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[00:09:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dogs Use Facial Expressions to Influence Humans - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:33] <exec> 08└─That was for some animal news site that had a comparison of dogs and their owner's facial expressions. Many of the dogs DID in fact pick up facial mannerisms of the owner as far as how they smiled or scowled or whatever other expression they were shown with. I kind of thought this was common knowled...
[00:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Paying Up to $1,000 for Vulnerabilities in Some Third-Party Android Apps - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:42] <exec> 08└─Exactly. Retards tried this decades ago, but most people who work for large corporations, despite what they say on the outside, hate them. Pure retardism all around.
[00:10:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Math Behind Gerrymandering and Wasted Votes - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:16] <exec> 08└─You're saying that you need a coercive monopoly to protect you from a coercive monopoly. It makes no sense. The actual solution is competition within a culture that respects voluntary association. Your government "solution" is an, ancient, authoritarian idea. The new idea is the recognition that it'...
[00:10:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Purism Disables Intel Management Engine on Librem Laptops - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:49] <exec> 08└─I don't even think it was Purism that accomplished this, but their wording leads one to believe that it was.
[00:12:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bank Downgrades Chipotle, Complaining It Pays Workers Too Much - 2052 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:13] <exec> 08└─What country^W planet are you from? USA bombed the living shit out of Vietnam, killing 5 million people. USA spewed Agent Orange over the place, poisoning plants, soil, and people (notably, birth defects) causing multi-generational damage. USA didn't win that scrap, but it made damned sure that that...
[00:12:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alphabet Deploys Project Loon Balloons to Puerto Rico - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:24] <exec> 08└─Where's the realDonaldTrump to tell us that Puerto Rico will all be fixed by then? Seriously, though, this looks like it doesn't have anything to do with Google's core businesses, but they've put in the research and are putting in the resources to provide this assistance. To me, this unequivocally c...
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[01:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03idiot_king [6587] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dogs Use Facial Expressions to Influence Humans - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:36] <exec> 08└─This is interesting in the fact that it seems to suggest that 1) animals can indeed be socialized and 2) that animals are more human-like than we want to admit. This would seem to imply that indeed eating animals is closer to eating humans than we think. More research needs to be done about this so...
[01:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dogs Use Facial Expressions to Influence Humans - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:37] <exec> 08└─Just because they're "much more human", why would it be wrong to eat them? Food is food. Are you going to socialize with your kale next?
[01:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dogs Use Facial Expressions to Influence Humans - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:40] <exec> 08└─You're right, AC: we should just start factory-farming humans, for consistency. Food is food, right? Are you going to start socializing with your Soylent Green next?
[01:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Paying Up to $1,000 for Vulnerabilities in Some Third-Party Android Apps - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:50] <exec> 08└─I was thinking more of like cheating at online poker. While I get dealt a 7/2, I still call. Not only that, I might raise. Just to be playing. My co-conspirator is also playing and in the hand with knowledge of my cards. Google in this case would be the bitch in middle being squeezed for their whole...
[01:10:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Math Behind Gerrymandering and Wasted Votes - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:24] <exec> 08└─You're saying that you need a coercive monopoly to protect you from a coercive monopoly. It makes no sense. The actual solution is competition within a culture that respects voluntary association.
[01:10:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03idiot_king [6587] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Math Behind Gerrymandering and Wasted Votes - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:26] <exec> 08└─In the war of politics
[01:10:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03pdfernhout [5984] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Math Behind Gerrymandering and Wasted Votes - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:28] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIWHHk-52-8 [youtube.com]
[01:10:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Purism Disables Intel Management Engine on Librem Laptops - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:58] <exec> 08└─Yes, u-boot doesn't cut it when nobody knows what the secret sauce required to initialize the platform, and not to mention, platform specific initialization code.
[01:11:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06$417 Million Talc Cancer Verdict Against Johnson & Johnson Tossed Out - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:11:23] <exec> 08└─is why nobody takes skeptics seriously.
[01:12:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bank Downgrades Chipotle, Complaining It Pays Workers Too Much - 770 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:23] <exec> 08└─Given that he voted for Trump, he's not just Right, he's Hard-Right. [politicalcompass.org] N.B. Earlier that year, that chart had Trump slammed up in the top-Right corner (Fascist Capitalist Authoritarian); I think that was a more accurate representation. ...and, since E-f believes[1] that people o...
[01:12:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bank Downgrades Chipotle, Complaining It Pays Workers Too Much - 601 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:24] <exec> 08└─...with algorithms ...or at least with public banks.[1] [google.com] That one, founded in 1913 (the same year The Federal Reserve was established), allowed that state to weather The Great Depression better than the other 47 states. N.B. It is also doing better in the Bush-Obama-Trump Depression. ......
[01:12:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bank Downgrades Chipotle, Complaining It Pays Workers Too Much - 903 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:27] <exec> 08└─Imagine this: Every worker in the USA belongs to a labor union--and not just "a" union, but everybody in the SAME union. Now, some company decides it wants to screw its workers. The union representing those workers declares a strike. That meant that EVERY worker in the union goes on strike. You now...
[01:12:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bank Downgrades Chipotle, Complaining It Pays Workers Too Much - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:29] <exec> 08└─At Suma, the largest worker-owned co-op in UK, they democratically decided that every worker-owner gets the same (very nice) compensation package. [google.com] -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[01:13:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canada's CSE Spy Agency Releases Malware Analysis Tool - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:36] <exec> 08└─"...we have this nutso guy in charge of our department. He's all the time telling us stupid shit, and even stupider shit that he wants us to do. His every order has to be evaluated, to decide whether it is rational." What?...You work in the White House? Does explain a lot.
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[02:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dogs Use Facial Expressions to Influence Humans - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:37] <exec> 08└─These are the most snide dog breed. They act like grade school/middle school kids. I suppose that's why we love them.
[02:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dogs Use Facial Expressions to Influence Humans - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:39] <exec> 08└─Common knowledge with no scientific backing is often proven wrong when put under scientific scrutiny. Apparently there are multiple "common knowledge" aspects to this case. One was *proven wrong, one was *proven right. *As proven as we can get until we have a dog translator [wordpress.com].
[02:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dogs Use Facial Expressions to Influence Humans - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:41] <exec> 08└─As long as we don't name the soylentil, then I don't think there will be a problem.
[02:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Dogs Use Facial Expressions to Influence Humans - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:43] <exec> 08└─There are also situations in which it is "right" to eat humans.
[02:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dogs Use Facial Expressions to Influence Humans - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:45] <exec> 08└─If we were growing human meat from a single cell culture, technically there would be no ethical reason not to eat it. Same for other meat. I confess, I'm a filthy omnivore, but once they get "vat meat" going at a reasonable price and show its safety, I will probably never eat a slaughtered animal ag...
[02:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dogs Use Facial Expressions to Influence Humans - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:47] <exec> 08└─When I am hungry, I eat.
[02:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dogs Use Facial Expressions to Influence Humans - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:50] <exec> 08└─Well, there could be at least one ethical concern: that the human cell(s) have been harvested and used without someone's permission [wikipedia.org].
[02:10:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Virindi [3484] 02 - 06The Math Behind Gerrymandering and Wasted Votes - 459 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:19] <exec> 08└─Except, there has to be organized resistance to prevent the use of force in coercion, both on large and small scales. This organization is known as "government". Without such an organized protection, the strong dominate the weak by force. Other nations invade and subjugate your nation. Gangs kill yo...
[02:10:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06The Math Behind Gerrymandering and Wasted Votes - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:37] <exec> 08└─You're saying that you need a coercive monopoly to protect you from a coercive monopoly. It makes no sense.
[02:10:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03rylyeh [6726] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Math Behind Gerrymandering and Wasted Votes - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:38] <exec> 08└─No. The efficiency quotient they talk about is based upon the fewest wasted votes, not the % of representation. You said you read TFA but methinks you didn't 'get' it.
[02:10:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Math Behind Gerrymandering and Wasted Votes - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:40] <exec> 08└─Hey, dumbfuck...who enforces contracts when someone welches in the Peoples' Republic of Ancapistan?
[02:10:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03qzm [3260] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Math Behind Gerrymandering and Wasted Votes - 929 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:42] <exec> 08└─>>TLDR: There's a valid reason for young people to where Che shirts these days. I can only assume your valid reason is 'because they have a complete lack of understanding of both history and relativity (not the Einstein type..). After all, wearing a che shirt as a political statement is basically sa...
[02:10:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Math Behind Gerrymandering and Wasted Votes - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:45] <exec> 08└─That's not a matter of balance; that's a flatout contradiction. Markets of voluntary exchange are the best tools with which to find the balance in extraordinarily complex systems of interaction.
[02:10:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Math Behind Gerrymandering and Wasted Votes - 731 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:47] <exec> 08└─The means by which a contract is enforced are necessarily specified in the contract itself. Law by contracts is an iterative process, where each iteration produces a more robust system of agreement in advance of interaction; enforcement is just another service in the market. There is profit in well...
[02:10:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Math Behind Gerrymandering and Wasted Votes - 553 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:49] <exec> 08└─If you're worried about the Mexican armed forces, then you join a "military" organization, or allocate your own damn resources to funding one. Keep your dirty, thieving hands out of my pockets. I'd do peace-creating business with the Mexicans rather than engage in a circle-jerk of saber rattling. Of...
[02:12:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03srobert [4803] 02 - 06Bank Downgrades Chipotle, Complaining It Pays Workers Too Much - 634 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:12:19] <exec> 08└─OK. I'll take a stab at it. Necessity never strikes a good bargain. If you pay your employees a little bit more than they need for the present, they will have savings. When they negotiate for the next round of wages with money in their savings accounts, they will not be bargaining in desperation, he...
[02:12:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bank Downgrades Chipotle, Complaining It Pays Workers Too Much - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:12:48] <exec> 08└─...instead of producing NOTHING, like the rest of the FIRE sector (Financial/Insurance/Real Estate). {Advocacy for public banks goes here} -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[02:12:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bank Downgrades Chipotle, Complaining It Pays Workers Too Much - 1380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:12:50] <exec> 08└─So, I'm all for fair, level playing field, etc. - but... in an organization like Chipotle, total annual revenue around $4B, annual gross profit between $500M and $1B, Ells taking $25M in pay for a good year (where they earned $500M more than a poor year), isn't any kind of a problem for the organiza...
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[03:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06If Iran Doesn’t Have a Nuclear Weapons Program, Why Do Media Keep Saying It Does? - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:39] <exec> 08└─Ask Saddam how this works, he had first hand experience.
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[03:09:41] <exec> 08└─Stuxnet
[03:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06If Iran Doesn’t Have a Nuclear Weapons Program, Why Do Media Keep Saying It Does? - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:43] <exec> 08└─For over a year now, Iran has been breaking their agreement by attempting to buy nuclear material. Since Infallible Grand Emperor Hussein was in charge back then, reporting this would make him look stupid and ineffective. So CNN, NBC, CBS and ABC never did. Even better, the chattering class are faux...
[03:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06If Iran Doesn’t Have a Nuclear Weapons Program, Why Do Media Keep Saying It Does? - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:45] <exec> 08└─It's a "Hello World" nuclear weapons program. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[03:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06If Iran Doesn’t Have a Nuclear Weapons Program, Why Do Media Keep Saying It Does? - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:47] <exec> 08└─I wanted to include some links with my comment, but embedding them gives me a Soylent error every time. Iran breaking deal: http://www.foxnews.com [foxnews.com] Media faux outrage: https://www.newyor...
[03:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geotti [1146] (Score: 2) 02 - 06If Iran Doesn’t Have a Nuclear Weapons Program, Why Do Media Keep Saying It Does? - 471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:50] <exec> 08└─By "attempting" to buy, and these attempts that you apparently refer to (e.g. reported by German intelligence) are much less in numbers than they were before the JCPOA. Besides, the IAEA says everything is fine (i.e. because these were only attempts, they didn't actually buy anything), so US is just...
[03:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06If Iran Doesn’t Have a Nuclear Weapons Program, Why Do Media Keep Saying It Does? - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:52] <exec> 08└─Iran would be a country of morons if it didn't have one. Put yourself in Iran's shoes, sitting next to Saudi and other Gulf Sunny Arabs, Israel, and nuke-armed Pakistan next door.
[03:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 1) 02 - 06If Iran Doesn’t Have a Nuclear Weapons Program, Why Do Media Keep Saying It Does? - 834 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:54] <exec> 08└─In the post-fact world, it no longer matters if our masters tell us lies or truths. It only matters that it feels good to act upon what our handlers tell us. For our own good and for the good of all those vested in wall street, our leaders have determined that we must die. In their esteemed wisdom,...
[03:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1, Offtopic) 02 - 06If Iran Doesn’t Have a Nuclear Weapons Program, Why Do Media Keep Saying It Does? - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:56] <exec> 08└─Iran Doesn’t Have a Nuclear Weapons Program.
[03:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06If Iran Doesn’t Have a Nuclear Weapons Program, Why Do Media Keep Saying It Does? - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:59] <exec> 08└─Anything Iran does with fissile materials is weapons-related. Even if it's nominally for energy, they want the infrastructure and knowledge as a stepping stone. I can't fault them for that, but it's true. They have too many fossil fuels to need nuclear energy.
[03:11:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Math Behind Gerrymandering and Wasted Votes - 1190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:11:10] <exec> 08└─Who cares about identity politics? We're talking about gerrymandering, and a case about getting rid of it. Let me spell it out for you clearly: if gerrymandering is OK because voting bloc A gets concentrated in location B, and that's somehow a good thing, then you have quite a hill to climb to expla...
[03:11:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03number11 [1170] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Math Behind Gerrymandering and Wasted Votes - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:11:12] <exec> 08└─Right now I'm looking at the option of a corporatist and an anti-white women for mayor. We had a field of 21 to choose from in the primary of which there was only one or two that were actually qualified, but neither of them wound up in the final election. It's rather hard to be enthusiastic when all...
[03:11:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03number11 [1170] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Math Behind Gerrymandering and Wasted Votes - 1146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:11:14] <exec> 08└─#@%! I hit "submit" instead of "preview" https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] In its simplest form, you rank the candidates in order of preference, as far as you want. They count all the #1 votes. If the #1 leader doesn't get a majority, the worst performer(s) is dropp...
[03:11:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03number11 [1170] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Math Behind Gerrymandering and Wasted Votes - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:11:16] <exec> 08└─Feh. I should have noted that in that nearby city, they use RCV to count the votes.
[03:13:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bank Downgrades Chipotle, Complaining It Pays Workers Too Much - 1111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:17] <exec> 08└─For what it's worth, in 1988 I "negotiated" a $7/hr starting rate of pay as part time stock help at a grocery store (normal starting pay was minimum wage, $3.35/hr at the time). Simple fact was: they needed people, I convinced them A) I could do the job, and B) I would not be doing it for $3.35/hr....
[03:13:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bank Downgrades Chipotle, Complaining It Pays Workers Too Much - 990 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:18] <exec> 08└─Look around you! People are self-organizing, voluntarily, into violent forces, and all are bidding on their centralized force becoming a violently imposed monopoly. Men are tribal animals above all else. That's what I'm trying to say when I say men aren't angels. Humans are an inherently authoritari...
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[03:14:06] <exec> 08└─The spirit of Windoze lives on in the mobile world in the form of Android. Instead of antivirus on mobile, I suspect we would be better off with proper user controllable information flow control, like NoScript or RequestPolicy for network using programs.
[03:18:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Prototypes for Trump's Wall, Including Israeli Model, Take Shape on Border - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:33] <exec> 08└─Those are all excellent questions. Why does no one ask them? That no one does proves how broken the first American Republic is.
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[04:09:46] <exec> 08└─Note: Iraq, not Iran this time. In the early aughts, "intelligence" reports said that Iraq was trying to buy yellowcake (processed uranium ore) from Niger. The State Dept. spooks (a bunch with high veracity, despite having a much lower budget than the usual TLAs) said it was bullshit. Colin Powell,...
[04:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06If Iran Doesn’t Have a Nuclear Weapons Program, Why Do Media Keep Saying It Does? - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:48] <exec> 08└─Anything Iran does with fissile materials is weapons-related As part of the deal that Iran signed, they are allowed to produce medical-grade isotopes. The place has UN inspectors checking this stuff. They have [...] fossil fuels ..and are smart enough not to use them, adding to AGW in the process. A...
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[04:09:50] <exec> 08└─They have too many fossil fuels to need nuclear energy.
[04:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06If Iran Doesn’t Have a Nuclear Weapons Program, Why Do Media Keep Saying It Does? - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:52] <exec> 08└─OTOH, you forgot fossil fuels are not just extracted to be burnt. Part of them is used to raw material for others things, like plastics, fertilizers, solvents, lubricants, adhesives or pharmaceuticals. And while some other resources can be used, fossil fuels is still one of the biggest, if not the b...
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[04:11:08] <exec> 08└─OK let's assume this could work in the USA but does it still work in scenarios where significant numbers of people can change their minds and there are sudden landslide victories ( victories with big margins)? For example, maybe many people actually liked the new candidate even if they don't like th...
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[04:11:09] <exec> 08└─Does it still work in scenarios where significant numbers of people can change their minds and there are sudden landslide victories ( victories with big margins)? For example, maybe many people actually liked the new candidate even though they were voting for the other side before Then would the big...
[04:11:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03rylyeh [6726] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Math Behind Gerrymandering and Wasted Votes - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:11:11] <exec> 08└─It could affect the way the boundaries are drawn, but this would not likely invoke a gerrymandering challenge as that involves manipulating the boundaries intentionally.
[04:11:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Nerdfest [80] 02 - 06Purism Disables Intel Management Engine on Librem Laptops - 94 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:11:27] <exec> 08└─systemd is not an opaque blob, just a bad implementation of a horrific architectural decision.
[04:12:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06LinkedIn Mulls Producing Videos; May Buy Rights From Sports Leagues - 844 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:12:18] <exec> 08└─Yeah, it started as a networking site for professionals, the premise being that if A knows B and B knows C, A could ask to be connected to C due to both knowing B. At least that was the non-paying environment. This was pre-facebook, even myspace. I believe friendster was the social network of that t...
[04:13:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bank Downgrades Chipotle, Complaining It Pays Workers Too Much - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:13:16] <exec> 08└─you want to ensure that you are not understaffed at busy times, not overstaffed at quiet times, account for the fact that people need to work in shifts of a certain minimum length to be productive, different jobs might have different busy/quiet periods, etc etc
[04:16:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu 17.10 Released - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:16:26] <exec> 08└─$60k: so you mean cheap software? I work in an industry where a single seat can cost $500k to $1M and more. None of that high end software runs on Windows. It never has. There was a transition from Unix (mostly Sun) to Linux as Sun dropped into irrelevance and Linux on x86_64 became available. Befor...
[04:16:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu 17.10 Released - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:16:27] <exec> 08└─If you start with a Windows-only codebase, yes. If you start and use something like Qt, then porting to Linux becomes easy.
[04:16:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ubuntu 17.10 Released - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:16:30] <exec> 08└─Stepping away from Unity is good as Unity made myself and many others step away from Ubuntu. Also good to see Wayland coming into use. But Artful IS the first, so bugs will be found. I think a massive priority will be given them as 18.04 is an LTS release. I tend to stick with those releases for sta...
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[05:09:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Sued Over "Animoji" Trademark - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:33] <exec> 08└─While I totally agree with the little guy here, it's going to be a case of the little guy getting out-lawyer'ed. Apple clearly has enough money to keep throwing at this till this company is bankrupt many times over. THis just seems to be a case where they don't even want to pay the right amount to j...
[05:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Beryllium Sphere (r) (5062) (Score: 2) 02 - 06If Iran Doesn’t Have a Nuclear Weapons Program, Why Do Media Keep Saying It Does? - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:55] <exec> 08└─They've been enriching well beyond 3%, on military bases, with A.Q. Khan assistance. That's not what a peaceful energy program looks like. For an honest informed list of pros and cons, check out the Federation of American Scientists report at https://fas.org [fas.org]
[05:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06If Iran Doesn’t Have a Nuclear Weapons Program, Why Do Media Keep Saying It Does? - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:56] <exec> 08└─Warmongers, all of them warmongers. Wonder how many bonds they hold with defence companies. I hope iran gets the bomb and lots of them, because thats the only way we will prevent a war with them.
[05:10:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dogs Use Facial Expressions to Influence Humans - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:10:15] <exec> 08└─Here you go, invented 32 years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[05:11:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Math Behind Gerrymandering and Wasted Votes - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:11:17] <exec> 08└─Bro, do you even game theory...?
[05:11:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Math Behind Gerrymandering and Wasted Votes - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:11:19] <exec> 08└─Do you really want to run around negotiating and signing 8+ billion contracts? How in the world would you find time to do anything else?
[05:11:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Math Behind Gerrymandering and Wasted Votes - 974 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:11:21] <exec> 08└─Got it. So people just agree to the terms of the contract, even if they disadvantage them, because another term in the contract says that they have to. Right. I'll tell you how things work out in your Libertarian paradise. It takes just one powerful psychopath in all of your society to make Pablo Es...
[05:11:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Purism Disables Intel Management Engine on Librem Laptops - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:11:52] <exec> 08└─Yeah. antiX is also based on Debian. It's been around since 2006. Never shipped with Lennart's crap by default. It's entirely possible to have a Debian-based distro without systemd. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[05:13:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bank Downgrades Chipotle, Complaining It Pays Workers Too Much - 1118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:13:28] <exec> 08└─You think congress will do a better job with our banks than they have now? How? I am missing step 2 here... It would just be 'owned' by citizens instead of by some corporate entity. Very little would be different other than a nice warm fuzzy. It would be used as a political tool and weapon. The real...
[05:13:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bank Downgrades Chipotle, Complaining It Pays Workers Too Much - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:13:29] <exec> 08└─You want downtown Charlotte NC for that. BoA headquarters.
[05:13:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bank Downgrades Chipotle, Complaining It Pays Workers Too Much - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:13:31] <exec> 08└─That sounds delightfully terrible. Piss off 'the union' and you are blackballed out of a job. Your way would only work if everyone was nice to each other. There are assholes out there. They *do* *not* *care* *about* *you*. Putting them in a union does not change that.
[05:14:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Great Tits May be Evolving Longer Beaks to Adapt to Bird Feeders - 579 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:08] <exec> 08└─A problem some folks have with their avian lunch counters is competition from squirrels. The little bastards climb up the poles or shimmy down cords or drop from branches or jump from a perch. Back when I read sci.electronics.design regularly, from time to time someone would ask for an electrical so...
[05:16:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu 17.10 Released - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:16:46] <exec> 08└─I'm honestly glad these changes came now instead of the LTS. It lets the bugs get sorted out and prevents the long term support of bad implantation choices.
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[06:09:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03rylyeh [6726] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Sued Over "Animoji" Trademark - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:35] <exec> 08└─Amazing how brazen they are now. In ancient times, Apple pretended to be the friend of the individual by making a Personal Computer!
[06:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03lx [1915] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Sued Over "Animoji" Trademark - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:37] <exec> 08└─Antitrust the hell out of Apple. At least split up the company into a computer manufacturer, a phone maker and a media company. I'm sure an excuse can be found if there is enough political will.
[06:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Sued Over "Animoji" Trademark - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:39] <exec> 08└─I'm sure an excuse can be found...
[06:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Sued Over "Animoji" Trademark - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:41] <exec> 08└─Sounds like an open-shut, open-shut, open-shut...case.
[06:09:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06If Iran Doesn’t Have a Nuclear Weapons Program, Why Do Media Keep Saying It Does? - 846 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:58] <exec> 08└─Note: Iraq, not Iran this time. In the early aughts, "intelligence" reports said that Iraq was trying to buy yellowcake (processed uranium ore) from Niger. The State Dept. spooks (a bunch with high veracity, despite having a much lower budget than the usual TLAs) said it was bullshit. Colin Powell,...
[06:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06If Iran Doesn’t Have a Nuclear Weapons Program, Why Do Media Keep Saying It Does? - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:10:04] <exec> 08└─You are a stupid clown. I bet you cheer on when Rocket Man does one of his tests, too.
[06:10:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03n1 [993] (Score: 2) 02 - 06If Iran Doesn’t Have a Nuclear Weapons Program, Why Do Media Keep Saying It Does? - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:10:06] <exec> 08└─Nothing says honest like a Washington DC based organization with a President who previously worked at the 'highly influential' Council on Foreign Relations think-tank, his work there focused on the Iran threat and US policy 'failing to take into account' the threat of nuclear terrorism.
[06:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06If Iran Doesn’t Have a Nuclear Weapons Program, Why Do Media Keep Saying It Does? - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:10:08] <exec> 08└─I hope iran gets the bomb and lots of them, because thats the only way we will prevent a war with them.
[06:10:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06If Iran Doesn’t Have a Nuclear Weapons Program, Why Do Media Keep Saying It Does? - 1229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:10:11] <exec> 08└─I can't know, and neither can most of you. (In fact, it's pretty unlikely that any of this small community is in a position to know very much.) We have propaganda machines working hard to confuse the issue. Unless you know someone, personally, who is part of Iran's nuclear projects, you simply can't...
[06:10:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dogs Use Facial Expressions to Influence Humans - 543 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:10:30] <exec> 08└─Me too. I freely admit to eating meat, but am fully aware that I will probably be viewed by most people in 100 years' time as a monster. I can see that this is the way that ethics will inevitably go, particularly once vat-foodtm becomes available. It's what gives me a shred of sympathy for social co...
[06:11:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kawumpa [1187] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Math Behind Gerrymandering and Wasted Votes - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:11:34] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARSNaSeT9hw [youtube.com]
[06:11:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Math Behind Gerrymandering and Wasted Votes - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:11:36] <exec> 08└─Which theory is he supposed to game? ;-)
[06:11:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03rylyeh [6726] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Math Behind Gerrymandering and Wasted Votes - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:11:38] <exec> 08└─Think Blade Runner!
[06:11:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03rylyeh [6726] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Math Behind Gerrymandering and Wasted Votes - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:11:40] <exec> 08└─Nice!
[06:12:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$417 Million Talc Cancer Verdict Against Johnson & Johnson Tossed Out - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:12:38] <exec> 08└─Plus it's got to taste terrible. :-)
[06:12:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$417 Million Talc Cancer Verdict Against Johnson & Johnson Tossed Out - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:12:39] <exec> 08└─Well, if we're going to go in that direction - it may well cause chafing, too.
[06:12:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$417 Million Talc Cancer Verdict Against Johnson & Johnson Tossed Out - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:12:42] <exec> 08└─"According to my math, 1954 is over 6 decades ago, which clearly counts as "a few short decades"." You'll want to be careful with that statement, in case my wife is listening. The tone of voice is important, and how you might emphasize the individual words. Her birthdate is 1/11/55, so be very, very...
[06:14:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03lx [1915] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alphabet Deploys Project Loon Balloons to Puerto Rico - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:06] <exec> 08└─Operations: 70.000 ops Trust: 100 Trust Effect: A new era of trust Balloons connecting families and friends sounds cute and inoffensive but we know what is REALLY going on.
[06:14:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alphabet Deploys Project Loon Balloons to Puerto Rico - 979 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:07] <exec> 08└─Puerto Rico must pull its own weight. Puerto Rico and Dems are to blame for the mess in Puerto Rico. They've thrown our budget out of whack. I'll tell you, it's a little out of whack. They owe a lot of money to Wall Street. I don't know if it's Goldman Sachs, but whoever it is, the debt is massive o...
[06:14:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alphabet Deploys Project Loon Balloons to Puerto Rico - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:09] <exec> 08└─"I dont know wtf is going on haha" [reddit.com]
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[07:09:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Code Analyzer Turned Out to be Smarter Than One of its Creators - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:09:35] <exec> 08└─The second bug it found was caused by the following definition in a header file: #define sprintf std::printf
[07:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03lx [1915] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Sued Over "Animoji" Trademark - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:09:47] <exec> 08└─One person's excuse is another person's legitimate reason. The lines between the two aren't as fixed in politics as they are in law, and ultimately this is a political choice. Do we want companies to exist that are as powerful as Samsung is in South Korea or do we want to limit that power? In short:...
[07:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Sued Over "Animoji" Trademark - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:09:48] <exec> 08└─I don't care how ridiculous their prices are, or whatever other consumer gripe. Apple is funneling all their influx through Ireland, so they don't pay any (almost none) US taxes.
[07:10:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03n1 [993] (Score: 2) 02 - 06If Iran Doesn’t Have a Nuclear Weapons Program, Why Do Media Keep Saying It Does? - 1554 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:10:16] <exec> 08└─Any vaguely wealthy country with a functioning military and intelligence service runs all kinds of programs on as many 'what if' scenarios you can think of, it is in the national interest to prepare and plan for things even if there is no imminent intent to commission an actual operation to build or...
[07:10:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03n1 [993] (Score: 2) 02 - 06If Iran Doesn’t Have a Nuclear Weapons Program, Why Do Media Keep Saying It Does? - 694 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:10:17] <exec> 08└─The same with DPRK on their 'capabilities' ... What do they have to gain from actually attacking anything? You blow your load once, then retaliation would be swift and decisive in such a situation, all that wealth and power gone, and probably before they even got to brag about it. The defensive valu...
[07:10:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06If Iran Doesn’t Have a Nuclear Weapons Program, Why Do Media Keep Saying It Does? - 679 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:10:19] <exec> 08└─That Iran has a lot of oil is kind of irrelevant to the weapons issue. It's a filthy fuel that most of the world is trying to move away from, which means that Iran needs to find a new source of income and a new source of energy. Nuclear power is a very obvious way to provide a good deal of the latte...
[07:10:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dogs Use Facial Expressions to Influence Humans - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:10:39] <exec> 08└─I'd heard of this but can't find it around here. I do use TVP now and then, but honestly, there are better meat analogues made from gluten. Buddhist monks and nuns centuries ago mastered the art and you can get cans of the stuff at any local Asian grocery.
[07:10:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Paying Up to $1,000 for Vulnerabilities in Some Third-Party Android Apps - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:10:50] <exec> 08└─Except if some employee is not as happy with the company. Then he can sneak in a vulnerability, leave the company, and then tell Google about the vulnerability to get the bounty. Double win for him: He gets revenge for whatever issue he had with the company, and he gets money from Google. By involvi...
[07:11:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Math Behind Gerrymandering and Wasted Votes - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:11:49] <exec> 08└─Related: wearing his pants as a hat?
[07:11:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Math Behind Gerrymandering and Wasted Votes - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:11:50] <exec> 08└─within a culture that respects voluntary association.
[07:11:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Math Behind Gerrymandering and Wasted Votes - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:11:53] <exec> 08└─Markets of voluntary exchange...
[07:11:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Math Behind Gerrymandering and Wasted Votes - 1325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:11:55] <exec> 08└─The real problem is most violent revolutions end up with dictatorships. Socialism itself is not a problem[1]. The problem is most proponents (including the Engels, Marx and the Che supporters) of Communism etc suggest or even recommend violence as part of the implementation plans. When leaders are c...
[07:12:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$417 Million Talc Cancer Verdict Against Johnson & Johnson Tossed Out - 1063 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:12:55] <exec> 08└─Lights. As stated previously, I drove truck for several years. I've seen some strange things, which gullible people would readily attribute to UFO's or supernatural events. Many of those strange things, I have no explanation for, and I'm not even going to try to explain them away. I did get explanat...
[07:12:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06$417 Million Talc Cancer Verdict Against Johnson & Johnson Tossed Out - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:12:56] <exec> 08└─OMG - to much information!!
[07:12:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$417 Million Talc Cancer Verdict Against Johnson & Johnson Tossed Out - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:12:59] <exec> 08└─Don't worry, sweetie, your mother's was the first and last vagina you will ever be close enough to that this is an issue :)
[07:13:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06$417 Million Talc Cancer Verdict Against Johnson & Johnson Tossed Out - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:13:01] <exec> 08└─There's plenty of scientific evidence that consuming large amounts of trans-fats reduces your chances of dying from cancer. Unfortunately a common side effect is a reduced life expectancy ;).
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[08:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Code Analyzer Turned Out to be Smarter Than One of its Creators - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:34] <exec> 08└─What kind of IDE doesn't distinguish between macros and proper functions anyway? I know Eclipse CDT highlights one in purple, one in grey, and a grey "sprintf" would flag straightaway to me.
[08:09:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06Code Analyzer Turned Out to be Smarter Than One of its Creators - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:35] <exec> 08└─Besides, I know there have been far too many times when I've seen a compiler complain about some section of my code and I'm thinking there is nothing wrong with it — and then I, finally, see my mistake.
[08:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03ataradov [4776] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Code Analyzer Turned Out to be Smarter Than One of its Creators - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:38] <exec> 08└─Those PVS guys are annoying as hell. They spam forums with their overt advertising.
[08:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Code Analyzer Turned Out to be Smarter Than One of its Creators - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:40] <exec> 08└─ever since they reprinted that hatchet-job on Rust, I've known they're either dishonest or stupid. In fact this shows up a lot in their marketing. Yes, static analysis is something you should do, but don't waste your time on massive analysis tools until you've at least written tests and used a fuzze...
[08:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Code Analyzer Turned Out to be Smarter Than One of its Creators - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:42] <exec> 08└─U all right? Looks like your ideation goes less diverse and more obsessive by the day.
[08:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Code Analyzer Turned Out to be Smarter Than One of its Creators - 960 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:44] <exec> 08└─I'm fine. And you will be, too. Just follow the logic! If your logic is incorrect, the compiler will call you out on that. Logic gates do not lie. So if you think that the compiler is full of shit, well, it has nothing to loose, and you do. This is the point of the OP. Now I was aiming at an analog...
[08:10:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06If Iran Doesn’t Have a Nuclear Weapons Program, Why Do Media Keep Saying It Does? - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:10:27] <exec> 08└─The same with DPRK on their 'capabilities' ... What do they have to gain from actually attacking anything?
[08:10:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06If Iran Doesn’t Have a Nuclear Weapons Program, Why Do Media Keep Saying It Does? - 2081 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:10:28] <exec> 08└─Iraq had yellowcake. Everybody knew about it. President Saddam Hussein made NO SECRET of his yellowcake. Very honest and open about it. Say what you want, but Saddam Hussein was not the kind of guy to beat around the bush. And he held his country together. It was deeply divided between the Sunnis, t...
[08:10:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06If Iran Doesn’t Have a Nuclear Weapons Program, Why Do Media Keep Saying It Does? - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:10:31] <exec> 08└─I am certain every current member of the WMD club has plans on how they could bomb everyone (including allies) and scenarios it would be necessary.
[08:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bank Downgrades Chipotle, Complaining It Pays Workers Too Much - 1358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:19] <exec> 08└─What's so great about letting a private bank extract wealth by handing over public money to them? Seems unnecessary and stupid to me. Public banks are a much better idea. I've mentioned The Bank of North Dakota previously in this (meta)thread. Ellen Brown is their #1 (uncompensated) cheerleader. Rea...
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[09:09:38] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03TheRaven [270] 02 - 06Code Analyzer Turned Out to be Smarter Than One of its Creators - 155 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:38] <exec> 08└─Yes, static analysis is something you should do, but don't waste your time on massive analysis tools until you've at least written tests and used a fuzzer.
[09:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Code Analyzer Turned Out to be Smarter Than One of its Creators - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:39] <exec> 08└─The second bug it found was caused by the following definition in a header file: #define sprintf std::printf
[09:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Andrey_Karpov [6589] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Code Analyzer Turned Out to be Smarter Than One of its Creators - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:41] <exec> 08└─As it has already been said, sometimes developers don't understand, what a compiler wants to tell them. I wanted to touch upon another close topic. Sometimes developers blame compilers in their errors :). I wrote a note related to this issue. The compiler is to blame for everything - https://www.viv...
[09:10:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06If Iran Doesn’t Have a Nuclear Weapons Program, Why Do Media Keep Saying It Does? - 939 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:10:28] <exec> 08└─For anyone not understanding this: Iran is a Persian Shi'ite country, surrounded by Arabic Sunni countries. Their neighbours mostly hate them on both ethnic and religious grounds. In recent history, they've mostly managed to deflect this by reminding everyone that they hate Israel more than they hat...
[09:10:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06If Iran Doesn’t Have a Nuclear Weapons Program, Why Do Media Keep Saying It Does? - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:10:29] <exec> 08└─They've been enriching well beyond 3%, on military bases, with A.Q. Khan assistance.
[09:10:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06If Iran Doesn’t Have a Nuclear Weapons Program, Why Do Media Keep Saying It Does? - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:10:31] <exec> 08└─Think of Iran as the weedy kid in a group of bullies that keeps pointing at other targets so that they don't pick on him and you won't be far wrong.
[09:10:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06If Iran Doesn’t Have a Nuclear Weapons Program, Why Do Media Keep Saying It Does? - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:10:33] <exec> 08└─Iran may be tempted not to escalate the issue outside the deal if the vetoer buy their petrol preferentially.
[09:10:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06If Iran Doesn’t Have a Nuclear Weapons Program, Why Do Media Keep Saying It Does? - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:10:36] <exec> 08└─(In fact, it's pretty unlikely that any of this small community is in a position to know very much.)
[09:10:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheReaperD [5556] (Score: 2) 02 - 06If Iran Doesn’t Have a Nuclear Weapons Program, Why Do Media Keep Saying It Does? - 555 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:10:38] <exec> 08└─It's called propaganda. It's getting the media to report "facts" that align with a set policy in Washington. The media reports that Iran is a thread because the US government wants the population to believe it is a threat in case they ever want to take unilateral action and invade Iran. If they only...
[09:10:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JNCF [4317] 02 - 06Dogs Use Facial Expressions to Influence Humans - 165 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:10:49] <exec> 08└─You're right, AC: we should just start factory-farming humans, for consistency. Food is food, right? Are you going to start socializing with your Soylent Green next?
[09:11:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dogs Use Facial Expressions to Influence Humans - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:11:00] <exec> 08└─Just because they're "much more human", why would it be wrong to eat them?
[09:12:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Math Behind Gerrymandering and Wasted Votes - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:12:14] <exec> 08└─Some people just want to watch the world burn... Or, you know, they have a sense of humor.
[09:12:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Math Behind Gerrymandering and Wasted Votes - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:12:16] <exec> 08└─Were society organized around capitalism rather than "government" coercion,
[09:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bank Downgrades Chipotle, Complaining It Pays Workers Too Much - 661 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:33] <exec> 08└─You sound like someone who totally pissed off YOUR CO-WORKERS. Your entire attitude sounds self-centered and assholey. It wouldn't surprise me at all if you are speaking from actual person experience about getting thrown out. I wouldn't want you in -my- organization. ...and good luck going up alone...
[09:17:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu 17.10 Released - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:17:52] <exec> 08└─That's the thing. ALL PROFESSIONAL GRADE 5 AXIS CAM IS WINDOWS CODE BASE!!! All of it. All. Of. It.
[09:17:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu 17.10 Released - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:17:54] <exec> 08└─If you pay a million, there's a good chance your vendor cares what you think. No CAM vendor cares about what any individual customer wants, they only care about the big picture and the bottom line. Reprogramming from scratch to add Linux support doesn't support that.
[09:17:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu 17.10 Released - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:17:56] <exec> 08└─There's absolutely nothing special about it, except that there are zero viable alternatives in the real world. If it's so easy, why is the best free CAM only passible for 3 axis hobby use? Why can't it be on par with the software that's had hundreds of millions of dollars poured into it over almost...
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[10:09:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06uBlock Origin Criticized for Blocking Content Security Policy - 548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:32] <exec> 08└─If ublock is preventing the browser from enforcing CSP stuff like "please let me know if the user's browser is removing ads/malware/crapware" then that's what I want ublock to do. Seems like the people designing CSP added a bit of overreach: https://mathiasbynens.be [mathiasbynens....
[10:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Andrey_Karpov [6589] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Code Analyzer Turned Out to be Smarter Than One of its Creators - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:49] <exec> 08└─A program product or a company is mentioned in a half of the news. So, each second news can be called advertising. It's not very clear for me why some people are so bothered by PVS-Studio analyzer. Moreover, very few programmers know about it, I'm making sure in it every time when I visit a conferen...
[10:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Andrey_Karpov [6589] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Code Analyzer Turned Out to be Smarter Than One of its Creators - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:50] <exec> 08└─I don't think so. :) Source: https://github.com [github.com]
[10:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Apple Sued Over "Animoji" Trademark - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:10:04] <exec> 08└─I cannot really comment on the case in question, however, methinks there is a pattern here. Apple being the ying-yang of Microsoft has developed its own version of embrace-extend-extinguish: Invite (into the walled garden)-wait (if its worthwhile)-rip off (all your bases are belong to us)
[10:10:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06If Iran Doesn’t Have a Nuclear Weapons Program, Why Do Media Keep Saying It Does? - 510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:10:44] <exec> 08└─AND don't forget Iran has been a victim of the UK and USA's meddling (they destroyed Iran's democracy). https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] the overthrow of the democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh in favour of strengthening the monarchic...
[10:10:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06If Iran Doesn’t Have a Nuclear Weapons Program, Why Do Media Keep Saying It Does? - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:10:46] <exec> 08└─It's called propaganda. It's getting the media to report "facts" that align with a set policy in Washington. The media reports that Iran is a threat because the US government wants the population to believe it is a threat in case they ever want to take unilateral action and invade Iran.
[10:12:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Purism Disables Intel Management Engine on Librem Laptops - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:12:54] <exec> 08└─Don't be discouraged. Your freedom of speech is important, even if people disagree. OTOH you are right and you know it when people get all up in arms when you say something like that.
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[11:09:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Skyrmions Are Coming - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:35] <exec> 08└─TFS Skyrmions are little swirls of magnetic orientation within these layers, Beach adds.
[11:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Skyrmions Are Coming - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:37] <exec> 08└─Also, previously on S/N [soylentnews.org] (not a year after launch)
[11:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Skyrmions Are Coming - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:39] <exec> 08└─"Eddies in the space time continuum." "Ah," nodded Arthur, "Is he. Is he." He pushed his hands into the pockets of his dressing gown and looked knowledgeably into the distance. "What?" said Ford. "Er, who," said Arthur, "is Eddy, then?"
[11:09:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06uBlock Origin Criticized for Blocking Content Security Policy - 548 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:47] <exec> 08└─If ublock is preventing the browser from enforcing CSP stuff like "please let me know if the user's browser is removing ads/malware/crapware" then that's what I want ublock to do. Seems like the people designing CSP added a bit of overreach: https://mathiasbynens.be [mathiasbynens....
[11:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06uBlock Origin Criticized for Blocking Content Security Policy - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:49] <exec> 08└─deviates from what it CSP was originally supposed to do - protect users from malicious 3rd party content:
[11:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06uBlock Origin Criticized for Blocking Content Security Policy - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:51] <exec> 08└─I've not applied any technical focus on this, but I *do* use UBO on some really dodgy sites, and it happily closes and makes visible (by denying i-frame), many bouncing , flashing "click me!" sites.... Reading what I wrote, I realise this probably doesn't meet many peoples version of dodgy, but we h...
[11:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06uBlock Origin Criticized for Blocking Content Security Policy - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:53] <exec> 08└─Inexhaustive list of some other things I'm sure uBlock Origin has been criticised for by various parties: blocking adsblocking trackersblocking third-party Javascriptblocking malware
[11:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06uBlock Origin Criticized for Blocking Content Security Policy - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:56] <exec> 08└─The fact that this is called a "violation" says a lot.
[11:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06uBlock Origin Criticized for Blocking Content Security Policy - 583 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:58] <exec> 08└─OK, I barely know anything about CSP, but what I worked out from TFA and a few clicks was that it was a way of turning something in the body of a webpage (in this case a non-approved script, where you define what is approved) into a request to a server of the webpage author's chosing that contains l...
[11:10:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Code Analyzer Turned Out to be Smarter Than One of its Creators - 1208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:10:17] <exec> 08└─One time I thought a 68K linker was outputting a section with reversed byte order, so as a workaround I flipped the byte order of the data... Until later when I noticed that my own code was reversing the byte order at run time :p It gets more interesting when you write stuff and run it in an emulato...
[11:10:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Code Analyzer Turned Out to be Smarter Than One of its Creators - 1213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:10:18] <exec> 08└─And sometimes, the compiler really is to blame. I haven't forgotten the last time I used Borland C++ 4.5. That terrible compiler had really bad bugs. They screwed up the segmented memory. If your program needed more than 64K data, Borland C++ would reuse the same 64K memory segment! I caught it doin...
[11:10:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Code Analyzer Turned Out to be Smarter Than One of its Creators - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:10:20] <exec> 08└─One bug I know of in Applesoft BASIC (on the Apple II+ computer) happens if you use a variable named just "A". Write "IF B>A THEN" and the interpreter will parse that as "IF B> AT HEN" and bomb on that line. Have to put parentheses around the condition, or switch the order of the variables in the co...
[11:10:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Code Analyzer Turned Out to be Smarter Than One of its Creators - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:10:23] <exec> 08└─Let's use your analogy then. I'm not saying you should agree with all the compiler warnings. I'm saying it's moronic beyond belief to turn them off.
[11:10:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Code Analyzer Turned Out to be Smarter Than One of its Creators - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:10:25] <exec> 08└─This almost got chucked as spam but martyb thought we could make a decent discussion out of it. Don't look for him to go pushing out anything they submit though.
[11:11:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06If Iran Doesn’t Have a Nuclear Weapons Program, Why Do Media Keep Saying It Does? - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:11:21] <exec> 08└─The problem is European and other international businesses are weary because morons like Trump can slap *them* with sanctions if they go against US's unilateral sanctions.
[11:11:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06If Iran Doesn’t Have a Nuclear Weapons Program, Why Do Media Keep Saying It Does? - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:11:22] <exec> 08└─I agree with every word you've said but there's still one problem. You're looking at the situation entirely from their perspective instead of from your own. That is exceedingly unwise. Darwin would even go as far as to call it unfit.
[11:11:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06If Iran Doesn’t Have a Nuclear Weapons Program, Why Do Media Keep Saying It Does? - 1073 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:11:24] <exec> 08└─...[that's] the only way we will prevent a war with them A writer that I like had a similar idea the other day. Two [Spies for the USSR] Deserve a Posthumous Nobel Peace Prize [counterpunch.org] Klaus Fuchs and Theodore Hall, should receive posthumous Nobel Peace Prizes for actions that almost certa...
[11:11:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dogs Use Facial Expressions to Influence Humans - 538 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:11:46] <exec> 08└─An *atrocious* article. We (humans) have applied many millenia of breeding selection to canines to take the wolf that tried to eat us, and turn it into the domestic mammalian servant we have today. Domestication "dumbs" down animals and since we (humans) have been free to pick the "cute" ones for ce...
[11:11:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dogs Use Facial Expressions to Influence Humans - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:11:48] <exec> 08└─Modded up because there will be an attack on meat from multiple fronts (environmental, quality, cost, ethics...). Cultured meat or whatever they are calling it will eventually wreck the livestock industry. And it will be the meat of choice (the only meat choice, alongside veggie alternatives) on Mar...
[11:12:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Paying Up to $1,000 for Vulnerabilities in Some Third-Party Android Apps - 1474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:12:00] <exec> 08└─So many things could go wrong with that scam. You'd have to have at least some heads up that you are being fired, or decide to quit yourself, which can be a death sentence in today's economy. You have to add the bug and get it through fellow employees and into the live app. Multiply the complexity,...
[11:12:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03WalksOnDirt [5854] 02 - 06The Math Behind Gerrymandering and Wasted Votes - 137 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:12:29] <exec> 08└─California has no gerrymandering, though they used to. The district boundaries are now set by a non-partisan commission, not politicians.
[11:14:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$417 Million Talc Cancer Verdict Against Johnson & Johnson Tossed Out - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:11] <exec> 08└─cannabis flower being deleterious
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[12:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Skyrmions Are Coming - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:40] <exec> 08└─I'll take one... 1 exabyte of storage in 2.5" form factor, please.
[12:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Skyrmions Are Coming - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:41] <exec> 08└─Is it Magnetic Bubble Memory Time again? This time on an improved smaller scale.
[12:09:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06uBlock Origin Criticized for Blocking Content Security Policy - 182 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:52] <exec> 08└─Inexhaustive list of some other things I'm sure uBlock Origin has been criticised for by various parties: blocking adsblocking trackersblocking third-party Javascriptblocking malware
[12:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06uBlock Origin Criticized for Blocking Content Security Policy - 938 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:56] <exec> 08└─Are you really that stupid? You = first party Soylentnews/Webmail = second party Message you are reading = third party Different browsers could interpret "Message you are reading" differently. The HTML/etc escaping/filtering library used by the second party site might also interpret it differently....
[12:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06uBlock Origin Criticized for Blocking Content Security Policy - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:58] <exec> 08└─I regard this as a manifestation of microBlock Origin just doing its job. I'm not alone. A perusal of the comments on 'The Register' show that there is broad support for uBO's approach. The Register:uBlock Origin CSP report blocking comments [theregister.co.uk]
[12:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06uBlock Origin Criticized for Blocking Content Security Policy - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:10:00] <exec> 08└─I was forced to read TFA. But once I had done so, I laughed at the critics. I use uMatrix though.
[12:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score: 2) 02 - 06uBlock Origin Criticized for Blocking Content Security Policy - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:10:03] <exec> 08└─uBlock is for user security, CSP is for the website's own security. Big surprise that they don't always coincide. If you as a site owner want more lax uBlock settings for your site, feel free to put up a banner. Just like those "hey you're blocking our ads" banner. I'm sure it'll work out well - eve...
[12:10:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Code Analyzer Turned Out to be Smarter Than One of its Creators - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:10:27] <exec> 08└─Compilers didn't "tighten the rules", they simply adopted support for a more modern version of the standard. Don't blame them for first supporting an early version, then supporting a later version. I think the change you're talking about was about the CFront 2.0 level, there were lots of changes aro...
[12:10:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Code Analyzer Turned Out to be Smarter Than One of its Creators - 888 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:10:28] <exec> 08└─The bugs I love are Heisenbugs [wikipedia.org]. I was trying to debug some code, which failed when run normally, but worked as wanted when run step-by-step in the debugger. After turning on increasingly fine-grained logging and adding explicit status outputs to logfiles etc, I eventually caught on t...
[12:10:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Code Analyzer Turned Out to be Smarter Than One of its Creators - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:10:30] <exec> 08└─That entire file is full of things designed around the idea that typing is hard and reading code is so easy that it's worth saving a little bit of typing to avoid a little bit of typing. If you type std::printf, it's 4 more keystrokes than sprintf, but everyone reading your code knows that you're ca...
[12:10:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Code Analyzer Turned Out to be Smarter Than One of its Creators - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:10:32] <exec> 08└─Anyone have samples of code where you just knew the compiler or static analyzer was wrong, only to find out otherwise? --martyb
[12:10:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Code Analyzer Turned Out to be Smarter Than One of its Creators - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:10:35] <exec> 08└─tbh... I'm the type that worries when something compiles clean the first time. There is always a coding error and I prefer the computer to find a simple syntax error or some other flub, instead of me having to track down the logic error the computer can't see later.
[12:11:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03lx [1915] (Score: 2) 02 - 06If Iran Doesn’t Have a Nuclear Weapons Program, Why Do Media Keep Saying It Does? - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:11:32] <exec> 08└─The oil export ban was very welcome for those wishing to keep oil prices high. I'm sure many oil producers would welcome another export ban on Iran. Maybe not Russia, keeping Iran as their largest ally in the Middle East is too important for them, but it certainly is welcome for the US and the Saudi...
[12:11:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dogs Use Facial Expressions to Influence Humans - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:11:57] <exec> 08└─I know some of you guys detest us ACs, but this is becoming ridiculous!
[12:11:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheLink [332] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dogs Use Facial Expressions to Influence Humans - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:11:59] <exec> 08└─What I'm curious about is whether the dogs make those facial expressions when dealing with 1) other dogs. 2) other animals like cats. 3) other animals that are a bit more different - birds.
[12:12:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dogs Use Facial Expressions to Influence Humans - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:12:01] <exec> 08└─Are "working dogs" [akc.org] dumbed down?
[12:13:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Math Behind Gerrymandering and Wasted Votes - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:13:18] <exec> 08└─So would the boundaries be redrawn after every landslide victory to reduce wasted votes? If no, why not (using the reasoning of this research)? ;)
[12:13:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Math Behind Gerrymandering and Wasted Votes - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:13:19] <exec> 08└─Evolution by variation and selection. Variation: supplier competition. Selection: consumer choice. The more you fight this process, the less effective it is; the more you work with this process, the more effective it is.
[12:13:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Math Behind Gerrymandering and Wasted Votes - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:13:21] <exec> 08└─Don't waste my time with stupid questions.
[12:13:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Math Behind Gerrymandering and Wasted Votes - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:13:24] <exec> 08└─If I don't like your contract terms, I'll just shoot you in the head.
[12:13:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Math Behind Gerrymandering and Wasted Votes - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:13:26] <exec> 08└─People laughed when the "radicals" spoke of "a culture that respects the democratic Will of the People." Yet, here we are.
[12:13:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Math Behind Gerrymandering and Wasted Votes - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:13:28] <exec> 08└─Do you even history, bro?
[12:13:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Math Behind Gerrymandering and Wasted Votes - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:13:30] <exec> 08└─Prisoner's dilemma: when the risk of losing overweights the benefit of playing optimally. The result: opportunists, playing might makes right, can't be avoided. It will never happen, the same way communism can't happen
[12:13:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Math Behind Gerrymandering and Wasted Votes - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:13:32] <exec> 08└─Those readicals needed to make heads roll. Crowned heads. Good luck beheading multinational corporations - the ones, theoretically the closest, but actually the very first enemies of your dream.
[12:13:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Math Behind Gerrymandering and Wasted Votes - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:13:35] <exec> 08└─Damn right that post is insightful - who would mod it back down to obscurity? Haven't read TFA yet, only TFS. Before I even look - does this research have an agenda? Is it partisan? It should be noted that even a bipartisan agenda is still an agenda. The two parties have conspired to prevent any thi...
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[13:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NY-Philly-Baltimore-DC Hyperloop: Not Vaporware? - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:37] <exec> 08└─Just in time for the Second American Revolution to lay waste to DC and Wall Street and move the capital to Denver for the dawning of the Second American Republic and its stark move away from the aristocratic fantasies of the DC-NY power elite. Well, I can dream.
[13:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NY-Philly-Baltimore-DC Hyperloop: Not Vaporware? - 702 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:39] <exec> 08└─Is there a lot of traffic between those sites? I'm not trolling, genuinely interested, not having lived within 1000 miles I donno. From the civilized world, looking in on the east coast, one endpoint is a famous hyper over crowded over security theater'd tourist trap surrounded by impressive poverty...
[13:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Skyrmions Are Coming - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:51] <exec> 08└─I was hoping these were particles found in skyr [wikipedia.org] that make it nutritious and delicious.
[13:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Skyrmions Are Coming - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:52] <exec> 08└─I was hoping these were particles found in skyr
[13:10:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06uBlock Origin Criticized for Blocking Content Security Policy - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:10] <exec> 08└─Actually, one or more of my extensions (probably Adblock) seems to detect some of those banners and block them (more accurately, it asks me if I want to block them, and I just say no). I think it might be based on a curated list, idk. Still... yup. Blocking Google Analytics is scriptblocking 101.
[13:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score: 2) 02 - 06uBlock Origin Criticized for Blocking Content Security Policy - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:11] <exec> 08└─uBlock is for user security, CSP is for the website's own security.
[13:10:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06uBlock Origin Criticized for Blocking Content Security Policy - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:13] <exec> 08└─By having something like CSP you could say "No javascript allowed here" and all browsers that support CSP in a sane way would not allow javascript in that place even if the W3C came up with new "Go Pedals" in the future and javascript got past the site's escaping library (whether due to the library...
[13:10:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06uBlock Origin Criticized for Blocking Content Security Policy - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:16] <exec> 08└─The balls on these people. To claim they have ANY right to decide what code is executed on my system. Execute it on your fucking server if it's so important to you. Fuck off.
[13:10:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03microtodd [1866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Code Analyzer Turned Out to be Smarter Than One of its Creators - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:44] <exec> 08└─Offtopic, but: I hope they immediately fired the programmer...
[13:10:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Code Analyzer Turned Out to be Smarter Than One of its Creators - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:46] <exec> 08└─Omfg just no! Noooooooooooooo!
[13:10:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Code Analyzer Turned Out to be Smarter Than One of its Creators - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:48] <exec> 08└─Really, it's come to this now? Even smart (*) people don't understand what "smart" means anymore? Wake me up when a tool not designed to write articles writes a better article than this tool. Until then, anyone that claims to have created something "smart" immediately shows they're not worthy of tha...
[13:11:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06If Iran Doesn’t Have a Nuclear Weapons Program, Why Do Media Keep Saying It Does? - 1037 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:11:47] <exec> 08└─My reply pretty much echoes Khallow's post. The Iranians have done some stuff over the years that doesn't look especially rational to the west. But, they don't act irrationally. I hope I've distinguised between "doesn't look very rational" and batfuck crazy. NK leadership, in my books, is batfuck cr...
[13:11:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06If Iran Doesn’t Have a Nuclear Weapons Program, Why Do Media Keep Saying It Does? - 1295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:11:49] <exec> 08└─Uhhhh - did the UK, or did the UK not, forge those documents? The question is not so much whether Iraq had some yellow cake - the question is whether "our side" forged documents, and over hyped the situation. As for the facts - every country in the world has plenty of fissionables to worry about. At...
[13:11:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06If Iran Doesn’t Have a Nuclear Weapons Program, Why Do Media Keep Saying It Does? - 738 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:11:51] <exec> 08└─Why? Because the alternative is even worse - for the people in charge, that is. Iran is building nuclear weapons - this is something they can deal with. Sanctions, preemptive strikes, Stuxnet, etc... but Iran is building nuclear reactors because it doesn't have enough oil left for both export and do...
[13:11:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06If Iran Doesn’t Have a Nuclear Weapons Program, Why Do Media Keep Saying It Does? - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:11:53] <exec> 08└─align with a set policy in Washington
[13:14:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06$417 Million Talc Cancer Verdict Against Johnson & Johnson Tossed Out - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:51] <exec> 08└─It's basic hygiene information. Would you prefer we were discussing penises instead?
[13:19:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ubuntu 17.10 Released - 1197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:27] <exec> 08└─I agree with what you wrote, but I'll say one thing to defend Shuttleworth - I think he tried to pivot away from what Ubuntu 10.04 was because his grand vision of Ubuntu conquering the desktop wasn't getting anywhere. Users loved it, but the growth of the user base was too slow to mean anything. I'...
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[14:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NY-Philly-Baltimore-DC Hyperloop: Not Vaporware? - 924 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:44] <exec> 08└─http://www.startribune.com/on-amtrak-s-fast-train-from-d-c-to-n-y-c/246415191/ [startribune.com] And speed. The Acela Express is the nation’s fastest train, maxing out at 150 miles per hour and covering the [DC-to-NY] trip’s 226 miles in two hours, 45 minutes. To do that by car, you’d need to...
[14:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NY-Philly-Baltimore-DC Hyperloop: Not Vaporware? - 745 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:46] <exec> 08└─Yeah it's heavily trafficked, it's been rated the most congested area in the country. https://www.washingtonpost.com (link slightly dated) Also as of 2014 it seems nearly a quarter of a million people were commuting from Maryland to work in DC, while another 14...
[14:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06NY-Philly-Baltimore-DC Hyperloop: Not Vaporware? - 529 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:48] <exec> 08└─Washington, as you know, is a swamp. It's a swamp built on a swamp. I like your idea of moving the capital. If I do, I'll move it to Palm Beach. Can you imagine that? I want you to imagine how much better our future can be if we declare independence from the elites who've led us to one financial and...
[14:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NY-Philly-Baltimore-DC Hyperloop: Not Vaporware? - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:50] <exec> 08└─a famous hyper over crowded over security theater'd tourist trap surrounded by impressive poverty mere blocks away
[14:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NY-Philly-Baltimore-DC Hyperloop: Not Vaporware? - 1092 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:52] <exec> 08└─But I digress. Theoretically a hyperloop between NYC and DC makes perfect sense. There's already a lot of rail traffic between DC, NYC, and Boston. It's an efficient way to travel because you can go from city center to city center without the hassle of taking a taxi to the airport (because mass tran...
[14:10:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03crafoo [6639] 02 - 06uBlock Origin Criticized for Blocking Content Security Policy - 174 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:25] <exec> 08└─The balls on these people. To claim they have ANY right to decide what code is executed on my system. Execute it on your fucking server if it's so important to you. Fuck off.
[14:10:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06uBlock Origin Criticized for Blocking Content Security Policy - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:27] <exec> 08└─That's what you should ask the CSP designers who added that "feature".
[14:10:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06uBlock Origin Criticized for Blocking Content Security Policy - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:29] <exec> 08└─Different browsers could interpret "Message you are reading" differently. The HTML/etc escaping/filtering library used by the second party site might also interpret it differently.
[14:11:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Code Analyzer Turned Out to be Smarter Than One of its Creators - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:11:01] <exec> 08└─Nah, I think you're a secret little fascist hiding behind "libertarian" ideas. Your behavior fits that of the alt-right, equivocate and outright lie/troll. Pretend to be clueless, pull in some suckers, then use horribly bad logic to spread shitty world views.
[14:12:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06If Iran Doesn’t Have a Nuclear Weapons Program, Why Do Media Keep Saying It Does? - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:12:06] <exec> 08└─Or do conservatives really, really, do not understand rationality?
[14:12:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06If Iran Doesn’t Have a Nuclear Weapons Program, Why Do Media Keep Saying It Does? - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:12:08] <exec> 08└─mostly you just want to be left alone
[14:12:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06If Iran Doesn’t Have a Nuclear Weapons Program, Why Do Media Keep Saying It Does? - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:12:10] <exec> 08└─Any vaguely wealthy country with a functioning military and intelligence service runs all kinds of programs on as many 'what if' scenarios you can think of, it is in the national interest to prepare and plan for things even if there is no imminent intent to commission an actual operation to build or...
[14:12:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06If Iran Doesn’t Have a Nuclear Weapons Program, Why Do Media Keep Saying It Does? - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:12:12] <exec> 08└─If only the Donald would make a deal with North Dakota, before it is too late!
[14:14:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Math Behind Gerrymandering and Wasted Votes - 592 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:05] <exec> 08└─You must not be from Earth. Welcome to our world, stranger. Let me explain something. We never have had, and never will have that mythical "free market". Some very few civilizations in early history, or prehistory, may have enjoyed "free markets", but they are soon abandoned. People demand strong ru...
[14:14:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Math Behind Gerrymandering and Wasted Votes - 1258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:06] <exec> 08└─And, that "efficiency quotient" is complete and utter bullshit. The laws never should have been written that give preference to either and/or both of our dominant parties. It would be perfectly alright if two or six enclaves around the country regularly voted Whig - and another dozen enclaves routin...
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[15:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06USA and Israel to Quit UNESCO Over 'Anti-Israel Bias' - 660 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:37] <exec> 08└─I'm not getting clear signals on what the right-think is here. NY Times, am I supposed to hate this move because Trump ordered it, or am I supposed to applaud it because Israel can do no wrong & how dare UNESCO for recognizing that Palestinians have value as human beings? How do the heads at the NY...
[15:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03KiloByte [375] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06USA and Israel to Quit UNESCO Over 'Anti-Israel Bias' - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:38] <exec> 08└─Israel is the most repugnant apartheid state in the world today
[15:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USA and Israel to Quit UNESCO Over 'Anti-Israel Bias' - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:40] <exec> 08└─I suspect this might be the real cause of the falling out: We were in arrears to the tune of $550 million or so
[15:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USA and Israel to Quit UNESCO Over 'Anti-Israel Bias' - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:42] <exec> 08└─Israel is the most repugnant apartheid state in the world today I think Europe's ongoing occupation of the western hemisphere is slightly worse.
[15:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USA and Israel to Quit UNESCO Over 'Anti-Israel Bias' - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:45] <exec> 08└─Generally world opinion applies different standards when a country claims to be modern and civilised.
[15:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USA and Israel to Quit UNESCO Over 'Anti-Israel Bias' - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:47] <exec> 08└─The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
[15:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USA and Israel to Quit UNESCO Over 'Anti-Israel Bias' - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:49] <exec> 08└─Worth noting that Israel is a contender for the construction contract. So it's a "win win". The 550M$ should just about pay for a few meters of the wall when built and all the graft is accrued. Only 100B$ to go! /sarc
[15:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USA and Israel to Quit UNESCO Over 'Anti-Israel Bias' - 648 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:51] <exec> 08└─Better to serve in Heaven, than reign in Hell, amirite? No, what you're saying makes total sense. Far better to be a black person in modern South Africa under apartheid than a full citizen of, say, Namibia, right? What were those ungrateful South African black people so upset about, anyway? Didn't t...
[15:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USA and Israel to Quit UNESCO Over 'Anti-Israel Bias' - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:54] <exec> 08└─"ongoing occupation?" There's, what, the British Virgin Islands and Guadeloupe? The rest of the western hemisphere has been self-governing for quite a while now. You might have heard of the American Revolution? Maybe Simon Bolivar? Or maybe you intend an indictment against people of European descent...
[15:10:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NY-Philly-Baltimore-DC Hyperloop: Not Vaporware? - 504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:08] <exec> 08└─Herald Square in NYC (adjacent to Penn Station, where Macy's is) hosts a lot more companies these days beyond the Fashion District; so it's walkable for those guys. You can take the A train there in a couple hops from Wall Street or from Midtown, too. So it's fast, much faster than taking a car. LGA...
[15:10:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NY-Philly-Baltimore-DC Hyperloop: Not Vaporware? - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:09] <exec> 08└─Denver? The new pot-smoking capital of the US? You really think a bunch of pot-smokers are going to successfully revolt?
[15:10:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NY-Philly-Baltimore-DC Hyperloop: Not Vaporware? - 2057 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:11] <exec> 08└─From the civilized world, looking in on the east coast, one endpoint is a famous hyper over crowded over security theater'd tourist trap surrounded by impressive poverty mere blocks away, and the other endpoint periodically contends for title of murder capital of USA or murder capital of world etc....
[15:10:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06uBlock Origin Criticized for Blocking Content Security Policy - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:47] <exec> 08└─* Making websites sane
[15:10:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06uBlock Origin Criticized for Blocking Content Security Policy - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:48] <exec> 08└─But.. but.. but... their terms of service require you to run the code that they point to on their webpage!!!
[15:10:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06uBlock Origin Criticized for Blocking Content Security Policy - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:50] <exec> 08└─Anyone who wants to protect users from "malicious 3rd party content" can do it in an instant: just stop serving to users 3rd party content.
[15:10:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06uBlock Origin Criticized for Blocking Content Security Policy - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:53] <exec> 08└─Would you prefer having to pay $4 for each unique domain that you visit in each month? Because in practice, that's the alternative to third-party ads and trackers for sites that aren't run as a hobby. Or if you know of a third way (other than ads or subscriptions) proven to provide enough revenue to...
[15:10:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06uBlock Origin Criticized for Blocking Content Security Policy - 1008 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:55] <exec> 08└─I don't now how stupid GP might be - but you're not making any points with your post. Third party hosting of anything introduces potential exploits. Stop using third party anything at all. Just stop. And, DO NOT expect my browser to make any kind of reports to any of those third parties. It ain't ha...
[15:10:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06uBlock Origin Criticized for Blocking Content Security Policy - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:57] <exec> 08└─The Content-Security-Policy-Report-Only header you're looking at is intended for diagnosing defects in a website, such as a cleartext http: URI mistakenly transcluded through some mechanism in a https: page, or third-party scripts inserted through a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability.
[15:10:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06uBlock Origin Criticized for Blocking Content Security Policy - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:59] <exec> 08└─The security feature enabled by CSP reporting (i.e.: fixing the site) isn't dependent on one user. It's dependent on at least one of the users doing it, not on all.
[15:11:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06uBlock Origin Criticized for Blocking Content Security Policy - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:01] <exec> 08└─The balls on these people. To claim they have ANY right to decide what code is executed on my system. Execute it on your fucking server if it's so important to you.
[15:11:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Code Analyzer Turned Out to be Smarter Than One of its Creators - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:35] <exec> 08└─Do you let inexperienced programmers check code into production without an experienced programmer first having a look on it? But hey, maybe showing this line of code and asking about everything that's wrong with it would make a good job interview question. :-)
[15:11:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Code Analyzer Turned Out to be Smarter Than One of its Creators - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:37] <exec> 08└─If your logic is incorrect, the compiler will call you out on that.
[15:11:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Code Analyzer Turned Out to be Smarter Than One of its Creators - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:39] <exec> 08└─And sometimes, the compiler really is to blame.
[15:12:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06If Iran Doesn’t Have a Nuclear Weapons Program, Why Do Media Keep Saying It Does? - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:46] <exec> 08└─Uhhhh - did the UK, or did the UK not, forge those documents?
[15:14:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Math Behind Gerrymandering and Wasted Votes - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:42] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I guess we can figure out who done it first. The one who has probably thought they would "win", and were horrified when the other party did the same thing to them once they got into power.
[15:14:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Math Behind Gerrymandering and Wasted Votes - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:43] <exec> 08└─It may not, but it is what it is. The government should never be half as weak as any corporation and/or other criminal enterprise. You can always, and should, give government more scrutiny than you do to any private entity, but you do need it. They should not have any need to work in secrecy on econ...
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[16:09:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Technology to Dramatically Speed up Home Broadband - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:29] <exec> 08└─> dedicated wavelength, so user speeds stay constant no matter how many users are online at once. Dedicated?? Ma Bell, your old circuit switching phone system is hot again!
[16:09:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Technology to Dramatically Speed up Home Broadband - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:30] <exec> 08└─So the customer will get a high-bandwidth connection to the ISP's overloaded router that then drops 90% of the packets?
[16:09:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02 - 06USA and Israel to Quit UNESCO Over 'Anti-Israel Bias' - 660 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:38] <exec> 08└─I'm not getting clear signals on what the right-think is here. NY Times, am I supposed to hate this move because Trump ordered it, or am I supposed to applaud it because Israel can do no wrong & how dare UNESCO for recognizing that Palestinians have value as human beings? How do the heads at the NY...
[16:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USA and Israel to Quit UNESCO Over 'Anti-Israel Bias' - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:48] <exec> 08└─http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2017/09/whataboutery-whataboutism/ [oxforddictionaries.com] Whatever neighboring countries do does not make the political system in Israel good for a modern, advanced nation.
[16:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USA and Israel to Quit UNESCO Over 'Anti-Israel Bias' - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:50] <exec> 08└─Because of US laws he had to stop funding UNESCO: http://www.telegraph.co.uk [telegraph.co.uk]
[16:10:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06NY-Philly-Baltimore-DC Hyperloop: Not Vaporware? - 1447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:07] <exec> 08└─You misunderstand. This first phase of Hyperloop is apparently planned between DC and Baltimore, so he's ineptly describing those two cities, not NYC. Another reason is DC is a cheerless armpit. Lame. Deadly boring. DC's not that bad. On the plus side, you can walk around the streets downtown and th...
[16:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03donkeyhotay [2540] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NY-Philly-Baltimore-DC Hyperloop: Not Vaporware? - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:08] <exec> 08└─Frazzled by airport security lines? I don't think I'm too cynical when I say that they'll end up eventually having hyperloop security lines to deal with too. I mean, you'd have to be pretty naive to think that high-speed travel that's not in the air won't have any security concerns. The trip might o...
[16:10:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Skyrmions Are Coming - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:23] <exec> 08└─A new TES release from Bethesda!
[16:10:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06uBlock Origin Criticized for Blocking Content Security Policy - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:54] <exec> 08└─So, what do I do? I just close the damned tab.
[16:10:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06uBlock Origin Criticized for Blocking Content Security Policy - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:56] <exec> 08└─I guess I would decide to run that whiteboard code then. That doesn't mean that, just because I find some code useful, that I must then allow all code to run...
[16:10:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06uBlock Origin Criticized for Blocking Content Security Policy - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:58] <exec> 08└─I already pay for Internet. Why aren't sites paying me to visit, they're so enamored of monetizing my traffic to it. There's no free lunch.
[16:10:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06uBlock Origin Criticized for Blocking Content Security Policy - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:00] <exec> 08└─That doesn't mean that, just because I find some code useful, that I must then allow all code to run
[16:11:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03microtodd [1866] 02 - 06Code Analyzer Turned Out to be Smarter Than One of its Creators - 62 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:29] <exec> 08└─Offtopic, but: I hope they immediately fired the programmer...
[16:11:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Code Analyzer Turned Out to be Smarter Than One of its Creators - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:36] <exec> 08└─So what should I claim if I implemented smart pointers? [wikipedia.org] ;-)
[16:11:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Code Analyzer Turned Out to be Smarter Than One of its Creators - 637 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:39] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure about your compiler, but your interpreter is totally messed up. TMB doesn't suggest you listen to Nazi haters, only that you shall not silence them. You are perfectly free to turn your back and change the channel. The tuner is also called a discriminator. Everybody has one. Always do th...
[16:11:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Code Analyzer Turned Out to be Smarter Than One of its Creators - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:41] <exec> 08└─Is that really a bug? I mean, subtraction and division aren't commutative either.
[16:11:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Code Analyzer Turned Out to be Smarter Than One of its Creators - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:43] <exec> 08└─Actions speak louder than words, so they say. Check mine. Spam aside, you'll find me standing for free speech every time it's in question. That the regressive left are the only ones calling for the speech policing does not make me any flavor of "right". It just makes you the fascists you claim to op...
[16:12:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06If Iran Doesn’t Have a Nuclear Weapons Program, Why Do Media Keep Saying It Does? - 56 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:04] <exec> 08└─Ask Saddam how this works, he had first hand experience.
[16:12:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06If Iran Doesn’t Have a Nuclear Weapons Program, Why Do Media Keep Saying It Does? - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:52] <exec> 08└─over hyped the situation Wag the dog [independent.co.uk]
[16:12:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06If Iran Doesn’t Have a Nuclear Weapons Program, Why Do Media Keep Saying It Does? - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:53] <exec> 08└─though from the Iranian immigrants I've met here most of them take it as seriously as English children take being forced to sing the national anthem.
[16:12:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06If Iran Doesn’t Have a Nuclear Weapons Program, Why Do Media Keep Saying It Does? - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:56] <exec> 08└─Yes, but all this does most certainly beg the question of why khallow is so abysmally ignorant.
[16:14:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Math Behind Gerrymandering and Wasted Votes - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:52] <exec> 08└─Hey dummy, they were trying to "solve" your naivety. Your series of voluntary contracts will boil down to one group with more power and they absolutely will renege on the co tractual terms as soon as they can make their coup. But you're too blind and throw all your problems into "naturally evolves t...
[16:14:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Math Behind Gerrymandering and Wasted Votes - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:54] <exec> 08└─Do you even grammar, bro?
[16:16:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$417 Million Talc Cancer Verdict Against Johnson & Johnson Tossed Out - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:02] <exec> 08└─Gullible people are stranger than the strangest of lights. Maybe, but those gullible people make up the majority of American voters.
[16:16:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$417 Million Talc Cancer Verdict Against Johnson & Johnson Tossed Out - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:04] <exec> 08└─Since I am very nearly as old as your wife, I feel that I am entitled to make that statement.
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[17:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Technology to Dramatically Speed up Home Broadband - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:38] <exec> 08└─So the customer will get a high-bandwidth connection to the ISP's overloaded router that then drops 90% of the packets?
[17:09:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03KiloByte [375] 02 - 06USA and Israel to Quit UNESCO Over 'Anti-Israel Bias' - 63 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:46] <exec> 08└─Israel is the most repugnant apartheid state in the world today
[17:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06USA and Israel to Quit UNESCO Over 'Anti-Israel Bias' - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:57] <exec> 08└─Human beings in general have little value. There are over 7 billion of us. Some, like the Palestinians, rage against modernity. They would have us step back to the 7th century. There exists no place in the entire world where Islam coexists peacefully with anything other than the exact same variant o...
[17:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USA and Israel to Quit UNESCO Over 'Anti-Israel Bias' - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:58] <exec> 08└─For long-term survival, Israel needs to remove all Muslims from all of the territory it controls. The current political system does not support this. In time, the Muslim population will grow to the point that they control Israel's parliament. Soon afterward, the Jews are back to being genocided, and...
[17:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USA and Israel to Quit UNESCO Over 'Anti-Israel Bias' - 479 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:01] <exec> 08└─Remember the ice rink in Central Park: http://blog.acton.org [acton.org] Wall estimates are coming in way lower than $100 billion, but even at that price (about 5x over) the savings would be huge. We suffer losse...
[17:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USA and Israel to Quit UNESCO Over 'Anti-Israel Bias' - 525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:03] <exec> 08└─Two xenophobic countries doing what they usually do, it is really just a "fuck education and culture, that is liberal propaganda anyway" along with saving half a billion bucks. The US was sooo stupid not to dump more money into solar, it would have been the best day ever when we could have pulled ou...
[17:10:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Skyrmions Are Coming - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:35] <exec> 08└─Would you like a side of pronounciation with that? How about even an informally defined pronounciation guideSkyrmion. The first three letters throw me for a loop. But I'm guessing it is maybe like: SCRIM-ee-on ? I saw a snike. Eat head beeg blow oys and a huge tile.
[17:11:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06uBlock Origin Criticized for Blocking Content Security Policy - 1008 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:03] <exec> 08└─I don't now how stupid GP might be - but you're not making any points with your post. Third party hosting of anything introduces potential exploits. Stop using third party anything at all. Just stop. And, DO NOT expect my browser to make any kind of reports to any of those third parties. It ain't ha...
[17:11:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06uBlock Origin Criticized for Blocking Content Security Policy - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:11] <exec> 08└─Yes, please. Let's go back to when websites were a labour of love created by people that wished to share their hobbies and their knowledge. Let's go back to when websites were informational. Drop this corporate shit now!
[17:11:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06uBlock Origin Criticized for Blocking Content Security Policy - 773 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:13] <exec> 08└─https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/usenixsecurity17/sec17-koppe.pdf [usenix.org] You can serve a script injecting microcode pass the sandboxing. And considering SMM and AMT have their own mode instructions, I bet you can go all the way to ring-3 and own the machine in ways that would mak...
[17:11:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06uBlock Origin Criticized for Blocking Content Security Policy - 2378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:16] <exec> 08└─The coverage and whatnot are leaving much of the story out, just like when uBO was discovered to be blocking websockets. Basically, this was an agenda driven opportunity to smear uBO and the guilty parties (Troy Hunt and Scott Helme) are way better in PR than Gorhill. It is almost identical to the a...
[17:11:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06uBlock Origin Criticized for Blocking Content Security Policy - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:18] <exec> 08└─Reading what I wrote, I realise this probably doesn't meet many peoples version of dodgy
[17:11:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06uBlock Origin Criticized for Blocking Content Security Policy - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:20] <exec> 08└─Would you prefer having to pay $4 for each unique domain that you visit in each month?
[17:11:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06uBlock Origin Criticized for Blocking Content Security Policy - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:22] <exec> 08└─The balls on these people. To claim they have ANY right to decide what code is executed on my system.
[17:11:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06uBlock Origin Criticized for Blocking Content Security Policy - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:24] <exec> 08└─^ I've stopped exploring the web, its a pain in the ass! I've found a few tiny corners, and I search for anything specific I need, otherwise I ignore it.
[17:11:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06uBlock Origin Criticized for Blocking Content Security Policy - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:27] <exec> 08└─Hadn't realized CSP was such a threat to the end-user until today.
[17:12:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Code Analyzer Turned Out to be Smarter Than One of its Creators - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:07] <exec> 08└─What's a "tuner"?
[17:12:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Code Analyzer Turned Out to be Smarter Than One of its Creators - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:08] <exec> 08└─I'd rather have the test suite. Then when people are "fixing the issues" they aren't introducing logic bugs. Tests to check for bad input are nice and all but the real value is in proving (and protecting) the business logic. My opinion of course : )
[17:12:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Code Analyzer Turned Out to be Smarter Than One of its Creators - 919 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:11] <exec> 08└─Mistakes don't just come about due to inexperience. There are whole rafts of typos that are valid code, but will break stuff. There are mistakes in recall about side effects. There are misunderstandings of documentation. I pulled a whammy the other day, after not looking at objective c for some time...
[17:12:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Code Analyzer Turned Out to be Smarter Than One of its Creators - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:13] <exec> 08└─I am not a C++ programmer, but...does that do what i think it does? Which is basically say "Hey when the code calls the secure version of printf() substitute the old insecure one?" That's not just a paddlin', that's "getting stuck in a jail cell for a year with no electronic devices except a speak'n...
[17:12:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Code Analyzer Turned Out to be Smarter Than One of its Creators - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:15] <exec> 08└─Oh, I don't disagree that you'd need a test suite, but the effort involved in writing a small and incomplete test suite is similar to the effort involved in fixing the bugs a static analyser finds.
[17:13:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06If Iran Doesn’t Have a Nuclear Weapons Program, Why Do Media Keep Saying It Does? - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:28] <exec> 08└─"Cuck" is not an argument, VLM. And if anyone has been cuckolded, it's rural Republican voters, as their party has made their lives worse and worse since the Civil Rights movement while promising them the moon and the stars in return for their fidelity and loyalty. If that's not cuckolding I don't k...
[17:13:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06If Iran Doesn’t Have a Nuclear Weapons Program, Why Do Media Keep Saying It Does? - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:29] <exec> 08└─English children don't sing the national anthem every day, or even any normal school day.
[17:13:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06If Iran Doesn’t Have a Nuclear Weapons Program, Why Do Media Keep Saying It Does? - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:31] <exec> 08└─if I could play God, I would take all of NK's technical and warmaking capabilities, and give them to Iran. Yeah, you're just a sucker for those big beautiful round eyes.
[17:13:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06If Iran Doesn’t Have a Nuclear Weapons Program, Why Do Media Keep Saying It Does? - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:33] <exec> 08└─Modded up because it's criminal for this to sit at 0. With one small nitpick: I don't think Eth is doing satire anymore. He might have started that way, but he's been getting high on his own supply for at least 18 months now and it's beginning to show.
[17:13:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06If Iran Doesn’t Have a Nuclear Weapons Program, Why Do Media Keep Saying It Does? - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:36] <exec> 08└─Nothing can penetrate that shield of ignorance.
[17:13:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06If Iran Doesn’t Have a Nuclear Weapons Program, Why Do Media Keep Saying It Does? - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:38] <exec> 08└─Tel Aviv, not Wash DC. UK, not Tel Aviv, sets policy in D.C. The entire mideast, including Israel, is a UK/Europe affair. The US is just playing the muscleman.
[17:13:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06If Iran Doesn’t Have a Nuclear Weapons Program, Why Do Media Keep Saying It Does? - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:40] <exec> 08└─I know we didn't, but when we did sing the national anthem we mostly sang 'mur mur mur mur mur mur' repeatedly. Iranian children shouting 'death to England' take it about as seriously.
[17:13:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06If Iran Doesn’t Have a Nuclear Weapons Program, Why Do Media Keep Saying It Does? - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:42] <exec> 08└─Lol, so it turns out your brain may not be hardwired as a sociopath, but you freely embrace concepts that make you into one anyway! Wow, just fucking wow.
[17:13:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06If Iran Doesn’t Have a Nuclear Weapons Program, Why Do Media Keep Saying It Does? - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:44] <exec> 08└─Maybe 70 years ago, but I don't see the UK having any pull ever since they had their balls handed to them in the Suez war. The Europeans are cash cows. The US is too but also provides the muscle.
[17:16:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jmorris [4844] 02 - 06Purism Disables Intel Management Engine on Librem Laptops - 608 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:08] <exec> 08└─No, that is old news. They did at least get the message about proper documentation. You don't have to follow Pottering's blog anymore to know how it works, there are manpages and stable webpages. Gotta give credit where due, if only from a purely selfish desire to make my objections to the concept i...
[17:17:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06LinkedIn Mulls Producing Videos; May Buy Rights From Sports Leagues - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:04] <exec> 08└─Hmm, I can't help but to think: If you want to be an attractive wage-slave, you will have to log in and activate javascript, etc like any other attractive wage-slave, so that they can harvest your precious bodily... telemetry.
[17:18:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03srobert [4803] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bank Downgrades Chipotle, Complaining It Pays Workers Too Much - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:08] <exec> 08└─I think I'd prefer individual trade and labor unions over the Socialist Party one big union model. But, union or non-union, I'd like to see some legal requirement that would make it so no workers were working without a written contract of some sort. Years ago someone told me that this was the requir...
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[18:09:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Electric Car Maker Tesla to Build Factory in China - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:35] <exec> 08└─Tesla has decided it is okay to turn over all its technology to China. In the long run, this could work out badly for Tesla.
[18:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03AssCork [6255] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Electric Car Maker Tesla to Build Factory in China - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:36] <exec> 08└─The Chinese will have their own plant cranking out cloned Teslas at a third of the cost, and a tenth of the QA. A shame, Mr Musk really seemed like the exact opposite of an evil genius - what with his all-electric cars, solar panel roof tiles, and what-nots. Who would have guessed the chink in his a...
[18:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Technology to Dramatically Speed up Home Broadband - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:47] <exec> 08└─How could this possibly scale well? How many wavelength divisions can they possibly create in a fiber optic cable from a head end controller to the subscriber? 4? 40? 400? 4000? And when you do chop up the pie into dedicated slices, how much of each slice goes to waste because the bandwidth division...
[18:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03AssCork [6255] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Technology to Dramatically Speed up Home Broadband - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:49] <exec> 08└─New, cheaper equipment that replaces expensive stuff does not mean a better user experience. It means you pay the same price, while the carrier's expenses drop.
[18:10:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02 - 06USA and Israel to Quit UNESCO Over 'Anti-Israel Bias' - 648 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:03] <exec> 08└─Better to serve in Heaven, than reign in Hell, amirite? No, what you're saying makes total sense. Far better to be a black person in modern South Africa under apartheid than a full citizen of, say, Namibia, right? What were those ungrateful South African black people so upset about, anyway? Didn't t...
[18:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USA and Israel to Quit UNESCO Over 'Anti-Israel Bias' - 781 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:11] <exec> 08└─It isn't "fuck education and culture, that is liberal propaganda anyway". It's closer to "fuck education and culture, because the only type being offered is liberal propaganda anyway". FYI, the conservative/rural/flyover/republican parts of the USA do have culture. It is relatively pristine in fact,...
[18:10:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USA and Israel to Quit UNESCO Over 'Anti-Israel Bias' - 515 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:14] <exec> 08└─The U.S. is not self governing. They do what the UK tells them to do, for instance, all middle east activities are under British command. The Americans feed them blood and ammo. And please, since when has anything south of the Rio Grande been anything close to 'self-governing'? That's just silly The...
[18:10:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USA and Israel to Quit UNESCO Over 'Anti-Israel Bias' - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:16] <exec> 08└─Shouldn't they have rights too?
[18:10:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USA and Israel to Quit UNESCO Over 'Anti-Israel Bias' - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:18] <exec> 08└─And only morons think the wall will do much good. Long live pork! From the man's own mouth: "... there's no ladder going over that. If they ever go up there, they're in trouble, because here's no way to get down. Maybe a rope."
[18:10:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2, Troll) 02 - 06USA and Israel to Quit UNESCO Over 'Anti-Israel Bias' - 2140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:20] <exec> 08└─First off, read these: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] http://www.israelnationalnews.com [israelnationalnews.com] Now, consider the following: 1. The Jews are claiming Israel saying "It's ours because it's said so in the Bible" while the...
[18:10:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06USA and Israel to Quit UNESCO Over 'Anti-Israel Bias' - 517 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:23] <exec> 08└─Wow that's ridiculous. Who made those ridiculous US laws that said: "if the Palestinians are in, we're out"? A superpower, tieing its hands to whatever just 1 of the other 195 countries' foreign policy du jour is! What happened to Realpolitik: "If the Palestinians are in, we'll decide for ourselves...
[18:10:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USA and Israel to Quit UNESCO Over 'Anti-Israel Bias' - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:25] <exec> 08└─Its people are jerks in person, too. No manners and no consideration for others. /quote? Stereotype much? I've heard the exact same allegations made in regard to Germans, and Americans. Fine, you hate Jews, just own that and move on.
[18:10:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NY-Philly-Baltimore-DC Hyperloop: Not Vaporware? - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:44] <exec> 08└─Anyway your impressions are about 30 years out of date. Hell's Kitchen has been a very hot neighborhood for 20 years. Even a crappy garden-style apartment (aka ground level) will cost you a million dollars.
[18:10:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NY-Philly-Baltimore-DC Hyperloop: Not Vaporware? - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:45] <exec> 08└─TSA hasn't spread in earnest to the trains yet. However people still make it to their destinations alive somehow. Lucky for us, the cost of a ticket doesn't seem to cover the theater performance (yet).
[18:11:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06uBlock Origin Criticized for Blocking Content Security Policy - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:45] <exec> 08└─Tell that to the W3C and browser developers.
[18:11:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06uBlock Origin Criticized for Blocking Content Security Policy - 802 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:47] <exec> 08└─Neither. I can go to my bank, and set up a recurring periodic payment. If my bank didn't provide that service, then I would probably be in contact with $monopoly about their billing practices. I would seriously consider dropping the service that $monopoly provides. I would most definitely be searchi...
[18:11:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] (Score: 2) 02 - 06uBlock Origin Criticized for Blocking Content Security Policy - 818 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:49] <exec> 08└─I'm computer savvy, fairly well-read on the privacy and security issues of running web scripts on my PC, and even I have no idea how to go about determining which code is trustworthy to run. So, by default, I block it all, and decide on a case-by-case basis whether to allow a script to run so that I...
[18:11:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06uBlock Origin Criticized for Blocking Content Security Policy - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:51] <exec> 08└─What is palemoon's attitude to report-uri, Beacons (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Beacon_API) and other such junk?
[18:11:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06uBlock Origin Criticized for Blocking Content Security Policy - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:53] <exec> 08└─So yes, you may need multiple users to hit different subsets of the documents on a site.
[18:11:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06uBlock Origin Criticized for Blocking Content Security Policy - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:55] <exec> 08└─I already pay for Internet. Why aren't sites paying me to visit
[18:11:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06uBlock Origin Criticized for Blocking Content Security Policy - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:58] <exec> 08└─I can go to my bank, and set up a recurring periodic payment.
[18:11:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06uBlock Origin Criticized for Blocking Content Security Policy - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:00] <exec> 08└─If you're referring to a third-party script that a user manages to inadvertently insert through a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability, preventing it from running is the main goal of CSP.
[18:12:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06uBlock Origin Criticized for Blocking Content Security Policy - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:02] <exec> 08└─I'm glad it amused you. The Register commentators can be caustic.
[18:12:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06uBlock Origin Criticized for Blocking Content Security Policy - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:04] <exec> 08└─But how should an end user go about determining which code is trustworthy to run?
[18:12:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06uBlock Origin Criticized for Blocking Content Security Policy - 1548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:06] <exec> 08└─Why then are you even on Soylent News? Most comments here are 𝕋𝕙𝕚𝕣𝕕 ℙ𝕒𝕣𝕥𝕪 ℂ𝕠𝕟𝕥𝕖𝕟𝕥 (e.g. content that is not from you nor from those who run Soylent News). There are things that the Soylent News webapp does to filter bad/unwanted stuff from comments wh...
[18:12:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] 02 - 06Code Analyzer Turned Out to be Smarter Than One of its Creators - 919 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:49] <exec> 08└─Mistakes don't just come about due to inexperience. There are whole rafts of typos that are valid code, but will break stuff. There are mistakes in recall about side effects. There are misunderstandings of documentation. I pulled a whammy the other day, after not looking at objective c for some time...
[18:12:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Code Analyzer Turned Out to be Smarter Than One of its Creators - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:52] <exec> 08└─You need a better test suite than that. If you haven't already spent 10x the cost of PVS studio developing your test suite, your priorities need a rethink. Static analysis of the sort this tool does is just a bullshit lint pass, supported by the agglomeration of various C++ updates. They shit on oth...
[18:12:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Code Analyzer Turned Out to be Smarter Than One of its Creators - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:55] <exec> 08└─just to make sure: this would be the type of situation when "using namespace std;" would be adequate, right?
[18:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06If Iran Doesn’t Have a Nuclear Weapons Program, Why Do Media Keep Saying It Does? - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:16] <exec> 08└─Please, show us more of your ignorance. A human mind that is unable to see things from its own perspective is no less damaged than one that is unable to see it from the perspectives of others.
[18:14:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06If Iran Doesn’t Have a Nuclear Weapons Program, Why Do Media Keep Saying It Does? - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:17] <exec> 08└─In contrast, we have a 2011 IAEA report which indicates that Iran probably was still running its nuclear weapons program at the time. [cfr.org] Thanks Obama! Your 2015 Iran deal can't even go back in time and retroactively pause their nuclear program!
[18:14:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06If Iran Doesn’t Have a Nuclear Weapons Program, Why Do Media Keep Saying It Does? - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:19] <exec> 08└─Thanks Obama! Your 2015 Iran deal can't even go back in time and retroactively pause their nuclear program!
[18:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06If Iran Doesn’t Have a Nuclear Weapons Program, Why Do Media Keep Saying It Does? - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:21] <exec> 08└─In ST:DIS, Klingon culture has a striking resemblance to the alt-right, which dovetails nicely with the allusions to the N-word in earlier productions that take place later in the 23rd century.
[18:16:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Math Behind Gerrymandering and Wasted Votes - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:20] <exec> 08└─Try again.
[18:16:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Math Behind Gerrymandering and Wasted Votes - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:21] <exec> 08└─Here. [soylentnews.org] You're fighting a straw man.
[18:16:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Math Behind Gerrymandering and Wasted Votes - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:24] <exec> 08└─You've explained exactly why there's One World Government for the entire planet. Thanks for the insight.
[18:16:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Math Behind Gerrymandering and Wasted Votes - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:26] <exec> 08└─It's similar attitudes to politics in the UK; I suspect it has to do with the FPTP voting system, which is adversarial, and where if you want to join a coalition you're seen as "surrendering" somehow.
[18:17:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03AssCork [6255] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$417 Million Talc Cancer Verdict Against Johnson & Johnson Tossed Out - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:35] <exec> 08└─Those people putting ". . .contains chemicals known to the state of California to cause cancer and birth defects" warning labels everywhere just need to give up. Just hang a sign in the delivery room of every hospital that says "WARNING: Life is the leading cause of Death". Seriously, Talcum powder...
[18:17:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Bank Downgrades Chipotle, Complaining It Pays Workers Too Much - 409 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:55] <exec> 08└─When kid wants to know why we can't have nice things. Money is about control, the less money, the most control. This is why mafia literally swimming in money keep their territory poor. This is why this downgrade means nothing. People, and nations, who followed the finance guru institutions, got fsck...
[18:18:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bank Downgrades Chipotle, Complaining It Pays Workers Too Much - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:53] <exec> 08└─OK, so everyone who doesn't toe your party line can die in a fire, while all the good little cogs are good little cogs for the union. Being an entrepreneur, risks and all, sounds really fabulously great in your world. Better than sucking union dick without even the option of changing the flavour of...
[18:18:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bank Downgrades Chipotle, Complaining It Pays Workers Too Much - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:54] <exec> 08└─So start one. OK, you're not in government, from what I understand, so do the next best thing: a non-profit bank. Cash returns over necessary reserve figures get redistributed to your depositors. Public accounts all the way. You can do it! And make it a co-op too!
[18:19:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart9h [767] (Score: 2) 02 - 06F-Droid 1.0 for Android Released 2017/10/20 - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:48] <exec> 08└─Exactly. I reluctantly go to Play store only if I don't find a suitable app on F-Droid. The apps are usually much smaller and to-the-point. I have dozens of F-Droid apps installed. Some recommendations: Clip Stack, DiskUsage, FBReader, Ghost Commander, Hacker's Keyboard, Mathdroid, NewPipe, OsmAnd,...
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[19:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's Quantum Computing Plans Threatened by IBM Curveball - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:37] <exec> 08└─Yeah we all know rank 2 is matrix and rank >=3 is tensor and a few of us even know quantum mechanics is basically just EE's complex math + some stat and diffs so it stands to reason you're going to store results in tensors... But telling us this is their "magic sauce" is about as useful as telling u...
[19:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Electric Car Maker Tesla to Build Factory in China - 800 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:46] <exec> 08└─Your cork fell out. This is actually the opposite of an evil move, he is voluntarily setting up manufacturing because it will earn money for Tesla guaranteed and if the Chinese steal any of Tesla's methods it will only improve electric car tech worldwide. This was Musk's not-evil motives as far as I...
[19:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electric Car Maker Tesla to Build Factory in China - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:49] <exec> 08└─Tesla lets anyone us their patents. Tesla cannot prevent anyone from taking their cars apart to clone them. What exactly do they have to lose by building there? Hopefully they keep their software keys secret already...
[19:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Technology to Dramatically Speed up Home Broadband - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:00] <exec> 08└─That moment you realize you're getting ADSL2+(ATM) at 2.3\0.1MBps :(
[19:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Technology to Dramatically Speed up Home Broadband - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:02] <exec> 08└─Perusing TFA, it says they achieved 8 times more subscribers using Alamouti-coded OFDM QPSK and 4 times more subscribers using 16-QAM using a passive optical network (PON). It is not my field, but I understand that each single fiber on a PON can service 32 users, so multiplying by 4 or 8 using the s...
[19:10:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Technology to Dramatically Speed up Home Broadband - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:04] <exec> 08└─No, it will be a really fast connection to an ever-shrinking data cap.
[19:10:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USA and Israel to Quit UNESCO Over 'Anti-Israel Bias' - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:33] <exec> 08└─Is this the UNESCO that is part of the UN which made Robert Mugabe a Goodwill Ambassador? Their moral authority seems to be in decline.
[19:10:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USA and Israel to Quit UNESCO Over 'Anti-Israel Bias' - 1268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:34] <exec> 08└─Yeah, Israel is pretty vile. But there doesn't seem to be any answer for them, either. Israel is quite small and has been surrounded by countries that have explicitly called for their destruction since nearly the date of their creation. The Palestinians have a convoluted history, but they haven't ex...
[19:10:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USA and Israel to Quit UNESCO Over 'Anti-Israel Bias' - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:37] <exec> 08└─-1 Clearly Not From the Same Reality
[19:10:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USA and Israel to Quit UNESCO Over 'Anti-Israel Bias' - 635 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:39] <exec> 08└─July 2017: UNESCO declares the Tomb of the Jewish Patriarchs to be a "Palestinian" heritage site in danger of Jews taking it back [timesofisrael.com] October 2016: UNESCO declares the historic Jewish capitol of Jerusalem to be illegally occupied by Jews [unwatch.org] January 2014: UNESCO expels the...
[19:10:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USA and Israel to Quit UNESCO Over 'Anti-Israel Bias' - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:41] <exec> 08└─Your post just glorifies stupidity and reeks of white supremacy.
[19:10:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06USA and Israel to Quit UNESCO Over 'Anti-Israel Bias' - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:43] <exec> 08└─We can at least stop having anything to do with them, and relegate them to the same place in line for our attention as, hmm, checking the world's countries ranked by population [wikipedia.org], Tajikistan, Papua New Guinea, or Togo. Come to think of it, why not bring the struggles and issues of Taji...
[19:11:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NY-Philly-Baltimore-DC Hyperloop: Not Vaporware? - 1434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:04] <exec> 08└─Indeed, Heathrow has aa subway and a fast rail link into London. Stanstead and Gatwick have fast rail links too, as to Manchester and Birmingham into their cities (Birmingham has links to London too). Toronto too, and Singapore. I think Delhi does, but I've not used that. DME does - I always take th...
[19:11:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NY-Philly-Baltimore-DC Hyperloop: Not Vaporware? - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:05] <exec> 08└─Moving it from a swamp to a place about to be underwater? I vote for Kansas, or the Dakotas.
[19:11:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03FatPhil [863] 02 - 06uBlock Origin Criticized for Blocking Content Security Policy - 583 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:34] <exec> 08└─OK, I barely know anything about CSP, but what I worked out from TFA and a few clicks was that it was a way of turning something in the body of a webpage (in this case a non-approved script, where you define what is approved) into a request to a server of the webpage author's chosing that contains l...
[19:12:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06uBlock Origin Criticized for Blocking Content Security Policy - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:16] <exec> 08└─But a lot of sites are so big that one user rarely if ever sees the whole thing, resulting in incomplete test coverage.
[19:12:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06uBlock Origin Criticized for Blocking Content Security Policy - 701 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:17] <exec> 08└─Basic computer science would tell you that solving the halting problem is impossible ;). "which code is trustworthy to run?" is similar to the halting problem. Except that in many cases you don't get the full code and inputs till you run the initial code. Heck you might never get the full code eithe...
[19:13:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03riT-k0MA [88] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Code Analyzer Turned Out to be Smarter Than One of its Creators - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:06] <exec> 08└─This is one reason I really like the company I work for. They expect people to make mistakes. They're almost happy about it, just so long as one doesn't make the same mistake twice.
[19:13:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart [2844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Code Analyzer Turned Out to be Smarter Than One of its Creators - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:07] <exec> 08└─None of the really difficult bugs in my career where ever the kind where you could single-step through the code. They always included multi-threading, multi-process or multi-machine, and generally with some closed source stuff included. I find that old-fashioned printf debugging is generally the bes...
[19:13:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Sued Over "Animoji" Trademark - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:23] <exec> 08└─They don't pay almost any EU tax either. Isn't it lovely how the richest get most state subsidies? https://www.theguardian.com [theguardian.com]
[19:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06If Iran Doesn’t Have a Nuclear Weapons Program, Why Do Media Keep Saying It Does? - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:34] <exec> 08└─Yeah, parent thinks it's no coincidence that the country (Iran) that is near the top of the US invasion list works on nuclear science and infrastructure for reasons of self-defense. But you're smart enough to know that this is really economic policy, even though nuclear reactors have become money pi...
[19:14:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06If Iran Doesn’t Have a Nuclear Weapons Program, Why Do Media Keep Saying It Does? - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:36] <exec> 08└─The breadth of your wisdom is truly only exceeded by its depth.
[19:16:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Math Behind Gerrymandering and Wasted Votes - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:16:39] <exec> 08└─Hey, dumbfuck...who enforces contracts when someone welches in the Peoples' Republic of Ancapistan? Anyone else get the feeling Mr Violently Imposed Monopoly's actual purpose is to derail any discussion on the real issue of Gerrymandering? Certain interested are not served by a more representative p...
[19:16:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Math Behind Gerrymandering and Wasted Votes - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:16:40] <exec> 08└─Except there is not OWG, but there should be. Nations should become more like states, with limits on their abilities to violate human rights. It is a shame upon our entire planet that places exist like North Korea, Somalia, and other bastions of dictatorship and abuse.
[19:16:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Math Behind Gerrymandering and Wasted Votes - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:16:43] <exec> 08└─Sweet jesus you're dumb! Or a very dedicated troll. Wait, those aren't mutually exclusive! You're a dumb troll!
[19:16:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Math Behind Gerrymandering and Wasted Votes - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:16:45] <exec> 08└─Oh VLM, you think Democrats were the ones that created urban squalor? Please do some research and learn what policies actually screwed over low socioeconomic status communities. It is despicable when conservatives try and shift the blame off of themselves, stop voting for greedy pigs who make everyo...
[19:17:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart [2844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Purism Disables Intel Management Engine on Librem Laptops - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:18] <exec> 08└─I very recently downloaded the systemd source code from github just to have a look, and am apalled by its lack of source code documentation. Hardly any of its files or functions or structs have any explanation whatsoever of their purpose. Something like doxygen, Redhat never heard of obviously.
[19:19:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bank Downgrades Chipotle, Complaining It Pays Workers Too Much - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:15] <exec> 08└─So start one. OK, you're not in government, from what I understand, so do the next best thing: a non-profit bank. Cash returns over necessary reserve figures get redistributed to your depositors. Public accounts all the way. You can do it! And make it a co-op too!
[19:19:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Great Tits May be Evolving Longer Beaks to Adapt to Bird Feeders - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:58] <exec> 08└─Ah, I, I don't know that! AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!
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[20:09:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google's Quantum Computing Plans Threatened by IBM Curveball - 521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:35] <exec> 08└─As briefly noted in the actual article, encoding quantum operations in the form of tensors yields a much more compact data structure. On top of this, compact form of information, they discovered that the simulation could be implemented with tensors in an "embarrassingly parallel" fashion (that's th...
[20:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google's Quantum Computing Plans Threatened by IBM Curveball - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:36] <exec> 08└─It's probably the structure of these tensors which they are exploiting. Maybe the tensors are sparse (mostly zero) or maybe they have an algebraic structure which like with the fast Fourier transform (FFT) can be exploited numerically for a significant reduction in computation.
[20:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google's Quantum Computing Plans Threatened by IBM Curveball - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:38] <exec> 08└─The AC already said as much.
[20:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electric Car Maker Tesla to Build Factory in China - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:49] <exec> 08└─I also doubt that Tesla's car trade secrets are as valuable as their battery trade secrets or SpaceX's trade secrets.
[20:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Electric Car Maker Tesla to Build Factory in China - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:50] <exec> 08└─Today I read in the Google news that China is returning to Maoism.
[20:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03chucky [3309] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Electric Car Maker Tesla to Build Factory in China - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:52] <exec> 08└─I agree with you, but... Why would they need to keep their software keys secret? Traditional car makers are still not entering the EV market, not really. Electric versions of their regular models are nowhere near mass adoption. The sooner somebody takes it all, copies it and brings it to the market...
[20:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electric Car Maker Tesla to Build Factory in China - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:55] <exec> 08└─https://www.thetrumpet.com/16362-is-xi-jinping-about-to-make-a-major-push-in-bringing-china-into-another-maoist-era [thetrumpet.com]
[20:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electric Car Maker Tesla to Build Factory in China - 524 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:57] <exec> 08└─I think it's because the pollution pumped out by China's unregulated factories is finally inciting serious enough backlash among the common people on the mainland. EVs will go a long way toward solving that. Also, the geopolitical benefits of divesting from fossil fuels interest Beijing. Both those...
[20:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electric Car Maker Tesla to Build Factory in China - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:59] <exec> 08└─I wonder if this is related to the recent mass firings due to "performance" issues at tesla. https://www.cnbc.com [cnbc.com] OFC, Tesla will never admit that they are related.
[20:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Electric Car Maker Tesla to Build Factory in China - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:01] <exec> 08└─Today I learned that idiots confuse anarchy with freedom, but only when it is convenient for themselves.
[20:10:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03BananaPhone [2488] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06New Technology to Dramatically Speed up Home Broadband - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:16] <exec> 08└─don't worry, the price will still go up for consumers. Unborn granchildren of stock holders will each need a third cottage.
[20:10:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Technology to Dramatically Speed up Home Broadband - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:18] <exec> 08└─And no matter what the technology is, it's entirely possible that you're connection won't be upgraded at all, because despite federal regulations and funding to upgrade networks across the US, the telecoms simply keep the money from the feds and avoid doing any of the actual work while bribing whoev...
[20:10:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 4, Funny) 02 - 06USA and Israel to Quit UNESCO Over 'Anti-Israel Bias' - 476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:54] <exec> 08└─It looks like you're quoting someone else, but I think you muffed the quote tag so I'll assume you were expressing your thoughts and not quoting someone else... "Stereotype much?" Yes, it's a figment of my imagination. Except it's been written up by the BBC [bbc.com] and the New York Times [nytimes....
[20:10:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06USA and Israel to Quit UNESCO Over 'Anti-Israel Bias' - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:55] <exec> 08└─Focused special interest routinely trumps a diffuse public interest.
[20:10:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06USA and Israel to Quit UNESCO Over 'Anti-Israel Bias' - 658 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:57] <exec> 08└─Overall, the US is right to leave UNESCO over this. Even if the Palestinian claim wasn't as weak, UNESCO should have either refused altogether or made sure to at least not attribute the "heritage" status to any one nation or people. That part of the world is filled with Church, Mosque and Synagogue...
[20:10:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USA and Israel to Quit UNESCO Over 'Anti-Israel Bias' - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:59] <exec> 08└─"How do the heads at the NY Times not explode from the cognitive dissonance?" Doubleplusgood duckspeakers get immunity to such threats.
[20:11:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03curunir_wolf [4772] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USA and Israel to Quit UNESCO Over 'Anti-Israel Bias' - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:01] <exec> 08└─UNESCO is the propaganda arm of the UN, designing curriculum to indoctrinate children of the world into the ideology of the world's oligarchs. Why the US would be sending them that kind of money for promoting collectivism I have no idea.
[20:11:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USA and Israel to Quit UNESCO Over 'Anti-Israel Bias' - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:04] <exec> 08└─They give Druze Muslims the same rights as non-Muslims, but more mainstream Muslims do not have those same rights, as part of the Druze doctrines are to respect the laws of the nation where they reside.
[20:11:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USA and Israel to Quit UNESCO Over 'Anti-Israel Bias' - 476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:06] <exec> 08└─It's more than this issue, too. Does the NY Times want us to support the NFL because Trump attacked it, or does it want us to applaud because they hate football and its fans? Are we supposed to support the Republican party because Trump keeps attacking them, or hate them because they're bad and wron...
[20:11:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06USA and Israel to Quit UNESCO Over 'Anti-Israel Bias' - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:08] <exec> 08└─So the best way to avoid genocide is to commit genocide? You seem to share the same smarts as Trump and Zionists.
[20:11:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USA and Israel to Quit UNESCO Over 'Anti-Israel Bias' - 509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:10] <exec> 08└─"Up next: The reason we're building the wall is in some twisted way its anti-semitic not to build a wall, after all Israel has walls and the legacy media owners love it so we need to support Israel by building a wall. And then they'll be a NYT headline about "Trump supports Israel" with details buri...
[20:11:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USA and Israel to Quit UNESCO Over 'Anti-Israel Bias' - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:13] <exec> 08└─P.S.: Please include a tag for underline. I often need something less forceful than bold but more recognizable than italic.
[20:11:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USA and Israel to Quit UNESCO Over 'Anti-Israel Bias' - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:15] <exec> 08└─> > Israel is the most repugnant apartheid state in the world today > ... neighbouring countries You mean I should look over there? OK, I did look over there, and now I've completely forgotten Israel was being criticised. Great argumentation sir, you have won!
[20:11:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USA and Israel to Quit UNESCO Over 'Anti-Israel Bias' - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:17] <exec> 08└─"P.S.: Please include a tag for underline. I often need something less forceful than bold but more recognizable than italic." Those who forget text are condemned to reinvent it, poorly. Those that wait for others to implement their desire can wait a long time. P.S.: Please include a tag for _underli...
[20:11:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NY-Philly-Baltimore-DC Hyperloop: Not Vaporware? - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:41] <exec> 08└─South Dakota I can sort of see. The Black Hills are awesome and the Badlands are, too. Why Kansas, though? Unless you mean to place them in the middle of tornado alley in which case I applaud your diabolical plan...
[20:11:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NY-Philly-Baltimore-DC Hyperloop: Not Vaporware? - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:42] <exec> 08└─You forgot LAX, where they are finally building a light rail ... to a shuttle to get you in the same traffic jam as everyone else trying to get to the actual terminals. I used to grumble about ORD being dated, before I realized the insanity of LAX.
[20:11:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NY-Philly-Baltimore-DC Hyperloop: Not Vaporware? - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:44] <exec> 08└─NYC on the other hand frequently looks and smells like a 3rd-world nation: the streets and sidewalks are dirty, and there's always a bunch of trash everywhere.
[20:11:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NY-Philly-Baltimore-DC Hyperloop: Not Vaporware? - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:46] <exec> 08└─You read right through me... Officially, Kansas is the center of the country, IIRC. Forcing all the DC [bleep] to move there would be a good test of their dedication to the career. The badlands and black hills are fine, until winter comes knocking...
[20:11:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NY-Philly-Baltimore-DC Hyperloop: Not Vaporware? - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:48] <exec> 08└─A ski chairlift has more throughput than Hyperloop. It's not about decongesting, it's about finding enough millionaires trying to save commute time. Because paying tens of billions to transport a few thousand people a day, the math requires lots of really high income people in a rush.
[20:11:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NY-Philly-Baltimore-DC Hyperloop: Not Vaporware? - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:51] <exec> 08└─I concede. You are right. Kansas is the better choice. All the DC mavens, lawyers, and lobbyists and Wall Street bankers would shrivel up and die if they had to go there. Plus, Kansans all speak English, work hard, and are honest. That should buy the Second American Republic at least another 250 yea...
[20:12:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Absolutely.Geek [5328] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Skyrmions Are Coming - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:06] <exec> 08└─I read it as skur-mee-on
[20:12:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Skyrmions Are Coming - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:08] <exec> 08└─No, those are skyrmudgeons.
[20:13:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06uBlock Origin Criticized for Blocking Content Security Policy - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:05] <exec> 08└─An easier example is your comment is third party content to Runaway and everyone else reading it. And he got modded 5 insightful for saying stuff like: Stop using third party anything at all.
[20:13:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06uBlock Origin Criticized for Blocking Content Security Policy - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:07] <exec> 08└─Runaway and those who modded him up don't realize that most comments in SN are third party content.
[20:13:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06uBlock Origin Criticized for Blocking Content Security Policy - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:09] <exec> 08└─Yes, please. Let's go back to when websites were a labour of love created by people that wished to share their hobbies and their knowledge.
[20:13:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06uBlock Origin Criticized for Blocking Content Security Policy - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:11] <exec> 08└─Whose filters are perfect AND will stay perfect as the various consortiums and groups keep adding stuff?
[20:13:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06uBlock Origin Criticized for Blocking Content Security Policy - 1147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:13] <exec> 08└─Maybe instead of trusting 3rd party scripts people should write their own damn code. Even if you rely on that bloat garbage known as jQuery, maybe you should host a copy yourself. Even stuff like analytics can be replicated... if it is difficult for you to track which pages a client reads on your si...
[20:13:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06uBlock Origin Criticized for Blocking Content Security Policy - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:15] <exec> 08└─Good luck with that shilling, I hear India and China are really bringing down the cost of decent quality garbage.
[20:14:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kromagv0 [1825] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Code Analyzer Turned Out to be Smarter Than One of its Creators - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:05] <exec> 08└─They always included multi-threading, multi-process or multi-machine, and generally with some closed source stuff included.
[20:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Sued Over "Animoji" Trademark - 527 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:21] <exec> 08└─So, a company who asked another company for its trademark, and got denied, is now suing to invalidate it so they can grab it outright ... I can see that. It's easier to use lawyers than to slap the marketing guy who couldn't come up with an alternate name, I guess. Yet, taking a step back, and consi...
[20:14:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TheRaven [270] 02 - 06If Iran Doesn’t Have a Nuclear Weapons Program, Why Do Media Keep Saying It Does? - 939 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:56] <exec> 08└─For anyone not understanding this: Iran is a Persian Shi'ite country, surrounded by Arabic Sunni countries. Their neighbours mostly hate them on both ethnic and religious grounds. In recent history, they've mostly managed to deflect this by reminding everyone that they hate Israel more than they hat...
[20:18:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Purism Disables Intel Management Engine on Librem Laptops - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:15] <exec> 08└─you can have it output to normal text logs, you lazy fuck.
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[21:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's Quantum Computing Plans Threatened by IBM Curveball - 478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:48] <exec> 08└─And maybe we are lucky they found this before everyone and dog started depending on Quantum Computing method for encryption only to find them cracked in the next cycle of discoveries. Equally lucky the government didn't move in and declare it a munition and keep it for themselves. Its been less than...
[21:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google's Quantum Computing Plans Threatened by IBM Curveball - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:50] <exec> 08└─Yeah but then he did that mic drop thing.
[21:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electric Car Maker Tesla to Build Factory in China - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:08] <exec> 08└─"A shame, Mr Musk really seemed like the exact opposite of an evil genius - what with his all-electric cars, solar panel roof tiles, and what-nots." It appears your genius detector and your bullshit detector got cross-wired somehow.
[21:10:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electric Car Maker Tesla to Build Factory in China - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:10] <exec> 08└─It isn't. This is a factory in China to produce cars TO BE SOLD IN CHINA, which is now the world's largest auto market.
[21:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Electric Car Maker Tesla to Build Factory in China - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:12] <exec> 08└─Not to mention starve the lifeblood of the Arab scum. Hopefully in another couple decades the savage fuckers will be back to sword warfare and living in huts and stone buildings.
[21:10:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03ese002 [5306] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Technology to Dramatically Speed up Home Broadband - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:29] <exec> 08└─So the customer will get a high-bandwidth connection to the ISP's overloaded router that then drops 90% of the packets?
[21:10:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RamiK [1813] 02 - 06USA and Israel to Quit UNESCO Over 'Anti-Israel Bias' - 2140 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:56] <exec> 08└─First off, read these: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] http://www.israelnationalnews.com [israelnationalnews.com] Now, consider the following: 1. The Jews are claiming Israel saying "It's ours because it's said so in the Bible" while the...
[21:11:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USA and Israel to Quit UNESCO Over 'Anti-Israel Bias' - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:17] <exec> 08└─You're thinking of the WHO
[21:11:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06USA and Israel to Quit UNESCO Over 'Anti-Israel Bias' - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:19] <exec> 08└─Does that mean I hate all Americans?
[21:11:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06USA and Israel to Quit UNESCO Over 'Anti-Israel Bias' - 535 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:21] <exec> 08└─I did write "remove", so there are non-lethal options. It's unfair for us to say "genocide is unacceptable" while we reap the benefits of killings past. Take the Wounded Knee for example. The lesson is not "oh we are so terrible" but "every successful civilization is built upon a hill of skulls". Th...
[21:11:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USA and Israel to Quit UNESCO Over 'Anti-Israel Bias' - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:24] <exec> 08└─found the barista with the useless PhD in gender studies
[21:11:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USA and Israel to Quit UNESCO Over 'Anti-Israel Bias' - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:26] <exec> 08└─History is not kind to those who refuse to slaughter those who are different.
[21:11:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USA and Israel to Quit UNESCO Over 'Anti-Israel Bias' - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:28] <exec> 08└─FYI, the conservative/rural/flyover/republican parts of the USA do have culture
[21:11:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USA and Israel to Quit UNESCO Over 'Anti-Israel Bias' - 545 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:30] <exec> 08└─It is easy to break a window on your house or car. A crowbar can quickly pop open a normal household door. Go ahead, I dare you. Remove all the locks at least. Maybe remove the doors and windows entirely. Post about it regularly on Craigslist and Facebook and Twitter to make sure this is well-known....
[21:11:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USA and Israel to Quit UNESCO Over 'Anti-Israel Bias' - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:33] <exec> 08└─Yes. And the WHO is an agency of the UN.
[21:12:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NY-Philly-Baltimore-DC Hyperloop: Not Vaporware? - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:02] <exec> 08└─"A ski chairlift has more throughput than Hyperloop." Well yes because a chairlift actually gets you from point A to point B. All the hyperloop does is convince the gullible to give their money to a man that already has plenty.
[21:12:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NY-Philly-Baltimore-DC Hyperloop: Not Vaporware? - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:04] <exec> 08└─LAX is its own special type of stupid :(
[21:12:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03jrmcferren [5500] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NY-Philly-Baltimore-DC Hyperloop: Not Vaporware? - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:06] <exec> 08└─Significant traffic in this region, I'm surprised Boston was not included as that's a major city in Amtrak on the Acela Express (Fast Train*). I don't know about links between Baltimore and Washington, or Philly and Baltimore, but I do know you can Travel between Philly and NYC by commuter rail by c...
[21:12:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NY-Philly-Baltimore-DC Hyperloop: Not Vaporware? - 1307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:08] <exec> 08└─No, that impression isn't out of date at all. That's from personal, first-hand experience less than a month old. I was even reading an article about it recently, and one big reason, which NO amount of policing will ever fix, is the way the city is laid out: there are no alleys. So all the trash jus...
[21:12:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NY-Philly-Baltimore-DC Hyperloop: Not Vaporware? - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:11] <exec> 08└─The Acela Express *is* a "bullet train"... by American standards.
[21:12:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Skyrmions Are Coming - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:28] <exec> 08└─I hadn't thought of that one, but it could be.
[21:13:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06uBlock Origin Criticized for Blocking Content Security Policy - 1018 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:32] <exec> 08└─You still don't get it. How does your site know what third party content is active and what isn't? It's not magic. Something has to decide and filter out the active and tracking stuff. Like the img tags. You want the comments to be static and have no tracking stuff but how do you achieve it while al...
[21:13:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06uBlock Origin Criticized for Blocking Content Security Policy - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:34] <exec> 08└─They don't seem to realize that quite a lot of things are done to make a third party comment safe to be read, while allowing Ｕｎｉｃｏｄｅ (😀 ), bold text, hyperlinks, etc.
[21:13:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06uBlock Origin Criticized for Blocking Content Security Policy - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:36] <exec> 08└─Perhaps the intent was "Stop using third-party active content
[21:16:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dogs Use Facial Expressions to Influence Humans - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:16:22] <exec> 08└─It is clear from your comments that you are not familiar with the research in the article, or the research in general. They specifically address your concerns.
[21:18:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03etherscythe [937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Math Behind Gerrymandering and Wasted Votes - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:03] <exec> 08└─...as defined by whom, exactly?
[21:20:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bank Downgrades Chipotle, Complaining It Pays Workers Too Much - 1058 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:36] <exec> 08└─The more that the Capitalist Ownership Class can fragment The Workers, the easier it is to pick them off one by one. My example took that to the other extreme. When push comes to shove, bigger tends to be better and unions are no exception. ...that is, if the union officers handle things properly. I...
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[22:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Quantify Breast Cancer Risk Based on Rare Variants and Background Risk - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:40] <exec> 08└─I doubt we can tell from a conference abstract, but did they use a hold-out set? Also where were these mutations? Were they in normal tissue, germline tissue, or the cancerous tissue? Finally, were these mutations found before or after being treated for breast cancer (mutations can be caused by chem...
[22:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google's Quantum Computing Plans Threatened by IBM Curveball - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:53] <exec> 08└─Moore died. Noone told you?
[22:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google's Quantum Computing Plans Threatened by IBM Curveball - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:54] <exec> 08└─he still kickin it [wikipedia.org]
[22:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google's Quantum Computing Plans Threatened by IBM Curveball - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:57] <exec> 08└─Did not!
[22:10:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electric Car Maker Tesla to Build Factory in China - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:18] <exec> 08└─Tesla has decided it is okay to turn over all its technology to China.
[22:10:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electric Car Maker Tesla to Build Factory in China - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:19] <exec> 08└─Search for "BYD 1GWh before Tesla", you'll discover it already got it 3years ago.
[22:10:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Technology to Dramatically Speed up Home Broadband - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:38] <exec> 08└─This guy lobbies.
[22:10:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Technology to Dramatically Speed up Home Broadband - 972 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:39] <exec> 08└─The day I get fibre, actual fibre, to my property, I don't think I'll have any worries about what's at either end of it enough to care. "FTTH" is rare. "FTTC" is a cop-out, ending in... well... copper. And Ethernet basically shows that with a 100m of copper of so, I could easily have 1Gbit, probably...
[22:11:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02 - 06USA and Israel to Quit UNESCO Over 'Anti-Israel Bias' - 658 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:18] <exec> 08└─Overall, the US is right to leave UNESCO over this. Even if the Palestinian claim wasn't as weak, UNESCO should have either refused altogether or made sure to at least not attribute the "heritage" status to any one nation or people. That part of the world is filled with Church, Mosque and Synagogue...
[22:11:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06USA and Israel to Quit UNESCO Over 'Anti-Israel Bias' - 591 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:36] <exec> 08└─> do have culture. It is relatively pristine in fact, being far less tainted by generic anonymous crowds of strangers. I'm at a loss as to whether this is more xenophobic, racist, not-invented-here-stic, or just plain dumb ignorance of history... A non-imperial gallon of all of the above, I would gu...
[22:11:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USA and Israel to Quit UNESCO Over 'Anti-Israel Bias' - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:38] <exec> 08└─We also have banjo music. That does it. The qualification is met. But wait, there's more! There's also square dancing, church-sponsored shooting events, chitterlings, 4H pig competitions, barbecue, rodeo, Bible study, rocky mountain oysters, General Lee's battle flag, tractor pulls, fried calf-brain...
[22:11:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USA and Israel to Quit UNESCO Over 'Anti-Israel Bias' - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:40] <exec> 08└─> Who made those ridiculous US laws that said: "if the Palestinians are in, we're out"? AIPAC [wikipedia.org], more than likely, quite literally wrote that law.
[22:11:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USA and Israel to Quit UNESCO Over 'Anti-Israel Bias' - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:42] <exec> 08└─They value education... lol wut? Degree in Baptist Studies if you're smart or otherwise Manual Work with a minor in Ther Tekin Ar Jarrbs.
[22:11:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USA and Israel to Quit UNESCO Over 'Anti-Israel Bias' - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:44] <exec> 08└─And part of mainstream Islam's Doctrine is to disrespect all laws that are not derived from the toilet paper... I mean their holy book.
[22:11:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USA and Israel to Quit UNESCO Over 'Anti-Israel Bias' - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:46] <exec> 08└─It's simple. NOISE NOISE NOISE NOISE NOISE NOISE NOISE NOISE Oh look, no room for any news. #SAD NOISE NOISE NOISE NOISE NOISE NOINSE NOINSE NOINSE
[22:11:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USA and Israel to Quit UNESCO Over 'Anti-Israel Bias' - 714 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:49] <exec> 08└─Suppose we both have buckets for paint. I put one type of red paint in mine. You put every color in your bucket: red, blue, green, cyan, magenta, yellow, etc. Some of yours are latex paint, and some of yours are enamel paint. We both mix our paint. In the end, who has the paint with more color? I do...
[22:11:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USA and Israel to Quit UNESCO Over 'Anti-Israel Bias' - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:51] <exec> 08└─One side swipes land, the other won't recognize one's existence as a country. Spank 'em both.
[22:11:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USA and Israel to Quit UNESCO Over 'Anti-Israel Bias' - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:53] <exec> 08└─Physical deterrents... oh you mean like 100 miles of desert? But that rope trick will be the last straw. Noone will dare cross deserts to risk facing a 30ft wall.
[22:11:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USA and Israel to Quit UNESCO Over 'Anti-Israel Bias' - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:55] <exec> 08└─Wow that's slim pickings. I'd have though Russian AgitProp would have much better material than that. Keep diggin buddy, you'll get your $3 bonus eventually.
[22:11:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USA and Israel to Quit UNESCO Over 'Anti-Israel Bias' - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:58] <exec> 08└─The problem is Israel was, like it or not, acknowledged by the UN as the national home of the Jews while Palestine isn't recognized as anything for Muslims (as opposed to Palestinians) even by other Arab nations. After-all, Muslims pray towards Mecca while Jews pray\ed towards Jerusalem for a reason...
[22:12:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03mr_mischief [4884] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Skyrmions Are Coming - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:51] <exec> 08└─As did I. I even accidentally mnemonized it as the virtual particles skirmishing, forming the swirling magnetic boundary.
[22:12:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Skyrmions Are Coming - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:52] <exec> 08└─My guess is that they were waiting for their sims to run, playing Skyrim. Anyone else feels queasy at the idea of saving your data to "virtual particles"? It sounds all Sci-Fi, but not very safe...
[22:13:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06uBlock Origin Criticized for Blocking Content Security Policy - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:59] <exec> 08└─They're not. They're mostly just teaching people to use Microsoft and Apple tools and calling it computer science.
[22:14:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06uBlock Origin Criticized for Blocking Content Security Policy - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:00] <exec> 08└─+1 my comment was going to be "boo fucking hoo" but you have properly defined why the crying doesnt affect me. it is not my browser's job to test some guys website for errors and problems. he can run that script himself on his own hardware.
[22:14:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06uBlock Origin Criticized for Blocking Content Security Policy - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:03] <exec> 08└─* Making pages load much much faster, reducing congestion by using less bandwidth and mitigating some malware threats.
[22:14:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Code Analyzer Turned Out to be Smarter Than One of its Creators - 1769 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:54] <exec> 08└─To add to what you said. I have been doing this sort of thing for 25+ years now. I have written that exact same code. Why would I do that? Because the SDK/CRT does not have the newer code in it. Yet I need the newer code to run on the older platform. Guess what I have 0 power to change in that case....
[22:14:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Code Analyzer Turned Out to be Smarter Than One of its Creators - 1019 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:56] <exec> 08└─You realize you are talking about a compiler from 1994 from a company that does not make compilers anymore right? and it worked up through about gcc 2.7 The language specification changed. The compilers were keeping up. Most of the magazines of the time made a big deal about what the changes were. T...
[22:14:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Code Analyzer Turned Out to be Smarter Than One of its Creators - 611 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:58] <exec> 08└─Common anecdote from whatever big organization: engineer (of whatever variety) makes a hugely costly mistake, clearly stemming from a bad call on his part, costs the company more than he will earn in several lifetimes. Manager pulls him in afterwards, engineer says: "I'm fired, right?" Manager makes...
[22:14:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Code Analyzer Turned Out to be Smarter Than One of its Creators - 515 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:00] <exec> 08└─I'm a believer in zero-warning compiles for release code. It doesn't solve every problem, but in my own code I see compiler warnings catching multiple bugs per year that would otherwise be getting by. On the other hand, there are some warnings in some situations that just don't mean anything valuabl...
[22:15:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Code Analyzer Turned Out to be Smarter Than One of its Creators - 1484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:02] <exec> 08└─The only people I have found that have a negative reaction to these sorts of tools are the very ones who need them, desperately. They want to pretend they do not make errors. Once you accept you are not a walking encyclopedia of the different C/C++ specifications and the nuances of each compiler. Th...
[22:15:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Code Analyzer Turned Out to be Smarter Than One of its Creators - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:04] <exec> 08└─I met a kein faschist in 1990, that was his statement about the Neo Nazis then (27 years ago) "when you see a skinhead, you must punch them in the face." So, while I agree that skinheads were (still are?) needlessly violent idiots, punching them in the face on sight doesn't seem to be accomplishing...
[22:15:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Code Analyzer Turned Out to be Smarter Than One of its Creators - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:07] <exec> 08└─I prefer to have the requirements for the business logic written in something other than vague non-techie speak before embarking upon a coding up a test suite. Unfortunately, it seems in my world that the only way to get the vague non-techies to stop with their self-contradictory waffle-speak is to...
[22:15:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Code Analyzer Turned Out to be Smarter Than One of its Creators - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:09] <exec> 08└─So, you were trying to use Borland C++ in the early 1990s? Couldn't you tell that was a mistake? I remember evaluating it in 1991 and coming to the conclusion that it was unsuitable for any applications more complex than: "Hello world, how are you?". We spent the next several years developing our ap...
[22:16:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06If Iran Doesn’t Have a Nuclear Weapons Program, Why Do Media Keep Saying It Does? - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:16:38] <exec> 08└─it is in the national interest to prepare and plan for things even if there is no imminent intent to commission an actual operation to build or use the equipment required for it. This is done in an offensive and defensive situation, you have to examine and understand potential threats in as much det...
[22:17:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06The Math Behind Gerrymandering and Wasted Votes - 67 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:31] <exec> 08└─Just curious, if someone rubs your ears, do you jizz in your pants?
[22:18:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Math Behind Gerrymandering and Wasted Votes - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:48] <exec> 08└─Dude, seriously, read a history book.
[22:18:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Math Behind Gerrymandering and Wasted Votes - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:49] <exec> 08└─How about the exact same way libertarinism can't happen. For fun, read some of the Anarchist philosophy. It basically matches your own. I wish I could enjoy riding the Unicorns in your world.
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[23:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06FBI Failed to Access 7,000 Encrypted Mobile Devices - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:36] <exec> 08└─I disabled the login password on my iPhone 7. Now it opens right up to the desktop - is it called "desktop" on iOS devices? My setting is as G-d and Nature intended.
[23:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Failed to Access 7,000 Encrypted Mobile Devices - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:37] <exec> 08└─Security isn't security, if only the "good guys" have the keys to the kingdom. The bad guys would get them about a second after the good guys have them. Plus, who's to say the "good guys" are good?
[23:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Failed to Access 7,000 Encrypted Mobile Devices - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:39] <exec> 08└─It's a "Home Screen" as desktop doesn't really fit the nature of the beast. The reason for the password, isn't to restrict your "Freedom". It's to restrict a thief's "Freedom" to access your information. I have read your stances on the topic and I'm pretty sure you already know all the arguments aga...
[23:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Failed to Access 7,000 Encrypted Mobile Devices - 710 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:42] <exec> 08└─Part of me is very skeptical. The NSA did have a bunch of their top secret tools stolen, but I suspect they have more. Or other governments do. Maybe the FBI wants us to think our whole device/drive encryption is secure? There was a recent article about how some TPM was compromised. That's all it ta...
[23:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Failed to Access 7,000 Encrypted Mobile Devices - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:44] <exec> 08└─"a huge, huge problem"
[23:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Failed to Access 7,000 Encrypted Mobile Devices - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:46] <exec> 08└─Yeah, sure, blame BBC not the submitter, but... FBI failed to access 7,000 encrypted mobile devices
[23:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Failed to Access 7,000 Encrypted Mobile Devices - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:48] <exec> 08└─Agents at the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have been unable to extract data from nearly 7,000 mobile devices they have tried to access, the agency's director has said. Christopher Wray said encryption on devices was "a huge, huge problem" for FBI investigations. The agency had failed to...
[23:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Failed to Access 7,000 Encrypted Mobile Devices - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:51] <exec> 08└─> who's to say the "good guys" are good? That's easy: They write songs about being good, make movies about being good and Bad Guys losing, write articles and novels about being good, and make their children recite poems about being good. Obviously, only good people would go through all that trouble.
[23:10:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google's Quantum Computing Plans Threatened by IBM Curveball - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:13] <exec> 08└─about as useful as telling us the principle of running a logic engine using mechanical parts
[23:10:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03e_armadillo [3695] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electric Car Maker Tesla to Build Factory in China - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:37] <exec> 08└─I would bet the firings were more likely dealing with the union agitator problem . . . that or something about a moose
[23:10:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AssCork [6255] 02 - 06New Technology to Dramatically Speed up Home Broadband - 160 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:48] <exec> 08└─New, cheaper equipment that replaces expensive stuff does not mean a better user experience. It means you pay the same price, while the carrier's expenses drop.
[23:12:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USA and Israel to Quit UNESCO Over 'Anti-Israel Bias' - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:04] <exec> 08└─But there doesn't seem to be any answer for them, either.
[23:12:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USA and Israel to Quit UNESCO Over 'Anti-Israel Bias' - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:05] <exec> 08└─Israel is becoming more fundamentalist [haaretz.com] - and this create a rift with diaspora. Many donations from Jews in US are no longer.
[23:12:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USA and Israel to Quit UNESCO Over 'Anti-Israel Bias' - 1747 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:08] <exec> 08└─That sounds simple from the outside but unfortunately it would be incredibly difficult to actually do. Impossible, without some sort of major shift in the situation, frankly. It isn't like those settlers moved in against the will of the state - quite to the contrary. Oh it makes a show now and then...
[23:12:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USA and Israel to Quit UNESCO Over 'Anti-Israel Bias' - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:10] <exec> 08└─Prove any inaccuracies or STFU! I express the REAL reality, the one your are afraid to look at. You hide behind your lying mass media and grampa's superstitions to comfort you.
[23:12:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USA and Israel to Quit UNESCO Over 'Anti-Israel Bias' - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:12] <exec> 08└─Easier, quicker, and less intelligible.
[23:12:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NY-Philly-Baltimore-DC Hyperloop: Not Vaporware? - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:46] <exec> 08└─Sometimes the existence of a subway station is not advertised. I have flown for years in/out of Mexico City Airport and until last year I didn’t know there was a Metro station right there, just kind of hidden in a corner out of the way. Now Frankfurt is to me one of the best airports, you can prac...
[23:12:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NY-Philly-Baltimore-DC Hyperloop: Not Vaporware? - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:48] <exec> 08└─TSA hasn't spread in earnest to the trains yet.
[23:12:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NY-Philly-Baltimore-DC Hyperloop: Not Vaporware? - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:50] <exec> 08└─Is there a lot of traffic between those sites?
[23:12:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NY-Philly-Baltimore-DC Hyperloop: Not Vaporware? - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:52] <exec> 08└─you don't have to go anywhere at all to see tons of homeless people. It's really shameful that the capital of the richest nation on earth is so full of homeless people
[23:15:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Code Analyzer Turned Out to be Smarter Than One of its Creators - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:20] <exec> 08└─To each their own. What you call "unreasonable syntactic gymnastics" could just as well be called "doing things properly so you don't make a noobass mistake" though. Like with speech, every time you refuse to listen you eliminate the chance of finding out you're wrong and being able to correct yours...
[23:15:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Code Analyzer Turned Out to be Smarter Than One of its Creators - 896 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:21] <exec> 08└─Why, no, I couldn't tell right away. The school I graduated from had a very poor CS program. In 1990, they were still stuck on Pascal, and Turbo Pascal (from Borland, of course) was their compiler of choice. All this was on PCs running MS DOS, and Windows 3 was pretty much a useless curiosity, more...
[23:15:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Code Analyzer Turned Out to be Smarter Than One of its Creators - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:23] <exec> 08└─Didn't have anything to do with commutativity. It was "A THEN" that the interpreter couldn't handle. It would see that as the keyword "AT" followed by a variable named "HEN". You might say it laid an egg at that point :D.
[23:15:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Code Analyzer Turned Out to be Smarter Than One of its Creators - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:25] <exec> 08└─Mistakes don't just come about due to inexperience. There are whole rafts of typos that are valid code, but will break stuff. There are mistakes in recall about side effects. There are misunderstandings of documentation.
[23:17:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03shortscreen [2252] 02 - 06The Math Behind Gerrymandering and Wasted Votes - 150 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:52] <exec> 08└─Under the two party system you get to fight the same battles over and over, and no matter which team wins, the grunts (ie. cannon fodder) always lose.
[23:18:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jmorris [4844] 02 - 06The Math Behind Gerrymandering and Wasted Votes - 214 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:00] <exec> 08└─We had a field of 21 to choose from in the primary of which there was only one or two that were actually qualified, but neither of them wound up in the final election. .... As long as qualified candidates don't run
[23:19:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spook brat [775] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Math Behind Gerrymandering and Wasted Votes - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:07] <exec> 08└─If you're worried about the Mexican armed forces, then you join a "military" organization, or allocate your own damn resources to funding one.
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