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[00:46:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Geologists Searching for Holy Grail of Carbon Sequestration in Oman's Hills - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:11] <exec> 08└─We aren't going to bag up our carbon dioxide, then ship it to Oman. That only makes things worse. We aren't going to freeze or liquify or compress it, then ship it to Oman. That only makes things worse. We aren't going to pull it out of the air in Oman. That only makes things worse. Look, all of the...
[00:46:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Geologists Searching for Holy Grail of Carbon Sequestration in Oman's Hills - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:12] <exec> 08└─They mean duplicate the process that occurs in Oman somewhere else, not use the process in Oman. Speculation: Passive solar for energy on an ocean barge maybe, just sit there and during the day cycle water via pumps. Send someone out once in a while for pump maintenance and clean the panels. A globa...
[00:46:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vulnerabilities in AGA Total Control Electric Oven - 1686 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:25] <exec> 08└─I used to visit a friend in England, not far from the Welsh border. He inherited a giant stone house built in 1650 (30"/750mm thick walls on the first floor). In the eat-in kitchen was a big Aga, it had been stuffed into what was originally an open fireplace/cooking hearth. It had 6 covered burners...
[00:46:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vulnerabilities in AGA Total Control Electric Oven - 690 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:26] <exec> 08└─Explainer: app: software that runs on a tablet computer or mobile phone GSM: a widely used protocol for cellular networks HTTP: the original protocol for the WWW, which doesn't have encryption, hence is easily intercepted or tampered with SSL: protocol for the WWW which does have encryption "there w...
[00:46:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vulnerabilities in AGA Total Control Electric Oven - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:28] <exec> 08└─I'm glad that people are ready to waste power for entire days so that they don't contradict their millennia-old recipe book, and using advanced tech to do the job automatically so they don't have the inconveniences. Sounds pretty hypocritical...
[00:46:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DARPA Program Aims to Bake Hacking Resistance into Hardware - 494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:54] <exec> 08└─documents are up on bitsavers.org It literally was designed to solve ALL these classes of errors, but never got a change to reach its potential because it was canned before the triple chip cpu package could be combined into a single chip. Some of the design features lived on in the RISC i960, but th...
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[00:51:32] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uMkdqLypsQ [youtube.com]
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[01:46:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Geologists Searching for Holy Grail of Carbon Sequestration in Oman's Hills - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:33] <exec> 08└─This just smacks of shitting the bed, then rolling the sheets up and hiding them under the bed. Put on your big boy pants and figure out how to fuck things up less, not clean it all up afterward.
[01:46:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Geologists Searching for Holy Grail of Carbon Sequestration in Oman's Hills - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:34] <exec> 08└─Where is that supposed to come from?
[01:46:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Geologists Searching for Holy Grail of Carbon Sequestration in Oman's Hills - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:36] <exec> 08└─There may be a real risk of disrupting the thermal layers that steers the flow of water between cold (north) and warm (south) regions. As well as saline flows. That said, these kinds of rocks could after being crushed, heated and put under pressure absorb huge amount of CO2. Meanwhile CO2 emitters s...
[01:46:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Geologists Searching for Holy Grail of Carbon Sequestration in Oman's Hills - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:39] <exec> 08└─Seems to me that NOT shipping core samples half way around the world to a shipboard lab might be a place to start reducing the carbon footprint. Also, what does it mean when it says One of the world's ONLY exposed section of mantle. Is it THE only exposed section. Or is it just one of t MANY exposed...
[01:46:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Geologists Searching for Holy Grail of Carbon Sequestration in Oman's Hills - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:41] <exec> 08└─Can they really be THAT different than other rocks? Can the process by which this happens still be that much of a mystery in this day when chemistry is thought to be a pretty much finished science?
[01:46:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Vulnerabilities in AGA Total Control Electric Oven - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:56] <exec> 08└─+1, Informative.
[01:46:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Vulnerabilities in AGA Total Control Electric Oven - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:57] <exec> 08└─Jesus Christ. Are motherfuckers so lazy that they can no longer walk to the goddamn kitchen and manually operate their own appliances?! " B-but I have to work while cooking that brisket or thanksgiving turkey! "
[01:46:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vulnerabilities in AGA Total Control Electric Oven - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:59] <exec> 08└─It's more a expression of people wanting to do other things than maneuvering appliances. And of course a insane culture of work is everything, living is best reduced to some sick years before dying..
[01:47:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vulnerabilities in AGA Total Control Electric Oven - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:02] <exec> 08└─As we said about United Abuses, Death-by-MBA ;-)
[01:47:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06It's Still a Bad Idea to Text While Driving Even With a Head-up Display - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:17] <exec> 08└─That's not what I heard about brains (have forgotten source, but it seemed aboveboard) -- to use a computer analogy, brains single task for conscious activity. Any multi tasking is handled by dumb co-processors, the autonomous portions of the system (heart rate, digestion, individual muscle coordina...
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[01:49:15] <exec> 08└─> A lot of people will be going to hell for that. Isn't it nice that religion provides a convenient outlet to drain the resentment for those who get away with being horrible people ? "My kids' school is crumbling and I can't afford to treat their cough, because all my taxes go the CEO of the company...
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[02:46:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Green IT: New Switching Process in Non-Volatile Spintronics Devices - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:20] <exec> 08└─This is not memristor related? Which way an object is magnetized ought to affect a future current pulse through it.
[02:46:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Geologists Searching for Holy Grail of Carbon Sequestration in Oman's Hills - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:35] <exec> 08└─It might be that the rock in question is ready to use as-is. Which translates to less energy requirements. I find it interesting at least. But there are other techniques already. So the big problem is really to get power to drive them. Because it ought to use at least as a minimum the amount of ener...
[02:46:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Geologists Searching for Holy Grail of Carbon Sequestration in Oman's Hills - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:36] <exec> 08└─If it's unstable just send the marines and declare it of limits to any infighting ;)
[02:46:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03caffeine [249] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Geologists Searching for Holy Grail of Carbon Sequestration in Oman's Hills - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:38] <exec> 08└─It seems as soon as anyone even looks at anything apart from reducing emissions as a way to reduce AGW they are attacked. We need to wake up and start researching climate engineering while we have time to turn things around. We need to do the research now. Once we know what extra tools beyond reduct...
[02:47:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It's Still a Bad Idea to Text While Driving Even With a Head-up Display - 659 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:47:13] <exec> 08└─My phone pairs with my car. My car asks if I want it to read incoming text messages aloud. I answer with yes or no. I can push a button on the steering wheel and ask to car to send a text message to anyone in my phone's phone book, and then recite the message aloud. Car reads it back, I say yes or n...
[02:47:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It's Still a Bad Idea to Text While Driving Even With a Head-up Display - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:47:15] <exec> 08└─It's ALWAYS a Bad Idea to DO ANYTHING ELSE While DRIVING
[02:47:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06It's Still a Bad Idea to Text While Driving Even With a Head-up Display - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:47:17] <exec> 08└─s/t
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[03:46:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Journalism in the Era of Clickbait - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:29] <exec> 08└─I dunno about you lot but I like to see a good clickbait article on SN every day or two. They generally piss someone off and really get the discussion down to the nut-cutting* in a hurry. * For them of you not raised within a thousand miles of a real, live cow, that phrase means down to business or...
[03:46:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Journalism in the Era of Clickbait - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:30] <exec> 08└─I'm more likely to click on "Llama breast feeds kitten" than I am on "Why MOABs go all explody 10 feet above the ground". And I'm an informed news reader. Problem is, I know why MOABs go boom 10 feet up. Haven't seen a llama feeding a kitten. Dang. Sigh.
[03:46:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Journalism in the Era of Clickbait - 621 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:32] <exec> 08└─Every time I read a journalist's take with regard to a subject on which I am expert (e.g., I'm passionate about the topic, or deal with it every day), I'm left shaking my head at the incompetence and bias. Then, it occurs to me that there's no reason for the journalism to be any better in any other...
[03:46:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Journalism in the Era of Clickbait - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:34] <exec> 08└─/ I think // you forgot /// your usual sign off.
[03:46:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Journalism in the Era of Clickbait - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:36] <exec> 08└─/ didn't think // anyone /// cared
[03:46:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Journalism in the Era of Clickbait - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:39] <exec> 08└─Live cows, huh? Not like you are trying to steer us in the wrong direction, towards bullshit, perhaps?
[03:46:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Journalism in the Era of Clickbait - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:41] <exec> 08└─You don't have to be an expert, just be somewhat informed. Google "journalist guide to guns" or somesuch. Journalists can't be bothered to learn the facts when they have their beliefs to hang onto. /sad // truly /// an AC made me add these slashies
[03:46:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Journalism in the Era of Clickbait - 821 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:43] <exec> 08└─It's been a long time since mainstream journalism had relevance for input into thinking and decision making. They are irrelevant and largely incompetent or at least that what is allowed to be published. Both relevance and trust is gone and ain't coming back. It's like asking if Kreuger is less rich...
[03:46:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Journalism in the Era of Clickbait - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:45] <exec> 08└─If you dropped Llama because of irrelevance and MOAB because it's already known you could used that attention span for something else..
[03:47:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Geologists Searching for Holy Grail of Carbon Sequestration in Oman's Hills - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:47:09] <exec> 08└─Sounds like aliens to me. They came by a while ago and convinced the people that campfires were teh evill, and showed them how to put that shit into underground dumpsters. Cut to now. We've found the dumpsters, now we just need to wait for the aliens to come back.
[03:47:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Geologists Searching for Holy Grail of Carbon Sequestration in Oman's Hills - 1039 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:47:10] <exec> 08└─The idea of geoengineering scares the hell out of me, but it may be our only chance. That said, a much easier way to do this would be to raise primary productivity in the oceans--cyanobacteria and phytoplankton--with iron and/or silicate dust dumps. I remember, way back in college almost 10 years ag...
[03:47:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06It's Still a Bad Idea to Text While Driving Even With a Head-up Display - 559 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:47:48] <exec> 08└─Nobody ever claimed to be a safer driver "when stinking drunk"; they did, and do, claim to be adequate (if not better) drivers when buzzed, or even just after a couple drinks during dinner. And you know what? Those people are right. The laws are insane. Why? Because you can test blood alcohol conten...
[03:47:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06It's Still a Bad Idea to Text While Driving Even With a Head-up Display - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:47:49] <exec> 08└─Forgive me. Then again, "no-it-all" still kind of makes sense.
[03:51:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI Will be Biased Depending on the Dataset Used for Training - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:51:45] <exec> 08└─>It becomes little more than a highly sophisticated and costly exercise in confirmation bias. That's a good description of most human endeavors.
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[04:46:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Journalism in the Era of Clickbait - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:46:34] <exec> 08└─I have found out the hard way that to keep your ethics, you lose your shirt.
[04:46:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Journalism in the Era of Clickbait - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:46:36] <exec> 08└─I have found out the hard way that to keep your ethics, you lose your shirt.
[04:47:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03caffeine [249] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Geologists Searching for Holy Grail of Carbon Sequestration in Oman's Hills - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:47:02] <exec> 08└─I like the look of solar radiation management like reflective roofs as a fairly low risk, quick intervention. I'm not sure if it just an Australian trend, but it seems almost every new home here is built with a dark or black roof. We're already climate engineering, just in the wrong direction.
[04:47:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It's Still a Bad Idea to Text While Driving Even With a Head-up Display - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:47:41] <exec> 08└─It has to be through voice however it's solved technically.
[04:50:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. Report Calls for Research Integrity Board - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:50:40] <exec> 08└─And we're off! The idiots are in the lead but will they be able to survive the long haul stretch that is human society?? Current outlook is grim...
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[05:46:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Prisoners Built Computers from Recycled Parts, Connected them to Prison's Network - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:46:21] <exec> 08└─I wish the Department of "Corrections" did more to show these people that they can get paid good money to be productive members of society.
[05:46:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Prisoners Built Computers from Recycled Parts, Connected them to Prison's Network - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:46:22] <exec> 08└─Speaking of homos, there's nothing more awesome than watching homos jam on the piano. Specifically Elton John and Billy Joel. [youtube.com] Playing The Bitch is Back.
[05:46:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 0, Troll) 02 - 06Prisoners Built Computers from Recycled Parts, Connected them to Prison's Network - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:46:24] <exec> 08└─He also did a version [youtube.com] with the sultry milk chocolate Tina Turner.
[05:46:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Prisoners Built Computers from Recycled Parts, Connected them to Prison's Network - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:46:26] <exec> 08└─Well, maybe. However, the prisoners did commit several computer crimes when they set up and used this prison-made computer. I'm not sure I'd want them working for me.
[05:46:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 0, Flamebait) 02 - 06Prisoners Built Computers from Recycled Parts, Connected them to Prison's Network - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:46:28] <exec> 08└─Whomever modded this down is the dirtiest of niggers.
[05:46:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03lx [1915] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Prisoners Built Computers from Recycled Parts, Connected them to Prison's Network - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:46:30] <exec> 08└─It's a fucking miracle that you haven't been banned from this site as well. You're not right in the head. Seek help.
[05:46:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Journalism in the Era of Clickbait - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:46:49] <exec> 08└─The "powers that be" (Thanks J.Whedon ;-) don't care what the media publishes as it distracts nicely from their running the world how they want it. Some comments can be useful, when bringing a unique point of view or experience to bear on a subject. The real problem is the dogma driven echo chambers...
[05:46:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Journalism in the Era of Clickbait - 668 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:46:50] <exec> 08└─I'll keep my soul as long as I can. I don't really have to have any fancy cars, clothes, eateries, and junk from the mall stores. Come to think of it, its been several years since I've been to the mall. Nothing there I really want anymore. Just a bunch of businessmen selling the same stuff I find...
[05:46:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Green IT: New Switching Process in Non-Volatile Spintronics Devices - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:46:59] <exec> 08└─Sounds like a compact version of core memory. That needs to be re-written every time it is read, but is non-volatile.
[05:47:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Geologists Searching for Holy Grail of Carbon Sequestration in Oman's Hills - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:47:19] <exec> 08└─The ITER should prove Fusion viable by 2030 at which point all of your points are invalid.
[05:47:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Geologists Searching for Holy Grail of Carbon Sequestration in Oman's Hills - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:47:20] <exec> 08└─My boss recently got on my case about this, complaining about the arrogance of man thinking his actions can control the future of the planet. Figure that tech got us into this, tech will get us out. I think it is desirable to change your life as you can to reduce polution because its obviously bad....
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[06:46:24] <exec> 08└─AND i'm your father.
[06:46:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Prisoners Built Computers from Recycled Parts, Connected them to Prison's Network - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:46:37] <exec> 08└─Not only his head! But you have to remember that SoylentNews is not actually a news aggregation site, it is in reality an experiment in a very waqko libertarian ideal of free speech. We want to know if an online community can survive Ethanol_fueled, Runaway1956, jmorris, and The Mighty Buzzard. If...
[06:46:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Prisoners Built Computers from Recycled Parts, Connected them to Prison's Network - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:46:38] <exec> 08└─Any second now I expect a post from Runaway, about how once he was driving truck making a delivery to a Penitentuary, and he saw a bunch of the convicts with CRTs hid under their prison fatigues.
[06:46:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Journalism in the Era of Clickbait - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:46:59] <exec> 08└─Journalists can't be bothered to learn the facts when they have their beliefs to hang onto.
[06:47:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Journalism in the Era of Clickbait - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:47:00] <exec> 08└─What a fucking idiot, no wonder you people lose every argument you have.
[06:47:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Journalism in the Era of Clickbait - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:47:03] <exec> 08└─no wonder you people lose every argument you have.
[06:52:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AI Will be Biased Depending on the Dataset Used for Training - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:52:12] <exec> 08└─... to ash? (Old Testament)
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[07:46:34] <exec> 08└─Now THAT'S what I call a story.
[07:48:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Vulnerabilities in AGA Total Control Electric Oven - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:48:01] <exec> 08└─You can put an Arduino in just about anything. You can know exactly what you programmed it to do. I consider the Arduino and its ilk about the last trustworthy systems on this planet. If the task is too heavy, consider pairing it with one or more Propeller chips.
[07:48:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vulnerabilities in AGA Total Control Electric Oven - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:48:02] <exec> 08└─Honey there's a spy in your kitchen...
[07:48:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 1) 02 - 06It's Still a Bad Idea to Text While Driving Even With a Head-up Display - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:48:25] <exec> 08└─To me, that would be roughly equivalent to having a conversation with a passenger while driving. The occupants of the car have the ability to shut up if the driving task needs extra attention.
[07:48:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It's Still a Bad Idea to Text While Driving Even With a Head-up Display - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:48:27] <exec> 08└─As TFS points out, the problem is the cognitive load, not just looking away from the road.
[07:48:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06DARPA Program Aims to Bake Hacking Resistance into Hardware - 934 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:48:40] <exec> 08└─I stopped trusting my hardware when they started putting BIOS into flash. Remember when the IBM AT Technical Reference actually had a copy of the BIOS source code in it ( all in assembler, no less! )? As well as the electrical schematics of every circuit board in the machine? I was sure hoping that...
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[08:46:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extracting Water from Thin Air - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:46:37] <exec> 08└─Or its physical dimensions. Or its rate of degradation. Depending on those factors you can start calculating out the required device volume to provide adequate water, as well as the lifetime and potential material waste at the end of the usable lifetime, all of which are important factors in determi...
[08:46:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03lx [1915] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Extracting Water from Thin Air - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:46:38] <exec> 08└─...A device to make "Tattooine planets" around double stars habitable.
[08:46:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Extracting Water from Thin Air - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:46:40] <exec> 08└─It appears they are focusing on optimizing the hydrophilic properties of Zeolite. This will be worth following. Many functional air conditioning systems have used Zeolite for both cooling and humidity control by using the thermodynamic properties of water and driven by sunlight.
[08:47:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Prisoners Built Computers from Recycled Parts, Connected them to Prison's Network - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:47:04] <exec> 08└─Did they get transferred to a women's prison to finish out their maternity leave? :-P
[08:47:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Prisoners Built Computers from Recycled Parts, Connected them to Prison's Network - 673 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:47:05] <exec> 08└─For computer skills, you have Hans Reiser. He wrote a killer filesystem for Linux called Reiserfs. You used to be able to install to it. If he pairs up with a con man (for social skills) then you have quite the team. The guards are often criminal too. They are hired from the same low-class places th...
[08:47:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Journalism in the Era of Clickbait - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:47:29] <exec> 08└─Knowing that a llama can breastfeed a kitten might be useful if you're a llama rancher who finds an abandoned litter of kittens on your ranch! Having helped a stray ensure all her kittens survived one year, I can see utilities in even the more irrelevant stories, even if you don't see a point right...
[08:48:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vulnerabilities in AGA Total Control Electric Oven - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:48:21] <exec> 08└─AGA have a video that promotes their remote control. https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
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[09:46:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extracting Water from Thin Air - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:46:42] <exec> 08└─Ah, yes! Moisture Farmers! But will they have to drink blue stuff?
[09:46:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pax [5056] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Extracting Water from Thin Air - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:46:44] <exec> 08└─will Phil Mason AKA Thunderf00t rip it apart?? like he did with Water seer?!?!? https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[09:47:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Journalism in the Era of Clickbait - 1045 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:47:32] <exec> 08└─"Two dollars for a cup of soda?" It's not the soda - it's the experience. It's all very well to sit in a backyard and make two cent sodas but sometimes friends need a "third space" to meet up and chat. Sometimes that involves an over-priced soft drink, over-priced coffee, or over-priced beer. Best t...
[09:47:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Journalism in the Era of Clickbait - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:47:34] <exec> 08└─/ you // can't /// win
[09:48:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vulnerabilities in AGA Total Control Electric Oven - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:48:25] <exec> 08└─It's not the Arduino that is the issue - it's switching and wiring the mains safely that has always been my problem. Three dollars of Arduino and then thirty, forty, plus dollars of relay, opto-isolator, plug, socket, fuse and mounting hardware.
[09:49:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DARPA Program Aims to Bake Hacking Resistance into Hardware - 630 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:49:03] <exec> 08└─This is a standard DARPA funding application, "we'll create $magic_tech to solve $serious_problem if you give us $trey_mucho_mazoola". The end result will be several million dollars, or whatever they can milk from the system, spent funding someone's pet hardware gedanken experiment, or perhaps not e...
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[10:46:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NASA Captured Something Huge Coming Out Of Uranus - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:46:25] <exec> 08└─Let me guess, flying monkeys Sorry
[10:46:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Captured Something Huge Coming Out Of Uranus - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:46:27] <exec> 08└─Was it a clickbait monkey?
[10:46:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Captured Something Huge Coming Out Of Uranus - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:46:29] <exec> 08└─All monkeys are clickbait. Well known fact.
[10:46:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Extracting Water from Thin Air - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:46:41] <exec> 08└─I wonder if this can be achieved cheaper with deliquescent salts on a cellulose wool/cotton substrate - e.g. zinc chloride has 5 states of hydration [wikipedia.org]
[10:47:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Prisoners Built Computers from Recycled Parts, Connected them to Prison's Network - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:47:06] <exec> 08└─a very waqko libertarian ideal of free speech. You leave me wondering what that's supposed to mean. If you're against free speech, just say it.
[10:47:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Prisoners Built Computers from Recycled Parts, Connected them to Prison's Network - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:47:07] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure I'd want them working for me.
[10:47:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03AnonTechie [2275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Prisoners Built Computers from Recycled Parts, Connected them to Prison's Network - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:47:10] <exec> 08└─I grudgingly appreciate their efforts to build a PC in prison and use it for various scams. A detailed article about the different software used to hack into various networks is here [lifehacker.com]
[10:47:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03AlwaysNever [5817] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Prisoners Built Computers from Recycled Parts, Connected them to Prison's Network - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:47:12] <exec> 08└─So why is it bad that inmates have computers?
[10:47:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03AnonTechie [2275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Green IT: New Switching Process in Non-Volatile Spintronics Devices - 743 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:47:46] <exec> 08└─[Related]: Move Over Spintronics, Here Comes Magnonics to the Rescue of Electronics [ieee.org] A European collaborative research center called Spin+X [uni-kl.de] has offered a prototype of a device that leverages something called spin waves that may offer a way forward. Spin waves are the synchronou...
[10:48:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Vulnerabilities in AGA Total Control Electric Oven - 3456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:48:32] <exec> 08└─That is my experience cost-wise as well. The processor often represents less than ONE percent of the system! You oughta see the effort I am putting into using Arduino as the Powertrain Control Module in my van! The core ATMEL system represents a miniscule fraction of the investment of resources....
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[10:51:58] <exec> 08└─>The U.S. government needs to do a better job of both investigating misconduct allegations and promoting ethical conduct—or the US research community might act unilaterally in ways that the government won't like. Most scientist are doing their job, and, from personal experience, I think they are m...
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[11:46:27] <exec> 08└─I doubt NASA is honest, and believe they intentionally misreport space. My hypothesis is that they cannot really go to space, and same applies for the other space agencies. That's why they keep talking with big words about space, to keep alive the impression that they are experts in something imposs...
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[11:46:37] <exec> 08└─huge intense auroras coming of Uranus
[11:46:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Captured Something Huge Coming Out Of Uranus - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:39] <exec> 08└─.... now the monkey is trying to get the cork back in
[11:46:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Captured Something Huge Coming Out Of Uranus - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:41] <exec> 08└─What's going on here... a headline like that and no reference yet to burritos? I'm sorry, exec, for saying this, but with a headline like that on a forum like this, this whole topic is going to be full of butt jokes. So much for the creme de la creme of technical folks.
[11:46:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Extracting Water from Thin Air - 873 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:54] <exec> 08└─Interesting point, c0lo! I had worked with some lithium bromide in a absorption refrigeration chiller at Chevron. Its how we kept our LNG tanks cold. That was some very deliquescent salt with some quite interesting thermodynamics, but was corrosive as all getout. I was not aware of zinc chloride...
[11:48:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Geologists Searching for Holy Grail of Carbon Sequestration in Oman's Hills - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:48:21] <exec> 08└─The visible-light colour of a roof doesn't necessarily correlate with its reflectance and emissivity in the infra-Red. What material a roof should be, and whether reflecting IR is a good idea, can vary - it's a bit more complicated than simply assuming white rooves* are good. See: https://en.wikiped...
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[12:46:26] <exec> 08└─Wow, that's dumb.
[12:46:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Extracting Water from Thin Air - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:52] <exec> 08└─I was not aware of zinc chloride used as such, thanks! ... Both zinc and chlorine are quite abundant.
[12:47:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Prisoners Built Computers from Recycled Parts, Connected them to Prison's Network - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:47:22] <exec> 08└─Tell this to the guy who's stealing your car: hey don't do it or I will send you to a place where you are clothed, fed, and given a PC.
[12:48:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vulnerabilities in AGA Total Control Electric Oven - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:48:44] <exec> 08└─ARM32 is untrustworthy?
[12:48:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Vulnerabilities in AGA Total Control Electric Oven - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:48:46] <exec> 08└─I have not used any ARM32 yet, so I have to plead ignorance here. My initial bias is if it requires any proprietary binaries - along with the words "hold harmless", my red flags go up. The only "larger system" OS I much trust is Micrium's uCOS series. But that's largely my impression, not experienc...
[12:49:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DARPA Program Aims to Bake Hacking Resistance into Hardware - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:49:24] <exec> 08└─What model was the last one PC-x86 machine that had their full schematic and source code published? Btw, C++ has a lot of overloading and background stuff going on. Not so deterministic.
[12:49:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DARPA Program Aims to Bake Hacking Resistance into Hardware - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:49:26] <exec> 08└─Oh, btw.. phones can be dealt with by installing another OS and reverse engineering.
[12:49:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06DARPA Program Aims to Bake Hacking Resistance into Hardware - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:49:28] <exec> 08└─The IBM PC-AT (286) was the last one I remember having the schematic and the BIOS code for.
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[13:46:41] <exec> 08└─Obviously all these people know nothing about technology because an AC posted a shit joke. Hate to break it to you but we're not all rocket scientists, some of us are into brain surgery...
[13:46:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Extracting Water from Thin Air - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:57] <exec> 08└─Looks like the Epsom salt [wikipedia.org] (MgSO4 heptahydrate) can be completely dehydrated at 250C [sciencemadness.org] - requires concentrated solar and good condenser to dissipate the heat and recover the water; on the plus side, the substance is cheap and not corrosive (ZnCl2 is acidic and disso...
[13:47:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Prisoners Built Computers from Recycled Parts, Connected them to Prison's Network - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:28] <exec> 08└─Guard Schulz: "I see nothing..... NOTHING!!!"
[13:47:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Prisoners Built Computers from Recycled Parts, Connected them to Prison's Network - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:29] <exec> 08└─If I had my way, I'd be able to tell that to all citizens.
[13:47:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Journalism in the Era of Clickbait - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:57] <exec> 08└─Reading comprehension is the first step.
[13:48:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Geologists Searching for Holy Grail of Carbon Sequestration in Oman's Hills - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:48:30] <exec> 08└─Figure that tech got us into this, tech will get us out. I think it is desirable to change your life as you can to reduce polution because its obviously bad. But its hard to tell people to reduce their standard of living.
[13:48:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Geologists Searching for Holy Grail of Carbon Sequestration in Oman's Hills - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:48:32] <exec> 08└─The visible-light colour of a roof doesn't necessarily correlate with its reflectance and emissivity in the infra-Red.
[13:48:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Geologists Searching for Holy Grail of Carbon Sequestration in Oman's Hills - 479 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:48:34] <exec> 08└─It's too late for worrying. There's already over seven billion people on Earth. The bed is already soiled. We'll have to come up with a solution that fixes that. The environmentalists eagerly go to the genocide solution, but we have another path. Poor people produce more poor people at well above re...
[13:49:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vulnerabilities in AGA Total Control Electric Oven - 2491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:49:00] <exec> 08└─Research Jewish attitudes toward sabbath and ovens. No not those kind of ovens, the boring kitchen kind. To make a really long story somewhat simplified and short (so yeah I know this is inexact, but close enough): 1) For any possible interpretation of ... anything, there is at least one Jew on the...
[13:49:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vulnerabilities in AGA Total Control Electric Oven - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:49:02] <exec> 08└─Consider modifying the existing hardware, including replacing the microcontroller.
[13:49:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vulnerabilities in AGA Total Control Electric Oven - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:49:04] <exec> 08└─Who says "hold harmless" ? This all reminds me of Raspberry.. blob.
[13:49:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It's Still a Bad Idea to Text While Driving Even With a Head-up Display - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:49:28] <exec> 08└─the sensation of having "brain cycles overloaded" is an interesting one - live translation of languages (a few hours is real work!) Self-driving cars, can't arrive fast enough....;-)
[13:49:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DARPA Program Aims to Bake Hacking Resistance into Hardware - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:49:47] <exec> 08└─What do you think of FPGA security wise?
[13:50:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nintendo to Discontinue NES Classic Edition/NES Classic Mini - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:50:31] <exec> 08└─And they already did it. Nintendo's re-releases of Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask for the GameCube were literally just those N64 ROMs running in an N64 emulator compiled for the 'Cube.
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[14:46:33] <exec> 08└─Private operators will write into Terms of Carriage saying they can pull you from the spaceship after they've sold you a ticket and you've boarded.
[14:46:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former NASA Flight Director Gene Kranz Praises Private Space Entrepreneurs - 616 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:34] <exec> 08└─Adventure, Risk and Innovation go together. They are even the subtitle of this autobiography, http://www.bentleypublishers.com [bentleypublishers.com] Reviews include: http://www.bentleypublishers.com [bentleypu...
[14:46:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Holds "Incentive Auction" of UHF Spectrum - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:43] <exec> 08└─isn't viewership level dropping like a rock?
[14:46:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Holds "Incentive Auction" of UHF Spectrum - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:45] <exec> 08└─Create a new network that covers the UHF bands across the country, and put Weird Al in charge of programming. That way, we'll be finally able to see such great films as Conan the Librarian.
[14:46:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03tnt118 [3925] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Holds "Incentive Auction" of UHF Spectrum - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:47] <exec> 08└─One thing I found surprising -- some stations are being moved despite not (strictly speaking) needing to be. I know of some VHF that are moving down and their existing spectrum is going to another UHF station that is currently in the "sold" range. It must have to do with interference between station...
[14:46:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Holds "Incentive Auction" of UHF Spectrum - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:49] <exec> 08└─As I understand it, the spectrum was bought from television stations and was sold for what are likely to be other uses. The largest purchase was made by T-Mobile USA, a cellular network operator (it's the U.S. arm of Deutsche Telekom).
[14:46:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Trip [1619] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. Holds "Incentive Auction" of UHF Spectrum - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:51] <exec> 08└─Any station that's being moved needed to be moved for interference reasons. And the ten phases had a hard limit that the stations in a given market could only be spread across two of those phases to limit the number of rescans. So Boston is split across phases 4 and 8, for example, while all of Los...
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[14:46:53] <exec> 08└─Just found this summing up the TV station situation: A total of 175 stations stations broadcasters won bids and will give up their spectrum, the FCC said in a statement on Thursday. The agency said that 30 stations will receive money for moving to a lower channel, and 133 others will give up their l...
[14:46:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03tnt118 [3925] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Holds "Incentive Auction" of UHF Spectrum - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:56] <exec> 08└─I still feel like something more is going on. I get that avoiding interference is intricate but if I'm going to be moved from channel 10 to 8, just so someone else can have channel 10 (at the same power) I'm fairly sure you could have just given them channel 8 in the first place.
[14:47:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Horizons Measures the Brightness of Galaxies Before Going Into Hibernation - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:06] <exec> 08└─measuring the brightness of all the galaxies in the universe
[14:47:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Horizons Measures the Brightness of Galaxies Before Going Into Hibernation - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:08] <exec> 08└─"we humans evolved and we started exploring space 70 years ago"
[14:47:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Captured Something Huge Coming Out Of Uranus - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:23] <exec> 08└─The right way to pronounce the name of this planet is "OO-rah-noos". But that of course makes the jokes not work.
[14:47:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Captured Something Huge Coming Out Of Uranus - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:24] <exec> 08└─a headline like that and no reference yet to burritos?
[14:47:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03deadstick [5110] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Captured Something Huge Coming Out Of Uranus - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:26] <exec> 08└─As Asimov pointed out, that is a homophone of urinous, which is not a big improvement.
[14:47:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Captured Something Huge Coming Out Of Uranus - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:29] <exec> 08└─Except for the wonky ones, they just want to fix your grammar.
[14:47:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Captured Something Huge Coming Out Of Uranus - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:31] <exec> 08└─Monkey click on bait, publisher happy, me banana ;)
[14:47:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extracting Water from Thin Air - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:47] <exec> 08└─...it'll make scuba gear obsolete.
[14:48:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Prisoners Built Computers from Recycled Parts, Connected them to Prison's Network - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:19] <exec> 08└─given a Windows 10 PC?
[14:48:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Journalism in the Era of Clickbait - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:47] <exec> 08└─It's an indirect investment into being a successful social animal.
[14:48:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Journalism in the Era of Clickbait - 818 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:49] <exec> 08└─Of course people were social before the advent of theatres and shopping centres! I have it on good authority that in my prehistoric grandfather's day, something called the "Ooonga Boonga" dance was all the rage. Actually, Pops met my Grandma at one of those dances! Apparently, my grandfather had a c...
[14:49:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vulnerabilities in AGA Total Control Electric Oven - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:49:54] <exec> 08└─We are toasted.
[14:50:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It's Still a Bad Idea to Text While Driving Even With a Head-up Display - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:50:20] <exec> 08└─As TFS points out, the problem is the cognitive load, not just looking away from the road.
[14:50:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It's Still a Bad Idea to Text While Driving Even With a Head-up Display - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:50:22] <exec> 08└─Example: try to drive while speaking in a foreign language that you know but don't speak regularly, see how it goes.
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[15:46:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ad-Blocking Superweapon May End Ad-Blocking Arms Race - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:32] <exec> 08└─I visit a lot of sites lately that use pop under advertising, but I'm too lazy to install any kind of ad-blocking. Fortunately for me, right-clicking seems to do the trick. As long as I never left-click, the ads never appear.
[15:46:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Ad-Blocking Superweapon May End Ad-Blocking Arms Race - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:33] <exec> 08└─Admit it. None of us wants to see niggers on the Internet. Now thanks to Princeton and Stanford University researchers we can use machine vision to censor whatever we don't want to see. No longer will our precious eyes be assaulted by pictures of niggers. We can live the dream of a pure Aryan Intern...
[15:46:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ad-Blocking Superweapon May End Ad-Blocking Arms Race - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:36] <exec> 08└─Of both the pale-skinned and hoodied varieties :) And now black and white alike can live in their perfect internet worlds, never interacting with the other, except when they accidentally visit places neutral to race :)
[15:46:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ad-Blocking Superweapon May End Ad-Blocking Arms Race - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:38] <exec> 08└─So now we have the weapon of choice to whack TV ads? ;-) And radio etc. On the other hand the content in mainstream is quite worthless to begin with.
[15:46:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ad-Blocking Superweapon May End Ad-Blocking Arms Race - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:40] <exec> 08└─And the best part is nobody will ever need to tolerate anyone ever again. Which reminds me: fuck you for existing.
[15:46:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ad-Blocking Superweapon May End Ad-Blocking Arms Race - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:42] <exec> 08└─I don't want it to interact with anything. And if this "superweapon" operates on 3rd party servers instead that means that someone gets control over what I see.
[15:46:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ad-Blocking Superweapon May End Ad-Blocking Arms Race - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:44] <exec> 08└─Users beware: I installed this Princeton Ad-Blocker and it formatted my Windows 10 partition. I guess I'll have to use Linux now.
[15:46:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former NASA Flight Director Gene Kranz Praises Private Space Entrepreneurs - 828 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:54] <exec> 08└─So I can't have my safe space up there and be left alone without all life support systems triggering my attention!? I will call my humans matter in space organization to sue, space for cruel behavior! Remember in space not even air molecules will bump into you. It will take your breath away ;-) If N...
[15:47:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Trip [1619] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. Holds "Incentive Auction" of UHF Spectrum - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:08] <exec> 08└─What's the specific case you're wondering about? I can probably explain it.
[15:47:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Holds "Incentive Auction" of UHF Spectrum - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:09] <exec> 08└─Better yet lend the spectrum to media outlets that have restraints on size so the spectrum can be used to counter the owner concentration. Other than that, real cheap internet would also be nice. Just giving it to another cellphone oligopoly just seems like unproductive.
[15:47:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Horizons Measures the Brightness of Galaxies Before Going Into Hibernation - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:21] <exec> 08└─Pokemon is not a scientifically accurate representation of evolution.
[15:47:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Captured Something Huge Coming Out Of Uranus - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:42] <exec> 08└─I don't think think that's the pronunciation the other poster is describing. It seems the other poster is referring to a Greek pronunciation, which I think is something like: the "oo" from "moon", then the "ra" from "Ramanujan", then the "nos" from "Nostradamus".
[15:47:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Captured Something Huge Coming Out Of Uranus - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:43] <exec> 08└─The headline reminds me of the time I had to drag my 4th grade son to the library to find a book to read for an overdue book report. He didn't want to, and dragged his feet complaining the whole time. A few minutes inside the library I hear this being shouted across the room... "Hey dad, can I do a...
[15:47:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Captured Something Huge Coming Out Of Uranus - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:45] <exec> 08└─Those things that looks like white clouds are actually auroras? As the atmosphere is mostly hydrogen the color of excited atoms should be pink? The rest like helium and methane also seems to be on the red side of colors.
[15:48:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Prisoners Built Computers from Recycled Parts, Connected them to Prison's Network - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:35] <exec> 08└─Tellingly, most of it is free software.
[15:49:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Geologists Searching for Holy Grail of Carbon Sequestration in Oman's Hills - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:41] <exec> 08└─when chemistry is thought to be a pretty much finished science?
[15:49:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Geologists Searching for Holy Grail of Carbon Sequestration in Oman's Hills - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:43] <exec> 08└─> The idea of geoengineering scares the hell out of me, but it may be our only chance. Then whatever approach we take needs to be one that is highly unstable, so that if we stop doing it, the effects also quickly stop. Your idea of seeding the oceans seems like one that could set off chain reactions...
[15:49:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Geologists Searching for Holy Grail of Carbon Sequestration in Oman's Hills - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:45] <exec> 08└─My boss recently got on my case about this, complaining about the arrogance of man thinking his actions can control the future of the planet.
[15:49:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Geologists Searching for Holy Grail of Carbon Sequestration in Oman's Hills - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:47] <exec> 08└─In fact, darker colors tend to be more effective heat emitters. Glossing over the details, its the same reason they are better absorbers of IR.
[15:51:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nintendo to Discontinue NES Classic Edition/NES Classic Mini - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:51:48] <exec> 08└─Not 100% accurate, but the NES mini is basically an ARM SoC running an emulator, and it isn't 100% accurate either. You can do a pretty good job with it, and quite possibly won't notice the inaccuracies though.
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[16:46:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 4, Touché) 02 - 06Ad-Blocking Superweapon May End Ad-Blocking Arms Race - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:36] <exec> 08└─That's not a bug, it's a feature.
[16:46:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03YeaWhatevs [5623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ad-Blocking Superweapon May End Ad-Blocking Arms Race - 758 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:38] <exec> 08└─Good content has to be supported somehow. The problem is, publishers are liars and put in ads even if you pay, so why pay? If everybody could block all ads then only commercially viable content would survive. Uh oh, now most of the YouTubers would have to go get a real job and the content will dry u...
[16:46:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ad-Blocking Superweapon May End Ad-Blocking Arms Race - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:40] <exec> 08└─How did great sculptures, great paintings, great music, and great theater get made before advertising? If the internet would follow that model it would be a better place.
[16:46:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Ad-Blocking Superweapon May End Ad-Blocking Arms Race - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:42] <exec> 08└─Ad blockers are important because they block JavaScript used for mass surveillance and Internet tracking, even if not all trackers are blocked, we still stop them from collecting more information. In contrary, merely preventing ads from displaying on the screen doesn't solve this problem anyway, you...
[16:46:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ad-Blocking Superweapon May End Ad-Blocking Arms Race - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:44] <exec> 08└─Good content has to be supported somehow.
[16:46:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ad-Blocking Superweapon May End Ad-Blocking Arms Race - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:46] <exec> 08└─YouTubers would have to go get a real job
[16:46:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Ad-Blocking Superweapon May End Ad-Blocking Arms Race - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:49] <exec> 08└─Federal Project Number One is the collective name for a group of projects under the Work Projects Administration, a New Deal program in the United States. Of the $4.88 billion allocated by the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935, $27 million was approved for the employment of artists, musicia...
[16:46:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ad-Blocking Superweapon May End Ad-Blocking Arms Race - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:51] <exec> 08└─Rich people that deceived their money from others by increasing prices on traded goods or plain rulers that simply used the threat of force. Just pay closer attention to who gave Leonardo Da Vinci money. (he's still a great painter and inventor)
[16:46:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Ad-Blocking Superweapon May End Ad-Blocking Arms Race - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:53] <exec> 08└─The sad thing is, they don't have to, and they didn't used to. Advertising started ruining everything back in the nineties. Now there are twice as many on TV and radio because the internet brought the price of ads down so much. Still, there are a few things left not ruined by advertising. The Illino...
[16:46:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Ad-Blocking Superweapon May End Ad-Blocking Arms Race - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:55] <exec> 08└─We could do that instead of bombing everyone but who'd want that?
[16:46:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ad-Blocking Superweapon May End Ad-Blocking Arms Race - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:57] <exec> 08└─There has been advertising since there was commerce. During the Renaissance, art, literature, and music were paid for by rich patrons. You don't think a Shakespeare play wasn't advertised?
[16:46:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ad-Blocking Superweapon May End Ad-Blocking Arms Race - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:59] <exec> 08└─Uh oh, now most of the YouTubers would have to go get a real job
[16:47:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ad-Blocking Superweapon May End Ad-Blocking Arms Race - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:02] <exec> 08└─I know what you're thinking. "Did his webbrowser remove six ads or only five?" Well, to tell you the truth, in all this blinking hell I kind of lost track myself. But being as this is a computer vision, the most powerful information tool in the world, and would blow your ads clean off, you've got to...
[16:47:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ad-Blocking Superweapon May End Ad-Blocking Arms Race - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:04] <exec> 08└─Did Homer have advertisers pressing the flesh to come and listen to him sing?
[16:47:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ad-Blocking Superweapon May End Ad-Blocking Arms Race - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:06] <exec> 08└─Somehow the Roman Empire managed to pay a dole while conquering most of Europe. By historical standards, America is an utter failure as a superpower.
[16:47:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former NASA Flight Director Gene Kranz Praises Private Space Entrepreneurs - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:17] <exec> 08└─That's why free enterprise is so important and why America thrive on it.
[16:47:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former NASA Flight Director Gene Kranz Praises Private Space Entrepreneurs - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:19] <exec> 08└─So it might be unfortunately. Any idea where the best settings for free enterprise exists today?
[16:49:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Journalism in the Era of Clickbait - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:25] <exec> 08└─Aww ze po baby doesn't wike his gwammar cwiticized. Next time say boo boo gaga and we can skip wight over did part.
[16:49:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Journalism in the Era of Clickbait - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:27] <exec> 08└─You're confusing ethics with morals.
[16:49:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Journalism in the Era of Clickbait - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:29] <exec> 08└─Clickbait isn't killing the newspapers, the newspapers are killing the newspapers, especially online. Seizure-inducing ads, gray text on a white background (I've seen gray on gray, what morons!), teensy type... most newspapers should fire their ebtire onlibe staff and hire someone with a brain.
[16:50:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vulnerabilities in AGA Total Control Electric Oven - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:39] <exec> 08└─Buying one.
[16:51:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It's Still a Bad Idea to Text While Driving Even With a Head-up Display - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:51:07] <exec> 08└─It's hard. Harder than you might expect.
[16:51:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It's Still a Bad Idea to Text While Driving Even With a Head-up Display - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:51:09] <exec> 08└─Self-driving cars, can't arrive fast enough....;-)
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[17:46:30] <exec> 08└─Oh no. There aren't any manufacturing jobs left since those all went to China. Oh no. There aren't any tech jobs left since those all went to India. Oh no. There aren't any retail jobs left since those all went to Amazon. Oh no! There aren't enough Starbucks jobs to employ everyone! Welcome to life...
[17:46:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USA's Retail Stores Closing at a Record Rate - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:31] <exec> 08└─Are you passing more and more boarded-up shops on your outings?
[17:46:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USA's Retail Stores Closing at a Record Rate - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:33] <exec> 08└─Monday is Tax Day. Anybody earn enough income to file a return?
[17:46:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USA's Retail Stores Closing at a Record Rate - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:35] <exec> 08└─Tuesday is Tax Day! Only a filthy unwashed non-taxpayer would make that mistake!
[17:46:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USA's Retail Stores Closing at a Record Rate - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:37] <exec> 08└─The real economy must build on creating value, if it doesn't the effects will eventually ripple in all directions. Who does the best job of making (metal) minerals into something others are willing to trade food other stuff for? And the (fiat) money that oil companies make, where do their bulk part...
[17:46:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USA's Retail Stores Closing at a Record Rate - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:40] <exec> 08└─Oh man I crack me up. Which reminds me, once the rest of you become one of us, you'll spend plenty of time talking to yourself. Because, you know, people really only have a thin veneer of civility, so they only ever talk to other people who have money.
[17:46:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USA's Retail Stores Closing at a Record Rate - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:42] <exec> 08└─M0AR C0AL TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP
[17:46:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USA's Retail Stores Closing at a Record Rate - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:44] <exec> 08└─It is perhaps simple! Expand the Alaska Permanent Fund to all states and all territories. Expand Medicare to all ages. Done and Done.
[17:46:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USA's Retail Stores Closing at a Record Rate - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:46] <exec> 08└─Now man Now!!
[17:46:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USA's Retail Stores Closing at a Record Rate - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:48] <exec> 08└─The mom and pop general store burned down. Nobody bothered to rebuild.
[17:46:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USA's Retail Stores Closing at a Record Rate - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:51] <exec> 08└─Faster Pussycat! I'm hungry now!
[17:47:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Ad-Blocking Superweapon May End Ad-Blocking Arms Race - 506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:20] <exec> 08└─If this thing is using "computer vision" to determine whether or not to display an ad, presumably it has to allow the content to be retrieved in order to evaluate it. That defeats one of the many benefits of ad-blocking. Along with all the other damage they do, ads soak up valuable bandwidth. As lon...
[17:47:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ad-Blocking Superweapon May End Ad-Blocking Arms Race - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:21] <exec> 08└─Yes. The Simpsons have always had ads.
[17:47:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ad-Blocking Superweapon May End Ad-Blocking Arms Race - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:23] <exec> 08└─By historical standards, America is an utter failure as a superpower.
[17:47:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03shipofgold [4696] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ad-Blocking Superweapon May End Ad-Blocking Arms Race - 701 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:25] <exec> 08└─I think the argument of "wasting valuable bandwitdh" is becoming obsolete. Video Ads that start automatically are evil and the Video ads may burn a few bytes...but the average WWW page load, even if it is loaded with javascript, sidebars and popunders and other crap are not going to blow your Intern...
[17:47:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ad-Blocking Superweapon May End Ad-Blocking Arms Race - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:28] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure that's comparable. The roman empire had to pass laws preventing the freeing of slaves to keep their system going: These limitations on manumissions were made when the number of manumissions were so large (at the end of republic and the beginning of empire), that they even questioned the...
[17:47:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03KritonK [465] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ad-Blocking Superweapon May End Ad-Blocking Arms Race - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:30] <exec> 08└─According to TFA, the tool relies on the fact that: The Federal Trade Commission regulations require advertisements to be clearly labeled so that a human can recognize them
[17:47:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ad-Blocking Superweapon May End Ad-Blocking Arms Race - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:32] <exec> 08└─But but but artists and writers are LIBRULS! It will make puppies sad!
[17:47:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ad-Blocking Superweapon May End Ad-Blocking Arms Race - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:34] <exec> 08└─I think we can reasonably conclude that True Scotsmen all work Real Jobs.
[17:47:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ad-Blocking Superweapon May End Ad-Blocking Arms Race - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:36] <exec> 08└─Great. Now "content providers" will have no choice but to make the actual content you wanted to read look like an ad.
[17:47:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former NASA Flight Director Gene Kranz Praises Private Space Entrepreneurs - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:48] <exec> 08└─Probably somewhere with a strong social safety net so that people can choose to be entrepreneurs instead of wage slaves.
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[18:46:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USA's Retail Stores Closing at a Record Rate - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:44] <exec> 08└─Yeah, we shipped all the real jobs overseas, that produce anything. One knucklehead after another told us that the future was in service. Phhtt. There is a future in driving delivery trucks, for a short while. Soon, half of the workforce will be employed in delivering stuff to wherever. Until the se...
[18:46:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USA's Retail Stores Closing at a Record Rate - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:45] <exec> 08└─Yes but you forgot to mention how self-driving trucks don't concern you since you expect to be retired and/or dead by then.
[18:46:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USA's Retail Stores Closing at a Record Rate - 2006 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:47] <exec> 08└─All of the facts in the article are basicially right, but of course it being World Socialist they F up the analysis. Retailers are closing, others are building as fast as they can ramp up. The most at risk stores are clothing stores. Clothing stores in malls are dying because malls are dying. No new...
[18:46:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06USA's Retail Stores Closing at a Record Rate - 586 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:50] <exec> 08└─If you would care to look further back than your chosen liberal scapegoat, you would see economic decline began in 2001 when Bush did 9/11. I remember the excuses employers used during the decade: 2001: Looks like war coming. Time for budget cuts. 2003: Another war! More budget cuts. 2005: Hurricane...
[18:46:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USA's Retail Stores Closing at a Record Rate - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:52] <exec> 08└─You forgot the important one. 2000 CNN: "Elect Gore to keep these great economic times rolling" 2000 CNNFN: "Weesa all gonna die!" The .com / .bomb was already going off.
[18:46:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USA's Retail Stores Closing at a Record Rate - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:54] <exec> 08└─So with the dot-com bubble bursting, what Bush did was: start a bunch of wars, and not only neglect to raise taxes to fund the wars, but also to go so far as to cut taxes on the rich, which incentivized the rich to hoard money, and which led directly to our economic troubles today. Bezos has too muc...
[18:47:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ad-Blocking Superweapon May End Ad-Blocking Arms Race - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:33] <exec> 08└─But who advertised Ancient Greek poet Homerus?
[18:47:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ad-Blocking Superweapon May End Ad-Blocking Arms Race - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:35] <exec> 08└─except when they accidentally visit places neutral to race :)
[18:47:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ad-Blocking Superweapon May End Ad-Blocking Arms Race - 1386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:37] <exec> 08└─How did great sculptures, great paintings, great music, and great theater get made before advertising? Through a model called "patronage". Rich people paid the artists to make stuff for them. It worked out well if you were one of the very best artists, but it didn't exactly support a lot of arts, be...
[18:47:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ad-Blocking Superweapon May End Ad-Blocking Arms Race - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:39] <exec> 08└─They can't outsource advertising to skirt the FTC rules. If ads show up on a US website like NYT and don't follow the regulations, it doesn't matter where the ads are served from, so they'll still get busted. Now if you're reading some news site in eastern Europe or something, then sure, the regulat...
[18:47:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ad-Blocking Superweapon May End Ad-Blocking Arms Race - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:41] <exec> 08└─There are groups of journalists that live good of donations alone. But the bar to accomplish that is to deliver something that is really worthwhile to read. Kickstarter perhaps is another path were a working pay can be made.
[18:47:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ad-Blocking Superweapon May End Ad-Blocking Arms Race - 1664 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:43] <exec> 08└─How about I don't give a fuck? The problem with your logic is: 1) Advertising was never correct from the beginning, and was always a unilateral assault upon the consumer. It was always a captured audience, and that fundamentally means the lack of consent. There were never any agreements made, just s...
[18:47:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ad-Blocking Superweapon May End Ad-Blocking Arms Race - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:46] <exec> 08└─A real job is something that makes people confuse exhausted with making a difference. Even Einstein had a real job as a patent clerk. And then he stop doing a real job.... He even avoided real slaughter.
[18:47:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ad-Blocking Superweapon May End Ad-Blocking Arms Race - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:48] <exec> 08└─3) It's simply the assumption that without advertising content would dry up. How would we know? We've never tried.....
[18:47:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ad-Blocking Superweapon May End Ad-Blocking Arms Race - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:50] <exec> 08└─In what country is a fixed line ISP that charge by the bit still a thing?
[18:47:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ad-Blocking Superweapon May End Ad-Blocking Arms Race - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:52] <exec> 08└─Actually the resource hogging on the machine costs in equipment investment.
[18:47:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Chromium_One [4574] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ad-Blocking Superweapon May End Ad-Blocking Arms Race - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:54] <exec> 08└─Consider the productivity of a slave kitchen vs. an industrial kitchen in the modern world ; how many loaves on bread per man-hour in each? Consider as well for modern farming techniques, transport, etc. From a sheer logistics point of view, there is no reason we cannot provide a [very basic] minimu...
[18:48:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Former NASA Flight Director Gene Kranz Praises Private Space Entrepreneurs - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:08] <exec> 08└─they're willing to risk their future
[18:48:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Captured Something Huge Coming Out Of Uranus - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:58] <exec> 08└─I like trains!
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[18:51:13] <exec> 08└─Explainer: app: software that runs on a tablet computer or mobile phone GSM: a widely used protocol for cellular networks HTTP: the original protocol for the WWW, which doesn't have encryption, hence is easily intercepted or tampered with SSL: protocol for the WWW which does have encryption "there w...
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[19:46:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06CIA Director Mike Pompeo Calls WikiLeaks a "Non-State Hostile Intelligence Service" - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:29] <exec> 08└─Does that make the CIA a "state hostile intelligence service"?
[19:46:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06CIA Director Mike Pompeo Calls WikiLeaks a "Non-State Hostile Intelligence Service" - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:30] <exec> 08└─Do you know what we call an intelligence agency that releases all the intelligence it finds to the public? Journalists.
[19:46:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06USA's Retail Stores Closing at a Record Rate - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:55] <exec> 08└─Hellish with vibrant diversity and the white middle class have fled to new refugee camps in the exurbs. Hellhole malls don't support yuppie / preppie clothing stores and you only need a couple of shoe stores to keep the vibrant diversity supplied with $200 sneakers.
[19:46:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USA's Retail Stores Closing at a Record Rate - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:57] <exec> 08└─Jesus fucking Christ, I can actually see the crazy-eyed expression he must have been wearing when he typed that. You know that look some people have where they're reeeeeally intense and you can see the whites of their eyes above and below their irises? Yeah. That one.
[19:46:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06USA's Retail Stores Closing at a Record Rate - 1167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:59] <exec> 08└─That would come under the heading of Liberal Democracy. (Socialism is a method of organizing production with ownership of the means of production solely by the workers, standing in contrast to Capitalism and its concentrated non-Worker ownership.) ...and, 6 minutes before you posted, another AC ment...
[19:47:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06USA's Retail Stores Closing at a Record Rate - 2292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:01] <exec> 08└─Various people have been predicting this outcome since the early 1950's. Actually since Kark Capek's RUR. Actually, if you use a wide definition, since Plato (I don't remember if he was the actual author) when the prediction "When the looms run themselves we will no longer need slaves." was made. Th...
[19:47:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06USA's Retail Stores Closing at a Record Rate - 626 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:04] <exec> 08└─Unlike many others here, I'm not inherently against neither capitalism nor socialism, but socialism only works in countries with relatively small, healthy, White, educated populations who all contribute to the means of production. It cannot work in America because there are large sections of the pop...
[19:47:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06USA's Retail Stores Closing at a Record Rate - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:06] <exec> 08└─Somebody has to fix and maintain all those kiosks and autonomous vehicles, and we're a good 100 years away from that being automated.
[19:47:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USA's Retail Stores Closing at a Record Rate - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:08] <exec> 08└─2016: Jill Stein elected president; starts building/rebuilding USA's infrastructure. Rejects wars of aggression and further military build-up. Starts to down-size USA.mil. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[19:47:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03ben_white [5531] (Score: 1) 02 - 06USA's Retail Stores Closing at a Record Rate - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:10] <exec> 08└─Somebody has to fix and maintain all those kiosks and autonomous vehicles, and we're a good 100 years away from that being automated.
[19:47:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06USA's Retail Stores Closing at a Record Rate - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:12] <exec> 08└─Exactly. A maintenance guy can gloat that his job is secure. Remember when the IT guys were gloating about job security, while manufacturing jobs were being shipped to the lowest bidders in the third world? Now the third world is doing our IT work.
[19:47:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USA's Retail Stores Closing at a Record Rate - 886 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:15] <exec> 08└─Yet again, someone gets his wires crossed and tries to claim that Socialism is something other than a method of production. Use of the commonwealth to serve ALL members of a society equally is an example of a successful Liberal Democracy. If all of the workplaces of that geographical area were ALSO...
[19:48:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ad-Blocking Superweapon May End Ad-Blocking Arms Race - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:05] <exec> 08└─That's why Horatio was at the gate. "Come see my bro, Homely, making a nonsensical hash out of common words, until no one understand WTF he's saying!"
[19:48:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ad-Blocking Superweapon May End Ad-Blocking Arms Race - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:07] <exec> 08└─Works made by people that know the material and love their craft and want to share will survive. A hobby might not pay the bills but that's not really the point of hobbies. If you can't make a living doing something, then maybe that something doesn't quality as a paying job - that would be about 90%...
[19:48:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ad-Blocking Superweapon May End Ad-Blocking Arms Race - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:09] <exec> 08└─That sounds like a Republican's wet dream healthcare plan.
[19:48:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ad-Blocking Superweapon May End Ad-Blocking Arms Race - 2729 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:11] <exec> 08└─I'm not certain that you're being completely fair and accurate. There was a time, when all "advertising" was by word of mouth. No interent, no television, no radio, no print (or at least not resources to waste on valuable paper and ink). A traveling tinker might find a scrap of paper, and pay someon...
[19:48:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ad-Blocking Superweapon May End Ad-Blocking Arms Race - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:13] <exec> 08└─Yep - you've got something there. I installed it on Chrome. It's supposed to highlight all the ads - but nothing is marked. Oh - well - I block the adservers on the router, so this addon isn't finding any advertisements. It is apparently all but worthless. At best, it will make the unaware aware. Bu...
[19:48:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ad-Blocking Superweapon May End Ad-Blocking Arms Race - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:16] <exec> 08└─So Princeton made a better defense. You betcha a better offense is on the way if it is released. It's an arms race and that's how those work. Good content has to be supported somehow. The problem is, publishers are liars and put in ads even if you pay
[19:49:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Captured Something Huge Coming Out Of Uranus - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:20] <exec> 08└─I see what you did there, nice.
[19:49:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Captured Something Huge Coming Out Of Uranus - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:21] <exec> 08└─Instead of "Uranus", try reading the article with that word replaced with "Your anus". It's hilarious!
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[20:46:31] <exec> 08└─When you are talking about the union of two groups (rather than the intersection), you mean to use "or" (rather than "and").
[20:46:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CIA Director Mike Pompeo Calls WikiLeaks a "Non-State Hostile Intelligence Service" - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:41] <exec> 08└─Ideally that is so. Most however, see their job as being a publisher of press releases and body extras for cocktail parties hosted by those providing press releases.
[20:46:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CIA Director Mike Pompeo Calls WikiLeaks a "Non-State Hostile Intelligence Service" - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:43] <exec> 08└─There are two kind of Italians, those that cannot keep their mouth shut, and those few that know how to do that, which get enrolled in the mafia. Neither of which seems a good choice for the head of the CIA.
[20:46:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CIA Director Mike Pompeo Calls WikiLeaks a "Non-State Hostile Intelligence Service" - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:45] <exec> 08└─CIA does the torture, sabotage, assassination, and smuggling. NSA are all desk jockies.
[20:46:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03snufu [5855] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CIA Director Mike Pompeo Calls WikiLeaks a "Non-State Hostile Intelligence Service" - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:47] <exec> 08└─Is this white house genuinely as paranoid as they act, or is it some kind of incompetent chaotic performance art parody of Nixonian administration?
[20:46:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CIA Director Mike Pompeo Calls WikiLeaks a "Non-State Hostile Intelligence Service" - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:50] <exec> 08└─NSA are cyberhostiles.
[20:46:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CIA Director Mike Pompeo Calls WikiLeaks a "Non-State Hostile Intelligence Service" - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:52] <exec> 08└─So that would make a typical news agency a "non-state semi-hostile intelligence service".
[20:46:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CIA Director Mike Pompeo Calls WikiLeaks a "Non-State Hostile Intelligence Service" - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:54] <exec> 08└─Probably any CIA Director could be made to say this if you rubbed the right neurons together. The military and intelligence community love to talk about "non-state actors".
[20:46:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pax [5056] (Score: 1) 02 - 06CIA Director Mike Pompeo Calls WikiLeaks a "Non-State Hostile Intelligence Service" - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:56] <exec> 08└─Is this white house genuinely as paranoid as they act, or is it some kind of incompetent chaotic performance art parody of Nixon administration?
[20:47:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USA's Retail Stores Closing at a Record Rate - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:32] <exec> 08└─If everyone is unemployed, then nobody will be able to buy anything from Amazon, anyway; your scenario makes no sense. When money is cheap (that is, interest rates are low), that sends retailers the signal that it's a good time to take out a loan in order to expand their businesses; hence, more reta...
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[20:47:34] <exec> 08└─So, you can fuck off.
[20:47:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USA's Retail Stores Closing at a Record Rate - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:36] <exec> 08└─Human life has lost its value, because there is a major surplus in the supply.
[20:47:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USA's Retail Stores Closing at a Record Rate - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:38] <exec> 08└─Does posting about the events of an alternate universe in which Jill Stein showed competency and got more than 500,000 votes in 2016 make you feel in control? The success of Trump and Bernie (Bernie's was a relative success) have cemented the two party system even more. Extreme outsiders will come i...
[20:47:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USA's Retail Stores Closing at a Record Rate - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:40] <exec> 08└─Let me hire prostitutes so I can be a Job Creator.
[20:48:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ad-Blocking Superweapon May End Ad-Blocking Arms Race - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:37] <exec> 08└─TFA loaded a video AD on me without prompting. This moved page elements around forcing me to scroll. When the AD finished p[laying it removed itself, and I had to scroll back. Was real tempted to come back with lynx.
[20:48:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ad-Blocking Superweapon May End Ad-Blocking Arms Race - 886 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:38] <exec> 08└─The issue is that the ads aren't targeted to the page and they're extremely obtrusive. That's when they aren't delaying the page loads or serving up malware. The fact that these adblockers are even a thing is a direct result of the ad companies being so sleazy. Serving up text ads or simple GIFs tha...
[20:48:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ad-Blocking Superweapon May End Ad-Blocking Arms Race - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:40] <exec> 08└─There will be an arms race, but the ads will have to become so sneaky that they will become indistinguishable from normal astroturfing, which is around no matter what, which means ads will be dead. This, unless this superweapon is vapor/spyware.
[20:49:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Horizons Measures the Brightness of Galaxies Before Going Into Hibernation - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:49:21] <exec> 08└─My hypothesis is that they cannot really go to space, and same applies for the other space agencies.
[20:50:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Tatooine" Planets Around Binary Stars Could be Habitable - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:50:12] <exec> 08└─And I am your father's brother's nephew's cousin's former roommate.
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[21:46:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Americans Now Work Full-time from Home than Walk and Bike to Office Jobs - 780 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:23] <exec> 08└─It's a pretty neat idea. But this also means that you have no personal excuse to not show up when agreed upon. Jobs that pay livable wages tend to balance themselves out in terms of work:lazy ratio. i.e. the convenience is a trade for something else. For example, I have not slept in literally centur...
[21:46:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CIA Director Mike Pompeo Calls WikiLeaks a "Non-State Hostile Intelligence Service" - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:40] <exec> 08└─It's not paranoia when somebody actually is out to get you, for real. That is the case here. In other news, "hate" and "fear" are sometimes the proper and correct emotions, fully justified. An inability to experience these emotions is mental illness.
[21:47:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USA's Retail Stores Closing at a Record Rate - 1217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:20] <exec> 08└─Yet, if you go back to 2000,[1] things were purring along pretty well. There hasn't been a giant increase of the number people since then. What there has been is an increase in the number of dishonest people trying to extract wealth without producing anything of value. ...and there has been no incre...
[21:47:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USA's Retail Stores Closing at a Record Rate - 1202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:22] <exec> 08└─I'm pointing to flaws in the system and overlooked people/ideas. Bernie's platform and Jill's platform overlapped on many points and large bunches of folks liked what Bernie was saying. Lamestream Media being what it is, few voters even knew that Jill existed--even after Bernie got stabbed in the ba...
[21:48:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Holds "Incentive Auction" of UHF Spectrum - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:49] <exec> 08└─Although much of it was bought by those large companies, the Deadline Hollywood story says "14 MHz will go to wireless mics and unlicensed use."
[21:49:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Extracting Water from Thin Air - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:49:45] <exec> 08└─This reeks of unintended consequences. What happens to the ecology when you drop the humidity 99% from sucking all the water vapor out of the air? Hell if I know, but I'm sure it's not pretty.
[21:50:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03aristarchus [2645] 02 - 06Journalism in the Era of Clickbait - 102 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:50:33] <exec> 08└─Live cows, huh? Not like you are trying to steer us in the wrong direction, towards bullshit, perhaps?
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[22:46:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Burger Chain's Hijack of Wikipedia Backfires - 680 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:22] <exec> 08└─The worst is McDonalds, hands-down. Burger King ain't bad but they would be a lot better if they could tone down the sodium while retaining the flavor. Of all the shit-tier burger franchises Wendy's is probably the best but keeps poorly in the fridge. So the personal winner of shit-tier burger joint...
[22:46:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Burger Chain's Hijack of Wikipedia Backfires - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:23] <exec> 08└─If you're keeping score BK is winning. They're winning even if you're not keeping score. Burger King trolls google twice with the same troll! Go BK! But seriously, really dumb idea to have always on, always listening "assistance" devices. As if google doesn't already snoop on you enough.
[22:46:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 1) 02 - 06More Americans Now Work Full-time from Home than Walk and Bike to Office Jobs - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:33] <exec> 08└─The article has two versions of the headline: one mentions "office jobs" but the other (the HTML title) says "their jobs."
[22:46:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03aristarchus [2645] 02 - 06CIA Director Mike Pompeo Calls WikiLeaks a "Non-State Hostile Intelligence Service" - 120 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:42] <exec> 08└─Do you know what we call an intelligence agency that releases all the intelligence it finds to the public? Journalists.
[22:47:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USA's Retail Stores Closing at a Record Rate - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:33] <exec> 08└─Yeah but but but OMG Socialism! Hitler!* Stalin! Mao! Pol Pot! Venezuela! * jmorris made me do it
[22:47:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USA's Retail Stores Closing at a Record Rate - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:34] <exec> 08└─Alaska's stipend is funded by sales of fossil fuel, and the U.S. has plenty of fossil fuel to sell. https://web.archive.org [archive.org]
[22:47:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USA's Retail Stores Closing at a Record Rate - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:37] <exec> 08└─Thank you for continuing to show everyone what a jackbooted nutjib you are. I really appreciate it! Takes the pressure off responding to your idiocy, now everyone can just see for themselves. I guess you aren't taking Trumps "winning (hahahaha)" very well. Oh ya, for your blatant racism: fuck off ba...
[22:47:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USA's Retail Stores Closing at a Record Rate - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:39] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure. That strikes me more as the cold, steely kind hate.
[22:47:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Ad-Blocking Superweapon May End Ad-Blocking Arms Race - 341 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:56] <exec> 08└─Ad blockers are important because they block JavaScript used for mass surveillance and Internet tracking, even if not all trackers are blocked, we still stop them from collecting more information. In contrary, merely preventing ads from displaying on the screen doesn't solve this problem anyway, you...
[22:48:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ad-Blocking Superweapon May End Ad-Blocking Arms Race - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:48:38] <exec> 08└─its about not seeing the ads now? it used to be about privacy - which meant no 3rd party connections, no data-leakage, no bandwidth wasted. and this new newness wants to give the monkeys a private room on my dime? sounds rather like bankruptcy.
[22:48:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ad-Blocking Superweapon May End Ad-Blocking Arms Race - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:48:39] <exec> 08└─You don't need to, you can edit the default DOM events that can open windows w/o whitelisting in Firefox-based browsers.
[22:48:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ad-Blocking Superweapon May End Ad-Blocking Arms Race - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:48:41] <exec> 08└─...Some things have to be advert supported -- over the air TV for example...
[22:48:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former NASA Flight Director Gene Kranz Praises Private Space Entrepreneurs - 1042 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:48:56] <exec> 08└─These days, the US jumps at shadows. Kranz is just one of many who are saying that America's appetite for risk isn't what it was. Our military is so large it's not just the biggest, it's bigger than the next 10 mightiest militaries in the world put together. Yet our leaders want to spend even more m...
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[23:46:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is ‘Strange Beasts’ a Preview of the Sad (Augmented) Reality Ahead of Us? - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:29] <exec> 08└─Bring on the animated e-ink newspapers!
[23:46:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Burger Chain's Hijack of Wikipedia Backfires - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:38] <exec> 08└─Sounds like they didn't forget that OK Google read Wikipedia if they edited it not long before. Seems pretty plausible that its all part of the same ad project. What they forgot was that anyone can edit Wikipedia.
[23:46:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Burger Chain's Hijack of Wikipedia Backfires - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:41] <exec> 08└─Would this not be classed as low level hack? Using the ad audio as a vector to wake up your phone to do something (against your will and without your permission)? The pranks are better at Hungry Hack's.
[23:46:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Burger Chain's Hijack of Wikipedia Backfires - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:43] <exec> 08└─Rat meat.
[23:46:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Burger Chain's Hijack of Wikipedia Backfires - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:45] <exec> 08└─I ate most of a pot of lentils. I had about one serving left. I've left it in the fridge for about six months now. There's a lid on the pot so I don't have to look at it, but if I'm ever to throw it away then wash out the pot I'm going to have to look at it and smell it. I'm hoping that it turns to...
[23:46:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Burger Chain's Hijack of Wikipedia Backfires - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:47] <exec> 08└─It doesn't matter which is worse. The meat they give you is 5pm farmer's market quality at best. and McDonalds is bad? Here I thought you were a gentleman of taste and highest integrity. You fuck. Also I hope more companies try this. Nothing better to prove the danger of listening devices than an an...
[23:46:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Burger Chain's Hijack of Wikipedia Backfires - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:49] <exec> 08└─Do testicles count as meat?
[23:46:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Burger Chain's Hijack of Wikipedia Backfires - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:51] <exec> 08└─https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?sid=19001&cid=494364&threshold=-1&highlightthresh=-1&commentsort=0&mode=threadtos&page=1&noupdate=1#commentwrap [soylentnews.org]
[23:48:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USA's Retail Stores Closing at a Record Rate - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:48:04] <exec> 08└─I'm waiting for the "Oh no! There aren't any more CEO jobs in USA and I don't want to move to China!"
[23:49:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ad-Blocking Superweapon May End Ad-Blocking Arms Race - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:49:13] <exec> 08└─Umm, most of Canada? Bell Canada Look at the fine print. [www.bell.ca] Internet data usage 50 GB/mo.; 4.00/additional GB (max. $100/mo.) Rogers Lower priced packages [rogers.com] 500GB / 250GB / 25GB Now, I have a smaller independent supplier for DSL, unlimited service, but less than 6MB down and a...
[23:49:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ad-Blocking Superweapon May End Ad-Blocking Arms Race - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:49:14] <exec> 08└─Through a model called "patronage". Rich people paid the artists to make stuff for them. It worked out well if you were one of the very best artists, but it didn't exactly support a lot of arts, because there were only a small number of people that rich. Most people were dirt poor.
[23:49:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ad-Blocking Superweapon May End Ad-Blocking Arms Race - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:49:17] <exec> 08└─This is what I was thinking. I wonder if it can see the 1-pixel trackers like what Facebook uses. I guess its aim is intrusive advertising, not tracking.
[23:50:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Inspired [6565] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NASA Captured Something Huge Coming Out Of Uranus - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:50:27] <exec> 08└─Intergalactic, Planetary? Planetary, Intergalactic?
[23:50:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extracting Water from Thin Air - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:50:46] <exec> 08└─Water vapor is a stronger greenhouse gas than is carbon dioxide. Ice age time again!
[23:51:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Prisoners Built Computers from Recycled Parts, Connected them to Prison's Network - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:51:22] <exec> 08└─I think it means "free speech including allowing public, unattributed statements." Most societies with free speech laws do not have provisions (or at least many situations) to speak freely without anyone knowing the speaker's identity.
[23:51:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Prisoners Built Computers from Recycled Parts, Connected them to Prison's Network - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:51:23] <exec> 08└─> If I had my way, I'd be able to tell that to all citizens. 100% this. People aren't thriving in society? How about we help them with basic needs and acquiring skills and knowledge? They deserve help, not to be defined as an enemy of non-criminal society.
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