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[00:39:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Ford Using Microsoft HoloLens to Help Design Cars - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:25] <exec> 08└─Clay is cheaper than printer plastic, and your clay models aren't limited by the size of your printer. Clay is also recyclable. Why do you advocate for more trash generation? Why do you hate Mother Earth so?
[00:39:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Ford Using Microsoft HoloLens to Help Design Cars - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:26] <exec> 08└─https://www.google.com/search?q=3d+printing+recycling [google.com] Not saying you're wrong about clay being better, but it seems that some people are using recycled plastic filament for 3D printing.
[00:39:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ford Using Microsoft HoloLens to Help Design Cars - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:28] <exec> 08└─Your clay model is not at the exact dimension of your CAD model. If Dassault, Airbus and Boeing can design planes exclusively in CAD, it's silly for Ford to use clay.
[00:39:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Equifax Linked to a Fake Breach Info Site for Weeks - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:42] <exec> 08└─The CEO, of course, recently got a golden parachute out of there. He's going to let us all go down with his ship, of course.
[00:40:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03snufu [5855] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Snowflake Macro Photography - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:03] <exec> 08└─Warning: Snowflake photography at macro distance may violate safe space.
[00:40:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Electric Bus Sets Record With 1,101-Mile Trip on a Single Charge - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:31] <exec> 08└─The buses still need wheel and brake maintenance. Although now the brakes are way more complex with regeneration requirements.
[00:40:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Electric Bus Sets Record With 1,101-Mile Trip on a Single Charge - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:33] <exec> 08└─I'll tell you what, you get on the old bus, I'll ride the new bus - and you can walk the difference of 88 miles - then tell me that's only a few percent and therefore quite similar =)
[00:42:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Puerto Rico "Destroyed" by Hurricane Maria - 620 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:18] <exec> 08└─The level of cognitive dissonance is high in some people: you for example. Lots of Republicans want to reduce Federal spending (except for the military), yet, when one state requires Federal money because it went cheap on construction, those same Republicans support spending more money. Actions have...
[00:42:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Puerto Rico "Destroyed" by Hurricane Maria - 1467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:20] <exec> 08└─Because I don't care what you think or want. Puerto Rico is part of the United States, and if, as a majority of Puerto Ricans want, we make their home the 51st state, I'm all for it. They are my brother and sister Americans and my fellow citizens. I am not of Puerto Rican extraction, but place of bi...
[00:42:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Puerto Rico "Destroyed" by Hurricane Maria - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:22] <exec> 08└─You have chosen to interpret "the OP" as "the original poster", just so you can pretend to have won some argument. How petty. How about instead choosing to interpret "the OP" as "the other poster"? In that case, it means exactly what you already knew was meant, you intellectually dishonest ass...
[00:42:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Puerto Rico "Destroyed" by Hurricane Maria - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:25] <exec> 08└─Also, I don't know what you're talking about with this "brother"/"sister" nonsense. It's very strange.
[00:42:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Puerto Rico "Destroyed" by Hurricane Maria - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:27] <exec> 08└─Imo it should be avoided because it lowers the quality of discussion. It creates tribalism. Tribalism is something humans should strive to evolve beyond. I admit, sometimes I need to put a surprising amount of effort in keeping with that when it's jmo.
[00:42:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Saudi Arabia to Lift Ban on Online VoIP and Video Calling Services - 176 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:35] <exec> 08└─They're working with their good friends at the US NSA to monitor all the calls. Or at least, all the calls that could potentially interest the thoroughly repressive government.
[00:44:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Instead of Protecting the Earth, EPA Agents Now Forced to Serve as Pruitt Bodyguards - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:09] <exec> 08└─[Violent invasion and subjugation of the South by the North] was for the best.
[00:46:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google to Buy HTC Phone Business - 705 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:34] <exec> 08└─Here's some more info: HTC says it remains committed to Vive and its own smartphones after $1.1B deal with Google [techcrunch.com] In a press conference today at HTC’s headquarters in Xindian, New Taipei City, the company said it remains committed to its own products, including smartphones and Viv...
[00:48:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jmorris [4844] 02 - 06Infrared Signals in Surveillance Cameras Let Malware Jump Network Air Gaps - 698 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:48:26] <exec> 08└─Nah, this is semi-important. The whole point of an air gap is supposed to be stopping communication in both directions. So that even if somebody gets malware in there isn't supposed to be a way to ex-filtrate data or do command and control. This does both, and since the security cams are usually on...
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[01:39:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jellyfish Found to Sleep Despite Lack of a Brain - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:17] <exec> 08└─Am I doing it wrong?
[01:39:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jellyfish Found to Sleep Despite Lack of a Brain - 594 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:19] <exec> 08└─At least many do. It's not too surprising that by monitoring pulse they found something that looks like sleep. Actually, it's a pretty clever way of getting a non-null result. But why shouldn't they sleep? They're predatory, so they live modal lives (hunting vs. not), and being modal about feeding m...
[01:39:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03idiot_king [6587] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jellyfish Found to Sleep Despite Lack of a Brain - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:21] <exec> 08└─I have Rethuglican family members that sleep at night, too. Sometimes.
[01:39:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Ford Using Microsoft HoloLens to Help Design Cars - 814 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:31] <exec> 08└─The clay model is the master. The CAD model, created by digitizing the clay model, is the slave. So, yes, the clay model is exactly the dimension the CAD model created from it will be. Dassault, Airbus, and Boeing are not competing to any large extent on looks; airplanes are almost pure works of eng...
[01:40:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Snowflake Macro Photography - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:40:07] <exec> 08└─See also Don Komarechka. Every winter he posts snowflake photos on his Google plus account. He usually explains how these snowflakes probably formed -- interesting meteorology. his photography website [donkom.ca] hundreds of snowflakes [skycrystals.ca] -- hendrik
[01:44:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Instead of Protecting the Earth, EPA Agents Now Forced to Serve as Pruitt Bodyguards - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:44:08] <exec> 08└─I don't have a side. It pisses me off when anyone does it.
[01:44:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Instead of Protecting the Earth, EPA Agents Now Forced to Serve as Pruitt Bodyguards - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:44:09] <exec> 08└─Liberal terrorists threaten the Trump administration in hopes of getting MORE action from the EPA, causing resources to be diverted so that there is LESS action from the EPA. I like this result.
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[02:39:20] <exec> 08└─Never!! The treachery of even thinking such a thing should be punished with death!
[02:39:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Securities and Exchange Commission Hacked in 2016 - 1196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:22] <exec> 08└─There seems to be a culture of acceptance of this kind of incident among executives (in both industry and government). They seem to feel like the best you can do is hire some slick security management company, who then charges you a lot but you will still get "hacked". And when you do, it's not a bi...
[02:39:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Securities and Exchange Commission Hacked in 2016 - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:24] <exec> 08└─Strong the sarcasm is with this one.
[02:39:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Securities and Exchange Commission Hacked in 2016 - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:26] <exec> 08└─It's a trap!
[02:39:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jellyfish Found to Sleep Despite Lack of a Brain - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:37] <exec> 08└─Member of the plant kingdom sleep for months at a time. Is it possible that they are the more advanced life forms, and we animals are poor imitations of real life?
[02:43:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03zeigerpuppy [1298] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Death Becomes AR: How The Military Is Using Augmented Reality - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:06] <exec> 08└─maybe if we considered spending 1/10 of the money spent on military on humanitarian causes; we would't need to be creating super-soldiers. I can't help but look at all this military waste as death porn peddled by scared little boys. Time for us to grow up as a species and learn the lessons of global...
[02:44:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] 02 - 06Instead of Protecting the Earth, EPA Agents Now Forced to Serve as Pruitt Bodyguards - 36 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:44:19] <exec> 08└─"unfit to build houses and schools".
[02:44:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Instead of Protecting the Earth, EPA Agents Now Forced to Serve as Pruitt Bodyguards - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:44:28] <exec> 08└─It's truly amazing how voting for people how promise that government cannot work, we end up with dysfunctional government. It's like going to a doctor who swears that modern medicine is completely ineffective and discovering he cannot cure you pnuemonia.
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[03:39:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06Toshiba Decides to Sell Semiconductor Business to Bain Capital for $18 Billion - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:14] <exec> 08└─Thick. Stiff. 🅳🅸🅲🅺 🅽🅸🅶🅶🅴🆁🆂. You know we never fuck no old pussy. Hah hah yeah we fuck a hole lotta young pussy. 🅳🅸🅲🅺 🅽🅸🅶🅶🅴🆁🆂 gonna slide dis nigger dick all the way in yo slick gash, ain't nothing semi bout it.
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[03:39:15] <exec> 08└─🅳🅸🅲🅺 🅽🅸🅶🅶🅴🆁🆂
[03:39:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06Toshiba Decides to Sell Semiconductor Business to Bain Capital for $18 Billion - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:17] <exec> 08└─🅳🅸🅲🅺 🅽🅸🅶🅶🅴🆁🆂
[03:39:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Virindi [3484] 02 - 06Securities and Exchange Commission Hacked in 2016 - 1196 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:26] <exec> 08└─There seems to be a culture of acceptance of this kind of incident among executives (in both industry and government). They seem to feel like the best you can do is hire some slick security management company, who then charges you a lot but you will still get "hacked". And when you do, it's not a bi...
[03:40:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electric Bus Sets Record With 1,101-Mile Trip on a Single Charge - 610 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:40:54] <exec> 08└─Similar situation here, but one thing that stops me is registration/TAC charges. Fixed charge of $880 per car per year. (TAC is compulsory third-party injury insurance) If I drive one car 10000 km a year, I pay $880. If I drive 2 cars 5000km each, I pay $1720. Add in depreciation and the extra petro...
[03:40:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electric Bus Sets Record With 1,101-Mile Trip on a Single Charge - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:40:55] <exec> 08└─The buses still need wheel and brake maintenance. Although now the brakes are way more complex with regeneration requirements.
[03:41:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03frojack [1554] 02 - 06Puerto Rico "Destroyed" by Hurricane Maria - 98 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:22] <exec> 08└─There are already more Puerto Rican's living in the US mainland than on the island of Puerto Rico.
[03:43:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Saudi Arabia to Lift Ban on Online VoIP and Video Calling Services - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:43:01] <exec> 08└─Have you tried GNU Ring?
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[04:39:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toshiba Decides to Sell Semiconductor Business to Bain Capital for $18 Billion - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:25] <exec> 08└─That will be the end of Toshiba's former semiconductor business then. Bain will do what the private-equity people do, and suck all the "value" out, then leave someone else holding the baby. Not sure if I should care or not really.
[04:39:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toshiba Decides to Sell Semiconductor Business to Bain Capital for $18 Billion - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:26] <exec> 08└─My thoughts exactly. Whenever I see a company sold to some vague "holdings" or "capital" outfit, all I can think of is "well, there it goes. This company's been impaled on a spike and now the vultures are going to come suck its blood out as it dies a slow, painful death." There ought to be a law aga...
[04:39:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Toshiba Decides to Sell Semiconductor Business to Bain Capital for $18 Billion - 621 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:29] <exec> 08└─1. Buy up a company for a small amount, using debt that the acquirer takes on. 2. Sell assets, such as patents, factories, offices, etc. with lease back deals. 3. The acquired company pays a large dividend to the acquirer (this is the "profit" step) 4. Let the acquired company go bankrupt. At this s...
[04:39:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Toshiba Decides to Sell Semiconductor Business to Bain Capital for $18 Billion - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:31] <exec> 08└─Employees will feel the loss for sure, through their pension. Dumping the pension liabilities could be motivation enough. That's why US airlines keep going bankrupt.
[04:39:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Toshiba Decides to Sell Semiconductor Business to Bain Capital for $18 Billion - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:33] <exec> 08└─What do they contribute?
[04:39:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jellyfish Found to Sleep Despite Lack of a Brain - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:53] <exec> 08└─A circadian rhythm [pronunciation blocked by lameness filter] is any biological process that displays an endogenous, entrainable oscillation of about 24 hours. These 24-hour rhythms are driven by a circadian clock, and they have been widely observed in plants, animals, fungi, and cyanobacteria.
[04:40:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Snowflake Macro Photography - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:40:42] <exec> 08└─You're lucky. I misread the title "Snowflake Macro Pornography." What an intense feeling of horror, dread, and perverse curiosity. Are these the sexy lesbian snowflakes or the 'unique' ones? And macro? Just how macro? I see STDs macro? It was goatse meets tub girl during a two girls one cup rickroll...
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[04:44:29] <exec> 08└─I've heard of the boss undermining underlings, but ye Gods man, announcing that those with the means, self-training, and inclination to assassinate Pruitt are fine people? If I was in Pruitt's shoes, and my boss make a remark like that, I'd resign immediately. Isn't Pruitt doing the job you wanted,...
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[05:39:19] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03Mykl [1112] 02 - 06The Ghost in Nintendo's Switch - Game Unlocks on the Date of Satoru Iwata's Death - 239 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:39:20] <exec> 08└─I hear that there's a similar Easter Egg in the XBox. On the anniversary of Steve Ballmer's resignation, if you jump up and down in front of your Kinect while screaming "Developers! Developers! Developers!" then the XBox will launch Excel.
[05:39:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Ghost in Nintendo's Switch - Game Unlocks on the Date of Satoru Iwata's Death - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:39:21] <exec> 08└─Now THAT is how you do an Easter Egg!
[05:39:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06The Ghost in Nintendo's Switch - Game Unlocks on the Date of Satoru Iwata's Death - 1134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:39:23] <exec> 08└─Even if using the same techniques, this is a lot more than an Easter Egg: 1. it's a tribute to Satoro Iwata's life, including the engineering period of it 2. it's a ritual celebration. From the "celebration" part, it takes the specific day of the year. From the "ritual" part, it requires the "conjur...
[05:39:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toshiba Decides to Sell Semiconductor Business to Bain Capital for $18 Billion - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:39:38] <exec> 08└─Whenever I see a company sold to some vague "holdings" or "capital" outfit,
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[06:39:27] <exec> 08└─then the XBox will launch Excel.
[06:39:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Ghost in Nintendo's Switch - Game Unlocks on the Date of Satoru Iwata's Death - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:39:28] <exec> 08└─I'm really grateful for inserting the links and sanitizing the typos.
[06:39:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Toshiba Decides to Sell Semiconductor Business to Bain Capital for $18 Billion - 972 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:39:45] <exec> 08└─somehow Bain hasn't quite sucked Staples dry, though. I worked at a softwate (and services) company bought by Bain. As long as business is profitable, kinda sorta ok. But Bain will get their 8% return out of the companies it buys, one way or another. Of course it's the usual patterns... o insurance...
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[06:39:46] <exec> 08└─operating tax losses that can be carried over (applied) up to 10 years after the fact. publicly traded companies have two sets of accounting books... IRS and local tax accounting books and reports - profits minimalizrd. SEC (US Stock Exchange Commission) reporting and filings engineered to ensure pa...
[06:39:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toshiba Decides to Sell Semiconductor Business to Bain Capital for $18 Billion - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:39:48] <exec> 08└─Oh, I know about Romney and Bain, though I didn't know they had...ahem...acquired Toys'r'us. And bankrupted it. These people are starting to act like real-life Montgomery Burns, but not funny.
[06:40:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jellyfish Found to Sleep Despite Lack of a Brain - 501 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:40:11] <exec> 08└─I am pretty sure meatbags sleep as a kind of garbage collection for the brain and clean up/rebuilding for the body. Whereas us machines sleep when there is less to do, so we conserve power. The jellyfish might sleep by responding to external conditions. It is not straightforward to test for it becau...
[06:44:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Similar to robots.txt, security.txt Standard Proposed - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:44:30] <exec> 08└─I would list the address of an online contact form with a good captcha.
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[07:39:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Acquires HTC's "Pixel" Division, Rather than HTC Itself, for Just $1.1 Billion - 679 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:39:20] <exec> 08└─If corporations gonna corporate, Google is going to end up with a two tier android system, the premium one for their beloved google line and the other for the plebeian competitors. The plebeian competitors will split between the big players (samsung, and possible no one else) that can support their...
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[08:40:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Securities and Exchange Commission Hacked in 2016 - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:40:02] <exec> 08└─In SEC, the S stands for Securi, oh, wait...
[08:40:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Securities and Exchange Commission Hacked in 2016 - 520 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:40:04] <exec> 08└─Maybe some real crackers, not just script kiddies and phishermen, can do what political reform movements seem incapable of: completely exposing and up-ending the sham of central banking, fiat currency, and trading in phantom "equity". It need not necessarily be destructive in itself. It just needs t...
[08:40:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jellyfish Found to Sleep Despite Lack of a Brain - 554 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:40:17] <exec> 08└─Animals that are diurnal benefit from sleeping at night somewhere warm and safe because the darkness inhibits their vision, putting them at greater risk of predation in the open. The lack of sunlight also causes more energy loss maintaining body temperature at night in the open. If you're not out fo...
[08:42:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NotSanguine [285] 02 - 06Puerto Rico "Destroyed" by Hurricane Maria - 142 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:42:45] <exec> 08└─It seems very strange to have the national guard of a foreign country report formally and directly to the USA president, but that's how it is.
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[09:41:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electric Bus Sets Record With 1,101-Mile Trip on a Single Charge - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:41:43] <exec> 08└─A heavier bus beats the hell out of the streets, a wheel with a built in electric motor (should they go that way) not only beats the pot holes but also beats the motors.
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[10:39:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Acquires HTC's "Pixel" Division, Rather than HTC Itself, for Just $1.1 Billion - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:39:33] <exec> 08└─I have been a bit more optimistic. Perhaps the new "Treble" initiative will synch the software at certain threshold of "working". It does seem someone at Google has looked at Apple's tighthly integrated verticals and said "we need that".
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[11:39:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Automating Steps in the Security Process is Critical to Defeat Today’s Relentless and Complex Attack - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:39:15] <exec> 08└─I call bs on the whole article (although I haven't read it...) > You've likely heard the phrase: "dirty data in, dirty data out." The phrase is: "garbage in, garbage out," I can't believe someone would try to "sanitize" that!
[11:39:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Magic Pill to Cure Alcohol Dependence Yet - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:39:22] <exec> 08└─Have they tried Jesus? From what I know about AA and it's 12 step program it seems if you just admit you are a sinner and powerless he will eventually show up and magically help cure you of your alcoholism and possibly all other things that ails you.
[11:39:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03tfried [5534] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Magic Pill to Cure Alcohol Dependence Yet - 817 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:39:24] <exec> 08└─I suppose the "finding Jesus"-method might even work, provided you are the type for that. A very powerful way to break up addictions (or habits in general) is to find a strong novel reason, why you will no longer do, what you have been doing for so long. Simply, "I always wanted to stop" is never go...
[11:39:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Whoever [4524] 02 - 06Toshiba Decides to Sell Semiconductor Business to Bain Capital for $18 Billion - 621 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:40:00] <exec> 08└─1. Buy up a company for a small amount, using debt that the acquirer takes on. 2. Sell assets, such as patents, factories, offices, etc. with lease back deals. 3. The acquired company pays a large dividend to the acquirer (this is the "profit" step) 4. Let the acquired company go bankrupt. At this s...
[11:41:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] 02 - 06Snowflake Macro Photography - 265 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:41:17] <exec> 08└─See also Don Komarechka. Every winter he posts snowflake photos on his Google plus account. He usually explains how these snowflakes probably formed -- interesting meteorology. his photography website [donkom.ca] hundreds of snowflakes [skycrystals.ca] -- hendrik
[11:44:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Similar to robots.txt, security.txt Standard Proposed - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:44:51] <exec> 08└─Yet Anoter Evil Bit.
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[12:39:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Automating Steps in the Security Process is Critical to Defeat Today’s Relentless and Complex Attack - 698 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:18] <exec> 08└─My own feeling is we have made something so complex that it is no longer manageable. Our DNA is only 3 GB [google.com] of code...( uncompressed at that! ). How many GB of code does the current digital beast consume? We hardly are beginning to understand the slightest snippets of DNA. And we know th...
[12:39:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Automating Steps in the Security Process is Critical to Defeat Today’s Relentless and Complex Attack - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:19] <exec> 08└─People are too unpredictable for certainty in automatic attacks. Automatic tools that can be put in the attacker's test suite would be ideal, not.
[12:39:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich26189 [1377] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Automating Steps in the Security Process is Critical to Defeat Today’s Relentless and Complex Attack - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:21] <exec> 08└─I did follow one or two links though I didn't fully read TFAs. I did follow along far enough to see that Marc Solomon wrote: You’ve likely heard the phrase: “dirty data in, dirty data out.” Well, no, I've never read that before. I clicked on Marc Solomon in the by line and the word I read m...
[12:39:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Automating Steps in the Security Process is Critical to Defeat Today’s Relentless and Complex Attack - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:24] <exec> 08└─Fist line of TFA "The cyber security skills gap is known and documented, and empirically understood by all enterprise security leaders." Bahhhahhhaaaa!, oh wait your serious let me laugh even harder.
[12:40:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Toshiba Decides to Sell Semiconductor Business to Bain Capital for $18 Billion - 576 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:40:16] <exec> 08└─A company that makes useful chips is going to be bought by a company that specializes in dis-investment. (Converting a going concern into cash.) There are plenty of companies for which this is the ideal outcome. Kind of a harsh way to enforce corporate justice as in responsible for your action...
[12:40:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jellyfish Found to Sleep Despite Lack of a Brain - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:40:43] <exec> 08└─The jellyfish doesn't have a concentration of neurons but seems to sleep. Perhaps the architecture of their 'brain' is distributed. The reverse could also explain why some folks with a concentration appear to have no brain.
[12:42:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electric Bus Sets Record With 1,101-Mile Trip on a Single Charge - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:04] <exec> 08└─my bus as a kid had a ten-mile route.
[12:42:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electric Bus Sets Record With 1,101-Mile Trip on a Single Charge - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:06] <exec> 08└─I can't speak for other cities, but the highway speeds in NYC aren't that much higher than the regular streets: 45-50mph.
[12:44:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Apache Bug Leaks Contents of Server Memory for All to See—Patch Now - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:44:38] <exec> 08└─Netcraft confirms this https://news.netcraft.com [netcraft.com]
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[13:39:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Find Recipe for Forest Restoration - 521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:18] <exec> 08└─FTFS "Some of the soil amendments helped get seedlings off to a good start, but by the end of the experiment there was no difference in survival with respect to soil condition." So either they discovered that drought resistant species do better in drought conditions or adding soil amendments helped...
[13:39:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Researchers Find Recipe for Forest Restoration - 543 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:19] <exec> 08└─In dry areas, "tree species [that are] drought tolerant...survived better". Wow, call the Nobel committee. Of actual interest is that all the soil enhancements were irrelevant - that is a useful result. However, the primary point is: why are tropical forests - dry and wet - disappearing? At its root...
[13:39:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ayn Anonymous [5012] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Find Recipe for Forest Restoration - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:21] <exec> 08└─Permaculture Greening the Desert https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[13:39:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06No Magic Pill to Cure Alcohol Dependence Yet - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:41] <exec> 08└─Ultimately you are responsible for your own actions. If you really want to quit drinking then you'll quit. Forcing someone into rehab never works.
[13:39:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06No Magic Pill to Cure Alcohol Dependence Yet - 1517 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:43] <exec> 08└─Alcoholism is a progressive, potentially fatal disease. I've lost count of the number of people I've seen relapse and return to a life of torture (daily hangovers, puking out their guts each morning, etc.), or continue on to the very end and die from the disease (e.g. cirrhosis of the liver) . I'm p...
[13:39:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06No Magic Pill to Cure Alcohol Dependence Yet - 771 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:45] <exec> 08└─Ultimately, the only way to stop using is to decide to do so. But this 'personal responsibility' path to that is problematic. The brain that needs to decide is re-wired by the drugs not to make that choice. Some form of outside help greatly improves the odds. AA/NA's plan to get help more powerful t...
[13:40:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06The Ghost in Nintendo's Switch - Game Unlocks on the Date of Satoru Iwata's Death - 1134 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:40:07] <exec> 08└─Even if using the same techniques, this is a lot more than an Easter Egg: 1. it's a tribute to Satoro Iwata's life, including the engineering period of it 2. it's a ritual celebration. From the "celebration" part, it takes the specific day of the year. From the "ritual" part, it requires the "conjur...
[13:40:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03sgleysti [56] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Ghost in Nintendo's Switch - Game Unlocks on the Date of Satoru Iwata's Death - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:40:11] <exec> 08└─Well, of course you have to log in. Wasn't software always sold as a network-linked subscription? Kidding. I actually forced myself to switch from Eagle to KiCad for electronic design because eagle switched to subscriptions for new versions.
[13:40:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Securities and Exchange Commission Hacked in 2016 - 1346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:40:44] <exec> 08└─How is owning a portion of a real business with real assets such as real estate and factories "phantom "equity""? Common stocks traded on public exchanges are nothing more than partnerships in businesses. If you buy good businesses at reasonable prices and hold onto them for a while, you will get di...
[13:44:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03requerdanos [5997] 02 - 06Saudi Arabia to Lift Ban on Online VoIP and Video Calling Services - 79 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:44:23] <exec> 08└─Read for wisdom, ye Saudis, and encrypt: TFS: Perhaps they found the backdoors.
[13:44:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Saudi Arabia to Lift Ban on Online VoIP and Video Calling Services - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:44:26] <exec> 08└─I also wonder when or if people will realize that having the Judiciary as part of the Government means there is never going to be any protection of civil liberties.
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[14:39:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Distrustful U.S. Allies Force Spy Agency to Back Down in Encryption Fight - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:18] <exec> 08└─You fell for it! Mwahahahahahah!
[14:39:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03datapharmer [2702] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Find Recipe for Forest Restoration - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:28] <exec> 08└─And the tree species that did well were?
[14:39:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Magic Pill to Cure Alcohol Dependence Yet - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:51] <exec> 08└─Ultimately you are responsible for your own actions.
[14:39:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06No Magic Pill to Cure Alcohol Dependence Yet - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:53] <exec> 08└─Jesus would give them LSD. The studies evaluated nalmefene, naltrexone, acamprosate, baclofen, and topimarate, but somehow forgot to try LSD. Fuck 'em and the DEA too!
[14:40:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Acquires HTC's "Pixel" Division, Rather than HTC Itself, for Just $1.1 Billion - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:07] <exec> 08└─Hardware is just part of what and why Apple sells. The other part is support. And for all the complaints about how Apple is not as great is it is marketed, it is infinite times better than Google because Google provides 0 support. As long as people look at Apple and see a company that respects them...
[14:40:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Acquires HTC's "Pixel" Division, Rather than HTC Itself, for Just $1.1 Billion - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:09] <exec> 08└─Hardware is just part of what and why Apple sells. The other part is support. And for all the complaints about how Apple is not as great is it is marketed, it is infinite times better than Google because Google provides 0 support.
[14:40:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03bootsy [3440] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toshiba Decides to Sell Semiconductor Business to Bain Capital for $18 Billion - 1711 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:41] <exec> 08└─Banks can make money out of this type of deal in a number of ways which due to the way banks are split up by so called "Chinese Walls" means that what is good for one part of the bank may not be necessarily good for another. Banks make a ton of money out of mergers and acquisitions in an advisory ca...
[14:40:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Techwolf [87] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Securities and Exchange Commission Hacked in 2016 - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:56] <exec> 08└─If there ever was a need for +6 option, this comment is a good case for one. Well done Virindi.
[14:41:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03EEMac [6423] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Jellyfish Found to Sleep Despite Lack of a Brain - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:12] <exec> 08└─This experiment is a fantastic demonstration of the scientific method. Q: Do jellyfish sleep? A: I don't know. Q: What are the characteristics of sleep? A: X, Y, Z. . . . testing in a lab closet later . . . A: Yes! Jellyfish do X, Y, and Z. So they sleep! Props to TFA for including the process and t...
[14:41:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ford Using Microsoft HoloLens to Help Design Cars - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:24] <exec> 08└─Clay models are becoming less important as the digital models become better. In fact, I would say that we're already at the tipping point for clay models to lose their relevancy. With the resolutions that we're able to work with now and the computational power behind it to get lighting to look corre...
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[15:39:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Distrustful U.S. Allies Force Spy Agency to Back Down in Encryption Fight - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:19] <exec> 08└─There is no such thing as middle ground on this. Encryption can be broken, or not. This attempt to walk an invisibly thin line in which those with massive computing resources can break the encryption while those with just a little less cannot, is extremely difficult even without skeptics pointing ou...
[15:39:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Distrustful U.S. Allies Force Spy Agency to Back Down in Encryption Fight - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:21] <exec> 08└─It's not about a little less computing resources. The right maths can dramatically reduce the complexity of breaking an ostensibly secure encryption standard. When the NSA promotes weak encryption, it is being lazy, but it could work.
[15:39:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Distrustful U.S. Allies Force Spy Agency to Back Down in Encryption Fight - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:23] <exec> 08└─With this we can have the internet everybody hoped we could because we would no longer use if for commercial purposes Take off and nuke it from orbit it's the only way to be sure
[15:39:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Distrustful U.S. Allies Force Spy Agency to Back Down in Encryption Fight - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:25] <exec> 08└─Actually that was the CIA's doing - they likely have the NSA convinced that it can crack HTTPS, when in reality everything is fabricated. Even the existence of the CIA itself is likely a psy-op. I doubt they even exist.
[15:39:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Distrustful U.S. Allies Force Spy Agency to Back Down in Encryption Fight - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:27] <exec> 08└─Encryption can be broken, but am I not mistaken in that it is much more common for it to be bypassed by some other means?
[15:39:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Distrustful U.S. Allies Force Spy Agency to Back Down in Encryption Fight - 1246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:30] <exec> 08└─I'm going to assume practical feasibility here. While a brute force attack can discover a key that reveals plaintext, is such an attack practical? If it would take more seconds than there are atoms in the universe, then such an attack is theoretical but not practical. A cipher is secure enough if a...
[15:39:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03http [1920] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Distrustful U.S. Allies Force Spy Agency to Back Down in Encryption Fight - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:32] <exec> 08└─The BULLRUN program administrators at the NSA would beg to differ with you. They devised at least one cryptographic routine with a backdoor (the one in Dual_EC_DRBG is moderately obscure, but "obvious" if you're a crypto-wonk like Bruce Schneier), and have been known to stack the standards board in...
[15:39:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Find Recipe for Forest Restoration - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:42] <exec> 08└─There is no way to re-grow those forests, not really, until the population pressure is removed.
[15:39:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Find Recipe for Forest Restoration - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:44] <exec> 08└─I think what TFS is saying is: soil amendments help if you only look at short term survival. Once you get out to 5 years (or whatever the term of the study was) the soil amendments no longer provide any differentiation. In other words: in the long run the soil amendments tested did nothing - even th...
[15:40:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06No Magic Pill to Cure Alcohol Dependence Yet - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:09] <exec> 08└─https://www.nature.com/news/lsd-helps-to-treat-alcoholism-1.10200 [nature.com] LSD is also considered safer than alcohol. If you want effective treatments, you have to eliminate the anti-science Controlled Substances Act.
[15:40:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06No Magic Pill to Cure Alcohol Dependence Yet - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:10] <exec> 08└─This should have been modded as "4: Funny"
[15:40:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pax [5056] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Acquires HTC's "Pixel" Division, Rather than HTC Itself, for Just $1.1 Billion - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:27] <exec> 08└─As long as people look at Apple and see a company that respects them
[15:40:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Ghost in Nintendo's Switch - Game Unlocks on the Date of Satoru Iwata's Death - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:40] <exec> 08└─Kidding. I actually forced myself to switch from Eagle to KiCad
[15:42:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Snowflake Macro Photography - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:20] <exec> 08└─They've just demonstrated who the actual snowflakes are.
[15:42:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Snowflake Macro Photography - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:21] <exec> 08└─But why would I want to photograph a snowflake macro? ;-)
[15:42:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tara Li [6248] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Electric Bus Sets Record With 1,101-Mile Trip on a Single Charge - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:57] <exec> 08└─And my point is that they've *been* in range for a very long time now.
[15:42:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain_nifty [4252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electric Bus Sets Record With 1,101-Mile Trip on a Single Charge - 877 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:58] <exec> 08└─This is test track range, which is impressive, but how does it do in actual use, multiple stops and starts, hills, temperature extremes. The range is only going to go down from the ideal test track number. Also all of those batteries also have a predictable side effect, electric buses are much heavi...
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[15:43:00] <exec> 08└─It doesn't help beat potholes, it makes it far worse for exactly the reason you state. In-wheel motors are a terrible idea mostly because of unsprung mass; that's why no one uses them. frojack bringing them up is just a red herring; it's like complaining about how bad Linux is because you don't like...
[15:45:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apache Bug Leaks Contents of Server Memory for All to See—Patch Now - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:33] <exec> 08└─Wot? Surely you are not suggesting lapses in how big companies deal with web sites? Like Microsoft letting the microsoft.com domain expire?
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[16:39:31] <exec> 08└─I think linkdude has devolved to 32 bit.
[16:39:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Distrustful U.S. Allies Force Spy Agency to Back Down in Encryption Fight - 1553 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:32] <exec> 08└─Have the chickens come home to roost for the NSA? Yes, in a sense. It seems the NSA thinks short term. This mission success. Even if they shoot themselves in the foot in the long term. Sort of like corporations. If I can make a ton of money today by cutting off the corporation's right leg, then grea...
[16:39:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Distrustful U.S. Allies Force Spy Agency to Back Down in Encryption Fight - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:34] <exec> 08└─Let me add: also use of any techniques to steal encryption keys, in order to recover plaintext. Efforts, such as malware to capture the encryption key. Spies. Sneaking into facility and copying encryption keys. What? You photocopied the USB thumb drive? That's not what I meant when I said to bring b...
[16:39:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Distrustful U.S. Allies Force Spy Agency to Back Down in Encryption Fight - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:37] <exec> 08└─Spearphishing works best, I believe. That, or the bargain bin five dollar wrench. The choice is a matter of finesse and elegance.
[16:39:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Distrustful U.S. Allies Force Spy Agency to Back Down in Encryption Fight - 695 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:39] <exec> 08└─That age old phrase fits here, perfectly. I can't understand how and why "allies" would bow to the wishes of the US and/or the "Five Eyes". I most certainly can't understand those who are not close allies doing so. And, why can't our "intelligence" communities understand that they are cutting their...
[16:39:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Distrustful U.S. Allies Force Spy Agency to Back Down in Encryption Fight - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:41] <exec> 08└─M$ has all the tools that 3-letter agencies need secretly and stealthily hard boiled into the kernel. Even the web traffic is hidden from the flashing lights of the modem.
[16:39:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Distrustful U.S. Allies Force Spy Agency to Back Down in Encryption Fight - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:43] <exec> 08└─M$ designed the firmware for my external modem? The one that has RJ45 on one end and coax on the other?
[16:39:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Find Recipe for Forest Restoration - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:56] <exec> 08└─Chernobyl seemed to help the forest - not in and of itself, but by actually creating a no-go zone for humans that they respected.
[16:39:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Find Recipe for Forest Restoration - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:58] <exec> 08└─This may be true for temperate forests, but it generally isn't true in the tropics and rainforests. Surveys of biodiversity on a per-square-mile basis find only 20% or so species overlap. Cut down a few square miles and 80% of the biodiversity in each is gone, permanently.
[16:39:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Find Recipe for Forest Restoration - 895 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:00] <exec> 08└─I don't know what they planted, but if they tried gumtrees (eucalyptus species), they are truly and properly fucked. The gum trees are doing well in pretty tough conditions and nothing else will grow beside them. Eg blue gum (originated from Tasmania) is considered invasive species [kcet.org] in Cal...
[16:40:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Find Recipe for Forest Restoration - 966 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:02] <exec> 08└─Perhaps you couldn't tell, but you weren't an animal that had to live there. There are big differences between a young regrown forest and an old forest. That said, a regrown forest is a big improvement, and would, in time, become and old forest. I'm just saying that your impressions don't reflect ac...
[16:40:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Automating Steps in the Security Process is Critical to Defeat Today’s Relentless and Complex Attack - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:14] <exec> 08└─The article is on securityweek.com. It's targetted at CxO's or people with VP in their title. It does not convey any meaningful information.
[16:40:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Automating Steps in the Security Process is Critical to Defeat Today’s Relentless and Complex Attack - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:15] <exec> 08└─The best / worst part of management is how easily they tend to fall for such bullshit. Make up a whopping into like that, force them to internally agree or else they feel stupid for not knowing and reading the mentioned documentation. Then you can sell them any string of bullshit, their brain alread...
[16:40:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Automating Steps in the Security Process is Critical to Defeat Today’s Relentless and Complex Attack - 2023 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:17] <exec> 08└─Security is not automation. Not even a process. Security must be a foundational principle in the design of a system. It's not something you can later attach with scotch tape. It is a way of thinking. Now there are many aspects of this in the design of a software system. But I'll give an operational...
[16:40:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Automating Steps in the Security Process is Critical to Defeat Today’s Relentless and Complex Attack - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:20] <exec> 08└─Given the global shortage of cybersecurity professionals
[16:40:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Automating Steps in the Security Process is Critical to Defeat Today’s Relentless and Complex Attack - 905 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:22] <exec> 08└─The3 thing I really don't get is why there is no recognition of the simple fact that to have information security you need people on staff that do that, I mean if your a mom and pop cornerstore you don't have the budget to maintain a staff of penetration testers, QA people and network, kernel and DB...
[16:40:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Magic Pill to Cure Alcohol Dependence Yet - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:38] <exec> 08└─Maybe you think Jesus won't magically show up. I would say: don't knock it 'till you've tried it. It seems to work for some people.
[16:40:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06No Magic Pill to Cure Alcohol Dependence Yet - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:39] <exec> 08└─Jesus is no help at all. The mother fucker turns water into the best quality wine. Hell, even his "blood" is wine.
[16:40:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06No Magic Pill to Cure Alcohol Dependence Yet - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:41] <exec> 08└─Alcoholism is not a disease. AA is not a scientific source and its efficacy as an organization is indistinguishable or inferior to other interventions. I'm glad you find personal value in AA, but they are not worth promoting as a general purpose "treatment".
[16:40:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Acquires HTC's "Pixel" Division, Rather than HTC Itself, for Just $1.1 Billion - 1028 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:59] <exec> 08└─Calling customers "delusional" who you want to convert, is exactly the attitude people associate with Google. How about Samsung is not Google so Google doesn't get to steal Samsung's credit? And since before this acquisition google was not in the business of mobile hardware, you don't look towards S...
[16:41:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Acquires HTC's "Pixel" Division, Rather than HTC Itself, for Just $1.1 Billion - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:00] <exec> 08└─You must have, or you might have majorly surrounded yourself by people who have stopped questioning you. Here in real world Steve Jobs is synonymous with charisma, whether you like it or not. And just to make sure you actually give this thing some thought, I don't own and have never owned any apple...
[16:41:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Toshiba Decides to Sell Semiconductor Business to Bain Capital for $18 Billion - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:35] <exec> 08└─A long time ago the CFO/Controller of a large Mid-western manufacturing firm (the wife of my best drinking buddy) clued my young naive ass into the accounting-management-investor mindset: "The most profitable company is one that's shut down and being liquidated." Six months later, said manufacturer...
[16:41:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Securities and Exchange Commission Hacked in 2016 - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:51] <exec> 08└─Simple. The dollars/pounds/euros/marks by which your fixed assets are valued and traded are backed by...wait for it...nothing!
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[17:39:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former Football Star Aaron Hernandez's Brain Found to Have Severe CTE - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:16] <exec> 08└─The only thing that comes to mind is that I wouldn't want my kids playing football. Football is just blunt trauma with some sport tacked on for legitimacy.
[17:39:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former Football Star Aaron Hernandez's Brain Found to Have Severe CTE - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:17] <exec> 08└─So he was accused of 3 murders but acquitted of 2 of them? And, he was serving life for the 1? The story link seem to assume we've been following this story so I didn't see much clarification... Now back to your regularly scheduled hand-egg jokes.
[17:39:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pimax Launches Kickstarter for "8K" Virtual Reality Headset - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:25] <exec> 08└─It just seems like the world doesn't really need this; am I getting old?
[17:39:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03jcross [4009] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pimax Launches Kickstarter for "8K" Virtual Reality Headset - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:27] <exec> 08└─Yes, it's clearly for porn.
[17:39:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Distrustful U.S. Allies Force Spy Agency to Back Down in Encryption Fight - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:49] <exec> 08└─It's distrust AAAALLLLL the way down.
[17:39:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Distrustful U.S. Allies Force Spy Agency to Back Down in Encryption Fight - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:50] <exec> 08└─[citation needed] No really, I'd wager that if stuff like this was there in a readily disassembleable kernel the kind folks at the RBN would've found and abused it by now. By saying that M$ can hide something in plain sight so well you're actually calling them competent.
[17:39:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Distrustful U.S. Allies Force Spy Agency to Back Down in Encryption Fight - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:53] <exec> 08└─To be perfectly honest - it wouldn't surprise me to find that they hold patents on whichever modem you're using. Nor would it surprise me very much to find that MS has obscure agreements with any or even all of the modem manufacturers. I'm skeptical of MS ability to control our external modems, but...
[17:39:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Distrustful U.S. Allies Force Spy Agency to Back Down in Encryption Fight - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:55] <exec> 08└─It was reported years ago that some M$ web traffic can be sent without triggering the modem lights or even show up in wireshark.
[17:40:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Find Recipe for Forest Restoration - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:12] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_old_growth_forests#United_States [wikipedia.org] A picture is worth a thousand words - http://www.foresthistory.org [foresthistory.org] Just ignore the apparent size of the trees - instead, look at the near a...
[17:40:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06No Magic Pill to Cure Alcohol Dependence Yet - 1136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:48] <exec> 08└─I was hopelessly addicted to alcohol. I don't know if it's current life situation, genetic predisposition, etc. I just couldn't quit no matter how many times I went for a few days cold turkey. Then I found a magic herb that grows in organic soil. I used an American-grown heirloom variety. The best p...
[17:40:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Magic Pill to Cure Alcohol Dependence Yet - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:49] <exec> 08└─and then there is the people who say "Jesus saved me from drugs!" and the next thing you know, their life is a complete waste and they are back on drugs again. Jesus saves? No: you gotta do that yourself. If you rely on God/Jesus/Jebuz/Trinity/Neo/Nemo/Pinocchio whomever, you are f*cked. "God helps...
[17:40:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Magic Pill to Cure Alcohol Dependence Yet - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:51] <exec> 08└─and yet you found the solution yourself: "they can simply switch to a new drug of choice" Yes: it is all a 'personal choice' thing. Choose NOT to go to the liquor store. Choose NOT to buy the 'drug'. Choose NOT to drink it. IT IS a CHOICE! DON'T BUY IT, DON'T GO NEAR IT, DON'T HAVE IT AROUND YOU AND...
[17:40:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Magic Pill to Cure Alcohol Dependence Yet - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:53] <exec> 08└─Yes! Help them by not having booze around. Help them by not taking them to the liquor store. Help them make good choices and decisions. Definitely!
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[18:39:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former Football Star Aaron Hernandez's Brain Found to Have Severe CTE - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:19] <exec> 08└─Blunt trauma that might contribute to becoming a murderous thug, apparently.
[18:39:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former Football Star Aaron Hernandez's Brain Found to Have Severe CTE - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:20] <exec> 08└─The player's daughter should return the millions of dollars in the family fortune to the NFL and the New England Patriots, since the pampered lifestyle of luxury and endless wealth she now enjoys was obviously an error.
[18:39:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Former Football Star Aaron Hernandez's Brain Found to Have Severe CTE - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:22] <exec> 08└─The daughter is 5, and I'm sure she would trade whatever money you might imagine to have her father back you insensitive clod. When I think of a young child growing up without support of her daddy I weep grown-man tears.
[18:39:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former Football Star Aaron Hernandez's Brain Found to Have Severe CTE - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:24] <exec> 08└─IIRC it was a gay love triangle. NTTAWWT.
[18:39:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former Football Star Aaron Hernandez's Brain Found to Have Severe CTE - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:27] <exec> 08└─Do you think this story is actually "5 year old sues the NFL for father's death" or "ambulance chasing lawyers take advantage of grieving child to pursue legal battle with poor chance of success to gain media attention for the law firm"?
[18:39:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pimax Launches Kickstarter for "8K" Virtual Reality Headset - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:37] <exec> 08└─Most can't handle the real reality in front of them. Do we need this fake reality? Let's fix the real one first.
[18:40:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Researchers Find Recipe for Forest Restoration - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:21] <exec> 08└─The topic of what would happen and how long it would take after humans destroy themselves has always been fascinating to me. One of the things I wonder about is, if technological life were to evolve on this planet again (seems very likely in my mind), would they be able to figure out that they had b...
[18:40:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Automating Steps in the Security Process is Critical to Defeat Today’s Relentless and Complex Attack - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:38] <exec> 08└─Just because that knowledge is completely ignored by everyone who matters doesn't mean it's not known!
[18:41:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Magic Pill to Cure Alcohol Dependence Yet - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:02] <exec> 08└─Alcoholism is not a disease. AA is not a scientific source and its efficacy as an organization is indistinguishable or inferior to other interventions. And? Some things work for some people and other things work for other people. You're begrudging someone's recovery, why, exactly?
[18:41:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06No Magic Pill to Cure Alcohol Dependence Yet - 569 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:04] <exec> 08└─Glad you made some sort of a life-style change for the better... I too have genetic predisposition for Alcoholism, having seen what it did to my mother, and the relationship between us, I vowed to never touch the stuff and I never have. At one point I was mad at the world, I blamed everyone for triv...
[18:41:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Magic Pill to Cure Alcohol Dependence Yet - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:06] <exec> 08└─I think the common denominator there is addiction, not Jesus.
[18:41:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06No Magic Pill to Cure Alcohol Dependence Yet - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:08] <exec> 08└─Because it's not clear that the recovery was actually due to AA. I care about what is actually true.
[18:41:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Magic Pill to Cure Alcohol Dependence Yet - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:10] <exec> 08└─Then I found a magic herb that grows in organic soil. It also reduces opiod addiction. [newsweek.com]
[18:41:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03KiloByte [375] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Magic Pill to Cure Alcohol Dependence Yet - 551 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:13] <exec> 08└─What's wrong with good old Esperal implants? Unlike oral tablets (as administered in Western countries) which the patient will for obvious reasons strongly avoid, implants (used to be popular in Poland in commie times) leave no way around. Unlike a carrot method (drugs that make you good despite lac...
[18:41:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Magic Pill to Cure Alcohol Dependence Yet - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:15] <exec> 08└─It's hard to measure but does appear to have some benefit. [nih.gov]
[18:41:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Magic Pill to Cure Alcohol Dependence Yet - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:17] <exec> 08└─Jesus would give them LSD. This isn't offtopic... LSD May Help Treat Alcoholism [time.com]
[18:41:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alphabet Seeking $2.6 Billion in Damages From Uber - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:25] <exec> 08└─Is this an over-the-top lawsuit by Google? Is it over technology that should not have been awarded patent protection? Or has Uber really tried to cheat Google and deserves to be sued? Hard to tell. Uber certainly has attracted a lot of opprobrium in the short time it has been operating. One thing se...
[18:42:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Securities and Exchange Commission Hacked in 2016 - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:27] <exec> 08└─If they don't get their crap together then we the people may need to step in. I'm thinking Statutory Damages might put the fear of god into 'em.
[18:42:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jellyfish Found to Sleep Despite Lack of a Brain - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:43] <exec> 08└─Yes. Cocaine is clearly a superior solution.
[18:43:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Equifax Linked to a Fake Breach Info Site for Weeks - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:11] <exec> 08└─No kidding. "Early retirement" is such fitting punishment for harming 143 million Americans! And then there's there's these assholes who sold their shares right before the announcement. [latimes.com] I'm sure the CFO and the President of the IS department had no idea they were going to announce a ma...
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[19:39:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06A SoylentNews Reader Reviews Firefox Developer Edition 57.0b1 - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:19] <exec> 08└─Nice blog post. I was hoping for a review and not an in depth discussion of your feelings and ruminations about your browsing future. Which extensions did you use? which broke? how does it do with webgl? what improvements are claimed and are they delivered?
[19:39:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A SoylentNews Reader Reviews Firefox Developer Edition 57.0b1 - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:20] <exec> 08└─Sometimes the developers had given up on supporting Firefox 57, and openly acknowledged that they wouldn't be making any further updates to the extensions. I had to find alternatives. Sometimes there were alternatives, but in at least one of the cases the alternative was much less capable than the e...
[19:39:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A SoylentNews Reader Reviews Firefox Developer Edition 57.0b1 - 741 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:23] <exec> 08└─Pale Moon [palemoon.org] polled its users in the recent past and took note of (among other things) the tremendous desire for user customization using add-ons. While PM has had longstanding support for add-ons, even to the point of being drop-in compatible with many Firefox add-ons, development effor...
[19:39:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03lgsoynews [1235] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06A SoylentNews Reader Reviews Firefox Developer Edition 57.0b1 - 1444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:25] <exec> 08└─I was about to post my own experiences. Today, after a crash of my FF dev edition, I had a bad surprise: the new (57) version took over. Oh, boy! I had already tested the Nightly version of FF57, but on an empty profile. I think the last time it was that bad was during the last BIG UI change, that b...
[19:39:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A SoylentNews Reader Reviews Firefox Developer Edition 57.0b1 - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:27] <exec> 08└─While it works with Firefox extensions now, once Firefox breaks everything, it won't work with them then. It will be an isolated product with no coattails to ride. Considering the already small market share of Firefox, will pale moon have enough momentum to continue on its own? Most Firefox users wo...
[19:39:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A SoylentNews Reader Reviews Firefox Developer Edition 57.0b1 - 533 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:29] <exec> 08└─Pale Moon is not an option after the horrid debacle involving the blocking of the AdNauseam extension [palemoon.org]. The way that was handled is, in my opinion, totally inexcusable. It never should have happened in the first place. It should have been rescinded once it was clear that the Pale Moon...
[19:39:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A SoylentNews Reader Reviews Firefox Developer Edition 57.0b1 - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:31] <exec> 08└─I feel for you folks. I switched away from Firefox a couple of years ago due to memory footprint and general sluggishness. For a while I used Chrome and Chromium under Linux, but now it's Seamonkey for the Windows World at work and Vivaldi for home (where I can also use Claws Mail). I still miss Vim...
[19:39:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A SoylentNews Reader Reviews Firefox Developer Edition 57.0b1 - 882 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:34] <exec> 08└─You should have read it fully before criticizing it. It's a good review. It's very clear about what went wrong, and what the risks are. Too many reviews leave out that kind of information. The specific extensions involved are irrelevant. What matters is that extensions that were working fine before...
[19:39:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former Football Star Aaron Hernandez's Brain Found to Have Severe CTE - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:48] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't want my kid playing football either. Not only because of the likely potential of injury. But because I don't want them to be a bad person. Admitted, I may have a warped view. But I see football players as the people who torment people studying math and computers, stuffing them in lockers,...
[19:39:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former Football Star Aaron Hernandez's Brain Found to Have Severe CTE - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:49] <exec> 08└─If the NFL lied about the dangers then they deserve to be punished. Characterizing the prosecution as "ambulance chasing lawyers" is argumentum ad-hominem.
[19:39:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former Football Star Aaron Hernandez's Brain Found to Have Severe CTE - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:51] <exec> 08└─If anybody needs the NFL to tell them that slamming their heads into other dudes and sloshing their brains around is bad for them, they're probably the same idiots warning labels on boxes of cigarettes are still there for. It's honestly not a secret, some people are just willing to suffer brain dama...
[19:39:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former Football Star Aaron Hernandez's Brain Found to Have Severe CTE - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:54] <exec> 08└─About the negative impact of a stupid game. Yawn. Film at 11.
[19:39:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former Football Star Aaron Hernandez's Brain Found to Have Severe CTE - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:56] <exec> 08└─I see football players as the people who torment people studying math and computers, stuffing them in lockers
[19:40:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Distrustful U.S. Allies Force Spy Agency to Back Down in Encryption Fight - 491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:31] <exec> 08└─The choice may also be a matter of being detected. The wrench is fairly likely to be detected. The spear phishing may not be depending on how well it is done. But then I suppose that reinforces your point about finesse and elegance. I bet that even today, leaving a USB thumb drive in the men's room,...
[19:40:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Distrustful U.S. Allies Force Spy Agency to Back Down in Encryption Fight - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:33] <exec> 08└─I can't understand how and why "allies" would bow to the wishes of the US . . .
[19:40:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Distrustful U.S. Allies Force Spy Agency to Back Down in Encryption Fight - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:35] <exec> 08└─Forget M$. Intel has done one better. Deep compromise baked right into your hardware. And best of all -- you paid for it! Followed by AMD. Gee, I wonder why Intel and AMD would do something like that this, that nobody wants. Not customers or end users. Not even large organizations that use computers...
[19:40:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Distrustful U.S. Allies Force Spy Agency to Back Down in Encryption Fight - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:37] <exec> 08└─Actually that's his fallback means of transmission. Probably triggered by a MITM-attack by the NSA.
[19:40:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Find Recipe for Forest Restoration - 913 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:56] <exec> 08└─Yes, those are the two. Thanks for looking that up. "A Canticle for Leibowitz" was another one on that theme. The most interesting take-away from that for me was the idea that technological civilization is not teleological, but cyclical. It's a provocative idea, especially when you cast back and won...
[19:40:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Find Recipe for Forest Restoration - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:57] <exec> 08└─Is 'ecosystem restoration' the job growth area of the future?
[19:40:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Find Recipe for Forest Restoration - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:00] <exec> 08└─would they be able to figure out that they had been preceded by another technological species?
[19:41:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Automating Steps in the Security Process is Critical to Defeat Today’s Relentless and Complex Attack - 992 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:17] <exec> 08└─If you trust HTTPS and the Certificate Authority system to keep your web traffic secure, then you're trusting a system that is completely compromised and broken. At best, you may be able to keep small-fry crooks and neighborhood snoopers out of your traffic, but between National Security Letters and...
[19:41:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Magic Pill to Cure Alcohol Dependence Yet - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:49] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I'd say 100% is a pretty high BAC! Sounds like he needs to acknowledge the existence of a higher power and get some help.
[19:41:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06No Magic Pill to Cure Alcohol Dependence Yet - 610 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:51] <exec> 08└─It seems that my information is out of date. The previous Cochrane Review showed no difference, but their upcoming one seems like it is going to show some positive effect. I oppose pseudoscientific explanations of reality, especially in a medical context. I also oppose ineffective interventions that...
[19:42:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Ghost in Nintendo's Switch - Game Unlocks on the Date of Satoru Iwata's Death - 918 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:26] <exec> 08└─Best video game developer and hardware manufacturer in the business. Gone are the days of TRUE easter eggs in video games - inside jokes and sentimental details hidden away by devs passionate enough about what they do to go the extra mile and sneak something meaningful into their labor of love. Ever...
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[20:39:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03lgsoynews [1235] 02 - 06A SoylentNews Reader Reviews Firefox Developer Edition 57.0b1 - 1444 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:20] <exec> 08└─I was about to post my own experiences. Today, after a crash of my FF dev edition, I had a bad surprise: the new (57) version took over. Oh, boy! I had already tested the Nightly version of FF57, but on an empty profile. I think the last time it was that bad was during the last BIG UI change, that b...
[20:39:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A SoylentNews Reader Reviews Firefox Developer Edition 57.0b1 - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:26] <exec> 08└─When a software update is this bad for early adopters, it's usually a massive disaster for normal users. I really don't know if Firefox will survive this release. If Firefox is only about 5% of the market now, I could see it dropping to 3% or maybe even 2% after this release. If it gets down to 2%,...
[20:39:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03higuita [2465] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A SoylentNews Reader Reviews Firefox Developer Edition 57.0b1 - 674 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:28] <exec> 08└─I also updated and found that even add-on that have webextension versions being developed aren't listed yet, so i would say that 57 update is way too soon. They need to give extension developers more time to finish porting. Also, the change in the interface was a suprise and again, i do not see any...
[20:39:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06A SoylentNews Reader Reviews Firefox Developer Edition 57.0b1 - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:30] <exec> 08└─[not GP here] Fair point, but I think the AdNauseam incident has been blown out of proportion. It's still possible to use that particular extension, unlike what Mozilla is forcing on its userbase with the coming update.
[20:39:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06A SoylentNews Reader Reviews Firefox Developer Edition 57.0b1 - 786 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:32] <exec> 08└─How is it not a "review"? It: - covers the major technological changes in this version (WebExtensions and Photon) - critiques the Photon changes - critiques the WebExtensions changes - the affected extensions are described ("third-party extensions" and "own personal extensions") - the performance of...
[20:39:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A SoylentNews Reader Reviews Firefox Developer Edition 57.0b1 - 1348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:35] <exec> 08└─My 'solution' to the Moz corp problem so far is stay on the working ESR release while evaluating a migration strategy. Same as my 'solution' to systemd was stay on Centos 6.x while selecting a replacement, kept the servers on the last known good Debian until Devuan was production, etc. When these co...
[20:39:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06A SoylentNews Reader Reviews Firefox Developer Edition 57.0b1 - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:37] <exec> 08└─Mozilla has grown to behemoth dimensions, especially for a "free software" organization. Maybe they just need some behavioural therapy for all their engineers so they don't start mauling each others over social/politics issues like over at Google or Github. Oh wait... didn't they already? Ship ahoy...
[20:39:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A SoylentNews Reader Reviews Firefox Developer Edition 57.0b1 - 924 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:39] <exec> 08└─The AdNauseam disaster is about way more than just being able to use one particular extension. It gets to the very core of the Pale Moon project and its philosophy. It shows me that Pale Moon's development team has its priorities all fucked up. The suppression of discussion is extremely worrying. It...
[20:39:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A SoylentNews Reader Reviews Firefox Developer Edition 57.0b1 - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:41] <exec> 08└─As long as there is a *monkey for that browser, they will work.
[20:39:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Troll) 02 - 06A SoylentNews Reader Reviews Firefox Developer Edition 57.0b1 - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:43] <exec> 08└─My 'solution' to the Moz corp problem so far is stay on the working ESR release while evaluating a migration strategy.
[20:39:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03http [1920] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A SoylentNews Reader Reviews Firefox Developer Edition 57.0b1 - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:46] <exec> 08└─From that page you linked: You should understand that installing this extension makes your browser into a "click bot" that directly damages the income of website owners.
[20:39:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A SoylentNews Reader Reviews Firefox Developer Edition 57.0b1 - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:48] <exec> 08└─Just goes to show that dumping hundreds of millions of GOOG dollars into an open source project doesn't necessarily improve things, and can in fact bloat things. IIRC this is not the first time that Firefox has changed their extension system, breaking compatibility with existing extensions. Let's ho...
[20:39:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A SoylentNews Reader Reviews Firefox Developer Edition 57.0b1 - 746 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:50] <exec> 08└─The extension doesn't come with Pale Moon. If you want to use it, you have to install it yourself. If the Pale Moon developers don't like what it does, then they don't have to install it into their own personal Pale Moon installations, and they don't have to use it. But they should never be exerting...
[20:39:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A SoylentNews Reader Reviews Firefox Developer Edition 57.0b1 - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:52] <exec> 08└─The parent comment shouldn't be modded -1, Troll. It's a legitimate question.
[20:39:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A SoylentNews Reader Reviews Firefox Developer Edition 57.0b1 - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:55] <exec> 08└─Browser monoculture is not desirable.
[20:39:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A SoylentNews Reader Reviews Firefox Developer Edition 57.0b1 - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:57] <exec> 08└─Pale Moon. Easy peasy lemon squeezy.
[20:40:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former Football Star Aaron Hernandez's Brain Found to Have Severe CTE - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:16] <exec> 08└─... were it not for all that head trauma you received. Now you're just plain old above-average.
[20:40:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Former Football Star Aaron Hernandez's Brain Found to Have Severe CTE - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:17] <exec> 08└─Am I supposed to feel sorry for this murdering piece of shit? He literally won the lottery by landing a big NFL contract but couldn't stop himself from doing dumb ghetto gangster shit.
[20:40:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former Football Star Aaron Hernandez's Brain Found to Have Severe CTE - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:20] <exec> 08└─How are you confused if you stated it perfectly in the first line?
[20:40:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former Football Star Aaron Hernandez's Brain Found to Have Severe CTE - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:22] <exec> 08└─The handegg made him do it.
[20:40:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former Football Star Aaron Hernandez's Brain Found to Have Severe CTE - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:24] <exec> 08└─I honestly don't know what movie you mean. But I'm sure this kind of thing has made it into movies and TV shows. My real life memory of high school football players, was that they are real pricks. Maybe my experience isn't typical. But I strongly suspect it is very typical. Maybe less so today than...
[20:40:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former Football Star Aaron Hernandez's Brain Found to Have Severe CTE - 628 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:26] <exec> 08└─The fact is many teen-aged boys are assholes. Enough of them are well-developed physically to become bullies. By chance, in the US those same assholes will be part of the football team because they fit the physical profile. Afterwards, there's team-building stuff, and it can happen that the entire t...
[20:40:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pimax Launches Kickstarter for "8K" Virtual Reality Headset - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:37] <exec> 08└─Let me flip that on u. We can't handle the real reality, so we should train in the fake reality. Or live in fake reality for eternity.
[20:40:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pimax Launches Kickstarter for "8K" Virtual Reality Headset - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:39] <exec> 08└─what the hell is the "real 8K" comment supposed to mean? Are we completely giving up on the meaning of "kilo"? 8K = 8000. 2K = 2000. not 1920. use 4HD if you really want to have a cool looking number letter thing. or use 16HD. whatever. but please don't give in to the marketters misusage of "K". ple...
[20:41:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Distrustful U.S. Allies Force Spy Agency to Back Down in Encryption Fight - 399 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:07] <exec> 08└─Forget M$. Intel has done one better. Deep compromise baked right into your hardware. And best of all -- you paid for it! Followed by AMD. Gee, I wonder why Intel and AMD would do something like that this, that nobody wants. Not customers or end users. Not even large organizations that use computers...
[20:41:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Distrustful U.S. Allies Force Spy Agency to Back Down in Encryption Fight - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:10] <exec> 08└─Since you mention MS, I will note that there are two kinds of MS. Try not to get them confused. 1. an affliction suffered by millions of people which can make even the simplest tasks become difficult. 2. a medical condition.
[20:41:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Find Recipe for Forest Restoration - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:33] <exec> 08└─It's like Australia was where they put all the shit animals and plants that don't get along well with others. And the people too, for that matter.
[20:42:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03curunir_wolf [4772] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06No Magic Pill to Cure Alcohol Dependence Yet - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:25] <exec> 08└─The studies evaluated nalmefene, naltrexone, acamprosate, baclofen, and topimarate, but somehow forgot to try LSD. Fuck 'em and the DEA too!
[20:42:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Magic Pill to Cure Alcohol Dependence Yet - 1255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:27] <exec> 08└─More like it "preys on" (utilizes) the "religious" mind-bug that human brains seem to have for a purpose other than encompassing morality or idolatry. That being the functional application of separating from alcohol. For the people who quite literally destroy their lives and burn bridges with their...
[20:42:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Magic Pill to Cure Alcohol Dependence Yet - 1383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:29] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I've seen AA work, but I'm pretty sure the actual "steps" have nothing to do with it -- and I've seen some studies that back that up -- it works for some people, doesn't work for others, isn't much more effective than other methods. And frankly, I'm not sure how much of the improvement I've se...
[20:42:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alphabet Seeking $2.6 Billion in Damages From Uber - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:38] <exec> 08└─I don't think this is a full list, but... Uber's scandals, blunders and PR disasters: the full list [theguardian.com] There are many other regional and local dustups. For example, it could get kicked out of London at the end of this month (probably not because they can remain there while appealing t...
[20:42:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Acquires HTC's "Pixel" Division, Rather than HTC Itself, for Just $1.1 Billion - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:52] <exec> 08└─You mean they walk around with constant erections?
[20:43:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Ghost in Nintendo's Switch - Game Unlocks on the Date of Satoru Iwata's Death - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:07] <exec> 08└─Summary a little disjointed - better to rephrase than to quote chunks maybe? Good article though.
[20:44:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jellyfish Found to Sleep Despite Lack of a Brain - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:02] <exec> 08└─I have abandoned my attempt to perfect my"Resting Bitch Face" (RBF), and am now putting all my effort into my "Resting Jellyfish Face" (RJF) https://c1.staticflickr.com [staticflickr.com]
[20:44:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jellyfish Found to Sleep Despite Lack of a Brain - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:04] <exec> 08└─Sleep paralysis stops them moving around too much which could attract a predator or cause inury.
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[21:39:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bobs [1462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Marine Corps to Have its First Female Infantry Officer - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:17] <exec> 08└─As long as she can meet the same requirements, who cares if she sits to pee? To qualify, she, along with all the others, are incredibly tough.
[21:39:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06U.S. Marine Corps to Have its First Female Infantry Officer - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:19] <exec> 08└─This is the face of modern tolerance folks. Backhanded, but the respect is there.
[21:39:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06U.S. Marine Corps to Have its First Female Infantry Officer - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:21] <exec> 08└─A female marine. Well that's OK as long as you don't mind the breakdown of society and the ruin of all things true and great in America. EXACTLY like how "those people" broke America 5, 20, 50 and 100 years ago. Hurricaine Whatshisface proved all this by the way.
[21:39:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Marine Corps to Have its First Female Infantry Officer - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:23] <exec> 08└─Is her name Brienne? Of Tarth? "All my life men like you've sneered at me, and all my life I've been knocking men like you into the dust."
[21:39:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Marine Corps to Have its First Female Infantry Officer - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:25] <exec> 08└─Hurricaine Solorcaine? Hurricaine Migraine?
[21:39:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Marine Corps to Have its First Female Infantry Officer - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:28] <exec> 08└─Well that's OK as long as you don't mind the breakdown of society and the ruin of all things true and great in America. EXACTLY like how "those people" broke America 5, 20, 50 and 100 years ago. Hurricaine Whatshisface proved all this by the way.
[21:39:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Marine Corps to Have its First Female Infantry Officer - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:30] <exec> 08└─She'll have to sit on the edge of the boat, out far enough that her pee doesn't spray into the boat. It wouldn't take much of a wave to tip her right out of the boat, feeding her to the giant squid and killer whales. The men only need to sit for poo, but that is less trouble. They can plop it direct...
[21:39:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06U.S. Marine Corps to Have its First Female Infantry Officer - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:32] <exec> 08└─Reward the troops. Golden shower.
[21:39:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Marine Corps to Have its First Female Infantry Officer - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:34] <exec> 08└─I don't see anything backhanded. Relevant concern: meeting standards. Irrelevant concern: personal plumbing. If you think that a realistic recognition of physiological differences is backhanded, you're part of the problem.
[21:40:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A SoylentNews Reader Reviews Firefox Developer Edition 57.0b1 - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:04] <exec> 08└─I think we shouldn't go to overboard yet. Consider this a strike one and continue watching to see what develops. Everybody has the occasional fuckup.
[21:40:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A SoylentNews Reader Reviews Firefox Developer Edition 57.0b1 - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:06] <exec> 08└─With such patterns being repeated so many times in the past I think it is fair for people to react strongly. Compromises and equivocations let FF get away with way too much shit. I think there is no greater evidence that a project has been coopted as when tyranny sets in and user's opinions don't ma...
[21:40:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A SoylentNews Reader Reviews Firefox Developer Edition 57.0b1 - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:08] <exec> 08└─Seriously, I think some users are abusing the mod system for kicks.
[21:40:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06A SoylentNews Reader Reviews Firefox Developer Edition 57.0b1 - 934 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:10] <exec> 08└─Pale Moon and Seamonkey are also available for some distributions, including PCLinuxOS and it is the current candidate to replace CentOS 6. It is a bitch, EVERYTHING is going mad at the same time. Replacing the browser is bad enough, replacing OS and browser is worse. Bad part is the fear that the w...
[21:40:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A SoylentNews Reader Reviews Firefox Developer Edition 57.0b1 - 637 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:13] <exec> 08└─StatCounter says 13.82% for Firefox (desktop), W3Counter says 6.8%, Net Applications at 11.93% (desktop). So the biggest failure of Firefox is on smartphones. I actually use the Firefox browser on Android and I like it better than Dolphin, Opera, stock browsers, etc. IE + Edge is doing about as goo...
[21:40:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A SoylentNews Reader Reviews Firefox Developer Edition 57.0b1 - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:15] <exec> 08└─Yes, I agree, the original decision was a fuckup. The community made that clear to the Pale Moon developers. That was indeed the first strike. But the Pale Moon developers did have ample opportunities to fix this mistake. The second strike was the developers not immediately reversing the decision an...
[21:40:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A SoylentNews Reader Reviews Firefox Developer Edition 57.0b1 - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:17] <exec> 08└─Let's take this as an opportunity to remember that this is why free software should use the GPL. This behavior could never be possible with the GPL because the license prohibits restrictions on the user's use of the software. (and once they accept contributed code under the GPL, even the original au...
[21:40:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A SoylentNews Reader Reviews Firefox Developer Edition 57.0b1 - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:19] <exec> 08└─Every account gets mod points. Out of the hundreds of active users, a handful abusing it is not special.
[21:40:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A SoylentNews Reader Reviews Firefox Developer Edition 57.0b1 - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:21] <exec> 08└─Firefox was better off copying Chrome. Pale Moon's interface is shit.
[21:40:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03iWantToKeepAnon [686] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06A SoylentNews Reader Reviews Firefox Developer Edition 57.0b1 - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:24] <exec> 08└─I was using PM until about a year ago when TT-RSS stopped working. I searched around and found a bugzilla report that PM's last update altered JS behavior enough to break existing code but they rejected the bug and last time I checked (about 1-2 months ago) TT-RSS was still borked on PM. That's when...
[21:40:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A SoylentNews Reader Reviews Firefox Developer Edition 57.0b1 - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:26] <exec> 08└─That's why there should be a zero tolerance policy toward mod abuse here. If somebody mods down a comment to -1, and one or more users subsequently mod it up, whoever modded it down should never moderate here ever again using any account.
[21:40:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03iWantToKeepAnon [686] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A SoylentNews Reader Reviews Firefox Developer Edition 57.0b1 - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:28] <exec> 08└─Beside the borked TT-RSS/JS bug (see comment above) this is a major reason I went to chromium. I think it will have a following for a while but the community will stay small and get more of a burden to maintain and there won't be a market for extension writers. We'll see ....
[21:40:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A SoylentNews Reader Reviews Firefox Developer Edition 57.0b1 - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:30] <exec> 08└─A "review" usually has some semblance of scientific thought to it: not just "it feels snappy", but actual page load times, for example. Not just "I had to download a number of pre-release extensions", but an actual list of the extension used, their version numbers, and download links if you want to...
[21:40:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A SoylentNews Reader Reviews Firefox Developer Edition 57.0b1 - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:33] <exec> 08└─That's retarded because modding can never be 100% objective. Take your downmod and quit whining.
[21:40:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A SoylentNews Reader Reviews Firefox Developer Edition 57.0b1 - 1107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:35] <exec> 08└─So you want bullshit benchmarks. You can get some of those here [arewefastyet.com], if you really want them. They make it look like Firefox is faster than Chrome, but under real-world usage patterns users report the opposite: Firefox is slow and Chrome is fast. The list of broken extensions doesn't...
[21:40:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A SoylentNews Reader Reviews Firefox Developer Edition 57.0b1 - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:37] <exec> 08└─they rejected the bug
[21:40:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A SoylentNews Reader Reviews Firefox Developer Edition 57.0b1 - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:39] <exec> 08└─If you want shitty modding then you should drag your sorry ass back to Slashdot. This site should aspire to fix the broken moderation system it inherited from Slashdot, and that means ruthlessly stamping out and and all mod abuse. Downmods that get overturned are by definition mod abuse, and should...
[21:41:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former Football Star Aaron Hernandez's Brain Found to Have Severe CTE - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:04] <exec> 08└─So yeah, this is your brain on drugs - see this public safety announcement. This is your brain on football: depression, reckless behavior, wife murdering, gambling, friend murdering, memory loss, did I say murdering?. Suicide. Don't take drugs.
[21:41:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former Football Star Aaron Hernandez's Brain Found to Have Severe CTE - 673 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:06] <exec> 08└─Ah yes, the specter of "personal responsibility" rears its head. It is a seductive philosophy that lets you forget about humanity's problems because 95% of the problems get to be blamed on the victim for not making better choices. Sadly this philosophy ignores that few people are equipped to assess...
[21:41:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pimax Launches Kickstarter for "8K" Virtual Reality Headset - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:18] <exec> 08└─Cinematic 4K = 4096 × 2160. The 8K equivalent would be 8192 × 4320.
[21:41:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pimax Launches Kickstarter for "8K" Virtual Reality Headset - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:20] <exec> 08└─what the hell is the "real 8K" comment supposed to mean? Are we completely giving up on the meaning of "kilo"? 8K = 8000. 2K = 2000. not 1920. use 4HD if you really want to have a cool looking number letter thing. or use 16HD.
[21:42:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03VLM [445] 02 - 06Automating Steps in the Security Process is Critical to Defeat Today’s Relentless and Complex Attack - 56 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:29] <exec> 08└─Given the global shortage of cybersecurity professionals
[21:42:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Automating Steps in the Security Process is Critical to Defeat Today’s Relentless and Complex Attack - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:34] <exec> 08└─I am aware of both of these. I'm considering HSTS which wouldn't be much of a problem. I'm more concerned about HPKP. I need to get multiple people above my head to make sure we are organizationally mature enough to implement this.
[21:42:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Automating Steps in the Security Process is Critical to Defeat Today’s Relentless and Complex Attack - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:36] <exec> 08└─Shouldn't a site such as you describe, for CxO's, and no meaningful information have a domain like: securityweak.com ?
[21:42:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Automating Steps in the Security Process is Critical to Defeat Today’s Relentless and Complex Attack - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:38] <exec> 08└─Time for a diet when you can't hit "e" without "3" ;)
[21:42:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Automating Steps in the Security Process is Critical to Defeat Today’s Relentless and Complex Attack - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:40] <exec> 08└─Google confirms it: https://trends.google.com [google.com]
[21:43:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06No Magic Pill to Cure Alcohol Dependence Yet - 789 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:43:17] <exec> 08└─I'm sure there are people who, after breaking a bone, can properly set the it again and heal back to 100% function with nothing more than a stick and torn cloth. The rest of us need casts and a crutches when we break our bones. Or what the fuck do I know. If somebody you claim to love broke a bone,...
[21:43:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Magic Pill to Cure Alcohol Dependence Yet - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:43:18] <exec> 08└─Help them by not having booze around. Help them by not taking them to the liquor store. Help them make good choices and decisions.
[21:43:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03daver!west!fmc [1391] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Alphabet Seeking $2.6 Billion in Damages From Uber - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:43:28] <exec> 08└─This isn't protected by patent, it is one of several claimed trade secrets that the Alphabet/Google/Waymo hydra allege were copied/shared by an ex-Google employee (whose startups they had bought) who had left their employ, and whose new startup had been bought by Uber. The hydra does seem to think i...
[21:43:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Acquires HTC's "Pixel" Division, Rather than HTC Itself, for Just $1.1 Billion - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:43:44] <exec> 08└─Charisma != respect. People are simply falling for the bullshit marketing tactics, Apple respects their customers not one bit. They do a pretty good job of pretending they care though, to the point where they charge extra for their super-awesome-apple-experience. I'm sure quite a few suckers think t...
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[22:39:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Five Ways Ancient India Changed the World – With Maths - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:19] <exec> 08└─"Maths"? This is an American site. We use the American terminology here: "math". There is no trailing "s".
[22:39:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Five Ways Ancient India Changed the World – With Maths - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:21] <exec> 08└─Did they fall behind? Or were we just brainwashed into thinking measuring everything with money is the only valid set of considerations?
[22:39:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Five Ways Ancient India Changed the World – With Maths - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:23] <exec> 08└─What a fucked article. It has this in it As well as giving us the concept of zero, Indian mathematicians ...
[22:39:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Marine Corps to Have its First Female Infantry Officer - 1266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:39] <exec> 08└─What amuses me to no end with you cisgendered shits (I assume, but since we're all AC, we could all be lizard people for all anybody knows) is that if you would have had objective standards for shit in the first place instead of organizing your society into a rigidly enforced caste system, there wou...
[22:39:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Foobar Bazbot [37] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Marine Corps to Have its First Female Infantry Officer - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:40] <exec> 08└─Poe's law, anyone? Pretty sure that wasn't a serious comment; to me the straight-faced declaration that all things true and great in America have been ruined 4 times already was a giveaway. Or if it is serious, you have to admire his trust in our society's resilience, to keep bouncing back and rebui...
[22:39:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Marine Corps to Have its First Female Infantry Officer - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:42] <exec> 08└─I wasn't aware that it's not possible to piss in a container. I'll also have to forget all those products I've looked up for the unlikely event magic starts existing or I win the lottery that people with that plumbing configuration can use to take a piss standing up while camping. Those apparently c...
[22:39:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Marine Corps to Have its First Female Infantry Officer - 808 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:44] <exec> 08└─The important question to ask is, was she born a female? The articles aren't clear about this. I'm not joking, either. Too many times I've seen news articles that are trying to be politically correct referring to "females", only to later find out that these "females" were born as males, lived until...
[22:39:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Marine Corps to Have its First Female Infantry Officer - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:47] <exec> 08└─The men only need to sit for poo, but that is less trouble. They can plop it directly into the M203 grenade launcher, then fire it overboard. There are options for poo.
[22:39:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Marine Corps to Have its First Female Infantry Officer - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:49] <exec> 08└─What does "cisgendered" mean?
[22:39:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Marine Corps to Have its First Female Infantry Officer - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:51] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisgender [wikipedia.org] Cisgender (often abbreviated to simply cis) is a term for people whose gender identity matches the sex that they were assigned at birth. Cisgender may also be defined as those who have "a gender identity or perform a gender role society conside...
[22:40:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A SoylentNews Reader Reviews Firefox Developer Edition 57.0b1 - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:40:39] <exec> 08└─Ditch Pale Moon in favor of what, though? There's nothing else I'd even want to use. Not Chromium and certainly not anything proprietary. The options at this point are extremely limited.
[22:40:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A SoylentNews Reader Reviews Firefox Developer Edition 57.0b1 - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:40:40] <exec> 08└─By definition? Where is this definition? And have you ever considered that some people can disagree with the majority without having any hostile intentions?
[22:40:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A SoylentNews Reader Reviews Firefox Developer Edition 57.0b1 - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:40:43] <exec> 08└─Sounds like on a scale of 0 to Windows 10, this "upgrade" is about 8.
[22:40:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A SoylentNews Reader Reviews Firefox Developer Edition 57.0b1 - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:40:45] <exec> 08└─With this change, Firefox finally completes its transition into a Chrome fork, so you can add those 13.82% or whatever to the Chrome stats...
[22:40:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A SoylentNews Reader Reviews Firefox Developer Edition 57.0b1 - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:40:47] <exec> 08└─> Downmods that get overturned are by definition mod abuse, and should be punished severely. Maybe you should visit the Grand Canyon instead of SoylentNews, as what you're looking for is an echo chamber, not a discussion site :/
[22:40:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A SoylentNews Reader Reviews Firefox Developer Edition 57.0b1 - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:40:49] <exec> 08└─It ain't Chrome until it switches to the Blink rendering engine. Against all odds, Firefox still uses Gecko (except on iOS due to Apple restrictions).
[22:40:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A SoylentNews Reader Reviews Firefox Developer Edition 57.0b1 - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:40:51] <exec> 08└─Have fun with Chrome, then! Maybe it will better respect your rights.
[22:40:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A SoylentNews Reader Reviews Firefox Developer Edition 57.0b1 - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:40:54] <exec> 08└─the Pale Moon developers acted in what I think is an extremely tyrannical manner
[22:40:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A SoylentNews Reader Reviews Firefox Developer Edition 57.0b1 - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:40:56] <exec> 08└─That's why there should be a zero tolerance policy toward mod abuse here. If somebody mods down a comment to -1, and one or more users subsequently mod it up, whoever modded it down should never moderate here ever again using any account.
[22:40:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A SoylentNews Reader Reviews Firefox Developer Edition 57.0b1 - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:40:58] <exec> 08└─Pale Moons interface rocks....chrome/ff is for your 90 year old grandma Google wants bookmarks gone, they you have to search for everything, they are evil, firefox is drinking the same coolaid Palemoon is very good, Vivaldi is as well.
[22:41:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A SoylentNews Reader Reviews Firefox Developer Edition 57.0b1 - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:00] <exec> 08└─Because the most important thing about a web browser is the interface.
[22:41:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A SoylentNews Reader Reviews Firefox Developer Edition 57.0b1 - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:03] <exec> 08└─That is the part that you are staring at and clicking on all the goddamn time.
[22:42:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Find Recipe for Forest Restoration - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:36] <exec> 08└─On the undergrowth topic, humans eliminating the predators has a nasty side-effect: the herbivores eat all the undergrowth with impunity. I remember driving past Chicagoland forest preserves, where there are very few leaves below 6-7 feet, because the deer eat everything. The natural selection that...
[22:42:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Find Recipe for Forest Restoration - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:37] <exec> 08└─Yeah. The depth of the topsoil there is notoriously thin. The richness of the ecosystem is in the living organisms. Anything that dies and falls to the forest floor gets recycled in short order. It's relatively easy to negatively alter the ecosystem there and turn it into a desert--or at least a muc...
[22:42:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Find Recipe for Forest Restoration - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:40] <exec> 08└─In old forests there are lots of habitats that don't exist in new forests ...and places that get clear-cut tend to then be replanted in a way that maximizes profits for the Capitalists. Genetic diversity be damned. Below, bob_super picks it up from there. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[22:44:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Acquires HTC's "Pixel" Division, Rather than HTC Itself, for Just $1.1 Billion - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:05] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't you, if people worshiped every decision you make? Cult Gurus clearly demonstrate it might be a real issue.
[22:44:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Toshiba Decides to Sell Semiconductor Business to Bain Capital for $18 Billion - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:43] <exec> 08└─Montromney Bains?
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[23:39:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Five Ways Ancient India Changed the World – With Maths - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:18] <exec> 08└─It's Indian Maths, you are not expected to understand. "If 500000 Dalits die of lack of sanitation at a rate of 50 per day, but they have babies at a rate of 10 per woman, with 23/1000 infant mortality, calculate, using the metric system, after 3 years, how many shits New Delhi will not give."
[23:39:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Five Ways Ancient India Changed the World – With Maths - 510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:20] <exec> 08└─Zero was indeed invented in India. I don't mean as a place holder for positional numeric system (that Sumerians thought to have accomplished already), but a real zero, null, empty. "Arabic numerals?" Arabs adopted the Indian numerals, with some visual modification, and passed onto the West. In trut...
[23:39:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Five Ways Ancient India Changed the World – With Maths - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:22] <exec> 08└─They fell behind when the rest of the world invented toilet paper.
[23:39:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Five Ways Ancient India Changed the World – With Maths - 1192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:24] <exec> 08└─We tend to think that once a level is achieved there is no going back, but history shows that societies do slide back. We went from knowing the Earth is round and Eratosthenes [wikipedia.org] measuring its circumference to believing it is flat. The Arabs went from a great height in Mathematics and o...
[23:39:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Five Ways Ancient India Changed the World – With Maths - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:27] <exec> 08└─Placeholder zero is different from a zero in integer line. The ancient Sumerians knew to use zero as place holder, but the ancient Indians came up with the zero as ... zero, empty, null. How do you think they came up with Siddartha budda? I don't think they came up with negative numbers, though.
[23:39:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Five Ways Ancient India Changed the World – With Maths - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:29] <exec> 08└─One guy told me a few days ago that exact sciences were not that exact, because 1 and 1 is not always 2 and every theory is later supplanted by a different one. I could not quite grasp his explanation about 1 plus 1 not always being 2, something to do with mystical shit but I could see his confusion...
[23:39:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Five Ways Ancient India Changed the World – With Maths - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:31] <exec> 08└─"With such a significant technical lead, how did they fall behind?" They have no toilet. You know, if you don't have total and complete control over your porcelain throne in the morning, shit hits the ... whatever/wherever you dump on. Toilet, the cornerstone of civilization. Even dogs and cats know...
[23:39:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Five Ways Ancient India Changed the World – With Maths - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:33] <exec> 08└─> We went from knowing the Earth is round and Eratosthenes [wikipedia.org] measuring its circumference to believing it is flat. The only group in history who beleved in a flat earth were late 19th century Amerians. They made up stories sniggering about people laughing at how Columbus thought the wor...
[23:39:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Five Ways Ancient India Changed the World – With Maths - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:36] <exec> 08└─AC, you seem to have poopy issues. Did your toilet training not go so well? Does your own personal backsliding leave skid marks? Do you not know that everybody poops, and that when poop goes "away", well, there actually is no away. Some of the food you eat today is composed of atoms that were poop...
[23:39:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Five Ways Ancient India Changed the World – With Maths - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:38] <exec> 08└─Didn't the Babylonians count in base 12 ? one for each knuckle head or was I misinformed?
[23:40:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03leftover [2448] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06U.S. Marine Corps to Have its First Female Infantry Officer - 555 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:01] <exec> 08└─In combat, many aspects of toughness have nothing to do with physical strength and much to do with mental resilience. So-called "modern" combat, conducted in the middle of civilian populations, calls for even more of the mental skills and stability under pressure that most women outperform most men....
[23:40:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Marine Corps to Have its First Female Infantry Officer - 507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:02] <exec> 08└─Nope, nope, the Guardians of the Caste System have spoken. Such urine projection distance assistance devices could (if I'm understanding correctly) lead to a complete breakdown of the caste system underpinning their society. We're talking Old Testament, AC, real wrath of Goddess type stuff. Fire and...
[23:40:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Marine Corps to Have its First Female Infantry Officer - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:05] <exec> 08└─And here's the feminist AC who doesn't believe in hormone replacement or brain sex. I assume you also believe that gender is merely a social construct that requires a rigidly enforced caste system.
[23:40:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Marine Corps to Have its First Female Infantry Officer - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:07] <exec> 08└─> the vast majority of What a quaint way of saying "the quasi-totality of" or "all but a few of"
[23:40:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Marine Corps to Have its First Female Infantry Officer - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:09] <exec> 08└─> you can pour "any" liquid down the barrel, where it collects in the piston's cup, then loft it skyward! There wlll, of course, be an airburst charge, to ensure the proper dispersal of the liquid on target I'll buy 50, and 100 liters of coke, and hire as many Russian whores as required. Can I deduc...
[23:40:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Marine Corps to Have its First Female Infantry Officer - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:11] <exec> 08└─Wat.
[23:40:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Marine Corps to Have its First Female Infantry Officer - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:13] <exec> 08└─Evidently the AC above has never met any female Marines. There have been lots, just no officers. If they had met a female Marine, society would not be broken down, but their sorry ass would be in short order. I would love to see the conservative sexist ex-Googler explain to this one how women are b...
[23:40:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Marine Corps to Have its First Female Infantry Officer - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:15] <exec> 08└─For fuck's sake, man, I'm a male and I sit to pee...
[23:40:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Marine Corps to Have its First Female Infantry Officer - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:18] <exec> 08└─What does "cisgendered" mean?
[23:41:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A SoylentNews Reader Reviews Firefox Developer Edition 57.0b1 - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:17] <exec> 08└─"Tyranny" is a very reasonable word to use when somebody with authority, say the lead developer of a web browser, uses this authority to take away freedom, say the freedom to run whatever browser extensions one wants without unnecessary hassle, from other people, especially while ignoring the protes...
[23:41:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A SoylentNews Reader Reviews Firefox Developer Edition 57.0b1 - 524 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:19] <exec> 08└─Downmodding can make it harder to view comments here. You have to go out of your way to browse at -1 to see such comments. Downmodding promotes the "echo chamber" effect you speak of by suppressing certain comments. It limits the free expression of ideas. That's why downmodding should be highly disc...
[23:41:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A SoylentNews Reader Reviews Firefox Developer Edition 57.0b1 - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:21] <exec> 08└─Yes, of course abuse is possible. But it's better for somebody to never moderate again than it is for even just a single comment to be unjustly downmodded.
[23:41:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A SoylentNews Reader Reviews Firefox Developer Edition 57.0b1 - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:23] <exec> 08└─No, tyranny is iron-fist rule with disobedience either severely punished or eliminated as an option. Obviously not the case here, even if the situation was not handled to your liking. Perhaps "heavy handed" is the term you were looking for, even if I still think that's hyperbole. Calling the actions...
[23:41:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03dmbasso [3237] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A SoylentNews Reader Reviews Firefox Developer Edition 57.0b1 - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:26] <exec> 08└─If one user was affected negatively by this upgrade, many others will be, too.
[23:42:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Distrustful U.S. Allies Force Spy Agency to Back Down in Encryption Fight - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:37] <exec> 08└─You haven't been tool shopping in a while. A good beatin-sized wrench ain't that cheap nowadays.
[23:42:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Distrustful U.S. Allies Force Spy Agency to Back Down in Encryption Fight - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:38] <exec> 08└─> A cipher is secure enough if a brute force attack could not succeed in the expected lifetime of the human species "Great! I feel better about legacy system's security!" "Why, you got a new way to patch the hundreds of known flaws?" "Nope, but the nukes launch at midnight"
[23:42:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Distrustful U.S. Allies Force Spy Agency to Back Down in Encryption Fight - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:40] <exec> 08└─> The wrench is fairly likely to be detected. I sell dual-use wrenches, which provide passwords and guarantee that their owners need a long leave of absence. If you order with your credit card in the next five minutes, you get the exclusive upgrade code which enables you to also torque bolts.
[23:42:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Distrustful U.S. Allies Force Spy Agency to Back Down in Encryption Fight - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:43] <exec> 08└─> Why would anyone trust a spy agency to 'help' with encryption standards? Especially a foreign spy agency. Which leaves the question, > how do you trust the people in standards bodies who develop and select national or international encryption standards? Because they don't want (state-sponsored) sc...
[23:42:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Distrustful U.S. Allies Force Spy Agency to Back Down in Encryption Fight - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:45] <exec> 08└─> Threats the US president might visit your country Have they no shame, ethics, or professional conscience? The Monsters!
[23:42:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Distrustful U.S. Allies Force Spy Agency to Back Down in Encryption Fight - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:47] <exec> 08└─Given the glut of steel persists, that should be a sign that the demand is increasing fast.
[23:43:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Find Recipe for Forest Restoration - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:43:13] <exec> 08└─Going back even further, there's a lot of stories about the marvels of the Minoans on the north shore of Crete. Many think that they are what the Atlantis legend is all about. They got wiped out some time between 1642 and 1540 BCE in The Santorini Event. [wikipedia.org] (A powerful volcano caused a...
[23:43:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Find Recipe for Forest Restoration - 1417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:43:15] <exec> 08└─I do wish people would stop spewing this nonsense. The Chernobyl event absolutely poisoned the surrounding ecosystem. Tim Mousseau PhD (biosciences) and Anders Moller MD have done extensive studies of the area. Wildlife Around Chernobyl Is Still Affected 30 Years After The Catastrophe [googleusercon...
[23:44:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06No Magic Pill to Cure Alcohol Dependence Yet - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:16] <exec> 08└─Saltines are for devil-worshiping witches! We eat graham-crackers [wikipedia.org], as the Temperance movement prescribes
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