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[19:01:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iced Tea Company Scraps Plans to Raise Millions for Blockchain Pivot - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:05] <exec> 08└─People say they want great tea (to share it with others!). Hidden, even to themselves, is the motive to obtain money (and thus power) over others.
[19:01:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iced Tea Company Scraps Plans to Raise Millions for Blockchain Pivot - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:07] <exec> 08└─With great tea comes great responsibility.
[19:01:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iced Tea Company Scraps Plans to Raise Millions for Blockchain Pivot - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:09] <exec> 08└─1) notice $bubble 2) announce $bubble-related pivot 3) sell stock that just tripled 4) cancel $bubble-related pivot 5) (optional) buy back stock at old price 6) profit !
[19:01:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Iced Tea Company Scraps Plans to Raise Millions for Blockchain Pivot - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:11] <exec> 08└─"The company's stock price tripled overnight" and it "can make no assurances that it will be able to finance the purchase of the mining equipment." Yeah, that wasn't a totally massive scam or anything... Step 1: Announce blockchain launch! Step 2: Profit I guess on the plus side we're eliminating th...
[19:01:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iced Tea Company Scraps Plans to Raise Millions for Blockchain Pivot - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:13] <exec> 08└─7) get sent to federal pound me in the ass prison for insider trading.
[19:01:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iced Tea Company Scraps Plans to Raise Millions for Blockchain Pivot - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:15] <exec> 08└─Nah, those people don't go to the pound-me-in-the-ass prisons, they go to the country-club prisons.
[19:01:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Samsung to "Unlock" FM Chip in Galaxy S9 and Future Smartphones - 546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:25] <exec> 08└─> Take "unlocked" with a grain of salt. Shouldn't take too long before someone reverse-engineers the enable, and provides a simple FM app with no useless bells and whistles (not that I plan to buy an S9). I don't know if millennials do fall for it, or it's just wishful thinking from marketing guys w...
[19:01:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung to "Unlock" FM Chip in Galaxy S9 and Future Smartphones - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:27] <exec> 08└─"KBOOM radio, a blast from the past with sizzlin' tunes!"
[19:01:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung to "Unlock" FM Chip in Galaxy S9 and Future Smartphones - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:30] <exec> 08└─hi--it's me the "elephant". Apple has such minute control over SoC's and other hardware that this is probably true. All the android players just throw everything in there--FM, temperature, barometer, some others. No "apps" though.
[19:01:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung to "Unlock" FM Chip in Galaxy S9 and Future Smartphones - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:32] <exec> 08└─Lithium battery joke?
[19:01:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Robot Strippers Return "at" (Near) CES 2018 - 619 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:44] <exec> 08└─Big difference between a strip joint and a brothel. Nudie bars, you're not paying to get off, you're paying to get worked up. Likely with some of your friends unless you're just pathetically desperate to see naked women. They don't sell sex, they sell the idea that you're the kind of person who can...
[19:01:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robot Strippers Return "at" (Near) CES 2018 - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:47] <exec> 08└─I object to men who attend them while at work
[19:01:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robot Strippers Return "at" (Near) CES 2018 - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:49] <exec> 08└─You must drive an electric car, because the whole piston-in-hot-cylinder thing is a lot more explicit than those gyrating bunches of plastic.
[19:01:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Robot Strippers Return "at" (Near) CES 2018 - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:51] <exec> 08└─Didn't know lithium ion batteries had any byproducts at all :P
[19:02:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Protecting a Website from Inadvertently Adding Malware - 946 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:02:16] <exec> 08└─You don't need JavaScript for dynamic sizing with CSS 3. You can have CSS rules that are conditional on window size. % weights aren't adequate for small devices because 50% of a 15" monitor and 50% of a 4" mobile phone screen are very different in terms of their ability to contain a useful amount of...
[19:02:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03rigrig [5129] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Protecting a Website from Inadvertently Adding Malware - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:02:18] <exec> 08└─In fact all browsing should be done in a VM
[19:02:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Protecting a Website from Inadvertently Adding Malware - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:02:20] <exec> 08└─> I've also learned that you can show and hide elements in response to a click solely in CSS, which is currently the only thing I use JavaScript for. [codepen.io] That's how it's implemented here on SN. I have JS disabled, but I can still show/hide comments by clicking on the +/- buttons. I remember...
[19:02:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Protecting a Website from Inadvertently Adding Malware - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:02:22] <exec> 08└─Or better yet, have your server emit a different version of the site for /mobile/ and /desktop/. There's no reason for this to be done clientside at all. Trying these one-size-fits-all approaches is exactly why people resent modern UI design (metro, gnome3, chrome, placeo-chrome [nu-firefox]).
[19:02:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Protecting a Website from Inadvertently Adding Malware - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:02:24] <exec> 08└─*placebo
[19:02:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03termigator [4271] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Protecting a Website from Inadvertently Adding Malware - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:02:27] <exec> 08└─Confirmed. I have ordered several times from Amazon with javascript disabled. Some interactive parts of Amazon may not work (e.g. pan/zoom product images), but you can search, select, and order. I believe Amazon has the economic motive to have minimal barriers for people to order since they are esse...
[19:02:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03termigator [4271] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Protecting a Website from Inadvertently Adding Malware - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:02:29] <exec> 08└─I really dislike unnecessary dependencies. Which is generally to say: I dislike it, when people add frameworks. They often want one little convenience method, which happens to be offered in some OSS framework containing hundreds of classes. Which itself may bind in 2-3 other frameworks or OSS packag...
[19:02:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA's Missions Suffer From Their High Political Profile, Long Timelines - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:02:47] <exec> 08└─"Good morning, Mr New President! Under the current schedule, we will launch to $space_body in 3.5 years, based on your providing us with a 10% annual budget raise. We were trying to find a good codename for the first launch of that mission, something that would sound good for your intro at the next...
[19:02:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA's Missions Suffer From Their High Political Profile, Long Timelines - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:02:49] <exec> 08└─This is probably why SpaceX et al. are doing well. They can do the long term stuff, then NASA just says "Hey, I need a rocket to launch , can you hook me up?"
[19:02:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA's Missions Suffer From Their High Political Profile, Long Timelines - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:02:51] <exec> 08└─I really wish I was as smart as Tesla
[19:02:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA's Missions Suffer From Their High Political Profile, Long Timelines - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:02:53] <exec> 08└─You know, maybe US needs to learn something and run agencies like NASA like the EU does science projects. You know, stable funding no matter what. And politicians don't get to pick (as much) and choose what gets funded where (as much). https://en.wikipedia.org [wikiped...
[19:03:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Wootery [2341] 02 - 06U.K. Company Fined Over Information Security Lapses - 91 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:03] <exec> 08└─This is in the same category as companies dumping their costs on society such as pollution.
[19:03:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.K. Company Fined Over Information Security Lapses - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:09] <exec> 08└─Just ask realDonaldTrump.
[19:03:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.K. Company Fined Over Information Security Lapses - 713 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:11] <exec> 08└─"Should the U.S. Government enact fines and other measures against companies that fail to implement “rudimentary, commonplace measures" for security?" sure, right after they fix all their own shit. the irs alone "loses" ~20 billion a year to "fraud". that's just like some scumbag loser debt collec...
[19:03:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Consumer Electronics Show Loses Power - 493 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:28] <exec> 08└─That is exactly why some engineers get to go to the shows every year. The demos have to come up every morning, many of which are "experimental". The guys who didn't get their requirements changed at the last second press the buttons and run a script, and enjoy the rest of the day. Some of them pray...
[19:03:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Remediation of a Nuclear Reprocessing Plant - 1415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:51] <exec> 08└─Critical explained: Subcritial - number of neutrons available decreases (ie - it slows down) Critical - number of neutrons available stays the same (ie - keeps at level) Supercritical - number of neutrons available increases (ie - it speeds up) Critical mass - smallest mass needed to be critical for...
[19:03:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Remediation of a Nuclear Reprocessing Plant - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:52] <exec> 08└─Truly, silly AC, your ignorance is unfathomable! There can be only one reasonable explanation for all that low-grade uranium:
[19:04:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06‘Byton’ Comes from 'Bytes on Wheels' - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:04:06] <exec> 08└─The car industry changed insofar that before Tesla came, Tesla's market niche was unoccupied. While now, it is occupied by Tesla.
[19:04:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Administration Waives Punishment for Convicted Banks - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:04:38] <exec> 08└─Thought about it, but it sounded like this case was ongoing, so "got mine" didn't quite fit.
[19:04:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Trump Administration Waives Punishment for Convicted Banks - 634 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:04:39] <exec> 08└─No... Obama did not have any outstanding loans or financial interests in foreign banks. His assets were primarily invested in vanilla US treasury bonds during his presidency (and since afaik). It used to be a given that US presidents had no conflicting financial interests. This is why people started...
[19:04:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Administration Waives Punishment for Convicted Banks - 1471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:04:41] <exec> 08└─Well said. What's more, the Russia meme the Democrats have been brandishing is particularly ill-fitting. They were always softer on the Russians, in Soviet times, and afterward. So for them to suddenly turn around and paint the Russians as an existential threat to American democracy when they spent...
[19:04:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Administration Waives Punishment for Convicted Banks - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:04:44] <exec> 08└─How I wish we had that law. The Constitution for the Second American Republic must include it.
[19:04:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Administration Waives Punishment for Convicted Banks - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:04:46] <exec> 08└─Don't forget donations to Presidential libraries and post-administration charities.
[19:04:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Administration Waives Punishment for Convicted Banks - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:04:48] <exec> 08└─He should have had the discipline to refrain from posting on Twitter while drunk. Or he should have done as my brother-in-law, who has constructed incredibly elaborate mechanisms in his life to be able to spend as much of it stoned out of his mind as possible without getting arrested or fired.
[19:04:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Administration Waives Punishment for Convicted Banks - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:04:50] <exec> 08└─“Instead of a Dark Lord, you would have a queen [goodreads.com], not dark but beautiful and terrible as the dawn! Tempestuous as the sea, and stronger than the foundations of the earth! All shall love me and despair!” It springs to mind every time this subject arises.
[19:04:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Trump Administration Waives Punishment for Convicted Banks - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:04:52] <exec> 08└─Well we can tell you are not in favor of funding public education.
[19:04:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Administration Waives Punishment for Convicted Banks - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:04:55] <exec> 08└─Imagine that, invading a neighboring country and committing cyber attacks on our political process has soured a few people on Russia! It used to be that we changed our opinions based on new evidence/actions...
[19:04:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Trump Administration Waives Punishment for Convicted Banks - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:04:57] <exec> 08└─Weird how openly invading a country supposedly protected under the non-proliferation treaty and mounting massive state-funded cyber campaigns against governments in most of the western world would turn Democrats against you? Must be a Hollywood conspiracy.
[19:04:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Administration Waives Punishment for Convicted Banks - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:04:59] <exec> 08└─You People Made Me Give Up My Peanut Farm Before I Got To Be President [theonion.com] -- Jimmy Carter
[19:05:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Administration Waives Punishment for Convicted Banks - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:05:01] <exec> 08└─Does tax law allow for assets to be put into a blind trust without causing a tax event?
[19:05:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Administration Waives Punishment for Convicted Banks - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:05:03] <exec> 08└─you've been brainwashed into a political weapon.
[19:05:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Administration Waives Punishment for Convicted Banks - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:05:06] <exec> 08└─if you're not hiding some of your financial activities it just means you're a skank.
[19:07:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Learning Computer Science is Different than Learning Other STEM Disciplines - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:18] <exec> 08└─fun! Mark Guzdial is lying. To everyone else, but mostly to himself. When he says "We don't realize how hard learning to program is", he is lying. The truth is that Mark Guzdial had a very hard time learning programming, and is frightened that a 5 year old girl in mexico will take his job tomorrow.
[19:07:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Learning Computer Science is Different than Learning Other STEM Disciplines - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:19] <exec> 08└─My point was you need to use appropriate languages (I mentioned Scratch and Logo) and projects that they find fun (I mentioned building robots out of Legos and animating cartoons). That isn't how programming is usually being taught, and most of the teachers have no idea how to do it (not to mention...
[19:07:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Learning Computer Science is Different than Learning Other STEM Disciplines - 836 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:21] <exec> 08└─Python should not be used for most children before high school. Smalltalk is much better, if still not good. Logo and Scratch (a subset of Squeak Smalltalk) are much better...but you need to pick a good dialect of Logo. And you need to pick an interesting problem. The thing is, errors in Python can...
[19:07:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Learning Computer Science is Different than Learning Other STEM Disciplines - 652 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:23] <exec> 08└─I bet it is almost 18 years since the first guy got a mindstorm responding to pings (look for mindstorm ping in a search engine for the details). Of course that was all his custom IP stack could do...but at the time it was cool because typically getting anything that small online was not really poss...
[19:10:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03etherscythe [937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Meltdown and Spectre Patches Bricked Some AMD PCs - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:33] <exec> 08└─It looks like your dosimeter is glowing. Would you like help writing a Last Will and Testament?
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[20:00:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06The City of Barcelona Will Go Open Source by Spring 2019 - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:59] <exec> 08└─... will try to use "Open Source" software, and will probably only do so as a way to negotiate down the price of Microsoft licenses. Specifically, this one particular organization (the one that calls itself "government") is not the city; it is merely one small facet of the city.
[20:01:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The City of Barcelona Will Go Open Source by Spring 2019 - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:00] <exec> 08└─What is that "flamebait". That's basically what happened in Munich.
[20:01:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The City of Barcelona Will Go Open Source by Spring 2019 - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:02] <exec> 08└─That post is not the totality of flamebait, it is only one small part of flamebait. Posted by an American.
[20:01:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iced Tea Company Scraps Plans to Raise Millions for Blockchain Pivot - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:15] <exec> 08└─I ordered it in December for march delivery. It sold out a few days after I ordered The antminer bitcoin miners require 220V. All I have is my stove socket I might order two more. Three miners and I won't need to work anymore. But I would - on my own projects
[20:01:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iced Tea Company Scraps Plans to Raise Millions for Blockchain Pivot - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:16] <exec> 08└─7) only applies to individuals who are not "too big to fail"
[20:01:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iced Tea Company Scraps Plans to Raise Millions for Blockchain Pivot - 1107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:19] <exec> 08└─Every time I have run-to-ground what my ROI would be for bitcoin mining, it came to something like $500 worth of mining gear, sucking down $0.04 per day of electricity should net about $0.04 per day worth of BTC, until the market gets more competitive at which point the investment stays the same but...
[20:01:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Uncle_Al [1108] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung to "Unlock" FM Chip in Galaxy S9 and Future Smartphones - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:32] <exec> 08└─Intentionally missing from the wonder multi-media list: Advertising
[20:01:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Samsung to "Unlock" FM Chip in Galaxy S9 and Future Smartphones - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:33] <exec> 08└─can we get back to having software that just does one simple thing (listen to FM, with a simple frequency and volume control), without needing to pretend people would like to connect it to twitfacegram
[20:01:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Robot Strippers Return "at" (Near) CES 2018 - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:51] <exec> 08└─It makes no sense.
[20:02:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Protecting a Website from Inadvertently Adding Malware - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:25] <exec> 08└─These documents sure have a lot of buttons and forms on them..
[20:02:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Protecting a Website from Inadvertently Adding Malware - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:26] <exec> 08└─That's still bad. Desktop isn't just one resolution. Mobile resolution also varies wildly. Input devices (touch, click) vary and some computers quickly convert into tablets and stuff. In my experience mobile sites have reduced functionality because the company has to basically build two UIs that wor...
[20:02:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Protecting a Website from Inadvertently Adding Malware - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:29] <exec> 08└─The reply was more about % weights not being accurate enough for mobile. Why not do all that mobile specific checking in a mobile specific site and leave the desktop site the way they've always been done since the dawn of the internet.
[20:02:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Protecting a Website from Inadvertently Adding Malware - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:31] <exec> 08└─PS: In regards to reduced functionality, these mobile/desktop amalgam sites more often than not reduce functionality for desktop users in ways that may not be apparent immediately, pretty much in the same way clusterfucks like metro and gnome3 do (the classic being tasks that needed 1 click in the o...
[20:02:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA's Missions Suffer From Their High Political Profile, Long Timelines - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:53] <exec> 08└─I see SpaceX, but who is the 'et al.'?
[20:02:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA's Missions Suffer From Their High Political Profile, Long Timelines - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:55] <exec> 08└─Houston is Mission Control and training, which isn't much impacted by Constellation's cancellation as long as some missions are running on any platform. Constellation would be launched from Florida and construction (just like it is with SLS) is spread all over the country to spread the pork around a...
[20:02:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NASA's Missions Suffer From Their High Political Profile, Long Timelines - 1225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:57] <exec> 08└─OK, so let me get this straight: NASA's leaders go to the politicians and say "This is the cool stuff we've been working on. We'd like to continue doing that, please, because we'll be able to show some really great results in a few years." Politician says "Well, that's nice, but what I'd really want...
[20:03:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.K. Company Fined Over Information Security Lapses - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:03:14] <exec> 08└─That half a crown is just an average.. : P
[20:04:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06‘Byton’ Comes from 'Bytes on Wheels' - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:04:09] <exec> 08└─While now, it is occupied by Tesla.
[20:04:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Administration Waives Punishment for Convicted Banks - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:04:55] <exec> 08└─Nope, I just have a friend from Ukraine.
[20:04:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Administration Waives Punishment for Convicted Banks - 505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:04:57] <exec> 08└─Either under the definition of treason, or under a federal law involving providing material aid or services to a (hostile or not) foreign regime. Having said that, America has been so long having different interpretations of laws for the 'politically connected/public figureheads' than they have for...
[20:05:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thieves Swipe a Portion of China's Solar Road - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:05:17] <exec> 08└─China is banning *ALL* bitcoin activity in China, whether mining, or brokering off-chain transactions, as is South Korea. The result of this is that 60 percent of processing power may either get dumped on the international market, scrapped, or used when bitcoin declines to attempt a 34 to 51 percent...
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[21:01:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06The City of Barcelona Will Go Open Source by Spring 2019 - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:06] <exec> 08└─Wow what kind of brainwashing do M$ shills undergo? > "Open Source" quoted? It's a common term since the late 90s. Did you receive electroshock when you mistakenly pronounced that in positive light during training or something? > the city of X does that means only the administration does that and it...
[21:01:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The City of Barcelona Will Go Open Source by Spring 2019 - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:08] <exec> 08└─The only thing I got out of your reply is that communication between people must be inherently difficult. Your reading of the OP's comment is very bizarre.
[21:01:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The City of Barcelona Will Go Open Source by Spring 2019 - 567 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:10] <exec> 08└─Barcelona (and the rest of Catalonia by extension) seems like a place with some pretty smart people. They easily outpace the rest of Spain economically, they're working to free themselves from the useless Spaniards, and now they're freeing themselves from shitty Microsoft software, saving taxpayer m...
[21:01:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The City of Barcelona Will Go Open Source by Spring 2019 - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:12] <exec> 08└─No, it is spot on. Typical Micro$haft technique: FUD. And almost everyone here has been exposed to this enough over the past thirty or so years as to recognize it on sight. And on this site, where it is not as bas as some other sites I could cite.
[21:01:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung to "Unlock" FM Chip in Galaxy S9 and Future Smartphones - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:42] <exec> 08└─So you're saying this is basically like streaming my favorite tunes, except they're not my favorite tunes, but some rando DJ's? Will this put a dent in my data plan?
[21:02:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robot Strippers Return "at" (Near) CES 2018 - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:02] <exec> 08└─It makes no cents.
[21:02:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robot Strippers Return "at" (Near) CES 2018 - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:03] <exec> 08└─Yeah! Shake it baby! Let's see that power supply! Wooooooo! Show us those servo controllers!
[21:02:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Robot Strippers Return "at" (Near) CES 2018 - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:05] <exec> 08└─Finally, this is what feminists have been asking for. Through the employment of these appliances no women get... objectified.looked at with disgusting sexual overtones.exposed to lewd comments.touched on [sexually charged||inappropriate||any] body parts.forced to accept money in exchange for debasin...
[21:02:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Protecting a Website from Inadvertently Adding Malware - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:42] <exec> 08└─Layout tags break the paradigm, whether it's by inches or points or percentages it doesn't matter it's still missing the point. The web server does not know and is not supposed to know what sort of display device is being used, it doesn't know whether it even HAS a screen, and it is not in any pos...
[21:02:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Protecting a Website from Inadvertently Adding Malware - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:43] <exec> 08└─Just because you like to visit all those porn websites with tons of multimedia gizmos and credit card forms doesn't mean everyo- oh wait... this is the internet.
[21:04:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Remediation of a Nuclear Reprocessing Plant - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:04:08] <exec> 08└─I've shown that 99.5% of both the input and output materials are unsuited to nuclear bombs and Navy nuclear. (wrong isotopes) Now you explain why the fuck anybody would be reprocessing that material. Where could it come from? Where might it be going? Do you think there is a market for Fiestaware rep...
[21:04:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Remediation of a Nuclear Reprocessing Plant - 577 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:04:10] <exec> 08└─What are you, AC? A STEM major? This would explain your lack of facility with language. We are not talking about the technology of nuclear materials reprocessing, we are talking about grammar, and how "commercial nuclear reprocessing plant" could be taken in two entirely different senses, depending...
[21:04:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Remediation of a Nuclear Reprocessing Plant - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:04:12] <exec> 08└─But yeah, in theory it can blow up, just like in theory the hydrogen in your cup of coffee could spontaneously fusion and explode.
[21:05:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Administration Waives Punishment for Convicted Banks - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:05:14] <exec> 08└─Ukrainians have a real bone to pick with the Russians. We don't. And for the Democrats to suddenly mount a Red Scare is, well, goofy. Imagine the Republican leadership suddenly declaring we should all become vegans, and to then beat the Democrats about the ears for eating meat. Nobody would take the...
[21:05:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Administration Waives Punishment for Convicted Banks - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:05:15] <exec> 08└─When a friend of yours mentions she's worried about her family because Russia just invader her hometown it tends to put one off a bit.
[21:05:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Administration Waives Punishment for Convicted Banks - 614 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:05:17] <exec> 08└─This is a major fail on Trump's part. If he's going to take away the punishment from banks, he should put it onto some other. Not Jesus. But maybe onto, oh, let's say, scientists. Yeah, scientists! Those pesky scientists! Science has a strong left wing bias. Climate change. How reproductive biology...
[21:05:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Trump Administration Waives Punishment for Convicted Banks - 1838 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:05:19] <exec> 08└─Yet Obama and the Media were not screaming, "OMG! OMG! The Russians are coming!!!" when they summarily annexed the Crimea and went after Georgia or went into Ukraine. As for meddling in the elections of other countries, the Russians certainly believed the US and Europe meddled in Ukraine's in order...
[21:05:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Administration Waives Punishment for Convicted Banks - 1143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:05:22] <exec> 08└─Sure. It's understandable. It's also true that because a country is mean to somebody else that doesn't mean that we will or should treat them as bad guys for that reason. If we did, no country would have any friends for long. Should we stop being friends with Australia because of their appalling tre...
[21:07:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Learning Computer Science is Different than Learning Other STEM Disciplines - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:39] <exec> 08└─That sentence also included but was not limited to web developers.
[21:07:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pav [114] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Learning Computer Science is Different than Learning Other STEM Disciplines - 2296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:40] <exec> 08└─Hate to be condescending, but you mustn't know many wealthy people. I've known a few, both domestic (Australian) and from elsewhere (UAE, China, Singapore, Saudi etc...). The ones that have family businesses eg. grocery store chains, multi-ranch cattle companies, construction companies, cotton growe...
[21:08:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score: 2) 02 - 06B2V - Bicycle to Vehicle - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:08:26] <exec> 08└─And my '78 Caprice, lacking any weighty safety features, will be the cheapest of all!
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[22:00:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SoylentNews Reboots Due to Meltdown and Spectre; 2-Hour Window Starts: Fri 2018-01-12 @ 10:00:00 UTC - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:55] <exec> 08└─Why in the world would it take that long to reboot?!
[22:00:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SoylentNews Reboots Due to Meltdown and Spectre; 2-Hour Window Starts: Fri 2018-01-12 @ 10:00:00 UTC - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:56] <exec> 08└─Does this mean Soylent is going to be 10% slower?
[22:00:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SoylentNews Reboots Due to Meltdown and Spectre; 2-Hour Window Starts: Fri 2018-01-12 @ 10:00:00 UTC - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:59] <exec> 08└─It requires work to compromise systems, I mean really you expect the NSA to work through lunch??!!!
[22:01:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SoylentNews Reboots Due to Meltdown and Spectre; 2-Hour Window Starts: Fri 2018-01-12 @ 10:00:00 UTC - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:01] <exec> 08└─failure to read... > There is a two hour window for these reboots starting on Friday January 12th at 10:00AM UTC. > Reboots should take on the order of about 10 minutes per server.
[22:01:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SoylentNews Reboots Due to Meltdown and Spectre; 2-Hour Window Starts: Fri 2018-01-12 @ 10:00:00 UTC - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:03] <exec> 08└─Why in the world would it take that long to reboot?!
[22:01:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Reboots Due to Meltdown and Spectre; 2-Hour Window Starts: Fri 2018-01-12 @ 10:00:00 UTC - 795 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:05] <exec> 08└─That's just the window when it'll be happening. It should only take a few minutes for the actual reboot. And I'll go in and tweak the load balancer so that all traffic goes to hydrogen before it happens so everyone can still get to and make use of the site though. What won't be working during the ac...
[22:01:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06SoylentNews Reboots Due to Meltdown and Spectre; 2-Hour Window Starts: Fri 2018-01-12 @ 10:00:00 UTC - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:08] <exec> 08└─Given our database load, almost certainly. I'm not especially concerned though. I mean we cut comment rendering time by like 75% with the last big update, so we're still damned fast even with a 10% hit.
[22:01:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Reboots Due to Meltdown and Spectre; 2-Hour Window Starts: Fri 2018-01-12 @ 10:00:00 UTC - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:10] <exec> 08└─You Stewards of Soylentry keep doing a great job. It is noticed and appreciated, though probably not enough said.
[22:01:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06SoylentNews Reboots Due to Meltdown and Spectre; 2-Hour Window Starts: Fri 2018-01-12 @ 10:00:00 UTC - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:12] <exec> 08└─Just take ShitStainN down permanently and never come back.
[22:01:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SoylentNews Reboots Due to Meltdown and Spectre; 2-Hour Window Starts: Fri 2018-01-12 @ 10:00:00 UTC - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:14] <exec> 08└─O Mightie Uzzard, let me pay you what you deserve in compensation for your self-serving work: one ass-nugget, fresh and hot, dropped out of my inflamed anus.
[22:01:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SoylentNews Reboots Due to Meltdown and Spectre; 2-Hour Window Starts: Fri 2018-01-12 @ 10:00:00 UTC - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:17] <exec> 08└─It happens in the middle of TheMightyBuzzard's nap time so we have to wait for him to bring it back up.
[22:01:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ninth Circuit Doubles Down: Violating a Website’s Terms of Service Is Not a Crime - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:25] <exec> 08└─A user agrees to a contract, and then breaches that contract. That is definitely grounds for a civil lawsuit.
[22:01:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Ninth Circuit Doubles Down: Violating a Website’s Terms of Service Is Not a Crime - 604 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:27] <exec> 08└─Read TFA. Didn't read all the linked legalese. But it seems to me if I put some info on my web site, and I don't want $JOE to get it, then when $JOE comes asking, my web server shouldn't give it to him. If I configure my web server to allow all requests, then I've consented to $JOE's request. They c...
[22:01:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ninth Circuit Doubles Down: Violating a Website’s Terms of Service Is Not a Crime - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:30] <exec> 08└─Except no one agreed to any contract. Agreeing to a contract requires affirmative, informed consent, and compensation, neither of which are present here.
[22:01:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ninth Circuit Doubles Down: Violating a Website’s Terms of Service Is Not a Crime - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:32] <exec> 08└─If you take that tact, then contract law means nothing; if there is no contract law, then there is no society—there is just "Might makes Right". Caveat Emptor is the foundation of Civilization. I never hear you folks arguing against the common notion that "Ignorance of the Law is no excuse, Citize...
[22:01:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ninth Circuit Doubles Down: Violating a Website’s Terms of Service Is Not a Crime - 1042 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:34] <exec> 08└─Terms of Service for this post: by fetching this text from the soylentnews.org web server, or by directing your client software to fetch this text from the soylentnews.org web server, you hereby agree to these Terms of Service: * You is defined as any Anonymous Coward, and your is defined as referri...
[22:01:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ninth Circuit Doubles Down: Violating a Website’s Terms of Service Is Not a Crime - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:36] <exec> 08└─What are you talking about? The transaction is thus: The user agrees to the usage contract, and in return gets to use the website. If you don't like a usage contract, then don't agree to it; don't use that website. "But... I don't like this." is not a valid argument against these things.
[22:01:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ninth Circuit Doubles Down: Violating a Website’s Terms of Service Is Not a Crime - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:39] <exec> 08└─If violating a website’s terms of service is not a crime according to federal court, they just legalized hacking into any Internet site?
[22:01:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ninth Circuit Doubles Down: Violating a Website’s Terms of Service Is Not a Crime - 670 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:41] <exec> 08└─You are like a restaurant that serves free bread; you cannot get angry when a customer eats said bread and then gets up and walks away without buying anything—just like it was the restaurants' choice to send out bread, it was your choice to publish that comment for my consumption. Now, if I had to...
[22:01:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ninth Circuit Doubles Down: Violating a Website’s Terms of Service Is Not a Crime - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:43] <exec> 08└─Bite me
[22:01:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ninth Circuit Doubles Down: Violating a Website’s Terms of Service Is Not a Crime - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:45] <exec> 08└─You cannot bind people by a contract they did not get a chance to review before its application. That's law 101. You can also get a court to invalidate clearly abusive clauses in contracts between private parties.
[22:01:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ninth Circuit Doubles Down: Violating a Website’s Terms of Service Is Not a Crime - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:48] <exec> 08└─Well, by that argument, does that also apply to any linked code from other sites? You viewed it. Are you now beholden to any TOS from those adware and malware spewing pieces of trash?
[22:01:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ninth Circuit Doubles Down: Violating a Website’s Terms of Service Is Not a Crime - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:50] <exec> 08└─So you'd agree that any AC who hits Reload on this page is certainly bound by the contract? Anyway, I'm the court (as You agreed) so I'm unlikely to invalidate any of my clauses.
[22:01:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ninth Circuit Doubles Down: Violating a Website’s Terms of Service Is Not a Crime - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:52] <exec> 08└─Is the court saying you must treat all clients equally? Or merely that you can't use the courts to do things you neglected to do in your web server config?
[22:01:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ninth Circuit Doubles Down: Violating a Website’s Terms of Service Is Not a Crime - 983 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:55] <exec> 08└─That would require giving access only to the registered users - who during sign-up confirmed the contract in some meaningful way. Every company that has anything to keep private does that. Try to get some datasheets without signing up, or some 3D models... Registration at professional, industrial we...
[22:01:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ninth Circuit Doubles Down: Violating a Website’s Terms of Service Is Not a Crime - 741 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:57] <exec> 08└─After reading the legalese, the answer is bit more subtle: using a website or its contents contrary to the Terms of Use does not constitute criminal activity while it might be grounds for civil action. The crux of the matter rests on the law being considered (expressly California and Nevada) which m...
[22:01:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ninth Circuit Doubles Down: Violating a Website’s Terms of Service Is Not a Crime - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:59] <exec> 08└─Hacking is already against the actual LAW. Being a jackass once you visit a website via normal means is not against any actual law.
[22:02:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ninth Circuit Doubles Down: Violating a Website’s Terms of Service Is Not a Crime - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:02:01] <exec> 08└─The only problem is one of enforcement. As someone else noted, a restaurant that gives out free bread shouldn't surprised that some people abuse its resources. There's nothing inherently non-binding about a Terms of Service; it's just not practical to enforce in the case that you outlined, and part...
[22:02:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ninth Circuit Doubles Down: Violating a Website’s Terms of Service Is Not a Crime - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:02:04] <exec> 08└─Last time I went around slapping stickers on luxury cars that said "by reading this, you agree to give me this car", the judge told me that your legal opinion was wasn't even worth the paper it didn't get printed on.
[22:02:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ninth Circuit Doubles Down: Violating a Website’s Terms of Service Is Not a Crime - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:02:06] <exec> 08└─So, no. Try again.
[22:02:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Bot [3902] 02 - 06The City of Barcelona Will Go Open Source by Spring 2019 - 458 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:02:17] <exec> 08└─Wow what kind of brainwashing do M$ shills undergo? > "Open Source" quoted? It's a common term since the late 90s. Did you receive electroshock when you mistakenly pronounced that in positive light during training or something? > the city of X does that means only the administration does that and it...
[22:02:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03aristarchus [2645] 02 - 06The City of Barcelona Will Go Open Source by Spring 2019 - 247 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:02:21] <exec> 08└─No, it is spot on. Typical Micro$haft technique: FUD. And almost everyone here has been exposed to this enough over the past thirty or so years as to recognize it on sight. And on this site, where it is not as bas as some other sites I could cite.
[22:02:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06The City of Barcelona Will Go Open Source by Spring 2019 - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:02:24] <exec> 08└─MY GOD!!!! It's a Hot Chick Red Herring! Redmond must be desperate!!
[22:02:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06The City of Barcelona Will Go Open Source by Spring 2019 - 649 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:02:26] <exec> 08└─There is no FUD. Indeed, there is a long history of both governments and non-governments using the threat of alternative software to bring Microsoft to heel during license negotiation. It's a very common occurrence. I worked with a corporate contractor who used this very tactic over and over; it was...
[22:02:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06The City of Barcelona Will Go Open Source by Spring 2019 - 769 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:02:28] <exec> 08└─One: There is a long history, particularly with manufacturers, for Microsoft to threaten to revoke licenses for Microsoft products of people who switch to Free Software. Claiming that such switching is only tactical is part of the same ecosystem Two: Must be a libertariantard. Not so sure about Barc...
[22:02:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The City of Barcelona Will Go Open Source by Spring 2019 - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:02:30] <exec> 08└─Nowhere can you deduce that that the OP is trying to make you doubt any virtue of moving to "Free Software". People coming together at some point in time to form a government does not imply that said government is synonymous with that people. A government is just another organization in society.
[22:02:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iced Tea Company Scraps Plans to Raise Millions for Blockchain Pivot - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:02:46] <exec> 08└─With all of these fancy mining rigs crunching so many numbers, why are payments so slow? Do more rigs speed up payments, or just bog things down?
[22:03:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03etherscythe [937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung to "Unlock" FM Chip in Galaxy S9 and Future Smartphones - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:03:03] <exec> 08└─I admit it's been some time since I listened to analog radio broadcast, but as I recall, advertising is already built in to the stream
[22:03:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung to "Unlock" FM Chip in Galaxy S9 and Future Smartphones - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:03:04] <exec> 08└─FFS, my WINDOWS PHONE came with a functional fm chip and app for it.
[22:03:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03nnet [5716] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Samsung to "Unlock" FM Chip in Galaxy S9 and Future Smartphones - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:03:06] <exec> 08└─When I used to have to commute to work every day, I'd listen to Bob&Tom in the mornings, a local FM station syndicated it. Nowadays I only hear it if I have to leave the house in the morning. The car has FM radio. I don't have any other FM receiver. I'd listen to FM again if the chip was unlocked in...
[22:03:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fast Radio Bursts Could be Caused by Pulsars Near Black Holes or Supernova Remnants - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:03:35] <exec> 08└─Bananas are not apples.
[22:04:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.K. Company Fined Over Information Security Lapses - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:04:52] <exec> 08└─Did the Market replace you with khallow when we weren't looking?
[22:05:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Consumer Electronics Show Loses Power - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:05:11] <exec> 08└─http://www.alphr.com/mobile-phones/1008155/the-pda-is-backwith-a-deca-core-processor-and-a-25-bigger-battery-than-the SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY!!!! (Yes, I'm an ex-Psion 5 owner (I still have have it).)
[22:06:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Administration Waives Punishment for Convicted Banks - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:45] <exec> 08└─with an alleged hebephile and definitely serial philanderer as her 'first man'/'former president'... That is just as terrible as a 70is year old man-child whose only success has been being propped up by others trying to get a cut of his fortune/prestige/glory for the past 50 odd years.
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[23:01:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Walmart Raises Minimum Hourly Wage to $11, Expands "Scan & Go" Program - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:00] <exec> 08└─It should be noted>/a> that Walmart just announced the closing a bunch of its Sam's Club stores. Coincidence? [usatoday.com]
[23:01:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Walmart Raises Minimum Hourly Wage to $11, Expands "Scan & Go" Program - 992 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:01] <exec> 08└─Meanwhile, Costco [wikipedia.org] has been doing great, and its stock rose on that news: The closing Sam's Clubs make up about 10% of its total number of stores, which may surprise some investors considering the warehouse discounter's consistent growth. In both the third and second quarters, Sam's C...
[23:01:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Walmart Raises Minimum Hourly Wage to $11, Expands "Scan & Go" Program - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:03] <exec> 08└─$11/hr and 30 hours a week, sometimes almost 35. Put that together with the SNAP, and those off-the-books side jobs and your average WallyWorld inmate can almost afford to get their vehicle some legal insurance... if their significant other also works and the young-uns ain't too 'spensive.
[23:01:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Walmart Raises Minimum Hourly Wage to $11, Expands "Scan & Go" Program - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:06] <exec> 08└─Warehouse associate at Amazon might be making a little more than a clerk at Walmart...but not much. Was going to post links to wage survey sites, but they were full of annoying crap.
[23:01:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Walmart Raises Minimum Hourly Wage to $11, Expands "Scan & Go" Program - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:08] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure I'm following your reasoning. Are you saying Walmart shouldn't have given all those people a raise? P.S. In a free country you could open your own store and pay the employees $20... $30... even $50 an hour if that's what you think "should be".
[23:01:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Walmart Raises Minimum Hourly Wage to $11, Expands "Scan & Go" Program - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:10] <exec> 08└─None of that is Walmart's fault.
[23:01:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 4, Touché) 02 - 06Scheduled SN Reboots Due to Meltdown and Spectre; 2-Hour Window Starts: Fri 2018-01-12 @ 10:00:00UTC - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:28] <exec> 08└─and never come back.
[23:01:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scheduled SN Reboots Due to Meltdown and Spectre; 2-Hour Window Starts: Fri 2018-01-12 @ 10:00:00UTC - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:29] <exec> 08└─s/nap time/fishing time FTFY
[23:01:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Scheduled SN Reboots Due to Meltdown and Spectre; 2-Hour Window Starts: Fri 2018-01-12 @ 10:00:00UTC - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:32] <exec> 08└─From the parent comment: Why in the world would it take that long to reboot?!
[23:01:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scheduled SN Reboots Due to Meltdown and Spectre; 2-Hour Window Starts: Fri 2018-01-12 @ 10:00:00UTC - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:34] <exec> 08└─s/fishing/fisting/
[23:01:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scheduled SN Reboots Due to Meltdown and Spectre; 2-Hour Window Starts: Fri 2018-01-12 @ 10:00:00UTC - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:36] <exec> 08└─But if I never come back, how will I see the glorious domain-parking page that will replace it when ShitStain is gone?
[23:01:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scheduled SN Reboots Due to Meltdown and Spectre; 2-Hour Window Starts: Fri 2018-01-12 @ 10:00:00UTC - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:38] <exec> 08└─Let's see if Slashdot reports our death or we report their death first.
[23:01:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scheduled SN Reboots Due to Meltdown and Spectre; 2-Hour Window Starts: Fri 2018-01-12 @ 10:00:00UTC - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:40] <exec> 08└─Just take ShitStainN down permanently and never come back.
[23:02:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Ninth Circuit Doubles Down: Violating a Website’s Terms of Service Is Not a Crime - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:02:07] <exec> 08└─In this particular case, the website was being accessed by the defendant using a valid customer ID, so clearly it was authorized to use the website.
[23:02:08] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03Arik [4543] 02 - 06Ninth Circuit Doubles Down: Violating a Website’s Terms of Service Is Not a Crime - 270 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:02:08] <exec> 08└─"If you take that tact, then contract law means nothing" I disagree. It's the tact of pretending contracts can be unilaterally imposed like this that effectively means contract law means nothing. It's very important. And it's based on consent. Not unilateral imposition.
[23:02:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ninth Circuit Doubles Down: Violating a Website’s Terms of Service Is Not a Crime - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:02:10] <exec> 08└─We seem to disagree on whether there is imposition; I disagree that there is such a thing. Anyway, there are a number of comments in here that more or less capture my position, so I'll simply refer the reader to the rest of the discussion.
[23:02:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormreaver [5101] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Ninth Circuit Doubles Down: Violating a Website’s Terms of Service Is Not a Crime - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:02:13] <exec> 08└─So Rimini must copy software EACH time it provides an approved Oracle patch to a licensed Oracle customer, and it can't cache the patches for use on multiple licensed customers. (or at least pretend to do so).
[23:02:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ninth Circuit Doubles Down: Violating a Website’s Terms of Service Is Not a Crime - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:02:15] <exec> 08└─Reload is an "interaction" with the page containing (among other things) my stuff. *SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) But now, You are pwned even by your own logic.
[23:02:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ninth Circuit Doubles Down: Violating a Website’s Terms of Service Is Not a Crime - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:02:17] <exec> 08└─It doesn't matter what your website does.
[23:02:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ninth Circuit Doubles Down: Violating a Website’s Terms of Service Is Not a Crime - 1188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:02:19] <exec> 08└─Your not really wrong about the whole internet thing, but you shouldn't assume your free bread is free. "You are like a restaurant that serves free bread; you cannot get angry when a customer eats said bread and then gets up and walks away without buying anything" In a lot of places, the free bread...
[23:02:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ninth Circuit Doubles Down: Violating a Website’s Terms of Service Is Not a Crime - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:02:21] <exec> 08└─That is all.
[23:02:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The City of Barcelona Will Go Open Source by Spring 2019 - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:02:40] <exec> 08└─Barcelona = Munich ][ I bet M$ had to buy a good few of the decision makers in Munich new cars and other favours. Hopefully in this case people have more spine. I wish Munich would repent from MicroSin.
[23:02:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iced Tea Company Scraps Plans to Raise Millions for Blockchain Pivot - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:02:57] <exec> 08└─They should have done it with more pizazz like Kodak, who announced at CES [cnbc.com] and had their stock triple.
[23:03:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung to "Unlock" FM Chip in Galaxy S9 and Future Smartphones - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:03:17] <exec> 08└─Actually apple used a common chip, (wifi, bluetooth. and FM in one) and simply failed to solder one pin to the FM had no functionality. (I believe it was the antenna pin). Then when people bitched, Apple true to form fixed it so they couldn't bitch any more by finding a cheaper chip which didn't hav...
[23:03:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung to "Unlock" FM Chip in Galaxy S9 and Future Smartphones - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:03:19] <exec> 08└─I'd listen to FM again if the chip was unlocked in my cellphone.
[23:03:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung to "Unlock" FM Chip in Galaxy S9 and Future Smartphones - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:03:21] <exec> 08└─Doesn't use your data plan at all, you don't even need a sim in your phone. It uses hardly any battery at all. Its straight out of 1970s where you occasionally got exposed to new and different music between the old and repetitive stuff crap on your phone. And, free of charge, you got news, weather,...
[23:03:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Robot Strippers Return "at" (Near) CES 2018 - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:03:43] <exec> 08└─So would you also be ok with these robots made to look like children?
[23:03:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robot Strippers Return "at" (Near) CES 2018 - 601 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:03:44] <exec> 08└─You "expect"? I get that it's an improvement when the bunch of dudes that get to be part of the discussion (i.e. the popular kids in adulthood) take an interest in sexism. But you know who else paid lip service to ending sexism? Harvey Weinstein and the rest of the "creative class" [zcomm.org]. Thei...
[23:03:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Robot Strippers Return "at" (Near) CES 2018 - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:03:47] <exec> 08└─Kiddie porn is legal in Japan (as long as it's drawn and no actual kids were involved), and their rate of child sexual abuse is much lower than in the US. So why not? Because you like judging other people for their sexual desires?
[23:04:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TheRaven [270] 02 - 06Protecting a Website from Inadvertently Adding Malware - 946 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:04:13] <exec> 08└─You don't need JavaScript for dynamic sizing with CSS 3. You can have CSS rules that are conditional on window size. % weights aren't adequate for small devices because 50% of a 15" monitor and 50% of a 4" mobile phone screen are very different in terms of their ability to contain a useful amount of...
[23:04:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Protecting a Website from Inadvertently Adding Malware - 1645 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:04:27] <exec> 08└─Seriously...I mean TFS talks about this specifically as a problem in "professional" code, but I'd say it's a problem with amateurs who THINK they're "professional"...which is unfortunately all too common. If you're a professional, you know what the fuck you're adding to your software. Potential expl...
[23:05:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Consumer Electronics Show Loses Power - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:05:32] <exec> 08└─Hats off to whomever wrote the subject line, which is in all ways superior to the title of either of the linked articles.
[23:07:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Administration Waives Punishment for Convicted Banks - 831 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:07] <exec> 08└─You're in need of a crash course on geopolitics that a comment section can't really provide. The US (primarily) pushed for Ukrainian nuclear disarmament under the Budapest Memorandum to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons in 1994. One of the provisions of that agreement was that U...
[23:07:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Administration Waives Punishment for Convicted Banks - 976 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:09] <exec> 08└─They were screaming that, actually. Many folks like yourself were either not listening or somehow convinced by Putin's flimsy public denials (kinda like his public denials of active cyber campaigns). We do not know, "thanks to Snowden", that the NSA and CIA engage in similar operations. In fact, Sno...
[23:08:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03looorg [578] 02 - 06Learning Computer Science is Different than Learning Other STEM Disciplines - 1984 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:31] <exec> 08└─He isn't really making a very compelling argument at all. He identifies a problem, gives example(s) of another, then offers solutions for something else. Then blames the problem on something different. Then goes on a little rant about how they so special normal teaching techniques apparently doesn't...
[23:09:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Learning Computer Science is Different than Learning Other STEM Disciplines - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:29] <exec> 08└─'Dull'? This is a petri-dish example of the sort of thinking that makes other engineering fields view 'software engineering' as a bad joke.
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