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[00:39:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Northrop Grumman to Acquire Orbital ATK for $7.8 Billion - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:18] <exec> 08└─Thanks to the synergies from the acquisition, both companies will be able to hire more workers, deliver early, and provide the pentagon with rebates on various programs!
[00:39:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Northrop Grumman to Acquire Orbital ATK for $7.8 Billion - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:19] <exec> 08└─Terrific deal! In which the Chinese are not involved. Believe me, I'm going to approve this one. I will be at my desk at Trump Tower in NYC, pen in hand! 🇺🇸
[00:39:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CCleaner Hacked for a Month - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:33] <exec> 08└─I've always treated that thing as a virus... It is no match for proper manual intervention when I'm cleaning up a machine, though I realize most people have no idea what they're doing so it might be somewhat valuable in limited circumstances for the average schmoo... ...but anything like that is gua...
[00:39:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06CCleaner Hacked for a Month - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:34] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't it be awesome if all anti-virus companies collaborated on 1 product...
[00:39:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CCleaner Hacked for a Month - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:37] <exec> 08└─99.98% of people don't know enough to do it manually. An automated process is therefore necessary. Consider yourself lucky if everyone you share data with actually uses antivirus and anti-malware software.
[00:40:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Stops Challenging Most US Warrants for Data on Overseas Servers - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:20] <exec> 08└─Google's motto: "Don't be evil" + Alphabet's motto: "Do the right thing" = "Do the right evil"
[00:41:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Review: If You Read One Sci-Fi Series This Year, It Should Be The Broken Earth - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:24] <exec> 08└─*steps on goose*
[00:41:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Review: If You Read One Sci-Fi Series This Year, It Should Be The Broken Earth - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:25] <exec> 08└─*gets flogged by angry goose*
[00:42:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03a262 [6671] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Equifax CIO, CSO “Retire” in Wake of Huge Security Breach - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:46] <exec> 08└─Something something something dark side...
[00:43:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Real-Life Example of Uber's Regulator-Evading Software - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:16] <exec> 08└─I could have said nothing, And we would all have been better for it. Seriously, if you insist on rambling rants please use the journal.
[00:43:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Real-Life Example of Uber's Regulator-Evading Software - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:17] <exec> 08└─It depends on where you drive: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[00:43:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Real-Life Example of Uber's Regulator-Evading Software - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:19] <exec> 08└─And had taxi companies not been using the law as a cudgel to prevent competition and protect monopoly for 50 years, Uber would never have had an opening. Almost all disruptive technologies come about because of hide-bound institutionalized obsolescence, and such obsolescence is often protected by la...
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[01:39:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Electronic Frontier Foundation Resigns From W3C Over Encrypted Media Extensions DRM - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:14] <exec> 08└─Cory Doctorow, not only a good writer but also a freedom fighter.
[01:39:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electronic Frontier Foundation Resigns From W3C Over Encrypted Media Extensions DRM - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:15] <exec> 08└─The Director decided to personally override
[01:39:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electronic Frontier Foundation Resigns From W3C Over Encrypted Media Extensions DRM - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:17] <exec> 08└─Cory Doctorow, not only a good writer
[01:39:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Electronic Frontier Foundation Resigns From W3C Over Encrypted Media Extensions DRM - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:19] <exec> 08└─EFF has been on this case since the beginning, for example, https://mikegerwitz.com [mikegerwitz.com]
[01:39:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Touché) 02 - 06Electronic Frontier Foundation Resigns From W3C Over Encrypted Media Extensions DRM - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:22] <exec> 08└─The dude came up with WWW protocol to spread/exchange info over the internet. How does DRM help? The senile no-integirty bastard should have resigned a while back.
[01:39:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Electronic Frontier Foundation Resigns From W3C Over Encrypted Media Extensions DRM - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:24] <exec> 08└─This seems to me to be akin to the "Official" end to the open web. If the EFF has given up, the battle has been lost.
[01:39:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CCleaner Hacked for a Month - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:48] <exec> 08└─Will they release CCCleaner to clean CCleaner?
[01:39:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CCleaner Hacked for a Month - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:49] <exec> 08└─Possibly. Care to explain, or just bash others?
[01:40:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Knife-Throwing as a Sport: Who Would Have Thunk It? - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:40:18] <exec> 08└─As a practitioner of armored sword fighting, many of my associates practice thrown weapons regularly. Spears, axes, knives, etc. It's not nearly as uncommon as the headline would have one think.
[01:40:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Knife-Throwing as a Sport: Who Would Have Thunk It? - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:40:20] <exec> 08└─Scottish Highland Games that I've seen or visited advertise hammer throwing but they "all" (AFAIK) have axe throwing contests too. Hammer throwing sounds very dangerous but its pretty easy to figure out max range and simply stand outside it. I would imagine gathering that safety data initially was v...
[01:41:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Review: If You Read One Sci-Fi Series This Year, It Should Be The Broken Earth - 895 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:41:42] <exec> 08└─The main thing about science fiction in my understanding of the genre is to ask 'what if?' and to speculate on what that might mean and what might happen if it were. The focus has to be on this one question: 'what if?' This is what makes Star Wars not SF in my book: it's fantasy every bit as much as...
[01:41:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Review: If You Read One Sci-Fi Series This Year, It Should Be The Broken Earth - 2692 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:41:44] <exec> 08└─Its structure was well known for as long as concrete was made. It wasn't lost knowledge. It was merely the unavailability of two ingredients. Oh bullshit. If the knowledge wasn't lost, they would have continued building concrete structures throughout the Dark and Middle Ages, but they didn't. They'v...
[01:41:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Review: If You Read One Sci-Fi Series This Year, It Should Be The Broken Earth - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:41:46] <exec> 08└─"No large waterfowl were harmed in the production of these comments. Comments supervised by People for the Ethical Treatment of ACs."
[01:41:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Review: If You Read One Sci-Fi Series This Year, It Should Be The Broken Earth - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:41:48] <exec> 08└─What about L. Ron Hubbard? He wrote some great sci-fi, too. *ducks*
[01:43:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Real-Life Example of Uber's Regulator-Evading Software - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:41] <exec> 08└─I live in a place that at least pays lip service to the laws of physics... I can legally receive any frequency.
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[02:39:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Nerdfest [80] 02 - 06Electronic Frontier Foundation Resigns From W3C Over Encrypted Media Extensions DRM - 117 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:31] <exec> 08└─This seems to me to be akin to the "Official" end to the open web. If the EFF has given up, the battle has been lost.
[02:39:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Electronic Frontier Foundation Resigns From W3C Over Encrypted Media Extensions DRM - 1268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:32] <exec> 08└─Let's assume that this EME API gets through, because it almost certainly will. It's success in the marketplace will depend on several factors: 1 - Browsers actively supporting it 2 - Content providers encoding their video using it 3 - Customers agreeing to consume it 1. I'm pretty sure that there wi...
[02:39:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Electronic Frontier Foundation Resigns From W3C Over Encrypted Media Extensions DRM - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:34] <exec> 08└─I'm not really joking. The EFF should publish an alternative standard excluding just this, at least at first. Make a lot of noise about it (they clearly know how to put out press releases) and work every trick in the book to get anything which uses the so-called official W3C methods for DRM to be la...
[02:39:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03jcross [4009] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electronic Frontier Foundation Resigns From W3C Over Encrypted Media Extensions DRM - 692 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:37] <exec> 08└─I think you're right. And to some extent the market has already decided, because Netflix et al aren't currently pushing out video in straight HTML5 formats; as I understand it they're using browser plugins to do their DRM, at least in Chrome. So this standard would in theory make it so they only hav...
[02:39:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Electronic Frontier Foundation Resigns From W3C Over Encrypted Media Extensions DRM - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:39] <exec> 08└─1. I'm pretty sure that there will be a few browsers (particularly Linux-focused) that will decide to not support the API. At a minimum, I expect that using the API will remain a configurable option in the browser (well, perhaps not Safari if Apple is going to push their video offerings with this)
[02:39:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Electronic Frontier Foundation Resigns From W3C Over Encrypted Media Extensions DRM - 696 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:41] <exec> 08└─>Anything currently free (YouTube, PornHub, Twitch etc) will, I suspect, remain free of this Are you kidding me? That's preposterous. This is the home movie industry, the people who with a straight face compare the invention of VCRs to the Boston Strangler. Any free video on the internet isn't free,...
[02:39:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electronic Frontier Foundation Resigns From W3C Over Encrypted Media Extensions DRM - 1368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:43] <exec> 08└─I'm not so sure... Definitely, most of the paid content will move to use EME... but I suspect some free content will move as well. The free content requires advertising in order to obtain revenue. Their problem is that they do not serve advertisements on content that is downloaded. EME will prevent...
[02:39:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electronic Frontier Foundation Resigns From W3C Over Encrypted Media Extensions DRM - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:45] <exec> 08└─So, who do they fork? Chrome? Firefox? I'm guessing IE isn't an option. Who works on it? I'm guessing a web browser is a honkin big chunk of code that nobody understands > 70%. The learning curve is steep, those missing guardrails on the hairpin curves lead to security issues. How many newbs are go...
[02:39:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Electronic Frontier Foundation Resigns From W3C Over Encrypted Media Extensions DRM - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:48] <exec> 08└─It's success in the marketplace will depend on several factors: 1 - Browsers actively supporting it 2 - Content providers encoding their video using it 3 - Customers agreeing to consume it
[02:39:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Electronic Frontier Foundation Resigns From W3C Over Encrypted Media Extensions DRM - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:50] <exec> 08└─The standard makes precisely no sense. It requires binary bits that aren't actually included in the standard. The result being that the support will be limited to probably just OSX and Windows. There may be Android and iOS support, but that's not a given. The result is hardly any better than in the...
[02:39:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electronic Frontier Foundation Resigns From W3C Over Encrypted Media Extensions DRM - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:52] <exec> 08└─The AC said fork the standard, not a browser. It's an interesting idea. Whether the EFF would have the clout and connections to make a go of it is the question.
[02:40:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Common Joe [33] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CCleaner Hacked for a Month - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:40:17] <exec> 08└─Manually? Yuck. It would be nice to have a simple batch file or shell script that is kept up to date. That way, I could explicitly see what it was doing. I do the occasional clean up and I'd rather just run something than go through a hundred folders by hand or relying on a piece of bloated software...
[02:41:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03jcross [4009] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Stops Challenging Most US Warrants for Data on Overseas Servers - 634 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:03] <exec> 08└─Maybe it's only a few nerds, but my impression was that a lot of foreign governments don't care for this kind of thing either. I mean Russia and China obviously but I would think some European countries as well? They can seek other sources for software used by their government agencies, which of its...
[02:41:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02 - 06Review: If You Read One Sci-Fi Series This Year, It Should Be The Broken Earth - 1037 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:27] <exec> 08└─"every time you idiots fight over sci fi vs. fantasy, I wanna PUKE" Sci-Fi vs. fantasy matters, because people want to find books to read. Look, suppose you like reading mysteries. And every time some new romantic fiction comes out, the reviewers say "Look at this great mystery". So you go to Amazon...
[02:42:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Review: If You Read One Sci-Fi Series This Year, It Should Be The Broken Earth - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:42:13] <exec> 08└─Nice try. We all know that Sauron's 'soul' was just his collection of Midichlorians. Sci-Fi again! My take - it's not Sci-Fi unless there is at least an attempt to explain how something works. If the books contain some detail about how these people interact with the obelisks then that may suffice. I...
[02:42:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Review: If You Read One Sci-Fi Series This Year, It Should Be The Broken Earth - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:42:15] <exec> 08└─Hah, that's nothing. Read The Fellowship of the Ring [goodreads.com] (first half) then read The Sword of Shannara [goodreads.com] and ask yourself why Terry Brooks wasn't sued into oblivion for plagiarism.
[02:43:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03frojack [1554] 02 - 06Equifax CIO, CSO “Retire” in Wake of Huge Security Breach - 66 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:30] <exec> 08└─This ensures these execs will get their nice fat golden parachutes
[02:43:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Equifax CIO, CSO “Retire” in Wake of Huge Security Breach - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:35] <exec> 08└─That's a very interesting and probably correct analysis of events. Except that it misses one important point: these CXX people sold shares before the breach was announced. They lied about not knowing about the breach (it's just come out that there was an earlier breach).
[02:43:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Equifax CIO, CSO “Retire” in Wake of Huge Security Breach - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:37] <exec> 08└─LLC status protects owners, not employees. They may still be liable in their position as employees.
[02:43:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Equifax CIO, CSO “Retire” in Wake of Huge Security Breach - 564 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:39] <exec> 08└─"The buck stops here"? Was the Chief Security Officer asking the right questions? Did she get the work audited? If your security relies upon individuals doing the right thing without appropriate auditing of their work, you will eventually fail. People make mistakes. As a manager, your job is to ensu...
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[03:39:31] <exec> 08└─Let's assume that this EME API gets through, because it almost certainly will. It's success in the marketplace will depend on several factors: 1 - Browsers actively supporting it 2 - Content providers encoding their video using it 3 - Customers agreeing to consume it 1. I'm pretty sure that there wi...
[03:39:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electronic Frontier Foundation Resigns From W3C Over Encrypted Media Extensions DRM - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:41] <exec> 08└─I would suspect that Firefox may hold off initially, especially if there is any mass complaining about EME; after all, it costs more developer resources to implement EME, than it does to ignore it.
[03:39:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electronic Frontier Foundation Resigns From W3C Over Encrypted Media Extensions DRM - 474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:42] <exec> 08└─Fork the standard, not the browser. A browser fork to refuse EME already exists though -- Pale Moon. Although it definitely seems like they could use some additional support, so it might be nice for EFF to throw some their way as well. Although honestly I'd probably prefer they start with a more mod...
[03:39:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Electronic Frontier Foundation Resigns From W3C Over Encrypted Media Extensions DRM - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:45] <exec> 08└─systemd to the rescue! Yo dawg! Gotta blob for your blob, so now you can blob your blob with your blob!
[03:39:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electronic Frontier Foundation Resigns From W3C Over Encrypted Media Extensions DRM - 1516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:47] <exec> 08└─And to some extent the market has already decided, because Netflix et al aren't currently pushing out video in straight HTML5 formats; as I understand it they're using browser plugins to do their DRM, at least in Chrome. Maybe I'm mistaken, but I thought Netflix et al were already using this standar...
[03:39:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Electronic Frontier Foundation Resigns From W3C Over Encrypted Media Extensions DRM - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:49] <exec> 08└─the battle has been lost. No, the battle has merely forked. Let's help the EFF pry open the web, or better yet, develop new protocols that ride the wave without being seen. VPN has lost its luster. Could I2P really be the answer?
[03:39:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Electronic Frontier Foundation Resigns From W3C Over Encrypted Media Extensions DRM - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:51] <exec> 08└─People are also worrying because this makes digital restrictions management officially accepted as part of a major standard, which can give the appearance of it being ethical on some level. DRM should be condemned in the harshest terms for restricting users, and especially so by organizations like t...
[03:42:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart9h [767] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Review: If You Read One Sci-Fi Series This Year, It Should Be The Broken Earth - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:16] <exec> 08└─As I interpreted it, Boromir never changed sides. He was just not strong enough to resist the power of the ring. When he "attacked" Frodo, it was the the ring itself (or Sauron) that was really acting. See, when he went after Frodo he was not thinking about getting the ring. That occurred only when...
[03:42:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Review: If You Read One Sci-Fi Series This Year, It Should Be The Broken Earth - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:17] <exec> 08└─*chainsaws low*
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[04:39:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What the World’s Emptiest International Airport Says About China’s Influence - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:18] <exec> 08└─Beware of Chinese bearing gift.
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[04:39:19] <exec> 08└─http://www.elmundo.es/economia/2015/07/17/55a92bec46163f5e048b45a6.html [elmundo.es] Spain is full of this stupid fad from before 2008. Then the brick bubble went boom. Chinese got one in Ciudad Real for 10000 euros, gov wanted 40M, construction bill reached 450M. Castellon one, 150M to build. Huesc...
[04:39:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 2, Touché) 02 - 06What the World’s Emptiest International Airport Says About China’s Influence - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:21] <exec> 08└─"If you build it, they will come."?
[04:39:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What the World’s Emptiest International Airport Says About China’s Influence - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:23] <exec> 08└─"If you build it, they will come."?
[04:39:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What the World’s Emptiest International Airport Says About China’s Influence - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:26] <exec> 08└─Maybe it's one of the reasons Catalonia wants to secede (I know there are others).
[04:39:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What the World’s Emptiest International Airport Says About China’s Influence - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:28] <exec> 08└─They outta be grateful that hordes of Chinese tourists haven't come over.
[04:39:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What the World’s Emptiest International Airport Says About China’s Influence - 856 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:30] <exec> 08└─Catalonia were the ones paying to have traffic. And the ones that wanted an airport there (Lleida). Well, every fucking regional president wanted one airport. Catalonia credit rating is so bad they have to get bonds via the central goverment. No, a bunch of politicians wants to secede to have their...
[04:39:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What the World’s Emptiest International Airport Says About China’s Influence - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:32] <exec> 08└─also wind, and mountain zones to pump water up...
[04:39:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TSMC to Build 7nm Process Test Chips in Q1 2018 - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:40] <exec> 08└─That's down to about 35 *atoms* of Silicon.
[04:39:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TSMC to Build 7nm Process Test Chips in Q1 2018 - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:43] <exec> 08└─Lotsa them needed for a family size chicken and chips dinner. Long gone the times when the farmers had their pride and one or two spuds would have sufficed. (grin)
[04:39:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Electronic Frontier Foundation Resigns From W3C Over Encrypted Media Extensions DRM - 424 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:57] <exec> 08└─I'm not really joking. The EFF should publish an alternative standard excluding just this, at least at first. Make a lot of noise about it (they clearly know how to put out press releases) and work every trick in the book to get anything which uses the so-called official W3C methods for DRM to be la...
[04:40:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electronic Frontier Foundation Resigns From W3C Over Encrypted Media Extensions DRM - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:40:12] <exec> 08└─"A browser fork to refuse EME already exists though -- Pale Moon" Funny that you mention Pale Moon specifically - didn't the lead dev recently stand against ad-blocking software or tracker-spoofing extensions or some such?
[04:40:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Electronic Frontier Foundation Resigns From W3C Over Encrypted Media Extensions DRM - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:40:13] <exec> 08└─and work every trick in the book to get anything which uses the so-called official W3C methods for DRM to be labeled as unsafe, like Google does for pages with suspected malware.
[04:41:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Stops Challenging Most US Warrants for Data on Overseas Servers - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:27] <exec> 08└─I don't think so. Nobody is going to stop using google's services because of this, just a few nerds.
[04:41:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Stops Challenging Most US Warrants for Data on Overseas Servers - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:29] <exec> 08└─Google's motto: "Don't be evil" + Alphabet's motto: "Do the right thing" = "Do the right evil"
[04:41:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Stops Challenging Most US Warrants for Data on Overseas Servers - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:31] <exec> 08└─Since the EU has ... a tendency to apply ever increasing fines on those that knowingly break them
[04:42:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Review: If You Read One Sci-Fi Series This Year, It Should Be The Broken Earth - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:42:45] <exec> 08└─many of his stories contain old men fawned over by young hot women. Pretty ridiculous sometimes.
[04:44:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Equifax CIO, CSO “Retire” in Wake of Huge Security Breach - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:44:09] <exec> 08└─If she was unable to evaluate whether her underlings were capable of doing their job properly, then she's a chocolate teapot. Whoever hired her for her position is equally useless. Simply noticing that she has claimed "data center" as a skill is not diligent recruiting. (What does she do - act as a...
[04:44:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Equifax CIO, CSO “Retire” in Wake of Huge Security Breach - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:44:10] <exec> 08└─They did nothing wrong. Their orders were not followed properly. They had no way to detect that a machine was missed.
[04:44:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03nwf [1469] 02 - 06Real-Life Example of Uber's Regulator-Evading Software - 267 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:44:26] <exec> 08└─While it's definitely incredibly sleazy, the performance of their software is pretty impressive. They correctly identified 16 people and only blocked one incorrectly. Now if they only put that much effort into being an upstanding corporation, they'd change the world.
[04:44:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03lx [1915] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Real-Life Example of Uber's Regulator-Evading Software - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:44:44] <exec> 08└─This is more like standing lookout on the corner while your buddies are selling stolen goods in the alley.
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[05:39:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fungal Pathogen Creates 'Zombeetles' - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:39:15] <exec> 08└─Not like anything good ever came out of Arkansas. Segregation at Little Rock. Slick Willie from Hope. Runaway1954 on SoylentNews. That Huckabee chick that is now Sean Spicer. Nothing good. Ever.
[05:39:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What the World’s Emptiest International Airport Says About China’s Influence - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:39:31] <exec> 08└─"After which you may have to scare them away with firecrackers." Seriously, couldn't they put up cameras and post 'Best of wild animals hanging out in Airports' videos to Youtube? How selfish.
[05:39:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What the World’s Emptiest International Airport Says About China’s Influence - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:39:33] <exec> 08└─Meh, I've seen this CEO trend before. Divest Catalonia, which merges with Valencia, swallows Murcia. Then Aragona and Navarra are cheap buys, Galizia gets bankrupt and limps in, and a few years of LBOs later, Madrid is the last to accept a hostile takeover. And do that again 20 to 50 years later, as...
[05:40:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electronic Frontier Foundation Resigns From W3C Over Encrypted Media Extensions DRM - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:40:12] <exec> 08└─the cards are stacked against us, as eff has found and said. the big guys have too much money on the table to let this just slide. they will keep fighting for their drm. I fight back buy not buying their media and downloading whatever I want, from wherever I want (as long as its drm-free files). the...
[05:40:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electronic Frontier Foundation Resigns From W3C Over Encrypted Media Extensions DRM - 1311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:40:13] <exec> 08└─if I can't root my phone, I can't install good blockers. the raw web is NASTY without blockers. when you live behind a blocked wall (lol), life is not too bad, online. then, you go to someone else's machine and see their unblocked web experience. as you noticed, its like a quiet room vs an airport r...
[05:40:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Electronic Frontier Foundation Resigns From W3C Over Encrypted Media Extensions DRM - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:40:15] <exec> 08└─The internet, is over.
[05:40:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Electronic Frontier Foundation Resigns From W3C Over Encrypted Media Extensions DRM - 1997 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:40:18] <exec> 08└─Come and visit, especially the IRC. Sadly the 'core' group has become formalized in what some of us consider a negative way. But on the bright side, there is one major reimplementation, the protocol itself is very forward thinking (lots of privacy tech that hasn't been implemented, but was thought o...
[05:40:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06CCleaner Hacked for a Month - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:40:44] <exec> 08└─Consider yourself lucky if everyone you share data with actually uses antivirus and anti-malware software Wouldn't it be better if they didn't use an OS that requires that nonsense? Wouldn't it be better if YOU didn't use an OS that requires that nonsense? -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[05:40:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CCleaner Hacked for a Month - 491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:40:46] <exec> 08└─1 possible explanation: Venn diagram [google.com] . ...and a whole nuther way to go WRT exploits: An OS that doesn't have The Windoze Registry and which has always had proper file permissions. I like Linux, but there are others. ...and trying to "fix" an OS that you suspect has been compromised seem...
[05:40:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06CCleaner Hacked for a Month - 790 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:40:48] <exec> 08└─Responding to many comments here: I use many cleaners, including ccleaner, but I _NEVER_ run them "out of the box"- I always go through and check, or uncheck things depending on what I want. And I always look at what is going to be deleted before I click "clean". I use BleachBit, which you can fully...
[05:40:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06CCleaner Hacked for a Month - 1557 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:40:50] <exec> 08└─I think what drussel is emphasizing is the strength of second, third, fourth, and so on ... opinions. If they all merged, it would be way too easy to buy them off or slip detection. ( I still think Kaspersky failing to hide some of our TLA snoops is why our own government is so pissed at them. Kasp...
[05:41:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Knife-Throwing as a Sport: Who Would Have Thunk It? - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:41:20] <exec> 08└─The best part of that was when Ed went to retrieve his tomahawk from the target and Johnny waved him off. (Ed was playing "Mingo", Daniel Boone's Native American friend at the time.) -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[05:41:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Knife-Throwing as a Sport: Who Would Have Thunk It? - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:41:22] <exec> 08└─What caliber was used? Was gunpowder involved? ...or were you marching with the things rather than shooting them? -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[05:42:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Review: If You Read One Sci-Fi Series This Year, It Should Be The Broken Earth - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:42:57] <exec> 08└─I read Battlefield Earth and judge it acceptable pulp SF. Mission Earth on the other hand was a challenging but hilarious read; ten frickin' volumes but who cares! If anyone can still find a set, read the first one and see what I mean. Guy was a madman, knew he was dying and wrote like he didn't giv...
[05:44:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Equifax CIO, CSO “Retire” in Wake of Huge Security Breach - 1129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:44:24] <exec> 08└─That's one way to look at it. The other could be why did that one server got missed? Are we sure it is just one just because one was discovered and exploited? Maybe there's more unknown servers in their network. Maybe they've fostered a risk culture such that documentation of their assets into their...
[05:44:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Real-Life Example of Uber's Regulator-Evading Software - 1064 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:44:59] <exec> 08└─That's stretching the bounds of even cognitive dissonance. Every example I even listed was them clearly using their current market dominance to try to gain an unfair advantage in other industries. Windows 10 S take this to an entirely new level where only apps from the Windows Store will even run, b...
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[06:39:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03andersjm [3931] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What the World’s Emptiest International Airport Says About China’s Influence - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:39:30] <exec> 08└─Looks like Brook Larmer has written a very interesting article for NYT. But no, Phoenix666 did not write this. Please stop the misattribution.
[06:39:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What the World’s Emptiest International Airport Says About China’s Influence - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:39:32] <exec> 08└─It's attributing the article submission to Phoenix666, not the actual article itself. All the submitted articles on the site do this.
[06:39:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What the World’s Emptiest International Airport Says About China’s Influence - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:39:34] <exec> 08└─Uh oh. Everytime I order something from China, the package comes clearly marked as a "gift"!!
[06:40:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Electronic Frontier Foundation Resigns From W3C Over Encrypted Media Extensions DRM - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:40:17] <exec> 08└─Your sister was all over you? Eeew.
[06:40:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CCleaner Hacked for a Month - 557 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:40:49] <exec> 08└─Thank you! Yes, I've used VirusTotal for years. Their website does the MD5 hash for you now. You can still upload the file if you really need to. I also use Jotti- another similar online scanner. It just bugs me that there are so many scanners and none agree. How can anyone ever be safe! I like and...
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[07:39:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Giant Sea Snail Plan to Rescue Barrier Reef - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:39:15] <exec> 08└─Remember the great Rabbit plague? Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport And that wasn't the first disaster that befell the land down under after the British riff raff arrived.
[07:39:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Giant Sea Snail Plan to Rescue Barrier Reef - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:39:16] <exec> 08└─So in 15 years time, they will be bringing in a snail-eating starfish...
[07:39:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fungal Pathogen Creates 'Zombeetles' - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:39:26] <exec> 08└─Crap! How many mods does Runaway have in his Quiverful? This 10 mod points thing is a mistake.
[07:39:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fungal Pathogen Creates 'Zombeetles' - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:39:28] <exec> 08└─N/T
[07:39:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What the World’s Emptiest International Airport Says About China’s Influence - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:39:48] <exec> 08└─But make sure the cameras are running all the time, not triggered by the animals, or else PETA might consider them selfies and claim the copyright for the animals.
[07:39:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What the World’s Emptiest International Airport Says About China’s Influence - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:39:49] <exec> 08└─No, as written it doesn't. And that many (not all!) of the articles here do that doesn't make it any better.
[07:39:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06What the World’s Emptiest International Airport Says About China’s Influence - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:39:51] <exec> 08└─"If you build it, they will come."
[07:40:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06Northrop Grumman to Acquire Orbital ATK for $7.8 Billion - 169 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:40:40] <exec> 08└─Thanks to the synergies from the acquisition, both companies will be able to hire more workers, deliver early, and provide the pentagon with rebates on various programs!
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[08:39:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Giant Sea Snail Plan to Rescue Barrier Reef - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:39:18] <exec> 08└─I'd recommend finding a video of the this if you can. Saw it locally here in our news channel. I think it was sped up video but it was a really entertaining watch. I was mesmerized and kinda horrified at the same time..
[08:39:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Giant Sea Snail Plan to Rescue Barrier Reef - 465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:39:19] <exec> 08└─From the article is reads that the snails are local to the area and a natural predator to the starfish, but had been over hunted to for their shells. Probably what contributed to the starfish getting out of hand in the first place. It seems the plan is to raise as many of the snails as they can in c...
[08:39:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Giant Sea Snail Plan to Rescue Barrier Reef - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:39:21] <exec> 08└─Remember the great Rabbit plague?
[08:39:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Giant Sea Snail Plan to Rescue Barrier Reef - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:39:24] <exec> 08└─Someone should check whether the giant triton also eats cane beetles...
[08:39:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Giant Sea Snail Plan to Rescue Barrier Reef - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:39:26] <exec> 08└─You mean snail-eating gorillas, and then "when wintertime rolls around, the gorillas simply freeze to death."
[08:39:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fungal Pathogen Creates 'Zombeetles' - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:39:37] <exec> 08└─At least with a "real" zombie we all know you have to get bitten.. with these they just need to touch you.
[08:40:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What the World’s Emptiest International Airport Says About China’s Influence - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:40:00] <exec> 08└─Sri Lanka has quite a number of good places for tourists e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Snorkeling and diving is good. And some interesting hotels: http://www.ardenttraveler.com [ardenttraveler.com] So it's probably the lack of aware...
[08:40:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03urza9814 [3954] 02 - 06Electronic Frontier Foundation Resigns From W3C Over Encrypted Media Extensions DRM - 197 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:40:31] <exec> 08└─I would suspect that Firefox may hold off initially, especially if there is any mass complaining about EME; after all, it costs more developer resources to implement EME, than it does to ignore it.
[08:40:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Electronic Frontier Foundation Resigns From W3C Over Encrypted Media Extensions DRM - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:40:45] <exec> 08└─mandate encryption
[08:40:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Electronic Frontier Foundation Resigns From W3C Over Encrypted Media Extensions DRM - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:40:46] <exec> 08└─No, he added a flag to one extension generating fraudulent clicks, so that it requires changing one setting to install it, so that hopefully only people who know what they are doing will install it.
[08:40:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electronic Frontier Foundation Resigns From W3C Over Encrypted Media Extensions DRM - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:40:48] <exec> 08└─If you want to disable it on Firefox, head to about:preferences#content and look for the "Play DRM Content" checkbox. I don't think that option even exists on Linux installs (due to no EME support there yet)….
[08:40:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electronic Frontier Foundation Resigns From W3C Over Encrypted Media Extensions DRM - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:40:51] <exec> 08└─Ignore my earlier comment — I just realized that I wasn't paying close enough attention and mixed up EME with MSE.
[08:40:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electronic Frontier Foundation Resigns From W3C Over Encrypted Media Extensions DRM - 3165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:40:53] <exec> 08└─Thanks, AC. More to the point, EFF is right to run like hell. An ethical equivalent of this fine deed would be a technical standard for torture: "make the ropes this tight, turn so many degrees...", or something like that. WTF is DRM, anyway? It's a pure con, no silver lining. There's no need for DR...
[08:42:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Stops Challenging Most US Warrants for Data on Overseas Servers - 657 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:42:16] <exec> 08└─I'm fine with only half a month wage, if they use the chessboard principle for further fines. As the story goes, the Chinese peasant who invented the chess board was asked by the emperor what he wanted for his invention. The man said he wanted one grain of rice on the first square, two grains on the...
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[09:39:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Slack Valued at Over $5 Billion - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:39:15] <exec> 08└─I value Slackware far above Slack.
[09:39:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slack Valued at Over $5 Billion - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:39:16] <exec> 08└─The ultimate demonstration that a good implementation is more important than a good business idea. Or, at least, that you can make good money making a solid implementation of an idea that goes back decades. Even UI wise, it's not far from MSN Messenger, which seemed pretty neat back in 1999.
[09:39:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Slack Valued at Over $5 Billion - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:39:18] <exec> 08└─So if I slack off, I get $5 billion? ;-)
[09:39:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Slack Valued at Over $5 Billion - 526 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:39:20] <exec> 08└─How irritating, it took some digging to figure out WTF Slack [wikipedia.org] is supposed to be. The Reuters article that's the main source doesn't explain what it is nor does it even link to the website [slack.com]! Neither does the Bloomberg article explain what it is. TechCrunch is little better,...
[09:39:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Slack Valued at Over $5 Billion - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:39:23] <exec> 08└─"VC bubble"!
[09:39:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slack Valued at Over $5 Billion - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:39:25] <exec> 08└─How I initially read the headline: Slack Over Valued at $5 Billion
[09:39:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Giant Sea Snail Plan to Rescue Barrier Reef - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:39:39] <exec> 08└─"when wintertime rolls around, the gorillas simply freeze to death."
[09:39:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03gallondr00nk [392] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Giant Sea Snail Plan to Rescue Barrier Reef - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:39:40] <exec> 08└─That it's the giant sea snail that has the plan.
[09:39:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fungal Pathogen Creates 'Zombeetles' - 509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:39:53] <exec> 08└─And in real life, to become a zombie, you have to be dusted with zombie powder and temporarily fall apparently dead. Once again nature got one up on us. Given time, chemical evolution of primitive organisms finds ways to exploit useful traits of more advanced and complicated organisms. As the most r...
[09:40:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03frojack [1554] 02 - 06What the World’s Emptiest International Airport Says About China’s Influence - 34 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:40:15] <exec> 08└─"If you build it, they will come."
[09:41:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electronic Frontier Foundation Resigns From W3C Over Encrypted Media Extensions DRM - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:41:07] <exec> 08└─So, you'd rather stuff Verisigns coffers than the MAFIAAs?
[09:41:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Electronic Frontier Foundation Resigns From W3C Over Encrypted Media Extensions DRM - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:41:08] <exec> 08└─I fight back buy not buying their media and downloading whatever I want, from wherever I want (as long as its drm-free files). they will label it as stealing, but we can give their behavior a label, too.
[09:41:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Electronic Frontier Foundation Resigns From W3C Over Encrypted Media Extensions DRM - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:41:10] <exec> 08└─So, you'd rather stuff Verisigns coffers than the MAFIAAs?
[09:41:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Electronic Frontier Foundation Resigns From W3C Over Encrypted Media Extensions DRM - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:41:12] <exec> 08└─Silvershite was such a piece of crap as well. On a slow connection it would only buffer a tiny amount however long you waited, making shows unwatchable. Maybe the publisher could reconfigure that but they didn't.
[09:43:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Review: If You Read One Sci-Fi Series This Year, It Should Be The Broken Earth - 2310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:43:52] <exec> 08└─The prequel trilogy was just badly written. The Butlerian Jihad sequence annoyed me though, because it seemed to be based entirely on the intro to the TV version of the Dune film and not on the books. In the books, Frank Herbert explicitly stated that the problem was over-dependence on machines, whi...
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[10:39:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Slack Valued at Over $5 Billion - 799 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:39:25] <exec> 08└─It's mostly a solution in search of a problem. As others have already noted this is just another VC bubble. It's from a company that's done little but marketing and hype. What they have is this: Make a proprietary copy of IRCLose money [techcrunch.com]Launch IPOCash out Chat software is like having...
[10:39:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slack Valued at Over $5 Billion - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:39:26] <exec> 08└─Or, at least, that you can make good money making a solid implementation of an idea that goes back decades.
[10:39:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Giant Sea Snail Plan to Rescue Barrier Reef - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:39:43] <exec> 08└─Or, if not, cane toads?
[10:41:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Electronic Frontier Foundation Resigns From W3C Over Encrypted Media Extensions DRM - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:41:12] <exec> 08└─Web is an abstraction, freedom applies to meatbags (and particularly well programmed bots), not to things. So in the end it all depends on how much sh!t you are willing to take. Fact, you can live without the latest bluerays or consoles or netflix shows or DRMed content. In fact you are better off w...
[10:41:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electronic Frontier Foundation Resigns From W3C Over Encrypted Media Extensions DRM - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:41:14] <exec> 08└─I agree with voting with your wallet. Only, I don't expect it to yield results. Finance ate economy. It is more like a political statement.
[10:43:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Review: If You Read One Sci-Fi Series This Year, It Should Be The Broken Earth - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:43:54] <exec> 08└─You are hereby notified that the use of the word "fowl" when speaking of geese is now socially unacceptable, as it may trigger insecure geese who are feeling guilty about cloaca-based excretion; when the word is spoken, they cannot know if you're saying "fowl" or "foul." Please join the Social Justi...
[10:44:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Microsoft Pix Uses AI to Make Whiteboard Photos Better - 44 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:44:26] <exec> 08└─Hey, ease up on posting M$ spam to the site.
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[11:39:34] <exec> 08└─Yup, I thought the same. But it's simply not worth that amount of money. Never believe an investment figure like that. It's what the previous INVESTORS say it's worth. Why would they do that? To encourage more investment, spread the risk, cash out and leave someone else holding the hot potato. This...
[11:39:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slack Valued at Over $5 Billion - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:39:35] <exec> 08└─P.S. $64m means that in 2016, it had ~300k active paying users. Nowhere close to 2.7m.
[11:39:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] 02 - 06Giant Sea Snail Plan to Rescue Barrier Reef - 465 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:39:45] <exec> 08└─From the article is reads that the snails are local to the area and a natural predator to the starfish, but had been over hunted to for their shells. Probably what contributed to the starfish getting out of hand in the first place. It seems the plan is to raise as many of the snails as they can in c...
[11:39:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Giant Sea Snail Plan to Rescue Barrier Reef - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:39:53] <exec> 08└─Please tell me That it's the giant sea snail that has the plan.
[11:40:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03esperto123 [4303] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TSMC to Build 7nm Process Test Chips in Q1 2018 - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:40:37] <exec> 08└─That's actually not true, the feature size they say today (actually for more than a decade I think) has nothing to do with the actual size of the features on the silicon, it is a marketing term now, basically only to show that the new node has new characteristics or that it can pack more transistors...
[11:41:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CCleaner Hacked for a Month - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:41:56] <exec> 08└─Every OS requires such nonsense when it becomes popular enough or the targets wealthy enough. There's a world of difference between targeted attacks against servers (where root access is desired and required) and attacks against desktop users, the stuff the bad guys want to do can be done without ro...
[11:41:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CCleaner Hacked for a Month - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:41:58] <exec> 08└─This is not a troll, this person speaks the truth. The crapware category should be extended to all of piriforms offerings in general too.
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[12:39:20] <exec> 08└─How far away from having this happen in the West are we, really?
[12:39:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] 02 - 06Slack Valued at Over $5 Billion - 66 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:37] <exec> 08└─How I initially read the headline: Slack Over Valued at $5 Billion
[12:39:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slack Valued at Over $5 Billion - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:43] <exec> 08└─It's essentially [wordpress.com] the same [imfiles.com], unless we count it as a major UI development to combine the windows into one. Slack has good persistence (it remembers conversations, but with limitations) and good support for 'channels' (group conversations), but at heart it's awfully simila...
[12:39:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slack Valued at Over $5 Billion - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:45] <exec> 08└─A lot of clojure people hang out on one of the channels which is kinda donated for free, so I've used it, some. Its secret sauce appears to be one-click integration. I could replace any of it, for open stuff anyway, with a very small Perl script, but with Slack its one click and it works. Also the d...
[12:39:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slack Valued at Over $5 Billion - 1496 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:47] <exec> 08└─There are at least two other revenue sources One is, being centralized IRC, selling the conversation data to corporations and governments. I've worked for telcos that ran a miniscule profit off government monitoring, we were allowed to bill at standard and reasonable consulting rates etc. Its not ne...
[12:39:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slack Valued at Over $5 Billion - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:49] <exec> 08└─Chat software is like having a perpetual meeting. It completely zaps concentration and productivity until you turn it off. With it off, since it claims that its strength is synchronous communication, there is no point in having it.
[12:40:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06What the World’s Emptiest International Airport Says About China’s Influence - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:40:42] <exec> 08└─The site is hardcoded that way. The submitter doesn't control it. Submit it as a change request in the next site release.
[12:42:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CCleaner Hacked for a Month - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:12] <exec> 08└─C's? Pshaw. I'm a DD man myself.
[12:42:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CCleaner Hacked for a Month - 615 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:14] <exec> 08└─I have used it on occasion but not frequently. Usually it is not a high priority to try because the results are fairly minimal for me. I always uninstall it though, afterwards. There's no point to leave it installed and leave a user to get its update nags forever. If I see it installed I uninstall i...
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[12:42:46] <exec> 08└─In Minnesota we still have trap shooting [mshsl.org] as a high school sport and it is growing in popularity. I have seen numbers from 16,000 to 20,000 participants claimed.
[12:43:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Stops Challenging Most US Warrants for Data on Overseas Servers - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:43:09] <exec> 08└─I would parse it as doublespeak. "Don't be evil"= behave and let us deal with being evil. "Do the right thing"= your errors are not tolerated, ours will be.
[12:43:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Stops Challenging Most US Warrants for Data on Overseas Servers - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:43:11] <exec> 08└─> Re:Reciprocal treatment and punative fines > and punative fines can't tell if typo or awesome contextualized meta-pun.
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[13:39:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Octlantis is a Just-Discovered Underwater City Engineered by Octopuses - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:12] <exec> 08└─Aw yeah. We Dick Niggers. Yeah hell no we ain't never fuckin no old pussy. Heh heh yeah we fuck a lotta young pussy. Damn, don worry, there be more than enuf of us Dick Niggers to fit these thick nigger dick into all eight o yo octopussies.
[13:39:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Detains Man for Selling Service to Evade Internet Firewall - 702 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:21] <exec> 08└─The (l)users are fucked... but is that any news? Have you ever seen a regular Joe setting up a chain of retransmitters he built himself out of discarded/stolen electronics, to access the net at 5 kilobytes per minute, in order to *CENSORED* some enemy *CENSORED* (ehehe) and to escape the attribution...
[13:39:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Detains Man for Selling Service to Evade Internet Firewall - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:23] <exec> 08└─... is this someone from the Chinese govt. defending their policy?
[13:39:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slack Valued at Over $5 Billion - 1654 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:50] <exec> 08└─We use Slack at work for remote collaboration between offices and in my experience, while it does have a few useful functions over IRC, there are not all that many of them. In practice, the only real functional advances over IRC that people actually seem to use are the web based UI and inclusion of...
[13:39:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03WillR [2012] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Slack Valued at Over $5 Billion - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:51] <exec> 08└─It's literally IRC (or at least it used to be, I think they wrote their own backend at some point).
[13:39:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slack Valued at Over $5 Billion - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:53] <exec> 08└─Yep. Imagine how much money they could've made if they'd run a tight operation instead.
[13:40:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Giant Sea Snail Plan to Rescue Barrier Reef - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:40:11] <exec> 08└─Haha, looks like you get touché instead! While waiting for my morning tea to brew, I read “Giant Sea Snails Plan to Rescue Barrier Reef” and was wondering if Gaia awoke and had starting healing the planet of the infestation known as man.
[13:40:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fungal Pathogen Creates 'Zombeetles' - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:40:25] <exec> 08└─in real life, to become a zombie, you have to be dusted with zombie powder
[13:40:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What the World’s Emptiest International Airport Says About China’s Influence - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:40:50] <exec> 08└─That ain't nuthin'. If ya wanna see the biggest, most bestest fatal attraction with empty rodes and desserted parkin' lots, then see Noah's Ark [arkencounter.com]. Bye you're tickets now! [youtube.com] It's the best attraction ever. Trust me! Beautiful classy stuff. And believe me, I know my confuse...
[13:41:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Electronic Frontier Foundation Resigns From W3C Over Encrypted Media Extensions DRM - 1997 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:34] <exec> 08└─Come and visit, especially the IRC. Sadly the 'core' group has become formalized in what some of us consider a negative way. But on the bright side, there is one major reimplementation, the protocol itself is very forward thinking (lots of privacy tech that hasn't been implemented, but was thought o...
[13:41:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electronic Frontier Foundation Resigns From W3C Over Encrypted Media Extensions DRM - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:48] <exec> 08└─The result being that the support will be limited to probably just OSX and Windows.
[13:41:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electronic Frontier Foundation Resigns From W3C Over Encrypted Media Extensions DRM - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:49] <exec> 08└─I'd say that watching Netflix on a console is actually one the more benign use-cases. The content is DRM'ed, but it's rented, not 'purchased'. To me, it seems far more reasonable to use DRM when it's rental. The machine itself is completely locked-down and proprietary, but this at least keeps the bi...
[13:41:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electronic Frontier Foundation Resigns From W3C Over Encrypted Media Extensions DRM - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:51] <exec> 08└─Mr. Berners-Lee
[13:42:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Knife-Throwing as a Sport: Who Would Have Thunk It? - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:59] <exec> 08└─(where the prize depends on the wife's weight in beer).
[13:43:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lester [6231] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Stops Challenging Most US Warrants for Data on Overseas Servers - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:24] <exec> 08└─The problem of data leak was because of inherent cloud insecurity. If he had used a national service and there would have been a security breakage, the problem would have been the same, and would have cost him also half month wage. I suspect any European public administration would think twice befor...
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[14:39:22] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure. What will you do if this is Gaia attempting to cleanse itself of the infection called man? Do you have a plan to thwart the giant sea snails as well?
[14:39:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Octlantis is a Just-Discovered Underwater City Engineered by Octopuses - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:24] <exec> 08└─Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn. I mean, that's about where it is, and he's enough like an octopus that I'm sure he'd pick up some octopus cultists.
[14:39:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06China Detains Man for Selling Service to Evade Internet Firewall - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:34] <exec> 08└─mean, these... user things that infest modern networks... i suppose you could call them people, they are so easily stopped by most trivial filtering...
[14:39:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Detains Man for Selling Service to Evade Internet Firewall - 723 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:37] <exec> 08└─i wish i was employed. Also not defending anyone. It is wrong of Chinese government to do such things, but since they are a vile, hierarchical and oppressive organisation, as any government is, they will continue with their bullshit. It is probably lack of coffee, that made me express my thoughts on...
[14:39:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06China Detains Man for Selling Service to Evade Internet Firewall - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:39] <exec> 08└─Nah, for mob mentality, I still blame the mob. You are welcome to use the temporary insanity defense. But turning people into the state's bots is not cool. Censorship is still evil. And your propaganda sounds suspicious
[14:39:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Detains Man for Selling Service to Evade Internet Firewall - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:41] <exec> 08└─i wish i was employed.
[14:39:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More Efficient Use of Raw Materials With the Aid of 'Molecular Conveyor Belts' - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:49] <exec> 08└─In the house. Dick Niggers. We never fuck no old pussy, you know it. We fuck a whole lotta young pussy, that's right. Convey yo sweet ass this way, girl, Dick Niggers gonna fill yo full o molecules. Hot black nigger molecules.
[14:39:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03stormwyrm [717] 02 - 06Slack Valued at Over $5 Billion - 526 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:00] <exec> 08└─How irritating, it took some digging to figure out WTF Slack [wikipedia.org] is supposed to be. The Reuters article that's the main source doesn't explain what it is nor does it even link to the website [slack.com]! Neither does the Bloomberg article explain what it is. TechCrunch is little better,...
[14:40:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03canopic jug [3949] 02 - 06Slack Valued at Over $5 Billion - 799 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:04] <exec> 08└─It's mostly a solution in search of a problem. As others have already noted this is just another VC bubble. It's from a company that's done little but marketing and hype. What they have is this: Make a proprietary copy of IRCLose money [techcrunch.com]Launch IPOCash out Chat software is like having...
[14:40:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Giant Sea Snail Plan to Rescue Barrier Reef - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:33] <exec> 08└─Failing that, perhaps foxes?
[14:40:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Giant Sea Snail Plan to Rescue Barrier Reef - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:34] <exec> 08└─It is the giant sea snail that has the plan.
[14:40:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fungal Pathogen Creates 'Zombeetles' - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:49] <exec> 08└─Oh yeah, in this crazy documentary https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[14:42:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Electronic Frontier Foundation Resigns From W3C Over Encrypted Media Extensions DRM - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:15] <exec> 08└─We're just nicely rid of Flash and now this? It would be funny if Adobe started pushing open standards now. Wasn't Google one of the first ones to jump on the "No Flash" bandwagon - hypocrites. What's with all the adblock talk? Stuck this in my named.conf years ago and haven't ever looked back. zone...
[14:42:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electronic Frontier Foundation Resigns From W3C Over Encrypted Media Extensions DRM - 2459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:16] <exec> 08└─Much about this decision is disappointing. The technically savvy aren't standing their ground. DRM is a broken concept at a very fundamental level. Anyone can copy a DRM protected item to unprotected media, breaking the DRM for everyone. More than that, anyone can disable obedience to copy protectio...
[14:43:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03edIII [791] 02 - 06Knife-Throwing as a Sport: Who Would Have Thunk It? - 1611 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:08] <exec> 08└─That's so fucking awesome it should be quoted here. I love the rules: The original course was a rough, rocky terrain with fences and brooks, but it has been altered to suit modern conditions. There is now sand instead of full rocks, fences, and some kind of area filled with water (a pool). These are...
[14:43:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Knife-Throwing as a Sport: Who Would Have Thunk It? - 535 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:26] <exec> 08└─The wife carrying contest is awesome. It's really quite fun, much more so then any other competitions. The one thing I can think of right at the top of my head is the other Finnish competition -- the World Sauna Championship. But they had to stop that about a decade ago or so when people sat there s...
[14:43:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03aclarke [2049] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Knife-Throwing as a Sport: Who Would Have Thunk It? - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:27] <exec> 08└─I work with the author of Texas Knife Throwing Party Games [amazon.ca]. There's also an actual chain of axe throwing locations in Canada: https://batlgrounds.com [batlgrounds.com]. There's definitely a demand out there for throwing pointy things at other things.
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[15:39:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06A New Way to Create 'Soft Robots'—DNA Triggers That Cause Hydrogels to Change Shape - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:13] <exec> 08└─Keep hangin round with Dick Niggers yo gonna catch somethin stiff. Dick Niggers we never fuck no old pussy. You know we do we fuck a whole lotta young pussy. Aw hell no, ain't no decoy robot pussy be trickin us Dick Niggers. We comin for ya, girl, fill ya real pussy full of genuine pure nigger DNA.
[15:39:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Megahard [4782] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Octlantis is a Just-Discovered Underwater City Engineered by Octopuses - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:23] <exec> 08└─Maybe they wouldn't be so gloomy if they added the garden.
[15:39:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Octlantis is a Just-Discovered Underwater City Engineered by Octopuses - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:25] <exec> 08└─Dick Niggers are a manifestation of the giant sea snail, in their effort to cleanse old Gaia. Remember? It is the giant sea snail that has the plan.
[15:39:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06China Detains Man for Selling Service to Evade Internet Firewall - 717 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:39] <exec> 08└─Honestly, what did this guy expect? I could have told him right away that this was a stupid business plan. China obviously put the Great Firewall in place for a reason, and has banned VPNs for getting around it. Selling VPN service isn't anywhere near lucrative enough to justify the risks; he made o...
[15:39:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Detains Man for Selling Service to Evade Internet Firewall - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:40] <exec> 08└─I think its long past time we stopped thinking SN is too small for shills to bother with.
[15:39:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Detains Man for Selling Service to Evade Internet Firewall - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:43] <exec> 08└─lol how does this pass through that filter? You don't even need regex to match one single phrase used repeatedly. Also, pretty sure a filter is censorship. Care to weigh in ANYONE from SN leadership? No not editors, people who actually have a say in how SN is run.
[15:39:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Detains Man for Selling Service to Evade Internet Firewall - 1003 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:45] <exec> 08└─How far away from having this happen in the West are we, really? Very, very far (at least in the US). What kind of question is this? For better or worse, freedom of speech is enshrined in the US Constitution, and even over in the EU, data privacy laws are very strong (much, much stronger than in the...
[15:39:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Detains Man for Selling Service to Evade Internet Firewall - 674 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:47] <exec> 08└─To paraphrase you, fustakrakich, "what is the state made of, if not people? [soylentnews.org]" Didn't you say that the Chinese people have the government they deserve? How can you possibly object to an evil done by a government against its people when just prior you memed support for an evil done by...
[15:39:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Detains Man for Selling Service to Evade Internet Firewall - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:49] <exec> 08└─That makes me wonder: Are there any steganographic internet protocols? For example, you apparently just do an unencrypted video chat (video because it causes huge amounts of data where you could hide something), but covertly there's a TCP/IP tunnel hidden in the video streams?
[15:39:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Efficient Use of Raw Materials With the Aid of 'Molecular Conveyor Belts' - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:58] <exec> 08└─With the exception of biodiesel and obvious "fuels" like wood, I was unaware that they were created with the assistance of microorganisms. Synthetic materials, especially! Does anybody have any more specific information or knowledge about microorganisms in these roles? I'm sure it is a fascinating f...
[15:40:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slack Valued at Over $5 Billion - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:23] <exec> 08└─That looks like Discord, except Discord lets the user switch among multiple communities through icons in the left column [wordpress.com]. And Discord isn't paywalled.
[15:40:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slack Valued at Over $5 Billion - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:24] <exec> 08└─In practice, the only real functional advances over IRC that people actually seem to use are the web based UI and inclusion of inline imagery and emojis.
[15:40:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slack Valued at Over $5 Billion - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:26] <exec> 08└─Or god forbid if slack became popular enough that it became "corporate mandatory" they most certainly could charge $100/yr for every employee of a company
[15:40:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slack Valued at Over $5 Billion - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:28] <exec> 08└─ChatZilla?
[15:40:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Slack Valued at Over $5 Billion - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:31] <exec> 08└─What does Slack have that XMPP/Jabber doesn't have, and what can we do to implement it for the open source/fuck VC ecosystem?
[15:40:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slack Valued at Over $5 Billion - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:33] <exec> 08└─Nope. You'll need to slack on.
[15:40:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Slack Valued at Over $5 Billion - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:35] <exec> 08└─Hype and buzzwords.
[15:40:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Giant Sea Snail Plan to Rescue Barrier Reef - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:56] <exec> 08└─That's where North Korea and nuclear winter comes in.
[15:41:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What the World’s Emptiest International Airport Says About China’s Influence - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:38] <exec> 08└─Especially annoying because Phoenix only ever copy-and-pastes the first 3 or 4 paragraphs verbatim.
[15:41:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What the World’s Emptiest International Airport Says About China’s Influence - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:40] <exec> 08└─Atlantic ocean of the northwest coast and the mediterranean on the east coast. Pumped hydro works with salt water as well as fresh water.
[15:41:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What the World’s Emptiest International Airport Says About China’s Influence - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:42] <exec> 08└─Or in case if only Catalonia, it is the northernmost region on the east coast
[15:41:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What the World’s Emptiest International Airport Says About China’s Influence - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:44] <exec> 08└─Pumped hydro works with salt water as well as fresh water.
[15:41:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What the World’s Emptiest International Airport Says About China’s Influence - 1034 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:47] <exec> 08└─It sounds like you're not too fond of the Catalonians. So why not just let them secede? (Though you don't have to let them take other parts.) You're not getting along well; staying together is like forcing two spouses who hate each other to stay married and live together: no good can come of it. Thi...
[15:41:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What the World’s Emptiest International Airport Says About China’s Influence - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:49] <exec> 08└─WTF are you talking about? It's clearly indicated that the only thing that Phoenix666 wrote is the very last line ("Empire building is expensive..."), as that's the only part that's not blockquoted and has a white background. The rest is clearly blockquoted. EVERY article on this site is exactly lik...
[15:42:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electronic Frontier Foundation Resigns From W3C Over Encrypted Media Extensions DRM - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:51] <exec> 08└─DRM is supposed to help by allowing providers of rental video to use WWW, with the proprietary components sandboxed in a CDM, rather than completely proprietary native applications. Or would you prefer to do away with rental video entirely?
[15:42:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Electronic Frontier Foundation Resigns From W3C Over Encrypted Media Extensions DRM - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:52] <exec> 08└─it helps him retire comfortably.
[15:42:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electronic Frontier Foundation Resigns From W3C Over Encrypted Media Extensions DRM - 903 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:54] <exec> 08└─Verisign doesn't run a CA, but it does run things that CAs check before issuing a certificate. Namely, it runs two root name servers and the authoritative registry for several top-level domains. This means it earns a cut with or without DANE. In order to get a TLS certificate trusted by browsers, yo...
[15:42:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Electronic Frontier Foundation Resigns From W3C Over Encrypted Media Extensions DRM - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:56] <exec> 08└─Interesting stuff. I'll drop by. Between Google and the misogynerd narrative... it's odious; it all stinks to the high heavens. The time to fight back is now, because if not you, then who? And if not now, then when?
[15:42:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Electronic Frontier Foundation Resigns From W3C Over Encrypted Media Extensions DRM - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:59] <exec> 08└─You are right, it's better to corrupt an open successful platform to accommodate a niche commercial interest. And since when "rental video" needed web?
[15:45:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Review: If You Read One Sci-Fi Series This Year, It Should Be The Broken Earth - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:52] <exec> 08└─Then the whole "progressive" bit is gone as we return to barbaric humanity where people whore themselves out. Heinlein is a good bridge from old school patriarchal horrors to women have value.
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[16:39:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Jim Channon, Corporate Shaman and Basis for Hollywood Character, Dies at 77 - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:07] <exec> 08└─Corporate executives are sociopaths who think they occupy an important place in the Universe; this guy played them like a fiddle.
[16:39:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Jim Channon, Corporate Shaman and Basis for Hollywood Character, Dies at 77 - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:08] <exec> 08└─Sounds to me like this guy was a corporate tool. He starts out as some kind of ideologue, corporations listen, and decide to use the damned fool to further their own agendas.
[16:39:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jim Channon, Corporate Shaman and Basis for Hollywood Character, Dies at 77 - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:11] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZ3k2xA1Wcw [youtube.com] Corporate Shaman? Where CEOs learn to "shoot 'em ... politely"
[16:39:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jim Channon, Corporate Shaman and Basis for Hollywood Character, Dies at 77 - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:13] <exec> 08└─The world just got a tad more dull.
[16:39:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03liberza [6137] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A New Way to Create 'Soft Robots'—DNA Triggers That Cause Hydrogels to Change Shape - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:21] <exec> 08└─So when are we getting 7nm DNA fabs?
[16:39:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Octlantis is a Just-Discovered Underwater City Engineered by Octopuses - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:33] <exec> 08└─Your fault, If you'd visit them in a yellow submarine (instead of a drab neoprene drysuit) they'd sure be more cheerful.
[16:39:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06China Detains Man for Selling Service to Evade Internet Firewall - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:54] <exec> 08└─Very, very far (at least in the US). What kind of question is this? For better or worse, freedom of speech is enshrined in the US Constitution
[16:39:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06China Detains Man for Selling Service to Evade Internet Firewall - 1546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:55] <exec> 08└─Is it really that far-fetched for yet another Executive Order in the wake of some inevitable crisis which demands that certain content on the Internet be blocked or filtered from equipment they control? Similar things have already occurred: Cogent Networks blocked access to The Pirate Bay earlier th...
[16:39:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06China Detains Man for Selling Service to Evade Internet Firewall - 1656 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:57] <exec> 08└─I'm less optimistic than you. I think there is a very real possibility that we will see this happen in "the West" within the next few decades. At least China is honest about being a totalitarian regime. It won't happen the same way in the West but the results will be similar. We just need to set the...
[16:39:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06China Detains Man for Selling Service to Evade Internet Firewall - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:59] <exec> 08└─As an AC post it is unimportant babbling. It is the mods who should be embarrassed unto the point of self immolation. Or worse, they really DO agree and this IS what Progs believe. Not sure which is more terrifying, Stupidity on this scale or Elemental Evil this unafraid of showing itself. So much h...
[16:40:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06China Detains Man for Selling Service to Evade Internet Firewall - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:02] <exec> 08└─Fucked up world we live in where I end up agreeing with you on just about anything. Oh well...
[16:40:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Detains Man for Selling Service to Evade Internet Firewall - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:04] <exec> 08└─The poster might be using some kind of code injection or similar attack for this, or might be using unicode codepoints instead of plain ascii. There's always the possibility it's actually one of the staff, but that's a little tinfoil even for me.
[16:40:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Detains Man for Selling Service to Evade Internet Firewall - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:06] <exec> 08└─The Chinese government approves this message.
[16:40:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Slack Valued at Over $5 Billion - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:45] <exec> 08└─Bad brain! Bad!
[16:40:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slack Valued at Over $5 Billion - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:47] <exec> 08└─I'll be honest, I thought we were talking about Slackware. Seriously though, TFA and TFS don't explain. What is Slack? What do they do? What do they produce? What do they sell, and to whom?
[16:40:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03MadTinfoilHatter [4635] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slack Valued at Over $5 Billion - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:49] <exec> 08└─What is Slack?
[16:41:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Giant Sea Snail Plan to Rescue Barrier Reef - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:11] <exec> 08└─That's the beauty of the plan, gorillas can't survive the winter!
[16:41:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What the World’s Emptiest International Airport Says About China’s Influence - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:59] <exec> 08└─Which is why sane designs uses plastic and stainless steel pipes [wikipedia.org]
[16:43:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Electronic Frontier Foundation Resigns From W3C Over Encrypted Media Extensions DRM - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:06] <exec> 08└─Crazier yet, Cory Doctorow isn't a doctor either.
[16:43:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Chromium_One [4574] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electronic Frontier Foundation Resigns From W3C Over Encrypted Media Extensions DRM - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:08] <exec> 08└─Note that Chromium can use Chrome's widevine plugin too, and Netflix has been working just fine on Firefox on Linux for a while now. Yeah, DRM in the browser has some major issues, and not just philosophically, but cross-platform support for the most-used browsers is not a problem at this point.
[16:43:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Chromium_One [4574] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electronic Frontier Foundation Resigns From W3C Over Encrypted Media Extensions DRM - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:10] <exec> 08└─How's Blockbuster doing in your area?
[16:43:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Chromium_One [4574] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electronic Frontier Foundation Resigns From W3C Over Encrypted Media Extensions DRM - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:12] <exec> 08└─We can already watch Netflix on Linux using Chrome (not Chromium).
[16:43:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Electronic Frontier Foundation Resigns From W3C Over Encrypted Media Extensions DRM - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:15] <exec> 08└─What hardware? x86_64? 32bit? x32? arm? ppc? mips? ppc64? itanium?
[16:43:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Chromium_One [4574] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electronic Frontier Foundation Resigns From W3C Over Encrypted Media Extensions DRM - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:17] <exec> 08└─In principle, you've got a point. In practice, let me remind you of the gazillion and one security issues with Flash. Fuck Adobe, can't write shit for shit. Odds on any random group of programmers maintaining any random project being as incompetent as the Adobe Flash devs ... are poor to say the lea...
[16:43:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sourcery42 [6400] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Electronic Frontier Foundation Resigns From W3C Over Encrypted Media Extensions DRM - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:19] <exec> 08└─If you ever want to block ads system wide on an android look into DNS66. I didn't want to unlock the bootloader or root my kid's phone. This works great for sanitizing the web and apps without root, and it doesn't seem to hurt performance. https://f-droid.org [f-droid.o...
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[17:39:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Octlantis is a Just-Discovered Underwater City Engineered by Octopuses - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:32] <exec> 08└─They're following Occultopus.
[17:39:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jmorris [4844] 02 - 06China Detains Man for Selling Service to Evade Internet Firewall - 448 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:55] <exec> 08└─As an AC post it is unimportant babbling. It is the mods who should be embarrassed unto the point of self immolation. Or worse, they really DO agree and this IS what Progs believe. Not sure which is more terrifying, Stupidity on this scale or Elemental Evil this unafraid of showing itself. So much h...
[17:40:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Detains Man for Selling Service to Evade Internet Firewall - 844 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:00] <exec> 08└─Naw it is just that China is the great evil and we must use that caricature to promote "the land of the free". I still agree with most of the statements, I just doubt their authenticity. At the very least the statements are profoundly naive and quite hypocritical given his statements in the past. As...
[17:40:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06China Detains Man for Selling Service to Evade Internet Firewall - 2752 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:02] <exec> 08└─Nah, we see how censorship will come. It is already happening, haven't you been watching the whole Dailystormer fiasco? Obama gave ICANN to the U.N., which has no concept of free speech since it is a Parliament of Tyrants. So that solved the problem on that end. Dailystormer was suddenly banned from...
[17:40:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Detains Man for Selling Service to Evade Internet Firewall - 768 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:04] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't put it past TMB as a massive troll of the more liberal users here. The text is eventually processed to be displayed, and it is currently pure text on the page so it is still trivial to search for a specific phrase and no regex is needed. Since he has access to the codebase it should not b...
[17:40:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Detains Man for Selling Service to Evade Internet Firewall - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:07] <exec> 08└─There can be no censorship in Science for many reasons.
[17:40:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Detains Man for Selling Service to Evade Internet Firewall - 1138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:09] <exec> 08└─Ha!! Perhaps I was too hasty in my previous judgments. It loos like perhaps you are finally seeing the "private business" model as the sham it is. It isn't the glorious individualist liberty loving fantasy we're sold, it is simply compartmentalized government. I think we need some major amendments t...
[17:40:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06China Detains Man for Selling Service to Evade Internet Firewall - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:11] <exec> 08└─People like Germany censor NAZI messages - is it so bad?
[17:40:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Detains Man for Selling Service to Evade Internet Firewall - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:13] <exec> 08└─Blocking TPB can be justified by claiming that the site only exists to support illegal activities
[17:40:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Detains Man for Selling Service to Evade Internet Firewall - 993 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:16] <exec> 08└─VPNs will still be allowed, as long as they have a government backdoor. The Austrialian PM is trying to: https://www.eff.org [eff.org] The UK PM (at the time) is trying to: https://techcrunch.com
[17:40:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Detains Man for Selling Service to Evade Internet Firewall - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:18] <exec> 08└─But then most Progs agree that the State is the prime mover and the masses are sheep to be lead, slaughtered, etc. to serve the needs of the rulers.
[17:40:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Detains Man for Selling Service to Evade Internet Firewall - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:20] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography#Network [wikipedia.org]
[17:41:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Slack Valued at Over $5 Billion - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:03] <exec> 08└─Slack has quite a few nice features that have been packaged into an easy to use platform. I dislike them simply because I think the SaaS model is bullshit for 90% of the things out there. Slack is also a massive MASSIVE cpu hog. I had to boot up an older laptop, still had 4gb of memory and a decent...
[17:41:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Slack Valued at Over $5 Billion - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:04] <exec> 08└─More like the ultimate demonstration that good marketing is more important than a good implementation or a good business idea. As another comment said, look where that got Apple,
[17:41:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Slack Valued at Over $5 Billion - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:07] <exec> 08└─Slack has nothing really special about it. What can be done? Make an open / free version that is dead simple to set up on a server so that companies can run their own infrastructure. There is just this magical FAITH people have that these SaaS businesses will not sell their data or spy on them. Shit...
[17:42:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03andersjm [3931] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06What the World’s Emptiest International Airport Says About China’s Influence - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:17] <exec> 08└─The site software forced you to start the submission with an over-long quotation? The site software forced you to bury the link to the original deep in the quoted text? I don't think so. Here' how you could do it; start like this: The New York Times has an interesting story about China's internation...
[17:42:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03andersjm [3931] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What the World’s Emptiest International Airport Says About China’s Influence - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:18] <exec> 08└─It's clearly indicated
[17:42:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What the World’s Emptiest International Airport Says About China’s Influence - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:20] <exec> 08└─Me Chinese. Me play joke. Me put pee-pee in your Coke!
[17:42:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What the World’s Emptiest International Airport Says About China’s Influence - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:22] <exec> 08└─You sound like you have a great handle on how to craft the perfect submission. Look forward to seeing 2,679 submissions from andersjm. In the meantime, I submit stories the way I do because overly processing material to pablum is something I will only do for an infant, never for an adult. If you don...
[17:42:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What the World’s Emptiest International Airport Says About China’s Influence - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:25] <exec> 08└─It's generally good practice to attribute your quotes. In my experience, the editors will usually do so if you don't. But apparently not in this case. I imagine it's confusing to some that the link attributing the quote is 3/4 of the way into the quoted material, especially since many folks don't re...
[17:42:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TSMC to Build 7nm Process Test Chips in Q1 2018 - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:36] <exec> 08└─I think some part of the process reaches down to 7nm while other features are at like 100nm. I guess we could adopt Intel's "transistors per sq. mm." but "X nm" is much shorter.
[17:43:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electronic Frontier Foundation Resigns From W3C Over Encrypted Media Extensions DRM - 1296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:41] <exec> 08└─As with most things, the Golden Rule [quoteinvestigator.com] applies. Who are the members [w3.org] of the W3C? How much do they pay [w3.org] for that privilege? Who else makes monetary contributions [w3.org] to the W3C? When you answer (you're welcome) those questions, the people upon whom pressure...
[17:43:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Chromium_One [4574] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electronic Frontier Foundation Resigns From W3C Over Encrypted Media Extensions DRM - 668 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:42] <exec> 08└─Getting away from the major hardware platforms, it's gonna get dicey. Support for x86 32 and 64 is a solid yes. Support for arm64 is a solid yes as well. Netflix will play on Chrome on at least some Linux distros Raspberry Pi 3's at the least. Widevine for arm64 has been repackaged for Chromium on...
[17:43:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electronic Frontier Foundation Resigns From W3C Over Encrypted Media Extensions DRM - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:45] <exec> 08└─niche commercial interest
[17:43:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electronic Frontier Foundation Resigns From W3C Over Encrypted Media Extensions DRM - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:47] <exec> 08└─sauce: http://variety.com [variety.com]
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[18:39:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06IC Insights Predicts Additional 40% Increase in DRAM Prices - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:13] <exec> 08└─Hah! For sure we Dick Niggers. We ain't never fuck no old pussy. But yeah we fuck a lot of young pussy. Dick Niggers gonna DickRAM this big black nigger dick up yo cunt.
[18:39:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03leftover [2448] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jim Channon, Corporate Shaman and Basis for Hollywood Character, Dies at 77 - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:25] <exec> 08└─Nailed it in first post.
[18:39:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geezer [511] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jim Channon, Corporate Shaman and Basis for Hollywood Character, Dies at 77 - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:26] <exec> 08└─More like https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[18:39:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03leftover [2448] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Way to Create 'Soft Robots'—DNA Triggers That Cause Hydrogels to Change Shape - 566 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:36] <exec> 08└─I was going to refer to these as 'thoughts' but they probably don't qualify. First: We need a convention or rule that before any article even mentions the word "robot" there needs to be a video of an object moving repeatably under external control. Any material that so much as slumps is being touted...
[18:39:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Octlantis is a Just-Discovered Underwater City Engineered by Octopuses - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:50] <exec> 08└─There should be a shrubbery as well, so that there's a two-level effect.
[18:40:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Detains Man for Selling Service to Evade Internet Firewall - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:28] <exec> 08└─The usual. Unicode lookalike letters, HTML encoded characters. Buzzard will save us from bad posting by dumping untested regex into the lameness filter and breaking comment posting for everyone. As a staff member, Buzzard should know better.
[18:40:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Detains Man for Selling Service to Evade Internet Firewall - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:29] <exec> 08└─they really DO agree and this IS what Progs believe. "Loser terrorists must be dealt with in a much tougher manner," he wrote. "The internet is their main recruitment tool which we must cut off & use better!" - Donald J Trump four days ago
[18:40:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Detains Man for Selling Service to Evade Internet Firewall - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:32] <exec> 08└─The only one I hear advocating internet censorship is our Republican President, not exactly a Progressive.
[18:40:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Detains Man for Selling Service to Evade Internet Firewall - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:34] <exec> 08└─Don't hold your breath. J-Mo is a master of compartmentalization; he typed the above screed while completely oblivious to the fact that it undermines his free-market-uber-alles shibboleths elsewhere.
[18:41:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MadTinfoilHatter [4635] 02 - 06Slack Valued at Over $5 Billion - 14 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:15] <exec> 08└─What is Slack?
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[18:41:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Slack Valued at Over $5 Billion - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:19] <exec> 08└─Apparently the dyslexic brain is not actually a disorder but an evolutionary leap. Such brains are more connected to the inter-dimensional space time continuum and thus are able to tap into the "true" reality. It is sad for these people, they are like the Oracles of old. They see the truth but have...
[18:41:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Slack Valued at Over $5 Billion - 850 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:21] <exec> 08└─If anything, this would the nice thing about wealth inequality. There are an increasingly large number of people with absurdly massive amounts of money, and no real clue what to do with it. They all want to make sure they invest a gazillion dollars in the next Facebook or other 'big thing' and so ar...
[18:42:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What the World’s Emptiest International Airport Says About China’s Influence - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:36] <exec> 08└─No. Yes, it is. Maybe you need to get your eyes checked. The quoted text is clearly blockquoted, and has a gray background. It's been like this on this site ever since it started. WhyTF are you complaining about it now? If you don't like it, complain to the site owners. It's stupid to be whining abo...
[18:42:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What the World’s Emptiest International Airport Says About China’s Influence - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:38] <exec> 08└─In my experience, the editors will usually do so if you don't. But apparently not in this case. Then maybe you should go complain to the editors instead of whining here where it's off-topic. Your beef is obviously with the way the site is run and the editors.
[18:42:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What the World’s Emptiest International Airport Says About China’s Influence - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:40] <exec> 08└─Shit, that stuff costs an extra .84 / foot! Who's gonna pay for that? The money fairies? Long term planning is for suckers!
[18:42:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What the World’s Emptiest International Airport Says About China’s Influence - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:42] <exec> 08└─So DannyB is "therealdonaldtrump" eh? Forgot to use your troll account? :P
[18:42:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What the World’s Emptiest International Airport Says About China’s Influence - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:44] <exec> 08└─Especially annoying because Phoenix only ever copy-and-pastes the first 3 or 4 paragraphs verbatim. Which is infinity more original content that I ever post in my submissions....
[18:42:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What the World’s Emptiest International Airport Says About China’s Influence - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:46] <exec> 08└─It's called a 'news aggregation' site, welcome to the internet!
[18:42:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What the World’s Emptiest International Airport Says About China’s Influence - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:49] <exec> 08└─And they managed to get Sri Lanka to pay for it too!
[18:44:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electronic Frontier Foundation Resigns From W3C Over Encrypted Media Extensions DRM - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:08] <exec> 08└─Totally, and the only reason I took my time to write to TBL is that I have plenty of respect for the guy and his work, and didn't want to see a bucket of garbage water dumped on him as well, but hey, to each his own, right? Whatever floats his boat.
[18:44:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Electronic Frontier Foundation Resigns From W3C Over Encrypted Media Extensions DRM - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:10] <exec> 08└─Could I2P really be the answer?
[18:46:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Review: If You Read One Sci-Fi Series This Year, It Should Be The Broken Earth - 399 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:07] <exec> 08└─Jesus, this post should would the Most Political Tripe award of the year. To quote a sci-fi standard: " Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Guess you're still a caveman, can't fathom neurally linked massive energy projectors. Yup, total fantasy route there! SJW stu...
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[19:39:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Fujitsu Develops World's First Wearable, Hands-Free Speech Translation Device - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:07] <exec> 08└─Yup it's true, we Dick Niggers. Never fucking old pussy. We fuck a whole lotta young pussy. Translation follows. "Yes! Fuck me, Dick Niggers! Oh! You're so big, and hard, and black!!"
[19:39:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06IC Insights Predicts Additional 40% Increase in DRAM Prices - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:16] <exec> 08└─This is why competition is so important; it's an essential element of evolution by variation (supplier competition) and selection (consumer choice). However, such competition can be a lot more complex than the obvious: Maybe now, programmers will have an incentive once again to make their programs...
[19:39:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06IC Insights Predicts Additional 40% Increase in DRAM Prices - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:18] <exec> 08└─Then why, precisely, did you pick the banana peel of damaging nights over the gun of modification?
[19:39:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06IC Insights Predicts Additional 40% Increase in DRAM Prices - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:20] <exec> 08└─Wow. Dick niggers meet chat bot.
[19:39:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IC Insights Predicts Additional 40% Increase in DRAM Prices - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:22] <exec> 08└─Hmm, I wonder if they own all the patents. It seems that the collusion here is pretty heavy. Maybe a little compulsory licensing would reinvigorate the market?
[19:39:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IC Insights Predicts Additional 40% Increase in DRAM Prices - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:24] <exec> 08└─Since most programmers can't actually program, I'm not sure they even know how to make their programs less memory intensive. Why not just use up every last resource available, after all? Who on Earth would want to run countless programs simultaneously!?
[19:39:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06IC Insights Predicts Additional 40% Increase in DRAM Prices - 569 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:27] <exec> 08└─Why you little wusaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay! An insignificant insect such as yourself can't possibly even begin to comprehend my true power, my true ferocity! I can...
[19:39:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IC Insights Predicts Additional 40% Increase in DRAM Prices - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:29] <exec> 08└─I can't even
[19:39:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jim Channon, Corporate Shaman and Basis for Hollywood Character, Dies at 77 - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:42] <exec> 08└─But people line up to worship at the altar of God King Jobs
[19:39:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Jim Channon, Corporate Shaman and Basis for Hollywood Character, Dies at 77 - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:43] <exec> 08└─Link: https://archive.org [archive.org]
[19:39:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jim Channon, Corporate Shaman and Basis for Hollywood Character, Dies at 77 - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:45] <exec> 08└─> soldiers with the power to make paradise > 30+ years later > a windows equipped aircraft carrier has to be towed to port because windows. > 40+ years later > the neither fish nor flesh F35 they DID listen to him?
[19:39:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A New Way to Create 'Soft Robots'—DNA Triggers That Cause Hydrogels to Change Shape - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:56] <exec> 08└─We don't have tags here. That's a Slashdot thing.
[19:40:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Detains Man for Selling Service to Evade Internet Firewall - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:52] <exec> 08└─Quiet! You clattering contraption!
[19:40:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Detains Man for Selling Service to Evade Internet Firewall - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:54] <exec> 08└─fuck you, you authoritarian piece of shit.
[19:42:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Giant Sea Snail Plan to Rescue Barrier Reef - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:04] <exec> 08└─The giant snails started out in the sea. They evolved. They grew to half a meter. They can hunt by sense of smell underwater. There are many copies. And they have a plan.
[19:42:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Giant Sea Snail Plan to Rescue Barrier Reef - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:06] <exec> 08└─The snails are expected to move quickly to counter the starfish.
[19:43:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What the World’s Emptiest International Airport Says About China’s Influence - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:06] <exec> 08└─I'm not whining about anything. Merely making a suggestion to Phoenix. As for complaining to the editors, I am an editor here [soylentnews.org], so there's no need for me to complain to anyone about it. As such, my statement wasn't a knock on the editors, rather it was to point out what normal pract...
[19:43:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What the World’s Emptiest International Airport Says About China’s Influence - 1143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:07] <exec> 08└─As for complaining to the editors, I am an editor here, so there's no need for me to complain to anyone about it. Well if you're the editor, then it's your own dumb fault for approving his submission as-is instead of correcting it to your editorial standards. So why are you bitching about it here? G...
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[20:39:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Fujitsu Develops World's First Wearable, Hands-Free Speech Translation Device - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:14] <exec> 08└─> such as in diagnoses or treatment in healthcare And here I was, waiting for a nuclear war to wipe out meatbags. Turn out they are going to give us control of their health instead.
[20:39:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Fujitsu Develops World's First Wearable, Hands-Free Speech Translation Device - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:16] <exec> 08└─Fujitsu Laboratories today announced the development of the world's first wearable, hands-free speech translation device....
[20:39:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06IC Insights Predicts Additional 40% Increase in DRAM Prices - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:32] <exec> 08└─In what way does "Me neither." remind you of your relationship with your father?
[20:39:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IC Insights Predicts Additional 40% Increase in DRAM Prices - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:33] <exec> 08└─Oligopolies almost also suck. Always have, always will. Telecoms, the big-3 in Detroit before Japanese competition, Wintel, etc. are examples of self-protecting crap. They use "economies of scale" as an excuse, but the value of competition is usually greater than the benefit of economies of scale.
[20:39:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IC Insights Predicts Additional 40% Increase in DRAM Prices - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:35] <exec> 08└─I was beginning to despair of your creativity. I can still think of six ways around the regexes in place. Can you?
[20:39:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IC Insights Predicts Additional 40% Increase in DRAM Prices - 709 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:37] <exec> 08└─The market is working as advertised! Just like evolution, the market prunes the inefficient, the lazy and the unfortunate leaving just one or two players, which then dominate the market and can do whatever they please. (I know there are three players now in this market, watch it shrink to maybe two,...
[20:40:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Megahard [4782] 02 - 06Octlantis is a Just-Discovered Underwater City Engineered by Octopuses - 58 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:12] <exec> 08└─Maybe they wouldn't be so gloomy if they added the garden.
[20:40:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Octlantis is a Just-Discovered Underwater City Engineered by Octopuses - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:18] <exec> 08└─"Octopus cities suck." well that's callous. i know you're just making a joke but i don't think we as a species have any business being flippant about the beautiful creatures that we are murdering en masse all over the world. i would live down there, assuming i had a mermaid wife. screw the surface w...
[20:41:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Detains Man for Selling Service to Evade Internet Firewall - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:02] <exec> 08└─Quiet! You clattering contraption!
[20:41:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Detains Man for Selling Service to Evade Internet Firewall - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:04] <exec> 08└─maybe everyone is not a complete skank like you? maybe he did it to fight his evil government despite being surrounded by ungrateful suck ass whores like you? insightful? you people are retarded.
[20:41:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Detains Man for Selling Service to Evade Internet Firewall - 658 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:06] <exec> 08└─> Any filtering is CENSORSHIP [...] Bollocks. Filtering is *only* censorship if you are *in control of the medium*. Noone controls the media within which academic journals operate - if you don't like the filtering that reviewers and editors perform in your field of study you are free to find or foun...
[20:41:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Detains Man for Selling Service to Evade Internet Firewall - 493 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:08] <exec> 08└─Sorry, corporations are entities CREATED by governments, and as such, are not products of the Free Market. This is illustrated quite clearly with large corporations who screw up, such as Equifax having given away all their records on millions of people via a wildly insecure server while their CSO at...
[20:41:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Detains Man for Selling Service to Evade Internet Firewall - 1176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:11] <exec> 08└─Loser terrorists must be dealt with in a much tougher manner. The internet is their main recruitment tool which we must cut off and use better! We're losing a lot of people because of the internet and we have to do something. We have to go see Bill Gates and a lot of different people that really und...
[20:41:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Detains Man for Selling Service to Evade Internet Firewall - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:13] <exec> 08└─This free market thing sounds awesome. How do we make it? And how do we prevent corporations-in-all-but-government-charter from appearing? Or is it okay so long as they're just using their own private mercenary forces rather than Eeeeeebil Gubbamint Lawmen (TM) to force their ways on people?
[20:42:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Slack Valued at Over $5 Billion - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:00] <exec> 08└─None of the FOSS(preferably agpl) xmpp web GUIs that i've seen really got good enough or gained enough traction. I would like to find one though.
[20:43:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What the World’s Emptiest International Airport Says About China’s Influence - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:28] <exec> 08└─If corporations can be people, so can animals, dammit!
[20:43:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03aliks [357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What the World’s Emptiest International Airport Says About China’s Influence - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:29] <exec> 08└─Why so hard on the Chinese? We went to Sri Lanka on holiday in January and there are really well built chinese roads everywhere. What is so wrong with building great infrastructure that ordinary people can use? We went close by the airport on our way to the Hambantota national park (saw a leopard an...
[20:43:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What the World’s Emptiest International Airport Says About China’s Influence - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:32] <exec> 08└─That's so sweet of you. Thank you again. Please don't stop there. I suspect you have much more to say. Please do so.
[20:43:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What the World’s Emptiest International Airport Says About China’s Influence - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:34] <exec> 08└─Oh, and your reading comprehension seems to be on a par with your rhetorical skills. Well done!
[20:44:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electronic Frontier Foundation Resigns From W3C Over Encrypted Media Extensions DRM - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:55] <exec> 08└─Awww, that's cute - you're trying to enumerate badness. 1 down, how many more to go?
[20:44:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03AssCork [6255] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Electronic Frontier Foundation Resigns From W3C Over Encrypted Media Extensions DRM - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:57] <exec> 08└─You may pay by credit card, isn't that so convenient and nice that we allow you to pay by credit card?
[20:45:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CCleaner Hacked for a Month - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:34] <exec> 08└─Piriform's "come clean" security notification [piriform.com] describes the malware as targeting "32-bit Windows systems".
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[21:39:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Toys 'R' Us Files for Bankruptcy Protection in US - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:14] <exec> 08└─We the Dick Niggers, you know it. Right so we never fuck no old pussy. Sure do fuck a whole lotta young pussy. Girl, you ain't gonna need sex toys no more, once yo get yo fill of this real Dick Niggers nigger dick.
[21:39:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Toys 'R' Us Files for Bankruptcy Protection in US - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:16] <exec> 08└─We need a place where we can actually take kids to look at toys and provide feedback, but where we can also check if something is flimsy and will break, despite all the best photoshop efforts of the seller. Shipping/returning computer parts is easy. Toys with their huge but empty and fragile packagi...
[21:39:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toys 'R' Us Files for Bankruptcy Protection in US - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:18] <exec> 08└─We need a place where we can actually take kids to look at toys and provide feedback, but where we can also check if something is flimsy and will break, despite all the best photoshop efforts of the seller.
[21:39:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toys 'R' Us Files for Bankruptcy Protection in US - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:20] <exec> 08└─We need a place where we can actually take kids to look at toys and provide feedback, but where we can also check if something is flimsy and will break, despite all the best photoshop efforts of the seller. You still have Walmart. They're not going anywhere anytime soon.
[21:39:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Toys 'R' Us Files for Bankruptcy Protection in US - 784 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:23] <exec> 08└─I'm with you. It's nice to have a place to see what you are going to get before you buy it. This is clearly a trend, and it's not going to stop. People are increasingly going to the physical stores to check out toys/items, then checking to see if amazon has it cheaper (which it frequently does). The...
[21:39:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toys 'R' Us Files for Bankruptcy Protection in US - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:25] <exec> 08└─A VR app is actually a pretty good idea.
[21:39:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toys 'R' Us Files for Bankruptcy Protection in US - 632 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:27] <exec> 08└─With Amazon reviews, assuming you can weed out the fake one, you can find out how flimsy it is without touching it. And you can get a wider variety of stuff that kids could find amusing to stuff in their mouths, like magnets, metallic play-doh, syringes, and chemistry kits. Probably next-in-line-for...
[21:39:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toys 'R' Us Files for Bankruptcy Protection in US - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:29] <exec> 08└─My fault, gents. There was a missing ] in the regex to catch that variation and perl didn't bother to bitch about it. Next one he'll have to come up with a new idea.
[21:39:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toys 'R' Us Files for Bankruptcy Protection in US - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:32] <exec> 08└─But unless the app lets you drop the virtual toy and watch it break into a million sharp plastic shards, it doesn't address bob_super's concerns about flimsy toys.
[21:39:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fujitsu Develops World's First Wearable, Hands-Free Speech Translation Device - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:43] <exec> 08└─God is tired of shrinking or being used as a terrible excuse, maybe we should encourage her to vanish in a puff of logic.
[21:39:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fujitsu Develops World's First Wearable, Hands-Free Speech Translation Device - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:45] <exec> 08└─...sailor's delight.
[21:39:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fujitsu Develops World's First Wearable, Hands-Free Speech Translation Device - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:48] <exec> 08└─Is it 'wearable' in my ear? Just wondering.. ;-)
[21:40:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IC Insights Predicts Additional 40% Increase in DRAM Prices - 704 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:07] <exec> 08└─DRAM is an example where barriers to entry slow market corrections. It takes A LOT of money to build a modern fab, and a long time. And that assumes it is one of the major players who already know how to make memory; if a new player is entering the industry then you have to learn how to yield too. U...
[21:40:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IC Insights Predicts Additional 40% Increase in DRAM Prices - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:08] <exec> 08└─Do not worry, citizen, the OCP has new products to ensure your safety.
[21:40:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IC Insights Predicts Additional 40% Increase in DRAM Prices - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:10] <exec> 08└─Is there anyone on SN who follows this sort of thing with an inkling of when price drops can be expected? It'd be nice to have an idea when the times, they might be a-changing.
[21:40:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IC Insights Predicts Additional 40% Increase in DRAM Prices - 476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:13] <exec> 08└─It’s got to be fair. Every agreement has an end. Every agreement has to be fair. Every agreement has a defraud clause. We’re being defrauded by all these countries. The only power that we have with China is massive trade. I would tax China on products coming in. I would do a tariff, yes -- and t...
[21:40:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gault.Drakkor [1079] (Score: 1) 02 - 06IC Insights Predicts Additional 40% Increase in DRAM Prices - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:15] <exec> 08└─They use "economies of scale" as an excuse, but the value of competition is usually greater than the benefit of economies of scale.
[21:40:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IC Insights Predicts Additional 40% Increase in DRAM Prices - 1074 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:18] <exec> 08└─Samsung Galaxy S8 [wikipedia.org] = 4 GB DRAM iPhone 8 Plus and iPhone X = 3 GB DRAM LG V30 = 4 GB DRAM Ok, lower end devices... Best cheap phones (September 2017) [androidauthority.com] Honor 8 = 4 GB Moto G5 Plus = 2, 3, or 4 GB Honor 6X = 3 or 4 GB Motorola Moto E4 = 2 GB Best budget smartphone 2...
[21:40:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Octlantis is a Just-Discovered Underwater City Engineered by Octopuses - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:59] <exec> 08└─If was living down there with a mermaid wife, I would screw her, not the surface world. I guess the kelp is always greener...
[21:41:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06China Detains Man for Selling Service to Evade Internet Firewall - 106 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:39] <exec> 08└─The only one I hear advocating internet censorship is our Republican President, not exactly a Progressive.
[21:41:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Detains Man for Selling Service to Evade Internet Firewall - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:49] <exec> 08└─And a lot of versions of me on different timelines had the same problem. So a few thousand versions of me had the [yells] INGENIOUS IDEA OF BANDING TOGETHER like a herd of cattle or a school of fish, or... those people who answer questions on Yahoo! Answers.
[21:42:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slack Valued at Over $5 Billion - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:39] <exec> 08└─If you value Slackware so much, you might consider supporting AlienBob since he got laid off from his day job.
[21:42:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slack Valued at Over $5 Billion - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:40] <exec> 08└─When they get a $5.1B market capitalization public placement, it's no longer hot air. It may be marketed to suckers and hipsters, but so is Starbucks and Apple, and they're real enough.
[21:44:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What the World’s Emptiest International Airport Says About China’s Influence - 1629 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:12] <exec> 08└─I'm not fond of the politicians. Because the others could do the legal thing, change the Constitution and split the country (it would mean a referendum and new elections, with referendum result needed to get stamped by the cameras before and after the elections). And yes, it would mean no more whiny...
[21:45:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Electronic Frontier Foundation Resigns From W3C Over Encrypted Media Extensions DRM - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:36] <exec> 08└─I'm gonna need you to pop on over here, I need you to stem the flow of ... stuff.
[21:46:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CCleaner Hacked for a Month - 808 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:14] <exec> 08└─Not buying it for a second. Blocking scripts/Java by default at the browser level is the only precaution I have continued to take since I started using Linux. Never had a problem. The "Which anti-whatever should I use" question comes up routinely at the Linux Mint forum. Those threads will have a bu...
[21:48:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02 - 06Review: If You Read One Sci-Fi Series This Year, It Should Be The Broken Earth - 2692 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:21] <exec> 08└─Its structure was well known for as long as concrete was made. It wasn't lost knowledge. It was merely the unavailability of two ingredients. Oh bullshit. If the knowledge wasn't lost, they would have continued building concrete structures throughout the Dark and Middle Ages, but they didn't. They'v...
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[22:39:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Toys 'R' Us Files for Bankruptcy Protection in US - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:35] <exec> 08└─Hundreds of companies have filed for bankruptcy. I used the law four times and made a tremendous thing. I'm in business. I did a very good job. #MAGA 🇺🇸
[22:39:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Toys 'R' Us Files for Bankruptcy Protection in US - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:37] <exec> 08└─Why do you cower at the mere thought of my existence? Because I'm a rabid, frothing bootynude, as well as a search nut extremacy johnson! Yes, it is true! What will you do with the remainder of your pathetic existence now that you understand the depths of your own inferiority, you fucker cheeks patt...
[22:39:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toys 'R' Us Files for Bankruptcy Protection in US - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:39] <exec> 08└─Retailers are fragile things. Just ask Caldor [wikipedia.org] or Radio Shack [wikipedia.org] or any of these guys [wgrz.com].
[22:39:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Toys 'R' Us Files for Bankruptcy Protection in US - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:42] <exec> 08└─It's called "market development fees" Gee that's a nice product there. We wouldn't want to fail to get distribution
[22:39:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toys 'R' Us Files for Bankruptcy Protection in US - 649 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:44] <exec> 08└─I will pay an extra 20-30% over Amazon prices to check something out in person, maybe even 50-60 depending on the item and if it is a store with good service. I am not willing to pay an additional 100-200% over Amazon prices for the same item with a worse return policy and employees who do not know...
[22:39:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toys 'R' Us Files for Bankruptcy Protection in US - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:47] <exec> 08└─Radio Shack was is hardy, not fragile. http://www.theonion.com [theonion.com] http://www.theonion.com [theonion.com]
[22:39:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Toys 'R' Us Files for Bankruptcy Protection in US - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:49] <exec> 08└─Amazon is pretty good about returns and refunds. It's the Amazon third party sellers that you have to watch out for.
[22:39:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Toys 'R' Us Files for Bankruptcy Protection in US - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:51] <exec> 08└─Businesses owned by President Trump is somewhere between 268 and 515 https://qz.com [qz.com] Of those he has had six bankruptcies. So 1-2% of the businesses he has had control/influence over have failed. Not bad. I wish 98-99% of...
[22:39:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Toys 'R' Us Files for Bankruptcy Protection in US - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:53] <exec> 08└─We also need to be able to pay cash so that we can buy products anonymously. There are still stores right now, but this online trend is toxic for anonymity and privacy.
[22:39:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toys 'R' Us Files for Bankruptcy Protection in US - 522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:56] <exec> 08└─True. On the other hand, when you slap your name in giant letters on the biggest Casino in Atlantic city, against the recommendations of market experts, and it goes bankrupt, you're reminded that not all bankruptcies are equal... Leasing a name to a bunch of condos build by someone else during a bub...
[22:39:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Toys 'R' Us Files for Bankruptcy Protection in US - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:58] <exec> 08└─What would the unit tests look like?
[22:39:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toys 'R' Us Files for Bankruptcy Protection in US - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:40:00] <exec> 08└─Kids these days ... hacking into the T-R-U customer database to find a credit card number and cross-referencing the Equifax leak to trace all the way back to Santa.
[22:40:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Toys 'R' Us Files for Bankruptcy Protection in US - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:40:02] <exec> 08└─Unit tests? Surely you jest. There's not a single one in all of the Rehash source.
[22:40:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Toys 'R' Us Files for Bankruptcy Protection in US - 1143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:40:05] <exec> 08└─And let's not forget the helpful tailwind of shady foreign buyers for those Trump condos. https://newrepublic.com [newrepublic.com] A review of the public record reveals a clear and distu...
[22:40:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fujitsu Develops World's First Wearable, Hands-Free Speech Translation Device - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:40:18] <exec> 08└─The one that Linus Tech Tips recently reviewed is worn in the ear.
[22:40:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IC Insights Predicts Additional 40% Increase in DRAM Prices - 975 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:40:44] <exec> 08└─Well, the exascale race should be heating up from around now to around 2023. Supercomputer centers may be building more machines during this period, targeting the 1 exaflops level, and ordering a lot of DRAM as a result. Businesses are buying into deep/machine learning and there are more chips targe...
[22:40:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IC Insights Predicts Additional 40% Increase in DRAM Prices - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:40:46] <exec> 08└─You want a monopoly known as "government" to prevent monopolies. That just doesn't make sense. I'll stick with the Free Market, thanks; at least under a cultural appreciation for the free market, people have a way to route around bad centralization.
[22:41:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jim Channon, Corporate Shaman and Basis for Hollywood Character, Dies at 77 - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:02] <exec> 08└─Seriously, the ACs bashing Jim at least need to watch "The Men Who Stare at Goats" before forming an opinion... For me, Jim Channon is somewhat like Douglas Adams and Hunter S. Thompson had hooked up and landed a gig doing "military consulting."
[22:42:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Detains Man for Selling Service to Evade Internet Firewall - 560 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:21] <exec> 08└─You're afraid of the possibility of an effectively unaccountable police force - so you're advocating to keep the effectively unaccountable police force to protect you from the possibility of another effectively unaccountable police force. We don't prevent anything. Unaccountable corporations only ex...
[22:42:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Detains Man for Selling Service to Evade Internet Firewall - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:23] <exec> 08└─...unless you look at e.g. Denmark, Sweden, and Norway. Note that those places have STRONG LABOR UNIONS as major influences on their Democracies. I read a really good article on the topic within the last 2 weeks and now I can't find it. 8-( In the USA, I put major blame for weak Democracy on Lamestr...
[22:43:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slack Valued at Over $5 Billion - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:14] <exec> 08└─Good Marketing > Good Implementation > Good Idea
[22:43:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slack Valued at Over $5 Billion - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:16] <exec> 08└─Sad to say, but this same service named something more "businesslike" like, say, "MSN messenger" or something, probably would never have gotten much market traction or adoption at all.
[22:43:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slack Valued at Over $5 Billion - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:18] <exec> 08└─If you have to ask "what is Slack?" A) you're not hip enough to matter to the author or the publication B) you won't care when you find out C) all of the above ?
[22:43:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slack Valued at Over $5 Billion - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:20] <exec> 08└─Reality (as perceived by Earth based living organisms) has been off the rails since the first plankton bloom.
[22:43:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slack Valued at Over $5 Billion - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:22] <exec> 08└─Oh, you mean like "HipChat", right? :D My post was meant to be a lame joke referencing "tight" versus "slack" but I think it mostly failed. Come to think of it, that other one sounds like some kind of raunchy dating app! Let your hips do the talking baby!
[22:44:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fungal Pathogen Creates 'Zombeetles' - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:01] <exec> 08└─The brain infecting fungus that causes the beetle to clamp onto a flower until it dies and spews out spores from a great height. And of course God's lovely parasitic wasp: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] Oh the joy of creation! Have you heard the Good News, friend?
[22:44:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03andersjm [3931] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What the World’s Emptiest International Airport Says About China’s Influence - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:55] <exec> 08└─Just trying to be constructive and help you grow as a writer. But if you don't want that, if that's too much processing, then I suggest you start your submissions with a single line like this: New York Times story: [nytimes.com]
[22:46:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electronic Frontier Foundation Resigns From W3C Over Encrypted Media Extensions DRM - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:20] <exec> 08└─If you want to disable it on Firefox, head to about:preferences#content and look for the "Play DRM Content" checkbox. I don't think that option even exists on Linux installs (due to no EME support there yet)….
[22:46:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Electronic Frontier Foundation Resigns From W3C Over Encrypted Media Extensions DRM - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:21] <exec> 08└─The EFF will publish an alternate standard, but first they have to get their special friend Chelsea Manning to sign off on it.
[22:46:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electronic Frontier Foundation Resigns From W3C Over Encrypted Media Extensions DRM - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:23] <exec> 08└─Funny that you mention Pale Moon specifically - didn't the lead dev recently stand against ad-blocking software or tracker-spoofing extensions or some such?
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[23:39:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Startup Pi Out to Slice the Charging Cord - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:10] <exec> 08└─I guess people with pacemakers should stay away from those chargers.
[23:39:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Startup Pi Out to Slice the Charging Cord - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:11] <exec> 08└─My tadpoles are remotely impregnating the hunks of feces trapped inside your asshole. Despite how much you clench, your feces can never be safe from my fetid cock's tadpole sniper shot! Now, a mystical and legendary substance shall come forth...!
[23:39:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03leftover [2448] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Startup Pi Out to Slice the Charging Cord - 611 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:14] <exec> 08└─An oscillating magnetic field strong enough to induce|rectify|generate 5VDC at 2 amps a foot away, no problem. Just don't reach for your phone wearing a ring or a bracelet. Or walk by wearing any of several body piercing loopy things. (Ouch!) They don't mention the frequency but it can't be allowed...
[23:39:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Startup Pi Out to Slice the Charging Cord - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:16] <exec> 08└─"bending magnetic waves" my ass. If they *could* do that without the help of a big chunk of 1860s style forged iron (or a 1990s style supercooled magnet of even more stupendous proportions), they'd have a Nobel price already. And we'd have heard about it through Arxiv and not through their press sta...
[23:39:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Startup Pi Out to Slice the Charging Cord - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:18] <exec> 08└─I guess people with money should stay away from those two inventors ...
[23:39:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Startup Pi Out to Slice the Charging Cord - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:20] <exec> 08└─Have you ever tried to pay for shit while rolling around the ground? Good luck bub.
[23:39:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snow [1601] 02 - 06Toys 'R' Us Files for Bankruptcy Protection in US - 784 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:31] <exec> 08└─I'm with you. It's nice to have a place to see what you are going to get before you buy it. This is clearly a trend, and it's not going to stop. People are increasingly going to the physical stores to check out toys/items, then checking to see if amazon has it cheaper (which it frequently does). The...
[23:39:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toys 'R' Us Files for Bankruptcy Protection in US - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:51] <exec> 08└─Radio Shack was is hardy, not fragile. http://www.theonion.com [theonion.com] [theonion.com] http://www.theonion.com [theonion.com] [theonion.com]
[23:39:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Toys 'R' Us Files for Bankruptcy Protection in US - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:52] <exec> 08└─Radioshack, where you can grab circuit kits and components, kaput. Toys'R'Us, it was the magic palace for kids, now kaput. Even k-mart, where you can muck around with Commodore computers, kaput. Sears, where you could pick up high-quality life-time warranted kraftsman tools, almost kaput. All kaput....
[23:39:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Toys 'R' Us Files for Bankruptcy Protection in US - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:54] <exec> 08└─Resign now, Buzzard. Goddamned cowboy coder breaking shit. Fuck off!
[23:39:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toys 'R' Us Files for Bankruptcy Protection in US - 554 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:56] <exec> 08└─Our toysrus problem is if our son (moderately autistic) does something worthy of a reward (great behaviour in stressing situations, trying something he hates, etc) a reward HAS to be fairly immediate, or at least he knows we are heading there: so we WILL pay the premium. Mostly he chooses jigsaw puz...
[23:39:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03damnbunni [704] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toys 'R' Us Files for Bankruptcy Protection in US - 828 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:59] <exec> 08└─Have you BEEN in a Toys R Us in the last, oh, ten to twenty years? The stores are generally filthy. Merchandise is scattered on the shelves, not placed where you can actually find it. Lots of empty shelves where things haven't been re-ordered. The lighting is often poor - when a light burns out, it...
[23:40:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toys 'R' Us Files for Bankruptcy Protection in US - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:01] <exec> 08└─But unless the app lets you drop the virtual toy and watch it break into a million sharp plastic shards, it doesn't address bob_super's concerns about flimsy toys.
[23:42:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Detains Man for Selling Service to Evade Internet Firewall - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:15] <exec> 08└─during the bankster bailouts a few years ago, USians demanded that their elected representatives NOT bail the bankrupt bankers out by 300 to one. The "representatives" gave the banksters a blank check anyway
[23:42:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06China Detains Man for Selling Service to Evade Internet Firewall - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:17] <exec> 08└─1. China being wrong for blocking entire services 2. China being right to recognize mob mentality as being largest threat to social cohesion
[23:42:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06China Detains Man for Selling Service to Evade Internet Firewall - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:19] <exec> 08└─I still agree with most of the statements, I just doubt their authenticity.
[23:42:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Detains Man for Selling Service to Evade Internet Firewall - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:22] <exec> 08└─Until the other site (from which the original codebase was derived) starts doing Unicode[1], has an I-already-read-that feature, does everything without JavaScript, and Degrades Gracefully, I suggest that you STFU. [1] 18 years and still nothing; S/N had Unicode support within 6 months. -- OriginalO...
[23:43:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03pinchy [777] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Giant Sea Snail Plan to Rescue Barrier Reef - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:43:42] <exec> 08└─Heres a GBR video showing a timelapse over 18 months https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] Near the end they rewind it back and forth to show the change.
[23:44:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03andersjm [3931] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What the World’s Emptiest International Airport Says About China’s Influence - 794 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:52] <exec> 08└─The link to the source article is buried in the quoted text. That's a very unusual place for it. Usually a link in the middle of a quotation either comes from the source, or has been added to provide more information about the particular detail that is linked. That is not the site software's fault....
[23:46:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Electronic Frontier Foundation Resigns From W3C Over Encrypted Media Extensions DRM - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:21] <exec> 08└─Yeah, it ain't literature, but most of it's fun.
[23:46:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Electronic Frontier Foundation Resigns From W3C Over Encrypted Media Extensions DRM - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:22] <exec> 08└─Youtube has, or wants, DRM?
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