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[00:36:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Skirting User Account Control on Windows 10 With fodhelper.exe - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:28] <exec> 08└─Then there was that time that any user with steam installed could have any browser page redirect automatically run arbitrary code because the steam:// url scheme was completely stupid to embed at the system level. I don't actually know if they fixed that one yet or not.
[00:36:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Skirting User Account Control on Windows 10 With fodhelper.exe - 745 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:29] <exec> 08└─Security *is* hard. No doubt about that! But Linux does cover more than 50% of all computing devices (think phones, servers and your hipster friends running Ubuntu) and easily surpasses Windows' install-base. I think its market penetration is pretty in-everyones-face and I would say an even more luc...
[00:36:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jeremiah Cornelius [2785] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Skirting User Account Control on Windows 10 With fodhelper.exe - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:31] <exec> 08└─I'm sure there are a half-dozen such examples waiting to be discovered, using systemd. Probably not even needing a setuid root binary, the rough equivalent of MS's signed binary.
[00:36:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Skirting User Account Control on Windows 10 With fodhelper.exe - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:34] <exec> 08└─master's thesis, centered on UAC bypass techniques
[00:36:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Skirting User Account Control on Windows 10 With fodhelper.exe - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:36] <exec> 08└─Security is simple - users are hard. They demand "friendly, convenient" software. That's where the problems come in. If we all had to sign in with a 27 character minimum passphrase, biometric scan and physical security token every 5 minutes or less, with auto-logout every time the camera detects tha...
[00:36:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Skirting User Account Control on Windows 10 With fodhelper.exe - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:38] <exec> 08└─"I know it's fun to bash Microsoft." There, I FTFY. That's all you need to say.
[00:36:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Skirting User Account Control on Windows 10 With fodhelper.exe - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:40] <exec> 08└─You fucked around with kid's stuff before malware became big business. There's a shitton of money in malware research but not for bitter old washed up whiners like you. You're just not valuable. Kill yourself.
[00:36:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Skirting User Account Control on Windows 10 With fodhelper.exe - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:43] <exec> 08└─In the May 2017 survey [...] Microsoft gained 79 million sites, which has taken its market share up to 49.1%. This is Microsoft's highest market share in the 22-year history of the Web Server Survey [...]
[00:36:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Science Busts The Biggest Myth Ever About Why Bridges Collapse - 553 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:55] <exec> 08└─One more step Please complete the security check to access archive.fo Why do I have to complete a CAPTCHA? Completing the CAPTCHA proves you are a human and gives you temporary access to the web property. What can I do to prevent this in the future? If you are on a personal connection, like at home,...
[00:36:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03deadstick [5110] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Science Busts The Biggest Myth Ever About Why Bridges Collapse - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:57] <exec> 08└─http://www.ketchum.org/billah/Billah-Scanlan.pdf [ketchum.org]
[00:36:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Science Busts The Biggest Myth Ever About Why Bridges Collapse - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:59] <exec> 08└─The dude is a self-promoting spammer, sorta American version of fake Indian guru. Give it another thought before approving a post by this character.
[00:37:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03snufu [5855] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Science Busts The Biggest Myth Ever About Why Bridges Collapse - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:01] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_Eib49uPyc [youtube.com]
[00:37:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ransomware Operators Give Free Decryption to Taiwanese Man - 622 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:15] <exec> 08└─Glad to know the owners of the ransomware were only people looking to make some money, not jewish rats. Or they would enslave you until death. Then they would enslave your children. Wannacry might be jewish. Run by rogue jews, that is. If Wannacry was being run by proper jews in positions of power,...
[00:38:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Doctor Teaches Children Critical Thinking Skills - 869 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:00] <exec> 08└─The usual pseudoscience: WHAT DOES ‘STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT’ MEAN? ‘To be honest, it’s a tricky idea. It can tell us if the difference between a drug and a placebo or between the life expectancies of two groups of people, for example, could be just down to chance . . . It means that a diff...
[00:38:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Doctor Teaches Children Critical Thinking Skills - 454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:02] <exec> 08└─I know about p values being the dual of what people think it means, and therefore globally misunderstood. What I asked was a link to the actual documents they use when teaching this stuff to ten-year-old children, which seems to be at least partially in the form of comics. I know some adults facing...
[00:38:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Doctor Teaches Children Critical Thinking Skills - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:04] <exec> 08└─They claim the material is in appendix 1, which should be here: http://www.thelancet.com [thelancet.com]
[00:38:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EPA Nixes Chlorpyrifos Ban & Training Rule; Farm Workers Sickened - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:41] <exec> 08└─This particular insecticide isn't in and of itself essential. However, the whole family of organophosphates (of which this is a member) are highly suspect, neurotoxic to humans, aquatic and terrestrial wildlife, and really should be restricted from applications which can end up dosing developing bra...
[00:38:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EPA Nixes Chlorpyrifos Ban & Training Rule; Farm Workers Sickened - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:43] <exec> 08└─Farms can pay fair wages or rot. Their greed was their downfall.
[00:39:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Inquiry: ESA's Schiaparelli Spacecraft was "Ill-Prepared" for Mars Landing Attempt - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:02] <exec> 08└─Which reminds me of Israel vs Arabia. Ain't no good guys in that little drama.
[00:39:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Inquiry: ESA's Schiaparelli Spacecraft was "Ill-Prepared" for Mars Landing Attempt - 1462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:04] <exec> 08└─Having JPL check ESA is good, as is having ESA checking JPL's math and engineering. But I have an even better idea, Open Source enabled with emulation. Before shooting a billion dollar probe into space for years why not release, as Open Source, an emulator to simulate the probe's entire mission with...
[00:39:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Electric Car Sales Up 91% in California Q1 2017 - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:59] <exec> 08└─You faggots wouldn't recognize an analogy if it fucked you up the ass.
[00:43:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kill Google AMP Before It Kills the Web - 558 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:08] <exec> 08└─web developers mostly SUCK, especially the ones who [work] for newspapers Amen. What's especially annoying is when one of those outlets -does- get a guy who knows his ass from a hole in the ground and he makes some changes to the site which -improve- things--then, shortly, he's gone and another nitw...
[00:43:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Space Aggressors" Train US Forces for Extraterrestrial Conflict - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:43] <exec> 08└─please give us a cost-plus contract for F-35s... in spaaaaaaaaaace!
[00:45:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Do Humans Come With a Built-in Sense of Obligation to One Another? - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:14] <exec> 08└─He acts severely racist against white people. He acts as if he basically hates America, Europe, western culture, English, and more. I guess there are 3 possibilities: a. just a troll
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[01:36:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Synestia" Phase of Planetary Formation Simulated - 1636 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:18] <exec> 08└─"Your mouth first," I said, "then we'll go around the world until I finally fill your arsehole." Before I even finished speaking she had moved down and sucked my cock deep into her throat whilst her hands squeezed my balls and fingered my anus, she was really hot for it and was sucking hard and fast...
[01:36:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Skirting User Account Control on Windows 10 With fodhelper.exe - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:34] <exec> 08└─Exploits like this would still work.
[01:36:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Skirting User Account Control on Windows 10 With fodhelper.exe - 673 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:36] <exec> 08└─No, because there would be no "elevated privileges," no special programs that can run themselves without a user manually giving them privileges. If you need admin, call somebody from IT who has admin and have them physically present while they are performing the admin level work. The problem with se...
[01:36:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Science Busts The Biggest Myth Ever About Why Bridges Collapse - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:53] <exec> 08└─But it wasn't resonance that brought the bridge down, but rather the self-induced rocking! Without an ability to dissipate its energy, it just kept twisting back-and-forth, and as the twisting continued, it continued to take damage, just as twisting a solid object back-and-forth will weaken it, even...
[01:36:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Science Busts The Biggest Myth Ever About Why Bridges Collapse - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:54] <exec> 08└─Nobody expects the dark matter post! Cardinal! Poke AC with the soft cushions!
[01:37:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Doctor Teaches Children Critical Thinking Skills - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:56] <exec> 08└─It is Idi Amin we're talking about here. He kicked the Jews out of Uganda, so stories were invented about him. Various stories, just like the stories of the holocaust. Idi Amin - Plague of Jewish Lies [youtube.com] And you write suspiciously like a JIDF [wikipedia.org] Jew.
[01:38:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EPA Nixes Chlorpyrifos Ban & Training Rule; Farm Workers Sickened - 1044 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:37] <exec> 08└─Well, did they offer the "not third-world" (i.e., high) wages ethanol-fueled says white pickers will demand? Of course not -- they can't afford those wages, and still sell the produce at reasonable prices. And they can't just raise the prices, because everyone would buy cheaper produce from the next...
[01:38:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Inquiry: ESA's Schiaparelli Spacecraft was "Ill-Prepared" for Mars Landing Attempt - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:58] <exec> 08└─Yes, if they'd never invented the metric system, then Mars Climate Orbiter would have made it. Oh, wait, that was NASA...
[01:39:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03snufu [5855] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electric Car Sales Up 91% in California Q1 2017 - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:55] <exec> 08└─"As long as you have to crank it by hand to start it, and there is no gasoline pump in my neighborhood, I'll stick with my horse and buggy."
[01:39:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electric Car Sales Up 91% in California Q1 2017 - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:56] <exec> 08└─EVs are up to 5% of total sales, in Cali-tree-hugging-hippie-infested-smog-prone-fornia. Wake me up when 5% of total vehicle sales in Mi-detroit-motor-city-chigan are EV.
[01:44:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Switching to Off-Peak Delivery Times Reduces City Congestion - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:44:13] <exec> 08└─In the name of almighty productivity, store employees should be stocking shelves on Sunday morning at 4AM, as trucks should move much more efficiently then, cutting costs.
[01:45:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Do Humans Come With a Built-in Sense of Obligation to One Another? - 679 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:11] <exec> 08└─The liberals have set a low standard for the conservatives to beat. The conservatives do in fact beat that standard. It's so easy: just don't eagerly welcome people who think that LGBT should all be killed. I can't even find an anti-LGBT American politician who endorses killing them all. There must...
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[02:36:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rocket Lab Makes Suborbital Launch From New Zealand - 892 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:22] <exec> 08└─Rocket Lab aims to build a New Zealand base from which to launch small satellites into low orbit. The country is considered a prime location because rockets originating deep in the Southern Hemisphere can reach a wide range of Earth orbits. The Earth is a ball and orbits go all the way around so the...
[02:36:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rocket Lab Makes Suborbital Launch From New Zealand - 7354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:23] <exec> 08└─Rocky took one quick step back, then sprung up onto her back. His woolen legs enveloped her waist. His weight forced her head further into the grass, as her nipples dragged across the ground. Startled, her eyes bugged out of her head as she felt something else long and wet replace his tongue. His l...
[02:36:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Skirting User Account Control on Windows 10 With fodhelper.exe - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:48] <exec> 08└─You mentioned nothing about eliminating special privileged processes in your previous post, only user security.
[02:36:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Skirting User Account Control on Windows 10 With fodhelper.exe - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:50] <exec> 08└─One wonders: Of those, in how many cases was the visit by Netcraft the only traffic those servers got that month? http://www.google.com [google.com] I remember when M$ paid GoDaddy to switched all of their zero-traffic domains from Linux to Windoze in order to queer t...
[02:38:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Doctor Teaches Children Critical Thinking Skills - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:11] <exec> 08└─Texas republicans seek ban on critical thinking [austinist.com]
[02:39:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Inquiry: ESA's Schiaparelli Spacecraft was "Ill-Prepared" for Mars Landing Attempt - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:14] <exec> 08└─Hi! I have this golden hammer, and I believe your problem looks like a nail! Please let me use my golden hammer to solve your problem! Please!
[02:40:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electric Car Sales Up 91% in California Q1 2017 - 562 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:40:13] <exec> 08└─population of California: 39.1 million population of metropolitan Detroit: 5.3 million https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Why do you give special significance to Detroit as a market? Do Detroiters tend to buy more...
[02:45:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Do Humans Come With a Built-in Sense of Obligation to One Another? - 2386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:28] <exec> 08└─The thing about the black baby is silly: you have no idea of the politics of the white woman, and she could very well be a mainstream GOP voter (so-called "compassionate conservative") trying to be nice but fumbling horribly. Or she could be a Hillary voter again trying to be nice but stupidly. Tryi...
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[03:36:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Skirting User Account Control on Windows 10 With fodhelper.exe - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:50] <exec> 08└─Did you document it and write a paper up on it then defend it or just brag about it? Sometimes once the work is done the bullshit has just begun. You did the 'fun' part then skipped the showing why it works part...
[03:36:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Skirting User Account Control on Windows 10 With fodhelper.exe - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:52] <exec> 08└─https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/04/27/hajime_iot_botnet/ [theregister.co.uk] Yep linux is totally secure. You can do better than that.
[03:36:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Skirting User Account Control on Windows 10 With fodhelper.exe - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:54] <exec> 08└─It's easier to do security on Linux because you can throw away backwards compatibility for a complete rewrite. Doing both ... that's why Red Hat makes so much money. They keep their systems very secure while still supporting them for something like 15 years. The OpenBSD way is to break everything ev...
[03:36:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Skirting User Account Control on Windows 10 With fodhelper.exe - 548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:56] <exec> 08└─Why in the hell would you have special privileged processes in a system that is so inconvenient to use? What's the point? Make the user responsible for everything, then security is no longer the system's problem. I actually have a lawnmower like this, it has a cell-phone app the controls the mower b...
[03:36:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Skirting User Account Control on Windows 10 With fodhelper.exe - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:58] <exec> 08└─I'm not saying they're not a bad idea, I'm saying you didn't mention them at all. "Informative" my ass.
[03:37:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Skirting User Account Control on Windows 10 With fodhelper.exe - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:01] <exec> 08└─Linux security would also suck if it had anywhere near 50% saturation.
[03:37:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Science Busts The Biggest Myth Ever About Why Bridges Collapse - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:20] <exec> 08└─The summary says it wasn't a resonance and then goes on to describe the type of resonance they theorize it was. Not much science in that science.
[03:37:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Science Busts The Biggest Myth Ever About Why Bridges Collapse - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:21] <exec> 08└─A jackass charlatan like this get column space in the mainstream media is telling.
[03:37:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Science Busts The Biggest Myth Ever About Why Bridges Collapse - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:23] <exec> 08└─Something seems wrong with the people who support dark matter.
[03:40:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electric Car Sales Up 91% in California Q1 2017 - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:40:28] <exec> 08└─> we'll exclude hybrids for a moment About the ones you excluded: A plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) is a hybrid electric vehicle that uses rechargeable batteries, or another energy storage device, that can be recharged by plugging it in to an external source of electric power.[...] Plug-in hy...
[03:40:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Electric Car Sales Up 91% in California Q1 2017 - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:40:30] <exec> 08└─It's almost as annoying when you do it.
[03:40:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electric Car Sales Up 91% in California Q1 2017 - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:40:32] <exec> 08└─I was going for the whole state that surrounds Detroit; as a market MI is not Green leaning, CA on the other hand fell over from Green bias decades ago, and hasn't been able to get up since.
[03:40:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electric Car Sales Up 91% in California Q1 2017 - 2057 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:40:34] <exec> 08└─If, as I assume, EVs are most often charged at night, coal would provide a greater proportion of the electricity for them than it does for general uses. However, coal plants can't be quickly turned on and off. They burn all night, whether electricity is needed from them or not. They run more efficie...
[03:42:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SCOTUS: NC's Gerrymandered Districts are Unconstitutional - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:42] <exec> 08└─Going by area is easy. Even better, just hold a contest and let the winner be the map with it's longest perimeter being smaller than that of any other proposed map. (What is your worst-case huge district? Is yours less awful than what your competition has? If so, your map wins and you get famous.) G...
[03:42:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SCOTUS: NC's Gerrymandered Districts are Unconstitutional - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:44] <exec> 08└─Going by area is easy. Even better, just hold a contest and let the winner be the map with it's longest perimeter being smaller than that of any other proposed map. (What is your worst-case huge district? Is yours less awful than what your competition has? If so, your map wins and you get famous.) G...
[03:43:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kill Google AMP Before It Kills the Web - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:43:42] <exec> 08└─jmorris? But he has publicly stated that he never posts AC, which of course is good enough for me, since I am jmorris. Or at least I claim to be. My, the quality of SoylentNews has fallen of late. Not even worth it to right-wing troll anymore.
[03:44:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Switching to Off-Peak Delivery Times Reduces City Congestion - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:44:52] <exec> 08└─And then.. are cars really the best tool for this type of transport? Some kind of automated rail transport would be a lot more efficient.
[03:47:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03charon [5660] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Study Finds Female Students Less Likely to Drop Engineering Program if Female Mentored - 1040 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:47:57] <exec> 08└─Sorry you think I wasn't paying attention. In the context of this thread, I think it was quite clear that I'm not talking about the great majority of men who are perfectly capable of platonic relationships with women without score-keeping or expectations. I was talking about the men EF brought up wh...
[03:47:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds Female Students Less Likely to Drop Engineering Program if Female Mentored - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:47:58] <exec> 08└─No worries, I'm just rather used to women that think it's OK to waste men's time without giving anything of any sorts. Obviously, this kind of thing doesn't obligate sex as payment, that would be fucked up. But, there's a general lack of awareness in women that men haven't got unlimited time and mon...
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[04:36:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Warship Challenges China's Claims in South China Sea - 532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:16] <exec> 08└─Love the kind you clean up with a mop and bucket Like the lost catacombs of Egypt only God knows where we stuck it Hieroglyphics? Let me be Pacific I wanna be down in your South Seas But I got this notion that the motion of your ocean means "Small Craft Advisory" So if I capsize on your thighs high...
[04:36:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06US Warship Challenges China's Claims in South China Sea - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:18] <exec> 08└─I noticed the last, throw away line: Otherwise, critics say, the operation would have resembled what is known as "innocent passage" and could have reinforced rather than challenged China's claim to a territorial limit around the reef.
[04:36:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Warship Challenges China's Claims in South China Sea - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:20] <exec> 08└─"Mom! America's on my side of the water again!" "Nuh uh! China's trying to limit freedom of navigation on purpose! Why would China name it 'Mischief Reef' unless they were trying to get me in trouble!" Ugh -- I should have never had kids ... "You two shut up and play nice or I'll turn the heater up...
[04:36:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rocket Lab Makes Suborbital Launch From New Zealand - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:30] <exec> 08└─> Canada or Russia would be just as good. Perhaps the advantage is that New Zealand is surrounded by ocean. At Baikonur, [...] countless debris, often containing toxic propellant components, were littering virgin lands of Kazakhstan.
[04:37:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Skirting User Account Control on Windows 10 With fodhelper.exe - 1051 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:04] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately "making the user responsible" is actually really lousy security practice - even today, users are already usually the weakest point in the security. Putting the responsibility on their shoulders isn't an improvement, it's an abdication of the responsibility of making a decent product. A...
[04:37:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Science Busts The Biggest Myth Ever About Why Bridges Collapse - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:28] <exec> 08└─A jackass charlatan like this get column space in the mainstream media is telling.
[04:37:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Science Busts The Biggest Myth Ever About Why Bridges Collapse - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:29] <exec> 08└─He should just apologize, unless that would be dishonest. In that case he should make a years later follow up post reaffirming his position.
[04:37:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Science Busts The Biggest Myth Ever About Why Bridges Collapse - 1854 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:32] <exec> 08└─This ^^ My father was a flight test engineer at Boeing. He (and the rest of that flight test crew) were up in an experimental B-17 when the Tacoma Narrows Bridge failed. They all witnessed the failure directly from the air. Note that it was named Galloping Gertie well before the failure, it flexed o...
[04:37:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03cykros [989] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ransomware Operators Give Free Decryption to Taiwanese Man - 675 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:46] <exec> 08└─Don't underestimate the narcissism inherent in many malicious hackers. As far as many are concerned, EVERYONE should be impressed by whatever exploit they've coded, and they're doing you a service by allowing you to donate to them, just to express how impressed you are. Besides, considering some of...
[04:39:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EPA Nixes Chlorpyrifos Ban & Training Rule; Farm Workers Sickened - 774 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:17] <exec> 08└─If he died on the job like that, it is a workers' comp issue and part of the deal with worker's comp in general, is that your employer is immune from suit for negligence. If that was the case, then it may not have been that lawyers were bought up, just that there was no pathway to get to a non-frivo...
[04:40:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electric Car Sales Up 91% in California Q1 2017 - 756 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:40:42] <exec> 08└─I wonder why you wrote "Detroit" when you meant Michigan. The population of Michigan as a whole is 9.9 million people. Again, there are 39.2 million people in California. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] > [...] as a market MI is not Green leaning, CA on the other hand fell ove...
[04:41:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Will Spend Six Years in Georgia Prison Despite Jury Finding him 'Not Guilty' - 899 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:55] <exec> 08└─The judge is an 'all suspects are guilty, otherwise they wouldn't be suspects' authoritarian The judge is in possession of illegally obtained evidence; isn't disclosing it (crime); is using it secretly as a basis for conviction (crime) The judge considers anyone on probation who comes to his attenti...
[04:41:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Will Spend Six Years in Georgia Prison Despite Jury Finding him 'Not Guilty' - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:56] <exec> 08└─Not the original AC, but just as a point of logic, the reverse reasoning, that we know the justice system is biased because there are more minorities convicted of crimes is also circular reason. Neither of the assumed causations, minorities commit more crimes or the justice system is unfair to minor...
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[05:36:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rocket Lab Makes Suborbital Launch From New Zealand - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:32] <exec> 08└─> Canada or Russia would be just as good. I'll have to agree with Ars: They have the most beautiful launch site in the world... https://arstechnica.com [arstechnica.com]
[05:37:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Skirting User Account Control on Windows 10 With fodhelper.exe - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:07] <exec> 08└─M$ pays colleges now days. Their tactic seems to be to dump a paltry sum of money into a department and that results in all the M$-paid researchers dropping their real work and turning into M$ marketeers. Then if the results get published in a blog somewhere, the former researcher adds "... and M$...
[05:37:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Skirting User Account Control on Windows 10 With fodhelper.exe - 916 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:09] <exec> 08└─How did I know that John Leyden was the author before I even clicked the link? If you're depending on that douche for tech news, you are truly desperate for sources. Moving on: If you go to dodgy places to get software, you deserve what you get. This was NOT an infection. This was a self-inflicted w...
[05:37:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Skirting User Account Control on Windows 10 With fodhelper.exe - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:11] <exec> 08└─but no proprietary software will ever exist for it because of the constant breakage.
[05:37:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Science Busts The Biggest Myth Ever About Why Bridges Collapse - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:37] <exec> 08└─Better: Some guy who is an astrophysicist has a supplemental scientific hypothesis about one famous bridge collapse. Ahh, yeah, I think I will go with the structural engineers on this.
[05:37:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ransomware Operators Give Free Decryption to Taiwanese Man - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:53] <exec> 08└─As another commenter noted, this is not the ransomware that infected the NHS, Telefonica and the Russian Foreign Ministry.
[05:39:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EPA Nixes Chlorpyrifos Ban & Training Rule; Farm Workers Sickened - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:39:25] <exec> 08└─Same AC here checking back out of morbid curiosity, but I had a thought. I've often seen horrible posts upmodded suspiciously quickly, no one Herr would be running bots now would they??? *squinting glare* Or are there really registered users with no life and bad judgment? OK that was a bit rhetorica...
[05:42:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Will Spend Six Years in Georgia Prison Despite Jury Finding him 'Not Guilty' - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:42:05] <exec> 08└─Derp derp he literally said black people are several times more likely to be prosecuted, he wasn't ignoring the fact just trying to jeep the conversation balanced and make it a conversation about LE problems and not only a racism problem.
[05:44:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kill Google AMP Before It Kills the Web - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:44:04] <exec> 08└─How ever did newspapers and magazines ever manage to sell ads without scripting, I wonder?
[05:44:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kill Google AMP Before It Kills the Web - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:44:05] <exec> 08└─[Loss of traffic due to being buried in search by AMP sites] will only happen if there's considerable jumping on the bandwagon.
[05:44:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kill Google AMP Before It Kills the Web - 605 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:44:07] <exec> 08└─Have you noticed those google answer boxes? You have the answer to your google query right after in the result page. Google can do that because site owners dutifully tagged and semantically contextualized their content. Which means google mines their sites, offers users an answer and the site owner...
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[06:36:23] <exec> 08└─My nutsack is oscillating in your pants!
[06:36:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nebula Award Winners Announced - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:24] <exec> 08└─I have seen ghost-towns before. Tumbleweeds and 14-year-olds posting teenage attempts at porn. The mine has run out.
[06:36:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nebula Award Winners Announced - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:26] <exec> 08└─Ain't nobody here but Runaway1956, aristarchus, and us chickenscowards.
[06:36:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nebula Award Winners Announced - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:28] <exec> 08└─If only someone would have to courage to, you know, comment on the FA, in an insightful and interesting way, without any racist alt-right crap, perhaps SoylentNews could be saved. But I grow pessimistic. The inability to censor the truly bad posters, the deplorable expendables, has doomed a bastion...
[06:36:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Warship Challenges China's Claims in South China Sea - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:40] <exec> 08└─Please, turn the planet around and make Trump stay home while the rest of us continue our journey.
[06:37:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Skirting User Account Control on Windows 10 With fodhelper.exe - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:37:28] <exec> 08└─Have you looked on a forum for a popular distro lately?
[06:37:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Skirting User Account Control on Windows 10 With fodhelper.exe - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:37:29] <exec> 08└─Everybody has a degree today, so degrees are worthless because they represent nothing.
[06:37:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Science Busts The Biggest Myth Ever About Why Bridges Collapse - 3172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:37:57] <exec> 08└─Well, sort of. Really, all of this controversy boils down to imprecision in terminology. This "myth" comes up every couple years, with someone new pointing out "IT WASN'T REALLY RESONANCE, YOU KNOW!!" and everyone nodding (if they don't really get it), or objecting that they don't really see a big d...
[06:37:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Science Busts The Biggest Myth Ever About Why Bridges Collapse - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:37:59] <exec> 08└─Sorry -- obviously meant "damping" not anti-damping in the last sentence.
[06:38:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03TGV [2838] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Science Busts The Biggest Myth Ever About Why Bridges Collapse - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:38:01] <exec> 08└─I don't know if the definition requires a driving force with the same frequency. In physics of sound, one speaks of resonance of strings and hollow bodies, where the driver is a sharp impulse or a steady stream of noise.
[06:38:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Science Busts The Biggest Myth Ever About Why Bridges Collapse - 512 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:38:03] <exec> 08└─Read the Wikipedia article linked in the summary. As I said, people use different definitions in different contexts, which is what this entire discussion is being caused by. The people who are saying "this isn't resonance" are using the definition I tried to explain in my post. The Wikipedia article...
[06:38:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ilsa [6082] 02 - 06Doctor Teaches Children Critical Thinking Skills - 394 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:38:30] <exec> 08└─Good luck to the doctor actually getting this to fly. For some inexplicable reason, the US populace get their panties in a serious twist whenever the concept of "critical thinking" comes up. The current of anti-intellectualism in the US is so shockingly strong that they would rather hamstring their...
[06:39:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Doctor Teaches Children Critical Thinking Skills - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:39:09] <exec> 08└─What nonsense! The power of prayer cures cancer. Ready prayer warriors!
[06:39:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Doctor Teaches Children Critical Thinking Skills - 1232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:39:11] <exec> 08└─Uganda... I wonder why critical thinking is needed there all of a sudden? http://www.nytimes.com [nytimes.com] Americans’ Role Seen in Uganda Anti-Gay Push By JEFFREY GETTLEMANJAN. 3, 2010 Continue reading the main story Share This Page KAMPALA, Uganda — Las...
[06:41:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Electric Car Sales Up 91% in California Q1 2017 - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:41:20] <exec> 08└─I'm at the point of seriously considering oxen for hauling on the farm. Between fuel costs, lunatic slavering regulatory masturbators and ludicrously impractical trucks being all that the Big Three will allow with their sweetheart deals, oxen are starting to look pretty good. And they taste OK too.
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[07:36:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03MadTinfoilHatter [4635] (Score: 4, Funny) 02 - 06Devuan Stable Release -- at Last! - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:10] <exec> 08└─The systemd developers have already released an official statement. [youtube.com]
[07:36:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Devuan Stable Release -- at Last! - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:11] <exec> 08└─Which conference was that recorded at? He does seem a little miffed - it's nice to see something vaguely honest from him after all this time.
[07:36:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nebula Award Winners Announced - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:22] <exec> 08└─Only three ways to say "not a large book"? Surely there are more.
[07:36:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Warship Challenges China's Claims in South China Sea - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:33] <exec> 08└─We all know Trump is a coward. He won't dare do anything to someone who can bite back. He's too chicken shit to nuke China or even pathetic NK. What a pussy! A little pussy-grabbing pussy.
[07:36:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Warship Challenges China's Claims in South China Sea - 810 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:35] <exec> 08└─It used to be that liberals were anti-war and anti-nuke. Last election, we had Hillary Clinton eagerly increasing tension with Russia. They have more nukes than the USA. She was acting like she wanted a war. Here we have a Trump-hater daring Trump to start a couple wars. Eh, probably land wars in As...
[07:37:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03khallow [3766] 02 - 06Science Busts The Biggest Myth Ever About Why Bridges Collapse - 330 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:37:41] <exec> 08└─But it wasn't resonance that brought the bridge down, but rather the self-induced rocking! Without an ability to dissipate its energy, it just kept twisting back-and-forth, and as the twisting continued, it continued to take damage, just as twisting a solid object back-and-forth will weaken it, even...
[07:37:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Science Busts The Biggest Myth Ever About Why Bridges Collapse - 2662 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:37:55] <exec> 08└─Why in the hell isn't this blatantly obvious? Of course it was resonance, energy building up and driven as the bridge "sailed" in the breeze, whipping stronger and stronger as the energy built up. Classical control system theory will give you all the math you need to model it. Its a regenerative o...
[07:37:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Science Busts The Biggest Myth Ever About Why Bridges Collapse - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:37:57] <exec> 08└─I remain convinced, as sure as I am sitting here typing this, that that bridge did indeed fail of aerodynamic flutter driven resonance. Someone else is just trying to rename the phenomenon and siphon off some recognition.
[07:37:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03TGV [2838] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Science Busts The Biggest Myth Ever About Why Bridges Collapse - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:37:59] <exec> 08└─I don't think the article says that. And Wikipedia is not an authoritative source for physics definitions: it's meant to make the topic understandable for laymen. You may be right that there are multiple definitions circulating.
[07:38:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Science Busts The Biggest Myth Ever About Why Bridges Collapse - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:38:01] <exec> 08└─Aerodynamic flutter is not a type of resonance.
[07:38:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ransomware Operators Give Free Decryption to Taiwanese Man - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:38:18] <exec> 08└─I do not think tech - in and of itself - is evil. I find advancement of tech to be our greatest asset as a civilized populace. Tech has greatly relieved us of the tedium of basic life-support functions, which should be leaving us a lot more time for leisure or pondering things of the mind. However,...
[07:39:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Doctor Teaches Children Critical Thinking Skills - 500 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:39:10] <exec> 08└─One of my favorites is an ad going around for a diet pill. You don't have to change anything. Just take our pill and lose 400% more weight! Ummm... If I do not change anything, I do not lose any weight. Zero. Ummm. 400% of zero is... ummm still zero. So they are right. Spend my money for their...
[07:41:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electric Car Sales Up 91% in California Q1 2017 - 2342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:41:20] <exec> 08└─I'm sorry? What makes you think that Europe has smaller commutes than the US? Is this one of those anecdotal things that Americans think are true? Most people who live in London (high population density) has commutes on the order of 20-30 miles too. Round trip, that's 40-60. But there are people who...
[07:44:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kill Google AMP Before It Kills the Web - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:44:36] <exec> 08└─> The problem is you have hordes of idiots.. led by a group of psychopaths. You should set that sentence up as a keyboard macro, because I can imagine it's incredibly useful for almost every story. I might even set it up as my signature, and then just start blank posting!
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[08:36:13] <exec> 08└─The systemd developers have already released an official statement. [youtube.com]
[08:36:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Devuan Stable Release -- at Last! - 1113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:36:15] <exec> 08└─I'm a bit of a fascist when it comes to what I will allow on my computers, and systemd (or even LP himself) is quite literally the nexus of undesirability. So Debian's jump to compulsory systemd meant I did an Ian Jackson (et al.). So I dabbled with Slackware for half a day (they seem to actually re...
[08:36:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Devuan Stable Release -- at Last! - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:36:17] <exec> 08└─Hopefully soon we will see ubuntean, mintean, etc as the good user distros based on debian are ported across.
[08:36:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nebula Award Winners Announced - 1134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:36:29] <exec> 08└─Will a cynical comment do? I've heard the Hugo has been compromised by ballot box stuffing, and has lost a lot of credibility. They couldn't queer the Nebula Award with the same tactics, but recall hearing that it is suspect too, possibly been swung by pressuring and/or bribing committee members. Oh...
[08:36:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nebula Award Winners Announced - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:36:30] <exec> 08└─Flash fiction (also known as short, short stories, micro fiction, or postcard fiction) are stories that take pride in their extreme brevity: some works of flash fiction have only 53 words, while others have 1,000. These works used to be referred to as "short short stories" until around the turn of t...
[08:36:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nebula Award Winners Announced - 1046 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:36:33] <exec> 08└─> Oh well, I've been out of the SF/Fantasy scene long enough that I no longer know what's current there. Most of the authors I used to read are dead or retired. Last year I picked up 5 or 6 novels just because they were shortlisted for some SF/Fantasy award (cant remember if it was Nebula or Hugo or...
[08:36:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nebula Award Winners Announced - 1323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:36:35] <exec> 08└─It is entirely because funding requires a massive ROI to be considered successful, which means catering to the lowest common denominator. That is why pretty much every successful game has turned into a neverending grind where just as you get ahead there is something new to attain. I say this in cont...
[08:36:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06US Warship Challenges China's Claims in South China Sea - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:36:47] <exec> 08└─Yeah, it's like watching two gay men who are in love with each other participate in a fencing match.
[08:36:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Warship Challenges China's Claims in South China Sea - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:36:49] <exec> 08└─I think that AC is being sarcastic/just trolling. Not sure it matters who has more nukes, though. There are enough that all-out nuclear war remains 'infinitely bad'.
[08:37:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rocket Lab Makes Suborbital Launch From New Zealand - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:37:00] <exec> 08└─There is the added advantage of not having to construct, or ship, your payload in, or to, the northern hemisphere. Great, if you're thinking of putting stuff into space and you're already based somewhere south of the equator.
[08:37:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Skirting User Account Control on Windows 10 With fodhelper.exe - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:37:40] <exec> 08└─This is the exhaustive list of trusted binaries in my default Ubuntu setup: *wooooosh* (insert dustball here)
[08:37:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Skirting User Account Control on Windows 10 With fodhelper.exe - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:37:42] <exec> 08└─Do you have a point? ...besides the one on the top of your head? -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[08:37:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Skirting User Account Control on Windows 10 With fodhelper.exe - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:37:44] <exec> 08└─You seem to be missing it, actually.
[08:42:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Will Spend Six Years in Georgia Prison Despite Jury Finding him 'Not Guilty' - 651 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:42:53] <exec> 08└─So you answer is in the absence of evidence then racism? Is that how that works? Because we have NO evidence that it had shit to do with his race, for all we know the judge found out his wife was cheating on him, bashed his hand in a door before getting on the bench, hell he may have stepped in dog...
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[09:36:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03petecox [3228] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Devuan Stable Release -- at Last! - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:28] <exec> 08└─Seems upset that people are still haven't universally adopted Pulseaudio either.
[09:36:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03KritonK [465] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Devuan Stable Release -- at Last! - 1264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:29] <exec> 08└─I tried devuan when it was still in an alpha state, and it didn't seem particularly complete. Regarding systemd, devuan was not completely free of it: it used an emasculated version of systemd, to use the functionality that systemd has subsumed and is not available elsewhere. Some of this functional...
[09:36:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03MadTinfoilHatter [4635] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Devuan Stable Release -- at Last! - 1548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:32] <exec> 08└─As nice as that would be, I doubt it will happen any time soon. Those distros (especially Mint) are too focused on Linux on the desktop - and desktop users tend to simply not care about the init system used. Ubuntu has been making inroads into the server market, but IMHO Shuttleworth has never quite...
[09:36:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Devuan Stable Release -- at Last! - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:34] <exec> 08└─GNOME is tightly dependent on systemd. Let it go. GNOME is gone.
[09:36:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03MadTinfoilHatter [4635] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Devuan Stable Release -- at Last! - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:36] <exec> 08└─I tried devuan when it was still in an alpha state, and it didn't seem particularly complete.
[09:36:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nebula Award Winners Announced - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:52] <exec> 08└─I have seen ghost-towns before. Tumbleweeds and 14-year-olds posting teenage attempts at porn. The mine has run out. I assume you're talking about the SFWA?
[09:37:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Warship Challenges China's Claims in South China Sea - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:37:07] <exec> 08└─Idiot, this isn't about Russia. China isn't even part of the country asia! Typical clueless Trump supporter.
[09:37:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Warship Challenges China's Claims in South China Sea - 845 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:37:09] <exec> 08└─> She was acting like she wanted a war. I missed that. Checking the conservative media, I found the headline: "Hillary Clinton advocates war with Russia." According to the story, what she said was: "I personally would be advocating now for a no-fly zone and humanitarian corridors to try to stop the...
[09:37:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rocket Lab Makes Suborbital Launch From New Zealand - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:37:21] <exec> 08└─According to someone's Web site, 88% of the Earth's people live in the Northern Hemisphere, and a hemisphere centred on New Zealand is less populated than one centred on the South Pole: [...] some of the islands off the coast of New Zealand have only 7.1% of the world’s population living on their...
[09:38:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Skirting User Account Control on Windows 10 With fodhelper.exe - 788 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:38:06] <exec> 08└─They are also worth nothing because they contain nothing. That situation now extends especially to Computer Science degrees. As degree programmes fall to M$, they start churning out fools that know nothing except how to resell M$ products. This has been going on long enough that they are feeding ba...
[09:43:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Will Spend Six Years in Georgia Prison Despite Jury Finding him 'Not Guilty' - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:43:17] <exec> 08└─Yes, interesting non-distinction that is. There used to be a thing called "innocent until proven guilty", which by itself would imply that a "not guilty" verdict should in fact declare a suspect innocent. But no, you hypocrits in the US prefer to ignore such logic inferences and still treat suspects...
[09:43:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple, Verizon Join Forces to Lobby Against New York's 'Right to Repair' Law - 473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:43:49] <exec> 08└─No boycott action is truly meaningless. Not noticeable perhaps, but not meaningless. Deprived of $1 of profit, 1 web page hit, one cpu sale at a time. I avoid halal certified food and shops, if possible. Do they notice? No I sent them a letter to tell them that they lost a sale stating why. No singl...
[09:43:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple, Verizon Join Forces to Lobby Against New York's 'Right to Repair' Law - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:43:50] <exec> 08└─Emulating a sensor as a one off repair is unlikely to be known to the manufacturer or enable any suing.
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[10:36:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03KritonK [465] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Devuan Stable Release -- at Last! - 1335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:36:44] <exec> 08└─Just finished booting devuan 1.0. A quick look at the installed packages shows that there is a libsystemd0 package, containing libsystemd.so.0, so to answer my first question, there do seem to be some systemd dependencies left. Process 1 is init, however, so devuan's only got a bit of systemd in it....
[10:38:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Skirting User Account Control on Windows 10 With fodhelper.exe - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:38:13] <exec> 08└─Yeah, they're called "dead man's handles" for a reason. Having an remote interface sounds utterly retarded, as it's interposing too many layers that could go wrong. Of course, deads man's handles can be defeated with your bag of shopping, if you're a British train-driver (forget if Underground or Br...
[10:38:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Skirting User Account Control on Windows 10 With fodhelper.exe - 666 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:38:14] <exec> 08└─Erm, precisely which of those webcams was a "Linux Server", in particular one run by Google? When idiots build something insecure around MS Windows, it's the idiots' fault. When idiots build something insecure around Linux, it's the idiots' fault. When engineers build something secure around MS Wind...
[10:38:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Skirting User Account Control on Windows 10 With fodhelper.exe - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:38:16] <exec> 08└─For that reason, modern UK trains require the driver to periodically release and re-engage the deadman's switch.
[10:40:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EPA Nixes Chlorpyrifos Ban & Training Rule; Farm Workers Sickened - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:40:44] <exec> 08└─Whereas if you kick all the illegals out of the whole USA, creating a nationwide shortage of pickers, then the price of produce will skyrocket, and wages will increase at least modestly
[10:40:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EPA Nixes Chlorpyrifos Ban & Training Rule; Farm Workers Sickened - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:40:45] <exec> 08└─I'm not entirely convinced you can develop a chemical that's designed to rapidly kill one entire class of life effectively while having zero adverse effects on another species
[10:42:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electric Car Sales Up 91% in California Q1 2017 - 597 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:42:15] <exec> 08└─Note: In the UK overall, around 60% of people commute by car, but in London that's closer to 30%. The majority use some combination of train and tube (RAC survey, 2013 - I suspect car usage has gone down since then, as the congestion charge has gone up). In 2014 the average commute was around 15km...
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[11:36:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Devuan Stable Release -- at Last! - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:36:41] <exec> 08└─My laugh out loud moment came milliseconds after the ALSA line!
[11:36:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Devuan Stable Release -- at Last! - 441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:36:43] <exec> 08└─Uanbuntu, pronounced "1-buntu" would make a good name, I think. But like the other reply I appreciate that devuan is more for people who run headless (i.e. no kbd/screen, not the chicken version of headless). Of the 5 personal linux computers I most often make use of, only 2 have UI I/O (home "deskt...
[11:36:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Devuan Stable Release -- at Last! - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:36:45] <exec> 08└─It has gotten better now that lennart has dropped it and went onto something else, leaving real coders to clean it up. I was a pure alsa supporter till steam came to linux. The niche pulseaudio scratches was sorely needed the only problem was it was first made by a wannabe coder.
[11:36:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03J_Darnley [5679] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Devuan Stable Release -- at Last! - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:36:47] <exec> 08└─> debian > stable In other words it is full of ancient software. Is it just a clone of debian from before the systemd age?
[11:37:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Warship Challenges China's Claims in South China Sea - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:37:20] <exec> 08└─"I'm not bombing you... I'm not bombing you!" "Mom!!!"
[11:37:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rocket Lab Makes Suborbital Launch From New Zealand - 735 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:37:33] <exec> 08└─not facetious at all: http://www.australianmanufacturing.com.au [australianmanufacturing.com.au] http://www.spaceindustry.com.au [spaceindustry.com.au] http://www.acser.unsw.edu.au [unsw.edu.au] https://northamerica.uq.edu.au
[11:44:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Apple, Verizon Join Forces to Lobby Against New York's 'Right to Repair' Law - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:44:09] <exec> 08└─IMSAI 8080? Mine still works... ( last time I checked... several years ago ).
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[12:36:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$500 DJI Spark Drone can Take Off and Land from Your Palm - 1142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:21] <exec> 08└─One thing that makes a "drone like this" safer is that it is so very small and light. Less mass to lift means smaller props that have much lower potential for injury. I purchased a cheap little indigogo drone (specific name withheld to avoid rewarding the maker with any form of advertising), besides...
[12:36:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Devuan Stable Release -- at Last! - 1586 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:51] <exec> 08└─I don't think that there is any *reason* why all the main desktop systems can't work on a Devuan base. Please, explain the reason, if there is any. I've heard second-hand (but I could be wrong) that Gnome 3 had an explicit dependency on systemd, because the Gnome developers wanted it that way. There...
[12:37:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03SixGunMojo [509] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Nebula Award Winners Announced - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:08] <exec> 08└─The inability to censor the truly bad posters, the deplorable expendables, has doomed a bastion of free speech. Oh, the fucking irony.
[12:38:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Skirting User Account Control on Windows 10 With fodhelper.exe - 526 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:38:25] <exec> 08└─I'm not saying it's practical, or even desirable. I am saying: it's easy to make a system secure, it's hard to herd cats, and it's even harder to cater to user's desires without destroying security. Go to "root cause" of most insecure practices and you'll find "convenience" or "ease of use" in the r...
[12:38:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Skirting User Account Control on Windows 10 With fodhelper.exe - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:38:27] <exec> 08└─Push mowers in the US have had "lawyer levers" on them for over a decade now, release the handle and a cable actuated brake stops the spinning blades quickly. Bag of shopping does not defeat the lawyer lever, but wire hanger of clothes, wrapped around the handle, makes a convenient and switchable de...
[12:39:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Science Busts The Biggest Myth Ever About Why Bridges Collapse - 1296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:03] <exec> 08└─Read Von Karman's report if you really want the background (link earlier in this thread). This wasn't the first suspension bridge that galloped. Aeroelasticity was just beginning to be understood in aircraft structures at that time, it was too "advanced" for mere civil engineers designing bridges to...
[12:41:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mission to Metal Asteroid Psyche Moved Up a Year - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:41:31] <exec> 08└─"Move up" means it will occur earlier. Push forward means it will occur later.
[12:42:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electric Car Sales Up 91% in California Q1 2017 - 1449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:29] <exec> 08└─>What you seem to be saying is that California's economy is failing because of concern for the environment, while Michigan's is thriving because of disregard for the environment, and therefore Michigan is a larger market for autos even though it has fewer people. This is what's so great about intern...
[12:44:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Apple, Verizon Join Forces to Lobby Against New York's 'Right to Repair' Law - 1818 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:44:20] <exec> 08└─That's exactly the thing I have helped a few local businesses with around here using these little Arduino-compatible boards I design. I build an industrial version, where I have more noise immunity, and isolated inputs/outputs. I'd love to go into business and sell these things, but frankly, I have...
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[13:36:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Massive DNA Collection Campaign in Xinjiang, China - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:25] <exec> 08└─OMG socialism! Moooooooooooslims! Government DNA collection! Human Rights Watch and Moooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooslims! Tell me what to think, SN!
[13:36:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massive DNA Collection Campaign in Xinjiang, China - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:27] <exec> 08└─All I have is a stupid joke. If you take DNA sampes from every Chinese in China, how much variance is there? Somewhere between zip and zilch. Well, I warned you it was stupid - you didn't have to read it.
[13:36:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vermont Recreational Cannabis Bill Vetoed with Changes Recommended - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:34] <exec> 08└─There are already laws on the books about driving while impaired, etc., regardless of the cause. He wants the State to have a monopoly on producing marijuana.
[13:36:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Vermont Recreational Cannabis Bill Vetoed with Changes Recommended - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:36] <exec> 08└─Though he said he views the issue "through a libertarian lens," Scott vetoed the bill….
[13:36:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$500 DJI Spark Drone can Take Off and Land from Your Palm - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:45] <exec> 08└─i am telling you, once the nano-botz are loose, it is game over... they can go anywhere, do anything, and you won't have a fucking clue... . he who controls the nano-botz, controls the universe...
[13:37:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MadTinfoilHatter [4635] 02 - 06Devuan Stable Release -- at Last! - 93 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:08] <exec> 08└─I tried devuan when it was still in an alpha state, and it didn't seem particularly complete.
[13:37:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Devuan Stable Release -- at Last! - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:15] <exec> 08└─Were you playing your laugh through Pulse rather than Alsa perhaps?
[13:37:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Devuan Stable Release -- at Last! - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:17] <exec> 08└─Two words: systemd dependencies. Actually, add a third word: time. Unravelling and evicting systemd's tendrils takes effort.
[13:37:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nebula Award Winners Announced - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:35] <exec> 08└─Yes, there are very many ways. Hovercraft, mongoose, embryo, traffic warden, God, navy, Tuesday, eel, bohemian earspoon. These things are also not a large book. I could go on.
[13:37:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03mayo2y [6520] (Score: 1) 02 - 06US Warship Challenges China's Claims in South China Sea - 489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:54] <exec> 08└─And here I thought expanding the Spratly Islands and declaring that International Shipping Lanes were part of Chinese Territorial Waters was the quintessential action of someone picking a fight. (Or being an aggressor when sensing weakness). Responding to this action by the Chinese Govt and saying t...
[13:38:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rocket Lab Makes Suborbital Launch From New Zealand - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:08] <exec> 08└─This is counter-balanced by the fact that you'd have to construct or ship your payload to New Zealand. Not a trivial undertaking for most of the world.
[13:38:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rocket Lab Makes Suborbital Launch From New Zealand - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:09] <exec> 08└─Thanks for explaining. I should have remembered Australia; there was a story about it not long ago. /article.pl?sid=17/02/14/1845243 [soylentnews.org]
[13:38:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Skirting User Account Control on Windows 10 With fodhelper.exe - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:59] <exec> 08└─One of these days Windows will finally be ready for the desktop. First off, do NOT run as an Administrator by default.
[13:39:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Skirting User Account Control on Windows 10 With fodhelper.exe - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:01] <exec> 08└─This implies that a bag of shopping is enough - it's probably tha accident I was thinking of as I recognize some of the elements, and it's the right timeframe: http://news.bbc.co.uk
[13:39:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Science Busts The Biggest Myth Ever About Why Bridges Collapse - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:38] <exec> 08└─Narp - for it to be scientific, it would need to be testable and thus falsifiable. He covered his back there by pontificating about something that was destroyed last century.
[13:39:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Science Busts The Biggest Myth Ever About Why Bridges Collapse - 2567 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:40] <exec> 08└─Yes, obviously Wikipedia isn't an "authoritative source for physics definitions." I merely referenced it because it was already in the summary. But that doesn't mean it's wrong either -- it depends on the sources actually used by Wikipedia articles. I would have hoped that you'd just take a moment a...
[13:43:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electric Car Sales Up 91% in California Q1 2017 - 601 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:09] <exec> 08└─We're starting to see announcements that truck EVs are on the way. Tesla is one, I think. I also saw electric delivery vehicles in the Bronx Zoo 5 years ago. I don't travel in trucking circles and have no idea if that was a pilot program or the start of a trend. Lastly I believe I submitted an artic...
[13:43:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electric Car Sales Up 91% in California Q1 2017 - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:10] <exec> 08└─This is what's so great about internet chat boards: people thinking for you - imagining things you would never have dreamed.
[13:43:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electric Car Sales Up 91% in California Q1 2017 - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:12] <exec> 08└─I found a site that says 33,644 EVs (including PHEVs) across the U.S. were sold in the first four months of the year, as compared to 19,934 in the first four months of 2016. https://evobsession.com [evobsession.com] That works out to a 69% increase, but is on...
[13:44:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Will Spend Six Years in Georgia Prison Despite Jury Finding him 'Not Guilty' - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:44:29] <exec> 08└─1) He either did or did not do the crime. The trial-by-jury says that he did not do the crime.
[13:45:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SCOTUS: NC's Gerrymandered Districts are Unconstitutional - 514 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:35] <exec> 08└─The problem, to my mind, is that we have two incompatible metrics of "fairness." (1) One metric says we need "compact" geographic districts, ones that perhaps line up with reasonable political and/or community boundaries, so that a representative is representing a coherent group of people geographic...
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[14:36:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massive DNA Collection Campaign in Xinjiang, China - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:26] <exec> 08└─In my world, "Expansion of police surveillance is expected by any civilized nation," (Sara Katsanis,) is not expected at all. When I read her quote my response was: 1. Strongly Disagree Now perhaps she was just being pragmatic and meant we're all doomed, it's going to happen anyway. Well, back to...
[14:36:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Massive DNA Collection Campaign in Xinjiang, China - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:28] <exec> 08└─What if there are genes that largely distinguish Uighurs from Han? There might be a temptation to create an ethnic bioweapon.
[14:36:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Taibhsear [1464] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massive DNA Collection Campaign in Xinjiang, China - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:30] <exec> 08└─"Expansion of police surveillance is expected by any civilized nation,"
[14:36:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massive DNA Collection Campaign in Xinjiang, China - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:32] <exec> 08└─I had the same reaction. I invite Sara Katsanis and everyone in government and the citizenry who shares her opinions to emigrate to North Korea. The pendulum in America needs to swing back to freedom with a vengeance.
[14:37:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Devuan Stable Release -- at Last! - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:19] <exec> 08└─Oh my god I loved that.
[14:37:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nebula Award Winners Announced - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:39] <exec> 08└─The mine has run out.
[14:37:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03aim [6322] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Nebula Award Winners Announced - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:40] <exec> 08└─I don't have much use for fantasy, even if I did like LOTR or Earthsea. Most of these are fantasy, one steampunk. Only "Arrival" qualifies for science fiction, but it's been a great movie for me. We'll see what the Hugos bring. Any recommendations for recent SF, preferrably hard SF?
[14:37:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03morrowwm [6478] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Nebula Award Winners Announced - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:42] <exec> 08└─I'm currently reading http://www.goodreads.com [goodreads.com] Spin State by Chris Moriarty. Mind-bending extrapolations on quantum mechanics, and a grim but engaging storyline, so far.
[14:38:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rocket Lab Makes Suborbital Launch From New Zealand - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:17] <exec> 08└─What a fascinating retelling of the classic nursery rhyme. But I have a rocket fetish, you insensitive clod!
[14:39:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Skirting User Account Control on Windows 10 With fodhelper.exe - 525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:10] <exec> 08└─Well, UAC has always struck me as adding yourself to the wheel group and setting up sudoers so %wheel can run any command without a password but with the added annoyance of a system modal dialog that interrupts everything you're doing. I set up sudoers like that before on my personal machines, but i...
[14:39:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Science Busts The Biggest Myth Ever About Why Bridges Collapse - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:49] <exec> 08└─But there's a more strict physics definition (really, THE definition) where resonance only occurs when a body is driven to vibrate at its natural frequency by a force that is also driving at that natural frequency.
[14:39:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Science Busts The Biggest Myth Ever About Why Bridges Collapse - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:51] <exec> 08└─Areodynamic flutter is a near-periodic driving force.
[14:39:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Science Busts The Biggest Myth Ever About Why Bridges Collapse - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:53] <exec> 08└─"If the driving frequency is approximately equal to the natural frequency of the system, the system will oscillate with a very large amplitude. ... This phenomenon is called resonance."
[14:39:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Science Busts The Biggest Myth Ever About Why Bridges Collapse - 1318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:55] <exec> 08└─Not seeing the problem with "conventionalist stratagems" (as discussed in the paper linked in your second part) at present. Dark matter and dark energy are modest alterations to current theory to attempt to explain things for which our earlier naive attempts failed. If the approach requires building...
[14:39:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03TGV [2838] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Science Busts The Biggest Myth Ever About Why Bridges Collapse - 579 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:57] <exec> 08└─> If the driving frequency is approximately equal to the natural frequency of the system, the system will oscillate with a very large amplitude But that doesn't imply that the frequencies have to be the same. A square wave would contain many more frequencies and still provoke the same phenomenon. A...
[14:40:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ransomware Operators Give Free Decryption to Taiwanese Man - 484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:16] <exec> 08└─Tech amplifies human nature. A community wants to feed itself, so it invents agriculture. Before you know it (on a geological time scale), they have technology that can do it all for them. Somebody wants to explore, so they domesticate horses and build wagons. Then they build boats. Then they build...
[14:42:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03kaszz [4211] 02 - 06Inquiry: ESA's Schiaparelli Spacecraft was "Ill-Prepared" for Mars Landing Attempt - 1888 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:10] <exec> 08└─In the investigation report. Page 14 "Failure tree" seems almost like a TD;LR.. AOA - Angle Of Attack COG - Center Of Gravity EDM - Entry Demonstration Module FDIR - Failure Detection, Isolation and Recovery GNC - Guidance Navigation and Control IMU - Inertial Measurement Unit IMU Malfunctioning: ...
[14:45:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SCOTUS: NC's Gerrymandered Districts are Unconstitutional - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:54] <exec> 08└─Sure. hexagons would fill areas much more efficiently. My point was not to glorify any particular polygon, but point out that current congressional districts often look more like knotted up pasta than polygons. This is inappropriate in my view.
[14:45:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SCOTUS: NC's Gerrymandered Districts are Unconstitutional - 891 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:55] <exec> 08└─Or you could just go for state-wide proportional representation. I.e.: a party with x% of the vote gets x% of the seats in the house. - No districts so no gerrymandering (no arguing about those) - No arguing about population-to-vote ratio: every vote counts equally throughout the state. - voting for...
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[15:36:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why American Workers Now Dress So Casually - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:31] <exec> 08└─I really must get around to inventing it. And business bagpipes.
[15:36:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Why American Workers Now Dress So Casually - 562 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:33] <exec> 08└─Why workers now dress so casually? Cause they won't do a better job if forced to wear a suit and tie. So they might as well wear what they find comfortable, down to some kind of minimum standard, hence Business Casual. If you work from home what you wear won't even matter. You could work in the nude...
[15:36:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geezer [511] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Why American Workers Now Dress So Casually - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:35] <exec> 08└─As long as they come with business whisky, I'm all for it. Introduce business haggis, and you'll be lunching alone. For. Ever.
[15:36:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Why American Workers Now Dress So Casually - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:37] <exec> 08└─companies are now more results-oriented than process-oriented
[15:36:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why American Workers Now Dress So Casually - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:39] <exec> 08└─All the more haggis for me :-)
[15:36:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why American Workers Now Dress So Casually - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:42] <exec> 08└─I used to work for a once mighty Californian company whose dress code was "You must wear clothes." Apparently some customers came in one day and were offended when they saw a bunch of engineers in the nude sitting in a hot tub in the office.
[15:36:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03SanityCheck [5190] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why American Workers Now Dress So Casually - 668 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:44] <exec> 08└─Actually yes. As a developer my job requires very very intense focus at times. I realized awhile ago that to get the most done I have to ensure all of my body's basic needs are satisfied, and that there is nothing distracting me, such as even mild discomfort. I think that is the underlying reason wh...
[15:36:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Massive DNA Collection Campaign in Xinjiang, China - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:57] <exec> 08└─Or just good old fashioned ethnic cleansing/genocide.
[15:37:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vermont Recreational Cannabis Bill Vetoed with Changes Recommended - 1169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:07] <exec> 08└─> There are already laws on the books about driving while impaired, etc., regardless of the cause. Are there? Seems like an assumption of faith on your part. Why do they do breathalyzers and blood test for alcohol if these generic laws exist? As the NPR article noted, there is not good tech for accu...
[15:37:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Vermont Recreational Cannabis Bill Vetoed with Changes Recommended - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:09] <exec> 08└─How much weed of a known potency do I have to smoke before I become legally impaired?
[15:37:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vermont Recreational Cannabis Bill Vetoed with Changes Recommended - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:11] <exec> 08└─Though he said he views the issue "through a libertarian lens,"
[15:37:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vermont Recreational Cannabis Bill Vetoed with Changes Recommended - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:13] <exec> 08└─Newsflash: No one believes you, douchebag.
[15:37:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03FatPhil [863] 02 - 06Devuan Stable Release -- at Last! - 1113 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:38] <exec> 08└─I'm a bit of a fascist when it comes to what I will allow on my computers, and systemd (or even LP himself) is quite literally the nexus of undesirability. So Debian's jump to compulsory systemd meant I did an Ian Jackson (et al.). So I dabbled with Slackware for half a day (they seem to actually re...
[15:37:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03canopic jug [3949] 02 - 06Devuan Stable Release -- at Last! - 64 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:44] <exec> 08└─GNOME is tightly dependent on systemd. Let it go. GNOME is gone.
[15:37:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03DarkMorph [674] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Devuan Stable Release -- at Last! - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:55] <exec> 08└─distribution of what software can (still) run without systemd?
[15:37:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lester [6231] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Devuan Stable Release -- at Last! - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:57] <exec> 08└─I'm going to repeat what I posted sometime ago [soylentnews.org] For good or bad, systemd is in debian (and linux) to stay. In the middle and long term, software sticking on non-systemd will eventually become unmantained, no matter what Devuan or others do. By the way, I don't like systemd.
[15:38:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nebula Award Winners Announced - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:20] <exec> 08└─Any recommendations for recent SF, preferrably hard SF? Sure! Stick with stuff that's decades old. SF is dead now, along with every other form of entertainment: movies, music, etc. There's a few gems these days, but they're very rare. Game of Thrones is a good example here, but of course that too is...
[15:38:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nebula Award Winners Announced - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:21] <exec> 08└─Recently read Startide Rising on an airplane. Was interesting to see what sentient Dolphins in space would be like. I think it's from late 80's though.
[15:38:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03SanityCheck [5190] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Warship Challenges China's Claims in South China Sea - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:41] <exec> 08└─Just give the man the wheel ffs.
[15:39:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Skirting User Account Control on Windows 10 With fodhelper.exe - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:52] <exec> 08└─Or showing that it actually works.
[15:40:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Science Busts The Biggest Myth Ever About Why Bridges Collapse - 1008 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:37] <exec> 08└─Look, you clearly believe in the "broad" definition of resonance, and now you're trying to twist physics book definitions into saying what you'd like them to say rather than how many physicists actually use the term. Here's a document [aapt.org] with educational materials on the bridge collapse from...
[15:40:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Science Busts The Biggest Myth Ever About Why Bridges Collapse - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:38] <exec> 08└─But that doesn't imply that the frequencies have to be the same. A square wave would contain many more frequencies and still provoke the same phenomenon. A noise source too.
[15:42:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06EPA Nixes Chlorpyrifos Ban & Training Rule; Farm Workers Sickened - 1147 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:06] <exec> 08└─"a pesticide crucial to U.S. agriculture." Crucial. Meaning, without the stuff, we can't grow food? I find that hard to believe. I've never used this stuff, and certainly never studied it. But, when Agri-business says something is "crucial", it usually only means that the stuff is profitable, or mor...
[15:42:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06EPA Nixes Chlorpyrifos Ban & Training Rule; Farm Workers Sickened - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:36] <exec> 08└─It was a single +1 touche mod point. Worry about something serious like drop bears or aliens with anal probes.
[15:42:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06EPA Nixes Chlorpyrifos Ban & Training Rule; Farm Workers Sickened - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:37] <exec> 08└─Maybe it will, but even with the government involved it can take decades to force companies to stop using provably deadly chemicals.
[15:42:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 0, Flamebait) 02 - 06EPA Nixes Chlorpyrifos Ban & Training Rule; Farm Workers Sickened - 523 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:39] <exec> 08└─Funny how nobody intentionally uses unpersuasive arguments when they are trying to persuade. The problem here is that there is a large group of hysterical voters who will react strongly negative to anyone who doesn't lie in the appropriate way. The blunt argument should be more than adequate. It is...
[15:43:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Inquiry: ESA's Schiaparelli Spacecraft was "Ill-Prepared" for Mars Landing Attempt - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:03] <exec> 08└─Make a half dozen or more probes. Launch a couple. Figure out what broke and fix those things on the rest of the probes. Launch a few more. Repeat until you run out of probes. You'll find that fixes more problems than increasing already stringent engineering standards some more.
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[16:36:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Duterte Declares Martial Law in Southern Philippines - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:32] <exec> 08└─Show 'em how it's done and make Allah's Martyrs out of every single one of them. Happy Ramadammadingdong, Abu!
[16:36:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jeremiah Cornelius [2785] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why American Workers Now Dress So Casually - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:47] <exec> 08└─There is no more beautiful object in human creation, than the well-tailored suit.
[16:36:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why American Workers Now Dress So Casually - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:48] <exec> 08└─business bagpipes
[16:36:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dale [539] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why American Workers Now Dress So Casually - 607 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:51] <exec> 08└─The dress code at my employer over the last 15 years has changed radically. We used to have to wear shirt & tie three days a week, business casual thursday, and jeans/polo on Friday. Now it is just jeans & business casual 5 days a week with only shorts and t-shirts not allowed. The driving factor on...
[16:36:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why American Workers Now Dress So Casually - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:53] <exec> 08└─Too bad the business suit was invented by aliens called the Silence.
[16:36:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Why American Workers Now Dress So Casually - 1584 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:55] <exec> 08└─I completely understand that attitude, though here's where I disagree: dress clothes (particularly men's dress clothes) don't ALWAYS have to be uncomfortable. I actually find them more comfortable in many situations unless I'm doing something physically strenuous. (Obviously when it's hot, that's al...
[16:36:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Why American Workers Now Dress So Casually - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:57] <exec> 08└─I could be completely wrong here, but I think one reason men say formal clothing is so uncomfortable is because it's ill-fitting
[16:36:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why American Workers Now Dress So Casually - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:00] <exec> 08└─Barney? Is that you?
[16:37:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jeremiah Cornelius [2785] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06Why American Workers Now Dress So Casually - 1160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:02] <exec> 08└─There's ugliness in the irony which asserts that the pinnacle of personal autonomy is by contradiction, accompanied by assuming the lowest common denominator in dress. What you wear, how you present yourself, demonstrates the regard you hold for others, both their dignity and your own. To be casual...
[16:37:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why American Workers Now Dress So Casually - 2841 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:04] <exec> 08└─I hear this crap about "buying clothes that fit you" and getting your clothes custom-tailored every time these discussions about suits arise. There's a couple of problems with this: 1) I'm not a billionaire, so I don't have money to hire someone to make custom-fit clothes for me. If I can't buy it o...
[16:37:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why American Workers Now Dress So Casually - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:06] <exec> 08└─This again just shows how men's formal clothes are utterly obsolete. Why bother with something where you have to spend a lot of money for something comfortable, when you can easily buy a cheaply made cotton t-shirt and it's very comfortable? Clearly, the materials and styles used in formal wear are...
[16:37:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why American Workers Now Dress So Casually - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:08] <exec> 08└─And since most guys, especially tech-minded guys, don't like to shop for their own clothes, it's a burden removed.
[16:37:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why American Workers Now Dress So Casually - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:11] <exec> 08└─Well they already have UtiliKilts [utilikilts.com] in the Seattle area.
[16:37:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Massive DNA Collection Campaign in Xinjiang, China - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:24] <exec> 08└─Anyway, these people are not Chinese. As one told me, loud enough to get the Chinese to look around and take notice, "I am not Chinese, I am Türk!"
[16:37:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Massive DNA Collection Campaign in Xinjiang, China - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:26] <exec> 08└─Please note Sara Katsanis does not work for government - she is a researcher at Duke. Her specialty, apparently, is about how the genetic technologies are applied and used in formulating policies. I am guessing as part of this she has data to show that authoritarianism is a natural progression at TH...
[16:37:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vermont Recreational Cannabis Bill Vetoed with Changes Recommended - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:40] <exec> 08└─In the United States, we don't (or are not supposed to) value catching 'bad guys' above all else. We have a court system that often lets bad guys get away so that we don't put as many innocents in prison. Likewise, we should not ban (or keep it banned) something merely because 'bad guys' can sometim...
[16:38:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Devuan Stable Release -- at Last! - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:24] <exec> 08└─There's the question of what userland software would even care about the init system. I guess that would be Windoze/Mac skins for the graphical desktop, which I use on only one of my machines. I'm fine with running fvwm on that machine.
[16:38:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Devuan Stable Release -- at Last! - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:25] <exec> 08└─Security patches arrive swiftly, because the repository is backed with debian packages.
[16:40:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Skirting User Account Control on Windows 10 With fodhelper.exe - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:20] <exec> 08└─Yes, indeed, you are correct. I'm certainly showing my age when referring to autoexec.bat.
[16:41:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ransomware Operators Give Free Decryption to Taiwanese Man - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:26] <exec> 08└─Shouldn't there be tools that can analyze read-write patterns of your HD in real time and go "OH SHIT OH SHIT OH SHIT" when they notice your files being rewritten with encrypted versions?
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[17:36:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Duterte Declares Martial Law in Southern Philippines - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:20] <exec> 08└─Come on, Trump! Rodrigo is making the Philippines great again! We want to Make America Great Again, too! Trump! Trump! Trump!
[17:36:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Duterte Declares Martial Law in Southern Philippines - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:22] <exec> 08└─Turkey, Russia, Philippines, US, China, UK ... who's next? We need our critical mass of authoritarians and nationalists, people, or this global war ain't gonna start itself! A bit more effort, we're almost there!
[17:36:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Duterte Declares Martial Law in Southern Philippines - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:24] <exec> 08└─The sad part is I can't tell if this is sarcastic or serious...
[17:36:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why American Workers Now Dress So Casually - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:50] <exec> 08└─If you want to go to extraordinary lengths with your everyday clothing because you like it so much, go right ahead, but asking other people to jump through all these hoops is asinine.
[17:36:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why American Workers Now Dress So Casually - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:52] <exec> 08└─Which more and more americans can't afford to buy due to sinking wages (via inflation).
[17:36:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why American Workers Now Dress So Casually - 581 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:54] <exec> 08└─Also, I'll agree with you that the reasons a lot of stuff exists in formal clothing is now obsolete. For example, people used to button their collars partly because they were in Europe and it was COLD. The neck is a sensitive area, but it's also an area where a lot of body heat can escape. Before th...
[17:36:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why American Workers Now Dress So Casually - 776 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:56] <exec> 08└─Fair enough, but "comfortable" is a matter of taste. I find jeans very comfortable, for example, but it may just be that I am used to them. Maintenance is also a factor. I can wear jeans for 2-3 days, assuming I didn't dump my lunch on them, and they look fine. With dress pants, which I had to wear...
[17:36:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Why American Workers Now Dress So Casually - 3793 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:58] <exec> 08└─Effort. Upkeep. Cost. Status shifts. (1) Cost. People used to invest a lot more of their budgets in clothing, even among lower classes. (Average family budget in 1900 spent ~15% on clothing, still around ~12% in 1950, now that's more like 4%.) Even middle-class folks a few generations ago would freq...
[17:37:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why American Workers Now Dress So Casually - 1104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:01] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I was talking about the buttons on suit jackets there. But the buttons on long sleeve formal shirts suck too; we invented this stuff called "elastic" a long time ago that should have made those obsolete. My long-sleeve cotton casual shirts don't need buttons; I can easily push up the sleeves a...
[17:37:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massive DNA Collection Campaign in Xinjiang, China - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:17] <exec> 08└─The Chinese don't eradicate outright, they dilute. Old comedian talking as a Chinese: the egg has a yellow part and a whiteish part. When you mix the two, the whole thing is yellow.
[17:37:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Massive DNA Collection Campaign in Xinjiang, China - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:18] <exec> 08└─FTS: "Expansion of police surveillance is expected by any civilized nation," says Sara Katsanis What?! Sorry, please justify this statement. Or does the verb "expected" in this context mean "governments of civilized nations have momentum towards increased expansion of police surveillance, so they wo...
[17:37:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Massive DNA Collection Campaign in Xinjiang, China - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:20] <exec> 08└─> ethnic bioweapon. Ethnic sensor would suffice; bioweapons bring international condemnation, guns and clubs don't. "Touch this thumbpad like for insulin measurement please" - 30s later a screen lights up showing ethnic mix, and what level of violence is allowed. Disgusting. And probable near-future...
[17:37:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Massive DNA Collection Campaign in Xinjiang, China - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:23] <exec> 08└─I did mention ethnic cleansing, so I got that covered. But one can't rule out genocide since the Chinese are putting into play a tool that makes that easier and more effective without any sort of institutional safeguards against genocide at the national level (such as democratic elections).
[17:37:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vermont Recreational Cannabis Bill Vetoed with Changes Recommended - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:37] <exec> 08└─fuck your regulation and your government. fuck your slave society. we will have blood or freedom in my lifetime. pick one. you're running out of time.
[17:37:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vermont Recreational Cannabis Bill Vetoed with Changes Recommended - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:39] <exec> 08└─we will have blood or freedom in my lifetime. pick one.
[17:38:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Devuan Stable Release -- at Last! - 3230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:25] <exec> 08└─To cover many of the myths about systemd: http://0pointer.de [0pointer.de] . It is extremely damaging to the Linux ecosystem for people to continue to spout lies about systemd that are not true. Most people when confronted with the facts about systemd and the ben...
[17:38:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Devuan Stable Release -- at Last! - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:26] <exec> 08└─That's all fine except when it takes away choice and the ability to administer/run a system the way you want to. Open, free software is about choice and freedom. Systemd could shit gold bars and I wouldn't want it because...I DON"T WANT IT.
[17:38:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Devuan Stable Release -- at Last! - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:28] <exec> 08└─Devuan Jessie is basically a clone of Debian Jessie. You can upgrade from Debian Wheezy. I don't know what you mean by "ancient software". MVS/TSO? VM/CMS? If by "ancient software" you mean "software from before 2016", then yes, it is full to the brim of that :-)
[17:41:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Science Busts The Biggest Myth Ever About Why Bridges Collapse - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:09] <exec> 08└─True, there are some features similar to resonance: a large periodic motion at one of the natural frequencies of oscillation of the structure, maintained by a relatively small continuously applied source of energy. But true resonance requires the periodic application of a small driving force in sync...
[17:41:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Science Busts The Biggest Myth Ever About Why Bridges Collapse - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:11] <exec> 08└─If you have substantial oscillation at a structure's natural frequency (which is the internal characteristic/behavior I refer to in my parent post), something of the appropriate frequency is driving it. That is the only observation you need to make to confirm resonance though the driver of the reson...
[17:41:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Science Busts The Biggest Myth Ever About Why Bridges Collapse - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:13] <exec> 08└─If you instead drive the system with noise, the system may still oscillate at its natural frequency, but the amplitude magnification effect seen at resonance will not occur.
[17:41:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Science Busts The Biggest Myth Ever About Why Bridges Collapse - 1035 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:15] <exec> 08└─Whatever, man. You can continue to get all hot and bothered because some people (apparently a lot of people who consider themselves professional physicists) use a different definition of resonance than you. Or you can just adopt the laissez-faire attitude I've been trying to espouse: different peopl...
[17:43:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EPA Nixes Chlorpyrifos Ban & Training Rule; Farm Workers Sickened - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:16] <exec> 08└─Because reading the next sentence "(And you can raise tariffs as needed to keep us from buying cheap produce elsewhere.)" would have been too hard?
[17:43:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EPA Nixes Chlorpyrifos Ban & Training Rule; Farm Workers Sickened - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:18] <exec> 08└─if government can't simply force the industry to use a pesticide or other methods that is/are independently tested not to kill all the bees/cause 2nd/3rd generation infertility in humans/animals, infect all natural crops, etc then what the fuck are they good for? of yeah, that's right, they steal to...
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[18:36:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Books Opens in New York City - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:23] <exec> 08└─There are alternatives [ethicalconsumer.org]. Some are even cheaper and they don't treat their staff like dirt [theguardian.com].
[18:36:34] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02 - 06Duterte Declares Martial Law in Southern Philippines - 608 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:34] <exec> 08└─I'd lean towards serious, because the name "ISIS" will basically break some people's brains and they'll instantly drop any facade of supporting democracy or rule of law or even human decency. They can't even fathom that they're supporting someone who is, in pretty much every respect, almost as bad a...
[18:36:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Duterte Declares Martial Law in Southern Philippines - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:36] <exec> 08└─China is kinda unfair to include in that list, because before Jinping Xi, there was another authoritarian technocrat appointed by the Communist Party of China, whose policies were only really distinguishable by name and not form. What's different between "Glorious Harmony" and "great revival of the...
[18:36:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Duterte Declares Martial Law in Southern Philippines - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:38] <exec> 08└─Damn it, don't give him ideas! He can only hold on to two or three at a time, anyway.
[18:36:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Duterte Declares Martial Law in Southern Philippines - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:40] <exec> 08└─I added China when I re-read before posting, because they are poking at their neighbors (and not-so-close ones) on territorial disputes. But yes, their nationalism is not traditionally war-expansionist, as long as you don't live in Lhasa.
[18:36:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Duterte Declares Martial Law in Southern Philippines - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:42] <exec> 08└─Who was it here that was arguing that Republicans (and specifically Trump supporters) are not supporters of authoritarian leaders? Trump congratulated this guy for what he is doing. Duterte is killing for more people than the people he is fighting. I predict that in 10 years, the Philippines will ef...
[18:36:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Duterte Declares Martial Law in Southern Philippines - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:45] <exec> 08└─But yes, their nationalism is not traditionally war-expansionist, as long as you don't live in Lhasa.
[18:36:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Duterte Declares Martial Law in Southern Philippines - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:47] <exec> 08└─Dictators are good for U.S. interests 😎💰💰💰💰
[18:36:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Duterte Declares Martial Law in Southern Philippines - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:49] <exec> 08└─Don't worry. He doesn't listen to ideas unless they come from Fox News. The ideas must fit into 140 characters in order to be important enough to be worthy of his attention.
[18:36:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Duterte Declares Martial Law in Southern Philippines - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:51] <exec> 08└─At least, when the Chinese build a border wall, they tend to stay on their side of it, instead of "settling" the other side anyway. Their recent expansionism has been buying land in cheap fertile places, arguably more civilized than the old tradition of just walking a few million spare citizens into...
[18:36:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Duterte Declares Martial Law in Southern Philippines - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:54] <exec> 08└─this global war ain't gonna start itself!
[18:36:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Duterte Declares Martial Law in Southern Philippines - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:56] <exec> 08└─Who was it here that was arguing that Republicans (and specifically Trump supporters) are not supporters of authoritarian leaders?
[18:37:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] 02 - 06Why American Workers Now Dress So Casually - 3793 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:27] <exec> 08└─Effort. Upkeep. Cost. Status shifts. (1) Cost. People used to invest a lot more of their budgets in clothing, even among lower classes. (Average family budget in 1900 spent ~15% on clothing, still around ~12% in 1950, now that's more like 4%.) Even middle-class folks a few generations ago would freq...
[18:37:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why American Workers Now Dress So Casually - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:29] <exec> 08└─I think you are overinterpreting a bit?
[18:37:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why American Workers Now Dress So Casually - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:31] <exec> 08└─The Silence? What kind of a paranoid loony are you? That's just an old wives tale.
[18:37:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why American Workers Now Dress So Casually - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:33] <exec> 08└─If I am reading this correctly, you are personally offended when someone isn't dressed in a suit? Really?
[18:37:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why American Workers Now Dress So Casually - 866 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:36] <exec> 08└─How does my clothing reflect on you?? If I'm wearing jeans and a t-shirt, it has nothing to do with you or your "dignity." I don't even OWN any shirts other than t-shirts! Why would I want to wear some uncomfortable many-buttoned non-insulative flimsy shirt when I can wear a 5 dollar white tee and j...
[18:37:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why American Workers Now Dress So Casually - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:38] <exec> 08└─Ironing is a pointless chore [soylentnews.org]
[18:37:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why American Workers Now Dress So Casually - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:40] <exec> 08└─Business Shorts. If you wear them *that* short, you can only mean *business* !
[18:37:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why American Workers Now Dress So Casually - 750 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:42] <exec> 08└─I would concur with that. A few jobs back I had to wear suits to work every day. It was a hassle to change out of my bike clothes to the suit (though I did have an office to change in). Once changed, the suits were really comfortable. If you buy suits made with good fabric, they can be more comforta...
[18:37:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why American Workers Now Dress So Casually - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:44] <exec> 08└─"How do you know he's the King?' "He doesn't have shit all over him" Since we now have a president who tapes his tie and shoves other heads of state out of his way to reach the front row, we can say that elegance and formality are on the decline.
[18:37:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why American Workers Now Dress So Casually - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:47] <exec> 08└─What you wear, how you present yourself, demonstrates the regard you hold for others, both their dignity and your own.
[18:38:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massive DNA Collection Campaign in Xinjiang, China - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:06] <exec> 08└─Good quote, huh? We just expect it now. Certainly the U.S. has been amassing a lot of biometric data and DNA samples, so it's no shock to see China doing the same.
[18:38:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vermont Recreational Cannabis Bill Vetoed with Changes Recommended - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:24] <exec> 08└─Hey, if they give him everything he wants and he still wont sign it, then we will know. At least he suggested the changes he'd need to see before he signed it, that suggests that it really might be a procedural issue rather than a fundamental one.
[18:40:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03novak [4683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rocket Lab Makes Suborbital Launch From New Zealand - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:11] <exec> 08└─In fact, it's expensive to launch rockets into orbits whose inclination is less than the latitude of the launch site, which is one reason why commercial satellites tend to get launched near the equator. So there are a lot of orbits for which New Zealand is a *lousy* launch site. It might be OK for c...
[18:41:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Science Busts The Biggest Myth Ever About Why Bridges Collapse - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:58] <exec> 08└─Or you can just adopt the laissez-faire attitude I've been trying to espouse: different people use this term differently. I'm more interested in the physical phenomenon than restricting terms to only one's preferred definition.
[18:45:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electric Car Sales Up 91% in California Q1 2017 - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:38] <exec> 08└─so, 5 percent of 2 million were EVs, the article didn't get into overall US market penetration. Yes, I consider the "Greenest" state going from 2.5% EV to 5% EV insignificant.
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[19:36:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Books Opens in New York City - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:44] <exec> 08└─Will I keep getting chased around by employees trying to sell me the same thing I bought last time I came in? Can I bring another store in and keep switching views to compare? How about shopping naked?
[19:36:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NewNic [6420] 02 - 06Duterte Declares Martial Law in Southern Philippines - 440 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:59] <exec> 08└─Who was it here that was arguing that Republicans (and specifically Trump supporters) are not supporters of authoritarian leaders? Trump congratulated this guy for what he is doing. Duterte is killing for more people than the people he is fighting. I predict that in 10 years, the Philippines will ef...
[19:37:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Duterte Declares Martial Law in Southern Philippines - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:07] <exec> 08└─mental giant [...] These people have the mental capacity of a goldfish. I take that back. It's an insult to goldfish.
[19:37:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Duterte Declares Martial Law in Southern Philippines - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:09] <exec> 08└─Dictators are good for U.S. interests
[19:37:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Duterte Declares Martial Law in Southern Philippines - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:11] <exec> 08└─No. Only ad hominem arguments do. Thank you for asking, however.
[19:37:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Duterte Declares Martial Law in Southern Philippines - 1381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:13] <exec> 08└─Trump is a piece of shit that won't live 10 years more though. He's highly irrational, permanently irritable, which translates into very high levels of stress, and it's all combined with an atrocious diet. The only thing we ever got about his health were lies from a doctor that looks and acts like a...
[19:37:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why American Workers Now Dress So Casually - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:56] <exec> 08└─There is no more beautiful object in human creation, than the well-tailored suit.
[19:37:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why American Workers Now Dress So Casually - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:57] <exec> 08└─There's ugliness in the irony which asserts that the pinnacle of personal autonomy is by contradiction, accompanied by assuming the lowest common denominator in dress.
[19:37:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Why American Workers Now Dress So Casually - 4420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:59] <exec> 08└─I'm old, and I joined the workforce when the *corporate* (read big companies) world still required formal dress of their employees. For the first five years of my adult working life, I worked for small companies which preferred that you maintain a certain level of personal hygiene, but weren't so pa...
[19:38:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why American Workers Now Dress So Casually - 1165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:01] <exec> 08└─While the result seems to be what you say - a decline in the value of mutuality - I don't think that was the driving goal behind business casual. It's not that people didn't like conforming to the office. It's that people didn't like confirming to the same boring, elitist style as everyone else, und...
[19:38:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why American Workers Now Dress So Casually - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:03] <exec> 08└─And what's with those stupid buttons on the sleeves anyway? Idiotic adornments for no real purpose.
[19:38:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart9h [767] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Distro Watch for Ubuntu Lovers: What's Ahead in Linux Land - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:58] <exec> 08└─Ubuntu helped a lot to make "Linux Desktop" happen to the masses. It was the first time an average user could install and use Linux, and that was really some progress that we should be thankful for. Naturally, it derailed and became irrelevant. But it has done it's deed, and can now rest in peace.
[19:39:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart9h [767] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Devuan Stable Release -- at Last! - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:32] <exec> 08└─I've been using it on my desktop since Alpha 1, and never had a problem. Then again, my desktop environment of choice is MATE.
[19:39:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Devuan Stable Release -- at Last! - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:33] <exec> 08└─> The closest thing to a mainstream distro sans systemd that you're likely to see for a long time is Devuan Check out AntiX, void, and LMDE...
[19:39:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Devuan Stable Release -- at Last! - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:35] <exec> 08└─Uh, how is this spam? Has SN fallen so low as to Spam-mod anything that goes against the echo chamber?
[19:39:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nebula Award Winners Announced - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:59] <exec> 08└─Science Fiction isn't dead. Just look at stories like "The Martian." I'll agree that it's less common than in the past, though. It's just like how the "Mystery" genre has evolved away from having... you know... mysteries in them.
[19:42:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Science Busts The Biggest Myth Ever About Why Bridges Collapse - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:25] <exec> 08└─You are talking about something completely different. My question is: What kind of scientists wouldn't be interested in that mass-discrepancy vs acceleration relationship in the figure to the point where it is not shown to students? That is a key piece of info about the dark matter issue, so ignorin...
[19:42:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ransomware Operators Give Free Decryption to Taiwanese Man - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:46] <exec> 08└─I think the point is that ransomware authors provide better customer service than most "legitimate" companies like banks, ISPs, etc.
[19:44:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EPA Nixes Chlorpyrifos Ban & Training Rule; Farm Workers Sickened - 1437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:29] <exec> 08└─It's so interesting that everybody wants to kick the shit out of the illegals for "causing" problems, but nobody wants to kick the shit out of the Owning Class and the avaricious mother fuckers that cause all of this in the first place. The executives are the real enemy here. Not some poor brown peo...
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[20:36:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 10 China Government Edition Launched - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:22] <exec> 08└─This version supposedly boasts bespoke high security for the government and stated-owned entities, while retaining the defining features of Windows 10.
[20:36:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 10 China Government Edition Launched - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:23] <exec> 08└─Nice start but if you really want to screwup the Chinese give the Powerpoint.
[20:36:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 10 China Government Edition Launched - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:26] <exec> 08└─One would think all those "telemetry features" are still in there, they just added a CC in the report function to send it to the Chinese.
[20:36:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 10 China Government Edition Launched - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:28] <exec> 08└─Why wouldn't China just make its own State-owned OS, probably Linux-based? Is there an annual LAN party amongst the Politburo?
[20:36:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 10 China Government Edition Launched - 802 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:30] <exec> 08└─It's a good question: why would China want to trust their government secrets to an OS made by an American company with strong ties to the NSA? My theory: humans are generally incompetent. As you say, a Linux-based OS would make a lot more sense for them, and for any country's government really, sinc...
[20:36:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 10 China Government Edition Launched - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:32] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_Kylin [wikipedia.org] In 2013, Canonical reached an agreement with the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the People's Republic of China to co-create and release a Ubuntu-based OS with features targeted at the Chinese market.
[20:36:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03turgid [4318] 02 - 06Amazon Books Opens in New York City - 129 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:40] <exec> 08└─There are alternatives [ethicalconsumer.org]. Some are even cheaper and they don't treat their staff like dirt [theguardian.com].
[20:36:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Books Opens in New York City - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:43] <exec> 08└─How about shopping naked?
[20:36:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Books Opens in New York City - 512 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:45] <exec> 08└─Yep. Why reward Amazon for killing the small mom & pop book shops, or reward them for treating workers like crap, or reward them by loss leading others into the gutter. Buying Amazon does not help the American worker, does not help your communities, and only enables the billionaire Owning class to k...
[20:37:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Duterte Declares Martial Law in Southern Philippines - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:12] <exec> 08└─Hey, if Grace Mugabe [wikipedia.org] publicly stated: "Robert Mugabe can continue to govern even after he's dead!", then I'm sure that the Disney animatronics magicians can create a good simulacrum for America's Numero Uno! Nobody'd spot the difference and live.
[20:37:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Duterte Declares Martial Law in Southern Philippines - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:13] <exec> 08└─At least, when the Chinese build a border wall, they tend to stay on their side of it, instead of "settling" the other side anyway.
[20:37:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Duterte Declares Martial Law in Southern Philippines - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:15] <exec> 08└─Well, naming yourself after an Egyptian goddess is a bit of a giveaway, and renaming yourself after the 'net notice that is a bigger giveaway.
[20:37:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Duterte Declares Martial Law in Southern Philippines - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:18] <exec> 08└─Sorry where's the problem again? There's a conveniently destabilized region that the Military Industrial Complex can make lots of money from.
[20:37:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02 - 06Why American Workers Now Dress So Casually - 2841 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:41] <exec> 08└─I hear this crap about "buying clothes that fit you" and getting your clothes custom-tailored every time these discussions about suits arise. There's a couple of problems with this: 1) I'm not a billionaire, so I don't have money to hire someone to make custom-fit clothes for me. If I can't buy it o...
[20:38:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why American Workers Now Dress So Casually - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:05] <exec> 08└─What you wear, how you present yourself, can also demonstrate how you want to impress upon others how you are somehow better than they are. More important, etc.
[20:38:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why American Workers Now Dress So Casually - 558 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:06] <exec> 08└─Where I started, in '82, it was suits and ties for software developers. (Called "programmers" at the time.) (That's nineteen eighty two) By '84 it was blue jeans and polo shirts. By '87 it was blue jeans and t-shirts. And everyone wore the same. Higher level people would wear a suit on days when the...
[20:38:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jeremiah Cornelius [2785] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why American Workers Now Dress So Casually - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:09] <exec> 08└─Yeah, the Firth does have it's engineering contender to Brummel's neck-cloth. I'll gi' ye that.
[20:38:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03mechanicjay [7] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why American Workers Now Dress So Casually - 1316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:11] <exec> 08└─Subject is a bit of joke, but one of my casual interests is men's fashion over time. In the discussion of the general societal move (not just in the workplace) from formal -> casual dress, the Leisure Suit is actually a very interesting concept that ultimately dead-ended. I've worn regular suits, m...
[20:38:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why American Workers Now Dress So Casually - 1165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:13] <exec> 08└─While the result seems to be what you say - a decline in the value of mutuality - I don't think that was the driving goal behind business casual. It's not that people didn't like conforming to the office. It's that people didn't like confirming to the same boring, elitist style as everyone else, und...
[20:38:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03http [1920] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why American Workers Now Dress So Casually - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:15] <exec> 08└─I'm not buying the assertion that office casual is "the most radical shift in dress standards in human history". Especially when the article provides no citation, or even a suggestion of what could be in second place.
[20:38:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why American Workers Now Dress So Casually - 1408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:17] <exec> 08└─Can't agree. I wore multiple uniforms in my life, including military, and at times the full corporate monkey suit including a tie. Maintenance-wise, the monkey suit is expensive. Comfort-wise it sucks any time you're not just sitting at a table chit-chatting, because woven fabrics have less flex tha...
[20:38:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why American Workers Now Dress So Casually - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:20] <exec> 08└─I agree. What about Meiji-era Japan, and the modernisations?
[20:38:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why American Workers Now Dress So Casually - 686 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:22] <exec> 08└─We may just have a different POV on this. People who dress in a suit and tie, to me, signals that they are inferior and don't know it. It is a prejudice. A learned one. I don't feel inferior in the least. I am quite confident in the work I do and my ability to do it. I am also quite confident in the...
[20:38:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why American Workers Now Dress So Casually - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:24] <exec> 08└─And you'll be just as ridiculous as a 70's disco pimp. Them Nikes got platforms, bro? Get down!
[20:39:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Devuan Stable Release -- at Last! - 712 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:52] <exec> 08└─You forgot the flip side? the guys behind the adoption of systemd will never release the definitive systemd. It would be pointless to do so. It will always remain in a state of flux, as declared (see Lennart's homepage) and so you will have the wonderful world of windows back, with incompatibilities...
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[21:36:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Can the Government Keep Secrets in the Age of WikiLeaks and Shadow Brokers? - 498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:18] <exec> 08└─Secrets are for "private" individuals conducting private business. The Government has secrets, because it is engaged in "private" business, which it shouldn't be. If there is to be a government, its sole purpose should be to enforce the "private" contracts to which "private" individuals have agreed,...
[21:36:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06Can the Government Keep Secrets in the Age of WikiLeaks and Shadow Brokers? - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:19] <exec> 08└─President Pull-My-Finger just tells the Ruskies himself.
[21:36:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Can the Government Keep Secrets in the Age of WikiLeaks and Shadow Brokers? - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:22] <exec> 08└─"People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people."
[21:36:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Can the Government Keep Secrets in the Age of WikiLeaks and Shadow Brokers? - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:24] <exec> 08└─So......what you're saying is that government is a violently imposed contract?
[21:36:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Can the Government Keep Secrets in the Age of WikiLeaks and Shadow Brokers? - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:26] <exec> 08└─Why should "private" individuals keeping secrets? If they have nothing to hide, then they have nothing to fear.
[21:36:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can the Government Keep Secrets in the Age of WikiLeaks and Shadow Brokers? - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:28] <exec> 08└─why bother keeping things secret when you can just Baffle 'em With BS and Flood 'em With Fakenews...
[21:36:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can the Government Keep Secrets in the Age of WikiLeaks and Shadow Brokers? - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:30] <exec> 08└─Yup, the Home Of The Brave has it backwards. Gerrymandering and corruption, who gives a [bleep] about the People?
[21:36:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03DrkShadow [1404] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Can the Government Keep Secrets in the Age of WikiLeaks and Shadow Brokers? - 678 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:33] <exec> 08└─Imagine you're in a trade situation, trying to get the best deal for your people, and the other side is doing the same. Would you want to give the other side all the info on what you're _capable_ of providing, especially when you won't necessarily get the same back from them? Suppose you're the pres...
[21:36:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can the Government Keep Secrets in the Age of WikiLeaks and Shadow Brokers? - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:35] <exec> 08└─Home of the sold out, land of the surveillanced? ;-)
[21:36:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 10 China Government Edition Launched - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:48] <exec> 08└─A Red Screen Of Death so it matches their flag, special low level drivers to keep webcams and microphones active, keylogging, and a hidden ethernet connection that won't trigger modem lights or be detected as traffic. Oh wait... the only difference is the RSOD.
[21:36:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 10 China Government Edition Launched - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:49] <exec> 08└─... that when humanity finally achieves civilization (advanced or otherwise), it won't involve any government.
[21:36:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 10 China Government Edition Launched - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:52] <exec> 08└─Another notable example was Red Flag Linux. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[21:36:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 10 China Government Edition Launched - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:54] <exec> 08└─My theory is that they have a few million machines running this version of Windows which Trumppence and the useful idiots will monitor remotely. Meanwhile, they'll be doing their real work on proper computers.
[21:36:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 10 China Government Edition Launched - 496 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:56] <exec> 08└─I'm sorry, that's ridiculous. It sounds nice, and shows you have a real hope for humanity, but it's just ridiculous, like any conspiracy theory: for it to be true, it requires a level of complexity and coordination between people and competence that simply is not realistic in the real world. Occam's...
[21:36:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 10 China Government Edition Launched - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:58] <exec> 08└─Don't burst my delicate little bubble. I still live in the hope that the human race might escape from this rock and form self-sustaining colonies off planet. It's not looking good, is it?
[21:37:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Books Opens in New York City - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:09] <exec> 08└─I dunno... is it 'SuperBob', as in Blackadder's Bob, or is it 'Bob' as in "It will put the lotion on it's penis or it will get the hose again" Bob. If it's Blackadder's Bob, okay. If not...... nuh uh!
[21:37:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Duterte Declares Martial Law in Southern Philippines - 661 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:40] <exec> 08└─The shah was already in power; the U.S. didn't install shit.* Their government was falling apart due to the British being dicks about oil. Go back and read the history. Then in the revolution years later, the guy who came out on top promised democracy and then "oops backsies we're a theocracy now."...
[21:37:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Duterte Declares Martial Law in Southern Philippines - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:42] <exec> 08└─"A police chief Duterte claimed was beheaded in Marawi siege says he's safe" Malabang Police chief Romeo Enriquez told The Associated Press on Friday that he is fine. He added that there might have been confusion because a former Malabang police chief was killed in the fighting—but he was not behe...
[21:38:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why American Workers Now Dress So Casually - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:39] <exec> 08└─... because I can't get any work done if I don't.
[21:38:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why American Workers Now Dress So Casually - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:41] <exec> 08└─It may mean something different to you, but I think this POV is a small minority. Or, it is the suit's POV, from, as I said, a whole different world than the nerds live in.
[21:39:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Massive DNA Collection Campaign in Xinjiang, China - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:03] <exec> 08└─“Those who are willing to surrender their freedom for security have always demanded that if they give up their full freedom it should also be taken from those not prepared to do so.” - Friedrich Hayek
[21:39:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vermont Recreational Cannabis Bill Vetoed with Changes Recommended - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:21] <exec> 08└─That's true. But when it comes to bombing bad guys in other countries, there's no limit on the number of good guys we can incidentally sentence to death. I imagine their friends and relatives don't mind that. We just need to keep bombing and kill the last remaining bad guys. Only been 16 years now,...
[21:39:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vermont Recreational Cannabis Bill Vetoed with Changes Recommended - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:23] <exec> 08└─Let me guess... World peace? Balanced budget? Second coming of Christ? And THEN he'll be happy to sign that bill, if it includes budget for a new Governor's mansion.
[21:39:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Distro Watch for Ubuntu Lovers: What's Ahead in Linux Land - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:41] <exec> 08└─Si if it's derailed, surely you can point to something that is both 'on track' and worthy of recommendation...? Or to put it another way, how best should the masses now install linux?
[21:39:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03KiloByte [375] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Distro Watch for Ubuntu Lovers: What's Ahead in Linux Land - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:43] <exec> 08└─Is it not? It's sad to see a distribution get infected first with systemd then with Gnome3.
[21:40:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Devuan Stable Release -- at Last! - 563 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:20] <exec> 08└─Making programs dependent on a specific init system doesn't make the OS more modular. Exactly the opposite. Now you can't replace the init system of your OS without replacing all those other programs that depend on it. Linux typically has very loosely coupled components so that any single part can...
[21:40:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Devuan Stable Release -- at Last! - 465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:22] <exec> 08└─Ha, wake up if you haven't realized this for, like, FOREVER! I'm one with a few "crazy" thoughts around here, like that maybe Snowden's shit actually does stink a little, or the vast overwhelming number of police officers are decent people who are trying to serve the public well, so I guess I've bee...
[21:43:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Science Busts The Biggest Myth Ever About Why Bridges Collapse - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:43:11] <exec> 08└─My question is: What kind of scientists wouldn't be interested in that mass-discrepancy vs acceleration relationship in the figure to the point where it is not shown to students?
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[22:36:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03turgid [4318] 02 - 06Can the Government Keep Secrets in the Age of WikiLeaks and Shadow Brokers? - 56 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:24] <exec> 08└─President Pull-My-Finger just tells the Ruskies himself.
[22:36:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Can the Government Keep Secrets in the Age of WikiLeaks and Shadow Brokers? - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:33] <exec> 08└─That's when the troll should realize that his shtick has jumped the shark: when others start trolling his trolls.
[22:36:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can the Government Keep Secrets in the Age of WikiLeaks and Shadow Brokers? - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:35] <exec> 08└─All this 3 million illegal votes stuff and we're not even talking about Roswell.
[22:36:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Can the Government Keep Secrets in the Age of WikiLeaks and Shadow Brokers? - 733 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:37] <exec> 08└─Sure, you can keep secrets. But to do so you'll need to do what the Russians are doing: Use paper, use well-tried protocols for protecting said papers, and keep shit off the internet. Restrict where you can carry electronic devices (hint, nowhere near secret papers). Stop using digital media for rea...
[22:36:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can the Government Keep Secrets in the Age of WikiLeaks and Shadow Brokers? - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:39] <exec> 08└─Toe to toe with the Ruskies! [youtube.com] ;-)
[22:36:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can the Government Keep Secrets in the Age of WikiLeaks and Shadow Brokers? - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:41] <exec> 08└─That has been found to be rubbish by most security experts. It's not if you think it's alright or if the written law says you have been a good citizen. But if the largest power in the country identifies an opportunity to gain something from your misfortune. And this will be done regardless of any la...
[22:36:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Can the Government Keep Secrets in the Age of WikiLeaks and Shadow Brokers? - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:43] <exec> 08└─Alternatively, use Windows 10 China govt edition [soylentnews.org].
[22:36:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Can the Government Keep Secrets in the Age of WikiLeaks and Shadow Brokers? - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:46] <exec> 08└─I'll bet they keep those 3 million illegal voters in Area 51!
[22:36:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Can the Government Keep Secrets in the Age of WikiLeaks and Shadow Brokers? - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:48] <exec> 08└─So, when they say "illegal aliens" they *really* mean it? ;)
[22:36:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Can the Government Keep Secrets in the Age of WikiLeaks and Shadow Brokers? - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:50] <exec> 08└─You forgot one step: Only classify what's absolutely necessary. The sheer volume of crap being classified every single day is enemy number one. I'd take a bet that well over 90% does not need to be classified. Keep the secrets small, and they become a lot more manageable for safe storage and access.
[22:36:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Can the Government Keep Secrets in the Age of WikiLeaks and Shadow Brokers? - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:52] <exec> 08└─The problem isn't that the government is violating citizens' privacy on a massive scale and creating a situation where democracy is in danger; the problem is with those evil whistleblowers who blow the whistle when the government does something wrong or when the information is valuable to the public...
[22:37:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 10 China Government Edition Launched - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:11] <exec> 08└─No, it really isn't. Sorry. The best I can tell you is that my personal theory is that we're in the parallel universe where humans are incompetent fuck-ups and will soon drive ourselves to extinction, but somewhere out there there's at least one parallel universe where humans did better, avoided som...
[22:37:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Windows 10 China Government Edition Launched - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:13] <exec> 08└─If anyone finds a copy of this Chinese Microsoft Windows 10. It might be a really good idea to grab a copy. Because it will most likely lack US telemetry, and not have Chinese either.
[22:37:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 10 China Government Edition Launched - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:15] <exec> 08└─a hidden ethernet connection that won't trigger modem lights or be detected as traffic
[22:37:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Duterte Declares Martial Law in Southern Philippines - 537 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:58] <exec> 08└─> Their government was falling apart due to the British being dicks about oil. Yes, exactly: the British feared that Iran's oil industry would be nationalised, and decided to destabilise Mr. Mossadegh's government to prevent that. From your linked Wikipedia article: Abrahamian wrote, "If Mosaddegh h...
[22:37:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Duterte Declares Martial Law in Southern Philippines - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:59] <exec> 08└─Oh, God... I just had a vision of a dystopia, set hundreds of years in the future, where an authoritarian class rules using the remains of a 75ft tall animatronic Trump that rises from a swamp in the remains of Universal Studios. Angry as ever, but now with Gollum-like features :)
[22:38:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TheRaven [270] 02 - 06Why American Workers Now Dress So Casually - 128 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:21] <exec> 08└─I could be completely wrong here, but I think one reason men say formal clothing is so uncomfortable is because it's ill-fitting
[22:39:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why American Workers Now Dress So Casually - 934 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:00] <exec> 08└─A big part of it is simple practicality. Unless it is a quite expensive tailored suit, it will be restrictive, hot, and uncomfortable. You certainly won't want to do any physical labor in one, not even moving boxes around in an office. It has it's origins in a day when it was very defiantly meant to...
[22:39:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03pnkwarhall [4558] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why American Workers Now Dress So Casually - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:02] <exec> 08└─Social conventions aren't "pointless". Whether or not you agree with them is irrelevant--there's still a point.
[22:39:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why American Workers Now Dress So Casually - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:04] <exec> 08└─I'm sorry. My heart goes out to you.
[22:39:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why American Workers Now Dress So Casually - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:06] <exec> 08└─That is a lot of the problem. It is a style that MUST be tailored if it is to be comfortable. Some people can get by with off the rack if they are close enough to average in all dimensions, but others will never be comfortable or even able to move freely with something off the rack. More casual styl...
[22:39:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Massive DNA Collection Campaign in Xinjiang, China - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:28] <exec> 08└─Runaway's Chinese education is still failing. He's just an American racist, like the guys in another era who beat up a Chinese American in Detroit because the Japanese were taking American automotive industry jobs by building better cars. Racists. Their jokes are not funny.
[22:40:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Devuan Stable Release -- at Last! - 1970 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:40:47] <exec> 08└─Probably because it looks so cut/paste from a pro RedHat OS blog instead of actual original content? The objection is not just to systemd, it is the preference to stay on the UNIX side of the fork. RedHat and Pottering are building an entirely new OS atop the Linux kernel that differs from UNIX as m...
[22:40:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Devuan Stable Release -- at Last! - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:40:49] <exec> 08└─Oh ffs! That same tired "biggest myths" link that the pro-systemd trolls have been posting since it was written four year ago. There's NOTHING in that piece of flaming bullshit that hasn't been debunked 1000 times over. Give it a rest. Good to hear about Devuan. Happily still using Gentoo here.
[22:41:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nebula Award Winners Announced - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:15] <exec> 08└─Someone (I forget who) remarked that we tend to forget the dreck of the distant past, while noticing current dreck. Besides that, we probably tend to preserve the best works of the past and discard the dreck.
[22:41:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Warship Challenges China's Claims in South China Sea - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:36] <exec> 08└─Yes it's just like that, except with navies instead of swords.
[22:44:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Doctor Teaches Children Critical Thinking Skills - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:55] <exec> 08└─Cell division is necessary for the process of life. A substance like Aflatoxin would not be necessary for the function. Colon cancer is one result of too much exposure (like eating spoiled food).
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[23:36:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vermont DMV Caught Illegally Using Facial Recognition Program - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:13] <exec> 08└─The state's governor vetoed a bill about cannabis, ostensibly "due to concerns about detecting and penalizing impaired drivers" among other reasons. /article.pl?sid=17/05/25/2234218 [soylentnews.org]
[23:36:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can the Government Keep Secrets in the Age of WikiLeaks and Shadow Brokers? - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:40] <exec> 08└─"whoosh" ....
[23:36:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Can the Government Keep Secrets in the Age of WikiLeaks and Shadow Brokers? - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:41] <exec> 08└─As OP clearly said: 'The Government has secrets, because it is engaged in "private" business, which it shouldn't be.' Just as there is separation of church and state, there should probably also be a separation of business and state; as the OP suggests, if there must be a government, its role in soci...
[23:37:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 10 China Government Edition Launched - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:04] <exec> 08└─keep webcams and microphones active, keylogging
[23:37:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 10 China Government Edition Launched - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:05] <exec> 08└─China does not want people running Linux as they won't have control over the logging, encryption, etc, or certainly not as much control. With the modified version of Windows, they have a back door into every machine, pretty much guaranteed.
[23:37:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Duterte Declares Martial Law in Southern Philippines - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:52] <exec> 08└─These "ISIS" are scum and doesn't belong in a civilized society. Instead they do anything to attack decent people and because of that the number of people that want to treat them decently declines rapidly. Now even whole countries turn on them.
[23:37:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Duterte Declares Martial Law in Southern Philippines - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:53] <exec> 08└─China is kinda unfair to include in that list, because before Jinping Xi, there was another authoritarian technocrat appointed by the Communist Party of China, whose policies were only really distinguishable by name and not form.
[23:37:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Duterte Declares Martial Law in Southern Philippines - 738 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:55] <exec> 08└─Dutuerte is from Mindanao. He made his bones as a mini-authoritarian running the region, frequently in conflict with these same muslim rebels. Who themselves have been fighting against the government since decades before Marcos was kicked out. They pretty much want their own self-governing country b...
[23:38:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why American Workers Now Dress So Casually - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:00] <exec> 08└─Stuffy ass DC paper acting like forced evolution due to practicality was the result of other stuffy ass companies Disrupting The Paradigm(TM) And in Silicon Valley in the mid-1980s, the people weren’t interested in adhering to old norms.
[23:39:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why American Workers Now Dress So Casually - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:01] <exec> 08└─So, naked?
[23:39:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why American Workers Now Dress So Casually - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:03] <exec> 08└─Like twitter shoes? "just put down left feet", "just put down right feet", Think of the amazingly active twittictivity!
[23:39:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why American Workers Now Dress So Casually - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:05] <exec> 08└─So in other words, people who dress formally show their respect towards me by dressing up in a way that I find intimidating and unnatural. Gee.. thanks, I guess?
[23:39:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vermont Recreational Cannabis Bill Vetoed with Changes Recommended - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:47] <exec> 08└─Enjoy being a slave to Facebook, Google, and Neo-Tobacco because Freedom!
[23:40:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Devuan Stable Release -- at Last! - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:47] <exec> 08└─I tried devuan when it was still in an alpha state, and it didn't seem particularly complete.
[23:43:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Science Busts The Biggest Myth Ever About Why Bridges Collapse - 498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:43:40] <exec> 08└─It isn't that it is important to MOND, MOND is irrelevant to it's importance. It is an apparently universal property of whatever is causing the "dark matter" problem. Universal properties of phenomena are important and need to be taught to people who go to grad school for that topic. It is really si...
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