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[17:17:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Santa's Reindeer: Missing Facts - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:53] <exec> 08└─Bah, humbug!
[17:17:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Santa's Reindeer: Missing Facts - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:55] <exec> 08└─Thank you Dr. Sheldon Cooper. Please turn around so we can kick your ass now.
[17:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Santa's Reindeer: Missing Facts - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:57] <exec> 08└─Lights++
[17:17:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Santa's Reindeer: Missing Facts - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:59] <exec> 08└─"That red nose is therefore probably due to parasitic infection and increased blood flow to the area where the body is doing its best to fight off invaders"
[17:18:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Networked Games Before the WWW - 3248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:17] <exec> 08└─There were a lot of good Novell network games. maybe some people remember tinkering with ipxsetup.exe? It's even an achievement in Doom 2016... Not long ago, I had two windows 98 laptops running ipx wirelessly over an access point that, in its configuration, had zero support for IPX. It mindlessly p...
[17:18:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Uncle_Al [1108] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Networked Games Before the WWW - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:18] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maze_War [wikipedia.org]
[17:18:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OkCupid Adopts "Real Name" Policy, Anger Ensues - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:36] <exec> 08└─Where?
[17:18:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OkCupid Adopts "Real Name" Policy, Anger Ensues - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:38] <exec> 08└─Shouldn't that be Richard Little? My GF's housemate listss her age as 10 or more years younger than she actually is, and complains about dates being upset about the catfishing.
[17:18:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Kiss of Death for Prostate Cancer - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:51] <exec> 08└─I bet Runaway knows. That's the first thing that springs to mind for him, did you notice? Guy like that *has* to have some experience...
[17:19:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congress Is Debating Warrantless Surveillance in the Dark - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:13] <exec> 08└─Not so. The greedy fossil fuel types love them some Muslims, or at least certain tribal groups of them like the Saudis.
[17:21:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Key Lesson From The 1918 Flu Pandemic? 'Tell The Truth,' One Historian Says - 518 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:13] <exec> 08└─Capitalism isn't exactly a lot better - by it's nature it rewards those who have wealth with greater and more proportionally lucrative opportunities to accumulate more wealth. Which might work out okay if every generation had to start on an even footing, so that it was your own efforts that determin...
[17:21:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Key Lesson From The 1918 Flu Pandemic? 'Tell The Truth,' One Historian Says - 935 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:14] <exec> 08└─If voluntary trade (that is, voluntary interaction) results in wealth concentration, then so what? I cannot see that as being inherently bad; maybe those particular people SHOULD have so much say over the allocation of society's resources. That is to say, elites who arise from voluntary interaction...
[17:22:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VR-Goggles of Death! - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:05] <exec> 08└─Or didn't know how to effectively stop arterial bleeding, and died during the half hour or so it took for emergency services to reach him. Offhand I'm not even certain that there is any way for an amateur to stop jugular bleeding that isn't rapidly fatal in its own right.
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[18:17:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's Largest Amphibious Plane in Production Takes Flight in China - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:51] <exec> 08└─Looks like they copied the spruce goose.
[18:17:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03terrab0t [4674] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's Largest Amphibious Plane in Production Takes Flight in China - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:52] <exec> 08└─That makes sense. Hughes had a good design. The only thing it needed was enough thrust and it wasn’t like he was trying to make a brick fly. Engines that could have lifted the Spruce Goose are common today.
[18:18:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Santa's Reindeer: Missing Facts - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:03] <exec> 08└─Rudolph's Red Nose [youtube.com]
[18:18:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Networked Games Before the WWW - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:25] <exec> 08└─Xtank, Netrek, and other networked games in X (X Window).
[18:18:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03daver!west!fmc [1391] (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06Networked Games Before the WWW - 1039 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:26] <exec> 08└─Heh. I remember Doom. Here's how. Imagine a large state university with campuses all over the state. Only now it's the 1990s and here we are in an administrative computer center. Even though we have TCP/IP, there's still some folks holding on to VMS and DECnet (which is gonna be OSI real soon now, a...
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[18:19:22] <exec> 08└─the protection that our 4th constitutional amendment provides to US citizens This is wrong. The 4th constitutional amendment, and the rest of the document for that matter, applies to American authority, not its victims.
[18:19:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congress Is Debating Warrantless Surveillance in the Dark - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:24] <exec> 08└─Warrantless Surveillance in the Dark
[18:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VR-Goggles of Death! - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:16] <exec> 08└─Which segues into this article [harvard.edu] and this paper [nih.gov]. Plate glass tables, sliding doors, windows can be surprisingly lethal if you break through them [wikipedia.org].
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[19:17:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03deadstick [5110] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's Largest Amphibious Plane in Production Takes Flight in China - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:51] <exec> 08└─Ummm, not hardly nohow. OK, it has a high wing on a boat hull, the go-to configuration for large seaplanes...other than that: -It's less than 40% of the wingspan. -It's less than 13% of the gross weight. -It's less than 72% of the horsepower. -It can operate on land. -It works. The Goose never climb...
[19:18:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Santa's Reindeer: Missing Facts - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:03] <exec> 08└─The only way a male reindeer can hang on to his magnificent headgear through the festive season is to be castrated.
[19:18:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OkCupid Adopts "Real Name" Policy, Anger Ensues - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:45] <exec> 08└─I loved OKCupid because they let me set up multiple profiles. I could list different interests, different sexual preferences, show different pictures, etc. based on whom I was trying to attract. They sent me a couple of e-mails saying that my profiles would be deleted unless I updated them to use my...
[19:18:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OkCupid Adopts "Real Name" Policy, Anger Ensues - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:46] <exec> 08└─she's gonna drag you through the mud on every forum in the world
[19:18:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OkCupid Adopts "Real Name" Policy, Anger Ensues - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:49] <exec> 08└─Possible, but a little less likely. You have to actually get past introductions before she can learn your online identity, IRL. Online, once she learns your real name, she can stalk you, just like male sexual predators can stalk their victims.
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[19:19:13] <exec> 08└─The late Senator Frank Church [youtube.com] had understood full well all about this surveillance, as far back as 1975: In the need to develop a capacity to know what potential enemies are doing, the United States government has perfected a technological capability that enables us to monitor the mess...
[19:21:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Key Lesson From The 1918 Flu Pandemic? 'Tell The Truth,' One Historian Says - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:27] <exec> 08└─I guess the bad guys need a lot of practice runs.
[19:21:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nvidia to Stop Writing Drivers for 32-Bit Systems (Eventually) - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:58] <exec> 08└─Who even has time for games any more?
[19:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Grsecurity's Defamation Suit Against Bruce Perens Dismissed - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:45] <exec> 08└─PaulBSmith - is that you? https://imgoat.com [imgoat.com]
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[20:17:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Gift-Wrapped Manure Causes Bomb Scare at Steven Mnuchin's House - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:47] <exec> 08└─I don't know. That's pretty funny I think. Use their own tools against them for a change?
[20:17:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gift-Wrapped Manure Causes Bomb Scare at Steven Mnuchin's House - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:48] <exec> 08└─"We have $50 million homes and we can't move, we can't get out," Prince Frederick von Anhalt, who was trapped for two hours, said. "That's bad, they have to find another way."
[20:17:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World's Largest Amphibious Plane in Production Takes Flight in China - 1779 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:59] <exec> 08└─Only in a planned economy could it make sense to build a flying boat -- 50 years after the British scrapped their last big one, https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] The Saunders-Roe SR.45 Princess was a British flying boat aircraft developed and built by Saunders-Roe a...
[20:18:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's Largest Amphibious Plane in Production Takes Flight in China - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:01] <exec> 08└─Or, maybe balsa goose?
[20:18:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's Largest Amphibious Plane in Production Takes Flight in China - 578 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:03] <exec> 08└─Well, there are still a few advantages to a flying boat. Search and rescue, for instance. Helicopters may not have the range, and other aircraft are unable to land. If an aircraft does locate the missing persons in the water, then everyone has to wait for a slow-assed ship to arrive. The flying boat...
[20:18:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Santa's Reindeer: Missing Facts - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:15] <exec> 08└─So Rudolf is like the chief eunuch in the caliphate of Santa?
[20:18:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Networked Games Before the WWW - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:38] <exec> 08└─Maybe I'm an idiot, but the article seems to be mistaking WWW (the world wide web, an HTTP protocol running on TCP/IP networks) for TCP/IP and the internet? There are many games that exclusively use UDP, so not even TCP. In fact UDP is better for action games.
[20:19:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OkCupid Adopts "Real Name" Policy, Anger Ensues - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:02] <exec> 08└─Protip 1: operating without a picture is red flag material to any woman with an ounce of sense. It's easy to guess that you mostly were interacting with, shall we say, substandard examples. Protip 2: subscribing to the thoroughly debunked alpha/beta paradigm is also red flag. Your misogyny is visib...
[20:19:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Kiss of Death for Prostate Cancer - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:16] <exec> 08└─This is not OKCupid. You can quit stalking me now.
[20:19:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congress Is Debating Warrantless Surveillance in the Dark - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:42] <exec> 08└─Yeah. Probably the best way to say this and a very relevant reference.
[20:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nvidia to Stop Writing Drivers for 32-Bit Systems (Eventually) - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:16] <exec> 08└─In a world with 64bit ARM multi-core processors cost a few dollars, people still clutch 32bit x86 crap and hug it close to their chest. Maybe one of the shittiest personal computer architectures ever conceived, with easily the worst peripheral bus. In a world where the Amiga and Atari ST exist. Oh p...
[20:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Grsecurity's Defamation Suit Against Bruce Perens Dismissed - 924 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:04] <exec> 08└─In many jurisdictions, anti-SLAPP claims can only be a counterclaim and given the weak claims and the fact this was a FRCP 12(b) motion, denial of the anti-SLAPP isn't completely surprising, despite the fact that the MSJ by the plaintiff would tend to tip it more towards granting the anti-SLAPP. The...
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[21:17:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03SpockLogic [2762] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Gift-Wrapped Manure Causes Bomb Scare at Steven Mnuchin's House - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:52] <exec> 08└─Ha Ha Ha - Steve Mnuchin managing to make horseshit look good.
[21:18:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pav [114] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Networked Games Before the WWW - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:41] <exec> 08└─This game is still actively played, and (at least for Debian which I'm using now) has a client ready to install from a repo. As one would imagine from a game with such longevity there is much to recommend it - with a sound and graphics upgrade the kids would happily play it today.
[21:19:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OkCupid Adopts "Real Name" Policy, Anger Ensues - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:05] <exec> 08└─The people who would use these types of websites and/or surrender their personal information to them are fools anyway. Including you, apparently. Do you use Facebook too?
[21:19:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OkCupid Adopts "Real Name" Policy, Anger Ensues - 622 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:07] <exec> 08└─and when they locked me out of my account for not using a "real name" they said I had to enter my name, and then upload one of these documents (Social security card, Passport, State ID or Drivers License) or two of these (Utility bill, School ID, Phone bill, Vehicle registration) to prove that I was...
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[21:19:47] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but people like that probably don't care about foreigners at all, so expect that fact to be ignored.
[21:20:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Black Hole" of Accountability for Drug Trials Flouting FDA Oversight? - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:55] <exec> 08└─Making the whole process public, means that these regulated industries would be doing the research for free for someone else who isn't similarly regulated.
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[22:17:53] <exec> 08└─This is obviously the political opinion of some people that are not happy with Trump and his administration. Personally, I don't consider these people worthy of horse manure... rat shit would be more appropriate. Unfortunately, the senders, if caught, will probably face "trumped-up" charges of bio-t...
[22:17:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gift-Wrapped Manure Causes Bomb Scare at Steven Mnuchin's House - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:54] <exec> 08└─We have $50 million homes and we can't move, we can't get out
[22:17:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gift-Wrapped Manure Causes Bomb Scare at Steven Mnuchin's House - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:56] <exec> 08└─I also think it's really funny. Probably too bad that The Trump gang is so paranoid that they lack any sense of humor (unless of course they are making fun of so called minority peoples, or talking about groping young women). The cbslocal link is broken, the site returns a 404 error. try this one in...
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[22:18:09] <exec> 08└─Except that you can't because sea state is usually too high. We needn't go into the corrosion problems.
[22:18:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's Largest Amphibious Plane in Production Takes Flight in China - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:11] <exec> 08└─I still remember ordering parts from Aircraft Spruce and Fabric for a recovering project. Turns out Sitka Spruce is an ideal weight to strength ratio for small aircraft and is still used today for rebuild historic planes. (I have no idea what wood the spruce goose was made out of.).
[22:18:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's Largest Amphibious Plane in Production Takes Flight in China - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:13] <exec> 08└─Yes, you needn't go into corrosion problems. Solved problem long ago. http://www.aluminum.org [aluminum.org] What do you think they make aircraft floats out of?
[22:18:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Theranos Given Indirect Lifeline From Softbank - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:33] <exec> 08└─I bought into Softbank when I heard they were acquiring the ARM IP... then Trump said something about them and they gained like 20% overnight. Everything I have heard since makes me think they're dealing in junk debt, but their market cap keeps on rising... Of course, I sold my Bitcoin at $200 also...
[22:20:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BYTE Magazine Archive 1975 - 1995 - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:43] <exec> 08└─I revamped a BBS program in BASIC, it was in pretty bad shape when I started on it - far more than 10 pages of code. It was still big when I was done, but organizing it logically and identifying bottlenecks and cleaning those up I did manage to make it run much faster and crash much less often - I g...
[22:20:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BYTE Magazine Archive 1975 - 1995 - 1106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:45] <exec> 08└─The documentation wasn't that hard to come by for the Atari computers either. My favorite was the GTIA chip - which shipped with some bugs. I wrote code to the documentation and it had a glitchy display on my machine. When the GTIA2 came out in later models, my code - untouched - ran flawlessly on t...
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[22:22:03] <exec> 08└─It doesn't really matter how grandad got his wealth - when a tiny percentage of people are born into wealth and power to dwarf the rest of the population, you invariably get authoritarianism. As a simple example - once one person owns the lake, or any other reserve of necessary resources, he can for...
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[23:17:50] <exec> 08└─Why wait until March 2018 when you could have had these in March 2008 ... or even earlier. Will Win 10 telemetry parse the results of tar and curl before your script does?
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[23:18:04] <exec> 08└─Police all too commonly take excessive control of objects, areas, and people. If you fight a person in self-defense, the cops may seize the weapon as evidence. This isn't justified unless there is some dispute. If you admit that you lawfully killed Professor Plum in the billiard room with a lead pip...
[23:18:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gift-Wrapped Manure Causes Bomb Scare at Steven Mnuchin's House - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:05] <exec> 08└─With a 50 million dollar home, why would they WANT to get out? Ask Jeeves to open another bottle of wine and stop whining.
[23:18:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gift-Wrapped Manure Causes Bomb Scare at Steven Mnuchin's House - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:07] <exec> 08└─If you admit that you lawfully killed Professor Plum in the billiard room with a lead pipe, there is no need to seize the lead pipe or the billiard room.
[23:18:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's Largest Amphibious Plane in Production Takes Flight in China - 615 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:23] <exec> 08└─I bet the british wish they had a fleet of these when the Falklands war broke out. Even if they needed air refueling, they could have put 40 full combat equipped SAS troops on any beach on the island. As it was, the British had to bomb the only suitable airfield just to keep the Argentinians from us...
[23:18:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03deadstick [5110] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's Largest Amphibious Plane in Production Takes Flight in China - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:25] <exec> 08└─Being able to use the biggest landing strip in the world
[23:18:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World's Largest Amphibious Plane in Production Takes Flight in China - 514 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:27] <exec> 08└─When I lived in South Florida in the late 1970s, Chalk's Airlines [wikipedia.org] used Biscayne Bay[1] for takeoffs/landings. ISTM that that avoided the cost of landing fees at MIA|Lauderdale|whatever. (Mostly, they traveled to the Bahamas; during Prohibition, they were rum runners.) That operation...
[23:19:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Networked Games Before the WWW - 480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:06] <exec> 08└─Netwars I believe came with novel netware, that was fun. Duke nukem 3D was the best though - many days spent with a null modem serial cable between a couple of 486s. Until the late 90s most faces didn't support IP, but there were some services that made it work. I think command and conquer red alert...
[23:20:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Congress Is Debating Warrantless Surveillance in the Dark - 479 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:12] <exec> 08└─The concept of international law is a lie. Might makes right. Even if you do pretend that the UN matters... there are 5 countries with a veto. Those 5 countries can do whatever they wish. BTW, it's Threat A, which is inherently tied to Threat C. China routinely conducts industrial espionage. Given t...
[23:20:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Congress Is Debating Warrantless Surveillance in the Dark - 482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:14] <exec> 08└─There is exactly one major religion that is unable to ever have peace with any other religion. This one religion has conquest as a core belief. There can be no peace in the world for as long as this one religion exists. There is the idea that there would be peace if everybody converted... but we hav...
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