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[00:00:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06An AI Reads Privacy Policies so You Don't Have to - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:00] <exec> 08└─> What if that AI misinterprets the fine print, ... Written like a true lawyer!
[00:00:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An AI Reads Privacy Policies so You Don't Have to - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:02] <exec> 08└─99% of privacy policies, EULAs. and TOS could be translated for easier understanding by outputting ASCII art of a giant middle finger.
[00:00:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06An AI Reads Privacy Policies so You Don't Have to - 950 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:04] <exec> 08└─This problem doesn't have to be limited to privacy policies, but rather any policy. What steams my weenies is when entities you depend on change their policies and those changes are significant and detrimental. Of course nobody's going to read 10 pages of dense English and the vast majority of polic...
[00:00:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06An AI Reads Privacy Policies so You Don't Have to - 1015 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:06] <exec> 08└─What's sad and/or funny is that formerly "alpha" professions like medicine and law are now an exhausting and unprofitable drag and will be less relevant from a human perspective. Soon the skilled trades and other technicians will be the most valuable for a long while, because servers, robots, plumbi...
[00:00:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vintage Computing Festival: PNW is About to Kick-Off! - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:57] <exec> 08└─The JK 700 series industrial lasers we run at work are ran by as single 6809.
[00:02:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Eleven Excellent, Free Scorewriters - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:02:37] <exec> 08└─Indeed, some of you probably think that I got the title of the song wrong, and that it's actually titled "Miss Suzie Had a Steamboat", which isn't surprising because "Miss Lucy" sounds like "Miss Suzie" if the "L" in "Lucy" isn't distinct.
[00:06:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Leak of iBoot Code to GitHub Could Potentially Help iPhone Jailbreakers - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:37] <exec> 08└─I am really rich. But not for long. The new Tax Act is hitting me so hard, my head is spinning. It's great for our companies, it's great for America. But for me personally it's very expensive.
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[00:59:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Stand-Alone System to Produce Drinking Water by Means of Solar Energy - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:18] <exec> 08└─So existing desalinization method but hooked a solar panel onto it for power.
[00:59:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Stand-Alone System to Produce Drinking Water by Means of Solar Energy - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:19] <exec> 08└─Yeah, that seems to be pretty close - except, they DO NOT hook a battery to it, so it doesn't work at night. I actually read TFA, and was confused by, first, a claim that they had something new, then second, another claim that there was nothing new here, just a different way of doing an old thing. B...
[00:59:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stand-Alone System to Produce Drinking Water by Means of Solar Energy - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:21] <exec> 08└─So existing desalinization method but hooked a solar panel onto it for power.
[00:59:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stand-Alone System to Produce Drinking Water by Means of Solar Energy - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:24] <exec> 08└─What's missing from TFA: what installed PV power one needs for that daily cubic-meter? Anyone managed to find the original, not dumbed-down paper?
[00:59:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Nuclear Scientists Caught Using Supercomputers To Mine Cryptocurrency - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:43] <exec> 08└─One of the top folding@home members for awhile was a large compute cluster from their employer. "For burn in" for 6 months. In this case there is money involved. Of course people are doing this. People will cheat for what amounts to basically internet points.
[01:00:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An AI Reads Privacy Policies so You Don't Have to - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:06] <exec> 08└─If an AI can read and summarize it, then an AI can write it. Can we get an AI to pass the bar? That would be hilarious. Let me summarize all EULAs, ToS, privacy policies for everyone: "We are going to fuck you. We are going to sell every bit of information the law allows us to and then sell the rest...
[01:00:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An AI Reads Privacy Policies so You Don't Have to - 2263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:08] <exec> 08└─Anyone here read Douglas Adams book Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (he's more famously known as the author of The Hitchhiker's Guide)? He has prior art I think; he invented the Electric Monk, a monk that you bought so that it could believe in things for you. When people came to the door, ju...
[01:00:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An AI Reads Privacy Policies so You Don't Have to - 596 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:10] <exec> 08└─If there's one thing you can count on, it's that, regardless of the wording, any privacy policy essentially allows whoever wrote it to snoop on you, exploit your private data any which way they want, lets them sell your data to whomever they want for any reason they want, you have nothing to say abo...
[01:01:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TheRaven [270] 02 - 06X's Network Transparency Has Wound Up Mostly Being a Failure - 1676 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:24] <exec> 08└─The problem with X's network transparency was that they put it at the wrong layer and so it sucked for a long time. The X protocol is entirely asynchronous, so you can batch up a bunch of commands and hide latency, but XLib exposed synchronous APIs, so you ended up with one network round trip for ea...
[01:03:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bruce Perens Wants to Anti-SLAPP GRSecurity's Brad Spengler With $670,000 in Legal Bills - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:03:37] <exec> 08└─I hear he recently took up cum guzzling so his sexual pleasure now comes from fellating unwashed indian, african and middle eastern men. His usual flurry of immensely important internet activity is now unnecessary as he has found peace inside of a mans scrotum.
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[01:59:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After the Falcon Heavy Launch, Time to Defund the Space Launch System? - 614 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:14] <exec> 08└─First, I think, "hell no, you don't defund something just because something else works!" Having more than one way of accomplishing a task is a good thing, right? But, then, the SLS is heavily tax funded. Falcon is not, or at least far less so. (if the Falcon is funded by way of any contracts with th...
[01:59:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06After the Falcon Heavy Launch, Time to Defund the Space Launch System? - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:16] <exec> 08└─I like Spacex because its a SF book tier company. I see a future where humanity is a plague now infecting the whole solar system and Spacex is one of the most powerful companies in human space. Musk just feels SF in his goals. Every day is starting to feel more and more like Niven's Known Space or a...
[01:59:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06After the Falcon Heavy Launch, Time to Defund the Space Launch System? - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:18] <exec> 08└─Elon is not a plague. The 90% are.
[01:59:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kilo110 [2853] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After the Falcon Heavy Launch, Time to Defund the Space Launch System? - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:20] <exec> 08└─And then get rid of the f-35
[01:59:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06After the Falcon Heavy Launch, Time to Defund the Space Launch System? - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:22] <exec> 08└─Did you believe? https://vimeo.com [vimeo.com]
[01:59:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stand-Alone System to Produce Drinking Water by Means of Solar Energy - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:33] <exec> 08└─The other thing not mentioned is how much of a solar panel you need for a cubic meter of water per day. Will it fit in a life boat? How much maintenance? Any other consumables (chemicals) needed? If the only new thing is the power, its pretty un-interesting.
[01:59:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stand-Alone System to Produce Drinking Water by Means of Solar Energy - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:34] <exec> 08└─RO is something of a maintenance headache, and it doesn't take much to have it go wrong, get contaminated, etc. Its energy intensive, uses delicate membranes, requires hi-pressure pumps, etc. Any solution approximating a free-flow powered only by a small solar plant would be better.
[01:59:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stand-Alone System to Produce Drinking Water by Means of Solar Energy - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:36] <exec> 08└─Yep, and how much oil is needed to produce and deliver it.
[01:59:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Informative) 02 - 06Russian Nuclear Scientists Caught Using Supercomputers To Mine Cryptocurrency - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:57] <exec> 08└─Got tired of AC trolling huh?
[01:59:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Nuclear Scientists Caught Using Supercomputers To Mine Cryptocurrency - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:58] <exec> 08└─Was the system sitting idle for long periods of time? How long would they have gotten away with this were it not for this: supposed to be isolated; they are kept disconnected from the internet in order to prevent any outside intrusion or hacking efforts.
[02:00:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Russian Nuclear Scientists Caught Using Supercomputers To Mine Cryptocurrency - 483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:00] <exec> 08└─Soylentnews has disallowed me from AC trolling. When I post under AC I get the "excessive bad posting" warning. Besides, if you think an AC troll is me, compare the writing styles. If you're too stupid to understand spoken style, I suggest you head to the comment section of ArsTechnica. They say all...
[02:00:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Nuclear Scientists Caught Using Supercomputers To Mine Cryptocurrency - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:03] <exec> 08└─Said the AC troll...
[02:00:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Russian Nuclear Scientists Caught Using Supercomputers To Mine Cryptocurrency - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:05] <exec> 08└─Modded down for a disability. Perhaps I should move to India, where my third-but-useless arm would classify me as a demigod. I'm surrounded by bigots.
[02:01:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Conditional Prison Sentence for Information About Popcorn Time - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:01:10] <exec> 08└─Although I disagree with the illegality of popcorn, we must note that the government didn't punish him terribly disproportionately to the supposed crime. They COULD HAVE fined him millions more than he'll ever make in this lifetime, and sentenced him to ten consecutive lifetimes in prison, without p...
[02:01:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Conditional Prison Sentence for Information About Popcorn Time - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:01:12] <exec> 08└─Yeah, Julian Assange and I were talking about those differences recently. Thank God for European justice!!
[02:02:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06X's Network Transparency Has Wound Up Mostly Being a Failure - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:02:24] <exec> 08└─Wayland is going to use Microsoft RDP. Rough quote from a wayland dev about using RDP was, "...a case where worse is better." For the very rare case that I need to use a remote gui application, X forwarding has worked fine for me. Some of what I have read about wayland worries me that we are in stor...
[02:02:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06X's Network Transparency Has Wound Up Mostly Being a Failure - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:02:26] <exec> 08└─Is there any interest in an RDP X front end?
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[02:59:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06After the Falcon Heavy Launch, Time to Defund the Space Launch System? - 489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:23] <exec> 08└─The most simple analogy to approach this would be the Intel vs. AMD issue. Intel were dominant, prices were high. AMD put its dick in the mashed potatoes and thus had a high following of converts. If the ULA were smart, they would buy out SpaceX. If for some reason that couldn't happen, then a disru...
[02:59:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After the Falcon Heavy Launch, Time to Defund the Space Launch System? - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:24] <exec> 08└─And Zumwalt.
[02:59:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06After the Falcon Heavy Launch, Time to Defund the Space Launch System? - 604 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:26] <exec> 08└─1. That is simply not the way Elon Musk operates. (there have been significant government incentives for his various ventures) 2. Isn't the rocket technology that SpaceX uses derived from previous NASA designs? This quote "The injector at the heart of Merlin is of the pintle type that was first used...
[02:59:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After the Falcon Heavy Launch, Time to Defund the Space Launch System? - 640 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:29] <exec> 08└─Musk has said he no longer thinks Falcon Heavy will ever carry humans. He's still not confident of that rocket, even if he got lucky the first time out of the gate. He's betting on the BFR. I'm betting he knows something we don't. SLS is the one rocket for the whole mission approach. I suppose BFR i...
[02:59:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06After the Falcon Heavy Launch, Time to Defund the Space Launch System? - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:31] <exec> 08└─What's your point here? That a part similar to a small portion of a rocket motor was used previously by government (who probably just modified some other design first uses by the Germans does not mean the the Falcon Heavy was funded by Adolf Hitler. The launch facilities are where the government ins...
[02:59:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After the Falcon Heavy Launch, Time to Defund the Space Launch System? - 633 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:33] <exec> 08└─Elon Musk is a multi-billionaire, and is probably willing to sink more money into the company if it can ensure smooth BFR development and a human presence on Mars. Aside from hating and shaming ULA, SpaceX is also a private company so there's no chance of a hostile takeover. When will SpaceX go publ...
[02:59:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After the Falcon Heavy Launch, Time to Defund the Space Launch System? - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:35] <exec> 08└─SF book tier company. What the hell is that supposed to actually mean? And with nothing else living in the solar system, how is it possible for humanity to infect it, or be a plague? You appear to have read just enough sifi to become a self loathing idiot. You need not perpetuate what you hate.
[02:59:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After the Falcon Heavy Launch, Time to Defund the Space Launch System? - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:37] <exec> 08└─What I want to know is how many coconut-laden swallows can SLS launch to interstellar space.
[02:59:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After the Falcon Heavy Launch, Time to Defund the Space Launch System? - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:40] <exec> 08└─https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/5/16975850/spacex-falcon-heavy-launch-elon-musk-tesla-questions [theverge.com] This would save the company the trouble of getting Falcon Heavy approved for human spaceflight only to turn around and replace it with the BFR. However, if the BFR takes longer to make than...
[02:59:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After the Falcon Heavy Launch, Time to Defund the Space Launch System? - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:42] <exec> 08└─And every other system that had teething problems. Oh, wait. That would be all of them. Everything from Redstone to N1. The all blew up. https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] Then they didn't.
[02:59:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06After the Falcon Heavy Launch, Time to Defund the Space Launch System? - 473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:44] <exec> 08└─As Obama was the one who pumped NASA's space budget into SpaceX, does this mean the tax payer will cease to fund this private corporation's space exporation? It would only makes sense. The tax payer is receiving nothing out of this program except another commercial service for those who can afford i...
[02:59:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After the Falcon Heavy Launch, Time to Defund the Space Launch System? - 530 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:46] <exec> 08└─Wow, so mad. SpaceX's plans call for tens or hundreds of reusable BFRs making thousands of trips to Mars. Making space travel 1-2 orders of magnitude cheaper will bring us a lot closer to an "science fiction book tier" future. And while it will take a long time for humanity to spread "like a plague"...
[02:59:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After the Falcon Heavy Launch, Time to Defund the Space Launch System? - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:48] <exec> 08└─Wait, what? Perhaps we are dealing with a mix of adult and juvenile elephants?
[02:59:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06After the Falcon Heavy Launch, Time to Defund the Space Launch System? - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:50] <exec> 08└─Some call it "handouts", some call it "investment". Judging by the success, some might even call it a "successful investment". And then there are those who're more than happy to stay in the hicks and let China and India explore and colonize space...
[03:00:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stand-Alone System to Produce Drinking Water by Means of Solar Energy - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:04] <exec> 08└─Production and delivery costs are one-time charges that hopefully are balanced by years and years of cost-free operation.
[03:00:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Nuclear Scientists Caught Using Supercomputers To Mine Cryptocurrency - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:30] <exec> 08└─And while we are on that note, if you have supercomputers dedicated to a major national nuclear weapons program running a mining program and you do not get any coin mined, you must of a certainty be doing something wrong.
[03:00:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06An AI Reads Privacy Policies so You Don't Have to - 599 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:56] <exec> 08└─Legal language partly developed in order to to reduce the ambiguities of meaning inherent in everyday human language. Legal English, for example, uses legal jargon often unfamiliar to non-lawyers (e.g. promissory estoppel, restrictive covenant, etc.) and makes use of words that seem like familiar En...
[03:00:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An AI Reads Privacy Policies so You Don't Have to - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:58] <exec> 08└─Sigh. Yes, we all know that Professor Obvious. But the communication fails, because nobody can understand it, so nobody reads, and THAT was the intent.
[03:01:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vintage Computing Festival: PNW is About to Kick-Off! - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:01:52] <exec> 08└─She absolutely loved that thing but it has gotten hard to find ink ribbons for it. It's a dedicated word processor but far simpler than most because it only prints fixed-width type.
[03:01:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vintage Computing Festival: PNW is About to Kick-Off! - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:01:53] <exec> 08└─... was a Power Mac 9500. Some of my coworkers at Apple were working on it. I don't think they ever released the emulator.
[03:03:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Eleven Excellent, Free Scorewriters - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:03:37] <exec> 08└─I don't know whether he's still doing that. It's been a while since I was last subscribed to the user list. He's able to use Lilypond because the source that is processed into scores looks just like TeX.
[03:06:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Chrome Will Mark Non-HTTPS Sites as "Not Secure" Starting in July 2018 - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:40] <exec> 08└─RLY. In the case of a library they could hire an IT person or they could be open more frequently. I'm also concerned about people in countries that don't permit encryption.
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[03:59:37] <exec> 08└─It's actually a mix of Walmart elephants and sysadmin elephants. (... measurement *latency*?)
[03:59:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After the Falcon Heavy Launch, Time to Defund the Space Launch System? - 843 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:39] <exec> 08└─If the military wants to launch a satellite or NASA wants to send cargo or astronauts to the ISS, why shouldn't they use a private American company? NASA is currently dependent on the Russians to get astronauts to the ISS, and the United Launch Alliance, which has received a lot more government fund...
[03:59:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After the Falcon Heavy Launch, Time to Defund the Space Launch System? - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:41] <exec> 08└─measurement *latency*?
[03:59:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06After the Falcon Heavy Launch, Time to Defund the Space Launch System? - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:43] <exec> 08└─African or European?
[03:59:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06After the Falcon Heavy Launch, Time to Defund the Space Launch System? - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:45] <exec> 08└─NASA has pretty much NOT built any of their rockets. It has almost always been third party. RocketDyne, Lockhead, Martin, etc. NASA has basically done a lot of design assistance and LOTS of mangment. In recent times they have outsourced the design too.
[03:59:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06After the Falcon Heavy Launch, Time to Defund the Space Launch System? - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:47] <exec> 08└─What are the long term percentages? If spaceX falcon blows up every x shot at the cost of 1 rocket + Y where Y is the cost of the lost sat(s) and that is less than the more safe-but costly NASA flights then sure. There are no passengers at risk. However, we do lose out on data that would be gained w...
[03:59:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06After the Falcon Heavy Launch, Time to Defund the Space Launch System? - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:49] <exec> 08└─NASA is only as good as the pool of contractors supporting it. Technically, this was getting heartbreakingly bad, but SpaceX has greatly improved the situation. NASA set up this situation and hopefully will benefit from it with some new thinking. ULA still has contracts, political support, and old s...
[04:00:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Stand-Alone System to Produce Drinking Water by Means of Solar Energy - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:04] <exec> 08└─Look! Up in the sky! Yeah, in some places there's too much desalination. And it would be nice if we didn't have to shovel it off our sidewalks! Instead of wasting energy to produce more, let's move what we have to where it is needed. Hook all those snow plows up to a pipeline to Phoenix.
[04:00:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stand-Alone System to Produce Drinking Water by Means of Solar Energy - 498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:05] <exec> 08└─I can't believe it's taken this long for someone to make the obvious, Patrick-Starr-level observation ("What if we took the solar panels from HERE, and put them on the desalinators HERE?"). As a bonus, we get a gestalt entity out of this, something whose coherent whole is greater than the sum of its...
[04:00:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Nuclear Scientists Caught Using Supercomputers To Mine Cryptocurrency - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:32] <exec> 08└─Roses are red, comrade Violets are blue In post-Soviet Russia Bitcoin mines YOU (sorry, I couldn't resist...where else but Siberia would you get a snow-clone like that?)
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[04:59:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple's "HomePod" Sinks Users Deeper Into a Walled Garden - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:59:18] <exec> 08└─Open the homepod portcullis HAL.
[04:59:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After the Falcon Heavy Launch, Time to Defund the Space Launch System? - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:59:52] <exec> 08└─ULA is taking a few lessons, such as partial reusability [wikipedia.org] and in-orbit refueling [wikipedia.org].
[05:00:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Nuclear Scientists Caught Using Supercomputers To Mine Cryptocurrency - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:00:36] <exec> 08└─Never would use someone else's resources to do lame shit like buttcoin for my own benefit, but when I bought a two rack cluster, I had it run over a holiday weekend doing SETI@home (or folding, don't remember). It was by far the biggest contributor that weekend. The extra electrical load was also qu...
[05:01:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An AI Reads Privacy Policies so You Don't Have to - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:01:04] <exec> 08└─I was thinking this was a useless application for AI. No one reads these policies because we know they are a waste of our time, and are difficult to impossible to enforce and police. It's even more of a waste of time if the entity with the privacy policy accepts fake info. Just use a fake name and w...
[05:04:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bruce Perens Wants to Anti-SLAPP GRSecurity's Brad Spengler With $670,000 in Legal Bills - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:04:40] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the information, and the further explanation. So much of this stuff, while extremely relevant is very esoteric and far outside my admittedly small scope of knowledge. I've a basic legal knowledge from a criminal and penal background in law enforcement but contract law is a whole different...
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[05:59:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03http [1920] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple's "HomePod" Sinks Users Deeper Into a Walled Garden - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:59:17] <exec> 08└─If I was given one for free, I'd have to throw it away. No way to sell given that I couldn't even demo it.
[05:59:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple's "HomePod" Sinks Users Deeper Into a Walled Garden - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:59:19] <exec> 08└─I ripped them all then loaded them onto my iPhone with iTunes. I use the Cyber Acoustics "Party Speakers". While I don't care for the colorful lights they possess, they were the only Bluetooth speakers I could find that plugged into a power outlet. I'm listening to Otis Redding just now. I will be d...
[05:59:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple's "HomePod" Sinks Users Deeper Into a Walled Garden - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:59:21] <exec> 08└─"No way to sell given that I couldn't even demo it." Look, I agree its piece of proprietary crap that I wouldn't want in my house either. But you'll have no trouble unloading it on craigslist or ebay or whatever. People buy stuff on ebay and amazon all the time without a "demo".
[05:59:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 2, Touché) 02 - 06After the Falcon Heavy Launch, Time to Defund the Space Launch System? - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:59:55] <exec> 08└─And every other system that had teething problems.
[05:59:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After the Falcon Heavy Launch, Time to Defund the Space Launch System? - 561 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:59:56] <exec> 08└─I think he'd license the tech if it helped move humanity off the Earth. Here's what he did for electric car tech: ... Tesla will not initiate patent lawsuits against anyone who, in good faith, wants to use our technology. ... Our true competition is not the small trickle of non-Tesla electric cars b...
[05:59:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06After the Falcon Heavy Launch, Time to Defund the Space Launch System? - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:59:58] <exec> 08└─Providing a lower cost solution is great, but lets be realistic about the "zero cost to the taxpayer" claims.
[05:59:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06After the Falcon Heavy Launch, Time to Defund the Space Launch System? - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:00:00] <exec> 08└─As Obama was the one who pumped NASA's space budget into SpaceX, does this mean the tax payer will cease to fund this private corporation's space exporation?
[06:00:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06After the Falcon Heavy Launch, Time to Defund the Space Launch System? - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:00:02] <exec> 08└─However, we do lose out on data that would be gained when safety is paramount from eliminating the more costly launches.
[06:01:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Conditional Prison Sentence for Information About Popcorn Time - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:01:57] <exec> 08└─Do you think before you spout bullshit? [wikipedia.org] In November 2010, a request was made for Assange’s extradition to Sweden, where he had been questioned months earlier over allegations of sexual assault and rape.[6] Assange continued to deny the allegations, and expressed concern that he wou...
[06:03:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06X's Network Transparency Has Wound Up Mostly Being a Failure - 1117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:03:14] <exec> 08└─1. Single windows. Check. Also capable of shadowing full desktops if you want. 2. GPL/Expat (MIT?)/BSD licensed code and nothing to hide, lots of image/video codecs to pass data around. Check. 3. Maybe you mean "unlike". Check anyway, you can keep them running or kill them. They think they are using...
[06:03:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06X's Network Transparency Has Wound Up Mostly Being a Failure - 1027 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:03:16] <exec> 08└─Years ago someone created a new C async binding, XCB, a more direct link to the X Protocol. XLib was partialy reimplemented with it to improve things. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] But we keep getting huge toolkits that going dumber and dumber, for the great shiny and the mobile...
[06:04:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bruce Perens Wants to Anti-SLAPP GRSecurity's Brad Spengler With $670,000 in Legal Bills - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:04:58] <exec> 08└─I found this article from 2015: GRSecurity Linux Kernel Patch to End Public Accessability of Stable Patches [soylentnews.org]. I assume that's what MikeeUSA is talking about, anyway. He spammed that comment section, too, but it's too close to bedtime for me to care to slog through it.
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[06:59:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Police May Have Caught the Los Angeles Venmo Scammer - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:59:18] <exec> 08└─They're the real scammer here.
[06:59:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Police May Have Caught the Los Angeles Venmo Scammer - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:59:19] <exec> 08└─I looked at this app in the past and as far as I could tell, it broadcasts people's transactions by default, notes and all. Since then I've heard it can be turned off, but I haven't confirmed that. That privacy killer transparency feature hasn't stopped dumb millennials from paying their drug dealer...
[06:59:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple's "HomePod" Sinks Users Deeper Into a Walled Garden - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:59:31] <exec> 08└─They're even tastier! Now laced with Jobs' juices!
[06:59:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple's "HomePod" Sinks Users Deeper Into a Walled Garden - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:59:32] <exec> 08└─It's like eating a $349 steak! Or 1,361 Procter & Gamble Tide PODS!
[07:00:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After the Falcon Heavy Launch, Time to Defund the Space Launch System? - 1046 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:00:12] <exec> 08└─I'm not even so sure interstellar travel is going to be so terribly disappointing. Almost certainly it won't be a warp-driven high-speed exploration excitement - but by the time we've got artificial ecosystems and closed societies refined to the point where we could realistically colonize another st...
[07:00:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06After the Falcon Heavy Launch, Time to Defund the Space Launch System? - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:00:13] <exec> 08└─Hey, AC! Your post is in need of repairs! Not space worthy yet! Let me help. Some call it "handouts", some call it "investment". Judging by the success, some might even call it a "successful investment". Or, some might call it a "successful handout".
[07:00:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After the Falcon Heavy Launch, Time to Defund the Space Launch System? - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:00:15] <exec> 08└─the life on an interstellar journey won't be all that different, except for the lack of new faces and inability to leave. Not even necessarily such a bad thing - smaller communities have much to recommend them
[07:00:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After the Falcon Heavy Launch, Time to Defund the Space Launch System? - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:00:18] <exec> 08└─more than happy to stay in the hicks of Texas
[07:00:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06After the Falcon Heavy Launch, Time to Defund the Space Launch System? - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:00:20] <exec> 08└─I am kind of sad that calling humanity a plague was taken poorly, although I guess it seems pretty obvious now. I for one look forward to humanity infecting this galaxy and making it our own proving we were the winner at evolution. I suppose it would have been better to compare us to the norway rat,...
[07:00:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03progo [6356] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Stand-Alone System to Produce Drinking Water by Means of Solar Energy - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:00:36] <exec> 08└─> The research group already has a pilot and demonstration plant able to generate a cubic metre of drinking water every day. That is not a complete claim. How much land does it require? How much did the solar panel array or solar power plant cost?
[07:03:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06X's Network Transparency Has Wound Up Mostly Being a Failure - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:03:34] <exec> 08└─> (Red Hat now has way too many "former" M$ staff, especially at the higher levels, though Poettering himself is probably somewhat independent from that.) So the only person that could actually be *improved* from MS influence is the independent one? Figures.
[07:03:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06X's Network Transparency Has Wound Up Mostly Being a Failure - 803 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:03:36] <exec> 08└─Ok, that looks fun. Except the manpage says all software video encoding so only expect VNC level performance. And when I just installed it and tried it locally I "lost" bigtime. Tried "xpra start-desktop" then "xpra attach" and got a black box full of nuthin. So did "xpra exit" and X went bye-bye. I...
[07:03:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03YttriumOxide [1165] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Horizons Captures the Farthest Image From Earth Ever Made - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:03:50] <exec> 08└─Maybe it's just because I haven't had my morning coffee yet, but talking about the Pale Blue Dot image made me think that New Horizons had been directed to snap a picture of Earth from way out in the Kuiper Belt. But no, it's simply that these are the farthest away from earth a camera has been while...
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[07:59:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Police May Have Caught the Los Angeles Venmo Scammer - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:59:22] <exec> 08└─Read the fucking dotted line! Sow!
[07:59:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Police May Have Caught the Los Angeles Venmo Scammer - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:59:24] <exec> 08└─Never heard of Venmo but if I understand this correctly, anyone can see what purchases you've made -- it lists from, to, and whatever you put for the re line. Who would think this is smart?
[07:59:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple's "HomePod" Sinks Users Deeper Into a Walled Garden - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:59:37] <exec> 08└─They are sort of a darwin award, from great business-people to various nice persons $349 poorer (+$1389 more for accessories to make it all just work™®).
[08:00:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After the Falcon Heavy Launch, Time to Defund the Space Launch System? - 2026 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:00:21] <exec> 08└─You never want just one bidder. Because he thinks he can screw you in the ass. And he expects you to say "thank you." And probably he can. And probably you do. Russia, China, Europe, India, North Korea. They do satellite, they can put up satellites. And they can put up ICBMs, because satellite and I...
[08:00:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After the Falcon Heavy Launch, Time to Defund the Space Launch System? - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:00:23] <exec> 08└─How much did Elon Musk spend on his?
[08:00:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After the Falcon Heavy Launch, Time to Defund the Space Launch System? - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:00:25] <exec> 08└─Caribbean. You were asking about the coconuts, right? :-)
[08:01:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06An AI Reads Privacy Policies so You Don't Have to - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:01:39] <exec> 08└─What steams my weenies is when entities you depend on change their policies and those changes are significant and detrimental. Of course nobody's going to read 10 pages of dense English and the vast majority of policy changes are for inconsequential things, but if you've come to be used to a specifi...
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[08:59:34] <exec> 08└─Um... cf. Bitcoin.
[08:59:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple's "HomePod" Sinks Users Deeper Into a Walled Garden - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:59:48] <exec> 08└─How many of these Apple Fanbois are the same people who chase after UFO sightings, hoping to be anally probed by the lizard people? How many of them are flat earthers? For the sake of our more progressive members, I'll ask, how many of them are secret Nazis? But, please, let us not wake up the Sheep...
[09:00:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After the Falcon Heavy Launch, Time to Defund the Space Launch System? - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:00:36] <exec> 08└─The more often that you do something, the better you are at doing it.
[09:00:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After the Falcon Heavy Launch, Time to Defund the Space Launch System? - 736 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:00:37] <exec> 08└─Yes, it is time to defund it. Since they now have a "meh, it works" alternative then just defund it and pour that money into something daring. Spend that money on building a launch loop - if it fails you'd get a few craploads of new engineering techniqes out of it*, and if it succeeds you'd get even...
[09:01:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03shortscreen [2252] 02 - 06An AI Reads Privacy Policies so You Don't Have to - 134 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:01:43] <exec> 08└─99% of privacy policies, EULAs. and TOS could be translated for easier understanding by outputting ASCII art of a giant middle finger.
[09:02:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03TuxPower [1815] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Conditional Prison Sentence for Information About Popcorn Time - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:02:35] <exec> 08└─They COULD HAVE fined him millions more than he'll ever make in this lifetime, and sentenced him to ten consecutive lifetimes in prison, without possibility of parole.
[09:05:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bruce Perens Wants to Anti-SLAPP GRSecurity's Brad Spengler With $670,000 in Legal Bills - 724 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:05:39] <exec> 08└─"IANAL". Indeed, you have no basis for your thoughts, and you are incorrect. Stick to code, kid. GPLv2 forbids additional terms added to the agreement between the licencee and those to whom the licensee distributes the work (or derivative work). (distributees) Terms can be memorialized or not. They...
[09:05:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bruce Perens Wants to Anti-SLAPP GRSecurity's Brad Spengler With $670,000 in Legal Bills - 555 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:05:40] <exec> 08└─> I've a basic legal knowledge from a criminal and penal background in law enforcement but contract law is a whole different kettle of stinking fish. If it's difficult for you, then you're a moron. But what is to be expected from white men? White men oppose men taking cute young girls as brides (All...
[09:05:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bruce Perens Wants to Anti-SLAPP GRSecurity's Brad Spengler With $670,000 in Legal Bills - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:05:42] <exec> 08└─So is MikeeUSA still "not a programmer and not a lawyer"? .
[09:05:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bruce Perens Wants to Anti-SLAPP GRSecurity's Brad Spengler With $670,000 in Legal Bills - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:05:44] <exec> 08└─"he spammed that comments section too" Do you feel he has not the right to do what he will with what is his?
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[09:59:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The House That Spied on Me - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:59:17] <exec> 08└─"my one-bedroom apartment in San Francisco [...] my baby monitor, my kid's toys" There is a one-bedroom apartment. It has kids. It needs a baby monitor. WTF. Out here in Trump country, we live in houses. The standard is 3 bedroom, 2 bathrooms, and of course a yard. The sort of people who get technic...
[09:59:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The House That Spied on Me - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:59:18] <exec> 08└─It's those goddamn fifth-columnist faggots again.
[09:59:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The House That Spied on Me - 522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:59:20] <exec> 08└─Over here in 'Obama' country, that only happens for our 1 percenters. The average person lives in an apartment, a 3br 1.5 bath, or in the case of SF, San Jose, Portland, Seattle, usually something smaller, unless they spent 600k+ on one of the new tract homes they are tipping up in the suburbs or fo...
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[09:59:22] <exec> 08└─Well, Obongo Chicongo's number is up. Our first Black president will go to jail and his biological father Marion Barry will visit him in there. You Democrats are going down, scum! The day of the rope approacheth!
[09:59:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple's "HomePod" Sinks Users Deeper Into a Walled Garden - 473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:59:47] <exec> 08└─>For as long as the company has existed, Apple products have worked best with other Apple products... no, from the apple ][ to powerpcs apple was easy to interface with 3rd party stuff. macs had the newer interfaces, scsi firewire, but they were standard. The apple 2 also had most memory mapped feat...
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[10:00:38] <exec> 08└─" . In other words, NASA could buy 10 Falcon Heavy launches for the coat of one SLS launch "
[10:01:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Nuclear Scientists Caught Using Supercomputers To Mine Cryptocurrency - 1902 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:01:24] <exec> 08└─The thought has probably crossed a few peoples mind, including my own. I used to manage a lab for a university with a fair amount of computers standing around. Not supercomputers but normal computers, we could have clustered them if we wanted to. Most of the day the computers did nothing but just st...
[10:01:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03frojack [1554] 02 - 06An AI Reads Privacy Policies so You Don't Have to - 628 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:01:34] <exec> 08└─You can wax eloquent in your labels if you manufacture food in the US. You can extol the virtues and the spiritual energy it provides, and reference the toxins it cleanses. But sooner or later you have to come up with that legally mandated nutritional label and list of ingredients. Certainly we coul...
[10:01:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] 02 - 06An AI Reads Privacy Policies so You Don't Have to - 106 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:01:37] <exec> 08└─If [an accusation of] patting a woman's behind can become a career ending offense, with no trial or appeal
[10:01:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03pipedwho [2032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An AI Reads Privacy Policies so You Don't Have to - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:01:55] <exec> 08└─So basically, if you let the AI automatically selection the option that was in your best interest, it would always click 'Decline'. And you wouldn't be able to use anything. AI, protecting people from themselves.
[10:03:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Unixnut [5779] 02 - 06X's Network Transparency Has Wound Up Mostly Being a Failure - 3134 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:03:16] <exec> 08└─Yeah I was going to post the same thing, but you did a good enough job. Been using X for more than a decade, even remotely across the internet. I found that it works great. Using SSH and X forwarding, the fact I can run a program on a server across the world and have it show up seamlessly integrated...
[10:03:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Entropy [4228] 02 - 06X's Network Transparency Has Wound Up Mostly Being a Failure - 406 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:03:40] <exec> 08└─That was not a mistake at all. Most of the time I only want a window from a remote server--not some bloated desktop environment garbage. There are absolutely TONS of times people need to run a single program, and ssh -X does the best job I've ever seen for that. I also like my remote windows to inte...
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[10:59:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The House That Spied on Me - 676 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:59:22] <exec> 08└─Well, here comes a guess why. The margins in that business, what are they like? Probably rather small, and getting smaller. So at a certain point, If you don't explore every monetization opportunity, down to selling personal details of your customers real-time, you won't make a profit. I bought this...
[10:59:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The House That Spied on Me - 1138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:59:23] <exec> 08└─People don't realize, I'm a very successful farmer. Like so many of my supporters. Thank you for your amazing support! My tax guy told me, the taxes for a golf club in New Jersey is a lot. But the taxes for a farm in New Jersey is not a lot. Trust me, I love golf. I love it to death. But I love bein...
[10:59:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The House That Spied on Me - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:59:26] <exec> 08└─Realdonaldtrump, you forgot to uncheck "post anonymously" after a nice run of mentions of fetid cock and stream-of-consciousness nonsense.
[10:59:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The House That Spied on Me - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:59:28] <exec> 08└─The cell phone is very special. Like a crazy woman. You hold it wrong, it goes nuts. You touch it in the wrong place, it goes nuts. It does what it wants, not what you want. You need to be Steve Jobs to write a tweet.
[11:00:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After the Falcon Heavy Launch, Time to Defund the Space Launch System? - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:00:43] <exec> 08└─Also, the SLS can currently only lift one elephant, and it's white.
[11:04:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06X's Network Transparency Has Wound Up Mostly Being a Failure - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:04:02] <exec> 08└─Nothing in that link contradicts what I said. The authentication mechanisms (including Kerberos) let any process that can read files owned by the user connect. The SECURITY extension has so many caveats that it's effectively nonexistent. Anything that is allowed to use the GLX extension can still ru...
[11:04:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06X's Network Transparency Has Wound Up Mostly Being a Failure - 1439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:04:03] <exec> 08└─XCB was a huge improvement. I've written code that used it, and the model is pretty nice. You can fit it into an actor-model programming environment and defer waiting for the acks for a long time. Having XLib implemented on top of XCB simplified the XLib code a lot, but didn't really help anything u...
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[11:59:20] <exec> 08└─The real question is: does it convert %20's and %5D's and other crap in the URI field of the playlist to something actually useful? Or include a readable "filename" field? Last time I checked, it was impossible to get human-readable filenames in the playlist window, and the feature request for it wa...
[11:59:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The House That Spied on Me - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:59:35] <exec> 08└─That's okay, we know you're imperfect. That's why we voted you into office. But unlike George W. Bush, you had better expose the Jews for orchestrating 9/11. Come on, Don. We're counting on you.
[11:59:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The House That Spied on Me - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:59:36] <exec> 08└─they get a couple acres and some pet goats
[11:59:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06The House That Spied on Me - 1411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:59:38] <exec> 08└─Until there are (open source, I presume) devices that don't phone home (because they are home) to do the typical smart-home things (door locks, AC switches for lights and the like, etc.) and smart hubs that don't have to go out on the net just to figure out WTF you just told it, either you do withou...
[12:04:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06X's Network Transparency Has Wound Up Mostly Being a Failure - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:04:16] <exec> 08└─Not really. It already exists, it's not widely used, it's not nearly as useful.
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[12:59:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VLC 3.0.0 Released, With Better Hardware Decoding and Support for HDR, 360-Degree Video, Chromecast - 695 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:59:17] <exec> 08└─One of the features that VLC has always lacked is the ability to auto-enable subtitles for foreign-language segments on DVDs. For example, if you watch the Game of Thrones DVDs on a normal DVD player, you'll get subtitles when people start speaking Dothraki or whatever. In VLC, you won't and you'll...
[12:59:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VLC 3.0.0 Released, With Better Hardware Decoding and Support for HDR, 360-Degree Video, Chromecast - 1264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:59:18] <exec> 08└─I tried the Chromecast thing. I've been waiting for it for ages and I tried it earlier in the week when the announcement first came out. Result: - Could not find option with looking it up. Hint... Playback... Renderer... hope your Chromecast name just appears in a mDNS search of the local network (s...
[12:59:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06VLC 3.0.0 Released, With Better Hardware Decoding and Support for HDR, 360-Degree Video, Chromecast - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:59:20] <exec> 08└─VLC is that player that will keep hammering the gpu despite the video being paused and minimized by rendering a still frame I think.
[13:00:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06After the Falcon Heavy Launch, Time to Defund the Space Launch System? - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:00:55] <exec> 08└─Who owns the tech? If Musk/SpaceX own their own tech, what's to stop them raising prices 9x? If NASA owns the SLS and heavy lift tech, they will benefit from future improvements?
[13:01:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Nuclear Scientists Caught Using Supercomputers To Mine Cryptocurrency - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:01:42] <exec> 08└─Xeon or itanic?
[13:03:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TheRaven [270] 02 - 06X's Network Transparency Has Wound Up Mostly Being a Failure - 881 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:03:34] <exec> 08└─OpenGL was always designed to be network transparent, and this ended up being a big advantage with modern GPUs. The API layering meant that you always treated the thing doing the acceleration as potentially being remote, so you'd do things like send it textures, send it geometry, and then tell it to...
[13:03:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03sjames [2882] 02 - 06X's Network Transparency Has Wound Up Mostly Being a Failure - 965 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:03:53] <exec> 08└─EXACTLY. The Wayland developers told us all a BIG FAT LIE a few years ago when they claimed X wasn't network transparent either. Ever since then, they've been trying to claim it wasn't REALLY a lie, just a humongous exaggeration. TFA is just the latest example of that. Dear Wayland developers, unles...
[13:04:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06X's Network Transparency Has Wound Up Mostly Being a Failure - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:04:21] <exec> 08└─But the RDP protocol can do application-level forwarding (which is partly why it was renamed Terminal Services in 2008). It is exactly this capability that was used to provide the "XP-mode" backwards compatibility of W7: on the background, it ran a WinXP VM and used application-level forwarding to p...
[13:04:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03KiloByte [375] (Score: 2) 02 - 06X's Network Transparency Has Wound Up Mostly Being a Failure - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:04:22] <exec> 08└─It was before GLquake, so pure software rendering only. You're right about OpenGL, though.
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[13:59:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VLC 3.0.0 Released, With Better Hardware Decoding and Support for HDR, 360-Degree Video, Chromecast - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:29] <exec> 08└─Kinda odd, when I use the in-application feature to check for updates it says there are none and that I'm using the latest one. Yet it's not 3.0.0 but rather 2.2.6. Guess it will require some kind of stand-alone-update.
[13:59:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VLC 3.0.0 Released, With Better Hardware Decoding and Support for HDR, 360-Degree Video, Chromecast - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:30] <exec> 08└─Chromecast is shit. I know it is not the same, but amazon fire stick actually is very useful..
[13:59:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] 02 - 06The House That Spied on Me - 1411 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:47] <exec> 08└─Until there are (open source, I presume) devices that don't phone home (because they are home) to do the typical smart-home things (door locks, AC switches for lights and the like, etc.) and smart hubs that don't have to go out on the net just to figure out WTF you just told it, either you do withou...
[13:59:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The House That Spied on Me - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:49] <exec> 08└─IoT usually means a product. I don't think many open source contributors have the financial power to start a production and distribution business. But maybe I'm wrong.
[13:59:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The House That Spied on Me - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:51] <exec> 08└─IoT usually means a product. I don't think many open source contributors have the financial power to start a production and distribution business. But maybe I'm wrong.
[14:00:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Police May Have Caught the Los Angeles Venmo Scammer - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:02] <exec> 08└─These banks can do what they want with that money. There is no time limit to chargebacks, reversed transfers, blocked transfers, etc. This is what people want though.
[14:00:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Police May Have Caught the Los Angeles Venmo Scammer - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:03] <exec> 08└─Anyone seeing it is better than a select few special people secretly doing it (bank and its partners, agents of gov, equifax hackers).
[14:00:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Police May Have Caught the Los Angeles Venmo Scammer - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:05] <exec> 08└─Gee guys, did you really have to throw that ad up in the story? Let's try to keep it classy, okay?
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[14:59:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japan Raps Coincheck, Orders Broader Checks After $530 Million Cryptocurrency Theft - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:17] <exec> 08└─... and ordered Coincheck to raise its standards after hackers stole $530 million of digital money from the Tokyo-based exchange.
[14:59:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VLC 3.0.0 Released, With Better Hardware Decoding and Support for HDR, 360-Degree Video, Chromecast - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:30] <exec> 08└─I think updater only works on minor versions. I may be wrong but I had the same issue when they went 2.0.0
[14:59:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VLC 3.0.0 Released, With Better Hardware Decoding and Support for HDR, 360-Degree Video, Chromecast - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:32] <exec> 08└─That sounds familiar, I think I had that issue before to. So it might very well be the case. But it just feels like a missed opportunity on their part not to have it included or to say something like "there is a new major update available that requires a manual installation".
[14:59:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VLC 3.0.0 Released, With Better Hardware Decoding and Support for HDR, 360-Degree Video, Chromecast - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:34] <exec> 08└─snap install --classic vlc this will allow it to use the /dev/dvb/* devices, the one *really* useful feature when you have no TV and just a USB decoder. You may have to "snap remove vlc" first, but I was nicely surprised this worked out of the box.
[14:59:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The House That Spied on Me - 773 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:53] <exec> 08└─Since all this things can be made in DIY, beyond publishing the design and maybe having a prototype series (say 10 devoces), there's little incentive to start production. Besides, there's a cost of compliance: - dealing with mains - I reckon you'll need to certify the product as safe to operate. Eve...
[15:00:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Police May Have Caught the Los Angeles Venmo Scammer - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:09] <exec> 08└─I blame martybenmo.
[15:01:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After the Falcon Heavy Launch, Time to Defund the Space Launch System? - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:17] <exec> 08└─If SpaceX is smart, they'll use Guyanan coconuts [wikipedia.org].
[15:01:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After the Falcon Heavy Launch, Time to Defund the Space Launch System? - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:18] <exec> 08└─Let Musk put up his prices. It's the Invisible Hand.
[15:01:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06After the Falcon Heavy Launch, Time to Defund the Space Launch System? - 1036 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:20] <exec> 08└─One way to get lessons would be to look at the historical development timelines for Falcon and ULA. When were key paths chosen, designed, prototypes built, integration, testing, and first flight. Who did the work and how did the the coordination and decision process work. What resulted and did it fl...
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[15:59:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Former Apple Intern Reportedly Leaked iOS Source Code to the Jailbreaking Community - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:17] <exec> 08└─According to Motherboard, the intern who stole the code
[15:59:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VLC 3.0.0 Released, With Better Hardware Decoding and Support for HDR, 360-Degree Video, Chromecast - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:40] <exec> 08└─My issues with 3.0.0 were subtitles mysteriously turning off (near the beginning of a video, not the whole time), and the end of video chapters cutting off some milliseconds (noticeable because the audio transition is too abrupt). There was a crash or two on opening some files but it wasn't reproduc...
[15:59:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06VLC 3.0.0 Released, With Better Hardware Decoding and Support for HDR, 360-Degree Video, Chromecast - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:41] <exec> 08└─Sounds like it might be mining some crypto.
[15:59:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06VLC 3.0.0 Released, With Better Hardware Decoding and Support for HDR, 360-Degree Video, Chromecast - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:43] <exec> 08└─oh? vlc can be a media-server from which a google-chromecast-dongle can be directed to pull/stream media from? how about for vlc to be a virtual display, playing and decoding media that can be mirrored to/by a miracast enabled receiver (plugged into a TV's HDMI or present in it already)?
[15:59:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VLC 3.0.0 Released, With Better Hardware Decoding and Support for HDR, 360-Degree Video, Chromecast - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:45] <exec> 08└─https://geoffreymetais.github.io/features/vlc-30/ [github.io] The good news is we did not make a Chromecast specific support, it is generic renderers: in the next months we can add UPnP support for example, to cast on any UPnP box or TV!
[15:59:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06VLC 3.0.0 Released, With Better Hardware Decoding and Support for HDR, 360-Degree Video, Chromecast - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:47] <exec> 08└─You are not the only one who still watches them. I have thousands of them. In fact I have so many I rarely use streaming.
[15:59:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06VLC 3.0.0 Released, With Better Hardware Decoding and Support for HDR, 360-Degree Video, Chromecast - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:50] <exec> 08└─I am liking the new bluray menu support (looking at you john wick with your 200+ chapter options, you sly folks). Which means KODI should have a decent implementation soon. Just make sure you set JAVA_HOME correctly. I had to set mine as the JDK installer does not set it on my box for some reason.
[16:00:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03r_a_trip [5276] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06The House That Spied on Me - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:10] <exec> 08└─How about people move their obese, McDonalds arses of the couch and go operate a mechanical switch. No spying and free exercise. Win/win.
[16:01:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After the Falcon Heavy Launch, Time to Defund the Space Launch System? - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:35] <exec> 08└─http://www.spacex.com/about/capabilities [spacex.com]
[16:01:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stand-Alone System to Produce Drinking Water by Means of Solar Energy - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:53] <exec> 08└─this should make the reverse-de-salinization team happy: now they can destroy all the fresh water dams in the world, free all the fish and let all the pre-desalinated water run into the ocean and turn brackish! thanks to this new wonder, we can get all the fresh water on demand right from the ocean....
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[16:59:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Former Apple Intern Reportedly Leaked iOS Source Code to the Jailbreaking Community - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:20] <exec> 08└─You pillock. What he stole from Apple is the ability to loco people in...
[16:59:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Former Apple Intern Reportedly Leaked iOS Source Code to the Jailbreaking Community - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:21] <exec> 08└─I think you should look up the word 'steal' again.
[16:59:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Former Apple Intern Reportedly Leaked iOS Source Code to the Jailbreaking Community - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:23] <exec> 08└─No, you should look it up again. And, this time, avoid using some corporate approved alternative dictionary. If something is stolen from you, then you no longer have it, and you cannot make use of it. Apple still has the code which was copied and redistributed. We are talking about a COPYRIGHT viola...
[16:59:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03aiwarrior [1812] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Former Apple Intern Reportedly Leaked iOS Source Code to the Jailbreaking Community - 701 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:25] <exec> 08└─This is wrong. There is no way around it. Do not want to call stolen? No problem, maybe you are fine that I use your car without your authorization, I promise you I will return it. Your house? Also, I will use it, but not steal it, you get to keep it. For a site with nerds, the logic jumps that peop...
[16:59:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Former Apple Intern Reportedly Leaked iOS Source Code to the Jailbreaking Community - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:28] <exec> 08└─stole the code
[16:59:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VLC 3.0.0 Released, With Better Hardware Decoding and Support for HDR, 360-Degree Video, Chromecast - 1342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:56] <exec> 08└─If this has been added some time along the way, I'd appreciate pointers in how to access/use it. It seems that using VLC to transform a source to another 'construct' requires knowledge of codecs, containers, etc. As it now stands, it seems like I have to do a whole lot of trial-and-error. Select sou...
[17:01:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03frojack [1554] 02 - 06After the Falcon Heavy Launch, Time to Defund the Space Launch System? - 419 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:05] <exec> 08└─What's your point here? That a part similar to a small portion of a rocket motor was used previously by government (who probably just modified some other design first uses by the Germans does not mean the the Falcon Heavy was funded by Adolf Hitler. The launch facilities are where the government ins...
[17:01:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06After the Falcon Heavy Launch, Time to Defund the Space Launch System? - 1150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:45] <exec> 08└─There's a NASA report [nasa.gov] (see Appendix B) that claims SpaceX spent almost $400 million on developing the Falcon 9, including Falcon 1 and three engines developed. This NASA group estimated that it would cost NASA $4.0 billion to cost out the same contract (not counting the inevitable cost ov...
[17:01:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06After the Falcon Heavy Launch, Time to Defund the Space Launch System? - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:47] <exec> 08└─Believe what? Round shadow on the Moon sure looks like what a round Earth would project.
[17:01:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06After the Falcon Heavy Launch, Time to Defund the Space Launch System? - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:49] <exec> 08└─There are plenty of other launch providers in the world. For example, the US could launch on the Ariane 5 or 6 without a serious compromise of security.
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[17:59:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Grubhub Drivers Are Contractors—Not Employees—Judge Rules - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:17] <exec> 08└─the idiot either got one tax form or the other. how in the hell is this unclear? why are taxpayers paying to even have this case heard? what is wrong with this country? something in the water?
[17:59:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Former Apple Intern Reportedly Leaked iOS Source Code to the Jailbreaking Community - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:30] <exec> 08└─maybe you are fine that I use your car without your authorization
[17:59:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Former Apple Intern Reportedly Leaked iOS Source Code to the Jailbreaking Community - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:31] <exec> 08└─maybe you are fine that I use your car without your authorization, I promise you I will return it.
[17:59:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Former Apple Intern Reportedly Leaked iOS Source Code to the Jailbreaking Community - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:33] <exec> 08└─We do not change the quoted part of TFS without making it abundantly clear that we have done so. If we did, we would be guilty of putting words into someone else's mouth. They didn't say 'copied', they said 'stole'. So that is what we have to report. By all means have your rage but, as I don't suppo...
[17:59:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japan Raps Coincheck, Orders Broader Checks After $530 Million Cryptocurrency Theft - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:42] <exec> 08└─"highlights the vulnerabilities in trading an asset that policymakers are struggling to regulate" yeah, if we only had gov regulators come in with their windows and high tech security things would be so much safer. what a stupid whore. if you see this person typing this BS on their mac at starbucks,...
[18:00:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06VLC 3.0.0 Released, With Better Hardware Decoding and Support for HDR, 360-Degree Video, Chromecast - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:04] <exec> 08└─maybe if stupid freaking windows users would quit putting spaces in everything... of course you'd probably hear gabriel's trumpet if that happened.
[18:00:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06VLC 3.0.0 Released, With Better Hardware Decoding and Support for HDR, 360-Degree Video, Chromecast - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:06] <exec> 08└─there's a file sharing website called thepiratebay.org, if you ever decide to quit groveling to your masters. nothing personal. just saying.
[18:00:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The House That Spied on Me - 5688 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:28] <exec> 08└─Fyngyrz has it right -- motivated people can do a lot with hardware that can be configured without the need of someone else's computer to make it run. That's how the PC industry used to work.. 'personal computer' as opposed to more modernized 'portable dumb terminals', I guess. I went through a grea...
[18:00:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Police May Have Caught the Los Angeles Venmo Scammer - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:44] <exec> 08└─how is this not the problem for whatever dumb ass company accepted "fraudulent funds". can i pay with bingo markers and then the dumb ass courts and pigs will go after the victims, cuz these scum companies have more money to line pockets?
[18:01:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple's "HomePod" Sinks Users Deeper Into a Walled Garden - 791 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:00] <exec> 08└─I'm with you there. I have mostly ripped my entire collection, and pass it through fancier hardware as time goes on. Great speakers can last 20 years or more; my speakers are dumb and my entertainment system is mostly hobbled together via seperate components. Local storage and systems handle the pla...
[18:02:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06After the Falcon Heavy Launch, Time to Defund the Space Launch System? - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:00] <exec> 08└─Maybe we shouldn't defund the SLS, because that tech may prove to be more reliable, in the long run.
[18:02:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06After the Falcon Heavy Launch, Time to Defund the Space Launch System? - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:02] <exec> 08└─I don't remember how many space shuttles we launched, before they started blowing up.
[18:02:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stand-Alone System to Produce Drinking Water by Means of Solar Energy - 1182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:21] <exec> 08└─I think you're talking about the Cloud. Why don't people say anymore, "let's use the Cloud"? People don't know this, but some of our great Farmers have been getting their water from the Cloud since our country got started -- and even before. City people are so politically correct, they say, "oh, glo...
[18:05:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06X's Network Transparency Has Wound Up Mostly Being a Failure - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:05:31] <exec> 08└─X derives its name as a successor to a pre-1983 window system called W (the letter preceding X in the English alphabet). -- https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[18:06:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Eleven Excellent, Free Scorewriters - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:13] <exec> 08└─I heard the "Miss Lucy" version first in northern New England. The point is, though, these variations happen, and mis-hearing or mis-remembering something is a very common reason why.
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[18:59:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Grubhub Drivers Are Contractors—Not Employees—Judge Rules - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:21] <exec> 08└─I hope grub hub and the government get this fool back into court for his attempts at fraud.
[18:59:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Grubhub Drivers Are Contractors—Not Employees—Judge Rules - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:22] <exec> 08└─the idiot either got one tax form or the other.
[18:59:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Former Apple Intern Reportedly Leaked iOS Source Code to the Jailbreaking Community - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:38] <exec> 08└─AC above humorously pointed out a better way to look at it. The dev didn't steal the code. They stole Apple's ability to "secure" it's phones. My guess is this isn't permanent. In a week or so we'll see an iOS update that plugs the holes and status quo is restored.
[18:59:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Former Apple Intern Reportedly Leaked iOS Source Code to the Jailbreaking Community - 2120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:40] <exec> 08└─Let's see if we can work through how this works in your universe where borrowing somebody's car does not deprive them of the use of the car. Note: If you do not understand the implications if this first sentence, then Riker will tell you that you can't. Don't even try. My car is licensed under the G...
[19:00:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06VLC 3.0.0 Released, With Better Hardware Decoding and Support for HDR, 360-Degree Video, Chromecast - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:13] <exec> 08└─get a big boy's OS and use it's package manager to update every package on the whole system, instead of manually updating each app like you have nothing better to do.
[19:00:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VLC 3.0.0 Released, With Better Hardware Decoding and Support for HDR, 360-Degree Video, Chromecast - 931 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:15] <exec> 08└─This thing sounds more like a fucking OS than a media player. Should change the logo to a stopped-up kitchen sink overflowing with shit. Why does the media player need networking client code built in? Why does it need to be a chromecast server? Java vm internal for blu-ray menus? Can I just have an...
[19:00:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The House That Spied on Me - 740 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:38] <exec> 08└─To me this sounds like the author intentionally set this up as an example. Most of the reactions seem to have missed that this is the likely purpose. There's not much there that hasn't been reported on technical sites already, so she probably knew what would happen, and had an article to write...and...
[19:03:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lockheed Martin Posts Satellite Data Online to Lure Space Entrepreneurs - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:40] <exec> 08└─i'm sure, but i'm more than happy for companies to use open models/ways to make money. i'm sure everything's not perfect, but it's sounds like a bigger step than i've seen in many other instances.
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[19:59:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Grubhub Drivers Are Contractors—Not Employees—Judge Rules - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:27] <exec> 08└─How is signing up for a block of time for gigs, and then being unavailable to receive the gigs, gaming the system? If he didn't get a gig, he didn't get paid or did they pay a flat rate for being available? This is not explained her in the TFA.
[19:59:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Grubhub Drivers Are Contractors—Not Employees—Judge Rules - 574 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:29] <exec> 08└─Note that CA law starts with the presumption that the person is an employee. This presumption must be rebutted. From the CA Department of Industrial Relations website: Even where there is an absence of control over work details, an employer-employee relationship will be found if (1) the principal re...
[19:59:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Grubhub Drivers Are Contractors—Not Employees—Judge Rules - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:31] <exec> 08└─Had he been classified as an employee, he would have been paid for those shifts (blocks) that he had scheduled himself for.
[19:59:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Grubhub Drivers Are Contractors—Not Employees—Judge Rules - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:33] <exec> 08└─What fraud? It was only fraud if he was an employee. Since the court found that he was a contractor, there was no fraud.
[19:59:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Grubhub Drivers Are Contractors—Not Employees—Judge Rules - 856 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:35] <exec> 08└─People sign up to do work for these companies. Some people apparently do well, others less so. It doesn't matter - no one forces them to do the work. If they find it's not worth their time, or - in the worst case - they are even losing money? Then stop, and go do something else. Key strawman argumen...
[19:59:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Former Apple Intern Reportedly Leaked iOS Source Code to the Jailbreaking Community - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:53] <exec> 08└─Still not wasted time. Words matter. Keep calling BS when you spot it.
[20:00:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Japan Raps Coincheck, Orders Broader Checks After $530 Million Cryptocurrency Theft - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:02] <exec> 08└─Sounds a little late to me.
[20:00:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VLC 3.0.0 Released, With Better Hardware Decoding and Support for HDR, 360-Degree Video, Chromecast - 2860 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:30] <exec> 08└─I suppose ffmpeg is the opposite of the simplicity you're looking for? And yet, I find ffprobe pretty useful for getting the details of a video file. And once I understood the parameters ffmpeg needed, and made a script, it wasn't so bad. Bit of a learning curve, yes, and there are some gotchas. Lik...
[20:00:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06VLC 3.0.0 Released, With Better Hardware Decoding and Support for HDR, 360-Degree Video, Chromecast - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:31] <exec> 08└─So transcoding? There are plenty of dedicated solutions for that, some come with such tunable presets.
[20:00:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The House That Spied on Me - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:56] <exec> 08└─Since all this things can be made in DIY, beyond publishing the design and maybe having a prototype series (say 10 devoces), there's little incentive to start production
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[20:59:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sierra Nevada Corporation Gets Approval for its First ISS Commercial Resupply Services Mission - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:18] <exec> 08└─Sierra Nevada makes beer. Not gonna click the link to see what they're sending up, I want to go on thinking ISS is getting a couple tons of beer.
[20:59:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sierra Nevada Corporation Gets Approval for its First ISS Commercial Resupply Services Mission - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:20] <exec> 08└─I thought they made Leisure Suit Larry? :)
[20:59:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03pipedwho [2032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sierra Nevada Corporation Gets Approval for its First ISS Commercial Resupply Services Mission - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:22] <exec> 08└─For split second I'm like... Sierra Nevada, Sierra Nevada, Sierra ... oh that's right Sierra Online. Bummer, I was hoping for another *Quest to be released. [NOSTALGIA MODE: ON]Oh how I loved those games.[NOSTALGIA MODE: OFF]
[20:59:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06Grubhub Drivers Are Contractors—Not Employees—Judge Rules - 1076 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:36] <exec> 08└─First of all, this is using California as a model. California should never be used as a model for anything but failure. Their government is bankrupt, and constantly getting bailouts from everyone else. But enough on that: 1. Yes. Uber does control the operation as a whole. 2. No. They worker can not...
[20:59:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Marand [1081] 02 - 06A Former Apple Intern Reportedly Leaked iOS Source Code to the Jailbreaking Community - 98 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:50] <exec> 08└─maybe you are fine that I use your car without your authorization, I promise you I will return it.
[20:59:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06A Former Apple Intern Reportedly Leaked iOS Source Code to the Jailbreaking Community - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:55] <exec> 08└─Proprietary software is wrong. Digital restriction management is wrong. Copying (not stealing) source code so that others can defeat your anti-user restrictions is not wrong. Of course, making use of this requires buying something from Apple, and you should not give your money to a company that viol...
[20:59:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Former Apple Intern Reportedly Leaked iOS Source Code to the Jailbreaking Community - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:58] <exec> 08└─I'll agree that taking someone's code and distributing it without permission is wrong, a violation of copyright, and most likely (but not necessarily) unethical
[20:59:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Former Apple Intern Reportedly Leaked iOS Source Code to the Jailbreaking Community - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:00] <exec> 08└─"Liberated." The word is "liberated." That's what you call it when you rescue that code from the dark dungeon that the evil overlord has it locked away, and distribute it to the poor apple-serfs where it belongs.
[21:00:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06VLC 3.0.0 Released, With Better Hardware Decoding and Support for HDR, 360-Degree Video, Chromecast - 1468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:38] <exec> 08└─Network support is one of the things that has been in VLC since the early stages of that project. The idea was beefy server that can transcode -> low end box with frame buffer. Think nice high end box circa 2001 and a crap laptop from that era. These days yeah it is not needed as much. But there was...
[21:00:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06VLC 3.0.0 Released, With Better Hardware Decoding and Support for HDR, 360-Degree Video, Chromecast - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:39] <exec> 08└─Does that 'big boy' OS include systemd? Maybe someday the package manager will get around to updating to the latest version. I have a few dozen packages I have to 'keep on top of' because the main repos have not upgraded in 2 years for those particular packages.
[21:00:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] 02 - 06The House That Spied on Me - 42 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:55] <exec> 08└─they get a couple acres and some pet goats
[21:01:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The House That Spied on Me - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:05] <exec> 08└─That's not just a privacy concern. It also means that those companies can change the product you bought after you buy it. So your smart speaker can suddenly become the hub of a social network, and your fancy smart scale can have one of its key features taken away in a firmware update.
[21:01:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The House That Spied on Me - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:07] <exec> 08└─There is a one-bedroom apartment. It has kids. It needs a baby monitor. WTF.
[21:01:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The House That Spied on Me - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:09] <exec> 08└─How about people move their obese, McDonalds arses of the couch and go operate a mechanical switch.
[21:01:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The House That Spied on Me - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:11] <exec> 08└─comes down to selling personal details of your customers real-time, you won't make a profit.
[21:01:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The House That Spied on Me - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:13] <exec> 08└─Even Nixie tubes
[21:04:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06An AI Reads Privacy Policies so You Don't Have to - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:04:06] <exec> 08└─Man walks down the street, he asks, "Why am I so soft in the middle." "Why am I so soft in the middle when, the rest of my life is so hard!"
[21:06:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03gozar [5426] (Score: 1) 02 - 06X's Network Transparency Has Wound Up Mostly Being a Failure - 513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:18] <exec> 08└─Back in 2011, we had a bunch of G4 Mac minis in our school district that weren't very useful anymore. 512MB of ram and PPC couldn't get on the internet very well. I set up a couple of beefy servers with Linux, and set the G4s to boot up into Linux and ssh into the beefy servers to run the Joe Windo...
[21:08:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bruce Perens Wants to Anti-SLAPP GRSecurity's Brad Spengler With $670,000 in Legal Bills - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:08:08] <exec> 08└─Since when is a Hebrew a white man ? The people of Israel are those of color. Unless you are stupid enough to buy the blond haired blue eyed Jesus figure. Bottom line what does religion or color have to do with the discussion? I'd say you are just so lacking in any degree of self confidence or self...
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[21:59:20] <exec> 08└─Put on that condom! ;)
[21:59:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Grubhub Drivers Are Contractors—Not Employees—Judge Rules - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:36] <exec> 08└─Their government is bankrupt, and constantly getting bailouts from everyone else
[21:59:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Grubhub Drivers Are Contractors—Not Employees—Judge Rules - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:38] <exec> 08└─Shhh, baby, shhhhhhhhhhhhhh! It's all okay now, because my fetid-as-fuck cock has just breached your fecal cervix. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Your nasty, rancid, diseased rectum belongs to me now, and soon you will join it! Get pregnant! Get pregnant! Get pregnant, you filthy sow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
[21:59:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Grubhub Drivers Are Contractors—Not Employees—Judge Rules - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:40] <exec> 08└─Do you really want random gig workers handling your food with nobody else around? A lot of small restaurants have their own delivery people who are at least accountable to the boss there.
[21:59:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03unauthorized [3776] 02 - 06A Former Apple Intern Reportedly Leaked iOS Source Code to the Jailbreaking Community - 55 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:48] <exec> 08└─According to Motherboard, the intern who stole the code
[22:00:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Uncle_Al [1108] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Former Apple Intern Reportedly Leaked iOS Source Code to the Jailbreaking Community - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:03] <exec> 08└─What's old is new. Look it up, kids.
[22:00:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Former Apple Intern Reportedly Leaked iOS Source Code to the Jailbreaking Community - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:04] <exec> 08└─He took the copy didn't he? The copy was not his either. He stole a copy.
[22:00:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Former Apple Intern Reportedly Leaked iOS Source Code to the Jailbreaking Community - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:06] <exec> 08└─He took the copy. The copy did not belong to him. He stole the copy.
[22:00:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Former Apple Intern Reportedly Leaked iOS Source Code to the Jailbreaking Community - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:08] <exec> 08└─Taking a copy of the software he did not own is theft.
[22:00:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06A Former Apple Intern Reportedly Leaked iOS Source Code to the Jailbreaking Community - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:11] <exec> 08└─He took the copy. The copy did not belong to him. He stole the copy.
[22:00:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Former Apple Intern Reportedly Leaked iOS Source Code to the Jailbreaking Community - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:13] <exec> 08└─But MAKING a copy is not.
[22:00:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VLC 3.0.0 Released, With Better Hardware Decoding and Support for HDR, 360-Degree Video, Chromecast - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:53] <exec> 08└─hurray!
[22:01:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The House That Spied on Me - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:23] <exec> 08└─It'll save at least 130 grand.
[22:02:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06After the Falcon Heavy Launch, Time to Defund the Space Launch System? - 491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:02:57] <exec> 08└─All I am saying is that the "zero cost to taxpayer" statement is not accurate. See these: http://www.latimes.com [latimes.com] http://spacenews.com [spacenews.com] Note that i...
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[22:59:16] <exec> 08└─Pay a Basic Income from the revenue generated by all that water mining, and folk won't need to resort to hijacking the control systems with malware.
[22:59:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Compromised Microsoft Windows-Based Industrial Control Systems Mined Cryptocurrencies - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:17] <exec> 08└─Pay a Basic Income from the revenue generated by all that water mining, and folk won't need to resort to hijacking the control systems with malware.
[22:59:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Grubhub Drivers Are Contractors—Not Employees—Judge Rules - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:46] <exec> 08└─(1) the principal retains pervasive control over the operation as a whole
[23:00:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Former Apple Intern Reportedly Leaked iOS Source Code to the Jailbreaking Community - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:15] <exec> 08└─Why would you agree with such a thing?
[23:00:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Former Apple Intern Reportedly Leaked iOS Source Code to the Jailbreaking Community - 774 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:16] <exec> 08└─may charge you a reasonable distribution fee for this, but in practice nobody does The Elive model^W distro tried charging for it. (Apparently, the developer saw it as his sole source of income.) The popularity of that product suffered as a result. A new development team has taken over and Elive is...
[23:00:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Former Apple Intern Reportedly Leaked iOS Source Code to the Jailbreaking Community - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:18] <exec> 08└─I never knew. I am a fan of Antix work. That is very sad.
[23:00:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VLC 3.0.0 Released, With Better Hardware Decoding and Support for HDR, 360-Degree Video, Chromecast - 525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:00] <exec> 08└─No, my point is the team is forced to build a bloated application to work around the cruft. That is what I have a problem with. And as for bloat in the application itself, it tries to really be a kitchen sink. Don't get me wrong, it's a great program and I use it as my media player of choice. But it...
[23:01:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VLC 3.0.0 Released, With Better Hardware Decoding and Support for HDR, 360-Degree Video, Chromecast - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:01] <exec> 08└─Now we just need vsync/gsync/freesync capable displays (shitty 1366x768 laptop user here).
[23:01:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] 02 - 06The House That Spied on Me - 217 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:15] <exec> 08└─The cell phone is very special. Like a crazy woman. You hold it wrong, it goes nuts. You touch it in the wrong place, it goes nuts. It does what it wants, not what you want. You need to be Steve Jobs to write a tweet.
[23:01:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The House That Spied on Me - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:33] <exec> 08└─San Francisco is in my prayers every day. Since Kathryn Steinle was murdered so BRUTALLY. No Justice! Our Justice system and our Justice Department is a joke, it's the laughingstock of the world. We need VERY QUICK, VERY STRONG Justice!!!!
[23:01:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The House That Spied on Me - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:34] <exec> 08└─How can you tell when ET is being stupid?...He posts! Doubt me? Go read his past postings.
[23:01:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The House That Spied on Me - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:36] <exec> 08└─Can make an old guy nostalgic for the dialup era, when the house was only online when someone was actually using the connection.
[23:02:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple's "HomePod" Sinks Users Deeper Into a Walled Garden - 633 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:02:09] <exec> 08└─I haven't played a CD for I don't know how long, because why would I? I do like to have control over the stuff I buy however, so when Mrs. PartTimeZombie thought she might like one of those iSpeakers I explained to her how having an always on microphone in the house was creepy and wrong. Then I pu...
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[23:59:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Compromised Microsoft Windows-Based Industrial Control Systems Mined Cryptocurrencies - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:59:21] <exec> 08└─And how often do you hang out with losers who spend all their money on cerveza and lottery tickets because they live very shitty lives and throwing rocks at your car is their only way to punish you for your success.
[23:59:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Compromised Microsoft Windows-Based Industrial Control Systems Mined Cryptocurrencies - 465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:59:22] <exec> 08└─Problem 1: Microsoft Windows-Based Industrial Control Systems Problem 2: employees allowed to play on critical systems Problem 3: "critical systems" being, among others, an HMI computer running Windows Problem 4: with access to the internet Problem 5: with a web browser Problem 6: without an ad bloc...
[23:59:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Compromised Microsoft Windows-Based Industrial Control Systems Mined Cryptocurrencies - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:59:24] <exec> 08└─Problem 1: let the sieve carry your water.
[23:59:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Compromised Microsoft Windows-Based Industrial Control Systems Mined Cryptocurrencies - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:59:26] <exec> 08└─What kind of idiot runs critical systems on Microsoft Windows? The stupidity here, on the part of not only managers and executives but also many engineers, is really astounding. Would you run a nuclear power plant or an aircraft avionics system on Windows? Of course not. So why would you run anythin...
[23:59:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Compromised Microsoft Windows-Based Industrial Control Systems Mined Cryptocurrencies - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:59:29] <exec> 08└─Would you run a nuclear power plant or an aircraft avionics system on Windows?
[23:59:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Grubhub Drivers Are Contractors—Not Employees—Judge Rules - 1840 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:59:58] <exec> 08└─re: 1. You already agreed 'yes' so we'll move on. 2. "The workers activities are an integral part of the operation" -- you wrote no, but you are mistaken. The criteria here is not whether or not that particular person is critical to show up, but rather whether that persons activities are integral to...
[23:59:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06Grubhub Drivers Are Contractors—Not Employees—Judge Rules - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:59:59] <exec> 08└─Not if he was unavailable to work. Even salaried people can't sneak out and sleep in the store room and expect no consequences when found out.