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[00:20:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Millionaire CIA Torture Psychologists to Face Trial - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:20:50] <exec> 08└─Some limp-wristed SJW'er is involved in the prosecution.
[00:20:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Millionaire CIA Torture Psychologists to Face Trial - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:20:51] <exec> 08└─Justice is fabulous, honey.
[00:20:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Millionaire CIA Torture Psychologists to Face Trial - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:20:54] <exec> 08└─They can't prescribe drugs; they just recommend someone else do it. They can't torture anyone; they just recommend someone else do it. All the while psychologists hide behind their credentials and disclaim responsibility.
[00:20:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Millionaire CIA Torture Psychologists to Face Trial - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:20:56] <exec> 08└─These guys took money to tell assholes how to torture presumably innocent people to tell them things the tortured folks may or may not have known. Fuck em. Apply the torture techniques they recommended to them to find out, hell I dunno, the name of the girl they met when they were 2 years old and sm...
[00:20:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millionaire CIA Torture Psychologists to Face Trial - 516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:20:58] <exec> 08└─It doesn't take a SJW to understand that torture is A: counterproductive and B: carried out by subhumans. Suppose I live next door to you. My windows are broken. So, I abduct your 8 year old son, and torture the little fuck until he confesses to breaking my windows. Hey, dude, it simply doesn't MATT...
[00:20:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millionaire CIA Torture Psychologists to Face Trial - 454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:00] <exec> 08└─I guess someone finally found the limits of that limited immunity crap. The cops have been testing those limits for awhile now. Seriously, I can't believe that Government is going to let this happen. Prosecute bad actors for treating brown men badly? Doesn't this open the doors for war crimes trials...
[00:21:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ad Blockers' Self-Immolation? - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:17] <exec> 08└─No, and I'll never visit your shitsite again.
[00:22:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Justin Case [4239] 02 - 06P&G Cuts More Than $100 Million in ‘Largely Ineffective’ Digital Ads - 851 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:37] <exec> 08└─We can hope the marketdroids finally start to figure out that advertising wastes everyone's time and money. Salespeople are by nature suckers. They think the product doesn't matter; just excitement and other emotional triggers. That's because they are employed by people who know that what they have...
[00:23:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03gringer [962] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Psst, the Human Genome Was Never Completely Sequenced. Some Scientists Say It Should be - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:19] <exec> 08└─Highly repetitive sequences that are longer than the template length of Sanger sequencing and Illumina sequencing: http://i.imgur.com [imgur.com] https://twitter.com [twitter.com] https://twitter.com [twitter.c...
[00:23:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03gringer [962] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Psst, the Human Genome Was Never Completely Sequenced. Some Scientists Say It Should be - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:21] <exec> 08└─60x longer is a far stretch
[00:25:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Minimum wage reduces employment - 860 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:08] <exec> 08└─Democracy is a governmental model. Socialism is an ownership model. The opposite of Democracy is Authoritarianism. The opposite of Socialism is Capitalism. In a Capitalist workplace: - Someone besides The Workers dictates what will be produced - Someone besides The Workers dictates how that will be...
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[01:20:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06[Tonight] "Breaking the Code" Starring Simon Templeman Streaming via KPFK - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:20:51] <exec> 08└─Facebook ruined everything. Fuck Zuck.
[01:21:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millionaire CIA Torture Psychologists to Face Trial - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:04] <exec> 08└─Calm down, the judge just said they don't get to skip the trial. At least not on one particular theory. At least that's what it sounds like from the writeup. Which on examination doesn't cite a real source. So maybe he didn't even say that. But if he did, he's just saying the court has to put it bac...
[01:21:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millionaire CIA Torture Psychologists to Face Trial - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:05] <exec> 08└─Their psychology backgrounds were in family therapy ...
[01:21:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ad Blockers' Self-Immolation? - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:24] <exec> 08└─The workaround that seems to be most annoying is to either use tons of annoying animated embedded blob images that are removed if ad scripts are loaded or to overwrite the 'body' tag with JavaScript so the content vanishes from the DOM. Ad blockers need to plug these holes.
[01:21:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ad Blockers' Self-Immolation? - 600 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:25] <exec> 08└─Stuff like this has been around for much, much longer than one year. I've been blocking ad-block blockers since at least 2006 in the form of stuff like "Anti-Leech" (who's "fool proof" junk you could defeat by blocking it with a hosts file/proxy) (ditto with malware ads, those have been around since...
[01:21:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06It Took DEF CON Hackers Minutes to Pwn These US Voting Machines - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:46] <exec> 08└─Clarification: winner-take-all is not in the US Constitution. The electoral college does encourage it, but the constitution does not even require voting (appointment by state government used to be common when thr US was young).
[01:21:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06It Took DEF CON Hackers Minutes to Pwn These US Voting Machines - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:48] <exec> 08└─In upstate NY (far from NY City), I vote by pencil, blackening spots on a heavy paper ballot. The ballot is scanned by something that looks a bit like an old fax machine, and then saved should a recount be called for. Not sure how the scanned image is counted, anyone know? I suppose the scanner soft...
[01:25:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Minimum wage reduces employment - 838 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:17] <exec> 08└─Not really, subsistence level is where you produce everything yourself. The level that minimum wages are aiming for are where people have food, shelter and the basic necessities of life, but little else. It's supposed to be a temporary situation for people either entering the workforce for the first...
[01:25:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Minimum wage reduces employment - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:18] <exec> 08└─It's liberal and hateful whenever the nutters on the right disagree. Which isn't surprising considering how little evidence there is to their political views and their aggressive attacks on education and information.
[01:25:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Minimum wage reduces employment - 2229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:21] <exec> 08└─Sorry that your country sucks so badly. (There are better countries.) The Founders carefully designed a carefully[-gamed,] balanced Republican form of government True. They also specified in that document how that document could be amended. So far, one chance was squandered, outlawing drinkable alco...
[01:25:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Minimum wage reduces employment - 887 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:23] <exec> 08└─there are fewer and fewer jobs that pay more than minimum wage To paraphrase Pastor Niemöller: [wikipedia.org] First they came for the wages of the burger flippers, and I did not speak out ...because I was not a burger flipper. Then they came for the wages of the warehouse workers, and I did not sp...
[01:25:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hackers 'Could Make Car Wash Attack' - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:37] <exec> 08└─True, but then they won't function, and will be pretty useless at whatever they needed to do in the first place. Equivalent items but without the IoT crap would be hard to find (if they are available on the market at all, you might have to try to find vintage equivalents second hand).
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[02:20:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Car Drove 4,300-Plus Miles Autonomously on USA Cross-Country Trip - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:20:55] <exec> 08└─Now, as you all know, I am no fan of self-driving cars. However, I believe they should be adopted as long as self-driven cars remain legal. More dipshits I can smoke on the highway.
[02:20:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Car Drove 4,300-Plus Miles Autonomously on USA Cross-Country Trip - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:20:56] <exec> 08└─Interstates are the easy cases, I don't see the point of this "test", since Mercedes-Benz has been self-driving long distances on freeways since 1995 -- https://www.autoevolution.com [autoevolution.com]
[02:20:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Car Drove 4,300-Plus Miles Autonomously on USA Cross-Country Trip - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:20:58] <exec> 08└─How about "Christine"?
[02:21:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Car Drove 4,300-Plus Miles Autonomously on USA Cross-Country Trip - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:01] <exec> 08└─While I like the name of "Christine", a self driving car should be named "KITT". (and yes, I was young enough to actually like the show when it was new; which still makes me an old man today.)
[02:21:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Car Drove 4,300-Plus Miles Autonomously on USA Cross-Country Trip - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:03] <exec> 08└─How about "otto" http://www.imdb.com [imdb.com]
[02:21:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Car Drove 4,300-Plus Miles Autonomously on USA Cross-Country Trip - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:05] <exec> 08└─The first set of people that will use self driving in a big way will be the long haul truckers. There is not much to it and the margins are razor thin. Instead of the truck stopping 50 of the time it can roll 23/7. With one hour to refuel.
[02:21:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Car Drove 4,300-Plus Miles Autonomously on USA Cross-Country Trip - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:07] <exec> 08└─I'd call you stupid 'cause you are, but it's kinda like shooting fish in a barrel. Too easy and boring.
[02:21:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06[Tonight] "Breaking the Code" Starring Simon Templeman Streaming via KPFK - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:16] <exec> 08└─So it's a complete work of fiction then, where the poor lone genius Turing does all the work and heavy lifting while the country hates him? Pure fiction. As for the play I can only assume they just cut out all the work that Gordon Welchman did, again -- as they always do when they mention Turing sin...
[02:21:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06[Tonight] "Breaking the Code" Starring Simon Templeman Streaming via KPFK - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:18] <exec> 08└─As my computer science instructor told me many years ago, "Alan Turing had a lot of kids considering he was a faggot." He was part of the Catholic mafia.
[02:21:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06[Tonight] "Breaking the Code" Starring Simon Templeman Streaming via KPFK - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:20] <exec> 08└─The Hut Six Story written by Welchman is well worth a read.
[02:21:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06[Tonight] "Breaking the Code" Starring Simon Templeman Streaming via KPFK - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:23] <exec> 08└─Hey, EF, if you're gonna be a smart-ass, first you have to be smart. Otherwise you're just an ass. Mostly a stupid ass.
[02:21:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03looorg [578] 02 - 06Millionaire CIA Torture Psychologists to Face Trial - 55 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:36] <exec> 08└─Their psychology backgrounds were in family therapy ...
[02:21:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millionaire CIA Torture Psychologists to Face Trial - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:37] <exec> 08└─I'd actually be more concerned if the only things on these guys' resumes were torture related - that's the kind of field you want to have a broad base in other realities if you're going to engage. Seriously folks, I taught Scuba Diving for a semester in college, doesn't mean I don't know how to do a...
[02:21:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ad Blockers' Self-Immolation? - 479 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:58] <exec> 08└─In other words they have a minimum competence bar you need to pass to be permitted in, any newb and most LEOs will get own3d so fast they wouldn't come back a second time... after they get their PC back from the shop. Not a good model for legit sites though, but it is getting almost that bad at a lo...
[02:21:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ad Blockers' Self-Immolation? - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:59] <exec> 08└─Those nagging banners asking you to disable your adblocker are just another type of page content that can be blocked.
[02:22:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ad Blockers' Self-Immolation? - 966 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:02] <exec> 08└─I run two things myself, an adblocker and noscript. I use both primarily as defenses against malware. I've seen too many instances where websites ended up displaying rogue ads that served malware. As a result, by default I'm not letting scripts to run or ads to display. There are VERY few exceptions...
[02:22:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ad Blockers' Self-Immolation? - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:04] <exec> 08└─I don't block ads, I block shit that tracks me... but I see no ads, so you put 2 and 2 together and tell me what that means.
[02:22:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ad Blockers' Self-Immolation? - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:06] <exec> 08└─Unless the sites fetch the content via ajax it's usually possible to unhide it simply by turning off css.
[02:23:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why You’re Being Invited to Fewer Weddings - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:20] <exec> 08└─> (and expect the guests to get themselves there) Canadian friends got married on top of Mt. Kilimanjaro (Africa), they managed to find a preacher and a few hardy relatives to walk up with them. I was invited, but have a bum foot, would never have made it up.
[02:23:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why You’re Being Invited to Fewer Weddings - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:21] <exec> 08└─Or maybe he's bitter about losing big in some divorce court, hearing about other men losing big in divorce court, or bitter about some other unfortunate events he may have heard about. You're not a mind reader, so don't pretend to be one.
[02:23:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why You’re Being Invited to Fewer Weddings - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:23] <exec> 08└─Are you by chance a fan of No True Scotsman fallacies? Because unless you're referring to biological sex, there is no concrete definition of what a "real man" is. You might be as stupid as the MRA manbabies.
[02:23:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06P&G Cuts More Than $100 Million in ‘Largely Ineffective’ Digital Ads - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:48] <exec> 08└─Don't make me call the Elders of the Internet on you...
[02:26:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Minimum Wage Reduces Employment - 540 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:10] <exec> 08└─I can't name a country where The collective ownership of the means of production was actually a thing. (When -you- own something, -you- get to decide what happens with that something.) I can't think of a nationwide instance that had a tight enough feedback loop to qualify.) The Soviet Union made it...
[02:26:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Minimum Wage Reduces Employment - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:12] <exec> 08└─If the tax rates for the richest were dependent upon the living conditions of the poorest I'd Love To Change The World - Ten Years After (1971) [metrolyrics.com] Tax the rich, feed the poor, till there are no rich no more -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[02:26:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03phantomlord [4309] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Minimum Wage Reduces Employment - 2290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:15] <exec> 08└─Franklin did actually have something to say on a similar matter On the Price of Corn and Management of the Poor [archives.gov] For my own part, I am not so well satisfied of the goodness of this thing. I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of do...
[02:26:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Minimum Wage Reduces Employment - 668 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:17] <exec> 08└─Following on the tack of TheRaven, if they were going to, wouldn't they have -already- done that? You blockquoted the part I was going to. they could cut the workforce I note that since USA's minimum wage was instituted in 1938, it has been raised 22 times. Not once has that brought about that hand-...
[02:28:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BBC Three to Show Major E-Sports Tournament - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:28:33] <exec> 08└─Governing bodies for several ball sports manage to get paid huge sums for TV rights.
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[03:21:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06[Tonight] "Breaking the Code" Starring Simon Templeman Streaming via KPFK - 1555 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:15] <exec> 08└─As I recall the book, The Hut Six Story, Welchman shares the credit with quite a few people. He didn't replace one lone genius with himself. I'm sure there might have been some ego stroking involved, it's hard to tell. That said Welchman did pay a high price for the book since his security clearance...
[03:21:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millionaire CIA Torture Psychologists to Face Trial - 522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:31] <exec> 08└─The really nutty thing is that the US military didn't really need the "help" of these psychologists: The techniques employed are well-documented, in the transcript of the International Tribunal for the Far East, the other post-WWII trials for war crimes. Also, one of the things everyone knows about...
[03:21:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Millionaire CIA Torture Psychologists to Face Trial - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:32] <exec> 08└─So it seems like it should be obvious that these are patsies.
[03:21:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ad Blockers' Self-Immolation? - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:57] <exec> 08└─I just took it to the next level the other day and installed NoScript. I used to run it all the time in Firefox ~10 years ago. I'm a lot happier, no nags. I figure eventually the ad blockers will filter out all that crap, too, but until then, NoScript is great and lets me read the web.
[03:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It Took DEF CON Hackers Minutes to Pwn These US Voting Machines - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:21] <exec> 08└─"verify the operation of the machine before the polls open." so, the machine shows one count for one vote for each candidate, or whatever 'test' the manufacturer proscribes. How does it do, once there are several thousand votes? How does it go about 'checking' itself, part-way through, and at the en...
[03:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06It Took DEF CON Hackers Minutes to Pwn These US Voting Machines - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:22] <exec> 08└─Screw that! Gimme free shit! Gimme free silver candlesticks so I can become a 1%er capitalist mogul!
[03:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why You’re Being Invited to Fewer Weddings - 727 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:17] <exec> 08└─Given https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Elon Musk must be really poor, that damn guy has 6 kids. Well above average for Western countries (or many places). https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] And Jeff Bezos has 4. Still above average. https://en.w...
[03:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why You’re Being Invited to Fewer Weddings - 924 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:19] <exec> 08└─I might spend $30,000 if I had about $10,000,000 by net worth and by liquid assets. It's a matter of spending 0.1% to 1% of what you have. Add or remove several digits if you are a billionaire or thousandaire. Women are increasingly unsatisfied with life. Many of them are unable to feel attracted to...
[03:23:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06P&G Cuts More Than $100 Million in ‘Largely Ineffective’ Digital Ads - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:45] <exec> 08└─> Advertising pays In the car industry it's well known that if you *don't* advertise, you don't have a chance of selling many of a new model of car[1]. If you *do* advertise, then you have a chance of selling some of your new model. [1] This applies for cars produced in high volume, not talking abou...
[03:23:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03SanityCheck [5190] (Score: 2) 02 - 06P&G Cuts More Than $100 Million in ‘Largely Ineffective’ Digital Ads - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:46] <exec> 08└─The weirdest part of it, even though I use ad-block, if I did not I can almost guarantee I wouldn't buy anything that was peddled to me. I am totally not impulsive shopper, I only buy very few items, from very select brands or stores which have a proven track record with me.
[03:24:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Psst, the Human Genome Was Never Completely Sequenced. Some Scientists Say It Should be - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:16] <exec> 08└─Well, as everybody knows the first 90% of the work takes 90% of the time. The remaining 10% takes 90% more of the time.
[03:25:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Minimum Wage Reduces Employment - 500 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:12] <exec> 08└─"When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic." -- Ben Franklin And he was 100% correct in that. Whether it's the rich buying congressmens' votes for money or the Democrats buying the poor's votes for money, it makes no difference. This nation is...
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[03:26:17] <exec> 08└─I'm surprised Wikipedia has a page on them. If your operation has a high profile of any sort, these folks will have done a page on you. The guys in question? Still wannabes. [mediabiasfactcheck.com] -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[03:26:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Minimum Wage Reduces Employment - 492 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:18] <exec> 08└─I am wondering what the political leanings are of the people that refuse to pay a minimum wage, and instead hire illegals? Google's algorithm gives preference to recent stuff, so Trump's appointees are the first in the results. [google.com] Go down a bit and you hit the one I half-remembered. Nannyg...
[03:26:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Minimum Wage Reduces Employment - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:20] <exec> 08└─This represents a market failure as people have to have some source of food and shelter. The US lacks a comprehensive set of programs to ensure that citizens have access to at least the bare necessities which puts many people in a position where they have to work for minimum wage if there aren't job...
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[04:20:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06BBC’s Micro:bit Turns Out to be an Excellent Drone Hijacking Tool - 733 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:20:51] <exec> 08└─I know the Micro:Bit is supposed to be the new hotness, so all new hacking projects are supposed to try to incorporate it. Because for anarchists and non-conformists they seem to be herd animals. But the Pi 0 W is cheaper and more capable. WiFi+BT > BT, 512MB > 16KB for System RAM, lots more GPIO on...
[04:21:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Car Drove 4,300-Plus Miles Autonomously on USA Cross-Country Trip - 779 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:21:05] <exec> 08└─So it says the "bulk" of the distance was covered autonomously... Well DUH!!! The bulk of most highway driving can easily be handled with simple speed-adaptive cruise control coupled with some kind of basic lane guidance. I would like to see the actual data which shows where the car couldn't navigat...
[04:21:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Car Drove 4,300-Plus Miles Autonomously on USA Cross-Country Trip - 556 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:21:06] <exec> 08└─I support your right to drive what you want. The insurance however, will be 1000x the self-driving cars. Unless you are not interacting with self-driving cars. How do I know this? Ever know someone who works on an airport....? They have vehicle insured for many millions *incase* they hit a plane. So...
[04:21:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snotnose [1623] 02 - 06Millionaire CIA Torture Psychologists to Face Trial - 333 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:21:28] <exec> 08└─These guys took money to tell assholes how to torture presumably innocent people to tell them things the tortured folks may or may not have known. Fuck em. Apply the torture techniques they recommended to them to find out, hell I dunno, the name of the girl they met when they were 2 years old and sm...
[04:21:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Millionaire CIA Torture Psychologists to Face Trial - 892 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:21:36] <exec> 08└─There are two ways to use torture. a. You have a way to test the information, and good reason to believe that they have it. For example, they yanked the power to a computer with an encrypted hard drive as you raided their place. Every time they "tell their interrogator whatever they think will stop...
[04:21:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Millionaire CIA Torture Psychologists to Face Trial - 1574 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:21:38] <exec> 08└─There are two ways to use torture. 1. You have a way to test the information, and good reason to believe that they have it. For example, they yanked the power to a computer with an encrypted hard drive as you raided their place. Every time they tell you a supposed password, you go test the password...
[04:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03fakefuck39 [6620] (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why You’re Being Invited to Fewer Weddings - 1247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:24] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I hate that behavior where people make shit up, assign it to other people, then argue against it. It's called talking to yourself, while thinking another real person is saying it. We normal people call it not taking your pills. Time to take those pills buddy. -AC says he doesn't like hanging o...
[04:23:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why You’re Being Invited to Fewer Weddings - 844 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:26] <exec> 08└─There is a reason for that. The rich people of Victorian times did have elaborate marriages and full-on female politics and expensive gifts and dinners. There are multiple novels talking about people doing nothing but getting married. Victorian morals gave immense importance to chastity and longevit...
[04:24:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon's Race to Make Alexa Smarter - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:43] <exec> 08└─However, the results are still comically poor and rely entirely on a legion of developers considering every possible thing you might ask of the device.
[04:25:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ransomware 'Here to Stay', Warns Google Study - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:03] <exec> 08└─It used to be that I would only surf the web on Linux. Then I would read email only Linux. There's less and less I'm willimg to do on Windows, even though some aspects of my job still require it.
[04:26:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Minimum Wage Reduces Employment - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:25] <exec> 08└─Where did FDR say people can vote themselves money?
[04:26:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Minimum Wage Reduces Employment - 1344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:26] <exec> 08└─Summary: Minimum wages are good I find it endlessly frustrating that USA'ians continue to pronounce theoretical doom from the imposition of a higher minimum wage when there are plenty of examples across the developed world where a (relatively) higher minimum wage has been a good thing. In fact, the...
[04:26:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Minimum Wage Reduces Employment - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:28] <exec> 08└─Running a business is not compulsive. "They" are welcome to move to another country, the free market will quickly fill the void as you libertarians love to point out.
[04:26:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Minimum Wage Reduces Employment - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:30] <exec> 08└─<sarcasm>Because we've seen throughout history that when you take away minimum wage, people get paid more out of the goodness of the heart of the benevolent Corporation, amirite?</sarcasm>
[04:27:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Laptop-Ban Update: Missing Laptop Screws can get you Kicked off US-Bound Flight - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:27:41] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure what the non-owner population of the US universally suffering for decades has to do with President Gore and Hillary Clinton winning the popular vote?
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[05:20:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lennart Poettering Wins 2017 Pwnie for Lamest Vendor Response - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:20:56] <exec> 08└─In the end, it's Readhat pulling all the strings, but it's poettering that gets all the hate. Why? Because the dubmfuck is a moron and doesn't know it. Or maybe he does, but feels the paycheck is worth it.
[05:21:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06BBC’s Micro:bit Turns Out to be an Excellent Drone Hijacking Tool - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:04] <exec> 08└─Yes the trendy herd animals are hypocrites. They disrupt nothing and blindly follow trends of technologies which have become economically feasible during their formative years. They are not anarchists and and they are not non-conformists. The one attribute they all have in common is youth.
[05:21:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millionaire CIA Torture Psychologists to Face Trial - 1308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:51] <exec> 08└─Definitely patsies. With military justice tending to be harsh and abrupt, the military boys are very interested in CYA. They'll happily use anyone with a degree or reputation to justify their actions. Dangle big carrots in front of them to tempt them into endorsing whatever idiotic notions they want...
[05:21:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Millionaire CIA Torture Psychologists to Face Trial - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:52] <exec> 08└─When all you needed to get on the government gravy train was to be a horse club president with political connections, or be able to spin a good story about risk to the Homeland, or have a religious solution to a societal problem.
[05:22:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03sjames [2882] 02 - 06Ad Blockers' Self-Immolation? - 578 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:08] <exec> 08└─My ad blocker is privacy badger. If they would quit trying to dart and tag me, or perhaps give me a virus, they might get their ads displayed. Given that, when they beg me to turn off my ad blocking, they come off more like "come into my parlor" said the spider to the fly. And it's just as scummy th...
[05:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ad Blockers' Self-Immolation? - 1250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:19] <exec> 08└─This is a poorly thought out scare piece. Nagging demands less attention (the primary user cost) than the ads do, and is safer than accepting ad network content. No real person in the target audience is going to be convinced of anything by this piece. Isn't it strange how nearly every site with anti...
[05:23:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03fakefuck39 [6620] (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why You’re Being Invited to Fewer Weddings - 1765 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:42] <exec> 08└─you're really showing your white trash blue collar. you haven't had the good things in life, so you make up facts about them to convince yourself they're bad. let me guess - you think expensive wine tastes the same as woodbridge too, but in your life you've had one glass of the good stuff after you...
[05:23:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03KGIII [5261] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why You’re Being Invited to Fewer Weddings - 1331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:43] <exec> 08└─That is foreign, to me. Even when I was poor, I had a girlfriend. In my days of being an asshole; I cheated on my mistress - which means, yes, I even had a wife at the time. All of them have been quite good looking, if I dated them. I have a girlfriend asleep beside me, though I am completely faithf...
[05:23:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why You’re Being Invited to Fewer Weddings - 532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:46] <exec> 08└─People put on such a show! Glitter and pretense. Couples who have simple, humble weddings often last longer together - even unto death do us part - which is the actual idea of "marriage". What is "in fashion" is easy-in easy-out relationships as people think they can live with no moral depth to thei...
[05:23:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why You’re Being Invited to Fewer Weddings - 1127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:48] <exec> 08└─My wedding was quite the affair. Yes a bit stressful, I feel like I might enjoy a second wedding more :) But I am only willing to cough up enough dough to buy a car on showing off to family and friends once (well twice if you consider actually buying a car to show off). Feminism has all but ruined m...
[05:25:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon's Race to Make Alexa Smarter - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:06] <exec> 08└─I was talking about the commands you send it. Which provide them a lot of useful information!
[05:25:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon's Race to Make Alexa Smarter - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:08] <exec> 08└─The Google assistant on my Android phone understands my speech just fine when I take mobile data and WiFi both offline
[05:25:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon's Race to Make Alexa Smarter - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:10] <exec> 08└─You cannot dismiss this as mere paranoia, especially not at this point in time. The NSA is conducting mass surveillance
[05:25:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon's Race to Make Alexa Smarter - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:12] <exec> 08└─(abuse besides denying you your software freedoms, which is a form of abuse in and of itself)
[05:26:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Minimum Wage Reduces Employment - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:26:56] <exec> 08└─Let me suggest that you look up the definition of democracy. Hint: it's not so restrictive that the USA cannot be defined as a democracy.
[05:26:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Minimum Wage Reduces Employment - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:26:57] <exec> 08└─I didn't remember enough particulars on that but it wasn't difficult to find that University of Washington "study". It was junk. study+minimum.wage+cherry-picked+inurl:2017 [google.com] -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[05:26:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Minimum Wage Reduces Employment - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:27:00] <exec> 08└─I believe the saying is "democracy is tyranny by the masses".
[05:27:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Minimum Wage Reduces Employment - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:27:02] <exec> 08└─did you, not pass basic 5th grade grammer? s/grammer/grammar That comma is also unneeded. Did you skip out on spelling class a whole lot? Did you miss the how-to-install-a-spellchecker class? http://www.google.com's.law [google.com] -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[05:27:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06As Tech Hubs Tighten Their Grip, Where Is the Next Silicon Valley? - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:27:43] <exec> 08└─I'm going to Kentucky this summer. :-/
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[06:20:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lennart Poettering Wins 2017 Pwnie for Lamest Vendor Response - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:20:52] <exec> 08└─He's smart enough to understand making a good design with security in mind is exactly what his employers are trying to avoid. That's the trouble with tools from the service industry. They're designed to need constant servicing. And being fair, I don't see a lot of software in the UNIX verse that jus...
[06:21:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Some call me Tim [5819] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BBC’s Micro:bit Turns Out to be an Excellent Drone Hijacking Tool - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:21:01] <exec> 08└─I should know better, but the vast majority of this post is *WHOOSH*! Any chance you can you can downgrade this to slightly less than rocket surgeon levels of wharblgarble for those of us who are not rocket surgeons? Thanks!
[06:21:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06[Tonight] "Breaking the Code" Starring Simon Templeman Streaming via KPFK - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:21:31] <exec> 08└─A sister station did an interview [kpfa.org] of Andrew Hodges, upon whose book the film "The Imitation Game" was based.
[06:21:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06[Tonight] "Breaking the Code" Starring Simon Templeman Streaming via KPFK - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:21:32] <exec> 08└─It sounds as though your instructor misunderstood the honorific "father of computer science."
[06:21:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06[Tonight] "Breaking the Code" Starring Simon Templeman Streaming via KPFK - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:21:34] <exec> 08└─Yeah. I'm listening and the timeline is a botch. The homosexuality charges came in 1952. The play is set during WWII and has moved that stuff ahead at least 7 years. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[06:21:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Millionaire CIA Torture Psychologists to Face Trial - 522 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:21:50] <exec> 08└─The really nutty thing is that the US military didn't really need the "help" of these psychologists: The techniques employed are well-documented, in the transcript of the International Tribunal for the Far East, the other post-WWII trials for war crimes. Also, one of the things everyone knows about...
[06:21:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millionaire CIA Torture Psychologists to Face Trial - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:21:56] <exec> 08└─These two provided some (rather pathetic) scientific cover for what the CIA wanted to do anyway. It's good to see them going on trial, but the real criminals worked directly for the CIA, plus everyone all the way up the chain who knew about the program. Why aren't they on trial?
[06:21:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millionaire CIA Torture Psychologists to Face Trial - 898 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:21:58] <exec> 08└─one of the things everyone knows about torture is that it is useless for getting the truth out of people This. In fact, getting a "confession" out of someone tend to prove their innocence. Because someone with real colleagues and information to protect is likely to hold out longer. I've read article...
[06:22:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millionaire CIA Torture Psychologists to Face Trial - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:00] <exec> 08└─Above comment is complete BS. What really happens when used with confirmation is that the torturers merely attempt to confirm their own biases. Objective truth doesn't enter the process.
[06:22:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Celestial [4891] 02 - 06Ad Blockers' Self-Immolation? - 440 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:09] <exec> 08└─That is just pure wishful thinking. I use uBlock Origin on the desktop, with two anti-ad-blocker filters loaded. Should an anti-adblocker manage to get around it, I simply won't use the site and move on. If the content is good enough, I'll pay for it. I currently subscribe to about two dozen differe...
[06:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ad Blockers' Self-Immolation? - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:28] <exec> 08└─Currently every site that refuses to display the content without the ads can be cured by blocking Javascript from that site.
[06:23:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why You’re Being Invited to Fewer Weddings - 741 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:23:55] <exec> 08└─When I was applying for my first real job after getting through undergrad, I was surprised that the grad students with me at interviews were all married. They were maybe a few years older than I was, but they were all married, and I couldn't imagine settling down like that in just a few years. Havin...
[06:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why You’re Being Invited to Fewer Weddings - 678 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:23:56] <exec> 08└─There's nothing really nice about it. But in our world -- with the long courts and with the vicious lawyers, and with all of the problems -- if you have money or if you think you're going to have money, you have to have a prenuptial agreement. A prenup is an ugly instrument. It’s a hard, painful,...
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[07:20:47] <exec> 08└─I think he's wrong. He should be looking at money: how much money is connected to "legitimate" traffic, and how much is connected to provably illegal behavior? It's a lot like political donations in the US: many individuals donated to Bernie Sanders, but Hillary Clinton got more money.
[07:20:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dark Web Doesn't Exist, Says Tor's Dingledine. and Folks use Network for Privacy, not Crime - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:20:48] <exec> 08└─3% of my body is muh DICK
[07:20:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lennart Poettering Wins 2017 Pwnie for Lamest Vendor Response - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:20:58] <exec> 08└─Well... he is rolling around in cash as the misery caused by his whims are felt by other folks and all he has to do ignore the deluge of internet name calling and labeling. If that was his purpose in life, making money, then I'd say he's pretty successful... so I wouldn't say he's a "dumbfuck" or a...
[07:20:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lennart Poettering Wins 2017 Pwnie for Lamest Vendor Response - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:21:00] <exec> 08└─Remedy: Make him suffer the consequences? End to externalization of costs. Nice banking account you got there..
[07:21:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03rleigh [4887] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Lennart Poettering Wins 2017 Pwnie for Lamest Vendor Response - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:21:02] <exec> 08└─He deserved this prestigious award for his efforts.
[07:21:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BBC’s Micro:bit Turns Out to be an Excellent Drone Hijacking Tool - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:21:13] <exec> 08└─So the security of wireless drones and wireless keyboards sucks? This hack is only possible in such case. And the tool for exploit matters less. What the article should been about is really WHY such lame product firmware is allowed out the door. Death by executive or MBA again?
[07:21:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06[Tonight] "Breaking the Code" Starring Simon Templeman Streaming via KPFK - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:21:43] <exec> 08└─In the 1950s people were hounded over being homosexual etc. In the 2010s people are hounded over being politically incorrect or to not kiss ass to special groups. Being prosecuted and punished for being wrong seems to be true still. Or just persecuted extra juridically. Small minded people and psych...
[07:22:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millionaire CIA Torture Psychologists to Face Trial - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:09] <exec> 08└─They can't prescribe drugs; they just recommend someone else do it.
[07:22:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millionaire CIA Torture Psychologists to Face Trial - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:10] <exec> 08└─The research from WWII using violation of human rights were barred from use. However with parallel reconstruction and a alibi.. it becomes easy!
[07:22:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millionaire CIA Torture Psychologists to Face Trial - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:12] <exec> 08└─Seems the karma echo got around? ;-)
[07:22:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millionaire CIA Torture Psychologists to Face Trial - 1250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:14] <exec> 08└─If torture is necessary you're doing something incredibly wrong. Your security services have already failed and one man withholding information is enough to bring all your plans crashing down. If torture-obtained evidence is acceptable in court, your court systems are also open to bribes, threats an...
[07:23:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MostCynical [2589] 02 - 06It Took DEF CON Hackers Minutes to Pwn These US Voting Machines - 466 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:23:04] <exec> 08└─"verify the operation of the machine before the polls open." so, the machine shows one count for one vote for each candidate, or whatever 'test' the manufacturer proscribes. How does it do, once there are several thousand votes? How does it go about 'checking' itself, part-way through, and at the en...
[07:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06It Took DEF CON Hackers Minutes to Pwn These US Voting Machines - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:23:07] <exec> 08└─There were 31 candidates on ballots, and 206 qualified write-in candidates. [thegreenpapers.com]
[07:25:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon's Race to Make Alexa Smarter - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:34] <exec> 08└─Google has it's drawbacks and limitations, for sure. But it does indicate where the state of the art is now. I find it surprising the feature goes practically unmentioned in Android advertising. Especially when every other commercial was for Siri.
[07:27:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Minimum Wage Reduces Employment - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:27:23] <exec> 08└─Note that I'm not saying that these businesses are going to be forced to fail, I'm merely saying that they can move if they don't agree with the whole "not practicing abusive employment terms" thing. And "ruthlessly stamped out"? Universal employment terms apply to everyone, and there will still be...
[07:27:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03rob_on_earth [5485] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robotic Eel Tracks Down Pollution in Lakes - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:27:48] <exec> 08└─I , for one, welcome our new robot overlords. oops, wrong site. As the cost of developing this sort of robot comes down, I do hope that it makes it more accessible to scientists and local government to do this exact kind of repetitive on going environmental monitoring.
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[08:20:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dark Web Doesn't Exist, Says Tor's Dingledine. and Folks use Network for Privacy, not Crime - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:20:52] <exec> 08└─The greater problem is that (fake) journalists try to disparage privacy tools in the eye of the public and by extension law makers. Just like using computers were presented first as "uncool" and then only done for nefarious purposes. The same power and money that flows to political candidates also f...
[08:20:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dark Web Doesn't Exist, Says Tor's Dingledine. and Folks use Network for Privacy, not Crime - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:20:53] <exec> 08└─Only 3% of you is raping children with the Dark Web. If you are caught and imprisoned, you will be eligible for parole after 219 days.
[08:20:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dark Web Doesn't Exist, Says Tor's Dingledine. and Folks use Network for Privacy, not Crime - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:20:55] <exec> 08└─How much of the 3% are: - hidden services pertaining to .cia, .nsa and .mil? (given that Tor was initially designed "with the purpose of protecting U.S. intelligence communications online." [wikipedia.org]) - honeypots ran by "children"? (the internet, where men are men, women are men and children a...
[08:20:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dark Web Doesn't Exist, Says Tor's Dingledine. and Folks use Network for Privacy, not Crime - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:20:57] <exec> 08└─This text makes it appear as if every use of a hidden service would imply a crime. IIRC SoylentNews can also be accessed as a hidden service. Doing so would be no more a crime than accessing it through the open web.
[08:21:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Lennart Poettering Wins 2017 Pwnie for Lamest Vendor Response - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:21:09] <exec> 08└─> I don't see a lot of software in the UNIX verse that just does its job sed grep awk cat emacs bash etc etc I guess unix-verse is still targeted at people who prefer a command line to a GUI.
[08:21:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lennart Poettering Wins 2017 Pwnie for Lamest Vendor Response - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:21:10] <exec> 08└─On the site it just says: "The winners of the Pwnie Awards will be announced at a ceremony in Las Vegas on July 26th, 2017". That's 5 days ago. https://pwnies.com [pwnies.com]
[08:21:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Lennart Poettering Wins 2017 Pwnie for Lamest Vendor Response - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:21:13] <exec> 08└─... emacs ...
[08:21:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06Lennart Poettering Wins 2017 Pwnie for Lamest Vendor Response - 1334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:21:15] <exec> 08└─Neither the summary nor its two links appear to provide context or links to the relevant bug reports, so for anyone interested, here are the links: 5998 [github.com], 6225 [github.com], 6214 [github.com], 5144 [github.com], and 6237 [github.com] (Credit goes to The Register; I pulled the links from...
[08:21:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lennart Poettering Wins 2017 Pwnie for Lamest Vendor Response - 877 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:21:17] <exec> 08└─Yep. Those small, modular, single-purpose commands that tend to work in perpetuity. Hell, I have a entire book on my shelf that describes the way that sed & awk can be used, and yet they are tiny and have barely changed in years. And only change when NEW TYPES of attack come out (which is basically...
[08:21:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lennart Poettering Wins 2017 Pwnie for Lamest Vendor Response - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:21:19] <exec> 08└─To be fair, there isn't a decent spell checker on the list. :)
[08:21:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Car Drove 4,300-Plus Miles Autonomously on USA Cross-Country Trip - 2012 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:21:45] <exec> 08└─I agree totally. And I imagine anywhere where the road isn't well-defined, or there are lots of hazards (e.g. people walking out between traffic, does that happen in the US?). That also brings to my mind regional variation. A self-driving car "trained" (let's not go there, but it's not) to work in t...
[08:21:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Car Drove 4,300-Plus Miles Autonomously on USA Cross-Country Trip - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:21:46] <exec> 08└─I think these small outfits are just hoping to get eaten up by the big wigs (google uber et al). So the real question is how many patents do they own and what is the value?
[08:22:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03julian [6003] 02 - 06Ad Blockers' Self-Immolation? - 78 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:38] <exec> 08└─It's not for ideology — an obsession with privacy or an anti-capitalist bent
[08:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ad Blockers' Self-Immolation? - 675 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:23:00] <exec> 08└─Indeed. Many websites that nag are websites that have spread malvertisements in the past. It's due to how ads work: there's an auction happening in the background, where the advertisement space on the page you're loading is auctioned off to the highest bidder. So there's a middle man between the sit...
[08:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ad Blockers' Self-Immolation? - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:23:01] <exec> 08└─not letting scripts run [...] And on a poorly designed website (Seems most of them) this lets the content show just fine ...and if ALL of a page's content is buried behind scrips, I feed the URL into archive.li (archive.is/archive.fo/archive.eu). That often works. A site has to be guaranteed to be m...
[08:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why You’re Being Invited to Fewer Weddings - 1273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:32] <exec> 08└─I met my wife while we were both undergraduates. My father advised me to make sure to finish my degree before pursuing romance, so I proposed on her graduation day. We then moved to the city and started running a household, before moving back home and actually getting married. The wait was mainly be...
[08:25:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06P&G Cuts More Than $100 Million in ‘Largely Ineffective’ Digital Ads - 4855 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:25:00] <exec> 08└─That was an interesting article. The same could be said of TV advertising, which has become so burdensome that I find it nearly impossible to watch TV without time-shifting it so I can do fast forwards. If I *have* to watch OTA live, I mute it when the ad starts up, and leave the timer to turn the s...
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[09:20:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Capitulates, Removes Unlicensed VPN Apps From China App Store - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:20:52] <exec> 08└─I've never owned an iphone. Does it do sideloading? Does this matter?
[09:21:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dark Web Doesn't Exist, Says Tor's Dingledine. and Folks use Network for Privacy, not Crime - 3048 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:21:05] <exec> 08└─If they have statistics indicating that 3 percent of the network is connecting to hidden services: Doesn't that mean they have far too much metadata on what traffic is passing through the network, and a general idea of where? As a followup to that: If only 3 percent of the network is using hidden se...
[09:21:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dark Web Doesn't Exist, Says Tor's Dingledine. and Folks use Network for Privacy, not Crime - 471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:21:07] <exec> 08└─Not funny, but wrong. I learned in boot camp, and again when I became an EMT that the groin area is only 1% of the body. Let me find the "Rule of Nines" for burn victims for you . . . http://www.emedicinehealth.com [emedicinehealth.com] What's m...
[09:21:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dark Web Doesn't Exist, Says Tor's Dingledine. and Folks use Network for Privacy, not Crime - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:21:09] <exec> 08└─Warsaw Pact countries
[09:21:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dark Web Doesn't Exist, Says Tor's Dingledine. and Folks use Network for Privacy, not Crime - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:21:11] <exec> 08└─"possible compromise of nodes via TrustZone, ME, or PSP management engines in CPUs, or Windows 10 Telemetry services allowing the possibility of remote exfiltration of private keys allowing after-session analysis of traffic" Let's keep in mind that such exfiltration would apply to just about any enc...
[09:21:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dark Web Doesn't Exist, Says Tor's Dingledine. and Folks use Network for Privacy, not Crime - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:21:13] <exec> 08└─I realize this is a stupid question, but I'm asking for a friend: if the Tor network is anonymous how does he know only 3% of the traffic is connecting to hidden services? If the destinations are that easy to determine wouldn't some TLA just analyze them and see what those 3% are offering?
[09:21:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03tonyPick [1237] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lennart Poettering Wins 2017 Pwnie for Lamest Vendor Response - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:21:31] <exec> 08└─+1 to this - Yes, using grep/sed/whatever from command line has a learning curve. I went through it in the mid 90's, and it's gained a couple of flags, but it's still all pretty much the same when it comes to getting useful work done. Meanwhile you have to relearn the interface for shiny GUI toy of...
[09:21:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lennart Poettering Wins 2017 Pwnie for Lamest Vendor Response - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:21:32] <exec> 08└─I'll give you cat, but the others have all had some pretty important bug fixes in the last few years. Bash was a really bad example: remember Shellshock?
[09:21:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lennart Poettering Wins 2017 Pwnie for Lamest Vendor Response - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:21:34] <exec> 08└─Poettering's remarks give some insight into the special blend of arrogance and ignorance he seems to possess
[09:21:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lennart Poettering Wins 2017 Pwnie for Lamest Vendor Response - 819 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:21:36] <exec> 08└─From the first link I clicked: "I mean, I am fine with security bureaucracy if it actually helps anyone, but you just create noise where there shouldn't be any. And that way you just piss off the upstreams whose cooperation you actually should be interested in. Your at least made sure that my own in...
[09:21:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lennart Poettering Wins 2017 Pwnie for Lamest Vendor Response - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:21:39] <exec> 08└─which is basically never if all you do it cat a given file to the screen
[09:21:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03WizardFusion [498] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lennart Poettering Wins 2017 Pwnie for Lamest Vendor Response - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:21:41] <exec> 08└─Now he can say he's won an award for his work. He pride will blossom. It doesn't matter than it's a shitty award, just that it is an award.
[09:21:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BBC’s Micro:bit Turns Out to be an Excellent Drone Hijacking Tool - 473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:21:51] <exec> 08└─Go to some place line sparkfun.com that carries both the Pi Zero W [sparkfun.com] and the Micro:Bit [sparkfun.com] and examine the price and specs of both. It ain't even close. But somehow a vast hype machine has appeared around the Micro:Bit. Of course the Pi never lived up to the hype around it ei...
[09:21:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06BBC’s Micro:bit Turns Out to be an Excellent Drone Hijacking Tool - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:21:53] <exec> 08└─General purpose computer can be used for any purpose (within the limits of its resources). Who would have thought?
[09:22:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Millionaire CIA Torture Psychologists to Face Trial - 516 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:36] <exec> 08└─It doesn't take a SJW to understand that torture is A: counterproductive and B: carried out by subhumans. Suppose I live next door to you. My windows are broken. So, I abduct your 8 year old son, and torture the little fuck until he confesses to breaking my windows. Hey, dude, it simply doesn't MATT...
[09:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millionaire CIA Torture Psychologists to Face Trial - 1913 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:55] <exec> 08└─You CAN create scenarios in which the "confession" is controlled for honesty, or for the results you want. But, they are only scenarios. I came up with the kid and the broken windows, only to make it more personal - NO ONE can justify torturing a kid for such a petty reason. No one but a very sick i...
[09:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millionaire CIA Torture Psychologists to Face Trial - 1012 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:56] <exec> 08└─There are two issues: the moral and the pragmatic. The moral argument is usually countered by appealing to relative levels of evil. Is it better to torture one person to get the information that will let you save 10 lives? 100? 1000? If you're confident that the person has the information that you...
[09:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Millionaire CIA Torture Psychologists to Face Trial - 1184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:58] <exec> 08└─That's a given. Deciding to engage in organized war crimes is generally a top down thing. At the same time, I think this is a good thing. That same top down hierarchy tends to result in a sense of protection. 'Wow, I can earn millions of dollars just helping carry out some orders from a military com...
[09:23:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ad Blockers' Self-Immolation? - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:23:28] <exec> 08└─My default policy of allowing the site itself almost works, also have to enable forbesimg.com but that gets me in, no ads. This war of stupid will of course continue to escalate.
[09:23:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ad Blockers' Self-Immolation? - 776 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:23:29] <exec> 08└─That's not a proper analogy at all. This one is better: There's a gas station on a busy highway that includes a typical shop. Turns out, that the folks in the shop are frequently robbed by groups of armed robbers. To protect against that, some of this visitors refuse to enter the shop. They're happy...
[09:23:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ad Blockers' Self-Immolation? - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:23:32] <exec> 08└─Currently every site that refuses to display the content without the ads can be cured by blocking Javascript from that site
[09:26:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Psst, the Human Genome Was Never Completely Sequenced. Some Scientists Say It Should be - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:26:00] <exec> 08└─"It's very fair to say the human genome was never fully sequenced," Craig Venter, another genomics luminary, told STAT.
[09:28:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03fraxinus-tree [5590] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Minimum Wage Reduces Employment - 505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:28:16] <exec> 08└─A distorted market is still a market. There is no "THE" market, there are a lot of minor and major markets everywhere with their respective properties. And, market-wise, labour can behave as commodity or as something else. It depends. Looking around, i wonder where the fuck the surplus of labour and...
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[10:20:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Capitulates, Removes Unlicensed VPN Apps From China App Store - 756 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:20:50] <exec> 08└─Hard to really blame Apple for obeying the law when the alternative is having the App Store banned by the Great Firewall and being forbidden from selling product in the country. Of course the totally closed nature of an iOS device is chocolate to China's peanut butter in that they go perfectly toget...
[10:20:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Capitulates, Removes Unlicensed VPN Apps From China App Store - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:20:51] <exec> 08└─It works great against mostly free Western governments who really don't care.
[10:21:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Marand [1081] 02 - 06Lennart Poettering Wins 2017 Pwnie for Lamest Vendor Response - 1334 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:21:24] <exec> 08└─Neither the summary nor its two links appear to provide context or links to the relevant bug reports, so for anyone interested, here are the links: 5998 [github.com], 6225 [github.com], 6214 [github.com], 5144 [github.com], and 6237 [github.com] (Credit goes to The Register; I pulled the links from...
[10:21:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lennart Poettering Wins 2017 Pwnie for Lamest Vendor Response - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:21:34] <exec> 08└─Suitable for framing?
[10:21:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lennart Poettering Wins 2017 Pwnie for Lamest Vendor Response - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:21:36] <exec> 08└─Coreutils takes heavy maintenance: https://git.savannah.gnu.org [gnu.org] Busybox are doing better but at the expense of features that people want. unix-verse is still targeted at people who prefer a command line to a GUI.
[10:21:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lennart Poettering Wins 2017 Pwnie for Lamest Vendor Response - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:21:38] <exec> 08└─A couple of other people made the same comment. I would put security issues as a corner case, because they pertain to web servers - which is not the majority of users (well, pre-IOT at least).
[10:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millionaire CIA Torture Psychologists to Face Trial - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:57] <exec> 08└─There's a bunch of research on the effectiveness of torture. The basic outcome is simple: people will tell you whatever they think will make you stop torturing them. In most cases, this means that there is no pragmatic argument for torture. Unless you can instantly verify the information that you're...
[10:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millionaire CIA Torture Psychologists to Face Trial - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:58] <exec> 08└─Definitely patsies.
[10:23:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ad Blockers' Self-Immolation? - 509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:23:32] <exec> 08└─Almost as annoying as the ads are the social media buttons that either occupy a full non-scrolling bar or sit on the side, also in a non-scrolling box. Then there is the full bar wanting you sign up for their mailing list, the static navigation bar at the top that usually isn't entirely static becau...
[10:25:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why You’re Being Invited to Fewer Weddings - 727 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:25:03] <exec> 08└─I can identify with that. I didn't have a desire to get married either, and fully expected to never meet anyone who was attractive and bright and just dorky enough to put up with my geeky eccentricities. Then i was at a singles party on the Upper West Side of Manhattan that a friend dragged me to, a...
[10:25:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06P&G Cuts More Than $100 Million in ‘Largely Ineffective’ Digital Ads - 667 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:25:33] <exec> 08└─Brands aren't completely meaningless, they're a form of reputation. It's much harder to build a good reputation than it is to lose one. A brand that's identified with solid build quality will lose this reputation quickly from a few exceptions. This is why a lot of companies that produce high-end pro...
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[11:20:59] <exec> 08└─I believe it recently become possible to sideload FOSS using xcode freely. And yes, if it's as privileged as the store apps, it solves the problem.
[11:21:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Capitulates, Removes Unlicensed VPN Apps From China App Store - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:21:00] <exec> 08└─https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=21516 [soylentnews.org] http://www.bbc.com [bbc.com]
[11:21:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Capitulates, Removes Unlicensed VPN Apps From China App Store - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:21:03] <exec> 08└─CrApple has a long history of abusing its customers also in this particular way https://www.gnu.org [gnu.org]
[11:21:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dark Web Doesn't Exist, Says Tor's Dingledine. and Folks use Network for Privacy, not Crime - 483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:21:21] <exec> 08└─I think (only think, I don't know) that it would be relatively simple to watch the exit nodes. If 97% of all traffic goes out an exit node, then it's reasonable to extrapolate that only 3% of traffic is making use of hidden services. Of course, while such a fact may be true of all nodes under $organ...
[11:21:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03KGIII [5261] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lennart Poettering Wins 2017 Pwnie for Lamest Vendor Response - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:21:49] <exec> 08└─Not even a good editor is on the list! ;-)
[11:21:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03KGIII [5261] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lennart Poettering Wins 2017 Pwnie for Lamest Vendor Response - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:21:50] <exec> 08└─He certainly worked hard to achieve the award.
[11:21:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lennart Poettering Wins 2017 Pwnie for Lamest Vendor Response - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:21:53] <exec> 08└─trying to be a *bit* objective, but in the first two bugs (the only ones I read), LP is consistently arguing on the pointless of CVE bugs - i.e. flagging it as CVE when it probably isn't. I did giggle at his "I know you use CVE as a currency...". LP did *not* disagree on the null pointer reference....
[11:21:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lennart Poettering Wins 2017 Pwnie for Lamest Vendor Response - 678 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:21:55] <exec> 08└─Those are: XTerm XTerm VTE QEmu and rxvt DATA HANDLING ISSUES. Nothing to do with cat. It's like saying that "Apache" compromised your database because an employer put the whole list in a public_html folder. And cat is dumb - it's the things that try to get clever and interpret data (e.g. terminals,...
[11:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Millionaire CIA Torture Psychologists to Face Trial - 2830 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:16] <exec> 08└─It's not a binary option "It works/it's useless". Note: We are talking about getting information, not torture to get a confession, to send a message or as retaliation. Jus to get valid information. It's documented that there is what they call the breaking point. Before the breaking point, the tortur...
[11:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millionaire CIA Torture Psychologists to Face Trial - 929 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:17] <exec> 08└─Oh, gosh, all we have to do is put our jobs on the line for our morals, instead! Er... yes. That's exactly why you don't tolerate this kind of stuff. Of course you will lose your job. But that doesn't mean you should allow it "just because you'll lose your job otherwise". The Nazis were given a stan...
[11:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millionaire CIA Torture Psychologists to Face Trial - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:19] <exec> 08└─Yes. Everyone involved, from the guys who ordered it, to the guys like these who enabled it, to the guys who did it, must be hanged. It's the only way to be sure. Everyone must understand that if they commit war crimes, crimes against humanity, that their lives will be forfeit. End of story.
[11:25:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why You’re Being Invited to Fewer Weddings - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:24] <exec> 08└─That's what college was for...
[11:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why You’re Being Invited to Fewer Weddings - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:25] <exec> 08└─I pay attention to people, I'm an active listener. I tell salient jokes and stories. I engage people on their level. I watch for visual cues, and try to make people feel important..... As I said, I don't have capacity to understand where you're coming from. But, those are some of the key things that...
[11:25:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why You’re Being Invited to Fewer Weddings - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:27] <exec> 08└─AC only said that he/she has no friends, family, and has been banned from every social group — not that it was because AC wants to be isolated. There's a big gap between being so extremely introverted that one turns down social opportunities, and being so disliked that everyone else wants nothing...
[11:25:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06P&G Cuts More Than $100 Million in ‘Largely Ineffective’ Digital Ads - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:57] <exec> 08└─We can hope the marketdroids finally start to figure out that advertising wastes everyone's time and money.
[11:27:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon's Race to Make Alexa Smarter - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:27:00] <exec> 08└─will herald another app building frenzy.
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[12:21:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Court of Appeals in D.C. Takes the Case of the Incredible Shrinking Airline Seat - 950 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:21:06] <exec> 08└─While we're there, can we cut the safety announcement crap, too? And the enforced disturbances of the announcements. I would suggest that people are much more likely to think clearly and logically in an emergency if: - They didn't have stupid stuff to remember that could be indicated in the event of...
[12:21:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Court of Appeals in D.C. Takes the Case of the Incredible Shrinking Airline Seat - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:21:07] <exec> 08└─the announcements are for the new flyers every time. As a pro' , I'm sure you can (now) just stick your headphones on a watch your tab/phone/computer/doze as might amuse you. seatbelts (my guess) are NOT car seatbelts, because they can be removed easily by both occupant and external (rescuer!!!!) op...
[12:21:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03fraxinus-tree [5590] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Capitulates, Removes Unlicensed VPN Apps From China App Store - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:21:20] <exec> 08└─Russia is generally a China appendix nowadays.
[12:21:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Capitulates, Removes Unlicensed VPN Apps From China App Store - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:21:22] <exec> 08└─letter the FBI sent to MLK trying to get him to commit suicide
[12:21:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Capitulates, Removes Unlicensed VPN Apps From China App Store - 669 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:21:24] <exec> 08└─Russia & China Are Taking Steps To Block The Internet And This Is Why It Should Matter To You [indiatimes.com] (2017-07-31) President Vladimir Putin has just signed a law that will ban VPN (virtual private network) and proxy services starting November 1, and internet providers will be forced to bloc...
[12:21:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dark Web Doesn't Exist, Says Tor's Dingledine. and Folks use Network for Privacy, not Crime - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:21:44] <exec> 08└─To be fair, some posts on SN are a crime. Not yours, of course, but I can't say the same for others.
[12:21:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] 02 - 06Lennart Poettering Wins 2017 Pwnie for Lamest Vendor Response - 13 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:21:58] <exec> 08└─... emacs ...
[12:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lennart Poettering Wins 2017 Pwnie for Lamest Vendor Response - 553 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:16] <exec> 08└─> But it's still using the wrong tool for the job and when it comes to the whole system approach, it's a mistake. For data processing and coding, CLI tools are correct. Most of my CPU cycles are spent doing this stuff. Most of my user cycles are spent writing code and making presentations, and here...
[12:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lennart Poettering Wins 2017 Pwnie for Lamest Vendor Response - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:17] <exec> 08└─Anyone else see it this way?
[12:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06[Tonight] "Breaking the Code" Starring Simon Templeman Streaming via KPFK - 667 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:05] <exec> 08└─In case you want to know the truth, it was actually Polish mathematicians who broke Enigma encryption. Turing can be credited with building his universal computer. But his English team were running plates smuggled from Poland. There was even a period when the smuggling was inhibited and they couldn'...
[12:23:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ledow [5567] 02 - 06Millionaire CIA Torture Psychologists to Face Trial - 1250 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:34] <exec> 08└─If torture is necessary you're doing something incredibly wrong. Your security services have already failed and one man withholding information is enough to bring all your plans crashing down. If torture-obtained evidence is acceptable in court, your court systems are also open to bribes, threats an...
[12:23:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Millionaire CIA Torture Psychologists to Face Trial - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:45] <exec> 08└─It's all well documented, however the document is highly secret... The 525-page summary (yeah, you read right) though is available. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] If you haven't read it yet, do yourself and humanity a favor and do re...
[12:24:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06It Took DEF CON Hackers Minutes to Pwn These US Voting Machines - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:45] <exec> 08└─But you only need "voting" in "democracies". And I won't even mention the one party system where you get to pick your favorite color between red and blue...
[12:25:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why You’re Being Invited to Fewer Weddings - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:56] <exec> 08└─Sorry, that explains how you keep companionship, just as I described elsewhere in this thread. It does not explain how you get companionship. Everything you mention "tell jokes", "engage people on their level", "watch for cues" assumes that you are already with someone.
[12:25:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03fraxinus-tree [5590] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why You’re Being Invited to Fewer Weddings - 986 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:57] <exec> 08└─It is more or less a hourglass distribution. Rich people (who generally tend to be more clever, educated and self-aware than average, or else they usually stop being rich) have both understanding that children are important (both as being responsibility and that you have to have them) AND perception...
[12:27:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ransomware 'Here to Stay', Warns Google Study - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:47] <exec> 08└─Also note that the better permission system won't help
[12:29:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Minimum Wage Reduces Employment - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:29:19] <exec> 08└─I find it endlessly frustrating that USA'ians continue to pronounce theoretical doom from the imposition of a higher minimum wage when there are plenty of examples across the developed world where a (relatively) higher minimum wage has been a good thing. In fact, the economies of many countries with...
[12:29:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Minimum Wage Reduces Employment - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:29:20] <exec> 08└─The problem though is that there are fewer and fewer jobs that pay more than minimum wage
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[13:20:53] <exec> 08└─And arXiv links should always go to the abstract page, which is here. [arxiv.org]
[13:21:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Court of Appeals in D.C. Takes the Case of the Incredible Shrinking Airline Seat - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:03] <exec> 08└─While we're there, can we cut the safety announcement crap, too? And the enforced disturbances of the announcements.
[13:21:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Court of Appeals in D.C. Takes the Case of the Incredible Shrinking Airline Seat - 698 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:05] <exec> 08└─I get told to remove the headphones for the announcement. We're not allowed to use tablets then either. Seems pretty standard on UK->Europe flights. Ah, speaking of the USA. Your local conditions may vary... On seatbelts the flap design can be opened with low manual or other limb dexterity. Buttons...
[13:21:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Court of Appeals in D.C. Takes the Case of the Incredible Shrinking Airline Seat - 1315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:07] <exec> 08└─I've run across two type of car seatbelts with a center button. The first older type is more difficult to remove than the airline belts, especially under pressure. This matters for a reason I'll get to in a moment. The 2nd type is easy to remove. In fact, sharp hits to the center of the clasp unlock...
[13:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03gawdonblue [412] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lennart Poettering Wins 2017 Pwnie for Lamest Vendor Response - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:15] <exec> 08└─Here's a photo of Poettering's award [nocookie.net].
[13:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Car Drove 4,300-Plus Miles Autonomously on USA Cross-Country Trip - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:47] <exec> 08└─Lights are horrible indicators. There are tons of drivers who don't even notice they left their BLINKING TURN SIGNALS on while on the highway. SOUND. FOR THE LOVE OF GOD. USE SOUND. LOUD. SOUNDS.
[13:25:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03kaszz [4211] 02 - 06Why You’re Being Invited to Fewer Weddings - 61 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:29] <exec> 08└─bad deal, from both risk-reward and cost-benefit perspectives
[13:25:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why You’re Being Invited to Fewer Weddings - 2631 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:55] <exec> 08└─Talk to the married guys in your group. If your work is strictly 22-26 yr old brogrammers then GTFO ASAP for numerous reasons. Or ask the married guys at church or something. Some of the more laid back non-denominationals don't require you to believe in anything other than progressive politics, whic...
[13:25:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why You’re Being Invited to Fewer Weddings - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:56] <exec> 08└─so a wedding would just be an ordinary party and not a rite of passage
[13:25:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why You’re Being Invited to Fewer Weddings - 582 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:58] <exec> 08└─Funerals are a good analogy for weddings in that there's a whole infrastructure of people trying to sponge money off it, most events are boring and cheap, and all the media coverage is of the hyper-expensive famous ones in order to gaslight people into thinking they need to spend a zillion bucks. Th...
[13:26:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why You’re Being Invited to Fewer Weddings - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:01] <exec> 08└─I'm solitary & single, but if an employee or volunteer sees me enough times to recognize my face (which doesn't take long), they invariably greet me with a very friendly "hey, how's it going?" when they see me, and chat for several minutes as soon as they get the chance.
[13:29:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Minimum Wage Reduces Employment - 487 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:29:22] <exec> 08└─Rich people are hoarders, plain and simple. But instead of old newspapers, magazines, etc. They hoard money. This hoard is part of their emotional well being that like with the ones that hoard other objects, losing 'any' part of it is an emotionally painful experience. So they do 'anything' in their...
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[14:21:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mathematicians Bridge Finite-Infinite Divide - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:07] <exec> 08└─So, are we now allowed to divide by zero?
[14:21:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mathematicians Bridge Finite-Infinite Divide - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:08] <exec> 08└─Might be a step closer to the Infinite Improbability Drive, as described in HHGTTG by Douglas Adams.
[14:21:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mathematicians Bridge Finite-Infinite Divide - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:10] <exec> 08└─It's ± complex infinity.
[14:21:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mathematicians Bridge Finite-Infinite Divide - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:13] <exec> 08└─e.g. $latexRT_2^2$
[14:21:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Single Molecular Layer and Thin Silicon Beam Enable Nanolaser Operation at Room Temperature - 645 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:23] <exec> 08└─Technical data, but I might have misinterpreted!: The dimensions of nanobeam cavity is 7.2 (length) × 0.36 (width) × 0.22 (thickness) µm. Output wavelength: 1132.25 nm (3rd harmonics) Bandwidth: 0.202 nm Q factor: 5605 Power: 173 µW Article abstract [arxiv.org] Full article [arxiv.org] One possi...
[14:21:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Court of Appeals in D.C. Takes the Case of the Incredible Shrinking Airline Seat - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:36] <exec> 08└─- They were able to sleep through the flight without being woken up by adverts for drinks and perfume.
[14:21:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Court of Appeals in D.C. Takes the Case of the Incredible Shrinking Airline Seat - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:37] <exec> 08└─I get told to remove the headphones for the announcement. We're not allowed to use tablets then either. Seems pretty standard on UK->Europe flights.
[14:21:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Court of Appeals in D.C. Takes the Case of the Incredible Shrinking Airline Seat - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:40] <exec> 08└─probably flanked by two idiots who didn't hear the instruction about not inflating the jacket until leaving the plane
[14:21:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06U.S. Court of Appeals in D.C. Takes the Case of the Incredible Shrinking Airline Seat - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:42] <exec> 08└─You want the same government that created and maintains the TSA to "fix" other parts of the airline flying experience?
[14:21:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Capitulates, Removes Unlicensed VPN Apps From China App Store - 842 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:58] <exec> 08└─This is one of the reasons why supporting iOS is a bad idea. If Apple (or someone they agree or comply with) decides you can't install something, you have no recourse. They've done it for educational software, they've done it for frikkin' magazines relating to competing platforms. Saying "I can inst...
[14:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dark Web Doesn't Exist, Says Tor's Dingledine. and Folks use Network for Privacy, not Crime - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:20] <exec> 08└─some people consider it a crime if you don't (monthly recurring) pay for a global reachable identity presence, for sure as hell *alpha*.onion and *hansa*.onion didn't pay that "tax" and neither should you!
[14:22:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ledow [5567] 02 - 06Lennart Poettering Wins 2017 Pwnie for Lamest Vendor Response - 877 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:36] <exec> 08└─Yep. Those small, modular, single-purpose commands that tend to work in perpetuity. Hell, I have a entire book on my shelf that describes the way that sed & awk can be used, and yet they are tiny and have barely changed in years. And only change when NEW TYPES of attack come out (which is basically...
[14:22:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03WizardFusion [498] 02 - 06Lennart Poettering Wins 2017 Pwnie for Lamest Vendor Response - 139 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:44] <exec> 08└─Now he can say he's won an award for his work. He pride will blossom. It doesn't matter than it's a shitty award, just that it is an award.
[14:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03pvanhoof [4638] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lennart Poettering Wins 2017 Pwnie for Lamest Vendor Response - 805 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:55] <exec> 08└─I see it the same way. But the group of people who yell and dramatise and call for the assassination of Poettering have scared all the sensible, reasonable people away. Poettering even acknowledges they made a misjudgement. He just doesn't want CVE's to be used politically (ie. against systemd). To...
[14:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03pvanhoof [4638] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lennart Poettering Wins 2017 Pwnie for Lamest Vendor Response - 676 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:56] <exec> 08└─Please quote the entire text he said when name-calling somebody based on a quote. You have the green site for drama. I find the whole discussion pointless. It's about communicating something we (mis-)judged as not being relevant. I mean, if we thought it was relevant, we could have communicated it,...
[14:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lennart Poettering Wins 2017 Pwnie for Lamest Vendor Response - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:59] <exec> 08└─Shellshock didn't just pertain to web servers, any laptop user could have an attacker run arbitrary code as root in response to a DHCP packet.
[14:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03pvanhoof [4638] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lennart Poettering Wins 2017 Pwnie for Lamest Vendor Response - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:01] <exec> 08└─Rolling around in cash .. The average salary at Red Hat for a Senior Software Developer is $96,984. That's not super much for software development in the US. I don't know about the details of Poettering's contract with Red Hat, of course. source [payscale.com]
[14:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03pvanhoof [4638] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lennart Poettering Wins 2017 Pwnie for Lamest Vendor Response - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:03] <exec> 08└─Remedy: don't use his software. You are not required to do so. It's free and/or open source software. You can modify it yourself. You can replace it. You can create a replacement. What makes you believe you have to use it? Since you want to make the author of it suffer, I assume you are forced to us...
[14:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lennart Poettering Wins 2017 Pwnie for Lamest Vendor Response - 758 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:05] <exec> 08└─If Poettering would have just been a competent leader and made competent desiccations no drama would be there to exploit. Unfortunately he has a really shitty attitude and therefore deserves the award he got. If Systemd would have listened to all the blowback people gave it from the beginning and wo...
[14:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BBC’s Micro:bit Turns Out to be an Excellent Drone Hijacking Tool - 751 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:18] <exec> 08└─The security for wireless keyboards does indeed suck, and it's only fairly recently they started having encrypted connections available as options. They rarely bother to actually advertise what measures (if any) they are taking. Only a few years ago, I had a site where the wireless keyboards were in...
[14:23:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Car Drove 4,300-Plus Miles Autonomously on USA Cross-Country Trip - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:39] <exec> 08└─The cops (and fire/rescue) get to use sirens...and often they are very difficult to locate--usually I scan around for bright lights to see where the siren is coming from. What do you want to signal with other loud sounds? And do you really expect the people in a boom car to notice?? The people that...
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[14:23:40] <exec> 08└─http://www.physics.org/featuredetail.asp?id=75 [physics.org] https://www.newscientist.com [newscientist.com]
[14:25:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fishscene [4361] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ad Blockers' Self-Immolation? - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:11] <exec> 08└─ublock origin or some other plugin. Right-click nag window. Block element. Never see it again. Sorry hosters. Ads, and the vulnerabilities they bring are never worth the service/content you provide. I'll just move on to something else.
[14:26:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Why You’re Being Invited to Fewer Weddings - 4060 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:54] <exec> 08└─Factually speaking: The rich tend to stay rich in large part because they hire top-notch accountants/lawyers/etc. to invest & manage their finances for them, and as a result get more than enough money from the investments than they need to live even an extravagant lifestyle — the vast majority sho...
[14:26:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03KGIII [5261] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why You’re Being Invited to Fewer Weddings - 1007 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:56] <exec> 08└─No, those are how you get companionship as well. You meet them by doing things people do. You can meet them grocery shopping, walking, etc... Just don't assume they all are open to contact beyond a friendly hello. Watch for cues and listen to them. Go take dancing lessons, for example. You're not th...
[14:27:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06P&G Cuts More Than $100 Million in ‘Largely Ineffective’ Digital Ads - 531 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:28] <exec> 08└─I read just the other day that amazon and other online marketplaces have heavily diluted brands' premiums because users have been conditioned to shop as you described. User reviews have also come to play a much bigger role, so the days of capturing extra margin by outsourcing production to china whe...
[14:27:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06P&G Cuts More Than $100 Million in ‘Largely Ineffective’ Digital Ads - 1793 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:29] <exec> 08└─There's a little more to it than that. Companies and the brand managers within a company like P&G don't really spend that much on the actual ad campaigns. For example, i created the entire digital presence for Johnson&Johnson and about a score of its over-the-counter brands back when i worked on Mad...
[14:28:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Psst, the Human Genome Was Never Completely Sequenced. Some Scientists Say It Should be - 751 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:01] <exec> 08└─>the question would arise what 100% human (or for almost any other organism) would mean Quite. If for example if w were to assume that 95% of DNA were shared identically by 100% of humans, then you might think you could perfectly sequence one person's DNA and get 95% of the human genome. But that's...
[14:28:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Psst, the Human Genome Was Never Completely Sequenced. Some Scientists Say It Should be - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:03] <exec> 08└─The last tweet is intriguing .. "The missing bits of code in the human genome could be key for understanding cancer.".
[14:28:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Psst, the Human Genome Was Never Completely Sequenced. Some Scientists Say It Should be - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:05] <exec> 08└─If repetitive sequences is the problem. Then the solution seems to be to stabilize long enough sequences and read them. The question is then, how long sequences do these need to be? and how long is the total? Is it possible to read the DNA code in place using say laser interferometry etc? Or other c...
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[15:20:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mathematicians Bridge Finite-Infinite Divide - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:56] <exec> 08└─Sounds more like Bistromath to me...
[15:20:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mathematicians Bridge Finite-Infinite Divide - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:58] <exec> 08└─If you refer to the arXiv abstract page, they use MathJax, which uses JavaScript to compile LaTeX formulas on the browser. So if you have JavaScript disabled, you'll only see the LaTeX source.
[15:20:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mathematicians Bridge Finite-Infinite Divide - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:00] <exec> 08└─Division by zero should be the same as multiplying by one. Take something and divide it into 0 parts. You still have your original value.
[15:21:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mathematicians Bridge Finite-Infinite Divide - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:02] <exec> 08└─So, are we now allowed to divide by zero?
[15:21:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Single Molecular Layer and Thin Silicon Beam Enable Nanolaser Operation at Room Temperature - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:13] <exec> 08└─Is there a utility that takes a regular DOI and outputs a link to the arXiv if there is one?
[15:21:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Court of Appeals in D.C. Takes the Case of the Incredible Shrinking Airline Seat - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:29] <exec> 08└─The link to the opinion, https://www.cadc.uscourts.gov [uscourts.gov], is giving me a 404 error.
[15:21:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Court of Appeals in D.C. Takes the Case of the Incredible Shrinking Airline Seat - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:31] <exec> 08└─While I have flown many times and hardly pay attention to the safety briefings, and while you too may have heard them a hundred times, there are and will always be people (likely in YOUR plane) who are flying for the first time who need to hear and see this.
[15:21:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Court of Appeals in D.C. Takes the Case of the Incredible Shrinking Airline Seat - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:33] <exec> 08└─I think some people might say there is too much legroom! https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[15:21:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Court of Appeals in D.C. Takes the Case of the Incredible Shrinking Airline Seat - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:35] <exec> 08└─I get told to remove the headphones for the announcement. We're not allowed to use tablets then either.
[15:21:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Court of Appeals in D.C. Takes the Case of the Incredible Shrinking Airline Seat - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:37] <exec> 08└─Works fine here. Opens a PDF.
[15:21:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Capitulates, Removes Unlicensed VPN Apps From China App Store - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:54] <exec> 08└─But Apple should have a lot of leverage. All those Apple devices that are assembled in China. Can't that assembly move to another country? How much wealth does Apple bring to China? How many jobs? How much does Apple export from China? The fact that this leverage either didn't work or was not a real...
[15:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dark Web Doesn't Exist, Says Tor's Dingledine. and Folks use Network for Privacy, not Crime - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:17] <exec> 08└─He should be looking at money:
[15:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dark Web Doesn't Exist, Says Tor's Dingledine. and Folks use Network for Privacy, not Crime - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:19] <exec> 08└─Yeah but that's for surface area. What about by volume?
[15:22:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] 02 - 06Lennart Poettering Wins 2017 Pwnie for Lamest Vendor Response - 191 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:32] <exec> 08└─> I don't see a lot of software in the UNIX verse that just does its job sed grep awk cat emacs bash etc etc I guess unix-verse is still targeted at people who prefer a command line to a GUI.
[15:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lennart Poettering Wins 2017 Pwnie for Lamest Vendor Response - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:00] <exec> 08└─The problem is his systemd is infesting more and more software and the cost/gain for establishing a feedback loop becomes more attractive with time. It's like saying if you don't like the water utility you are free to unsubscribe it. Works in theory..
[15:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lennart Poettering Wins 2017 Pwnie for Lamest Vendor Response - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:02] <exec> 08└─To be honest, I also don't see the "really big serious" security issue here. If you can make unit files, you were root. That means the system was already compromised.
[15:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03pvanhoof [4638] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lennart Poettering Wins 2017 Pwnie for Lamest Vendor Response - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:04] <exec> 08└─Not saying anything about the award. I'm sure Poettering gets the joke. I am referring to the drama people say about Poettering and systemd here. I've actually seen calls to assassinate him. Also on this site. That's absurd. (And, may I say, illegal in some countries. As this call for assassination...
[15:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03pvanhoof [4638] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lennart Poettering Wins 2017 Pwnie for Lamest Vendor Response - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:06] <exec> 08└─Last time I checked there are entire distributions devoted to replacing systemd with something else. Hardly like the water utility. More like a brand of a car, or a often used component in many car brands. Or maybe, if you take it to the extreme, like a Diesel engine.
[15:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03pvanhoof [4638] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lennart Poettering Wins 2017 Pwnie for Lamest Vendor Response - 1008 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:08] <exec> 08└─Relax. You are throwing a lot of stupid here and about about 1000 worse than clueless this and that. With that communicationstyle, you're not helping yourself making your (probably reasonable) argument. I'm sure the idea was that a init system cannot make worse choices like not booting the system in...
[15:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lennart Poettering Wins 2017 Pwnie for Lamest Vendor Response - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:11] <exec> 08└─I think that's spelled 'M-x vim-mode'
[15:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lennart Poettering Wins 2017 Pwnie for Lamest Vendor Response - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:13] <exec> 08└─My bad, it's actually 'M-x evil-mode' now (Extensible VI Layer, heh, must... not.. like... bad... puns... nope, can't help it :) )
[15:23:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BBC’s Micro:bit Turns Out to be an Excellent Drone Hijacking Tool - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:26] <exec> 08└─Haha, I recall when I saw these wireless keyboards at first. And my instant first thought was.. which encryption do they use? And the answer was "it's wireless".. yes but "it's wireless". Right there I got suspicious and it turned out I was right.
[15:23:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BBC’s Micro:bit Turns Out to be an Excellent Drone Hijacking Tool - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:28] <exec> 08└─You have been awarded the Nobel Turing awards! ;-)
[15:24:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millionaire CIA Torture Psychologists to Face Trial - 606 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:46] <exec> 08└─The UCMJ is actually quite clear on this point: Anyone subject to the UCMJ must obey lawful orders, and must disobey unlawful orders. So, if, say, somebody ordered National Guardsmen to gun down unarmed protesters (to use a completely hypothetical example [wikipedia.org]), the Guardsmen are supposed...
[15:24:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Millionaire CIA Torture Psychologists to Face Trial - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:48] <exec> 08└─Some limp-wristed SJW'er is involved in the prosecution.
[15:24:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Millionaire CIA Torture Psychologists to Face Trial - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:50] <exec> 08└─While these private medical "experts" probably deserve prison, they also seem to be scapegoats for the spooks who allowed them to do work for the Feds to begin with. "Well, the experts said it was okay."
[15:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03donkeyhotay [2540] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ad Blockers' Self-Immolation? - 1069 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:25] <exec> 08└─One of the trends I'm seeing are the banners that say things like, "We get it. Ads are annoying." No, you DON'T get it. I don't use an ad blocker because ads are annoying. I use an ad blocker because ads install malware. There is no material -- no news story or article -- that is worth having my lap...
[15:25:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ad Blockers' Self-Immolation? - 851 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:26] <exec> 08└─The thing is, if it was *just* about ads, then people wouldn't need ad blockers. But it's not. It's about: -Obnoxious ads that flash or otherwise try to dominate the page above and beyond the actual content -Ads that actively try to *mislead* people. For example, claiming that they are a legitimate...
[15:27:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why You’re Being Invited to Fewer Weddings - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:11] <exec> 08└─Men should take female children as brides, not adult whores. See chapter 22 of the book of the law, verse 28-29, in the hebrew language for some insight.
[15:27:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06P&G Cuts More Than $100 Million in ‘Largely Ineffective’ Digital Ads - 876 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:45] <exec> 08└─That's a pretty good rule of thumb, but that's partly why a lot of companies are trying to shift to social marketing through your friends and neighbors using a platform like facebook. They know that the internet and social media in general have begun to innoculate people to older advertising tactics...
[15:28:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Psst, the Human Genome Was Never Completely Sequenced. Some Scientists Say It Should be - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:28:20] <exec> 08└─The tweet links to an article that links back to the article in the OP.
[15:30:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hackers 'Could Make Car Wash Attack' - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:30:58] <exec> 08└─It also means no one else can use IoT in that location and will have to do something else or suffer no function. And that equipment taking part in mass surveillance will have a hard time functioning or be cost driven out of a workable economics model due to protection issues. Oh and think of all the...
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[16:21:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook's Digital Colonialism - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:00] <exec> 08└─From Facebook? No thanks.
[16:21:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook's Digital Colonialism - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:01] <exec> 08└─Instead it restricts access to a small set of services selected by Facebook.
[16:21:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook's Digital Colonialism - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:03] <exec> 08└─Did they claim to do otherwise?
[16:21:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mathematicians Bridge Finite-Infinite Divide - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:18] <exec> 08└─So, are we now allowed to divide by zero?
[16:21:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mathematicians Bridge Finite-Infinite Divide - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:19] <exec> 08└─The same applies to the main link article.
[16:21:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mathematicians Bridge Finite-Infinite Divide - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:22] <exec> 08└─completely wrong.
[16:21:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mathematicians Bridge Finite-Infinite Divide - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:24] <exec> 08└─6 divided by 3 = How many groups of 3 are there in 6? 2 How many groups of 1.5 are there in 6? 4 How many groups of 0 are there in 6? ERROR
[16:21:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Court of Appeals in D.C. Takes the Case of the Incredible Shrinking Airline Seat - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:55] <exec> 08└─It's called natural selection. You can't fix everything..
[16:21:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06U.S. Court of Appeals in D.C. Takes the Case of the Incredible Shrinking Airline Seat - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:57] <exec> 08└─Because if government sucks at doing one thing, they automatically suck at doing something only vaguely related, right? In this case, we're talking about measuring the size of seats and legroom on a plane and ticking a checkbox on some kind of periodic inspection form. I mean, I can get pretty cynic...
[16:21:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Court of Appeals in D.C. Takes the Case of the Incredible Shrinking Airline Seat - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:59] <exec> 08└─Because if government sucks at doing one thing, they automatically suck at doing something only vaguely related, right?
[16:22:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Court of Appeals in D.C. Takes the Case of the Incredible Shrinking Airline Seat - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:01] <exec> 08└─Smurfs should be placed in the overhead stowage along with small children and pets.
[16:22:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03rleigh [4887] 02 - 06Lennart Poettering Wins 2017 Pwnie for Lamest Vendor Response - 51 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:53] <exec> 08└─He deserved this prestigious award for his efforts.
[16:23:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03pvanhoof [4638] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lennart Poettering Wins 2017 Pwnie for Lamest Vendor Response - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:30] <exec> 08└─Sure. If you think that. Meanwhile I'll followup on who is actually writing code here.
[16:23:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lennart Poettering Wins 2017 Pwnie for Lamest Vendor Response - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:31] <exec> 08└─It's like saying if you don't like the water utility you are free to unsubscribe it. Works in theory.
[16:23:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lennart Poettering Wins 2017 Pwnie for Lamest Vendor Response - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:34] <exec> 08└─The problem is none of these have been replaced by systemd yet. vi and emacs are, of course, soon-to-be on their way out. With advanced tools like hostnamectl, localectl—all the "*ctl"s—why would you need a text editor? You guys really overblow the whole systemd is anti-Unix-way anyhow. Systemd...
[16:23:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lennart Poettering Wins 2017 Pwnie for Lamest Vendor Response - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:36] <exec> 08└─Meanwhile I'll followup on who is actually writing code here.
[16:23:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BBC’s Micro:bit Turns Out to be an Excellent Drone Hijacking Tool - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:52] <exec> 08└─The only wins for the Micro:Bit is leds, buttons, accelerometer, compass and slightly easier to power from a battery.
[16:24:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06[Tonight] "Breaking the Code" Starring Simon Templeman Streaming via KPFK - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:31] <exec> 08└─But his English team were running plates smuggled from Poland. There was even a period when the smuggling was inhibited and they couldn't decrypt any Enigma messages.
[16:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06[Tonight] "Breaking the Code" Starring Simon Templeman Streaming via KPFK - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:32] <exec> 08└─[Tonight] "Breaking the Code" Starring Simon Templeman Streaming via KPFK posted by takyon on Monday July 31, @12:15AM On July 30 at 10PM Pacific Time
[16:25:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ad Blockers' Self-Immolation? - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:52] <exec> 08└─"We get it. Ads are annoying."
[16:25:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ad Blockers' Self-Immolation? - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:53] <exec> 08└─His analogy was just fine. Admittedly it was somewhat less on-the-nose than yours. The SUV driver isn't the one hurting you, but he's directly setting up somebody else who may or may not do so :: the website hiring an ad company to serve you ads then telling you it's okay to unadblock.
[16:26:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06It Took DEF CON Hackers Minutes to Pwn These US Voting Machines - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:21] <exec> 08└─The trouble is that first past the post voting penalizes those that vote for the 'right' candidate by taking a vote from the 'better' candidate that won't push them past the 'worse' candidate. The so-called spoiler effect. The answer is to offer something like instant run-off voting, but since that...
[16:26:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06It Took DEF CON Hackers Minutes to Pwn These US Voting Machines - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:22] <exec> 08└─The answer is to offer something like instant run-off voting, but since that penalizes the two parties in power, how do you institute it?
[16:27:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why You’re Being Invited to Fewer Weddings - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:42] <exec> 08└─Us, knaves, are welcoming in the muslims with open arms. They allow child arraignment of girls, unlike english-language-Jesus.
[16:27:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why You’re Being Invited to Fewer Weddings - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:43] <exec> 08└─Men could marry female children in Victorian times. Another plus
[16:31:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Minimum Wage Reduces Employment - 1124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:31:14] <exec> 08└─The market failure here is that companies can bring in labor from other markets, or can send the work overseas to people that can afford to work for less. The result is that an increasing number of people are in a position where they have no bargaining power at all because all of the jobs available...
[16:31:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Minimum Wage Reduces Employment - 610 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:31:16] <exec> 08└─Yes, and what does that have to do with anything? Nobody is complaining about it because it's the minimum wage, we're complaining about it because people with full time minimum wage jobs can't afford luxuries like food and shelter and have little to no hope of saving money in case an emergency shows...
[16:31:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Minimum Wage Reduces Employment - 1485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:31:18] <exec> 08└─First off, other than hoarding, what need does anybody have with a billion dollars? $10m is more than enough to live an entire lifetime without having to do any work more onerous than changing ones own clothes. Secondly, the workers don't have any meaningful power here. The good jobs were mostly shi...
[16:31:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Minimum Wage Reduces Employment - 1186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:31:20] <exec> 08└─You keep using the term "market failure" for something that is actually a market function. Firms seeking out affordable labour and friendly tax regimes are normal functions. Now, if you were to say that a desirable outcome would be the devaluation of the dollar to the point that midwestern american...
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[17:21:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook's Digital Colonialism - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:13] <exec> 08└─Will Jojo Xadreque care about getting Zucked?
[17:21:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook's Digital Colonialism - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:14] <exec> 08└─Free Basics is an insult to the intelligence of Indian Technology geniuses who already know how to get free basic internet on their phones without any help from Facebook.
[17:21:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook's Digital Colonialism - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:16] <exec> 08└─"Free Basics" can certainly be parsed, in context, as "TCP/IP transport." Those are your basic internet services and extras, traditionally, are things like decent usenet servers, email, and web hosting. So what they're calling 'Free Basics' is really more like 'Nagware Crippleware' but at the level...
[17:21:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook's Digital Colonialism - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:18] <exec> 08└─Perhaps the heading should be "Facebook's digital subversion of foreign nations and people" because that is actually what they are up to. The end game being money, power and enslavement. If resources are few - extinction.
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[17:21:37] <exec> 08└─[Ed note: Not a new story but interesting and will hopefully spark some discussion.]
[17:21:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mathematicians Bridge Finite-Infinite Divide - 1373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:39] <exec> 08└─No, that makes very little sense. Division of a nonzero real number tends toward infinity as the denominator tends toward zero. It doesn't do to just invent a special-case. Look at a chart that plots division. [wikimedia.org] Why should the quotient suddenly jump back down to 1? It's inelegant and a...
[17:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Court of Appeals in D.C. Takes the Case of the Incredible Shrinking Airline Seat - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:16] <exec> 08└─If you think the government should do something about the cramped legroom on airplanes, you've got a friend in a federal court.
[17:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Court of Appeals in D.C. Takes the Case of the Incredible Shrinking Airline Seat - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:17] <exec> 08└─In the event of a crash the seatbelts are not for protecting your safety. They are to try to keep you in your seat so your body is easier to identify.
[17:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03KGIII [5261] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Court of Appeals in D.C. Takes the Case of the Incredible Shrinking Airline Seat - 699 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:19] <exec> 08└─My concern would be that mandated minimum seat sizes would lead to all seats only being that size. I say would because I don't fly commercial normally. If I do, I go to Canada and fly out of there. Anything that isn't international, I fly charter. There is no TSA, no real security, and no lines. It...
[17:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Capitulates, Removes Unlicensed VPN Apps From China App Store - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:38] <exec> 08└─Apple likely didn't make the threat, so we won't know if it would be effective or not. Relocating an entire supply and manufacturing chain is incredibly expensive. Since Apple is a business and not a person, their only decision here is whether it makes them more money to take down this app - ethics...
[17:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Capitulates, Removes Unlicensed VPN Apps From China App Store - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:39] <exec> 08└─Russia banned Jehovah’s Witnesses too. Very smart move! They are taking back their country, just like we will! Good for them! 🇺🇸
[17:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Dark Web Doesn't Exist, Says Tor's Dingledine. and Folks use Network for Privacy, not Crime - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:04] <exec> 08└─The .onion links for SoylentNews are listed on the "about" page [soylentnews.org].
[17:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Dark Web Doesn't Exist, Says Tor's Dingledine. and Folks use Network for Privacy, not Crime - 2897 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:05] <exec> 08└─If you want to regulate internet commerce so you have an extra law to go after the drug dealers with, fine, whatever. I'm a (bleeding-heart) libertarian and would be opposed to on principle, but whatever. The USA is a country full of authoritarians who want government interference in their daily liv...
[17:23:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lennart Poettering Wins 2017 Pwnie for Lamest Vendor Response - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:00] <exec> 08└─emacs
[17:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lennart Poettering Wins 2017 Pwnie for Lamest Vendor Response - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:01] <exec> 08└─sed -r -i -e 's/^Not even a good.*/what about sed?/g' parent-comment
[17:24:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lennart Poettering Wins 2017 Pwnie for Lamest Vendor Response - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:03] <exec> 08└─Any notable compatibility trouble with free software going the systemd route?
[17:24:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lennart Poettering Wins 2017 Pwnie for Lamest Vendor Response - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:05] <exec> 08└─You guys really overblow the whole systemd is anti-Unix-way anyhow. Systemd has lots of single-purpose utilities. For instance, systemd-hostnamed does one thing and does it well. And it's an important job, too.
[17:24:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lennart Poettering Wins 2017 Pwnie for Lamest Vendor Response - 590 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:08] <exec> 08└─Just get this: * systemd is shit. And lack input validation like sane software. * Poettering is arrogant and incompetent. And if he is competent, he surely doesn't show it where it counts. * RedHat is Poetterings master. * Poettering and RedHat should be made to suffer the cost they try...
[17:24:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lennart Poettering Wins 2017 Pwnie for Lamest Vendor Response - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:10] <exec> 08└─...you'd have to do something like init sh=/bin/sh and mount the FS writable yourself and stuff like that).
[17:24:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lennart Poettering Wins 2017 Pwnie for Lamest Vendor Response - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:12] <exec> 08└─Oh, sorry, I was being sardonic, but not enough I guess :D I was hoping the "systemd-hostnamed" would give it away. It's a whole entire tool just for editing /etc/hostname. This is a thing that actually exists.
[17:24:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03KGIII [5261] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lennart Poettering Wins 2017 Pwnie for Lamest Vendor Response - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:14] <exec> 08└─'just does its job' == 'good' emacs is a lovely OS, but a horrible editor. I'm pretty sure people use it only because they haven't figured out how to exit it. ;-)
[17:25:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Millionaire CIA Torture Psychologists to Face Trial - 1544 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:54] <exec> 08└─The parent comment is one of the best examples for what is wrong with the general population of conservatives today. Instead of standing against torture they turn it into some political game trying to annoy liberals. I guess it makes sense, they got their man in the white house but for some strange...
[17:25:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Millionaire CIA Torture Psychologists to Face Trial - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:55] <exec> 08└─Himmler studied agronomy.
[17:25:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Millionaire CIA Torture Psychologists to Face Trial - 709 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:58] <exec> 08└─Most of us were quite angry about this, but seeing as we don't actually live in a free country there is nothing we could do. There were a lot of reasons to put this prison in another country, one big part of that is they didn't want protesters to line up outside and draw lots of attention to their a...
[17:25:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Millionaire CIA Torture Psychologists to Face Trial - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:00] <exec> 08└─Haha yeah no kidding, at some point the bottom has to drop out, the public has to suddenly stop and say "wait, but the emperor is naked!"
[17:26:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03JeanCroix [573] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ad Blockers' Self-Immolation? - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:39] <exec> 08└─"Adam Ghahramani is an independent product and marketing producer based in New York and a frequent contributor to VentureBeat." (Emphasis mine). So yeah, of course this guy would say that. He's one of the leeches whose livelihood depends on people not using ad blockers.
[17:27:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It Took DEF CON Hackers Minutes to Pwn These US Voting Machines - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:09] <exec> 08└─I suppose the scanner software could be hacked? Seems unlikely, since common, non-expert representatives of all parties (at least GOP and Dem) are there to verify the operation of the machine after it was stored for 4 years in a padlocked shed that only 60 people have official access to.
[17:29:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Psst, the Human Genome Was Never Completely Sequenced. Some Scientists Say It Should be - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:29:38] <exec> 08└─This method is what they were using before shot-gun sequencing came about. In several years they managed to sequence was shot-gun sequencing covered in a matter of months. The linear read method is really hard, though they should be able to use it to target these few ambiguous regions.
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[18:21:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 and 56 Announced - 828 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:05] <exec> 08└─Last time I went down this path I found some comparison site that offered to rank cards from the major manufacturers by raw graphics performance and other specs. I carefully compared several and selected one nearer the top end of the moderate price range. It sucks. On a good day I get maybe 7FPS. On...
[18:21:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 and 56 Announced - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:06] <exec> 08└─Let the Lunatic Fringe buy the fancy graphics cards. After a year or two, when the drivers have stabilised, choose a few from those charts then google what the people on the forums are saying about them.
[18:21:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook's Digital Colonialism - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:23] <exec> 08└─Let's not make an already bad problem worse by making it acceptable to offer Internet plans that strongly resemble cable TV. Just because the ignorant masses don't care about being abused (rather, they don't understand the long-term harm this causes society) does not mean the abuse should be allowed...
[18:21:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook's Digital Colonialism - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:24] <exec> 08└─The end game being money, power and enslavement.
[18:21:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook's Digital Colonialism - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:27] <exec> 08└─Perhaps.. Somehow I feel the key here is subversion. I might be wrong.
[18:21:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mathematicians Bridge Finite-Infinite Divide - 1082 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:47] <exec> 08└─I'm not a mathematician, so I'm not sure if I understood correctly; however what I think I understood is: The theorems known before basically fell into one of two classes: Either they can be proved without infinite sets, and so (obviously) can all their consequences.Or they need infinite sets for th...
[18:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Court of Appeals in D.C. Takes the Case of the Incredible Shrinking Airline Seat - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:27] <exec> 08└─I suppose I can accommodate those people who do not care about minimum level of comfort in my labor camp. And I assure you, there will be a minimum level of safety.
[18:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dark Web Doesn't Exist, Says Tor's Dingledine. and Folks use Network for Privacy, not Crime - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:12] <exec> 08└─Probably multiply by pi then divide by zero? Or, just ask your significant other. ;^)
[18:23:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ledow [5567] 02 - 06Lennart Poettering Wins 2017 Pwnie for Lamest Vendor Response - 678 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:44] <exec> 08└─Those are: XTerm XTerm VTE QEmu and rxvt DATA HANDLING ISSUES. Nothing to do with cat. It's like saying that "Apache" compromised your database because an employer put the whole list in a public_html folder. And cat is dumb - it's the things that try to get clever and interpret data (e.g. terminals,...
[18:24:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lennart Poettering Wins 2017 Pwnie for Lamest Vendor Response - 634 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:15] <exec> 08└─If you're asking if I've run into issues, not really, however I simply don't use anything, like Gnome for example, that requires it. So far nothing I really care about has become an issue. Hopefully most sane projects out there will continue to realize that making end user software dependent on a sp...
[18:24:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03iWantToKeepAnon [686] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lennart Poettering Wins 2017 Pwnie for Lamest Vendor Response - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:16] <exec> 08└─... bash ...
[18:24:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lennart Poettering Wins 2017 Pwnie for Lamest Vendor Response - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:19] <exec> 08└─will continue to realize that making end user software dependent on a specific init system is basically turning into Windows ;)...which is pretty much what systemd is to anyone paying attention.
[18:24:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lennart Poettering Wins 2017 Pwnie for Lamest Vendor Response - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:21] <exec> 08└─And *you* misspelled "nano" :)
[18:25:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06[Tonight] "Breaking the Code" Starring Simon Templeman Streaming via KPFK - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:18] <exec> 08└─On July 30 at 10PM Pacific Time (1AM Eastern Time),
[18:26:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ad Blockers' Self-Immolation? - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:46] <exec> 08└─"We get that you think ads are annoying...but you're wrong. Here, have some ads!"
[18:28:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why You’re Being Invited to Fewer Weddings - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:38] <exec> 08└─Just curious, is this how all "successful with women" men think and act? Because reading this gave me the icks. I have to wonder how the hell are there 7+ billion of us if this is how the hetero mating game is played. No doubt you think of yourself as a Morlock rather than one of the Eloi?
[18:30:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ransomware 'Here to Stay', Warns Google Study - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:30:37] <exec> 08└─Who says you have to install the ransomware? A shell script that uses GnuPG to actually encrypt the files should be entirely sufficient. Just trick the user into executing it. Bonus points if it also adds itself into .bashrc so it can continue its "work" the next time you login.
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[19:20:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 0634 Criminal cases tossed after body cam footage shows cop planting drugs - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:55] <exec> 08└─learned cops
[19:21:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chicago Jail Handing Out Naloxone to Inmates Upon Release - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:03] <exec> 08└─Like handing out free condoms to teenagers is a good idea. Since opioid addiction is addictive like sex is hormonal.
[19:21:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Chicago Jail Handing Out Naloxone to Inmates Upon Release - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:05] <exec> 08└─a man who was arrested again, returned to jail, and told of how a friend he had trained to use the kit had done so when he overdosed.
[19:21:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chicago Jail Handing Out Naloxone to Inmates Upon Release - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:07] <exec> 08└─Less recidivism means less funding. Think of the jails which might close down without offenders to fill them. Think of the correction officers who have families and bills to pay.
[19:21:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chicago Jail Handing Out Naloxone to Inmates Upon Release - 602 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:09] <exec> 08└─People taking that stuff obviously want to die, so why are we meddling? It is evolution in action. Seriously, we are spending a lot of money rolling emergency services to these junkies, in many cases many times, and most eventually succeed in killing themselves eventually. Show me a treatment regime...
[19:21:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chicago Jail Handing Out Naloxone to Inmates Upon Release - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:11] <exec> 08└─Are there no workhouses? Are there no prisons? Oh wait.
[19:21:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chicago Jail Handing Out Naloxone to Inmates Upon Release - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:14] <exec> 08└─I think we spotted a double case of perverted incentives..
[19:21:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Chicago Jail Handing Out Naloxone to Inmates Upon Release - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:16] <exec> 08└─I've attempted in a serious way twice. However psychiatric treatment got me back to work. I'm now a tax paying citizen. I'm not an addict but "the mentally ill" is commonly said in sentences that include "addicts".
[19:21:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 and 56 Announced - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:26] <exec> 08└─the only way to not get ripped off (or treated as a digital slave by your precious slavewareOS) is to educate yourself. anything less and you will be victimized.
[19:21:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 and 56 Announced - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:28] <exec> 08└─hey amd, can you actually get cards on the shelves? are you going to rob peter to pay paul or will your previous gen(s) (rx4xx/rx5xx) be available too? when is this going to happen? q4 2017? q1 2018? in the year 3000?
[19:21:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 and 56 Announced - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:30] <exec> 08└─So I guess asking for thoughts from people I consider my technical peers (or at least some of them) does not count in your world as one way to educate myself?
[19:21:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook's Digital Colonialism - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:49] <exec> 08└─You should migrate to git.
[19:21:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook's Digital Colonialism - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:51] <exec> 08└─So you're saying it's like trying to sell Cap'n Crunch whistles to John Draper.
[19:22:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mathematicians Bridge Finite-Infinite Divide - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:13] <exec> 08└─So that being said... can somebody more informed than me explain what this all means is laymen terms? As I read it, basically you can take any theorem and reduce it to some key assumptions... and some theorem requires the assumption that infinity exists and others do not. Is that effectively what it...
[19:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mathematicians Bridge Finite-Infinite Divide - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:15] <exec> 08└─It's one small step forward, one infinite leap away.
[19:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03piss_drinker [6536] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Single Molecular Layer and Thin Silicon Beam Enable Nanolaser Operation at Room Temperature - 2051 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:26] <exec> 08└─Infinity does not exist in nature? Pretty bold statement for creatures who only have the capacity to reflect based on their own finite frame of view; designated to a point within time and space. But I don't mind putting my infinity mirror away. Unless reflection has nothing to do with nature. Ah, it...
[19:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Single Molecular Layer and Thin Silicon Beam Enable Nanolaser Operation at Room Temperature - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:28] <exec> 08└─Wrong article, and wrong post? ;)
[19:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03piss_drinker [6536] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Single Molecular Layer and Thin Silicon Beam Enable Nanolaser Operation at Room Temperature - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:30] <exec> 08└─I know. This browser is really buggy. Especially using it over a remote connection.
[19:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Court of Appeals in D.C. Takes the Case of the Incredible Shrinking Airline Seat - 740 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:00] <exec> 08└─Ok, people are pissed at lack of legroom. According to SchoolHouse Rock, what do we do kids? Exactly. What happened? Exactly. Getting a lot of people pissed and agitating your Congressman to pass a bill is the only acceptable remedy. When the first and only plan is to get a judge to order an unelect...
[19:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03aclarke [2049] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Court of Appeals in D.C. Takes the Case of the Incredible Shrinking Airline Seat - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:01] <exec> 08└─The "oh I never check in any luggage" brigade trying to stick "hand luggage" bigger than my main suitcase in the overhead locker.
[19:23:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dark Web Doesn't Exist, Says Tor's Dingledine. and Folks use Network for Privacy, not Crime - 1246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:48] <exec> 08└─I didn't argue that Tor should be shut down, or that it should be crippled in any way to prevent illegal activities. I just reread the summary, and I realized there are two statements: 1) Tor is not being used exclusively by "bad people". True. 2) The dark web has so little traffic, it's insignifica...
[19:24:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lennart Poettering Wins 2017 Pwnie for Lamest Vendor Response - 722 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:55] <exec> 08└─I think there are some out there (notably Redhat) who would actually like Linux to effectively turn into Windows in that all end user software can always leverage the same interfaces exposed by one and only one monolithic init system that can be assumed to always be there. The over engineered way th...
[19:24:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lennart Poettering Wins 2017 Pwnie for Lamest Vendor Response - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:57] <exec> 08└─I think it's time for some anti-systemd software.
[19:24:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lennart Poettering Wins 2017 Pwnie for Lamest Vendor Response - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:59] <exec> 08└─Systemd in general is the incarnation of Poe's Law. Inverse Poe's Law? You think they must be joking then you find out no, they're actually serious.
[19:26:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Whoever [4524] 02 - 06Millionaire CIA Torture Psychologists to Face Trial - 186 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:21] <exec> 08└─Above comment is complete BS. What really happens when used with confirmation is that the torturers merely attempt to confirm their own biases. Objective truth doesn't enter the process.
[19:26:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millionaire CIA Torture Psychologists to Face Trial - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:43] <exec> 08└─Not the AMA! As a crazy person, you should know this! APA, the American Psychological Association, which was torn apart by what these war criminals did, and failed to do the right thing and blackball them. Hopefully the legal system will do what the professional organization so egregiously failed...
[19:26:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Millionaire CIA Torture Psychologists to Face Trial - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:45] <exec> 08└─This. In fact, getting a "confession" out of someone tend to prove their innocence. Because someone with real colleagues and information to protect is likely to hold out longer.
[19:26:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Millionaire CIA Torture Psychologists to Face Trial - 1021 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:47] <exec> 08└─Not that the Nazi were perfectly fine, but... you've fallen for the typical propaganda. Stalin was way worse, but he helped write history. Every successful civilization is built upon a hill of skulls. It's easy for you to abhor genocide, demanding that other civilizations not partake of it, when you...
[19:29:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why You’re Being Invited to Fewer Weddings - 5057 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:29:20] <exec> 08└─I feel like I can relate to some of this, but honestly it sounds like you have some kind of issue if young women (in admin or whatever) treat you with "stony contempt". Maybe you have a really angry face or something? I had to train myself a bit in my younger years to look happier and be more friend...
[19:29:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why You’re Being Invited to Fewer Weddings - 992 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:29:21] <exec> 08└─And many women now are even going the AI or one night stand route to pregnancy so they can have a child early without holding the man responsible (bad idea for the man in case she ever requests financial aid from the government, My understanding is that for AI, they can't do this; sperm donors have...
[19:29:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06P&G Cuts More Than $100 Million in ‘Largely Ineffective’ Digital Ads - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:29:56] <exec> 08└─Businesses which advertise a lot seem to have a much higher likelihood of screwing me than ones my friends and neighbors recommend to me.
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[20:20:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mayor of Ozamiz, Philippines Killed by Philippine National Police During Drug Raid - 705 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:58] <exec> 08└─Disclaimer: I do not live in the Philippines, I do not know the whole scope of drug problems there, and sometimes there is enough institutional corruption and problems that drastic action is necessary. What in the world is going on there? At best it looks like a series of systemic murders is going o...
[20:21:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 0634 Criminal cases tossed after body cam footage shows cop planting drugs - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:06] <exec> 08└─Come on you apologists, start treating this police problem seriously and maybe we can begin rebuilding the public trust. This is the worst kind of offense and it is obviously quite widespread. Prison for profit, ticket quotas, and red light cameras are all symptoms of this sickness. Public safety sh...
[20:21:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0634 Criminal cases tossed after body cam footage shows cop planting drugs - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:09] <exec> 08└─It's great (and sadly a little surprising) that they're throwing out not only the cases where they have proof of an officer planting evidence, but also some other cases involving those officers' credibility. But justice won't really be served unless and until the crooked bastards are themselves trie...
[20:21:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0634 Criminal cases tossed after body cam footage shows cop planting drugs - 1272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:11] <exec> 08└─First, you have to address the fact that these skanks shouldn't be enforcing the so-called "drug war" in the first place. All of this "lets illegally persecute and steal from people while using proper procedure" is not the issue. The People will only support the cops if they are retrained to learn a...
[20:21:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0634 Criminal cases tossed after body cam footage shows cop planting drugs - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:13] <exec> 08└─Indeed, planting evidence must be prosecuted.
[20:21:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Chicago Jail Handing Out Naloxone to Inmates Upon Release - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:28] <exec> 08└─Kill yourself.
[20:21:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Chicago Jail Handing Out Naloxone to Inmates Upon Release - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:29] <exec> 08└─When the goal is less junkies, it makes no sense to prolong the lives of junkies. The use of heroin is a voluntary act of will. Actions have consequences.
[20:21:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chicago Jail Handing Out Naloxone to Inmates Upon Release - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:31] <exec> 08└─There's a big difference... You're a good guy, the others are not and most of them will commit serious crimes again.
[20:21:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chicago Jail Handing Out Naloxone to Inmates Upon Release - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:34] <exec> 08└─Maybe, but the fact remains dead criminals = less crime.
[20:21:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chicago Jail Handing Out Naloxone to Inmates Upon Release - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:36] <exec> 08└─Can we get better trolls in here? I mean this is just bad trolling.
[20:21:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chicago Jail Handing Out Naloxone to Inmates Upon Release - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:38] <exec> 08└─And addiction isn't a thing, obviously.
[20:21:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chicago Jail Handing Out Naloxone to Inmates Upon Release - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:40] <exec> 08└─Dead niggers = less crime. Firebomb the South Side!
[20:21:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chicago Jail Handing Out Naloxone to Inmates Upon Release - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:42] <exec> 08└─You first :D
[20:22:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03canopic jug [3949] 02 - 06Facebook's Digital Colonialism - 31 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:02] <exec> 08└─Did they claim to do otherwise?
[20:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mathematicians Bridge Finite-Infinite Divide - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:37] <exec> 08└─(not GP) Thanks. This was my understanding as well, but you put it in much simpler terms. I also think the excitement comes from the possibility of now generating new proofs for other theorems, that are also independent of the axiom of infinity (unlike current proofs).
[20:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mathematicians Bridge Finite-Infinite Divide - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:38] <exec> 08└─Wrong question. Should ask, "are we now allowed to divide by infinity?"
[20:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Court of Appeals in D.C. Takes the Case of the Incredible Shrinking Airline Seat - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:24] <exec> 08└─lol!
[20:23:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Capitulates, Removes Unlicensed VPN Apps From China App Store - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:45] <exec> 08└─If you jailbreak, you get access to the Cydia App Store. It has lots of Apps that Apple would not approve of. Alternatively you can build source code yourself with Xcode. Jailbreaking has the advantage that you can build on some other platform than Mac OS X. Without jailbreaking you can only build o...
[20:23:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Capitulates, Removes Unlicensed VPN Apps From China App Store - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:46] <exec> 08└─It's illegal there too but the laws aren't enforced.
[20:23:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Capitulates, Removes Unlicensed VPN Apps From China App Store - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:48] <exec> 08└─I can get work whose deliverable runs on an Apple Platform. I advertise Linux and Windows expertise too, but no one ever offers me any such work. Not getting any work at all led me to being homeless. Now I'm paying my own rent.
[20:24:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dark Web Doesn't Exist, Says Tor's Dingledine. and Folks use Network for Privacy, not Crime - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:21] <exec> 08└─... does that really provide enough cover traffic to not provide statistical analysis of traffic patterns to help direct hacking and deanonymization efforts against services and clients?
[20:24:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dark Web Doesn't Exist, Says Tor's Dingledine. and Folks use Network for Privacy, not Crime - 563 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:23] <exec> 08└─the links are obfuscated so it would be difficult to automate visiting them, but are trivial for humans to resolve: http soylentnews org h__p://soylentnews.org Text in bitmap images. I even found one on Last.fm. There are vast quantities of all three of these. Often they use a "link protection servi...
[20:24:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dark Web Doesn't Exist, Says Tor's Dingledine. and Folks use Network for Privacy, not Crime - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:25] <exec> 08└─But not Trojan Magnum XLs. I am often complemented for my well-formed William Jefferson Clinton.
[20:25:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lennart Poettering Wins 2017 Pwnie for Lamest Vendor Response - 802 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:35] <exec> 08└─If I was in charge of linux (whatever that means) I would dump my spare resource into fixing open office If that means that you would make it 100.00 percent compatible with M$Orifice, it's important to note that M$Orifice isn't even compatible M$Orifice. If you aren't using THE SAME VERSION of M$'s...
[20:25:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lennart Poettering Wins 2017 Pwnie for Lamest Vendor Response - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:36] <exec> 08└─By the way...not much sense in debating pvanhoof. There's one of him in every systemd discussion anywhere on the web. He goes on about how this is all just "systemd hate", passive aggressively pretending to the the "reasonable" one in the discussion, and proceeds to troll the thread no less that eig...
[20:25:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lennart Poettering Wins 2017 Pwnie for Lamest Vendor Response - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:38] <exec> 08└─I've been arrested for it twice.
[20:28:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ad Blockers' Self-Immolation? - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:28:07] <exec> 08└─Heh. Yeah, that works, too. I mean, HTML is context-insensitive so all-caps or no-caps are both valid as long as you're consistent...
[20:28:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ad Blockers' Self-Immolation? - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:28:08] <exec> 08└─Whenever I'm at family and surf on their computers to popular news sites, I'm always aghast at the site. Worst experience was when little gnomes were hopping all over the bottom of the screen and started tapping against the screen (with sound effects). On a major news site *facepalm* All those movin...
[20:28:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ad Blockers' Self-Immolation? - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:28:11] <exec> 08└─f ads stayed the way they were a decade again, basically just gives or plain text, people wouldn't complain.
[20:30:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why You’re Being Invited to Fewer Weddings - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:30:05] <exec> 08└─if you used a dating club pre-internet, that probably puts you in your mid-40s or above).
[20:31:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03gringer [962] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Psst, the Human Genome Was Never Completely Sequenced. Some Scientists Say It Should be - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:31:17] <exec> 08└─The question is then, how long sequences do these need to be?
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[21:20:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mayor of Ozamiz, Philippines Killed by Philippine National Police During Drug Raid - 628 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:55] <exec> 08└─I'd be very interested to hear from someone on the ground as well. Duterte comes across as a batshit insane fanatic in his foul-mouthed diatribes posted online by western MSM (it's not just the US), but those are pretty much entirely related to the undeniably severe corruption and drugs problems tha...
[21:20:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Mayor of Ozamiz, Philippines Killed by Philippine National Police During Drug Raid - 583 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:56] <exec> 08└─From WaPo: Parojinog, who also faced corruption charges, had denied any links to illegal drugs. He was the third mayor to be killed under Duterte’s bloody crackdown on drugs, which has left more than 3,000 dead in reported gunfights with police and thousands of other unexplained deaths of suspects...
[21:20:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mayor of Ozamiz, Philippines Killed by Philippine National Police During Drug Raid - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:58] <exec> 08└─whole scope of drug problems there Its interesting that when I talk to old coworkers ex-navy, Subic Bay (which has been closed for a quarter century) was legendarily a sex-crazed town not really a major drug naval base. You went on leave to get laid, not high. Apparently Tijuana was where you went t...
[21:21:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mayor of Ozamiz, Philippines Killed by Philippine National Police During Drug Raid - 576 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:00] <exec> 08└─When you make an omelet, you've got to break a few rotten apples. And when you see these towns and when you see these thugs being thrown into the back of a paddy wagon, you just see them thrown in, rough. And I said, "Please don’t be too nice." Like when you guys put somebody in the car, and you...
[21:21:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0634 Criminal cases tossed after body cam footage shows cop planting drugs - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:12] <exec> 08└─Oddly enough, shouldn't the cop be charged with drug possession on top of falsifying evidence?
[21:21:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0634 Criminal cases tossed after body cam footage shows cop planting drugs - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:13] <exec> 08└─I think it is the inevitable backlash of corruption going too far. People will bend their morals for edge cases, but at some point it becomes too gross and consciences are reborn.
[21:21:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03BananaPhone [2488] (Score: 2) 02 - 0634 Criminal cases tossed after body cam footage shows cop planting drugs - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:15] <exec> 08└─Just like the crosswalk button to cross the street. There are WAY more crooked cops out there.
[21:21:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 0634 Criminal cases tossed after body cam footage shows cop planting drugs - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:18] <exec> 08└─I was thinking along similar lines, but more to the effect of: when an officer's body cam footage shows him planting drugs or other evidence, that should automatically disqualify ALL evidence "found" by this officer in ALL previous searches and arrests he has conducted.
[21:21:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 0634 Criminal cases tossed after body cam footage shows cop planting drugs - 454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:20] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure what documentary you're referring to, but I'm not a Moore Officianado. If I had to guess, he probably cites the court case [aele.org] where they're allowed to reject high-IQ cop candidates. The conclusion in that particular case was that A. It didn't violate the 14th amendment because i...
[21:21:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 0634 Criminal cases tossed after body cam footage shows cop planting drugs - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:22] <exec> 08└─Better to let a thousand innocent men be punished unfairly, than allow a single guilty man who was caught purely by coincidence free. But you're right, that should absolutely be grounds for a retrial for literally every single person this officer had any connection to the investigation of.
[21:21:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0634 Criminal cases tossed after body cam footage shows cop planting drugs - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:24] <exec> 08└─The DA would be happy to grind your sorry ass to a pulp just for smirking but all those dirty cops face no consequences.
[21:21:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 0634 Criminal cases tossed after body cam footage shows cop planting drugs - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:27] <exec> 08└─capture footage 30 seconds before an officer presses the record button.
[21:21:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chicago Jail Handing Out Naloxone to Inmates Upon Release - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:50] <exec> 08└─MDC has charmed you with his gift of the gab, proving yet again that sociable extroverts always win. Why don't you give personality tests in school, brand the introverts as losers, and fucking kill them all to put the bad shits out of their misery before they commit crimes against your society where...
[21:21:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chicago Jail Handing Out Naloxone to Inmates Upon Release - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:52] <exec> 08└─The niggers don't stay on their side of town anymore. They're slowly migrating north as urban decay depopulates the city. Chicago will be the next Detroit but the effect is less immediately noticeable because the Chicago is just so damn big.
[21:21:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chicago Jail Handing Out Naloxone to Inmates Upon Release - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:54] <exec> 08└─Piss off. Your sister is probably a crack whore.
[21:21:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chicago Jail Handing Out Naloxone to Inmates Upon Release - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:56] <exec> 08└─Addiction requires a conscious decision to engage in the first, second, and subsequent instances of a behavior. This whole "addiction is a disease" bullshit is just a money-mill for the headshrinkers and an excuse for SJW's to canonize more "victims".
[21:21:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chicago Jail Handing Out Naloxone to Inmates Upon Release - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:58] <exec> 08└─And your father smelt of elderberries. I see the shithead troll is back, my guess is an angsty teenager trying to achieve EDGE LORD status. Keep going kiddo, one day you also can be reviled and picked up by the FBI.
[21:22:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 and 56 Announced - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:10] <exec> 08└─It'll happen when Ethereum dies a brutal death.
[21:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook's Digital Colonialism - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:31] <exec> 08└─Zuck is a Mercurial Git, whose... um... Veracity for Subversion of people's privacy is... uh... totally not SourceSafe...?
[21:23:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Court of Appeals in D.C. Takes the Case of the Incredible Shrinking Airline Seat - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:42] <exec> 08└─I suppose I can accommodate those people who do not care about minimum level of comfort in my labor camp. And I assure you, there will be a minimum level of safety.
[21:25:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lennart Poettering Wins 2017 Pwnie for Lamest Vendor Response - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:48] <exec> 08└─Sweet jesus! Yeah, can't have people knowing how to fix their own computers. Must insert some 3rd party software so you can intercept the commands before the user finds ou**destroys their own computer**.
[21:25:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lennart Poettering Wins 2017 Pwnie for Lamest Vendor Response - 797 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:49] <exec> 08└─Woopty woo we've got a meritocratic person here who thinks that someone in a position of power must obviously have gotten their by their inherent superiority. It is like Trump supporters, he says he's rich so he must be a smart amazing person. Looooooooooooool Systemd is a cancer, only blind MORONS...
[21:26:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06[Tonight] "Breaking the Code" Starring Simon Templeman Streaming via KPFK - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:48] <exec> 08└─So, as you say, it wasn't a mandatory order, he had the option of prison - nice choice there. Anyone who tries to take "sole diva" credit for any part of anything as massive as the WWII British intelligence gathering operation is clearly delusional. But, that's the way so much dramatized fiction is...
[21:30:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why You’re Being Invited to Fewer Weddings - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:30:17] <exec> 08└─think and act
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[22:20:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Bans VPNs and Tor, Effective November 1 - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:54] <exec> 08└─In the end, just a bunch of national LANs. Yay. Glad we allowed that.
[22:20:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Bans VPNs and Tor, Effective November 1 - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:55] <exec> 08└─True. But only as long as we keep using centralised protocols. Swap them out for self-organising naming, addressing, routing and encapsulation protocols, and cross-border communications reduce to the problem of layer 1 and 2 in the OSI model. Sales of Pringles might boom near national borders ...
[22:20:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Russia Bans VPNs and Tor, Effective November 1 - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:58] <exec> 08└─Apple put up a very public fight with Comey last year to protect its users' privacy. Apple won't bow down to the US government. So don't expect Apple to bow down to any foreign government like Russia when it comes to compromising users' privacy. (*cough* China *cough*)
[22:20:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Bans VPNs and Tor, Effective November 1 - 1127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:00] <exec> 08└─We were told by the crypto weenies that an absolutist position was possible because of the magic powers of strong crypto. Governments were powerless in the face of it so go ahead and push for absolute privacy and dens of inequity like Silk Road. Raise a middle finger when they demand lawful access v...
[22:21:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fnord666 [652] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Bans VPNs and Tor, Effective November 1 - 1127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:02] <exec> 08└─We were told by the crypto weenies that an absolutist position was possible because of the magic powers of strong crypto. Governments were powerless in the face of it so go ahead and push for absolute privacy and dens of inequity like Silk Road. Raise a middle finger when they demand lawful access v...
[22:21:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Bans VPNs and Tor, Effective November 1 - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:04] <exec> 08└─While I agree the centralized nature of the modern internet is bad, we don't have the activism, participation, or sufficient technical resources to RUN a distributed 'mesh' inter-network, especially one with sufficient bandwidth to provide even high latency reliable communications between geographic...
[22:21:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Bans VPNs and Tor, Effective November 1 - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:07] <exec> 08└─Yup: as long as a dollar could be lost Apple will fold. (and you should take care of that cough!) :)
[22:21:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Bans VPNs and Tor, Effective November 1 - 672 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:09] <exec> 08└─It's all about money. People in the USA were reeling from the NSA revelations and all the privacy issues which followed. Apple taking a stand for users privacy wasn't about fighting for the little guy. No, it was to give the little guy the impression that Apple cares thereby creating demand for thei...
[22:21:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mayor of Ozamiz, Philippines Killed by Philippine National Police During Drug Raid - 872 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:21] <exec> 08└─I see no reason for Duterte to be vilified by western MSM. I would think they would play up the anti-drug aspect and try to spin his insanity as "not so bad". I can't see any reason for western media to paint him as a bad guy. Takeaway: he is batshit crazy and taking the worst path possible to solvi...
[22:21:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mayor of Ozamiz, Philippines Killed by Philippine National Police During Drug Raid - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:22] <exec> 08└─Being fair, just across the maritime border you still have slavery in Thailand: https://www.theguardian.com [theguardian.com] https://www.nytimes.com
[22:21:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 0634 Criminal cases tossed after body cam footage shows cop planting drugs - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:42] <exec> 08└─Better, and more profitable for the private prison system and lawyers.
[22:21:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0634 Criminal cases tossed after body cam footage shows cop planting drugs - 1119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:44] <exec> 08└─Most of those cameras likely record up to 30 seconds of RAM video footage, and when the record button is pressed, sync it to flash (otherwise they would wear out in a matter of months.) So lengthening the pre-record period has technical constraints that would effect it. The ONLY real solution is alw...
[22:22:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chicago Jail Handing Out Naloxone to Inmates Upon Release - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:13] <exec> 08└─That's funny considering I'm an INTJ, graduated from high school with honors, four women fell in love with me within 4 years, educated myself because I couldn't afford a higher education, started working at 14 and went full time the day after graduation, worked my ass off, raised a family with 4 kid...
[22:22:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chicago Jail Handing Out Naloxone to Inmates Upon Release - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:15] <exec> 08└─I don't know which is more offensive, treating criminals like human beings or treating drug addicts like human beings.
[22:26:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lennart Poettering Wins 2017 Pwnie for Lamest Vendor Response - 903 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:07] <exec> 08└─> For data processing and coding, CLI tools are correct. Not really. A proper language, even interpreted like python, that doesn't sacrifice half its syntax for the sake of command prompt convenience would always produce better, faster and more editable results. CLI tools are for administrative oper...
[22:30:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why You’re Being Invited to Fewer Weddings - 1170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:30:35] <exec> 08└─The thing about hobby clubs is that they are mostly older people I have to differ on this one. First of all, here in the DC area there's a bunch of "maker" clubs and other such things on Meetup which seem to have a lot of younger guys. Of course, those kind of clubs aren't much help for finding a da...
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[23:21:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Bans VPNs and Tor, Effective November 1 - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:04] <exec> 08└─With Clipper, anti-RSA/PGP stuff, Palladium, etc. What changed is all these countries got authoritarians in power because the easily swayed plebs got access to the internet and as a result it became easier to manipulate them with single source media sufficiently to influence the passing of unpleasan...
[23:21:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Bans VPNs and Tor, Effective November 1 - 656 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:06] <exec> 08└─Not really true. All we need is FaceGooZon to realise that national border breaks are strongly against their interests, and they'll support it out of the goodness of their twisted little hearts - or sheer avarice. Whichever. What you need most is a software layer, because the hardware already exists...
[23:21:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Bans VPNs and Tor, Effective November 1 - 487 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:08] <exec> 08└─Just as there's more than one way to skin a cat (my personal favourite is a power sander), there's more than one way to securely encapsulate a packet. Let's see how well this legislation works out in practice before jumping to conclusions about its effectiveness, because China sure hasn't had all th...
[23:21:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Russia Bans VPNs and Tor, Effective November 1 - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:10] <exec> 08└─If you are in prison for sending the packets encrypted so they can't see what's in them, does it really matter they can't decrypt them and arrest you for the contents? Either way you are in prison.
[23:21:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Bans VPNs and Tor, Effective November 1 - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:12] <exec> 08└─our iPhones are sacred and must never be violated.
[23:21:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Bans VPNs and Tor, Effective November 1 - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:18] <exec> 08└─Coming soon to your western countries as well, because, you know, terrorism and children!
[23:21:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mayor of Ozamiz, Philippines Killed by Philippine National Police During Drug Raid - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:30] <exec> 08└─I see no reason for Duterte to be vilified by western MSM. I would think they would play up the anti-drug aspect and try to spin his insanity as "not so bad". I can't see any reason for western media to paint him as a bad guy.
[23:21:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mayor of Ozamiz, Philippines Killed by Philippine National Police During Drug Raid - 849 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:32] <exec> 08└─On the surface, those who want hard drugs to be made legally available (with or without some form of restrictions on acquisition) might not want to be demonising Duterte but, as you say, he's on the worst possible path to fixing the problem and that's where taking a position of tacit support kind of...
[23:21:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mayor of Ozamiz, Philippines Killed by Philippine National Police During Drug Raid - 907 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:34] <exec> 08└─Well, I remember when he did an about turn from being a staunch US Ally to a Chinese/Russian ally. Shortly after that the MSM stories about this "drug war" started appearing. Now whether the events had just started happening, or whether the MSM just started reporting them, I don't know. What I do kn...
[23:21:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mayor of Ozamiz, Philippines Killed by Philippine National Police During Drug Raid - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:36] <exec> 08└─Nobody sane would give a crap as to "how bad" the drug problem might be there. When you have Duterte encouraging vigilante death squads to murder citizens suspected of drug use, I'd say it becomes pretty moot, even if some think the guy is doing an unbelievable job on the drug problem. [nytimes.com]...
[23:21:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mayor of Ozamiz, Philippines Killed by Philippine National Police During Drug Raid - 500 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:38] <exec> 08└─The whole drive of Duterte can be summarized with: "if you're destroying my country, I will destroy you first". The focus is on drugs because it's really a major problem. But he has also told the same thing for instance to mining companies that are destroying the environment, or in general to corrup...
[23:23:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mathematicians Bridge Finite-Infinite Divide - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:29] <exec> 08└─That's if you are in Australia or New Zealand. The northern hemisphere still divides by zero.
[23:24:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Court of Appeals in D.C. Takes the Case of the Incredible Shrinking Airline Seat - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:17] <exec> 08└─Can't get out of your seat, as your legs are jammed against the seat in front? DVT? The free market telling you you are a loser who shouldn't be on a plane.
[23:26:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BBC’s Micro:bit Turns Out to be an Excellent Drone Hijacking Tool - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:42] <exec> 08└─Oooh, are they doing combo awards now? What are the Nobel Darwin and Turing Darwin awards for? For proper poetry, the Nobel Darwin Award for Chemistry should go to someone who invents an incredibly useful new explosive that accidentally left a state-sized hole around the winner's lab, and I suspect...
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