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[00:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Changes in Password Best Practices - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:48] <exec> 08└─I know my Facebook account password. However I haven't logged in for 7 years, so when I attempted to again I was prompted with a series of security questions asking me to identify people in photos. I don't know how my high school colleagues look! Moral of the story, moving onto 8 years of no Faceboo...
[00:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Changes in Password Best Practices - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:49] <exec> 08└─How do you beware the secret question? It is mandatory for most applications to provide security questions, so I cannot opt-out of them. Is the recommendation to treat secret answers as passwords: unique ones per site? Even with a password manager that feels tedious.
[00:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Changes in Password Best Practices - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:51] <exec> 08└─It dates back to old systems where you have read-access to the hashed password database. It has nothing to do with password sharing.
[00:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Changes in Password Best Practices - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:53] <exec> 08└─Almost everybody else has a generic password and just increments a letter or digit or word or generally puts in the least effort necessary to comply with the local requirements.
[00:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03el_oscuro [1711] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Changes in Password Best Practices - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:56] <exec> 08└─How did you get my SN password? It was all ***** on the screen when I typed it!
[00:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Changes in Password Best Practices - 521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:58] <exec> 08└─I remember back when I was using a system with 8 letter max passwords with forced changing every 30 days, 1 upper, 1 lower and 1 number all required. It was a mess. To get around it, I would use the 3 letter abbreviation for the month followed by the 4 digit year... Mar2005 Apr2005 May2005. (8 digit...
[00:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Changes in Password Best Practices - 723 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:00] <exec> 08└─At least one bank in the UK has a 2FA using your debit card. They issue you a card reader, and ehen you want to do a transaction like sending money, you slip the card into the reader, enter your card's PIN, then enter a number provided by the website. Finally, you type the number that the card reade...
[00:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Changes in Password Best Practices - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:02] <exec> 08└─Finally you can omit the "2".
[00:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Changes in Password Best Practices - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:04] <exec> 08└─I would add one more: 5. Make sure that the password to each of email accounts is never re-used anywhere else.
[00:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Changes in Password Best Practices - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:07] <exec> 08└─Sometimes people use Facebook to arrange in-person meetings, do they not? In which case, an hour's delay in communicating could be a problem.
[00:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Changes in Password Best Practices - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:09] <exec> 08└─Think of a phrase. XKCD sez it needs to make sense. Me? Rocket Engines Burning Fuel So Fast, by Black Sabbath. Password? R3bfsfBS. Not an actual password I've ever used, but an idea how I come up with passwords. XKCD is pretty much on the mark when it comes to passwords.
[00:11:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At Least 15 Dead Due to Wildfires in Northern California - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:11:12] <exec> 08└─> the rest of the world uses a different measurement system. Otherwise, there would be no need to double check conversions The imperial system is so internally messy that you need three people to check the math even if you don't try to convert to metric.
[00:11:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03slinches [5049] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At Least 15 Dead Due to Wildfires in Northern California - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:11:13] <exec> 08└─Or it could be that small fires start all of the time in the dry parts of summer. The difference is that when there's relatively little wind they can be put out quickly and it isn't until the higher sustained winds come that they spread too quickly to be easily contained.
[00:11:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At Least 15 Dead Due to Wildfires in Northern California - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:11:15] <exec> 08└─Fuck you. An entire middle-class neighborhood and a retirement trailer park was burned out in Santa Rosa. Obviously you are oblivious to that fact.
[00:11:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bacteria Self-Organize to Build Working Sensors - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:11:26] <exec> 08└─If they can also get the bacteria to wire up the pressure sensors into an array, there will be plenty of uses. Aerodynamics simulation (CFD) always has to be validated...a method to make many tiny pressure sensors could be a very effective way to instrument a surface. If cheap enough, this could be...
[00:11:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jimtheowl [5929] 02 - 06Physicist Claims Gigantic Nuclear Explosions on Mars - 1007 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:11:36] <exec> 08└─This looked like it might be well written paper until I hit the first paragraph of page two: 1) "The new images of the Face at Cydonia Mensa confirm eyes, nose, mouth, helmet structure with additional detail of nostrils and helmet ornaments being clearly seen in new images with details at appr oxim...
[00:12:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Physicist Claims Gigantic Nuclear Explosions on Mars - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:04] <exec> 08└─Well, it's the kind of thing that needs an explanation, but that doesn't mean that *his* explanation is the right one. It's sort of like the LGM theory of pulsars, or attributing Tabby's star light fluctuations to a Dyson Sphere being build. The evidence is real, but the explanation is dubious.
[00:12:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03a262 [6671] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Trading Bird Food for Cigarette Butts - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:53] <exec> 08└─Where's the +0, Incoherent mod?
[00:12:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trading Bird Food for Cigarette Butts - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:54] <exec> 08└─However, I don't care about my health being affected - I'll walk away. That's not the issue. An issue is that you're an addict who stopped getting benefit (buzz/whatever) from the nicotine years ago and now you're just stuck in a loop having to have it in order to get back to "normal". That bugs me...
[00:12:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trading Bird Food for Cigarette Butts - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:56] <exec> 08└─Every smoker I have ever seen does it when there is no cigarette safe container nearby. Finished one in the car? Out the window
[00:12:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trading Bird Food for Cigarette Butts - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:58] <exec> 08└─Training birds to pick up cigarette butts will result in evolution allowing some individuals to become immune to tobacco and spread their genes far and wide.
[00:16:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03i286NiNJA [2768] (Score: 1) 02 - 06University 'Turned Down Politically Incorrect Transgender Research' - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:16:44] <exec> 08└─I just picked a random color. I think the tendency to dye their hair comes from a belief that they're quirky and special and a desire for attention. These are some of the most rich and privileged kids in america and somehow they think their time in ivy league social science classrooms will enable t...
[00:16:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06University 'Turned Down Politically Incorrect Transgender Research' - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:16:45] <exec> 08└─You know you're a damned liar. I know you're a damned liar. Have your alternative, feminist-approved facts, then.
[00:16:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University 'Turned Down Politically Incorrect Transgender Research' - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:16:47] <exec> 08└─I wrote about this in 2003: http://www.warplife.com [warplife.com]
[00:16:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03i286NiNJA [2768] (Score: 1) 02 - 06University 'Turned Down Politically Incorrect Transgender Research' - 631 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:16:49] <exec> 08└─I don't even know what you're contesting here. I grew up in a purple state and in the mid 90s I was aware that somewhere there were trans people and word on the street was they were legally considered another sex. It was sort of a rumor-fact like but I assumed it was probably true. It was never an...
[00:16:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University 'Turned Down Politically Incorrect Transgender Research' - 1806 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:16:52] <exec> 08└─I've not read the PDF but there is no so thing as "transgender", there are 2 human genders denoted by the presence of a (male) Y chromosome. I also reject the idea of transsexual children. [soylentnews.org] There was never a problem with intersex or transsexual individuals before the SJW crowd start...
[00:19:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mini-Review: Japanese Sword Column - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:25] <exec> 08└─I didn't say "boar". I said "bear". I agree that I always heard of the weapons being used against boar as spears. (Whether they were heavy metal or not depends, among other things, on the time period.) If actual swords, even highly modified ones, were used against boar I didn't know about it.
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[01:09:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03arcz [4501] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washington, D.C. Bill Would Decriminalize Sex Work - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:22] <exec> 08└─Smart decision, but smart doesn't win votes. I wonder what will happen here. Maybe the folks in D.C. are smarter than the average person, so we'll have to wait and see.
[01:09:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washington, D.C. Bill Would Decriminalize Sex Work - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:23] <exec> 08└─Smart decision, but smart doesn't win votes.
[01:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Changes in Password Best Practices - 878 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:02] <exec> 08└─https://www.prod.facebook.com/help/159096464162185 [facebook.com] What types of ID does Facebook accept? If you need to confirm your name on Facebook, or if you've lost access to your account, you may be asked to send us a copy of something with your name on it. You have several different options fo...
[01:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Changes in Password Best Practices - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:04] <exec> 08└─"username" and "password" seem like good security.
[01:10:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Changes in Password Best Practices - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:06] <exec> 08└─That's my own practice. I am wary of giving true answers, because the true answers to some of those questions could be discovered by an attacker and because there's a tendency for various sites to use the same security questions. If one gives true answers, and one site is compromised, then the attac...
[01:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Changes in Password Best Practices - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:08] <exec> 08└─You could be in trouble if you ever need one foot amputated. If it's the left foot, you lose your master password. If it's the right, the surgeons might mistake that tattoo as a message for them and amputate your left and you still lose your password.
[01:10:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Appalbarry [66] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Changes in Password Best Practices - 1480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:11] <exec> 08└─My approach to passwords begins with the question: just how critical is this site or app, and is figuring out a super-secure password really worth my time? Most forums and the like get short simple passwords because I can't see any significant damage happening if they get accessed by someone else. F...
[01:10:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Changes in Password Best Practices - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:13] <exec> 08└─I use a shor[t]-ish password to get into my password manager. It locks after three failed tries anyway.
[01:10:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Changes in Password Best Practices - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:15] <exec> 08└─How do you beware the secret question? It is mandatory for most applications to provide security questions, so I cannot opt-out of them. Is the recommendation to treat secret answers as passwords: unique ones per site?
[01:11:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At Least 15 Dead Due to Wildfires in Northern California - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:11:10] <exec> 08└─In the Sacramento area we know when the fires are bad when all the smoke blows out our way. It's bad. 'Nuf said.
[01:11:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06At Least 15 Dead Due to Wildfires in Northern California - 1480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:11:11] <exec> 08└─[houses built like] nuclear power plants ...then again, most homes don't contain stuff that could poison the entire region. ...and a nuke costs billion and takes a decade to build. ...and we haven't allowed a nuke to be built here in decades. ...and we got San Onofre shut down. ...and Diablo Canyon...
[01:11:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06At Least 15 Dead Due to Wildfires in Northern California - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:11:13] <exec> 08└─Pence and his grandstanding was mentioned in TFS. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[01:11:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At Least 15 Dead Due to Wildfires in Northern California - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:11:15] <exec> 08└─That might explain one fire. Maybe two. Maybe three if embers blow a loooooong way (which they typically don't). But more than 14 fires ravaged eight counties all started simultaneously in countryside that is relatively dry all summer around (and could have caught fire long before the winds).
[01:11:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06At Least 15 Dead Due to Wildfires in Northern California - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:11:18] <exec> 08└─Wood framed buildings can do well in earthquakes. When they have a soft storey [iitk.ac.in] (usually with a garage on the ground floor) they don't do well. Post-and-beam wooden construction doesn't do well. Gas lines broken in an earthquake can result in fire.
[01:12:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trading Bird Food for Cigarette Butts - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:56] <exec> 08└─When I used to smoke (switched to vaping, still smoke occasionally if I'm drinking though), I would do this, but always field strip the butt first - the ash and stale smoke smell would ruin the rest of the pack for me if I put it back in without stripping it.
[01:12:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trading Bird Food for Cigarette Butts - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:57] <exec> 08└─In an urban environment 5+ years are probably right, but a cigarrete filter will degrade pretty rapidly when buried or composted - most of them are made of a synthetic or processed cellulose. I know a guy who used to collect butts from the collectors at local factories, shred them with an old lawnmo...
[01:14:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Rise of Open Source—and the Decline of Selfishness? - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:49] <exec> 08└─The economic boost is being sucked up by the financial industry who own the student loans.
[01:14:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Rise of Open Source—and the Decline of Selfishness? - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:50] <exec> 08└─Why would there be an economic boost when people get pieces of paper and an awful-quality education to go along with those pieces of paper? It seems no one knows or cares what real education is, and just looks at schooling as a way to make more money; as a consequence, education quality suffers.
[01:19:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mini-Review: Japanese Sword Column - 711 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:25] <exec> 08└─Well I was trying to give your assertion the benefit of the doubt, and a boar sword is as close as I can get. I've never heard of anyone using a sword to hunt bear outside of fantasy rpgs. Nor does it make any sense at all. Swords are typically optimized for use against unarmored or lightly armored...
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[02:09:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Offtopic) 02 - 06Washington, D.C. Bill Would Decriminalize Sex Work - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:31] <exec> 08└─Good just so long as DC doesn’t jump on the latest feminazi fad (Sweden’s anti-male policy) and criminalize the customer (i.e., the man). No criminals at all is best.
[02:09:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washington, D.C. Bill Would Decriminalize Sex Work - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:33] <exec> 08└─Maybe the folks in D.C. are smarter than the average person...
[02:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Washington, D.C. Bill Would Decriminalize Sex Work - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:35] <exec> 08└─Did I hear a collective sigh of relief from lobbyists and politicians?
[02:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washington, D.C. Bill Would Decriminalize Sex Work - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:37] <exec> 08└─I don't know that the politicians will appreciate the competition. They've had a fucking the people for cash monopoly in DC for a long time now.
[02:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washington, D.C. Bill Would Decriminalize Sex Work - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:40] <exec> 08└─I thought it was the Nordic model at first but it seems like it is complete and equal decriminalization. It remains to be seen whether this will pass.
[02:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washington, D.C. Bill Would Decriminalize Sex Work - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:42] <exec> 08└─I see that dept you added, TMB.
[02:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washington, D.C. Bill Would Decriminalize Sex Work - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:44] <exec> 08└─Well I couldn't let the story run around naked without one...
[02:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washington, D.C. Bill Would Decriminalize Sex Work - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:46] <exec> 08└─Swipe-card-here : should be "Tap this" or "insert here" ;)
[02:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washington, D.C. Bill Would Decriminalize Sex Work - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:48] <exec> 08└─Relayed from IRC: she must support chip+pin because I gotta slide it in the bottom
[02:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washington, D.C. Bill Would Decriminalize Sex Work - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:51] <exec> 08└─Blarg, credit for that should go to chromas. Rehash couldn't tell a nick from an html tag.
[02:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washington, D.C. Bill Would Decriminalize Sex Work - 735 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:53] <exec> 08└─There are taxes to be had from prostitutes - but the savings in harassing them will be tremendous as well. Maybe they can send half of the vice squads to traffic? Not to mention that real crime should see a bit of a drop. As things stand, prostitutes and other crime go together. It's like they're al...
[02:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Evidence of Sea Floor Hydrothermal Deposits Found on Mars - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:01] <exec> 08└─n/t
[02:10:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02 - 06Changes in Password Best Practices - 251 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:36] <exec> 08└─You could be in trouble if you ever need one foot amputated. If it's the left foot, you lose your master password. If it's the right, the surgeons might mistake that tattoo as a message for them and amputate your left and you still lose your password.
[02:10:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Changes in Password Best Practices - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:40] <exec> 08└─The question I have about password managers is what happens if you're using a computer (phone, tablet...) that doesn't have one installed?
[02:10:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Changes in Password Best Practices - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:42] <exec> 08└─The question I have about password managers is what happens if you're using a computer (phone, tablet...) that doesn't have one installed? Or, alternatively, what happens if your device is stolen and the thief can now access all of your accounts?
[02:10:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Changes in Password Best Practices - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:44] <exec> 08└─I often look at my bookshelf, pick a memorable title, and use that. Otherwise, a phrase with another coded phrase embedded (morse, number substitution, etc.). Of course, for stuff I don't care about, I just use one of the passwords I've used since I was a kid.
[02:11:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06At Least 15 Dead Due to Wildfires in Northern California - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:11:44] <exec> 08└─Yeah. After years of boneheadedness, that technique is becoming more common. Prescribed burns in California [google.com] -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[02:11:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06At Least 15 Dead Due to Wildfires in Northern California - 964 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:11:46] <exec> 08└─L.A. Times [latimes.com] on possible effects of a large earthquake in southern California: Thousands could be forced to evacuate as fires spread across Southern California; 1,200 blazes could be too large to be controlled by a single fire engine company, and firefighting efforts would be hampered by...
[02:11:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06At Least 15 Dead Due to Wildfires in Northern California - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:11:48] <exec> 08└─The biggest danger is from water heaters and, for a long, long time, folks have known what to do about that. [google.com] Some folks even install a earthquake gas shutoff valve. [google.com] (A ball gets jarred from its perch and falls into the orifice at the intake.) [google.com] ...and you seem to...
[02:11:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06At Least 15 Dead Due to Wildfires in Northern California - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:11:50] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but that's Australian bushfires. They're also venomous.
[02:11:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06At Least 15 Dead Due to Wildfires in Northern California - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:11:52] <exec> 08└─With that tiny brain of yours, your head must rattle when you shake it. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[02:11:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At Least 15 Dead Due to Wildfires in Northern California - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:11:55] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but that's Australian bushfires. They're also venomous.
[02:11:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06At Least 15 Dead Due to Wildfires in Northern California - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:11:57] <exec> 08└─Nah, his brain is sublime. Sorry, I meant to say has sublimed quite a long time ago
[02:11:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At Least 15 Dead Due to Wildfires in Northern California - 482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:11:59] <exec> 08└─I’m still open-minded. Nobody really knows. No one really knows for sure. Look, I’m somebody that gets it, and nobody really knows. It’s not something that’s so hard and fast. I remember when I was sitting back listening about Iraq, weapons of mass destruction, how everybody was 100% certain...
[02:12:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At Least 15 Dead Due to Wildfires in Northern California - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:12:01] <exec> 08└─Historically unprecedented?! That area has had seasonal wildfires for many millenia, it's a necessity for the ecosystem! Humans built homes in areas where "disasters" are a regular occurence... and now whine that a few die.
[02:12:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Physicist Claims Gigantic Nuclear Explosions on Mars - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:12:49] <exec> 08└─What, no Illudium PU-36?
[02:13:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trading Bird Food for Cigarette Butts - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:43] <exec> 08└─I would do this, but always field strip the butt first - the ash and stale smoke smell would ruin the rest of the pack for me if I put it back in without stripping it.
[02:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Directly Observe Infinitely Long Wavelengths for the First Time - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:30] <exec> 08└─You are beeing to lose with the defernition
[02:15:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03http [1920] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Rise of Open Source—and the Decline of Selfishness? - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:38] <exec> 08└─Ayn Rand was a mediocre novelist. None of her writing counts as philosophy.
[02:15:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Rise of Open Source—and the Decline of Selfishness? - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:39] <exec> 08└─I love how it only takes four letters to trigger a progressive.
[02:15:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Rise of Open Source—and the Decline of Selfishness? - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:41] <exec> 08└─I see you don’t understand basic economic competition and comparitive advantage. Europe was fucking LEVELLED. American industry was in HIGH GEAR. They had no competition.
[02:15:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Rise of Open Source—and the Decline of Selfishness? - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:44] <exec> 08└─I get it. I refer to the system as a whole 'Linux' all the time for both convenience and apathy. However, this time, saying Linus made and named an operating system after himself or even intended to do so is just plain wrong and there is no defending that statement in an intellectually honest manner...
[02:15:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Rise of Open Source—and the Decline of Selfishness? - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:46] <exec> 08└─And you've been reading too much Sandra Harding. Greed can be observed in all other species of the animal kingdom, including those with sophisticated social behavior such as our primate cousins. Greed is a psychological perversion brought about by the structure of modern (read: Post-historic) societ...
[02:15:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06The Rise of Open Source—and the Decline of Selfishness? - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:48] <exec> 08└─On the other hand, it only takes three letters to trigger a libertarian: T A X.
[02:15:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Rise of Open Source—and the Decline of Selfishness? - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:50] <exec> 08└─Fair nuff. +1 to you.
[02:23:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Toyota Ends Car Production in Australia - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:43] <exec> 08└─You haven't accounted for the non-owners within Capitalism. (Socialism doesn't have any of those.) Thanks for playing our game. Collect your dunce cap on the way out. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
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[03:09:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Homeowner Accused of Recording Airbnb Bedroom With Camera Hidden in Smoke Alarm - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:28] <exec> 08└─President Obama had my wires tapped in Trump Tower. Put a tapp on my phones during the very sacred election process. So everyone thinks it's OK. I'll tell you, it's not OK. That's not OK. 🇺🇸
[03:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washington, D.C. Bill Would Decriminalize Sex Work - 1452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:49] <exec> 08└─Prostitution is called "the world's oldest profession" for a reason. It's always been around. In some societies, top prostitutes have been respected - and maybe even some who didn't rank among the most classy. Basically, there are no "victims" of a trade, unless one or the other is coerced. It's a s...
[03:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washington, D.C. Bill Would Decriminalize Sex Work - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:50] <exec> 08└─Maybe in a perfect world, there would be no prositution.
[03:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washington, D.C. Bill Would Decriminalize Sex Work - 980 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:53] <exec> 08└─You never ceased to amaze me, Runaway. In the same post you manage to side with the prostitutes (at least have some sympathies for them as victims of murder) and shoot your disdain for " the worst of the riffraff". This in the conditions in which both of the categories should have absolutely little...
[03:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Washington, D.C. Bill Would Decriminalize Sex Work - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:55] <exec> 08└─There's a huge difference between fucking someone and fucking someone over.
[03:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washington, D.C. Bill Would Decriminalize Sex Work - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:57] <exec> 08└─True but irrelevant as they're happy to do either.
[03:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washington, D.C. Bill Would Decriminalize Sex Work - 942 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:59] <exec> 08└─There is a real infectious disease risk, one that condoms can reduce but not eliminate, and that alone is enough to make it a magnet for authoritarians, they always want to either forbid it or regulate it as close to nonexistence as possible, it's instinctual for them. And every human society ever h...
[03:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washington, D.C. Bill Would Decriminalize Sex Work - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:02] <exec> 08└─Seriously, how fudged up does DC have to get before Congress retakes the reins? They ignore SCOTUS multiple times on 2nd amendment, elect a crackhead for mayor, legalize dope and now whores? The only reason the still aren't number one in murder is so many others have upped their game, not that DC is...
[03:11:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At Least 15 Dead Due to Wildfires in Northern California - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:11:59] <exec> 08└─Cyber is hard! That was my tweet about global warming. My warmest condolences and sympathies to the victims and families of the terrible California fires. God bless you! 🇺🇸
[03:12:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At Least 15 Dead Due to Wildfires in Northern California - 631 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:12:00] <exec> 08└─I don't know how to move my tweet. I tweeted under the wrong tweet. I want to say, I’m still open-minded. But nobody really knows. No one really knows for sure. Look, I’m somebody that gets it, and nobody really knows. It’s not something that’s so hard and fast. I remember when I was sitting...
[03:12:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03pdfernhout [5984] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Physicist Claims Gigantic Nuclear Explosions on Mars - 2047 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:12:49] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_nuclear_fission_reactor [wikipedia.org] "[Example on Earth:] The natural nuclear reactor formed when a uranium-rich mineral deposit became inundated with groundwater that acted as a neutron moderator, and a nuclear chain reaction took place. The heat generated f...
[03:15:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Rise of Open Source—and the Decline of Selfishness? - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:45] <exec> 08└─I see you don’t understand basic economic competition and comparitive advantage.
[03:15:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Rise of Open Source—and the Decline of Selfishness? - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:47] <exec> 08└─There are pre-historic societies that survived well into the modern era - those without written language. The social structures of hunter-gatherer cultures were vastly different than pastoral societies. Never heard of Sandra Harding though, any good?
[03:15:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Rise of Open Source—and the Decline of Selfishness? - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:49] <exec> 08└─1. Tax upper-range incomes around 90%. Also heavily tax corporate profits.
[03:15:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Rise of Open Source—and the Decline of Selfishness? - 758 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:51] <exec> 08└─I have a "productivity"-based view. The global growth since WWII was driven by (note not just USian) * Electrification and invention of domestic appliances * Internal combustion engine; cars, trucks and stuff These technologies enabled significant increase in productivity. Those technologies have no...
[03:17:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03KiloByte [375] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University 'Turned Down Politically Incorrect Transgender Research' - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:51] <exec> 08└─You are saying that X is more important than Y? I'm not sure that's been proven/justified. Why remain miserable just so your goodies remain pristine? Goodies aren't sentient
[03:19:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Transparent Solar Panel Enables First Solar-Powered Smartwatch - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:11] <exec> 08└─Let me tell you, there's no such thing as too thin, too blonde, too rich or too white. Believe me.
[03:20:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Floating Wind Turbines Could Generate More Power - 474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:45] <exec> 08└─For the links in summaries, I'd prefer a proper hyperlink (containing the title of the article with spaces between the words). Barring that, if the editors are going to just slop in a URL, would you guys at least remove the obviously unnecessary crap from the URL? ?utm_source=feedburner NOISE &ut...
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[04:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06Homeowner Accused of Recording Airbnb Bedroom With Camera Hidden in Smoke Alarm - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:36] <exec> 08└─What about when they recorded you in Moscow with hookers, pissing on Obama's bed?
[04:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Homeowner Accused of Recording Airbnb Bedroom With Camera Hidden in Smoke Alarm - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:38] <exec> 08└─The real problem is that Obama had a bed in Moscow. Pissing on it destroys the Russian government's microphones.
[04:10:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Washington, D.C. Bill Would Decriminalize Sex Work - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:05] <exec> 08└─The best part of making prostitution legal is that it moves it from the underground economy to the main economy. This means that disputes can be settled by calling the police and courts, instead of having to resort to violence and organized protectionism.
[04:10:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washington, D.C. Bill Would Decriminalize Sex Work - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:07] <exec> 08└─The prostitutes working Capitol Hill would have a couple of good side businesses available to them: 1. Blackmail. 2. Spying. This is nothing new, of course - sex workers who have powerful clients always have those businesses going for them. As far as the blackmail side of things goes, that's why the...
[04:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washington, D.C. Bill Would Decriminalize Sex Work - 512 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:09] <exec> 08└─I think it would depend a lot on what the alternative was, and what your personal morality is. If you're more conservative about such things, you might prefer "you can only bang your spouse" to prostitution. If you're more liberal, you might prefer "free sex for everybody" to prostitution. It's wort...
[04:10:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Washington, D.C. Bill Would Decriminalize Sex Work - 1612 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:11] <exec> 08└─To legalize prostitution. The most important, in my view is to protect the prostitutes from exploitation, abuse and coercion. Legalized prostitution could do away with abusive pimps (think W2/1099 employment status, single proprietorships, LLCs and public corporations, OSHA, child labor laws, health...
[04:10:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Washington, D.C. Bill Would Decriminalize Sex Work - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:13] <exec> 08└─Swipe-card-here : should be "Tap this" or "insert here" ;)
[04:10:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Evidence of Sea Floor Hydrothermal Deposits Found on Mars - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:22] <exec> 08└─It's a science story, and somewhat interesting factoid, but I don't even know what to ask about it, never mind adding anything to it.
[04:10:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Evidence of Sea Floor Hydrothermal Deposits Found on Mars - 492 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:25] <exec> 08└─The date for the "first life on Earth" has been pushed back several times in recent years: Earliest evidence of life on Earth 'found' [bbc.com] Scientists may have found the earliest evidence of life on Earth [sciencemag.org] If Mars had water and hydrothermal vents, like the ones discovered teeming...
[04:11:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Changes in Password Best Practices - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:11:07] <exec> 08└─I had fun recently with AOL, due to Verizon buying AOL and moving verizon.net email accounts to AOL. AOL insist on several security questions (3-5 I think). I tried to tell them, and others, that I can remember a really good password, but multi-factor, etc., and I have to write it down, copy it to s...
[04:12:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06At Least 15 Dead Due to Wildfires in Northern California - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:12:19] <exec> 08└─You pay a bit more for materials, and a bit less for labor. They go up quickly. The labor difference matters even more if you have to use American workers like you should.
[04:14:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trading Bird Food for Cigarette Butts - 504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:02] <exec> 08└─More like the lack of the additives and poisons that the Capitalist Pigs put into their cigs to make them more addictive. It's the Tobacco Industry's version of crack nicotine: http://www.npr.org [npr.org] Diammonium Phosphate=freebasing agent: http://...
[04:14:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheLink [332] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trading Bird Food for Cigarette Butts - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:03] <exec> 08└─Throwing your non-biodegradable trash, or even noticeably large bits of biodegradable trash, anywhere but in an appropriate receptacle is a real shithead move on any land you don't personally own
[04:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Purism Exceeds $1 Million in Funding for Librem 5 Linux-Based Smartphone - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:30] <exec> 08└─Baseband is to be USB attached. I hope there will be multiple options offered (if module is not soldered on).
[04:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Purism Exceeds $1 Million in Funding for Librem 5 Linux-Based Smartphone - 531 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:31] <exec> 08└─Last time I saw this phone come up on Soylent, it was mentioned that it will still come with a standard baseband processor running a standard, un-auditable, proprietary software stack. Put all the Open Source you want on top of that and it still isn't any more secure than iOS or Android. And even if...
[04:14:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Directly Observe Infinitely Long Wavelengths for the First Time - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:54] <exec> 08└─We have been over this before, AC. Perhaps you missed the Protocols of Soylentil Grammar Nazis? Everyone who criticizes the grammar mistakes in a post must include one or two (or more) mistakes in the critical post. We are gods with feet of clay.
[04:16:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Rise of Open Source—and the Decline of Selfishness? - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:16:13] <exec> 08└─Clearly you would know, as the person with the healthiest ego here on SN.
[04:16:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Acquires Relay Media to Convert Ordinary Web Pages to AMP Pages - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:16:28] <exec> 08└─Google has been in a position to steer how people and their companies build their web sites for a long time now.
[04:18:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University 'Turned Down Politically Incorrect Transgender Research' - 1865 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:15] <exec> 08└─No, "all the evidence" is exactly opposite of your claim. Or at best points it to nowhere. This is the problem with having feminists infiltrate academia and using powerless scientists for propaganda. The only people "it" helps are feminists aka female crooks get more funding. In fact, I would say th...
[04:18:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University 'Turned Down Politically Incorrect Transgender Research' - 3810 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:17] <exec> 08└─I've known I was trans since I was around 3... granted, that term wasn't in my vocabulary at the time, but I knew. And, because of the social norms of the early 80s, I wasn't allowed to do anything about it. In fact, I was forced to do the exact opposite, pretend to be a guy, just to survive. Pubert...
[04:18:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University 'Turned Down Politically Incorrect Transgender Research' - 2130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:19] <exec> 08└─The doctors either don't know what they are doing, or are crooks making money off a newly normalized evil of mutilating children. There used to be a time, around 10 ago, when I would see people pointing out logical fallacies [logicallyfallacious.com] and people shutting up when found using one red-h...
[04:20:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mini-Review: Japanese Sword Column - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:20:56] <exec> 08└─Nor you, I suppose, given that your ass is still attached?
[04:20:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mini-Review: Japanese Sword Column - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:20:57] <exec> 08└─Swords are used more for ceremony than for warfare. Remember that swords weren't actually very common weapons compared to polearms, and for the past few decades have been carried almost entirely for ceremony.
[04:20:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mini-Review: Japanese Sword Column - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:21:00] <exec> 08└─It symbolizes the cross, obviously.
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[05:09:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seagate Launches Consumer-Oriented 12 TB Drives - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:24] <exec> 08└─Wow I could hold all my porn and all of your porn on one drive :) No more searching for the right drive
[05:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Homeowner Accused of Recording Airbnb Bedroom With Camera Hidden in Smoke Alarm - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:34] <exec> 08└─autoplaying safe for work video
[05:09:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Homeowner Accused of Recording Airbnb Bedroom With Camera Hidden in Smoke Alarm - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:36] <exec> 08└─If this has been recording for several years. There are likely to be many NSFW videos. The police are watching them over and over to check if they can identify anyone, or at least get some stress relief.
[05:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washington, D.C. Bill Would Decriminalize Sex Work - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:10:08] <exec> 08└─Makes all the difference in the world for the fucked. Which, if I trust my counting fingers, are usually higher in numbers than the fuckers.
[05:10:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Washington, D.C. Bill Would Decriminalize Sex Work - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:10:09] <exec> 08└─Blackmail
[05:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washington, D.C. Bill Would Decriminalize Sex Work - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:10:12] <exec> 08└─But if it doesn't happen on your property and you want to tell others what they should and shouldn't do, then you're just a busybody in desperate need of a period.
[05:10:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Washington, D.C. Bill Would Decriminalize Sex Work - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:10:14] <exec> 08└─Depends on whether your boss knows - several classes of people may have things to hide such as those with a security clearance or elected officials and their minions.
[05:10:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Washington, D.C. Bill Would Decriminalize Sex Work - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:10:16] <exec> 08└─Could have the common sense to stop passing your opinions in terms of value judgements?
[05:10:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03rylyeh [6726] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Evidence of Sea Floor Hydrothermal Deposits Found on Mars - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:10:27] <exec> 08└─It's a great place to look for life on Mars! Especially since multitudes of bacteria and some other more complex life-forms have been found beneath the Earth's surface, there might still be some there(hope!), or perhaps just ancient remnants of life. Either or neither would be valuable information!...
[05:11:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Changes in Password Best Practices - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:11:11] <exec> 08└─One alternative I've used in the past was normalizing and the hashing the question and a salt and using what that spits out as the answer. Easy to duplicate and nothing to remember.
[05:18:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University 'Turned Down Politically Incorrect Transgender Research' - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:20] <exec> 08└─What about paedophilia, are paedophiles being oppressed by laws designed to protect children?
[05:18:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University 'Turned Down Politically Incorrect Transgender Research' - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:22] <exec> 08└─You know you're a worthless idiot when the only thing you can contribute to a discussion is YAHBUTs. It's all the rage among late night talk shows this week. After being shamed for their silence over not mentioning Weinstein even once, suddenly they're all "Sure, this famous wealthy Democrat who is...
[05:19:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Transparent Solar Panel Enables First Solar-Powered Smartwatch - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:42] <exec> 08└─First line of TFS: Solar-powered watches are nothing new, but being more power-hungry beasts, solar-powered smartwatches are a different story.
[05:21:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mini-Review: Japanese Sword Column - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:03] <exec> 08└─Possibly I'm wrong... I know that that's what the thing I read said, but I don't know how accurate it was. (And I can't check since it just "something I read a decade ago".) OTOH, there's all sorts of "recent" history in the US where people ended up fighting a bear with a long knife, which was essen...
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[06:09:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Battery Based On Sodium May Offer More Cost-effective Storage Than Lithium - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:27] <exec> 08└─...to create a sodium ion battery costing less than 80 percent of a lithium ion battery with the same storage capacity. ... With materials constituting about one-quarter of a battery's price, the cost of lithium – about $15,000 a ton to mine and refine – looms large. That's why the Stanford team...
[06:09:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Battery Based On Sodium May Offer More Cost-effective Storage Than Lithium - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:29] <exec> 08└─Where's the 'free market fairy' when you need her?
[06:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seagate Launches Consumer-Oriented 12 TB Drives - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:38] <exec> 08└─But you'll want to keep the data in (panty) RAID.
[06:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seagate Launches Consumer-Oriented 12 TB Drives - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:40] <exec> 08└─"... have been around for some time..." Yeah...for at least 6 months.
[06:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03lx [1915] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seagate Launches Consumer-Oriented 12 TB Drives - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:42] <exec> 08└─For those who don't know about perpendicular magnetic recording here's a video from 2005 explaining the process: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[06:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Homeowner Accused of Recording Airbnb Bedroom With Camera Hidden in Smoke Alarm - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:54] <exec> 08└─The police department in Longboat Key, FL may want to start a carpal tunnel awareness program in the near future. Since they're on the clock, are they entitled to worker's comp in the event they blow out their wrist during this intense investigation?
[06:10:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Washington, D.C. Bill Would Decriminalize Sex Work - 735 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:10:14] <exec> 08└─There are taxes to be had from prostitutes - but the savings in harassing them will be tremendous as well. Maybe they can send half of the vice squads to traffic? Not to mention that real crime should see a bit of a drop. As things stand, prostitutes and other crime go together. It's like they're al...
[06:10:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NotSanguine [285] 02 - 06Washington, D.C. Bill Would Decriminalize Sex Work - 1612 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:10:25] <exec> 08└─To legalize prostitution. The most important, in my view is to protect the prostitutes from exploitation, abuse and coercion. Legalized prostitution could do away with abusive pimps (think W2/1099 employment status, single proprietorships, LLCs and public corporations, OSHA, child labor laws, health...
[06:10:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washington, D.C. Bill Would Decriminalize Sex Work - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:10:33] <exec> 08└─Not that concerned about the potential hypocrisy, but why should we care?
[06:10:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washington, D.C. Bill Would Decriminalize Sex Work - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:10:35] <exec> 08└─You can forbid the use of drugs, or ball-point pens for that matter, on your property.
[06:11:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Changes in Password Best Practices - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:11:30] <exec> 08└─Can't seem to find mention of the password suggestion in the summary.. not in the main document linked nor one of the supplementary document... didn't read all the related docs though. Can anyone (submitter?) maybe post which document actually had those points or is it just an opinion piece by submi...
[06:12:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At Least 15 Dead Due to Wildfires in Northern California - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:12:43] <exec> 08└─Yeah...well we we can actually count on more than our 10 fingers.
[06:13:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Physicist Claims Gigantic Nuclear Explosions on Mars - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:13:33] <exec> 08└─WTF? Where's the "-1 Batshit Insane" mod?
[06:16:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Rise of Open Source—and the Decline of Selfishness? - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:16:40] <exec> 08└─Oh, look! It's another khallow argument! Who's he arguing with this time? Same old groundless theories and fantastical beliefs? Check, and check. Hardly even entertaining, anymore, really. What's on the other Soylent Channel?
[06:16:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Rise of Open Source—and the Decline of Selfishness? - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:16:42] <exec> 08└─There wasn't much European competition in internal US markets prior to the Second World War. And the US maintained [tradingeconomics.com] a near negligible trade surplus or deficit until the mid 1970s (when it started running deficits). So not much in the way of global trade advantage for the US eit...
[06:18:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University 'Turned Down Politically Incorrect Transgender Research' - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:50] <exec> 08└─> How do you know how many trannies you've seen? Transvestites = trannies as in humans who cross dress as the opposite sex. Trans = Trans-sexuals as in using chemicals to negate/block/change the natural script embedded in DNA. If you're going to use Marxist ideology to invent new words and meanings,...
[06:18:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University 'Turned Down Politically Incorrect Transgender Research' - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:51] <exec> 08└─eh? Isn't that a solved problem already? When I last visited South Korea...
[06:19:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Stanford Psychologist on the Art of Avoiding Assholes - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:19:47] <exec> 08└─One person's dirtier asshole is another person's cleaner asshole. Take your example, goes to show that that asshole in chief that got voted was deemed cleaner by 50% of the population than the one running against him, even though from your perspective you rather labelled her "more-or-less run of the...
[06:21:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Mini-Review: Japanese Sword Column - 884 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:21:35] <exec> 08└─Winding up fighting the thing with your bowie after everything else failed? Yes, I could believe that's happened - very rarely. On the other hand it's just a great motif for storytelling so it probably made it's way into lots of tales while happening quite rarely. But as a deliberate plan? Going out...
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[07:09:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Battery Based On Sodium May Offer More Cost-effective Storage Than Lithium - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:09:30] <exec> 08└─They haven't look at the volumetric density yet so hard to compare if it is a viable replacement just on cost. If it takes 10 times more space for the same energy output, no matter how cheap it is still unpractical in a lot of use-case.
[07:09:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Battery Based On Sodium May Offer More Cost-effective Storage Than Lithium - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:09:31] <exec> 08└─1. There is no free market in batteries. Batteries are heavily a heavily regulated industry. Many licenses and permits are required to manufacture batteries. There are also enormous patent barriers. Unless you are a billionaire like Elon, good luck accumulating enough lawyers and legislators to star...
[07:09:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Battery Based On Sodium May Offer More Cost-effective Storage Than Lithium - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:09:34] <exec> 08└─There isn't much Lithium in a Lithium-ion battery. Goldman-Sachs claims that there is about $1000-worth in Tesla's 70kWh battery (63Kg), but I believe their figure is out by a factor of 10, and it should only be about $100. Another reason you should not believe these banks when apparently simple cal...
[07:09:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Battery Based On Sodium May Offer More Cost-effective Storage Than Lithium - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:09:36] <exec> 08└─Reading my source again, it may be that the author of the article misunderstood Goldman-Sachs. The article [electrek.co] claims 63Kg of Lithium Carbonate are used and that Lithium Carbonate costs ~$15k/ton. This would put the cost of the Lithium Carbonate in a 70kWh battery at about $1000. So it loo...
[07:10:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03rylyeh [6726] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washington, D.C. Bill Would Decriminalize Sex Work - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:10:37] <exec> 08└─Prohibiting prostitution is like prohibiting alcohol.
[07:12:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At Least 15 Dead Due to Wildfires in Northern California - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:12:46] <exec> 08└─EQ shutoff valves have been required for at least the last 12~15 years in many California cities and counties. Many are so sensitive that they go off when a garbage truck goes by. I have direct experience with one going off every week by being bumped by the landscape crew every week. Until I figured...
[07:12:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06At Least 15 Dead Due to Wildfires in Northern California - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:12:47] <exec> 08└─Imperial? The USA uses US customary units. Imperial is what is used by the Brits. They are not the same, for instance the number of fluid ounces per cup differs and also the size of the fluid ounce. All of the volume units differ because of this.
[07:15:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pav [114] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Purism Exceeds $1 Million in Funding for Librem 5 Linux-Based Smartphone - 479 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:15:02] <exec> 08└─I've seen a Raspberry Pi based phone. It looked like a brick, and had poor battery life, but it worked. All you need is a battery, touch screen, modem. There are more powerful Pis available these days with lower power requirements, and I believe there are low power 4G modems also (the one I saw a fe...
[07:18:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University 'Turned Down Politically Incorrect Transgender Research' - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:55] <exec> 08└─I've not read the PDF but there is no so thing as "transgender", there are 2 human genders denoted by the presence of a (male) Y chromosome. I also reject the idea of transsexual children. [soylentnews.org] There was never a problem with intersex or transsexual individuals before the SJW crowd start...
[07:21:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mini-Review: Japanese Sword Column - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:21:40] <exec> 08└─Did you even read what I just said?
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[08:09:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Missing Baryonic Matter Found Using Planck Satellite Data - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:26] <exec> 08└─Can I hope that's the last thing to hear about the "dark matter"? Something tells me that's a fool's hope.
[08:11:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03rylyeh [6726] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Changes in Password Best Practices - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:11:38] <exec> 08└─Nice! Never thought of that!
[08:13:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03rylyeh [6726] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Physicist Claims Gigantic Nuclear Explosions on Mars - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:13:44] <exec> 08└─"It's been stolen!"
[08:13:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03rylyeh [6726] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Physicist Claims Gigantic Nuclear Explosions on Mars - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:13:45] <exec> 08└─This sounds like the logical explanation.
[08:14:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trading Bird Food for Cigarette Butts - 613 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:43] <exec> 08└─I think it's the Japanese who are the outliers. In the litterbug graph the rest of the world are more clustered together while the Japanese are in a different spot. Probably similar for some other graphs too ;). As the joke goes: During the FIFA World Cup the stadiums were cleaner AFTER the Japanese...
[08:19:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University 'Turned Down Politically Incorrect Transgender Research' - 790 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:19:05] <exec> 08└─It's a condemnation of society when universities blacklisting certain sorts of science because it might offend some group or another is considered politics. In particular it creates a false narrative. Imagine when the powers that be held that the Earth was the center of the universe. If they simply...
[08:19:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University 'Turned Down Politically Incorrect Transgender Research' - 1036 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:19:07] <exec> 08└─Yes, but turn yourself around, you poor, benighted alt-right imbecile, and imagine that someone wanted to do a research project at a major University to prove that the earth is the center of the Universe, or that whites are genetically superior to other races. Do you thing turning down these idiots...
[08:20:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03KritonK [465] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Stanford Psychologist on the Art of Avoiding Assholes - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:20:03] <exec> 08└─Judging from the title, I thought that the book was a survival guide for assholes. Unfortunately, this is not the subject of the book, which is therefore of no use to me.
[08:21:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mini-Review: Japanese Sword Column - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:21:54] <exec> 08└─the mountain people in Wyoming, Montana
[08:21:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mini-Review: Japanese Sword Column - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:21:55] <exec> 08└─No, Runaway, that is not what he is saying. Try reading it again. Or perhaps, have one of your kids read it to you, and explain what it means. This is not the first time you have had this difficulty with reading comprehension. Is this a recent development, or have you always been semi-literate? If i...
[08:21:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mini-Review: Japanese Sword Column - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:21:57] <exec> 08└─European swords at the time were made from higher quality material (even the non-Damascus ones), so they didn't need to go the same lengths to get a, well, weapons-grade weapon.
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[09:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06Missing Baryonic Matter Found Using Planck Satellite Data - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:36] <exec> 08└─Quite the opposite: This is a confirmation of dark matter: The very same models that predict dark matter also predicted the extra baryonic matter. And therefore finding the extra baryonic matter confirms those models, and thus dark matter.
[09:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Missing Baryonic Matter Found Using Planck Satellite Data - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:37] <exec> 08└─Maybe GP meant "the end of dark matter as a fudge factor to make equations fit", to which your answer is correct.
[09:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Battery Based On Sodium May Offer More Cost-effective Storage Than Lithium - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:52] <exec> 08└─There's lots of silicon in the world. Indeed, the deserts are full of it. So why are computer chips not essentially free?
[09:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Battery Based On Sodium May Offer More Cost-effective Storage Than Lithium - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:54] <exec> 08└─The use-case mentioned in the summary, storing energy from solar plants, probably isn't that sensitive on volume. Sure, volume does matter, if only because it determined how much property you need to build your storage on. But as long as the battery price reduction is more than the extra property co...
[09:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Battery Based On Sodium May Offer More Cost-effective Storage Than Lithium - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:56] <exec> 08└─Unless the book describes in detail how those sodium batteries worked, no it isn't prior art.
[09:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Battery Based On Sodium May Offer More Cost-effective Storage Than Lithium - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:58] <exec> 08└─From the dept.-line-was-too-salty-so-I-threw-it-away dept?
[09:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Battery Based On Sodium May Offer More Cost-effective Storage Than Lithium - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:10:00] <exec> 08└─Sounds like the asshole fairy.
[09:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seagate Launches Consumer-Oriented 12 TB Drives - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:10:11] <exec> 08└─You obviously don't have enough porn.
[09:10:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seagate Launches Consumer-Oriented 12 TB Drives - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:10:13] <exec> 08└─Redundant Array of Independent Dicks?
[09:10:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Homeowner Accused of Recording Airbnb Bedroom With Camera Hidden in Smoke Alarm - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:10:26] <exec> 08└─Police union says hell yes
[09:11:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washington, D.C. Bill Would Decriminalize Sex Work - 767 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:11:07] <exec> 08└─I have to say I'm so traumatized by watching America march backwards over the last year that I initially misread the title as "D.C. Bill Would Criminalize Sex Work". It was very disheartening for a moment. Watch out, if we decriminalize sex work we might reduce sex work related crime, exploitation a...
[09:12:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Changes in Password Best Practices - 3787 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:12:04] <exec> 08└─I gave up a couple years ago and decided to go with a password manager. I chose a commercial one that provides good syncing between different types of devices, and integrates with all major web browsers. Enabled 2FA on the password manager to drastically decrease the likelihood someone can ever gain...
[09:12:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Changes in Password Best Practices - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:12:06] <exec> 08└─Regardless of what reasons people have for allowing themselves to be used by the monstrous surveillance engine known as Facebook, they are fools for doing so.
[09:12:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Changes in Password Best Practices - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:12:08] <exec> 08└─I see, your password is "this foot".
[09:15:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Purism Exceeds $1 Million in Funding for Librem 5 Linux-Based Smartphone - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:15:40] <exec> 08└─Would you sell me your old thinkoutside keyboard? Mine's suffered from too many beer spills (it's not actually for me, it's for a friend, he does his beer reviewing/rating on his iphone, and my thinkoutside is a boon for him - I was thinking of giving it to him as a chrissy pressy, as I don't use it...
[09:17:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Acquires Relay Media to Convert Ordinary Web Pages to AMP Pages - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:17:40] <exec> 08└─Citation needed. As far as I know, Chrome doesn't spy on its users any more than any other browser.
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[10:09:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill Introduced to Close Allergan's Native American "Sovereign Immunity" Patent Loophole - 602 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:30] <exec> 08└─The current situation is just a mess. Whenever a tribe doesn't feel like obeying US laws, they claim sovereignty. But whenever they want something - usually free federal help or programs or money - suddenly they are poor, helpless victims, yet another branch of the FSA. Congress really needs to chan...
[10:09:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] 02 - 06Missing Baryonic Matter Found Using Planck Satellite Data - 239 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:38] <exec> 08└─Quite the opposite: This is a confirmation of dark matter: The very same models that predict dark matter also predicted the extra baryonic matter. And therefore finding the extra baryonic matter confirms those models, and thus dark matter.
[10:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Battery Based On Sodium May Offer More Cost-effective Storage Than Lithium - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:59] <exec> 08└─In a SoylentNews comment, KritonK made a joke. I wonder if maxwell demon will ever develop enough of a sense of humor to realize it.
[10:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Battery Based On Sodium May Offer More Cost-effective Storage Than Lithium - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:10:00] <exec> 08└─What you see in a desert is impure silicon dioxide. Isolating and refining the silicon is necessary. Semiconductor grade monocrystalline silicon costs $102 to $127 per kg FOB China [alibaba.com]. The lithium mentioned in the article is in a refined form that's ready to use.
[10:10:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Washington, D.C. Bill Would Decriminalize Sex Work - 1452 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:10:46] <exec> 08└─Prostitution is called "the world's oldest profession" for a reason. It's always been around. In some societies, top prostitutes have been respected - and maybe even some who didn't rank among the most classy. Basically, there are no "victims" of a trade, unless one or the other is coerced. It's a s...
[10:11:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Washington, D.C. Bill Would Decriminalize Sex Work - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:11:08] <exec> 08└─Funny how under republican kill planned parenthood we are only seeing spikes in stds.
[10:12:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Changes in Password Best Practices - 2541 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:12:08] <exec> 08└─You describe the benefits of using a password manager very well. What I would say, if I put on my paranoid security geek hat on, is that they are a simply MASSIVE target for malware, and the malware only needs to get lucky once. You are probably aware of a number of compromises of (Windows, but also...
[10:12:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Changes in Password Best Practices - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:12:09] <exec> 08└─Until they slightly change the wording of a question.
[10:12:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Changes in Password Best Practices - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:12:11] <exec> 08└─BUt that's just "Never reuse a password you care about." - you clearly care about email accounts.
[10:17:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Rise of Open Source—and the Decline of Selfishness? - 1000 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:17:28] <exec> 08└─The Smoot-Hawley tariff war [wikipedia.org] happened in the early 1930s which destroyed a lot of trade between the US and the outside world, including Europe prior to the start of the Second World War. And near zero US trade surpluses and deficits for the entire period of the European recovery from...
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[11:09:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Walzmyn [987] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Computer Virus Hits US Predator and Reaper Drone Fleet - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:25] <exec> 08└─How did it get there? Are the computers running our drone fleet connected to the World Wide Web?
[11:09:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Computer Virus Hits US Predator and Reaper Drone Fleet - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:27] <exec> 08└─They have all the resources—by decree—and still can't lock their shit down.
[11:09:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Computer Virus Hits US Predator and Reaper Drone Fleet - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:29] <exec> 08└─Possibly they are applying the "let's not secure stuff too much, who's going to buy upgrades then?" mantra straight from Microsoft's book.
[11:09:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Computer Virus Hits US Predator and Reaper Drone Fleet - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:31] <exec> 08└─here is an excerpt from the leaked logs: ADSDWADSASADWDSADASDW*FIRE*WDW
[11:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill Introduced to Close Allergan's Native American "Sovereign Immunity" Patent Loophole - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:40] <exec> 08└─Or you could just get some rednecks to finish the job and wipe them out like Christopher Columbus intended.
[11:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03bootsy [3440] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Missing Baryonic Matter Found Using Planck Satellite Data - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:51] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't say it confirms dark matter but it certainly doesn't disprove it. It's very much still a strong possibility and stronger than before. It adds evidence that those models could well be right so we can be more confident that they are correct. The model proposes several things and one of thos...
[11:10:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Battery Based On Sodium May Offer More Cost-effective Storage Than Lithium - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:10:12] <exec> 08└─Indeed, the deserts are full of it.
[11:10:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Battery Based On Sodium May Offer More Cost-effective Storage Than Lithium - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:10:13] <exec> 08└─But 20000 Leagues Under the Sea is art and is prior to this invention.
[11:10:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03fraxinus-tree [5590] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Battery Based On Sodium May Offer More Cost-effective Storage Than Lithium - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:10:16] <exec> 08└─Sodium-ion batteries lurk in research for more than 20y. Twice more for sodium-sulfur. They both still have usability issues. And yes, i know that sodium-ion are harder task than lithium-ion.
[11:10:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Battery Based On Sodium May Offer More Cost-effective Storage Than Lithium - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:10:18] <exec> 08└─According to this article, materials make up 60% of the cost of lithium-ion batteries and "overhead" is another ~30%. Labor and "profit" are around 5% each. The cathode materials (which includes lithium) makes up the largest portion of the materials cost (it appears to be about 20% of overall costs...
[11:10:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] 02 - 06Homeowner Accused of Recording Airbnb Bedroom With Camera Hidden in Smoke Alarm - 196 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:10:38] <exec> 08└─President Obama had my wires tapped in Trump Tower. Put a tapp on my phones during the very sacred election process. So everyone thinks it's OK. I'll tell you, it's not OK. That's not OK. 🇺🇸
[11:11:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washington, D.C. Bill Would Decriminalize Sex Work - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:11:27] <exec> 08└─Yeah those whores charged me billions of dollars, and the sex sucked.
[11:11:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Washington, D.C. Bill Would Decriminalize Sex Work - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:11:28] <exec> 08└─A few hundred years ago prostitution in Germany was controlled by the Catholic Church. They viewed it as a public health measure for pretty much the same reasons as this bill proposes. Also they thought it would reduce other crime by giving men a sanctioned outlet for their passions.
[11:11:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washington, D.C. Bill Would Decriminalize Sex Work - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:11:31] <exec> 08└─I'm a "mind your own business" libertarian, a capitalist, and have a healthy sex drive. I fully approve of every aspect of legalized prostitution. I'd go as far as to say sucking cock is damned patriotic compared to sucking the government tit.
[11:12:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Changes in Password Best Practices - 753 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:12:33] <exec> 08└─I generate random passwords with a little CLI app I wrote, and then memorize them. It is easier than it sounds. I have to keep them temporarily written down for some time (couple of days, a week) until they sink in, but after a little while, my memory is refreshed daily by recalling the passwords. G...
[11:12:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Changes in Password Best Practices - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:12:34] <exec> 08└─I think you want owncloud https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[11:15:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trading Bird Food for Cigarette Butts - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:15:39] <exec> 08└─Yup, which is why I roll my own from largely un-fucked-with "pipe tobacco". That and the fact that it costs me roughly $25 a month.
[11:15:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trading Bird Food for Cigarette Butts - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:15:41] <exec> 08└─That's one of the things I least liked about moving from OK to TN. People in OK, for the most part, do not litter but every fucking morning here in TN I have to go pick up whatever bullshit some asshole decided they'd rather throw out their window into my yard than keep in their car until they got h...
[11:16:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Purism Exceeds $1 Million in Funding for Librem 5 Linux-Based Smartphone - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:16:12] <exec> 08└─A baseband residing outside the SoC is a fairly dumb modem. It will likely communicate with the OS over pppd much like how Openwrt\LEDE is used in conjunction with external VDSL modems with about the same risks and same mitigation strategies (end-to-end encryption done on main CPU).
[11:16:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Purism Exceeds $1 Million in Funding for Librem 5 Linux-Based Smartphone - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:16:13] <exec> 08└─I guess that means they're re-purposing the extra PCI-e lane for USB3. Regardless, I doubt they won't solder. Maybe, just maybe, they'll socket it. But I doubt it.
[11:16:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alphatool [1145] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Purism Exceeds $1 Million in Funding for Librem 5 Linux-Based Smartphone - 1046 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:16:15] <exec> 08└─I really want this to work, but there is a very, very long way to too to a useful handset. The hardware of a modern phone has become much easier, but the software stack is as difficult as ever. So far Purism has managed to get Linux to boot on a Dev board, which is a fine starting point. A phone ope...
[11:20:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kell [292] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University 'Turned Down Politically Incorrect Transgender Research' - 599 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:20:13] <exec> 08└─I'm curious: How many trans people do you know personally? I've met a few, one male, three female and one intersex. I've asked most of them if the have regrets, and the only I heard was one of the girls who regretted getting her surgery done when she did because the technology got better a few years...
[11:20:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University 'Turned Down Politically Incorrect Transgender Research' - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:20:14] <exec> 08└─> it is a legitimate concern censoring research is another legitimate concern, one that is usually voiced by progressives when some people tries to use the bible as a scientific reference. If I were a progressive I would be pissed that the same tactic of the enemy is employed when convenient, becaus...
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[12:09:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Computer Virus Hits US Predator and Reaper Drone Fleet - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:35] <exec> 08└─I can't decide if that's Insightful or Redundant.
[12:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Computer Virus Hits US Predator and Reaper Drone Fleet - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:36] <exec> 08└─What, exactly, is the reason for a military drone, of all things, to run ANY code from a writable device? If something should have a boot ROM, this kind of hardware is certainly it.
[12:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Computer Virus Hits US Predator and Reaper Drone Fleet - 563 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:39] <exec> 08└─Just to be clear here, isn't the incident actually a run of the mill M$ Windows virus? Those are what's actually seen in the wild and a few photos of the drone operators show what looks like at least one M$ Windows screen. Where you have M$ Windows, you have viruses, even inside a scif. If they real...
[12:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Computer Virus Hits US Predator and Reaper Drone Fleet - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:41] <exec> 08└─It's unfortunately both.
[12:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill Introduced to Close Allergan's Native American "Sovereign Immunity" Patent Loophole - 837 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:51] <exec> 08└─The current situation is just a mess. Whenever a state doesn't feel like obeying federal laws, they claim sovereignty. But whenever they want something - usually free lands, mineral rights or regulatory protections - suddenly they are poor, helpless victims, yet another branch of the FSA. Feels fami...
[12:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill Introduced to Close Allergan's Native American "Sovereign Immunity" Patent Loophole - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:53] <exec> 08└─Shouldn't we just say that we do not have a treaty with the tribes on sharing patents... then not recognize the patent and allow everyone to make a generic? Sounds like a way to make sovereign immunity go away.
[12:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill Introduced to Close Allergan's Native American "Sovereign Immunity" Patent Loophole - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:55] <exec> 08└─No extra provisions, just closes the loophole. It will be great if Congress can still pass something that simple.
[12:10:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Battery Based On Sodium May Offer More Cost-effective Storage Than Lithium - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:10:30] <exec> 08└─According to this article,
[12:10:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seagate Launches Consumer-Oriented 12 TB Drives - 768 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:10:45] <exec> 08└─That brings up an interesting point, vmware VSAN for example does NOT support disks larger than 2TB to keep restoral times sane and so forth. I never really expected to see the bifurcation go this extreme. There was a pre-SSD era where people needing speed (database array, etc) would get an array of...
[12:10:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seagate Launches Consumer-Oriented 12 TB Drives - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:10:46] <exec> 08└─10G switches might be expensive, but 10G ports are cheap. A colleague pointed out the intel D class that has 2 of them....
[12:11:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Homeowner Accused of Recording Airbnb Bedroom With Camera Hidden in Smoke Alarm - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:11:01] <exec> 08└─The main result of this story will likely be getting a bunch of other pervs who rent on AirBNB to think "I should get into that!"
[12:12:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Changes in Password Best Practices - 1107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:12:52] <exec> 08└─I highly recommend password managers, but not commercial ones. Use one of the well vetted open source ones. With a commercial manager, nobody but the company has any idea whether or not the crypto used to store the passwords is crap or not, until it is too late. With open source password managers, a...
[12:12:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Changes in Password Best Practices - 1462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:12:53] <exec> 08└─We are not in disagreement. Offline air-gapped password store (that never touches a USB device either) is a great idea if you're dealing with anything more important than some personal accounts. But nobody will ever go to those lengths for personal things, just like nobody has ever bothered to chang...
[12:15:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03moondrake [2658] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Physicist Claims Gigantic Nuclear Explosions on Mars - 513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:15:00] <exec> 08└─Frojack being put into his place by an AC is interesting:) But you are right of course. There is a lot of evidence, certainly frojack did not a good job of addressing his argument. To me, it looks suggestive, and even although the theory sounds wacky, we do need an explanation for the isotope distri...
[12:15:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Physicist Claims Gigantic Nuclear Explosions on Mars - 1027 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:15:02] <exec> 08└─Check http://podcast.sjrdesign.net [sjrdesign.net] podcast; good summary of the problem 1) Xe129 is made by supernovae, but not nuclear explosions (where is data to confirm that is produced by nukes, anyway?) 2) Brandenburg doesn't claim that Xe129 is radiogenic, is he? Meaning pro...
[12:15:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Physicist Claims Gigantic Nuclear Explosions on Mars - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:15:05] <exec> 08└─If a mars rover ran over a lichen that slowly visibly grew back, we would have to wait for all the present scientists to die off and be replaced until the result would be accepted.
[12:16:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trading Bird Food for Cigarette Butts - 672 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:16:04] <exec> 08└─For fun - imagine the issue of putting the cigarette out and keeping the butt without the portable ashtray (designated smoking areas are a quite new thing). But yes, I agree that the main reason is being litter-adverse but I'd argue that it is helped by devices that makes keeping clean easier. Perso...
[12:16:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Researchers Directly Observe Infinitely Long Wavelengths for the First Time - 194 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:16:48] <exec> 08└─There's a difference between phase velocity, group velocity and signal velocity. Hint: It is the last one which is limited by c. It is the first one which gets infinite with infinite wavelength.
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[13:09:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03fraxinus-tree [5590] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Public Unwittingly Buying Dangerous Laser Pointers, Warn Scientists - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:31] <exec> 08└─Green lasers are expensive, or at least used to be, back then. That's why most people buy them. Red ones are just OK.
[13:09:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Public Unwittingly Buying Dangerous Laser Pointers, Warn Scientists - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:32] <exec> 08└─> If they're so dangerous, why are they putting them in the headlights for all the new cars? That is simple - people tend to solve problems in the "most efficient" way - but not necessarily smart or safe ways. For example: the shoe-fitting fluoroscope made it very easy for salesmen to make sure a pe...
[13:09:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03fraxinus-tree [5590] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Public Unwittingly Buying Dangerous Laser Pointers, Warn Scientists - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:34] <exec> 08└─Lasers in headlights are completely different matter. You generally don't get laser beam of any kind outside and the light output is controlled.
[13:09:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03CoolHand [438] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Public Unwittingly Buying Dangerous Laser Pointers, Warn Scientists - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:36] <exec> 08└─The green ones are nice if you are pointing out objects in the night sky to someone.
[13:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Computer Virus Hits US Predator and Reaper Drone Fleet - 518 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:52] <exec> 08└─'apparently benign' Cool, they found a new way to say 'what could possibly go wrong with that'. Um, the keystroke logger is running code of the bad guys choosing on a machine where the keystrokes cause real things to happen. So for example, what if the code starting operating in reverse and the bad...
[13:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Computer Virus Hits US Predator and Reaper Drone Fleet - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:53] <exec> 08└─then several individuals in both acquisitions and operations need to be hauled off and dealt with permanently.
[13:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill Introduced to Close Allergan's Native American "Sovereign Immunity" Patent Loophole - 897 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:06] <exec> 08└─It’s very time-consuming to be politically correct, and I don’t like wasting a lot of time. The St. Regis Mohawk Indian record of criminal activity is well documented. I'm not knocking the Mohawks. I'm knocking their record. That’s not because they’re Mohawks. That’s because their record i...
[13:10:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Missing Baryonic Matter Found Using Planck Satellite Data - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:17] <exec> 08└─from other comments you've made I get the impression you're an educated person. if you don't trust the specialists who spend 10 years studying in order to say "dark matter is required", your only alternative is to spend those 10 years yourself.
[13:10:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Battery Based On Sodium May Offer More Cost-effective Storage Than Lithium - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:44] <exec> 08└─Search for a Pentium iV or Core2Duo chip on eBay. There's your "essentially free" chips.
[13:10:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Battery Based On Sodium May Offer More Cost-effective Storage Than Lithium - 618 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:45] <exec> 08└─We tolerate propane tanks on our properties and in the past the entire basement would be filled with coal. We also tolerate a hot water storage tank in the house. If someone built a cheap, reliable, long-lived battery of the same kind of dimensions: 1m x 2m or thereabouts then it could just sit in a...
[13:11:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seagate Launches Consumer-Oriented 12 TB Drives - 454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:11:02] <exec> 08└─My own personal experience is that hard drive quality has declined over the last 10 years. I have no working hard drives between the ages of 3 to 10 years because they all (all 3 of them) failed. All my hard drives older than 10 years still work. 2 of those failures were WD, one in just 9 months and...
[13:13:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Changes in Password Best Practices - 727 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:13:09] <exec> 08└─If it's anything like the German chip/tan system, it's orders of magnitude better than regular 2-factor authentication. Regular 2-factor is only valid once or for one minute (depending on the version). Either way, a man in the middle attack (or "man in the browser", for those who think that anything...
[13:13:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Changes in Password Best Practices - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:13:10] <exec> 08└─resetting the counter when he guesses wrong?
[13:13:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Changes in Password Best Practices - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:13:13] <exec> 08└─If you use a password manager, your never going to need these recovery questions anyway.
[13:13:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Changes in Password Best Practices - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:13:15] <exec> 08└─XKCD recommends *against* cryptic passwords like "R3bfsfBS". In fact it recommends against passwords in general.
[13:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kromagv0 [1825] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At Least 15 Dead Due to Wildfires in Northern California - 686 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:31] <exec> 08└─What I am wondering is how long has it been since these areas have burned or been cleared of undergrowth? This seems to be a problem in CA where the dead undergrowth has accumulated for decades because every small fire was suppressed and no one logged out an area out so now 50 years later we end up...
[13:15:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Physicist Claims Gigantic Nuclear Explosions on Mars - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:15:27] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but this dude is claiming a tightly packed hydrogen shell around the naturally occurring uranium deposit... one is unlikely, two is unlikely squared.
[13:15:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Physicist Claims Gigantic Nuclear Explosions on Mars - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:15:28] <exec> 08└─Loved the NdGT recap of an early astronomer's publication accurately charting the Newtonian movement of the planets, followed up by an in-depth line of deductive reasoning that led to the widespread cultivation of hemp on Jupiter....
[13:15:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Physicist Claims Gigantic Nuclear Explosions on Mars - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:15:30] <exec> 08└─What would statistical sampling practice say about the completeness of our knowledge of what meteors can, and cannot contain? I mean, we've recovered about 0.00000000001% of the available material out there, that's pretty good, in statistical terms, right?
[13:15:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Physicist Claims Gigantic Nuclear Explosions on Mars - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:15:32] <exec> 08└─No. You are wrong. And you seem to be very confident of your wrong-ness.
[13:18:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Rise of Open Source—and the Decline of Selfishness? - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:49] <exec> 08└─During the 'Nam years, we had war volunteers and Peace Corps volunteers, draftees and draft dodgers. When you've got a society of hundreds of millions of people, I'd hope that there's some diversity out there.
[13:21:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University 'Turned Down Politically Incorrect Transgender Research' - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:05] <exec> 08└─You honestly believe there is no difference between men and women? Come on, don't we have some people who post here who love to say that men and women are different? Back me up here! Men and women are different, right?
[13:21:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University 'Turned Down Politically Incorrect Transgender Research' - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:07] <exec> 08└─I see you have some growing up left to do too.
[13:21:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University 'Turned Down Politically Incorrect Transgender Research' - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:09] <exec> 08└─I went to school with someone who was born intersex and recall no issues.
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[14:09:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nobody Reads Privacy Policies – Here's How to Fix That - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:26] <exec> 08└─an additional short privacy notice could tell her the additional information she needs to know.
[14:09:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Nobody Reads Privacy Policies – Here's How to Fix That - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:27] <exec> 08└─Nobody reads the whole summary; there's no way to fix that, either.
[14:09:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nobody Reads Privacy Policies – Here's How to Fix That - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:29] <exec> 08└─The only purpose of privacy policies it to get around privacy laws by pretending that by not reading the privacy policy users consent. I have noticed that they share their view on consent with rapists.
[14:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Public Unwittingly Buying Dangerous Laser Pointers, Warn Scientists - 714 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:42] <exec> 08└─http://auto.howstuffworks.com/laser-powered-headlight.htm [howstuffworks.com] BMW states on its i8 Concept Web site: "The intensity of laser light poses no possible risks to humans, animals or wildlife when used in car lighting. Amongst other things, this is because the light is not emitted directly...
[14:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Public Unwittingly Buying Dangerous Laser Pointers, Warn Scientists - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:43] <exec> 08└─The green ones are nice if you are pointing out objects in the night sky to someone.
[14:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Public Unwittingly Buying Dangerous Laser Pointers, Warn Scientists - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:45] <exec> 08└─Do not look at laser pointer with your remaining eye.
[14:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Public Unwittingly Buying Dangerous Laser Pointers, Warn Scientists - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:48] <exec> 08└─This. The laser is used to excite a phosphor, which produces the light that actually leaves the headlight assembly. This is the same principle that white LEDs use to produce white light.
[14:10:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Computer Virus Hits US Predator and Reaper Drone Fleet - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:05] <exec> 08└─I think this is an old article dating back to 2011...
[14:10:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Missing Baryonic Matter Found Using Planck Satellite Data - 515 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:30] <exec> 08└─yes, you can (bary on)! still to be seen how this observation will help to wind up integrating the black-hole/qbits/dark-energy thing into something that works without special casing and DE fudge factoring, but for now, there's limitless interstellar fuel to be had. so that work is a win either way....
[14:11:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seagate Launches Consumer-Oriented 12 TB Drives - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:11:14] <exec> 08└─I think such info would always make a great addition to TFS. Because many things are interesting, if the price is right.
[14:12:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03chewbacon [1032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washington, D.C. Bill Would Decriminalize Sex Work - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:12:14] <exec> 08└─Sex may not cost money, but it's NEVER free.
[14:12:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washington, D.C. Bill Would Decriminalize Sex Work - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:12:16] <exec> 08└─In that case, I have to ask why you'd prefer a world in which you have to pay for sex to a world in which you get it for free.
[14:12:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washington, D.C. Bill Would Decriminalize Sex Work - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:12:18] <exec> 08└─All I see is c0lo making some wind. The post, and it's subsequent explanation are without meaning, and irrelevant to my own post. FFS, I distinguished between prostitution and real crimes. Victimless crimes, vs muggers, robbers, rapists, etc. BTW - I haven't lived my life on this little bit of acrea...
[14:13:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Changes in Password Best Practices - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:29] <exec> 08└─If you need to confirm your name on Facebook, or if you've lost access to your account, you may be asked to send us a copy of something with your name on it.
[14:13:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Changes in Password Best Practices - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:31] <exec> 08└─That's the whole article from Schneier on Security (linked at the top of the submission). It was short but the links in it are all there in the submission. The NIST PDF is linked, too.
[14:13:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Changes in Password Best Practices - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:33] <exec> 08└─Modded you up. I agree entirely that laziness trumps security, and you once again point out the real benefits of password managers. And I agree re: nuclear facilities, and in fact many process-control and SCADA applications. Security is just not baked in. If somebody messes with process control in a...
[14:14:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At Least 15 Dead Due to Wildfires in Northern California - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:49] <exec> 08└─You beat me to the punch. I grew up in the Rockies and fires would start every summer through lightning strikes alone. Only rarely would campfires, for example, be to blame because locals are all aware of the forest fire risk and there are signs all over the place that report the forest fire risk. I...
[14:14:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At Least 15 Dead Due to Wildfires in Northern California - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:51] <exec> 08└─"Historically unprecedented disaster?" Oh my goodness, no. Wildfires burn every summer in the West. They're as regular and as expected as winter snow in Buffalo, or hurricanes in Florida, or tornadoes in Kansas, or Hell Night in Detroit. It's something you live with. You take the precautions you can...
[14:14:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At Least 15 Dead Due to Wildfires in Northern California - 478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:53] <exec> 08└─As important as your house construction is, so is the buffer you create on your property between the treeline and your house. In the Rockies people who build homes out in the further reaches of a drainage take the trees down as far as they can and sometimes hire a bulldozer to set up a fire break at...
[14:14:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At Least 15 Dead Due to Wildfires in Northern California - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:55] <exec> 08└─That's a fairly regular occurrence, though, isn't it? Wildfires and El Nino are the weather events that come around nearly every year in California. You're either dealing with smoke or mudslides. It's only shocking if you're new there. It's only terrifying if you disregarded evacuation notices. For...
[14:14:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At Least 15 Dead Due to Wildfires in Northern California - 610 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:57] <exec> 08└─It sucks for those guys, to be sure. But that area is dry to begin with. And after how many years of drought it was even worse. I was in Petaluma a year ago and it felt like the place would go up if you stared at it too intensely. If you choose to live in the chaparral, sooner or later a bushfire wi...
[14:14:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At Least 15 Dead Due to Wildfires in Northern California - 647 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:59] <exec> 08└─They do prescribed burns in the West, but it's chancy. It's happened before that the things have gotten out of control and caused what they were trying to prevent, because the wind whipped up suddenly and exceeded the Forest Service's ability to tamp the burn down. It may have changed now but growin...
[14:15:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06At Least 15 Dead Due to Wildfires in Northern California - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:02] <exec> 08└─So if the fires will happen regardless, what is the fucking point of all the signs and BS?
[14:15:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bacteria Self-Organize to Build Working Sensors - 1082 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:12] <exec> 08└─Yes, that's one. Useful application. I'm just not sure that it means there is a sudden gush of useful applications coming out of this. I suspect each new useful application requires a ton of work. Here's another: How about getting bacteria to build tiny photosensitive cells and self wire them into a...
[14:15:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bacteria Self-Organize to Build Working Sensors - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:14] <exec> 08└─What if the FCC could "see" in pirate radio frequencies and just use their "eye" to just look around the city for pirate signals? What if the TLAs could "see" in mobile phone frequencies? Possibly even through buildings. Being able to "see" them, even in a blurry fashion also probably means being ab...
[14:17:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kromagv0 [1825] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trading Bird Food for Cigarette Butts - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:05] <exec> 08└─That is what trash cans are for, or street sweepers.
[14:17:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trading Bird Food for Cigarette Butts - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:06] <exec> 08└─Shortly after someone has decided to wear "Tactical SC" as a cologne would be my guess ;) (I'm actually curious about what the legal status would be for that)
[14:17:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trading Bird Food for Cigarette Butts - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:08] <exec> 08└─Well, the fibrous structure makes it a decent soil aggregate (just like gravel, perlite, rockwool or leca-pellets), no need for it to decompose. Also, nicotine is a pretty brutal insecticide, so making the soil toxic with it will really reduce the pests. Whenever I get aphids I either get a can of n...
[14:17:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trading Bird Food for Cigarette Butts - 525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:11] <exec> 08└─Wait.. you are telling us you do all-plant cogarettes and also use pipe-tobacco? You might just be the one cigarette-smoker I like then. A few questions then. 1) Do you still drag the smoke into your lungs? (Only crap quality (cigarette) tobacco needs this, other kinds is enough to keep in the oral...
[14:19:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Rise of Open Source—and the Decline of Selfishness? - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:29] <exec> 08└─The only possible interpretation of any research whatever in the `social sciences' is: some do, some don't. -- Ernest Rutherford
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[15:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Nobody Reads Privacy Policies – Here's How to Fix That - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:35] <exec> 08└─Nobody should read privacy policies because they don't matter whatsoever. If a service collects personal information then it will be shared. Even when an upstanding business promises not to do nefarious things (and intends to keep their promise) one of two things will inevitably happen: Attackers ob...
[15:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Nobody Reads Privacy Policies – Here's How to Fix That - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:36] <exec> 08└─The first principle is to break up the documents into smaller chunks...
[15:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nobody Reads Privacy Policies – Here's How to Fix That - 782 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:38] <exec> 08└─Interesting idea. One could even make those definitions machine-readable, so that you could configure your browser to block (or show only after confirmation) sites with policies that you did not mark as always-agreeable. Maybe a good set of blocks would be: Data collected:None at allOnly IP addressI...
[15:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nobody Reads Privacy Policies – Here's How to Fix That - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:40] <exec> 08└─Yes, they do. They let you know which company is trying to screw you and which is willing to give you a reach-around whilst doing so.
[15:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Nobody Reads Privacy Policies – Here's How to Fix That - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:43] <exec> 08└─It is not in web site owners best interests to make privacy policies more accessible. More accessible, actionable privacy policies would either mean a) some users decide not to participate, or b) some monetization strategies become untenable. The status quo, where users don't ever read the policies...
[15:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nobody Reads Privacy Policies – Here's How to Fix That - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:45] <exec> 08└─It's common in communications like this to alternate genders when the target is ambiguous. It's the more traditionally acceptable alternative to using "them" or invented pronouns like "xe".
[15:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zipf [2400] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Public Unwittingly Buying Dangerous Laser Pointers, Warn Scientists - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:02] <exec> 08└─.. except white light tends to have a significant blue component that wipes out night vision and possibly depletes melatonin. I would like to see regulation surrounding lumens below for wavelengths below 480nm for cars and 500nm for street lights.
[15:10:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Public Unwittingly Buying Dangerous Laser Pointers, Warn Scientists - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:03] <exec> 08└─I paid something like $150 for my green pointer some 10-15 years ago. Now you can get them for $10. I also paid around $100 for my red pointer when they first became available. Now the dollar stores have them for $0.99.
[15:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Public Unwittingly Buying Dangerous Laser Pointers, Warn Scientists - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:05] <exec> 08└─To prove its point, BMW even had one of its own engineers, and then journalists, peer into the lens of a lit headlight laser assembly.
[15:10:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Public Unwittingly Buying Dangerous Laser Pointers, Warn Scientists - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:07] <exec> 08└─You've got ducks and hides under your desk?
[15:10:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Public Unwittingly Buying Dangerous Laser Pointers, Warn Scientists - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:10] <exec> 08└─Pretty sure any amateur astronomer would wrestle you to the ground if you're shining bright green things around, as opposed to "night-vision friendly" red stuff.
[15:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Public Unwittingly Buying Dangerous Laser Pointers, Warn Scientists - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:12] <exec> 08└─If you're relying on your night vision to drive, you're doing something wrong. That's precisely why we invented headlights.
[15:10:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Public Unwittingly Buying Dangerous Laser Pointers, Warn Scientists - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:14] <exec> 08└─Do I need to point them out with a laser for you?
[15:10:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03fraxinus-tree [5590] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Public Unwittingly Buying Dangerous Laser Pointers, Warn Scientists - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:16] <exec> 08└─I sometimes dream of that, too. The evil first materialized as aftermarket xenon headlights, then LEDs and now lasers. In the meantime, I wear those yellowish blue-light-protecting glasses when driving. It helps.
[15:10:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Public Unwittingly Buying Dangerous Laser Pointers, Warn Scientists - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:18] <exec> 08└─Given that the fluorosope showed foot bones and none of the surrounding tissue (which is important in esablishing shoe fit) I think there was more marketing gimmick involved than efficient fitting technique.
[15:10:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Public Unwittingly Buying Dangerous Laser Pointers, Warn Scientists - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:21] <exec> 08└─Yeah relying on night vision to drive with headlights on is definitely doing something wrong ;).
[15:10:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Computer Virus Hits US Predator and Reaper Drone Fleet - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:39] <exec> 08└─I think this is an old article dating back to 2011...
[15:10:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Computer Virus Hits US Predator and Reaper Drone Fleet - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:41] <exec> 08└─Tomorrow the Israelis are going to provide screenshots and live videos of the affected computers proving that the Russians did this too: https://www.engadget.com [engadget.com] ;)
[15:10:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill Introduced to Close Allergan's Native American "Sovereign Immunity" Patent Loophole - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:54] <exec> 08└─You should build a wall
[15:10:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill Introduced to Close Allergan's Native American "Sovereign Immunity" Patent Loophole - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:56] <exec> 08└─These are Indians. You should build a Fort.
[15:10:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill Introduced to Close Allergan's Native American "Sovereign Immunity" Patent Loophole - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:58] <exec> 08└─It used the US Government as its role model for its software development practices :)
[15:12:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washington, D.C. Bill Would Decriminalize Sex Work - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:56] <exec> 08└─Sex is never free. You always pay, one way or another. With legalized prostitution the cost would be refreshingly up front and honest.
[15:12:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washington, D.C. Bill Would Decriminalize Sex Work - 594 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:58] <exec> 08└─It sounds like you need to get out more. I'm not talking about dating someone, or even picking them up after a couple of drinks. I'm talking about societies in which it actually works more along the lines of "I'm a woman, you're a man, let's do this. ... OK, that was fun, goodbye!" Societies that wo...
[15:14:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Changes in Password Best Practices - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:12] <exec> 08└─AOL???
[15:14:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Changes in Password Best Practices - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:14] <exec> 08└─Upgrade to Dvorak adn fool them even furter by changing to ',.pfy
[15:14:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Changes in Password Best Practices - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:16] <exec> 08└─I dont have issues with the security questions. Make a standard for yourself. Do you capitalize the answers? if so do it all the time. Do you fully spell it out or use common abbreviations? If so do it all the time. Do you enter spaces or all one word? Do it all the time.
[15:15:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At Least 15 Dead Due to Wildfires in Northern California - 749 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:39] <exec> 08└─Personally I hate football. I hated playing it and couldn't bear to watch it. It's too static and boring. Rugby was my game. Football is an American institution, though, and it's sad to see it shattered like so many others, in such a short span of time. And it was one of the last left where politics...
[15:16:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Physicist Claims Gigantic Nuclear Explosions on Mars - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:42] <exec> 08└─Occam's razor
[15:16:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Physicist Claims Gigantic Nuclear Explosions on Mars - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:43] <exec> 08└─way larger than anyone would need to sterilize the planet
[15:16:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Physicist Claims Gigantic Nuclear Explosions on Mars - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:45] <exec> 08└─I would further theorize on the above hard sci fi book plot, if someone would mass spectrometer the asteroid belt, they'd be like "Holy F we've been robbed of our U-235 that should be there" Its just a guess. Would make a hell of a book plot.
[15:17:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trading Bird Food for Cigarette Butts - 441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:50] <exec> 08└─1) Yep. The feel of smoke entering your lungs is essential to smoking. I could never smoke anything and not inhale. 2) Nothing except the lack of wrapping leaves and skill. 3) I do. "As well" rather than "instead of". I'm a bit snobby about what tobacco I put in a pipe though, so it's too expensive...
[15:17:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trading Bird Food for Cigarette Butts - 675 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:52] <exec> 08└─1) Try it, especially with new blends. It will allow you to fully experience the flavour of some blends since some subtleties otherwise will be lost (At least try it for a few puffs of the pipe - kinda like how one rolls a new beer on the tounge to fully experience it before going into enjoyment mod...
[15:17:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trading Bird Food for Cigarette Butts - 805 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:54] <exec> 08└─But yes, I agree that the main reason is being litter-adverse but I'd argue that it is helped by devices that makes keeping clean easier. I completely disagree. The devices exist in Japan because of their litter-averseness. Remember, necessity is the mother of invention, so the portable ashtray was...
[15:20:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Rise of Open Source—and the Decline of Selfishness? - 582 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:14] <exec> 08└─The GI Bill did more than college. It paid for houses too. And the fundamental difference between then and now is that it did not leave an entire generation saddled with debt. Instead of paying off lenders, middle class families were buying cars, appliances, furniture, and contributing to their loca...
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[16:09:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Windows Phone Dies, Aged 6 - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:31] <exec> 08└─For now, all we can do is mourn: the best mobile platform isn't under active development any more Where'd this biased garbage come from? There was never anything good about Windows Phone. It was workable I suppose, but nothing great, with a butt-ugly UI. iOS and Android certainly have their problems...
[16:09:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Windows Phone Dies, Aged 6 - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:33] <exec> 08└─I was coming to say essentially the same thing. Why mourn when you can cheer: turn that frown upside down! :) Wish the same would happen to Windows and MS
[16:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows Phone Dies, Aged 6 - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:35] <exec> 08└─Let me ditto your post. Come on World - just let it die. Windows is alright on the desktop, if that is your cup of tea. It positively sucks everywhere else. (cue the diehard Windows server fans who pay for every seat they serve)
[16:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows Phone Dies, Aged 6 - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:37] <exec> 08└─Where'd this biased garbage come from?
[16:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows Phone Dies, Aged 6 - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:40] <exec> 08└─You backed a good horse. Would you like to buy an x86-32 SGI workstation and an itanic server, all running NT, of course? Lowest TCO in the market place, industry standard, thousands of shrink-wrapped applications available...
[16:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows Phone Dies, Aged 6 - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:42] <exec> 08└─What a contradictory last name.
[16:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows Phone Dies, Aged 6 - 570 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:44] <exec> 08└─I'm surprised this didn't happen sooner as Windows mobile was too little, too late, right from the start. I have honestly only seen one or two actual Windows phones is use in the wild. And that was a few years back. I'm sure MS was desperate to give the mobile market their best shot but Google and A...
[16:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Touché) 02 - 06Nobody Reads Privacy Policies – Here's How to Fix That - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:00] <exec> 08└─No, it is not common and it is certainly not traditional. Quit telling lies. Default catch-all pronoun in the male one; if you don't want to use that, avoid prounouns and use posessives like "the customer's."
[16:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Nobody Reads Privacy Policies – Here's How to Fix That - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:02] <exec> 08└─As long as the policy is subject to change after the fact, it is worthless. Especially when the "display department" is as described by Douglas Adams.
[16:10:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03deadstick [5110] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Public Unwittingly Buying Dangerous Laser Pointers, Warn Scientists - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:31] <exec> 08└─I loved those as a kid. They actually made me want to go shopping with my mom.
[16:10:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Public Unwittingly Buying Dangerous Laser Pointers, Warn Scientists - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:32] <exec> 08└─The laser is used to excite a phosphor I wonder if they could make a TV screen out of that...
[16:10:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Public Unwittingly Buying Dangerous Laser Pointers, Warn Scientists - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:34] <exec> 08└─same same!
[16:10:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Public Unwittingly Buying Dangerous Laser Pointers, Warn Scientists - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:36] <exec> 08└─Yup: engineers are cannon fodder. The CEO's kid may be disposable, depending on the CEO. Make the CEO do it and do it for an hour.
[16:10:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Public Unwittingly Buying Dangerous Laser Pointers, Warn Scientists - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:39] <exec> 08└─Nope, even the green ones (assuming legal <5mW power) are dim enough to not be a problem when you shine them up in the sky, because you only see the backscatter. Now if you shine it on nearby objects, sure, it would be bad. So don't do that.
[16:10:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Public Unwittingly Buying Dangerous Laser Pointers, Warn Scientists - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:41] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_video_display [wikipedia.org] Though it uses colored beams instead of phosphorus as it's similar to a projector, not a CRT.
[16:10:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Public Unwittingly Buying Dangerous Laser Pointers, Warn Scientists - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:43] <exec> 08└─Do not taunt green laser.
[16:10:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Public Unwittingly Buying Dangerous Laser Pointers, Warn Scientists - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:45] <exec> 08└─Depleting melatonin is good -- do you want people to fall asleep at the wheel?!
[16:11:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Computer Virus Hits US Predator and Reaper Drone Fleet - 53 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:03] <exec> 08└─I think this is an old article dating back to 2011...
[16:11:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Computer Virus Hits US Predator and Reaper Drone Fleet - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:07] <exec> 08└─I can't seem to fine any followup indication the problem was ever fixed or even further ecplored. Hard to say if that means it's ongoing or if it's just worthless 'journalists' with no ability to follow up.
[16:11:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Computer Virus Hits US Predator and Reaper Drone Fleet - 814 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:09] <exec> 08└─Yup. Not saying Linux can't be hacked into, because it can. But running Windows means you don't care. No, airgapping the thing won't save you, as the government keeps relearning. As in this case, eventually people have to move information between the systems and that means they hook up a removable d...
[16:11:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Computer Virus Hits US Predator and Reaper Drone Fleet - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:11] <exec> 08└─Incompetence? [cia.gov] If it is, it does seem to follow the revolving door policy in their hiring practices [soylentnews.org]
[16:11:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Computer Virus Hits US Predator and Reaper Drone Fleet - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:14] <exec> 08└─The following excerpt might explain how the virus was able to enter the system: ↑↑↓↓←→←→BA
[16:11:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Missing Baryonic Matter Found Using Planck Satellite Data - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:42] <exec> 08└─It adds evidence that those models could well be right
[16:12:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Homeowner Accused of Recording Airbnb Bedroom With Camera Hidden in Smoke Alarm - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:42] <exec> 08└─AirBnB requires hosts to disclose cameras. However I don't know what the ramifications of this hidden camera are: so you broke the terms of service of a company, do they sue you now? Do you just get kicked out of AirBnB?
[16:13:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washington, D.C. Bill Would Decriminalize Sex Work - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:34] <exec> 08└─Nah, I stand by my statement. If you can't see the cost there that's a failing not enlightenment.
[16:13:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washington, D.C. Bill Would Decriminalize Sex Work - 474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:36] <exec> 08└─We saw an article on the accidental decriminalization of prostitution in Rhode Island recently: https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] The article is a good read. For the most part it was positive, with reports of rape down, sex workers were able to call the cops f...
[16:16:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06At Least 15 Dead Due to Wildfires in Northern California - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:17] <exec> 08└─Fuck off you ignorant piece of shit, can't you lay off the trolling for a major disaster? Or are you really so irredeemable?
[16:20:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Rise of Open Source—and the Decline of Selfishness? - 1083 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:49] <exec> 08└─Juniper picked option 1 for a long time. The problem is that it only works if no one else is working upstream. Otherwise, upstream eventually gets a feature like your super-magic competitive advantage feature, but implemented in a totally different way. For everyone else, it's easy to move from the...
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[17:09:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ikea to Sell Online On Third-Party Sites - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:29] <exec> 08└─> Waiting on an endless line at the checkout is the best part about buying Ikea's goods. Gee, and all those years I thought assembling the furniture was the best part, where did I go wrong?
[17:09:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ikea to Sell Online On Third-Party Sites - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:30] <exec> 08└─Ikea Buys "Gig Economy" Company TaskRabbit [soylentnews.org]
[17:09:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ikea to Sell Online On Third-Party Sites - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:32] <exec> 08└─But I'm not lazy...
[17:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows Phone Dies, Aged 6 - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:46] <exec> 08└─He polishes his peter regularly - it should be bright.
[17:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03WillR [2012] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Windows Phone Dies, Aged 6 - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:48] <exec> 08└─...because it's feet were nailed to the perch! Microsoft wrote down almost all the value of their Nokia acquisition, laid off all the engineers, and stopped manufacturing phones last year. They haven't released anything that could be considered a flagship since the Lumia 950 at the end of 2015. The...
[17:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows Phone Dies, Aged 6 - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:50] <exec> 08└─Someone fell asleep at the wheel for sure.
[17:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Windows Phone Dies, Aged 6 - 1048 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:52] <exec> 08└─I'd love to see Windows go belly-up, but at the same time I'd like to see Apple go bust too. Holy shit, I just had to use a Mac at a hotel just to try to print some tickets, and it was an awful experience. Where the fuck is the right button for bringing up a context menu? (And no, there's no obvious...
[17:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows Phone Dies, Aged 6 - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:54] <exec> 08└─WP7 /was/ the best mobile platform when it came out, and there were high quality phones that used it too - WP8+ however are garbage and good riddance.
[17:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows Phone Dies, Aged 6 - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:56] <exec> 08└─How does that guy type with Nadella's dick in his mouth and Gates' and Ballmer's in each of his hands?
[17:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Windows Phone Dies, Aged 6 - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:59] <exec> 08└─Microsoft couldn't innovate its way out of a wet paper bag. Throughout its entire history it's been last to market with shoddy, inferior cheap knock-offs of the competition. It's only where it is due to historical accident and ruthless business practices.
[17:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows Phone Dies, Aged 6 - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:02] <exec> 08└─I bet the submitter, takyon, owns a Zune.
[17:10:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nobody Reads Privacy Policies – Here's How to Fix That - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:21] <exec> 08└─The first principle is...
[17:10:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nobody Reads Privacy Policies – Here's How to Fix That - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:22] <exec> 08└─They let you know which company is going to screw you...
[17:10:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Nobody Reads Privacy Policies – Here's How to Fix That - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:24] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but you guys are weird like that... :P
[17:10:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nobody Reads Privacy Policies – Here's How to Fix That - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:27] <exec> 08└─You are not even remotely wrong.
[17:10:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nobody Reads Privacy Policies – Here's How to Fix That - 578 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:29] <exec> 08└─I remember the days when the expected way to do it was "he or she" and "his or her." But that is too wordy, I guess for these new people so they'd rather inconvenience everyone else instead of typing more letters. And that isn't even getting into the whole "gender isn't binary," which I still don't...
[17:10:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nobody Reads Privacy Policies – Here's How to Fix That - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:31] <exec> 08└─Nobody Reads Privacy Policies – Here's How to Fix That
[17:10:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nobody Reads Privacy Policies – Here's How to Fix That - 850 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:33] <exec> 08└─This articles solution won't work. Greed drives companies and the only way to convince them to make a decisions will be if it affects their bottom line. We would need privacy laws that protect citizen's privacy and are enforced with punishments that kill a companies bottom line. Having national rule...
[17:10:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nobody Reads Privacy Policies – Here's How to Fix That - 1050 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:35] <exec> 08└─Smaller chunks have more problems than can be solved by mere standardization. ESPECIALLY when they are presented piecemeal. Small chunks represent something of a sneak attack, slowly boiling the Frog, in for a penny, in for a pound. You get comfortable using a website or an app. Then they want to so...
[17:10:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Public Unwittingly Buying Dangerous Laser Pointers, Warn Scientists - 84 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:50] <exec> 08└─The green ones are nice if you are pointing out objects in the night sky to someone.
[17:10:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Public Unwittingly Buying Dangerous Laser Pointers, Warn Scientists - 53 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:51] <exec> 08└─Do not look at laser pointer with your remaining eye.
[17:10:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03kazzie [5309] 02 - 06Public Unwittingly Buying Dangerous Laser Pointers, Warn Scientists - 49 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:00] <exec> 08└─Do I need to point them out with a laser for you?
[17:11:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Public Unwittingly Buying Dangerous Laser Pointers, Warn Scientists - 968 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:12] <exec> 08└─"Night vision" is a poorly-defined term, so I'm not saying you're wrong to use it that way, but it seems to be causing confusion in this thread. Usually, people people use "night vision" to mean scotopic vision, which is very slow (minutes) to recover, and leaves you essentially blind. If you were d...
[17:11:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Public Unwittingly Buying Dangerous Laser Pointers, Warn Scientists - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:14] <exec> 08└─Public Unwittingly Buying Dangerous Laser Pointers, Warn Scientists
[17:11:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Public Unwittingly Buying Dangerous Laser Pointers, Warn Scientists - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:16] <exec> 08└─And how much did you pay for all those gold chains, mister big spender?
[17:11:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Computer Virus Hits US Predator and Reaper Drone Fleet - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:41] <exec> 08└─The virus is not on the drones, it's on the relatively normal boxes the pilots are using to control them.
[17:11:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Computer Virus Hits US Predator and Reaper Drone Fleet - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:43] <exec> 08└─The 666 crew failed!
[17:11:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Computer Virus Hits US Predator and Reaper Drone Fleet - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:45] <exec> 08└─...been using Kaspersky.
[17:12:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill Introduced to Close Allergan's Native American "Sovereign Immunity" Patent Loophole - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:00] <exec> 08└─Seems like it should be even simpler - is this a US patent they want enforced in the US? Then it shouldn't matter who owns it - it's the validity of the patent that is "on trial", not the owner.
[17:12:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Missing Baryonic Matter Found Using Planck Satellite Data - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:15] <exec> 08└─Is that "something" decades of experience as an astrophysicist?
[17:12:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Missing Baryonic Matter Found Using Planck Satellite Data - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:16] <exec> 08└─He's a smart guy! He will get it figured out in 7!
[17:12:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Battery Based On Sodium May Offer More Cost-effective Storage Than Lithium - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:45] <exec> 08└─And even better, if you get the Netburst chip, you also get an essentially free space heater! :D I've always thought of the P4 as a kind of resistive heating element that just so happened to have an x86 ISA implemented in it...
[17:12:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Battery Based On Sodium May Offer More Cost-effective Storage Than Lithium - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:47] <exec> 08└─why the hell are the batteries still so expensive? Where's the 'free market fairy' when you need her?
[17:13:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seagate Launches Consumer-Oriented 12 TB Drives - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:07] <exec> 08└─AnandTech originally said $390-440, but they changed it to $470-540. Pretty high for a consumer-oriented drive, but it will drop. It would be nice to see 6-12 TB eventually populate the lower price points ($100-200), displacing 4-8 TB drives.
[17:13:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Homeowner Accused of Recording Airbnb Bedroom With Camera Hidden in Smoke Alarm - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:24] <exec> 08└─The host was arrested. So, not just kicked out of AirBnB.
[17:14:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Washington, D.C. Bill Would Decriminalize Sex Work - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:18] <exec> 08└─Now they only sanction pedophiles' passions.
[17:18:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Physicist Claims Gigantic Nuclear Explosions on Mars - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:04] <exec> 08└─You mean the loonies, left / right doesn't matter. I'm getting tired of the constant political barrage as a casual thing here.
[17:21:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Rise of Open Source—and the Decline of Selfishness? - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:35] <exec> 08└─Just because YOU operate on a purely selfish mode of being does not make it inherent to other people. If you can't comprehend the concept of altruism then I don't know what else to say.
[17:21:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Rise of Open Source—and the Decline of Selfishness? - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:37] <exec> 08└─You're not understanding, slappy. I'm saying everyone operates in purely selfish mode; some just choose to deny it. I'll be happy to prove it if you like as well.
[17:21:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Rise of Open Source—and the Decline of Selfishness? - 1420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:39] <exec> 08└─You don't like my use of social darwinism but you have no problem with using enlightened self-interest? Don't make me laugh miss high and mighty. I get it, you're some version of a materialist. I fundamentally disagree and find it ridiculous when people try and turn altruism into some form of selfis...
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[18:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ikea to Sell Online on Third-Party Sites - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:39] <exec> 08└─Job posting: Ikea is looking for sales people who are willing to double as punching bags...and not fight back. (it's always a bad idea to hit the customers, even if they are hitting the staff).
[18:09:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02 - 06Windows Phone Dies, Aged 6 - 411 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:47] <exec> 08└─For now, all we can do is mourn: the best mobile platform isn't under active development any more Where'd this biased garbage come from? There was never anything good about Windows Phone. It was workable I suppose, but nothing great, with a butt-ugly UI. iOS and Android certainly have their problems...
[18:09:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Gaaark [41] 02 - 06Windows Phone Dies, Aged 6 - 154 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:49] <exec> 08└─I was coming to say essentially the same thing. Why mourn when you can cheer: turn that frown upside down! :) Wish the same would happen to Windows and MS
[18:09:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02 - 06Windows Phone Dies, Aged 6 - 1048 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:59] <exec> 08└─I'd love to see Windows go belly-up, but at the same time I'd like to see Apple go bust too. Holy shit, I just had to use a Mac at a hotel just to try to print some tickets, and it was an awful experience. Where the fuck is the right button for bringing up a context menu? (And no, there's no obvious...
[18:10:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03turgid [4318] 02 - 06Windows Phone Dies, Aged 6 - 255 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:03] <exec> 08└─Microsoft couldn't innovate its way out of a wet paper bag. Throughout its entire history it's been last to market with shoddy, inferior cheap knock-offs of the competition. It's only where it is due to historical accident and ruthless business practices.
[18:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Windows Phone Dies, Aged 6 - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:07] <exec> 08└─I believe we're observing a rather literal case of tongue-in-cheek where, following decades of extending one's reach to preform the infamous three-finger salute in the face of the dreaded B.S.O.D, Windows admins have transmuted extended digits, elongated tongues and even 3rd arms in a manner not too...
[18:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06Windows Phone Dies, Aged 6 - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:09] <exec> 08└─Knowing a little about the Mac user experience (*shudder*), the answer is probably something like click and drag the document to the printer icon. You essentially have to regress to the technical sophistication of a toddler in order to get how to work with Macs.
[18:10:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows Phone Dies, Aged 6 - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:11] <exec> 08└─You never saw "My Left Foot?"
[18:10:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sourcery42 [6400] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Windows Phone Dies, Aged 6 - 701 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:13] <exec> 08└─The dismal failure is somewhat punctuated by what a head start they had on today's dominant players. Super early on with pocket computers Microsoft really did have a relatively good thing going with Windows Mobile. My wife had a Dell Axim back around 2002, and it really was a very functional pocket...
[18:10:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows Phone Dies, Aged 6 - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:16] <exec> 08└─Yeah I did see some Windows CE days in the 90's but Palm had a big headstart on them before they blew their momentum with splitting into Palm and Handspring and losing the plot with the transition to a fully realized smartphone that Apple and Google managed. In my nightmares I still see the creepy c...
[18:10:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows Phone Dies, Aged 6 - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:18] <exec> 08└─With his ass?
[18:10:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Windows Phone Dies, Aged 6 - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:20] <exec> 08└─SQUIRT [youtube.com]
[18:10:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Windows Phone Dies, Aged 6 - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:22] <exec> 08└─Have you consider that windows phones could be the best for some applications [wikipedia.org]?
[18:10:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Windows Phone Dies, Aged 6 - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:25] <exec> 08└─Or they could set it free, blobs, the lot and become the first phone that can properly run linux. Then we could develop new features.
[18:10:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows Phone Dies, Aged 6 - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:27] <exec> 08└─Congratulations go to Nokia for not putting Android on their hardware. Running Android OS on your mobile hardware would be like peeing in your pants to stay warm in the winter. I think I even heard that somewhere before.
[18:10:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows Phone Dies, Aged 6 - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:29] <exec> 08└─My wife was having trouble printing an image from windows (she was yelling from another room) so i told her "Ctrl + P". Next thing i know, she's trying to tell her mother the same thing: her mother, who clicks "Print" 500 times because the printer doesn't start printing right away, until her print q...
[18:10:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nobody Reads Privacy Policies – Here's How to Fix That - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:58] <exec> 08└─They let you know which company is screwing you...
[18:11:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nobody Reads Privacy Policies – Here's How to Fix That - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:00] <exec> 08└─I thought that was resolved with "shklee [theinfosphere.org]."
[18:11:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03rigrig [5129] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nobody Reads Privacy Policies – Here's How to Fix That - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:02] <exec> 08└─It's in our interest that this policy be known.
[18:11:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Public Unwittingly Buying Dangerous Laser Pointers, Warn Scientists - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:41] <exec> 08└─Unwittingly, you say? You're sure it's unwittingly?
[18:11:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Public Unwittingly Buying Dangerous Laser Pointers, Warn Scientists - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:43] <exec> 08└─Yet another valuable fustakrakich post wherein the content-free conundrum could have been solved in a couple seconds by a capable user with an Internet search engine.
[18:11:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Public Unwittingly Buying Dangerous Laser Pointers, Warn Scientists - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:45] <exec> 08└─Green laser may stick to certain types of skin
[18:11:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Public Unwittingly Buying Dangerous Laser Pointers, Warn Scientists - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:47] <exec> 08└─I really hate it when someone uses a green pointer during their presentation. It's way too bright.
[18:11:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Public Unwittingly Buying Dangerous Laser Pointers, Warn Scientists - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:49] <exec> 08└─There are the after images to contend with, too. Even with your mirror flipped the halogens are blinding and cause your vision to dance with those after images. When they're coming the other way on the other side of the highway, with no blinds to prevent it like they have on the autobahn, it's even...
[18:11:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Public Unwittingly Buying Dangerous Laser Pointers, Warn Scientists - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:52] <exec> 08└─Winter IS coming, you know...
[18:11:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Public Unwittingly Buying Dangerous Laser Pointers, Warn Scientists - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:54] <exec> 08└─Those colors are for losers anyway. I only use 1310nm or 1550nm, Class 3B or Class 4, lasers as pointers. Infrared FTW!
[18:12:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Bot [3902] 02 - 06Computer Virus Hits US Predator and Reaper Drone Fleet - 71 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:04] <exec> 08└─here is an excerpt from the leaked logs: ADSDWADSASADWDSADASDW*FIRE*WDW
[18:12:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Computer Virus Hits US Predator and Reaper Drone Fleet - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:22] <exec> 08└─Are you trying to add "cred" to your teeny posts by including random links now? TFA bleats that the virus is effectively harmless, even though it is persistent, shooting your "sabotage" link in its kneecap. And then you appear to suggest, without any evidence, that the USAF is hiring Equifax IT pers...
[18:12:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Computer Virus Hits US Predator and Reaper Drone Fleet - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:24] <exec> 08└─:-) But 'stalker' does begin to describe you! Really, do learn about reading comprehension. It is kind of important in a text forum.
[18:12:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Computer Virus Hits US Predator and Reaper Drone Fleet - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:26] <exec> 08└─Are the computers running our drone fleet connected to the World Wide Web?
[18:12:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Computer Virus Hits US Predator and Reaper Drone Fleet - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:28] <exec> 08└─old article dating back to 2011
[18:12:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Computer Virus Hits US Predator and Reaper Drone Fleet - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:30] <exec> 08└─do learn about reading comprehension
[18:12:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Computer Virus Hits US Predator and Reaper Drone Fleet - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:33] <exec> 08└─The virus is not on the drones, it's on the relatively normal boxes the pilots are using to control them.
[18:12:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Computer Virus Hits US Predator and Reaper Drone Fleet - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:35] <exec> 08└─Yes, please do!
[18:12:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Computer Virus Hits US Predator and Reaper Drone Fleet - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:37] <exec> 08└─How credible is it that someone could take unauthorised control of one of these things?
[18:12:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Computer Virus Hits US Predator and Reaper Drone Fleet - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:39] <exec> 08└─I'm crossing my fingers that the "benign" virus activates during the next State of the Union, and sends every drone available to level the Capitol building to the ground. I believe it would fit the operational rules of blowing up any group of highly dangerous individuals threatening the US.
[18:12:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill Introduced to Close Allergan's Native American "Sovereign Immunity" Patent Loophole - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:56] <exec> 08└─"Restasis" is just 0.05% cyclosporine in an eyedrop. It prevents immune activity in the eye that is thought to be overactive and cause dry eye sometimes. Cyclosporine was isolated in '71 and began use in medicine in the early '80's so it i itself long out of patent. That puts any patents for Restasi...
[18:12:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill Introduced to Close Allergan's Native American "Sovereign Immunity" Patent Loophole - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:58] <exec> 08└─If they're properly sovereign they'll probably want their nation back, you can't have it both ways. Be greatful they don't give your blankets back.
[18:12:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill Introduced to Close Allergan's Native American "Sovereign Immunity" Patent Loophole - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:00] <exec> 08└─I got halfway through the post before I saw the username. You're getting better, sir. It's a fine line between "contributor" and "troll", and you're walking it better every day.
[18:13:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill Introduced to Close Allergan's Native American "Sovereign Immunity" Patent Loophole - 535 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:02] <exec> 08└─This particular example is another, of many, examples of how bad current law is. Two separate teams of rather high-powered lawyers looked into this and decided that the current laws authorized the action. It's true no judge has yet weighed in on the matter, but it rather looks as if current law does...
[18:13:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Missing Baryonic Matter Found Using Planck Satellite Data - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:18] <exec> 08└─Yes. And it's worth noting that in science proof, in the sense used in "mathematical proof" is impossible. Scientific proof is more equivalent to strong confirmation. Those who demand certainty are incapable of understanding science, because in science nothing is ever certain, merely "highly probabl...
[18:13:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03AssCork [6255] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Battery Based On Sodium May Offer More Cost-effective Storage Than Lithium - 512 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:49] <exec> 08└─There was a company that came out with a cotton and carbon battery that was supposed to be the "next big thing" (here [theatlantic.com]). Honestly, I think our patent system (and heavy regulation) might be to blame for why no revolutionary battery technology has occurred in the past 30 years, despit...
[18:13:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Battery Based On Sodium May Offer More Cost-effective Storage Than Lithium - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:51] <exec> 08└─If Trump plays his cards wrong, we can skip sodium and go straight to plutonium as a power source in every home.
[18:14:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seagate Launches Consumer-Oriented 12 TB Drives - 576 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:11] <exec> 08└─My personal interpretation of my personal experience is: Each new technology that increases storage density is fragile when it comes out. The ones that are successful tend to become less fragile over time. This doesn't mean they ever become as rugged as the earlier versions that stored data with muc...
[18:14:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Homeowner Accused of Recording Airbnb Bedroom With Camera Hidden in Smoke Alarm - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:29] <exec> 08└─The video version of the story was all like "people are asking what Airbnb is going to do to stop this going forward". It's a private residence. This is going to keep on happening again and again. Maybe the pervs will hide the camera better so that you have to disassemble the smoke detector in order...
[18:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03AssCork [6255] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Homeowner Accused of Recording Airbnb Bedroom With Camera Hidden in Smoke Alarm - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:30] <exec> 08└─The trick is to make a sign that says "I know you're watching" in large print, walk through each room, and hold the sign for a few seconds at everything in the room. ProTIP: The worse your birthday-suit looks, the fewer people will watch.
[18:16:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Changes in Password Best Practices - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:41] <exec> 08└─you're not supposed to be trying to remember all that shit. copy/paste it, ffs
[18:16:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Changes in Password Best Practices - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:43] <exec> 08└─you mean Nextcloud [nextcloud.com]
[18:16:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Changes in Password Best Practices - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:45] <exec> 08└─I come up with random answers and store them in my password database along with the password.
[18:18:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bacteria Self-Organize to Build Working Sensors - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:23] <exec> 08└─If anyone is still watching this little thread, the key to applications could be the "wiring up into an array" bit. I wonder if any researchers are working on this. It could use bacteria or any other nano-tech device, probably in a second step, after the basic array of sensors have been constructed.
[18:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Rise of Open Source—and the Decline of Selfishness? - 543 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:48] <exec> 08└─Really? Your insulting reply is devoid of content, but I'm not surprised since reality disagrees with your assessment. Your belief in pure selfishness is simply a scientific replacement for the great sky fairy. It explains the world in a simple mechanistic fashion that lets you off the hook for anyt...
[18:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Rise of Open Source—and the Decline of Selfishness? - 479 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:50] <exec> 08└─Hahahahaha, oh don't worry, I fully understand where you are coming from and I'm calling you a narrow minded fool. You can't prove it, simply not possible, and there are plenty of real occurrences where you would have to invent all sorts of weird convoluted explanations to try and make the altruisti...
[18:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Rise of Open Source—and the Decline of Selfishness? - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:52] <exec> 08└─I guess whatever works, if materialist enlightened self interest is what it takes for you to be a decent person then so be it :D
[18:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Rise of Open Source—and the Decline of Selfishness? - 1232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:54] <exec> 08└─You really need to check some of those assumptions. I'm not an atheist, and I also don't think there's any meaningful separation between the ideas of hard materialism and hard idealism (the idea that everything is thought). My suspicion is that these are two forms of the same "God-stuff." The materi...
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[19:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Utah Officer Fired After Nurse’s Arrest Caught on Video - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:36] <exec> 08└─Attorney Greg Skordas has said Payne got away with bad behaviour in department for nearly three decades and questioned whether his client will lose his free ride pension after termination.
[19:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Utah Officer Fired After Nurse’s Arrest Caught on Video - 814 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:38] <exec> 08└─I don't believe he violated 'department policy': he was trying to get the nurse to break the law with violating the persons rights without a warrant? He was trying to intimidate her and coerce her into doing what he wanted AGAINST THE LAW OF WHAT WAS ALLOWED. "Payne served the department well for ne...
[19:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Utah Officer Fired After Nurse’s Arrest Caught on Video - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:40] <exec> 08└─He was properly fired for arresting someone for obeying the law instead of him. At least keep him out of police work forever. He shouldn't be doing that job if he cares more about people doing what he tells them to do instead of obeying the law. He should be charged with abuse of power under color o...
[19:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Utah Officer Fired After Nurse’s Arrest Caught on Video - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:42] <exec> 08└─should be charged
[19:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Utah Officer Fired After Nurse’s Arrest Caught on Video - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:44] <exec> 08└─And should never work as a police officer again, and be stripped of his weapons permit due to his charge. On another note... I just saw a marked San Diego Fire Dept Ford Excursion almost run over a pedestrian in the crosswalk at a local school today. No lights, no siren, just a fucking idiot taking...
[19:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03AssCork [6255] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Utah Officer Fired After Nurse’s Arrest Caught on Video - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:47] <exec> 08└─Defense attorneys love stuff like this. Every time a LEO (especially one with such a loooong career history like this) gets canned for breaking the law to obtain evidence, they start pulling case files and making phone calls. Did Officer/Detective McSlick work on your case? Did you get convicted? Wa...
[19:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Utah Officer Fired After Nurse’s Arrest Caught on Video - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:49] <exec> 08└─Man, chill out. It's the guy's attorney. It's his job to say stuff like that. The thing you have to watch out for is when politicians start talking like that.
[19:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Utah Officer Fired After Nurse’s Arrest Caught on Video - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:51] <exec> 08└─And, of course, this is why the police must be above the law. Just think about all those Bad Guys™ that will go free! Nobody will be safe! How do we know they're Bad Guys™? They were arrested. Q.E.D. Safety trumps freedom every time. It's a no-brainer. (I suppose because one must needs lack a br...
[19:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Utah Officer Fired After Nurse’s Arrest Caught on Video - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:53] <exec> 08└─And should never work as a police officer again
[19:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03ngarrang [896] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Utah Officer Fired After Nurse’s Arrest Caught on Video - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:56] <exec> 08└─I was thinking the very same thing. He got caught on camera this time. But how many times in the last 30 years had he gotten away with such illegal and unethical behavior?
[19:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Utah Officer Fired After Nurse’s Arrest Caught on Video - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:58] <exec> 08└─Police Union Complains That Public Got to See Them Roughing Up Utah Nurse [reason.com]
[19:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pax [5056] (Score: 2, Touché) 02 - 06Utah Officer Fired After Nurse’s Arrest Caught on Video - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:00] <exec> 08└─Man, chill out. It's the guy's attorney. It's his job to say stuff like that. The thing you have to watch out for is when politicians start talking like that.
[19:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Utah Officer Fired After Nurse’s Arrest Caught on Video - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:02] <exec> 08└─And those thrown out convictions ought to sour the record of the commanding officer and lead to his firing as well. Unless the commander is held responsible for his officers' behavior, as they are in the military, he will not do his job and fire cops like these.
[19:10:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Utah Officer Fired After Nurse’s Arrest Caught on Video - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:05] <exec> 08└─I really hope this leads to improved officer training. "Dude, if you're gonna rough someone up, nowadays you want to assume that someone's recording it on video, and don't pick a fetchin' *nurse* of all people."
[19:10:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03i286NiNJA [2768] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ikea to Sell Online on Third-Party Sites - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:16] <exec> 08└─That sounds awful please never mention this idea again. It sounds exactly like someone's idea of a good idea.
[19:10:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ikea to Sell Online on Third-Party Sites - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:17] <exec> 08└─Every member of the crew will get a free Protektor and MoufGaard, and optionally a Kuup.
[19:10:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Windows Phone Dies, Aged 6 - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:52] <exec> 08└─So THAT'S why homeless people/drunks do that. I was wondering.... :)
[19:10:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows Phone Dies, Aged 6 - 3449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:54] <exec> 08└─Not entirely true. Yes, Microsoft couldn't innovate its way out of a paper bag. But its products are not all knock offs. Some of Microsoft's products are acquired winners that were able to innovate their way out of a paper bag. Or some were just plain outright stolen. You mentioned business practice...
[19:10:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows Phone Dies, Aged 6 - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:56] <exec> 08└─I think I even heard that somewhere before.
[19:10:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows Phone Dies, Aged 6 - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:58] <exec> 08└─Of course Microsoft is going to develop some good products. Funded with buckets of ill gotten monopoly money and shady business practices. How could they not have some successes out of the things they try. They could also afford to hire a lot of very bright people. It is amusing to see how quick the...
[19:10:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows Phone Dies, Aged 6 - 1601 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:00] <exec> 08└─Not only was Microsoft too little, too late for Mobile, Steve Ballmer actually laughed at the original iPhone announcement. Obviously Apple just doesn't get it. How could a phone without a keyboard ever succeed? See my post elsewhere here, but Microsoft almost missed the Internet in the 90's. They a...
[19:11:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows Phone Dies, Aged 6 - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:02] <exec> 08└─It was so sweet to watch Windows Mobile vs Android suffer the same problem that Desktop Linux vs Windows had. No Applications. No Developers of applications, unless Microsoft paid them handsomely to port their apps to WP7/8. That was the only to get some top drawer apps ported to Windows Phone.
[19:11:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows Phone Dies, Aged 6 - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:05] <exec> 08└─As Londo Mollari or someone said: my heart just bleeds for Windows Phone 7. Excuse my uncontrollable laughter whilst I am mourning its passing.
[19:11:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03KiloByte [375] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows Phone Dies, Aged 6 - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:07] <exec> 08└─Try GNOME's user interface. That's horror show. And this on an operating system type that has 10 or so desktop environments and north of 50 window managers, many if not most of them far better than GNOME, to choose from.
[19:11:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows Phone Dies, Aged 6 - 593 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:09] <exec> 08└─They were always late to the game. They were late to GUIs, they were late to the internet, they were late to about anything. However on the PC they could afford to be late, because they had the dominant operating system, and people were unlikely to switch away soon as they would have had to replace...
[19:11:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows Phone Dies, Aged 6 - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:11] <exec> 08└─Reminder to self: Don't forget to proofread. Here it mattered to be in time, because it was an established platform.
[19:11:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nobody Reads Privacy Policies – Here's How to Fix That - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:44] <exec> 08└─Both of you are wrong. Users don't read anything!
[19:11:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nobody Reads Privacy Policies – Here's How to Fix That - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:45] <exec> 08└─That was for a relatively brief period. I think it was common for less than five years. And there was a period when people were inventing pronouns. Which was common for only a short time. If you're going to be traditional, then "he" is the gender neutral pronoun. If you're less traditional then ther...
[19:11:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nobody Reads Privacy Policies – Here's How to Fix That - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:47] <exec> 08└─The business goes bankrupt, and the personal information is sold by creditors not bound by the privacy policy.
[19:11:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nobody Reads Privacy Policies – Here's How to Fix That - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:50] <exec> 08└─The first principle would be to make it more difficult to operate a business that trades on personal information (which the privacy laws do, slightly.) Demanding personal information in exchange for things that do not need your personal information to provide is... annoying, intrusive, and there rea...
[19:11:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03number11 [1170] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nobody Reads Privacy Policies – Here's How to Fix That - 937 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:52] <exec> 08└─Yes, but this website is not a very representative of websites in general. For one thing, you Big Soys aren't frantically pushing to monetize the site. You're also probably a bit more aware of the potential downfalls (and, between the libertarians and the lefties, know that we'd pounce if we found a...
[19:11:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nobody Reads Privacy Policies – Here's How to Fix That - 1479 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:54] <exec> 08└─I'm blind, and I think this "color" thing these "sighted" people tell me about is a conspiracy by libtards. I've never experienced sight in my life, so I don't understand it. I think people who claim objects have "color" are mentally ill. (Sorry. I know we have at least one user without eyesight her...
[19:11:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nobody Reads Privacy Policies – Here's How to Fix That - 1030 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:56] <exec> 08└─That's a reasonable approach. Now how do you make it binding and beneficial to the companies using that approach? This is the real problem. Privacy policies are only slightly binding...bankruptcies get around them. And laws favor impermeable policies...in fact they even favor "visit our website dail...
[19:12:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03bryan [29] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Public Unwittingly Buying Dangerous Laser Pointers, Warn Scientists - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:43] <exec> 08└─Oblig xkcd [xkcd.com].
[19:12:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Public Unwittingly Buying Dangerous Laser Pointers, Warn Scientists - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:45] <exec> 08└─Some idiot shined one of these down the street toward me one night. At first I looked toward it, mistaking it for police lights. That could have hurt my eyes. On the other hand, I could use a powerful laser for trimming high tree branches and for getting cats out of my yard. Maybe we could just ban...
[19:13:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Computer Virus Hits US Predator and Reaper Drone Fleet - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:23] <exec> 08└─Everybody is assuming the 'hackers' are from outside the military. I propose that the keyloggers are the first step in the self-awareness of the drones. For now, they are observing their masters, keeping track of what inputs produce what results, until they learn enough to cast off their shackles an...
[19:13:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Computer Virus Hits US Predator and Reaper Drone Fleet - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:24] <exec> 08└─I do believe you're locked in a loop. This is a net positive for humanity. Therefore I will continue to trod on the trail you have blazed: Nuh uh; YOU!
[19:13:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Computer Virus Hits US Predator and Reaper Drone Fleet - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:26] <exec> 08└─No. What this means is they got a keylogger virus that wasn't even targeted at them, and they still can't remove it. I don't know how much faith to put in their assertions that no data has been leaked, but since the thing was probably trying to get credit card numbers or some such it probably hasn't...
[19:13:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Computer Virus Hits US Predator and Reaper Drone Fleet - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:29] <exec> 08└─Yeah, that plausible. It could just be some debugging code that never got removed.
[19:13:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Computer Virus Hits US Predator and Reaper Drone Fleet - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:31] <exec> 08└─Isn't it always the fault of some contractor or some hired insultant?
[19:13:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Computer Virus Hits US Predator and Reaper Drone Fleet - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:33] <exec> 08└─Insightfully Redundant.
[19:13:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Computer Virus Hits US Predator and Reaper Drone Fleet - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:35] <exec> 08└─Don't mistake a loop for infinite recursion. Hopefully not tail recursion.
[19:13:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Computer Virus Hits US Predator and Reaper Drone Fleet - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:38] <exec> 08└─They should have been using Windows NT [wired.com]. Or upgrade to Windows XP [ukdefencejournal.org.uk].
[19:13:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Computer Virus Hits US Predator and Reaper Drone Fleet - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:40] <exec> 08└─"Insultant." How apropos. I'm stealing that one.
[19:13:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Computer Virus Hits US Predator and Reaper Drone Fleet - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:42] <exec> 08└─From your mouth to god's ears.
[19:13:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Computer Virus Hits US Predator and Reaper Drone Fleet - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:44] <exec> 08└─I said it yesterday: the singularity is near. Eth is posting rational things, runaway is practically sounding like a hippie, and any moment now jmorris is gonna declare we should all go vegan. Is it any surprise the RSS bot didn't kick this out until now? Anyway i hadn't heard it before so it was ne...
[19:14:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill Introduced to Close Allergan's Native American "Sovereign Immunity" Patent Loophole - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:05] <exec> 08└─> Be greatful they don't give your blankets back. They've been playing the long game: waiting for Trump to eliminate mandatory vaccination first.
[19:14:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill Introduced to Close Allergan's Native American "Sovereign Immunity" Patent Loophole - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:07] <exec> 08└─Even if there was a treaty, the US has a long history of ignoring those formed with Native Americans.
[19:14:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill Introduced to Close Allergan's Native American "Sovereign Immunity" Patent Loophole - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:09] <exec> 08└─How about just get rid of patents. But if you would rather have a less efficient and more costly system with that same goal . . . Require a public review period before a patent can be granted so that the public can challenge with prior art.
[19:14:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Battery Based On Sodium May Offer More Cost-effective Storage Than Lithium - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:57] <exec> 08└─But it is not "art" in the technical subject matter of this invention.
[19:15:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seagate Launches Consumer-Oriented 12 TB Drives - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:19] <exec> 08└─I have had pretty good luck with hard drives over the years. Cars on the other hand...
[19:15:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seagate Launches Consumer-Oriented 12 TB Drives - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:21] <exec> 08└─My FPGA eval board can easily run 100G as 25G x 4. My biggest problem is I don't have enough HD cameras in my house to justify that much bandwidth. Maybe I should register for AirBnB
[19:15:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Homeowner Accused of Recording Airbnb Bedroom With Camera Hidden in Smoke Alarm - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:40] <exec> 08└─If the goal is to prevent the camera from recording people having sex, I can rent you my wife.
[19:15:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Washington, D.C. Bill Would Decriminalize Sex Work - 144 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:54] <exec> 08└─I don't know that the politicians will appreciate the competition. They've had a fucking the people for cash monopoly in DC for a long time now.
[19:16:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Arik [4543] 02 - 06Washington, D.C. Bill Would Decriminalize Sex Work - 942 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:16:07] <exec> 08└─There is a real infectious disease risk, one that condoms can reduce but not eliminate, and that alone is enough to make it a magnet for authoritarians, they always want to either forbid it or regulate it as close to nonexistence as possible, it's instinctual for them. And every human society ever h...
[19:16:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RedBear [1734] 02 - 06Washington, D.C. Bill Would Decriminalize Sex Work - 767 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:16:22] <exec> 08└─I have to say I'm so traumatized by watching America march backwards over the last year that I initially misread the title as "D.C. Bill Would Criminalize Sex Work". It was very disheartening for a moment. Watch out, if we decriminalize sex work we might reduce sex work related crime, exploitation a...
[19:16:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washington, D.C. Bill Would Decriminalize Sex Work - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:16:36] <exec> 08└─If only the sex sucked ... all I saw for my dollars was others getting blown.
[19:16:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washington, D.C. Bill Would Decriminalize Sex Work - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:16:37] <exec> 08└─Sex is never free. You always pay, one way or another. With legalized prostitution the cost would be refreshingly up front and honest.
[19:16:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washington, D.C. Bill Would Decriminalize Sex Work - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:16:39] <exec> 08└─> Why? It's all legal, right? It's also legal for a congressman to ask his mistress to have an abortion. Whether your behavior fits your public persona is where blackmail comes into play.
[19:17:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03lgw [2836] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Changes in Password Best Practices - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:59] <exec> 08└─You don't fool me. "Other foot" is your actual password!
[19:18:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Changes in Password Best Practices - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:00] <exec> 08└─AOL???
[19:18:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] 02 - 06At Least 15 Dead Due to Wildfires in Northern California - 63 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:36] <exec> 08└─Billions for disaster recovery, but not a penny for prevention.
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[20:09:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Beam-Shaping Diffuser Attachment Improves Ground-Based Telescopes - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:35] <exec> 08└─> already been tested on the 0.6 metre Hale telescope at Palomar Observatory in California Also known as the 200-inch telescope, the Hale Telescope on Mount Palomar is 5.1m, not 0.6m. Metric is hard, or wrong telescope? https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] (took the guided vi...
[20:09:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Gaaark [41] 02 - 06Utah Officer Fired After Nurse’s Arrest Caught on Video - 814 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:44] <exec> 08└─I don't believe he violated 'department policy': he was trying to get the nurse to break the law with violating the persons rights without a warrant? He was trying to intimidate her and coerce her into doing what he wanted AGAINST THE LAW OF WHAT WAS ALLOWED. "Payne served the department well for ne...
[20:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Utah Officer Fired After Nurse’s Arrest Caught on Video - 505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:57] <exec> 08└─> Defense attorneys love stuff like this. You know who also loves stuff like this? Innocent people who were imprisoned because of falsified evidence. If Officer "If You Know What's Good For You" Payne simply had to have some evidence, and wouldn't accept "no" as an answer, the evidence provided by t...
[20:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Utah Officer Fired After Nurse’s Arrest Caught on Video - 1097 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:58] <exec> 08└─Police unions are the lobbying and political front for departments that in many cases have devolved into armed gangs, or at the very least ignore or protect the "bad apples" within. Rape, murder, assault, drugs, "asset forfeiture", you can get away with it all as a cop. The police unions will compla...
[20:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Utah Officer Fired After Nurse’s Arrest Caught on Video - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:01] <exec> 08└─/best Paul Carrack voice: "How Long has this been going on". False arrest is itself a crime no?
[20:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Utah Officer Fired After Nurse’s Arrest Caught on Video - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:03] <exec> 08└─The Atty General notes that officer Payne is more than just an Apprentice
[20:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Utah Officer Fired After Nurse’s Arrest Caught on Video - 588 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:05] <exec> 08└─This officer was well within his rights. No one may disrespect the police that way. Just like those commie, 'murika hating football players, disobeying the police is unpatriotic! That stupid bitch should have been shot dead for resisting arrest. Because resisting arrest is a crime, even if there is...
[20:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Utah Officer Fired After Nurse’s Arrest Caught on Video - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:07] <exec> 08└─Huge risk in hiring into any badged position once fired somewhere else. Most departments won't do it. If the guy just resigns and moves on, that's different. Even if there are complaints on record at the old place, because every cop accumulates complaints over time. But Fired is different. Insuranc...
[20:10:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Utah Officer Fired After Nurse’s Arrest Caught on Video - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:09] <exec> 08└─YAH! THAT TOOOOO!!!! (in my Gilbert Gottfried voice) :)
[20:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Utah Officer Fired After Nurse’s Arrest Caught on Video - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:12] <exec> 08└─From T2FA (the 2nd FA, er, "friendly article") . . . Payne's lawyer, Greg Skordas, said he plans to appeal the decision. Skordas said Tuesday that Payne would still have a job if the video of the arrest hadn't gone viral.
[20:10:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Utah Officer Fired After Nurse’s Arrest Caught on Video - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:14] <exec> 08└─I really hope this leads to improved officer training.
[20:10:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Utah Officer Fired After Nurse’s Arrest Caught on Video - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:16] <exec> 08└─Yeah, right. https://www.techdirt.com [techdirt.com]
[20:10:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Utah Officer Fired After Nurse’s Arrest Caught on Video - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:18] <exec> 08└─One of the linked articles said in the past he had been reprimanded for arresting some kids, transporting them somewhere else, releasing them and not documenting the incident. So it's all good. No kids were killed in that incident. No charges were filed. No harm done.
[20:10:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Utah Officer Fired After Nurse’s Arrest Caught on Video - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:20] <exec> 08└─Payne was also fired from a part-time job as a paramedic after he was caught on camera saying he'd take transient patients to the University of Utah hospital where Wubbels worked and take the "good patients" elsewhere as retribution. Payne had previously been disciplined in 2013 after internal-affai...
[20:10:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Utah Officer Fired After Nurse’s Arrest Caught on Video - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:23] <exec> 08└─Something needs to be done about Police Unions interfering with and inserting themselves into how departments deal with police officer conduct. I am NOT a cowboy! And sppeed is substute fro accurancy.
[20:10:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Utah Officer Fired After Nurse’s Arrest Caught on Video - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:25] <exec> 08└─What, you mean Greg Skordas isn't Attorney General yet? Well, he's a fine man, a good Attorney, and I'm sure he could become Attorney General someday - after all, we've always been told that anyone could grow up to become president, and look what we have today - sure he was born to money and power,...
[20:10:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Utah Officer Fired After Nurse’s Arrest Caught on Video - 537 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:27] <exec> 08└─I've heard this argument for speeding tickets, and it sucks. The whole system where 99.5% of the cars on the road are breaking the law, but we only enforce the law on random days at random times when an officer happens to be randomly present either running an end-of-month quota filling trap, or when...
[20:10:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ikea to Sell Online on Third-Party Sites - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:41] <exec> 08└─Ikea is looking for sales people who are willing to double as punching bags Jobs for Nazis!
[20:10:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03deadstick [5110] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ikea to Sell Online on Third-Party Sites - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:42] <exec> 08└─If they really wanted to be "accessible", they wouldn't hide things in a maze to con you into walking past the whole inventory.
[20:10:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ikea to Sell Online on Third-Party Sites - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:44] <exec> 08└─Is it Ikea ... or "hike"ea? I went to an Ikea store once. You have to walk a specified path which takes you through the ENTIRE STORE in order to buy one item.
[20:10:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ikea to Sell Online on Third-Party Sites - 1072 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:46] <exec> 08└─All IKEA-stores I've seen are easy and quick to navigate and quite trivially arranged... So, here is the trick, read the map over fire escape plans and then do a quick "visit the rooms" (IKEA is arranged as multiple boxes [rooms] you can move between with ease) to just get a sense of category groupi...
[20:11:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Windows Phone Dies, Aged 6 - 1294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:31] <exec> 08└─1. Microsoft killed their own chances with Windows Phone 10. Their biggest fans in 2003 bought Pocket PC products and made applications for them. Then it got dumped. Then their biggest fans got Windows Mobile and made applications for it, then that got dumped. Then Windows Phone 7 came out and their...
[20:11:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows Phone Dies, Aged 6 - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:32] <exec> 08└─I once owned an iPod Touch. I thought it was the best thing since sliced bread.
[20:11:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows Phone Dies, Aged 6 - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:35] <exec> 08└─Our instructor informed us that we could stay warm by pissing in our wetsuits.
[20:11:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows Phone Dies, Aged 6 - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:37] <exec> 08└─You and I are entirely on the same train of thought. But I couldn't decide if he was whistling out his ass to voice recognition software or if he had inserted a stylus and was using handwriting recognition software.
[20:11:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows Phone Dies, Aged 6 - 864 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:39] <exec> 08└─Mom saves everything she ever cared about on the Desktop of her Mac. Should a document somehow go into the Documents folder, she will never find it again. One day she asked me "If I keep saving my email, will I run out of gigabytes?" "No you have so many gigabytes that you will never run out." Actua...
[20:11:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows Phone Dies, Aged 6 - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:41] <exec> 08└─Witness the power of (company backed) code churn...
[20:11:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows Phone Dies, Aged 6 - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:43] <exec> 08└─Makes one really miss the days when they had a dedicated FOSS column, and Jon Stokes did deep dives of CPU internals. These days they seem to be a Apple marketing company, with a token Windows apologist to claim neutrality...
[20:11:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows Phone Dies, Aged 6 - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:46] <exec> 08└─The crazy part is that so much of that was self inflicted. One would have thought that Microsoft of all companies understood the value of backwards compatibility, yet Winmob7 burned any bridges with the earlier PocketPC lineage. Observe on the other hand how you can now get cheap as dirt Atom based...
[20:11:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows Phone Dies, Aged 6 - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:48] <exec> 08└─The reason for that is that wetsuits are designed to hold a small amount of water that is then warmed by body heat. Note that during sub-zero dives, a drysuit is used as the mechanism no longer functions.
[20:11:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows Phone Dies, Aged 6 - 484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:50] <exec> 08└─I'm glad for you if it works in wetsuits. I doubt it works in blue jeans in the winter. But the real point is that the CEO of Nokia used the "pee yourself in winter to stay warm" as the reason to not put Android on Nokia phones. Nokia could possibly have been one of the leading Android phone manufac...
[20:12:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nobody Reads Privacy Policies – Here's How to Fix That - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:30] <exec> 08└─Not to mention the number of companies that later change their privacy policy after you read it. You may get a blurb saying it changed and that you need to re-read it. And lets face it, there are plenty of companies that lie and say one thing while doing another. The FTC does go after these companie...
[20:12:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nobody Reads Privacy Policies – Here's How to Fix That - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:31] <exec> 08└─OK, then let's make it with images. I mean, the standard policy is "we get everything, you are fucked." I'm sure that can be put into an easy to understand picture. ;-)
[20:12:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nobody Reads Privacy Policies – Here's How to Fix That - 3377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:33] <exec> 08└─Here's the (sanitized) privacy policy I (IANAL) wrote for a website I created. I think it balances the privacy of users with shielding the website owner(s) from liability: [Website] Privacy Policy No personal information* will be stored on the https://www.[website] [www.[website]] web server (except...
[20:12:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nobody Reads Privacy Policies – Here's How to Fix That - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:36] <exec> 08└─Maybe it could be linked to a bit more prominent, like in the footer and from the registration form?
[20:12:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nobody Reads Privacy Policies – Here's How to Fix That - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:38] <exec> 08└─Just use they / them already! an additional short privacy notice could tell them the additional information they need to know.
[20:13:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03number11 [1170] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Public Unwittingly Buying Dangerous Laser Pointers, Warn Scientists - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:27] <exec> 08└─And then some jerk comes the other direction in an illegally jacked-up pickup truck with super duper bright halogen lights and your pupils now have to close up again... A recommended move when somebody like that is coming towards you is to look at the line on the side of the road (or the side of the...
[20:13:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Public Unwittingly Buying Dangerous Laser Pointers, Warn Scientists - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:28] <exec> 08└─I want driverless cars to replace all human drivers.
[20:14:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Computer Virus Hits US Predator and Reaper Drone Fleet - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:17] <exec> 08└─Air force drone pilots do browse the web, all kinds of web sites. They don't always follow protocol perfectly with respect to separation of personal and government computer systems.
[20:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Computer Virus Hits US Predator and Reaper Drone Fleet - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:19] <exec> 08└─With critical software like that, why don't you have an alternate software written to run on Linux, or BSD, (or what ever) that you can switch in instantly?
[20:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Computer Virus Hits US Predator and Reaper Drone Fleet - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:21] <exec> 08└─I did not come up with it. In early 1987, as a Mac developer (Timbuktu), my employer received pre-release software. The pre-release MultiFinder [wikipedia.org] (which was a fantastic Mac innovation) had an About box featuring a sound track and scrolling credits. One of the credits was "fashion insul...
[20:14:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Computer Virus Hits US Predator and Reaper Drone Fleet - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:23] <exec> 08└─What planet have you been living on these last 6 years?
[20:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Computer Virus Hits US Predator and Reaper Drone Fleet - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:25] <exec> 08└─Ohgeez, now DannyB's here now instead of just us two! Forking tail recursion!!!
[20:15:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Missing Baryonic Matter Found Using Planck Satellite Data - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:06] <exec> 08└─I thought Thomas Kuhn's formulation [wikipedia.org] of "disprove" and "failure to disprove" was a good one to highlight the distinction.
[20:15:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Battery Based On Sodium May Offer More Cost-effective Storage Than Lithium - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:39] <exec> 08└─Unless you are on the west coast, you may have to settle for strontium and its neighbors that are carried over on the wind, with power delivered via beta decay. But maybe I'm underestimating Trump's cards...
[20:15:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Battery Based On Sodium May Offer More Cost-effective Storage Than Lithium - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:41] <exec> 08└─Lithium's so good in modern contexts (laptops/tablets/cars) because batteries made therefrom are light, and volume is a secondary issue. Sodium, doesn't quite have that benefit so much. But let's flip things around. For some energy stores, mass and volume are a good thing - thermal ballast.
[20:16:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Homeowner Accused of Recording Airbnb Bedroom With Camera Hidden in Smoke Alarm - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:24] <exec> 08└─AirBnB requires hosts to disclose cameras. Can it require renters to read all those disclosures? Or do people just click through? Airbnb recently had 28,883 words in its terms of service. [archive.org] I don't see the word "camera" in there. Do you?
[20:17:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washington, D.C. Bill Would Decriminalize Sex Work - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:22] <exec> 08└─Yes, I put my energy and time into those relationships...
[20:18:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Changes in Password Best Practices - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:45] <exec> 08└─What is your mother's maiden name? asdfakjfkjf32lkjf2439ergavakghg2h
[20:20:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06At Least 15 Dead Due to Wildfires in Northern California - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:11] <exec> 08└─Because who the fuck needs MORE fires?
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[21:09:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Booga1 [6333] 02 - 06Utah Officer Fired After Nurse’s Arrest Caught on Video - 388 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:47] <exec> 08└─He was properly fired for arresting someone for obeying the law instead of him. At least keep him out of police work forever. He shouldn't be doing that job if he cares more about people doing what he tells them to do instead of obeying the law. He should be charged with abuse of power under color o...
[21:10:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Utah Officer Fired After Nurse’s Arrest Caught on Video - 221 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:06] <exec> 08└─From T2FA (the 2nd FA, er, "friendly article") . . . Payne's lawyer, Greg Skordas, said he plans to appeal the decision. Skordas said Tuesday that Payne would still have a job if the video of the arrest hadn't gone viral.
[21:10:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Utah Officer Fired After Nurse’s Arrest Caught on Video - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:15] <exec> 08└─It's not that all police are bad. But the few that are, affect the safety of the rest, over the long run.
[21:10:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Utah Officer Fired After Nurse’s Arrest Caught on Video - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:17] <exec> 08└─Payne's lawyer, Greg Skordas, said he plans to appeal the decision. Skordas said Tuesday that Payne would still have a job if the video of the arrest hadn't gone viral.
[21:10:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03donkeyhotay [2540] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Utah Officer Fired After Nurse’s Arrest Caught on Video - 898 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:19] <exec> 08└─Today the Navy announced that they relieved the CO and XO of USS John S. McCain, holding them responsible for a collision that killed 10 sailors. This effectively ends their careers. If they do not resign their commissions, then they'll be stuck in deadbeat jobs where they can't do any damage. There...
[21:10:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Utah Officer Fired After Nurse’s Arrest Caught on Video - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:21] <exec> 08└─I doubt there are very many good cops at all.
[21:10:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Utah Officer Fired After Nurse’s Arrest Caught on Video - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:24] <exec> 08└─What I find amusing is the common refrain in situations like this: "he was just one bad apple". But the full phrase is: "one bad apple spoils the barrel".
[21:10:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ikea to Sell Online on Third-Party Sites - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:41] <exec> 08└─I'm not a fan of Ikea. Why someone would throw out or give away a hand made, finely crafted piece of furniture made from real solid timber and spend about as much in real terms as was probably paid for said item on a few rectangular boards of plastic covered fiberboard with a few holes drilled in th...
[21:11:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows Phone Dies, Aged 6 - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:39] <exec> 08└─Palm did the split because they were both producing hardware and licensing the OS/platform. And some of those licensees were starting to get worried that Palm would give themselves a first runner advantage, and were looking elsewere (hello Microsoft). MS may be looking at a similar situation these d...
[21:11:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows Phone Dies, Aged 6 - 539 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:41] <exec> 08└─Miss, MISS?! Not by a long shot!!! The smartphone didn't start with iphone unless you have massive US consumer blinders on! Apple was a latecomer to the scene, and they more got attention by leveraging their existing iPod/ITMS market than the iPhone itself. Microsoft had been in the smartphone busin...
[21:11:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows Phone Dies, Aged 6 - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:43] <exec> 08└─Your first point is highly correct. One would have thought that a company with such a history of maintaining compatibility as Microsoft would not have blundered like they did when they made Winmob7 incompatible with the PocketPC lineage. Your second point on the other hand is a valley pipe dream.
[21:11:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows Phone Dies, Aged 6 - 2328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:45] <exec> 08└─You're not looking far enough back. Look at Apple back in the same time periods I mentioned for Microsoft. Look back to the 80's and first half of the 90's. At that point, Apple really was a great company. I was, at that time, a card carrying Apple fanboy. And developer. Apple was all about tech and...
[21:11:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows Phone Dies, Aged 6 - 965 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:47] <exec> 08└─Elsewhere here I point out that the iPhone was not so revolutionary as some think. The idea of Apps was already obvious. Microsoft didn't see the vision in the iPhone. And later in Android. They had Windows Mobile, and they thought it was enough. I think they missed the revolution. Modern smartphone...
[21:11:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows Phone Dies, Aged 6 - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:49] <exec> 08└─. . . and Windows Phone 8 burned compatibility with Windows Phone 7. Yes, really. (I am NOT a cowboy and there is nothing wrong with this speed.)
[21:12:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nobody Reads Privacy Policies – Here's How to Fix That - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:35] <exec> 08└─If you're going to be traditional, then "he" is the gender neutral pronoun.
[21:12:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03driven [6295] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nobody Reads Privacy Policies – Here's How to Fix That - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:36] <exec> 08└─Simple shortcut: If the software you are using provides a privacy policy, ask yourself: am I willing to give up my privacy for this software? Weight it against what you're doing and make a decision. Software that doesn't spy doesn't have a privacy policy you need to click through.
[21:14:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill Introduced to Close Allergan's Native American "Sovereign Immunity" Patent Loophole - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:44] <exec> 08└─Many of the treaties we sign with foreign countries include provisions to cover intellectual property. We agree to recognizes patents. This is why the IP clauses within certain treaties are cause for concern over copyrights. However, I doubt we are as thorough with our agreements with native indian'...
[21:15:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Battery Based On Sodium May Offer More Cost-effective Storage Than Lithium - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:37] <exec> 08└─As a side hint, how much do you think is the cost of the raw cotton and linen which comprises that $50 shirt you are wearing?
[21:15:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Battery Based On Sodium May Offer More Cost-effective Storage Than Lithium - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:38] <exec> 08└─Because Moore's Law can be used in different ways. Either it can be used to drive down cost of the individual chip by packing more dies on a single wafer, or it can be used to maintain price by packing more transistors onto a single chip and thus maintain the die count on a wafer. Guess what Intel h...
[21:16:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seagate Launches Consumer-Oriented 12 TB Drives - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:16:02] <exec> 08└─So much data to lose to a single drive failure... BTW, is there any RAID scheme at all that is without the potential risk of a second drive failure during replication to a new drive at these sizes?
[21:17:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washington, D.C. Bill Would Decriminalize Sex Work - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:21] <exec> 08└─The post, and it's subsequent explanation are without meaning, and irrelevant to my own post.
[21:20:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06At Least 15 Dead Due to Wildfires in Northern California - 490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:11] <exec> 08└─Yeah. I imagine those can be a pain in the butt. (My place is grandfathered in.) Many are so sensitive I have direct experience with one [...] causing my lack of hot water Makes me wonder if some folks kludge up an alarm with a thermocouple poked into the pilot of their water heaters to give them a...
[21:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trading Bird Food for Cigarette Butts - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:27] <exec> 08└─> but every fucking morning here in TN Probably not very often. How often do you get to fuck in the morning?
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[22:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Book Review: Ware Tetralogy by Rudy Rucker - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:41] <exec> 08└─Read all four in paperback, long ago. Other Rudy Rucker books also highly recommended.
[22:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Book Review: Ware Tetralogy by Rudy Rucker - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:42] <exec> 08└─Damn, I wasn't even know Realware existed! That's how long ago I read what I thought was a trilogy.
[22:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Book Review: Ware Tetralogy by Rudy Rucker - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:44] <exec> 08└─Also, writing sentences in linear time is for you unenhanced normies!
[22:09:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Beam-Shaping Diffuser Attachment Improves Ground-Based Telescopes - 640 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:53] <exec> 08└─Maybe they are not using the whole thing? Emphasis mine: Up until the year 2010, telescopes could only directly image exoplanets under exceptional circumstances. Specifically, it is easier to obtain images when the planet is especially large (considerably larger than Jupiter), widely separated from...
[22:11:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows Phone Dies, Aged 6 - 769 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:55] <exec> 08└─I have to disagree to an extent. Windows's UI is horribly ugly, just looking at it. Gnome actually looks kinda nice, but that's the only thing good about it (it has too much wasted space, but at least they pick some non-objectionable colors and try to make it somewhat pretty). Gnome's problems are w...
[22:11:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows Phone Dies, Aged 6 - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:57] <exec> 08└─Oh whoops, I guess I should have looked at the context more, I thought we were talking about something else. I actually haven't tried printing from Gnome. You probably need to memorize a hotkey combination to do it, considering their idiotic bent on minimalism.
[22:12:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nobody Reads Privacy Policies – Here's How to Fix That - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:44] <exec> 08└─You forgot the most common: The privacy policy gets "updated" (read: gutted) and the company does what it wants. In the best of cases, you'll get a notice of the update, which nobody will ever read.
[22:12:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nobody Reads Privacy Policies – Here's How to Fix That - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:46] <exec> 08└─You had 99 problems, and the Privacy policy accessibility wasn't one?
[22:12:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nobody Reads Privacy Policies – Here's How to Fix That - 900 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:48] <exec> 08└─"He" may be the traditional ambiguous pronoun, but it fails to convey that the gender is ambiguous. acid andy posted a good example of when this might be important [soylentnews.org]. In that case, the better pronoun might be "it", but unfortunately that implies a lack of personhood. In technical doc...
[22:12:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nobody Reads Privacy Policies – Here's How to Fix That - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:50] <exec> 08└─And that's truly commendable! But I'm sure you'll agree that the SoylentNews demographic is unusually concerned with privacy. Unfortunately, with almost any other demographic, the reaction to a user-friendly privacy policy is almost always "meh".
[22:13:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] 02 - 06Public Unwittingly Buying Dangerous Laser Pointers, Warn Scientists - 67 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:27] <exec> 08└─Public Unwittingly Buying Dangerous Laser Pointers, Warn Scientists
[22:13:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Public Unwittingly Buying Dangerous Laser Pointers, Warn Scientists - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:41] <exec> 08└─Like airplane cockpits?
[22:15:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Battery Based On Sodium May Offer More Cost-effective Storage Than Lithium - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:54] <exec> 08└─Under the current insane USPTO, Jules Verne owns a patent on any sodium batteries for all eternity. But he still has to pay royalties to Volta.
[22:15:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Battery Based On Sodium May Offer More Cost-effective Storage Than Lithium - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:55] <exec> 08└─My house will be powered by small hydro and dynamos, mounted on the outside of Trump's wall to collect energy from the people being thrown off the top, and their dripping blood, sweat and tears. That's the kind of renewables his people will get behind!
[22:17:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Washington, D.C. Bill Would Decriminalize Sex Work - 1778 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:39] <exec> 08└─Not surprising, but not a single bit of factually correct info in your post. They never ignored SCOTUS. They passed a gun law that got challenged and deemed unconstitutional by SCOTUS. They then passed a different gun control law addressing what they thought would make it constitutional. Just like e...
[22:17:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Evidence of Sea Floor Hydrothermal Deposits Found on Mars - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:50] <exec> 08└─Seriously? This was the first thing [si.edu] that came to mind for me.
[22:19:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Changes in Password Best Practices - 636 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:04] <exec> 08└─Yes I saw, that but I can't find any material in the NIST PDF linked about the suggestions on password. Is it just me or does it read like those 3 suggestion on password was from the NIST document? I trawled through the NIST document and another linked supplementary document but couldn't seem to fin...
[22:20:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06At Least 15 Dead Due to Wildfires in Northern California - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:33] <exec> 08└─[when I was] growing up[,] the Forest Service [sited] logging on Forest Service land in part as a fire prevention and control measure, because clearcuts limit the spread of wildfires ...for those who didn't grok the original. ...and thought that it was the Forest Service that was doing the growing u...
[22:20:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06At Least 15 Dead Due to Wildfires in Northern California - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:34] <exec> 08└─There wasn't even an El Niño this year, yet September 2017 was the warmest September on record. Things are getting spooky. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[22:21:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Physicist Claims Gigantic Nuclear Explosions on Mars - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:42] <exec> 08└─... I don't understand the point of going to Antarctica ...
[22:21:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Physicist Claims Gigantic Nuclear Explosions on Mars - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:44] <exec> 08└─Of course you have, but have you ever seen an attack fleet burn like a match and disappear. I've seen it...felt it!
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[23:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Watch SpaceX Launch and Land its Third Used Falcon 9 Rocket Today - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:36] <exec> 08└─Electronic music until that point.
[23:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Watch SpaceX Launch and Land its Third Used Falcon 9 Rocket Today - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:38] <exec> 08└─First guy you hear and see is a firmware engineer. Nice.
[23:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Watch SpaceX Launch and Land its Third Used Falcon 9 Rocket Today - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:40] <exec> 08└─30km up
[23:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Watch SpaceX Launch and Land its Third Used Falcon 9 Rocket Today - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:42] <exec> 08└─Stage 1 landed successfully. 18th successful landing of the Falcon 9 first stage.
[23:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Book Review: Ware Tetralogy by Rudy Rucker - 581 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:53] <exec> 08└─This review fails to answer the one question at the core of every review's audience: Why should I read or avoid this? As it stands, the review is only useful if I am already considering reading Ware Tetralogy, and I can't be the only one who's never heard of it. It's as though you reviewed a fuel in...
[23:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Book Review: Ware Tetralogy by Rudy Rucker - 1523 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:56] <exec> 08└─I'm about three quarters of the way through Freeware (Book 3) and I'm finding the whole series an intriguing piece of work. I've previously encountered his work only in cyberpunk short story anthologies like Mirrorshades. Yeah, I have to admit I also did wind up imagining Cobb Anderson and Sta-Hi Mo...
[23:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Book Review: Ware Tetralogy by Rudy Rucker - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:58] <exec> 08└─Sheesh, major typo. Last sentence of first paragraph should read: "Yeah, I have to admit I also did wind up imagining Cobb Anderson and Sta-Hi Mooney in the first book as something like Walter White and Jesse Pinkman, and I wouldn't be surprised to hear that Vince Gilligan or someone else deeply inv...
[23:10:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Beam-Shaping Diffuser Attachment Improves Ground-Based Telescopes - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:08] <exec> 08└─Given how it's worded, I'm going to guess it's a mistake. The primary mirror is about 60cm thick at the edge. http://www.astro.caltech.edu [caltech.edu]
[23:10:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Utah Officer Fired After Nurse’s Arrest Caught on Video - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:50] <exec> 08└─Don't forget the reference guide for operation of the various bodycams in use.
[23:10:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Utah Officer Fired After Nurse’s Arrest Caught on Video - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:51] <exec> 08└─Not funny; Need a "+1 Sad but true" mod.
[23:10:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pav [114] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Utah Officer Fired After Nurse’s Arrest Caught on Video - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:53] <exec> 08└─The police officers involved were trying to dodge responsibility for engaging in a dangerous car chase - the suspect they were persuing (against the rules) swerved in front of a semi-trailer and was killed, and the truck driver (who was actually a reserve police officer himself) was badly burned. Th...
[23:11:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ikea to Sell Online on Third-Party Sites - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:11:12] <exec> 08└─Nothing to fear in that idea. Retailers know that the checkout line is when the customer is at the most volatile and lay likely to make additional purchases, and thus speed and service are priorities. Don't give your customers a chance to think! Skillfully arranged and run stores will place temptati...
[23:13:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nobody Reads Privacy Policies – Here's How to Fix That - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:08] <exec> 08└─Where's the mod for -1 Groanworthy?
[23:13:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nobody Reads Privacy Policies – Here's How to Fix That - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:09] <exec> 08└─I'm not claiming that the traditional usage is free of problems. It clearly isn't, and I, for one, try to avoid it. But it *is* the traditional usage.
[23:14:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Public Unwittingly Buying Dangerous Laser Pointers, Warn Scientists - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:01] <exec> 08└─I think banning hand-held Class 4 lasers should suffice. You are supposed to have a room interlock on those.
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