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[00:17:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pattern Day Trading Restrictions - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:24] <exec> 08└─The government is evil for not preventing me from gambling away my money at a slot machine. The government is evil for not letting me gamble away by money on the stock market.
[00:17:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pattern Day Trading Restrictions - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:26] <exec> 08└─I tend to agree though I am also very much against HFT. It's at best gone from investment to pure gambling and at worst is blatant market manipulation.
[00:17:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pattern Day Trading Restrictions - 1367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:28] <exec> 08└─The thing about FINRA is that it isn't a legal body, it's brokerage firms governing themselves so that the government won't step in and hamfistedly regulate in ways that are impractical or pointless more than the SEC already does. There is no real connection between FINRA and the people in governmen...
[00:17:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pattern Day Trading Restrictions - 690 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:30] <exec> 08└─HFT is good for the small trader -- it doesn't affect the buy and hold, mom & pop traders and it only increases liquidity, creating smaller bid/ask spreads (making it easier for mom & pop to profit from long held trade). HFT doesn't move the price up/down more than one or two ticks (if at all), unli...
[00:17:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Mega-Sensor Makes the Whole Room Smart - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:40] <exec> 08└─Somehow I seem to have managed 50 years without one.
[00:17:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kilo110 [2853] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Snapchat Posts $2.2bn Loss After IPO - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:54] <exec> 08└─Wall St and VCs have yet to figure this out.
[00:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Snapchat Posts $2.2bn Loss After IPO - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:56] <exec> 08└─but but....millenials! profit!
[00:17:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Snapchat Posts $2.2bn Loss After IPO - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:58] <exec> 08└─Snap Inc. is a camera company.
[00:18:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06U.S. President Establishes Commission on Election Integrity - 1449 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:31] <exec> 08└─You tl;dr morons can't even be bothered, huh? Or are you functionally illiterate? [snopes.com]: But it appears that, once again, O’Keefe’s videos are not be what they seem. The first serious questions about them were raised on (I swear!) The Blaze, a Glenn Beck-affiliated website. [...] It is no...
[00:18:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. President Establishes Commission on Election Integrity - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:43] <exec> 08└─No, my exceedingly unobservant friend, Republicans do fear politics. Democrats are the ones who pick every possible minority and tell them they're being oppressed and only voting D will save them.
[00:19:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Store Gets Ubuntu, Suse, Fedora Linux - 803 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:20] <exec> 08└─"For example, if a patent license would not permit royalty-free redistribution of the Program by all those who receive copies directly or indirectly through you, then the only way you could satisfy both it and this License would be to refrain entirely from distribution of the Program." This implies...
[00:21:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tesla Solar Roof: Affordable? - 733 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:23] <exec> 08└─There will be fast charging stations for Bolt at Chevy dealers and this site https://www.aggdata.com [aggdata.com] claims there are nearly 3000 Chevy Dealers in USA. This https://www.theverge.com
[00:21:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First SLS Mission Will be Unmanned - 515 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:36] <exec> 08└─Human rated spacecraft should be able to be operated unmanned also in this day and age. Hypothetically, if this spacecraft has an issue during a mission presenting additional risks, such as for example a piece of foam insulation striking the wing of a space shuttle during launch, the craft can be re...
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[01:17:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WannaCrypt Ransomware Variant -- Lacking Kill Switch -- Seen in Wild - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:08] <exec> 08└─this is a common problem: when I tell windows update to do its thing, it says "Checking for Updates" then never finishes checking. I've tried several of the reported workarounds. I figure I'll have to reinstall windows anyway, so I'll just wait until some manner of ransomware 0wnz0r5 me.
[01:17:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03n1 [993] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pattern Day Trading Restrictions - 696 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:20] <exec> 08└─Great comment, very informative. As someone who isn't a US citizen, I was aware that other brokers outside the US didn't accept US clients, but never understood why. This seems to be the reason. You are correct that FINRA isn't a legal body as such, but they are regulated by the SEC to regulate the...
[01:17:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Disagree) 02 - 06Pattern Day Trading Restrictions - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:22] <exec> 08└─Where's the fucking News here? A link to Wikipedia? Hey Everybody let's get Riled Up and have a fucking Flame War!! FUCK SOYLENT-NOT-NEWS
[01:17:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pattern Day Trading Restrictions - 788 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:24] <exec> 08└─Mid 80's, I was a 20 something and we went to an annual trade show in Vegas. First year there. Me and a bunch of co-workers got something to eat, then decided to go up one side of the strip and down the other, collecting as many free drinks for as little cash as possible. I ended up at a blackjack t...
[01:17:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pattern Day Trading Restrictions - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:26] <exec> 08└─Kill the Rich! Give to Me!! Everybody who Isn't Me should Be Poor and Be Dead!!! Die!!!! Die!!!! Die!!!!
[01:17:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pattern Day Trading Restrictions - 764 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:28] <exec> 08└─Spoken like somebody that doesn't know what HFT is. HFT is the latest version of a scam that's been going on since before the Great Depression. Back in those days, you'd get the prices for the following day early and could trade on them before the general public would. These days, the delay is only...
[01:17:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pattern Day Trading Restrictions - 540 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:31] <exec> 08└─The reason for that is the same as why foreign banks won't usually do business with us. The amount of reporting they have to do on the money makes it not worth doing in most cases. But, in all honesty, there's no good reason to be an American having an investment account abroad in most cases. The ma...
[01:17:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03its_gonna_be_yuge! [6454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pattern Day Trading Restrictions - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:33] <exec> 08└─Social ills aren't "News" in that they aren't new or different from what happens every day. Day-Trading is gambling, and gambling addictions aren't "News", just as homelessness and drug addictions aren't "News". but it is "People". Soylent News is People.
[01:17:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pattern Day Trading Restrictions - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:35] <exec> 08└─It does, it's just a relatively small amount.
[01:17:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pattern Day Trading Restrictions - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:37] <exec> 08└─S'true we generally don't run Op-Eds. We're looking to start to some degree though. They'll go in their own Nexus when the new site update rolls out, which is as soon as paulej72 has time to roll it out on a weekend.
[01:17:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pattern Day Trading Restrictions - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:40] <exec> 08└─You can deduct gambling losses from gambling winnings when you calculate your taxes. You can deduct investment losses from investment gains when you calculate your taxes. It's not very different.
[01:17:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Mega-Sensor Makes the Whole Room Smart - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:51] <exec> 08└─In their defense, they don't mean smart as in clever, they mean smart as in well dressed. And most of them are at least somewhat aesthetically pleasing.
[01:18:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Snapchat Posts $2.2bn Loss After IPO - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:08] <exec> 08└─Nope. I've donated to the FSF because free software is worth more than Snapchat.
[01:18:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Snapchat Posts $2.2bn Loss After IPO - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:10] <exec> 08└─It's not misleading "investors" because Snap INC. warned them: Snap lost $514 million last year and warns that it 'may never be profitable' [businessinsider.com.au] Anyone buying these shares thinks there's another sucker who will pay more. Pretty soon that won't be true.
[01:18:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. President Establishes Commission on Election Integrity - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:56] <exec> 08└─"It's against the law to threaten the president, even if you're joking." - Clint Eastwood in "The Line of Fire" A kuro5hin member once described a hypothetical scenario that involved killing a "covered person" and a few days later was visited at his place of work by two Secret Service agents.
[01:21:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla Solar Roof: Affordable? - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:38] <exec> 08└─The price of electricity is another thing varies from place to place, and I imagine that the price for the system may vary too.
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[02:17:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WannaCrypt Ransomware Variant -- Lacking Kill Switch -- Seen in Wild - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:22] <exec> 08└─Back in the days of Windows XP, it used to be possible to run Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer, get from that a list of missing patches, then download and install them (most came in the form of self-installing executables) without running Windows Update. In November 2013 MBSA 2.3 was released....
[02:17:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06WannaCrypt Ransomware Variant -- Lacking Kill Switch -- Seen in Wild - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:24] <exec> 08└─What does it say about the NSA, if [a] lone security researcher finds and activates a kill switch before they do?
[02:17:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WannaCrypt Ransomware Variant -- Lacking Kill Switch -- Seen in Wild - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:26] <exec> 08└─I've hired a man with a backhoe to dig a hole in the backyard, and tomorrow morning we'll drop all the Windows machines in there. This is not the same side of the yard where I've hidden all the bodies, so I won't have to kill the backhoe operator.
[02:17:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WannaCrypt Ransomware Variant -- Lacking Kill Switch -- Seen in Wild - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:28] <exec> 08└─What does it say about the NSA, if [a] lone security researcher finds and activates a kill switch before they do?
[02:17:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WannaCrypt Ransomware Variant -- Lacking Kill Switch -- Seen in Wild - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:30] <exec> 08└─It's probably because there are so many updates that have been installed. I had the same problem for the first one of these stupid monthly security updates. I had to use WSUS offline update to install enough of the patches that the official installer would work.
[02:17:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Redundant) 02 - 06WannaCrypt Ransomware Variant -- Lacking Kill Switch -- Seen in Wild - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:33] <exec> 08└─For completeness you should rape the backhoe operator to death.
[02:17:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WannaCrypt Ransomware Variant -- Lacking Kill Switch -- Seen in Wild - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:35] <exec> 08└─I disabled SMB1 (client+server) just in case.
[02:17:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Appalbarry [66] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WannaCrypt Ransomware Variant -- Lacking Kill Switch -- Seen in Wild - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:37] <exec> 08└─I tend to assume that, even with updates auto-installing, the one Windows 10 machine in the house is vulnerable. I opt for regular backups, with yesterday being the most recent. Expect the worst, and act accordingly. (I blithely, and no doubt eventually foolishly, continue to assume that my Linux bo...
[02:17:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WannaCrypt Ransomware Variant -- Lacking Kill Switch -- Seen in Wild - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:39] <exec> 08└─Block all incoming, every box is an island.
[02:17:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WannaCrypt Ransomware Variant -- Lacking Kill Switch -- Seen in Wild - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:41] <exec> 08└─In his back hole.
[02:17:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WannaCrypt Ransomware Variant -- Lacking Kill Switch -- Seen in Wild - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:44] <exec> 08└─This is perfect proof of why low level programming languages needs to be illegal without a license and other oversight.
[02:17:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WannaCrypt Ransomware Variant -- Lacking Kill Switch -- Seen in Wild - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:46] <exec> 08└─Only H1B coders will be licensed to do the needful. Open source will be outlawed. Debuggers will be illegal since they could be used for reverse engineering.
[02:17:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03physicsmajor [1471] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WannaCrypt Ransomware Variant -- Lacking Kill Switch -- Seen in Wild - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:48] <exec> 08└─There are standalone installers for this patch. You only need the Windows Update service running, and only while the patch is being installed - you can disable it afterward, before restarting.
[02:17:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 1) 02 - 06WannaCrypt Ransomware Variant -- Lacking Kill Switch -- Seen in Wild - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:50] <exec> 08└─I don't click links or open attachments blindly. I also run Linux at home.
[02:17:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WannaCrypt Ransomware Variant -- Lacking Kill Switch -- Seen in Wild - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:52] <exec> 08└─I also run Linux at home.
[02:17:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WannaCrypt Ransomware Variant -- Lacking Kill Switch -- Seen in Wild - 1156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:55] <exec> 08└─So, get the notice Windows wants to update, pick a time, any time. I hit snooze. When I'm done with the computer I hit "reboot", that does the update stuff. Except this time it doesn't. Couple days later, get the notice Windows wants to update. Kinda busy, hit snooze, when done I "reboot". Nothing....
[02:18:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pattern Day Trading Restrictions - 792 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:17] <exec> 08└─I don't necessarily have a problem with "Op-Eds" (though the idea of an AC "Op-Ed" is a bit weird), as long as they are confined to a separate nexus. I do however think most "Op-Eds" should still have some sort of relationship to current events or other news coverage, which is also true of most trad...
[02:18:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pattern Day Trading Restrictions - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:19] <exec> 08└─... in many situations. If the government really wanted to protect us from ourselves they would limit gambling, which costs poor people a lot and is known to result in unfavorable odds, and they would discontinue the lottery. Instead because the lottery and gambling make the government and big inst...
[02:18:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pattern Day Trading Restrictions - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:21] <exec> 08└─Well, ACs around here are roughly 20:1 with registered users, so we're probably going to be accepting AC subs for them. I don't think we'll hold to "must be opinion on current news or events", just that they may be of interest to our community, but we will definitely hold them to a higher standard t...
[02:18:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pattern Day Trading Restrictions - 1722 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:23] <exec> 08└─You're an idiot who doesn't know what he/she is talking about. HFT traders profit from: arbitrage (primarily); order book algorithms (usually single tic profits); millisecond spoofing (again, usually one/two tic trades). These transactions don't even amount to a perceptible "blip" for the buy-and-ho...
[02:18:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pattern Day Trading Restrictions - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:25] <exec> 08└─Nope. HFT micro trades go both up and down -- there is no cumulative effect for mom and pop.
[02:18:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pattern Day Trading Restrictions - 670 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:28] <exec> 08└─Oh, and for those who think I'm overreacting and the lottery is just "entertainment," I'd suggest you read this piece [theatlantic.com] from the Atlantic. The U.S. spends $300/year for every adult on lottery tickets on average, and that number is a lot higher for low-income folks. There are all sort...
[02:18:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pattern Day Trading Restrictions - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:30] <exec> 08└─HFT is good for the small trader
[02:19:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03https [5248] 02 - 06U.S. President Establishes Commission on Election Integrity - 354 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:38] <exec> 08└─The Republicans do identity politics almost exclusively, they just don't want a formal language for it. It's not because they're stupid, it's because once victims of systemic oppression start talking about oppression clearly, it's harder to maintain the illusion of a fair or good society. The eterna...
[02:19:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. President Establishes Commission on Election Integrity - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:46] <exec> 08└─Yet we've all seen the violence [youtube.com] and "hate crime" hoaxes from the left with our own eyes. We've seen the veritas videos and it doesn't matter if the snippets were out of context because dumb fucks admitted exactly what they were doing on fucking camera. [youtube.com] The left lost by em...
[02:19:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. President Establishes Commission on Election Integrity - 875 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:48] <exec> 08└─Snopes, factcheck, and politifact are all partisan sources. Trump's estimate of non-citizen voters does seem high, and rather conveniently just enough to win the popular vote. The more-neutral and legit estimate, out of liberal-favoring academia no less, is "only" 800,000 non-citizen votes. When you...
[02:19:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. President Establishes Commission on Election Integrity - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:50] <exec> 08└─> Kobach's phony list contains 7 million names. Despite over seven million "potential double voters" being "flagged" by the Crosscheck program in 2014, less than four people were charged, and not a single flagging led to a conviction, casting doubt on the system's reliability.
[02:20:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Store Gets Ubuntu, Suse, Fedora Linux - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:20:26] <exec> 08└─The end game is to let Microsoft users have the benefits of Unix software but not letting Unix have the benefit of Microsoft software.. or just about anything. I can see the next wave open source programs..
[02:20:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Store Gets Ubuntu, Suse, Fedora Linux - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:20:28] <exec> 08└─MS is not running a Linux kernel. It is some compatibility layer in the windows kernel that they made to run Android apps that they later extended to be able to run a std. GNU userspace. Windows sucks at forking (slow!), and probably other windows issues will also make this pretty limited in utility...
[02:20:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Store Gets Ubuntu, Suse, Fedora Linux - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:20:30] <exec> 08└─Why the hell isn't this ringing massive alarm bells with this site's entire audience?!
[02:20:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] 02 - 06Safety of Drugs Approved by FDA Surveyed - 265 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:20:51] <exec> 08└─From the study: There were 123 new postmarket safety events (3 withdrawals, 61 boxed warnings, and 59 safety communications) during a median follow-up period of 11.7 years (interquartile range [IQR], 8.7-13.8 years), affecting 71 (32.0%) of the novel therapeutics.
[02:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tesla Solar Roof: Affordable? - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:34] <exec> 08└─Tesla wants cash now. That is why they are taking deposits. As the other post says, it's nominally refundable, so you're not actually committed to anything. Unless Tesla goes bust.
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[03:17:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03its_gonna_be_yuge! [6454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forget Mars, Colonize Titan - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:04] <exec> 08└─The atmosphere of Venus would be a better bet - 75degC and almost the same gravity, plus lots of sunshine. Also a lot closer than Titan. Just have to work around the H2SO4.
[03:17:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forget Mars, Colonize Titan - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:06] <exec> 08└─The Venusian atmosphere is definitely worth a shot because good luck getting 0.9g otherwise.
[03:17:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Forget Mars, Colonize Titan - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:08] <exec> 08└─Would anyone want to go to a brand-new world just to spend their lives in a cramped tunnel?
[03:17:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forget Mars, Colonize Titan - 929 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:10] <exec> 08└─>enough warm clothing Has anyone ever figured out what sort of clothing one would need to go out in a dense atmosphere at near absolute zero? First off it would need to be spacesuit suit quality, just a wiff of the air would freeze any skin it came in contact with instantly. But it would have to be...
[03:17:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Forget Mars, Colonize Titan - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:12] <exec> 08└─Instead of fuel tanks, you use oxidizer tanks. It's flipped around, but the chemistry works just the same.
[03:17:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WannaCrypt Ransomware Variant -- Lacking Kill Switch -- Seen in Wild [Updated] - 501 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:37] <exec> 08└─I run Linux, too. And you know, since this attack is taking advantage of vulnerabilities in Windows, I am not all that worried! Do you have a problem with that, Micro-softie AC? You know you are destroying the internets for all the rest of us, by even existing? Come to the free software side! It is...
[03:17:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WannaCrypt Ransomware Variant -- Lacking Kill Switch -- Seen in Wild [Updated] - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:38] <exec> 08└─I see people at work suffering through that as well. It amazes me that that sort of performance is tolerated. The cost for business must be in the billions per year. Well , perhaps not that much as a good of the developers where I work that actually get work done run Linux.
[03:17:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WannaCrypt Ransomware Variant -- Lacking Kill Switch -- Seen in Wild [Updated] - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:40] <exec> 08└─I have an even better suggestion: Don't let people with sales and marketing backgrounds make technical developer decisions. And have a QA worth its name. What you suggest is a nanny state. It won't work. Guns, drugs and murder is also forbidden (in some places). So the ones to be shoot, be addicted...
[03:17:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WannaCrypt Ransomware Variant -- Lacking Kill Switch -- Seen in Wild [Updated] - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:42] <exec> 08└─Ohh, you evil non-conformist for not being ass-raped by ransomware, virus, broken patches, worms etc just like the rest of us zombies! :-)
[03:17:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WannaCrypt Ransomware Variant -- Lacking Kill Switch -- Seen in Wild [Updated] - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:44] <exec> 08└─Unclosed parentheses POST IS VULNERABLE.
[03:17:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WannaCrypt Ransomware Variant -- Lacking Kill Switch -- Seen in Wild [Updated] - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:47] <exec> 08└─Now Microsoft Chief Legal Officer wants a Digital Geneva Convention [microsoft.com] to protect (their) computer systems. No mention of their own idiotic engineering or rather total lack of it. In addition to their slimy juridical dealings using "audits" to blackmail corporations. The problem is part...
[03:17:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WannaCrypt Ransomware Variant -- Lacking Kill Switch -- Seen in Wild [Updated] - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:49] <exec> 08└─Intel AMT or Intel Management Engine will get you.
[03:17:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 1) 02 - 06WannaCrypt Ransomware Variant -- Lacking Kill Switch -- Seen in Wild [Updated] - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:51] <exec> 08└─If you've got Windows 7, reinstalling won't help you. You'll be OK to SP1, and then it'll be an endless update check after that. It's not actually endless though, it will generally finish after a day or two if you just let it sit and keep running.
[03:18:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pattern Day Trading Restrictions - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:20] <exec> 08└─Grab 2 people. Yourself and someone else. Blindfold your friend and lock them in a building somewhere. Walk out to a LARGE gravel parking lot. Pick up a rock. Now throw it back into the lot. Now unblindfold your friend and drive them out to the lot and have them pick up the exact same rock. Without...
[03:18:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03n1 [993] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pattern Day Trading Restrictions - 903 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:22] <exec> 08└─I take full responsibility for publishing this story. I found it interesting enough to put it up, my assumption was not many people would be aware of these rules and barriers to entry and could generate some interesting discussions, which seems to have been achieved. As another commenter put it, Soy...
[03:18:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pattern Day Trading Restrictions - 480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:24] <exec> 08└─Sorry for the multiple consecutive posts, but one other thing I forgot is that for those who argue people will want to "bet on something" anyway, there are more ethical alternatives for states to engage in. One obvious option would be prize-linked savings [wikipedia.org], which encourage people to s...
[03:18:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pattern Day Trading Restrictions - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:26] <exec> 08└─Seems to me this would contribute to inflation, which has the hidden tax effect. No, the economic pie isn't a fixed size, but the money that goes in these pockets has to come from somewhere. I would believe it were merely one of those rising tides if all boats were in fact rising. The vast majority...
[03:18:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pattern Day Trading Restrictions - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:28] <exec> 08└─You should really learn to math. HFT traders cumulatively make a lot of money or it would not be done. That money comes from both market manipulation via algorithm and via snagging a deal microseconds before mom and pop can. Both of those screw mom and pop.
[03:18:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pattern Day Trading Restrictions - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:30] <exec> 08└─Folks who are aware that the London Stock Exchange fell on its face multiple times during trading hours--once for 7 hours--after which they switched from an all-MICROS~1 stack to a Linux stack already know the tech angle. http://www.google.com [g...
[03:19:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. President Establishes Commission on Election Integrity - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:49] <exec> 08└─I guess we could go one step further [cnn.com], even.
[03:19:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. President Establishes Commission on Election Integrity - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:51] <exec> 08└─Snopes, factcheck, and politifact are all partisan sources.
[03:19:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. President Establishes Commission on Election Integrity - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:53] <exec> 08└─This is what is real: the USA has crumbling infrastructure and a stratified economy, and it's well on the way to becoming a third world country because of those two things alone.
[03:19:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. President Establishes Commission on Election Integrity - 520 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:55] <exec> 08└─> Snopes, factcheck, and politifact are all partisan sources. Of course. Let's disregard what they say, because they are biased. /comments.pl?noupdate=1&sid=19451&page=1&cid=508023#commentwrap [soylentnews.org] > The more-neutral and legit estimate, out of liberal-favoring academia no less, is "only...
[03:19:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. President Establishes Commission on Election Integrity - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:57] <exec> 08└─Link please?
[03:19:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. President Establishes Commission on Election Integrity - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:00] <exec> 08└─Conservatives tend to stay home. Most passport holders are liberal. They like to experience alternative cultures and all that nonsense. Barely more than half of the wealthy are conservative. The real conservative base is the middle class, particularly those who are insecure in that class. The libera...
[03:20:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Store Gets Ubuntu, Suse, Fedora Linux - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:41] <exec> 08└─I would be interested too - this looks like naked "embrace, extend, extinguish".
[03:20:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Store Gets Ubuntu, Suse, Fedora Linux - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:43] <exec> 08└─MS is not running a Linux kernel.
[03:20:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Store Gets Ubuntu, Suse, Fedora Linux - 580 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:45] <exec> 08└─One thing to remember is that with the branded Linuxes, trademark issues come into play. Hence the weird names of the RHEL spinoffs. Both sides have to play ball. SuSE, via Novell, has been in bed with MS before to the point that this fuckup is immortalized in the GPL3 (though I've never fully under...
[03:20:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Several OpenSUSE Services Disabled Due to a Security Breach - 826 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:57] <exec> 08└─Runaway speaks truth, although I pains me to say so. What is that old saying? "When you lay down with Microsoft, you get up with a knife in your back." Works for not only SuSE, but for Stacker, and DRDos, and Wordperfect, and, well, any company or software organization that has been so foolish as to...
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[04:16:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MapD Open Sources GPU-Powered Database - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:16:55] <exec> 08└─Isn't DBMS generally I/O bound? Does leveraging GPU actually help?
[04:17:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forget Mars, Colonize Titan - 625 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:07] <exec> 08└─Are we thinking of the same Venus? Mean surface temperature of 735 K (462 °C; 863 °F) Atmospheric pressure at the planet's surface is 92 times that of Earth So it is the temperature of a pizza oven, and about ten times more pressure than the human body can safely handle. So any structures will nee...
[04:17:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03its_gonna_be_yuge! [6454] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Forget Mars, Colonize Titan - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:09] <exec> 08└─Are we thinking of the same Venus?
[04:17:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Forget Mars, Colonize Titan - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:11] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonization_of_Venus#Aerostat_habitats_and_floating_cities [wikipedia.org]
[04:17:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forget Mars, Colonize Titan - 1041 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:13] <exec> 08└─Because creating oxygen-containing habitats on a world chock full of hydrocarbons doesn't present its own very special set of issues. There are lots of variables we can change. Our dependence on a 20% or so oxygen atmosphere to breathe is not one of them. Heck just cleaning potential combustibles of...
[04:17:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forget Mars, Colonize Titan - 1211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:16] <exec> 08└─Distance: (1.350e12-149597870700) / (206.7e9-149597870700) = 21.022020 times! So it will take 21 times the boredom in a cramped caravan to get there. Ie 4.6 - 8.6 years spent in this metal cylinder while smelling your fellow astronauts 24/7. This will strain logistics hard and be a liability in case...
[04:17:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forget Mars, Colonize Titan - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:18] <exec> 08└─Maybe 4.9% CH4 and 0.2% H2 can be handled. But you surely identified another important issue. Fail to decontaminate .. *BOOM* Just like in the Martian movie where the airlock blows up, but this one will be for real.
[04:17:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forget Mars, Colonize Titan - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:20] <exec> 08└─Provided the cyanide doesn't kill you first. 70 parts per million and you're dead in an hour.
[04:17:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forget Mars, Colonize Titan - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:22] <exec> 08└─It's supposedly "trace amounts". The question then becomes how large proportion there really is?
[04:17:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03boltronics [580] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06WannaCrypt Ransomware Variant -- Lacking Kill Switch -- Seen in Wild [Updated] - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:55] <exec> 08└─If you are a sysadmin, how concerned are you about what you will be facing at work on Monday?
[04:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WannaCrypt Ransomware Variant -- Lacking Kill Switch -- Seen in Wild [Updated] - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:56] <exec> 08└─This is why we need whitespace! And emojis.
[04:17:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WannaCrypt Ransomware Variant -- Lacking Kill Switch -- Seen in Wild [Updated] - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:58] <exec> 08└─Why would the NSA shut down its own back-door?
[04:18:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WannaCrypt Ransomware Variant -- Lacking Kill Switch -- Seen in Wild [Updated] - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:01] <exec> 08└─Is that the side of the yard you didn't dig before because of the gas lines? Good luck. Here, take this kerosene lamp with you I'm all out of batteries for my flash light.
[04:18:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WannaCrypt Ransomware Variant -- Lacking Kill Switch -- Seen in Wild [Updated] - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:03] <exec> 08└─http://download.wsusoffline.net/ [wsusoffline.net] Waiting for Windows Update to function is a waste of time.
[04:18:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pattern Day Trading Restrictions - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:39] <exec> 08└─How exactly is that?
[04:18:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pattern Day Trading Restrictions - 551 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:40] <exec> 08└─No. Quit reading Wikipedia and actually spend a year or two learning how to trade different instruments. HFT profit comes from other HFT traders and from some of the institutional traders who are pushing large tranches. In the case of arbitrage, HFT profit also sometimes comes from market maker erro...
[04:18:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pattern Day Trading Restrictions - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:42] <exec> 08└─I don't see how HFT increases inflation -- it's just more trading.
[04:18:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Pattern Day Trading Restrictions - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:44] <exec> 08└─According to the SEC, 80% of day traders quickly end up being "those without money". I fail to see a problem.
[04:18:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03linuxrocks123 [2557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pattern Day Trading Restrictions - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:47] <exec> 08└─Blindfold your friend and lock them in a building somewhere.
[04:19:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06U.S. President Establishes Commission on Election Integrity - 629 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:19:56] <exec> 08└─Here, let me spell it out for you. You are all cows. MOOOOOOOOO! MOOOOOOOOOOO! Moo cows moo! Moo say the cows! YOU DISTRACTED COWS!! There. Now that's out of my system, allow me to elaborate. The Russia crap is not real. The Benghazi crap is not real. The Hillary's emails crap is not real. The Comey...
[04:20:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. President Establishes Commission on Election Integrity - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:20:10] <exec> 08└─Yeah. I made a submission [soylentnews.org] noting how long he has been at this stuff and how pitiful the results have been. You can image how much public money he squandered over that span. ...as if Republican Gov. Sam Brownback hasn't already put that state in a deep enough hole with his (doomed f...
[04:20:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. President Establishes Commission on Election Integrity - 775 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:20:11] <exec> 08└─> republocrats The commission is advertised as "bipartisan." In your post and especially in the word I quoted, I think you're trying to convey the idea that the Republican and Democratic parties are basically alike. I can understand why you hold that opinion; however, I perceive differences between...
[04:20:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. President Establishes Commission on Election Integrity - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:20:13] <exec> 08└─Direct democracy and federalism are hallmarks of the Swiss political system. [wikipedia.org] Citizens of Switzerland have the right to submit a federal initiative and a referendum, both of which may overturn parliamentary decisions. I wonder how many other countries that have provisions to overturn...
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[05:17:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MapD Open Sources GPU-Powered Database - 553 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:01] <exec> 08└─It all depends on how you design your schema, what and how you query it, and how large the whole thing is. But yeah, on the "serious" end of the scale, i.e. once you can't keep your indices in RAM, you're looking at an I/O bottleneck typically. If you only have a few gig of data (or indices) and are...
[05:17:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MapD Open Sources GPU-Powered Database - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:02] <exec> 08└─Proprietary. This sounds like a total non-starter open source project. What is the point of this? We already have non-portable RDBMSes. We already have open source visualization clients for those other RDBMSes. We already have years of experience with those others not pulling the rug out from under...
[05:17:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MapD Open Sources GPU-Powered Database - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:04] <exec> 08└─> So what do these guys actually offer? Buzzwords?
[05:17:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MapD Open Sources GPU-Powered Database - 519 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:07] <exec> 08└─So one will need a system'd CentOS 7 (x86_64) to run the prebuilt package containing dependency packages and "It is preferred, but not necessary, to install CUDA and the NVIDIA drivers using the .deb using the instructions provided by NVIDIA". You will end up with military industrial complex ruled C...
[05:17:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forget Mars, Colonize Titan - 1111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:27] <exec> 08└─I found the answer in Solar System Astrophysics: Planetary Atmospheres and the Outer Solar System (2014) [google.com] by AvEugene F. Milone,William J.F. Wilson on page 560. Which states that: Constituent Amount N2 (Nitrogen) 80 - 98%...
[05:17:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forget Mars, Colonize Titan - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:29] <exec> 08└─The problem is not necessarily in the atmosphere. At these temperatures (-179 C) a lot of the above compounds will be in solid form so they won't be "in the atmosphere". But you thought bringing slush covered muddy boots into the house was bad, wait until you get melting/boiling cyanide and all thos...
[05:18:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WannaCrypt Ransomware Variant -- Lacking Kill Switch -- Seen in Wild [Updated] - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:08] <exec> 08└─Maybe they put in that back door in case THIS VERY THING happened?
[05:18:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03acharax [4264] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WannaCrypt Ransomware Variant -- Lacking Kill Switch -- Seen in Wild [Updated] - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:09] <exec> 08└─I second WSUS Offline. It might be a bit clunky but it works.
[05:18:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WannaCrypt Ransomware Variant -- Lacking Kill Switch -- Seen in Wild [Updated] - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:11] <exec> 08└─Nahh. It's must easier just to blame Russia, and then wait until Microsoft issues a "patch" with a new undocumented backdoor and they're in business again.
[05:18:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WannaCrypt Ransomware Variant -- Lacking Kill Switch -- Seen in Wild [Updated] - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:13] <exec> 08└─Nah unclosed parentheses are fine watch); drop all
[05:18:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WannaCrypt Ransomware Variant -- Lacking Kill Switch -- Seen in Wild [Updated] - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:16] <exec> 08└─Windows update off. Pay attention to the world. Download the security patch you need when something like this happens. I downloaded MS17-010 a month ago. Windows update still off.
[05:18:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WannaCrypt Ransomware Variant -- Lacking Kill Switch -- Seen in Wild [Updated] - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:18] <exec> 08└─What pray tell is your high level hipster language written in backend-wise and by whom? Oh... Wait...
[05:18:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WannaCrypt Ransomware Variant -- Lacking Kill Switch -- Seen in Wild [Updated] - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:20] <exec> 08└─Because the actual Geneva Convention is so darned effective at preventing stuff in real wars, let's make one for computers too. That way everyone can run around like dickheads accusing each other of violating the Geneva Convention without ever being able to prove it let alone enforce it. The world d...
[05:19:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pattern Day Trading Restrictions - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:01] <exec> 08└─"High Frequency Trading" is nothing more than illegal front-running cloaked in the mystique of computers and increasingly-smaller fractions of a second. If mom/pop lose anything due to an HFT trade it would be a fractional tic
[05:19:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pattern Day Trading Restrictions - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:03] <exec> 08└─Gaslight some more, scum-sucking criminal-loving HFT shill.
[05:19:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pattern Day Trading Restrictions - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:05] <exec> 08└─Perhaps you should trade actively in various financial instruments for one or two years, and then you can give a valid opinion.
[05:19:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Pattern Day Trading Restrictions - 526 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:07] <exec> 08└─Spoken like somebody that doesn't know what HFT is. HFT is the latest version of a scam that's been going on since before the Great Depression. Back in those days, you'd get the prices for the following day early and could trade on them before the general public would. These days, the delay is only...
[05:19:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Pattern Day Trading Restrictions - 480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:09] <exec> 08└─If by "small trader" you mean few actual employees, perhaps you're right. But in order to successfully profit from HFT, you need to be able to arbitrage the ask/bid of the "mom and pop" investors. As such, you're essentially sucking value out of the market (lowering and actual seller's profit, and r...
[05:19:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pattern Day Trading Restrictions - 741 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:11] <exec> 08└─You don't understand how it works, and neither does the writer of Richard Pryor's lines (probably best not to seek reality/truth from film dialogue). It works similar to the way these two sine waves are mixed: http://tinyurl.com [tinyurl.com]. The higher frequency represents the up/down move...
[05:19:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pattern Day Trading Restrictions - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:14] <exec> 08└─Obviously, you need to do something, because you are utterly clueless when it comes to the markets and trading.
[05:20:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. President Establishes Commission on Election Integrity - 913 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:20:41] <exec> 08└─Everything you posted is talking about videos from 2011. The vast majority of their article is just a hit piece on the person doing the filming. Their only comments related to the video itself was: [quote]Project Veritas’ October 2016 election-related sting videos (embedded above) reveal tidbits o...
[05:20:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. President Establishes Commission on Election Integrity - 600 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:20:43] <exec> 08└─> If you want to have power over American politics, a significant portion of America should [have] voted for you first. From a 10 November 2016 story: The White House may not be the only institution in Washington that Democrats lost on Tuesday despite getting more votes than Republicans. It turns o...
[05:20:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. President Establishes Commission on Election Integrity - 471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:20:45] <exec> 08└─Forget the potatoes, forget the potAtoes, let's move on to the tomatoes (however you want to say it), keep them green, and cook them in that special movie sauce! I nominate uzzy the guzzy. Republicans are 100% about monocultural identity politics, which is why their fear politics works so very well....
[05:20:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. President Establishes Commission on Election Integrity - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:20:47] <exec> 08└─> I made a submission [...] I noticed that. I had linked it, and one by Runaway1956, in my submission for this story.
[05:20:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. President Establishes Commission on Election Integrity - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:20:49] <exec> 08└─Hoo rah for the surveillance police state! Gotta love thought crimes, along with no respect for people's careers, etc. I guess we never really had freedoms, just the illusion of them. Putting people on lists is the first step towards government sanctioned horrors, and apparently McCarthyism wasn't e...
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[06:17:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Robert Mercer Used Military Psychological Techniques to Influence the BREXIT Vote - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:14] <exec> 08└─Guess what Facebook and their addicted human drones do..
[06:17:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06How Robert Mercer Used Military Psychological Techniques to Influence the BREXIT Vote - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:16] <exec> 08└─Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman of Alphabet Inc., has a daughter who works at Uber? The company that is being sued big league by Alphabet subsidiary Waymo? Sounds like the makings of an article right there.
[06:17:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Robert Mercer Used Military Psychological Techniques to Influence the BREXIT Vote - 1128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:18] <exec> 08└─So Brexit and the recent US Presidential election supposedly have military-style psyops cooties, due to shady, billionaire-owned companies. Where is the actual problem here? Sounds like the author still can't come to grips with the idea that a majority of people might disagree at least temporarily...
[06:17:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Robert Mercer Used Military Psychological Techniques to Influence the BREXIT Vote - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:20] <exec> 08└─The problem is that non-transparent and non-elected billionaires interferes with the democratic process. They might in fact be declared enemy of the state.
[06:17:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Robert Mercer Used Military Psychological Techniques to Influence the BREXIT Vote - 1440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:22] <exec> 08└─I think this says it all: ‘Dude fires people’: How the chaotic Trump news cycle confuses and misinforms the public [washingtonpost.com] “Most Americans absorb Washington news with an approach of ‘Wake me up when you people stop fighting,’ ” said Ari Fleischer, a White House press secreta...
[06:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forget Mars, Colonize Titan - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:56] <exec> 08└─I think you can scrub those compounds away. And it can be handled like on Mars where the outside of the suit never enters the habitat due to dust. Can't find any data on what the soil consists of. But atmospheric gases are unlikely to solidify on a shoe that has a higher temperature than the surroun...
[06:17:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forget Mars, Colonize Titan - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:57] <exec> 08└─Good luck mining for mineral resources in your cloud city. Might as well be in a space station.
[06:17:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forget Mars, Colonize Titan - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:59] <exec> 08└─Just to a flash burnoff in your airlock / decon room.
[06:18:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forget Mars, Colonize Titan - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:02] <exec> 08└─Don't need to fill the airlock with oxygen. It can be filled with room tempered nitrogen instead which will vaporize most stuff. While not enabling any burning. The Titan atmosphere is full of N2.
[06:18:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WannaCrypt Ransomware Variant -- Lacking Kill Switch -- Seen in Wild [Updated] - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:47] <exec> 08└─I hear a sussuration, as though a joke were passing high overhead. I shall ignore it. The "kill switch," I gather, refers to a feature of the ransomware: [...] a researcher discovered a domain name in the code, which when registered, caused the malware to stop infecting new machines.
[06:18:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WannaCrypt Ransomware Variant -- Lacking Kill Switch -- Seen in Wild [Updated] - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:49] <exec> 08└─AMD Secure Processor (formerly Platform Security Processor) is said to be similar. https://libreboot.org [libreboot.org] http://digiworthy.com [digiworthy.com] http://www.anandtech.com
[06:18:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 1) 02 - 06WannaCrypt Ransomware Variant -- Lacking Kill Switch -- Seen in Wild [Updated] - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:51] <exec> 08└─"When foo {is|are} outlawed, only outlaws will have foo" is the usual idiom.
[06:18:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 1) 02 - 06WannaCrypt Ransomware Variant -- Lacking Kill Switch -- Seen in Wild [Updated] - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:53] <exec> 08└─😣😣😣😣😣😣😣😣 We do not need emoji. 😣😣😣😣😣😣😣😣
[06:18:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WannaCrypt Ransomware Variant -- Lacking Kill Switch -- Seen in Wild [Updated] - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:56] <exec> 08└─> Nope, can't get it to update. You're saying the same thing MichaelDavidCrawford did: https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] I asked him whether he'd tried WSUS Offline Update. http://www.wsusoffline.net [wsusoffline.net]
[06:18:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WannaCrypt Ransomware Variant -- Lacking Kill Switch -- Seen in Wild [Updated] - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:58] <exec> 08└─Correct, and on ARM the TrustZone will get you. Getting a non pre-p0wned CPU isn't easy but there are ways.
[06:18:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WannaCrypt Ransomware Variant -- Lacking Kill Switch -- Seen in Wild [Updated] - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:19:00] <exec> 08└─That's very sensible. Potentially unwanted updates have included telemetry spyware for Windows 7 and 8.x, and the "Get Windows 10" nagware campaign. /search.pl?tid=&query=windows+telemetry&author=&sort=2&op=stories [soylentnews.org] /search.pl?tid=&query=windows+gwx&author=&sort=2&op=stories [soylen...
[06:19:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 1) 02 - 06WannaCrypt Ransomware Variant -- Lacking Kill Switch -- Seen in Wild [Updated] - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:19:02] <exec> 08└─Thanks for weighing in. I don't have any actual experience with that myself.
[06:19:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Pattern Day Trading Restrictions - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:19:51] <exec> 08└─The main rule is that in order to engage in pattern day trading you must maintain an equity balance of at least $25,000 in a margin account.
[06:19:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pattern Day Trading Restrictions - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:19:52] <exec> 08└─You missed the point, likely with intent. There is a LOT of money to be made in the "small fractions". This is particularly so when you can front-run to steal value from others' trades, and place orders you have no intention of honoring in direct violation of law.
[06:19:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pattern Day Trading Restrictions - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:19:54] <exec> 08└─If I wanted to rip people off and lie to them, I'd have gotten in on the HFT scam.
[06:19:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03ese002 [5306] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pattern Day Trading Restrictions - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:19:56] <exec> 08└─You can deduct gambling losses from gambling winnings when you calculate your taxes. You can deduct investment losses from investment gains when you calculate your taxes. It's not very different.
[06:19:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pattern Day Trading Restrictions - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:19:59] <exec> 08└─To be honest, you're not going to get the time of day from a broker for less than $25,000, much less open a margin account. It's a practical restriction, not just an arbitrary SEC rule. And to be honest, $25k is not much of a restriction either. If you can't scrape that amount together from the usua...
[06:20:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pattern Day Trading Restrictions - 755 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:20:01] <exec> 08└─No. I understood, and I have seen your linked film reference before used to support the same argument (it doesn't apply). Spoofing is just one possible aspect of HFT, and it is very dangerous (regardless of whether or not it is legal), especially with all of the HFT competition -- one might as well...
[06:20:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pattern Day Trading Restrictions - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:20:03] <exec> 08└─I wish you would get into HFT, because I have a feeling that as a non-HFT trader I could make a lot of money off of your clueless bumbling.
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[07:17:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Robert Mercer Used Military Psychological Techniques to Influence the BREXIT Vote - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:01] <exec> 08└─Trump saves journalism in the same manner as a bankruptcy saves the priorities of a corporation ;) Do right or vanish.
[07:17:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score: 3, Flamebait) 02 - 06How Robert Mercer Used Military Psychological Techniques to Influence the BREXIT Vote - 935 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:03] <exec> 08└─Is it really these slandered men who are subverting democracy, or the whispering whiners who hold the lower classes in disdain for voting the wrong way? Maybe if the British people did not feel it was EU policy to displace them via uncontrolled migration both from within and outside of Europe, they...
[07:17:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Robert Mercer Used Military Psychological Techniques to Influence the BREXIT Vote - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:05] <exec> 08└─But but but I thought it was the Russians? :p
[07:17:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Soylentbob [6519] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MapD Open Sources GPU-Powered Database - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:17] <exec> 08└─... looked fishy for me, given the project is published under Apache2 license. In case you wonder as well: announced a free Community Edition [..] includes the MapD Core and MapD Immerse visual analytics client. The company also unveiled the MapD Analytics Platform Enterprise Edition, which adds in...
[07:17:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forget Mars, Colonize Titan - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:44] <exec> 08└─Except the ISS or other space stations experience microgravity which weakens you big league in mere months [soylentnews.org]. Water can be extracted from the atmosphere of Venus.
[07:17:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Forget Mars, Colonize Titan - 1126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:45] <exec> 08└─Better to build a space station with artificial gravity and have it "orbit" a suitable asteroid/moon that you mine. Or have some thing spinning that's attached to the asteroid (some asteroids may have low enough gravity that if you spin/swing stuff on it most people/"victims" might not get motion si...
[07:19:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pattern Day Trading Restrictions - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:19:33] <exec> 08└─You're just a parrot, trying to dance around the issue of the front-running and non-execution scam you like so much. "Increases liquidity! Increases liquidity, awwk!" Here's another clip for you. [youtube.com]
[07:19:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pattern Day Trading Restrictions - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:19:34] <exec> 08└─Your feelings can't trump the ability to front-run others' trades, or fraudulently shift prices by ramming/cancelling millions of trades you have no intention of honoring in violation of law. Someone shilling this hard for the High Frequency Trading fraud is almost certainly profiting from the scam.
[07:21:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. President Establishes Commission on Election Integrity - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:21:07] <exec> 08└─Ah, you -are- on top of this. Gotta get up pretty early to get ahead of you. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
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[08:17:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EFF: Intel's Management Engine is a Security Hazard - 479 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:06] <exec> 08└─I had a bear of a time trying to install Linux when the network drivers kept failing for no apparent reason. Turns out Intel vPro was seizing control of the chipset and trying to use the network for its own purposes. I was shocked to discover a nefarious parasitic computer inside the computer. I dis...
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[08:17:07] <exec> 08└─As all major CPU brands have similar issues, what are the alternatives? I don't care for windows, as long as it runs Linux or a BSD I'm satisfied. I know there was a project for building a POWER based system, but if I remember correctly that was cancelled.
[08:17:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EFF: Intel's Management Engine is a Security Hazard - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:09] <exec> 08└─Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm assuming these are fine: https://libreboot.org [libreboot.org]
[08:17:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EFF: Intel's Management Engine is a Security Hazard - 776 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:11] <exec> 08└─The alternative is not to turn on the LOM facilities of whatever you buy. They're off by default on most systems. If you do need to enable them, only do so for machines plugged into a managed switch and severely restrict access to the management addresses. We had a similar wake-up call from a Dell...
[08:17:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EFF: Intel's Management Engine is a Security Hazard - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:14] <exec> 08└─The point is that with Intel Management Engine you don't have the option to turn off the LOM facilities.
[08:17:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EFF: Intel's Management Engine is a Security Hazard - 793 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:16] <exec> 08└─I was gloating over Intel's problems, until I was reminded that AMD has a similar function onboard their chips. I guess the difference is in the level of transparency. But, I'm happy to see Intel having problems anyway. It some percentage of the population distrusts Intel, that opens the door for mo...
[08:17:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EFF: Intel's Management Engine is a Security Hazard - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:18] <exec> 08└─Facebook contacted us to ask why we were attacking them
[08:17:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EFF: Intel's Management Engine is a Security Hazard - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:20] <exec> 08└─Checkpoint, Fujitsu and Sun had separate physical ports for lights-out management. Is that typical? https://downloads.checkpoint.com [checkpoint.com] http://www.fujitsu.com
[08:17:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06How Robert Mercer Used Military Psychological Techniques to Influence the BREXIT Vote - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:35] <exec> 08└─There's also a very enlightening article about the influence, Paul Dacre [theguardian.com], has on the UK government and democratic system, and the Daily Mail's historical support for the far right. The turkeys will vote for Christmas. With a bit of luck, Scotland will vote to break away from this c...
[08:17:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Robert Mercer Used Military Psychological Techniques to Influence the BREXIT Vote - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:36] <exec> 08└─The problem is that non-transparent and non-elected billionaires interferes with the democratic process.
[08:17:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Robert Mercer Used Military Psychological Techniques to Influence the BREXIT Vote - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:39] <exec> 08└─Maybe Northern Ireland will too, and reunify with Eire.
[08:17:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Robert Mercer Used Military Psychological Techniques to Influence the BREXIT Vote - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:41] <exec> 08└─Maybe the EU could help out? You never know.
[08:20:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pattern Day Trading Restrictions - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:20:11] <exec> 08└─"Scam" doesn't mean someone who has an advantage in trade or negotiation.
[08:20:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pattern Day Trading Restrictions - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:20:13] <exec> 08└─Instead, [value] is being created by providing an opportunity for traders to trade who otherwise would get worse value for their trades.
[08:20:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Pattern Day Trading Restrictions - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:20:15] <exec> 08└─It most certainly does mean "scam" when the law forbids trading on such advantages, including front-running and insider trading.
[08:21:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. President Establishes Commission on Election Integrity - 1287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:21:48] <exec> 08└─> Conservatives tend to stay home. Most passport holders are liberal. That sounds plausible, and I can't be bothered to look it up. However I'll assert that the fees for obtaining a passport are a few hundreds of dollars; the poor could find it beyond their means. > The real conservative base is the...
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[08:21:50] <exec> 08└─I merely searched for related submissions and stories, as I usually do. But thank you for the compliment. --butthurt
[08:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Store Gets Ubuntu, Suse, Fedora Linux - 476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:33] <exec> 08└─It's not a VM, it's a subsystem on top of the NT kernel, like the Win32 subsystem and the earlier Posix and OS/2 subsystems. The subsystem provides Linux system calls and translates them to NT system calls. It's more comparable to Wine, which provides Win32 system calls and translates them to Linux...
[08:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Store Gets Ubuntu, Suse, Fedora Linux - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:34] <exec> 08└─systemd does not spy on you yet.
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[09:17:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EFF: Intel's Management Engine is a Security Hazard - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:17:22] <exec> 08└─Is it possible to turn off AMD's system? The damning part of this whole episode isn't that Intel have a below-ring-zero bug, or even that it's on by default, but that it's impossible to turn off.
[09:17:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EFF: Intel's Management Engine is a Security Hazard - 850 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:17:23] <exec> 08└─AMD has their own version called TrustZone using a Cortex-A5 processor. Smartphones usually have a ARM processor, which also in many cases have a ARM management processor besides the main one. Alternatives: IBM's Power8 [informationweek.com] ATX motherboard [raptorengineering.com] OpenSPARC [wikiped...
[09:17:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06EFF: Intel's Management Engine is a Security Hazard - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:17:25] <exec> 08└─Most x86 server-class systems do too, because you most likely want them on entirely separate physical networks.
[09:17:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EFF: Intel's Management Engine is a Security Hazard - 1449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:17:28] <exec> 08└─> I was gloating over Intel's problems, until I was reminded that AMD has a similar function onboard their chips. I noticed you gloating over the recent story announcing an exploit of an Intel misfeature. That story should have been linked to this topic we're in: /article.pl?sid=17/05/07/0211240 [so...
[09:17:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EFF: Intel's Management Engine is a Security Hazard - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:17:30] <exec> 08└─Are you sure? All of the systems we've looked at can at least turn off its ability to talk to the network (and this is off by default). Technically the code is still there, but if it never runs then it's not meaningfully different from being not there.
[09:17:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EFF: Intel's Management Engine is a Security Hazard - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:17:32] <exec> 08└─Not from what I have read. But then how can one be sure anyway?
[09:17:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06How Robert Mercer Used Military Psychological Techniques to Influence the BREXIT Vote - 207 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:17:42] <exec> 08└─Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman of Alphabet Inc., has a daughter who works at Uber? The company that is being sued big league by Alphabet subsidiary Waymo? Sounds like the makings of an article right there.
[09:17:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Robert Mercer Used Military Psychological Techniques to Influence the BREXIT Vote - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:17:54] <exec> 08└─I'm sure that with near trivial effort, the Russians can be tied in to this yarn diagram.
[09:17:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Robert Mercer Used Military Psychological Techniques to Influence the BREXIT Vote - 839 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:17:55] <exec> 08└─Tells how propaganda and advertising were married during WW2 https://web.stanford.edu [stanford.edu] More of the same, circa WW1 http://www.bl.uk [www.bl.uk] This one is peripheral to my m...
[09:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Disagree) 02 - 06How Robert Mercer Used Military Psychological Techniques to Influence the BREXIT Vote - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:17:57] <exec> 08└─Daily Mail's historical support for the far right.
[09:17:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Robert Mercer Used Military Psychological Techniques to Influence the BREXIT Vote - 1425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:17:59] <exec> 08└─Lest you think that you are somehow immune to propaganda, you should familiarize yourself with the Powell Memo: http://reclaimdemocracy.org [reclaimdemocracy.org] But what now concerns us is quite new in the history of America. We are not dealing with sporadic or isolated attacks...
[09:18:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Robert Mercer Used Military Psychological Techniques to Influence the BREXIT Vote - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:18:02] <exec> 08└─Not really. In silicon valley everybody knows everybody, especially at that level. Companies are all interconnected by people, in part because non-competes are barely enforceable. So labor moves around very freely.
[09:18:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Forget Mars, Colonize Titan - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:18:42] <exec> 08└─Hold on there cap. What's the internet going to be like on the new world. Basement dwellers need high speed connections to live comfortably. And potato chips. Looots of potato chips.
[09:18:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03DmT [6439] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Forget Mars, Colonize Titan - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:18:43] <exec> 08└─Just send a bunch of different earth bacteria there. They will adapt the environment to their needs.
[09:19:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WannaCrypt Ransomware Variant -- Lacking Kill Switch -- Seen in Wild [Updated] - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:19:37] <exec> 08└─With his backhoe.
[09:20:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Pattern Day Trading Restrictions - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:20:39] <exec> 08└─It's not the government business to make such restrictions, effectively coddling people.
[09:20:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pattern Day Trading Restrictions - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:20:40] <exec> 08└─The law doesn't forbid HFT.
[09:20:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pattern Day Trading Restrictions - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:20:42] <exec> 08└─if the government is going to make such pointless restrictions, wouldn't it be better to set the thresholds for those levels so low as to be ineffective? At this point, the only real cost to the restrictions is the bureaucracy of maintaining the paperwork.
[09:20:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Pattern Day Trading Restrictions - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:20:45] <exec> 08└─There is no value to be had for a non-HFT trader by having his bid price rammed upwards
[09:20:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Pattern Day Trading Restrictions - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:20:47] <exec> 08└─But plenty of fun bad ideas do. Pray continue.
[09:20:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Pattern Day Trading Restrictions - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:20:49] <exec> 08└─Give me two percent of your net productivity. No? Then I'll get my friends and take it at gunpoint. If you object, then you defeat your own argument. There is no justification to adding pointless, needless drains on productivity.
[09:20:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pattern Day Trading Restrictions - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:20:51] <exec> 08└─What laws are being broken again?
[09:20:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pattern Day Trading Restrictions - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:20:53] <exec> 08└─[There is no justification to adding pointless, needless drains on productivity.] Except of course to immunize against even worse, even more needless drains on productivity.
[09:20:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pattern Day Trading Restrictions - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:20:56] <exec> 08└─One rule for big fish another rule for small fry. The pattern continues. Of course the Day Traders have to be protected, because when they lose big they don't have friends who'd rollback their mistakes for them: https://can-turtles-fly.blogspot.my [blogspot...
[09:20:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Pattern Day Trading Restrictions - 484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:20:58] <exec> 08└─The GP does have a good point though. The complaints about HFT are pure cluelessness - somebody must be robbing other people with HFT because feelings. For example, I have yet to see a concrete demonstration of harm mentioned. The closest anyone has come are flash crashes which haven't actually been...
[09:20:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Pattern Day Trading Restrictions - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:21:00] <exec> 08└─High Frequency Traders place huge volumes of orders which the HFTers have no intention of honoring because said orders are cancelled almost instantly. Placing such bad-faith orders are illegal.
[09:21:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pattern Day Trading Restrictions - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:21:02] <exec> 08└─Bad faith trades make up ~97% of US exchange volume. [qz.com]
[09:21:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Pattern Day Trading Restrictions - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:21:05] <exec> 08└─Uh huh. What is the point of that straw man again?
[09:21:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Pattern Day Trading Restrictions - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:21:07] <exec> 08└─And the harm is?
[09:21:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pattern Day Trading Restrictions - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:21:09] <exec> 08└─I disagree. [High Frequency Traders] have the intention to honor those orders for the brief period of time they're present.
[09:21:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pattern Day Trading Restrictions - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:21:11] <exec> 08└─A question this daft shows blatant shilling intent. The money High Frequency Traders collect comes directly out of the pockets of other traders who would have gained more (both profit and loss) if not for the illegal HFT scam. Do you comprehend "zero sum"?
[09:21:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pattern Day Trading Restrictions - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:21:13] <exec> 08└─The point is you and your undermining of your own claims. It's sad, really.
[09:21:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Pattern Day Trading Restrictions - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:21:16] <exec> 08└─High Frequency Trading is front-running orders using their lower-latency connection to markets, in addition to placing orders in bad faith (never intending to have the orders filled by cancelling them near-instantaneously). Both are blatant violations of law. Both are used in HFT.
[09:21:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Pattern Day Trading Restrictions - 1681 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:21:18] <exec> 08└─While googling around for other things, I came across this study [vanderbilt.edu]: However, a new paper by Jesse Blocher, assistant professor of finance at Vanderbilt University’s Owen Graduate School of Management, finds little evidence of HFTs creating phantom liquidity. Lead author Blocher and...
[09:21:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Mega-Sensor Makes the Whole Room Smart - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:21:28] <exec> 08└─Might seem like a nitpick, but can we avoid such needless use of 'This'? It's a clickbait staple, and doesn't belong on SN.
[09:24:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Safety of Drugs Approved by FDA Surveyed - 668 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:24:04] <exec> 08└─I'm of the belief that generations into the future we'll be telling the same horror stories about modern medicine as we currently do about leeches and "cutting for the stone". However it takes great fortitude to acknowledge that for every 9 people that are saved by drug X a tenth person may be kille...
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[10:17:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Project Zero: Exploiting the Linux Kernel Via Packet Sockets - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:17:21] <exec> 08└─Mmm, a pretty bug and an informative link to data about how it was found. Haven't used syzkaller yet, looking forward to it.
[10:17:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EFF: Intel's Management Engine is a Security Hazard - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:17:43] <exec> 08└─Slashdot commenter sexconker seems to say "no": But AMD won't be removing it, so they could at least allow binary blobs to be loaded which disable functionality. (Or give us a config option or jumper to do the same.)
[10:17:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06EFF: Intel's Management Engine is a Security Hazard - 1526 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:17:45] <exec> 08└─Note that I said "similar function" rather than "similar exploits". I was referring to the management functions. I'm not aware of AMD's processor management being exploited. It probably is exploitable, in some manner, but if so, it hasn't been publicized. The link I provided above helps to underscor...
[10:17:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EFF: Intel's Management Engine is a Security Hazard - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:17:47] <exec> 08└─Here's how to shut off the Intel one [github.io].
[10:18:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Robert Mercer Used Military Psychological Techniques to Influence the BREXIT Vote - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:12] <exec> 08└─Is it really these slandered men who are subverting democracy, or the whispering whiners who hold the lower classes in disdain for voting the wrong way?
[10:18:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Robert Mercer Used Military Psychological Techniques to Influence the BREXIT Vote - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:13] <exec> 08└─> I am commenting as AC, because I don't really blame the middle class either. lolwut? Are you afraid "the middle class" is going to hunt down your nic and spam it or something? Its bizzaro logic like that which confirms that anything else you wrote is also highly suspect.
[10:18:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Robert Mercer Used Military Psychological Techniques to Influence the BREXIT Vote - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:16] <exec> 08└─Is there any advantage that gives a sufficient return on investment to keep North Ireland under British control? sounds like a economic disaster and no geostrategic advantage.
[10:18:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06How Robert Mercer Used Military Psychological Techniques to Influence the BREXIT Vote - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:18] <exec> 08└─The obvious rebuttal
[10:18:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Robert Mercer Used Military Psychological Techniques to Influence the BREXIT Vote - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:20] <exec> 08└─You've been sleeping. Understandable given the circumstances.
[10:18:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimshatt [978] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Robert Mercer Used Military Psychological Techniques to Influence the BREXIT Vote - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:22] <exec> 08└─You would be right, were it not that laws were allegedly broken to exert more influence than permitted within the democratic process. “Coordination” between campaigns is prohibited under UK electoral law, unless campaign expenditure is declared, jointly. It wasn’t.
[10:18:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] 02 - 06Forget Mars, Colonize Titan - 929 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:45] <exec> 08└─>enough warm clothing Has anyone ever figured out what sort of clothing one would need to go out in a dense atmosphere at near absolute zero? First off it would need to be spacesuit suit quality, just a wiff of the air would freeze any skin it came in contact with instantly. But it would have to be...
[10:21:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Pattern Day Trading Restrictions - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:21:21] <exec> 08└─The thing is, no matter how much he parrots, he's right. What I find really annoying is that there isn't even a counterargument. You just have these vague feelings that Mom and Pop are getting robbed.
[10:21:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pattern Day Trading Restrictions - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:21:23] <exec> 08└─Your "real definition" of HFT is nothing more than a blatant lie. In actual practice, High Frequency Trading directly harms the market [nanex.net], via HFT-enabled front-running [nanex.net] and massive numbers of HFT trades placed in bad faith [nanex.net]. High Frequency Trading as practiced today i...
[10:21:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Pattern Day Trading Restrictions - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:21:26] <exec> 08└─Your feelings can't trump the ability to front-run others' trades, or fraudulently shift prices by ramming/cancelling millions of trades you have no intention of honoring in violation of law.
[10:21:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pattern Day Trading Restrictions - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:21:28] <exec> 08└─There's "no counterargument" according to you, because you can't see the evidence that High Frequency Trading harms all other market participants [nanex.net] from your vantage point far up your own rectal cavity.
[10:21:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pattern Day Trading Restrictions - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:21:30] <exec> 08└─The data shows that High Frequency Trading is used to front-run. [nanex.net] How much did your HFTing scam net you this week?
[10:21:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pattern Day Trading Restrictions - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:21:32] <exec> 08└─Is phantom liquidity and market insta-crashes [zerohedge.com] factored into your "lower-cost means of price discovery"?
[10:21:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Pattern Day Trading Restrictions - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:21:34] <exec> 08└─Your "real definition" of HFT is nothing more than a blatant lie. In actual practice, High Frequency Trading directly harms the market, via HFT-enabled front-running and massive numbers of HFT trades placed in bad faith.
[10:21:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Pattern Day Trading Restrictions - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:21:37] <exec> 08└─The money High Frequency Traders collect comes directly out of the pockets of other traders who would have gained more (both profit and loss) if not for the illegal HFT scam.
[10:21:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Pattern Day Trading Restrictions - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:21:39] <exec> 08└─A 3.2% success rate (which includes ALL other market participants) is clear indication of blatant fraud in regard to bad faith trades.
[10:21:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Pattern Day Trading Restrictions - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:21:41] <exec> 08└─I didn't call it a straw man because it was "undermining" my claims.
[10:21:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pattern Day Trading Restrictions - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:21:43] <exec> 08└─Now you're posting in bad faith. Examples with data were given to show HFT trades being placed in advance of other market orders, stealing value from the non-HFT trades. Harm: HFT activity going from zero to 80,000 trades per second in advance of non-HFT trades; increased costs; misleading quotes; a...
[10:21:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Pattern Day Trading Restrictions - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:21:45] <exec> 08└─Yes, as is the possibility that HFT behavior is different now than it was then. Any other questions you might have?
[10:21:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Pattern Day Trading Restrictions - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:21:48] <exec> 08└─Once again, where's the evidence? This Nanex site is turning out to be quite worthless as a reference.
[10:21:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pattern Day Trading Restrictions - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:21:50] <exec> 08└─I see your point now, thank you. You view yourself as entitled to the contents of other peoples' pocketbooks.
[10:21:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pattern Day Trading Restrictions - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:21:52] <exec> 08└─Yes, khallow, I have a few more questions for you: 1. How did you become so comfortable with blatant lying? 2. How much money did your HFT scams bring in for you this week?
[10:21:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Pattern Day Trading Restrictions - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:21:54] <exec> 08└─No evidence of front-running was presented in the link. Let us keep in mind that one can discover prices through the placement of bids that one immediately cancels (sound familiar?) rather than a lagging quote service.
[10:21:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pattern Day Trading Restrictions - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:21:56] <exec> 08└─This Nanex site is turning out to be quite worthless as a reference.
[10:21:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pattern Day Trading Restrictions - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:21:59] <exec> 08└─That bloody knife with my fingerprints all over it in the back of my dead landlord is no evidence that I murdered her! Placing trades I have no intention of honoring is not violation of law against bad-faith trades because far fewer than 3.2% of my trades get sniped by other HFTers!
[10:22:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Pattern Day Trading Restrictions - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:01] <exec> 08└─The problem is that you aren't listening. We have this HFT hubbub every so often. And it always turns out the same. There is a profound ignorance of HFT, both what it is and the limitations of it. Even when presented with a study that shows near past HFT doesn't do a lot of this alleged spoofing.
[10:22:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pattern Day Trading Restrictions - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:03] <exec> 08└─A 3.2% success rate all-in on public offers is what is known as "false advertising", aka fraud. It's much higher than you were expecting because that 3.2% is the total of ALL successful trades, including ALL non-HFT market participants.
[10:22:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Pattern Day Trading Restrictions - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:05] <exec> 08└─Examples with data were given to show HFT trades being placed in advance of other market orders, stealing value from the non-HFT trades.
[10:22:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Pattern Day Trading Restrictions - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:08] <exec> 08└─Does this concession speech mean you'll fuck off until you get actual evidence to back your claims?
[10:22:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pattern Day Trading Restrictions - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:10] <exec> 08└─Oh - so you called it such because you were trapped trying to lie?
[10:22:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pattern Day Trading Restrictions - 567 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:12] <exec> 08└─khallow sez, "Why is my hand in your pocket? I'm cheapening price discovery! Don't worry about why I have more of your money now than before I stuck my hand in your pants - that's just your ignorance talking! That 97% of market volume being nothing but robots was totally shown to be just normal idio...
[10:22:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pattern Day Trading Restrictions - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:15] <exec> 08└─Gee. It walks like front-running, it smells like front-running, it talks like front-running... I know! It must be High Frequency Trading!
[10:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pattern Day Trading Restrictions - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:18] <exec> 08└─According to you, when market price moves, both the long and the short win! The only evidence you seem primed to accept is of the caliber of the moon being made of cheese.
[10:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Mega-Sensor Makes the Whole Room Smart - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:30] <exec> 08└─So you now can hire a room full of complete idiots, and then put that sensor in the room, and end up with a room full of smart people? Sounds like a useful device! :-)
[10:23:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. President Establishes Commission on Election Integrity - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:23:57] <exec> 08└─Because you said it, it's true?
[10:23:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. President Establishes Commission on Election Integrity - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:23:59] <exec> 08└─The Russia crap is not real.
[10:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. President Establishes Commission on Election Integrity - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:24:01] <exec> 08└─A kuro5hin member once described a hypothetical scenario that involved killing a "covered person" and a few days later was visited at his place of work by two Secret Service agents.
[10:24:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Store Gets Ubuntu, Suse, Fedora Linux - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:24:46] <exec> 08└─What's not to like?
[10:24:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Store Gets Ubuntu, Suse, Fedora Linux - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:24:48] <exec> 08└─Why the hell isn't this ringing massive alarm bells with this site's entire audience?!
[10:25:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Several OpenSUSE Services Disabled Due to a Security Breach - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:25:02] <exec> 08└─I just found out that recently a status page has been installed, which lists the outage https://status.opensuse.org [opensuse.org]. However, there is no further detail given.
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[11:17:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EFF: Intel's Management Engine is a Security Hazard - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:45] <exec> 08└─You can minimize the attack surface by using a pci(-e) network card instead of the untrusted on-board NIC.
[11:17:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EFF: Intel's Management Engine is a Security Hazard - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:46] <exec> 08└─Note that I said "similar function" rather than "similar exploits". I was referring to the management functions. I'm not aware of AMD's processor management being exploited. It probably is exploitable, in some manner, but if so, it hasn't been publicized.
[11:17:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EFF: Intel's Management Engine is a Security Hazard - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:48] <exec> 08└─They've got large bits of the ME disabled but not by any means all of it.
[11:17:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EFF: Intel's Management Engine is a Security Hazard - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:50] <exec> 08└─Sort of. You can never be certain though. You can't even tell if they sold the NSA a backdoor. The firmware is closed source and heavily encrypted.
[11:17:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EFF: Intel's Management Engine is a Security Hazard - 817 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:53] <exec> 08└─There is also all AMD chips up to Ryzen (haven't had a chance to look closely at the Ryzen arch layout so I can't say one way or another with those) except for AM1 if you wanted to be ultra paranoid. But the security module in AM1 is disabled, in the hardware itself IIRC (socket AM1 chips are simply...
[11:18:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Robert Mercer Used Military Psychological Techniques to Influence the BREXIT Vote - 508 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:24] <exec> 08└─>who hold the lower classes in disdain for voting the wrong way? Try to use your brain for something, instead of romantic fantasies. Do you REALLY believe Theresa May and her party were pro-EU in any meaningful way? See all the happy rush to a police state since Brexit vote, and think again. With bo...
[11:18:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Robert Mercer Used Military Psychological Techniques to Influence the BREXIT Vote - 690 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:25] <exec> 08└─Disinformation! khallow is a spook? Sent here to "perception manage" us all? Suddenly, it all makes sense. I thought he was just crazy, or paid by petro companies who never bothered to evaluate what they were getting for their money. But Information Warfare, Message targeting, Perception management,...
[11:18:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Robert Mercer Used Military Psychological Techniques to Influence the BREXIT Vote - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:28] <exec> 08└─The problem is that non-transparent and non-elected billionaires interferes with the democratic process.
[11:18:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Robert Mercer Used Military Psychological Techniques to Influence the BREXIT Vote - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:30] <exec> 08└─short term profit-focus on labor costs
[11:23:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. President Establishes Commission on Election Integrity - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:33] <exec> 08└─You've never met or talked to an actual Republican voter, have you?
[11:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06U.S. President Establishes Commission on Election Integrity - 1171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:34] <exec> 08└─> Democratic Party politicians have done similar things when they were in the ascendancy. That article is a lot of baloney. The author concedes every single example of democrats suppressing voters was corrected by other democrats. A handful of jerks brought into line by the party is the opposite of...
[11:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. President Establishes Commission on Election Integrity - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:37] <exec> 08└─I was a republican voter. Then the party went off the rails.
[11:23:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. President Establishes Commission on Election Integrity - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:39] <exec> 08└─You're buying propaganda if you believe that. The politicians are out of their minds, sure, but no more so than the Dems. The voters though are plenty diverse of ideology, more so than Dems in my experience by a long shot. They're still sheep for giving their loyalty to either major party but they'r...
[11:24:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Store Gets Ubuntu, Suse, Fedora Linux - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:26] <exec> 08└─Someone putting systemd into the soup
[11:26:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tesla Solar Roof: Affordable? - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:26:34] <exec> 08└─Riiiight... So when you're commuting to/from work every day, your electric car is also somehow storing the energy coming off your solar panels. And at night, when the panels are dead, you're sucking power out of your car. And then the next morning, the car somehow has power to handle the aforementio...
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[12:17:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Industry Reactions to Trump's Executive Order on Cybersecurity - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:17:15] <exec> 08└─would be to get the NSA, FBI, CIA, FDA, FTC, HHS, and any other TLA to disclose any and all vulnerabilities they know of so the vendors can close them. Of course, this will never happen.
[12:17:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Industry Reactions to Trump's Executive Order on Cybersecurity - 545 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:17:17] <exec> 08└─Of course not. The vendors already knew. The vendors were fucking complicit. There is no "free market." Either cooperate and get a monopoly in your market, or die. It's been this way since ATT. US Government picks and chooses its winners. It's exactly why Oracle still exists, why Nokia "needed" Elop...
[12:17:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EFF: Intel's Management Engine is a Security Hazard - 686 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:17:55] <exec> 08└─Given all of the other Snowdon revelations, I wouldn't bet against it. In fact, I figure it's damn near certain that the NSA has a backdoor into the management engine. It's a much more attractive target that lots of other things they spend $billions attacking, and they can certainly bend Intel into...
[12:17:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EFF: Intel's Management Engine is a Security Hazard - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:17:57] <exec> 08└─We discovered this when Facebook contacted us to ask why we were attacking them - apparently someone had compromised the management system and was using it to attack Facebook.
[12:17:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EFF: Intel's Management Engine is a Security Hazard - 1893 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:17:59] <exec> 08└─Citation? Because I've looked at the CPU layouts of every AMD chip from the Barton Athlon to the Vishera core and the ONLY AMD chip that had a "security module" (which was just FYI disabled in hardware) was the socket AM1 APUs and the only reason they had the (again hardware disabled) security chip...
[12:18:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EFF: Intel's Management Engine is a Security Hazard - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:01] <exec> 08└─Sorry, no, I don't have a good citation. In honesty, all that I've found are marketing hype links, and links referencing that same hype. As for studying the chips, I've never even really looked at them. Again, marketing hype. I'm not aware of any actual chips on the market. And, I think that when th...
[12:18:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Robert Mercer Used Military Psychological Techniques to Influence the BREXIT Vote - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:38] <exec> 08└─Sources for lying? That page you link to only contains predictions about the future, and predictions can only be lying when you are the one in control of that future (and the brexit camp neither was nor is in control of the EU buerocracy).
[12:19:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Forget Mars, Colonize Titan - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:19:21] <exec> 08└─To find livable areas, you have to look where the atmosphere is ~ 1 bar (Earth surface pressure). On Venus that is about 50 km (check the links in this earlier post[1]), on Titan it looks like ~ 7 km up.[2] The mid latitude temperatures (long term average) at these pressures should be: Venus: sqrt(1...
[12:19:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03KiloByte [375] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forget Mars, Colonize Titan - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:19:23] <exec> 08└─Those of us brought up on Usenet and mailing lists can take hours-long ping times and lowish bandwidth just fine (we know how to download things once then cache locally). Getting rid of Facebook users is certainly worth it.
[12:20:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheB [1538] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WannaCrypt Ransomware Variant -- Lacking Kill Switch -- Seen in Wild [Updated] - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:20:18] <exec> 08└─After a failed update corrupted parts of my win 7 install, it was WSUS Offline that finally saved it. If anyone is having troubles with Windows Update they should definitely give WSUS Offline a try. Windows Update works again after WSUS fixed the system.
[12:22:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Pattern Day Trading Restrictions - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:07] <exec> 08└─A 3.2% success rate all-in on public offers is what is known as "false advertising", aka fraud.
[12:22:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Pattern Day Trading Restrictions - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:08] <exec> 08└─Still looking for that evidence you claim to have. I've led your horsiness to water. Can't make you drink. But I can call you a blatant liar.
[12:22:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Pattern Day Trading Restrictions - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:10] <exec> 08└─Seriously, do you not get it? Your links do not show what you think they show. Placing trades I have no intention of honoring is not violation of law against bad-faith trades because far fewer than 3.2% of my trades get sniped by other HFTers!
[12:22:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MostCynical [2589] 02 - 06This Mega-Sensor Makes the Whole Room Smart - 255 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:20] <exec> 08└─we need to start using "smart" with quotation marks/inverted commas, or find a new word. Smart used to be a simile for clever. Wiring up your house to the interwebs and letting companies spy on you is anything but clever. How about "surveillance sensors"?
[12:24:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Store Gets Ubuntu, Suse, Fedora Linux - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:45] <exec> 08└─The NSA will also have a nice built-in keylogger and accompanying "telemetry".
[12:24:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Store Gets Ubuntu, Suse, Fedora Linux - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:46] <exec> 08└─Agreed, it is not Linux, it is the GNU userland running on top of windows by faking a linux interface to system calls.
[12:24:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Store Gets Ubuntu, Suse, Fedora Linux - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:48] <exec> 08└─for when you are forced to run windows at work
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[13:17:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Well Preserved Nodosaur Fossil to Go on Display - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:18] <exec> 08└─I figure the nodosaur probably got to close to the water, and nodded off to sleep, fell in, and drowned. He probably had sleep apnea, as well.
[13:17:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Well Preserved Nodosaur Fossil to Go on Display - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:20] <exec> 08└─For the hurried, the photos in the Daily Mail are worth a glance, and don't require Javascript.
[13:17:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Well Preserved Nodosaur Fossil to Go on Display - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:22] <exec> 08└─Why?
[13:17:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Well Preserved Nodosaur Fossil to Go on Display - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:24] <exec> 08└─It's short for: if you want to view all the photos in that article, you'll need to have Javascript enabled in your browser. As I noted before, the images in the Daily Mail can be seen without Javascript. That's also true of the Sun article, which somehow includes some of National Geographic's images...
[13:17:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Well Preserved Nodosaur Fossil to Go on Display - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:26] <exec> 08└─Yes, why cant natgeo just let me see photos without javascript?
[13:17:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Well Preserved Nodosaur Fossil to Go on Display - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:29] <exec> 08└─I'll take your question as rhetorical but explain that I emphasised that article because they interviewed paleontologists. Some of the other coverage quoted the National Geographic.
[13:17:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Industry Reactions to Trump's Executive Order on Cybersecurity - 643 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:38] <exec> 08└─I actually read through the EO. My first impression was, it is largely meaningless. Reading through the second time, it says, basically, "You should be thinking about security, and I want you to report your thoughts back to the White House." There is mention of observing "best practices", and a few...
[13:17:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Industry Reactions to Trump's Executive Order on Cybersecurity - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:41] <exec> 08└─Step 1: Get critical infrastructure of the open fucking internet. Asshats.
[13:17:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 4, Funny) 02 - 06Industry Reactions to Trump's Executive Order on Cybersecurity - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:43] <exec> 08└─...In the Internet security policy, in my opinion. We need more transexual bathroom rights.
[13:17:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03ticho [89] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Industry Reactions to Trump's Executive Order on Cybersecurity - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:45] <exec> 08└─I guess I have this mythical "clearance" then, whatever that is.
[13:17:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Industry Reactions to Trump's Executive Order on Cybersecurity - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:47] <exec> 08└─But, really, it doesn't have anything to say about HOW to keep government systems secure.
[13:17:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Industry Reactions to Trump's Executive Order on Cybersecurity - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:50] <exec> 08└─If you get the Internet's critical infrastructure, how are you gonna watch Netflix?
[13:18:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06EFF: Intel's Management Engine is a Security Hazard - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:31] <exec> 08└─Um, network sniffer between the machine and the outside world?
[13:18:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06EFF: Intel's Management Engine is a Security Hazard - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:32] <exec> 08└─You can never be certain though. Can't you monitor network traffic?
[13:18:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06How Robert Mercer Used Military Psychological Techniques to Influence the BREXIT Vote - 1440 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:45] <exec> 08└─I think this says it all: ‘Dude fires people’: How the chaotic Trump news cycle confuses and misinforms the public [washingtonpost.com] “Most Americans absorb Washington news with an approach of ‘Wake me up when you people stop fighting,’ ” said Ari Fleischer, a White House press secreta...
[13:18:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] 02 - 06How Robert Mercer Used Military Psychological Techniques to Influence the BREXIT Vote - 935 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:47] <exec> 08└─Is it really these slandered men who are subverting democracy, or the whispering whiners who hold the lower classes in disdain for voting the wrong way? Maybe if the British people did not feel it was EU policy to displace them via uncontrolled migration both from within and outside of Europe, they...
[13:19:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Robert Mercer Used Military Psychological Techniques to Influence the BREXIT Vote - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:10] <exec> 08└─> That page you link to only contains predictions about the future, Literally the very first entry on the list is the lie about NHS funding. The rest of your analysis is equally shoddy.
[13:19:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Robert Mercer Used Military Psychological Techniques to Influence the BREXIT Vote - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:12] <exec> 08└─My post, currently the second entry on page three, might be of interest to you. The Powell Memo talks about those whispering whiners.
[13:19:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Robert Mercer Used Military Psychological Techniques to Influence the BREXIT Vote - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:14] <exec> 08└─A spook? My money's on useful idiot.
[13:19:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Robert Mercer Used Military Psychological Techniques to Influence the BREXIT Vote - 1858 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:16] <exec> 08└─I've read this, I get the connections, I see the possible exploitation of grey areas in electoral funding rules, but what I don't see is the all important WHY. The article does not enlighten on this. Shady secret billionaire business cabal influencing democracy? Got it. File alongside "illuminati" a...
[13:20:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forget Mars, Colonize Titan - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:20:01] <exec> 08└─I think I'd rather be on Cloud City than on a space station, for the simple reason of much higher chances of surviving the movie. Why oh why don't they know how to protect small thermal exhaust ports?
[13:20:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Forget Mars, Colonize Titan - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:20:03] <exec> 08└─Yeah I think someone who wrote this article does not understand heat transfer... which is understandable as I do believe that course is the bane of would be engineers, and for good measure. I kept rereading headline and wondering if we are talking about the same titan here....
[13:20:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Forget Mars, Colonize Titan - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:20:05] <exec> 08└─Yeah it's some asshole who read a sci-fi book writing the article. All your points are valid. Mars is by far the best option. Venus atmosphere has problems because there are not raw materials available. Unless we could somehow blast the atmosphere off and the surface turned out not to be as volcanic...
[13:21:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WannaCrypt Ransomware Variant -- Lacking Kill Switch -- Seen in Wild [Updated] - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:02] <exec> 08└─It needs smarter people.
[13:21:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WannaCrypt Ransomware Variant -- Lacking Kill Switch -- Seen in Wild [Updated] - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:03] <exec> 08└─https://xkcd.com/303/ [xkcd.com] Just change "Compiling" to "Updating".
[13:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Snapchat Posts $2.2bn Loss After IPO - 657 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:24] <exec> 08└─Oh, they have already figured it out. IT doesnt matter if the app is useful or valuable in the long run. If a buck can be made you can be sure they will exploit it. They know it's a worthless platform right from the beginning. BUT it has market appeal thanks to the social media trend which makes it...
[13:24:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. President Establishes Commission on Election Integrity - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:40] <exec> 08└─> You're buying propaganda if you believe that. Says the guy who refuses to investigate anything where the mainstream media's reporting confirms his biases.
[13:24:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. President Establishes Commission on Election Integrity - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:41] <exec> 08└─The voters though are plenty diverse of ideology, more so than Dems in my experience by a long shot.
[13:27:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First SLS Mission Will be Unmanned - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:56] <exec> 08└─Its kind of like arguing that self-driving cars don't need seats because being self driving they don't need drivers therefore they'll never contain people, because the whole purpose of automobiles never involved human travel at all, which is kinda silly. The idea of a self driving school bus with no...
[13:27:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First SLS Mission Will be Unmanned - 1517 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:57] <exec> 08└─What would they do? If its primarily a shakedown flight, ground control will be exercising the hell out of the craft and they'll have no time, no payload, for the spam in the can to do anything this time around. Its like the business/technical advice to experiment with one thing at a time. Test the...
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[14:17:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Experts Warn New Computers Could Delete Thoughts Without Your Knowledge - 748 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:15] <exec> 08└─The right to "cognitive liberty" would ban all advertising. What else is adverising than the attempt to make people think differently than they would otherwise? Ok, but nobody loves advertising. But the right to "cognitive liberty" would also potentially ban all forms of persuasion. Lobbying for goo...
[14:17:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Experts Warn New Computers Could Delete Thoughts Without Your Knowledge - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:17] <exec> 08└─Scientists have already developed devices capable of telling whether people are politically right-wing or left-wing. In one experiment, researchers were able to read people's minds to tell with 70 per cent accuracy whether they planned to add or subtract two numbers.
[14:17:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Industry Reactions to Trump's Executive Order on Cybersecurity - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:45] <exec> 08└─Carefuk, Kurenai Tsubasa will get his/her/its panties knotted up.
[14:17:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Industry Reactions to Trump's Executive Order on Cybersecurity - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:46] <exec> 08└─My first impression was, it is largely meaningless.
[14:17:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Industry Reactions to Trump's Executive Order on Cybersecurity - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:48] <exec> 08└─...the inevitable conclusion is that the White House website has been hacked, and defaced with this fake executive order.
[14:17:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Industry Reactions to Trump's Executive Order on Cybersecurity - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:51] <exec> 08└─Carefuk
[14:17:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Industry Reactions to Trump's Executive Order on Cybersecurity - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:53] <exec> 08└─Did you mean "careful" or "carefuck"?
[14:18:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EFF: Intel's Management Engine is a Security Hazard - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:36] <exec> 08└─So you told them, it wasn't you attacking them but Dell enabling the compromise of your machine and allowing a 3rd party to use your network to attack them?
[14:18:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EFF: Intel's Management Engine is a Security Hazard - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:37] <exec> 08└─I remember that, though at the time I didn't comprehend the magnitude of the issue at the time. NFS wouldn't work, because the mangement platform was stealing traffic to ports in the NFS range.
[14:18:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EFF: Intel's Management Engine is a Security Hazard - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:39] <exec> 08└─On a laptop?
[14:19:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Robert Mercer Used Military Psychological Techniques to Influence the BREXIT Vote - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:21] <exec> 08└─Yes, let's declare George Soros enemy of the state. Send in Seal Team Six, and put one between his droopy eyes.
[14:19:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Robert Mercer Used Military Psychological Techniques to Influence the BREXIT Vote - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:22] <exec> 08└─>> I am commenting as AC, because I don't really blame the middle class either. >lolwut? Says another personality shard of AC... >Are you afraid "the middle class" is going to hunt down your nic and spam it or something? Not until they legalize hunting again...
[14:19:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Robert Mercer Used Military Psychological Techniques to Influence the BREXIT Vote - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:24] <exec> 08└─The Guardian is a joke, and the article is a shit-show. I love their info-graphic. I'm sure they have one, or several, discussing the Trump campaign ties to Russia as well. What a joke that "news outlet" has become, if it ever had any serious journalistic integrity to begin with (I am not a Brit so...
[14:19:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Robert Mercer Used Military Psychological Techniques to Influence the BREXIT Vote - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:26] <exec> 08└─The next war in Europe will be like the last two, with all of the unrestrained savagery of a clash of race, faith, and civilizations. All because the short term profit-focus on labor costs. Monarchies may not be looked at with approval, but they sure desired longer-term stability than governments th...
[14:19:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Robert Mercer Used Military Psychological Techniques to Influence the BREXIT Vote - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:29] <exec> 08└─Is there any advantage that gives a sufficient return on investment to keep North Ireland under British control? sounds like a economic disaster and no geostrategic advantage.
[14:20:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forget Mars, Colonize Titan - 1397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:17] <exec> 08└─Evolution does not work that way! Bacteria do not "adapt the environment to their needs." They consume, they reproduce, and they die. They can adapt their environment, but they do so entirely by accident and they probably won't enjoy the result. Your bacteria will either (a) die or (b) survive and a...
[14:25:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Store Gets Ubuntu, Suse, Fedora Linux - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:44] <exec> 08└─Seriously? Troll? Biased much?
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[15:17:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Revek [5022] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Experts Warn New Computers Could Delete Thoughts Without Your Knowledge - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:17] <exec> 08└─What a nice simple two dimensional way of looking at things. Unfortunately the majority fall in between those two extremes. Thats the problem with predictive AI, its only as good as the parameters its set up to analyze. The real truth is that most people fall in between those two extremes. It seems...
[15:17:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Experts Warn New Computers Could Delete Thoughts Without Your Knowledge - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:19] <exec> 08└─WTF is this shit? Delete thoughts? Get me my Matrix plug first, then I'll worry about computers deleting my thoughts. Or hell, if a computer could erase my memories of the first 20 years of my life, I'd pay money for the service.
[15:17:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Experts Warn New Computers Could Delete Thoughts Without Your Knowledge - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:21] <exec> 08└─What a nice simple two dimensional way of looking at things. Unfortunately the majority fall in between those two extremes.
[15:17:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Experts Warn New Computers Could Delete Thoughts Without Your Knowledge - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:23] <exec> 08└─What a nice simple two dimensional way of looking at things.
[15:17:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Experts Warn New Computers Could Delete Thoughts Without Your Knowledge - 638 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:25] <exec> 08└─I'm not worried about "computers deleting thoughts". The human kind is doing quite a good job at it already. Ever heard of propaganda? Many people do not think for themselves and take for granted what you feed them. Where is the problem concerning computers? The process of influence has been perfect...
[15:17:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Experts Warn New Computers Could Delete Thoughts Without Your Knowledge - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:27] <exec> 08└─You already have your Matrix plug in. It's just that any memory of it has been removed. :-)
[15:17:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Experts Warn New Computers Could Delete Thoughts Without Your Knowledge - 459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:30] <exec> 08└─Seriously though, first twent years is the entire basis of ones personality and experience engine. How would you have learned anything by erasing the entire boot record. For sure i get some peple might need some memories supressed, or even new information implanted, buying a new language would be ni...
[15:17:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Experts Warn New Computers Could Delete Thoughts Without Your Knowledge - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:32] <exec> 08└─...get off my Brawn.
[15:17:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Experts Warn New Computers Could Delete Thoughts Without Your Knowledge - 2042 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:34] <exec> 08└─By "developed device" in a very wide ranging sense they mean a classic IQ test. Star Trek handled the moral and ethical issues by allowing unwilling Vulcan mind melds if and only if it advanced the plot. I suspect that'll be the long term result in practice. Note that we can't detect lying right now...
[15:17:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Experts Warn New Computers Could Delete Thoughts Without Your Knowledge - 691 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:36] <exec> 08└─Well, regarding political beliefs, there's stuff like this [smithsonianmag.com]. That article has a summary of some other studies on this as well. The findings, basically: Liberals: tend to have more brain regions light up associated with "broad" social connectedness, acceptance of risk, and social/...
[15:17:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03idiot_king [6587] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Experts Warn New Computers Could Delete Thoughts Without Your Knowledge - 863 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:38] <exec> 08└─So we've got this big problem of Der Trumpenreich right now. How did Unser Furher get into office? Obviously because the US is stuck in its racist, sexist ways (see: torchlit vigil at the Robert E. Lee statue that's been in the news). But what if it was possible to forget that? What if it was possib...
[15:18:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Industry Reactions to Trump's Executive Order on Cybersecurity - 631 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:11] <exec> 08└─And really, what was it supposed to say? "Create whitelists on your home routers, everyone?" As an overall Trump supporter, I see this as a meaningless thing he will likely say was "Taking action." However, there may be secondary and tertiary effects that such an executive order has on various gover...
[15:18:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Industry Reactions to Trump's Executive Order on Cybersecurity - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:12] <exec> 08└─If we can VLAN stuff on our local nets, why can't government "VLAN off" its own stuff? Personally, I'd want an EO that said something like "If I can get on Google from your infrastructure networks, I want your IT turned off immediately".
[15:18:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Industry Reactions to Trump's Executive Order on Cybersecurity - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:14] <exec> 08└─The only people making laws about bathroom rights are the Republicans. It was never an issue until they made it one.
[15:18:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Industry Reactions to Trump's Executive Order on Cybersecurity - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:16] <exec> 08└─IMO, "cybersecurity" should simply be dropped as a priority, and completely defunded. There's simply no point to worrying about security as long as you're running a Windows-based infrastructure.
[15:19:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EFF: Intel's Management Engine is a Security Hazard - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:02] <exec> 08└─From another box that doesn't have any sort of ME, sure. From one that does, what's to stop them from refusing to register packets they don't want you to see?
[15:19:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EFF: Intel's Management Engine is a Security Hazard - 1106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:03] <exec> 08└─i believe the alternative is to be non standard, non x86 and to have several layers of defense running on separate hardware platform cross-verifying everything... Perfection would be to have custom everything, built by trustworthy entities. But perfection is unattainable and i'm a poor scrub. My nex...
[15:19:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Robert Mercer Used Military Psychological Techniques to Influence the BREXIT Vote - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:51] <exec> 08└─The UK doesn't have a first amendment. Because money is not considered free speech, there are laws limiting expenditures on campaigns. But to answer your question: democracy requires transparency. This was anything but transparent.
[15:19:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Robert Mercer Used Military Psychological Techniques to Influence the BREXIT Vote - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:52] <exec> 08└─It's interesting that someone modded you "troll" for an extended quotation from a future Supreme Court justice, from a memo that basically created an agenda for the modern conservative movement.
[15:19:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Robert Mercer Used Military Psychological Techniques to Influence the BREXIT Vote - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:54] <exec> 08└─Is there any advantage that gives a sufficient return on investment to keep North Ireland under British control? sounds like a economic disaster and no geostrategic advantage.
[15:19:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Robert Mercer Used Military Psychological Techniques to Influence the BREXIT Vote - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:56] <exec> 08└─Do you hear that? It's the sound of snowflake melting: "REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE"
[15:19:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Robert Mercer Used Military Psychological Techniques to Influence the BREXIT Vote - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:59] <exec> 08└─To this list, I might add the BBC documentary The Century of the Self [wikipedia.org]. While there's stuff in there that will likely be criticized by liberals and conservatives alike, it points to a fundamental shift in propaganda over the 20th century that has influenced consumerism, politics, conc...
[15:20:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Robert Mercer Used Military Psychological Techniques to Influence the BREXIT Vote - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:01] <exec> 08└─Nope, just a Rayntard.
[15:20:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Robert Mercer Used Military Psychological Techniques to Influence the BREXIT Vote - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:03] <exec> 08└─What a joke that "news outlet" has become, if it ever had any serious journalistic integrity to begin with (I am not a Brit so I am not sure).
[15:20:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Robert Mercer Used Military Psychological Techniques to Influence the BREXIT Vote - 1185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:05] <exec> 08└─I generally agree with you, and the influence of business interests within many western democracies is getting out of control. On the other hand, there's definitely some significant "spin" here -- just look at the headline: "Military... Techniques" -- ooh, scary authoritarian stuff! "Psychological T...
[15:20:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forget Mars, Colonize Titan - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:56] <exec> 08└─Yeah I think someone who wrote this article does not understand heat transfer... which is understandable as I do believe that course is the bane of would be engineers
[15:20:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Weasley [6421] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Forget Mars, Colonize Titan - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:57] <exec> 08└─Why don't we just colonize the sun? Don't have to deal with the bitter cold. Plenty of solar power. Did you know the night is 8 days long on Titan? On the sun it's day time all the time. My tomatoes will love it.
[15:20:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forget Mars, Colonize Titan - 1131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:59] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but isn't that part of the OP's point about Venus? Good luck mining for mineral resources on Titan, where digging in the surface will just get you frozen methane and eventually water. There's no mineral resources there to speak of that I know of. So instead of going there, where it's far away,...
[15:25:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. President Establishes Commission on Election Integrity - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:39] <exec> 08└─Haven't been in Oklahoma for a couple years now. Do try and keep up. Also, I've been to thirty-some-odd states in my time on this rock and lived in over a dozen of them. I am far from lacking in exposure to different viewpoints.
[15:25:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. President Establishes Commission on Election Integrity - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:40] <exec> 08└─I don't investigate most of what I hear from any media outlet. Neither do you. Drop the holier than thou shtick. I do, however, distrust anything I read/hear/watch by default. You should try it sometime.
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[16:17:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Turning MP3 Artefacts Into Music - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:16] <exec> 08└─https://soundcloud.com/magwhyr [soundcloud.com] the page shows up links to tracks, and the latest youtube-dl can extract the mp3s (it's been working with soundcloud for a while now). it is kind of funny that the end results are also mp3-compressed. doesn't that "pollute" the differences :?
[16:17:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Turning MP3 Artefacts Into Music - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:17] <exec> 08└─Seriously you are in for a kicking with this article.
[16:17:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Experts Warn New Computers Could Delete Thoughts Without Your Knowledge - 506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:39] <exec> 08└─To be fair, the studies I assume are being referenced aren't just dealing with "right wing vs. left wing," but general "conservative vs. liberal" or "Democrat vs. Republican" as they show in brain scans. (See my post above.) As others have already noted, the one-dimensional liberal-conservative spec...
[16:17:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Experts Warn New Computers Could Delete Thoughts Without Your Knowledge - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:40] <exec> 08└─then I'll worry about computers deleting my thoughts.
[16:17:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Experts Warn New Computers Could Delete Thoughts Without Your Knowledge - 664 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:42] <exec> 08└─Here's a more informative article about the possibilities of memory manipulation: https://www.vice.com [vice.com] Even as our basic understanding of how memory is encoded, stored, and retrieve...
[16:17:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Experts Warn New Computers Could Delete Thoughts Without Your Knowledge - 944 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:44] <exec> 08└─My ex-parents were Christian fundamentalist-extremist assholes who thought Jesus the 5 Star General and Supreme Commander of the Army of the Apocalypse was going to return after the Jews implemented in the New World Order after Y2K (or someshit, I've tried my best to forget without the help of this...
[16:17:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Experts Warn New Computers Could Delete Thoughts Without Your Knowledge - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:47] <exec> 08└─Its not really going to be computers deleting thoughts its going to be wikipedia deletionist style people.
[16:17:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Experts Warn New Computers Could Delete Thoughts Without Your Knowledge - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:49] <exec> 08└─The right to "cognitive liberty" would ban all advertising.
[16:17:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Experts Warn New Computers Could Delete Thoughts Without Your Knowledge - 727 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:51] <exec> 08└─Translation: I would be willing to give up some freedom over my memories control as long as mine stay complete and they only delete memories of people I don't agree with. I prefer live in the world of the wild west where people are free to be stupid and cause stupid people problems, and in exchange...
[16:17:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Experts Warn New Computers Could Delete Thoughts Without Your Knowledge - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:53] <exec> 08└─Link to paper?
[16:17:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Experts Warn New Computers Could Delete Thoughts Without Your Knowledge - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:56] <exec> 08└─The system can still run without the boot record once it's up. The problem only happens when you try to reboot.
[16:17:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Experts Warn New Computers Could Delete Thoughts Without Your Knowledge - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:58] <exec> 08└─Is that you, Brian Flemming [wikipedia.org]? If not, you might appreciate this [youtube.com]. Here's more information [wikipedia.org] in case you are skeptical about giving up an hour of your life for a YouTube video
[16:17:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Experts Warn New Computers Could Delete Thoughts Without Your Knowledge - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:00] <exec> 08└─Hmm the second part you reference is very dodgy stuff imho. This seems more like a) an attempt to resolve cognitive dissonance. b) attempting to please / gain attention by lying. (lying to oneself as well)
[16:18:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Experts Warn New Computers Could Delete Thoughts Without Your Knowledge - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:02] <exec> 08└─"Did you see the message?", his friends asked. "Yes." said he. "The answer is " There was a point to this story, but it has temporarily escaped the commenter's mind. This keeps happening to me, like someone is deleting my thoughts, but I am sure that isn't possible. There was some author I was going...
[16:18:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Industry Reactions to Trump's Executive Order on Cybersecurity - 555 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:39] <exec> 08└─How are you in such a thick bubble? The former DNI and Head of the FBI and the new acting head have all said the Russians definitively attempted to influence the election and refuse to comment on the current administrations involvement due to an ongoing investigation. You really think the press is j...
[16:18:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Industry Reactions to Trump's Executive Order on Cybersecurity - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:40] <exec> 08└─Well, we can all be thankful that you aren't in charge of anything of note.
[16:18:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Industry Reactions to Trump's Executive Order on Cybersecurity - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:42] <exec> 08└─Step 1: Get critical infrastructure of the open fucking internet. Asshats.
[16:18:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Industry Reactions to Trump's Executive Order on Cybersecurity - 833 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:45] <exec> 08└─I'll tell you what rational people most likely think. That Trump made a lot of money in Russia, and naturally he has ties to Russia. He married a Russian, which makes his ties to Russia even stronger. Some people in Russia probably like him. A lot of people in Russia probably dislike Hillary quite a...
[16:19:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jeremiah Cornelius [2785] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EFF: Intel's Management Engine is a Security Hazard - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:33] <exec> 08└─USB C or Thunderbolt!
[16:20:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Robert Mercer Used Military Psychological Techniques to Influence the BREXIT Vote - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:29] <exec> 08└─exactly how is this different from every election / referendum ever held? Is it just because it went the opposite way to your liking?
[16:20:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Robert Mercer Used Military Psychological Techniques to Influence the BREXIT Vote - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:30] <exec> 08└─Call me an elitist whispering whiner if you want. Trump is making me a lot of money and I warned the unwashed masses about him and got called a whiner and a crybaby every time. I won't feel so much compassion when you slime are scrubbing my shitter and your grandchildren are paid to wipe my ass.
[16:21:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Delwin [4554] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Forget Mars, Colonize Titan - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:23] <exec> 08└─Because it was a very well hidden sabotage by the lead engineer.
[16:21:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forget Mars, Colonize Titan - 487 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:25] <exec> 08└─I think the heat transfer could probably be handled. I'm sort of imagining an advanced polymer with huge numbers of embedded micro-vacuum bottles. The outside of a Dewar flask never gets very cold. So make your vacuum bottles the size of a baby aspirin, and use lots of them. The real problem would b...
[16:21:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forget Mars, Colonize Titan - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:27] <exec> 08└─Personally, I think the asteroids are the best goal, but Mars is an acceptable intermediate step. We don't really have the technology to do either of them properly yet, but Mars might be marginally doable.
[16:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WannaCrypt Ransomware Variant -- Lacking Kill Switch -- Seen in Wild [Updated] - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:24] <exec> 08└─How long do you keep your backups? You won't necessarily notice files being encrypted until you try to use them.
[16:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WannaCrypt Ransomware Variant -- Lacking Kill Switch -- Seen in Wild [Updated] - 930 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:26] <exec> 08└─*THIS* attack is focused on MSWind. Even so it doesn't attack most home systems. There have been attacks focused on Linux. There have certainly been attacks focused on Android. There have even been attacks focused on BSD...though they weren't usually very successful. The problem with attacks focused...
[16:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WannaCrypt Ransomware Variant -- Lacking Kill Switch -- Seen in Wild [Updated] - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:28] <exec> 08└─...the solution is to start killing people? Who has the list of nominations?
[16:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03tynin [2013] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WannaCrypt Ransomware Variant -- Lacking Kill Switch -- Seen in Wild [Updated] - 688 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:30] <exec> 08└─I've found the process to be very RAM intensive as it catalogs and checks what version of everything you are running so it can give you the correct patch list. The more RAM you have, the faster it'll finish, otherwise the list it creates has to keep spilling to disk, then read back in later, etc etc...
[16:24:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Mega-Sensor Makes the Whole Room Smart - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:34] <exec> 08└─Exactly what I thought when I read the headline. We need a better term than "smart" for integrative technology in physical spaces.
[16:26:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. President Establishes Commission on Election Integrity - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:14] <exec> 08└─gerrymandering motherfucker do you speak it
[16:26:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. President Establishes Commission on Election Integrity - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:16] <exec> 08└─Democrat politicians are a lot of things these days, but "out of their minds" is not one of them. Corporate, sure. Urban, definitely. Out of touch, yeah, with about 60% of the population. Insular, dismissive, elitist, ideological, etc. Maybe even corrupt. But when it comes down to it, these days Dem...
[16:27:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Store Gets Ubuntu, Suse, Fedora Linux - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:10] <exec> 08└─I think this is pitched as a better cygwin, for when you are forced to run windows at work (of course they probably phrase this differently).
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[17:17:37] <exec> 08└─There was a guy who did something very similar to this a couple years ago. I'd provide a link, but it's already in the current summary...
[17:17:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Turning MP3 Artefacts Into Music - 1682 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:38] <exec> 08└─Most of the problems and artifacts are caused by aliasing. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] The article contains 2 links to soundcloud-hosted sound files- first one is clean noise, and the second is the resulting aliasing you hear because of digital "downsampling" that is part...
[17:17:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Turning MP3 Artefacts Into Music - 2467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:40] <exec> 08└─This is a cool effect. The "music" produced is interesting. TFA reminds me of this quiz [npr.org] that was passed around a lot of a couple of years back. Six diverse audio samples, each in 128 kbps MP3, 320 kbps MP3, and lossless WAV. How well can you do? Here are the results [npr.org] they publishe...
[17:17:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Turning MP3 Artefacts Into Music - 531 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:43] <exec> 08└─I wish reporters wouldn't breathlessly repeat whatever shit the source feeds them, even if lacking funds/time/shits to give the bloody least they could do is write an interview and let the shit be said under anothers name and not theirs. Hell, even prefacing a paragraph of shit with something akin t...
[17:17:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Turning MP3 Artefacts Into Music - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:45] <exec> 08└─For anyone with a allergy to javascript, here's the direct link to the first video: master.m3u8 [vimeocdn.com] Seems to be encoded with AAC. Sounds definitely interesting. Like pieces of church echo or something. Next time maybe they should try FLAC. Compressing compression artifacts may be self def...
[17:17:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Turning MP3 Artefacts Into Music - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:47] <exec> 08└─Reporters are monkeys. Don't expect them to anything else than eat bananas. Reporter hear, Report write. Not think. Good boy.. now salary *pat*pat*. Repeat..
[17:18:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Experts Warn New Computers Could Delete Thoughts Without Your Knowledge - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:21] <exec> 08└─Advertising is not inherently bad. If I'm looking for a product, advertising that extols the virtues of a product, and ideally, even the downsides (perhaps addressed in a more high-end offering) is exactly what I want. Celebrity endorsements, logical fallacies, selling with sex, etc, are *not* what...
[17:18:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Experts Warn New Computers Could Delete Thoughts Without Your Knowledge - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:23] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the links. I'm always up for that kind of stuff. I'm an atheist more or less, but the Christian insanity lurks in the dark corners of the mind. I doubt it'll ever be eradicated without that Matrix plug I want.
[17:18:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Experts Warn New Computers Could Delete Thoughts Without Your Knowledge - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:25] <exec> 08└─Weed is inherently left wing in the sense of lay around and daydream and eat a lot.
[17:18:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Experts Warn New Computers Could Delete Thoughts Without Your Knowledge - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:27] <exec> 08└─What or who is "EF"?
[17:18:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Experts Warn New Computers Could Delete Thoughts Without Your Knowledge - 866 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:29] <exec> 08└─Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance. ...
[17:18:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Well Preserved Nodosaur Fossil to Go on Display - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:43] <exec> 08└─No, you can see it had not finished fully forming from the rock.
[17:19:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Industry Reactions to Trump's Executive Order on Cybersecurity - 940 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:12] <exec> 08└─Having worked with the federal government before, that very well could be what it is. What you may not realize, though, is that that may be enough. Consider the following situations. 1) -Low Manager: "I want to install a new firewall?" -Upper Manager: "Why?" -Low Manager: "It's a good idea, and is i...
[17:19:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Industry Reactions to Trump's Executive Order on Cybersecurity - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:14] <exec> 08└─Create whitelists on your home routers, everyone?
[17:19:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Industry Reactions to Trump's Executive Order on Cybersecurity - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:16] <exec> 08└─He married a Russian, which makes his ties to Russia even stronger.
[17:19:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Industry Reactions to Trump's Executive Order on Cybersecurity - 1413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:18] <exec> 08└─When Sen Diane Feinstein says there is no evidence that is a statement against interest so I tend to believe her. She sits on the committees who would have seen all of the classified intel so she is in a position to know about any nefarious stuff too secret to talk about in public. As for what we do...
[17:19:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Industry Reactions to Trump's Executive Order on Cybersecurity - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:20] <exec> 08└─Melania is Slovenian. Slovenia is pretty much on the US Empire side. Russia's friend in that area is Serbia, which the Empire has decimated over the last 20 years. Otherwise, I completely agree with your post.
[17:19:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Industry Reactions to Trump's Executive Order on Cybersecurity - 825 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:23] <exec> 08└─He is right though, we all make the argument that DRM is the attempt to make water not wet, well making Windows secure is even more of the same idiocy. Ban Windows from any position where "If this machine gets 0wned do pants get shat?" answers TRUE a firing offense and 90% of the problem gets solved...
[17:19:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Industry Reactions to Trump's Executive Order on Cybersecurity - 2675 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:25] <exec> 08└─So the last couple time I went to get a pack of smokes, this gas station that's on the way to work that I've been going to for years has had every single other kind of cigarette my favorite brand sells except the one I want. So instead I've started going to a Walgreens down the road. Well, anytime I...
[17:19:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Industry Reactions to Trump's Executive Order on Cybersecurity - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:27] <exec> 08└─Rationalization and rational aren't actually the same thing.
[17:20:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jeremiah Cornelius [2785] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EFF: Intel's Management Engine is a Security Hazard - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:16] <exec> 08└─I run an old Indigo Iris Elan and an original Mac Pro Bondi Blue tower. When I want speed? There's a couple of Raspberry Pi boards on what used to be drive sleds. These are dedicated browser sandboxes. They xremote to the desktops.
[17:20:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EFF: Intel's Management Engine is a Security Hazard - 996 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:18] <exec> 08└─You are absolutely right. I should been more clear on that. Otoh, most people here ought to figure out in a few seconds that it won't wipe out all backdoors that may exist. Anyway, it will at minimum put some serious rocks in the cogs of mass spying. The method is interesting but there are of course...
[17:20:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EFF: Intel's Management Engine is a Security Hazard - 993 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:20] <exec> 08└─Non standard, non x86 is good but also requires a lot of replication work (compiling and setup). PCI, Firewire, PCMCIA, PC Card, ExpressCard and Thunderbolt all support direct DMA without CPU initiation, just a tip. Which would enable you to verify contents. But don't trust the computer to present y...
[17:20:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EFF: Intel's Management Engine is a Security Hazard - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:22] <exec> 08└─And you think that little spy engine of Intel won't find your wired network card? ;)
[17:20:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EFF: Intel's Management Engine is a Security Hazard - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:24] <exec> 08└─No configuration option to "don't use these ports for NFS" ? Must seem obscure to miss incoming TCP traffic despite knowing it was sent.. ;-)
[17:20:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EFF: Intel's Management Engine is a Security Hazard - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:27] <exec> 08└─I thought AMD DASH / AMD PSP was a thing. http://developer.amd.com [amd.com]
[17:20:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EFF: Intel's Management Engine is a Security Hazard - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:29] <exec> 08└─Then you got to be sure what to look for among the gazillion of bits passing over the network. And that the sniffer platform don't fool you either. Then there's the RF backdoor. Connect to your neighbor and establish a system prompt.
[17:21:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Robert Mercer Used Military Psychological Techniques to Influence the BREXIT Vote - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:26] <exec> 08└─Is it really these slandered men who are subverting democracy, or the whispering whiners who hold the lower classes in disdain for voting the wrong way?
[17:21:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Robert Mercer Used Military Psychological Techniques to Influence the BREXIT Vote - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:27] <exec> 08└─The problem is that they are non-transparent and have no democratic legitimacy. Some of these people don't even live in the country nor are they citizens.
[17:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03chewbacon [1032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forget Mars, Colonize Titan - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:25] <exec> 08└─Your tomatoes might become sundried.
[17:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forget Mars, Colonize Titan - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:26] <exec> 08└─The sun is already jam-packed with mystic alderman. https://theinfosphere.org [theinfosphere.org] Good luck dislodging them from their districts, we know what happened to the last schmo who tried.
[17:23:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WannaCrypt Ransomware Variant -- Lacking Kill Switch -- Seen in Wild [Updated] - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:29] <exec> 08└─My Win10 machines wouldn't update. There is a setting in updates to allow it download the updates from other local machines. Unselected that, updates work again.
[17:23:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WannaCrypt Ransomware Variant -- Lacking Kill Switch -- Seen in Wild [Updated] - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:31] <exec> 08└─It's nice that you get to live in a reality where that's an option. Unfortunately many of us do not.
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[18:17:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Developers of the MP3 Format Claim it is 'Officially Dead' - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:33] <exec> 08└─No idea why they claim the format is dead right when they can no longer collect royalties. Maybe it's precisely because they can no longer collect royalties and would like people to switch to other, still patent encumbered formats. Sorry, that's not going to happen. MP3 is good enough and the best c...
[18:17:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Developers of the MP3 Format Claim it is 'Officially Dead' - 906 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:34] <exec> 08└─While there may be better formats that mp3, the one thing mp3 has going for it is that it is deeply entrenched. Universal support. Show me an audio player device, phone, tablet or software application that doesn't support mp3. Similarly mp3 audio support is near universal in software that supports v...
[18:17:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Developers of the MP3 Format Claim it is 'Officially Dead' - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:36] <exec> 08└─The problem is not checking facts, it's actually thinking. Not to implying any journalist is incapable to do so ;-)
[18:17:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Developers of the MP3 Format Claim it is 'Officially Dead' - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:38] <exec> 08└─For audiophiles, MP3 is crap. You lose clarity and frequencies where FLAC preserves them. Of course you'll need good headphones and a better soundcard than most PCs have. I use a USB-DAC with ~$200 headphones and FLAC files which beat the crap out of any MP3.
[18:17:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Developers of the MP3 Format Claim it is 'Officially Dead' - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:41] <exec> 08└─Yeah, with gigabit pipes and terabyte storage. Audio compression might have seen it's peak.
[18:17:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03WillR [2012] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Developers of the MP3 Format Claim it is 'Officially Dead' - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:43] <exec> 08└─And support is only going to get more universal now that distros can move their mp3 codec packages from unofficial add-on repositories to main.
[18:17:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Developers of the MP3 Format Claim it is 'Officially Dead' - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:45] <exec> 08└─It's not dead, it's just pining for the fjord! :)
[18:17:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Developers of the MP3 Format Claim it is 'Officially Dead' - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:47] <exec> 08└─Cuz I remember how the floppy disk died too. Of which I still have a case of blank floppies and a few USB readers laying around....
[18:17:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Developers of the MP3 Format Claim it is 'Officially Dead' - 510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:50] <exec> 08└─Cough. What distinct tiny stairsteps? I will make a well earned exception to my habit of not posting links to videos. If you want to understand how digital audio gets converted to sound, the videos on the linked page are well worth watching. Really. Even though one is very nearly 24 minutes long, an...
[18:18:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Turning MP3 Artefacts Into Music - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:05] <exec> 08└─It's not just aliasing. One of the things that MP3 does is to apply a psychoacoustic algorithm to simplify what it will actually capture and replicate. Things don't actually get aliased if they never show up in the signal to be captured.
[18:18:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Experts Warn New Computers Could Delete Thoughts Without Your Knowledge - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:45] <exec> 08└─If I'm looking for a product, advertising that extols the virtues of a product, and ideally, even the downsides (perhaps addressed in a more high-end offering) is exactly what I want.
[18:18:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Experts Warn New Computers Could Delete Thoughts Without Your Knowledge - 909 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:46] <exec> 08└─It is intrinsically evil. If I am looking for a product, I will search for it. There are these search engine things that scrape websites, including commercial web sites offering products. Some search engines even have a separate "google shopping" sub section if you are looking for something to buy r...
[18:18:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Experts Warn New Computers Could Delete Thoughts Without Your Knowledge - 566 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:48] <exec> 08└─The problem scenario is that Facebook starts to sell these new neurotypist headsets that enables users to type using their thoughts. Which they will say simplifies daily life and people feel the same. It gets more popular and eventually it becomes the standard way. But no one will have the schematic...
[18:18:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Experts Warn New Computers Could Delete Thoughts Without Your Knowledge - 546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:51] <exec> 08└─Heck, my freedom of sheesh in general is a violation of your "cognitive liberty" You are free to sheesh all you want, just not in church, ok? More seriously, this is currently a serious problem. That's what "safe spaces" are all about - people not wanting their delicate selves exposed to points of v...
[18:18:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Experts Warn New Computers Could Delete Thoughts Without Your Knowledge - 521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:53] <exec> 08└─Without Your Knowledge -- that is the part we should have a problem with. Some people may want to delete some memories. But should be done by consent. Including the consent you give about 2/3 of the way through the ISP service agreement you signed on page 223 in the fine print. You did read it, I as...
[18:18:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Experts Warn New Computers Could Delete Thoughts Without Your Knowledge - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:55] <exec> 08└─Obviously because the US is stuck in its racist, sexist ways (see: torchlit vigil at the Robert E. Lee statue that's been in the news)
[18:18:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Experts Warn New Computers Could Delete Thoughts Without Your Knowledge - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:57] <exec> 08└─What or who is "EF"?
[18:19:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Well Preserved Nodosaur Fossil to Go on Display - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:11] <exec> 08└─It was found next to a Commodore-64, and appeared happy, probably because the C64 ran faster than Windows with bloatware and McAfee.
[18:19:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Industry Reactions to Trump's Executive Order on Cybersecurity - 792 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:49] <exec> 08└─The former DNI and Head of the FBI and the new acting head have all said the Russians definitively attempted to influence the election and refuse to comment on the current administrations involvement due to an ongoing investigation. When Sen Diane Feinstein says there is no evidence that is a statem...
[18:19:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Industry Reactions to Trump's Executive Order on Cybersecurity - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:51] <exec> 08└─I'm a quantumsexual, my sex is determined only upon interaction with the bathroom door. In other situations it's impossible to know which sex it is. I know.. it's confusing but I feel so undetermined. :-)
[18:19:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Industry Reactions to Trump's Executive Order on Cybersecurity - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:53] <exec> 08└─When the Trump executive order comes that says "If your services are disrupted and need a cleanup because you got p0wn3d.. you're FIRED!". The Microsoft problem will be significantly reduced ;-) (of course only to be applied to software with a bad track record also known as a known-bad)
[18:19:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Industry Reactions to Trump's Executive Order on Cybersecurity - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:55] <exec> 08└─See folks, this is why we need bathroom police! Here we've got these quantumsexuals entering all the bathroom doors simultaneously and making a mess when they interfere with themselves, when if there were just somebody outside the bathrooms observing people as they enter, their waveform would collap...
[18:21:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Robert Mercer Used Military Psychological Techniques to Influence the BREXIT Vote - 863 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:53] <exec> 08└─Yes, that article just points out how some people are either straight up "trolling" with their nonsense, or they genuinely cannot apply logic to normal concepts. Shit like "Well that type of speech does hurt, it hurts feelings" where the hurt argument has to do with inciting violence... you know the...
[18:21:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Robert Mercer Used Military Psychological Techniques to Influence the BREXIT Vote - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:55] <exec> 08└─It's interesting that someone modded you "troll" for an extended quotation from a future Supreme Court justice, from a memo that basically created an agenda for the modern conservative movement. I think the trollish bit is where he tries to blame the left for the actions of a Nixon appointee.
[18:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Forget Mars, Colonize Titan - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:53] <exec> 08└─Seriously, the torpedo turned a corner, like it was being sucked in, but this is an EXHAUST port. As an engineer he thought of everything that seemed reasonable, but no one told him the enemy might be a space wizard!
[18:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forget Mars, Colonize Titan - 1385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:54] <exec> 08└─The interplanetary Internet will use lasers for high bandwidth transmission [smithsonianmag.com]. Latency will be bad, obviously. Sneakernet may be more promising. By the time basement dwellers can be exiled off-planet, 3D QLC NAND, the latest in HDD technology, or possibly holography, will have adv...
[18:27:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NotSanguine [285] 02 - 06U.S. President Establishes Commission on Election Integrity - 59 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:16] <exec> 08└─Snopes, factcheck, and politifact are all partisan sources.
[18:29:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich26189 [1377] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Apple’s Watch Can Detect an Abnormal Heart Rhythm With 97% Accuracy, UCSF Study Says - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:29:38] <exec> 08└─Thanks
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[19:17:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03AndyTheAbsurd [3958] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Electric 'Hogs' are Coming -- Autonomous Driving Antidote? - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:23] <exec> 08└─I predict all of the same bitching about electric motorcycles that we hear about electric cars...only with added bitching about how unsafe motorcycles are.
[19:17:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Electric 'Hogs' are Coming -- Autonomous Driving Antidote? - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:24] <exec> 08└─One of the things I most look forward to with electric vehicles is a reduction in traffic noise. Naive, wasn't it. Now we get to listen to jets and tie fighters going down the road.
[19:17:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Electric 'Hogs' are Coming -- Autonomous Driving Antidote? - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:26] <exec> 08└─Yeah it was naive: https://www.cnet.com [cnet.com]
[19:17:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Electric 'Hogs' are Coming -- Autonomous Driving Antidote? - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:29] <exec> 08└─Can't they just put a giant subwoofer under the seat and play genuine Harley sounds? It should be almost the same right? All about the feeling and the bass.
[19:17:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Electric 'Hogs' are Coming -- Autonomous Driving Antidote? - 778 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:31] <exec> 08└─With electric cars (and trucks, and semi-tractors even), you *can* look forward to a reduction in traffic noise. Just not with motorcycles. Cars are subject to various noise laws, and aren't allowed to make an obscene, deafening amount of noise as they drive around. For some stupid reason, however,...
[19:17:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Developers of the MP3 Format Claim it is 'Officially Dead' - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:47] <exec> 08└─For audiophiles, MP3 is crap.
[19:17:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Developers of the MP3 Format Claim it is 'Officially Dead' - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:48] <exec> 08└─For the other 99% of the population, mp3 is just fine.
[19:17:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Developers of the MP3 Format Claim it is 'Officially Dead' - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:50] <exec> 08└─That's "Fnord" in this case.
[19:17:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Developers of the MP3 Format Claim it is 'Officially Dead' - 513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:53] <exec> 08└─listening thru earbuds never gonna be audiophile, unless youre in a sound proof room. listening in car while driving, same. getting old enough to not be able to hear those 15kHz+ sounds, same. MP3 is good enough. Autotune, other modern mixing techniques that happen to kill the dynamic range, also su...
[19:17:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Developers of the MP3 Format Claim it is 'Officially Dead' - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:55] <exec> 08└─Thanks
[19:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Developers of the MP3 Format Claim it is 'Officially Dead' - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:57] <exec> 08└─Show a kid a floppy disk, and hear . . . Woah! Dude! You 3D printed a Save icon!
[19:17:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Developers of the MP3 Format Claim it is 'Officially Dead' - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:59] <exec> 08└─Developers of the MP3 Format Claim it is 'Officially Dead'
[19:18:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Developers of the MP3 Format Claim it is 'Officially Dead' - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:02] <exec> 08└─It's called a stiffy disk. Now get off my lawn!
[19:18:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Turning MP3 Artefacts Into Music - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:18] <exec> 08└─> It's not just aliasing. What is the first word of the post you replied to? > Things don't actually get aliased if they never show up in the signal to be captured. Welcome to SoylentNews, Captain Obvious!
[19:18:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Turning MP3 Artefacts Into Music - 930 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:19] <exec> 08└─Also, I find this sentence from TFA amusing: "Often, we're losing out on a significant amount of what the artist intended, because when the original analog music is converted to one of these formats, certain layers of sound are lost in the digital compression." A few funny things about this: (1) in...
[19:19:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03ticho [89] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Experts Warn New Computers Could Delete Thoughts Without Your Knowledge - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:08] <exec> 08└─We all just PXE-boot off our parents anyway, boot sectors are a waste of space. :)
[19:19:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Well Preserved Nodosaur Fossil to Go on Display - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:24] <exec> 08└─Wow. This amazing. Hopefully we will get digital or other storage that will so easily be diciphered as an efficicient mp3 decoding algorithem a few (hopefully not fukushima-chernobyl) thousand years in the future. Me, petsonally, i think dinosaurs died a collective death to spit the digital human co...
[19:20:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Industry Reactions to Trump's Executive Order on Cybersecurity - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:05] <exec> 08└─World War IV
[19:20:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Industry Reactions to Trump's Executive Order on Cybersecurity - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:07] <exec> 08└─Yugoslavia was a Soviet Socialist Republic, until the Soviet fell. That's pretty "Russian" from a geopolitical point of view. It's Russian enough for the Dems who want to demonize Russia, and Trump. Anything on the other side of the old Iron Curtain counts.
[19:20:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Industry Reactions to Trump's Executive Order on Cybersecurity - 1141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:09] <exec> 08└─Der sir, i just read the summary and ... well. Point is, that in this case "less is more". It means if you want to secure data, then less data is more easy/cheap to secure then alot of data. If you want a integer future, then keeping relevant data to a minomum will give you a leg up. However if you...
[19:22:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03rleigh [4887] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Robert Mercer Used Military Psychological Techniques to Influence the BREXIT Vote - 907 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:06] <exec> 08└─The "camps", either remain or leave were an irrelevance. The only thing that ultimately mattered was the box you crossed on the ballot paper, and the result of the referendum. All the promises and threats were so much noise. It was a giant fuss around the answering of a straightforward question (alb...
[19:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03DmT [6439] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Forget Mars, Colonize Titan - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:06] <exec> 08└─But that would be cheap, at least:) Yes, would take lots of time, but better than the current terraforming efforts (none). At least this would get the process started.
[19:24:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WannaCrypt Ransomware Variant -- Lacking Kill Switch -- Seen in Wild [Updated] - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:11] <exec> 08└─Who has the list of nominations?
[19:28:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Store Gets Ubuntu, Suse, Fedora Linux - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:51] <exec> 08└─In many cases, systemd is NOT the default init; it is available as a condiment for those who want it. Free and Open-Source (FOSS) operating systems without systemd in the default installation [without-systemd.org] -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
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[20:17:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Electric 'Hogs' are Coming -- Autonomous Driving Antidote? - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:28] <exec> 08└─Remember using a clothespin to attach a playing card|baseball card to your bicycle so that it would be plucked by the wheel spokes? Electric vehicles that need to make noise to make pedestrians aware of them remind me of that. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[20:17:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Electric 'Hogs' are Coming -- Autonomous Driving Antidote? - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:29] <exec> 08└─Just as long as when they open up full throttle under an overpass the echo still deafens everybody else it's all good. Maybe they can add something that will simulate rolling coal too just to make up for the fact that electric is for enviro weenies with small hands.
[20:17:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03pTamok [3042] 02 - 06Developers of the MP3 Format Claim it is 'Officially Dead' - 510 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:46] <exec> 08└─Cough. What distinct tiny stairsteps? I will make a well earned exception to my habit of not posting links to videos. If you want to understand how digital audio gets converted to sound, the videos on the linked page are well worth watching. Really. Even though one is very nearly 24 minutes long, an...
[20:17:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Developers of the MP3 Format Claim it is 'Officially Dead' - 80 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:52] <exec> 08└─Show a kid a floppy disk, and hear . . . Woah! Dude! You 3D printed a Save icon!
[20:17:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06Developers of the MP3 Format Claim it is 'Officially Dead' - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:56] <exec> 08└─Considering that 99% of the music out there is just loud grating noise with autotuned singing that sounds like GlaDOS trying to fuck your ear, its no surprise it is good enough for 99% of the people.
[20:17:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Developers of the MP3 Format Claim it is 'Officially Dead' - 1106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:59] <exec> 08└─Mainstream media and their journalists are still firm believers in copyright and intellectual property. They've been moaning for years now that their business is dying and it's all the fault of technology and those naughty pirates for wrecking their monopoly on the ability to mass copy information....
[20:18:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Developers of the MP3 Format Claim it is 'Officially Dead' - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:01] <exec> 08└─But its not tho thats just what the mainstream radio / tv plays.
[20:18:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Turning MP3 Artefacts Into Music - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:19] <exec> 08└─Most of the problems and artifacts are caused by aliasing [...] you hear because of digital "downsampling" that is part of the .mp3 conversion.
[20:19:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Experts Warn New Computers Could Delete Thoughts Without Your Knowledge - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:08] <exec> 08└─From TFS: "two biomedical ethicists are calling for the creation of new human rights laws" Since when would any "law" inhibit the worst possible practitioners, namely: governments? Privacy? Ever heard of a search warrant? They come in cereal boxes. Private property? Try not paying your property taxe...
[20:19:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Experts Warn New Computers Could Delete Thoughts Without Your Knowledge - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:09] <exec> 08└─Spoken like a heathen commie liberal!
[20:19:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Experts Warn New Computers Could Delete Thoughts Without Your Knowledge - 691 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:11] <exec> 08└─Weed is Anti-Capitalist?? This is news to me. It would be good if people would use proper callouts for characteristics. If you mean Anti-Authoritarian or Progressive, you should use those terms. If you mean Conservative or Reactionary, you should use those terms. Left and Right are ECONOMIC terms. C...
[20:19:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Experts Warn New Computers Could Delete Thoughts Without Your Knowledge - 588 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:14] <exec> 08└─Even the four way political compass is simplistic, although it is accurate enough that anybody at the extremes [can] be deemed extremely dangerous To start, "four-quadrant" or "two-dimensional" would be more accurate; "four-way" sounds like some sort of Lou Reed thing. Next, you are claiming that "n...
[20:19:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snotnose [1623] 02 - 06Industry Reactions to Trump's Executive Order on Cybersecurity - 186 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:37] <exec> 08└─would be to get the NSA, FBI, CIA, FDA, FTC, HHS, and any other TLA to disclose any and all vulnerabilities they know of so the vendors can close them. Of course, this will never happen.
[20:20:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Project Zero: Exploiting the Linux Kernel Via Packet Sockets - 795 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:21] <exec> 08└─I felt "clean"(or isolated) on linux ... until it made a network connection. After that i felt midly supperior. Later i understood that my history teachet had no clue and that wikipedia knew all along that there was a cheap way to "extend" the memory over many computerz. Theres no big difference bet...
[20:21:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EFF: Intel's Management Engine is a Security Hazard - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:12] <exec> 08└─Intel managment need a 4-2-6 (four-to-six) moment of insight. Tcp/ip?
[20:21:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EFF: Intel's Management Engine is a Security Hazard - 1287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:13] <exec> 08└─A few earlier chipsets had an lm32 in the SBxx0 southbridge offering the features of the PSP. Don't remember if those were signed or unsigned. ALL current chips that were produced after sockets G34, C32, AM3+, and I believe the original FM2 have ARM TrustZone based PSPs baked into them, with manufac...
[20:21:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EFF: Intel's Management Engine is a Security Hazard - 1646 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:15] <exec> 08└─'Lisa Su has been made aware of it, but sadly she has already left for the day, but you can be sure this has the attention of the highest levels of AMD management.' -- Or something similiar. Basically AMD gave a carefully worded and polite brushoff when the PSP was brought up. As the Netflix article...
[20:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Robert Mercer Used Military Psychological Techniques to Influence the BREXIT Vote - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:17] <exec> 08└─It's about loyalty to the majority population in NI. Note that the majority in NI want it to remain part of the UK.
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[21:17:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"The Legend of Zelda" Mobile App Rumoured - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:11] <exec> 08└─As a kid I enjoyed shoving Zelda cartridges up my ass and when I grew up I am gay.
[21:17:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"The Legend of Zelda" Mobile App Rumoured - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:13] <exec> 08└─It’s somewhat unclear if this is a port or an entirely new game like Super Mario Run. If true, that seems most likely.
[21:17:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"The Legend of Zelda" Mobile App Rumoured - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:15] <exec> 08└─It’s somewhat unclear if this is a port or an entirely new game like Super Mario Run. If true
[21:17:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Electric 'Hogs' are Coming -- Autonomous Driving Antidote? - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:29] <exec> 08└─The small hands thing is wrong. Trump infamously has small hands, and he advocates coal power, so small hands are properly associated with right wingers and other anti-environmentalists.
[21:17:30] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03archfeld [4650] 02 - 06 Electric 'Hogs' are Coming -- Autonomous Driving Antidote? - 485 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:31] <exec> 08└─I always wanted to hear a car with the sound of a steam locomotive produced by mp3 or some such recording, or maybe just a loud screeching Roseanne voice yelling '...get out of my way !!!...' Other thoughts include Fred Flintstone and a 'Yabba Dabba Doo'; or a John Cleese with 'Pardon me, Excuse me,...
[21:17:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Electric 'Hogs' are Coming -- Autonomous Driving Antidote? - 730 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:33] <exec> 08└─Harley is the "Apple" of the motorcycle world. It's a poor product that gets by on name. People will buy anything from Hard, clothing, towels, etc. The engines are a horrible design. The V-Twin is a horrible design. You can get other engine configurations with more horsepower, more torque, better mi...
[21:17:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Electric 'Hogs' are Coming -- Autonomous Driving Antidote? - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:35] <exec> 08└─Then why haven't the Japanese made a bike that is comfortable to ride for more than 100 yards ? I agree they have more dependable and certainly faster bikes but as far as cruisers go it is a German BMW or a US, possibly Canadian cruiser.
[21:17:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Electric 'Hogs' are Coming -- Autonomous Driving Antidote? - 641 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:37] <exec> 08└─> It's a poor product that gets by on name. You (and every one else in this thread, so far) have missed the point. Harley-Davidson and other V-twin motorcycles are rolling vibrators, the kind that stimulates the sex organs. In particular, the female sex organs (males less so?) An ME professor I know...
[21:17:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Electric 'Hogs' are Coming -- Autonomous Driving Antidote? - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:39] <exec> 08└─You don't think a Gold Wing [honda.com] is comfortable? It's like cruising around on a Laz-e-Boy.
[21:17:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Electric 'Hogs' are Coming -- Autonomous Driving Antidote? - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:42] <exec> 08└─I just want to know whether we'll be able to change it on the fly. You thought road rage was bad with only gestures...
[21:17:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Electric 'Hogs' are Coming -- Autonomous Driving Antidote? - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:44] <exec> 08└─Looks too much like a moped, and I doubt it can deafen people nearby.
[21:18:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Turning MP3 Artefacts Into Music - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:29] <exec> 08└─Err...excuse me but what is this: *SPOILER* (click to show) that has been showing up lately? Homey don't click on any ol' piece of click bait.
[21:19:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Experts Warn New Computers Could Delete Thoughts Without Your Knowledge - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:22] <exec> 08└─The Confederacy lost! Get over it!
[21:19:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Experts Warn New Computers Could Delete Thoughts Without Your Knowledge - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:23] <exec> 08└─Liberals are on the Right side of the political palate. They accept Capitalism as normal; they simply want to redistribute the wealth of Capitalists. Leftists are Anti-Capitalists; we want to make redistribution unnecessary by eliminating the Ownership Class and concentrated wealth, leaving only Wor...
[21:19:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Experts Warn New Computers Could Delete Thoughts Without Your Knowledge - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:25] <exec> 08└─Don't worry! Wil Wheaton [wikia.com] will save the day!
[21:19:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Experts Warn New Computers Could Delete Thoughts Without Your Knowledge - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:28] <exec> 08└─Don't forget the various psychiatric drugs. Antidepressants. Antipsychotics. Those most certainly change how you think.
[21:19:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Well Preserved Nodosaur Fossil to Go on Display - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:43] <exec> 08└─Me, petsonally, i think dinosaurs died a collective death to spit the digital human concret economy to say that bones matter more then all technological advances...
[21:20:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03curunir_wolf [4772] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Industry Reactions to Trump's Executive Order on Cybersecurity - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:28] <exec> 08└─The only people making laws about bathroom rights are the Republicans. It was never an issue until they made it one.
[21:21:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EFF: Intel's Management Engine is a Security Hazard - 630 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:29] <exec> 08└─High level overview flowcharts from maybe a year ago? The PSP was prominently shown alongside the cpu cores connected to the in-chip interconnect alongside the cache, memory controller and pci bus controllers. Go look for one of those old flowcharts and you should find it. Having said that, yes ther...
[21:21:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EFF: Intel's Management Engine is a Security Hazard - 1885 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:31] <exec> 08└─Dead. SPARC itself is terminated (Both Fujitsu and Oracle/Sun have dropped it. Fujitsu moved the engineering resources to ARM for their next supercomputer, and Oracle/Sun have fired their entire cpu engineering staff.) The Elbrus chips got migrated to something else, and I think switched to some new...
[21:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Robert Mercer Used Military Psychological Techniques to Influence the BREXIT Vote - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:34] <exec> 08└─Yes, the proportion of Republicans has increased, but I don't think that it has reached 50% yet. I don't think there is a strong desire in England to keep NI in the UK if the majority population of NI wants to leave. That will happen (higher birth rate among Catholics), but it hasn't happened yet.
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[22:17:20] <exec> 08└─Now that this guy is out of prison, and only 29 coal miners were killed, and the president is all for putting coal miners back to work, we need to get this guy back in charge of a coal mine. Coal is the future of energy. Not Solar. Not Wind. Once the skies are black with particulate smoke from coal,...
[22:17:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 0629 Dead Employees == 1 Year "Imprisoned" - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:21] <exec> 08└─He should be back in charge! He's a natural leader when it comes to rolling back the overreaching government regulations which were smothering coal's explosive potential.
[22:17:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geezer [511] (Score: 2) 02 - 0629 Dead Employees == 1 Year "Imprisoned" - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:23] <exec> 08└─10-4, Eleanor! Shoes for industry!
[22:17:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 0629 Dead Employees == 1 Year "Imprisoned" - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:25] <exec> 08└─The coal miners elect politicians who want to eliminate government regulations, and who cozy up to guys like this, so it's hard to have much sympathy for them when this results in their deaths.
[22:17:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"The Legend of Zelda" Mobile App Rumoured - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:37] <exec> 08└─The rumor suggests that the gossip is right about the hearsay... #vaguenews
[22:17:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"The Legend of Zelda" Mobile App Rumoured - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:39] <exec> 08└─Emulating Oracle of Seasons on my Android right now. Not as classic as Link's Awakening, but still very fun! Highly recommend it as a time-killer for those of us who do not participate in government surveill-er-social media.
[22:18:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Electric 'Hogs' are Coming -- Autonomous Driving Antidote? - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:01] <exec> 08└─Harley-Davidson and other V-twin motorcycles are rolling vibrators, the kind that stimulates the sex organs. In particular, the female sex organs (males less so?)
[22:18:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Electric 'Hogs' are Coming -- Autonomous Driving Antidote? - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:03] <exec> 08└─Perhaps the HD configuration is comfortable for a specific body style ....
[22:18:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Developers of the MP3 Format Claim it is 'Officially Dead' - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:31] <exec> 08└─This ran the week before last. /article.pl?sid=17/05/03/1348259 [soylentnews.org]
[22:18:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Turning MP3 Artefacts Into Music - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:52] <exec> 08└─Added <spoiler> tags for the Reviews nexus in case you want to talk about a novel without ruining it for everyone else. They function everywhere though.
[22:18:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Turning MP3 Artefacts Into Music - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:54] <exec> 08└─Even CD discs and players were introduced, they were lambasted for sounding metallic and not be as good as high end analogue equipment. And that format is very much uncompressed in any matter. You just can't please some people. And if instead of CD quality, the record uses 192 kHz with 24-bit multic...
[22:18:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Turning MP3 Artefacts Into Music - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:56] <exec> 08└─It's really too bad the CD standard wasn't set higher than 22.1/16. Perhaps if it had been 44/24 there would have been less complaints. But maybe it wasn't possible to stuff any more data than 650MB on a disc that size without having a different laser. But surely they could have used some simple los...
[22:20:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Industry Reactions to Trump's Executive Order on Cybersecurity - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:56] <exec> 08└─Is this like Schrödinger's bathroom? You don't know if you need to go or not until you look in the bathroom?
[22:20:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Industry Reactions to Trump's Executive Order on Cybersecurity - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:57] <exec> 08└─Yugoslavia was a Soviet Socialist Republic, until the Soviet fell. That's pretty "Russian" from a geopolitical point of view. It's Russian enough for the Dems who want to demonize Russia, and Trump. Anything on the other side of the old Iron Curtain counts.
[22:25:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WannaCrypt Ransomware Variant -- Lacking Kill Switch -- Seen in Wild [Updated] - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:07] <exec> 08└─How did you get the files and bootmedia for WSUS if the system was corrupted?
[22:25:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WannaCrypt Ransomware Variant -- Lacking Kill Switch -- Seen in Wild [Updated] - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:09] <exec> 08└─That XKCD should be made into a short movie. Dramatic Star Wars music and the chairs imagined as battle ships ;-) And the boss is the dark side calling..
[22:29:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Store Gets Ubuntu, Suse, Fedora Linux - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:29:47] <exec> 08└─Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but last I checked, the Linux subsystem does not have access to the graphics hardware.
[22:29:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Store Gets Ubuntu, Suse, Fedora Linux - 583 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:29:49] <exec> 08└─This can be easily verified with an appropriate router that lets you inspect the data going back and forth. People made the same claim about MacOS/OSX/whateverkidscallitthesedays, and someone went ahead and did an actual test. When they disabled Siri, iCloud, error reporting, and all the other cloud...
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[23:17:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02 - 0629 Dead Employees == 1 Year "Imprisoned" - 193 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:31] <exec> 08└─The coal miners elect politicians who want to eliminate government regulations, and who cozy up to guys like this, so it's hard to have much sympathy for them when this results in their deaths.
[23:17:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0629 Dead Employees == 1 Year "Imprisoned" - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:32] <exec> 08└─Sadly, you don't get to be rich by following all the rules. They just hurt the bottom-line too much. Shareholders only care about the next quarterly earnings.
[23:17:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0629 Dead Employees == 1 Year "Imprisoned" - 615 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:35] <exec> 08└─You don't get to be rich by breaking the wrong rules, either. Cue the wrongful death lawsuits. My family got very wealthy last century running a massive construction company. There were deaths but they were attributed to carelessness on the part of individual workers - truckers driving drunk and kil...
[23:17:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03tizan [3245] (Score: 2) 02 - 0629 Dead Employees == 1 Year "Imprisoned" - 640 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:37] <exec> 08└─The movie looks like it was a prediction, looking at what is happening these days (clean air, water or health care is a privilege not a common right). Those who are supposed to uphold the constitution forgets that before the constitution there were a few self-evident facts or truth: We hold these tr...
[23:17:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 0629 Dead Employees == 1 Year "Imprisoned" - 666 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:40] <exec> 08└─Sympathy here has nothing to do with JUSTICE. This was not justice served to the American people, and especially, the victim's families. The man deliberately, and knowingly, created an environment in which 29 PEOPLE lost their lives. He cannot claim ignorance either, as the regulations were there. T...
[23:17:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0629 Dead Employees == 1 Year "Imprisoned" - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:42] <exec> 08└─Never heard of them, so... thanks!
[23:17:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 0629 Dead Employees == 1 Year "Imprisoned" - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:44] <exec> 08└─There's no party divides here. Both Democrats and the Republicans are equally eager to loosen up environmental and workplace safety regulations with special emphasis given to energy industries.
[23:17:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 0629 Dead Employees == 1 Year "Imprisoned" - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:46] <exec> 08└─In 2015, Blankenship was convicted on a single misdemeanor count of violating federal safety laws at the mine in Montcoal, West Virginia. The disaster occurred when a spark from a longwall machine ignited a pocket of methane gas, which, in turn, set off a massive coal dust explosion throughout the m...
[23:17:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 0629 Dead Employees == 1 Year "Imprisoned" - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:49] <exec> 08└─"Former Massey CEO Don Blankenship gets the biggest share, $86.2 million, according to the analysis. Blankenship retired in December although a new SEC filing suggests he was forced to leave." http://www.npr.org [np...
[23:18:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"The Legend of Zelda" Mobile App Rumoured - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:01] <exec> 08└─It’s somewhat unclear if this is a port or an entirely new game like Super Mario Run. If true
[23:18:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Electric 'Hogs' are Coming -- Autonomous Driving Antidote? - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:27] <exec> 08└─An audio track that goes "Duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck..." normally, and then shouts "GOOSE!" when it detects that you cut someone off. That or endlessly playing the mexican hat dance [youtube.com].
[23:18:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Electric 'Hogs' are Coming -- Autonomous Driving Antidote? - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:28] <exec> 08└─jetsons's car https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[23:18:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Roger Murdock [4897] (Score: 1) 02 - 06 Electric 'Hogs' are Coming -- Autonomous Driving Antidote? - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:30] <exec> 08└─Harley's "same crowd" as far as I can tell is accountants and IT pros, and based on the noise they make I'm guessing it's half the point!
[23:18:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Electric 'Hogs' are Coming -- Autonomous Driving Antidote? - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:32] <exec> 08└─Introduced 5 years ago in the Netherlands, electric delivery scooter keeps saying that Domino's pizza tastes good: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[23:18:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Electric 'Hogs' are Coming -- Autonomous Driving Antidote? - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:35] <exec> 08└─I want a procedural drum cover of Meshuggah's Clockworks or Bleed. Maybe Black Dahlia Murder's What A Horrible Night To Have A Curse? So many possibilities...
[23:18:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zyx Abacab [3701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Electric 'Hogs' are Coming -- Autonomous Driving Antidote? - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:37] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't a seat-mounted rumble motor be better? A subwoofer could then be directly inserted into the ear canal, or mounted in the helmet. Then again, a big part of this scene is producing noise for other people to hear. Real freedom, for everyone, is being able to make all the noise you want—so as...
[23:19:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Turning MP3 Artefacts Into Music - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:28] <exec> 08└─IAAP (I am a producer). Sometimes autotune is exactly, precisely, literally what a person who does music professionally, wants and uses. I call these people musicians. I'll let them know some dude online doesn't think they're artists. I'm sure they'll be all cut up about that.
[23:19:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Turning MP3 Artefacts Into Music - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:29] <exec> 08└─A true artist does not use Autotune.
[23:19:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Turning MP3 Artefacts Into Music - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:32] <exec> 08└─Oh, and by the way before you start complaining that "the original soundwaves are analog" and that's the "artist's intention," I think that viewpoint is woefully misguided and denigrates the profession of recording engineering which is all about creating a recording the artist is happy with and refl...
[23:20:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Experts Warn New Computers Could Delete Thoughts Without Your Knowledge - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:27] <exec> 08└─Doh! Sorry, couldn't resist. It has electrolytes.
[23:20:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Experts Warn New Computers Could Delete Thoughts Without Your Knowledge - 1986 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:28] <exec> 08└─You have misspelled "Capitalists". Now, if you want to look at -government- as degrading to human rights, you'll need to look at individual crooked politicians who allow themselves to be bought off by Capitalists, rather than serving the vast majority of their constituency (The Working Class). Capit...
[23:20:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Revek [5022] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Experts Warn New Computers Could Delete Thoughts Without Your Knowledge - 480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:30] <exec> 08└─I was thinking more in terms of a bell curve with the left and the right at the edges and the majority grouped into the center. With myself playing the part of Joe Bauers [wikipedia.org] of course. Most of my problems are caused by liberals and conservatives. I can see how it would be seen as a one...
[23:21:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Industry Reactions to Trump's Executive Order on Cybersecurity - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:34] <exec> 08└─What do your partners say when they see a bathroom door on your bed?
[23:21:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Industry Reactions to Trump's Executive Order on Cybersecurity - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:36] <exec> 08└─Henry? "My Kingdom, my kingdom for an 'f'!"
[23:21:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Industry Reactions to Trump's Executive Order on Cybersecurity - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:38] <exec> 08└─the Republicans. It was never an issue until they made it one.
[23:23:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Robert Mercer Used Military Psychological Techniques to Influence the BREXIT Vote - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:43] <exec> 08└─lolwut? You are now bragging about your narcissistic tic and think its a dis to say someone hasn't been reading enough of your posts to realize how often you actually engage in narcissism. Is that like narcissism on roids?
[23:23:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Robert Mercer Used Military Psychological Techniques to Influence the BREXIT Vote - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:44] <exec> 08└─Its stupid mods like that -1 Troll which remind me how much this site needs meta-moderation.
[23:25:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03boltronics [580] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WannaCrypt Ransomware Variant -- Lacking Kill Switch -- Seen in Wild [Updated] - 830 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:52] <exec> 08└─Not a reality in all work places maybe, but you do get to choose where you work. If you don't live anywhere near your ideal job, just move. If you can't move, that's usually because of previous choices you made in your life that didn't focus on your current goals. For example, an ideal workplace env...
[23:27:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Mega-Sensor Makes the Whole Room Smart - 1478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:56] <exec> 08└─the equivalent of shit flinging monkeys. And the one that wasn't, shat on it anyway. Anyhow, to point: * this is not "how google mines your wall wart sensor", although it will be someday, unless, you know, you don't use google. * this is not "better than sliced bread", its just better dough. * this...
[23:29:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. President Establishes Commission on Election Integrity - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:29:37] <exec> 08└─I don't investigate most of what I hear from any media outlet. Neither do you. Drop the holier than thou shtick.
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