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[00:36:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HSBC Voice Authentication Bypassed in BBC Test - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:29] <exec> 08└─The security comes from that we, the management with nice suits and diplomas says it secure! Meanwhile our slav^H^Hengineers will be told to "review" the system.. quickly. A voice is surely unique, just not that unique.. And the identification algorithm must have some tolerance margins which will ch...
[00:36:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HSBC Voice Authentication Bypassed in BBC Test - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:31] <exec> 08└─"They say Sinaloa is nice this time of year." [rollingstone.com]
[00:36:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 1) 02 - 06HSBC Voice Authentication Bypassed in BBC Test - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:33] <exec> 08└─Imitating People's Speech Patterns Precisely Could Bring Trouble [soylentnews.org] Adobe Voco 'Photoshop-for-Voice' Causes Concern [soylentnews.org]
[00:36:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Norwegian Seed Bank is Flooded; Seeds Unharmed - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:51] <exec> 08└─The Guardian article says that the seeds are kept in packets; I don't know whether those are waterproof. The article says that the flooding was only in an entrance tunnel: the water froze before reaching the area where the seeds are actually stored.
[00:37:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Guards Eject Reporter - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:23] <exec> 08└─The First Amendment also encompasses "freedom of speech." Asking a question would be encompassed by that, I should think.
[00:37:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Carnage in Indian IT: Wipro, Infosys, Tech Mahindra, Cognizant Slash Jobs - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:44] <exec> 08└─If your projects are that chaotic, you have bigger problems than finding a good PM.
[00:38:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmn32480 [443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 10 Redstone: A Guide to the Builds - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:05] <exec> 08└─Have you ever even tried such a virtualized configuration? In particular, have you tried replacing a snapshot of a (e.g. borked) VM and compared that to the bare-metal version of that process?
[00:38:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03edIII [791] 02 - 06SoylentNews Update 17.05; Backend Changes; Folding@Home News; Accounts Milestone; Funding Shortfall - 399 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:24] <exec> 08└─Yep. TMB can be an ass on occasion, but I trust him and the other staff here a hell of lot more than some executive scum that was running the green site. This site has principles, it's reflected in the site and the staff's work, and that's what I'm here. It's why I came here in the beginning. I'm go...
[00:39:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Update 17.05; Backend Changes; Folding@Home News; Accounts Milestone; Funding Shortfall - 873 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:04] <exec> 08└─I can't tell if you were going for funny or insightful, but you hit insightful either way. Anyone that's ever worked in retail or anything similar (hotel staff, customer service, etc.) has probably seen this shit from people; there's a significant subset of the population that thinks employees are s...
[00:40:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06India Approves 10 Locally-Designed Nuclear Reactors; China to Build 2 Reactors for Argentina - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:29] <exec> 08└─That too. My points: 1. India is increasing their use of coal - the project is backed by Indian govt subsidies and they plan to use the majority of it. 2. it is done with immediate environmental damage before even a mole of CO2 produced by burning that coal 3. no matter where it is exported/used, th...
[00:45:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swedish Prosecutor Retracts Warrant Against Julian Assange - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:04] <exec> 08└─Another article explains the distinctions among a pardon, clemency, and commutation: A "pardon wipes out the conviction while a commutation leaves the conviction intact but wipes out the punishment." [...] Commutation is a form of clemency [...]
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[01:36:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03idiot_king [6587] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Study Into the Mental Resilience of Journalists - 537 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:11] <exec> 08└─I've seen this a few places over the past few days. I find it highly suspicious that this *LIMITED* study is surfacing amidst the outcry against Trump simply because it's too convenient. The average 'Publican Ruralite hates the media-- so the very fact that they have this low hanging fruit to grab w...
[01:36:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Into the Mental Resilience of Journalists - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:13] <exec> 08└─Junk science is junk.
[01:36:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Into the Mental Resilience of Journalists - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:15] <exec> 08└─I just drank a quart of water! My executive functioning is CRUSHING IT!!1!
[01:36:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Into the Mental Resilience of Journalists - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:17] <exec> 08└─It's going by the plan. Just look at who owns media..
[01:36:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Study Into the Mental Resilience of Journalists - 451 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:19] <exec> 08└─You mean like the 'studies' every month or so 'proving' conservatives are mentally defective? Thought you would always have a monopoly on #FakeScience? Don't really need a study to know journalists as a groups are on the left side of the bell curve when it comes to reasoning, general knowledge and s...
[01:36:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Into the Mental Resilience of Journalists - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:21] <exec> 08└─Fuck this site.
[01:36:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Study Into the Mental Resilience of Journalists - 532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:24] <exec> 08└─The summary says that there were "40 volunteer journalist subjects" and indeed that's how many were chosen for the study; however it seems that data were reported for only 31 and of those, only 21 were fully studied: 40 journalists were selected on a first come first served basis, from across newsp...
[01:36:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Into the Mental Resilience of Journalists - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:26] <exec> 08└─Put down the beer, you traditional journalist.
[01:36:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Into the Mental Resilience of Journalists - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:28] <exec> 08└─And your motivation for that is?
[01:36:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Into the Mental Resilience of Journalists - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:30] <exec> 08└─I find gun control to be the biggest identifier of liberal journalists, even ahead of abortion. Phrases like "automatic rifle", "assault rifle", "AK-47" and such typically mean the person reporting doesn't know squat about guns but they are against them. Especially when they talk about an "automatic...
[01:36:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Study Into the Mental Resilience of Journalists - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:32] <exec> 08└─What about exercise? Do you lift?
[01:36:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Into the Mental Resilience of Journalists - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:35] <exec> 08└─Look up the paper where they "proved" people identifying as republicans tended to be insane/stupid which lead to a bunch of media coverage and citations. Then later it was admitted they reversed the democrat/republican label in their dataset (ie: 0= rep, 1=dem vs 1 = rep, 0 = dem). It is all bs, the...
[01:36:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Into the Mental Resilience of Journalists - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:37] <exec> 08└─No foreplay? First you grab the site by the pussy, and the site lets you!
[01:36:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Into the Mental Resilience of Journalists - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:39] <exec> 08└─Who says that it's not possible that conservatives and journalists are mentally defective?
[01:36:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Into the Mental Resilience of Journalists - 604 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:41] <exec> 08└─I don't know much about guns. The first result when I searched was: http://forums.gunsandammo.com [gunsandammo.com] If I understand that image, it doesn't imply that the AK-47 doesn't exist, only that journalists may misidentify it. Would you have t...
[01:36:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bobs [1462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Into the Mental Resilience of Journalists - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:43] <exec> 08└─There is nothing of significance e that can be learned from this.
[01:36:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Into the Mental Resilience of Journalists - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:46] <exec> 08└─https://crzysdrs.sytes.net/dv//victim/48/papa-papa-they-took-away-my-ak-/ [sytes.net]
[01:36:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Into the Mental Resilience of Journalists - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:48] <exec> 08└─No control group either.
[01:36:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Into the Mental Resilience of Journalists - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:50] <exec> 08└─There's a 'services' link. I don't think this is a (peer-reviewed) journal article, and I don't think this is actual scientific research (by research standards).
[01:36:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Into the Mental Resilience of Journalists - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:52] <exec> 08└─I bet they numbered it like that so they could alternate between quoting/purchase requisitioning/purchase ordering/invoicing for one vs the other, and by the time all was said and done, you'd paid for twice your original order.
[01:37:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Guards Eject Reporter - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:59] <exec> 08└─> If fact the youtube shows exactly that. Link, please?
[01:39:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Update 17.05; Backend Changes; Folding@Home News; Accounts Milestone; Funding Shortfall - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:40] <exec> 08└─When volunteers provides something for free and people using it treat the providers like shit. The might just get a free review of their behavior ;) No Flesh Resource department around to protect userflakes from such honesty :p
[01:39:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SoylentNews Update 17.05; Backend Changes; Folding@Home News; Accounts Milestone; Funding Shortfall - 760 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:42] <exec> 08└─On matters of technology, I challenge anyone to point to an instance where you were far off the mark. Now, on social/political matters, well... Hey, there's an example of Ralph Nader and Grover Norquist together on a dais, [soylentnews.org] agreeing on stuff. [google.com] Ralph wrote a book[1] [goog...
[01:39:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SoylentNews Update 17.05; Backend Changes; Folding@Home News; Accounts Milestone; Funding Shortfall - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:44] <exec> 08└─FTFS: Removed unused Javascript code That made me wonder just how "legacy" that stuff was. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[01:39:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Update 17.05; Backend Changes; Folding@Home News; Accounts Milestone; Funding Shortfall - 3315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:46] <exec> 08└─I'm coming in a bit late but I hope at least a few people will see this. I'm going to reiterate what I've said a couple of other times during discussions of membership and funding. To wit... WE NEED TO BE LOUDER ABOUT THE FACT THAT THIS SITE RUNS NO ADS AND IS ENTIRELY SUPPORTED BY USER SUBSCRIPTION...
[01:40:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Partnering With HTC and Lenovo for Standalone VR Headsets - 585 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:40:06] <exec> 08└─Check out banggood.com and other drop ship sites They have models ranging from 800x480 to 2160p, all running android, some of them with support for either hdmi input for use with a PC, or output for use with a monitor when you aren't VR gaming. Hardware could be better, but most of the midrange pric...
[01:40:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FAA Registration Requirement for Drone Hobbyists Struck Down by Appeals Court - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:40:21] <exec> 08└─It's a free endless supply of drone parts for yourself. And since they won't have any registration tags to prove it is theirs, they will have a hard time proving it isn't YOURS :) Now to build a microwave gun to zap these things down without doing too much damage to the pricey bits! :)
[01:40:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Climate Change is Turning Antarctica Green, Say Researchers - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:40:45] <exec> 08└─Just eat a smaller steak
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[02:36:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06General Electric-Saudi Arabia Deals Announced - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:17] <exec> 08└─Sell US all your oil for cheap.
[02:36:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Into the Mental Resilience of Journalists - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:45] <exec> 08└─You mean like the 'studies' every month or so 'proving' conservatives are mentally defective?
[02:36:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Into the Mental Resilience of Journalists - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:47] <exec> 08└─Crap. Talk about junk science and collected bullshit. ...limited study...
[02:36:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Into the Mental Resilience of Journalists - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:49] <exec> 08└─That's exactly my point. "Journalists" typically call any rifle an AK-47, leveraging the guns ISIS and Al Queda use , along with hundreds of other types militias use. 9 times out of 10 it's either A) an SKS variant (AK single shot), or B) nothing to do with an AK-47. You want my respect. Go to the g...
[02:36:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Study Into the Mental Resilience of Journalists - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:51] <exec> 08└─I learned that the numbering of those models coincides with the year of first production: AK-47s were first made in 1947 and AK-74s were first made in 1974--but not all models follow that pattern.
[02:36:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Study Into the Mental Resilience of Journalists - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:53] <exec> 08└─Thanks for explaining. When we're familiar with a topic or story, we can easily notice inaccurate reporting about it. That could be further generalised to our observations of other people's work. We're not all excellent.
[02:36:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Into the Mental Resilience of Journalists - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:55] <exec> 08└─It's not science. It's somebody's little pet project. But it has pretty multicolored graphs. So it looks like science.
[02:36:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Into the Mental Resilience of Journalists - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:58] <exec> 08└─See how bad they are, 19 out of 40 couldn't even finish the tests.
[02:39:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03edIII [791] 02 - 06SoylentNews Update 17.05; Backend Changes; Folding@Home News; Accounts Milestone; Funding Shortfall - 1845 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:13] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure what the hell you are talking about. Are you complaining as a user here, or as somebody trying to contribute to site as a coder? As a user, I don't find an awful lot of rules. We don't support a lot of bullshit with the lameness filter, and not allowing people to embed gifs and cute emo...
[02:39:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06SoylentNews Update 17.05; Backend Changes; Folding@Home News; Accounts Milestone; Funding Shortfall - 867 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:47] <exec> 08└─Reading the The addition of the "new" flag comment by Justin Case, makes me want to note that the page presentation I see is at the other end of the spectrum. I like black text on a white background, no sidebars, and no images[1] so, pretty much all the time, I block everything that isn't readable t...
[02:39:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SoylentNews Update 17.05; Backend Changes; Folding@Home News; Accounts Milestone; Funding Shortfall - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:48] <exec> 08└─You might want to reread those rules as they aren't actually written down in the moderator guideline. Personally, I'm not about to waste my time creating a log in or donating when you're too damn lazy to put any of that in the guidelines that you reference when people allegedly break the rules.
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[03:37:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06SoylentNews Update 17.05; Backend Changes; Folding@Home News; Accounts Milestone; Funding Shortfall - 461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:16] <exec> 08└─This begging bullshit is getting tiresome. You know I see enough beggars In Real Life. Trumpland is full of beggars because there ain't no fucking jobs, bitch! Here's an idea: raise some FUCKING CAPITAL and start a REAL BUSINESS and PAY ME TO WORK ON YOUR FUCKING SITE. Here's a better idea: GO FUCK...
[03:37:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SoylentNews Update 17.05; Backend Changes; Folding@Home News; Accounts Milestone; Funding Shortfall - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:17] <exec> 08└─Where's my fucking coal job, bitch??
[03:37:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SoylentNews Update 17.05; Backend Changes; Folding@Home News; Accounts Milestone; Funding Shortfall - 585 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:19] <exec> 08└─That's like your opinion man. If he wants to be an asshole, fine, but being an asshole at the same time that he's acting in an official capacity here isn't what I would personally consider to be the kind of behavior that deserves being rewarded. The site needing money isn't really any of my concern....
[03:37:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SoylentNews Update 17.05; Backend Changes; Folding@Home News; Accounts Milestone; Funding Shortfall - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:22] <exec> 08└─earlier there was a request for volunteer artists to improve the site graphics beyond what the volunteer developers have consed up this wouldn't be my choice, but maybe some would appreciate it
[03:37:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SoylentNews Update 17.05; Backend Changes; Folding@Home News; Accounts Milestone; Funding Shortfall - 1600 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:24] <exec> 08└─No, it's because people don't typically want to give money to people and companies they don't like. The first thing you have to do if you want somebody to buy your service is to actually like you. Sure, you might get away with it if there aren't other sites, but let's be honest, there are plenty of...
[03:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Update 17.05; Backend Changes; Folding@Home News; Accounts Milestone; Funding Shortfall - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:26] <exec> 08└─You might want to reread those rules as they aren't actually written down in the moderator guideline.
[03:37:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Update 17.05; Backend Changes; Folding@Home News; Accounts Milestone; Funding Shortfall - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:28] <exec> 08└─You think I make the rules? I have three, count them, three bosses not counting the Board.
[03:37:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Update 17.05; Backend Changes; Folding@Home News; Accounts Milestone; Funding Shortfall - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:30] <exec> 08└─Oh and you're full of shit about the rules not being documented. The only one that was ever even late in being documented was mod-bombing.
[03:37:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06SoylentNews Update 17.05; Backend Changes; Folding@Home News; Accounts Milestone; Funding Shortfall - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:34] <exec> 08└─Look man, you shouldn't bottle your feelings up like that. Tell us what you really think.
[03:37:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SoylentNews Update 17.05; Backend Changes; Folding@Home News; Accounts Milestone; Funding Shortfall - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:36] <exec> 08└─> we need to find the courage to ANNOY PEOPLE for a couple of days Devs already have fun annoying us on April Fool's day, maybe that should also be the day for subscription reminders? Kill two birds with one stone, as they say...
[03:37:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03charon [5660] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SoylentNews Update 17.05; Backend Changes; Folding@Home News; Accounts Milestone; Funding Shortfall - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:38] <exec> 08└─As I understand it, the code saves the highest comment id number that you have seen for each article. Any comment with a number higher than that gets a "new" badge the next time you load the page, and that highest_id_seen variable is given a new value. So the upshot of this method might make it diff...
[03:37:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmn32480 [443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Update 17.05; Backend Changes; Folding@Home News; Accounts Milestone; Funding Shortfall - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:41] <exec> 08└─Just for reference, here is a link to the moderator guidelines [soylentnews.org]. They are also available from the main page, in the little box that tells you how many mod points you have.
[03:37:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SoylentNews Update 17.05; Backend Changes; Folding@Home News; Accounts Milestone; Funding Shortfall - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:43] <exec> 08└─Rather than downmod the parent (a newbie with limited four-letter-vocabulary), I thought a few +1 Funny mods might be the best way to make it clear that they are yelling in a vacuum. (What happens if you yell in a vacuum? No one hears you, your face looks even more contorted, and you might die even...
[03:37:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03hopdevil [3356] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SoylentNews Update 17.05; Backend Changes; Folding@Home News; Accounts Milestone; Funding Shortfall - 506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:46] <exec> 08└─There are other options as well. I am not intimately familiar with the usage statistics of this site but are server-less architectures possibly cheaper? Even for static content? I am very familiar with Amazon services (S3, lambda) and these can be (based on my understanding) quite a bit cheaper than...
[03:38:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Study Into the Mental Resilience of Journalists - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:27] <exec> 08└─Why would anyone want to do this? Get lucky, shoot some truly automatic weapons. Reflect that in your reporting.
[03:38:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Into the Mental Resilience of Journalists - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:29] <exec> 08└─Maybe not the journalists themselves, but their owners perhaps?
[03:38:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Into the Mental Resilience of Journalists - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:31] <exec> 08└─Translation: "I don't like the results so it doesn't count!"
[03:39:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Guards Eject Reporter - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:36] <exec> 08└─ORLY? Reporters Without Borders AKA Reporters Sans Frontières [google.com] consolidates resources all the time. This includes collaborative procurement of protectors in rough environments. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[03:39:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FCC Guards Eject Reporter - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:38] <exec> 08└─(1) O'Rielly actually apologized directly. The FCC has said on the record that they "apologized repeatedly." If this were just a minor misunderstanding, they'd likely emphasize that instead. The strength of the apologies seem to mean they know something inappropriate likely happened.
[03:39:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Guards Eject Reporter - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:40] <exec> 08└─Nobody prevented him from speaking.
[03:39:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Guards Eject Reporter - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:42] <exec> 08└─I would imagine that being pinned against a wall would be likely to impede someone's speech. Mr. O'Reilly gave a different account of what happened. You say you've seen a video, and I asked where that was, but you didn't answer.
[03:40:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 10 Redstone: A Guide to the Builds - 596 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:40:25] <exec> 08└─Some deployment/management tools that Linux guys use are Puppet [google.com] and Chef. [google.com] doubles your licensing costs Not with gratis and libre licenses. I find that Windows VERY rarely shits itself so badly [...] since Windows XP At that same point (Product Activation), I resolved to nev...
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[04:37:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Update 17.05; Backend Changes; Folding@Home News; Accounts Milestone; Funding Shortfall - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:31] <exec> 08└─Have you considered volunteering for SN in some capacity? It might give the others a chance to go masturbate in peace, as per your wishes.
[04:37:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Update 17.05; Backend Changes; Folding@Home News; Accounts Milestone; Funding Shortfall - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:32] <exec> 08└─You mean publish the script for everybody right? Surely, that's what you meant?
[04:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 2, Touché) 02 - 06SoylentNews Update 17.05; Backend Changes; Folding@Home News; Accounts Milestone; Funding Shortfall - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:34] <exec> 08└─" Having TMB being an asshole to the people bothering to sign in while also setting the rules sends a powerful signal that the people operating the site can't be trusted and probably aren't very likable. "
[04:37:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03https [5248] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Update 17.05; Backend Changes; Folding@Home News; Accounts Milestone; Funding Shortfall - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:37] <exec> 08└─Two of those rules are in the Moderation Guidelines, two are not. This is fucking hilarious, because you are in a position to actually edit said guidelines before posting. I've told you before that you should stick to coding and just not comment on the site, but this might convince some of your fell...
[04:37:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Update 17.05; Backend Changes; Folding@Home News; Accounts Milestone; Funding Shortfall - 1246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:39] <exec> 08└─TMB is not the entire site. Period. I'm not involved in the developer end of it, so I don't know about fiefdoms. Even still, I sincerely doubt it. Clearly on IRC, he is the most talkative guy there, but not dramatically higher than 2nd place. That being said, he is also clearly very involved in keep...
[04:37:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03https [5248] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Update 17.05; Backend Changes; Folding@Home News; Accounts Milestone; Funding Shortfall - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:41] <exec> 08└─A business plan (which existed for SN from day -1) does not guarantee income.
[04:37:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SoylentNews Update 17.05; Backend Changes; Folding@Home News; Accounts Milestone; Funding Shortfall - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:43] <exec> 08└─I'm surprised people need explicit written rules before they realize it's wrong to dox private citizens or post illegal content. (Or more accurately, that they're surprised that there will consequences for doing such things simply because they were not told in advance not to be an ass.)
[04:37:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SoylentNews Update 17.05; Backend Changes; Folding@Home News; Accounts Milestone; Funding Shortfall - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:46] <exec> 08└─What size chocolate tits we talking here? I'm presuming they're milk chocolate? Could be a donate-able cause.
[04:37:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Update 17.05; Backend Changes; Folding@Home News; Accounts Milestone; Funding Shortfall - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:48] <exec> 08└─but I work too hard for my money
[04:37:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Update 17.05; Backend Changes; Folding@Home News; Accounts Milestone; Funding Shortfall - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:50] <exec> 08└─Having TMB being an asshole to the people bothering to sign in while also setting the rules sends a powerful signal that the people operating the site can't be trusted and probably aren't very likable.
[04:37:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06General Electric-Saudi Arabia Deals Announced - 586 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:59] <exec> 08└─Goatfuckers, unlike other types in the world, generally cannot innovate without outside help, with the lone exception of Pakistani scientist A.Q. Khan [wikipedia.org] who is the reason why North Korea has a nuke program in the first place. Note that Iranians and Israelis are not considered goat-fuck...
[04:38:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06General Electric-Saudi Arabia Deals Announced - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:02] <exec> 08└─Put up a wall, lock em all in, let them slaughter each other for another 10 centuries in the name of their sun god
[04:38:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06General Electric-Saudi Arabia Deals Announced - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:04] <exec> 08└─With the profanity removed, your post is pretty much on the moneh. Problem is, they are now infesting the world. It could be a few centuries until they die out.
[04:38:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Into the Mental Resilience of Journalists - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:41] <exec> 08└─I always preferred the AK-747, but now I hear that Boeing is not even making them anymore.
[04:38:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03https [5248] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Into the Mental Resilience of Journalists - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:43] <exec> 08└─You're spilling elitist nonsense. If you have not been on the planet long enough to know, people don't go into journalism because they found physics and calculus to easy. You will find creative/emotional types more likely in journalism. Are you shocked by that?
[04:38:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Study Into the Mental Resilience of Journalists - 896 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:45] <exec> 08└─The owners may profit and set the agenda, but they don't do all the legwork journalists have to do -- deal with people, which often means getting drunk with them to loosen the sources up so they'll offer information or some context off the record which could provide more information for a scoop or m...
[04:39:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Guards Eject Reporter - 1215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:55] <exec> 08└─"If they actually pushed him into a wall and held him there (even briefly), as he claims, that's a little more than "polite but firm."" To quote the article: "two plainclothes guards pinned him against a wall with the backs of their bodies." That being his interpretation. If we assume he's a little...
[04:40:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Carnage in Indian IT: Wipro, Infosys, Tech Mahindra, Cognizant Slash Jobs - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:40:18] <exec> 08└─No. Their work is so crap no one except accenture will hire them now.
[04:41:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FAA Registration Requirement for Drone Hobbyists Struck Down by Appeals Court - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:15] <exec> 08└─I really am amazed that a judge sitting on an island in the Pacific can issue an order that stops the president of the United States from what appears to be clearly his statutory and constitutional power.
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[05:36:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tabby's Star Under Observation After Dimming Event Detected - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:20] <exec> 08└─The aliens have a human porn fetish.
[05:36:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tabby's Star Under Observation After Dimming Event Detected - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:21] <exec> 08└─100% public exhibition content guaranteed
[05:36:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tabby's Star Under Observation After Dimming Event Detected - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:23] <exec> 08└─This would explain all those crazy stories in the bible, Bhagavad Gita, etc. They predicted it.
[05:36:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Tabby's Star Under Observation After Dimming Event Detected - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:26] <exec> 08└─One astronomer has proposed looking at the nearest 43 to 85 pulsars for megastructures
[05:37:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SoylentNews Update 17.05; Backend Changes; Folding@Home News; Accounts Milestone; Funding Shortfall - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:57] <exec> 08└─That's like your opinion man. If he wants to be an asshole, fine, but being an asshole at the same time that he's acting in an official capacity here isn't what I would personally consider to be the kind of behavior that deserves being rewarded.
[05:37:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SoylentNews Update 17.05; Backend Changes; Folding@Home News; Accounts Milestone; Funding Shortfall - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:59] <exec> 08└─Well, if SoylentNews is too shocking for you, perhaps you'd feel more at home in the comments section of ArsTechnica, a place where people say nice simple things and nobody is offended by anything, ever.
[05:38:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SoylentNews Update 17.05; Backend Changes; Folding@Home News; Accounts Milestone; Funding Shortfall - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:38:01] <exec> 08└─I think you're on the right trail, c0lo. This smells like a classic case of concern trolling. All Mr. AC would have to do is leave the site, and then he doesn't have to care about TMB's supposed asshole behavior.
[05:38:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SoylentNews Update 17.05; Backend Changes; Folding@Home News; Accounts Milestone; Funding Shortfall - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:38:03] <exec> 08└─With that kind of attitude, he'd probably sabotage the site for the lulz.
[05:38:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bobs [1462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Into the Mental Resilience of Journalists - 1310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:38:53] <exec> 08└─I got marked as a troll above for saying this study has no statistical significance. Let me explain, no let me sum up: Among other problems, with only 21 self-selecting people in the study, you can get compelling results like; - Journalists have an average of 1.857 testicles! - 100% of journalist th...
[05:40:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Guards Eject Reporter - 524 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:40:05] <exec> 08└─It's not the mere fact of an apology -- it's the emphasis. If there's a misunderstanding, and you want to "save face" publicly and emphasize no wrongdoing, you might apologize AND explain the misunderstanding. Here, instead you have mutiple FCC officials emphasizing apologies, including the commissi...
[05:40:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Guards Eject Reporter - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:40:07] <exec> 08└─What if you are guilty? We all fuck up once in a while.
[05:40:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Carnage in Indian IT: Wipro, Infosys, Tech Mahindra, Cognizant Slash Jobs - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:40:31] <exec> 08└─...Sri Lankans Sri Lankans I tell you, mark my words!
[05:42:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06India Approves 10 Locally-Designed Nuclear Reactors; China to Build 2 Reactors for Argentina - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:42:21] <exec> 08└─3. no matter where it is exported/used, the steam turbine it's still a 19 century technology even when improved by the use of newer materials.
[05:42:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03WalksOnDirt [5854] (Score: 2) 02 - 06India Approves 10 Locally-Designed Nuclear Reactors; China to Build 2 Reactors for Argentina - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:42:23] <exec> 08└─I'm guessing what you meant instead of transactinides was transuranic elements.
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[06:36:18] <exec> 08└─I said so many, many years ago. It has been going on for a very long time. Now, what are going to do about it? DISCLAIMER: This is a generic comment, not applying specifically to any OS versions or human skills.
[06:36:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03ls671 [891] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Reveals 'Athena' CIA Spying Program Targeting All Versions of Windows - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:19] <exec> 08└─what are you going...
[06:36:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tabby's Star Under Observation After Dimming Event Detected - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:31] <exec> 08└─How old is this star? Is it on the main sequence? Seems like and important detail...
[06:36:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tabby's Star Under Observation After Dimming Event Detected - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:32] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KIC_8462852 [wikipedia.org] F-type main-sequence star
[06:36:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tabby's Star Under Observation After Dimming Event Detected - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:34] <exec> 08└─It's said to be on the main sequence. I don't know how old it is but its warranty has likely just run out. https://en.wikipedia.org's_Star [wikipedia.org]
[06:38:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Update 17.05; Backend Changes; Folding@Home News; Accounts Milestone; Funding Shortfall - 728 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:38:09] <exec> 08└─I was thinking similarly. Branch out a bit on the funding. Really, it would be great if SN could raise funds from more places than the user base, if that can be done without making bad compromises such as plastering the site with ads. An endowment like so many universities have could solve the fundi...
[06:38:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06General Electric-Saudi Arabia Deals Announced - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:38:21] <exec> 08└─And this explains the origin of words like algorithm and alchemy, no...?
[06:39:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Into the Mental Resilience of Journalists - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:39:03] <exec> 08└─It isn't true that the average mathematician couldn't tell a passive construct from a "dagling" participle. Mathematicians do better than journalists. Grammar is about precise logic, which is exactly what mathematicians are good at. They kick ass. If "they'll have spellcheck turned off", oh well. Th...
[06:39:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Into the Mental Resilience of Journalists - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:39:05] <exec> 08└─"In the required time limit," it says. Clearly journalists have trouble finishing tasks on a deadline.
[06:39:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Norwegian Seed Bank is Flooded; Seeds Unharmed - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:39:40] <exec> 08└─The most important thing is to place copies around the world. You want locations that can support suitable staff. Generally, this means universities. You should have diversity of government due to war. Don't go 100% NATO, or 100% pacific rim, or 100% OPEC, or 100% in any other alliance. This applies...
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[07:36:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zyx Abacab [3701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Reveals 'Athena' CIA Spying Program Targeting All Versions of Windows - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:05] <exec> 08└─Athena, written in Python programming language
[07:36:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Reveals 'Athena' CIA Spying Program Targeting All Versions of Windows - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:06] <exec> 08└─...allegedly being used by the CIA that works against every version of Microsoft's Windows operating systems, from Windows XP to Windows 10...
[07:36:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03meisterister [949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Reveals 'Athena' CIA Spying Program Targeting All Versions of Windows - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:08] <exec> 08└─Well, damn. Someone beat me to the Windows 98 joke! I take your Windows 98 and raise you Windows 2000!
[07:36:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tabby's Star Under Observation After Dimming Event Detected - 893 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:22] <exec> 08└─Ancient aliens would be an explanation. However, a simpler explanation that also fits all the facts are humans who have either gone insane or are using any number of naturally occurring hallucinogenic drugs. When I was a kid, it was a common experience for religious people to hear voices in their he...
[07:36:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tabby's Star Under Observation After Dimming Event Detected - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:24] <exec> 08└─I was making a sarcastic comment about how "aliens did it" is too vague an explanation to warrant more than a cursory "ok, maybe".
[07:36:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tabby's Star Under Observation After Dimming Event Detected - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:26] <exec> 08└─I see you're familiar with Erich von Däniken [wikipedia.org].
[07:38:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06General Electric-Saudi Arabia Deals Announced - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:38:13] <exec> 08└─"alcohol"
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[08:36:15] <exec> 08└─works for me in tor browser.
[08:36:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03rleigh [4887] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BostonGlobe.Com Disables Articles When Your Browser's in Private Mode - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:36:16] <exec> 08└─Is this a flaw in the Private/Incognito mode sandbox? Surely to be effective the fact that something is inside a sandbox should be undetectable? How are they detecting the sandbox?
[08:36:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06BostonGlobe.Com Disables Articles When Your Browser's in Private Mode - 480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:36:18] <exec> 08└─Maybe the Globe isn't vying for the most eyeballs on their site. Just type what you are looking for into your favorite search engine... I am sure a lot of other people have the same thing. Remember when Yahoo was the go-to place for the internet, and they did not seem to want that much publicity?...
[08:36:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BostonGlobe.Com Disables Articles When Your Browser's in Private Mode - 598 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:36:21] <exec> 08└─Apparently they can somehow tell that they cannot save permanent data on the local machine. Which is indeed a flaw in the sandbox, as it should not be visible that the data will be deleted when the tab closes. Then again: Just how much trust do you have in the authors of your browser? Why, exactly,...
[08:36:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Reveals 'Athena' CIA Spying Program Targeting All Versions of Windows - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:36:32] <exec> 08└─( folding cards and laying them on table... ) I'm out. All I had was a WIN95OSR2 and a DOS6.20 . You guys too rich for my blood.
[08:36:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Reveals 'Athena' CIA Spying Program Targeting All Versions of Windows - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:36:34] <exec> 08└─I take your Windows 98 and raise you Windows 2000!
[08:38:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SoylentNews Update 17.05; Backend Changes; Folding@Home News; Accounts Milestone; Funding Shortfall - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:38:26] <exec> 08└─So you have a couple of accounts? Or just convinced some other users to mod funny? Or are you TMB making some personal "corrections"?
[08:38:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SoylentNews Update 17.05; Backend Changes; Folding@Home News; Accounts Milestone; Funding Shortfall - 2164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:38:28] <exec> 08└─I can't help but to observe that, obvious concern trolling aside, there must be a reason for the budget shortfall. My subscription expires next month iirc. Over the past few months, the world has become a much more unfriendly place for me. I admit, I was impressed with the regulars here the last tim...
[08:38:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SoylentNews Update 17.05; Backend Changes; Folding@Home News; Accounts Milestone; Funding Shortfall - 620 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:38:30] <exec> 08└─I appreciate all the work you guys have done to keep this site running. I have learned a helluva lotta stuff here, and made some nice friends. Sometimes talking is nice, but something more is needed. I put some money where my mouth.. erm.. keyboard is. If we like this site, I urge those who can to...
[08:38:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Update 17.05; Backend Changes; Folding@Home News; Accounts Milestone; Funding Shortfall - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:38:32] <exec> 08└─I open each link in its own tab, and close the tab once I'm done.
[08:38:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Update 17.05; Backend Changes; Folding@Home News; Accounts Milestone; Funding Shortfall - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:38:34] <exec> 08└─That funding goal box, just how often is that updated? At times it seems to be "when the decs remembers it is there". Also, just to subtly get attention, make it dimmed when subscribed and undimmed when unsubscribed? (And set the dimming to be an option)
[08:38:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SoylentNews Update 17.05; Backend Changes; Folding@Home News; Accounts Milestone; Funding Shortfall - 1245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:38:37] <exec> 08└─I just turned my subscription on - for the reason I was NOT hounded about it. I am very leery of donating to many places, as once I do it once, I get on their beg-list of gullibles, which they share with everyone else, and I quickly find my mailbox full of beg-letters. Based on how these guys try t...
[08:40:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Guards Eject Reporter - 2266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:40:47] <exec> 08└─To go offtopic, this kind of shit from long time established users is one reason I will not donate to this site. It is a soapbox for authoritarian apologists promoting a future police state. On one hand many users will cry about freedom of speech and surveillance, but then they turn around and appla...
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[09:36:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06BostonGlobe.Com Disables Articles When Your Browser's in Private Mode - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:16] <exec> 08└─just brieftly looked at the sites setup... it reminds me of theinquirer.net, and it looks to be defeated by turning off javascript.
[09:36:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BostonGlobe.Com Disables Articles When Your Browser's in Private Mode - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:18] <exec> 08└─Translation: You requested a web page. We don't do those anymore. Roll over and beg, or fuck off.
[09:36:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06BostonGlobe.Com Disables Articles When Your Browser's in Private Mode - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:20] <exec> 08└─I am now looking at their site Mission accomplished!
[09:36:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Reveals 'Athena' CIA Spying Program Targeting All Versions of Windows - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:33] <exec> 08└─On the Internet, no one knows you're a cat fancier.
[09:36:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tabby's Star Under Observation After Dimming Event Detected - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:51] <exec> 08└─OK, maybe.
[09:38:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SoylentNews Update 17.05; Backend Changes; Folding@Home News; Accounts Milestone; Funding Shortfall - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:38:33] <exec> 08└─Pretty good idea! Kinda subtle hint without being too forceful about it. Maybe even a "Thank you for your support" or similar displayed to those who do. I really don't want to see this site to be anything like those televangelists I abhor so much for their relentless begging. I am not about to give...
[09:38:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SoylentNews Update 17.05; Backend Changes; Folding@Home News; Accounts Milestone; Funding Shortfall - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:38:34] <exec> 08└─I appreciate all the work TMB has done here, and I fail to see why all this animosity. This site is one of the few places one can speak his mind. If anything, TMB will spout off exactly what he thinks of it. What's wrong with that?
[09:38:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SoylentNews Update 17.05; Backend Changes; Folding@Home News; Accounts Milestone; Funding Shortfall - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:38:37] <exec> 08└─Two of those rules are in the Moderation Guidelines, two are not. They're in the Code of Conduct.
[09:39:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Into the Mental Resilience of Journalists - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:39:33] <exec> 08└─I'll say, 21 journalists. That is a sufficient sampling to draw any conclusion?
[09:39:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Into the Mental Resilience of Journalists - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:39:34] <exec> 08└─Trying to paint physics/calculus as a "only the best get here" field is bullshit. A different set of skills are required. Maybe the average NYT reporter couldn't integrate ex without Wolfram, but the average mathematician couldn't tell a passive construct from a "dagling" participle - and they'll ha...
[09:39:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Into the Mental Resilience of Journalists - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:39:36] <exec> 08└─Infophilia perhaps? Or perhaps GP is an infophobe with a fetish for rough sex.
[09:40:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Norwegian Seed Bank is Flooded; Seeds Unharmed - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:40:12] <exec> 08└─Yeah, there's that. Another thing is, just as with data backups, you need to verify the viability of what you have. Standard practice is to replant a portion of the stock every X years and collect the resulting new seeds. [google.com] If you don't have soil nearby and a reasonable growing season, th...
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[09:40:13] <exec> 08└─My vision is of a whole lot of Tupperware. Even if the place floods, the stuff just floats in air-tight/waterproof bins. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
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[10:36:23] <exec> 08└─allowing the agency to perform all sorts of things on the target machine, including deleting data or uploading malicious software
[10:36:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Reveals 'Athena' CIA Spying Program Targeting All Versions of Windows - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:36:24] <exec> 08└─Why not? Most malware doesn't need to do a lot of low level stuff. And nowadays the average PC's bandwidth and CPU power is relatively high. In the old days a 5MB perl/python malware might be too huge, but nowadays many ad infested pages probably are close to 5MB if not larger. I would think it's ea...
[10:36:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tabby's Star Under Observation After Dimming Event Detected - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:36:43] <exec> 08└─I don't know, but I'd guess it's about about the same age as Tina Turner
[10:38:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SoylentNews Update 17.05; Backend Changes; Folding@Home News; Accounts Milestone; Funding Shortfall - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:38:29] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't your trolling be more effective with a larger audience? Seems 4chan is more your speed. Go waste your time there.
[10:38:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SoylentNews Update 17.05; Backend Changes; Folding@Home News; Accounts Milestone; Funding Shortfall - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:38:30] <exec> 08└─Whatever. Don't let the door hit you in this ass.
[10:38:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Update 17.05; Backend Changes; Folding@Home News; Accounts Milestone; Funding Shortfall - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:38:33] <exec> 08└─there's a significant subset of the population that thinks employees are servants and treats them as such
[10:38:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Update 17.05; Backend Changes; Folding@Home News; Accounts Milestone; Funding Shortfall - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:38:35] <exec> 08└─That would be because the second two have nothing to do with moderation. Yes, we edited those particular guidelines a week before posting in preparation of making you look foolish. Or possibly as soon as it was brought to our attention that mod-bombing was not documented. Take your pick.
[10:38:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Update 17.05; Backend Changes; Folding@Home News; Accounts Milestone; Funding Shortfall - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:38:37] <exec> 08└─one anti-bobby-tables sub
[10:38:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormreaver [5101] (Score: 2) 02 - 06General Electric-Saudi Arabia Deals Announced - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:38:50] <exec> 08└─I won't use Ethanol's nomenclature, but his sentiments seem somewhat accurate to the modern middle east. All of its positive world contributions occurred prior to its descent into religious rule. Its subsequent contributions have been very scarce ever since.
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[11:36:10] <exec> 08└─Self assembly only works if the product iteslf actually fits together. Probably why most items are click together, but never have i felt satisfied fitting chipboard furniture together, feels more like fego. Creative satisfaction comes from making something a little less obvious, this is likely why m...
[11:36:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Design Principle: IKEA Effect - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:36:12] <exec> 08└─Lego?
[11:37:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tabby's Star Under Observation After Dimming Event Detected - 1158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:37:02] <exec> 08└─Actually, that could work out rather nicely. Pulsars are the remains of stars, so there would have been plenty of time for an advanced civilization to evolve before the star entered that stage of its life, which is a good start. Since the bulk of a pulsar's energy is emitted along a given axis, it m...
[11:37:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tabby's Star Under Observation After Dimming Event Detected - 486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:37:03] <exec> 08└─Oops! Just realised that the energy of a pulsar is along the magnetic axis, e.g. slightly offset from the poles, not along the "equator" - I'd been thinking of the accretion disk of a black hole. That actually makes it easier (relatively speaking), as the habitat area around the star would be in a r...
[11:41:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Carnage in Indian IT: Wipro, Infosys, Tech Mahindra, Cognizant Slash Jobs - 618 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:41:34] <exec> 08└─Sometimes the older bunch are adverse to investing time in new stuff because they have seen all these fads and are thus less easily conned into drinking the kool-aid. Whereas the younger bunch often literally don't know anything better. e.g. http://bysin.net
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[12:36:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IBM and D-Wave Quantum Computing Announcements - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:11] <exec> 08└─Friendly reminder that D-Wave's supposed QC has never demonstrated the ability to run any algorithms which traditional electronics cannot after years of supposedly having one. They are obviously running a hoax here, as is anyone who supposedly invents some groundbreaking technology with a fancy mark...
[12:36:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM and D-Wave Quantum Computing Announcements - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:12] <exec> 08└─Perhaps this is why IBM is doing a big reduction in force on their traditional computing staff? Having recognized that their traditional "big iron" business is now superseded by hardware that's ubiquitous and very affordable, and the software that runs on it is becoming free-er year after year, is t...
[12:36:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Design Principle: IKEA Effect - 1661 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:22] <exec> 08└─I think it depends on the skill of the person. I do a lot of fabrication, which involves actually designing something , picking the material, and forming the material into what you want. I find that very satisfying, especially when it all fits together just as designed. I get a little bit of ecstasy...
[12:36:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Design Principle: IKEA Effect - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:24] <exec> 08└─I am just not the kind of person to sit and vegetate in front of a TV
[12:36:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Design Principle: IKEA Effect - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:26] <exec> 08└─I could give it a try, alas I have not had a TV since 2001 :-P I do miss the old CRT TV's though. You could really have some fun with the components from the back of them. Especially the flyback transformers. Back when there was the mass switch to flat screen TV's, you found so many CRTs at the side...
[12:36:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Design Principle: IKEA Effect - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:28] <exec> 08└─See subject.
[12:36:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Design Principle: IKEA Effect - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:31] <exec> 08└─When you succeed at one (trivial) thing, you may be even more susceptible to overestimating your abilities, see the "Dunning-Kruger Effect" ( https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] ). Now you have an IKEA-completing-person, in a moment they think they can build a...
[12:37:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Reveals 'Athena' CIA Spying Program Targeting All Versions of Windows - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:01] <exec> 08└─I'd raise you with a ZX Spectrum, but I can't find a cassette player/recorder any more.
[12:40:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Into the Mental Resilience of Journalists - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:40:11] <exec> 08└─It was just an example. I couldn't list every single field of study now could I? Any high school kid who paid attention can write complete sentences, spell, and knows what a split infinitive is.
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[13:36:16] <exec> 08└─> someone traveling from a wealthy neighborhood to another tony spot might be asked to pay more... Come on, do you expect me to believe this? The rich are (in part) rich because they are good at being cheapskates. Meanwhile the poor haven't got the smarts or resources to make a good deal for themsel...
[13:36:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Uber Starts Charging What It Thinks You’re Willing to Pay - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:17] <exec> 08└─I actually have some evidence of this - I travel alot. A friend pointed out that just the fact you use it out of town/country , probably gives them enough information to bump the rates. I installed lyft as soon as I read this article - now how do I tell the uber app it has competition....:-)
[13:36:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03IndigoFreak [3415] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Uber Starts Charging What It Thinks You’re Willing to Pay - 692 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:19] <exec> 08└─Granted, some rich are good at being cheap skates. But there are more than enough which are 'new money' that blow through their cash like it's never ending. Many athletes, Hollywood stars, musicians, famous people are completely broke once their 15 minutes of fame wears off. All those millions go so...
[13:36:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Uber Starts Charging What It Thinks You’re Willing to Pay - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:21] <exec> 08└─[chilling?] you don't do anything, the Uber app already knows much more about you and what you have loaded on your device than you suspect
[13:36:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Uber Starts Charging What It Thinks You’re Willing to Pay - 452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:23] <exec> 08└─Walmart. Face it, in many towns, Walmart is all there is. So, you go into Walmart, and the person ahead of you pays $19.00 for an item. The teller only charges you $15.00, and you wonder if you saw the previous person's screen correctly - maybe you were mistaken. The poor old woman behind you has th...
[13:36:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Uber Starts Charging What It Thinks You’re Willing to Pay - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:26] <exec> 08└─Nobody knows what something should cost; nobody knows what a good deal is. The only way to figure out these things is to engage in an iterative process, using increasingly better guesses. This is why centralized planning NEVER works; this Universe demands evolution by variation and selection, and th...
[13:36:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Uber Starts Charging What It Thinks You’re Willing to Pay - 2617 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:28] <exec> 08└─Well, Uber has consistently tried to argue that it's not a "taxi service" to avoid regulation, and I guess this finally proves it for certain. The word "taxi" is an abbreviation of taximeter cab [etymonline.com], a term which ultimately comes from the German Taxameter invented in the 1890s [wikipedi...
[13:36:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Uber Starts Charging What It Thinks You’re Willing to Pay - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:30] <exec> 08└─That's the WHOLE point of a market [soylentnews.org]: To find an answer to the question "How should these resources be allocated?" The fact that you don't like what's being done here is a sign that the market is indeed in the process of finding answers.
[13:36:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06IBM and D-Wave Quantum Computing Announcements - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:41] <exec> 08└─That would be insane, if true. There is a huge gap between quantum computing (QC) and the service contracts that IBM makes its money on. And for most basic tasks, QC just doesn't add value. Your computer isn't going to be any better at displaying HTML or pushing spreadsheets, if it were a QC.
[13:36:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Design Principle: IKEA Effect - 650 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:54] <exec> 08└─Can I have discount if I bolt the steering wheel on my new car? This way I get the endorphins...(and the risk of handling the airbag). How about if the seats are just tossed into the interior and I bolt them down?? (if you have ever had the seats out of a car, you probably have a feeling for how muc...
[13:37:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06BostonGlobe.Com Disables Articles When Your Browser's in Private Mode - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:10] <exec> 08└─...it looks to be defeated by turning off javascript.
[13:37:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Reveals 'Athena' CIA Spying Program Targeting All Versions of Windows - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:29] <exec> 08└─I'd raise you with a ZX Spectrum, but I can't find a cassette player/recorder any more.
[13:37:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tabby's Star Under Observation After Dimming Event Detected - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:51] <exec> 08└─Obviously, what we are seeing is due to pilot error: Their massive space ships weaving back and forth along the intended heading of a straight line between their star and ours. The dimming will increase in frequency and magnitude until we realize the invasion is imminent and too late for us to escap...
[13:37:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tabby's Star Under Observation After Dimming Event Detected - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:53] <exec> 08└─I see you're familiar with Erich von Däniken
[13:37:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Tabby's Star Under Observation After Dimming Event Detected - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:55] <exec> 08└─I bet the magnetic pole moves around and might even cross the rotational equator of the pulsar on a repetitive basis. It seems a challenging environment to say the least.
[13:40:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Into the Mental Resilience of Journalists - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:40:46] <exec> 08└─My native language doesn't have such a thing as an infinitive form you insensitive clod.
[13:44:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06India Approves 10 Locally-Designed Nuclear Reactors; China to Build 2 Reactors for Argentina - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:44:18] <exec> 08└─India has a decades-long track record of going nowhere fast with its reactors. Note how the OP carefully pointed out that: did not give any timeline or locations for the new plants
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[14:36:08] <exec> 08└─... as long as individual consumers have little control over what their devices can do. Sure, transistor-to-app FOSS will produce insecure systems, but at least I would be able to take care of myself if I so chose; relying on central planners (e.g., Apple, Samsung, government, etc.) to define your w...
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[14:36:23] <exec> 08└─This is why centralized planning NEVER works
[14:36:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Uber Starts Charging What It Thinks You’re Willing to Pay - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:25] <exec> 08└─What you describe is actually black-letter law illegal. It's a felony many people don't realize. The relevant US Code, per the Clayton Act: https://www.law.cornell.edu [cornell.edu]
[14:36:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06 Uber Starts Charging What It Thinks You’re Willing to Pay - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:27] <exec> 08└─The fact that you don't like what's being done here is a sign that the market is indeed in the process of finding answers.
[14:36:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06 Uber Starts Charging What It Thinks You’re Willing to Pay - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:29] <exec> 08└─That is, if they charged me zero I might consider using them. I'll stick to regular cabs, thank you very much.
[14:36:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Uber Starts Charging What It Thinks You’re Willing to Pay - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:32] <exec> 08└─it already knows...
[14:36:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Uber Starts Charging What It Thinks You’re Willing to Pay - 594 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:34] <exec> 08└─When I go shopping, with a list, I know how much money I have available (my budget) and approximately how much things cost. When I go to pay, I know I've got enough money. If they start varying the prices dynamically, when I get to the checkout, you can be sure I'll not be buying several items. That...
[14:36:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Uber Starts Charging What It Thinks You’re Willing to Pay - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:36] <exec> 08└─Someone probably thought you were a Commie or something.
[14:36:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Uber Starts Charging What It Thinks You’re Willing to Pay - 525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:38] <exec> 08└─Personal attack?! What are you talking about??? Your lack of faith in humanity contradicts your faith in government; there is nothing magical about government—it does not transcend humanity, and may in fact elicit the worst in humanity, as the foundational principle of government is coercion rathe...
[14:37:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Design Principle: IKEA Effect - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:02] <exec> 08└─Of course you can, if that is what tickles your fancy! And you will get a discount too: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[14:37:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BostonGlobe.Com Disables Articles When Your Browser's in Private Mode - 762 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:19] <exec> 08└─The lamest part isn't the technical details of the subscription or paywall, and whether it is easily beaten by turning off Javascript or using private mode or whatever. It's the business model. It's wishing that there is a technological way to make DRM work. Attempting to create a DRM scheme that wo...
[14:38:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tabby's Star Under Observation After Dimming Event Detected - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:02] <exec> 08└─Can't be any worse than our current overloads.
[14:40:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06General Electric-Saudi Arabia Deals Announced - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:07] <exec> 08└─/tips fedora and never read a history book
[14:40:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06General Electric-Saudi Arabia Deals Announced - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:09] <exec> 08└─Are these offset deals [wikipedia.org]? I.e. in exchange for a military deal, Saudi Arabia will request civilian services from the US.
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[15:36:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03idiot_king [6587] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Paint Colors Invented by Neural Network - 862 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:17] <exec> 08└─Some of those names are pretty funny and unexpected. But it makes me wonder if it works the opposite way, as well. As in, it sees a word, and "understands" its implication. As in reading between the lines, in a way. For example, "Rosy Red" implies a specific shade series of red. Clearly, it's a type...
[15:36:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New SMB Worm Uses Seven NSA Hacking Tools. WannaCry Used Just Two - 807 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:25] <exec> 08└─This is true. It also includes open source. My TV has tons of opensource junk in it. Busybox distro. It will never see another up date from LG. They moved on years ago to newer shiny toys. It is like the vulin Intel just had with their stuff. Unless all of the OEMs go back and reissue. Well though....
[15:36:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Uber Starts Charging What It Thinks You’re Willing to Pay - 860 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:49] <exec> 08└─The underlying system (the market) is inherently decentralized; it doesn't matter that a pocket of centralization develops as a matter of efficiency—should that local centralization become dysfunctional, the whole system drops back on the underlying decentralized system (e.g., the variation and se...
[15:36:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03IndigoFreak [3415] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Uber Starts Charging What It Thinks You’re Willing to Pay - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:51] <exec> 08└─Why the personal attack?
[15:36:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Uber Starts Charging What It Thinks You’re Willing to Pay - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:53] <exec> 08└─Haha, of course it is! This is one of the reasons why we can't just do away with government. Sure there is plenty of corruption and waste, but there is actually a whole lot more being done for the people than against. YMMV per country, in the US it might be hard to argue the numbers at this particul...
[15:36:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Uber Starts Charging What It Thinks You’re Willing to Pay - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:55] <exec> 08└─Personal attack?! What are you talking about???
[15:36:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Uber Starts Charging What It Thinks You’re Willing to Pay - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:57] <exec> 08└─Mea culpa. "Attack" was too strong a word. "Confrontational" is really what I meant.
[15:36:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Uber Starts Charging What It Thinks You’re Willing to Pay - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:00] <exec> 08└─They are largely creatures of Big Government—defined by and created for the governmental elite, each using the other for nefarious purposes. While a government is nominally tasked with representing the interests of the public, a corporation is tasked with a much more rigorous, disciplined, useful,...
[15:37:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03number11 [1170] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Uber Starts Charging What It Thinks You’re Willing to Pay - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:02] <exec> 08└─While a government is nominally tasked with representing the interests of the public, a corporation is tasked with a much more rigorous, disciplined, useful, and difficult task: Representing the interests of shareholders, specifically creating value for them.
[15:37:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Design Principle: IKEA Effect - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:26] <exec> 08└─The reason why Betty Crocker was not getting off the shelves was for one simple reason: women felt guilty. “Psychologists concluded that average American housewives felt bad using the product despite its convenience. It saved so much time and effort when compared with the traditional cake baking r...
[15:37:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BostonGlobe.Com Disables Articles When Your Browser's in Private Mode - 2453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:43] <exec> 08└─I don't know if this is a viable business model going forward, but I think the efficacy of DRM can vary significantly depending on the application. DRM doesn't work well in preventing stuff like music or movie piracy, because these are sort of "durable goods" that people will want to access over ext...
[15:37:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06BostonGlobe.Com Disables Articles When Your Browser's in Private Mode - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:45] <exec> 08└─I quit reading seattletimes.com when I found out I was a person of interest to the FBI.
[15:38:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06WikiLeaks Reveals 'Athena' CIA Spying Program Targeting All Versions of Windows - 129 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:00] <exec> 08└─allowing the agency to perform all sorts of things on the target machine, including deleting data or uploading malicious software
[15:38:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tabby's Star Under Observation After Dimming Event Detected - 762 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:29] <exec> 08└─Probably, but perhaps not by all that much. My impression is that a star's magnetic axis is pretty similar to a planet's like our own - it wobbles around and might even flip from time to time, but generally stays within a given zone. Given that a pulsar has such a high spin rate, so perhaps it's som...
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[16:36:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Paint Colors Invented by Neural Network - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:09] <exec> 08└─Random Wavelength + Random Word = Grad Student Project Equation checks out. Student self-identifies as "she/her" gender. SJW checks out. Yep! This qualifies as News!!!!!!
[16:36:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Paint Colors Invented by Neural Network - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:10] <exec> 08└─The names are bullshit and just used for marketing purposes. If you really want to know what the color is, you'd need something like what they use for computers, a string of numbers to indicate how the colors are mixed or possibly the wavelength of the color. The names are mostly there for marketing...
[16:36:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03aiwarrior [1812] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New SMB Worm 'EternalRocks' Uses Seven NSA Hacking Tools -- WannaCry Used Just Two - 1079 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:20] <exec> 08└─United States is no longer morally superior to other countries, and worse it's population is getting beaten with news of it. I remember reading, and agreeing, that Kissinger considered essential for the survival and thriving of the USA, that it's people had an ambivalence between national interest a...
[16:36:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New SMB Worm 'EternalRocks' Uses Seven NSA Hacking Tools -- WannaCry Used Just Two - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:22] <exec> 08└─That beacon went dark at least fifteen years ago. The only thing I'm saddened about is that it took this long for the world to realize it.
[16:36:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New SMB Worm 'EternalRocks' Uses Seven NSA Hacking Tools -- WannaCry Used Just Two - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:24] <exec> 08└─United States is no longer morally superior to other countries
[16:36:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Uber Starts Charging what it Thinks you are Willing to Pay - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:55] <exec> 08└─They are largely creatures of Big Government—defined by and created for the governmental elite, each using the other for nefarious purposes.
[16:36:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Uber Starts Charging what it Thinks you are Willing to Pay - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:56] <exec> 08└─Or the stupid people who win big on the lottery and a year later the money is gone and they are broke again. Damn, just give the money to me: i'll put it to good use.... vodka, blow and hookers. And a new linux box. That's all i need: vodka, blow, hookers, and a new linux box. And my thermos. That's...
[16:36:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Uber Starts Charging what it Thinks you are Willing to Pay - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:59] <exec> 08└─I actually have some evidence of this - I travel alot.
[16:37:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Uber Starts Charging what it Thinks you are Willing to Pay - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:01] <exec> 08└─In fact, the whole concept of fixed prices originated with corporate "centralized planning."
[16:37:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Design Principle: IKEA Effect - 635 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:27] <exec> 08└─This may explain part of the early excitement surrounding Linux. It may also explain why most people aren't exactly willing to make the plunge: it's too hard to DIY it vs. just downloading (and possibly even paying for) a windows application. Every person I've converted to Linux it's been about util...
[16:37:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Design Principle: IKEA Effect - 548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:29] <exec> 08└─The more the needs for customization and co-production are present in your target audience the more the IKEA effect is relevant for you as a designer. The effect can help you instill feelings of competence in the user when the task is completed successfully. The IKEA effect will create stronger bond...
[16:37:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06BostonGlobe.Com Disables Articles When Your Browser's in Private Mode - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:48] <exec> 08└─DRM on news articles has got to be the wet dream of every propagandist. You can spread whatever fake news you want, and by the time reality comes knocking, you can be sure no single trace of your fabrications remains.
[16:38:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tabby's Star Under Observation After Dimming Event Detected - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:33] <exec> 08└─Could it be a interplanetary cloud that causes the dimming? They can be random and do partial dimming thus fitting the description.
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[17:36:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06How Army Rations Helped Change Food - 1124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:03] <exec> 08└─MRE: Meal, Ready to Eat. Chances are you'd never heard of these modern military rations unless you volunteered to serve Bush Laden in his holy jihad against his evil alter ego Bin Laden. That all changed when Bush Laden ordered the Army Corp of Engineers to manufacture a hurricane code-named Katrina...
[17:36:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Army Rations Helped Change Food - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:04] <exec> 08└─Chances are you'd never heard of these modern military rations unless you volunteered to serve Bush Laden in his holy jihad against his evil alter ego Bin Laden.
[17:36:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Army Rations Helped Change Food - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:06] <exec> 08└─Oh please, MREs date back to the early 80s.
[17:36:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Paint Colors Invented by Neural Network - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:17] <exec> 08└─Coding a random word generator with a neural network is unnecessary overkill. Coding a random word generator and calling it an "AI" is trendy bullshit. This tweeting womyn blogger is all about the trendy marketing bullshit.
[17:36:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Paint Colors Invented by Neural Network - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:19] <exec> 08└─If we can only see (or differentiate between) millions of colours shouldn't it be enough if we just gave them an RGB number? That should be enough for 256^3 colours. Not that I would be able to tell #FD98A1 from #FD98A2 by just looking at them, the only way I would be able to tell them apart would b...
[17:36:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Paint Colors Invented by Neural Network - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:22] <exec> 08└─Foxtrot-Delta-Niner-Eight-Alpha-One is a pretty color.
[17:36:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03fadrian [3194] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New SMB Worm 'EternalRocks' Uses Seven NSA Hacking Tools -- WannaCry Used Just Two - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:33] <exec> 08└─Ha ha ha. You don't have the wherewithal to "make" your computer secure. It's insecure from the ground up. We could have done better. We didn't. Now you live with your insecure system because no matter how much you patch, there are always going to be new holes. And even if you keep up today, there's...
[17:36:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New SMB Worm 'EternalRocks' Uses Seven NSA Hacking Tools -- WannaCry Used Just Two - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:35] <exec> 08└─United States is no longer morally superior to other countries
[17:36:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New SMB Worm 'EternalRocks' Uses Seven NSA Hacking Tools -- WannaCry Used Just Two - 491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:37] <exec> 08└─The USA lays claim to 50%+ to the typical productive person's resources through direct taxation and fees, and up to 88% of that same person's production through taxes and "costs of compliance" which results in massively-increased prices for goods and services. If it is assumed that 100% confiscation...
[17:36:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New SMB Worm 'EternalRocks' Uses Seven NSA Hacking Tools -- WannaCry Used Just Two - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:39] <exec> 08└─You'd expect that for that much money you could get at least one of healthcare and education :)
[17:36:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New SMB Worm 'EternalRocks' Uses Seven NSA Hacking Tools -- WannaCry Used Just Two - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:41] <exec> 08└─My TV has tons of opensource junk in it. Busybox distro. It will never see another up date from LG. They moved on years ago to newer shiny toys.
[17:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IBM and D-Wave Quantum Computing Announcements - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:25] <exec> 08└─Your computer isn't going to be any better at displaying HTML or pushing spreadsheets, if it were a QC.
[17:37:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Design Principle: IKEA Effect - 2539 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:45] <exec> 08└─For those unfamiliar with this common anecdote (and who don't want to click on links), the gist of this story is that supposedly early cake mixes (with dried eggs, dried milk, just add water) didn't sell well. But Betty Crocker introduced the "just add an egg!" idea based on a team of psychologists...
[17:37:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Design Principle: IKEA Effect - 968 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:46] <exec> 08└─And by the way, if you want a more accurate history of cake mix adoption and sales, you might see this account [bonappetit.com]. It goes even further toward debunking the role of the "just add an egg!" myth: as it notes, such mixes had been around for about 25 years before the innovation supposedly...
[17:38:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BostonGlobe.Com Disables Articles When Your Browser's in Private Mode - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:07] <exec> 08└─Yeah, obviously the sandbox is flawed. Let them save or set whatever they want. It will be gone anyway later. As for browser trust. It's likely a convenience thing. It works good enough. Do bad enough and it goes the Internet Exploder v6.0 way. But there is a way to not only sandbox a specific visit...
[17:38:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Reveals 'Athena' CIA Spying Program Targeting All Versions of Windows - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:27] <exec> 08└─That is why those underage pornography laws are so convenient.. Seems it already took of in 1982 (New York v. Ferber) in the USA. This might however also provide a opportunity to wreck those laws. By letting some virus spread such material everywhere. Defendants can always clam "the virus did it".
[17:38:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tabby's Star Under Observation After Dimming Event Detected - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:55] <exec> 08└─Can't be any worse than our current overloads.
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[18:36:09] <exec> 08└─Shut up and keep winning!!! Trump Trump Trump!!!!!!
[18:36:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Army Rations Helped Change Food - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:10] <exec> 08└─They are very sugary high carb meals.
[18:36:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Army Rations Helped Change Food - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:13] <exec> 08└─1 min to eat all you can. Dehydrated beef or pork patties. Thick Peanut butter or cheese that would leave your shit to a very thick hard to get out variety. I thought the bread was not bread but some type of crackers very much like crisp matzah. I could stomach all but the dehydrated pork patties. L...
[18:36:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06New SMB Worm 'EternalRocks' Uses Seven NSA Hacking Tools -- WannaCry Used Just Two - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:41] <exec> 08└─If it is assumed that 100% confiscation of production is slavery
[18:36:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New SMB Worm 'EternalRocks' Uses Seven NSA Hacking Tools -- WannaCry Used Just Two - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:42] <exec> 08└─Sega CD fans at the NSA?
[18:36:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New SMB Worm 'EternalRocks' Uses Seven NSA Hacking Tools -- WannaCry Used Just Two - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:45] <exec> 08└─It may all be "open" but it certainly isn't free, try distributing it and you will find out, likely painfully. And things like the DMCA say you can't even poke at devices you've bought... There is plenty of open source junk. But not nearly as much a proprietary junk. And you won't be betting on a pi...
[18:36:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New SMB Worm 'EternalRocks' Uses Seven NSA Hacking Tools -- WannaCry Used Just Two - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:47] <exec> 08└─Ha ha ha. You don't have the wherewithal to "make" your computer secure.
[18:36:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New SMB Worm 'EternalRocks' Uses Seven NSA Hacking Tools -- WannaCry Used Just Two - 504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:49] <exec> 08└─Torture buddy, you forgot torture. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Read all about it, it's absolutely disgusting. And unsurprisingly ineffective. And how the CIA lied about everything to the people and the congress among others. The s...
[18:37:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Uber Starts Charging what it Thinks you are Willing to Pay - 1065 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:23] <exec> 08└─True. I was oversimplifying the history and pointing out why the idea apparently spread, since it made transactions and bookkeeping simpler for large corporations. Buy yes, the actual origin is with Quakers. Well, actually one can trace elements of it back through history to the Sumerians, if we rea...
[18:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Uber Starts Charging what it Thinks you are Willing to Pay - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:25] <exec> 08└─In the last few months I've noticed Uber trying to charge sums that didn't look right at all according to my past experience. That has made me extremely wary of doing business with them. The app sometimes offers 50% off or other deals which might make them competitive. But now that we know they are...
[18:38:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03srobert [4803] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Reveals 'Athena' CIA Spying Program Targeting All Versions of Windows - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:35] <exec> 08└─When the U.S. spies on anyone in the world who uses a computer whether American citizens or foreign governments, it's not the same as when the Russians do it. They do it to "interfere with our Democracy". When we do it, it's to promote truth, justice, and the American Way. As Agent 86 pointed out, t...
[18:41:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06General Electric-Saudi Arabia Deals Announced - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:09] <exec> 08└─How did fat chicks get dates before the internet was invented? How did drunk stupid people get anyone to listen to them before the internet? Same thing.
[18:42:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06HSBC Voice Authentication Bypassed in BBC Test - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:14] <exec> 08└─I don't see how a system could determine between a high quality recording and a real voice.
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[19:36:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 0637,000 AT&T Mobility Workers Have Walked Out Until Monday - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:12] <exec> 08└─37,000: the new 40,000
[19:36:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0637,000 AT&T Mobility Workers Have Walked Out Until Monday - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:13] <exec> 08└─CRUSH THEM! AND THE NEXT THEM! UNTIL IT HAPPENS TO ME.
[19:36:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0637,000 AT&T Mobility Workers Have Walked Out Until Monday - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:16] <exec> 08└─You assume it hasn't already happened to me.
[19:36:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 0637,000 AT&T Mobility Workers Have Walked Out Until Monday - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:18] <exec> 08└─There are especially too many people of low quality. Chances are, the world doesn't need you, or me. Yet, that won't stop most of you from trying to pass on your worthless genes, and certainly won't prevent you from trying to force me to pay for both your life and the lives of your worthless progeny...
[19:36:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 0637,000 AT&T Mobility Workers Have Walked Out Until Monday - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:20] <exec> 08└─We can do this one of two ways. Either you pay an intermediary so that the unneeded people can live in peace, or the unneeded people are coming to kill you. Your choice.
[19:36:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0637,000 AT&T Mobility Workers Have Walked Out Until Monday - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:22] <exec> 08└─This is a situation where you wish both would lose - a total scumbag company and similarly scummy employees.
[19:36:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0637,000 AT&T Mobility Workers Have Walked Out Until Monday - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:25] <exec> 08└─You assume I assume it hasn't.
[19:36:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0637,000 AT&T Mobility Workers Have Walked Out Until Monday - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:27] <exec> 08└─Und ven ze low qvality mesch ar gone zere vill be perfeckt order.
[19:36:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 0637,000 AT&T Mobility Workers Have Walked Out Until Monday - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:29] <exec> 08└─Oh sure, change the title of the article and make my comment look 'r' word. SPANKS! SPANKS VERY MUCH! ;)
[19:36:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 0637,000 AT&T Mobility Workers Have Walked Out Until Monday - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:31] <exec> 08└─It's only workers in the cellphone stores that are on strike? I got the impression it was people doing the switch machinery maintenance etc. Now that would have some higher impact.
[19:36:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0637,000 AT&T Mobility Workers Have Walked Out Until Monday - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:34] <exec> 08└─Let me revise that. Can't say good/bad about the maintenance crews, but their sales/service workers make crooked used car salesmen blush, one can only imagine how nasty the management layer must be.
[19:36:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0637,000 AT&T Mobility Workers Have Walked Out Until Monday - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:36] <exec> 08└─Greetings, fellow hobo bro! Do you know the trick you can use to get free data with an AT&T Mobility SIM card? Definitely not my first choice for stealing data but it's totally doable. You save the cost of a data plan but you're still paying for a disposable SIM card every month since the SIM expire...
[19:36:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Army Rations Helped Change Food - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:48] <exec> 08└─I ate MREs after Hurricane Ivan in 2004. I got mind controlled during the beta testing phase. Thanks, Bushbama!!
[19:36:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Army Rations Helped Change Food - 2479 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:50] <exec> 08└─Napolean supposedly said the quote in the subject line, though it's been attributed to various military leaders over the years. It's clear that such concerns go back to ancient times. Figuring out how to preserve food using various methods and then transport it was paramount for most military campai...
[19:36:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Army Rations Helped Change Food - 1304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:52] <exec> 08└─The ancients were extremely good at organization. Look at the enormous stone monuments they left everywhere. Modern hubris leads us to continually underestimate them. The logistics of feeding a large mass of men can be very difficult, of course. Foraging, and looting the locals, only produces so muc...
[19:37:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Paint Colors Invented by Neural Network - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:05] <exec> 08└─In fact the "design" and fashion world uses the Pantone system [pantone.com] I heard it said that most RGB combinations look like different grades of mud. Never checked them all out myself.
[19:38:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Uber Starts Charging what it Thinks you are Willing to Pay - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:03] <exec> 08└─Haggle until the food becomes bad and then quit. Then repeat. Eventually they learn by negative economic feedback. Or that people just go shopping online. Another example is when big markets under staff checkouts so that queues grow long. The counter move is just to drop the gods somewhere and leave...
[19:38:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Uber Starts Charging what it Thinks you are Willing to Pay - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:05] <exec> 08└─In fact, I'm pretty sure stuff like this will make Uber the target of MORE regulation by municipalities. Once you go down the rabbit hole of "charging what you think the customer is willing to pay," you open the door to all sorts of fun stuff to increase company profit.
[19:38:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Uber Starts Charging what it Thinks you are Willing to Pay - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:07] <exec> 08└─OK then - how much is an ambulance ride worth?
[19:38:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM and D-Wave Quantum Computing Announcements - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:18] <exec> 08└─From the nextbigfuture.com comments: Memristor licensing (currently split between HP/HPE and exclusively licensed to morons who wouldn't run with it) means we won't see actual memristor based stuff for a long while.
[19:38:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM and D-Wave Quantum Computing Announcements - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:19] <exec> 08└─One day, quantum computing could come to consumer devices and even SoCs. Of course, it would have to work at room temperature. Google's TPUs will be coming to cell phones, providing a fairly narrow neuromorphic kind of function. I don't think it is impossible for consumer SoCs to ship with quantum c...
[19:38:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM and D-Wave Quantum Computing Announcements - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:21] <exec> 08└─It has nothing to do with lawyer shit and everything to do with big promises and shit execution from HP, which split into two companies because they sucked so bad. Intel's 3D XPoint also took a long time develop and is underperforming on release, and Crossbar RRAM has experienced many years of delay...
[19:38:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM and D-Wave Quantum Computing Announcements - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:24] <exec> 08└─Then I'll suspect that shit execution comes from the same personality type of people ;)
[19:38:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Design Principle: IKEA Effect - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:45] <exec> 08└─It's simple, if you can make a gadget to do your bidding more exactly like you want it than the standard cookie cutter version that is glued shut. Well then that is what will be used. And if you can extend it easily, that is not a negative.
[19:38:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Design Principle: IKEA Effect - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:46] <exec> 08└─Close, but I don't want a "kit car" -- these are woefully undeveloped cars and the owners are chasing problems all through assembly and during the life of the car. I want a fully developed car, with a real engineering and development staff behind it -- hundreds or thousands of engineers.
[19:39:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06BostonGlobe.Com Disables Articles When Your Browser's in Private Mode - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:07] <exec> 08└─This is a good thing evolutionarily, silly peeps who are bravehearts* and browse with JS enabled don't get news. * https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[19:39:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03nethead [4970] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BostonGlobe.Com Disables Articles When Your Browser's in Private Mode - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:09] <exec> 08└─I just pay $5/month to The Seattle Times and use an ad blocker. Works great for me and I get to support local news reporting. I do the same for my more local paper in Everett.
[19:39:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Reveals 'Athena' CIA Spying Program Targeting All Versions of Windows - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:31] <exec> 08└─Now, what are [you] going to do about it?
[19:42:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06General Electric-Saudi Arabia Deals Announced - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:08] <exec> 08└─That is 15 of the 19 hijackers. Sounds like a nice peace loving country to do business with. USA is the #1 terrorist (funder) in the world.
[19:43:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Norwegian Seed Bank is Flooded; Seeds Unharmed - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:36] <exec> 08└─high air humidity in cold environments
[19:43:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Norwegian Seed Bank is Flooded; Seeds Unharmed - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:38] <exec> 08└─I can bet there's one CEO who got a nice bonus who is long gone and ru(i)nning some other project.
[19:44:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03http [1920] 02 - 06FCC Guards Eject Reporter - 219 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:03] <exec> 08└─You are almost right that there are protocols. FTFS: "...As The Washington Post pointed out, it’s standard operating procedure for reporters to ask questions of public officials after meetings and news conferences,”
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[20:36:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fearing Shadow Brokers Leak, NSA Reported Critical Flaw to Microsoft - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:05] <exec> 08└─NSA identifies a risk, and keeps it secret, until it's stolen, THEN they communicate the risk. Mikey makes it sound like they were being good citizens. Fuck you Mikey!!
[20:36:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 0637,000 AT&T Mobility Workers Have Walked Out Until Monday - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:26] <exec> 08└─The USA is approaching full employment. Most of the counties around the SF Bay Area are already at this point. The natural progression from full employment is employees demanding higher wages. That is, until the next downturn is created to put all those upstart workers back in their places and steal...
[20:36:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Army Rations Helped Change Food - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:42] <exec> 08└─Uh, dude, there were people selling MREs to Y2K preppers.
[20:36:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Army Rations Helped Change Food - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:44] <exec> 08└─Limeys called it hardtack - hard biscuit, really a thick cracker.
[20:36:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Army Rations Helped Change Food - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:46] <exec> 08└─After Katrina I gave leftover MREs as christmas presents to friends and family just so they could share the joy. I still have family.
[20:36:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Army Rations Helped Change Food - 688 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:48] <exec> 08└─"entered the public eye" So, uhhhh, what does public consciousness of MRE's have to do with anything? Bit of trivia for you: there were commercial equivalents to MRE's about '72, and maybe earlier. Boil some water, open the pouch, pour some water into the pouch, let it sit for a couple minutes, and...
[20:36:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Army Rations Helped Change Food - 492 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:50] <exec> 08└─Found a recipe, years ago, and the sons and I made hardtack at home. A couple of attempts were just -mehhh- but we got it right on the third try. Yeah, it's very much like a Saltine cracker, and you can vary the amount of salt you put on them to your taste. Pretty good stuff, actually. Unlike Saltin...
[20:37:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03rleigh [4887] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Paint Colors Invented by Neural Network - 3567 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:04] <exec> 08└─No, RGB isn't anywhere near acceptable. You need to use a spectrophotometer to obtain the full excitation and emission spectra, so you can see exactly what proportion of each wavelength is absorbed or emitted across the full visible spectrum, extending into the UV and IR regions. Why outside the vis...
[20:37:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New SMB Worm 'EternalRocks' Uses Seven NSA Hacking Tools -- WannaCry Used Just Two - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:27] <exec> 08└─Then why is the government budget not even half the GDP?
[20:37:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New SMB Worm 'EternalRocks' Uses Seven NSA Hacking Tools -- WannaCry Used Just Two - 2007 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:28] <exec> 08└─http://opensource.lge.com/index [lge.com] I do not need to distrubute any of it to create a worm now do I? I am already being a dick. Do you think some copyright law is going to stop me? Its all crap. All of it. The only thing open source gives me is the ability to to look at the code in a human rea...
[20:38:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Uber Starts Charging what it Thinks you are Willing to Pay - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:08] <exec> 08└─A corporation is just something that happens when someone pays the government a fee for access to a special legal system. Any problem with corporations is 100% a problem with the government and its laws.
[20:38:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Uber Starts Charging what it Thinks you are Willing to Pay - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:10] <exec> 08└─But there are more than enough which are 'new money' that blow through their cash like it's never ending. Many athletes,
[20:38:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Design Principle: IKEA Effect - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:48] <exec> 08└─That explains why a vendor at work sold us a software package for 6 figures that comes with no sane defaults or capabilities. It must be the IKEA effect in action when users of the software have to cobble together even basic functionality using stone knives and bear skins.
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[21:36:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0637,000 AT&T Mobility Workers Have Walked Out Until Monday - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:25] <exec> 08└─Newspeak defines full employment tautologically as employment for all who are employed.
[21:36:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0637,000 AT&T Mobility Workers Have Walked Out Until Monday - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:27] <exec> 08└─Safari through the poor :) You get rich people to pay you, a slightly less rich individual, to handle the logistics of Hunting Safaris through the Urbana, seeing who can bad the biggest (smallest?) poor folk, and helping to reduce their numbers to manageable levels for when cheap labor, a supply of...
[21:36:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0637,000 AT&T Mobility Workers Have Walked Out Until Monday - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:29] <exec> 08└─Hunt the fat welfare cows, see them flee before you, and hear the lamentation of their children.
[21:36:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Army Rations Helped Change Food - 940 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:50] <exec> 08└─I bought a case of MRE's back in the early 90's (about $50 for 12 from some Seattle military and police company* whose name I can't remember). I would take them on overnight backpacking trips, supplemented with 5 minute rice cooked using a Bakepacker. I would cook the rice while simultaneously warmi...
[21:36:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Army Rations Helped Change Food - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:51] <exec> 08└─After Katrina I gave leftover MREs as christmas presents to friends and family just so they could share the joy. I still have family.
[21:36:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Army Rations Helped Change Food - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:53] <exec> 08└─Someone needs to fix the site so that it doesn't insist on showing the first post if it's below my threshold. Threaded-TOS, threshold 0, breakthrough 1.
[21:37:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New SMB Worm 'EternalRocks' Uses Seven NSA Hacking Tools -- WannaCry Used Just Two - 479 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:37] <exec> 08└─"Meet the new boss, same as the old boss..." Probably not. Different history, different culture, different values. There will be some whose lives are better, or at least perceived to be better, under Chinese domination. There are others whose lives will be worse. And, there will be yet others to who...
[21:37:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New SMB Worm 'EternalRocks' Uses Seven NSA Hacking Tools -- WannaCry Used Just Two - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:38] <exec> 08└─I don't hold his position, but this argument is flawed. One's contribution to the GDP can be increased without increasing one's income, and govt. revenue doesn't exclusively come from VAT.
[21:37:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New SMB Worm 'EternalRocks' Uses Seven NSA Hacking Tools -- WannaCry Used Just Two - 2627 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:40] <exec> 08└─From MS - SMB Ports 445/139 (TCP) & 137/138 (UDP) protection via: Disable SMBv1 on the SERVER, configure the following registry key: Registry subkey: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanServer\Parameters Registry entry: SMB1 REG_DWORD: 0 = Disabled REG_DWORD: 1 = Enabled Defau...
[21:38:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06 Uber Starts Charging what it Thinks you are Willing to Pay - 526 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:22] <exec> 08└─What are you talking about? What's special about ambulance rides? The last time I had a heart attack, I did some price shopping. I couldn't use just any taxi or Uber since they wouldn't be equipped with paramedics, since seconds would matter. Once I had it narrowed down to two ambulance companies, I...
[21:38:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Uber Starts Charging what it Thinks you are Willing to Pay - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:23] <exec> 08└─*facepalm*MenAngels
[21:38:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Uber Starts Charging what it Thinks you are Willing to Pay - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:25] <exec> 08└─Nobody knows what something should cost; nobody knows what a good deal is. The only way to figure out these things is to engage in an iterative process
[21:38:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Uber Starts Charging what it Thinks you are Willing to Pay - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:28] <exec> 08└─Enjoy paying twice as much for the same ride.
[21:38:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Uber Starts Charging what it Thinks you are Willing to Pay - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:30] <exec> 08└─Is it Albert Einstein, or is it Jeffrey Dahmer?
[21:44:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Guards Eject Reporter - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:36] <exec> 08└─The staff reports that incident quite differently. It seems that after the press meeting, staff was huddled together, making their way back to their offices. Some mad man came running down the hallway, and ran into two of their members. It almost looked like the mad man was trying to tackle his vict...
[21:44:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Guards Eject Reporter - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:38] <exec> 08└─That happens all the time with the president, doesn't it? What needs to happen, is for some papparazzi to be shot down like dogs, for harassing people. Then, the courts need to make sure that the body guards are acquitted. Put just a little chill on overly exuberant "reporters". If the low-life papp...
[21:44:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Guards Eject Reporter - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:40] <exec> 08└─Keep imagining. An unauthorized person wandering through a government building may expect to be pinned to the wall - maybe even permanently. Just stick some knives through his arms and legs, pin him to the wall like a butterfly. Leave his rotting corpse right there on the wall, as a warning to the n...
[21:44:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Guards Eject Reporter - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:42] <exec> 08└─Servile? Let me serve you some tube steak, you little whiny bitch.
[21:44:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Guards Eject Reporter - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:44] <exec> 08└─Oh, but of course, it's not an echo chamber for the progressive left, now is it?
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[22:36:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Changes the Way it Sells Books -- May Hurt Publishers - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:01] <exec> 08└─A greedy publisher hates used books market. Also in the news: water is wet.
[22:36:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Changes the Way it Sells Books -- May Hurt Publishers - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:02] <exec> 08└─Yes, but in those cases somebody bought the book. These are digital books and there's no guarantee that a copy that's for sale was ever paid for by anybody. Those used books do also wear out, get destroyed or lost and some people just like new copies. But, I'm sure your reductionist version of this...
[22:36:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Changes the Way it Sells Books -- May Hurt Publishers - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:04] <exec> 08└─Yup, same old, same old Amazon. Still out to kill off specialty publishers. Years ago our book publisher objected to Amazon's terms and Amazon played very dirty, retaliated by listing the book as "out of print". I was getting panic emails from people wondering if I still has some personal stock that...
[22:36:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Changes the Way it Sells Books -- May Hurt Publishers - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:06] <exec> 08└─Those people should get some real skills instead milking their laurels and expecting everyone to pay them in perpetuity for prior work that can be copied with minimal effort. The only jobs that pay are tech jobs because tech geniuses have super tech skills that require more brainpower than writing s...
[22:36:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Changes the Way it Sells Books -- May Hurt Publishers - 479 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:09] <exec> 08└─"And there's no guarantee that if the latter is true, said third-party seller bought the book from the publisher. In fact, it's most likely they didn't. Which means the publisher might not be getting paid. And, by extension, neither is the author." Really? These are books for which the publisher was...
[22:36:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Fearing Shadow Brokers Leak, NSA Reported Critical Flaw to Microsoft - 168 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:16] <exec> 08└─NSA identifies a risk, and keeps it secret, until it's stolen, THEN they communicate the risk. Mikey makes it sound like they were being good citizens. Fuck you Mikey!!
[22:36:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fearing Shadow Brokers Leak, NSA Reported Critical Flaw to Microsoft - 797 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:18] <exec> 08└─Keep in mind that even the WP and Arse Technica aren't buying it. This is rather important and unusual compared to previous coverage of the NSA not all that long ago. Also I'm pretty sure people are having more trouble than they usually do with politicians' integrity these days. Too bad his cult isn...
[22:36:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fearing Shadow Brokers Leak, NSA Reported Critical Flaw to Microsoft - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:21] <exec> 08└─> THEN they communicate the risk. As Mr. McNerney says, the NSA told Microsoft but they didn't tell the public. As far as I know, the agency hasn't publicly acknowledged that the EternalBlue exploit, or anything released by the Shadow Brokers, was stolen from the NSA.
[22:37:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New SMB Worm 'EternalRocks' Uses Seven NSA Hacking Tools -- WannaCry Used Just Two - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:48] <exec> 08└─FOSS. Look it up. You're fighting a straw man.
[22:37:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New SMB Worm 'EternalRocks' Uses Seven NSA Hacking Tools -- WannaCry Used Just Two - 830 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:50] <exec> 08└─Funny you mention that. I went to H&R block because I could afford to do my contractor's taxes "really" for the first time instead of mailing checks every year. After paying off what I apparently owed for realsies, I am now preparing to sell my house and have not been paid in 1+ months because I'm t...
[22:38:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Uber Starts Charging what it Thinks you are Willing to Pay - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:37] <exec> 08└─That's the whole point of, say, subscribing to an insurance plan: You are paying people to do that kind of research for you ahead of time, and thereby provide the equivalent of the very kind of consumer selection to which you refer. Of course, it doesn't help that governments tend to quash variation...
[22:39:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Design Principle: IKEA Effect - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:16] <exec> 08└─Perhaps 20 years ago, but these days most software you could possibly want is already in the repository and much easier to install than on Windows. What keeps people from getting interested in Linux is that people continue to spread the misinformation about what things were like years ago as if it's...
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[23:36:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Informative) 02 - 06Amazon Changes the Way it Sells Books -- May Hurt Publishers - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:15] <exec> 08└─That's what GP said and he's right. This is about greedy publishers and used goods. These are digital books That's not in the summary nor in the article. You're extrapolating--and not at all well. When Old School newsreader Paul Harvey was guessing, he would say, "and now I'm going to tell you more...
[23:36:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Changes the Way it Sells Books -- May Hurt Publishers - 474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:17] <exec> 08└─This article is about books in paper, rather than electronic, format. Amazon.com's product pages for e-books only each show a single option for buying: the buyer cannot choose among sellers, except by finding a different product page, which will offer a different e-book. The article says "Amazon's t...
[23:36:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Changes the Way it Sells Books -- May Hurt Publishers - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:19] <exec> 08└─If you RTFA, they point to a book that is for sale from a third-party seller, but the condition is described as "new". The publisher throws their hands in the air, saying that they can't do anything about this, but it appears that what is likely is that books that should have been shredded are being...
[23:36:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Changes the Way it Sells Books -- May Hurt Publishers - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:21] <exec> 08└─> [...] expecting everyone to pay them in perpetuity for prior work that can be copied with minimal effort. It is the largest Internet-based retailer in the world by total sales and market capitalization.
[23:36:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Changes the Way it Sells Books -- May Hurt Publishers - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:25] <exec> 08└─Hmm I thought I read a machine exists that can very cheaply print out a book. Complete with cover and binding. And able to scan a new book in a short time. So new comes out. Is popular. Scan print sell. Sure I should get caught one day. But how much can I make first? Is this the worry or is it simpl...
[23:36:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Changes the Way it Sells Books -- May Hurt Publishers - 1245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:27] <exec> 08└─"If you RTFA, they point to a book that is for sale from a third-party seller, but the condition is described as "new"." But that means nothing. Are they alleging that the books are not actually new, or that they are stolen or counterfeit? "The publisher throws their hands in the air, saying that th...
[23:36:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Demena [5637] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Fearing Shadow Brokers Leak, NSA Reported Critical Flaw to Microsoft - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:38] <exec> 08└─The prime responsibility for all the crap goes to there NSA not the Shadow brokers. They are both guilty as sin of unethical shit but the NSA made the door the Shadow Brokers used. The NSA should be forking out to repair the worldwide damage. It isn't that they are no better than criminals it is sim...
[23:37:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 0637,000 AT&T Mobility Workers Have Walked Out Until Monday - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:02] <exec> 08└─Hunt the fat welfare cows, see them flee before you, and hear the lamentation of their children.
[23:37:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0637,000 AT&T Mobility Workers Have Walked Out Until Monday - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:04] <exec> 08└─You've left out the union. Read the Original Submission [soylentnews.org] There's some stuff in there about how the officials of the Communications Workers of America have been doing a poor job representing the membership. ...and the membership hasn't replaced those slimeballs. 8-( -- OriginalOwner_...
[23:37:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0637,000 AT&T Mobility Workers Have Walked Out Until Monday - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:06] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure that the workers would be contented with wages that simply had the same buying power their wages had in 1972 when compensation for USAians flattened while per-worker productivity continued to climb. [nakedcapitalism.com] (page) [nakedcapitalism.com] -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org...
[23:37:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] 02 - 06How Army Rations Helped Change Food - 2479 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:19] <exec> 08└─Napolean supposedly said the quote in the subject line, though it's been attributed to various military leaders over the years. It's clear that such concerns go back to ancient times. Figuring out how to preserve food using various methods and then transport it was paramount for most military campai...
[23:37:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Army Rations Helped Change Food - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:30] <exec> 08└─Some of us have to view at -1 because the expand button doesn't work anymore
[23:37:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Army Rations Helped Change Food - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:31] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but they left us behind in this crappy galaxy with next to none of their cool tech
[23:38:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New SMB Worm 'EternalRocks' Uses Seven NSA Hacking Tools -- WannaCry Used Just Two - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:16] <exec> 08└─The beacon went dark as early as the Korea war.
[23:39:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Uber Starts Charging what it Thinks you are Willing to Pay - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:05] <exec> 08└─It's NOT the same ride! Cabs are rude smelly unreliable and a pain in the ass to deal with.
[23:39:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Uber Starts Charging what it Thinks you are Willing to Pay - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:06] <exec> 08└─> 100% a problem with the government and its laws. Let me guess, you are missing cone cells and only have black & white vision...
[23:39:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06IBM and D-Wave Quantum Computing Announcements - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:22] <exec> 08└─Rather a third option, that current technologies are already vastly more than fast enough to keep up with human I/O and a huge variety of real world applications.
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