking America *AND* now he wants me to code for free?! "Terrible deal...awful...not gonna happen people. Believe me...blah blah" Racist motherfucker...
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[13:45:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Comments Redux - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:13] <exec> 08└─I like it, including the "new" part (but mostly the performance increase). I'd mentioned in another comment that I thought the "*NEW*" should be right justified on the screen. Really, the dimmed or faded display is a good idea too, although perhaps a touch extreme. I'm sure someone will have a bette...
[13:45:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Comments Redux - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:14] <exec> 08└─I like the *new* labels and what seems to be greatly decreased load times. I also very much that the new layout works without javascript. It's clear that a lot of good work went on both visible on top and underneath out of sight. What I do miss is the functional equivalent of the old Nested Mode.
[13:45:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Comments Redux - 490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:16] <exec> 08└─Seconded. I think once I've played used it a little more I might have some better idea of feedback, but in addition to Nerdfest's comment I also liked the ability to expand/collapse a discussion branch. Very useful when certain posters decide to go off the rails at each other but haven't been modera...
[13:45:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Comments Redux - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:18] <exec> 08└─What has not been tested, and for which I hereby request the help of the community, are the user preferences whereby one can provide modifiers to certain aspects of comments.
[13:45:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03moondoctor [2963] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06FCC to Halt Rule That Protects Your Private Data From Security Breaches - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:29] <exec> 08└─Well, that didn't take long! Destabilising things for short term profit is not a good plan, Chairman Pai. The argument that because the FTC can't regulate the big boys, then the FCC must not regulate ISPs is ludicrous. Requiring companies to take reasonable data protections seems obvious to me. Is t...
[13:45:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC to Halt Rule That Protects Your Private Data From Security Breaches - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:31] <exec> 08└─TPP will just arrive in another 6 months under a new name.
[13:45:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC to Halt Rule That Protects Your Private Data From Security Breaches - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:34] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I'm wondering if anyone here is actually partisan enough to defend this.
[13:45:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06FCC to Halt Rule That Protects Your Private Data From Security Breaches - 4326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:36] <exec> 08└─Probably the link you want for the R+O is https://www.fcc.gov and around page 102 of the rendered PDF in paragraph 248 you'll see the whole thing was meaningless and toothless to begin with. Its a giant wordy bucket of CYA that boils down to you'r...
[13:45:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06FCC to Halt Rule That Protects Your Private Data From Security Breaches - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:38] <exec> 08└─Gee, I think you might have something useful in this word salad. Can you take a few extra minutes and summarize your points, without all of the editorial and randomness?
[13:45:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC to Halt Rule That Protects Your Private Data From Security Breaches - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:40] <exec> 08└─TPP will just arrive in another 6 months under a new name.
[13:45:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC to Halt Rule That Protects Your Private Data From Security Breaches - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:42] <exec> 08└─Is there any valid argument for *not* having reasonable practices
[13:45:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC to Halt Rule That Protects Your Private Data From Security Breaches - 995 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:45] <exec> 08└─No, because I just summarized a 200 page R+O by a factor of 200 to 1 if not more, and going to 2000 to 1 is going to make it even more unreadable not better, meanwhile a clickbait site linked to in the article is already misleading people a bit so it would be foolish to trust my summary without veri...
[13:45:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC to Halt Rule That Protects Your Private Data From Security Breaches - 721 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:47] <exec> 08└─toe-may-toe, toe-mah-toe... actually, i came here to praise vlm, not to bury vlm... thought it was interesting insight (and modded same), and not that hard to follow; besides, i like sidebars and paranthetical remarks and such... not sure what to think of the 'doing security at another level' idea,...
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[13:45:55] <exec> 08└─Getting a herd stampeding in the winter can make them use up energy reserves necessary to survive until spring. Theses guys seem to be pretty well looked after, but there are ranges where in certain years this could kill. A huge herd of elk running across a ridge in the Rockies is something to behol...
[13:45:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Buzzing Drone Causes 1,500 Elk to Stampede in Wyoming - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:57] <exec> 08└─It's not hard to get cattle running. Many years ago I crossed the country with a group of young people, in a car with a PA horn on the roof and a mic inside. Passing a herd of cattle, one gal had the brilliant idea to imitate a calf in distress, a "lowing" sound at a higher pitch than adult cows. Th...
[13:46:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TheRaven [270] 02 - 06Plain Packets Help Smokers Quit by Killing Brand Identities - 576 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:17] <exec> 08└─Advocating vaping now sounds a lot like people a hundred years ago advocating smoking to cure a cold. Vaping definitely can be safer, but a load of vaping fluid contains some truly horrible stuff (benzine, for example) that is known to be carcinogenic. Your lung x-rays will look better, because you...
[13:46:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Plain Packets Help Smokers Quit by Killing Brand Identities - 755 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:21] <exec> 08└─I agree with what you say. That being said the key words are "harm reduction". Vaping is widely accepted as not being as bad for you as smoking. Even if it is, though, there is another way. Vape to get off cigarettes and then quit vaping. I gave up cigs 3 years ago, and gave up vaping 1 year ago. Va...
[13:46:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Plain Packets Help Smokers Quit by Killing Brand Identities - 1064 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:23] <exec> 08└─As long as I'm still able to get the correct brand, they can do whatever they want with the packaging. Every now and then I'll get something other than American Spirit, and while I'm sure there are other good alternatives out there, everything compared to that brand is disgusting. I suppose I could...
[13:47:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03charon [5660] 02 - 06US Customs Block Canadian Man After Reading His Scruff Profile - 815 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:01] <exec> 08└─Wait, did you mean the Immigration and Nationality Services Act of 1965 or the Immigration Act of 1990, both of which modified and negated portions of the 1952 Act? You know, the 1965 one that specifically removed "national origin, race, and ancestry" barriers as well as the quota system? And the 19...
[13:47:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03charon [5660] 02 - 06US Customs Block Canadian Man After Reading His Scruff Profile - 419 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:03] <exec> 08└─No one has yet touched on what I found the worst thing in this story, and the detail that convinced me to publish it. They kept his passwords after the first time he was turned away. US Customs had real time access to his personal accounts. For the libertarian, get gubmint off my back, taxes are the...
[13:47:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Customs Block Canadian Man After Reading His Scruff Profile - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:24] <exec> 08└─Amazonk Prometheans
[13:47:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Customs Block Canadian Man After Reading His Scruff Profile - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:25] <exec> 08└─<Avatar> how much do dishwashers cost <krissle> haha <krissle> you dont buy a dishwasher <krissle> you marry one
[13:47:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Customs Block Canadian Man After Reading His Scruff Profile - 708 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:27] <exec> 08└─Cool. One more reason not to enter the US. The list for me is so long now (including several such incidents like this that have been reported elsewhere) that I can't see it getting back down to zero any time soon. If the US want a wall, let them have it. In fact, reinforce it. If the US want to vet...
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[13:47:30] <exec> 08└─..However, what kind of idiot doesn't change their password after they are compelled to divulge them to the customs officials?
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[14:45:10] <exec> 08└─What has not been tested, and for which I hereby request the help of the community, are the user preferences whereby one can provide modifiers to certain aspects of comments.
[14:45:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Comments Redux - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:12] <exec> 08└─We noted that this change was coming in other meta stories, and even had a landing article on dev for people coming to check it out. No one did.
[14:45:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Comments Redux - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:14] <exec> 08└─The old interface and display of comments was SO MUCH BETTER in every way. It's more difficult to navigate comments now, and the thread of discussion seems to be increasingly hidden. It's starting to feel as stupid as Slashdot.
[14:45:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Comments Redux - 1271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:16] <exec> 08└─Here's a thought experiment. Note that "some people here" have a lot of trouble understanding the concept of a thought experiment. In this example I have no interest in participating, because I am not bothered by the new system... none the less here is an experiment to think about: If the old UI was...
[14:45:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Comments Redux - 1147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:18] <exec> 08└─Excellent feedback - thank you! At the moment, the site has no means by which we can "pin" a story to the top of the story list on the main page; I like your suggestion about adding a line to note a new release is coming and to check it out on dev. Will definitely keep it in mind for future upgrade...
[14:45:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Comments Redux - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:20] <exec> 08└─I very much like the idea client-side layout processing. But there is one simple UI issue that affects usability: Collapsing an entire tree of comments causes the button for the individual comment to disappear. Its user-unfriendly to add and delete user-interface elements depending on context becau...
[14:45:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Comments Redux - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:23] <exec> 08└─> Here's a thought experiment. Note that "some people here" have a lot of trouble understanding the concept of a thought experiment. That's a very important note! Thanks for pointing that out!!!
[14:45:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Comments Redux - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:25] <exec> 08└─In preferences > comments > "Display Link Domains?" Third option, "Show link domains in comments and stories", is bugged. It shows link domains only in stories, not in comments. The fourth option, "Link domains for comments only", works as expected. I don't know if that bug is new or old. I guess I...
[14:45:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Comments Redux - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:27] <exec> 08└─Part of why changes are being tested: The changes to commenting were primarily driven on technical grounds. [...] the site would be borderline unusable until those caches could be loaded. So let me make this clear that this change wasn't a change for changes sake. There was (and is) a need to revam...
[14:45:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Comments Redux - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:29] <exec> 08└─In preferences > comments > "Display Link Domains?" Third option, "Show link domains in comments and stories", is bugged. It shows link domains only in stories, not in comments. The fourth option, "Link domains for comments only", works as expected. I don't know if that bug is new or old. I guess I...
[14:45:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Popeidol [35] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Comments Redux - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:31] <exec> 08└─I agree with this. There's definitely going to be a few tweaks, but the changes are by and large a solid base to work from. There's a lot of good ideas and the only thing that annoyed me was seeing usernames inline with the comment title - and that seems to have already changed.
[14:45:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Comments Redux - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:34] <exec> 08└─The best thing about *NEW* is that you can search for it. Chevron images should probably be changed into something else (no idea here). + and - were obvious, ^ and v are kinda painful to process mentally in this context. I'd suggest removing border-radius from various .title's and #section_banner as...
[14:45:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Comments Redux - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:36] <exec> 08└─For me - the site works fine. I gave a thought to making some stupid, lame-ass complaints in the other thread, just to be a smartass. Decided no one needs that, and just kept on reading and commenting. The site works a little differently, from my perspective. I think I've seen almost everything that...
[14:45:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Comments Redux - 1420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:38] <exec> 08└─On the front page each story says something like: " (Read More...) | 1276 words in story | 14 comments | Meta " where the "1276 words in story" and "14" are both links to the same place. It would be nice if the "14" linked directly to the comments with the #acomments tag. For example on this particu...
[14:45:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC to Halt Rule That Protects Your Private Data From Security Breaches - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:56] <exec> 08└─I think you meant renegotiate NAFTA? Yeah, he promised that. But, TPP is history - at least until the next election.
[14:46:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Plain Packets Help Smokers Quit by Killing Brand Identities - 867 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:30] <exec> 08└─Nicotine being one of the least unhealthy aspects of smoking, I'd definitely suggest perhaps looking into some alternatives beyond the patch. Part of the trick seems to be to avoid smoking cessation aids and instead look at things like lozenges, snus (dear god make sure to get something like General...
[14:47:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Customs Block Canadian Man After Reading His Scruff Profile - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:35] <exec> 08└─Come on then, let's have it. Vent your anarchist nonsense and be done with it.
[14:47:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Customs Block Canadian Man After Reading His Scruff Profile - 1088 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:37] <exec> 08└─no, what we don't talk about when we talk about 'wealth distribution' in any meaningful way, is that it is the 99% who are getting fleeced at every turn in this society/gummint, with the .01-1% taking virtually ALL the gains... in reality, 'wealth distribution' effectively has a diode built into the...
[14:47:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Customs Block Canadian Man After Reading His Scruff Profile - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:39] <exec> 08└─The problem is always that there is a monopoly, one that is violently imposed. This is a cultural problem; the worship of such a monopoly is a vestige of humanity's ancient, barbaric, tribal, superstitious, uncivilized origins.
[14:47:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Customs Block Canadian Man After Reading His Scruff Profile - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:41] <exec> 08└─That part did stand out to me. Granted the traveler should have changed his passwords, but it is completely unacceptable his passwords were stored. I actually think agents should not be allowed to ask for passwords, and instead ask the traveler to enter their passwords themselves. Whether requesting...
[14:48:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06These E-Glasses Help the Legally Blind See - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:04] <exec> 08└─Is anyone else thinking that "legally blind" is a rather strange term? I mean, the obvious opposite would be "illegally blind" — do you get jailed for illegal blindness? :-)
[14:48:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Deleted Server Supplier After Finding Infected Firmware in Servers - 816 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:23] <exec> 08└─I'm sure those sneaky chinamen infected their own equipment via a malicious pact with the pinko commies in china to steal even more IP. The biggest disappointment in IT is the fact that we worry about US surveillance while completely forgetting that most if not close to all of our IT components are...
[14:48:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Frost [3313] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Apple Deleted Server Supplier After Finding Infected Firmware in Servers - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:24] <exec> 08└─China is second world, not third world. The three worlds
[14:50:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smart Toys Are a Minefield, for Both Toymakers and Parents - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:50:15] <exec> 08└─Part of the problem here is it only takes one bad apple to ruin it for everyone. Even if the company is completely honestly doing all the right things (keeping data secure, not abusing their access, protecting users' interests, etc) they only need a single person with the right access to come along...
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[15:44:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Technology and the Tactic of the Fake Market - 742 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:53] <exec> 08└─A "true" market is decentralized, or at least has its foundation in an inherently decentralized system. Uber represents the same kind of command-and-control structure around which a government is founded; the difference is that a government is an organization which is violently imposed, and which is...
[15:44:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Technology and the Tactic of the Fake Market - 1334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:55] <exec> 08└─Interesting that that Uber has been targeted by the Masters of the Universe. While it raises some questions about employment law, I suppose I don't see the need for 24/7 press coverage. I knew that the Masters of the Universe had taken aim when the sexual harassment stuff started. Now we're suggesti...
[15:44:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Technology and the Tactic of the Fake Market - 2979 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:57] <exec> 08└─Since this article mentions Ebay, I'd like to give them some free advertising. These days, I've found Ebay to be really invaluable in finding all kinds of stuff, both used stuff and cheap stuff, including cheap junk from China. I do wish there was more competition for them (because competition is al...
[15:44:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Technology and the Tactic of the Fake Market - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:59] <exec> 08└─The article actually talks about several different markets and Uber is just the example that the article goes into the most detail. Personally I think Amazon would have been a better target here; they are similar to Ebay in regards to allowing vendors to sell products, but they do not allow individu...
[15:45:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Comments Redux - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:26] <exec> 08└─I'm hoping we've earned enough trust from you guys collectively to be allowed to at least experiment for a bit.
[15:45:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Comments Redux - 1420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:28] <exec> 08└─Look, I get it. No one really knows an effective, standardized, sustainable way to avoid spam and promote high quality comments; thus, many comments are collapsed by default, both for the sake of compactness, and because it's not algorithmically clear that those comments are useful. However, it was...
[15:45:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Comments Redux - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:30] <exec> 08└─I've noticed the words/comments same link thing and I like your suggested change.
[15:45:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Comments Redux - 708 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:32] <exec> 08└─I too just noticed and selected the "comments and stories" option while fiddling with my preferences yesterday, after having it set to "comments only" since day 1. It's actually kinda weird... On the front page, it seems to work right.When I click on a article (article.pl), links above the fold ("Si...
[15:45:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Comments Redux - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:34] <exec> 08└─I would like to see some kind of indicator of the number of hidden comments inside a collapsed tree I think a second, indented line under the "parent" that says something like "XX hidden comments"
[15:45:36] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03inertnet [4071] 02 - 06Comments Redux - 77 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:36] <exec> 08└─I'm missing the "expand all comments in this tree option" that we had before.
[15:45:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03physicsmajor [1471] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Comments Redux - 740 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:39] <exec> 08└─That's what I liked most about the old interface. Even when intermediate posts were trollish or lower voted, you could immediately - but at will - see the thread of discussion. Furthermore, it let me find many a post deserving of upvotes. It was also infinitely easier (despite the tiny button) to do...
[15:45:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Comments Redux - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:41] <exec> 08└─That's all I've been getting at the main (https://soylentnews.org/) page for the last 3 days, but my bookmark to submissions (https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=list) and all the links on the left side (except the main page) work fine. Already tried clearing the cache, that's not it.
[15:45:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Comments Redux - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:43] <exec> 08└─BTW, I'm using Googles DNS servers (8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4) if that makes any difference.
[15:45:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Comments Redux - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:45] <exec> 08└─However, it was so useful to be able to recursively expand a thread of discussion as I saw fit. Furthermore, I liked being able to see every comment's subject line, even if that comment was collapsed by default, because an author's judicious use of that subject line made it possible to quickly scan...
[15:45:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Celestial [4891] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Comments Redux - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:48] <exec> 08└─The only two issues I've had thus far have been covered already. Namely, that "Show link domains in comments and stories" is broken, and that replacing the chevron images with "+" and "-" images would both look better and make more sense IMO. Those are both fairly minor in the grand scheme of things...
[15:46:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03VLM [445] 02 - 06FCC to Halt Rule That Protects Your Private Data From Security Breaches - 4326 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:00] <exec> 08└─Probably the link you want for the R+O is https://www.fcc.gov and around page 102 of the rendered PDF in paragraph 248 you'll see the whole thing was meaningless and toothless to begin with. Its a giant wordy bucket of CYA that boils down to you'r...
[15:46:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03VLM [445] 02 - 06FCC to Halt Rule That Protects Your Private Data From Security Breaches - 65 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:03] <exec> 08└─Is there any valid argument for *not* having reasonable practices
[15:46:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06FCC to Halt Rule That Protects Your Private Data From Security Breaches - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:08] <exec> 08└─Great post. You made sense of a lot of crap for me. Thanks, man. Sorry I've used all my mod points already!
[15:46:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03moondoctor [2963] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FCC to Halt Rule That Protects Your Private Data From Security Breaches - 1245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:10] <exec> 08└─>I think we'd both like enforcement of reasonable practices, whatever those are... where we disagree is this R+O was garbage Nope, I completely agree! On both counts. Thanks for that peek inside, it's really interesting. I had just assumed that it's drafted shitty, but hadn't realised just how bad....
[15:46:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03moondoctor [2963] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FCC to Halt Rule That Protects Your Private Data From Security Breaches - 988 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:12] <exec> 08└─>in other words the opposite of the R+O they trashed. I'm not sure its technologically possible in 2017. This is the real issue that needs addressing. Honestly? It stumps me. Something vague enough to cover unforeseen technological advances and not legislate specific technologies, yet hard enough to...
[15:46:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Buzzing Drone Causes 1,500 Elk to Stampede in Wyoming - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:22] <exec> 08└─The first time I saw a LARGE herd of elk, they were grazing among a herd of deer. From a long way off, it looked like adults and new offspring, but it was definitely the wrong time of year for that. As I got closer to them, I realized it was two separate species. The thought that came to my mind was...
[15:46:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Plain Packets Help Smokers Quit by Killing Brand Identities - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:48] <exec> 08└─There's a great saying in recovery circles that you should know about: "Progress, not perfection."
[15:46:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03radu [1919] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Plain Packets Help Smokers Quit by Killing Brand Identities - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:49] <exec> 08└─nearly 2 packs a day for over 25 years
[15:47:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Customs Block Canadian Man After Reading His Scruff Profile - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:58] <exec> 08└─Change your name to one that sounds suspiciously like a Jew. No more being stopped at security and no more checkpoints for you.
[15:47:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Customs Block Canadian Man After Reading His Scruff Profile - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:00] <exec> 08└─Scandinavian countries have quite a high taxation rate, and they are living a better quality life than USians,
[15:48:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Customs Block Canadian Man After Reading His Scruff Profile - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:02] <exec> 08└─Ugh, that's all you've got? After all the discussion it still boils down to "violently imposed monopoly" of the government? Government is actually the single most important aspect of civilization. The laws against murder, and the ability to enforce those laws, are actually the only thing stopping hu...
[15:48:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linux Double Free Vulnerability/Privilege Escalation Exploit Found - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:15] <exec> 08└─If your computer can do it, then it becomes a computer's work, not a human's work.
[15:48:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Deleted Server Supplier After Finding Infected Firmware in Servers - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:47] <exec> 08└─Haha, I worked for Freescale at about the same time, and one of the companies we were trying to gflog chips too was Apple. I remember taking some EVBs that had just been returned by Apple to Nokia for evaluation (for the n900, we lost to TI, because of inertia). I never dealt with Apple, so don't kn...
[15:49:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Desler [880] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Watershed SHA1 Collision Just Broke the WebKit Repository - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:17] <exec> 08└─They who?
[15:49:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uncle Sam Needs You... to Debug, Improve Dept of Defense Open-Source Software at Code.Mil - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:56] <exec> 08└─i rarely say that, but i am glad someone gets it. next step? make it illegal to pay for closed source software with tax dollars (after a reasonable grace period) and start getting projects ramped up now. Get sister initiatives set up in other countries. FOSS gov software may even be helpful to their...
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[16:45:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Technology and the Tactic of the Fake Market - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:06] <exec> 08└─Then boycott Uber. Simple, problem solved. This is after all a free market and why not give the business to a real cab and not a fake scab.
[16:45:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Technology and the Tactic of the Fake Market - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:07] <exec> 08└─This is, by any reasonable definition, no market at all.
[16:45:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03physicsmajor [1471] 02 - 06Comments Redux - 740 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:41] <exec> 08└─That's what I liked most about the old interface. Even when intermediate posts were trollish or lower voted, you could immediately - but at will - see the thread of discussion. Furthermore, it let me find many a post deserving of upvotes. It was also infinitely easier (despite the tiny button) to do...
[16:45:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Comments Redux - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:46] <exec> 08└─I dig this idea. On the to-do list it goes.
[16:45:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Comments Redux - 742 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:48] <exec> 08└─That's what I liked most about the old interface. Even when intermediate posts were trollish or lower voted, you could immediately - but at will - see the thread of discussion. Furthermore, it let me find many a post deserving of upvotes. It was also infinitely easier (despite the tiny button) to do...
[16:45:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Comments Redux - 564 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:50] <exec> 08└─My personal selection for this option is also "Show link domains in comments and stories" and, as I write this, I am NOT seeing any domain names called out in the parent comment. Looks like you found a bug. I'll pass it on to the developers. Please note: the devs are pretty wiped out from the upgra...
[16:45:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Comments Redux - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:53] <exec> 08└─Adding repetitive, *SHOUTING* verbiage is terrible UI design. Any reason you can't use colors? Make unread comments have brighter, redder title bars, maybe even ... pink? Or, read comments can be darker or grayer. Or, could fiddle with the background color of the comments, have some pastel backgroun...
[16:45:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Comments Redux - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:55] <exec> 08└─I'm using Googles DNS servers (8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4)
[16:45:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Comments Redux - 1151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:57] <exec> 08└─Except during the period when the site was actually undergoing the upgrade, I am unaware of any lingering issues with 503s on the site. Except, we had some reports that SN was being blocked in (I don't recall for certain... Turkey?). I had to re-read your (GP) comment, and I find it a bit befuddlin...
[16:45:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Comments Redux - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:59] <exec> 08└─I like the fading a lot, but I think only if the comment and the comment title are faded together. That said, the fading could be just a little bit less and it would still work for me. I haven't tried it in bright sunlight though.
[16:46:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Comments Redux - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:02] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't mind just the title fading, but the faded comments seem to only vaguely line up with ones I've read (had on my screen is not the same as read) and the text is a lot harder to read. It's been enough for me to give up and close the tab a couple of times (which, of course, makes even more co...
[16:46:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Comments Redux - 1101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:04] <exec> 08└─The NEW indicator is good. Fading the comments to the point of being difficult to read is analogous to forcing readers to listen to Justin Bieber while reading. (Please, PLEASE do not take that as a feature suggestion!) Just because a comment has been on my screen before doesn't mean I have read it...
[16:46:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC to Halt Rule That Protects Your Private Data From Security Breaches - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:27] <exec> 08└─> Yeah, I'm wondering if anyone here is actually partisan enough to defend this. Me! Me! Me! AJit said he wanted to make the FCC more transparent That extends to user data too. After all, what's good for the goose is good for the gander!
[16:46:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC to Halt Rule That Protects Your Private Data From Security Breaches - 465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:28] <exec> 08└─Runaway almost nailed it. We'll get TPP all right. Except it'll be the best TPP, it'll be a fantastic deal, Trump's negotiated a lot of deals, a lot of very good deals, he's very good at deals, and Trump will negotiate us the best TPP, the very best TPP. Trump will give us a very, very good TPP. (It...
[16:46:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Buzzing Drone Causes 1,500 Elk to Stampede in Wyoming - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:39] <exec> 08└─Did you give her back to her conspecifics?
[16:46:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03moondoctor [2963] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Buzzing Drone Causes 1,500 Elk to Stampede in Wyoming - 546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:40] <exec> 08└─>looked like a bunch of elementary school kids, playing among a bunch of professional football players Fully... That power and grace bit isn't some poetic license. They know how to move. One can only imagine what the real buffalo herds looked like (yeah, bison, sorry...) They say that one time Lewis...
[16:46:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Buzzing Drone Causes 1,500 Elk to Stampede in Wyoming - 510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:43] <exec> 08└─I don't know about Elk, however, sheep will terminate a pregnancy (absorb the embryo/fetus) if subjected to sufficient stress during gestation. We would take great pains to ensure that no fox hunts (with or without an actual fox) would pass through our farm during the winter months. People don't rea...
[16:47:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Plain Packets Help Smokers Quit by Killing Brand Identities - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:10] <exec> 08└─True, and if vaping makes it easier for you to give up (as happened with the other poster to reply), then that's great. In the cases I've seen, it's regarded as a healthy option, so the amount smoked increases and the amount of carcinogen consumed probably goes up as well.
[16:47:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Plain Packets Help Smokers Quit by Killing Brand Identities - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:11] <exec> 08└─There's no other way to interpret "I would have been happy for cigarettes to be made illegal at any point - basically make it impossible for me to buy them".
[16:47:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Weasley [6421] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Plain Packets Help Smokers Quit by Killing Brand Identities - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:13] <exec> 08└─Of course they fought it. A company selling any product would fight it. What company would want their product sitting on a shelf with their competitors with everyone in plain white packing with black letters saying what's in the box: Cereal, Coffee, Pickles...etc.
[16:48:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03lentilla [1770] 02 - 06US Customs Block Canadian Man After Reading His Scruff Profile - 112 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:01] <exec> 08└─It may not be illegal to be homosexual in the US, but that doesn't mean that homosexuality is a desirable trait.
[16:48:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06US Customs Block Canadian Man After Reading His Scruff Profile - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:26] <exec> 08└─This wasn't some bad judgment, or mistaken identity, it was simple prejudice. Stop being an apologist for shitty people.
[16:48:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Customs Block Canadian Man After Reading His Scruff Profile - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:28] <exec> 08└─I read pretty much all the comments, your post is addressed to fictional people in your mind. TL:DR you crazy yo!
[16:48:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Customs Block Canadian Man After Reading His Scruff Profile - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:30] <exec> 08└─I'd rather live in California where human lives have value than in Texas where only human lives belonging to billionaires matter. California has serious issues, but it's hardly aspiring to be a 2nd world country the way that Texas does.
[16:48:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Customs Block Canadian Man After Reading His Scruff Profile - 1090 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:32] <exec> 08└─you'd probably be shocked how many conservatives would be shocked and ashamed if they were faced with the bald truths. I completely disagree. Any "conservative" who is shocked and ashamed isn't a true conservative. Real conservatives (which is most people who describe themselves as "conservative") w...
[16:48:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Customs Block Canadian Man After Reading His Scruff Profile - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:34] <exec> 08└─That's a very salient point. This stuff isn't new, we really started seeing it so obviously under GWBush, and it didn't get any better under Obama. This authoritarianism isn't unique to Trump (who's only been in office barely over a month now), though Trump is undoubtedly make it much worse; this st...
[16:48:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Customs Block Canadian Man After Reading His Scruff Profile - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:37] <exec> 08└─> Even poor people have dishwasher machines What? In the US? Not a chance. Sure, some poor people do. But many, probably a majority, do not.
[16:48:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Customs Block Canadian Man After Reading His Scruff Profile - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:39] <exec> 08└─That's kinda like saying that Allah is Muslim
[16:48:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Customs Block Canadian Man After Reading His Scruff Profile - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:41] <exec> 08└─Uhhhh - which part of "sex worker" did you fail to understand? The US doesn't want or need to import prostitutes. Those few people who do want to import prostitutes are called "human traffickers". Think about it.
[16:48:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Customs Block Canadian Man After Reading His Scruff Profile - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:43] <exec> 08└─That's kinda like saying that ... Jesus is Christian
[16:48:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Customs Block Canadian Man After Reading His Scruff Profile - 1163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:45] <exec> 08└─Yep. Same thing happened in reverse with Obama. The black community was the most homophobic group of any significant size in the country, including evangelicals, with something like an 80/20 split against/for marriage equality. But within weeks of Obama officially endorsing marriage equality, it wen...
[16:49:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Deleted Server Supplier After Finding Infected Firmware in Servers - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:32] <exec> 08└─well, have those jackasses replaced the alleged compromised firmware on their site and updated their site/employee roster not to be so easy to compromise? have they been investigated by SAGs? sick of most hardware vendors.
[16:49:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Deleted Server Supplier After Finding Infected Firmware in Servers - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:33] <exec> 08└─Would you buy from a vendor that charged twice the money for the same server? Your boss may care more about saving money. And even if you went with Dell or HP, you wouldn't have any guarantees that the product is malware free.
[16:50:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Watershed SHA1 Collision Just Broke the WebKit Repository - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:05] <exec> 08└─From the second cited source: "GIT strongly relies on SHA-1 for the identification and integrity checking of all file objects and commits."
[16:50:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Watershed SHA1 Collision Just Broke the WebKit Repository - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:07] <exec> 08└─No hash function is immune to collisions. For a long time, SHA-1 was considered immune to pre-image and collision attacks.
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[17:45:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 4, Funny) 02 - 06Bumblebees See How to Sink Ball in Goal, Then Do It Better - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:03] <exec> 08└─Learning abilities of animals without big vertebrate brains often get severely underestimated, Loukola says. "The idea that small brains constrain insects is kind of wrong, or old-fashioned."
[17:45:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 4, Touché) 02 - 06Bumblebees See How to Sink Ball in Goal, Then Do It Better - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:05] <exec> 08└─Why would tiny brains constrain insects? Tiny brains have never stood in the way of humans achieving significant accomplishments: 1. Becoming Managers or CEOs 2. Excelling at Marketing, Sales or Advertising 3. Running for and even being elected to various political offices. 4. Being politically appo...
[17:45:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Bumblebees See How to Sink Ball in Goal, Then Do It Better - 1708 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:07] <exec> 08└─Around the turn of the century or right before there was a huge fad of Emergent Behavior with the obviously attractive aspect of no need to understand the math and no neural net cooties (those had fallen out of favor so had to be avoided, and they can take some hefty math too) https://trends.google....
[17:45:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Bumblebees See How to Sink Ball in Goal, Then Do It Better - 547 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:09] <exec> 08└─Bees work hard and they don't share their honey profits with lazy bears without a fight. Also they're rural and hang out with farmers. Beekeeping seems relatively whiter than average. The average lefty isn't going to like bees, bees are basically really small rural white males and you know how the S...
[17:45:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bumblebees See How to Sink Ball in Goal, Then Do It Better - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:11] <exec> 08└─triggered
[17:45:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bumblebees See How to Sink Ball in Goal, Then Do It Better - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:14] <exec> 08└─"really small rural white males" LMAO - https://en.wikipedia.org This link attempts to establish that there are about 4.5 worker bees (females) for each drone (males) - and of course, the queen is female as well. Bees are mostly female, and the males pretty much only serve one pur...
[17:45:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bumblebees See How to Sink Ball in Goal, Then Do It Better - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:16] <exec> 08└─Seems to me like the bees need to rise up and have a revolution of the prolitariate, overthrow the queen aristocracy. Once deposed the hive can live happily ever after.
[17:45:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bumblebees See How to Sink Ball in Goal, Then Do It Better - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:18] <exec> 08└─AND play soccer.
[17:45:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Technology and the Tactic of the Fake Market - 1590 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:31] <exec> 08└─When I was a little kid, late night television was populated by advertisements for junk that nobody needed. "For just 19.99, you can get NOT ONE, but TWO blabbityblabs, and if you act IMMEDIATELY, we'll throw in a third one FREE! That's right, for the outrageous price of 19.99, you get TWO ZILLION D...
[17:45:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Technology and the Tactic of the Fake Market - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:33] <exec> 08└─You seem to have missed the point. That's irrelevant to the definition of markets.
[17:45:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Technology and the Tactic of the Fake Market - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:35] <exec> 08└─That's fundamental to the definition of a market.
[17:46:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Comments Redux - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:22] <exec> 08└─> Fading the comments to the point of being difficult to read Better to just have two simple color schemes. New comments can have the regular black on grey text, and the old comments can have black text on a slightly grey.
[17:46:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Comments Redux - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:24] <exec> 08└─I have just discovered the glorious preferences in comments: [x] Highlight new comments [_] Dim read comments
[17:46:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Comments Redux - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:26] <exec> 08└─Adding repetitive, *SHOUTING* verbiage is terrible UI design. Any reason you can't use colors? Make unread comments have brighter, redder title bars, maybe even ... pink? Or, read comments can be darker or grayer. Or, could fiddle with the background color of the comments, have some pastel backgroun...
[17:46:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Comments Redux - 538 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:28] <exec> 08└─Ubuntu 16.04, Chrome 56.0.2924.87 (64-bit), CA USA, logged in, the only way into the website is by using my bookmark pointing to submissions (https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=list) then clicking any link on the left side (meta for example). My bookmark to the main page as well as clicking on the...
[17:46:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Comments Redux - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:30] <exec> 08└─If I hit one of the little down arrow things, I want to see the comment. Sometimes it shows me a comment, sometimes it expands to display a tree of comments but not a single comment itself actually expanded. Then i have to expand something else to actually read a comment. At the very least, whatever...
[17:46:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Comments Redux - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:33] <exec> 08└─This poll has Nested as the 2nd most popular view-mode. Maybe don't kill it?
[17:46:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Comments Redux - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:35] <exec> 08└─Yes, you have. I do miss nested comment mode, but I am hopeful that I will figure it out on my end and/or you guys will on yours. I'm trying.... I really don't like clicking 100 times just to see all the comments, so far.
[17:46:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Comments Redux - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:37] <exec> 08└─How about just an asterisk at the beginning of the new comments, perhaps in addition to colour fade, etc?
[17:46:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Comments Redux - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:40] <exec> 08└─If I log out it loads the website just fine, I log back in and it's a 503 again. Tried it on Chrome, Chromium, and Firefox.
[17:46:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03redneckmother [3597] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Comments Redux - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:42] <exec> 08└─Respectfully, I disagree with the single asterisk. I find the "*NEW*" string helpful when using a "find in page" function in the browser. All in all, I'm happy with the changes.
[17:46:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Comments Redux - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:44] <exec> 08└─I had to fiddle with some parameters to get back my old "nested" view. But it works and it didn't take me long once I got over the dire angst of having my world changed.
[17:46:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Comments Redux - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:46] <exec> 08└─Also, check your "breakthrough" level. Setting that equal to "threshold" level (or just using the "Threaded-TNG" option which does that by default) worked for me in restoring my view to near the old "nested" view that I had used in the past.
[17:46:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Comments Redux - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:48] <exec> 08└─I realize you can emulate the nested view (my browsing method!) using certain settings on threaded, so why on EARTH didn't you keep the "Nested" option and just have it do that?!! :facepalm:
[17:46:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Comments Redux - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:51] <exec> 08└─My current view is very close to the old nested view. I set "Breakthrough" level low and that did the trick.
[17:47:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Buzzing Drone Causes 1,500 Elk to Stampede in Wyoming - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:27] <exec> 08└─Who do you think you are, some sort of free man?
[17:47:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03moondoctor [2963] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Buzzing Drone Causes 1,500 Elk to Stampede in Wyoming - 1173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:28] <exec> 08└─>The energy loss of a stampede is probably insignificant Surprisingly, that's not the case in the western US in the winter. One long run can kill a wild animal. Worse, it will take weeks or months as their insufficient energy stores are depleted. All winter long they paw through to the ground and ex...
[17:47:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Buzzing Drone Causes 1,500 Elk to Stampede in Wyoming - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:30] <exec> 08└─Better not fart too loudly around the kings deer. They will charge you with a crime of harassing animals peasant.
[17:48:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Plain Packets Help Smokers Quit by Killing Brand Identities - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:01] <exec> 08└─Vaping fluid does not contain benzene. It consists of propylene glycol, nicotine, and flavors. If your vaporizer is malfunctioning, it may turn some of those chemicals into benzene, but it would have to be operating at higher than normal temperature.
[17:48:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Weasley [6421] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Plain Packets Help Smokers Quit by Killing Brand Identities - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:02] <exec> 08└─Stop smoking aids like patches and lozenges are expensive bullshit. They're sold on the premise that delivering the same addictive chemicals into your body by some other way besides smoking will somehow help you become unaddicted to the chemicals you continue using. It is bullshit. The way to quit i...
[17:48:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Plain Packets Help Smokers Quit by Killing Brand Identities - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:04] <exec> 08└─Thanks! I suppose I hadn't cast my net wide enough. Lozenges may work well. I didn't know what snus was (had heard of snuff), so I looked it up, and I'll keep it in mind.
[17:49:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Customs Block Canadian Man After Reading His Scruff Profile - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:27] <exec> 08└─Governments don't STOP much of anything. They START a lot of mass-murder, also known as war. Try looking up Warren vs D.C. sometime. Governments not only don't care about YOU or YOUR safety, they've explicitly said so. That you seem to believe otherwise is a lie you've swallowed.
[17:49:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Customs Block Canadian Man After Reading His Scruff Profile - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:29] <exec> 08└─And I'm considering leaving merka for one of those civilized countries. Merka used to be, but not since the nazis took over.
[17:49:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Customs Block Canadian Man After Reading His Scruff Profile - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:31] <exec> 08└─You always become so boring. You haven't given us enough to help us see how men would become angels so that they do not impose their wills on one another through violence. The best solution we've come up with is the one big warlord, that violently imposed monopoly. Violence cannot be removed, which...
[17:49:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Customs Block Canadian Man After Reading His Scruff Profile - 1907 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:33] <exec> 08└─"Christian" means "a follower of Christ" - and I imagine that it's difficult, even for a God, or a Son of a God to follow himself. (Metaphysicists may argue that point - or not.) Allah isn't a person at all. Allah is the name of God. The name derives from one or more forms of Yahweh, I believe. Let...
[17:49:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Customs Block Canadian Man After Reading His Scruff Profile - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:35] <exec> 08└─Governments are men; they are not angels. Governments are warlords. Men are warlords. Men are neither angels nor governed by angels. Does that help?
[17:49:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Customs Block Canadian Man After Reading His Scruff Profile - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:37] <exec> 08└─Sounds like he voluntarily returned to Canada and as never denied entry, to me. Don't be a pussy.
[17:49:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Customs Block Canadian Man After Reading His Scruff Profile - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:39] <exec> 08└─blah blah blah
[17:49:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linux Double Free Vulnerability/Privilege Escalation Exploit Found - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:54] <exec> 08└─Some computers are human, you insensitive clod!
[17:50:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nobuddy [1626] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Deleted Server Supplier After Finding Infected Firmware in Servers - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:50:29] <exec> 08└─Seems odd that holding a business partner to the terms of the contract is viewed as malicious and unfair in todays business world. Why have a contract at all if you never intended to hold up your end?
[17:51:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nintendo Switch Impressions: Out of the Box and Into Our Hands - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:51:59] <exec> 08└─I don't find that to be a problem, probably because I don't try to get the new shiny toy right after its release (or in the first 3 months, in the case of Nintendo). Turns out the games are just as good a few months later. I don't have stupid friends.
[17:52:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smart Toys Are a Minefield, for Both Toymakers and Parents - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:28] <exec> 08└─If you collect the data, someone will see it as an asset to generate money. No ifs, buts, or maybes ...
[17:52:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smart Toys Are a Minefield, for Both Toymakers and Parents - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:29] <exec> 08└─Smart toys are a multibillion-dollar industry that's only getting larger as more kids are growing up connected and clamoring for the next high-tech distraction. Parents are flocking to connected toys for tots, with one research firm predicting that revenue for smart toys will reach $8.8 billion by 2...
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[18:45:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Bumblebees See How to Sink Ball in Goal, Then Do It Better - 393 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:05] <exec> 08└─Why would tiny brains constrain insects? Tiny brains have never stood in the way of humans achieving significant accomplishments: 1. Becoming Managers or CEOs 2. Excelling at Marketing, Sales or Advertising 3. Running for and even being elected to various political offices. 4. Being politically appo...
[18:45:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bumblebees See How to Sink Ball in Goal, Then Do It Better - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:12] <exec> 08└─That works for a little while, but then some girl bee wants to use the boys' bathroom, another starts hoarding a lot of honey, and then everyone agrees to blame all their troubles on any bee that doesn't seem to be the right shade of yellow...
[18:45:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bumblebees See How to Sink Ball in Goal, Then Do It Better - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:14] <exec> 08└─It's not AI, but BI.
[18:45:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bumblebees See How to Sink Ball in Goal, Then Do It Better - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:17] <exec> 08└─I C
[18:45:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Technology and the Tactic of the Fake Market - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:32] <exec> 08└─We've always had fake markets
[18:45:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Technology and the Tactic of the Fake Market - 873 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:34] <exec> 08└─Agreed with the fake market in trading stamps. Our local grocer has a bit of a twist on those, though. You get a stamp for every ten dollars spent, you fill up a single paper page with the stamps, bring the page in, and use the stamps as cash for your purchase. They actually make a little sense, in...
[18:45:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Technology and the Tactic of the Fake Market - 1447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:36] <exec> 08└─The whole reason markets are the standard for economic exchange is because they've shown themselves to be the most efficient means of connecting buyers to sellers and enabling the highest quality product at the lowest price. The reason new companies like Uber are "strangling" the old competitors is...
[18:46:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Comments Redux - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:38] <exec> 08└─Ok, good tip. Used the Save option to make that my default and everything looks good.
[18:46:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03paulej72 [58] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Comments Redux - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:39] <exec> 08└─Post here or send an email to dev@soylentnews.org with your username. Hard to track down those kinds of issues without that info.
[18:46:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03paulej72 [58] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Comments Redux - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:41] <exec> 08└─The collapse comment button is hidden because unlike JS based code, the CSS based code can't undo the change that hid the comment with it's tree. It's an unfortunate side effect.
[18:46:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Comments Redux - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:44] <exec> 08└─How about new comments are soylent red, old ones soylent green, lol. [washes hands, smells the soap, steals a bottle of booze].
[18:46:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Comments Redux - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:46] <exec> 08└─The ability to edit a comment.
[18:46:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03paulej72 [58] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Comments Redux - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:48] <exec> 08└─Yes will make that change. And along those lines the pagination links will open up to the comments as well. We have some other link related bugs that are probably a regression of the code, as I was sure I had pagination working properly with the redirects when you post and moderate.
[18:46:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Comments Redux - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:50] <exec> 08└─Figured it out... See Khallow's comments below.
[18:46:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Comments Redux - 454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:53] <exec> 08└─Yes, i went to one link and did some commenting and went to another and did some modding, but must have missed that one link. I LIKE THE CHANGES... I REALLY, REALLY LIKE THEM! ;) really. i do. We are now man and wife. I may kiss the monitor. There's a lotta things about me you don't know anything a...
[18:46:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03paulej72 [58] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Comments Redux - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:55] <exec> 08└─Nice idea. I think for new articles that is even possible as we keep a running total of children. Need to ask TMB about that as he coded that part.
[18:46:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03paulej72 [58] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Comments Redux - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:57] <exec> 08└─Yes we are working on something. It may be CSS or it may be a small bit of JS, but we will get something. We really want to go JS free if possible, but a CSS Expand All button would cause break buttons in its children. One solution we have is when a parent expand all button is clicked, we would hide...
[18:46:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Comments Redux - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:59] <exec> 08└─If you can edit a comment, it's far too likely you'll end up with 'fake news' comments. A) Make a comment B) Someone says "Hey i like that!" A) Change comment to say "I have a biggus dickus!" Fake 'news' comment. Orange is the new Barack.
[18:47:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Celestial [4891] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Comments Redux - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:02] <exec> 08└─An edit comment function would be great, and the best way to deal with trolls would be to limit the ability to edit a comment to something like 20 minutes. Of course, I have no idea how easy or difficult that would be.
[18:47:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03paulej72 [58] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Comments Redux - 580 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:04] <exec> 08└─Mainly because we could not figure out what was different between Threaded and Nested other than Nested had pagination. I guess we need to go back and look at that code and see what it was doing. My gut is it always displayed everything or something close, but none of us devs realized it. We probabl...
[18:47:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03paulej72 [58] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Comments Redux - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:06] <exec> 08└─See my comment below. I think us devs did not realize what nested did and did not do. Once we figure it all out, we can easily create a replacement. Again, we are sorry and did not expect this kind of breakage for each of you.
[18:47:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Comments Redux - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:08] <exec> 08└─> How about new comments are soylent red, old ones soylent green, lol. Funny! But won't work for me, using the delightfully restful, mostly-green VT100 mode. I don't like to see red! I turned off the *NEW* in my preferences and I'm good to go. It's great to have an indicator of previously opened pos...
[18:47:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Comments Redux - 1073 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:10] <exec> 08└─Curiouser and curiouser! Please read through this entire comment before proceeding. Feel free to email me (at my nickname @ soylentnews.org with your nickname and a brief note) The fact that you are able to load at least some parts of the home page while logged in suggests to me that this is not a...
[18:47:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC to Halt Rule That Protects Your Private Data From Security Breaches - 807 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:35] <exec> 08└─Yep! If they can't keep secure by being made to follow security and at least make an honest effort to keep data like that secure, they SHOULDN'T BE ALLOWED TO ASK FOR THAT INFORMATION!!! You should be allowed to say NO when asked for it, and they should not be allowed to penalize you in any way (suc...
[18:47:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC to Halt Rule That Protects Your Private Data From Security Breaches - 933 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:36] <exec> 08└─yeah but the current political party in charge has repeatedly made use of "made a mistake once" to claim the entire system involved is bogus, such as how trump doesn't trust the security agencies. There appears to be not a lot of trust all around. But whatever happens, it used to be that ISPs were n...
[18:47:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Buzzing Drone Causes 1,500 Elk to Stampede in Wyoming - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:54] <exec> 08└─Those are The People's deer. Please don't fuck with my deer. Thanks.
[18:48:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Plain Packets Help Smokers Quit by Killing Brand Identities - 2916 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:28] <exec> 08└─Except every test run so far by uninterested parties have shown them to be much MUCH safer than other cessation aids, especially the pills like Chantrix (look up how many people have died on that shit, its literally killed dozens because they go batshit and attack people) but sadly thanks to "fake s...
[18:49:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06US Customs Block Canadian Man After Reading His Scruff Profile - 166 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:27] <exec> 08└─If you read the article, the first visit where the gentleman's phone and computer were confiscated and he was barred entry took place in October, before the election.
[18:49:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Customs Block Canadian Man After Reading His Scruff Profile - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:58] <exec> 08└─It's totally pointless, like your life.
[18:49:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Customs Block Canadian Man After Reading His Scruff Profile - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:59] <exec> 08└─A Belgian site carried the story. Canadese man geweigerd door douane VS omwille van profiel op homo-app
[18:50:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03SparkyGSX [4041] (Score: 1) 02 - 06US Customs Block Canadian Man After Reading His Scruff Profile - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:50:01] <exec> 08└─How about you stop assuming and come over to Europe to see for yourself? Just leave you guns at home, bring a jacket and make sure your return ticket is refundable. In most of western Europe, gays can get married. That's quite a difference from the homophobia epidemic in the US, especially in the so...
[18:50:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Customs Block Canadian Man After Reading His Scruff Profile - 603 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:50:04] <exec> 08└─Sure, there is plenty of tribal behavior, but there is a cause for this problem. Propaganda and lies. When I said "bald truths" I had in mind all necessary evidence to show actual reality to such people, incontrovertible facts. I've met many conservatives that do backpedal and even self-reflect when...
[18:50:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 1) 02 - 06US Customs Block Canadian Man After Reading His Scruff Profile - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:50:06] <exec> 08└─> 49% of US voters [...] 46.1% of the votes went to Mr. Trump. http://edition.cnn.com If that many people voted for him, it would be 19.4% of the population. https://en.wikipedia.org
[18:50:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Customs Block Canadian Man After Reading His Scruff Profile - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:50:09] <exec> 08└─Even poor people have dishwasher machines, charon.
[18:52:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uncle Sam Needs You... to Debug, Improve Dept of Defense Open-Source Software at Code.Mil - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:14] <exec> 08└─Well, if there's no copyright on it, you can slap whatever license you want on your changes. My favorite is the GPL, but in this context that would be likely to lead to fragmentation. Possibly the MIT would be a better choice.
[18:52:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nintendo Switch Impressions: Out of the Box and Into Our Hands - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:34] <exec> 08└─Amazon is listing the Pokemon Go+ as being available March 6th. It was released and has been out of stock since September 16th of last year. Scalpers have had them listed with a 300% markup, down to about 150% in the last month or so. As for the Switch specifically, first shipment consoles are often...
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[19:44:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmn32480 [443] (Score: 2) 02 - 062017 Oscars: Best Picture Annoucement Was Totally Borked - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:57] <exec> 08└─+1 HELL YES!
[19:44:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 062017 Oscars: Best Picture Annoucement Was Totally Borked - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:59] <exec> 08└─-1 "HELL NO, THE SUB MOST GO (UP)" This is also a nice place to discuss the Oscars in general, or maybe some of the films involved.
[19:45:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 062017 Oscars: Best Picture Annoucement Was Totally Borked - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:01] <exec> 08└─Suicide Squad should have gotten Best Editing,.. ...the trailer for Suicide Squad, that is.
[19:45:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 1, Redundant) 02 - 062017 Oscars: Best Picture Annoucement Was Totally Borked - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:03] <exec> 08└─The same thing happened there :- https://www.youtube.com
[19:45:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 062017 Oscars: Best Picture Annoucement Was Totally Borked - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:05] <exec> 08└─I'm surprised the viewer numbers are so high. 30 to 40 million viewers each year. 90% of the USA population isn't watching which seems a bit low for something so obscure. I would have guessed about 5 or so mil. Like "The Bachelor" as a standard candle of degeneracy gets about 10M viewers so I figure...
[19:45:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 062017 Oscars: Best Picture Annoucement Was Totally Borked - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:07] <exec> 08└─Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice was meant to win "Best Picture," obviously.
[19:45:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 062017 Oscars: Best Picture Annoucement Was Totally Borked - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:10] <exec> 08└─How often does that happen on live TV, though? What I'm wondering is how much money it would have cost to print the category at the top of the paper... as they will next year.
[19:45:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Celestial [4891] (Score: 2) 02 - 062017 Oscars: Best Picture Annoucement Was Totally Borked - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:12] <exec> 08└─You do have a point. The 2016 Comic-Con trailer was better than the movie.
[19:45:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062017 Oscars: Best Picture Annoucement Was Totally Borked - 709 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:14] <exec> 08└─Discuss the oscars? Every single one of the awards ceremonies that "consumers" eat up, should be trashed. They are nothing but huge circle jerks. He who strokes the most p̶h̶a̶l̶u̶s̶e̶s̶ egos gets an award. Have you ever given any thought to the fact that NONE of those people in Hollywood ar...
[19:45:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062017 Oscars: Best Picture Annoucement Was Totally Borked - 459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:16] <exec> 08└─My guess at the rest of the story: If, as tfs says, Warren reported correctly: "I opened the envelope and it said 'Emma Stone, La La Land'." Who got the envelope for Best Actress? Seems likely there was a switcheroo and this one probably said, 'La La Land' inside it. After the Best Actress presenter...
[19:45:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmn32480 [443] (Score: 2) 02 - 062017 Oscars: Best Picture Annoucement Was Totally Borked - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:18] <exec> 08└─I scrolled my Facebook (I know, I know... kill me now) feed this morning and found that people were doing play by play... I could not for the life of me understand it. I guess some people care about it... and most of us don't.
[19:45:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmn32480 [443] (Score: 2) 02 - 062017 Oscars: Best Picture Annoucement Was Totally Borked - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:21] <exec> 08└─Oscar? Wasn't he the puppet in the garbage can on Sesame Street?
[19:45:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 062017 Oscars: Best Picture Annoucement Was Totally Borked - 818 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:23] <exec> 08└─Actually, if you look at any of the pictures of the card on the news, they *already* have the name of the award on them, such as in this story at the BBC. Admittedly, it's in smaller print and at the bottom but there are enough clues there that Beatty and Dunaway could possibly have avoided the FUBA...
[19:45:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 062017 Oscars: Best Picture Annoucement Was Totally Borked - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:25] <exec> 08└─There are 2 sets of envelopes, each goes to one of 2 employees of the accounting firm responsible for the counting. One person is on the left of the stage, the other on the right. So 1 person screwed up by giving the wrong envelope to Beatty, I'm guessing they won't be doing the Oscars next year.
[19:45:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 062017 Oscars: Best Picture Annoucement Was Totally Borked - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:27] <exec> 08└─Who got the envelope for Best Actress? Seems likely there was a switcheroo and this one probably said, 'La La Land' inside it.
[19:45:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 062017 Oscars: Best Picture Annoucement Was Totally Borked - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:29] <exec> 08└─It's messed up enough that "Suicide Squad" got an Oscar *at all* without joking about it as well. No, that's not a joke; apparently it won Best Make Up. I seriously suspect that there's probably something about that in the Book of Revelations if you read between the lines in the right way, probably...
[19:45:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 062017 Oscars: Best Picture Annoucement Was Totally Borked - 496 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:32] <exec> 08└─Are those the US numbers? Cause they broadcast that stuff across the globe. If those are global numbers that still is a lot of people but at the same time somewhat less impressive. There are always some fanatics that don't mind sitting up into the wee hours of the morning to watch this stuff (not me...
[19:45:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Bumblebees See How to Sink Ball in Goal, Then Do It Better - 191 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:40] <exec> 08└─Learning abilities of animals without big vertebrate brains often get severely underestimated, Loukola says. "The idea that small brains constrain insects is kind of wrong, or old-fashioned."
[19:45:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheLink [332] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bumblebees See How to Sink Ball in Goal, Then Do It Better - 679 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:51] <exec> 08└─If brain size mattered that much why are crows and parrots with walnut sized brains so smart? There are animals with much bigger brains that aren't much smarter than crows, ravens or parrots. I'm no neuroscientist or biologist but my hypothesis is that when brains first evolved they weren't really f...
[19:45:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bumblebees See How to Sink Ball in Goal, Then Do It Better - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:52] <exec> 08└─A white male assuming the gender identity of a persecuted migrant minority in the current year; who ever would have guessed. Its not our place to judge, they can identify as little apache attack helicopters and pollinate whatever feels good. And WRT group politics, the queen of the hive is Not My Pr...
[19:45:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bumblebees See How to Sink Ball in Goal, Then Do It Better - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:54] <exec> 08└─Its brain-size relative to body size that predicts intelligence. My theory is that every gram of body-weight needs X number of neurons to maintain. So once a species exceeds that ratio its got neurons for other stuff like problem solving.
[19:45:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bumblebees See How to Sink Ball in Goal, Then Do It Better - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:56] <exec> 08└─Worker bees can leave. Even drones can fly away. The Queen is their slave.
[19:46:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Technology and the Tactic of the Fake Market - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:17] <exec> 08└─> That's been true for markets forever. There's never been a time when pure trust in market information was a good idea. Go repeat that very true mantra to the people who are actively trying to kill the EPA, the CFPB and the ACA, in the name of freeing the market from the burden of excessive regulat...
[19:46:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Technology and the Tactic of the Fake Market - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:18] <exec> 08└─Go repeat that very true mantra to the people who are actively trying to kill the EPA, the CFPB and the ACA, in the name of freeing the market from the burden of excessive regulations, empowering customers to make informed choices.
[19:47:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Comments Redux - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:37] <exec> 08└─Before, the collapsed comments displayed as links. Now there is no link, instead there is a button to expand the comment. It works if I click on it, but it's impossible to select with the keyboard. Also, if images don't load (I leave them off by default when I'm on 3G) then there is no button, it's...
[19:47:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Comments Redux - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:38] <exec> 08└─Seconding all this: fading only the title, throwing the NEW to the right, lowercase, small, no asterisk. I'm on the black theme, rather than red, and the current fading looks very washed out. Those page loads are too damn fast! Blink and you miss them. I need more wasted bandwidth and CPU, spinning...
[19:47:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Comments Redux - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:40] <exec> 08└─It is really distracting that the spoiler tag causes the entire page to move. Skip the fancy animation and doodadery — just make the spoiler stag cause the text to be black-on-black so that when you select it with the mouse it becomes white-on-black. Super easy to do, even works for people without...
[19:47:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Comments Redux - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:42] <exec> 08└─Now it's working (for now) but I didn't change anything.
[19:47:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Comments Redux - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:45] <exec> 08└─Or simpler - let logged in users chose the option that they can't post without previewing first, just like us ACs. Gives you a chance to look it over before committing and requires practically no code changes.
[19:47:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Comments Redux - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:47] <exec> 08└─And now it's not... Error 503 Service Unavailable Service Unavailable Guru Meditation: XID: 1401760752 Varnish cache server
[19:47:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Comments Redux - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:49] <exec> 08└─There has got to be a way to fake it. Like an alternate collapse button that only gets shown under those conditions but looks the same to the user.
[19:47:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03iWantToKeepAnon [686] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Comments Redux - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:51] <exec> 08└─Keep up the great work and thanks for all you've done already. There's probably more people that either like it or are ambivalent to it than hate it. But complainers sometime pipe up more than the rest. Don't loose heart! :)
[19:47:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Comments Redux - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:53] <exec> 08└─Don't forget about the AC experience. The previous defaults for users not logged in were excellent. The new ones, not so much.
[19:47:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Comments Redux - 493 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:56] <exec> 08└─First of all, I'd like to thank the devs and testers tester you for all your hard work! I know we're not the easiest bunch to deal with, so thanks for sticking with us :D Please note: the devs are pretty wiped out from the upgrade bug smashing effort since roll-out — these are voluteers and put i...
[19:47:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03paulej72 [58] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Comments Redux - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:58] <exec> 08└─I tried tweaking varnish, please let me know if you still have issues.
[19:48:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC to Halt Rule That Protects Your Private Data From Security Breaches - 1515 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:25] <exec> 08└─I wonder if the NIST recommendations on Enhancing National Cybersecurity delivered to Obama in December 2016 are going to be ignored or turned around, same as the original FCC initiative? Here's a comment by one of the Commission members that is well organized and easy to follow, https://www....
[19:48:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Buzzing Drone Causes 1,500 Elk to Stampede in Wyoming - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:43] <exec> 08└─> Did you give her back to her conspecifics? No, she wasn't my property to give away... (ps. Thanks for a new word of the day!)
[19:49:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Plain Packets Help Smokers Quit by Killing Brand Identities - 473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:19] <exec> 08└─Sure, people that wanted it anyhow will buy it anyhow. But branding matters. Why do you think McDonalds is the most popular restaurant chain in the world. The quality of their food? The prices? There are better and cheaper options. Often both. It is branding. I used to think that this kind of brandi...
[19:49:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Plain Packets Help Smokers Quit by Killing Brand Identities - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:21] <exec> 08└─Then why do you care about the branding on your cigarettes? Perhaps it is because now you won't look quite so cool with your plain white packaging. Protip: Smokers are not the cool crowd anymore and haven't been for a long time. They are now the whiny bitchy crowd like you.
[19:49:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Plain Packets Help Smokers Quit by Killing Brand Identities - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:23] <exec> 08└─I used to just flip them upside down any packet I could reach. I was amazed by the number of people who have so automated their toxin intake, that they don't realize what they're doing until after they light the filter... A single one, out of many, did thank me for making her check the packet every...
[19:50:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Customs Block Canadian Man After Reading His Scruff Profile - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:50:58] <exec> 08└─Freedom of the press, man. The point was not a gay guy, the point was the press. If some country tells you that you're unwanted, no one notices, 99.9% of the time.
[19:50:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Customs Block Canadian Man After Reading His Scruff Profile - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:50:59] <exec> 08└─Oh - you also presume to speak for all of Europe. I don't believe that gays are commonly married in Russia, are they?
[19:51:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Customs Block Canadian Man After Reading His Scruff Profile - 964 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:51:01] <exec> 08└─When I said "bald truths" I had in mind all necessary evidence to show actual reality to such people, incontrovertible facts. How is this even possible? Unless you're going to grab someone and physically drive them to show them something in-person, they're just going to dismiss your "facts" as lies...
[19:51:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Double Free Vulnerability/Privilege Escalation Exploit Found - 803 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:51:17] <exec> 08└─Yes, this problem and the lack of full testing exists in the linux kernel. Developers are not very good at testing their own code. This happens regardless of whether or not it is open source or closed source. Even the ones who take the time to actually test generally only test things that they feel...
[19:51:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03pvanhoof [4638] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Double Free Vulnerability/Privilege Escalation Exploit Found - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:51:18] <exec> 08└─You could add tests for the faults that were found using these two frameworks: https://github.com http://autotest.github.io
[19:51:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Deleted Server Supplier After Finding Infected Firmware in Servers - 888 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:51:54] <exec> 08└─Because you have absolutely no clue if the other party intended to hold up their end in this case, and businesses usually go to great lengths to do so? Because business conditions change, and companies that want to be in business with one another recognize that? Because you don't bankrupt your busin...
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[20:45:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Good Vibration' Hand Pumps Boost Africa's Water Security - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:02] <exec> 08└─Is that really what's been missing this whole time? Sensors on hand pumps? Please, someone inform me: Why can't Africa in particular (and humanity in general) get its shit together? I read stuff like this, and it does NOT give me hope; it just makes me feel like nothing will ever get better. It's al...
[20:45:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Good Vibration' Hand Pumps Boost Africa's Water Security - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:03] <exec> 08└─"Good Vibration Hand Pumps" Seriously?!? This sounds like a bad spam email subject.
[20:45:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03charon [5660] (Score: 1) 02 - 06'Good Vibration' Hand Pumps Boost Africa's Water Security - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:05] <exec> 08└─Jeez, get a grip. It's not going to solve the world's problems, but the scientists found out they could estimate something it was previously very difficult if not impossible to measure before. It's interesting and unexpected.
[20:45:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062017 Oscars: Best Picture Annoucement Was Totally Borked - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:33] <exec> 08└─So 1 person screwed up by giving the wrong envelope to Beatty, I'm guessing they won't be doing the Oscars next year.
[20:45:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062017 Oscars: Best Picture Annoucement Was Totally Borked - 1196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:35] <exec> 08└─Interesting, so it's a combination of: Duplication of the data (two sets of identical envelopes?) so that the presenters can come onstage from either direction and be handed an envelope at the last moment before walking out. Counting error by one person, who didn't keep up with the flow-...
[20:45:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 062017 Oscars: Best Picture Annoucement Was Totally Borked - 500 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:37] <exec> 08└─Emma Stone is claiming she was still holding her card when the error happened and I see no reason to doubt that. Taking that as read, it appears that one of the two PWC people responsible for the cards gave Beatty the duplicate envelope for Actress in a Leading Role (AKA "Best Actress") from the sec...
[20:45:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 062017 Oscars: Best Picture Annoucement Was Totally Borked - 689 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:39] <exec> 08└─In Beatty's defense, it sounds like he might not have been able to read the smaller print. And if Dunaway has similar eyesight, then they would have been in trouble anyway even if both of them had been more on the ball. While I consider the Oscars abominable, the Big Reveal remains an interesting p...
[20:45:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062017 Oscars: Best Picture Annoucement Was Totally Borked - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:41] <exec> 08└─Just a stunt by the MPAA to get more attention. Guess what, it worked. We should not be falling for this junk and this should never be on SN.
[20:45:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bogsnoticus [3982] (Score: 2) 02 - 062017 Oscars: Best Picture Annoucement Was Totally Borked - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:43] <exec> 08└─They're paid just to read what's put in front of them. If you honestly expect them to perform any critical thinking over what they're given to read, then most would be unemployed due to refusing to work with shite scripts full of plotholes and crap dialogue.
[20:45:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03VLM [445] 02 - 06Bumblebees See How to Sink Ball in Goal, Then Do It Better - 1708 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:54] <exec> 08└─Around the turn of the century or right before there was a huge fad of Emergent Behavior with the obviously attractive aspect of no need to understand the math and no neural net cooties (those had fallen out of favor so had to be avoided, and they can take some hefty math too) https://trends.google....
[20:46:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bumblebees See How to Sink Ball in Goal, Then Do It Better - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:07] <exec> 08└─Crows and Parrots may seem smart, as you suggest. But can they tweet? Can they re-tweet? Can they click Like? Follow? Subscribe? Thumbs Up?
[20:46:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Technology and the Tactic of the Fake Market - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:29] <exec> 08└─How can you leave Amazon off of that list? Price fixing has never seen a bigger player.
[20:46:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03https [5248] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Technology and the Tactic of the Fake Market - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:31] <exec> 08└─Help, I can't find the "-1, Paid Shill" mod!
[20:46:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03https [5248] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Technology and the Tactic of the Fake Market - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:33] <exec> 08└─The traditional thing to do when you've been schooled is to gracefully say, "your kung fu is better than mine" and sit down.
[20:48:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Comments Redux - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:02] <exec> 08└─5 minutes tops, or until replied to. Still leave the door open to editing while someone types a reply... Cancelling an edit made less than 2 minutes before a reply might be tough.
[20:48:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Comments Redux - 2185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:03] <exec> 08└─I actually like the current fading. If anything, I liked it better before people complained and it was toned down :) So I dug into my Stylish user style for SN and lowered the opacity :) That's why I'd like to ask that, even if this gets changed so that only titles are faded, some hook is left in so...
[20:48:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Comments Redux - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:05] <exec> 08└─So far it's working. What the heck is Varnish cache server?
[20:48:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Comments Redux - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:08] <exec> 08└─OpenDNS may have been under a DDOS the last few days. But then, you would expect every site to break.
[20:48:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Comments Redux - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:10] <exec> 08└─I also hid chevrons since I don't use them (I always read at -1). (I still have to hunt down how to move title text back to the left, simply setting chevron width&padding to 0px doesn't work.)
[20:48:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Buzzing Drone Causes 1,500 Elk to Stampede in Wyoming - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:54] <exec> 08└─Who is this "The People"? Where do they get authority to claim ownership over things in the wild? What would stop those same "The People" from claiming authority to collar and assign title to YOU?
[20:48:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Buzzing Drone Causes 1,500 Elk to Stampede in Wyoming - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:56] <exec> 08└─Ownership comes with responsibility. People tend to forget that in a throw-away society. [suppresses rambling tangential rant]
[20:49:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Plain Packets Help Smokers Quit by Killing Brand Identities - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:49:35] <exec> 08└─Mandatory insertion lawn clippings into the mix would probably help. Later to be replaced by pieces of shredded recycled tires.
[20:51:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Customs Block Canadian Man After Reading His Scruff Profile - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:51:13] <exec> 08└─Or rather, Heckuva Job, Brownie! You sure keep our borders safe!
[20:51:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Customs Block Canadian Man After Reading His Scruff Profile - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:51:15] <exec> 08└─Yes the blind trust is a problem. It takes time and research, and if someone adamantly opposed to factual evidence in favor of tribal loyalty then you have to call that out. My point was that this partisan divide is not actually as bad as people are thinking. Sure its bad, but I honestly think some...
[20:51:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Customs Block Canadian Man After Reading His Scruff Profile - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:51:17] <exec> 08└─Are you saying that circumstances (installed apps, profiles, etc) that would not be a cause for even a moment of suspicion were it for the purposes of arranging heterosexual sex, even promiscuous heterosexual sex, are evidence that the person in question is a sex worker if it's for the purposes of a...
[20:51:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Customs Block Canadian Man After Reading His Scruff Profile - 1670 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:51:19] <exec> 08└─It takes time and research, and if someone adamantly opposed to factual evidence in favor of tribal loyalty then you have to call that out. How do you know that your evidence is factual? If you didn't research it yourself firsthand, you're just trusting someone else who likely has an agenda, which w...
[20:51:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Customs Block Canadian Man After Reading His Scruff Profile - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:51:22] <exec> 08└─Ok, stupid semantic games are when you know you've lost. You know damned well what he was referring to. In most of western Europe, gays can get married.
[20:52:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Watershed SHA1 Collision Just Broke the WebKit Repository - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:47] <exec> 08└─What? and copy Pipedot? If we want unique, go for OMGPonies everyday, not just April Fools Day.
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[21:44:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06'Good Vibration' Hand Pumps Boost Africa's Water Security - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:51] <exec> 08└─Not difficult, not impossible - economically unviable in the target area.
[21:44:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Good Vibration' Hand Pumps Boost Africa's Water Security - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:52] <exec> 08└─I don't care what they're findings are here. I'm just amazed that ANYONE went to the trouble of installing sensors or hand pumps. Who is paying for such BULLSHIT?!
[21:44:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Good Vibration' Hand Pumps Boost Africa's Water Security - 901 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:55] <exec> 08└─This is part of them getting it together. According to the article, at any given time, 1/3 of the pumps are in some failure state, and it sometimes takes a month to get a repair crew dispatched. I assume part of that has to do with poor communications of some sort, and that is what this was original...
[21:44:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Good Vibration' Hand Pumps Boost Africa's Water Security - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:57] <exec> 08└─This is what happens when you allow data to go out of a device. People with access to the data use it for all sorts of purposes for which is was not initially intended.
[21:44:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Good Vibration' Hand Pumps Boost Africa's Water Security - 1256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:59] <exec> 08└─Different AC here. I'm tempted to mod GP +1 Agree. Why do there need to be sensors on water pump handles in order to enable maintenance? Especially why do there need to be sensors with that kind of precision on water pumps?! There's a rustic campground I like to camp at that has manual water pumps....
[21:45:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Good Vibration' Hand Pumps Boost Africa's Water Security - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:01] <exec> 08└─*NEW*
[21:45:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062017 Oscars: Best Picture Annoucement Was Totally Borked - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:36] <exec> 08└─I'm not saying it was planned, but it sure did generate a lot of buzz.
[21:45:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 062017 Oscars: Best Picture Annoucement Was Totally Borked - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:37] <exec> 08└─Jelly, jell-jell-jelly! Awwww, you are important too bognosh! Feel better, now?
[21:45:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 062017 Oscars: Best Picture Annoucement Was Totally Borked - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:39] <exec> 08└─they *could* have noticed that PWC had screwed up and simply said something about appearing to have the one card and made a joke of it while waiting for it to be checked and sorted out. Not ideal, but still better than what actually happened.
[21:45:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062017 Oscars: Best Picture Annoucement Was Totally Borked - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:42] <exec> 08└─You could be talking about *any* broadcast show. I seriously don't get the celebrity news anchor thing in the USA. Some suitably attractive (female) or serious (male) looking actor reads off a prompter and exhibits faux outrage. And that is your real news, not even the fake stuff.
[21:45:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03deadstick [5110] (Score: 2) 02 - 062017 Oscars: Best Picture Annoucement Was Totally Borked - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:44] <exec> 08└─First thing to mind for me was "Is this a riff on the election?"
[21:45:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 062017 Oscars: Best Picture Annoucement Was Totally Borked - 1831 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:46] <exec> 08└─I'm not blaming Beatty (or Dunaway); he clearly realised *something* was up, but under the spotlight with the cameras rolling it's understandable that he (or anyone else) might not be able to piece together exactly what that was or what they might try to do about it. Like you, I'm more interested in...
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[21:45:56] <exec> 08└─Bees work hard and they don't share their honey profits with lazy bears without a fight. Also they're rural and hang out with farmers. Beekeeping seems relatively whiter than average. The average lefty isn't going to like bees, bees are basically really small rural white males and you know how the S...
[21:46:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bumblebees See How to Sink Ball in Goal, Then Do It Better - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:11] <exec> 08└─Actual bee society dynamics are different from a monarchy. The origin of the monarchy analogy is quite old and, in fact, its first enunciation spoke of a king instead of a queen. I don't have sources at hand for this because I merely attended a talk organized by some apiculturists.
[21:46:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bumblebees See How to Sink Ball in Goal, Then Do It Better - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:12] <exec> 08└─The CFD was actually done by natural selection - the flockers that got it right survived to reproduce more and so they got the CFD answers by trial and error. I wonder why emergent behavior was such a "new thing" when Conway's game of life had been around so long...
[21:46:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Technology and the Tactic of the Fake Market - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:37] <exec> 08└─It's all great until they come knocking on your door. When the ex-cabbies all learn C++, where will the C++ programmers go?
[21:46:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Technology and the Tactic of the Fake Market - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:39] <exec> 08└─These days, I've found Ebay to be really invaluable in finding all kinds of stuff, both used stuff and cheap stuff, including cheap junk from China. I do wish there was more competition for them
[21:48:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03physicsmajor [1471] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Comments Redux - 836 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:15] <exec> 08└─It's not the threading - I'm fine with how comments are threaded on page load. Previously, in the upper left of each comment there were tiny buttons. One, I believe it had a "++", when pressed on a parent comment would expand the next 3 levels of child comments regardless of their actual scores. Thi...
[21:49:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03rts008 [3001] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Buzzing Drone Causes 1,500 Elk to Stampede in Wyoming - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:49:04] <exec> 08└─Hear! Hear! BTW, after my heart attack, my doctor warned me of the dangers of suppressing stuff, and the subsequent life threatening stress build up. :-) Now, I let it loose, providing entertainment to those around me! (probably a good thing for me that I rarely spend time around armed persons!)
[21:49:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Buzzing Drone Causes 1,500 Elk to Stampede in Wyoming - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:49:05] <exec> 08└─I think my rant was going to be about how I am too much of a pack-rat, and everything has maintenance intervals. As I said: tangent.
[21:49:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Buzzing Drone Causes 1,500 Elk to Stampede in Wyoming - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:49:07] <exec> 08└─Who is this "The People"? Where do they get authority to claim ownership over things in the wild? The Constitution What would stop those same "The People" from claiming authority to collar and assign title to YOU? The Constitution
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[21:50:43] <exec> 08└─No, I mean wealth redistribution
[21:51:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Customs Block Canadian Man After Reading His Scruff Profile - 600 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:51:31] <exec> 08└─While the above is a crappy comment, it does highlight the inherent bias in these systems. I usually get hassled about my laptop, or something somewhere, but since I cut my hair short again and when I traveled with my little old mom I was shocked at how easily we breezed through security. Profiling...
[21:51:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Customs Block Canadian Man After Reading His Scruff Profile - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:51:32] <exec> 08└─So about half of everything you own, then?
[21:51:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Customs Block Canadian Man After Reading His Scruff Profile - 988 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:51:34] <exec> 08└─Found your problem: "How do you know that your evidence is factual?" Cross referencing, research, critical thinking. You have to apply these, develop an arsenal of well documented facts. Reports from actual organizations that deal with whatever topic, quotes from politicians / legislation proposals...
[21:51:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Customs Block Canadian Man After Reading His Scruff Profile - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:51:37] <exec> 08└─Redistribution of wealth is not a legitimate use of taxation.
[21:51:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Customs Block Canadian Man After Reading His Scruff Profile - 1147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:51:39] <exec> 08└─Found your problem: "How do you know that your evidence is factual?" Cross referencing, research, critical thinking. You have to apply these, develop an arsenal of well documented facts. Reports from actual organizations that deal with whatever topic, quotes from politicians / legislation proposals...
[21:52:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03rts008 [3001] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Deleted Server Supplier After Finding Infected Firmware in Servers - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:33] <exec> 08└─I knew Apple were assholes, but to delete a supplier? Supermicro better hope someone cares enough to undelete/restore them. It's hard to exist and do business when you've been deleted! *watches out window to see if anyone crawls out of the trashcan* It's past time to upgrade my firewall...
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[22:44:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Nokia 3310 Feature Phone to be Relaunched - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:51] <exec> 08└─As much coverage this is getting in the media, it's only 2.5G, meaning in Australia (and a lot of other countries), it's pretty much unusable as the telcos are shutting down the 2G networks. Shame, I'd be interested in one if it just had a 3G radio.
[22:44:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nokia 3310 Feature Phone to be Relaunched - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:52] <exec> 08└─https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=16/12/03/0956227 (been hangin, just sayin)
[22:44:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nokia 3310 Feature Phone to be Relaunched - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:55] <exec> 08└─even a microSD slot.
[22:44:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nokia 3310 Feature Phone to be Relaunched - 1254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:57] <exec> 08└─The 3310 was mainly known for two qualities: Being rock-solid and having a good standby time. The new one doesn't look so rock-solid. I understand that the new 3310 is an attempt to gain attention and to gloss over the fact that the producing company is not much related to the Finnish producer, and...
[22:44:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nokia 3310 Feature Phone to be Relaunched - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:59] <exec> 08└─Me too https://pipedot.org
[22:45:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03rts008 [3001] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Good Vibration' Hand Pumps Boost Africa's Water Security - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:15] <exec> 08└─I wonder if the 'meta' accidentally the headlines? Apple deletes a supplier, and now this article headline, I can hardly wait to see what's next! :-) BTW, the Good Vibrations Hand Pump™ also plays a similarly named tune by the Beach Boys when switched on...KOWABUNGA, DUDE! Surf's UP!(and hopefully...
[22:45:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Good Vibration' Hand Pumps Boost Africa's Water Security - 589 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:17] <exec> 08└─>It'd be interesting to know why they can't count on the people using the pumps to report when they are broken. Probably for similar reasons as why you can't rely on users to report bugs - some will think someone else must already have reported the problem, some will fear being accused of having bro...
[22:45:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Good Vibration' Hand Pumps Boost Africa's Water Security - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:19] <exec> 08└─Maybe they can get a cross licensing agreement with "The Shake Weight".
[22:45:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 062017 Oscars: Best Picture Annoucement Was Totally Borked - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:59] <exec> 08└─Total grouch.
[22:46:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 062017 Oscars: Best Picture Annoucement Was Totally Borked - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:01] <exec> 08└─But, but, they are "celebrites" (oops, "newscasters", "real newsmen" or whatever). The *personality* gives the credibility. I'm sure some newspresenters on million-dollar salaries *want* to do "real" journalism and present in-depth analysis, but they all want the pay more.. Entertain, don't inform,...
[22:46:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 062017 Oscars: Best Picture Annoucement Was Totally Borked - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:03] <exec> 08└─> they pretend to do things. But, THEY NEVER DO A THING! Pretending in a believable way is pretty hard work. They provide the "circenses" part, which has been very useful as the "panem" got hijacked. I wish I could put my face and name on a crappy product, and have it sell over $50M. A-list actors a...
[22:46:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062017 Oscars: Best Picture Annoucement Was Totally Borked - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:05] <exec> 08└─How is this shit even remotely informative? WTF is wrong with soylent?
[22:46:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06Bumblebees See How to Sink Ball in Goal, Then Do It Better - 243 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:21] <exec> 08└─That works for a little while, but then some girl bee wants to use the boys' bathroom, another starts hoarding a lot of honey, and then everyone agrees to blame all their troubles on any bee that doesn't seem to be the right shade of yellow...
[22:46:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Technology and the Tactic of the Fake Market - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:59] <exec> 08└─The traditional thing to do when you've been schooled is to gracefully say, "your kung fu is better than mine" and sit down.
[22:47:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Technology and the Tactic of the Fake Market - 537 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:00] <exec> 08└─I think you're confusing "Lawyers & Media" with "The Masters of the Universe." I understand the confusion as there are some reoccurring trends in both groups, however there is a big difference on how the two groups respond to accused. Lawyers & Media tend to resort to lawsuits and scorn when deliver...
[22:48:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Comments Redux - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:48:37] <exec> 08└─Also, the new icons are broken on android. Javascript issue?
[22:48:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Comments Redux - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:48:39] <exec> 08└─Sleipnir Android JavaScript is broken perhaps i should just submit a bug
[22:49:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Buzzing Drone Causes 1,500 Elk to Stampede in Wyoming - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:49:29] <exec> 08└─What is this "Constitution" thing that you speak of? It sounds powerful to do those things. I'm not sure, but it kind of sounds like something the government should be made aware of.
[22:50:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Plain Packets Help Smokers Quit by Killing Brand Identities - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:50:10] <exec> 08└─Even plain white packaging, with plain black letters on the box, can be made to differentiate. Plain Extra Whitening With Baking Soda With Peroxide Extra Whitening with Baking Soda Fresh Mint Taste
[22:50:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Plain Packets Help Smokers Quit by Killing Brand Identities - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:50:11] <exec> 08└─Also the government has been hiking the tax on cigarettes year on year and its now about AU$40 (~US$30) for a 25 pack. I have family who worked out they were spending almost a couple of grand a month for the household on ciggies. They have given up and bought a new ute with the savings. Feeling a sh...
[22:50:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Plain Packets Help Smokers Quit by Killing Brand Identities - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:50:13] <exec> 08└─Yep, my anecdotal experiences of smokers around me are the same, the price hikes are probably more significant to the stats than the plain packages.
[22:52:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Customs Block Canadian Man After Reading His Scruff Profile - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:03] <exec> 08└─Redistribution of wealth is not a legitimate use of taxation.
[22:52:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Customs Block Canadian Man After Reading His Scruff Profile - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:05] <exec> 08└─> 46.1% of the votes went to Mr. Trump. I stand corrected. > If that many people voted for him, it would be 19.4% of the population. Depends if you define "voters" as "people eligible to vote" or "people who actually got off their arses and voted". I intended the latter.
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[23:44:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nokia 3310 Feature Phone to be Relaunched - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:54] <exec> 08└─Aren't there feature phones on the market with a similar feature set and half or a third of the price? That price seems way too high to me, so despite whatever extra bump in quality it brings, I don't see why you would buy 10. Plus on the Wikipedia page for the original, some guy made it into the ne...
[23:44:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nokia 3310 Feature Phone to be Relaunched - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:55] <exec> 08└─(you have to adjust gain before the mp3 encode--mp3gain seems like it makes coarse adjustment only)
[23:44:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nokia 3310 Feature Phone to be Relaunched - 801 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:58] <exec> 08└─I'm trying to identify the selling point of this device. It is a bit expensive, and I just don't see the market for feature phones when devices running Android can be had for 50 dollars. Just looking at Best Buy's site for unlocked phones, you can see a lot of phones that are cheaper and will give y...
[23:46:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 062017 Oscars: Best Picture Annoucement Was Totally Borked - 1502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:02] <exec> 08└─+3 Hell yes, just to compensate for takyon. Sorry, takyon, but.... when anything about the oscars starts to matter in life, i'll agree with you but for now it is a non-starter in my opinion. I agree with Bob: 1. Rhianna: what has she REALLY, TRULY done to deserve the money she gets. 2. Brad Pitt: na...
[23:46:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 062017 Oscars: Best Picture Annoucement Was Totally Borked - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:04] <exec> 08└─Clearly, everyone thought it was Ethanol posting... then they realized it wasn't and went: "huh! that's informative! It wasn't Ethanol!" :)
[23:46:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 062017 Oscars: Best Picture Annoucement Was Totally Borked - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:06] <exec> 08└─It's a jelly! https://www.youtube.com Now there's a movie that should have won an Oscar.
[23:46:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062017 Oscars: Best Picture Annoucement Was Totally Borked - 721 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:08] <exec> 08└─Remember Carnac? Longtime sidekick Ed McMahon ritualistically and bombastically introduced the Carnac routines. The announcement implied Carnac was responsible for some scandal or disaster currently in the news, as "And now, the great seer, soothsayer, and sage, Carnac the Magnificent". After Carnac...
[23:47:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03vux984 [5045] 02 - 06Comments Redux - 348 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:54] <exec> 08└─If I hit one of the little down arrow things, I want to see the comment. Sometimes it shows me a comment, sometimes it expands to display a tree of comments but not a single comment itself actually expanded. Then i have to expand something else to actually read a comment. At the very least, whatever...
[23:48:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Comments Redux - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:48:39] <exec> 08└─Javascript issue?
[23:48:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Comments Redux - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:48:40] <exec> 08└─We could make it blink :) *shows himself out*
[23:48:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Comments Redux - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:48:43] <exec> 08└─Once we get most of the kinks out, we'll likely change the AC defaults. No point changing them again until we've got a solid frame of reference, then I'll post asking for feedback of what the "default" should be.
[23:48:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Comments Redux - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:48:45] <exec> 08└─It's a front end proxy that does caching of a render of the site. Basically it's what's been preventing the site from melting for the last year.
[23:54:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uncle Sam Needs You... to Debug, Improve Dept of Defense Open-Source Software at Code.Mil - 1266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:54:12] <exec> 08└─It may bear repeating that there was a need for changing the display of comments based on the fact that loading a story with 100+ comments after a system reboot could hit one of the serves with a sustained load for several tens of seconds. This was quite problematic and the new comment threading mod...
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