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[00:31:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Inside Walt Mossberg's Gadget Museum - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:31:47] <exec> 08└─yeah that guy... the fact he got replaced by farhad manjoo at the NYT pretty much summed up why i don't read tech stuff in major publications. enthusiast users in a world of wizards, helping people consume more products.
[00:31:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PC, Ethernet, and Tablet Computer Pioneer Chuck Thacker Passes - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:31:59] <exec> 08└─Isn't worthy enough to eat Chuck's shit.
[00:32:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PC, Ethernet, and Tablet Computer Pioneer Chuck Thacker Passes - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:32:01] <exec> 08└─Chuck is dead meat now, Fuckerberg can eat him for real.
[00:32:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Nerdfest [80] 02 - 06Germany Considering Fingerprinting Children and Spying on Personal Comm - 259 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:32:22] <exec> 08└─Fascism is the new black. The US, UK, Germany, once considered bastions of freedom, are tossing their freedoms because of media and government spread fear. I would have thought these countries in particular would have a better memory about why this is so bad.
[00:32:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Germany Considering Fingerprinting Children and Spying on Personal Comm - 2119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:00] <exec> 08└─> That is the entire point of the EU. Same deal in the US with states vs. federal. How can the feds dictate some things to the states? Cause that is the point! Um, no. The point of the EU is the exact opposite. It is not meant to be a federation like the USA is. EU members are not states like in the...
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[00:33:01] <exec> 08└─> So Germany will no doubt force Poland and other Eastern European countries to also PAY these fucking parasites money equivalent to benefits they would get in Germany, which is MULTIPLES of what a person who actually works in these countries makes! Germany can get fucked. Will Germany get fucked th...
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[00:33:03] <exec> 08└─They are deliberately creating the conditions that will necessitate a totalitarian state.
[00:33:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Germany Considering Fingerprinting Children and Spying on Personal Comm - 601 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:05] <exec> 08└─The part that always makes me smile wryly is that the ones building out this system and enabling it always think that it doesn't apply to them, as if they are disembodied spirits with no physical form that cannot be tracked. They are few, and they can be tracked, and they rely on thousands of us eve...
[00:33:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Germany Considering Fingerprinting Children and Spying on Personal Comm - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:08] <exec> 08└─I would have thought the Germans of all people, know about this kind of thing, and would try to walk the same path again
[00:33:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Germany Considering Fingerprinting Children and Spying on Personal Comm - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:10] <exec> 08└─That is the entire point of the EU. Same deal in the US with states vs. federal. How can the feds dictate some things to the states? Cause that is the point!
[00:33:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More "Cracked" Ultra HD Blu-ray Releases Appear Online - 569 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:28] <exec> 08└─At first glance the 50-100GB for a movie is a bit of a turnoff, or a form of protection on its own. That said if you sit on a nice connection and have a couple of TB worth of drivespace then this is nothing. There are always people that are going to feel like this is totally worth it and that they c...
[00:33:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More "Cracked" Ultra HD Blu-ray Releases Appear Online - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:30] <exec> 08└─But wait, They weren't shot in 4k originally. So they are essentially packaging "film grain" at this point.
[00:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft AI Achieves Perfect Ms. Pac-Man Score - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:00] <exec> 08└─Damn. I wasn't expecting a serious answer. I was just trying to make a funny in combo with the other news, a few stories down from this one, about how the Secret Service is going to relax about regarding stoners applying for a job.
[00:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03KGIII [5261] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft AI Achieves Perfect Ms. Pac-Man Score - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:01] <exec> 08└─I am always serious! (This is not true.) Also, it's damned funny - I responded to your question and am off topic. Ah well, I blame you. ;-) They can mod this one off-topic, as well. I ain't scared.
[00:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03KGIII [5261] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft AI Achieves Perfect Ms. Pac-Man Score - 1208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:03] <exec> 08└─I posted a good portion of it, in a few different replies. For starters, we call as sorts of things random that really aren't necessarily random. And, worse, we don't actually have the computational ability to determine if they're random. What they are, however, is "random enough." You can find some...
[00:35:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox 54 Improves Multi-Process Architecture - 1862 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:13] <exec> 08└─There should be a configuration [laptopmag.com] with 4 GB of RAM but oddly there is no 4 GB option on the page you linked. The product looks a lot like a Chromebook. The Celeron N3060, 32 GB of eMMC memory, 2 GB DDR3L, 11.6-inch 1366×768 screen, and 720p webcam are specs that can be found in the lo...
[00:35:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Firefox 54 Improves Multi-Process Architecture - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:14] <exec> 08└─I'm holding out for version 69 in 2019.
[00:35:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox 54 Improves Multi-Process Architecture - 613 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:16] <exec> 08└─Wow. At first reading, I thought, "That's a silly question" and almost instantly, I'm thinking, "Well, isn't it?" TBH, it wouldn't be terribly surprising to learn that MS restricted the memory capacity of some laptops. And, less scrupulous manufacturers may well go along with that idea. Sell those 2...
[00:35:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Firefox 54 Improves Multi-Process Architecture - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:19] <exec> 08└─Whatever you load on your computer is going to gobble memory like children gobble candy.
[00:39:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Towering Inferno in London; At least 12 Dead, Dozens More to Hospital - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:41] <exec> 08└─ISTM that this is the sort of thing that should have been tested in a laboratory. [ce-marking.org] Light a propane torch, point it at the material to be certified, start a stopwatch, and see if the stuff will burst into flames in under n minutes. ...where n is an extremely large number. One also won...
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[01:31:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Task Force Calls for Healthcare Security Overhaul - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:31:41] <exec> 08└─The gubmint is going to be involved - more. Things will only get worse.
[01:32:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kodi Add-on Library "TVAddons" Disappears After Lawsuit - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:32:12] <exec> 08└─In fact both seem to have lower content and activity levels than ~2012ish. Have some new darknets sprung up to replace them?
[01:32:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03KGIII [5261] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Kodi Add-on Library "TVAddons" Disappears After Lawsuit - 689 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:32:14] <exec> 08└─I'd actually be a bit surprised if someone didn't have a mirror copy. Maybe browse through the Wayback Machine, find a few unique keywords, and search for those? Google may even still have some of the pages in their cache. A quick Google led me to here: Link [addonhq.com] And, there's some left in t...
[01:33:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Germany Considering Fingerprinting Children and Spying on Personal Comm - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:10] <exec> 08└─and listened?
[01:33:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Germany Considering Fingerprinting Children and Spying on Personal Comm - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:11] <exec> 08└─So, it sounded better in the original German? (ducks and runs)
[01:33:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Germany Considering Fingerprinting Children and Spying on Personal Comm - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:13] <exec> 08└─Nope. Everybody's a pussy now. Safety is more important than freedom.
[01:33:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Germany Considering Fingerprinting Children and Spying on Personal Comm - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:16] <exec> 08└─The muslims are suing Australia for the same reason. It may be time to withdraw from the refugee convention. We can't afford to be sued by millions of people.
[01:33:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Germany Considering Fingerprinting Children and Spying on Personal Comm - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:18] <exec> 08└─Is this due to the amount of rapes committed by people claiming to be refugees?
[01:33:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Germany Considering Fingerprinting Children and Spying on Personal Comm - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:20] <exec> 08└─That's the biggest disappointment. I'd hoped dearly for a future in which a fourth Rech would re-emerge with the goals of the third, except this time allied with America rather than against it. Well, sorry Jungen, looks like we're gonna have to stomp your asses again. Not even your Islamic foreign l...
[01:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More "Cracked" Ultra HD Blu-ray Releases Appear Online - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:40] <exec> 08└─At first glance the 50-100GB for a movie is a bit of a turnoff, or a form of protection on its own.
[01:37:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snotnose [1623] 02 - 06Senate Approves Sanctions Bill to Punish Russia for Meddling - 575 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:54] <exec> 08└─Actually, I voted for Gary Johnson. I couldn't stomach either HRC nor Trump, even though Gary had 0% chance of winning. We are not being run by Russia. Russia can barely run their own country, let alone some shitstain like Mexico. Or the US. We are being run by the nutjobs on the right, and the nutj...
[01:38:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senate Approves Sanctions Bill to Punish Russia for Meddling - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:32] <exec> 08└─Maybe if we could get the US to stop behaving like a bombastic bully, and the EU to stop being sanctimonious, arrogant twats we might make some progress. Unlikely in either case, but we can still dream, can't we?
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[02:31:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung Drops Domain and Potentially Let Hackers Into Millions of Phones - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:31:40] <exec> 08└─They let the domain lapse but a researcher snapped it up (and is even offering it back to Samsung). Something bad could have happened but nothing bad did happen. This doesn't let Samsung off the hook for stupidity and poor security practices, but TFA is clickbait.
[02:31:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Task Force Calls for Healthcare Security Overhaul - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:31:49] <exec> 08└─No body needs mah murdical records cept mah dockter.
[02:31:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Task Force Calls for Healthcare Security Overhaul - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:31:51] <exec> 08└─Yep. I voted for politicians who want government to get worse, so I'm happy it's getting worse! Got what I voted for!
[02:32:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Inside Walt Mossberg's Gadget Museum - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:32:02] <exec> 08└─I guess I don't read enough WSJ.
[02:32:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Inside Walt Mossberg's Gadget Museum - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:32:04] <exec> 08└─I only see black squares - javascript required or sumthing, eh? I guess, no pics for me then . . .
[02:32:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Inside Walt Mossberg's Gadget Museum - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:32:06] <exec> 08└─I see black people! Niggers! Niggers! Every where!
[02:35:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Firefox 54 Improves Multi-Process Architecture - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:35] <exec> 08└─Try it again. My experience with online chat help (not with dell) is they will give conflicting info.
[02:35:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Firefox 54 Improves Multi-Process Architecture - 627 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:36] <exec> 08└─No, definitely not. That kind of incompetence is why software performance remains so bad. We don't need to go back to the days where every byte counts, but using it just because it's their is ridiculous. I personally, like to run VMs, multiple programs and use ZFS with several RAM intensive function...
[02:40:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03fakefuck39 [6620] (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Clean Inside the LHC - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:40:39] <exec> 08└─aah yeah. i love it when a ferret cleans my beam pipe.
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[03:31:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung Drops Domain and Potentially Let Hackers Into Millions of Phones - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:31:44] <exec> 08└─At least the domain didn't explode.
[03:31:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung Drops Domain and Potentially Let Hackers Into Millions of Phones - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:31:45] <exec> 08└─Trump should have bought it for the public good.
[03:32:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fnord666 [652] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Inside Walt Mossberg's Gadget Museum - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:32:08] <exec> 08└─Identify? Hell, I owned 14 of those items at one time or another. Damn I'm old.
[03:32:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PC, Ethernet, and Tablet Computer Pioneer Chuck Thacker Passes - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:32:21] <exec> 08└─It's cool. He died rich and famous. You will die poor at your mom's house. He wins.
[03:32:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PC, Ethernet, and Tablet Computer Pioneer Chuck Thacker Passes - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:32:23] <exec> 08└─Joke's on you because my mom's 74. Oh wait. Oh no! Maaaaaaaa!
[03:32:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PC, Ethernet, and Tablet Computer Pioneer Chuck Thacker Passes - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:32:25] <exec> 08└─They were water brothers?
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[04:31:45] <exec> 08└─That is unless the phone goes into mission impossible flight mode and self destructs as in 2016-09-08.
[04:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More "Cracked" Ultra HD Blu-ray Releases Appear Online - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:54] <exec> 08└─I would download a 16K resolution Zapruder film.
[04:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More "Cracked" Ultra HD Blu-ray Releases Appear Online - 1137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:55] <exec> 08└─People will start h.265 encoding them That 50-100GB number includes h.265 encoding. 4k UHD Blu-Ray uses h.265 encoding. You're not going to get them any smaller until someone comes up with an even better codec, and like JPEG, I suspect we've hit a point now where we're just not going to get any more...
[04:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More "Cracked" Ultra HD Blu-ray Releases Appear Online - 573 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:58] <exec> 08└─That said if you sit on a nice connection and have a couple of TB worth of drivespace then this is nothing. That's not true. I have a nice 4TB backup drive sitting in front of me, however that would only hold 40 movies of 100GB each (up to 80 if they're only 50GB). That's a decent little movie libra...
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[05:31:54] <exec> 08└─This seems pretty much like a solved problem. Why did they need a TLD? Making subdomains is pretty trivial. You don't even have to point them at the same IP address as the FQDN. I am not even sure why they'd do it this way. ssuggest.samsung.tld They can still have a TLD, even. They would only need t...
[05:37:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China to Send Potato Farming Test Probe to the Moon - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:06] <exec> 08└─It's mentioned in the fukn summary...
[05:37:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China to Send Potato Farming Test Probe to the Moon - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:07] <exec> 08└─Only insightful to people to stupid to understand the summary even. They aren't just flying by and dumping a bunch of potatoes on the moon.
[05:40:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Towering Inferno in London; At least 12 Dead, Dozens More to Hospital - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:40:17] <exec> 08└─I forsee a sociogram of responsibility that will end up in court of law and possible another court of public judgement. This fire involves many responsible people. When the public knows who are in position of power they can also follow the string of command chain. Both down and up. Someone made it s...
[05:40:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Towering Inferno in London; At least 12 Dead, Dozens More to Hospital - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:40:18] <exec> 08└─From smoke exposure? Better change external clothes-cladding .. :-)
[05:40:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Towering Inferno in London; At least 12 Dead, Dozens More to Hospital - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:40:21] <exec> 08└─Thus the other tool of escape, a gas mask. Ie having basic tools to dodge different escape obstacles is essential. Oh, and yeah it's all about personal planning when things don't go as expected and people not doing their job.
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[05:40:23] <exec> 08└─Pitchforks breaks up the mess, no way around that..
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[06:31:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Russian Hackers Penetrated US Electoral Systems and Tried to Delete Voter Registration Data - 977 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:31:38] <exec> 08└─This Russian stuff is just silly: - If this were orchestrated by the Russian government, they wouldn't have gotten caught, or at least not left tracks. Proxies exist. Assuming the attacks actually did originate in Russia, most likely it was just some challenge in the local hacker community. - There...
[06:31:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Hackers Penetrated US Electoral Systems and Tried to Delete Voter Registration Data - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:31:40] <exec> 08└─Yeah and why should we believe the NSA? They even think Wannacry is linked to North Korea...
[06:31:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Russian Hackers Penetrated US Electoral Systems and Tried to Delete Voter Registration Data - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:31:42] <exec> 08└─"I hope you cretins have at least gotten a first draft of your apology written." . . . Your mouth is going to get you in trouble some day, boy.
[06:31:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Hackers Penetrated US Electoral Systems and Tried to Delete Voter Registration Data - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:31:44] <exec> 08└─It's funny that someone has a raging partisan hardon right below this post too. Don't expect apologies. Or good outcomes for the future of the country. To be honest if there is an apology letter to be written it'll be from the collective citizens of the US to the world. There's going to be some seri...
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[06:31:46] <exec> 08└─The fact that they accessed DNC servers only shows where security sucked the most
[06:31:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Hackers Penetrated US Electoral Systems and Tried to Delete Voter Registration Data - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:31:48] <exec> 08└─Heh, hilariously enough I actually am rural and actually know people that speak like that: All little bitches. Just like this country's political system and it's pandering and shit flinging manchildren of a lowest common denominator population.
[06:32:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Drops Domain and Potentially Let Hackers Into Millions of Phones - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:32:06] <exec> 08└─That is unless the phone goes into mission impossible flight mode and self destructs as in 2016-09-08.
[06:32:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Inside Walt Mossberg's Gadget Museum - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:32:28] <exec> 08└─Get out. The oldest items are trash80 and timex-sinclair.
[06:32:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kodi Add-on Library "TVAddons" Disappears After Lawsuit - 662 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:32:56] <exec> 08└─In this new world of content and creativity it is economically preferable to make information easily free. Come up with support and creative content to sell (don't mind the hackers who steal yo shit, they are like mosquitoes) and stop wasting time and money on protections that only harm your users....
[06:32:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kodi Add-on Library "TVAddons" Disappears After Lawsuit - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:32:58] <exec> 08└─This is the true purpose of digital surveillance and control, stop technologies from spreading that undermine XYZ Profitologies.
[06:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03charon [5660] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Germany Considering Fingerprinting Children and Spying on Personal Comm - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:59] <exec> 08└─I suspect the submitter is not a native English speaker. I cleaned up a lot of ungrammatical phrases elsewhere, but I honestly could not figure out what that passage meant, so I had to leave it as is.
[06:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Germany Considering Fingerprinting Children and Spying on Personal Comm - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:01] <exec> 08└─America was never really a Nazi enemy behind the curtains. Guess who financed it all to keep those Soviets away from Europe..
[06:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Germany Considering Fingerprinting Children and Spying on Personal Comm - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:03] <exec> 08└─Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Czech, Slovakia, Hungary, Great Britain, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Switzerland could create their own union without the gigantic Brussels bureaucracy around their neck. There's now countries with the right economy and virtues to make it happen.
[06:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Germany Considering Fingerprinting Children and Spying on Personal Comm - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:05] <exec> 08└─That was the case when they joined. Circumstances has changed and while Germany is still a economic powerhouse. The future might be bleak. The point of a union is that it's better overall to be in it than without it. Right now it's approaching the tipping point.
[06:34:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More "Cracked" Ultra HD Blu-ray Releases Appear Online - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:29] <exec> 08└─I don't think most of these films are maxing out the UHD Blu-ray standard by reaching 100 GB. Also, the 50 GB discs appear to be identical to regular 50 GB Blu-ray discs (both are dual-layer), so they should not be too expensive to make. The other two UHD Blu-ray capacities store ~33 GB per layer in...
[06:34:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More "Cracked" Ultra HD Blu-ray Releases Appear Online - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:31] <exec> 08└─You can see which UHD Blu-ray films were shot in native 4K here: http://referencehometheater.com [referencehometheater.com] Inferno While captured at 3.4K and 6K, they chose to only do a 2K digital intermediate for Inferno. The disc does feature a Dolby Atmos soundtrack,...
[06:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More "Cracked" Ultra HD Blu-ray Releases Appear Online - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:33] <exec> 08└─With HDMI you would have to recompress and get new artifacts. Something else is done if it's the raw video.
[06:34:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More "Cracked" Ultra HD Blu-ray Releases Appear Online - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:35] <exec> 08└─Someone got a chip workstation to grab the bits right of?
[06:37:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China to Send Potato Farming Test Probe to the Moon - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:37:39] <exec> 08└─No need for propellant then. Hot gas generators are already present ;-)
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[07:31:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062017 Brings Record Heat Waves - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:31:59] <exec> 08└─In the next billion years, our Sun is going to get so hot that it'll boil away the Earths oceans.
[07:32:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062017 Brings Record Heat Waves - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:32:00] <exec> 08└─Bah that's nothing.. In the next 4 years, the hot air coming out of the GodEmperor will be so much that you'll see record high rates in spontaneous human combustion, specifically in the left leaning community.
[07:32:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 062017 Brings Record Heat Waves - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:32:02] <exec> 08└─also Australia: http://www.bom.gov.au [bom.gov.au] But there is also rain: http://www.bom.gov.au [bom.gov.au] And Africa, and...http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-01-06/world-heat-shatters-records-in-2016/81654...
[07:32:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062017 Brings Record Heat Waves - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:32:04] <exec> 08└─Only public funded "Gastropoetics" [evergreen.edu] courses can protect us.
[07:32:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Hackers Penetrated US Electoral Systems and Tried to Delete Voter Registration Data - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:32:19] <exec> 08└─You have a group of people doubting this because the foreign thumb happened to be pressing down on their side's scale.
[07:32:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Russian Hackers Penetrated US Electoral Systems and Tried to Delete Voter Registration Data - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:32:20] <exec> 08└─The newest portrayal of potentially deep vulnerabilities in the U.S.'s patchwork of voting technologies comes less than a week after former FBI Director James Comey warned Congress that Moscow isn't done meddling.
[07:32:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Drops Domain and Potentially Let Hackers Into Millions of Phones - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:32:40] <exec> 08└─Cookieless assets, chrome has a cap of 6 asynchronous connections to same origin. Easier to isolate rules from depending on server. Etc. Or maybe I'm just giving them too much credit and they don't know you can do that. idunno
[07:32:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Drops Domain and Potentially Let Hackers Into Millions of Phones - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:32:42] <exec> 08└─When you need to get shit done and don't have time for ivory tower bureaucrats. It's a lot more efficient to create something in parallel and get on with your project. What they should have done is to make the phone software demand a signed message to act on anything at all. That would make owning t...
[07:32:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Task Force Calls for Healthcare Security Overhaul - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:32:52] <exec> 08└─Government bureaucrats [x] MBAs [x] PHB [x] Lawyers [x] Narcissists [x] These people do many things. Solving problems doesn't seem like being one of them. Diagnose: Will not be solved!
[07:34:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Germany Considering Fingerprinting Children and Spying on Personal Comm - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:43] <exec> 08└─Gaining access to messages requires the excuse of violent invasion which has been orchestrated.
[07:34:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Germany Considering Fingerprinting Children and Spying on Personal Comm - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:45] <exec> 08└─Ruling class just wants its wet dream back. Who doesn't like him some Schutzstaffel? Oh wait.
[07:34:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Germany Considering Fingerprinting Children and Spying on Personal Comm - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:47] <exec> 08└─Don't quote scripture then, plenty of examples not from the bible.
[07:34:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Germany Considering Fingerprinting Children and Spying on Personal Comm - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:49] <exec> 08└─I'm all for immigrants to apply legally, that is a fine thing to support. However fingerprinting the population is a fear based tactic that history shows only results in less freedom,
[07:34:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Germany Considering Fingerprinting Children and Spying on Personal Comm - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:51] <exec> 08└─Seems like they are exposing themselves for an arms race with hackers. A lot of trust will be lost. Trust our secure binary blob - hahaha don't think so. More people will treat the government as the enemy when they behave like one.
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[08:31:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 062017 Brings Record Heat Waves - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:31:39] <exec> 08└─Anyone see a pattern?
[08:31:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 062017 Brings Record Heat Waves - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:31:41] <exec> 08└─Don't worry, won't be long til it melts.
[08:31:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Russian Hackers Penetrated US Electoral Systems and Tried to Delete Voter Registration Data - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:31:57] <exec> 08└─The new details, buttressed by a classified National Security Agency document
[08:31:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Hackers Penetrated US Electoral Systems and Tried to Delete Voter Registration Data - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:31:59] <exec> 08└─God for a tech site that loves 1984 you guys really can be dumb bastards sometimes.
[08:32:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Hackers Penetrated US Electoral Systems and Tried to Delete Voter Registration Data - 925 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:32:01] <exec> 08└─"If this were orchestrated by the Russian government, they wouldn't have gotten caught, or at least not left tracks." Don't agree at all. With the known surveillance capabilities of the US quite the opposite is true - it's probably not possible for anyone to have e.g. exfiltrated the DNC data across...
[08:32:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Hackers Penetrated US Electoral Systems and Tried to Delete Voter Registration Data - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:32:03] <exec> 08└─I hope you cretins have at least gotten a first draft of your apology written.
[08:32:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Task Force Calls for Healthcare Security Overhaul - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:32:34] <exec> 08└─Cool. The corporations will cry the govt has to do something on cybersecurity, otherwise the costs of doing it themselves will be eating away from their profits. Guess what will be the results? Your medical info is fair game for anyone, Albanian hackers included.
[08:32:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Task Force Calls for Healthcare Security Overhaul - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:32:35] <exec> 08└─You forgot the "Increased cost of doing business [X]" to support your diagnose.
[08:34:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More "Cracked" Ultra HD Blu-ray Releases Appear Online - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:55] <exec> 08└─I suspect we've hit a point now where we're just not going to get any more significant gains in compression
[08:36:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Firefox 54 Improves Multi-Process Architecture - 2497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:36:43] <exec> 08└─There's a fairly long and relatively informative discussion on this at lwn.net https://lwn.net [lwn.net] I think what has happened is that the FFv53 binary was built with ALSA support not compiled in, but it was still available as an option if you compiled it yourself, which some di...
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[08:36:45] <exec> 08└─Sorry, wrong URL pasted in: the alsa.opensrc.org URL should be: should be http://alsa.opensrc.org [opensrc.org]
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[09:31:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Hackers Penetrated US Electoral Systems and Tried to Delete Voter Registration Data - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:31:59] <exec> 08└─One of the mysteries about the 2016 presidential election is why Russian intelligence, after gaining access to state and local systems, didn’t try to disrupt the vote.
[09:32:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Hackers Penetrated US Electoral Systems and Tried to Delete Voter Registration Data - 1238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:32:01] <exec> 08└─So. Despite the countless warnings, year after year, from anyone who knew anything about computers, about the risks of using network-connected general purpose computers to count votes, no one could be bothered to actually do something about it. But now suddenly it's a big deal, because... we wuz hax...
[09:32:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Hackers Penetrated US Electoral Systems and Tried to Delete Voter Registration Data - 3074 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:32:03] <exec> 08└─Not at all silly. The opportunity was the 2016 election. The Russians most certainly have motives and means. > most likely it was just some challenge in the local hacker community. You really believe that? Local hackers giving it a try for the lulz? No way. This isn't the 1990s any more, when any 16...
[09:32:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Hackers Penetrated US Electoral Systems and Tried to Delete Voter Registration Data - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:32:05] <exec> 08└─Thing is, the dumb bullshit on this site is damn near always posted as AC. It's almost as if they know they're writing bullshit.
[09:32:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Drops Domain and Potentially Let Hackers Into Millions of Phones - 869 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:32:25] <exec> 08└─I remember once upon a time Microsoft did something similar back in 1999, when they forgot to renew the Passport.com domain, which was vital to the proper operation of Hotmail and many of their other online properties (e.g. MSN Messenger, Outlook Express) at the time. Some bloke over on the other si...
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[10:32:12] <exec> 08└─Don't agree at all. With the known surveillance capabilities of the US quite the opposite is true - it's probably not possible for anyone to have e.g. exfiltrated the DNC data across the internet without leaving real tracks.
[10:32:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Hackers Penetrated US Electoral Systems and Tried to Delete Voter Registration Data - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:32:14] <exec> 08└─This isn't the 1990s any more, when any 16 year old punk hacker could easily embarrass a large organization because they used feeble or no security at all on their computer systems.
[10:32:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Hackers Penetrated US Electoral Systems and Tried to Delete Voter Registration Data - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:32:16] <exec> 08└─the risks of using network-connected general purpose computers to count votes
[10:34:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Germany Considering Fingerprinting Children and Spying on Personal Comm - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:40] <exec> 08└─What goes on in my sitting room, conversations and such, are effectively outside the reach of the law. Would the German government be opposed to the private conversations I have in my own home? Are they suggesting that they should be able to listen in to all conversations that happen in private, in...
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[11:31:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart [2844] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Advanced CIA Firmware Has Been Infecting Wi-Fi Routers for Years - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:31:33] <exec> 08└─Given the fact that we have (at least) two US multi-billion dollar goverment agencies actively working to eavesdrop anything and everything, without any oversight whatsoever, it should come as no surprise that a continuously growing number of people doesn't place ANY trust in whatever the US governm...
[11:31:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Advanced CIA Firmware Has Been Infecting Wi-Fi Routers for Years - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:31:34] <exec> 08└─Anyone found the "Wifi Devices.xls" list of supported devices? Anyway, it seems the installation relies on upgrade over the wireless interface. So blocking that and locking down access keys goes some way to block this. The implant also seems to send a beacon signal which could be detected. The flash...
[11:31:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Advanced CIA Firmware Has Been Infecting Wi-Fi Routers for Years - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:31:37] <exec> 08└─https://wikileaks.org/vault7/document/WiFi_Devices/ [wikileaks.org] https://wikileaks.org [wikileaks.org]
[11:31:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Advanced CIA Firmware Has Been Infecting Wi-Fi Routers for Years - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:31:39] <exec> 08└─Of course, we can be certain that the CIA was careful to get a warrant each and every time it wanted to use this software. We can be equally certain that they uninstalled the software when they were finished.
[11:31:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 062017 Brings Record Heat Waves - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:31:57] <exec> 08└─An increase in mean temperature of 0.5 degrees Celsius over half a century may not seem all that serious, but it's enough to have more than doubled the probability of a heat wave killing in excess of 100 people in India, according to researchers at the University of California, Irvine and other inst...
[11:32:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02 - 06Russian Hackers Penetrated US Electoral Systems and Tried to Delete Voter Registration Data - 977 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:32:06] <exec> 08└─This Russian stuff is just silly: - If this were orchestrated by the Russian government, they wouldn't have gotten caught, or at least not left tracks. Proxies exist. Assuming the attacks actually did originate in Russia, most likely it was just some challenge in the local hacker community. - There...
[11:32:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Russian Hackers Penetrated US Electoral Systems and Tried to Delete Voter Registration Data - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:32:25] <exec> 08└─There seems to be no evidence
[11:32:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Hackers Penetrated US Electoral Systems and Tried to Delete Voter Registration Data - 582 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:32:26] <exec> 08└─You have some interesting points. However, I do disagree that security is better today that it used to be. Even disregarding all of the 0-day exploits that keep popping up, we have the largest security hole of all: stupid users who click on phishing links (Colin Powell and John Podesta), stupid prov...
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[12:31:53] <exec> 08└─Your assertion via gratuitous sarcasm certainly convinced me of the rightness and legality of this approach!
[12:31:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Advanced CIA Firmware Has Been Infecting Wi-Fi Routers for Years - 583 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:31:55] <exec> 08└─Anonymous, hereby grants you a perpetual warrant to be used anytime you so deem necessary to use for deep no sunlight probing of any sunless CIA entry point you may find. For efficiency reasons you are relieved (not in the sun free zone) from any duty to remove any penetrative tool you deemed necess...
[12:32:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062017 Brings Record Heat Waves - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:32:15] <exec> 08└─"The team say they have no evidence to link the growth of this rift, and the eventual calving, to climate change." https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org]
[12:32:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03shortscreen [2252] 02 - 06Russian Hackers Penetrated US Electoral Systems and Tried to Delete Voter Registration Data - 1238 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:32:37] <exec> 08└─So. Despite the countless warnings, year after year, from anyone who knew anything about computers, about the risks of using network-connected general purpose computers to count votes, no one could be bothered to actually do something about it. But now suddenly it's a big deal, because... we wuz hax...
[12:32:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Hackers Penetrated US Electoral Systems and Tried to Delete Voter Registration Data - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:32:46] <exec> 08└─Perhaps they are a string theorist.
[12:32:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Hackers Penetrated US Electoral Systems and Tried to Delete Voter Registration Data - 555 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:32:48] <exec> 08└─You still don't get it: some of us supported trump because he's an idiot. You see, Hillary would have gotten away with the shit trump tries:she would have gotten away with fucking Americans ( just like she got away with fucking Bernie Sanders,,). Trump won't because he's stupid and we'd rather have...
[12:32:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Hackers Penetrated US Electoral Systems and Tried to Delete Voter Registration Data - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:32:50] <exec> 08└─When it looked like Trump could lose, he blamed a 'hack' and Hillary, et al said 'dont be stupid, there is no hack'. Hillary loses and suddenly there is hackzzzzz!!! RIGHT!
[12:32:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Hackers Penetrated US Electoral Systems and Tried to Delete Voter Registration Data - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:32:52] <exec> 08└─Thing is, the dumb bullshit on this site is damn near always posted as AC. It's almost as if they know they're writing bullshit.
[12:32:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lester [6231] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Hackers Penetrated US Electoral Systems and Tried to Delete Voter Registration Data - 1418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:32:54] <exec> 08└─Manual counting is the best. Ballot box results are public and published, the only aggregated data is the sum of votes of each box. So everyone can sum boxes results, (and political parties do). It's more tamper-proof than any automatic counting system, and the cost (in money and time) is not that d...
[12:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kodi Add-on Library "TVAddons" Disappears After Lawsuit - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:11] <exec> 08└─It's a good thing I am paranoid - I clone the source for many things that might "disappear". Not sure I have this one, but I've not updated kodi in a year, so maybe....
[12:35:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More "Cracked" Ultra HD Blu-ray Releases Appear Online - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:52] <exec> 08└─think through this problem, these keys may not be shared, but the cracking algorithm *is*. Imagine it became possible to crack a given key for $X using cloud resources.... Not sure that's what happens, but it might explain the "lite" menu...
[12:36:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06"Epic Battle" Over the Details of China's Next Large Telescope - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:34] <exec> 08└─There's no real difference in your comparison. Both sorts of conflicts exist in both countries. And such a simple-minded analysis ignores that astronomy is amply funded in the US. Just because a conflict exists doesn't mean that the undesired side wins.
[12:36:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06"Epic Battle" Over the Details of China's Next Large Telescope - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:36] <exec> 08└─The cognitive dissonance is impressive here. "the greedy fucks who sold us down the river for profit" implies rich people while the author is actually complaining about the welfare state "while standing in line for the soup kitchen with the rest of the happily ignorant masses chanting U-S-A! U-S-A!...
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[13:31:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Advanced CIA Firmware Has Been Infecting Wi-Fi Routers for Years - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:31:54] <exec> 08└─interesting, no Netgear in there
[13:31:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormreaver [5101] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Advanced CIA Firmware Has Been Infecting Wi-Fi Routers for Years - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:31:55] <exec> 08└─Are the routers still vulnerable if OpenWRT is installed?
[13:31:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Advanced CIA Firmware Has Been Infecting Wi-Fi Routers for Years - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:31:58] <exec> 08└─Or Draytek
[13:31:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Advanced CIA Firmware Has Been Infecting Wi-Fi Routers for Years - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:32:00] <exec> 08└─Or indeed, no Buffalo, or TP-Link, or TRENDnet Interesting to compare with the list of supported devices for LEDE/OpenWrt here: https://lede-project.org [lede-project.org] I wonder what the common thread is (or was) that makes the vulnerable routers vulnerable.
[13:32:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Revek [5022] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Advanced CIA Firmware Has Been Infecting Wi-Fi Routers for Years - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:32:02] <exec> 08└─Most netgear routers I've hooked up a serial cable to are running versions of openwrt. Of course the FCC doesn't want you to run open source firmwares on you're equipment for some reason.
[13:32:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062017 Brings Record Heat Waves - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:32:22] <exec> 08└─Here's another one: Half a century ago, a smaller proportion of households had air conditioning. So the deaths have risen despite an increase in indoor climate control.
[13:32:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062017 Brings Record Heat Waves - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:32:24] <exec> 08└─Despite, or because of? A greater proportion with AC means higher temperatures for those without.
[13:32:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 062017 Brings Record Heat Waves - 678 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:32:26] <exec> 08└─From here [eia.gov]: Currently, India has a relatively low penetration of air conditioning, while the United States is a much more saturated market. The latest data from EIA's Residential Energy Consumption Survey (RECS) show that 87% of U.S. households have air-conditioning equipment. Similar data...
[13:33:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Hackers Penetrated US Electoral Systems and Tried to Delete Voter Registration Data - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:00] <exec> 08└─can you please quote the whole sentence that was being addressed? or at least read it?
[13:33:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Drops Domain and Potentially Let Hackers Into Millions of Phones - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:23] <exec> 08└─It's more likely the guys that were maintaining it left the company or assumed new unrelated duties after the service was discontinued, and everyone just sort of forgot about it. They probably don't have management of their domains centralized in such a way that its importance was made obvious.
[13:33:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung Drops Domain and Potentially Let Hackers Into Millions of Phones - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:24] <exec> 08└─It's as if all this "software" is written by interns.
[13:35:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03quietus [6328] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Germany Considering Fingerprinting Children and Spying on Personal Comm - 608 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:31] <exec> 08└─The title of a Die Zeit editorial comment [www.zeit.de] on this is Die Kanone wird zur Standardwaffe (the cannon becomes the standard weapon [of police men/women]). The direct risk here is that once you put such a trojan on a mobile/computer, you effectively put it out in the wild. The only thing ne...
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[13:36:34] <exec> 08└─Well, you should have popped that bubbly a very long time ago. Our theories are enormously repeatable and sound, and there are no unification issues between QCD and gravity until you get to the Planck scale. With QCD, the Standard Model and all those particles fall out by setting, what, one or two f...
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[14:31:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ammonia On-Demand? Alternative Production Method for a Sustainable Future - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:31:37] <exec> 08└─Aside from burning for energy, nitrogen-fixing is the biggest use of fossil fuels by mass. We'll see if this comes to fruit, but if it does, it makes the end of widespread fossil fuel use more likely.
[14:31:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple's Tim Cook Confirms Self-Driving Car Plans - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:31:44] <exec> 08└─No 1/8" jack. Less space than a Suburban. Lame.
[14:31:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple's Tim Cook Confirms Self-Driving Car Plans - 552 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:31:46] <exec> 08└─The amount of system integration and all the government regulations that must be satisfied to produce a modern car is huge and trying to build a new engineering team to handle all the details is time consuming. At the same time, FCA (Chrysler in Detroit) is on the verge of coming apart for business/...
[14:32:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Advanced CIA Firmware Has Been Infecting Wi-Fi Routers for Years - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:32:04] <exec> 08└─Of course, we can be certain that the CIA was careful to get a warrant each and every time it wanted to use this software
[14:32:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Advanced CIA Firmware Has Been Infecting Wi-Fi Routers for Years - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:32:05] <exec> 08└─The FCC as modified their stance. They just don't want you to mess with the RF stuff. They have recognised that free user software can enhance securiity rather than cause unacceptable radio interference.
[14:32:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Advanced CIA Firmware Has Been Infecting Wi-Fi Routers for Years - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:32:07] <exec> 08└─Are the routers still vulnerable if OpenWRT is installed?
[14:32:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Square Kilometer Array to Use Hybrid Memory Cube to Boost Memory Bandwidth - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:32:16] <exec> 08└─How many "station wagons of hard drives"/week will be needed?
[14:32:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062017 Brings Record Heat Waves - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:32:34] <exec> 08└─Did you take into account electricity generation, distribution and availability problems prevailing in India? The AC units do need electricity to run after all, and blackouts during summer days are pervasive in there. The scale of deficit is close to unimaginable so that sigmoid curve of yours bette...
[14:33:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Lester [6231] 02 - 06Russian Hackers Penetrated US Electoral Systems and Tried to Delete Voter Registration Data - 1418 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:08] <exec> 08└─Manual counting is the best. Ballot box results are public and published, the only aggregated data is the sum of votes of each box. So everyone can sum boxes results, (and political parties do). It's more tamper-proof than any automatic counting system, and the cost (in money and time) is not that d...
[14:33:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Hackers Penetrated US Electoral Systems and Tried to Delete Voter Registration Data - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:10] <exec> 08└─When *any* intelligence agency pulls a job like that it's probably safe to assume they will leave a false trail.
[14:33:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03tonyPick [1237] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Hackers Penetrated US Electoral Systems and Tried to Delete Voter Registration Data - 522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:13] <exec> 08└─Evidence of Russian involvement? Well, just following the story links... https://www.usatoday.com [usatoday.com] Which has the leaked NSA report which concluded that.... Ru...
[14:35:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Germany Considering Fingerprinting Children and Spying on Personal Comm - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:44] <exec> 08└─Don't quote scripture then, plenty of examples not from the bible.
[14:36:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More "Cracked" Ultra HD Blu-ray Releases Appear Online - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:15] <exec> 08└─How expensive is a 4TB drive compared to 40 or 60 Ultra HD Bluray disc's though?
[14:36:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More "Cracked" Ultra HD Blu-ray Releases Appear Online - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:17] <exec> 08└─People will start h.265 encoding them That 50-100GB number includes h.265 encoding. 4k UHD Blu-Ray uses h.265 encoding. You're not going to get them any smaller until someone comes up with an even better codec
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[15:31:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Has More Subscribers Than Major Cable Providers in the U.S. - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:31:40] <exec> 08└─Cable...? What is cable? Ohhh... you mean the thing folks pay for because every Sunday they want to yell at professionals from their couch about how they suck at carrying a hand-egg and how this professional called a 'ref' is an idiot and they could do all of this better from their own couch?
[15:31:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Has More Subscribers Than Major Cable Providers in the U.S. - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:31:42] <exec> 08└─Stop being silly. You can't watch that hand-egg thing from the couch. Real men watch from recliners!! Real women usually have their own recliners. It's to damned hard to get up off of a couch to get another beer, when your own two ass cheeks weigh more than the quarterback on the screen.
[15:31:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Ammonia On-Demand? Alternative Production Method for a Sustainable Future - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:31:51] <exec> 08└─The only hope for protecting the world from the supposed dramatic climate change will be profitable improvements in technologies, not socio-political masochism in the short term.
[15:31:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ammonia On-Demand? Alternative Production Method for a Sustainable Future - 906 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:31:53] <exec> 08└─Ammonia production is huge, and I doubt that this method will make a dent in current production. My biggest concern is the catalyst, 9.9 wt% Cs/5.0 wt% Ru/SrZrO3. This catalyst is quite exotic, to the point where I cannot guess if it is cheaper than a comparable Pt catalyst. However, ammonia has man...
[15:32:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bart [2844] 02 - 06Advanced CIA Firmware Has Been Infecting Wi-Fi Routers for Years - 316 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:32:08] <exec> 08└─Given the fact that we have (at least) two US multi-billion dollar goverment agencies actively working to eavesdrop anything and everything, without any oversight whatsoever, it should come as no surprise that a continuously growing number of people doesn't place ANY trust in whatever the US governm...
[15:32:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Advanced CIA Firmware Has Been Infecting Wi-Fi Routers for Years - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:32:23] <exec> 08└─If you read the doc you'll see the software can't be uninstalled. They have a kill command that, when received, de-activates flytrap. The kill command persists across reboots.
[15:32:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03pendorbound [2688] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Advanced CIA Firmware Has Been Infecting Wi-Fi Routers for Years - 779 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:32:24] <exec> 08└─FCC doesn't care if you run mod'd firmware, as long as it doesn't exceed the radio transmit power or stray from approved frequencies. Since most WiFi chipsets are to some degree a software defined radio (at least within limited WiFi-related frequencies), it's possible on many of them to load firmwar...
[15:32:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Square Kilometer Array to Use Hybrid Memory Cube to Boost Memory Bandwidth - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:32:34] <exec> 08└─Is there any consideration given to the fact that more data becomes increasingly unwieldy, and we might learn more from focusing on smaller and more manageable data sets? Has this kind of massive data hoarding led to significant insights before?
[15:32:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Square Kilometer Array to Use Hybrid Memory Cube to Boost Memory Bandwidth - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:32:36] <exec> 08└─The FB and the GOOG would like a word with you. Same for the NSA. Don't you know that more is better?
[15:32:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 062017 Brings Record Heat Waves - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:32:57] <exec> 08└─While population growth may explain the increased number of deaths witnessed, you do realize that increased temperature is the cause right?
[15:32:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 062017 Brings Record Heat Waves - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:32:59] <exec> 08└─Did you take into account electricity generation, distribution and availability problems prevailing in India?
[15:33:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 062017 Brings Record Heat Waves - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:01] <exec> 08└─India needs more generation and grid to run all your projected air conditioners
[15:33:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062017 Brings Record Heat Waves - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:03] <exec> 08└─I like it, indications that the facts are finally piling too high. It is interesting to see what topics you'll pull out to be able to continue the argument.
[15:33:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03weeds [611] (Score: 2) 02 - 062017 Brings Record Heat Waves - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:05] <exec> 08└─Anyone see a pattern?
[15:33:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 062017 Brings Record Heat Waves - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:08] <exec> 08└─I like it, indications that the facts are finally piling too high. It is interesting to see what topics you'll pull out to be able to continue the argument.
[15:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Hackers Penetrated US Electoral Systems and Tried to Delete Voter Registration Data - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:45] <exec> 08└─Great, Clinton would have been better at getting away with some kind of nebulous corruption, unlike Trump. Meanwhile, the Republicans are gutting the EPA, removing regulations designed to prevent another economic melt-down, and throwing tens of millions of people off their health insurance. Great pl...
[15:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Hackers Penetrated US Electoral Systems and Tried to Delete Voter Registration Data - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:47] <exec> 08└─Sure, sure you did...but do you know that your vote was counted as such?
[15:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Hackers Penetrated US Electoral Systems and Tried to Delete Voter Registration Data - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:49] <exec> 08└─You still don't get it: some of us supported trump because he's an idiot.
[15:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Hackers Penetrated US Electoral Systems and Tried to Delete Voter Registration Data - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:51] <exec> 08└─If this were orchestrated by the Russian government, they wouldn't have gotten caught, or at least not left tracks.
[15:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Hackers Penetrated US Electoral Systems and Tried to Delete Voter Registration Data - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:53] <exec> 08└─You may be right. I don't think so, but you could be right. Funny thing is, that "deep Christian faith" seems to be a helluva lot more secure than the DNC's servers.
[15:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Hackers Penetrated US Electoral Systems and Tried to Delete Voter Registration Data - 1322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:56] <exec> 08└─Personally, I don't really know what to believe. But, I'll throw "mass hysteria" out there. You might take a look at McCarthyism again. Maybe McCarthy uncovered a bad guy or six, but he did his level best to destroy thousands of lives in the process. And, at that, there are differing definitions for...
[15:34:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Task Force Calls for Healthcare Security Overhaul - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:31] <exec> 08└─Ie because it will increase cost (short term) of doing business it will not be done? Sounds like a perfect match for MBAs ;)
[15:37:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More "Cracked" Ultra HD Blu-ray Releases Appear Online - 524 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:01] <exec> 08└─There exist lossy still-image compression algorithms which are far superior to JPEG. Really? Which ones? I know there's JPEG2000, but that didn't seem like it was that much of an improvement over JPEG. It was better, of course, but like you noted with Opus vis-a-vis Vorbis, not *that* much better, a...
[15:37:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More "Cracked" Ultra HD Blu-ray Releases Appear Online - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:02] <exec> 08└─Some people do download YIFY and similar bit-starved HD releases, after all Are YIFY's "bit-starved" HD releases really that bad when you compare to the alternatives, which are streaming Netflix and Amazon Prime Video?
[15:37:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More "Cracked" Ultra HD Blu-ray Releases Appear Online - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:04] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I agree, I'm just taking issue with the idea that 100GB is "nothing". If your movie collection won't fit on a single drive, now you're having to either juggle drives, or if you want to have your whole collection online and accessible any time from your media player, you're going to need a mult...
[15:37:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More "Cracked" Ultra HD Blu-ray Releases Appear Online - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:07] <exec> 08└─I linked to one already: FLIF supports both lossy and lossless compression. Their web demo [github.io] takes a couple seconds to load, but it's clearly superior to JPEG (assuming of course that their demo is honest).
[15:37:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More "Cracked" Ultra HD Blu-ray Releases Appear Online - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:09] <exec> 08└─On second thoughts, maybe something's up with that web demo. That, or JPEG really does look better half the time (try the 'Compare against same size JPEG' mode). The main page on their lossy compression [flif.info] makes their stuff look far superior to JPEG.
[15:37:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft AI Achieves Perfect Ms. Pac-Man Score - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:42] <exec> 08└─that thing where they figured out how to create sperm from bone marrow, duh.
[15:39:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox 54 Improves Multi-Process Architecture - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:02] <exec> 08└─It would make more sense to be able to set a slider for each program limiting its max RAM usage, sort of like sandboxing. not because some incompetent and / or lazy programmer doesn't have to consider optimizing the software properly.
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[16:31:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Has More Subscribers Than Major Cable Providers in the U.S. - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:31:49] <exec> 08└─Comcast is Coconut. Fuck Coconut [xkcd.com].
[16:31:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03donkeyhotay [2540] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Netflix Has More Subscribers Than Major Cable Providers in the U.S. - 587 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:31:51] <exec> 08└─Not a problem for the cable companies, now that we're losing our net freedom (that is, what is usually called "net neutrality"). Since most high speed internet users get their access via the cable companies, they'll just start inserting ads into the Netflix stream. Now the entire internet is cable t...
[16:31:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Has More Subscribers Than Major Cable Providers in the U.S. - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:31:53] <exec> 08└─That's right. We need an open-source alternative. Centralized systems like those we have are yet another mechanism for control.
[16:31:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Has More Subscribers Than Major Cable Providers in the U.S. - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:31:55] <exec> 08└─We need SoylenTV NOW.
[16:31:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Netflix Has More Subscribers Than Major Cable Providers in the U.S. - 548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:31:58] <exec> 08└─While they were signing up, Netflix transformed itself from the company people thought they were signing up for to yet another cable channel whose only difference is it's all on-demand and has no commercials. The first part will probably last, but the second part cannot be long for the world. Rememb...
[16:32:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ammonia On-Demand? Alternative Production Method for a Sustainable Future - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:32:09] <exec> 08└─Troll? Really? My $.02 is that population control (primarily through more education, worldwide) could also play a big role. But that's not going to be pushed with DeVoss in control of education
[16:32:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ammonia On-Demand? Alternative Production Method for a Sustainable Future - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:32:11] <exec> 08└─But that's not going to be pushed with DeVoss in control of education
[16:32:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03KGIII [5261] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ammonia On-Demand? Alternative Production Method for a Sustainable Future - 1276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:32:13] <exec> 08└─Fritz Haber was the dude that helped implement gas attacks in WWI. He even went and oversaw it. He was Jewish - which is of interest, and not meant to be derogatory. (Jews have some awesome food - I will absolutely go to a high holiday, if invited.) Anyhow, he'd invent a product called Zyklon-A, whi...
[16:32:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Advanced CIA Firmware Has Been Infecting Wi-Fi Routers for Years - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:32:45] <exec> 08└─The upside to that is that a bigger lock is a larger attack surface..
[16:32:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Advanced CIA Firmware Has Been Infecting Wi-Fi Routers for Years - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:32:46] <exec> 08└─This exploit combined with the various home equipment that have microphones, cameras and telemetry enabled by default. However most people that knows about security will not let these devices connect to the internet. But if they can hitch a ride on a nearby compromised WiFi-AP. It's all ready to be...
[16:32:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Advanced CIA Firmware Has Been Infecting Wi-Fi Routers for Years - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:32:48] <exec> 08└─Maybe it's time for a crowd-sourced, distributed run at these f*ckers?
[16:32:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Advanced CIA Firmware Has Been Infecting Wi-Fi Routers for Years - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:32:50] <exec> 08└─I find it hard to build a list of the good things the CIA has done for the USA, much less the world. In fact it seems most of the things the CIA has done has actually been bad for the USA. Even if you can build such a list I doubt there would be any net good. The USA would be better off shutting dow...
[16:32:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03KGIII [5261] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Advanced CIA Firmware Has Been Infecting Wi-Fi Routers for Years - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:32:53] <exec> 08└─In theory, these would only be used against non-citizens who are outside of the border - with some exceptions with oversight. Don't laugh. I said, "In theory." The CIA is, for the most part, not supposed to do covert activities on US soil.
[16:32:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03KGIII [5261] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Advanced CIA Firmware Has Been Infecting Wi-Fi Routers for Years - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:32:55] <exec> 08└─At the Green Site, someone in the comments linked to the list (which is also linked in this thread) and cited at least one which used OpenWRT firmware. If one was vulnerable, perhaps more would be? I have to head out, but you can search that thread, if you're interested.
[16:33:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 062017 Brings Record Heat Waves - 802 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:30] <exec> 08└─I wish more people understood this. Hot local or regional weather anomalies do not always equate to "OMG Global Warming!!!" Yes it can impact them, making them somewhat more extreme, but harping on every one like it's the sign of the apocalypse actually hurts the cause more than helping it because w...
[16:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Hackers Penetrated US Electoral Systems and Tried to Delete Voter Registration Data - 1184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:15] <exec> 08└─> ...the foreign thumb happened to be pressing down on their side's scale Reminds me of the first time I watched a NASCAR team put a car through the scales at tech inspection, mid-1980s. I was there as an engineering observer, these days you might say I was "embedded" with the team for the weekend....
[16:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Hackers Penetrated US Electoral Systems and Tried to Delete Voter Registration Data - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:16] <exec> 08└─Can't blame them for trying though. If the Russians had paid off Mexico to move from being a semi-fucked up US satellite, to being a semi-fucked up Russian satellite, the US would be hopping mad and take over Cabo San Lucas. Or just regime change the Mexican presidency.
[16:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Hackers Penetrated US Electoral Systems and Tried to Delete Voter Registration Data - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:18] <exec> 08└─So the hackers, also hacked Trumps mind and knew beforehand that he would refuse to support article 5? Think about how much more useful info they could have gained elsewhere.
[16:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Russian Hackers Penetrated US Electoral Systems and Tried to Delete Voter Registration Data - 997 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:20] <exec> 08└─- If this were orchestrated by the Russian government, they wouldn't have gotten caught, or at least not left tracks. Proxies exist. Assuming the attacks actually did originate in Russia, most likely it was just some challenge in the local hacker community. Edward Snowden, a guy with firsthand knowl...
[16:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Hackers Penetrated US Electoral Systems and Tried to Delete Voter Registration Data - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:23] <exec> 08└─This was a classified document that was leaked. So their plan is to lie to the public but make the lie classified so the public can't see it?
[16:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Hackers Penetrated US Electoral Systems and Tried to Delete Voter Registration Data - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:25] <exec> 08└─Meanwhile another group of people doubt illegals voted despite their being actual evidence.
[16:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Hackers Penetrated US Electoral Systems and Tried to Delete Voter Registration Data - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:27] <exec> 08└─You still don't get it: some of us supported trump because he's an idiot.
[16:34:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Hackers Penetrated US Electoral Systems and Tried to Delete Voter Registration Data - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:29] <exec> 08└─And look, the NSA has conveniently documented this giant wave of hack attempts. That's right, they saw the whole thing! But (as always) didn't do a thing about it.
[16:34:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Hackers Penetrated US Electoral Systems and Tried to Delete Voter Registration Data - 714 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:32] <exec> 08└─I'm generally in support of manual counting. The problem is it does actually seem plausible that the median intelligence of the US people is so low that you might not be able to find enough manual counters who can actually count properly and impartially. You might have 10 counters producing 10 or mo...
[16:34:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Hackers Penetrated US Electoral Systems and Tried to Delete Voter Registration Data - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:34] <exec> 08└─When it looked like Trump could lose, he blamed a 'hack' and Hillary, et al said 'dont be stupid, there is no hack'. Hillary loses and suddenly there is hackzzzzz!!!
[16:34:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Hackers Penetrated US Electoral Systems and Tried to Delete Voter Registration Data - 577 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:36] <exec> 08└─The liberals wont be happy until we bombed Russia because they lost Hill the election. The neo-cons (Hill and Mccain) wont be happy until we bomb Russia because they made money on backroom weapon deals. Lets just fuckin get it on and let all these god damned warmongers die in the same atomic flame a...
[16:34:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Hackers Penetrated US Electoral Systems and Tried to Delete Voter Registration Data - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:38] <exec> 08└─Cant say the same for Hillary Https://www.counterpunch.org
[16:35:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Drops Domain and Potentially Let Hackers Into Millions of Phones - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:01] <exec> 08└─So, when do we pass a law that says that any manufacturer app fetching data from a fixed domain has to be removed, or at least become removable once the service is discontinued? Abandonware isn't a problem per se, people not being allowed to remove apps is the security hole.
[16:35:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03jshmlr [6606] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Task Force Calls for Healthcare Security Overhaul - 975 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:16] <exec> 08└─The majority of systems used by Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs, the big "groups" of hospitals and providers) are architect-ed by a small number of manufacturers and software vendors. In most cases, ACOs just do their systems planning around these vendor's recommendations, and do very little th...
[16:35:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Task Force Calls for Healthcare Security Overhaul - 517 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:18] <exec> 08└─Next time I see my country MD, I'm going to suggest he turn in his license and become a quack. I'd be happy to stay with him on a cash basis for all the simple stuff... He could charge $100/hour and make house calls if he didn't have to deal with all of the paperwork (which now takes 2-3 people in h...
[16:39:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheLink [332] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox 54 Improves Multi-Process Architecture - 525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:44] <exec> 08└─Nowadays I use youtube to figure out stuff like that: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] I won't rely on standard "support" since too many of them don't know what they are talking about. Some may lie or post unrelated/useless answers to have their stats look nice. I might trus...
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[17:31:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Has More Subscribers Than Major Cable Providers in the U.S. - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:31:56] <exec> 08└─Was about to respond with incredulity but remembered how half of xkcd punchlines are done.
[17:31:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Netflix Has More Subscribers Than Major Cable Providers in the U.S. - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:31:57] <exec> 08└─Internet is like Power, Water, Sewage, Trash nowadays. It should be a community funded initiative for the good of the community. Mind you many places (including my own!) have been privatizing as many of those as fast as they can with the expected decline in infrastructure maintenance and increase in...
[17:31:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Has More Subscribers Than Major Cable Providers in the U.S. - 516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:31:59] <exec> 08└─In the US, at least 18 minutes per hours is commercials, and that rises to about 21 minutes during reruns, and probably 40 minutes during Football. Torrents are like Netflix: soon to die after the end of Net Neutrality. You'll soon get an internet package with Unlimited Comcast/frontier/At&T data, a...
[17:32:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Has More Subscribers Than Major Cable Providers in the U.S. - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:32:02] <exec> 08└─Real men have fridges in the armrests of the recliner.
[17:32:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Has More Subscribers Than Major Cable Providers in the U.S. - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:32:04] <exec> 08└─Does Netflix still do the DVDs in the mail thing? Does anybody still do that? When my ISP sucks, I'd rather not have to deal with buffering, poor image quality, and a lack of available titles.
[17:32:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Celestial [4891] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Has More Subscribers Than Major Cable Providers in the U.S. - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:32:06] <exec> 08└─Nailed it. I canceled my Netflix account a couple of months ago. It just wasn't worth the $13 per month. The only original programming of theirs that I cared for was Voltron: Legendary Defender, and Voltron isn't worth $13 per month IMO. Now I just have Hulu (commercial free), WWE Network, and YouTu...
[17:32:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03arcz [4501] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ammonia On-Demand? Alternative Production Method for a Sustainable Future - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:32:19] <exec> 08└─Some people misuse the "troll" mod when they should be using the "disagree" mod. I gave you my +1 to help remedy that moderation abuse.
[17:32:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Apple's Tim Cook Confirms Self-Driving Car Plans - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:32:28] <exec> 08└─Apple's car would only connect to iPods. And it would only use iFuel and only run on iRoads.
[17:32:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Advanced CIA Firmware Has Been Infecting Wi-Fi Routers for Years - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:32:59] <exec> 08└─Considering how unbelievable it is that, despite being capable to hack everything everywhere, the bogeymen of drugs and terrorism are still at large... I'm gonna have to agree.
[17:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Hackers Penetrated US Electoral Systems and Tried to Delete Voter Registration Data - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:32] <exec> 08└─No don't you see, the Russians planted the evidence because they knew if we found no evidence it would prove it was them. This is standard conspiracy 101 level stuff on InfoWars.
[17:35:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03randmcnatt [671] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Inside Walt Mossberg's Gadget Museum - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:27] <exec> 08└─Identify? The real question is, how many do you still OWN? Somewhere out in the barn I've still got my Sinclair, TRS-80/100, and Apple IIC. Anybody still crank up their Mac or PC once in a while?
[17:37:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Germany Considering Fingerprinting Children and Spying on Personal Comm - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:11] <exec> 08└─I didn't say the EU is the exact same thing as the US federal/state system, just a parallel. Thanks for making my point with more detail!
[17:37:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Germany Considering Fingerprinting Children and Spying on Personal Comm - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:12] <exec> 08└─Well don't get bent out of shape when people call you geek or nerd after you do.
[17:37:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06More "Cracked" Ultra HD Blu-ray Releases Appear Online - 52 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:29] <exec> 08└─I already answered this last time. [soylentnews.org]
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[18:31:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Polynesian People Used Binary Numbers 600 Years Ago - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:31:59] <exec> 08└─<sarcasm>See, misogynerds? There's nothing complicated about computer programming at all! You just make it complicated because you hate women and minorities and want to chase them out of the field. If it weren't for you misogynerds, all computer software would be written by womyn-born-womyn and be f...
[18:32:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Polynesian People Used Binary Numbers 600 Years Ago - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:32:01] <exec> 08└─<sarcasm>...</sarcasm> I don't believe you.
[18:32:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Adamsjas [4507] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Polynesian People Used Binary Numbers 600 Years Ago - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:32:03] <exec> 08└─Q: Why didn't barefoot people use base 20? A: Because sharks.
[18:32:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Polynesian People Used Binary Numbers 600 Years Ago - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:32:05] <exec> 08└─Primitive men wanted base 21, and women base 22.
[18:32:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Polynesian People Used Binary Numbers 600 Years Ago - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:32:07] <exec> 08└─Neither fingers nor peni have 21 states; you can count higher with one hand of binary digits than you can with all 21 of your unary digits.
[18:32:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Polynesian People Used Binary Numbers 600 Years Ago - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:32:10] <exec> 08└─I like counting in binary, but every time I get to 0b00100, someone punches me in the face.
[18:32:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Has More Subscribers Than Major Cable Providers in the U.S. - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:32:31] <exec> 08└─Call it "net freedom", That name is already taken by a bill aiming to make it legal to kick gay people off the net.
[18:32:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Has More Subscribers Than Major Cable Providers in the U.S. - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:32:32] <exec> 08└─..whose only difference is it's all on-demand and has no commercials. You say it like that's a minor difference.
[18:32:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Has More Subscribers Than Major Cable Providers in the U.S. - 549 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:32:34] <exec> 08└─That's still centralization, it's just that your ISP is owned and operated by your municipality instead of some private company. I like it, it's a lot better than Comcast IMO, and worked well in Chattanooga from what I've read, but this isn't like what the OP was promoting, which is total decentrali...
[18:32:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Has More Subscribers Than Major Cable Providers in the U.S. - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:32:37] <exec> 08└─Cable sank their own ship. They had "on demand" content but it was clunky and expensive. Instead of innovating they just resisted and cranked the price up.
[18:32:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Celestial [4891] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Has More Subscribers Than Major Cable Providers in the U.S. - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:32:39] <exec> 08└─Netflix still has their DVD/Blu-Ray via mail service, but (and be aware that this is hearsay so who knows), I've heard that the discs are becoming increasingly scratched up and Netflix is not replacing them, and the wait time has increased. My guess is it's attrition. Eventually when enough of Netfl...
[18:32:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Has More Subscribers Than Major Cable Providers in the U.S. - 768 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:32:41] <exec> 08└─The problem with mesh networks is latency, but given how cheap memory has become widespread default caching might be a way to ameliorate that. I don't care if it takes a while for my system to sync while I'm sleeping... There's also sneaker net or old-fashioned LAN parties. I have a friend that hand...
[18:32:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Has More Subscribers Than Major Cable Providers in the U.S. - 590 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:32:43] <exec> 08└─Netflix is proprietary software because it needs to implement "digital restrictions management" measures to deter teeing [wikipedia.org] a rented video into a file that remains useful to nonsubscribers or to former subscribers. So in practice, an open-source alternative to Netflix would work only fo...
[18:32:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Has More Subscribers Than Major Cable Providers in the U.S. - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:32:46] <exec> 08└─Real men sit in a chair of human flesh.
[18:32:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Has More Subscribers Than Major Cable Providers in the U.S. - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:32:48] <exec> 08└─Is there some particular reason why you can't use a VPN which defeats content inspection and makes all your data neutral again?
[18:32:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Has More Subscribers Than Major Cable Providers in the U.S. - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:32:50] <exec> 08└─Massive blacklisting of VPNs, encrypted data running through a single pipe with enough bandwidth will get shutdown. They already do these things, without net neutrality we'll see them apply the worst possible versions of them instead of the defanged crap they pull now.
[18:32:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Has More Subscribers Than Major Cable Providers in the U.S. - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:32:52] <exec> 08└─IF (! (traffic_to_Verizon_server OR traffic_to_subscribed_partner_package)) THEN increment_data_against_cap;
[18:32:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Has More Subscribers Than Major Cable Providers in the U.S. - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:32:55] <exec> 08└─You like mine? It was originally a throne made of swords, until Jim slipped.
[18:32:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Has More Subscribers Than Major Cable Providers in the U.S. - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:32:57] <exec> 08└─The problem with mesh networks is latency,
[18:32:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Has More Subscribers Than Major Cable Providers in the U.S. - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:32:59] <exec> 08└─Mmmm yeaaaah. You like it yeaaah, mmmm.
[18:33:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Ammonia On-Demand? Alternative Production Method for a Sustainable Future - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:13] <exec> 08└─Let me see if I understand you: You don't understand the catalyst, so... You think it might be expensive, so never mind the efficiency. The old method is entrenched on farms, and farmers never adopt new tech. It might get used in some rare cases but everybody else will continue using the old expensi...
[18:33:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ammonia On-Demand? Alternative Production Method for a Sustainable Future - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:15] <exec> 08└─Fritz Haber was the dude that helped implement gas attacks in WWI. He even went and oversaw it.
[18:33:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Apple's Tim Cook Confirms Self-Driving Car Plans - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:25] <exec> 08└─And when it drives off a cliff Tim Cook will accuse the passengers of sitting in it wrong.
[18:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Advanced CIA Firmware Has Been Infecting Wi-Fi Routers for Years - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:57] <exec> 08└─> various home equipment that have microphones, cameras and telemetry enabled by default. However most people > that knows about security will not let these devices connect to the internet. As of February, Amazon has sold over 8 million Echo devices, and the competitors are rushing to catch up. Not...
[18:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Advanced CIA Firmware Has Been Infecting Wi-Fi Routers for Years - 1107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:59] <exec> 08└─Exactly, and the bands differ in different parts of the world. Rather than making the physical device locked to specific bands, via a 6 cent rom chip, they let the vendors build software controlled radios, and act all alarmed that end-users understand software. The interesting way around this that w...
[18:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Square Kilometer Array to Use Hybrid Memory Cube to Boost Memory Bandwidth - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:09] <exec> 08└─When it comes to astronomical data, there is never too much. The primary issue is sorting the one you want that particular day. But capturing stuff you ingest, but don't need today, is critical to confirming or invalidating new theories or other discoveries down the road. It's a game of needles and...
[18:34:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03http [1920] (Score: 2) 02 - 062017 Brings Record Heat Waves - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:38] <exec> 08└─Interesting definition of trivial you got there. Be a shame if something were to happen to it.
[18:34:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 062017 Brings Record Heat Waves - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:39] <exec> 08└─Nice selective quoting. The team say they have no evidence to link the growth of this rift, and the eventual calving, to climate change. However, it is widely accepted that warming ocean and atmospheric temperatures have been a factor in earlier disintegrations of ice shelves elsewhere on the Antarc...
[18:35:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Hackers Penetrated US Electoral Systems and Tried to Delete Voter Registration Data - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:37] <exec> 08└─tally, don't count? four lines crossed with a fifth line = 5 votes per group? use a knife to put notches in sticks, line up the sticks for comparison?
[18:35:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Hackers Penetrated US Electoral Systems and Tried to Delete Voter Registration Data - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:39] <exec> 08└─Citing a pseudo/pop-science source like Psychology Today doesn't build much confidence you are smart.
[18:35:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Hackers Penetrated US Electoral Systems and Tried to Delete Voter Registration Data - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:41] <exec> 08└─It does precisely dick, so that makes sense. The most secure computer is not, it turns out, the one disassembled and locked away in a rad vault under the ocean; it's the one that doesn't exist.
[18:35:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Hackers Penetrated US Electoral Systems and Tried to Delete Voter Registration Data - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:43] <exec> 08└─Liberals won't be happy until a hostile foreign governments stop fucking with the foundations of our democracy. Your false equivalency is false.
[18:35:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Hackers Penetrated US Electoral Systems and Tried to Delete Voter Registration Data - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:45] <exec> 08└─> Hopefully after the impeachment they'll get Sanders as leader and HE will win. You are fully aware that Sanders is too old and won't run again, and the impeachment will bring us president Pence instead?
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[19:31:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Antibiotic Effective Against Drug-Resistant Bacteria - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:31:42] <exec> 08└─Probably not effective for long. They already document a spontaneous resistance rate. Those rates always start out low and tend to ramp up with wide spread usage.
[19:31:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03weeds [611] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Polynesian People Used Binary Numbers 600 Years Ago - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:31:56] <exec> 08└─They had number words for 1 to 10, and then for 10 multiplied by several powers of 2
[19:31:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Polynesian People Used Binary Numbers 600 Years Ago - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:31:57] <exec> 08└─Next time you should activate your web-shooters by quickly counting up to 18 (or 9, depending on which side you start from). To pick apart my original comment, I should have said that fingers and peni don't have 21 states that are easily discernable for the purposes of human counting. Even with just...
[19:31:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Polynesian People Used Binary Numbers 600 Years Ago - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:31:59] <exec> 08└─Given that fingers can reliably attain three distinct states, but toes and other parts can't, it might be more efficient to count in base 3, hands-only. Still a problem when reaching 00100, 00200, or in the UK 00220
[19:32:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03rondon [5167] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Has More Subscribers Than Major Cable Providers in the U.S. - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:32:35] <exec> 08└─Honest question - don't you think that the prevalence of other options will prevent Netflix from stumbling down that route? I mean in the near to medium term future, before their corporate culture slowly metastasizes with cancerous ideas about quarterly profits and shareholder value.
[19:32:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Has More Subscribers Than Major Cable Providers in the U.S. - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:32:37] <exec> 08└─Don't be that guy who uses a DNS VPN and routes traffic through the ISP's own DNS servers for free.
[19:33:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple's Tim Cook Confirms Self-Driving Car Plans - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:03] <exec> 08└─And you have to get permission to give your friends a ride.
[19:33:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Advanced CIA Firmware Has Been Infecting Wi-Fi Routers for Years - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:37] <exec> 08└─Anyone found the "Wifi Devices.xls" list of supported devices?
[19:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Square Kilometer Array to Use Hybrid Memory Cube to Boost Memory Bandwidth - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:48] <exec> 08└─The data set is whittled down significantly. This article should help [theregister.co.uk].
[19:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062017 Brings Record Heat Waves - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:19] <exec> 08└─Looks weaselly to me. Did the experts say that or the journalist?
[19:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 062017 Brings Record Heat Waves - 633 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:20] <exec> 08└─Your competent use of the ignorantio elenchi is noted, khallow. You have successfully diverted the entire discussion of record temps, which remains true despite your "population increase" red herring. So what about the population in Antartica? In Greenland? In Montana? You need to provide the stats...
[19:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 062017 Brings Record Heat Waves - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:22] <exec> 08└─India is a country of 1.3 billion people and building electricity infrastructure isn't hard for that many people. I don't think use of the term, "trivial" is out of place here.
[19:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 062017 Brings Record Heat Waves - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:24] <exec> 08└─And of course, aristarchus comes in and just asserts things. Instead of being an idiot, look again at what is claimed. the probability of a heat wave killing more than 100 people grew from 13 percent to 32 percent--an increase of 146 percent.
[19:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 062017 Brings Record Heat Waves - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:27] <exec> 08└─Nobody else has to. Let us note, for example, that the researchers who made the claim didn't. And where's my funding to do this, aristarchus?
[19:34:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03kaszz [4211] 02 - 06Russian Hackers Penetrated US Electoral Systems and Tried to Delete Voter Registration Data - 77 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:43] <exec> 08└─The new details, buttressed by a classified National Security Agency document
[19:34:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Wootery [2341] 02 - 06Russian Hackers Penetrated US Electoral Systems and Tried to Delete Voter Registration Data - 128 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:50] <exec> 08└─Thing is, the dumb bullshit on this site is damn near always posted as AC. It's almost as if they know they're writing bullshit.
[19:35:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Hackers Penetrated US Electoral Systems and Tried to Delete Voter Registration Data - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:29] <exec> 08└─The afterlife switchboard just called, asking in which order you would like to take the calls of all the foreign ex-leaders eager to point out the irony.
[19:35:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Hackers Penetrated US Electoral Systems and Tried to Delete Voter Registration Data - 1000 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:30] <exec> 08└─Heh, sanctity of the electoral system? Where have you been for the last decade you silly goose. Also, AZ is one of these states [thinkprogress.org]. I can tell you right now they have no reason whatsoever as a republican state to do that. They're just corrupt and disorganized. Another truth murika d...
[19:35:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Hackers Penetrated US Electoral Systems and Tried to Delete Voter Registration Data - 2650 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:32] <exec> 08└─I'm not so concerned about the voting manipulation, and I'm willing to accept that the Electoral College fucked us up the ass again. The places that voted for Trump I was expecting, and the popular vote was wildly in HRC's favor. If the votes were that manipulated, then we really need to revamp the...
[19:36:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Inside Walt Mossberg's Gadget Museum - 603 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:28] <exec> 08└─I think of the widow with the weird house that was never finished. Winchester Mystery House [wikipedia.org] In 1884 she purchased an unfinished farmhouse in the Santa Clara Valley and began building her mansion. Carpenters were hired and worked on the house day and night until it became a seven stor...
[19:36:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Inside Walt Mossberg's Gadget Museum - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:29] <exec> 08└─While the page does contain 10 scripts, none are required to see the content. You must have the (single useful) image [vox-cdn.com] blocked in some other way. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[19:36:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kodi Add-on Library "TVAddons" Disappears After Lawsuit - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:59] <exec> 08└─A viper has fangs and poisonous spit. They don't need to hang on; they strike and wait for the poison to take effect. "Constrictor" or "serpent" or "snake" would have been apt. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
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[20:31:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Canada to Require Unlocking of All Phones - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:31:37] <exec> 08└─That will be the next great Constitutional revolution of the world.
[20:31:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Revises U.S. Policy Towards Cuba - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:31:45] <exec> 08└─Only communists could object to putting money in the hands of the workers instead of a murderous regime.
[20:31:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Revises U.S. Policy Towards Cuba - 1227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:31:47] <exec> 08└─What if an American saw a really good looking gordito burrito at Cuban Taco Bell? Do we have realtime statistical analysis at home that compares which Cuban Taco Bell disperses funds back into the state? Or is it like an honor system. Something we're just fantastic at when walking on other people's...
[20:31:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Revises U.S. Policy Towards Cuba - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:31:49] <exec> 08└─Trump's regime murderous? Missed that tweet.
[20:31:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Revises U.S. Policy Towards Cuba - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:31:52] <exec> 08└─Uh... I get what you're going for and all, but you should probably do a quick dictionary check on the word "communist"
[20:31:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Revises U.S. Policy Towards Cuba - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:31:54] <exec> 08└─Probably going for "communism"? [reason.com]
[20:31:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Revises U.S. Policy Towards Cuba - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:31:56] <exec> 08└─“If she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks,” Mr. Trump said, as the crowd began to boo. He quickly added: “Although the Second Amendment people — maybe there is, I don’t know.”
[20:31:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Revises U.S. Policy Towards Cuba - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:31:58] <exec> 08└─intended to sharply curtail cash flow to the Cuban government and pressure its communist leaders to let the island's fledgling private sector grow.
[20:32:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Revises U.S. Policy Towards Cuba - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:32:01] <exec> 08└─If the Cuban immigrant you have in mind is Mr. Cigar, AKA Kyuubey, then nope, fuck him sideways. He's not as much of a degenerate as a few other people I can name, but he's still up there, and I'm fine with him getting hurt by the stuff he supports.
[20:32:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Revises U.S. Policy Towards Cuba - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:32:03] <exec> 08└─What do you mean? Are you saying No True Communist? Because if so, then fuck you! If it says it's a communist, walks like a communist, and murders people like a communist, it's a fucking communist, regardless of what your perfect ideal of communist might be.
[20:32:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Antibiotic Effective Against Drug-Resistant Bacteria - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:32:12] <exec> 08└─Now we can replace the anti-biotic that we pump pigs full with so we can treat them like shit and make cheap hamburgers.. and pr0fit! And our supplier will be happy to feed the local environment with the drug. Waste cleaning is just another expense. So in a few years this medicament will be wasted t...
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[20:32:14] <exec> 08└─Probably not effective for long.
[20:32:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Polynesian People Used Binary Numbers 600 Years Ago - 1708 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:32:30] <exec> 08└─Sorry, can't help you. It's irrefutable proof that assigned males are using an unnatural definition of “binary” to exclude womyn-born-womyn and minorities from tech careers. Obviously, this is a more pure form of binary than our misogynist base 2 system. If only we hadn't conspired to prevent, w...
[20:32:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Polynesian People Used Binary Numbers 600 Years Ago - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:32:32] <exec> 08└─Oops! You're not an AC! I need new glasses. Well, let's revisit the comment without the <sarcasm />. What is your proof that they have not found more proof that misogynerds have conspired to make programming languages inaccessible to womyn-born-womyn by using a naïve approach to base 2 where the fi...
[20:32:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Polynesian People Used Binary Numbers 600 Years Ago - 600 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:32:34] <exec> 08└─I'm assuming that knuckle joints aren't being used for state, since I have the most trouble moving those independantly. Given that state 0 is two curled joints, state 1 is the uncurling of the joint nearest the knuckle, and state 2 is the uncurling of both joints, can you hold your hand in the 02020...
[20:33:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Has More Subscribers Than Major Cable Providers in the U.S. - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:12] <exec> 08└─Which sucks because there's still a lot of content only available by disc.
[20:33:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Has More Subscribers Than Major Cable Providers in the U.S. - 603 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:13] <exec> 08└─Their ship isn't sunk yet, it's going to be fixed and soon dominate the seas: with the elimination of Net Neutrality, the cablecos can simply block your access to Netflix and other competing services unless you pay them a hefty access fee, which of course will be much more expensive than their own c...
[20:33:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Has More Subscribers Than Major Cable Providers in the U.S. - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:16] <exec> 08└─Well, I could turn on my webcam but I don't figure yall would enjoy watching me alternate between coding, playing vidya, and watching porn.
[20:33:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Has More Subscribers Than Major Cable Providers in the U.S. - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:18] <exec> 08└─It slow!!1 I hate to disappoint.
[20:33:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Has More Subscribers Than Major Cable Providers in the U.S. - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:20] <exec> 08└─Get with the times. Nobody cares about gay people anymore. We're all too busy being transphobes and islamophobes nowadays.
[20:33:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Has More Subscribers Than Major Cable Providers in the U.S. - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:22] <exec> 08└─Suddenlink started injecting HTML into my pages when my meter (something that wasn't there a few years ago) goes up too far. They're massive banners that are roughly 800px tall. The opt out button doesn't actually opt out. Guess we will now have to start paying a VPN fee in the near future just to g...
[20:33:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03KGIII [5261] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Has More Subscribers Than Major Cable Providers in the U.S. - 731 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:24] <exec> 08└─The bit about commercials was never true. Cable got its start from people who lived in valleys. Some form of company, depending on location, would establish a mast antenna and run out coaxial cable from there. The mast received regular OTA signals. Cable was never, ever, commercial free. Eventually,...
[20:33:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Has More Subscribers Than Major Cable Providers in the U.S. - 798 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:27] <exec> 08└─Yeah. Plus they rose the subscription fee from $7.99 to $10.82 which I only recently noticed and will likely keep doing more of the same on top of that. They're also trying to cut corners by doing their original shows instead of classics and stuff. But to be honest eventually people are going to see...
[20:33:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Has More Subscribers Than Major Cable Providers in the U.S. - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:29] <exec> 08└─xkcd's punch lines are are delivered with the strength of a dying cancer patient.
[20:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ammonia On-Demand? Alternative Production Method for a Sustainable Future - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:45] <exec> 08└─There have been several ammonia-making processes covered here relatively recently, how does this one compare? https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] https://soylentnews.org
[20:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03KGIII [5261] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ammonia On-Demand? Alternative Production Method for a Sustainable Future - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:46] <exec> 08└─LOL No, just some history for you. If you decline to use tech from those who are associated with atrocities then you're gonna have a pretty boring life. It's just some history, nothing more. Judge 'em as you want, I don't have a nickel invested.
[20:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03curunir_wolf [4772] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Advanced CIA Firmware Has Been Infecting Wi-Fi Routers for Years - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:32] <exec> 08└─But those aren't boogeymen to the CIA - they're "tools."
[20:34:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03curunir_wolf [4772] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Advanced CIA Firmware Has Been Infecting Wi-Fi Routers for Years - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:34] <exec> 08└─Seems to me from the description, if they're loading different firmware on the device, you just need to connect to the web interface and it should be obvious. At least, if you know what it looked like out of the box.
[20:34:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Advanced CIA Firmware Has Been Infecting Wi-Fi Routers for Years - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:36] <exec> 08└─They got a warrant every time it was required by our constitution. Seeing as the agency operates outside of US territory, that would be never. As far as uninstallation goes, wouldn't you do that if you were trying to hide? The stuff probably self-destructs if you look at it funny.
[20:34:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Advanced CIA Firmware Has Been Infecting Wi-Fi Routers for Years - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:38] <exec> 08└─"used by foe" is probably the determining factor. If yes, allocate budget. Something only sold in the USA will instead be hacked by every other country in the world. (except China, since they already have a back door)
[20:37:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Task Force Calls for Healthcare Security Overhaul - 932 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:08] <exec> 08└─systems used by Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs, the big "groups" of hospitals and providers) are architect-ed by a small number of manufacturers and software vendors ...and their coders seem to do things in a single-platform way. ...and their apps are all closed-source, of course. To get away...
[20:37:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Inside Walt Mossberg's Gadget Museum - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:27] <exec> 08└─It's red on my ZX81.
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[21:31:41] <exec> 08└─If I could give you a +5 I would spend all my mod points on it.
[21:31:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canada to Require Unlocking of All Phones - 608 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:31:42] <exec> 08└─Next on their list, I'm hoping to get them to do something about some wireless subscribers starting to force people to buy vice plans if they want a data plan. Basically, no tablet plans without a phone plan. It's effectively tying services the same was as saying "you can't get out cable service unl...
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[21:31:56] <exec> 08└─intended to sharply curtail cash flow to the Cuban government and pressure its communist leaders to let the island's fledgling private sector grow.
[21:31:59] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02 - 06President Trump Revises U.S. Policy Towards Cuba - 1423 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:32:00] <exec> 08└─Man, that reason article is fucked up and dishonest. I don't like to get into Mao or Stalinist apologist bullshit(of which the internet contains fucking plenty). They were terrible and holomdor was a goddamn barbaric disregard for his Stalin's own citizens. But "All the famines of the 20th century...
[21:32:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Revises U.S. Policy Towards Cuba - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:32:02] <exec> 08└─No, I mean, you retard, that communists, literally by definition are supposed to favor workers. Why communist governments seem to universally fail at that is a exercise for the reader. Which doesn't absolve you of being a fucking retard who doesn't get that communist ideologues celebrate workers to...
[21:32:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06President Trump Revises U.S. Policy Towards Cuba - 679 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:32:04] <exec> 08└─Sorry I should really learn to put names so I don't make it look like I'm a filthy commie or something. But I'm not used to this level of politically charged discussion so forgive me. I was referring to cmn's post [soylentnews.org] and his responses following. It's hard to not see these people's poi...
[21:32:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Revises U.S. Policy Towards Cuba - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:32:06] <exec> 08└─The reason article uses a low estimate. [scottmanning.com] But "All the famines of the 20th century were under communism" is pretty fucking dumb
[21:32:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Revises U.S. Policy Towards Cuba - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:32:08] <exec> 08└─Which was the entire point of my original comment. I also disagree with you that it's supposed to favor workers, that's the sale line but not the intent.
[21:32:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 4, Touché) 02 - 06President Trump Revises U.S. Policy Towards Cuba - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:32:11] <exec> 08└─Again, not apologizing for stalin's evil shit. Just excoriating a shitty article that contains outright lies.
[21:32:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06President Trump Revises U.S. Policy Towards Cuba - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:32:13] <exec> 08└─How many more decades do we have to try this before the jingoists admit it doesn't work?
[21:32:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Revises U.S. Policy Towards Cuba - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:32:15] <exec> 08└─Fair enough. In defence of the article, it merely documents the presented infographic which cites references from the estimates it uses. While we don't have accurate figures, the estimates are quite horrifying enough.
[21:32:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Revises U.S. Policy Towards Cuba - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:32:18] <exec> 08└─But but muh false equivalence!
[21:32:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06President Trump Revises U.S. Policy Towards Cuba - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:32:20] <exec> 08└─They went full retard in their quest to fight the PC culture. Guess they should have paid more attention to the memes!
[21:32:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Revises U.S. Policy Towards Cuba - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:32:23] <exec> 08└─Some liberal college students 1000 miles away have silly ideas about gender so I have to vote for a corrupt, incompetent, game show host to save Western Civilization! Also have I mentioned we're the party of Lincoln? Care to buy a water filter?
[21:32:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Revises U.S. Policy Towards Cuba - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:32:26] <exec> 08└─At this point the Republican party hardliners are insisting we out of nothing more than spite.
[21:32:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Revises U.S. Policy Towards Cuba - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:32:28] <exec> 08└─Azuma's technique of "arguing" is just calling people idiots as loudly, rudely, and often as possible, so don't read too much into it.
[21:32:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Antibiotic Effective Against Drug-Resistant Bacteria - 624 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:32:39] <exec> 08└─I think the days of using just antibiotics are over. We need to switch to some kind of combined therapy to prevent resistance from being a problem. I am not even undergraduate-educated in molecular medicine, so this may be completely nuts, but one idea i had for dealing with the beta-lactamase-produ...
[21:32:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Polynesian People Used Binary Numbers 600 Years Ago - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:32:58] <exec> 08└─I.....wait.....what? Parsing that last sentence is like trying to solve one of those Google interview puzzles. Is that a quadruple negative?
[21:32:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Polynesian People Used Binary Numbers 600 Years Ago - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:00] <exec> 08└─After all these political fights, it's nice to see an SN discussion reach peek geek. (Yes I can fold my 4th and 5th fingers independently).
[21:33:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Polynesian People Used Binary Numbers 600 Years Ago - 630 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:02] <exec> 08└─I can fold my 4th and 5th independently enough to count on, it's the combination of my index and ring fingers both being simultaneously fully extended that prevents me from fully folding my middle finger. I wouldn't be surprised if some, or even most, people are capable of the task. Given that binar...
[21:33:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02 - 06Netflix Has More Subscribers Than Major Cable Providers in the U.S. - 548 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:17] <exec> 08└─While they were signing up, Netflix transformed itself from the company people thought they were signing up for to yet another cable channel whose only difference is it's all on-demand and has no commercials. The first part will probably last, but the second part cannot be long for the world. Rememb...
[21:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Has More Subscribers Than Major Cable Providers in the U.S. - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:50] <exec> 08└─You never know....
[21:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Has More Subscribers Than Major Cable Providers in the U.S. - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:51] <exec> 08└─When I was a kid and my parents got cable there were no commercials.
[21:34:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Advanced CIA Firmware Has Been Infecting Wi-Fi Routers for Years - 820 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:58] <exec> 08└─What, precisely, do you think that would gain you, Coward? The key thing you miss in your evaluation is the assumption that the agencies are actually under the control of the elected government. They are NOT. The 'director' of said agency has, at best, some small say in how executive policies steer...
[21:35:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Advanced CIA Firmware Has Been Infecting Wi-Fi Routers for Years - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:00] <exec> 08└─Glad i use old hardware and some sort of software solution ( like pfsense, or do it manually ). Sure, in theory they can still get me if they really really want to, but this raises the bar beyond simplistic 'mass surveillance' and they would have to target me personally.
[21:35:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Advanced CIA Firmware Has Been Infecting Wi-Fi Routers for Years - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:02] <exec> 08└─"This is a hard problem to solve, especially if your adversary is a nation-state from whom you buy electronics." Unless you only use FPGA chips. I dont believe you can easily compromise one of them, since they cant predict what sort of internal logic you will be running, or what pins for i/o..
[21:35:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 062017 Brings Record Heat Waves - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:48] <exec> 08└─You only want to suggest that global warming is not the only possible explanation, so we can dismiss the case made by these researchers, it would probably hurt your case if you did the actual research.
[21:35:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 062017 Brings Record Heat Waves - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:49] <exec> 08└─I merely noted that the population had also increased by that same factor and that it was possible that most of the rise in frequency of these events was due to the population increase not the climate change.
[21:35:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 062017 Brings Record Heat Waves - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:52] <exec> 08└─There was no rise in frequency, they are forecasting a rise in probability
[21:36:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Hackers Penetrated US Electoral Systems and Tried to Delete Voter Registration Data - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:58] <exec> 08└─> You still don't get it: some of us supported trump because he's an idiot. Earlier: [soylentnews.org] > I. AM. CANADIAN. Seems it's not only Russia that's meddling in the U.S. elections.
[21:36:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Hackers Penetrated US Electoral Systems and Tried to Delete Voter Registration Data - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:59] <exec> 08└─Pence just hired a lawyer. [usatoday.com] The Speaker of the House is next in line after the Vice President.
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[22:31:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wind Farms are Hardly the Bird Slayers They're Made Out to Be - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:31:42] <exec> 08└─Power generation has nothing on the common house cat. http://www.npr.org [npr.org]
[22:31:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wind Farms are Hardly the Bird Slayers They're Made Out to Be - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:31:44] <exec> 08└─Hell I almost stepped on one today. Did not expect it to be hanging out on the sidewalk...
[22:31:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wind Farms are Hardly the Bird Slayers They're Made Out to Be - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:31:46] <exec> 08└─They're suckers for propaganda by big oil. They believed the same thing in about my sparrow-fired power plant.
[22:31:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wind Farms are Hardly the Bird Slayers They're Made Out to Be - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:31:48] <exec> 08└─Can you convert it for me? I have my Tesla Coils ready, but I really prefer my Lightning Made of Owls.
[22:31:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wind Farms are Hardly the Bird Slayers They're Made Out to Be - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:31:50] <exec> 08└─We're scientists here, electrocuting birds is net negative energy we have a much more efficient "giant glass wall for them to ram into and fall" solution.
[22:31:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wind Farms are Hardly the Bird Slayers They're Made Out to Be - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:31:53] <exec> 08└─Other major contributors to bird death include: - cats - pesticides - skyscrapers with reflective windows - starvation - cold It was always a nonsense argument used by fossil fuel corporate spokesweasels to try to peel away the "Oh the poor animals!" environmentalists from the anti-fossil fuel effor...
[22:32:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03KGIII [5261] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canada to Require Unlocking of All Phones - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:32:04] <exec> 08└─I would prefer unlocked bootloaders first. Right now, you buy the hardware and license the software. Without the software the device is useless. So, you never really have true ownership of the device. I want the freedom to modify, even without the source. I'd prefer the source, but that is unrealist...
[22:32:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canada to Require Unlocking of All Phones - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:32:06] <exec> 08└─> force people to buy vice plans if they want a data plan Useful reminder: in Canada, it's not illegal to buy a vice plan without a date plan.
[22:32:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Revises U.S. Policy Towards Cuba - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:32:35] <exec> 08└─Purposeful inefficiency and totalitarianism are not ideological tenets of communism.
[22:32:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Revises U.S. Policy Towards Cuba - 472 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:32:36] <exec> 08└─Ah, so the USA is a capitalist country then! After all it walks like a capitalist country, talks like a capitalist country, and murders brown people like a capitalist country, so it must be a capitalist country! Just ignore all the anti-free market stuff that it does because the name makes it true!...
[22:32:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Revises U.S. Policy Towards Cuba - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:32:39] <exec> 08└─Just like capitalism is supposed to be about free market competition resulting in more efficient and higher quality results. Silly rabbit trix are for kids!
[22:32:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Revises U.S. Policy Towards Cuba - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:32:41] <exec> 08└─Hey man, their brave actions have prevented me from getting raped in public restrooms at least 138 times. Now if only they could make headway on the other issue... those damn gays destroying my marriage! Every time the gays marry at least 20 kittens get divorced. And don't get me started on those pe...
[22:32:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Revises U.S. Policy Towards Cuba - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:32:43] <exec> 08└─Just like capitalism is supposed to be about free market competition resulting in more efficient and higher quality results.
[22:32:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Revises U.S. Policy Towards Cuba - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:32:45] <exec> 08└─Purposeful inefficiency and totalitarianism are not ideological tenets of communism.
[22:32:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Antibiotic Effective Against Drug-Resistant Bacteria - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:32:56] <exec> 08└─Good luck getting China and other countries on board. We can only hope it's genuinely expensive to make, not fake expensive due to the 1000% profit margin.
[22:33:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Polynesian People Used Binary Numbers 600 Years Ago - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:19] <exec> 08└─You should write more journals.
[22:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Has More Subscribers Than Major Cable Providers in the U.S. - 517 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:09] <exec> 08└─Barely. They used to have an awesome library of titles, but it's shrunk significantly as they've tried to go online only. They don't seem to be replacing titles when they get damaged and the end result is that there's even less to watch. The company itself is run by an asshat that seems to think tha...
[22:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Has More Subscribers Than Major Cable Providers in the U.S. - 508 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:10] <exec> 08└─Too late. The prices are on their way up, the amount of content is approaching a quarter of what the online service had and the DVDs are disappearing over time as they get scratched or damaged. They've been coasting for a few years now by being slightly better than the competition, but at this point...
[22:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03KGIII [5261] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Has More Subscribers Than Major Cable Providers in the U.S. - 979 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:12] <exec> 08└─Is that your memory having issues? That is not meant to be derogatory. Commercials have always been on cable TV. Cable TV got its start from people living in areas where they couldn't get reception. Depending, they'd form a co-op, set up a mast antenna, and distribute the signal ove coaxial cable. A...
[22:36:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062017 Brings Record Heat Waves - 804 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:11] <exec> 08└─The article and even the research paper are not very clear, but it looks like they analyzed the heat waves for population density and income distributions. My guess is they did account for the increase in population size, but as I said they did a bad job of it. Regardless, the end result is the same...
[22:36:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062017 Brings Record Heat Waves - 916 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:13] <exec> 08└─Well it depends on where the people are packed into and where the heat wave deaths occurred. Perhaps the urban areas with increasingly dense populations actually do better, more shade and access to facilities. You are assuming so much and jumping to a conclusion based on one very obvious metric. I r...
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[23:31:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wind Farms are Hardly the Bird Slayers They're Made Out to Be - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:31:46] <exec> 08└─So, what we need is cat-powered generators! Not sure how much energy you get, burning moggies, but think of the birds!
[23:31:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wind Farms are Hardly the Bird Slayers They're Made Out to Be - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:31:48] <exec> 08└─It won't work: The cats will just sit there.
[23:31:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wind Farms are Hardly the Bird Slayers They're Made Out to Be - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:31:50] <exec> 08└─"nuclear and fossil fuel powered plants killed 2,118 birds." Nuclear plants don't kill birds: people running nuclear plants kill birds.... with guns!
[23:31:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wind Farms are Hardly the Bird Slayers They're Made Out to Be - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:31:52] <exec> 08└─In other words, for every one bird killed by a wind turbine, nuclear and fossil fuel powered plants killed 2,118 birds.
[23:32:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Canada to Require Unlocking of All Phones - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:32:04] <exec> 08└─They'd already mandated that the carrier had to provide unlock services so we could already legally unlock them. I wasn't really expecting to see a mandate that it be done for free. That was a pleasant surprise; it's nice to see it go away completely.
[23:32:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 4, Touché) 02 - 06Canada to Require Unlocking of All Phones - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:32:05] <exec> 08└─Canada to Require Unlocking of All Phones
[23:32:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Revises U.S. Policy Towards Cuba - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:32:42] <exec> 08└─Ah, so the USA is a capitalist country then!
[23:32:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Guppy [3213] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Antibiotic Effective Against Drug-Resistant Bacteria - 886 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:32:54] <exec> 08└─A couple of comments. First, this antibiotic is active against both gram positive and gram negatives, and I would expect it to be active against many atypicals as well, such as mycoplasmas. That's good, the antibiotic resistance crunch is especially a problem for gram negatives right now. Second, it...
[23:34:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple's Tim Cook Confirms Self-Driving Car Plans - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:37] <exec> 08└─Don't forget the proprietary charge port.
[23:35:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Advanced CIA Firmware Has Been Infecting Wi-Fi Routers for Years - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:20] <exec> 08└─Checkout /dev/mtdblock* ?
[23:37:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Hackers Penetrated US Electoral Systems and Tried to Delete Voter Registration Data - 851 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:18] <exec> 08└─Most of my loans are from Deutsche Bank. I got a lot of loans from them, I mean, not a lot a lot. I mean, not a lot for me, it may be a lot for you. Less than a billion, but almost a billion, from Deutsche Bank. Which is German, not Russian. Around a billion dollars, it could be more but I think it...
[23:37:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Hackers Penetrated US Electoral Systems and Tried to Delete Voter Registration Data - 1874 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:20] <exec> 08└─Not ignorant, just not a stupid American who wound up with the leadership you didn't get/got. I'm looking at your sour predicament from afar, my friend. Not far enough, but far. Don't call me ignorant and an idiot-- YOU wound up with the leaders your parties picked... i can't help it if YOU wound up...
[23:37:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Hackers Penetrated US Electoral Systems and Tried to Delete Voter Registration Data - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:22] <exec> 08└─Yeah! You tell him, Liberal Champion of the Oppressed! That guy needs to provide evidence, but all websites are disqualified if you don't like them! That's how you win an argument! Automatic disregard of anyone you don't like, regardless of the evidence! Soros loves you!
[23:37:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Hackers Penetrated US Electoral Systems and Tried to Delete Voter Registration Data - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:24] <exec> 08└─duh, see answer above, dumbass. God you people are stupid. I can't help it if Hillary was such a loser. Just glad i'm not american and as unfortunate as you. Dumbass, I'm lol, dumbass.
[23:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Hackers Penetrated US Electoral Systems and Tried to Delete Voter Registration Data - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:26] <exec> 08└─Nope, didn't know that: i figured another election would get triggered at impeachment. And Sanders should run... don't think you'd want Hillary as prez either.
[23:37:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Hackers Penetrated US Electoral Systems and Tried to Delete Voter Registration Data - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:29] <exec> 08└─Ah, i see you've played knifey/spyey before!
[23:38:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Inside Walt Mossberg's Gadget Museum - 723 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:33] <exec> 08└─Anybody still crank up their [ancient] Mac or PC [...]? If you wait too long, you could end up with a pile of junk. An electrolytic capacitor uses electricity to "form up" its dielectric. If you let those go too long without applying juice, the 'lytics can go bad. Slapping full juice to them can the...
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