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[02:55:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06IBM Promises Commercialization of 50 Qubit Quantum Computers - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:55:39] <exec> 08└─USA! USA! Built in.... India? China? Who else do they outsource to?
[02:55:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IBM Promises Commercialization of 50 Qubit Quantum Computers - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:55:41] <exec> 08└─International Business Machines Corporation
[02:55:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google, Microsoft Bump Bug Bounties - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:55:50] <exec> 08└─MS tried bumping uglies, but Google said no when MS refused to wear a condom.
[02:55:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google, Microsoft Bump Bug Bounties - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:55:52] <exec> 08└─What is a 0-day worth on the open market? I'm guess a heck of a lot more than MS and goog is paying.
[02:56:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Outstanding Issues - 821 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:56:07] <exec> 08└─You said that much of what RedBear mentioned "is on the slate to be tweaked or entirely redone." (for reference: https://soylentnews.org). After looking through your short-term posting history, I came across this post of yours: https://soylentnews.org
[02:56:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Outstanding Issues - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:56:09] <exec> 08└─Yeah this is exactly what's driving me crazy. Every incarnation of slashcode going back decades has had threaded display, until now.
[02:57:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03lwr [6511] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Restoring Xenix 386 2.2.3c, Part 1 - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:57:45] <exec> 08└─How did you guess? Can't wait to read it! Keep up the great work!
[02:57:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Restoring Xenix 386 2.2.3c, Part 1 - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:57:46] <exec> 08└─If you don't like the article, don't click it. I'm not a gamer and find the gaming articles boring. I simply stay away from them rather then posting that they're a waste of time. If you don't find this interesting, stay away. Meanwhile those of us who are interested can read. And for those of us who...
[02:57:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Restoring Xenix 386 2.2.3c, Part 1 - 949 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:57:48] <exec> 08└─The original FoxPro was available for DOS, Win 3.1, and Mac, and UNIX, and UNIX in this case meant either Xenix or SCO UNIX based on vintage. Of those platforms, Xenix is the only one you'd really want to run a multiuser server application on due to preemptive multitasking, especially since in that...
[02:58:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wireless Phone Charging Picks Up Steam - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:58:22] <exec> 08└─Well... it's all milk spilled under the bridge, no use to cry wolf now.
[03:01:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ann Arbor is Fighting Traffic With Software—and Winning - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:01:45] <exec> 08└─and facial recognition out so sophisticated it can even identify a particular individual, I am really frustrated to be compelled to stop for some device so dumb as to stop me for absolutely nothing!
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[03:55:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Promises Commercialization of 50 Qubit Quantum Computers - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:55:48] <exec> 08└─By "commercialize", I'm guessing they're hoping for renting rather than selling. They really miss the money they get from the mainframe crowd. They bend them over and commercialize then without lube.
[03:55:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06IBM Promises Commercialization of 50 Qubit Quantum Computers - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:55:50] <exec> 08└─Thug niggers.
[03:56:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google, Microsoft Bump Bug Bounties - 1401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:56:00] <exec> 08└─Nearly a month ago, Jono Bacon leaked this: While not formally announced yet (this is coming soon), I am pleased to share the availability of HackerOne Community Edition.[1] Put simply, HackerOne is providing their HackerOne Professional[1] service for free to open source projects. This provides fea...
[03:56:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Peter Thiel's Former Chief of Staff, Michael Kratsios, to Join Trump as Deputy CTO - 622 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:56:40] <exec> 08└─I've looked at seen both sides closely. The most radical left leaning sites are usually satire, such as the Onion. Good for a laugh but everyone knows it is all in good sport. The far-right sites though take their fake news really really seriously. Using dubya's mantra of "If you repeat a lie enough...
[03:56:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Peter Thiel's Former Chief of Staff, Michael Kratsios, to Join Trump as Deputy CTO - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:56:42] <exec> 08└─"What are the qualifications of Michael Kratsios?" Does this really matter with this group? Nobody else is. Why requite qualifications now?
[03:56:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Peter Thiel's Former Chief of Staff, Michael Kratsios, to Join Trump as Deputy CTO - 527 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:56:44] <exec> 08└─Which begs a question to be asked: If Kratsios, Thiel's former chief of staff, is being appointed to the position of Deputy CTO, are we or are we not being paranoid in thinking this is to pave the way for the ultimate Senate-confirmed appointment of Peter Thiel as the real CTO? Could it be that Mi...
[03:57:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When to Blame Someone for a Cyber-Attack or When to Keep Quiet About It - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:57:02] <exec> 08└─It seems to me that accusations without evidence are irresponsible and invite legal action, so it's not irrelevant at all.
[03:58:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Restoring Xenix 386 2.2.3c, Part 1 - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:58:02] <exec> 08└─I've heard of Wang but I'm not really familiar with it beside the name.
[03:58:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Restoring Xenix 386 2.2.3c, Part 1 - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:58:03] <exec> 08└─Where the hell is the +?/-? Groan moderation when you need it ...
[03:58:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03optotronic [4285] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Wireless Phone Charging Picks Up Steam - 493 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:58:38] <exec> 08└─Don't all phones & laptops these days use lithium ion batteries? I believe the optimal life for those can be gleaned by keeping them charged between 40% and 80% of capacity. It would be nice if the device's charging software could be tweaked to shut off at 80% instead of 100%. And, as was mentioned,...
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[04:55:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06DoJ Dismisses Child Porn Charges to Keep Tor Hack Secret - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:55:41] <exec> 08└─What this means is this particular hack is likely used against nation states, and/or internally against citizens. If they revealed it they would lose too much leverage. Nice going, asshats. Now a kiddie fiddler goes free *and* we know you're doing skeevy illegal unconstitutional shit on the sly.
[04:55:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DoJ Dismisses Child Porn Charges to Keep Tor Hack Secret - 645 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:55:43] <exec> 08└─He probably is a pedophile, unfortunately because the government opted to fold on the case rather than pursue it through the trial phase, it means that this mans life is effectively over. He probably won't be able to get any more jobs of any sort and will have a hard time finding a place to live. If...
[04:55:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06DoJ Dismisses Child Porn Charges to Keep Tor Hack Secret - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:55:45] <exec> 08└─So "think of the children" is no longer an argument from any US government.
[04:55:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DoJ Dismisses Child Porn Charges to Keep Tor Hack Secret - 703 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:55:47] <exec> 08└─OR....they're using the same exploit to actively find other pedophiles, and then simply use parallel construction in order to actually bring them in. Disclosing the details would nab this guy (who is, yes, a pedophile, but from the summary anyway appears to be merely a consumer, rather than a produc...
[04:55:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DoJ Dismisses Child Porn Charges to Keep Tor Hack Secret - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:55:49] <exec> 08└─So "think of the children" is no longer an argument from any US government.
[04:56:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Promises Commercialization of 50 Qubit Quantum Computers - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:56:00] <exec> 08└─They bend them over and commercialize then without lube.
[04:56:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google, Microsoft Bump Bug Bounties - 598 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:56:11] <exec> 08└─That's certainly a big consideration, but also consider the amount of time to find and prove out one of these exploits. If it's not competitive with what these people could be doing with that time, then they're depending upon altruism to find these exploits. It's sort of like working for the state....
[04:56:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03isostatic [365] 02 - 06Outstanding Issues - 158 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:56:22] <exec> 08└─If I see a top level interesting post, I used to be able to press +++ or something to expand all sub poss. Can't do that now, so I head To hackernews instead.
[04:56:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart9h [767] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Outstanding Issues - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:56:30] <exec> 08└─The *NEW* marker only doesn't make sense for the first time I open the comments page of a story (that is, all the comments are new).
[04:56:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03dbe [1422] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Outstanding Issues - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:56:32] <exec> 08└─Please Please Please, put back the expand thread button! I don't want to change my threshold to see every comment, but when the GP is interesting I want to browse all the answer with one click, not 1 per post. Thanks for all the work of the admin/dev team! Cheers -dbe
[04:56:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Peter Thiel's Former Chief of Staff, Michael Kratsios, to Join Trump as Deputy CTO - 886 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:56:57] <exec> 08└─Usually satire, yeah. I can get lost in the Onion for quite a while, laughing my ass off. I'm more talking about things I enjoyed reading that have just lost all credibility lately, such as HuffPo and even WaPo. There's plenty of op-ed dressed up as fact, even on the left. They're just less bold abo...
[04:58:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Restoring Xenix 386 2.2.3c, Part 1 - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:58:17] <exec> 08└─It's actually a real thing, or at least a very widespread urban legend.
[05:01:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Ever Stop Playing Video Games? - 933 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:01:46] <exec> 08└─It was more of a commentary on the state of the world. Unless you derive happiness and satisfaction from napkin art, or some other outlet deemed more suitable or productive, then what is the point? If it boils down to personal happiness and fulfillment, then that is up to the person. To me a great v...
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[05:55:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New and More Intrusive TSA Patdowns Coming - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:55:44] <exec> 08└─Yikes!
[05:55:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New and More Intrusive TSA Patdowns Coming - 611 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:55:46] <exec> 08└─We've been getting random but frequent "TSA-Precheck" appearing on boarding passes, which lets us use the faster and usually less intrusive line on one side of the screening area. This is without going through any special vetting or paying any additional fees. The article I read in our local newspap...
[05:55:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New and More Intrusive TSA Patdowns Coming - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:55:48] <exec> 08└─A bunch of state-paid frotteurs on the loose at US ports of entry is not the most important reason why tourists would want to stay the fuck away from this country...
[05:55:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New and More Intrusive TSA Patdowns Coming - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:55:50] <exec> 08└─Yikes!
[05:55:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New and More Intrusive TSA Patdowns Coming - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:55:52] <exec> 08└─Because only the most important reason matter!
[05:56:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DoJ Dismisses Child Porn Charges to Keep Tor Hack Secret - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:56:04] <exec> 08└─Is he a child molester, a pedophile, a child molester and a pedophile, or is he none of those things? I don't think we know for certain he actually did anything he was accused of. It doesn't even look like he was charged with actually molesting children, so I'm not sure where the "kiddie fiddler" re...
[05:56:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DoJ Dismisses Child Porn Charges to Keep Tor Hack Secret - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:56:06] <exec> 08└─Their justification for applying the methods is that it allows them to find criminals. But then, they don't convict the criminals for fear of the methods getting known. So what does that man for the justification of the methods?
[05:56:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06DoJ Dismisses Child Porn Charges to Keep Tor Hack Secret - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:56:08] <exec> 08└─Cite the sixth amendment and ask that the trial proceed, or the charges be dismissed with prejudice. Posting AC because this is not legal advice.
[05:56:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DoJ Dismisses Child Porn Charges to Keep Tor Hack Secret - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:56:10] <exec> 08└─I agree with this sentiment. I have trouble with the government bringing up someone on charges only to get them dismissed without prejudice. This sounds like double jeopardy. Either it should have enough legally obtained evidence to go to trial or the charges should be dismissed with prejudice. It w...
[05:56:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google, Microsoft Bump Bug Bounties - 693 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:56:33] <exec> 08└─I am skeptical of prize money. So often it turns out the ones offering the prize money are trying to get valuable work done cheap. They could hire more people to audit their code. You can work hard, find nothing, and get no prize. What are the odds it'd go down that way? If you work at it full time,...
[05:56:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zinho [759] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Outstanding Issues - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:56:53] <exec> 08└─Browse at -1.
[05:57:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03SunTzuWarmaster [3971] 02 - 06Peter Thiel's Former Chief of Staff, Michael Kratsios, to Join Trump as Deputy CTO - 1483 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:57:06] <exec> 08└─This is a bad editing job. Let's see what a good editing job would have. The USA CTO position is a presidential appointed position below the cabinet level (but still Senate-confirmed) "created" in 2009. The word "created" is used in quotations, as it was created out of a combination of previous posi...
[05:57:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Peter Thiel's Former Chief of Staff, Michael Kratsios, to Join Trump as Deputy CTO - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:57:20] <exec> 08└─Despite his apparent lack of technical qualifications ...
[05:57:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When to Blame Someone for a Cyber-Attack or When to Keep Quiet About It - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:57:40] <exec> 08└─unless you were in private mode it doesn't count, since google shows you what it thinks you want to see.
[06:00:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Now You Can Buy Gorgeous Furniture Made of Mushrooms - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:00:53] <exec> 08└─I had similar thoughts about the mushroom "leather" -- it may look and even feel like leather, but I very much doubt it has leather's primary attribute: durability. Leather can last indefinitely with only a modicum of care, and does pretty well under rough conditions too. I'm thinkin' mushroom work...
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[06:55:46] <exec> 08└─It should be. A country that hires thugs to violate your rights is an extremely good reason to stay away from that country.
[06:55:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New and More Intrusive TSA Patdowns Coming - 525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:55:48] <exec> 08└─The TSA-Pre is pure, unadulterated BS. Some time back, my wife, daughter and I flew within the USA and back again. We were all on the same booking. In both directions, two of us (wife and me) got the TSA-Pre and my daughter did not. We were on the same booking, obviously flying together. My daughter...
[06:55:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New and More Intrusive TSA Patdowns Coming - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:55:50] <exec> 08└─I like groping people, where do I apply for a position with the TSA? Are these the only jobs left for folks that have to tell you and everyone they meet that they are a registered sex offender?
[06:55:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New and More Intrusive TSA Patdowns Coming - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:55:52] <exec> 08└─I wonder what they do if you act like you like it (or actually like it)?
[06:55:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New and More Intrusive TSA Patdowns Coming - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:55:54] <exec> 08└─Probably handcuff you and take you where your fantasies will be realized.
[06:55:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New and More Intrusive TSA Patdowns Coming - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:55:56] <exec> 08└─https://www.usajobs.gov/Search?Keyword=TSA
[06:56:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DoJ Dismisses Child Porn Charges to Keep Tor Hack Secret - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:56:12] <exec> 08└─What's worse is that simply by being charged with this kind of crime the guy's life is pretty much ruined. Sure, he's probably guilty, but since this hasn't gone through the whole process he isn't legally guilty. But, he's sure to suffer all sorts of harms as a result. In practice, that may actually...
[06:58:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Restoring Xenix 386 2.2.3c, Part 1 - 1312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:58:43] <exec> 08└─There are reasons to set up paging, even if it mostly isn't used. For example, RMX for the 80386 sets up paging, but the paging only gets used if you run flat-model 32-bit executables. If you just run segmented executables (either 16-bit or 32-bit) the paging doesn't really get used. Xenix could be...
[06:58:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Restoring Xenix 386 2.2.3c, Part 1 - 1585 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:58:44] <exec> 08└─Xenix actually is one of the few operating systems that ran into a forward compatibility issue; Xenix 286 will not run on a 386 due to the fact that it loads bad values into the last two words of the LDT which are normally unused in that processor. That causes bad juju on the 386 which uses that for...
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[07:56:05] <exec> 08└─I'd like to state that I'd feel safer traveling to China, Russia and possibly even North Korea, compared to the US of A these days. Neither of those countries have a "presumption of criminal", unlike the former champion of freedom.
[07:56:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New and More Intrusive TSA Patdowns Coming - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:56:07] <exec> 08└─You used to have to hang put in particular bars, with coloured hankies, to get... special.. attention. Apparently, all you need now is a boarding pass.
[07:56:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New and More Intrusive TSA Patdowns Coming - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:56:09] <exec> 08└─I wonder what they do if you act like you like it (or actually like it)?
[07:56:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New and More Intrusive TSA Patdowns Coming - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:56:11] <exec> 08└─Go, KINK-TOURISM
[07:56:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03linuxrocks123 [2557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DoJ Dismisses Child Porn Charges to Keep Tor Hack Secret - 751 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:56:28] <exec> 08└─He doesn't go on a sex offender registry. He doesn't have a criminal record. He can live wherever he wants and work for whomever will hire him. He can honestly fill out job application forms saying he's never been convicted of a crime. Sure, there might be a few really uptight or paranoid employers...
[07:56:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IBM Promises Commercialization of 50 Qubit Quantum Computers - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:56:40] <exec> 08└─If this isn't subject to export control, what is even the point of export control? Heck, it probably ought to be classified.
[08:04:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Public University Lays Off 79 IT Workers After They Train Outsourced Replacements - 635 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:04:09] <exec> 08└─I was trying to be absurd to the point of trying to get across how we as a nation are squandering the most important resource we have... our creativity. Some nations have been around for centuries, and seemingly left little to show for it. Other nations have come along and improved things big time...
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[08:56:10] <exec> 08└─Just, BOHICA! Brace yourself, this time.
[08:56:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New and More Intrusive TSA Patdowns Coming - 572 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:56:11] <exec> 08└─When what you're doing doesn't work, double down!! They were already running their fingers inside people's underwear, and pressing up into people's crotches. So what, exactly, can the general public expect now? Oh, right, they tell us: "A pat-down ... includes ... sensitive areas such as breasts, gr...
[08:56:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google, Microsoft Bump Bug Bounties - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:56:54] <exec> 08└─A lot depends on the zero-day. We've heard that the black market price would be 10-30k for a zero-day into the widely-deployed OSS project I work for. Not sure if that's high because it's in demand, or because supply is so scarse (the project's had a security bug bounty for ~15 years, security is so...
[08:57:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Peter Thiel's Former Chief of Staff, Michael Kratsios, to Join Trump as Deputy CTO - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:57:42] <exec> 08└─[Ed-Really, aristarchus? CTO].
[08:59:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Restoring Xenix 386 2.2.3c, Part 1 - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:59:06] <exec> 08└─As a follow up to this, can you post your experiences with TeleDisk? Might help me and Michal figure out some of the what went wrong part of this.
[08:59:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Restoring Xenix 386 2.2.3c, Part 1 - 1509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:59:07] <exec> 08└─By "horrible", I mean it. OSes of that era would call the BIOS without setting the V86 bit. They'd just... load some segment and other registers then do a far call, or they'd do a software int, or they'd do an iret. There might even be data segments that are NOT set up as in real mode, and the BIOS...
[08:59:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Restoring Xenix 386 2.2.3c, Part 1 - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:59:10] <exec> 08└─Don't like the topic, don't read about it. That was easy, no? Is there something you'd like to see here? Go to the submissions page and submit something you'd like to see and discuss. Let's talk about what you want to talk about, friend. Have a wonderful day!
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[09:55:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06915 Coins Surgically Removed From Turtle - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:55:44] <exec> 08└─How much do the coins total to?
[09:55:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06915 Coins Surgically Removed From Turtle - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:55:45] <exec> 08└─I read somewhere that they didn't check because the coins were from various countries and part of them were badly corroded.
[09:56:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DoJ Dismisses Child Porn Charges to Keep Tor Hack Secret - 480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:56:27] <exec> 08└─This has never been about stopping pedophilia or any other crime. The only thing they want to control is freedom and the people finding out that they have been manipulated to believe in things that are not real. Democracy is one thing people think is real when it is not. Hacking Tor Browser is about...
[09:56:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DoJ Dismisses Child Porn Charges to Keep Tor Hack Secret - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:56:29] <exec> 08└─You give them way too much credit. What it most likely means is that the software used contains has some not quite legal features, and they would be in big trouble if the judge was to find out about the evidence planting module. Not a conspiracy theory, that did actually happen in Germany, when it w...
[09:56:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DoJ Dismisses Child Porn Charges to Keep Tor Hack Secret - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:56:31] <exec> 08└─It would drive me crazy if the government had a serious charge like this hanging over me for years.
[09:56:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06IBM Promises Commercialization of 50 Qubit Quantum Computers - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:56:44] <exec> 08└─Is this a quantum computer as in a thing that can run Shor's algorithm without emulation, or a quantum computer in the sense that it can do quantum annealing?
[09:57:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Outstanding Issues - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:57:19] <exec> 08└─The issue where clicking on a link to a comment in flat mode returns a "server configuration error" is now fixed (Thanks TMB, you rock!) However, when clicking on a link to a comment which has replies, the replies are not shown after the comment. Shouldn't showing a comment and any replies be the de...
[09:58:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When to Blame Someone for a Cyber-Attack or When to Keep Quiet About It - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:58:07] <exec> 08└─Often true, but there are two forces in the opposing direction: It's far worse PR to have a security breach made public through means other than official announcement by the company. Better to just announce the breach early.Security breach notification laws
[09:58:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03weeds [611] 02 - 06Restoring Xenix 386 2.2.3c, Part 1 - 467 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:58:52] <exec> 08└─At the end of the day, all hobbies are a "waste of time." There isn't any way to justify spending hours playing cards, building airplane models, or reading science fiction. It's a hobby. He likes doing it. Turns out some other people think it is interesting too. You are welcome to your opinion and c...
[09:59:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Restoring Xenix 386 2.2.3c, Part 1 - 721 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:59:16] <exec> 08└─Xenix? That sure takes me back. And the discussions of Real vs. Protected modes are pure gold! Xenix was also great for crunching numbers with large datasets. It allowed us to ditch nd PDP/11s and (both timeshared and bought used) Vaxen for much lower cost hardware. Although there are times when I m...
[09:59:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Restoring Xenix 386 2.2.3c, Part 1 - 721 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:59:17] <exec> 08└─Xenix? That sure takes me back. And the discussions of Real vs. Protected modes are pure gold! Xenix was also great for crunching numbers with large datasets. It allowed us to ditch nd PDP/11s and (both timeshared and bought used) Vaxen for much lower cost hardware. Although there are times when I m...
[09:59:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Restoring Xenix 386 2.2.3c, Part 1 - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:59:19] <exec> 08└─by Unixnut (5779) Neutral on 2017.03.07 3:58 (#475742)
[09:59:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Restoring Xenix 386 2.2.3c, Part 1 - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:59:21] <exec> 08└─Maybe it was signed by Bill Gate, who was cashing in on the similarity of his name to that Microsoft guy.
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[10:55:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03gOnZo [5184] (Score: 1) 02 - 06915 Coins Surgically Removed From Turtle - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:55:58] <exec> 08└─Install a grid in the bottom of the tank that lets the coins fall through. Now the turtles can't get to them, and you don't have to try to 'change the beliefs' of the general populace (which could take a very long time).
[10:56:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New and More Intrusive TSA Patdowns Coming - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:56:23] <exec> 08└─I presumed the Visa Waiver Program to be the start of the end for this nonsense.
[10:57:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Outstanding Issues - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:57:32] <exec> 08└─Yep, that's half-fixed not fixed-fixed.
[10:59:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Restoring Xenix 386 2.2.3c, Part 1 - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:59:33] <exec> 08└─It's probably the same guy who complains this is supposed to be a tech site when a non-tech submission comes through.
[11:03:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ann Arbor is Fighting Traffic With Software—and Winning - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:03:36] <exec> 08└─I suspect every American skywalk it within 500 miles of the Canadian border.
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[11:56:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06915 Coins Surgically Removed From Turtle - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:56:11] <exec> 08└─Someone needs to put a stop to these monsters!
[11:56:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New and More Intrusive TSA Patdowns Coming - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:56:36] <exec> 08└─The surveillance state is here to stay. Forever. The new threat is homegrown anyway. Incubated online at sites like SoylentNews.
[11:56:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DoJ Dismisses Child Porn Charges to Keep Tor Hack Secret - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:56:58] <exec> 08└─A Google search for a name is much cheaper than a background check. He will be followed by trolls throughout his life and hounded on social media or in his local community. A just society would keep the names of the accused hidden.
[11:56:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DoJ Dismisses Child Porn Charges to Keep Tor Hack Secret - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:56:59] <exec> 08└─A society that follows God's laws would allow him to have young girls as brides.
[11:57:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DoJ Dismisses Child Porn Charges to Keep Tor Hack Secret - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:57:01] <exec> 08└─No child left behind without something in their behind? We are looking for a Peter File... YES, I'm Peter File!
[11:57:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IBM Promises Commercialization of 50 Qubit Quantum Computers - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:57:15] <exec> 08└─Since the system went online last year, more than 40,000 users have run over 275,000 experiments on it.
[11:57:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IBM Promises Commercialization of 50 Qubit Quantum Computers - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:57:16] <exec> 08└─IBM announces that will not be offering a 50Qbit quantum computer.
[11:57:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google, Microsoft Bump Bug Bounties - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:57:31] <exec> 08└─Unlike actually paying bounties * http://www.i-programmer.info * http://fudzilla.com * https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com et...
[11:58:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When to Blame Someone for a Cyber-Attack or When to Keep Quiet About It - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:58:42] <exec> 08└─Well, no. The question assumes you are in a position to make the decision of whether to 'blame' or not. Simple as.
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[12:55:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03CoolHand [438] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Norway Says Half of New Cars Now Electric Or Hybrid - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:55:45] <exec> 08└─Too bad Orangey is going to roll back mileage standards in the US and set us back 20 years.... grrrrr....
[12:55:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Norway Says Half of New Cars Now Electric Or Hybrid - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:55:46] <exec> 08└─Joke's on them. Electric cars can't work in places that are cold or have mountains.
[12:55:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gene Variants Linked to Autism May Have Been Positively Selected For - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:55:54] <exec> 08└─The researchers discovered that these variants were found in much larger numbers than would be expected by chance, and they suggest that this may be because they are also linked to other genes implicated in cognitive ability.
[12:56:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06New and More Intrusive TSA Patdowns Coming - 72 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:56:31] <exec> 08└─I wonder what they do if you act like you like it (or actually like it)?
[12:56:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] 02 - 06DoJ Dismisses Child Porn Charges to Keep Tor Hack Secret - 75 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:56:45] <exec> 08└─So "think of the children" is no longer an argument from any US government.
[13:02:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Now You Can Buy Gorgeous Furniture Made of Mushrooms - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:02:06] <exec> 08└─poplar
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[13:55:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Demonstrate New Type of Laser Using the AC Josephson Effect - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:55:51] <exec> 08└─They embedded a small section of an interrupted superconductor, a Josephson junction,
[13:56:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Norway Says Half of New Cars Now Electric Or Hybrid - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:56:00] <exec> 08└─Too bad, that would set us back a whole 1 MPG. The gas mileage has stayed about the same since 1991. The kicker is that many of the people that drive gas guzzlers don't realize they are funding madrassas around the world. Those are about the only activities that the middle eastern oil producing cou...
[13:56:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03mth [2848] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Norway Says Half of New Cars Now Electric Or Hybrid - 530 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:56:02] <exec> 08└─Cold makes the batteries less efficient, but I'm not aware of any problem with mountains. In fact, I've heard an electric car driver tell that you can end up with more charge in the battery after descending a mountain than you had at the top, due to regenerative breaking. By the way, I was in northe...
[13:56:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gene Variants Linked to Autism May Have Been Positively Selected For - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:56:12] <exec> 08└─then the vaccines are severely damaging the more intelligent of us? conspiracy, or just convenient coincidence for the ruling class?
[13:56:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gene Variants Linked to Autism May Have Been Positively Selected For - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:56:14] <exec> 08└─This theory has been suggested for the last 10-15 years: match.com caused the autism increase. Anybody read the article deeply enough to find sample sizes? Anything less than thousands is not going to confirm or deny anything.
[13:56:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gene Variants Linked to Autism May Have Been Positively Selected For - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:56:16] <exec> 08└─Incorrect. A sufficiently high population of "antisocial" humans could simply interbreed among themselves, as they do not see this as a negative selector. And for the record: a lot of what normies/ungifted people consider social, isn't.
[13:56:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ex Columbia Sportswear Employee Accused of Illegally Accessing Their Computers After Leaving - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:56:24] <exec> 08└─obviously it's pitiful that this person pilfered his ex employer but how dumb does the company have to be to not bother closing extra accounts and letting it happen for so long? At some point companies and governments have to be responsible for their own stupidity, laziness and ignorance. If you lea...
[13:56:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormreaver [5101] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06New and More Intrusive TSA Patdowns Coming - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:56:59] <exec> 08└─The TSA is why I haven't boarded a plane in over a decade, and why I will never fly again.
[13:57:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New and More Intrusive TSA Patdowns Coming - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:57:01] <exec> 08└─Na, they have the presumption of criminality until a bribe is payed (even if you didn't do anything).
[13:57:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New and More Intrusive TSA Patdowns Coming - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:57:03] <exec> 08└─I flew once since the TSA was created. I will only fly once more when I emigrate.
[13:57:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New and More Intrusive TSA Patdowns Coming - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:57:05] <exec> 08└─i don't. i quit flying when this stupid shit started. I also consider domestic travelers (especially completely voluntary travelers. vacations, etc.) who continue to fly like this is all ok to be morally compromised, to say the least.
[13:57:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New and More Intrusive TSA Patdowns Coming - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:57:07] <exec> 08└─Trump! Trump! Trump!
[13:57:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DoJ Dismisses Child Porn Charges to Keep Tor Hack Secret - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:57:31] <exec> 08└─wow! this is a f#cking outrage! keeping computer (programs) insecure ("tor") AND not caring about the children ("no punishment for ,you child abuser")! what a f#cking awesome government! no problem sacrificing human (children) lifes on the alter of ubiquitous privacy busting spying powers! being abl...
[13:57:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DoJ Dismisses Child Porn Charges to Keep Tor Hack Secret - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:57:33] <exec> 08└─"but I'm willing to trust they've got good reason for this" the freaking fbi? that locked barrett brown up for posting a link and a long list of other crimes against the people? don't be such a dumb, kiss ass.
[13:57:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DoJ Dismisses Child Porn Charges to Keep Tor Hack Secret - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:57:35] <exec> 08└─of course pigs will plant evidence anytime they think they can get away with it. they rationalize it as they're the good guys and if they have to burn a few slaves to get what they want, then so be it.
[13:57:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Promises Commercialization of 50 Qubit Quantum Computers - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:57:52] <exec> 08└─By the time Knuth completes TAOCP's volume 4 he'll have a quantum computer aided AI doing spell-check. Incidentally: https://www.webofstories.com
[13:58:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Outstanding Issues - 1539 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:58:30] <exec> 08└─This one is somewhat nasty. The comment IS in the discussion, but on page *2* at the moment (for me at least; TNG -1, -1, Oldest first), 100 comments per page)... but all it takes is a bunch of replies to earlier comments to possibly push the comment onto a still later page. IOW, a page number may...
[13:58:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Outstanding Issues - 776 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:58:31] <exec> 08└─Using Threaded-TNG, Breakthrough -1, Oldest First. I marked a comment as "Interesting" and clicked on the Moderate button, I was presented with a new page which did NOT have the RHS (Right-Hand Side) slashboxes. So what? It made the width of the comments larger and the font size proportionally smal...
[13:58:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Outstanding Issues - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:58:33] <exec> 08└─I can work around it so it's not a big deal. Just thought I'd mention it, given that's what this posting was for. Carry on sir.
[13:58:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Outstanding Issues - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:58:36] <exec> 08└─The *NEW* marker only doesn't make sense for the first time I open the comments page of a story (that is, all the comments are new).
[14:00:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Restoring Xenix 386 2.2.3c, Part 1 - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:38] <exec> 08└─It's probably the same guy who complains this is supposed to be a tech site when a non-tech submission comes through.
[14:00:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Use Dark Matter Detectors to Catch a Uranium Thief - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:51] <exec> 08└─maybe if they WOULDN'T have placed the tank so far underground they would actually have detected "something" : D in other news, if uranium leaves the ground it was found in, it is already considered theft. uranium belongs to mother earth and we leave it for her to move around (or not).
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[14:56:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Big Hack - the Day Cars Drove Themselves Into Walls and the Hospitals Froze - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:56:03] <exec> 08└─How does this go? First they hacked NY City and I didn't say anything because it didn't bother me, in fact it seemed a little humorous in a macabre sort of way. Then they hacked smaller cities and I was still OK, and didn't take any action. When they shut off my power in the 'burbs I had a generator...
[14:56:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Demonstrate New Type of Laser Using the AC Josephson Effect - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:56:12] <exec> 08└─I suspect they intend to beat IBM in the number of qubits rather than mount the maser on the head of a superconductor shark.
[14:56:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Demonstrate New Type of Laser Using the AC Josephson Effect - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:56:14] <exec> 08└─microwave laser
[14:56:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03bootsy [3440] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Norway Says Half of New Cars Now Electric Or Hybrid - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:56:25] <exec> 08└─I take your point about regenerative energy but if you gain one way over the mountain you would lose the otherway or else you have perpetual motion. Petrol engines in the cold aren't great and Diesel is better at working in colder temperatures so the heated garage or engine heater are common in Cana...
[14:56:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Norway Says Half of New Cars Now Electric Or Hybrid - 1104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:56:26] <exec> 08└─> you can end up with more charge in the battery after descending a mountain than you had at the top, due to regenerative breaking. We noticed this when making a long freeway descent into San Luis Obispo, CA in a Prius (~10 years ago). We had been driving for awhile on fairly level roads and my memo...
[14:56:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Norway Says Half of New Cars Now Electric Or Hybrid - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:56:28] <exec> 08└─So extreme cold is a problem for petrol cars as well.
[14:56:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Norway Says Half of New Cars Now Electric Or Hybrid - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:56:31] <exec> 08└─Actually the advantage of electric in the mountains is that since they don't need air they don't lose power as the air gets thinner at higher altitudes. However as what happened on Top Gear one time the human driving the vehicle will start to succumb to the lack of oxygen before the engine stops run...
[14:56:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gene Variants Linked to Autism May Have Been Positively Selected For - 1475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:56:41] <exec> 08└─The researchers are saying that genes associated with autism were positively selected for. In other words, these genes are somehow beneficial for survival and reproduction, otherwise there would be mostly negative selection pressure. This is in direct contrast to your "reproductive dead end" hypothe...
[14:56:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gene Variants Linked to Autism May Have Been Positively Selected For - 2206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:56:43] <exec> 08└─Its a weird meme because buzzfeed tier media has been pushing it intensely endlessly repeatedly but the academics repeatedly see no evidence of it. https://jamanetwork.com My hard sci fi book plot theory is its just an incident of socioeconomic change and c...
[14:56:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gene Variants Linked to Autism May Have Been Positively Selected For - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:56:45] <exec> 08└─Anybody read the article deeply enough to find sample sizes? Anything less than thousands is not going to confirm or deny anything.
[14:56:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ex Columbia Sportswear Employee Accused of Illegally Accessing Their Computers After Leaving - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:56:54] <exec> 08└─Larcenous Leeper left but lept for lucre ...
[14:57:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06915 Coins Surgically Removed From Turtle - 451 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:57:05] <exec> 08└─More fun to train the turtles to recover the coins and then spit them out into a container. I'll bet they are smart enough to do this with a clever training routine -- swap a coin for something tasty. First thought, start with a coin on a fishing line. This site, http://www.anapsid.org
[14:57:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New and More Intrusive TSA Patdowns Coming - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:57:37] <exec> 08└─defendant: "your honor, i was self radicalized". prosecuter: "by what?" defendant: "the truth" prosecutor: "ahh, yes. The mortal enemy of the government."
[14:57:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03DavePolaschek [6129] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New and More Intrusive TSA Patdowns Coming - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:57:38] <exec> 08└─Note that people like you (and me) are why the TSA was also going after Amtrak (haven't taken a train for over five years, so I don't know the current situation) http://railroadfan.com Also be careful of the 100-mile constitution-free-zone in which CBP has relatively...
[14:57:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New and More Intrusive TSA Patdowns Coming - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:57:40] <exec> 08└─it's proven that raping or radiating flyers fails to detect a high percentage of weapons, etc so these dumb pigs decide they're just not raping hard enough. not terrorizing grandmothers or children bad enough. why is the federal government even allowed in the building? if i buy a ticket from an airl...
[14:57:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Leebert [3511] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New and More Intrusive TSA Patdowns Coming - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:57:43] <exec> 08└─What's more fun is to have them do it when you're sick as a dog. I was in Portland once and so sick I was basically walking dead. I always refuse the pornoscanners and get the pat-down. I was sneezing and coughing like crazy, and it's kind of hard to cover your nose and mouth when you're standing wi...
[14:57:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New and More Intrusive TSA Patdowns Coming - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:57:45] <exec> 08└─So you are saying that I should be proud of our TSA screeners because they don't hold out for a bribe? Talk about damning with faint praise!!
[14:57:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06New and More Intrusive TSA Patdowns Coming - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:57:47] <exec> 08└─Stop trivializing the term rape by using it for things that are not de facto rape, you're just as bad as the government using terrorism for "any behavior we don't like".
[14:57:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New and More Intrusive TSA Patdowns Coming - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:57:49] <exec> 08└─Hey, this might work with the Trump admin -- private industry should be contracted for airport security instead of TSA. Save a boatload of money. But on second thought, this hasn't worked out so well with privatized prisons...who seem to hire thugs/guards with even less screening.
[14:58:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DoJ Dismisses Child Porn Charges to Keep Tor Hack Secret - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:16] <exec> 08└─But loli haet pizza.
[14:58:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03AssCork [6255] (Score: 1) 02 - 06IBM Promises Commercialization of 50 Qubit Quantum Computers - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:34] <exec> 08└─Computers are like firearms; they can be used for good or evil, and you want to keep them out of the hands of stupid people.
[14:59:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03paulej72 [58] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Outstanding Issues - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:17] <exec> 08└─We fixed this for flat, but need to fix it for Threaded. The issue is we should be ignoring page when cid is set. We did not think through all of the issues that this would cause, but we ill get it fixed.
[14:59:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03paulej72 [58] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Outstanding Issues - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:18] <exec> 08└─I decided that it was better to get the error fixed and at least show something rather than waiting for the final fix to be coded and tested. Hopefully the rest we had will allow us to figure out what is wrong with our fixed coded that will not pull up the children of a post in flat mode.
[14:59:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03paulej72 [58] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Outstanding Issues - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:20] <exec> 08└─Will look into it. Mobile device support has been a PITA for us. It mostly works, but devices like to resize text based on stuff that we do not set in our CSS. It makes it hard to debug and fix issues like this.
[15:01:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03kvaltyr [6512] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Restoring Xenix 386 2.2.3c, Part 1 - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:27] <exec> 08└─Any further info? Obviously not NCommander here and I'm not super familiar with the specific vagaries of DOS / early x86 processors but I am a competent reverse engineer and have experience with 32/64 bit x86 assembly and some embedded stuff. Would be happy doing anything that isn't web development.
[15:02:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China to Cut Steel and Coal Production - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:02:43] <exec> 08└─And market competition is not a magic wand that gets rid of fools in charge of major businesses: After all, Trump was still in business long after he had demonstrated multiple times he was an idiot.
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[15:56:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Big Hack - the Day Cars Drove Themselves Into Walls and the Hospitals Froze - 588 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:56:13] <exec> 08└─If you insist on a government pretending to solve problems like this, then let it be that the government defines a very simple, easily understood base standard for liability and safety guarantees, but then have competing, "private" certification organizations work to impose that standard (or a highe...
[15:56:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06The Big Hack - the Day Cars Drove Themselves Into Walls and the Hospitals Froze - 1164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:56:15] <exec> 08└─Going off topic because this was on my mind briefly this morning, and I knew you'd show up at some point today. For vaccines, there is a fund that handles remediation in the unlikely event that a routine vaccination causes health problems or death. I believe this fund has paid out in an autism case...
[15:56:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03fadrian [3194] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Big Hack - the Day Cars Drove Themselves Into Walls and the Hospitals Froze - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:56:17] <exec> 08└─[Ed. Note: ... All the pieces of this hypothetical attack are possible. Scary stuff.] Where are the criminal masterminds when you need one?
[15:56:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03mth [2848] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Norway Says Half of New Cars Now Electric Or Hybrid - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:56:41] <exec> 08└─Yes, of course if you look at a full mountain climb, you end up with less energy in the battery at the end compared to before. But with a petrol car, the descent at best costs you zero fuel and leaves you with hot brakes. So I don't understand why the editor suggests that electric cars have trouble...
[15:56:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Norway Says Half of New Cars Now Electric Or Hybrid - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:56:42] <exec> 08└─So extreme cold is a problem for petrol cars as well.
[15:56:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gene Variants Linked to Autism May Have Been Positively Selected For - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:56:57] <exec> 08└─Unlikely. I'd expect that the ruling class considers themselves intelligent, qua Dunning-Krueger-effect.
[15:56:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gene Variants Linked to Autism May Have Been Positively Selected For - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:56:58] <exec> 08└─Read Vernor Vinge's A Deepness in the Sky, he predicted all of this over a decade ago.
[15:57:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06915 Coins Surgically Removed From Turtle - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:57:19] <exec> 08└─More fun to train the turtles to recover the coins and then spit them out into a container. I'll bet they are smart enough to do this with a clever training routine -- swap a coin for something tasty.
[15:57:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New and More Intrusive TSA Patdowns Coming - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:57:59] <exec> 08└─Grab travelers by the pussy!
[15:58:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New and More Intrusive TSA Patdowns Coming - 1358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:58:00] <exec> 08└─how are we supposed to have any SAY in this? was this ever put to a vote? were we EVER asked about this? consulted? any national dialog? no. forced on us. politicians forced it because none of them want to be 'blamed' if 'something happens on their watch' and they didn't do 'all they could'. yes, al...
[15:58:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New and More Intrusive TSA Patdowns Coming - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:58:02] <exec> 08└─Which quite frankly I'd have less of a problem with if letting your junk hang out in public wasn't illegal. If I am going to get groped, then I should at least have the option of showing them I have nothing to hide.
[15:58:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New and More Intrusive TSA Patdowns Coming - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:58:04] <exec> 08└─Must be fun during the Cross Dresser's Convention.
[15:58:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DoJ Dismisses Child Porn Charges to Keep Tor Hack Secret - 480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:58:33] <exec> 08└─"kiddie fiddler goes free" Do you know that he is/was a kiddie fiddler? We can agree that he is a major fricking douchebag, and not worth the powder that it would take to blow him away. But, did he commit the act, or just fantasize about it, with the aid of some illegal images? These are important q...
[15:59:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Outstanding Issues - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:38] <exec> 08└─I decided that it was better to get the error fixed and at least show something rather than waiting for the final fix to be coded and tested. Hopefully the rest we had will allow us to figure out what is wrong with our fixed coded that will not pull up the children of a post in flat mode.
[16:01:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Restoring Xenix 386 2.2.3c, Part 1 - 1386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:48] <exec> 08└─Oh I'm aware of the type of abuse old OSes did. I'm just saying that Xenix 386, being designed for the 386, could have used Virtual 8086 mode to talk to the BIOS if it wanted it. It didn't. VirtualBox uses OpenWatcom to build its BIOS (which is a fork of SeaBios with some duck tape to let it work wi...
[16:01:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Restoring Xenix 386 2.2.3c, Part 1 - 2290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:50] <exec> 08└─I'd suggest you ask about this over on the Vintage Computing forum: http://www.vcfed.org there are lots of people with experience with such over there. The original author Chuck Guiz (Chuck(G) AKA Sydex) posts over there regularly, although he doesn't like to answer questions about it, if I r...
[16:01:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Restoring Xenix 386 2.2.3c, Part 1 - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:52] <exec> 08└─Downmodded and called a Troll. Persecution?
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[16:56:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Uncle_Al [1108] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 RadioShack Bankruptcy Savior to File For, You Guessed It, Bankruptcy - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:56:05] <exec> 08└─Fry's, but that mostly a west coast thing.
[16:56:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 RadioShack Bankruptcy Savior to File For, You Guessed It, Bankruptcy - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:56:06] <exec> 08└─...in the era of Adafruit, Seeed Studio, Sparkfun, and others are big-box retailers still relevant?
[16:56:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Big Hack - the Day Cars Drove Themselves Into Walls and the Hospitals Froze - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:56:19] <exec> 08└─Where are the criminal masterminds when you need one?
[16:56:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Big Hack - the Day Cars Drove Themselves Into Walls and the Hospitals Froze - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:56:20] <exec> 08└─No, it's an alternative fact. In fact, I will have been there. It will have been bad, very bad, worse than the Bowling Green Massacre. So many people will have been hurt. I called up all the best guys I could, really smart guys, very good guys like Peter and Travis, they're smart, they're the best,...
[16:56:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Norway Says Half of New Cars Now Electric Or Hybrid - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:56:47] <exec> 08└─Actually the advantage of electric in the mountains is that since they don't need air they don't lose power as the air gets thinner at higher altitudes.
[16:56:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Norway Says Half of New Cars Now Electric Or Hybrid - 882 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:56:49] <exec> 08└─When asked about the adaptation of electric and hybrid cars, the politicians in neighboring Sweden responded: "We do not break down our new car statistics by type of car. That is not helpful. Whether electric or hybrid cars are over-represented in new car statistics would only stoke fires of racism....
[16:56:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Norway Says Half of New Cars Now Electric Or Hybrid - 501 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:56:51] <exec> 08└─You mean we might get sedans with reasonable space without having to resort to buying a "light truck" to get a decent amount of room? Tragic. Also you hate-filled outrage-binging automaton of the fake-news media, if first true POTUS in decades is so anti-electric vehicle I wonder why Elon Musk is on...
[16:57:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gene Variants Linked to Autism May Have Been Positively Selected For - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:57:07] <exec> 08└─Thanks - 5000 is large enough to draw some conclusions, if the data cooperates.
[16:57:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gene Variants Linked to Autism May Have Been Positively Selected For - 631 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:57:09] <exec> 08└─The criteria of what constitutes autism has just expanded over the years, and diagnosis has also gotten more aggressive. We weren't looking as hard for autism in the past. The harder you look for something, the more of it you will tend to find, and you'll find even more of it if you broaden the crit...
[16:57:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06915 Coins Surgically Removed From Turtle - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:57:30] <exec> 08└─Terrible superstitious belief, but less harmful harmful to the turtle than the one where a turtle penis will cure a case of genital herpes.
[16:58:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New and More Intrusive TSA Patdowns Coming - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:58:13] <exec> 08└─how are we supposed to have any SAY in this? was this ever put to a vote? were we EVER asked about this? consulted? any national dialog?
[16:58:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DoJ Dismisses Child Porn Charges to Keep Tor Hack Secret - 586 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:58:43] <exec> 08└─He doesn't go on a sex offender registry. He doesn't have a criminal record. He can live wherever he wants and work for whomever will hire him. He can honestly fill out job application forms saying he's never been convicted of a crime. Sure, there might be a few really uptight or paranoid employers...
[16:59:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google, Microsoft Bump Bug Bounties - 761 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:16] <exec> 08└─I remember reading an article that some people actually make a fairly good living off bug bounties; check bug reports and you'll see the same people claiming them again and again or in groups. Some people are just set up differently from the rest and can find them easily. Additionally, vulnerabiliti...
[17:02:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Restoring Xenix 386 2.2.3c, Part 1 - 820 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:02:00] <exec> 08└─VirtualBox's debugger was all around excellent, and it was perfect since I could take the symbol table we had for the Xenix kernel and load it (after converting it to a format that VB could understand) though it took me a good while to get used to it. It's the only modern debugger that I'm aware of...
[17:02:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Restoring Xenix 386 2.2.3c, Part 1 - 619 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:02:01] <exec> 08└─I passed that information along to Michal, thanks. W/ permission, I'll likely quote this in a future article when I go into the teledisk format. I have the next article written up, and it ran long so I didn't get into the data recover part of it yet. Most of the next article deals with manual instal...
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[17:56:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kromagv0 [1825] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 RadioShack Bankruptcy Savior to File For, You Guessed It, Bankruptcy - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:56:13] <exec> 08└─Micro Center remains, but in the era of Adafruit, Seeed Studio, Sparkfun, and others are big-box retailers still relevant?
[17:56:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 RadioShack Bankruptcy Savior to File For, You Guessed It, Bankruptcy - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:56:14] <exec> 08└─Those 3 bucks you didn't save allow multiple people to have a decent job which doesn't fall under "something the stockroom robot can't quite do yet". Thank you for spending them. When I see town centers turning into a series of hair, nails and grooming places, it doesn't fill me with happy thoughts...
[17:56:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Celestial [4891] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 RadioShack Bankruptcy Savior to File For, You Guessed It, Bankruptcy - 636 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:56:16] <exec> 08└─I buy most of my clothes from JC Penney's website, I buy my prescriptions online, I buy groceries and toiletries online from a local supermarket that delivers, I buy my movies and television shows from VUDU, I buy my music from both Bandcamp and Google Play Music, and just about everything else I bu...
[17:56:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03sgleysti [56] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 RadioShack Bankruptcy Savior to File For, You Guessed It, Bankruptcy - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:56:18] <exec> 08└─I loved this at the time; turns out it was just early: http://www.theonion.com
[17:56:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03SunTzuWarmaster [3971] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 RadioShack Bankruptcy Savior to File For, You Guessed It, Bankruptcy - 738 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:56:21] <exec> 08└─I am happy to pay for service and convenience, but, quite frankly, many of the stores just don't offer it. Consider the purchase of a digital camera. This is usually a somewhat major purchase (it has to do stuff that your smart phone doesn't, or why bother?). I expect the store to a) have the produc...
[17:56:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 RadioShack Bankruptcy Savior to File For, You Guessed It, Bankruptcy - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:56:23] <exec> 08└─Fry's, but that mostly a west coast thing.
[17:56:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Big Hack - the Day Cars Drove Themselves Into Walls and the Hospitals Froze - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:56:37] <exec> 08└─I've been saying for a while that I'm waiting for someone to shutdown every single OnStar-equipped car, causing giant mayhem for a few days and sending GM into insta-bankruptcy. I have to give kudos to the GM security team, because that's a giant obvious target, and somehow it still hasn't happened.
[17:56:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Researchers Demonstrate New Type of Laser Using the AC Josephson Effect - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:56:47] <exec> 08└─Let the time travel jokes begin.
[17:56:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Demonstrate New Type of Laser Using the AC Josephson Effect - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:56:48] <exec> 08└─These are microwave lasers, not much use underwater, but should cook fillet of sole in a vacuum chamber quite efficiently due to lossless transmission from the cavity. Now, how to keep the fillet from drying out while under vacuum....?
[17:56:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Demonstrate New Type of Laser Using the AC Josephson Effect - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:56:50] <exec> 08└─.joke the of end the with start just I
[17:57:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Norway Says Half of New Cars Now Electric Or Hybrid - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:57:10] <exec> 08└─Ahhh good ole hydro electric, nothing can go wrong with that...
[17:57:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Norway Says Half of New Cars Now Electric Or Hybrid - 583 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:57:12] <exec> 08└─Well, in Norway they take a boat if they have to go 100 miles... Other major factor: ICE cars are stupidly expensive in norway (twice the US price and up), courtesy of taxes that electrics don't have to pay. So the electrics are price-competitive, which means you have very few reasons, if you have t...
[17:57:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Norway Says Half of New Cars Now Electric Or Hybrid - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:57:14] <exec> 08└─Or the base of the mountain on one side has a higher altitude than the other.
[17:57:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gene Variants Linked to Autism May Have Been Positively Selected For - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:57:32] <exec> 08└─what constitutes autism has just expanded over the years
[17:58:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New and More Intrusive TSA Patdowns Coming - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:58:37] <exec> 08└─Same here. I haven't flown even once since TSA began.
[17:58:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New and More Intrusive TSA Patdowns Coming - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:58:39] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately if an airport did opt for traditional security, a three letter agency would ensure that there would be an incident.
[17:58:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New and More Intrusive TSA Patdowns Coming - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:58:41] <exec> 08└─Full-on penetration occurs in some "more comprehensive" searches. That is the definition of rape.
[17:58:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New and More Intrusive TSA Patdowns Coming - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:58:43] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I was thinking that as I wrote that part, but I didn't want to come across as too pessimistic. Alas, I really wouldn't put it past our government, though.
[17:58:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New and More Intrusive TSA Patdowns Coming - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:58:45] <exec> 08└─Just get to the airport 8 hours before your flight, and keep going through security for a patdown (small airport, to get the same lane). The second time, they may notice. By the fifth time, they'll definitely be disturbed: are you a pervert, or an undercover guy grading their work?
[17:59:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DoJ Dismisses Child Porn Charges to Keep Tor Hack Secret - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:15] <exec> 08└─Excellent! Punishment without even the pretense of due process. Mmm mm, feels good, this land of the free and home of the brave!
[18:00:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03mechanicjay [7] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Outstanding Issues - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:20] <exec> 08└─I got around this by turning off the *NEW* flag. I left the comment dimming setting on. It's actually been kind of amazing this way.
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[18:56:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA to Create Bose-Einstein Condensates on the ISS - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:56:07] <exec> 08└─They'll just pack der beers in dere, eh, and when they pop them out, dere'll be condensates. Hey, yah, buddywasisname dere: pass me one, eh?
[18:56:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA to Create Bose-Einstein Condensates on the ISS - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:56:08] <exec> 08└─Is this solid evidence? Or are things more fluid than that?
[18:56:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA to Create Bose-Einstein Condensates on the ISS - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:56:10] <exec> 08└─On Earth, the pull of gravity causes atoms to continually settle towards the ground
[18:56:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA to Create Bose-Einstein Condensates on the ISS - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:56:12] <exec> 08└─It's all the politicians and "public servants" out there. Full of hot air, expelling it all the time. Because of their continual diligence and effort, there's enough air still floating around for us to breathe. Otherwise it'd all have settled out years ago.
[18:56:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA to Create Bose-Einstein Condensates on the ISS - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:56:15] <exec> 08└─Don't worry! We're working on stopping all atmospheric motion with our giant windmills. Also: If they're gonna do serious science on the ISS, can they pick up the LHC? I'd prefer my black holes to be in LEO rather than underground.
[18:56:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NASA to Create Bose-Einstein Condensates on the ISS - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:56:17] <exec> 08└─On Earth, the pull of gravity causes atoms to continually settle towards the ground
[18:56:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06 RadioShack Bankruptcy Savior to File For, You Guessed It, Bankruptcy - 1347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:56:32] <exec> 08└─While I don't disagree, the problem is that the overhead to provide what you want in "service and convenience" is probably a lot more expensive than most folks are willing to pay for. In addition to rent and utilities for the store and employee salaries (for folks who frequently end up "standing aro...
[18:56:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03KiloByte [375] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06 RadioShack Bankruptcy Savior to File For, You Guessed It, Bankruptcy - 548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:56:33] <exec> 08└─Then how do you get clothes, and especially shoes, that actually fit? You can do that for t-shirts, but the chance of a random pair of pants that have the nominal belt circumference and length fitting you is pretty low. They always either don't fit your balls, are too wide or too narrow somewhere, a...
[18:56:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03KiloByte [375] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 RadioShack Bankruptcy Savior to File For, You Guessed It, Bankruptcy - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:56:36] <exec> 08└─If you want a random HDMI-to-DVI connector, a 2 molexes-to-6-pin-PCIe-power cable or anything of this kind, the choice between a 10 minute walk to a shop vs getting it in three days is pretty obvious to me.
[18:56:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 RadioShack Bankruptcy Savior to File For, You Guessed It, Bankruptcy - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:56:38] <exec> 08└─It's 2017 and there is a RadioShack less then 3 miles away from me. How is this even possible?
[18:56:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 RadioShack Bankruptcy Savior to File For, You Guessed It, Bankruptcy - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:56:40] <exec> 08└─I asked the one near me. The owner was doing well enough, he bought the store out from the franchise, I think is what he said. It's basically a cellphone store now. I didn't know you could do that. Also somehow he got away with keeping the name?
[18:56:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Big Hack - the Day Cars Drove Themselves Into Walls and the Hospitals Froze - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:56:55] <exec> 08└─ZACKENBERG RESEARCH STATION, GREENLAND—Claiming it to be one of the most dramatic and visible signs of climate change to date, researchers said Monday that receding polar ice caps have revealed nearly 200 clandestine lairs once buried deep beneath hundreds of feet of Arctic ice.
[18:56:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Big Hack - the Day Cars Drove Themselves Into Walls and the Hospitals Froze - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:56:56] <exec> 08└─Yaaa so anarchists don't have the same level of power that a fascist government has... So no, not something like that. The best way to prevent nihilistic anarchists is to make the world a better place so that such people don't want to see it burn.
[18:56:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Big Hack - the Day Cars Drove Themselves Into Walls and the Hospitals Froze - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:56:58] <exec> 08└─They are everywhere when you draw the ire and contempt of the whole world, as trump is doing. Destroying amerika may become the world's hackers newest favourite past time. Way to go bozo!
[18:56:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Big Hack - the Day Cars Drove Themselves Into Walls and the Hospitals Froze - 593 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:57:00] <exec> 08└─Yep - it's a good story. Thirty years ago, it was a good work of fiction. This story WAS written years ago, by another author - but being senile, I can't remember who wrote it. I read it, written from a young girl's point of view. The city was computerized, and the computers went berserk. The terms...
[18:57:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03fubari [4551] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Big Hack - the Day Cars Drove Themselves Into Walls and the Hospitals Froze - 1126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:57:03] <exec> 08└─Runaway1956, I will call shenanigans on "smell the coffee". You're being (perhaps unintentionally) incomplete. Seriously. I am pretty aware of the level of automation our society and economy is embracing. "Smell the coffee" and then do [i]what[/i] ? Go back to manual typewriters? Index cards and fil...
[18:57:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hawkwind [3531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Demonstrate New Type of Laser Using the AC Josephson Effect - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:57:16] <exec> 08└─the AC Josephson Effect
[18:57:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Demonstrate New Type of Laser Using the AC Josephson Effect - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:57:17] <exec> 08└─^^^ THIS is what i came here to read, the only possible meaning for frikkin ac on this site. Oh and the comments about sharks.
[18:57:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hawkwind [3531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Norway Says Half of New Cars Now Electric Or Hybrid - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:57:41] <exec> 08└─I took the cold and uphill references as sarcasm. If anyone is interested in why one would feel the need to be sarcastic here's a story from 2015 helping to debunk these points: http://www.treehugger.com
[18:57:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Norway Says Half of New Cars Now Electric Or Hybrid - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:57:43] <exec> 08└─I wonder why Elon Musk is on-board with God-Empror's vision of the future.
[18:57:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Norway Says Half of New Cars Now Electric Or Hybrid - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:57:45] <exec> 08└─Geography 101 - Norway - shedloads of oil, too.
[18:57:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Norway Says Half of New Cars Now Electric Or Hybrid - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:57:47] <exec> 08└─On board? Or, smart enough to realize how easy it is to manipulate the president by pretending to like him?
[18:58:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ex Columbia Sportswear Employee Accused of Illegally Accessing Their Computers After Leaving - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:58:14] <exec> 08└─You cut costs, giving you no budget for a proper accounts & security audit when the IT leaves. Then you blame him for being an asshole, and see how many of your own mistakes and good competitor moves you can excuse under that convenient blanket. You may optionally blame his replacement and/or outsou...
[18:59:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New and More Intrusive TSA Patdowns Coming - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:17] <exec> 08└─> just in case ONE terrorist event happened as a result of some criticism they had made, it would be a PR disaster. "as a result of" pointing out excessive ineffectual behavior? If the same logic applied to all things, you'd be screened by TSA for bad thoughts before you can drive a truck, or car, o...
[18:59:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New and More Intrusive TSA Patdowns Coming - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:19] <exec> 08└─Have you traveled through those countries? I have not, and I am actually curious whether they are as intrusive and orwellian as the US has become.
[18:59:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New and More Intrusive TSA Patdowns Coming - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:21] <exec> 08└─It's probably easier to get a settlement out of private security than the TSA. Or at least, that's what I thought.
[18:59:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New and More Intrusive TSA Patdowns Coming - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:23] <exec> 08└─If you walked up to a woman on the street and did those things, what do you suppose she would yell (before pepper spraying you)?
[18:59:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New and More Intrusive TSA Patdowns Coming - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:25] <exec> 08└─I like groping people, where do I apply for a position with the TSA? As the head of the Executive Branch, you can just hire yourself! Jesus Christ, someone get this guy a Civic class!
[18:59:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03linuxrocks123 [2557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DoJ Dismisses Child Porn Charges to Keep Tor Hack Secret - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:56] <exec> 08└─In the event he finds people Googling his name to be a real problem, though I'm not convinced he will: http://family.findlaw.com
[18:59:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DoJ Dismisses Child Porn Charges to Keep Tor Hack Secret - 811 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:58] <exec> 08└─Also very very relevant: What exactly was the evidence that he did anything at all? If all they have is something they aren't willing to let him confront, then for all we know this guy was completely innocent and didn't do what the FBI says he did. For all we know, the source of evidence they aren't...
[18:59:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DoJ Dismisses Child Porn Charges to Keep Tor Hack Secret - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:00] <exec> 08└─"The greater good!" SHUT IT! Fascist country ramps up fascism, I feel safer already! Guess I should take my passport with me everywhere so I don't get caught without my "papers".
[19:00:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DoJ Dismisses Child Porn Charges to Keep Tor Hack Secret - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:02] <exec> 08└─Did the victim get a say in whether to drop the case? You know, the person this alleged criminal allegedly harmed? That victim (if there is one) is entitled to justice. And oh by the way putting someone on an Evil Person List or locking them up for $LONGTIME does nothing whatsoever to undo the harm...
[19:00:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DoJ Dismisses Child Porn Charges to Keep Tor Hack Secret - 1102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:04] <exec> 08└─Are you serious that you don't think prospective employers do searches on candidates? Again, a quick internet search will tell you otherwise. Even a decade ago, surveys of recruiters showed something like 3/4 of them were already using internet searches to help screen candidates. More recent polls s...
[19:00:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DoJ Dismisses Child Porn Charges to Keep Tor Hack Secret - 701 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:06] <exec> 08└─True - the FBI could have planted the images. It's within their capability, I'm sure. But, why? Why snag some innocent fool, and set him up? If this man is innocent of the charges against him, then he is still crosswise with the FBI for a reason. If they set him up, they had some reason for putting...
[19:00:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Promises Commercialization of 50 Qubit Quantum Computers - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:27] <exec> 08└─Yes, but that was in a parallel universe that forked off of ours when they powered up the Qbit computer while the LHC was running.
[19:00:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Promises Commercialization of 50 Qubit Quantum Computers - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:28] <exec> 08└─quantum computers will deliver solutions to important problems where patterns cannot be seen because the data doesn't exist
[19:01:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03JeanCroix [573] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Outstanding Issues - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:20] <exec> 08└─I have both threshold and breakthrough set to 0, but -1 moderated comments still show up uncollapsed. I've tried a ctrl-reload just to make sure they didn't get moderated in the brief time between my article click and the page loading, but they're still there.
[19:02:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When to Blame Someone for a Cyber-Attack or When to Keep Quiet About It - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:02:11] <exec> 08└─But to many people, the answer to "when to blame someone for a cyber-attack" would be, simply, "when you can prove they acted"
[19:03:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Restoring Xenix 386 2.2.3c, Part 1 - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:34] <exec> 08└─Sure. Also, there is a writeup comparing different disk archivers that you might find interesting here: https://winworldpc.com even though I literally don't have any more floppies any more.
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[19:56:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA to Create Bose-Einstein Condensates on the ISS - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:56:17] <exec> 08└─What does a Bose-Einstein condenser record like? We talking beets level of base here? Should I use some of those microphones for my new hip hop project?
[19:56:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 RadioShack Bankruptcy Savior to File For, You Guessed It, Bankruptcy - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:56:38] <exec> 08└─My moms basement. After a couple decades in my house my own basement isn't quite as organized. The losers in silicon valley are all trying to sell various "Parent as a service" to other hyper privileged wealthy urbanites and someone yelling at you for getting PCB etchant stains in the laundry tub an...
[19:56:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 RadioShack Bankruptcy Savior to File For, You Guessed It, Bankruptcy - 769 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:56:40] <exec> 08└─15 years ago, I was knowledgeable (enough) and I tried. Went in when I was 18 and got an interview at Rat Shack, boasting that I was a hobbyist and knew all about the products they sold, eagerly talking about the magical days of going through the component shelves looking for stuff I needed. The man...
[19:56:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 RadioShack Bankruptcy Savior to File For, You Guessed It, Bankruptcy - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:56:42] <exec> 08└─The last hackerspace I checked out actually sold a small selection of electronic components, RPis, 3D printing filaments, and some other cool shit. Like RadioShack but without the cell phones.
[19:56:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 RadioShack Bankruptcy Savior to File For, You Guessed It, Bankruptcy - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:56:44] <exec> 08└─b) be knowledgeable about the "not printed on the box" differences between the products.
[19:56:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 RadioShack Bankruptcy Savior to File For, You Guessed It, Bankruptcy - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:56:47] <exec> 08└─boasting that I was a hobbyist and knew all about the products they sold
[19:56:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 RadioShack Bankruptcy Savior to File For, You Guessed It, Bankruptcy - 843 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:56:49] <exec> 08└─RadioShack died last year. Sprint only saved the name, and some of the store sites. The kept neither the same business, the same merchandise, nor the same staff. The local "RadioShack" became totally worthless within a week of the chain being bought. I went in there once, and asked the manager two q...
[19:56:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 RadioShack Bankruptcy Savior to File For, You Guessed It, Bankruptcy - 567 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:56:51] <exec> 08└─I recall a long discussion about fashion on this site a few months ago and to save the agony, at least with respect to buying clothes online, the experience is hellish at the lowest prices, not bad at all midrange and up. So if you're talking about the $10 pants, they're trash no matter if you buy a...
[19:56:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 RadioShack Bankruptcy Savior to File For, You Guessed It, Bankruptcy - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:56:53] <exec> 08└─Dunno about OP but literally the only question I ask when getting dressed is "does this stink too bad to wear one more day?" So when buying new clothes about the only question I ever ask is do the numbers match what's in what I've got? As long as that's a match then literally none of that other stuf...
[19:56:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Celestial [4891] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 RadioShack Bankruptcy Savior to File For, You Guessed It, Bankruptcy - 1032 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:56:55] <exec> 08└─As I've posted here before, I'm a dwarf IRL. No matter what clothes I buy, I'm going to have to have them tailored severely. Any pair of pants I buy will need anywhere from eight to twelve inches cut from each leg, so I just have any other alteration made as necessary. I mean, I could buy boys' clot...
[19:56:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 RadioShack Bankruptcy Savior to File For, You Guessed It, Bankruptcy - 610 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:56:57] <exec> 08└─Either I have one in my own junk bin or a coworker has one in theirs and if its too obscure to be in our aggregate junk bin then the local store, which is quite a bit smaller in volume than our combined basements, would have to order online anyway. And with amazon prime its two day not three, and wh...
[19:56:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 RadioShack Bankruptcy Savior to File For, You Guessed It, Bankruptcy - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:57:00] <exec> 08└─So, I just routinely order a new pair of one of the two New Balance sneakers every six months.
[19:57:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Celestial [4891] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 RadioShack Bankruptcy Savior to File For, You Guessed It, Bankruptcy - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:57:02] <exec> 08└─Yeah, the quality of New Balance shoes are not nearly as good as they once were. I used to replace mine every year or so, but the past several years have had to do so more frequently. Now it's about six or seven months of use before they start looking shoddy and I need to replace them. Unfortunately...
[19:57:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03LVDOVICVS [6131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Big Hack - the Day Cars Drove Themselves Into Walls and the Hospitals Froze - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:57:22] <exec> 08└─I stopped reading at exactly this point--"If you put your video-game aside, read this article...". I don't know why the author of that thinks that addressing people like children is a selling point. It sure didn't work on me.
[19:57:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Big Hack - the Day Cars Drove Themselves Into Walls and the Hospitals Froze - 600 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:57:23] <exec> 08└─"Smell the coffee" and then do [i]what[/i] ?" Forget the cloud. Just abandon it - your data doesn't need to be "out there". Forget about that IOT. Everyone of those devices is a vulnerability. Scrap Facefook. Just tell Suckerberg that he can't offer you anything worth the data he is mining. And, we...
[19:57:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Big Hack - the Day Cars Drove Themselves Into Walls and the Hospitals Froze - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:57:25] <exec> 08└─Real security, that's all we need. It won't be perfect, but it will be a hell of a lot safer than the (supposedly) totally vulnerable system we have now. Will it cost a lot of money? YES. Will it create jobs? YES! Will it make our nation more secure? YES!!! C'mon Donald, get your shit together and t...
[19:57:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Demonstrate New Type of Laser Using the AC Josephson Effect - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:57:41] <exec> 08└─Yoda?
[19:57:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03CoolHand [438] 02 - 06Norway Says Half of New Cars Now Electric Or Hybrid - 106 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:57:48] <exec> 08└─Too bad Orangey is going to roll back mileage standards in the US and set us back 20 years.... grrrrr....
[19:58:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gene Variants Linked to Autism May Have Been Positively Selected For - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:58:27] <exec> 08└─A deficits in social communication and social interaction is conducive to a highly probable "reproductive dead end".
[19:58:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03ese002 [5306] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gene Variants Linked to Autism May Have Been Positively Selected For - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:58:29] <exec> 08└─A deficits in social communication and social interaction is conducive to a highly probable "reproductive dead end".
[19:58:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06915 Coins Surgically Removed From Turtle - 562 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:58:52] <exec> 08└─> Install a grid in the bottom of the tank Its not a tank. Its a pond. Any such "grid" is going to require a lot of work to construct and its going to require regular cleaning to prevent sediment from filling it up and making it ineffective. Its probably not healthy for a big-ass turtle to constantl...
[19:59:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Leebert [3511] 02 - 06New and More Intrusive TSA Patdowns Coming - 409 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:27] <exec> 08└─What's more fun is to have them do it when you're sick as a dog. I was in Portland once and so sick I was basically walking dead. I always refuse the pornoscanners and get the pat-down. I was sneezing and coughing like crazy, and it's kind of hard to cover your nose and mouth when you're standing wi...
[20:00:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DoJ Dismisses Child Porn Charges to Keep Tor Hack Secret - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:23] <exec> 08└─How many shekels per mina for one of your god's law child brides, Mikeeeee?
[20:00:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DoJ Dismisses Child Porn Charges to Keep Tor Hack Secret - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:24] <exec> 08└─Sure, he's probably guilty
[20:01:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Outstanding Issues - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:37] <exec> 08└─The chevrons are inferior to the +/- buttons in action. I'm not talking about in appearance. I've had to switch my "don't collapse" level to 0, and the experience is quite inferior. (I originally wrote "grossly inferior", but that was overstating the case.)
[20:01:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Outstanding Issues - 535 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:39] <exec> 08└─I made a suggestion a few days ago that I will repeat again for your consideration: The chevron buttons are too small which makes mobile device use too difficult. Please fix by making the title of the unexpanded comment be a link like it used to be so that clicking the link expands the comment. Brin...
[20:02:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Peter Thiel's Former Chief of Staff, Michael Kratsios, to Join Trump as Deputy CTO - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:08] <exec> 08└─Nomsg
[20:03:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Restoring Xenix 386 2.2.3c, Part 1 - 739 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:03:54] <exec> 08└─That experience is about perfect. The work varies quite a bit, involving many kinds of CPU and OS from the ancient to the very latest, but is nearly always low-level. We do lots of reverse engineering. We write emulators. We use assembly code. It's USA only, no H1B or greencard. You get extreme flex...
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[20:56:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03qzm [3260] (Score: 1) 02 - 06"Bubble-Recoil" Could be Used to Cool CPUs in Space - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:56:23] <exec> 08└─Just pump the fluid over the chips. I know..I know.. far too simple and practical. Currently common practice. Too easy to have backup pumps, etc. No.. Having chips swinging through a solution under bubble power send like a much better idea. Sigh.
[20:56:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03hellcat [2832] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Bubble-Recoil" Could be Used to Cool CPUs in Space - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:56:24] <exec> 08└─The concept sounds sound - no moving parts (unlike the comment about getting a pump). Make no mistake, a recoiling bubble is a form of pump. The important thing to remember is that, in space, no one can hear your parts break. That's why you want to minimize those. I only wish their gif could have be...
[20:56:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Bubble-Recoil" Could be Used to Cool CPUs in Space - 1668 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:56:26] <exec> 08└─I can think of a few reasons not to just "pump the fluid over the chips" 1) you need pumps, something with moving parts, which can fail in space. Yes, you can have multiple pumps for redundancy, but still. How many pumps can reliably work in temps near absolute zero, and for how long? Not to mention...
[20:56:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA to Create Bose-Einstein Condensates on the ISS - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:56:40] <exec> 08└─I think it is more complicated than that... your narrative would lead to one solid object with no atmosphere.
[20:57:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kromagv0 [1825] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 RadioShack Bankruptcy Savior to File For, You Guessed It, Bankruptcy - 1333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:57:13] <exec> 08└─For digital cameras I use a shibboleth to avoid the dumb clerks. Just ask the sales clerk to show you non diffraction limited ones at the pixel density you want. Thankfully where I live we have a pretty good camera shop (it isn't B&H but then I don't have to wait a week for stuff to show up in the m...
[20:57:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06The Big Hack - the Day Cars Drove Themselves Into Walls and the Hospitals Froze - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:57:37] <exec> 08└─and the hubris required to nominate a man like Donald Trump
[20:58:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Norway Says Half of New Cars Now Electric Or Hybrid - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:58:20] <exec> 08└─I don't get this. If you have 60 units of energy, and you use 30 units of energy to climb a mountain (minus losses), how can going down the mountain result in more than 30 units of energy being returned? If that was true you could charge your car to full by doing nothing more than repeatedly climbin...
[20:58:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gene Variants Linked to Autism May Have Been Positively Selected For - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:58:42] <exec> 08└─Agreed ^ Simply being around other people does not automatically make something a truly social activity. Also, a lot of "actual" social activity is simply superficial bullshit, circle-jerking into a sense of comfort that gives us some security in this insecure world.
[20:59:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New and More Intrusive TSA Patdowns Coming - 521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:00] <exec> 08└─I traveled through China. They were still acting like it was the 1970's as far as the "TSA" was concerned. I had an issue with some small granular rocks at one point and the agent took MY lighter and tried setting them on fire. Once they didn't light up, or act like gunpowder or something, he waived...
[21:00:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New and More Intrusive TSA Patdowns Coming - 2563 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:01] <exec> 08└─I put up with it for a few reasons: 1) What are you on dope? Just because America is still in our titles, and we even have United in it, we are anything but free, united, or involved in a representative democracy. Just because we indicate our displeasure, and even use logic and references the Consti...
[21:00:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New and More Intrusive TSA Patdowns Coming - 876 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:03] <exec> 08└─No, it does not. There is enough false information going around, don't need to add. 1) I don't know about private screenings, but I know about public ones. You have the option of being patted down in front of everyone. 2) From TSA agents directly, I've been told that cavity searches ARE NOT performe...
[21:00:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DoJ Dismisses Child Porn Charges to Keep Tor Hack Secret - 926 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:45] <exec> 08└─People can end up crosswise with the FBI for reasons that have absolutely nothing to do with whether they've committed a crime. People have become targets because they wrote a letter to the editor expressing opposition to official government policies. Anti-Iraq War groups can and have been targeted...
[21:02:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03https [5248] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Peter Thiel's Former Chief of Staff, Michael Kratsios, to Join Trump as Deputy CTO - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:27] <exec> 08└─That was not dubya's mantra - it was Goebbel's long before. Dubya's mantra was, "do my friends make a profit". Does no one study history any more?
[21:04:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Restoring Xenix 386 2.2.3c, Part 1 - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:04:14] <exec> 08└─They can be located with Google searching; I rather not post links publicly, but OPS1.TD0 was the filename. I have the SHA hashs somewhere. I've lived out of a backpack for more than a few years and got rid almost everything I used to own, and I try not to keep too many things, at least at the momen...
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[21:56:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korean Missiles and What the US is Doing About It - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:56:01] <exec> 08└─I think sending in a THAAD is the best thing to do. Won't stop lil Kim, but it will royally piss off China. China can put pressure on lil Kim, which could put an end to both the nuke and missile problems.
[21:56:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korean Missiles and What the US is Doing About It - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:56:03] <exec> 08└─That's what we are doing - deploying THAAD to S. Korea. China is super pissed, and is putting all kinds of pressure on S. Korea. S. Korea is ambivalent since the system doesn't actually help protect itself, but gets all the brunt of China's ire.
[21:56:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korean Missiles and What the US is Doing About It - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:56:05] <exec> 08└─THAAD is a terminal phase interceptor, US interests on the ground in the region are limited, unless you are counting Guam, which probably already has a THAAD installation, or something more effective that they're not telling us about.
[21:56:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korean Missiles and What the US is Doing About It - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:56:07] <exec> 08└─It's not the missiles China is worried about, it's the radar. It can cover a lot of Chinese territory and the Chinese would like to keep their air movement secret.
[21:56:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korean Missiles and What the US is Doing About It - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:56:09] <exec> 08└─Yeah, and South Korea is a perfect excuse to install it. I see us (probably already) having such capability in the area, but not running 24-7 high def radar coverage on China to appease them. It is kind of convenient, though, locating it in South Korea so we "have to" look North to see what's going...
[21:56:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Bubble-Recoil" Could be Used to Cool CPUs in Space - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:56:20] <exec> 08└─"This concept of theirs has no moving parts (apart from the fluid), " Actually, it sounds like they're turning the whole circuit into a moving part that depends on its motion not to overheat...
[21:57:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 RadioShack Bankruptcy Savior to File For, You Guessed It, Bankruptcy - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:57:07] <exec> 08└─The west is the best.
[21:57:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03WillR [2012] (Score: 1) 02 - 06 RadioShack Bankruptcy Savior to File For, You Guessed It, Bankruptcy - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:57:09] <exec> 08└─Even if they did order more USB hard disks, they would probably be $299 for a 1TB model. Radio Shack was where you went when you needed a null modem cable RIGHT NOW and didn't care if it cost 10x as much as ordering from the catalog places. There's just no need for a store like that in an era of sa...
[21:57:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03donkeyhotay [2540] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 RadioShack Bankruptcy Savior to File For, You Guessed It, Bankruptcy - 873 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:57:11] <exec> 08└─I'm sorry to see them go, but mostly for nostalgic reasons. Radio Shack started becoming an irritating place to shop 25 years ago when they started interrogating their customers at the checkout -- asking for name, address, phone number, etc, just to get them on the mailing list. I started looking fo...
[21:57:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03KiloByte [375] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 RadioShack Bankruptcy Savior to File For, You Guessed It, Bankruptcy - 617 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:57:13] <exec> 08└─No, there's no correlation between price and fit -- how could there possibly be? The poor have just as diverse body part shapes as the rich. For example, it seems like my feet are wider somewhere at the 1/4 point from the front than the feet of most people of my shoe size. It's a bitch finding a pai...
[21:58:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Norway Says Half of New Cars Now Electric Or Hybrid - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:58:20] <exec> 08└─Living in Norway and have an electric car. Before getting a parking place in the community i live in, I was using the free eksteriør charging place provided by the municipality ca. 800m away and it worked pretty well. It is one of the incentives in place to drive change.
[21:58:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Norway Says Half of New Cars Now Electric Or Hybrid - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:58:21] <exec> 08└─If you start on a plateau, climb a mountain, and descend to an elevation BELOW your starting elevation before you climbed the mountain, then yes, you can gain net battery energy. You of course would lose it if you repeated the trip in the reverse direction.
[22:00:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03gawdonblue [412] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New and More Intrusive TSA Patdowns Coming - 1060 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:02] <exec> 08└─I went to both Russia and China for work a few years ago. In China I'd left some aerosol deodorant in my checked luggage and got a call from the airport officials. I didn't know what the call was about but presented myself to some unhappy-looking uniforms who showed me the x-ray and asked what it wa...
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[22:55:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I've Been a Software Engineer for 10 Years and I Can't Do These Interview Questions - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:55:53] <exec> 08└─are these kinds of interview questions necessary to find good software engineers?
[22:55:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I've Been a Software Engineer for 10 Years and I Can't Do These Interview Questions - 1038 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:55:55] <exec> 08└─Solving riddles is a different kind of thought process than programming. There are clear similarities, but those are usually edge cases for the most part and often only academically interesting. On the other hand, the thought process to solve a generic problem vs programming is more similar and can...
[22:55:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I've Been a Software Engineer for 10 Years and I Can't Do These Interview Questions - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:55:57] <exec> 08└─I'm in the software industry for more than 20 years and I still flunk Data Structure and Algos type of test. I'm not... umm... a "spontaneous" person, I get to solve the problem (most of the time, I find 2-3 different solutions) but not within the allotted time.
[22:55:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03mechanicjay [7] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I've Been a Software Engineer for 10 Years and I Can't Do These Interview Questions - 2301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:55:59] <exec> 08└─I've also been writing software for about 10 years. I've found the further I've gotten from my graduation date, the less these questions are meaningful. Some of my favourites from the last round of serious interviews, then from my latest random "Hey Google called, I might as well talk to them".: Ta...
[22:56:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I've Been a Software Engineer for 10 Years and I Can't Do These Interview Questions - 452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:56:01] <exec> 08└─Its worth considering that all employee interviews contain an small component of the intro to bladerunner to see how you'll react when they screw your over. So if you get rid of "reverse a binary tree" you're just going to get "why is the tortoise flipped over on its back, Leon?" in exchange. Person...
[22:56:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I've Been a Software Engineer for 10 Years and I Can't Do These Interview Questions - 536 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:56:03] <exec> 08└─When I interview people, if I asked a technical question that is not basic-must-know, you don't need to give me a final answer. I'm interested in where you start, how you think you'd get closer, and how you behave when you don't know. If you could come up with the answer right there, that wouldn't b...
[22:56:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2, Disagree) 02 - 06North Korean Missiles and What the US is Doing About It - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:56:16] <exec> 08└─the United States still does not have the ability to effectively counter the North Korean nuclear and missile programs.
[22:56:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06"Bubble-Recoil" Could be Used to Cool CPUs in Space - 1077 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:56:27] <exec> 08└─In so many processes, heat is considered to be "waste". Here, it is being put to use. Every human needs to reconsider "waste". We all need to think of the "unusable" output of one process as an input to another process. Imagine industries that are located/arranged such that the "pollution" from the...
[22:56:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Bubble-Recoil" Could be Used to Cool CPUs in Space - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:56:29] <exec> 08└─> you need pumps, something with moving parts, which can fail in space. "Ferrofluid pump has no moving parts" http://physicsworld.com The thermal cycling of the chips sounds like something that could cause them to fail early.
[22:56:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA to Create Bose-Einstein Condensates on the ISS - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:56:44] <exec> 08└─highly relevant to this thread
[22:56:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NASA to Create Bose-Einstein Condensates on the ISS - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:56:46] <exec> 08└─I think it is more complicated than that... your narrative would lead to one solid object with no atmosphere.
[22:57:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03daver!west!fmc [1391] (Score: 1) 02 - 06 RadioShack Bankruptcy Savior to File For, You Guessed It, Bankruptcy - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:57:25] <exec> 08└─Radio Shack was historically two kinds of stores: "company store" and "franchise store". The "company store" was owned by Tandy and sold only the Tandy lines of products (Archer, Micronta, &c). The "franchise store" was not owned by Tandy, but had the use of the Radio Shack name and the option to se...
[22:57:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 RadioShack Bankruptcy Savior to File For, You Guessed It, Bankruptcy - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:57:26] <exec> 08└─how could there possibly be?
[22:57:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Unixnut [5779] 02 - 06The Big Hack - the Day Cars Drove Themselves Into Walls and the Hospitals Froze - 53 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:57:39] <exec> 08└─Where are the criminal masterminds when you need one?
[22:57:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nobuddy [1626] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Big Hack - the Day Cars Drove Themselves Into Walls and the Hospitals Froze - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:57:51] <exec> 08└─So, the basic plot to Live Free or Die Hard, then.
[22:57:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Big Hack - the Day Cars Drove Themselves Into Walls and the Hospitals Froze - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:57:53] <exec> 08└─Just as a clarification: this is not fact
[22:57:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06The Big Hack - the Day Cars Drove Themselves Into Walls and the Hospitals Froze - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:57:55] <exec> 08└─Article date: June 19, 2016 Way to be current on the stories!
[22:57:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Big Hack - the Day Cars Drove Themselves Into Walls and the Hospitals Froze - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:57:57] <exec> 08└─Perhaps I misunderstood
[22:57:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03fubari [4551] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Big Hack - the Day Cars Drove Themselves Into Walls and the Hospitals Froze - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:57:59] <exec> 08└─You're probably right. *sigh*
[22:58:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Norway Says Half of New Cars Now Electric Or Hybrid - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:58:44] <exec> 08└─So, more electric cars running off hydro = more oil left to export for big $$$
[22:59:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gene Variants Linked to Autism May Have Been Positively Selected For - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:07] <exec> 08└─*autistic screeching*
[22:59:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06915 Coins Surgically Removed From Turtle - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:31] <exec> 08└─According to Thai belief, throwing coins into a turtle pond would stop bad luck.
[23:00:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03chair [6194] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New and More Intrusive TSA Patdowns Coming - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:29] <exec> 08└─I recommend you skip flying in Canada, as my experience with airport security there was about the same as in the USA, which was similar to your experience in Russia.
[23:00:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New and More Intrusive TSA Patdowns Coming - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:31] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DZ9XLNKBH8 possibly NSFW
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[23:56:02] <exec> 08└─an exit from this industry
[23:56:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06I've Been a Software Engineer for 10 Years and I Can't Do These Interview Questions - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:56:04] <exec> 08└─Computer science is an esoteric academic applied-math discipline. Software engineering to CS is like civil engineering to theoretical physics. There are software engineering factions formalized, i.e. aviation, defense industry practices. But these are too rigid, slow, and expensive to adapt to the r...
[23:56:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06I've Been a Software Engineer for 10 Years and I Can't Do These Interview Questions - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:56:06] <exec> 08└─So if you get rid of "reverse a binary tree" you're just going to get "why is the tortoise flipped over on its back, Leon?" in exchange.
[23:56:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I've Been a Software Engineer for 10 Years and I Can't Do These Interview Questions - 590 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:56:08] <exec> 08└─Neither on the reddit-page nor in the summary is a list of those questions we are supposed to comment on. Was this some general rambling about "those interview questions, whatever they are" or did I miss something? Generally, I think it makes sense to ask to apply competences during the interview. I...
[23:56:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06I've Been a Software Engineer for 10 Years and I Can't Do These Interview Questions - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:56:10] <exec> 08└─Funny though how all the brownies seem to manage these with no problem, apparently. Or maybe it's a "test" everyone is supposed to think they failed and the management can point to it if you ever come at them for not hiring you. The real reason you were disqualified though is because your name is no...
[23:56:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I've Been a Software Engineer for 10 Years and I Can't Do These Interview Questions - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:56:13] <exec> 08└─No, it won't impress them, because they don't know what they're doing. They'll just cross you off the list. They're probably the same people who require the applicant have a certain degree, and will not even consider someone with equivalent experience. But then again, you don't want to work for some...
[23:56:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I've Been a Software Engineer for 10 Years and I Can't Do These Interview Questions - 604 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:56:15] <exec> 08└─I had some interviews conditioned by passing a test on codility.com - here's their programmers page if you want to have a taste (tl;dr - online practicals, code/compile/run/test in a browser). The interface is not conducive to the "where you start, how you think you'd get closer, and how you behave...
[23:56:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I've Been a Software Engineer for 10 Years and I Can't Do These Interview Questions - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:56:17] <exec> 08└─The same is true in machining. No, I will not calculate feeds and speeds in my head for you. There are far too many variables to determine the optimal cutting parameters, which is why there are software packages expressly for that purpose. The numbers you'd get by doing it the old-fashioned way are...
[23:56:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06I've Been a Software Engineer for 10 Years and I Can't Do These Interview Questions - 3849 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:56:19] <exec> 08└─First, learning how to solve such riddles is far from a waste of your time. These things do appear in the real world and various real world situations can have similar problem solving techniques. That's a lot of the reason why white interviews are popular in the first place. So I'm going to treat wh...
[23:56:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03xpda [5991] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I've Been a Software Engineer for 10 Years and I Can't Do These Interview Questions - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:56:21] <exec> 08└─When I interview someone, I almost always try to find a question or problem that they can't answer. I'm not looking for their ability in a particular niche. I want to see how they handle it, and how they communicate. "I don't know" is what I'm looking for in many cases, either with or without some s...
[23:57:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03theronb [2596] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 RadioShack Bankruptcy Savior to File For, You Guessed It, Bankruptcy - 616 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:57:41] <exec> 08└─We can pitch in and help the employees. Like a lot of of folks, I often buy electronics at the local big box store - their prices are pretty competitive for common stuff and I can take it back if something isn't right. I agree about not expecting the employees to know everything about everything so...
[23:58:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03zeigerpuppy [1298] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Demonstrate New Type of Laser Using the AC Josephson Effect - 696 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:58:26] <exec> 08└─I had the pleasure of meeting Prof Josephson a few years back. I recall it as one of the most interesting conversations. It's always intersesting to hear about new applications of his pioneering work. The Josephson Junction is the basis for quantum detectors used in a broad range of quantum experime...
[23:59:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gene Variants Linked to Autism May Have Been Positively Selected For - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:59:21] <exec> 08└─You have any papers in peer reviewed medical journals to cite? That seems to contradict all of the papers Orac cites in the GP's link.