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[00:17:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Start-Up Unveils 3D Printer that can Build Carbon Fiber, Kevlar, Fiberglass Parts - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:25] <exec> 08└─So you can now print your own body armor? That could in theory fit perfectly. Which in general would be a big step up. I wonder if that is going to go the way of the print-your-own-gun, I guess in theory nobody should care if you want to wear body armor or not. But then most normal folks don't walk...
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[00:17:27] <exec> 08└─But then most normal folks don't walk around in body armor
[00:17:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Start-Up Unveils 3D Printer that can Build Carbon Fiber, Kevlar, Fiberglass Parts - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:29] <exec> 08└─Too late. Can't remember where I saw it, but there is a fashion designer in South America that was making high end fashions with bullet proof materials. Full length trench coats that looked like nice leather (quite fashionable actually) on models that were then literally shot on camera. Whatever ric...
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[00:17:46] <exec> 08└─Watch out your career progression, you really don't want to be relegated in the rectal bot [soylentnews.org] pay grade.
[00:17:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03marknmel [1243] (Score: 1) 02 - 06"Capsule Robot" Explores Colon - 648 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:47] <exec> 08└─I've seen virtual colonoscopies before, as these are somewhat related to my job. Effectively they can be a 3D reconstruction of some imaging technique like computed tomography. As the radiologist views the colon, the viewed area is generally "painted" by the software to indicate that portion has bee...
[00:18:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Puppet Plans Expansion - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:09] <exec> 08└─Yes, the article made the same observation right where I left off quoting it.
[00:18:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dungeons 2 is currently free on the Humble Store for a limited time, has a Linux version - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:27] <exec> 08└─I found vegetable oil to work just fine. Though, gets a bit tiresome at the second round, when using soap to wash the oil away.
[00:18:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dungeons 2 is currently free on the Humble Store for a limited time, has a Linux version - 1219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:28] <exec> 08└─It was kinda rough for me to login to my humble page. I had to reset the password, then it was me to draw lines around a picture of a sign (that didn't work at all) so I reloaded then it wanted me to click on each picture with a gas station in it. That finally worked, then it sent me another verific...
[00:18:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dungeons 2 is currently free on the Humble Store for a limited time, has a Linux version - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:30] <exec> 08└─here [wikipedia.org] The game now allows you to slap your workers, grab minions and drop them where you wish, or drop resources such as gold, mana, barrels or boxes.
[00:18:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dungeons 2 is currently free on the Humble Store for a limited time, has a Linux version - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:32] <exec> 08└─I will give them credit for tagging DRM free items. Games rarely are these days but books typically are DRM free. With the bundles they still let you send everything to charity. I'm not thrilled with DRM but Humble Bundle is a reasonable compromise in my book.
[00:18:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dungeons 2 is currently free on the Humble Store for a limited time, has a Linux version - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:35] <exec> 08└─If you find a book that has DRM you might want to try https://calibre-ebook.com [calibre-ebook.com] It worked great for me at removing all DRM on ebooks.
[00:18:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dungeons 2 is currently free on the Humble Store for a limited time, has a Linux version - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:37] <exec> 08└─Damn, so many hoops to jump through! About 16 hours left on the offer as of now.
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[01:17:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Keylogger in Conexant Audio Driver on HP Laptops - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:22] <exec> 08└─Time-to-market and "good enough software" will do that for ya! Because, you see, lately software is a commodity, not a product of engineering.
[01:17:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Keylogger in Conexant Audio Driver on HP Laptops - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:23] <exec> 08└─:facepalm: That's all I can say....
[01:17:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Keylogger in Conexant Audio Driver on HP Laptops - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:25] <exec> 08└─This is what happens when you fire all the Devs and replace them with DevOps can only think in terms of logging everything into the big data cloud for social data mining. Except in this case the log is a local file. Or is it? Did anyone check for network activity, hmm?
[01:17:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Keylogger in Conexant Audio Driver on HP Laptops - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:28] <exec> 08└─At my high school we pranked the teacher by installing a keylogger on his laptop and then we laughed at his stupid passwords. The high school I went to, they asked a kid to prove the law of gravity, he threw the teacher out the window.
[01:17:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Keylogger in Conexant Audio Driver on HP Laptops - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:30] <exec> 08└─No time to compile a release build! Ship the debug build!
[01:17:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03mrpg [5708] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Start-Up Unveils 3D Printer that can Build Carbon Fiber, Kevlar, Fiberglass Parts - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:41] <exec> 08└─Here: https://en.wikipedia.org(company) [wikipedia.org]
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[02:17:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Keylogger in Conexant Audio Driver on HP Laptops - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:41] <exec> 08└─Fuck beta?
[02:17:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Keylogger in Conexant Audio Driver on HP Laptops - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:42] <exec> 08└─fire all the Devs and replace them with DevOps can only think in terms of logging everything into the big data cloud
[02:17:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Keylogger in Conexant Audio Driver on HP Laptops - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:45] <exec> 08└─Not even beta. Debugging output this verbose only belongs in an alpha version.
[02:18:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03krishnoid [1156] 02 - 06"Capsule Robot" Explores Colon - 76 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:05] <exec> 08└─It's a robot going up my fucking ass, and the only thoughts I will have are,
[02:18:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Capsule Robot" Explores Colon - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:14] <exec> 08└─You may think you are pretty funny right now. Dammit :)
[02:18:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart9h [767] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Dungeons 2 is currently free on the Humble Store for a limited time, has a Linux version - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:58] <exec> 08└─It may be free as in beer right now but it's not free as in speech
[02:18:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmn32480 [443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dungeons 2 is currently free on the Humble Store for a limited time, has a Linux version - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:00] <exec> 08└─And yet again... gewg_ can't understand how people can see the world differently than he(?) does. We greatly appreciate your continued showing of your intolerance and ignorance of viewpoints that do not agree with your own. And any time I can piss in your Cheerios, I'm happy to do it. Have a good we...
[02:20:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06Acting FBI Director Contradicts White House, Will Maintain Russia Probe - 736 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:20:27] <exec> 08└─The Republicans are waiting for the perfect mistake from Trump to impeach him. They love that he brought the WH and Congress to them, but can't stand him. Pence/Sessions is their predictable hardline wet dream. But he is too popular with his base, and could be a major threat to the party as an indep...
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[03:17:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Battery-Free Medical Implants Use Body's Fluids As Fuel - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:34] <exec> 08└─Well now, Life Fibers are real, Kill la Kill is coming true. ... oops, sorry. An anime from four years ago is too recent for this crowd. Continue your regularly scheduled senility.
[03:17:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google/Waymo Self-Driving Minivan Tested with the Public in Phoenix AZ - 791 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:41] <exec> 08└─Offering public transportation to select individuals will tell you little. Cherry picked customers, picked on what basis, exactly? Education? Neighborhood? Affluence? Uh-huh - you're going to get the kind of results you want, just like polling certain demographics. When the service opens to the gene...
[03:17:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google/Waymo Self-Driving Minivan Tested with the Public in Phoenix AZ - 616 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:43] <exec> 08└─Have you even ridden public transit in the past ten years? I doubt you have. You would have noticed that graffiti is nonexistent and vandalism just does not happen anymore. There are cameras everywhere and vandals are identified and prosecuted. No one dares to risk tagging a vehicle because everyone...
[03:17:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google/Waymo Self-Driving Minivan Tested with the Public in Phoenix AZ - 815 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:45] <exec> 08└─"graffiti is nonexistent and vandalism just does not happen anymore." You've done an exhaustive survey of all public transportation, across the nation? Or, an even more exhaustive survey of all public transportation around the globe? No graffiti? People no longer do disgusting things on buses, train...
[03:17:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google/Waymo Self-Driving Minivan Tested with the Public in Phoenix AZ - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:47] <exec> 08└─I rode a bus today. Did you? Everyone on the bus is constantly using a smartphone. Why graffiti when you can troll instead?
[03:17:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google/Waymo Self-Driving Minivan Tested with the Public in Phoenix AZ - 551 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:50] <exec> 08└─You know who has? I have. And the last time I did an old bum was kneading his dick and saying, "Fuck...fuck...fuck...fuck..." the whole trip. You'd be surprised to know that was in San Francisco, one of the most expensive cities in the world! If an expensive city like San Francisco with one of the h...
[03:17:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google/Waymo Self-Driving Minivan Tested with the Public in Phoenix AZ - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:52] <exec> 08└─Your example is shit since talking to yourself in public isn't unusual anymore ever since, guess what, smartphones! Troll harder you dumbfuck.
[03:18:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Keylogger in Conexant Audio Driver on HP Laptops - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:07] <exec> 08└─a kernel driver. There's a solid amount of competence required to write one of those.
[03:18:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Chromium_One [4574] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Keylogger in Conexant Audio Driver on HP Laptops - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:08] <exec> 08└─This is a flaw that allows to skim the passwords of half the world's corporate environments with a non-persistent, non-superuser intrusion(e.g. a browser-driveby), without trace.
[03:18:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03unitron [70] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Keylogger in Conexant Audio Driver on HP Laptops - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:11] <exec> 08└─Bonus points that it's deniable because it looks like incontinence.
[03:18:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Keylogger in Conexant Audio Driver on HP Laptops - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:13] <exec> 08└─The interesting question becomes how Conexant could ship this shit. Normally when people have their systems affected the advice is to reinstall the drivers from the manufacturer etc. In this case it would cause reinfection. So can any intentional compromise be tracked to Conexant? or is they comprom...
[03:18:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Capsule Robot" Explores Colon - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:42] <exec> 08└─Well, it was part of their usual quote for such a job, and those types just see dollar signs until they get their percent anyway. Better just to brace for the bill: You can ask them to slash their charges I guess by arguing you don't have the resources of people in their bracket, but any disputes an...
[03:18:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Capsule Robot" Explores Colon - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:44] <exec> 08└─Sounds like something pulled out of one's ass. Oh wait it is so.... ;-)
[03:19:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03zeigerpuppy [1298] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Puppet Plans Expansion - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:06] <exec> 08└─our company reviewed management/scripting packages a while back and went with salt. much easier to scale out due to its master/slave and master/master modes. we've been happy with it.
[03:20:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02 - 06Acting FBI Director Contradicts White House, Will Maintain Russia Probe - 1475 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:21] <exec> 08└─Trump should have fired Comey the moment he was sworn in as President. The guy refused to prosecute Hillary because the polls and media showed her cruising to an easy victory. Firing him now is less optimal. Then again, if he fired him two years from now it would make no difference as far as percept...
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[04:17:18] <exec> 08└─Continue your regularly scheduled senility. :-) HA! Be grateful we won't be around to laugh at yours. But watch out! By then Soylent might be a real thing
[04:17:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03idiot_king [6587] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Battery-Free Medical Implants Use Body's Fluids As Fuel - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:19] <exec> 08└─So it looks like Deus Ex will happen in our lifetimes. Both scary and very cool. That is if we don't end up in a nuclear holocaust from Unser Trumpenfurher. (Maybe that's less scary in some ways?)
[04:17:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Keylogger in Conexant Audio Driver on HP Laptops - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:51] <exec> 08└─Nah, it's funnier the other way.
[04:17:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Keylogger in Conexant Audio Driver on HP Laptops - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:52] <exec> 08└─Well, the cat food customer is not the cat, but the owner. HP's customer is not the technical staff who know what's really important, but the managers they take out to lunch.
[04:17:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Keylogger in Conexant Audio Driver on HP Laptops - 787 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:55] <exec> 08└─Sounds to me like this is just a case of leaving a debug flag turned on during a production compile. The driver needs to handle special keystrokes like volume-up/volume-down. The driver just logs all keystrokes to a file that is over-written on reboot. It doesn't send the file anywhere, it doesn't t...
[04:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Keylogger in Conexant Audio Driver on HP Laptops - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:57] <exec> 08└─> Did anyone check for network activity [...] The researchers seem to know what they're doing, and they specifically say "attack type: local." They've gotten a CVE ID, CVE-2017-8360. https://www.modzero.ch [modzero.ch]
[04:17:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Keylogger in Conexant Audio Driver on HP Laptops - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:59] <exec> 08└─> [...] not some nefarious scheme to steal everybody's passwords. Yes, the article and the discoverers' blog say that it doesn't appear to have malicious intent. However, it could be used maliciously.
[04:18:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Keylogger in Conexant Audio Driver on HP Laptops - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:01] <exec> 08└─I'd argue that in today's networked world, there is no such thing as a local attack, because these things don't exist in vacuum. Okay, yes, pedantically speaking this is local to the machine it occurs on, but anyone with any access to the machine at all can go to the Public directory.
[04:18:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Puppet Plans Expansion - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:55] <exec> 08└─Bigfoot, or other?
[04:18:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Puppet Plans Expansion - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:56] <exec> 08└─I've read the same thing, that it's #2 for a bad male/female ratio only to the Bay Area.
[04:18:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Puppet Plans Expansion - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:58] <exec> 08└─All that is true, but Houston's a conservative town, man. As a tech guy looking to relocate to Texas, I'd go for Austin. Much more progressive, with lots of interesting currents of culture and tech flowing through the area thanks to SXSW and it's many offshoots.
[04:19:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dungeons 2 is currently free on the Humble Store for a limited time, has a Linux version - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:19:24] <exec> 08└─I bought it, but will probably have to wait until I've saved for that new desktop pc I want/need to play it. :(
[04:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Itanium's Last Breath - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:28] <exec> 08└─A Jacob's ladder (more formally, a high voltage traveling arc) is a device for producing a continuous train of large sparks that rise upwards. [...] often seen in films about mad scientists.
[04:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Itanium's Last Breath - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:30] <exec> 08└─> A success is turning a profit or at least making a technical breakthrough and paving the way for others. Maybe one out of three? Outside embedded processing markets, Intel's Itanium IA-64 explicitly parallel instruction computing (EPIC) and Elbrus 2000 appear as the only examples of a widely used...
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[05:17:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seven Ways to Help Your Kids With Math Homework - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:19] <exec> 08└─Since the homework is almost certainly going to require only rote memorization to solve, the kid shouldn't need help to be able to find the correct answers. Maybe they will need help in actually understanding the material, but at that point, you really should just homeschool them if possible; it wou...
[05:17:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Battery-Free Medical Implants Use Body's Fluids As Fuel - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:29] <exec> 08└─Let me tell you two useful pieces of information. 1. You're wrong about that. 2. You're a pig in human clothing.
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[05:17:42] <exec> 08└─In DC you have the same cameras but great variability between buses. Sometimes there will be food, trash, and worse littering the seats. Other times the driver will be active in demanding money from fare dodgers and not putting up with bullshit. Graffiti is indeed nearly nonexistent. Public transit...
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[05:17:44] <exec> 08└─Prisons in America are a business. So any reason is OK to get "clients". Anything for the all mighty dollar. Sometimes, they are just side effects of actions for profit or control (which in the end, in America, seems to be about profit too), like the War on Drugs. At least if you believe people in c...
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[05:19:32] <exec> 08└─It's understandable, but you're actually completely wrong in your thinking: > But of course it's free beer! Nobody else read the fucking title and thought they open-sourced it and all. > It's even written "free ON THE humble STORE", that is, a place that SELL things. Actually, the GPLs and most othe...
[05:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Itanium's Last Breath - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:39] <exec> 08└─Clarification: NonStop OS and OpenVMS are the ones that have not been discontinued. Wikipedia's claim of GCOS for Itanium has no citation, and when I checked the GCOS home page there was no mention of Itanium.
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[06:17:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Seven Ways to Help Your Kids With Math Homework - 1114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:31] <exec> 08└─Stop teaching math. It just doesn't work. For really gifted kids, math at school is incredibly boring. Endless repetition of things they already know. Their desires for more fulfilling mathematical knowledge are left unanswered -- not lust for more complicated mathematical formulae, but joy that com...
[06:17:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seven Ways to Help Your Kids With Math Homework - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:33] <exec> 08└─Considering a recent soylentnews submission [soylentnews.org]. Has there been any evaluation on what teaching methods that are the most efficient ones? Currently it seems more like throwing dart arrows in the dark and see what sticks.
[06:17:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seven Ways to Help Your Kids With Math Homework - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:35] <exec> 08└─Gifted kids ought to be smart enough to outsmart school and workaround it..
[06:17:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seven Ways to Help Your Kids With Math Homework - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:37] <exec> 08└─By quitting and furthering their education another way, you mean? I agree. But if that's not what you meant, then they would have to waste their time completing useless assignments, and that's time they could be using to actually learn something. If something is a waste of time on a very fundamental...
[06:17:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seven Ways to Help Your Kids With Math Homework - 2015 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:39] <exec> 08└─I have to disagree with you. Part of math - or indeed any subject - is rote memorization. Personally, I remember having to memorize the multiplication tables in 3rd grade: 6*7 = 42, 6*8=48, etc.. Boring, repetitive, but utterly essential if you want kids to be able to multiply arbitrarily large numb...
[06:17:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seven Ways to Help Your Kids With Math Homework - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:42] <exec> 08└─Has there been any evaluation on what teaching methods that are the most efficient ones?
[06:17:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Seven Ways to Help Your Kids With Math Homework - 858 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:44] <exec> 08└─Your kid sucks at math. Deal with it. Learning math isn't supposed to be fun, it's supposed to be a life-lesson in that all the hard things are fought for with extreme tedium, and the only time people appreciate math is when they're not actually using it. Though I will say this -- before Common Core...
[06:17:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seven Ways to Help Your Kids With Math Homework - 1477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:46] <exec> 08└─Interesting ideas - I look forward to the discussion. Some initial thoughts: - For pure transmission of information, yes, you can be more efficient by omitting pauses, time spent drawing, etc.. However, to some extent, these pauses are needed and used by viewers to digest information they have alrea...
[06:18:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Some call me Tim [5819] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Start-Up Unveils 3D Printer that can Build Carbon Fiber, Kevlar, Fiberglass Parts - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:45] <exec> 08└─Looks like lots of extra labor to finish the parts in a sand blaster, not to mention the large amount of materials wasted. That also limits the intricacy of the parts as small interior spaces may not be properly cleaned out.
[06:19:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Capsule Robot" Explores Colon - 454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:19:08] <exec> 08└─Have it involve zapping a blockage in the colon, then time your capsule robot's escape so it it ejects itself right before the fecal matter explosion :) For such a static animation, it sure was fun watching the exit tunnel for each level and flying out as the mines exploded in Descent/Descent 2. It...
[06:19:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Some call me Tim [5819] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Capsule Robot" Explores Colon - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:19:10] <exec> 08└─Would have been funnier if butthurt had submitted the article. ;-)
[06:19:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Puppet Plans Expansion - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:19:36] <exec> 08└─Neat.. Seems Seattle has the most feminists per capita [returnofkings.com]: 1. Seattle – Tacoma Even though it’s only the 15th most populated center in America, it had the highest FPC, scoring 2.77 standard deviations above the mean. For those of you who don’t know math, let me tell you that...
[06:19:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Puppet Plans Expansion - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:19:38] <exec> 08└─It might be that a city needs a critical number of employment opportunities to even have people in the city that are employable.
[06:19:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Puppet Plans Expansion - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:19:40] <exec> 08└─The public transit system is poor and the people-moving industry is ripe for disruption.
[06:20:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dungeons 2 is currently free on the Humble Store for a limited time, has a Linux version - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:20:08] <exec> 08└─The overworld wasn't included in the original Bullfrog games, but was referenced (since the heroes came down and attacked you.) Was pretty cool since it was AFAIK voxel based graphics and you could actually possess your monsters and use them to fight incoming hordes.
[06:20:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dungeons 2 is currently free on the Humble Store for a limited time, has a Linux version - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:20:09] <exec> 08└─The headline currently says: "Dungeons 2 is currently free on the Humble Store for a limited time, has a Linux version". It would be odd to describe something as "currently free [...] for a limited time" if it were under the GPL or another open-source licence.
[06:20:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earliest Known Evidence for Microbial Life on Land: 3.48 Billion Years Old - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:20:25] <exec> 08└─There are a lot of good search services. None seems to support regex however. Regardless they don't have the answer to everything, there are a lot of diagrams and numbers on the composition, ie CO2. But not pressure.
[06:20:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earliest Known Evidence for Microbial Life on Land: 3.48 Billion Years Old - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:20:27] <exec> 08└─The ability of atmospheric gases to penetrate rock etc could perhaps give an insight?
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[07:17:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Targeting Netflix, Cannes Will Ban Streaming-Only Movies From Competition - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:17] <exec> 08└─Next move, Netflix opens at least two movie theaters in France. Then a international corporate public relations bitchfight ensues! Popcorn sales goes up.
[07:17:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Targeting Netflix, Cannes Will Ban Streaming-Only Movies From Competition - 607 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:18] <exec> 08└─Maybe I really am out of touch. I have never heard of this Cannes film festival. Do people (besides the people making the movies and running this "festival") even care? Do you think one single person is going to drop NetFlix because some shitty film didn't get in a shitty film festival? Do you think...
[07:17:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Targeting Netflix, Cannes Will Ban Streaming-Only Movies From Competition - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:20] <exec> 08└─Wrong link. Here's the right one: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[07:17:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Targeting Netflix, Cannes Will Ban Streaming-Only Movies From Competition - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:22] <exec> 08└─Maybe I really am out of touch. I have never heard of this Cannes film festival. Do people (besides the people making the movies and running this "festival") even care?
[07:17:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Targeting Netflix, Cannes Will Ban Streaming-Only Movies From Competition - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:25] <exec> 08└─Maybe I really am out of touch.
[07:17:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seven Ways to Help Your Kids With Math Homework - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:40] <exec> 08└─I'm thinking that all they need is to get the entrance exam to high school or possible college right. In the end it's about getting past employers screening or having enough skill to start a business by oneself. All this is just a big sign that the school-job-death treadmill has past the best before...
[07:17:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Seven Ways to Help Your Kids With Math Homework - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:42] <exec> 08└─" The problem is: kids with math-allergic parents won't get the support they need. "
[07:17:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seven Ways to Help Your Kids With Math Homework - 3554 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:44] <exec> 08└─You seem to misunderstand what I am trying to say. Every single part of human knowledge requires understanding of facts, and You cannot understand something without first remembering what it is -- I agree with that. And I'm not trying to push something that will magically make memorization disappear...
[07:19:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Capsule Robot" Explores Colon - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:19:09] <exec> 08└─Actually, they did ;-) [imdb.com]
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[08:16:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Kills SHA-1 Support in Edge, Internet Explorer 11 - 833 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:16:59] <exec> 08└─Breaking news for almost 24 hours, the duty editor doesn't give a damn. What the fuck has he volunteered for an editor, then? Almost 100 countries hit by ransomware attack [abc.net.au] --- 'Accidental hero' finds kill switch to stop spread of ransomware cyber-attack [theguardian.com] However, a UK c...
[08:17:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Targeting Netflix, Cannes Will Ban Streaming-Only Movies From Competition - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:11] <exec> 08└─Huh. So there are some fights the French don't just surrender. Good to see that some people still fight the fight of being human, regardless of logic or reason.
[08:17:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Targeting Netflix, Cannes Will Ban Streaming-Only Movies From Competition - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:12] <exec> 08└─Given that you obviously live in a cave
[08:17:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06Targeting Netflix, Cannes Will Ban Streaming-Only Movies From Competition - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:15] <exec> 08└─Nice list. Wish the exception of "Pulp Fiction", it would make a great list for the stupidest fucking movies of all time. No wonder I've never heard of it.
[08:17:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seven Ways to Help Your Kids With Math Homework - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:34] <exec> 08└─getting past employers screening or having enough skill to start a business by oneself
[08:17:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seven Ways to Help Your Kids With Math Homework - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:35] <exec> 08└─Learning math isn't supposed to be fun, it's supposed to be a life-lesson in that all the hard things are fought for with extreme tedium
[08:17:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seven Ways to Help Your Kids With Math Homework - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:38] <exec> 08└─I have to disagree with you. Part of math - or indeed any subject - is rote memorization.
[08:17:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seven Ways to Help Your Kids With Math Homework - 699 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:40] <exec> 08└─Mathematics teachers today don't know mathematics. Teach them and the problem is solved. You need to look at Jim Simons, who is a mathematician, hedge fund manager and a billionaire and he is spending actual money to teach mathematics to the teachers in the U.S. http://www.pbs.org
[08:17:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seven Ways to Help Your Kids With Math Homework - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:42] <exec> 08└─The tips are trivial obvious stuff. Meanwhile, this year I'm homeschooling calculus and physics, aiming for the AP tests. The mid-year ages are going to be 18, 16, 14, 12, 12. (all together because I can't deal with them separately) This... is terrifying.
[08:17:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Battery-Free Medical Implants Use Body's Fluids As Fuel - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:53] <exec> 08└─What will the byproducts of this contraption be? How will they be disposed of? Will they end up in your bloodstream? Why do I love Japan and Russia so much? Why isn't anyone else asking these questions?
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[09:17:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03lx [1915] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Kills SHA-1 Support in Edge, Internet Explorer 11 - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:17:19] <exec> 08└─It's easy to hurl criticisms from an Anonymous account. Show your face if you want to be heard or even better, get off your lazy ass and volunteer to help.
[09:17:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Kills SHA-1 Support in Edge, Internet Explorer 11 - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:17:20] <exec> 08└─Both users of Edge unreachable for comment.
[09:17:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Targeting Netflix, Cannes Will Ban Streaming-Only Movies From Competition - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:17:36] <exec> 08└─Nice list. Wish the exception of "Pulp Fiction", it would make a great list for the stupidest fucking movies of all time.
[09:17:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Targeting Netflix, Cannes Will Ban Streaming-Only Movies From Competition - 756 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:17:38] <exec> 08└─"Taxi driver" and "Apocalypse Now" on your list of "stupidest fucking movies"? Oh, the horror! Taxi driver. A taxi driver dies in a shootout with a pimp to save a girl from prostitution. Most memorable part (and dumb) the taxi driver pointing a gun in a mirror saying "You talking to me?". Just a ho...
[09:18:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seven Ways to Help Your Kids With Math Homework - 543 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:18:02] <exec> 08└─When I was a kid in school, I truly thought I was going to be valued according to my grades. Now, that I have passed into retirement, and went through this, I know the grade thing was to teach us to be good subordinate minions, to those who knew how to play the game. Playing the game has nothing to...
[09:18:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Keylogger in Conexant Audio Driver on HP Laptops - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:18:52] <exec> 08└─No, but this is "my first driver" level of debug. It's a Paula bean. Brillant!
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[10:17:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06400 Year-old Mystery of Prince Rupert's Drops Finally Cracked - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:17:12] <exec> 08└─The article makes it sound like we had no idea what was going on until now, which isn't true. It was known it was down the cooling, the inside contracting as it cooled while the outside had already solidified, and the breaking that tail allowed cracks to propagate which released the tension in the h...
[10:17:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06400 Year-old Mystery of Prince Rupert's Drops Finally Cracked - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:17:13] <exec> 08└─I didn't even know of the Prince Rupert's drop until now, let alone the how and why of its properties. Amazing! Thanks for the article, learned something new :)
[10:17:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Kills SHA-1 Support in Edge, Internet Explorer 11 - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:17:24] <exec> 08└─Show your face if you want to be heard
[10:17:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Targeting Netflix, Cannes Will Ban Streaming-Only Movies From Competition - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:17:41] <exec> 08└─Most memorable part (and dumb) the taxi driver pointing a gun in a mirror saying "You talking to me?". Just a horribly lame movie.
[10:18:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Seven Ways to Help Your Kids With Math Homework - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:07] <exec> 08└─Ethanol... your observation about physical parental discipline: the threat of violence is no longer a deterrent because in America that can get your kid taken away and you charged with a felony. Which means the kid can scream and cry all night wanting to play X-Box instead of doing boring things lik...
[10:18:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seven Ways to Help Your Kids With Math Homework - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:08] <exec> 08└─but at that point, you really should just homeschool them if possible; it would probably be more effective than the disaster that is our education system,
[10:18:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seven Ways to Help Your Kids With Math Homework - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:10] <exec> 08└─You are an idiot, trying to externalize your lack of success. Schools emphasize sports because that is the main source of alumni support. Everyone knows that. Generalized qualitative analysis scales, like grades, are admittedly superficial but necessary standards. Let me guess: you're an artist.
[10:18:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seven Ways to Help Your Kids With Math Homework - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:13] <exec> 08└─The other main fear I have is
[10:18:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seven Ways to Help Your Kids With Math Homework - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:15] <exec> 08└─I never heard for someone whose private life failed because of the failure to solve a quadratic equation. On the other hand, the consequences of a a divorce can certainly lead to a failed life.
[10:19:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03DmT [6439] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Keylogger in Conexant Audio Driver on HP Laptops - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:19:06] <exec> 08└─Aren't all hotkey-able programs logging your keystrokes to find the one you need to start a certain command? Or how does this work for ex. on Winamp and some other programs?
[10:23:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Itanium's Last Breath - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:23:48] <exec> 08└─I should have specified "...and paving the way for others to succeed". Maybe add "purposefully" and "causal relations" too... After all, one neither credits the apple tree for the discovery Laws of Motion nor Lamarck for Evolution.
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[11:17:18] <exec> 08└─Crushed in a press [youtube.com] - 20 tons to crush it (given the contact surface, I don't want to think of the pressure, in 10-100 Giga-Pascals range for sure). Indentation left in the steel plate used as support before crushing. 170,000 FPS - the drop resists a full metal jacket .38 Magnum special...
[11:17:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Kills SHA-1 Support in Edge, Internet Explorer 11 - 1018 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:30] <exec> 08└─You think we have Eidtors on Duty? How quaint. We have half a dozen or so guys who check in and push stories as they find the time. Often they even have to go find the damned things first. Which, come to think of it, is pretty damned sad when there are more than twenty thousand times that many peopl...
[11:17:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03lx [1915] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Kills SHA-1 Support in Edge, Internet Explorer 11 - 587 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:31] <exec> 08└─My, aren't we defensive all of a sudden! I must have hit a nerve. If you're too busy then recognise that others may face the same time constraints as you do and don't bitch about it when your submission isn't picked first from the list. You can use big words like "old-fashioned" and "responsibility"...
[11:17:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Kills SHA-1 Support in Edge, Internet Explorer 11 - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:33] <exec> 08└─I must have hit a nerve.
[11:17:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Targeting Netflix, Cannes Will Ban Streaming-Only Movies From Competition - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:51] <exec> 08└─Netflix opens at least two movie theaters in France
[11:17:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Targeting Netflix, Cannes Will Ban Streaming-Only Movies From Competition - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:53] <exec> 08└─Joseph Conrad who?
[11:18:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seven Ways to Help Your Kids With Math Homework - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:25] <exec> 08└─Learning math isn't supposed to be fun, it's supposed to be a life-lesson in that all the hard things are fought for with extreme tedium
[11:18:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google/Waymo Self-Driving Minivan Tested with the Public in Phoenix AZ - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:52] <exec> 08└─Maybe they could contact the senior citizens center and offer rides for grannies and grandpas. As far as I am concerned, these are the first people who should benefit from this new technology. Added points for helping disabled people. For now, I have alternatives for my transportation needs. There...
[11:19:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Keylogger in Conexant Audio Driver on HP Laptops - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:19:19] <exec> 08└─I imagine that those intercept key-strokes but don't log (store) them. This Conexant software records all key-strokes in a file.
[11:19:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Keylogger in Conexant Audio Driver on HP Laptops - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:19:21] <exec> 08└─H-P has issued patches. This link describes them but they don't seem to be downloadable from the page: https://ftp.hp.com [hp.com] They're supposedly also available through Windows Update. http://www.zdnet.com [zdn...
[11:19:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03cafebabe [894] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Capsule Robot" Explores Colon - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:19:58] <exec> 08└─Descent: Goatse Edition.
[11:19:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Capsule Robot" Explores Colon - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:19:59] <exec> 08└─I've seen virtual colonoscopies before
[11:20:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Capsule Robot" Explores Colon - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:20:01] <exec> 08└─Or if butthurt had submitted for the article? Show some patients Tim and we'll get to the bottom of this!
[11:21:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dungeons 2 is currently free on the Humble Store for a limited time, has a Linux version - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:21:00] <exec> 08└─So, to sum up, cmn32480 is a Windoze guy? I mean, after the Windoze Massacre in Europe, and the Terrible Ransomware attack in Bowling Green, one can never be too careful. Why is my computer phoning home?
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[12:17:46] <exec> 08└─You think we have Eidtors on Duty? How quaint.
[12:17:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Kills SHA-1 Support in Edge, Internet Explorer 11 - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:17:47] <exec> 08└─It will run in 2 hours. You can drop it already.
[12:17:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Kills SHA-1 Support in Edge, Internet Explorer 11 - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:17:50] <exec> 08└─How would you feel if your open heart surgery that you need is cancelled because of a ransomware attack perpetrated with NSA tools?
[12:18:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Targeting Netflix, Cannes Will Ban Streaming-Only Movies From Competition - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:10] <exec> 08└─Stay ignorant and be happy with whatever Hollywood feeds down on your throat.
[12:18:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Targeting Netflix, Cannes Will Ban Streaming-Only Movies From Competition - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:11] <exec> 08└─Apart from the Australian anthem (that would be one)
[12:18:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Targeting Netflix, Cannes Will Ban Streaming-Only Movies From Competition - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:14] <exec> 08└─You didn't even like the Flight of the Valkyries scene? I didn't have much use for the rest of the movie but that scene was pretty good. Personally my favorite Vietnam movie was Full Metal Jacket. The dark humor was great, and it had more quotable lines. Though, "How much can I get for $10?" is one...
[12:18:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seven Ways to Help Your Kids With Math Homework - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:46] <exec> 08└─Let me guess: you're an artist.
[12:18:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seven Ways to Help Your Kids With Math Homework - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:47] <exec> 08└─"Well, you're a good man, lieutenant. A good man always knows his limitations." ~ Inspector Callaghan
[12:18:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Seven Ways to Help Your Kids With Math Homework - 584 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:50] <exec> 08└─Math... any of the sciences... shop... fun! No problems with spelling or grammar. English Literature was my own personal hell. Especially lengthy tomes by Charles Dickens, Shakespeare, or Chaucer. I loved a good science fiction read. The other stuff, like History, wasn't fun, but do-able. I much pr...
[12:19:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Keylogger in Conexant Audio Driver on HP Laptops - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:19:45] <exec> 08└─I agree, it looks like an intentional backdoor dressed up as an oops. Why on earth would you need to log keystrokes to a file. Is your keyboard events handling routine sooooo complex that console debug output is insufficient? does not make sense. OTOH it is not fair that windows gets to log and coll...
[12:19:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Keylogger in Conexant Audio Driver on HP Laptops - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:19:46] <exec> 08└─That's just taking the piss.
[12:21:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Earliest Known Evidence for Microbial Life on Land: 3.48 Billion Years Old - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:21:40] <exec> 08└─Ocean chemistry might be a better bet since we have a fairly good record of that and it goes back further than water-based life could exist on Earth.
[12:24:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Itanium's Last Breath - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:35] <exec> 08└─...which I did actually link to in the post, using one of those new-fangled hyperlink thingies where you click on the underlined text...
[12:24:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Intel Itanium's Last Breath - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:36] <exec> 08└─Was it supposed to be a joke? Because I don't get the point of a Jacob's ladder arcing device to scientific computing.
[12:24:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Intel Itanium's Last Breath - 950 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:39] <exec> 08└─Ok, I think I have a reading comprehension fail here. I guess I was scanning the post and jumped to the paragraph with the link. I was reading about molecular simulation code [berkeley.edu] which uses the term, "Jacob's ladder" in referring to a certain process, and thinking, a) that can't be that b...
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[13:17:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Dakota Access Pipeline Suffers Oil Leak Even Before Becoming Operational - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:19] <exec> 08└─They get their way, shove the pipeline through, and I wish I wasn't so cynical to think that this was a staged middle finger to the tribe. "Fuck you, shut up, or the next one goes into your very means of survival!" For anyone who thinks that is absurd, much more money has been wasted on symbolic ges...
[13:17:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dakota Access Pipeline Suffers Oil Leak Even Before Becoming Operational - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:20] <exec> 08└─Pump stations get slight spillage, they are designed to handled them, up to thousands of gallons with less environmental impact than my spilling a table spoon of oil when I go to change my oil.
[13:17:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03its_gonna_be_yuge! [6454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dakota Access Pipeline Suffers Oil Leak Even Before Becoming Operational - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:22] <exec> 08└─Pump stations get slight spillage, they are designed to handled them, up to thousands of gallons with less environmental impact than my spilling a table spoon of oil when I go to change my oil.
[13:17:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dakota Access Pipeline Suffers Oil Leak Even Before Becoming Operational - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:25] <exec> 08└─No. No oil spilled into the environment. And we we know that pipelines are the absolute safest and most environmentally friendly way of transporting oil known to man by a long shot. Spills and environmental damage are possible, but are way lower than any other method.
[13:17:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dakota Access Pipeline Suffers Oil Leak Even Before Becoming Operational - 802 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:27] <exec> 08└─The same applies to non-pollutant liquids being pumped as well, right down to potable water. You generally expect some leakage and the occassional accidental spill at pumping stations so design for it; that generally means sitting all your pumping equipment in a bunded pit with facilities for draina...
[13:17:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03its_gonna_be_yuge! [6454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dakota Access Pipeline Suffers Oil Leak Even Before Becoming Operational - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:29] <exec> 08└─No. No oil spilled into the environment.
[13:17:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03driven [6295] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dakota Access Pipeline Suffers Oil Leak Even Before Becoming Operational - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:31] <exec> 08└─"And we we know that pipelines are the absolute safest and most environmentally friendly way of transporting oil known to man by a long shot" Depends where you run the pipelines. Pipeline planners have no qualms about routing piping next to (or even through) fresh water bodies. Environmental catastr...
[13:17:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Third of Virtual Servers Are Zombies - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:39] <exec> 08└─The penultimate paragraph mentions "users who keep servers sitting for months because they are used for backup." An article titled "A third of virtual servers are hot backups" wouldn't get as many clicks.
[13:18:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Kills SHA-1 Support in Edge, Internet Explorer 11 - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:06] <exec> 08└─Maybe the bastards will secure their shit now.
[13:18:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Targeting Netflix, Cannes Will Ban Streaming-Only Movies From Competition - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:30] <exec> 08└─Dear god, I was desperate on a flight recently and rewatched Rogue One... I really thought Disney would improve the quality of Star Wars after the prequel nightmares. I can believe the prequels seem decent in comparison.
[13:18:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Targeting Netflix, Cannes Will Ban Streaming-Only Movies From Competition - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:32] <exec> 08└─We humans are sure French! I agree absolutely fellow human, we must keep up the fight that is good, for our defined humanity. Please pass me some more of your ethanol product, I too enjoy imbibing vapors of intoxication.
[13:18:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Targeting Netflix, Cannes Will Ban Streaming-Only Movies From Competition - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:34] <exec> 08└─Ooops... seems like 5 of them. Surely I'd drive around town listening Down Under on repeat, but driving is so boring when limited to just around the town. The other one... mmm... is something with the four that are young and free and toiling. Meanwhile we are no longer just four, many not so young a...
[13:18:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Targeting Netflix, Cannes Will Ban Streaming-Only Movies From Competition - 1734 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:36] <exec> 08└─I dunno. The list of great movies is not so absolute. "Taxi Driver" was a big 'meh' for me. Maybe it was impressive when it came out because of the context of the time, but I found it dull. 2001 is like that, too, I think. Audiences who saw it when it first came out were all "oooh," and "aaah," but...
[13:18:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Targeting Netflix, Cannes Will Ban Streaming-Only Movies From Competition - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:38] <exec> 08└─Dear god, I was desperate on a flight recently and rewatched Rogue One...
[13:18:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Targeting Netflix, Cannes Will Ban Streaming-Only Movies From Competition - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:40] <exec> 08└─I dunno. The list of great movies is not so absolute.
[13:20:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Keylogger in Conexant Audio Driver on HP Laptops - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:20:13] <exec> 08└─No stdout for dll drivers. And I can even guess why they had both the debug APIs and the log: They likely tested different keyboard configurations (laptop's, usb tenkeyless, usb 104, multi-lang...) on non-production machines and didn't want to install a remote debugger just for some quick tests.
[13:21:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03purple_cobra [1435] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Dungeons 2 is currently free on the Humble Store for a limited time, has a Linux version - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:52] <exec> 08└─Yeah, those "click all the boxes containing a marmoset" style login hurdles are a PITA, plus they usually require a couple of third-party scripts from different websites so if you use any plugins to police browser scripting, you get to reload the page a couple of times until the damn thing works. At...
[13:25:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Intel Itanium's Last Breath - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:08] <exec> 08└─Thanks, I see that now. I had looked at khallow's quote, from which your hyperlink had been elided.
[13:25:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Itanium's Last Breath - 1194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:09] <exec> 08└─I remember there being an itanic box at a Linux Expo back in about 2002/2003 in London. The RedHat people had it. At the time I was working for Sun and UltraSPARC development wasn't going well compared with POWER. Many people were very critical of Sun but what was really funny was when I asked to se...
[13:25:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Itanium's Last Breath - 501 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:11] <exec> 08└─> I should have specified "...and paving the way for others to succeed" I meant to link to Wikipedia's VLIW article; copy-pasting the one about the Elbrus 2000 was a mistake. I wasn't trying to imply that the Itanium led to the Elbrus. Isn't Itanium the only exemplar of an EPIC architecture? The fac...
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[14:17:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06"Biggest Ransomware Attack in History" Hits Around 100 Countries, Disrupts UK's NHS - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:19] <exec> 08└─I hope the shit admins and beancounters who command them end up having to explain paying millions for not giving a flying fuck about securing some of our most sensitive personal information. It's never going to change until their pockets get hit.
[14:17:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Biggest Ransomware Attack in History" Hits Around 100 Countries, Disrupts UK's NHS - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:21] <exec> 08└─It's expensive. You get what you pay for. /me ducks.
[14:17:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Biggest Ransomware Attack in History" Hits Around 100 Countries, Disrupts UK's NHS - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:23] <exec> 08└─Judging by turgid's bit, it will become apparent soon if anybody died as a result of this. That's what we need: cyber deaths in hospitals. Long predicted, now delivered to you courtesy of the NSA's competing and counterproductive missions.
[14:17:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Biggest Ransomware Attack in History" Hits Around 100 Countries, Disrupts UK's NHS - 733 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:25] <exec> 08└─According to Avast 99 countries are affected. Worst affected is Russia, Ukraine and Taiwan. Also British hospitals, Spanish telephone operator Telefónica, and US transportation company Fedex has been disrupted. The French car manufacturer Renault has been forced to stop the manufacturing in Sloveni...
[14:17:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geezer [511] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Biggest Ransomware Attack in History" Hits Around 100 Countries, Disrupts UK's NHS - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:27] <exec> 08└─Issue here has nothing to do with closed/open architecture, and everything to do with bad original design (Microsoft), bad internal security (NSA), idiot users (who open phishing emails), rent-seeking MBA's/PHB's who don't budget for adequate security, and lazy/incompetent sysadmins who forego/delay...
[14:17:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Biggest Ransomware Attack in History" Hits Around 100 Countries, Disrupts UK's NHS - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:30] <exec> 08└─They'll just use it as a new excuse to curtail internet freedoms.
[14:17:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2, Disagree) 02 - 06"Biggest Ransomware Attack in History" Hits Around 100 Countries, Disrupts UK's NHS - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:32] <exec> 08└─If people start running Linux and BSD on hospital/FedEx/etc. computers, then that's what the next generation of ransomware will target.
[14:17:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Biggest Ransomware Attack in History" Hits Around 100 Countries, Disrupts UK's NHS - 631 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:34] <exec> 08└─Jeremy Cunt 'ignored warning signs' before cyber-attack hit NHS [theguardian.com] Jeremy Hunt has been accused of ignoring “extensive warning signs” that could have an unprecedented global cyber-attack that plunged the NHS into chaos this weekend. ... The shadow health secretary, Jonathan Ashwor...
[14:17:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Biggest Ransomware Attack in History" Hits Around 100 Countries, Disrupts UK's NHS - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:36] <exec> 08└─Sure, but it's also more straightforward to protect those systems. Perhaps you are on to something, use as a obscure system you can live with.
[14:17:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Biggest Ransomware Attack in History" Hits Around 100 Countries, Disrupts UK's NHS - 509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:39] <exec> 08└─Microsoft has issued a patch for the SMB hole, including versions for legacy OSes including Windows XP SP3 x86: https://technet.microsoft.com [microsoft.com] You can use Windows Update mechanism to apply the patch. Alternatively, you can download the patch from Microsoft Up...
[14:17:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Dakota Access Pipeline Suffers Oil Leak Even Before Becoming Operational - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:53] <exec> 08└─Bollea v. Gawker comes to mind. Any other examples? https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[14:17:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dakota Access Pipeline Suffers Oil Leak Even Before Becoming Operational - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:54] <exec> 08└─Black (oil) Leaks Matter! Probably payed by black money ;)
[14:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dakota Access Pipeline Suffers Oil Leak Even Before Becoming Operational - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:56] <exec> 08└─> Pipeline planners have no qualms about routing piping next to (or even through) fresh water bodies. DAPL’s route crosses agricultural land, protected wildlife habitats, and three major rivers: the Missouri, the Mississippi, and the Big Sioux.
[14:18:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Third of Virtual Servers Are Zombies - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:06] <exec> 08└─Setup and shutdown costs and time.. may also be a factor. Just paying the bills may be more efficient.
[14:18:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06400 Year-old Mystery of Prince Rupert's Drops Finally Cracked - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:18] <exec> 08└─50 tons per square inch = 77.5 MPa. Same ballpark as pressure at 6500 meters under the ocean or a bullet chamber during firing.
[14:18:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06400 Year-old Mystery of Prince Rupert's Drops Finally Cracked - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:20] <exec> 08└─I'll hope someone tries to make a gigantic prince Rupert drop. It would be interesting to see how it decomposes. Thinking of something with a 0.5 meter diameter or so.
[14:18:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Kills SHA-1 Support in Edge, Internet Explorer 11 - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:38] <exec> 08└─You can drop it already.
[14:18:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Kills SHA-1 Support in Edge, Internet Explorer 11 - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:39] <exec> 08└─Is there money to pay the ransom?
[14:19:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Targeting Netflix, Cannes Will Ban Streaming-Only Movies From Competition - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:09] <exec> 08└─I'll hope for your own sake it's pristine French paint.. :-) The French government may in the feature consider to strangle Netflix network pipe from the USA.
[14:19:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seven Ways to Help Your Kids With Math Homework - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:46] <exec> 08└─Great comment. I agree that practical problems are the key, and primary teachers often don't find ways to integrate this stuff. The problem is: kids with math-allergic parents won't get the support they need. And far too many elementary school teachers are math-allergic themselves, and don't unders...
[14:20:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google/Waymo Self-Driving Minivan Tested with the Public in Phoenix AZ - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:15] <exec> 08└─I picked my nose today. Did you?
[14:20:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google/Waymo Self-Driving Minivan Tested with the Public in Phoenix AZ - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:16] <exec> 08└─Yeah - ask Anthony Weiner about smart phones and dicks.
[14:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dungeons 2 is currently free on the Humble Store for a limited time, has a Linux version - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:28] <exec> 08└─And it requires you to LINK your steam account. Before it would give you a code. Seems like a marketing SCAM to me. Like others I have read I have pretty much given up on HumbleBundle as all their games are Steam based (DRMed to death). I too suggest GOG.COM, at least there you own the games rath...
[14:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earliest Known Evidence for Microbial Life on Land: 3.48 Billion Years Old - 797 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:46] <exec> 08└─Okay, I could see how with enough theory fossilized rain drop imprints might give some insight - though given the massive range in sizes today there would probably be *huge* error bars. And yeah, I suppose ambient pressure would have an effect on rock chambers, wouldn't it? The greater the ambient p...
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[15:17:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06"Biggest Ransomware Attack in History" Hits Around 100 Countries, Disrupts UK's NHS - 688 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:42] <exec> 08└─Correct. But, there's a difference between targeting Microsoft and Linux. With Microsoft, you wait, and wait, and wait, hoping that Microsoft might offer a patch for the hole in their system. With open source software, there will probably be a patch pretty soon. If the patch is not forthcoming, you...
[15:17:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Biggest Ransomware Attack in History" Hits Around 100 Countries, Disrupts UK's NHS - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:43] <exec> 08└─Perhaps you are on to something, use as a obscure system you can live with.
[15:17:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Biggest Ransomware Attack in History" Hits Around 100 Countries, Disrupts UK's NHS - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:45] <exec> 08└─Patches and updates too often make software needed in production to stop working. And security in several large organizations is decided by people that lack insight (MBA, PHB the kit).
[15:17:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Biggest Ransomware Attack in History" Hits Around 100 Countries, Disrupts UK's NHS - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:47] <exec> 08└─Isn't it a bit misleading to try and pin this on the NSA? I might have misunderstood the entire news story but from what I can tell it's not the NSA that developed the Malware, they found the feature - I'm certain they exploited it for something
[15:17:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Biggest Ransomware Attack in History" Hits Around 100 Countries, Disrupts UK's NHS - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:50] <exec> 08└─With Microsoft, you wait, and wait, and wait, hoping that Microsoft might offer a patch for the hole in their system.
[15:17:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06"Biggest Ransomware Attack in History" Hits Around 100 Countries, Disrupts UK's NHS - 823 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:52] <exec> 08└─Well, yes, the admins who were running insecure networks carry some fault. So does the government, that failed to disclose a weakness so that it could be repaired. This ought to be a lesson (but won't be) for all those clueless politicians who think that backdoors in encryption algorithms are a good...
[15:18:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dakota Access Pipeline Suffers Oil Leak Even Before Becoming Operational - 553 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:09] <exec> 08└─> [...] to try and generate an "I told you so" story for those opposed to the pipeline. The article quotes one opponent who claims the company said there would be no leaks. If they really said that, this event refutes it. > Not exactly fake news, but definitely not the major incident and sign of thi...
[15:18:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dakota Access Pipeline Suffers Oil Leak Even Before Becoming Operational - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:11] <exec> 08└─link to that last story: https://www.democracynow.org [democracynow.org]
[15:18:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Third of Virtual Servers Are Zombies - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:21] <exec> 08└─Yes, exactly. I was trying to say that the story is click-bait.
[15:18:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03iWantToKeepAnon [686] (Score: 2) 02 - 06400 Year-old Mystery of Prince Rupert's Drops Finally Cracked - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:33] <exec> 08└─Funny you should say that Smarter Every Day has a series of videos [youtube.com] where he fires higher and higher caliber bullets at Prince Rupert Drops
[15:18:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Kills SHA-1 Support in Edge, Internet Explorer 11 - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:54] <exec> 08└─Funny enough.], it seems like paying the ransom once is cheaper in this case. That is... if you don't take into account the cost of the chaos; but who in her/his full mind would look into those costs? The path to freedom (or death) is capitalism, and everybody knows the capitalism is about privatizi...
[15:19:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Targeting Netflix, Cannes Will Ban Streaming-Only Movies From Competition - 974 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:26] <exec> 08└─It has been around about 70 years. You can consider it the hipster version of the film festival; they bend themselves over backward to define themselves in what they are not. In the rest of the world, if you release a crappy movie, it usually does poorly. However, if your crappy movie has an anti-we...
[15:19:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02 - 06Seven Ways to Help Your Kids With Math Homework - 2015 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:39] <exec> 08└─I have to disagree with you. Part of math - or indeed any subject - is rote memorization. Personally, I remember having to memorize the multiplication tables in 3rd grade: 6*7 = 42, 6*8=48, etc.. Boring, repetitive, but utterly essential if you want kids to be able to multiply arbitrarily large numb...
[15:20:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Seven Ways to Help Your Kids With Math Homework - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:04] <exec> 08└─If you've ever had to help your child with math homework, you really appreciate their teachers, who do it every day. "Math anxiety" isn't something only kids experience.
[15:20:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seven Ways to Help Your Kids With Math Homework - 7962 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:05] <exec> 08└─You know what one of the strongest predictors of math performance in school is? Early childhood math skills. Kids who are ahead in preschool generally stay ahead at least through primary school. A lot of struggling later can be helped with early intervention. And, frankly, this starts at home. Math...
[15:21:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Keylogger in Conexant Audio Driver on HP Laptops - 683 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:08] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't download for me using a normal web browser, it kept stalling at around 180 MB complete (why on earth is an audio driver over 200 MB anyway???). Turned to wget, and it completed first time. Interestingly, the log file was empty on my machine when I checked it before applying the update. Yes...
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[16:17:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New World Record Set for Longest Drone Delivery - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:24] <exec> 08└─The BQM-145 has a 135 kg payload and 1300 km (810 miles) range.
[16:17:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New World Record Set for Longest Drone Delivery - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:26] <exec> 08└─>The BQM-145 has a 135 kg payload and 1300 km (810 miles) range. And what kind of ground support does it require (runways, maintenance crews, etc.?) If a drone isn't VTOL and capable of return to origin without refuel/recharge, it's not much of a delivery drone, it's more of a middle-link in the cha...
[16:17:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02 - 06"Biggest Ransomware Attack in History" Hits Around 100 Countries, Disrupts UK's NHS - 823 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:50] <exec> 08└─Well, yes, the admins who were running insecure networks carry some fault. So does the government, that failed to disclose a weakness so that it could be repaired. This ought to be a lesson (but won't be) for all those clueless politicians who think that backdoors in encryption algorithms are a good...
[16:17:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06"Biggest Ransomware Attack in History" Hits Around 100 Countries, Disrupts UK's NHS - 656 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:51] <exec> 08└─> [...] that's what the next generation of ransomware will target. As a criminological concept, target hardening has some serious deficiences. For one, it only works against opportunistic or amateurish criminals. A determined, clever criminal would probably not be deterred, and some cleverer ones m...
[16:17:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Biggest Ransomware Attack in History" Hits Around 100 Countries, Disrupts UK's NHS - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:53] <exec> 08└─The thing is, if you don't do it then somebody else will. Yes, fix the holes. But yes, also try and hack the fuck out of them so you know what is possible.
[16:17:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Biggest Ransomware Attack in History" Hits Around 100 Countries, Disrupts UK's NHS - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:56] <exec> 08└─As an admin in a large 3 letter computer company in a previous life, updates had to be agreed on with all stakeholders via a change control process. The end result was that updates were applied twice a year, on a Sunday morning at 4am. I expect the NHS to be just as conservative, if not more so. All...
[16:17:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Biggest Ransomware Attack in History" Hits Around 100 Countries, Disrupts UK's NHS - 575 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:58] <exec> 08└─Regardless of appearances, the US national security state isn't really interested in defense of anybody but themselves. Their idea of defense is "kill them before they kill us", which means their real interest is in offense, and that is why they keep any and all vulnerabilities they discover to them...
[16:17:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Biggest Ransomware Attack in History" Hits Around 100 Countries, Disrupts UK's NHS - 610 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:00] <exec> 08└─I too was in such a situation, and always giggled with sadistic glee when we got hit with childishly preventable problems. As the business twisted in the wind while we "cleaned up the mess", it was positively fascinating watching the blizzard of company-wide memos from horror-stricken C-levels tryin...
[16:18:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Biggest Ransomware Attack in History" Hits Around 100 Countries, Disrupts UK's NHS - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:02] <exec> 08└─Training. It's a thing. Really.
[16:18:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dakota Access Pipeline Suffers Oil Leak Even Before Becoming Operational - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:21] <exec> 08└─Don't worry friend, we will install a nice thick lead lining to contain the oil spills.
[16:18:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dakota Access Pipeline Suffers Oil Leak Even Before Becoming Operational - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:23] <exec> 08└─Huh, sounds like of like rail
[16:18:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03chewbacon [1032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dakota Access Pipeline Suffers Oil Leak Even Before Becoming Operational - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:25] <exec> 08└─This is analogous to finding fecal coliform in your kitchen and saying you have shit all over your house. Fucking whiney babies reporting.
[16:18:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06400 Year-old Mystery of Prince Rupert's Drops Finally Cracked - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:47] <exec> 08└─That would be a bomb; only less safe to handle.
[16:18:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06400 Year-old Mystery of Prince Rupert's Drops Finally Cracked - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:49] <exec> 08└─It hasn't be a mystery at all for a long time: the study of Prince Rupert drops is what led to the development of safety glass - which works exactly the same way.
[16:19:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Kills SHA-1 Support in Edge, Internet Explorer 11 - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:11] <exec> 08└─Only if you're either scum or a socialist. But I repeat myself.
[16:19:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Microsoft Kills SHA-1 Support in Edge, Internet Explorer 11 - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:12] <exec> 08└─Your're not saying that only scum or Socialists understand Capitalism, are you?
[16:19:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Targeting Netflix, Cannes Will Ban Streaming-Only Movies From Competition - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:45] <exec> 08└─Waltzing Matilda, obviously.... :) "Once a jolly swagman camped by a billabong...."
[16:19:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Targeting Netflix, Cannes Will Ban Streaming-Only Movies From Competition - 1600 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:46] <exec> 08└─Cannes is the top film festival for artsy "liberal" types and Europeans particularly. It is probably the world's most well known film festival. The treatment that "mainstream" films get there can vary, but the thing itself is used as a marketing tool. Amazon is also affected by this decision as the...
[16:19:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Targeting Netflix, Cannes Will Ban Streaming-Only Movies From Competition - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:48] <exec> 08└─When I see Jason Statham in a movie, I'm always waiting for him to go full Crank/Crank 2.
[16:20:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] 02 - 06Seven Ways to Help Your Kids With Math Homework - 88 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:02] <exec> 08└─Has there been any evaluation on what teaching methods that are the most efficient ones?
[16:20:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seven Ways to Help Your Kids With Math Homework - 1269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:28] <exec> 08└─It's the teachers. Seriously -- many, many studies have shown it. As someone who taught secondary math and physics for a few years, I chatted with primary school teachers from time to time. I also encountered a lot of teachers for elementary and middle school math during certification, also at works...
[16:21:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Keylogger in Conexant Audio Driver on HP Laptops - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:31] <exec> 08└─Perhaps you'd post the download link? It wasn't obvious to me.
[16:21:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Keylogger in Conexant Audio Driver on HP Laptops - 532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:32] <exec> 08└─http://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp80001-80500/sp80264.exe [hp.com] For my particular model (HP ZBook 15 G3) and OS (Win7). I don't know if other models or OS versions have different links. I went via hp.com and searched for drivers updates specifically for my model and OS, found the ConExant audio dr...
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[17:17:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Australia Bungled Its $36 Billion High-Speed Internet Rollout - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:09] <exec> 08└─From what I remember it was deliberately derailed by Mr Turner and some telecommunications companies that had other interests.
[17:17:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New World Record Set for Longest Drone Delivery - 657 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:18] <exec> 08└─This HQ-40 UAV controlled by cellphone network. I'll guess it's powered by hydrocarbon driven propellers? And fixed wing is more or less necessary to get fuel efficiency. Long flight, one over the Atlantic has been done [sciencenewsforstudents.org] already in 2003-08-09 20:00 using GPS, satellite ba...
[17:17:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Biggest Ransomware Attack in History" Hits Around 100 Countries, Disrupts UK's NHS - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:50] <exec> 08└─I was thinking more about small business and the alike.
[17:17:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Biggest Ransomware Attack in History" Hits Around 100 Countries, Disrupts UK's NHS - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:51] <exec> 08└─It'll only be a reason for jacking up healthcare costs even more.
[17:17:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Biggest Ransomware Attack in History" Hits Around 100 Countries, Disrupts UK's NHS - 1456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:54] <exec> 08└─Let's narrow it down a bit. Don't blame the sysadmins this time, they can't apply patches that don't exist. Those rent seeking MBAs didn't renew the extended support contract nor did they provide a budget to migrate away from XP. And let's not forget that MS perfected the email virus. Way back in th...
[17:17:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Biggest Ransomware Attack in History" Hits Around 100 Countries, Disrupts UK's NHS - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:56] <exec> 08└─Email using html is a scourge and to top it of Microsoft leaves open SMB ports, which is buggy of course. ASCII is the right way (minus some esc codes that still may get into the open-execute-paradigm)
[17:18:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06400 Year-old Mystery of Prince Rupert's Drops Finally Cracked - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:42] <exec> 08└─From the high speed footage I have seen. The drop essentially just cracks. It doesn't seem to explode really. Regardless it's possible to use robots etc to handle it safely.
[17:19:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Kills SHA-1 Support in Edge, Internet Explorer 11 - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:07] <exec> 08└─No, I'm saying only they misunderstand it in that particular way.
[17:20:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seven Ways to Help Your Kids With Math Homework - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:22] <exec> 08└─I'm affraid of The Donald. He's an irrational number.
[17:21:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Keylogger in Conexant Audio Driver on HP Laptops - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:27] <exec> 08└─More like 31337book :P
[17:21:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Start-Up Unveils 3D Printer that can Build Carbon Fiber, Kevlar, Fiberglass Parts - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:40] <exec> 08└─Different processes for different parts... too lazy to watch the video: are they laying long fibers, or just feeding in chopped up short bits? Either is valid, but the long fibers create some interesting challenges and benefits. Personally, I am ready and waiting for a practical 3D reinforced concre...
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[18:17:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03physicsmajor [1471] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Avast Blocks the Entire Internet – Again - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:22] <exec> 08└─This means Avast users continue to be vulnerable to the WCry, for example via a compromised computer being brought on the local network, as WCry attacks through SMB but the kill switch is a HTTP request to a random now-registered website. Stellar job!
[18:17:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Australia Bungled Its $36 Billion High-Speed Internet Rollout - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:30] <exec> 08└─"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway."
[18:17:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New World Record Set for Longest Drone Delivery - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:41] <exec> 08└─Don't Dragon capsules count? They're unmanned delivery vehicles, though not entirely aerial...
[18:18:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06"Biggest Ransomware Attack in History" Hits Around 100 Countries, Disrupts UK's NHS - 245 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:04] <exec> 08└─Isn't it a bit misleading to try and pin this on the NSA? I might have misunderstood the entire news story but from what I can tell it's not the NSA that developed the Malware, they found the feature - I'm certain they exploited it for something
[18:18:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06"Biggest Ransomware Attack in History" Hits Around 100 Countries, Disrupts UK's NHS - 575 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:10] <exec> 08└─Regardless of appearances, the US national security state isn't really interested in defense of anybody but themselves. Their idea of defense is "kill them before they kill us", which means their real interest is in offense, and that is why they keep any and all vulnerabilities they discover to them...
[18:18:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Biggest Ransomware Attack in History" Hits Around 100 Countries, Disrupts UK's NHS - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:19] <exec> 08└─The big mess here is that the other half of the NSA’s mission is actually to help protect the United States from cyberattack. Here they have not only failed utterly, but are in fact guilty of all but betraying that mission. But I suppose whatever military-type in charge here might well quip the wa...
[18:18:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06"Biggest Ransomware Attack in History" Hits Around 100 Countries, Disrupts UK's NHS - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:21] <exec> 08└─This is where international agencies like the NSA should be earning their keep. If they, and their counterparts in other affected countries, cannot trace the people behind this, then WTF are we paying their salaries for?
[18:18:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03number6 [1831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Biggest Ransomware Attack in History" Hits Around 100 Countries, Disrupts UK's NHS - 1330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:23] <exec> 08└─ Read this: https://twitter.com [twitter.com] Having said that ......... I highly recommend all Win XP users to run this simple one-click program: Seconfig XP [sytes.net] It is a fantastic little tool for quickly hardening your network security settings....
[18:18:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dakota Access Pipeline Suffers Oil Leak Even Before Becoming Operational - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:45] <exec> 08└─Actually that isn't true, a worldwide oil/energy reporting agency (not government affiliated) says that trains are actually a slight bit more friendly. Now, this may be taking into account older pipeline tech, but at the current point in time pipelines are not magically safer as a whole. Welcome to...
[18:18:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03gman003 [4155] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dakota Access Pipeline Suffers Oil Leak Even Before Becoming Operational - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:47] <exec> 08└─Is it really a "leak" if it did not enter the ecosystem, and was fully contained by safety measures? I suppose it's a leak from the "shipping oil to sale" standpoint, but not the "keep the oil out of the drinking water" one that everyone really cares about. Anyone with a middle-school level of engin...
[18:20:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Targeting Netflix, Cannes Will Ban Streaming-Only Movies From Competition - 1129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:09] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure what all the conflict is about. It's a film festival where part of it is actually showing the film. As it is their festival, and a contest of sorts, they get to determine the rules. One of them, is that is must be played in an actual theater, in France no less. This doesn't seem to affe...
[18:20:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seven Ways to Help Your Kids With Math Homework - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:52] <exec> 08└─You are an idiot, trying to externalize your lack of success.
[18:20:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seven Ways to Help Your Kids With Math Homework - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:53] <exec> 08└─99th percentile
[18:20:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seven Ways to Help Your Kids With Math Homework - 1468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:56] <exec> 08└─In my failed quest to get cisfemale programmers to precipitate out of the æther, which I have given up out of sheer frustration with third-wave feminism and their sexually abusive, homophobic white knights (not to be confused with their blatant transphobia and blind, right-wing-authoritarian-follow...
[18:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Puppet Plans Expansion - 1893 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:10] <exec> 08└─Say what you will about New York City, but its male/female ratio is 40/60. For geeks it's even more favorable than that in practice because in the population of young available males with disposable income there are otherwise finance types or advertising dorks. I used to live close to NYC and visite...
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[19:17:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03cafebabe [894] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Avast Blocks the Entire Internet – Again - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:23] <exec> 08└─Yes, I speculated that Avast's failure and the large-scale computer attack may be related [soylentnews.org]. However, this raises questions about Avast's previous failures and also competitor failures. Are they self-inflicted or the work of malicious third-parties?
[19:17:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Avast Blocks the Entire Internet – Again - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:25] <exec> 08└─Are they self-inflicted or the work of malicious third-parties? Neither... Blame Microsoft for shitty security.
[19:17:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Australia Bungled Its $36 Billion High-Speed Internet Rollout - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:35] <exec> 08└─Could it be that the two endpoints are just too thrifty to spring for more than basic speed, or is multi-tier service a thing outside the monopolies of the US?
[19:17:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Australia Bungled Its $36 Billion High-Speed Internet Rollout - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:37] <exec> 08└─Of the NBN [theregister.co.uk], not for Australian would-be netizens. Go back a few years for some real laughs.
[19:17:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New World Record Set for Longest Drone Delivery - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:49] <exec> 08└─I wonder if Canada cares when the flight leaves from the beach and never crosses over populated areas?
[19:18:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03pnkwarhall [4558] (Score: 1) 02 - 06"Biggest Ransomware Attack in History" Hits Around 100 Countries, Disrupts UK's NHS - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:27] <exec> 08└─I am a Neal Stephenson fan, and I wholeheartedly agree. It was one of the worst books I've ever read; I think i managed to finish it solely based on hope it would somehow eventually get better.
[19:21:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google/Waymo Self-Driving Minivan Tested with the Public in Phoenix AZ - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:26] <exec> 08└─Public transit is better than what Runaway thinks
[19:23:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dungeons 2 is currently free on the Humble Store for a limited time, has a Linux version - 849 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:44] <exec> 08└─Capitalism is a method of production where the -ownership- is concentrated in a few individuals and which exhibits a top-down (autocratic) structure--in contrast with Socialism, where -ownership- is distributed among all of the workers and exhibiting a bottom-up (democratic) structure. You appear to...
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[20:17:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Avast Blocks the Entire Internet – Again - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:25] <exec> 08└─They are completely right. The internet is an extremely dangerous place and nobody there can be trusted. They all want to sell you something or steal your money using less honest means. Lets block that attack vector once and for all. Well Done Avast! Finally someone who understands how to save us fr...
[20:17:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatOutdoors [6408] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Avast Blocks the Entire Internet – Again - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:27] <exec> 08└─Some people would love to find a way to break the internet. Imagine a major antivirus supplier making an update that affected high level servers. Yes I know that people should do testing before release, but many don't and it could cause a major issue.
[20:17:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Avast Blocks the Entire Internet – Again - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:29] <exec> 08└─What does this mean? tong in cheek
[20:17:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Avast Blocks the Entire Internet – Again - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:31] <exec> 08└─Means he's taking a break from the post to have a quick grab at the salad.
[20:17:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Avast Blocks the Entire Internet – Again - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:33] <exec> 08└─Could be worse. Could be thong in cheek.
[20:17:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03citizenr [2737] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Australia Bungled Its $36 Billion High-Speed Internet Rollout - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:44] <exec> 08└─Exactly. They build modern nation-wide fiber network ... and put transfer limits on INTERNAL traffic! citing expensive transcontinental transit as the reason :) :):) Australians got raped in the ass by Telstra and other industry incumbents, cant compete with good old boys!
[20:18:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Biggest Ransomware Attack in History" Hits Around 100 Countries, Disrupts UK's NHS - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:36] <exec> 08└─Now try Adolf Hitler's 'Mein Kampf'. 'My Struggle' is a good title for that book, as you will STRUGGLE to read it the whole way through, lol.
[20:19:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dakota Access Pipeline Suffers Oil Leak Even Before Becoming Operational - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:01] <exec> 08└─84galons that's about 300l or around 2 barrels, like 120$ worth of oil and approximately 0$ of ecological damage.
[20:19:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Kills SHA-1 Support in Edge, Internet Explorer 11 - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:50] <exec> 08└─I must have hit a nerve.
[20:20:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Targeting Netflix, Cannes Will Ban Streaming-Only Movies From Competition - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:26] <exec> 08└─Same diff
[20:20:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Targeting Netflix, Cannes Will Ban Streaming-Only Movies From Competition - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:28] <exec> 08└─Not even Kagemusha [wikipedia.org]?! Or Apocalypse Now?!?!?! You heathen!
[20:20:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Targeting Netflix, Cannes Will Ban Streaming-Only Movies From Competition - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:30] <exec> 08└─We have found the Philistine!
[20:20:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Targeting Netflix, Cannes Will Ban Streaming-Only Movies From Competition - 761 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:32] <exec> 08└─I agree. The only explanation for why Netflix "exclusives" cannot be also shown in theaters, for paying customers, to the mutual economic benefit of all from the people to the theaters to Netflix (the "content creators" here), is greed, plain and simple. I'm sure there are lots of fancy words capita...
[20:20:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Targeting Netflix, Cannes Will Ban Streaming-Only Movies From Competition - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:34] <exec> 08└─think Michael Moore
[20:21:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03srobert [4803] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seven Ways to Help Your Kids With Math Homework - 606 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:19] <exec> 08└─I don't have any kids (didn't learn to multiply:-) ). But when I was a kid my Dad helped me with math (that's maths for you Brits) by forcing me to spend enough time on it to master it. Don't let your kid get distracted by TV and video games. My dad never got his high school diploma, so I was on my...
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[21:17:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Avast Blocks the Entire Internet – Again - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:39] <exec> 08└─Is the kill switch an HTTP request, or is just to be able to DNS resolve the domain name? I heard the researcher just had to register the domain name.
[21:17:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03physicsmajor [1471] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Avast Blocks the Entire Internet – Again - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:40] <exec> 08└─It actually has to open a connection successfully. Further analysis revealed that it uses INTERNET_OPEN_TYPE_DIRECT, which is not proxy aware and will fail (killswitch OFF, encryption is a go) if behind a proxy.
[21:17:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Avast Blocks the Entire Internet – Again - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:42] <exec> 08└─Does it run on Linux?
[21:17:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Avast Blocks the Entire Internet – Again - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:45] <exec> 08└─I am more worried about where he's pulling the plug from!
[21:17:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Avast Blocks the Entire Internet – Again - 2808 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:47] <exec> 08└─Linux Mint is very popular with folks who are trying something other than Windoze (trying to escape the Borg). A very common question in the Mint forum is about what anti-virus to use with Linux. The typical answer is that is if you're running Linux (and only Linux) you don't need to paste band-aids...
[21:18:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03ese002 [5306] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New World Record Set for Longest Drone Delivery - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:11] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure Global Hawks has made "deliveries" from much more than 97 miles. The recipients didn't even have to place an order.
[21:18:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03FunkyLich [4689] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Biggest Ransomware Attack in History" Hits Around 100 Countries, Disrupts UK's NHS - 1961 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:51] <exec> 08└─Reading the article - to be entirely correct, the summary of the article - I just thought of these two pieces of dialogue in the original "Ghost In The Shell" movie of 1995. * * * Dialogue 1 * * * Puppet Master: I refer to myself as an intelligent life form because I am sentient and I am able to rec...
[21:20:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Targeting Netflix, Cannes Will Ban Streaming-Only Movies From Competition - 1010 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:47] <exec> 08└─Here's the thing that's left out of a lot of reporting on this. French law prohibits films from being screened on television for 3 years after theatrical release. That's really the issue here. If it were a matter of Netflix even just PAYING a few theatres to show its films in France, I'm sure they'd...
[21:20:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Targeting Netflix, Cannes Will Ban Streaming-Only Movies From Competition - 587 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:48] <exec> 08└─I just noted this above, but the conflict is actually about the 36-month moratorium on streaming that threatrical releases are required to observe according to French law. Obviously Cannes still gets to determine its own rules, but Netflix's business model in supporting these films works less well i...
[21:23:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Capsule Robot" Explores Colon - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:19] <exec> 08└─Initially the experiment was for 20 trials, not 30, but the pigs kept asking for "one more".
[21:23:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03chuckugly [2910] (Score: 1) 02 - 06"Capsule Robot" Explores Colon - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:21] <exec> 08└─Is this related to the "Puppet plans expansion" article submitted by "Butthurt"?
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[22:17:50] <exec> 08└─I have mint on my second ssd and can choose between during a boot. Half (2/4) monitors won't show up even after like 30 hrs of tinkering, so I only use it when I need to do something not possible in windows. I would love to switch to linux, but lets not pretend there aren't some things that windows...
[22:18:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Australia Bungled Its $36 Billion High-Speed Internet Rollout - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:02] <exec> 08└─"Basic speed": Apparently 9.6Mbps Even buying "speed boost" or whatever the ISP calls it, only gets you "up to" 100Mbps, but likely doesn't give you anything near that most of the time. http://www.optus.com.au [optus.com.au]
[22:18:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06"Biggest Ransomware Attack in History" Hits Around 100 Countries, Disrupts UK's NHS - 963 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:56] <exec> 08└─US-CERT posted Advisory TA17-132A [us-cert.gov] which gives significant technical detail as to the workings of WannaCrypt, as well as detection and mediation information. I found one of the bits from the advisory of particular interest: The WannaCry ransomware received and analyzed by US-CERT is a l...
[22:19:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Weasley [6421] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Dakota Access Pipeline Suffers Oil Leak Even Before Becoming Operational - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:23] <exec> 08└─Yes but the lake was only 100 miles away. It's probably ruined now.
[22:19:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Weasley [6421] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Third of Virtual Servers Are Zombies - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:33] <exec> 08└─Zombie is a word used to mean a hijacked computer used in a botnet. That headline is a bit deceptive.
[22:19:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06400 Year-old Mystery of Prince Rupert's Drops Finally Cracked - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:50] <exec> 08└─The maximum energy it will hold is limited upwards by the energy required to melt it - it's all mechanical energy, no chemical reactions takes place. Somehow, I don't think it will be that much.
[22:19:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06400 Year-old Mystery of Prince Rupert's Drops Finally Cracked - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:51] <exec> 08└─I'll hope someone tries to make a gigantic prince Rupert drop.
[22:20:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Kills SHA-1 Support in Edge, Internet Explorer 11 - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:17] <exec> 08└─Only if you're either scum or a socialist. But I repeat myself.
[22:21:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Targeting Netflix, Cannes Will Ban Streaming-Only Movies From Competition - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:01] <exec> 08└─I agree. The only explanation for why Netflix "exclusives" cannot be also shown in theaters, for paying customers, to the mutual economic benefit of all from the people to the theaters to Netflix (the "content creators" here), is greed
[22:21:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Targeting Netflix, Cannes Will Ban Streaming-Only Movies From Competition - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:03] <exec> 08└─Oooooooohhhh. Yeah, Netflix ain't showing the film in a French theater. I entirely understand their recalcitrance if the implication is also that it affects streaming services in France. I would imagine if they are that crazy to control it they would. A possible compromise would be to ferry viewers...
[22:21:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seven Ways to Help Your Kids With Math Homework - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:49] <exec> 08└─And gifted athletes ought to be able to subsist on double cheeseburger and fries diets. That doesn't mean their performance and healthy wouldn't suffer.
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[23:17:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. and China Make Trade Agreement - 560 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:09] <exec> 08└─As long as the Chicken doesn't come from China, definitely the General Tso's. But what's the status of country of origin labeling requirements in the U.S.? (In a hurry so don't have time to look). The "chicken" in processed shit is bad enough. It's hard to imagine that it could get any worse. Howeve...
[23:17:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. and China Make Trade Agreement - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:11] <exec> 08└─The US will export growth hormone in China and China will export (cooked) avian flu and other additives to US. The health of consumers on both side of the ocean is going to boom... as in "explode in small shrapnel". The advantage stays with the Chinese though, their women will grow larger boobs; our...
[23:17:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. and China Make Trade Agreement - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:13] <exec> 08└─It's hard to imagine that it could get any worse.
[23:17:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. and China Make Trade Agreement - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:15] <exec> 08└─US credit rating services, electronic payment services and bond underwriting business are now all allowed in Chinese market
[23:17:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Avast Blocks the Entire Internet – Again - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:37] <exec> 08└─Only misogynerds use Linux. I guess you're pro-rape. Why do force computers to be so technical? It's not women's fault you're a worthless homosexual who can't get laid. You have no right to rape womyn-born-womyn with your "Linux" shit.
[23:17:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Australia Bungled Its $36 Billion High-Speed Internet Rollout - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:50] <exec> 08└─> "When we release an update and there's a small bug, that can kill us by three or four days." In situations like that, rsync can be handy. Unsurprisingly, it was invented by Australians. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[23:18:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Empyrean [5241] (Score: 1) 02 - 06"Biggest Ransomware Attack in History" Hits Around 100 Countries, Disrupts UK's NHS - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:45] <exec> 08└─If it is using pseudo-random numbers (most probably) and the seed is known to the attackers (or victims) then it would be possible to decrypt all the files.
[23:19:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Microsoft Kills SHA-1 Support in Edge, Internet Explorer 11 - 1018 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:49] <exec> 08└─You think we have Eidtors on Duty? How quaint. We have half a dozen or so guys who check in and push stories as they find the time. Often they even have to go find the damned things first. Which, come to think of it, is pretty damned sad when there are more than twenty thousand times that many peopl...
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[23:20:04] <exec> 08└─Methinks
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